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The Low-Tech Times applauds his discovery that he can be more productive when he ceases his Twitter and Facebook activities. However, Mr. Scoble could be even more productive if he expands on his idea. Instead of only temporarily stopping Twitter and Facebook participation, The Low-Tech Times recommends that he should stop Twittering and cancel his Facebook account.
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A to Z of Healthy Holiday Habits
By Rebecca Willa Davis
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The holidays should be about friends, family, and a healthy portion of pumpkin pie, not guilt over gaining weight. Dr. Grigory Sadkhin, weight loss expert and founder of The Sadkhin Complex, shared with us a few ways to go from Thanksgiving through New Years without gaining a pound (or a guilty conscience).
A - Alcohol
It may be the social lubricant of choice for awkward family or work events, but alcohol is rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Skip sweet cocktails and go for champagne, dry wine, or drinks straight up.
B - Breakfast
Instead of buying a cinnamon roll on the way to work, wait until 11 a.m. to eat a healthier alternative (like an apple). According to Dr. Sadkhin, this is when your body is first able to digest properly.
C - Chew Slowly
When youve got a table full of delicious (but rich) foods, ward off overeating and aid digestion by taking smaller bites of food and chewing slowly. Try to chew 25 to 30 times before swallowing.
D - The Day After
So you ate a few too many helpings of stuffing or knocked back more cups of eggnog than you planned dont worry, its not the end of the world. The next day, try to eat your first meal as late as possible (wait until noon, at the earliest) so that your digestive system has time to recover from your holiday feast.
E - Exercise
While exercise is important year round, during the holiday its best to do it in the morning so that you wont feel hungry at night. If your busy schedule wont allow for a morning run, opt for a static activity in the evening, like yoga or pilates.
F - Fasting
Avoid overeating by fasting the day of a big event. This will help cleanse your system and curb hunger, but it doesnt mean go hungry; you can drink as much water, seltzer, and tea as you need, and should eat a small snack before heading out.

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The Barbarians have announced 22 players who will play in their eagerly-anticipated matches against England and the 2013 British and Irish Lions.
Included in the latest batch of star names to confirm their availability are former Lions James Hook, Dwayne Peel and Matthew Rees, All Blacks Joe Rokocoko and Nick Evans, four members of Italy's Six Nations team - Sergio Parisse, Martin Castrogiovanni, Leonardo Ghiraldini and Alessandro Zanni - and Springbok forwards BJ Botha, Marco Wentzel and Francois Louw.
In all, ten different nationalities are represented, including two new flying wings, United States Eagle Takudzwa Ngwenya and Hong Kong's Sevens' skipper Rowan Varty plus Samoa's world-class scrum-half Kahn Fotuali'i.
In the best Barbarians' tradition two uncapped players have been invited - Kiwi full-back Jared Payne, currently with Ulster after several seasons of Super Rugby with the Crusaders and Blues, and former England U20 flank Sam Jones.
"Our selection process has taken several months and is still not quite complete. Over the next week or so we will be monitoring the domestic play-off matches in Europe and the various national squads for the summer tours," said team manager Derek Quinnell.
"Also, one or two players in the squad announced today may not be available for both of our matches so we expect to add other significant names to the team in the near future."
The Barbarians kick-off their tour against England at Twickenham on May 26 before flying to Hong Kong for the historic encounter against the British and Irish Lions on Saturday, June 1.
Barbarians squad:
Backs: Jared Payne (Ulster), Rowan Varty (DeA Tigers and Hong Kong), Takudzwa Ngwenya (Biarritz Olympique and USA), Joe Rokocoko (Bayonne and New Zealand), James Hook (Perpignan and Wales), Nick Evans (Harlequins and New Zealand), Kahn Fotuali'i (Ospreys and Samoa), Dwayne Peel (Sale Sharks and Wales), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz Olympique and France).
Forwards: Duncan Jones (Ospreys and Wales), BJ Botha (Munster and South Africa), Paul James (Bath Rugby and Wales), Martin Castrogiovanni (Leicester and Italy), Matthew Rees (Scarlets and Wales), Leonardo Ghiraldini (Benetton Treviso and Italy), Marco Wentzel (London Wasps and South Africa), Jim Hamilton (Gloucester Rugby and Scotland), Francois Louw (Bath Rugby and South Africa), Sam Jones (London Wasps), Alessandro Zanni (Benetton Treviso and Italy), Sergio Parisse (Stade Francais and Italy), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz Olympique and France).
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We have, today, released a detailed update on our position in relation to the Daily Telegraph's investigation into awarding bodies:
Qualifications, standards, and the recent Daily Telegraph investigation
Edexcel is deeply concerned by the matters raised by the Daily Telegraph's investigation into events run by the UK's major awarding organisations. The reputation of our education system is heralded internationally and we agree with the Secretary of State for Education that maintaining the international credibility and status of our exams is essential. To this end, Edexcel will co-operate fully with any and all investigations that Ofqual is carrying out, in the interests of building an improved education system in this country.
Since the publication of the Daily Telegraph story on Thursday evening, we have taken a number of actions:
As a result of this analysis, we are certain that Edexcel's qualifications are of the same standard as those of the other major awarding bodies.
On Thursday evening, on the basis of comments she made to an undercover reporter from the Daily Telegraph, we suspended Steph Warren, who is one of 106 Chief Examiners and over 12,500 examiners contracted to Edexcel on a part-time basis. We are confident that the personal opinions expressed by Ms Warren are not supported by the evidence.
We think it is vital for the integrity of the examination system that the Department for Education and the regulator, Ofqual, analyse the results achieved by all students in all subjects across all awarding bodies. This will ensure we can all take a rigorous, data-driven, research-based approach to key policy decisions. We are happy for our data to be made available, in order to enable this further scrutiny.
As of Monday December 12th, we are also putting in place new procedures which will enable Edexcel to have more control over the exact content of the events we hold, as well as enabling a much greater degree of transparency and public scrutiny around these events in the future. The immediate steps we are taking include:
From early next year, we will also be placing online the information made available at these events, and free to any teacher who might find it of use.
We welcome a review of the current examination system and will participate fully in it. Initiatives and incentives in the system, including league table points and targets, whilst designed with the very best of intentions, have sometimes placed teachers under too much pressure to "teach to the test" or focus excessively on exam results in ways that can be counter to the best interests of students.
