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Pros And Cons Of 13 Popular Weight Loss Programs
by Chris Malone
posted Jan 25 2013 6:31AM
Ask 5 people how they lost weight and you'll get 5 different answers on what works and what doesn't. So here is a look at 13 of the most popular weight loss programs. Research what might work for you...and if it doesn't try another one!
-Chris Malone
Thanks to MotherEarthNetwork for doing the research!
Atkins Nutritional Plan
When the Atkins Nutritional Plan, commonly known as the Atkins Diet, first took the dieting set by storm, healthy oatmeal-eating breakfasters were suddenly sharing meals with friends living on bacon and eggs ... and who were dropping weight like crazy. Steak-lovers could finally give up on futile efforts to lose weight through the tedious consumption of low-calorie foods thanks to Robert Atkins' book, Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, which climbed the bestseller list and settled in for an extended stay at the top.
Simply put, the plan is based on the idea that carbohydrates are diet enemy number one, and that by drastically reducing carbs and eating more protein and fat, we burn stored body fat more efficiently and lose weight thanks to the biological process known as ketosis. The Atkins Diet promises not only hunger-free weight loss, but also better heart health and memory function, as well as other wellness benefits. Some otherwise healthy foods are restricted or limited, while meat and fat are acceptable.
And while it has proven to be an effective way to shed pounds, some studies have found that
low-carb diets can increase heart attack risk
. (Is it any wonder?)
Blood Type Diet
The Blood Type Diet urges people to eat certain foods and avoid others based on their blood type. Peter J. D'Adamo, the author of "
Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight
," maintains that blood types affect the digestive system and that your food should be determined by whether you have type O, A, B or AB blood.
For example, since blood type O is humanity's oldest bloodline, D'Adamo contends that the digestive tract retains the memory of ancient times and thus these metabolisms will benefit from lean meats, poultry and fish, with restricted grains, breads, and legumes, and that O-types will benefit from vigorous exercise. Likewise, the "modern" blood type AB set is said by D'Adamo to have a sensitive digestive tract and should steer clear of chicken, beef and pork and instead indulge on seafood, tofu, dairy and most produce — as well as engaging in calming exercises.
The consensus among many experts is that the theory is unsupported by scientific evidence; that said, the diet may suit people looking for a plan that doesn't require the tracking of calories or fat grams.
DASH Diet
Developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to help prevent and control blood pressure, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, has landed in first place in the annual rankings released by U.S. News & World Report three years in a row.
The beauty of this diet is that is goes above and beyond lowering hypertension and has proven to be a great weight-loss diet as well. The diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy foods and also includes meat, fish, poultry, nuts and beans. In addition to its effect on blood pressure, it is designed to be a well-balanced approach to eating for the general public. Unlike many other diet plans, there are no restricted food groups, although sugar-sweetened foods and beverages, red meat, and added fats are limited. The DASH Diet is now recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an overall ideal eating plan.
Dukan Diet
Another of the protein-based diets, the
Dukan Diet
is the brainchild of French doctor Pierre Dukan. Although Dukan has been promoting his eat-like-the French diet for more than 30 years, it wasn't until the publication of his book in 2000, "
The Dukan Diet
," that the diet became all the rage. The book was released in the United States in April 2011, and has sold more than 10 million copies globally. When Kate Middleton's mom mentioned her success with the plan, the diet's "craze" status was sealed.
The diet works as a four-phase, high-protein, low-calorie diet plan that includes 100 sanctioned foods. There are no pre-set meals, weighing foods or counting calories. The first phase includes mostly protein, and in fact, protein is the basis in all four phases, along with oat bran and copious amounts of water.
Vegetables are allowed in the second phase, followed by small amounts of fruit and whole grains. Phase four is designed to maintain the weight loss, and is the most flexible of the stages. The Dukan Diet is similar to the Atkins Diet, but with limited fats and oils, relatively lower calorie counts, and the addition of daily oat bran.
Gluten-Free Diet
Over the past decade, going gluten-free has become the trendy fast-track to boosting health and losing weight; it has also been touted as a way to better cope with ADHD, autism, headaches and other conditions.
