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Obesity is defined as having an excessive amount of body fat. Obesity is more than just a cosmetic concern, though. It increases your risk of diseases and health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Doctors often use a formula based on your height and weight — called the body mass index (BMI) — to determine if you are obese.
Being extremely obese means you are especially likely to have health problems related to your weight.
The good news is that even modest weight loss can improve or prevent the health problems associated with obesity.
The primary symptom of obesity is having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. Your body mass index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms (kg) by your height in meters (m) squared.
Because BMI doesn't directly measure body fat, some people, such as muscular athletes, may have a BMI in the obese category even though they don't have excess body fat.
When to see a doctor
Although there are genetic and hormonal influences on body weight, obesity occurs when you take in more calories than you burn through exercise and normal daily activities. Your body stores these excess calories as fat. Obesity usually results from a combination of causes and contributing factors, including:
Risk factors
Obesity occurs when you eat and drink more calories than you burn through exercise and normal daily activities. Your body stores these extra calories as fat. Obesity usually results from a combination of causes and contributing factors, including:
Even if you have one or more of these risk factors, it doesn't mean that you're destined to become obese. You can counteract most risk factors through diet, physical activity and exercise, and behavior changes.
If you're obese, you're more likely to develop a number of potentially serious health problems, including:
Quality of life
Other weight-related issues that may affect your quality of life include:
Preparing for your appointment
Talking to your doctor openly and honestly about your weight is one of the best things you can do for your health. You're likely to start by seeing your primary care doctor. In some cases, you may be referred to an obesity specialist — if one is available in your area. You may also be referred to a mental health provider, dietitian or nutrition specialist.
What you can do
In addition to your prepared questions, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment.
What to expect from your doctor
What you can do in the meantime
Tests and diagnosis
If your doctor believes you are overweight or obese, he or she will typically review your health history in detail, perform a physical exam and recommend some tests.
These exams and tests generally include:
Gathering all this information helps you and your doctor determine how much weight you need to lose and what health conditions or risks you have. And this will shape what treatment options are right for you.
Treatments and drugs
The goal of obesity treatment is to reach and stay at a healthy weight. You may need to work with a team of health professionals, including a nutritionist, dietitian, therapist or an obesity specialist, to help you understand and make changes in your eating and activity habits.
You can start feeling better and seeing improvements in your health with just modest weight loss — 5 to 10 percent of your total weight. That means that if you weigh 200 pounds (91 kg) and are obese by BMI standards, you would need to lose only about 10 to 20 pounds (4.5 to 9.1 kg) to start seeing benefits.
The treatment methods that are right for you depend on your level of obesity, your overall health and your willingness to participate in your weight-loss plan. Treatment methods include:
Losing weight is usually done by making changes in your lifestyle — dietary changes, increased activity and behavior change. Prescription medication or weight-loss surgery is typically used in addition to lifestyle changes in more serious cases.
Dietary changes
Dietary ways to overcome obesity include:
Be wary of quick fixes
Increased activity
To boost your activity level:
Behavior changes
Behavior modification, sometimes called behavior therapy, can include:
Prescription weight-loss medication
Your doctor may recommend weight-loss medication if:
Orlistat (Xenical) is a weight-loss medication that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for long-term weight loss. This medication blocks the digestion and absorption of fat in your stomach and intestines. Unabsorbed fat is eliminated in the stool. Average weight loss with orlistat is only about 5 to 7 pounds (2.5 to 3.2 kilograms) more than you can get from diet and exercise after one or two years of taking the medication.
Side effects associated with orlistat include oily and frequent bowel movements, bowel urgency, and flatulence with discharge. These side effects can be minimized as you reduce fat in your diet. Because orlistat blocks absorption of some nutrients, take a multivitamin while taking orlistat to prevent nutritional deficiencies.
The FDA has approved orlistat for use in adults, children and adolescents. The FDA also has approved a reduced-strength version of orlistat (Alli) to be sold over-the-counter, without a prescription. This medication works the same as prescription-strength orlistat and is meant only to supplement — not replace — a healthy diet and regular exercise.
You need close medical monitoring while taking a prescription weight-loss medication. Also, keep in mind that a weight-loss medication may not work for everyone. If the medication does work, its effects tend to level off after six months of use like any other method of weight loss. You may need to take a weight-loss medication indefinitely. When you stop taking a weight-loss medication, you're likely to regain much or all of the weight you lost.