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The Bermuda Race has come a long way since 1906 when the start of the race was in Gravesend Bay when only three teams began the 635-mile passage to Bermuda. Last Friday afternoon, June 17th, 157 boats in 13 classes in five divisions got underway off Castle Hill Lighthouse, at the entrance to Newport Harbor, in the 44th Newport-Bermuda Race. The Race Committee onboard a Coast Guard cutter gave each division a downwind start, ratcheting the excitement level up another notch for those who ventured out in boats large and small to send off their family and friends on this major ocean racing event. The first 18 hours of this classic provided a challenge to navigators and tacticians in the light northerly winds. Most of the fleet was made up of IMS rated cruiser racers (102 boats) with 27 yachts sailing in a separate non-spinnaker class and 12 two-man yachts sailing in the double-handed class. Weather, as usual, will play a determining role in this year's race, as it has in the past. The fleet started out in light winds out of the SE, with wind velocity at < 5 knots. By the time yachts reported back to land on Sunday, June 20th, the seas were 2 feet, with winds in the 18-knot range. One boat was dismasted during a huge storm during the second night at sea, and was reported sailing under her own power back to port. Several other boats had severe damage to their yachts and are also retiring from the race.
Several local sailors and friends from harbors nearby were on the starting line last Friday. William McFaul is on Free Fall, his Swan 44 (Port Washington YC). Also from Port Washington YC is Bob Limoggio on Cabaret, a Tripp 47. John Browning, from Manhasset Bay YC is sailing on Juggernaut, owned by William Musetti out of American YC. Jim Miller, who has family still living in Port Washington, is on his yacht, Antipodes, a SNC 52. Couper Duerr, a nephew of Jean Shope (a familiar face on our bay, seen frequently on Race Committee) is sailing on Kodiak, with Randy Green out of NYYC. John Storck, who is well-known in this area, but lives in Huntington is also on board Kodiak. Jim Sykes, who grew up in our area, is on Bombardino, a SNC 52. M.D. Schulman out of Sea Cliff YC is sailing Charlie V, his J442. Rich du Moulin, from Larchmont YC, who also grew up here, learning to sail in the junior program at Knickerbocker YC, is on his Lora Ann, and is sailing in the double-handed class with Chris Reyling, who grew up in Sea Cliff. Rich and Chris are trying for a repeat of Rich's first place victory captured in the last Bermuda Race. And Jim Mertz, who sails out of American YC, but does not have roots in our area, can't be overlooked. He is 92 years old and sailing in his 30th Bermuda Race. Last month when your reporter showed awe and respect for such longevity, his comment? "Well, I'm not sailing in the spinnaker division!" Other boats that may be familiar to readers include: Blue Yankee, Bob Towse, Storm Trysail; Mensae, Erling Kristiansen, LHYC; Gold Digger, Jim Bishop, AYC; Brown-Eyed Girl, Scott Dinhofer, IHYC; Cygnette, William Mayer, IHYC; and Vixen, Dietrich Weisman, NYYC.
Roy Disney and Pyewacket, a new MAXz, an 86-foot sled returned to Newport with the expectation of not only breaking the record for the Big Boat division, but smashing it. Disney's previous Pyewacket set the present record of 53 hours 39 minutes and 22 seconds, and they have high expectations of knocking at least 15 hours off that time. He has his work cut out for him, as two other yachts will provide some stiff competition this year: Hasso Plattner's, Morning Glory, and Windquest, sailed by Dick and Doug, from Ada, MI. Morning Glory is identical to Disney's sled, with swing keels. Windquest, a Reichel Pugh designed 86 footer relies on water ballast tanks for her stability instead of the complex swing keels that the other two boats employ. The last time these three boats raced each other was in the Caribbean over the winter, where Pyewacket led at the first windward mark, but lost their way further down the course. After a beautiful downwind start, with set spinnakers, the three yachts were very close as they disappeared into the fog that had settled over Newport. Though the Disney team was seen in Newport preparing and practicing for the "big race," victory was denied them this year. Morning Glory took line honors when she crossed the finish line off St. David's Lighthouse at 14:58:31 EDT. The unofficial elapse time was 48 hours, 28 minutes and 31 seconds. Pyewacket, finished five hours and 15 minutes later to take second place. Windquest was third. No other boats finished by press time. Full results next week.
Newport is a busy port this week. Immediately after the start of the Bermuda Race, the UBS Trophy Regatta started. The wind has been spectacular for this classic match racing event between America's Cup winner Alinghi, the Swiss syndicate and Oracle, out of San Francisco. This challenge between these two is an unofficial match race to raise awareness and produce excitement with match racing, and keep interest alive until the next Cup race in 2007. At press time, Alinghi won the first two races on the first day, and Oracle won both races the next two days. All races are sailed right off the shore at Fort Adams, with close views of the two boats as they circle and cover each other. Live commentary explains each maneuver and adds to the excitement. More results to follow next week.
Upcoming event: Mystic Seaport has an interesting new exhibit called Women and the Sea. For centuries, the quest to sail the world's waters was depicted as a conflict between man and the sea. Truth be known, there was many a woman who sailed the high seas. Mary Patten was a young captain's wife who piloted a clipper ship around Cape Horn in 1865, and Anne Bonny and Mary Read, were legendary female pirates who roamed the Caribbean in 1719. While history highlights explorers, sailors and maritime merchants as men, women's experiences reveal that they have always played an active role in maritime affairs. In the last century, women served with pride in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, explored the world as scientists, worked in commercial fishing, and raced in sailing competitions, including the America's Cup. Women and the Sea, which opens on July 2, is the nation's first comprehensive exhibit on the active role that women have played and continue to play in maritime history. Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic CT. For more information, visit www.mysticseaport.org or call 860.572.5315.
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Jordin Sparks covers the latest issue of Women's Running, a feat she never imagined she'd accomplish just a few years ago.
"I was carrying a 5-year-old," the former American Idol winner tells Life & Style of her past figure. "Fall 2010 through March, that's kind of when I lost the first 30 pounds. By March of last year, I lost 50. And then I maintained it for the rest of the year."
How did she do it? Sparks may have focused on more healthy recipes in the kitchen, but it was the work done outside the home that really paid off.


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So Bill catches hell for bad draft choices but gets no credit for the positive ones...
Got it... don't you see how silly this is?
Belichick could have passed on Brady, could have waited for him to go undrafted (and he would have), BB has a say in all football related decisions, he chose Brady. Period. Taking away all of Belichicks best draft picks just because you don't like him makes you look foolish.
History will record that Bill Belichick drafted Tom Brady, all your self hatred (assuming you're actually a Pat's fan and not some plant by BDC to increase posts) will not change that.
As I have REPEATEDLY stated; I don't credit or discredit picks after the 4th round.If you get something there, great; if you don't, I'm not going to slam that.
It is how depth is built on a 53 man roster. It is a very important part of team building and takes just as much draft prep as any other round.
Right, the last 125 players chosen are nearly as important as the first 125 players chosen, and an equal amount of resources are expended to research those picks. Makes perfect sense. That's because the bottom 20 spots on a roster make such a big difference to the eventual fate of a team, right? Thank you for your astute football observation.
(And people wonder why I so liberally used the S-word in the past.)
Right, because when injuries happen and teams don't have the quality depth to to use as replacements it doesn't matter. If you want to have a discussion about the topic fine. If you are just going to be a d*ck then just don't respond. You are suppossedly 60+ years old stop acting like your 12.