A gluten-free diet is one that excludes gluten, a protein found in grains such as wheat, barley and rye. Avoiding gluten is required for those with celiac disease, for whom gluten causes inflammation in the small intestines and often leads to other health issues. About 1 percent of the U.S. population has celiac disease, while another 10 percent have non-celiac gluten intolerance. For these people, avoiding gluten isn't about losing weight, it's about not suffering the ill effects that gluten causes for them.
Many people who don't have any problems with gluten believe that going gluten-free is intrinsically healthy anyway. For some this may be true, but experts warn that the diet is hard to follow and can be nutritionally problematic for people who have no medical reason to be on it. Many gluten-free products on the market can be unhealthy because of the added sugar and fat that stands in for gluten. In addition, gluten-free products are less often fortified with the iron and essential hard-to-get vitamins than regular bread products can contain.
Mayo Clinic Diet
There once was a Mayo Clinic Diet that wasn't really from the highly-regarded Mayo Clinic; it was an imposter. The bogus diet is a low-carb, high-fat plan that ascribes miraculous powers to grapefruit ... and comes with the promise of an astounding 50- to 55-pound weight loss.
What was the Mayo Clinic to do? Create a
legitimate Mayo Clinic Diet
, of course. This one, based on expert research and sound science, is designed to help people lose weight in a healthful way, while developing good lifetime habits.
Based on the clinic's Healthy Weight Pyramid, which is similar to the U.S. government's food pyramid, the plan leads the dieter through two phases. The first phase focuses on 15 key habits, doesn't require calories counting, and allows the dieter to snack to her heart's content on fruits and vegetables. In the second part, the plan describes how many calories the dieter should eat either to lose or to maintain weight and where those calories should come from. No food group is completely off-limits, however artificial sweeteners, alcohol and sweets are not permitted during the initial, quick-start portion of the plan. (After that, they are limited to an average of 75 calories per day.)
Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean diet is not a meal and exercise plan laid out in a book, rather, it is an overall nutritional approach and lifestyle inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of Italy, Greece, Spain and Morocco. For millennia, inhabitants of the Mediterranean coast have led healthy lives with decreased chance of chronic disease, thanks to a reliance on plant foods like vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, olives and olive oil along with some cheese, yogurt, fish, poultry, eggs and wine. These foods form the basis of the plan and provide an abundance of micronutrients, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber.
This diet was first introduced in the 1940s by an American doctor, Ancel Keys. But it wasn't until the 1990s that the diet was widely popularized. Although there is no single, official Mediterranean diet, there are countless books by different authors promoting the concept. Most of the foods involved are fresh, seasonal whole foods — with few processed food options. Preparation methods tend to be simple; foods are rarely deep-fried, and only small amounts of saturated fat, sodium, sweets and meat are included.
Paleo Diet
The paleolithic diet, also known as the paleo diet, caveman diet, Stone Age diet or hunter-gatherer diet, was first popularized in the 1970s by gastroenterologist
Walter L. Voegtlin
, and has since been adapted by a number of others, including Loren Cordain. The diet plan puts the eater in their best Fred and Wilma mode, allowing them to dine on fresh meats, fish, seafood, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and healthful oils. Basically, if our ancestors ate it during the Paleolithic era, before the development of agriculture and grain-based diets, you can too. That means, no grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar and processed oils.
The idea is based on research that hunter-gatherers typically were free from the chronic illnesses and diseases that are epidemic in Western populations. Although on paper it seems pretty sensible, the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of diets placed it at the bottom of the list, rating it low for weight loss, heart health and ease of use.
Raw Food Diet
The premise behind the raw food lifestyle is that heating food above 115 degrees Fahrenheit destroys important living enzymes and other nutrients. Proponents of raw food believe that by preserving the living elements of the food that we eat, degenerative disease is prevented, aging is slowed, energy enhanced and emotional well-being is boosted.
There is no strict meal plan; you just eat raw food, typically, about 75 to 80 percent of what you eat should be uncooked plant-based foods. Staples include fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts and nut butters, cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil, raw virgin coconut oil, raw coconut butter, and freshly squeezed juices. Dehydrated foods are acceptable, and the use of a home food dehydrator can help alleviate the tedium of raw food textures. Many health and specialty stores also sell raw products, such as dehydrated crackers and chips. Although the reliance on nuts, coconut oil, and avocado can be caloric, people generally lose weight on a raw food diet since calorie intake usually is reduced
South Beach Diet
Created by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon, the South Beach Diet is the happy medium between low-fat diets and high-protein diets — although it ultimately leans more toward the protein-happy side of things. It is based on the premise of replacing "bad carbs" (like refined ones) and "bad fats" (like trans fats) with "good carbs" (like whole grains) and "good fats" (like omega-3). That said, carbs such as potatoes, fruit, bread, cereal, rice, pasta, beets, carrots and corn are forbidden at first, and some are discouraged forever.