Phentermine is a weight-loss medication that was approved in the 1970s only for short-term (three months) use. Using weight-loss medications short-term does not usually lead to long-term weight loss. While some health care providers prescribe phentermine long-term, there are few studies that have evaluated its safety and weight-loss results long term.
Weight-loss surgery
Weight-loss surgery for obesity may be considered if:
Weight-loss surgery can often help you lose as much as 50 percent or more of your excess body weight. But weight-loss surgery isn't a miracle obesity cure. It doesn't guarantee that you'll lose all of your excess weight or that you'll keep it off long term. Weight-loss success after surgery depends on your commitment to making lifelong changes in your eating and exercise habits.
There are numerous types of weight-loss surgery. Some types cause weight loss by restricting how much your stomach can hold. Others prevent your body from absorbing calories and nutrients. Others are a combination of these two types. Common weight-loss surgeries include:
Preventing weight regain after obesity treatment
One of the best ways to prevent regaining the weight you've lost is getting regular physical activity. Keep track of your physical activity if it helps you stay motivated and on course. As you lose weight and gain better health, talk to your doctor about what additional activities you might be able to do and, if appropriate, how to give your activity and exercise a boost.
You may always have to remain vigilant about your weight. Combining a healthier diet and more activity is the best way to lose weight and keep it off for the long term. If you take weight-loss medications, you'll probably regain weight when you stop taking them. You might even regain weight after weight-loss surgery if you continue to overeat or eat foods laden with fat and calories.
Take your weight loss and weight maintenance one day at a time and surround yourself with supportive resources to help ensure your success. Find a healthier way of living that you can stick with for the long term.
Lifestyle and home remedies
Your effort to overcome obesity is more likely to be successful it you follow strategies at home in addition to your formal treatment plan. These can include:
Alternative medicine
Numerous dietary supplements that promise to help you shed weight quickly are available. But in almost all cases, the effectiveness and safety of these products are questionable. Talk to your doctor before taking any dietary supplements.
Herbal remedies, vitamins and minerals, all considered dietary supplements by the Food and Drug Administration, don't have the same rigorous testing and labeling process as over-the-counter and prescription medications. Yet some of these substances, including products labeled as "natural," have drug-like effects that can be dangerous. Even some vitamins and minerals can cause problems when taken in excessive amounts. Ingredients may not be standard, and they can cause unpredictable and harmful side effects. Dietary supplements can also cause dangerous interactions with prescription medications you take.
It's thought that acupuncture and hypnosis may complement other obesity treatments. Talk to your doctor if you're interested in adding acupuncture or hypnosis to your treatment.
Coping and support
Talk to your doctor or therapist about improving your coping skills and consider these tips to cope with obesity and your weight-loss efforts:
Whether you're at risk of becoming obese, currently overweight or at a healthy weight, you can take steps to prevent unhealthy weight gain and related health problems. Not surprisingly, the steps to prevent weight gain are the same as the steps to lose weight: daily exercise, a healthy diet, and a long-term commitment to watch what you eat and drink.
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This panel discussion looks at the creative relationship that develops as a photographer seeks to capture and interpret an architect's work in 2D images, and how photographers like Wolfgang Sievers and Mark Strizic captured the changes sweeping mid-century Melbourne.
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Biz prof disses Big Data as a fetish for info hoarders
When it comes to Big Data, I'm as geeked out as the next guy – if not a little more so. For the last three years or so, I've been telling anyone who will listen (and plenty of people who won't) that Big Data and enterprise analytics are the "next big thing" both in business and computing. Today, it's widely accepted that Big …
Sounds like my last reprocessed baked bean
Sounds like he is describing accountants more than most with the way they make there books look. Give an accountant worth there salt a data-set and they will make a profit from it one way or another.
But data is like shoes - people are different, but there will always be somebody selling sandle mentality.
Newton's law of universal gravitation is quite a good model based upon "fitting a pattern to some data".
You can make accurate predictions. You don't have to understand why it works. It has stood the test of time.
How do you expect to come up with a theory (model) if you are not allowed to use your observations (data)? Close your eyes and guess?
"[Scientists] simply look at loads and loads of data, fit some patterns to it, and then start making decisions based on that model."