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On January 4th the fire department responded to a blaze in the backyard of this house. That's when they realized that the house's 16 acres of land were filled with junk.
Junk such as appliances, machinery, scrapmetal, tires, vehicles, household trash, and Christmas displays adorned the yard.
"It's quite unattractive," said Frank Wawnar, a neighbor.
Wawner lives a few doors down from Cecil and Doris Gardner. And he said this wasn't the first fire they've had in their backyard; he's seen 3. "One time a very large pile of tires about the size of my house caught on fire and burned for several days," said Wawner.
Authorities said the Gardner's are violating the county zoning code and in turn, could be affecting neighbors health.
"They've been around testing all of our wells to see if there is any contamination in the wells from the toxic runoff of whatever they have there," said Wawner.
The Gardner's have been told to clean up their illegal junkyard or they'll be slapped with charges.
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Chaz Bono was a male trapped in a female shell for as long as he can remember. Growing up as Sonny and Cher's adorable golden-haired daughter in a body he felt wasn't his own was a crucible it took years to transcend. Now, as he undertakes gender reassignment, he's bravely decided to share the process on camera. Becoming Chaz invites us along on Chaz's remarkable journey of transformation. As hormone shots give way to top surgery, down-to-earth, unflappable Chaz beams with a sense of liberation and goes public with his story to put a face on a misunderstood issue. Meanwhile, his gregarious girlfriend grapples with the realities of suddenly living with a man, and it's clear sex change isn't solely a physical transition. Intimate and nakedly honest, the film reveals the humanity and courage it takes for Chaz to ultimately embrace his true self. His moving struggle will reverberate profoundly for anyone to whom authenticity matters.
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Have you said your prayers and kissed your family good-bye?
Are your closets stocked with bottled water, flashlights, Twinkies, Spam and enough guns and ammo to fight off zombies and survive for months in a lifeless, dystopian landscape?
If not, you'd better hurry! Today is Dec. 20, 2012. That means the apocalypse is less than 24 hours away according to the doomsday theorists who claim that Mayans predicted the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012.
Thankfully, reports of the Earth's demise have been greatly exaggerated. No reputable archeologist, geologist, Mayan scholar, astronomer or proctologist, for that matter, actually believes doomsday is tomorrow.
The notion that the world will end tomorrow came about when it was calculated that the Mayan "long count" calendar comes to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. The long count calendar calculates a huge cycle of time, which comes out to be about 5,125 years. When scholars converted the long count calendar into our modern Gregorian calendar, they discovered that the last cycle began Aug. 13, 3114 B.C., and ends on Dec. 21st, 2012.
Just because tomorrow is the last day of the long count calendar doesn't mean that the world will end, thankfully. It simply means that a new cycle begins — just like we'll throw out our old wall calendars on Jan. 1 and begin a new cycle ourselves.
To make the matter more embarrassing for dimwitted doomsday prophets, it turns out that Dec. 21, 2012, isn't actually even the correct final day of this cycle of Mayan time measurement. Scholars calculating the day that the Mayan long count cycle would end were off a few weeks. The actual cycle concluded on Nov. 27 of this year. According to Mayan calendar alarmists, the world should've actually ended the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. But we're still here.
So if the world won't actually end tomorrow (and it won't), who would want to spread such a bunch of preposterous baloney and work people into a terrorized tizzy?
The answer is José Argüelles, a New Age artist and environmentalist with a Ph.D. in art history. Argüelles, who also co-founded Earth Day, saw an opportunity to make a quick buck off of New Age devotees by writing a book — Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology — that linked outlandish doomsday prophesies to the Mayan calendar.
Argüelles died on March 23, 2011, sparing himself the embarrassment of being alive when Dec. 21, 2012, came and went without incident.
While Argüelles is dead, other revolting hucksters like Argüelles are alive and well today, attempting to capitalize on bogus end of the world claims by selling survival kits, emergency supplies and religious paraphernalia to the gullible. A quick Google search reveals Mayan calendar survival kits and doomsday "shields" on last-minute sales.
Sadly, as long as there are people willing to shell out money to snake oil salesmen and doomsday prophets, these absurd end-of-the-world prophesies will continue to pop up. The only way to defeat them is to rely on science and reason and to explain that, yes, the world will eventually end.
It will end when the sun burns through all of its hydrogen fuel in about 5 billion years.
The similarities between the Mayan end-of-the-world scam and the Christian end-of-the-world scam is remarkable. Both make money off of ignorance.
Of course the Christian scam has been going on for 2000 years now making it the longest running scam in history.
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"BIG difference: it's very easy to tell if it's a "Christian scam"...if they have a date. Jesus made it clear-- no man knows the day or the hour only The Father. Might want to make sure you always have plenty of oil in your lamp."
**Ah, the even bigger Christian scam -- the eternal scam. Keep oil in your lamp and dollars going to the preachers 'cause you never know when Sky Daddy might decide it's over. Don't want to be left behind, so purchase you tickets early and often. Send your tithes, love offerings, and social security checks to the preacher on his island retreat in the tropics as he receives another revelation from Gawd (which always involves you sending more money to him to spread the word about sending more money into Gawd's ponzi scheme).
The only true thing about the End Times — the scam never ends.**
If the Mayan's could not predict they would be eliminated by the Spanish Conquistadors, why should anyone predict their calendar ending would mean the end of the world?
Maybe it is the end of the world. From chattanoogan.com.
"A 911 call came in from a pay phone at the Fabric Care on Cherokee Boulevard.
The caller said he was Jesus and he loved the police.
Police went to the laundromat, but could not locate the caller.
Customers said a black male had come in, said he was Jesus, and he loved them.
He then ambled off toward Market Street."
No sign of the Archangel Michael, the Heavenly Host, and His Choirs of Angels. If you see Jesus, give Him a couple of quarters so He can call me with His location. I've got a party this weekend and I'm short of funds but I have lots of water and could use some Merlot and Chardonnay. Some loaves and fishes and Chex Party Mix would be nice to bring, but no lepers. And leave Momma at the trailer park — She's a downer, always acts holier-than-thou, and that gold halo is always bumping into the lamps. And it's always, "My Son is the Savior, My Son performs miracles, My Son raises the dead, My Son never visits unless He wants His robe washed" she never shuts up. Jesus yes, Mary no!
March 31, 2007, Rock Place, Stewart's Creek, by Carl A. Patton
There was once a Book written from left to right. It saw the future the present and the past.
There was an ending and a beginning.
There were days that could only be seen from the pages of a great Book. Today I looked back and beyond.
Much had been passed down but the daily hogs and goats only sneered at the record keepers.
Meanwhile the dead spoke loudly. Many sacrifices had been made. So had great miracles come upon the earth.
Some though read from left to right. However some came to see from right to left.
John saw the future the present as he favored the foundation from the past.