Like many diets, the South Beach Diet comes in phases, this time three of them. The first phase bans all sugars, processed carbohydrates, fruits and some higher-glycemic vegetables as well. By the third phase, the dieter will have mastered the foundation and be able to maintain the diet changes and weight loss indefinitely.
Vegan Diet
While a vegetarian diet often includes animal products that aren't flesh (eggs and milk, for example), a vegan diet excludes anything that ever had anything to do with an animal (although many simulated animal products, like soy cheese and vegetable protein meat, are available). Many people who choose a vegan diet are animal lovers who reject eating animal products for ethical reasons. A vegan diet can lower one's carbon footprint as well.
Studies confirm that vegans tend to eat fewer calories, weigh less, and have a lower body mass index than their omnivorous counterparts. Eating a lot of produce and whole grains leads to the feeling of fullness with fewer calories. But there are plenty of processed foods that fall into the vegan category, which can be a problem if protein and fiber are being replaced with, say, French fries. Also, eliminating animal-based food products may leave vegans vulnerable to deficiencies in calcium, vitamins B-12 and D — however, with a little planning, these are easily added back to the diet.
Weight Watchers
In the early '60s, Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch began inviting friends into her Queens home every week to discuss how best to lose weight. Fast-forward half a century, and the diet club has blossomed into 50,000 meetings each week in countries all over the world.
As much support group as eating plan, Weight Watchers owes its success not only to its points-based system, but to the motivation and empowerment it provides. The old points system worked on a straight per-calorie basis, with members allowed a certain amount of points for which they could spend eating in whatever way they chose. A revamped points system, Points Plus, now assigns higher point values for calorie-dense foods with more fat and simple carbs, while protein- and fiber-rich foods get fewer. Fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables are allowed in unlimited quantities. The plan encourages people to eat a wide variety of healthy foods — split between three meals plus snacks, within an individualized calorie level.
And according to the experts, the plan has a lot going for it. Just look at this story:
Weight Watchers works
, study finds
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Abstract Small-seeded plant species are often reported to have high relative growth rate or RGR. However, because RGR declines as plants grow larger, small-seeded species could achieve higher RGR simply by virtue of their small size. In contrast, size-standardized growth rate or SGR factors out these size effects. Differences in SGR can thus only be due to differences in morphology, allocation, or physiology. We used nonlinear regression to calculate SGR for comparison with RGR for 10 groups of species spanning a wide range of life forms. We found that RGR was negatively correlated with seed mass in nearly all groups, but the relationship between SGR and seed mass was highly variable. We conclude that small seeded species only sometimes possess additional adaptations for rapid growth over and above their general size advantage.
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Lindsay A Turnbull, Cloe Paul-Victor, Bernhard Schmid, and Drew W Purves. Growth rates, seed size and physiology - Do small-seeded species really grow faster?, Ecology, January 2008.
C.E. Timothy Paine, Toby R Marthews, Deborah R Vogt, Drew Purves, Mark Rees, Andy Hector, and Lindsay A Turnbull. How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, British Ecological Society, September 2011.
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Despite supplying the Bolts with a better draft pick, a loss would not be good.
There have been some cringe-worthy moments in my time, where an athlete says something like "hell no," or "I don't give a damn," and an editor opts to replace such four-letter words with "(bleep)," thus making the quote look far more crass than it actually was.
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"(Bleep) no. (Bleep) no! We want to win as many football games as possible," the Chargers center said. "We got a chance to play the Oakland (bleepin') Raiders, and we're excited about it."
The topic of conversation -- although there wasn't much conversing -- was the notion of an inferior record helping a team's draft status. With nothing tangible to play for, after all, couldn't a loss at this point in the year actually serve as a win?
That certainly seemed true in 2000, when a 1-15 record landed the Chargers LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees. And it didn't seem too farfetched a year later, when the Bolts losing their final nine games helped beget Quentin Jammer.