Yup. That is what scientists do. If you come up with a crappy model, perhaps your predictions will also be crappy. There is nothing wrong with the overall approach though.
Fenwick> You can make accurate predictions.
I'd correct that to read: "You can make reasonably accurate predictions only for those cases where the model is at least reasonably correct and the data you plug into that model is at least reasonably correct."
1. Correlation != Causality. (My phone spent half an hour outside Victoria's Secret NOT because I'm interesting in buying a bra-and-panty set, but because my feet were tired and there was a handy bench outside the shop.)
2. An accurate model (and the huge number of data points -- some of them likely un-collectable -- needed to make it work) covering complex human behavior is unwieldy at best, incomprehensible at worst.
3. Model-makers must simplify their complex-human-behavior models to make them humanly-usable.
4. When you simplify a complex-human-behavior model, you lose accuracy.
5. Simplifying a complex-human-behavior model in a way which makes it still mostly-usable and reasonably-accurate is partly science, and partly art. It's tricky and difficult work.
6. Gullible execs continue to buy corporate "magic bullets" and "wonder cures".
7. "Let's keep their credit-card information. We could probably do something with that."
Big Data = marketing = cargo cult = fail.
I had a long interesting comment on the subject but fck it your article is worthless and the article it is about is just as worthless.
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"I had a long interesting comment on the subject"
Oh I doubt that.
1. keep data which is flowing into your organisation
2. package and sell it / access to it / analysis of it ( to anyone including "fetishists" )
3. see title
What you say is great for nice non-chaotic systems. Try recording the movement of a three bob pendulum for 100 years sampled every 1000th of a second. try to use that data to predict where it will be 15 seconds later (If you are going to say that is possible, what if a bearing fails after 7 of those seconds?). Not only does Correlation != Causality but also Determinism != Predictability. Few systems are as nice and well behaved as gravity.
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In the UK I have seen that August is warm and February is cold (substitute for correlation). The weather is chaotic and unpredictable to some extent.
I predict that this August will be warmer than next February.
What odds would you require to bet against me?
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So monthly patterns are reasonably predictable - you don't need Big Data for that, the last 20 years avergage monthly temps. would do, not 200 years of 2000 samples an hour. But even that amount of data won't help determine the weather next wednesday. That is my point, nice general trends can often be spotted without massively huge, detailed data sets. Specific detailed predictions can often not be made even with them. When the volume of sample isn't the issue Big Data isn't going to help.
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I reckon that I could make more accurate predictions of the average August temperature using a larger data set. Or at least quantify my accuracy with a little more certainty.
Talking of trends. If you want to convincingly separate (and quantify) any long term trend in say the temperature, from things like the annual cycle, turbulence and sea surface temperatures, then 200 years of 2000 samples per hour (at 1x1 mm resolution around the whole world) would do nicely.
For some applications the volume of the sample is exactly the issue (for example in accurately estimating the failure rate of bearings).
Big Data: The Tower of Babel AGAIN?
"6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Lo verily though I am a sinner and secular humanist and liberal peacenik & that most undeserving of creatures derived from Adam's rib, I say unto you: let us retreat into our BOWERS of BABBLE and read snail tracks. (Sorry have been out in the garden where I belong.)
'Big Data' not New Just Cheaper to Do
'Big data' (formerly and sometimes still known as database marketing on very large databases, [enterprise] data warehousing, combined with statistical analyses, no wait that's data mining, I mean analytics)... sigh! Every time a new buzzword comes up, it's usually because some vendor wants to put a new spin on their frankly old products and ideas to distinguish them from the crowd.
Not so long ago, because of the costs of storing and managing large volumes of data, we used to be very selective about which data we tried to collect. The continuing poor quality of much data collected in organisations makes that ever more important. Models built on this unstable mountain will be very unreliable indeed.
But, now that data storage costs have fallen (predictably in accord with Moore's Law), companies want to recklessly capture as much data on their customers as they can. I also believe it has something to do with what I call the Microsoft Market Effect, i.e. if Microsoft seriously enters a product market, it becomes a commodity (software licence costs fall and everyone wants one on their desktop).