Those seeing right saw past, present and future.
The left has seen misery and pain. They also see many things not normal.
The right readers sometimes see God. However God reads neither left nor right. Jesus sits at the head table many flanked Him as He is the center of Truth.
Peace and Paradise, Brother Carl A. Patton writing for the FreedomJournal Press 21 December 2012 in the year of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesu
Bummer! No zombies standing at my front door or brimstone pelting my roof, looks like just another normal day in the neighborhood.
As Winter Solstice (the REAL reason for the season) slides by, and Earth whispers on to begin yet another trip around the Sun at 29.783 kilometers per second rotating with an axial tilt 23 degrees off the vertical, the annual trek toward warm Spring days has begun. And that's a good thing since we are all the thinness of a green leaf from starvation. Thoughts of a juicy slice of home-grown tomato resting on a Saltine make the cold more bearable.
Sadly, the ongoing efforts of Republican scrooges to enrich oligarchs on the backs of the poor and indigent have the opposite effect. For, despite all their religious puffery, if the devil exists, he lives in the void between their ears and their hearts are as cold as the dark side of the Moon.
It's really funny, you know. We revel in the realization that the Mayans fell short (or our interpretation of their calendar fell short) after many humans across the globe bought into the "end of the world" mania. In reality, the Mayan calendar reflects quite an advanced civilization. They built pyramids and used hieroglyphics just as the Eqyptians did at the origination of the Jesus myth. He and all the other messianic figures sprang from sun worship and the discovery and interpretation of annual astronomical cycles.
So while people steeped in Abrahamic religions scoff at the apparent failure of the Mayan world view inherent in our happy survival of the "big event", one wonders why there is not an equivalent questioning of the validity of their own mythology. Outside of the fact that they avoid the possibility of a definitive date rendering their myth as ephemeral as that of the Mayans' it seems to just illustrate that when a myth takes hold among a population and is perpetuated through the inculcation of unquestioning children, it takes much longer to render it moot. Fortunately, we have modern science on our side to accelerate the process. That's why there is a hatred of science among many Christians.
In her piece on Alternet, Adele Stan talks about the peace she has found in abandoning the christmas craziness saying, in part:
"Christmas existed before there were Christians. Nearly every culture celebrates the winter solstice, and the Western traditions of Christmas trees, mistletoe, Yule logs -- all that -- are the vestiges of European paganism. I've never made a pilgrimage to Stonehenge, nor do I belong to a coven, but I feel those ancient forms in my bones. The practice of lighting fires and bringing nature indoors at the darkest time of the year just makes a lot of sense. It's how we get through, reminding ourselves that all is not dead and lost to us, that the sun will reappear...But solstice was not a time of travel; it was a time to hibernate, to mediate, to contemplate the mysteries of nature with those in our immediate circle. And so, I stay put."
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Local BMX star Brett Banasiewicz is making strides in his recovery after a terrible biking accident last fall.
Bansiewicz is currently at an outpatient facility in Texas undergoing physical therapy to recover from his injuries. In August, 2012, the Washington High School senior was put in a medically induced coma after he sustained a serious head injury in a BMX accident.
His physical therapist, Sheri Walters, has been working with Banasiewicz at Athlete's Performance gym in Dallas, and has seen tremendous improvement.
"I've been working with Brett for the past three weeks and I've been amazed by the progress that he's made, from the improvements in his gate to his ability to use his left arm in his daily activities, he's made huge strides in the last three weeks. I've also been impressed by his work ethic and his dedication to getting better," says Walters.
Supporters can watch a video documenting his recovering to see just how far he has come over the past few months.
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YAY OR NAY: Big hats at weddings
Time was when any female guest over the age of about 12 was more or less required to wear a proper hat to a wedding. But the wearing of full-on hats has seen a huge dip in popularity in recent years, and is now mostly limited to older ladies.
Fascinators and other glorified hair decorations have since stepped in as the preferred form of celebration headwear for the younger generation - and Kate Middleton herself is quite a fan of the diminutive pieces, But there are a few who still enjoy the novelty of wearing a huge, wide-brimmed hat to church, and we've heard whisperings that there may be a revival for more prominent occasion headwear.
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Indiana's newest U.S. senator said Thursday he will be a lot like those Hoosiers who have preceded him in the past half-century -- relatively moderate.
Shortly before being sworn in on Capital Hill, Joe Donnelly, a Democrat from Granger in St. Joseph County, named "an amazing Hoosier tradition" in the Senate that has included Republicans Richard Lugar, Dan Coats and Dan Quayle and Democrats Evan Bayh, his father, Birch Bayh, and Vance Hartke.
"We have had just a tradition of being a state where the senators that represent us are not extremists but are ones who are looked to by the entire nation to bring our country together," Donnelly told reporters in a conference call. "And I hope to serve in that same role of not worrying about Democrat, not worrying about Republican, but worrying about doing what's right for our country."
Political scientists might quibble with Donnelly about how moderate some of his predecessors have been. But Donnelly clearly established himself as a centrist during six years in the House, and he said Thursday he is part of a "middle group" that has emerged in the Democratic-controlled Senate since the November election.
Donnelly, 57, was escorted to his swearing-in ceremony at 12:10 p.m. by the Bayhs and Lugar, 80, a six-term incumbent who lost last year's Republican primary election to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. Donnelly defeated Mourdock in the general election.
Vice President Biden administered the oath of office to Donnelly and 32 other senators elected in November.
Donnelly earlier said he has kept in contact with Lugar.
"I have talked with him a number of times since the election, and asked him if he wouldn't mind if I could give him a call every now and then," Donnelly said. "He laughed and said he would love to be able to have a chance to do that. He gave me advice and wisdom.…"
Donnelly said he also has been in contact with Coats, who becomes Indiana's senior senator after two years in office. Coats has plenty of experience, however – he was a senator from 1989 through 1998 after serving in the House.
"We've met, we've talked and really look forward to working together," Donnelly said.
Coats was to have been in Donnelly's escort for the oath but had to attend to a family illness, a Coats aide said.
Three new member of Indiana's House delegation were to be sworn in Thursday -- Reps. Jackie Walorski, R-2nd, who replaces Donnelly; Susan Brooks, R-5th, a Fort Wayne native who replaces the retired Republican Dan Burton; and Luke Messer, R-6th, who replaces Republican Gov.-elect Mike Pence.
For more on this story, see Friday's print edition of The Journal Gazette or visit www.journalgazette.net after 3 a.m. Friday.


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PRECOSE® (acarbose tablets)
PRECOSE® (acarbose tablets) is an oral alpha-glucosidase inhibitor for use in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
PRECOSE®, as monotherapy, is indicated as an adjunct to diet to lower blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus whose hyperglycemia cannot be managed on diet alone. PRECOSE® may also be used in combination with a sulfonylurea when diet plus either PRECOSE® or a sulfonylurea do not result in adequate glycemic control. Also, PRECOSE® may be used in combination with insulin or metformin. The effect of PRECOSE® to enhance glycemic control is additive to that of sulfonylureas, insulin, or metformin when used in combination, presumably because its mechanism of action is different.