For teams whose postseason hopes have set sail, things sort of become like that line from "The Producers" – "we can make more with a flop than we can with a hit!" So why would a squad give its all when there's such an incentive to give it away?
"That's a loser's mentality. That's all I can say about that," said Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers. "You're saying that there are some teams (who are out of the playoffs) that should shut it down at the Week 13 or 14 mark? No, that's no way to do it."
And it's especially no way for the Chargers to do it. Not this team. Not this year.
Forget momentarily that the NFL Draft is much more poker than it is blackjack, where the cards dealt have far less impact on the results than their holders' cunning. How else do you explain first-pick catastrophes such as Tim Couch, Courtney Brown and JaMarcus Russell, and undrafted coups like Antonio Gates, Arian Foster and Kurt Warner?
And forget for a second that when the Chargers have been in a position to acquire franchise-changing rookies, things went about as smoothly as Little Bighorn. Eli Manning made clear that he would never wear a Bolts helmet, and six years earlier, there was a guy named Ryan Leaf, whose mentioning in San Diego is a felonious offense.
Yes, forget all that. Because right now, the Chargers and their fans have too much other clutter to erase from their memory banks.
Pardon what may seem like hyperbole, but in some ways, you could argue that Sunday's game is the Bolts' most significant of the season. You could say that, in terms of a rallying point moving forward, nothing would galvanize quite like a trouncing of the Raiders.
People can point all they want to the 4th-and-29 or collapse against Denver, adding to the mile long queue of Charger "what ifs?" in the process. But inject those same folks with even a milliliter of truth serum, and they'll confess that this year's team was never going to do anything.
But now it has a chance to.
If there are any two colors you could paint a tackling dummy to best motivate a Charger, they would be silver and black. And if there is a team logo affixed to the center a Bolts fan's dartboard, chances are it's that of the Raiders. In other words, any fan hoping for failure for the sake of climbing a draft-ladder rung reflects the very culture the Bolts are trying squelch.


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Frustrating and underperforming at the plate, are the Cleveland Indians the unluckiest team in the majors thus far?
In 2013, the Cleveland Indians exceeded expectations, winning 92 games and earning their first playoff birth since 2007 thanks in large part to a pitching staff that performed far better than anticipated.
In 2014, thus far, the Cleveland Indians have disappointed some, already 5.5 games back of the Tigers with the fourth-lowest winning percentage in the American League. This has been thanks, in large part, to an under-performing lineup.
But first, let's set the record straight: The problem has been with the position players, yes. But it hasn't necessarily been with what the position players have done at the plate, rather what they have done in the field. Indians position players, as a unit, have the sixth-lowest WAR total in the MLB. But this is heavily driven by the fact that they have played the worst defense of any major league team not named the Astros. So, basically, any Major League team.
By OPS, the Indians are 19th in the MLB in offense. By wOBA, they're 17th. By wRC+, which adjusts for park and league and is my preferred method of evaluation, the Indians are 12th. A wRC+ of 100 is league-average. The Indians are at 99.
The defense has been terrible, and while it likely won't continue to be THIS terrible for the rest of the year, it's not going to suddenly be good. But other than shoddy defense, which was to be expected given the Opening Day roster construction, there is no need for panic. The Tribe are just two games below .500, and when you look deeper into what has already been a league-average offense, there is reason to believe things are only going to get better.
The ability to get on base via the walk continues to go unnoticed and underrated in major league baseball, and the Indians walk more than nearly any team in baseball. Walks typically mean high on-base percentages. But, despite having the fourth-best walk rate in the MLB, the Indians OBP sits in the middle of the pack at .319 thanks to a .239 team batting average that, again, is worse than every major league team in the AL besides the Astros. So, basically, every major league team in the AL.
Nick Swisher is batting .203. Asdrubal Cabrera is at .246. Jason Kipnis was hitting .234 before his oblique injury. Carlos Santana's batting average is .148. These low batting averages by pricy players with high expectations have had fans in Cleveland calling for their heads. I'm not ready to do so just yet, as there is something strange happening on the ground in Cleveland.