As for keeping all data forever, this ignores the very real rules of Data Protection legislation (even in the US, Safe Harbour agreements often mean that large companies need to be cognizant of EU and other international laws) that forbid such a thing. Also, as the business evolves, very old data becomes non-representative of the current business. Retention requirements and archiving policy need to be evaluated on a careful (business) case-by-case basis, not simply because the storage/database vendors tell you can store as much as you want or at least more than your competitors ('mine is bigger than yours' springs to mind).
The real risk in all this is that as the fad grows, it exacerbates the demand for truly experienced technologists who have the gravitas to tell their decision makers, "No! This is how we do it the right way so that you spend less and get meaningful results quicker." If decision makers then really want to make automated decisions based on faulty data and even worse models, they risk turning loyal customers into sworn enemies--downward spiral begins. And oh, how I have seen this already beginning. Caveat emptor.
We've lost the plot
The emphasis seems to have shifted away from understanding what data means and we are now more interested in collecting as much as possible, no matter what. Having lots of data is no good if we forget how to analyse it. Having data isn't the same as knowledge and doesn't imply. understanding.
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Speidi is a word taking all shapes and forms in Hollyweird. Here's one my kiddo found from her favorite parody singer VenetianPrincess called Speidi Free:
Reality shows, plastic surgery, 15 minutes of fame, even if society becomes Speidi Free it's inevitable Hollyweird will crank out other versions of the same idea. What do you think of all the Speidiness? Entertaining or Annoying?
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Must you have a favorite?Written by Andrew on November 14th, 2011
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Bigger than expected. Gives feeling of better steering control, and prevents my fingers from getting tired after steering all day. Well made with thread-locking compound in a small groove to prevent the knob from coming loose. As a drawback, it sometimes conflicts with the position of my left leg.
should go right on - mine didn't - i gotta call them. i'm not that concerned because i really don't miss it. ps: why isn't a knob part of the original set up?
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I attached the sun to the card base and then layered up some washi. I added the sentiment to the could die with Versafine black onyx and then popped it up on foam tape to finish!
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A Virginia man has died after his vehicle crashed into a garage door in Annapolis and caught fire.
Anne Arundel County police say a Jeep driven by 25-year-old Dana Simonsen of Centreville entered the driveway of a home on Fort Hill Court about 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police say the Jeep hit the garage door, pushing it into the garage. Officers say Simonsen apparently lost consciousness with his foot on the gas pedal, causing a wheel to spin until it caught fire.
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Fargue was a poet, notably good-looking in his youth, who had visited the salon of Mallarmé in his early years as a writer. He published his first poems in L'Art littéraire in 1894, then in Pan. His first important collection appeared in 1911 under the title Tancrède. An opponent of the surrealists, he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail. He was also a poet of Paris, and later in his career he published two books about the city, D'après Paris (1931) and Le piéton de Paris (1939); he used to share long walks through the city with Ravel.
In his teenage years, Fargue formed an attachment to Alfred Jarry, so intense that their parents tooks steps to separate them. He later became well-known for his affairs with women, but he did not marry until he was 60. He was a member of the Apaches and remained a lifelong friend of Ravel. One of his poems, Rêves, was set to music by Ravel in 1927.
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Is the conservative creator of torture-evangelist "24" really the right person to helm a miniseries about the Kennedys? On the basis of a draft of the script, some scholars say "no." At right is one of those scholars, Theodore C. Sorensen, an adviser to President John F. Kennedy.
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This is a different kind of web design book. Above the Fold is not about timely design or technology trends; instead, this book is about the timeless fundamentals of effective communication within the context of Web design. It is intended to help you, the reader, understand the considerations that Web designers make when developing successful Web sites.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The first of Justin Timberlake's two concerts at Madison Square Garden has been postponed.
The singer posted on his Twitter feed Wednesday that the postponement is due to health reasons. The show originally scheduled for Wednesday has been rescheduled for Friday.
Timberlake apologized on Twitter and said, "It kills me to have to do this. I hope to see you all on Friday."
On its website, MSG says ticketholders can get a refund if they want, starting Thursday morning.
The Thursday night performance in Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience World Tour" is expected to take place as planned.
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Magna Entertainment vows to turn Saratoga into a year-round venue in its bid to take over state racing franchise
JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau
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Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
ALBANY - Magna Entertainment Chairman Frank Stronach told state officials Tuesday he would turn Saratoga Race Course into a year-round destination and pledged to improve horse racing in New York if his company gets the rights to operate the state's three major thoroughbred tracks.