In initiating treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus, diet should be emphasized as the primary form of treatment. Caloric restriction and weight loss are essential in the obese diabetic patient. Proper dietary management alone may be effective in controlling blood glucose and symptoms of hyperglycemia. The importance of regular physical activity when appropriate should also be stressed. If this treatment program fails to result in adequate glycemic control, the use of PRECOSE® should be considered. The use of PRECOSE® must be viewed by both the physician and patient as a treatment in addition to diet, and not as a substitute for diet or as a convenient mechanism for avoiding dietary restraint.
Effects of acarbose treatment on markers of insulin sensitivity and systemic inflammation. [2011.06]BACKGROUND: This study assessed the effect of postprandial glucose reduction by acarbose on insulin sensitivity and biomarkers of systemic inflammation... CONCLUSIONS: Reduction of the glycemic load by acarbose decreased fasting levels of proinsulin but had no effect on adiponectin and whole-body insulin sensitivity as well as biomarkers reflecting inflammation. The preventive effects of acarbose on type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk need further investigation and cannot be explained by changes of insulin resistance and inflammatory biomarkers.
Acarbose actions on insulin resistance and inflammatory parameters during an oral fat load. [2011.01.25]The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of acarbose on inflammatory biomarkers and insulin resistance in diabetic patients before and after a standardized oral fat load (OFL). Ninety six patients were assigned to take acarbose 50mg three times a day and 92 to take placebo; after the first month acarbose was titrated to 100mg three times a day...
A prospective, parallel group, open-labeled, comparative, multi-centric, active controlled study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and benefits of fixed dose combination of acarbose and metformin versus metformin alone in type 2 diabetes. [2010.11]OBJECTIVE: The present study was a prospective, parallel group, open-labeled, comparative, multicentric, active controlled study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and benefits of fixed dose combination of acarbose and metformin versus metformin alone in type 2 diabetic patients... CONCLUSIONS: Fixed dose combination of acarbose and metformin was well tolerated and it was superior to metformin monotherapy in controlling FBG, PPBG and HbA(1C) levels in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus patients.
Impact of acarbose on carotid intima-media thickness in patients with newly diagnosed impaired glucose tolerance or mild type 2 diabetes mellitus: A one-year, prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel-group study in Japanese adults with established coronary artery disease. [2010.08]OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effect of acarbose therapy on carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD) who had been newly diagnosed with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or mild type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)... CONCLUSION: In this small, open-label study in patients with established CAD who were newly diagnosed with IGT or mild T2DM, 12 months of treatment with acarbose was associated with a beneficial effect in terms of preventing the progression of carotid IMT compared with control, although it was not associated with a significant decrease in IMT from baseline. UMIN (University Hospital Medical Information Network) Clinical Trials Registry identifier: UMIN000000544. Copyright (c) 2010 Excerpta Medica Inc. All rights reserved.
Postprandial endothelial dysfunction in subjects with new-onset type 2 diabetes: an acarbose and nateglinide comparative study. [2010.03.24]BACKGROUND: Postprandial hyperglycemia is believed to affect vascular endothelial function. The aim of our study was to compare the effects of acarbose and nateglinide on postprandial endothelial dysfunction... CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that acarbose improves postprandial endothelial function by improvement of postprandial hyperglycemia, independent of postprandial hyperinsulinemia. Acarbose may thus have more beneficial effects on postprandial endothelial function in patients with type 2 diabetes than nateglinide.
A Phase III Randomized, Double-blind, Parallel-group Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Acarmet (Metformin HCl 500 mg Plus Acarbose 50 mg Tablets) Versus Acarbose Alone in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [Recruiting]
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder which is caused by both insulin
secretion deficiency and insulin action defect. In this type of subjects, fasting
hyperglycemia is the result of the elevated rate of basal hepatic glucose production, and it
is coexisting with hyperinsulinemia. After a meal, the impaired control of hepatic glucose
production by insulin and decreased insulin-mediated glucose uptake by muscle contributed
nearly equally to postprandial hyperglycemia(Scheen, 1997). Type 2 diabetic subjects
experience significant morbidity and mortality from microvascular (retinopathy, nephropathy,
and neuropathy) and macrovascular (cardiovascular disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular
disease) complications. The appropriate treatment and good glycemic control of diabetes is
therefore important and necessary (Vaag, 2006). Evidences suggest that combination therapy
using oral antidiabetic agents with different mechanisms of action may be more effective in
achieving and maintaining target blood glucose level (Turner et al., 2005).There are five
classes of oral antihyperglycemic agents (sulfonylureas, biguanides, α- ucosidase
inhibitors, thiazolidinediones and meglitinides) currently available to improve glycemic
control in subjects with type 2 diabetes, each of which works through a different mechanism
of action. Metformin, a biguanide which has insulin-sensitizing properties, can be used
alone or in combination with other classes of agents. Metformin is the currently the
first-choice treatment in subjects with diagnosed type 2 diabetic subjects and obesity,
characterized by insulin-resistance. Metformin also provides reduction of body weight and
ameliorates lipid abnormalities and is thought to be related to a reduction in hepatic
gluconeogenesis (Hundal & Inzucchi, 2003).Acarbose, the α-glucosidase inhibitor, is approved
for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and first approved for prediabetes treatment (Chiasson
et al., 1994; Breuer, 2003; Chiasson et al., 2002). The drug was launched worldwide as a
type 2 diabetes monotherapy and combination therapy in 1990 which has proven efficacious as
first-line therapy (Coniff et al., 1995) and in combination with sulfonylureas or insulin
(Kelley et al., 1998). Acarbose and metformin are both associated with beneficial effects on
hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, body weight, and, in some studies,triglyceride levels
(Krentz et al., 1994). Because these factors are part of a cluster of risk factors for
cardiovascular disease, combining the two drugs may be useful. In long-term clinical
studies, acarbose has shown a favorable safety profile (Hasche et al., 1999).In combination
with metformin, acarbose has been shown to improve long-term glycemic control (Rosenstock et
al., 1998; Halimi et al., 2000). This study was conducted as a further vestigation into the
efficacy and safety of concurrent use of acarbose and metformin in type 2 diabetes mellitus
subjects. Lotus Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. intends to initiate Phase III program to investigate
assess the efficacy and safety of metformin in combination with acarbose for type 2 diabetes
mellitus subjects considered inadequately blood glucose control. Since combination tablet of
acarbose and metformin has not yet been approved by the Taiwan DOH, this study is conducted
to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination tablet of acarbose and metformin in the
treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus subjects in Taiwan. Acarbose is chosen as an
Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Acarbose,Metformin,Sitagliptin Combination Treatment in DM Patients [Not yet recruiting]
Primary objective To evaluate the efficacy of Acarbose added on top of Metformin and
Sitagliptin that were combinedly administered to subjects with type-II diabetes, along with
Secondary objectives
1. To compare a Metformin-Sitagliptin combination and a Sitagliptin-Acarbose combination
in efficacy
2. To evaluate the 6-month efficacy of Acarbose added on top of the Metformin-Sitagliptin
GlucoFriend-evaluation the Effectiveness of Glucobay When Combined With a Basal Insulin [Recruiting]
To evaluate the effectiveness of Glucobay when combined with a basal insulin under
daily-life treatment conditions in a large sample of Korean patients.