Stronach publicly entered the derby for the state's racing franchise with show-stopping testimony that drew smiles from members of the state's Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Racing, and concern from Saratoga Springs Mayor Valerie Keehn and others who say they want to protect the Saratoga track. A self-made multimillionaire from Austria whose Ontario auto parts empire has branched into racetrack ownership, Stronach said the franchise, which is about to go up for bid, must go to a for-profit venture. Currently, the three tracks - Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct - are run by the nonprofit New York Racing Association.
Stronach faulted NYRA for not maximizing the tracks' potential. He said the tracks should be full-time, year-round entertainment centers. Saratoga, he said, could offer restaurant meals, televised races and betting.
Keehn, however, said Magna's vision for Saratoga is unsettling.
"We're concerned about having an entertainment corporation," she said. "They were representing a different concept for racing."
With the help of a PowerPoint presentation and two top aides, including former Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci, Stronach told the committee NYRA races should be marketed worldwide to add billions in simulcast revenue. His company, which operates several tracks and has a horse racing TV channel, off-track betting and account-wagering businesses, would only need to be a part-owner of the franchise, he said. But he ruled out partnering with NYRA, which he described as a "club."
With a casino at Aqueduct slated to open in a year, Stronach suggested the state solicit bids separately for casino operations. Casino companies, he said, don't care about horse racing, and casino money is a short-term fix for racing.
"We do not seek domination," Stronach told the committee.
The panel was holding the first of two hearings on putting the franchise up for competitive bid. The hearings conclude today in Manhattan.
NYRA, which also testified and indicated its interest in bidding, has exclusively held the franchise for the three tracks since 1955. The franchise expires at the end of next year. The committee is expected to solicit bids this year and recommend an award in early 2007.
The Legislature must approve any new franchisee.
Magna Entertainment, a pub licly traded company, has invested more than $1 billion in several U.S. tracks it owns in the past seven years and has built training centers, stable facilities, employee dorms, grandstands, slot machine parlors, eateries and other amenities. It has lost millions running the tracks.
"There are certainly questions of whether he's improved the quality of racing at his tracks," said Bennett Liebman, an Albany Law School racing professor who testified. Liebman said the committee could consider bidding out each track as a different franchise.
Stronach, and most others testifying, including NYRA Chairman Charles Hayward, said separating the tracks would not be good for racing and could devalue the assets.
James M. Odato can be reached at 454-5083 or by e-mail at jodato@times
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Posted by Gypsy on Nov 15, 2010
It's astounding how much can happen in less than two weeks. After leaving Charleston, I drove straight up I-95 to the Hudson Valley area to visit my brother and his wife for a few days. For the most part, the goal was to relax and chill while I was there. At five months pregnant, Amanda isn't exactly up for being out and about the entire weekend after working all week. However, we did have a couple fun events on the agenda. First up was Rock of Ages on Friday night. I caught the show back in October when I was in New York for a comic book convention, however I got tickets through the lottery, meaning they were very cheap but offered a limited view of the stage. This time around I ordered the tickets ahead of time, getting us seats in the center of the mezzanine, three rows from the front. While the tickets were more expensive than the lottery tickets, it was definitely worth the expense. I hadn't realized how much I missed the first time around by sitting in seats with an obstructed view.
The other event planned for the weekend was West Point's last home game of the season, against the Air Force Academy. Football is a sport that wasn't offered at my high school and wasn't watched by my family, so I missed out on that particular American past-time. As an adult, though, I've watched enough to at least understand the rules and recognize when something exciting happens. Even so, I was very excited for the game. Since Jason and Amanda live on post, we were able to avoid the nightmare of parking by just walking to a shuttle stop and hopping on. We got there a little later than intended, the result of our own laziness, but luckily made it in time to watch the Black Knights, West Point's parachute team, drop in before the game started.
The rest of my time at West Point was spent mostly just relaxing and hanging out. On Wednesday I finally drove the last 5 hours home. Since my arrival I've been focused on getting settled in and staying on top of my schoolwork. With less than 4 weeks left, my main concern is ensuring I finish both classes with a B or better (though I'd obviously prefer an A in each) so I can get my degree and finally be done with it.
There's no place like home (again)
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 4, 2010
Short version: I'm moving back to New York.
The longer version I've been meaning to write about for a couple weeks now, but as usual time got away from me. So now I'm actually in the middle of this move and finally getting around to writing about it. Shortly after Andy left for Japan, Joe and Nicole were awesome enough to invite me to stay with them for a couple months while I looked for a job and a place to live. However, a couple months turned into eight as I realized finding a job was far more challenging than I expected and finding a place of my own to live in was less exciting when armed with the knowledge that I would be sitting alone in it all day with no one to talk to. So after eight months of living with Joe and Nicole, I decided it was time to impose on someone else for a little while and my loving parents drew the short straw.
The decision was made in mid-October after we returned from a comic book convention in New York and since then I've just been focusing on school and getting this move taken care of. A week after the decision was made, I hopped in my car and drove it up to Maryland to put it into long-term storage since it's not exactly practical for a New York winter. The next day I flew back down to Charleston to finish tying up other loose ends. Honestly, there was really no immediate need to rush. Joe and Nicole weren't kicking me out on my rear or anything. It was really a practical decision. I already had plans to drive up to West Point this weekend to visit my brother and go see my first football game ever and it really made no sense to drive up there, then back to the south, only to go back to New York a couple weeks later. Might as well just visit Jason and Amanda and then head right up to mom and dad's after the weekend.
So at this point I'm getting ready to hit the road. The car is packed (with the exception of a few minor items) and gassed up. The iPod has been updated with some new music and podcasts. And my parents have been warned. I'm not completely sure what the plan is when I get there. I do know that my immediate concern is finishing my last five weeks of school and getting the grades I'm required to have so I can graduate in December. Especially now that the cap and gown are already ordered, the announcements are just waiting to be addressed, and the plane tickets to San Antonio have already been bought.
Lowcountry Race for the Cure 5k race report
Posted by Gypsy on Oct 17, 2010
Running the Lowcountry Race for the Cure was a relatively last minute decision and I didn't register until Wednesday, four days before the event. I had been going back and forth, unable to make a decision, but finally opted to go for it when my friend Chrisey asked me about it while we were working out. Besides, who can resist a race where the dominant color will be pink?
Even though the actual 5k didn't start until 9:15, I met Chrisey (along with her husband and another friend) and Dawn at the gym at 6:15 so we could carpool to Daniel Island, where the race was being held. Since it was pretty early, we were able to find a place to park right away. Chrisey was running with a team, so while she went to find them Dawn and I hit the sponsor booths for some swag. We also may or may not have grabbed cupcakes from the Bi-Lo booth. Cupcakes are an acceptable breakfast on special occasions, right?
The course was a flat, tailed-loop going almost entirely through residential neighborhoods. This was actually pretty fun as tons of people were on their porches to cheer the runners on and one guy even had his drum kit out to give us a beat to run to.
Mile 1: 10:00 I was trying to keep up with Chrisey, but since her goal was a sub-30 minute 5K, there was no way I could and I ended up falling back about a half mile in.
Mile 2: 10:16 Still keeping a decent pace, but starting to slow down. My back/hip was hurting for some reason and that definitely had an effect on my time.
Mile 3: 10:39
Final .1: 1:15
Fashion report: I wore an Adidas running skirt with a black tank top and my pink Nike Zoom Elite 4 running shoes. I also had a pink bracelet around my wrist. I started the day with a sweatshirt as well because it was pretty cold, but by the time our race was about to start it had warmed up considerably and I ditched it. I kinda wish I had put together something more festive and pink for the race, but since I signed up last minute I didn't really think about it. Next year I'll be more fashion conscious.
Turning Japanese – part 3
Posted by Gypsy on Oct 16, 2010
With the weather finally relatively nice, it was time to get our butts outside to do some sightseeing. I say relatively nice because while the sun was shining, it was also in the high 90s and humid, so it looked beautiful but felt miserable. We started off by catching the bus to Foster, figuring it would save us a little money on cab fare as the exchange rate has been pretty rough lately. From there, we grabbed a cab to take us to our first stop, the Nakamura House, an 18th century farmhouse that is now a museum. We were actually able to actually walk through the house, which required taking off our shoes first. What I found really cool about this was not only how soft the tatami mats are (I'm totally wanting to do a whole room with them once I have my own place again), but also how smooth and soft the wood was in between rooms and on the steps up to the house. Another feature of the house I dug was the wooden pegs that were used to actually hold the house together. Houses really aren't made like that anymore.