GLucobay M OBservation Study for Efficacy and Safety in Treatment of Type-2 Diabetes Patients [Recruiting]
An observational and multicenter study to assess the effectiveness and safety of Glucobay®-
M under daily life treatment of type-2 diabetes patients. The study objectives are to
investigate the effectiveness and safety of Glucobay® - M on blood glucose and patients body
- weight. Glucobay®- M is taken 1-3 times daily. All patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus,
where investigator feels that addition of Glucobay®-M would be beneficial to patients will
be included in non- interventional study. The routine investigation suggested by the
attending physician will be done in diabetic patients. No additional investigation will be
done for the study purpose. The uncontrolled diabetic patient on existing treatment and
prescribed Glucobay®-M will be included in study after taking the informed consent. The
patient will be asked to attend 2 follow up visit each after 6 weeks. All patients receiving
at least one tablet will be included in the safety analysis. The study is planned to be
carried out in 10000 patients from 320-350 trial sites in India.
Special Drug Use Investigation of Glucobay OD [Recruiting]
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Loss of Consciousness (1),
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If you had a questionable breast diagnosis, wouldn't you want
to go to the highest certified breast imaging center in the area?
In Brevard County, you don't need to look any further than
Parrish Medical Center (PMC).
PMC's mammography program has earned accreditation
from the American College of Radiology (ACR). But it didn't
stop there. Its other imaging services—stereotactic breast
biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast
biopsy—all have been fully accredited as well.
Because they've all been accredited, PMC now is designated
as a breast imaging center of excellence, which is awarded by
ACR. The award is presented only to breast imaging centers that
have demonstrated excellence by earning ACR accreditation in
all of the college's voluntary breast imaging accreditation programs
and components, in addition to the mandatory
mammography accreditation program.
Only 23 hospitals, clinics or health
centers in Florida have been designated
a breast imaging center of excellence.
Accreditation is determined through stringent
peer-review evaluations by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field.
PMC achieved high practice standards in all areas, including
image quality, personnel qualifications, equipment, quality control
and quality-assurance programs.
Patients can be assured of excellent care at PMC, which
voluntarily went through ACR's rigorous review process to
make sure it met nationally accepted standards. This process
also certifies that PMC care partners, through education and
certification, are well-qualified to perform and interpret medical
images and administer radiation therapy treatments. And
it means PMC has the right equipment for a patient's test or
treatment, and quality assurance and safety guidelines always
are met or exceeded.
The American College of Radiology, headquartered in Reston,
Va., is a national organization serving more than 32,000
diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation
oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians
and medical physicists, with programs
focusing on the practice of medical imaging
and radiation oncology, as well as the delivery
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An interview with Bridget McManus
AE: Everyone in the entertainment world is trying to move up the fame ladder. Oprah's trying to become more famous and powerful than the sun. In the first episode of McManusLand, you're trying to become more famous and powerful than Oprah. And all over Hollywood, there are people trying to become as famous and powerful as Bridget McManus. You made a list of ways to become Oprah. Make a list of ways the burgeoning celebrities can become Bridget McManus.
BM: First I would tell them to set their goals higher than being like me. Being Bridget McManus is easy: step one, drink lots of coffee, step two, have tons of props and costumes on hand (leotards are a must!). Step three, never stop moving. I'm like a shark, if I stop moving I die. But I'm a vegetarian shark. I'm the shark who is friends with all the fish, although I don't like the ocean because it's dirty and creepy and I'm scared my contacts will pop out of my eyes and float away. Wait, what was the question again?
AE: I've heard a lot of actors say they refuse to be on camera with cute kids or adorable pets because they don't want to be up-staged. Are you worried about that with your dog? 'Cause just from that one episode, I can see she's got a lot of star potential.
BM: Taffy Davenport steals every scene she is in. For some reason my dog knows where the camera and her light are at all times. She knows her angles and she's always ready to perform. I have a stage in my living room and whenever I get on it to practice my stand up, Taffy jumps on it too as if you say, "it's my turn, Mommy." I wonder where she gets that from?
AE: Can you tell us a little bit about your partnership with tellofilms?
BM: I first collaborated with Tellofilms in 2009 on a game show also called McManusLand. I flew to Chicago, where tellofilms is based, and hosted the improv game show with a group of Second City members. When tellofilms decided to create original content and produce their own projects, they approached me with a budget and said what do you want to do? I immediately thought of doing a dark comedy in which I make fun of myself. I wrote up a pitch, sent it to tello and my producing partner Adriana Torres and we kicked ideas around until McManusLand was resurrected and transformed into a mockumentary.
I describe tellofilms as the online HBO for lesbians. tello produces terrific content for lesbians by lesbians. Their website is free, but to access the premium content, like episodes of McManusLand and Cowgirl Up, there is a $3.99/ monthly fee. What tellofilms is doing is revolutionary. They are developing and funding lesbian films. Too often straight stories get funded by big studios and then lesbian films don't get made. tello is actually making great content, but they can't do it alone.
I think a lot of people still balk at the idea of paying for online content when so much is still available at no cost. But it's about quality, not quantity. When production teams have budgets, they can hire the best people to do the best jobs. As a result, you can (and, I think, should) expect a better product. In our world, artists of every type are regularly expected to work for free, even though most of us went to school and pursued training just like people in every other profession. So just as you might pay to stream a movie on Netflix, watch a show on HBO or rent a movie at the video store, you can pay for premium content online. Only at tellofilms.com, you will actually have your choice of shows that are made by and for lesbian audiences. I think it's a great bargain, and it's good karma to subscribe. And I would say that even if I didn't have a show on tello!
AE: It's $3.99 a month for a premium subscription, which is, as you say, less than the cost of one latte. What other four-buck items could we give up to make room for a tellofilms subscription in our monthly budgets?
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AE: What kind of shenanigans can we expect in the rest of the season?
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Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
Beth Loffreda
Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
|Beth Loffreda
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Matthew Shepard was murdered in Laramie, Wyo., two years ago this month. Overnight, in spite of the attempts of his family and friends, Shepard was transformed from a person into a symbol, or even worse, a human public-service announcement. Author Beth Loffreda, who moved to Laramie shortly before the Shepard murder, uneasily watched a similar transformation happen to Laramie itself, a "complicated town," which found overnight, too, that it had been compressed into a sound bite, a swaggering cowboy town of hate.