We also saw some examples of shisa, or shishi, dogs, the traditional Ryukyuan guardians that are often placed at the doors or on the rooftops of houses. The shisa consist of a male and a female, one with its mouth open and the other with its mouth closed. According to legend, the male has his mouth open to expel evil from the home while the female has her mouth closed to keep in the happiness. However, there are some who believe that the closed mouth dog is the male, who keeps evil out, while the female's mouth is open to share happiness.
After we were done at the Nakamura House, we walked up the hill to Nakagusuku Castle, the first stone castle to be built in Japan. It was built in 1450, but at this point it is in ruins. But the really cool things about Nakagusuku Castle is the view because it is so high up on the island. From the first section of the castle ruins, it is possible to see the Pacific Ocean on one side and the East China Sea on the other. I took a video, which can be seen here, but keep in mind it's very shaky. As impressive as the view from this vantage point was, I think the next thing Andy and I saw ended up being our favorite part of the castle. Stepping down from the first section, we discovered a stone staircase leading to a well. While we were not looking forward to going back up the stairs, our curiosity got the better of us, we made our descent and were immediately rewarded by a temperature drop of at least ten degrees. I probably could've sat down there the rest of the day and been completely content.
By this point my trip to Okinawa was about 60 percent complete and I still hadn't made it to the beach even though all I could see was beautiful clear water and every day was hot. So it was just our luck that the day we planned on going to Kadena Marina for snorkeling would be the day the storm clouds rolled in. Instead, Andy and I, along with his friend Austin, went to Araha Park to spend some time walking around and taking photos. The rain didn't hold off forever, though, and we waited it out up at Futenma bowling and seeing a movie.
The next day it was time to check out of our hotel room on Futenma and go back to Naha for the last three days of my trip. Since it was a beautiful day and we had time to kill between checking out of one hotel and into the next, Austin picked us up and we went to Kadena Marina to finally go snorkeling. This was my first time snorkeling and as someone who isn't a strong swimmer I was pretty nervous. While I did give it my best try, it just didn't work out for me and I wasn't having fun at all. Luckily, I have the best husband ever because even though he really wanted to go snorkeling he was totally cool with heading over to the beach area and just swimming and hanging out in the water. After, we head out for a bite to eat before Austin drove us to Naha to check into our hotel.
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The amphibious airplane was destroyed in a ground fire following a forced landing. During the takeoff initial climb out, electrical fumes and smoke emanated from the right side portion of the instrument panel. A successful water landing was made; however, a post impact fire consumed the airplane. Examination of the airplane revealed that it was equipped with two batteries that were interconnected with each other and positioned in the right side nose/storage compartment area. Both batteries' cables were connected to a single MASTER solenoid and a single START solenoid. A burn mark was located in the battery compartment that was the size and position of the negative cable for the right side battery. The storage area for the batteries was not damaged; however, the cockpit was consumed in the post impact fire. Further inspection of the airplane's electrical wiring revealed that the groundside of the forward battery had been wired to the hot side of the START solenoid that resulted in a reverse polarity draw during engine start. The protective covering for the wires burned away exposing the wires that then came into contact with each other and started the fire. Recent maintenance work on the airplane included movement of both batteries to the right side, and a rewire of the cables to the MASTER and START solenoids.
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Beyond Dubstep
London's bass underground moves both forward and backward
The most exciting periods for post-rave electronic music have come about not because one or a few people led the way, but because many people led the way. That's especially true of what critic Simon Reynolds dubs the "hardcore continuum": a London-centric set of genres--breakbeat rave, jungle/drum 'n' bass, two-step garage, grime, dubstep, and, more recently, the wobbling style dubbed funky house or U.K. funky--that recombine the basic ingredients of hip-hop breakbeats, plummeting sub-bass, cheap synthesizers and samplers, squeaky female singers, and chanting/chatting that owes both Jamaican dancehall and American rap into a hybrid that's uniquely English.
For a long time dubstep was the stodgiest of these styles: grainy, glowering, desolate, and strangely sexless for a genre in which deep bass was the rule, even when the music was first-rate (Distance's My Demons, Benga's Diary of an Afro-Warrior). But when the billowing hip-shake of U.K. funky emerged from dubstep's shadow a few years ago, dubstep itself seemed to open up in response. A number of young artists--including but not limited to Zomby, Rustie, Cooly G, Untold, Sbtrkt, and Enigma (a Leeds student, not the samplers of Gregorian chanting who had a 1990 hit with "Sadeness")--have emerged, producing a dizzying array of tracks and web-available DJ sets that playfully exploit the interzone between the hardcore continuum's various historical strands, as well as like-minded artists equally dedicated to messing with sonic boundaries, such as L.A.'s Flying Lotus.
The de facto hub for much of this is FACT Magazine, a London print and web publication (factmagazine.co.uk) that focuses heavily on the post-dubstep diaspora (and for which, in interest of disclosure, I've written reviews). In addition to covering the London clubs where the music lives, FACT also puts up two podcasts a week, DJ mixes by largely emergent London talent, including several named above, and they provide a revealing glimpse into a scene where parameters not only between styles, but also eras seem to dissolve at will. (The mixes are typically kept on the FACT site for only three weeks, but it doesn't take much searching to find the earlier ones.)
'90s rave is a touchstone both sonically and presentation-wise. Take Zomby, a relative veteran in the area who doesn't give out personal information and whose first full album, the December '08-issued Where Were U in '92?, is a deliberately messy (and therefore precise) evocation of the drug-addled height of early-'90s rave, rather than the taffy-stretched dubstep he made his name with via songs like "Spliff Dub." Rustie's remix of that track, in particular, is a signpost for the more outré of dubstep variants: bass so wide it threatens to crack, glimmering synth shards that throw unexpected light onto the heaving whole.
Enigma is an outsider in this company--he's never been covered by FACT--but his remix of Imogen Heap's 2005 The O.C. soundtrack favorite "Hide and Seek" is a good example of this tendency. "Hide and Seek" is an a cappella number featuring Heap singing through heavy vocal processing--not AutoTune, but close. Enigma situates Heap's vocal with sharp snares, aquatic synths, and bass that's huge without being heavy--like mid-'90s L.T.J Bukem-style ambient jungle remade as dubstep. Similarly, Cooly G's recent single "Love Dub" (Hyperdub) recalls the aqueous vibe of tracks like Wax Doctor's "Never as Good" or Bukem's remix of R&B group Jodeci's "Feenin'," only with Cooly G's own sweetly deliberate croon replacing the sharper, more desperate vocal snippets of the earlier tracks.
Despite the obvious parallels, these acts don't treat rave as museum culture. Recent FACT mixes by Untold (No. 58 in the series) and Sbtrkt (66) especially brim with moments that have the vibe of the earlier stuff without replicating it wholesale. Untold's mix packs 19 cuts, nearly all as-yet-unreleased, into a brisk 37 minutes, and has the headlong rush of an early jungle mix even though the rhythms are very different. About eight minutes before the end (forgive this inexactness; the mixes are single MP3s of otherwise unfamiliar material) there's a squeal, repeated every couple of bars, that recall the yelps from Lyn Collins' "Think" and the Isley Brothers' "Get Into Something"--breakbeats popular with early drum 'n' bass producers--if it's not, in fact, one of them.
The mix by Sbtrkt ("subtract," very clever) is even more crammed--22 tracks in 30:25--but, if anything, it seems longer-limbed, creating a sinuous single line from a multitude of sources. Sbtrkt's own edits of tracks by the Nepa Allstars, Jack Penate, and--well, well, well--Goldie's '94 anthem "Inner City Life" skitter the snares like the Reinforced Records classics whose rhythm patterns were created in part by Goldie himself. Menta's early '00s drum 'n' bass hit "Sound of Da Future" fits like a glove in this company, but the mix never feels like a mere history lesson.
Nor are they eclectic for their own sake. These DJs and the producers whose work they showcase mine the past for inspiration, rather than as something to bow down to like schoolmarms in practice. (It doesn't seem like a coincidence that another standout recent FACT mix, by Woebot [61], is a sublime tour through circa-'94 ambient jungle.) These kids are restless but not bored, communicating not iPod-era ennui but a sense of real possibility in multitudes. It's a field whose future is still up in the air, and that's the draw: What it could change into might be even more exciting.
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