In Losing Matt Shepard, Loffreda tries to give us a fully developed portrait of the Laramie landscape--its citizens, politics, and ethos--in the aftermath of the notorious murder. A University of Wyoming professor and adviser to the campus' gay organization, Loffreda deftly describes what she calls the "whiplash condition" suffered by Laramie residents hurtling back and forth between grief and exhaustion, civic pride, and defensiveness. (Anyone who witnessed Baltimore's own bizarre Mount Vernon Place candlelight vigil, at which Defense of Marriage Act-supporting Sen. Barbara Mikulski brazenly promised the candle-holders she'd fight for gay rights, will have no trouble recognizing the turbulent mix of emotions and hypocrisy that Loffreda recalls in Laramie in the days after the murder.) In her earnest attempt to limn Laramie's landscape, Loffreda so often despairs of ever being able to capture the essence of a place that you're left wondering why she bothered. What she intends as evenhandedness and fair-mindedness winds up feeling lukewarm and toothless. (When Loffreda begins a sentence with "it seems to me," it's a welcome sign that she's momentarily abandoning her relentless equanimity and is going to give someone one in the kisser. Thankfully, some of her footnotes are fairly acid too.)
Loffreda devotes one of the book's early chapters to describing the odd public gatherings attended by Laramie citizens and outsiders, gatherings at which ordinary Wyomingites displayed intuitive understanding of the roles they had to play in the media. Another chapter concerns the diverse lives of gay people living in and around Laramie, lives so diverse--as are the lives of their hetero neighbors--that nothing about them sticks with the reader. The book's least-involving chapter recounts the protracted battles in Wyoming and Laramie over hate-crime legislation, a topic that leads Loffreda astray into discursive agonizing.
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FilipinosForgotten Heroes of the UFW
Filipino labor leaders played pivotal roles in organizing labor unions and fighting for farm workers rights
Filipinas Magazine, NCM Award Winner, Alex S. Fabros, Jr. and Daniel P. Gonzales Posted: Jan 30, 2006
The truth of the Filipino farm worker experience stands as an open challenge to the egalitarian, heroic image of the United Farm Workers (UFW) that has been consistently presented to America and the world since their early successes nearly 40 years ago.
The leaders of the world-renowned UFW including, of course, César Chávez, certainly deserve the recognition that has been accorded them as historically important champions of oppressed and suppressed farm workers and working people in general. But Filipinos who had formed labor associations and unions in Hawaii before 1920 and in California by 1930 found themselves discarded and excluded by the leadership after having promoted the high democratic principles that enabled the creation of the UFW in 1966.
Future labor leaders Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco came to California from their native Philippines nearly three decades after it had become a territorial protectoratea colonyof the United States. They were nurtured on American ideals of freedom and democracy proselytized in recently founded public schools designed and run by their colonial overlords. Like tens of thousands of their fellow countrymen of the 1920s and 30s, they crossed the Pacific filled with dreams of adventure, better-paying jobs, access to higher education and personal and social advancement. What most found on their arrival in America were economic oppression, brutal working conditions and racial exclusion.
Carlos Bulosan, in America Is In The Heart, wrote of these men heading north in the spring to Alaska to work in the salmon factories and riding in railroad cars to the Yakima Valley to pick fruit. He rode with the Filipinos as they migrated from labor camp to labor camp throughout the West and across the Southwest, harvesting everything from asparagus and lettuce to citrus, grapes and strawberries. In the winters they retreated to skid row hotels in the Manila Towns of the large cities.
Hardened and humbled but not humiliated by their experiences, they became a generation of labor organizersmen and women very conscious of their status as unskilled workers and immigrants at the bottom of American society. In response, they published newspapers, wrote books and led strikes. They were radicalized by the repressive actions taken against them by both business and government.
At the Bottom
Because they were the most recent of the Asian migrant workers to arrive in the United States, Filipinos were assigned the hardest tasks and paid the lowest wages in the farming industry. From an initial group of 15 sugarcane workers in Hawaii in 1907, they grew to a labor force of over 30,000 workers on the mainland by the 1930s. They comprised over 15 percent of the salad bowl labor force and dominated the lettuce crews in the coastal valleys and asparagus work force in the Central Valley. The Filipinos became the laborers of choice when large concentrations of workers were needed for back-breaking tasks like hoeing, thinning and harvesting crops.
During the 1920s, the Filipinos in Hawaii led by Pablo Manlapit learned how to organize labor unions, stage work slowdowns and hold strikes. After the bloody labor strikes of 1924, many of them fled from blacklisting and government and goon violence and headed on to the mainland, bringing leadership experience and skills with them. When they were confronted by the oppressive labor conditions they were quick to form unions to defend themselves.
A Crime
Bulosan wrote, In many ways it was a crime to be a Filipino in California, because both the growers and the racially prejudiced American Federation of Labor (AFL) were alarmed by their militant stance when they threatened farmers with strikes in order to earn a living wage.
Labor leaders Rufo Canete, D. L. Marcuelo, Tomas Lascetonia, Johnny Estigoy, Nick Losada, Alfonso Castillo and other Filipino activists in Salinas, California, created the Filipino Labor Union (FLU) in 1933. It had more than 2,000 members in seven chapters throughout the state. They soon formed multiracial labor unions, demanding a minimum wage of 35 cents an hour, an eight-hour workday, the elimination of labor contractors and the end to racial hierarchy in the assignment of farm jobs.
When their demands were rejected, some 7,000 men and women in the fields and packing sheds of the Salinas Valley joined the FLU strike. Within a few short weeks, their demands were met. Despite the violence in the fields against the Filipino laborers, progress was steadily made in their wages and working conditions as growers capitulated to their demands.
Labor leaders along the Pacific Coast formed the Filipino Agricultural Laborers Association (FALA) in 1938 and opened its membership to Mexicans and other ethnic groups. It was later renamed the Federated Agricultural Laborers Association (FALA). The power of FALA was demonstrated by a one-day strike in 1939 when 258 growers granted the union a contract that met all of their demands for higher wages and better working conditions. By the eve of World War II, FALA had more than 30,000 members.
More than 10,000 Filipinos left the fields to serve in the U.S. military and many more went to work in the defense industries. For the duration of the war, the union ceased its militancy. After the war was over, it resumed its zealous union activism. In the McCarthyistic anti-labor and anti-union 1950s, however, FALA suffered a long decline in effectiveness and membership.
In 1959, labor leaders Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco joined with the AFL-CIO to create the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) with Itliong as its vice-president.
The year 1965 was a turning point for the Filipino farm workers. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and in 1965 the Voting Rights Act became law.
Filipinos believed they could exercise freedoms promised but never before realized. Though many were already U.S. citizens they had not been allowed full exercise of their rights to the pursuit of happiness, to acquire property and to worship as they pleased. Many Americans of all racial, cultural and economic backgrounds decided that now was the time for real social change.
Hot Summer1965
In the summer of 1965 many Californians went east to participate in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, and New York. They went to any place where racial and social injustice was a way of life. And here in September 1965 was another opportunity to fight injustice. With the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came protection from the goon enforcers of big business and police, supposed upholders of the law, who had often turned a blind eye to corporate and racist violence against organizers and strikers.
In 1965, growers openly ignored state-mandated working standards.
The average life expectancy of a farm worker was 49 years because of the unsafe working conditions in the fields. Workers housing was segregated by race and they each paid over $2 per day for mosquito-infested shacks with no indoor plumbing or cooking facilities. Children did not play in the camps; they worked alongside their parents under the 110-degree plus California sun.
In the spring of 1965, 85 Mexican farm workers at a McFarland rose farm asked the Farm Workers Association to help them get higher wages. Chávez and Dolores Huerta led the workers out on strike and after a few days, the growers agreed to the wage increase but did not recognize the union.
That summer AWOC led a walkout of hundreds of Filipino and Mexican grape pickers in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. Bracerostemporary workers imported from Mexicowere paid a base of $1.40 per hour. Filipino and local Mexican grape pickers, most of whom were members of AWOC, received less than $1.00 an hour. After ten days the growers agreed to pay them $1.25 an hour but no union contract was signed.
In September the grapes were ready to be harvested in Delano, California and once again, the growers were paying the field workers at a lower rate than braceros. Itliong and the AWOC walked out of the fields demanding $1.40 an hour and 25 cents for each box of grapes picked. The growers quickly raised wages to $1.25 per hour, but Filipinos refused the raise because they saw an opportunity to force growers to recognize their union.
At first, Chávez did not want the NFWA to join the strike. From his perspective, the strike began three years too soon. The union had little money to sustain its members need for food and shelter for the duration of any strike action. Still, his followers urged him to join the Filipinos. Several hundred Mexican Americans joined the Filipinos despite the NFWAs reluctance, and they began to picket the fields chanting Huelga! (Strike!).
On the fifth day, the growers trucked in scab labor from all over the Valley. Knowing that the only way to avoid violence in the fields was for the NFWA to join the Filipinos in the strike, Itliong went to see Chavez and demanded that they join forces immediately because the NFWA would never be able to launch its own independent strike.
Chávez responded by calling a meeting on September 16, 1965, at the Filipino Hall on the West Side of Delano. He told hundreds of Mexican laborers, Violence can only hurt us and our cause. The law is for us as well as the ranchers. The strike was begun by the Filipinos, but it is not exclusively for them. Tonight we must decide if we are to join our fellow workers. They did. Having more members then AWOC, the NFWA members soon took the lead in directing the strike.
By September 20 several thousand workers were picketing more than 30 farms scattered over hundreds of square miles in the San Joaquin Valley. They used roving pickets to demonstrate at different fields each day. Carloads of strikers descended upon farms that employed scabs. Despite violent harassment by local law enforcement agencies and hired thugs, the AWOC and NFWA strike leaders successfully persuaded many strikebreakers to join the picket lines.
In 1966, when it was decided to create the United Farm Workers by combining the memberships of AWOC and NFWA, Chavez had to defuse an attempt to limit the new union to Mexicans only. He insisted that the Filipinos had to be represented at all levels of leadership and that they share equally in the services offered by the new union. Mexican membership continuously increased and the balance of power within the union shifted to Chavez and his cohort of Mexican labor leaders.
The courageous and vital role of Filipinos was completely ignored by national and international media coverage that portrayed the UFW and the larger farm labor movement as a Chicano, Mexican or Hispanic struggle. César Chávez was propelled into international fame and world history as a political hero and icon of all movements for social justice. Filipino men and women formerly of AWOC left the UFW in droves when they lost seniority rights. Chicano cultural nationalism had driven them out.
People of extraordinary courage and wisdom support all heroes in all great causes. The brave and profoundly principled Filipinos of the FLU, FALA and AWOC, who preceded the UFW, contributed to its growth and supported its triumphant leader, should be recognized and remembered too, along with Cesar Chávez.
Alex S. Fabros, Jr. is a Ph.D. in U.S. Labor History at U.C. Santa Barbara and an adjunct faculty of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. When not writing and researching, he sails off the coast of California aboard his sloop.
Daniel P. Gonzales, J.D. is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. When not teaching he is rendering constant repairs, at sea and in port, to Alexs boat to ensure that it does not sink.
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Since I've discovered baking lately, I've been revisiting some of the simpler pleasures here in the FAB Whitby kitchen to see if we can recreate them ourselves. So far, I've been reasonably pleased with the results, so I decided it was time to look for a soft taco/tortilla recipe. My recipe search brought me to the Homesick Texan. This transplanted Texan, currently living in NYC, has been written up in lots of traditional media and has a great looking site. She takes some pretty great photos too, so I thought I'd give her recipe for Flour Tortillas from way back in 2007 a try.
The result? A smash hit that will become a staple in our house! Simple ingredients, simple execution and a great finished product. They also keep well when wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge. I doubled the recipe and the kids are still snacking on the left overs!
Recipe: Adapted from The Border Cookbook by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison by the Homesick Texan.
2 cups of all purpose flour. You could sub in 1 cup of whole wheat, but why would you?
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vegetable oil
3/4 cup warmed milk – that means warm it. Do not let it sit out to warm to room temp. You WILL get sick!
Mix dry ingredients and oil in a large bowl.
Slowly stir in the milk until a soft, sticky ball is formed. My dough was very loose until I began kneading.
Knead dough on a floured surface for a couple of minutes until it is firm but still soft.
Turn dough into a clean bowl and let sit, covered by a damp towel, for 20 minutes.
After it has rested, separate it into 8 balls. Homesick Texan suggests breaking sections off, but I rolled the ball into a cylinder shape and then cut it into 8 to create slightly more even portions.
Roll each of these into a little ball and spread them out on a plate to rest for another 10 minutes. This step is important to allow the dough to lose its elasticity. Otherwise it will be really hard to roll out.
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Once they are done, keep them warm by wrapping them in a towel unless you've got a nifty dish with a lid like we have. We put this bad boy in the oven under really low heat to keep them warm. The lid keeps the moisture inside and the torts are just perfect.
Because I don't generally read a recipe all the way through, I rolled and cooked my torts one at a time. Even though they only cook for a minute, this seemed like it took a long time. HT recommends rolling them all at once and then cooking all at once. This would certainly be quicker than the way I did it!
As I mentioned, these tortillas keep quite nicely in the fridge when wrapped properly in plastic wrap. Even if you don't have 3 hungry kids, I would recommend doubling the recipe and keeping the extras on hand for snacking. They are so much better than the store bought soft tortillas and really are easy.