As mentioned earlier, the Indians have one of the lower batting averages in baseball at .239. What goes hand-in-hand with batting averages, of course, are batting averages on balls in play. Unsurprisingly, the Indians have the second-worst BABIP of any team in baseball. (I'll give you three guesses as to which "major league" team is last). BABIP is a complicated beast, but extremely high or low totals can typically be boiled down to a mixture of two things:
1.) Hard/weak contact
2.) Luck
So first, let's examine the kind of contact the Indians are making by taking a look at their batted ball mix. The main driver of what makes a good or bad BABIP is line drives. Line drives go for hits about 70% of the time, so if you hit a lot of line drives, a lot of your balls in play will go for hits. The league average line drive rate is 20.2%. The Indians line drive rate is 20.2%. No problem there.
The other main driver to what makes a good or bad BABIP is pop-ups. Pop-ups never go for hits, so if you hit a lot of pop-ups, you'll have a hard time getting hits. The league average pop-up rate is 9.6%. The Indians pop-up rate is 9.7%. No problem there.
So what's going on? The Indians are making fine contact, hitting line drives and not popping up, yet their balls in play aren't resulting in hits. Starting to smell like option number two up there might be in play. And when you look at what happens when the Indians have put the ball on the ground this year, the odor intensifies.
Ground balls go for hits about 23% of the time. Currently, the 29th-lowest batting average on ground balls belongs to the Red Sox at .209. In the past decade, no team has ever finished a season below .200. The Indians are currently at .179.
The Indians low batting average is being almost entirely driven by ground balls not going for hits. Ground balls are the flukiest of all batted ball types, and the Indians have been on the wrong side of the fence thus far. Of the 30 lowest individual batting averages on ground balls this season, five of them belong to Indians players. Swisher, Santana, Kipnis, Cabrera and Yan Gomes are all batting under .150 on ground balls. Only one qualified hitter in the majors last season finished under .150.
Swisher and Santana both had low totals last year, too, which can be explained partly due to the fact that they see more shifts than most players in the MLB when hitting left-handed. This makes sense, when you consider their ground ball spray charts:
Santana's performance is far more concerning because he is making consistently weak contact, as evidenced by his startlingly low 10.5% line drive rate. Though data for hard-hit and soft-hit ground balls aren't publicly available, one can assume that a correlation between low line drive rates and softly-hit ground balls exists.
Weak contact hasn't been the story for Swisher, though, as his 23.8% line drive rate is well above his career average of 20.1%. Both Gomes and Cabrera have league-average or above league-average line drives as well, indicating solid contact. Kipnis' line drive rate is below average, but he also has the smallest sample of any of the five due to his injury and also is likely the least of the Indians concerns given his overall production, both in the past and at the time of his injury. Speed, something Kipnis has, also plays a role in how often one's ground balls go for hits, making his low total seem even flukier.
So what does all this mean? Things are going to get better for the Indians. They're staying patient at the plate, getting on base via the walk, hitting line drives and not popping out. Nick Swisher sees a lot of shifts, but only from one side of the plate and he is driving the ball as often as he ever has. Yan Gomes and Asdrubal Cabrera look like they have just been unlucky on seeing their grounders find holes. Jason Kipnis was dealing with an oblique injury and should see things correct themselves once he returns from the disabled list. Something is up with Carlos Santana, for sure, but even he isn't going to finish with a .128 batting average on grounders. And in the meantime, his major league leading walk rate is getting him on base enough to keep him in the lineup while he figures things out.
The Indians offense has not been as bad as some have made it out to be this year from a production standpoint. Dig a little deeper into the batted ball numbers and you find that they have been perhaps the unluckiest team in the majors. Once some of these ground balls start finding holes, their already league-average offense could quickly return to the top-10 lineup we saw last year.
August is a sports reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com. A baseball nerd, occasionally pens pieces for FanGraphs and is currently covering the Akron RubberDucks. Follow him on Twitter at @AugustF_ABJ.
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San Francisco declares Catholic doctrine wrong
In 2006, Catholic adoption agencies in San Francisco were directed not to turn over adoptive children to homosexual couples, based on the Church's moral teachings. In retaliation, the city government-in the form of the Board of Supervisors-issued a resolution condemning Catholicism as "insulting" and "hateful." The resolution called the Church's directive "discriminatory and defamatory" and attacked the former archbishop of San Francisco who had issued it. The resolution also accused the Vatican of "meddling" by a foreign country.
The Thomas More Law Center and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights filed a lawsuit against the city on the grounds that the resolution violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. A federal judge dismissed their case, saying that the Vatican had provoked the debate. They appealed.
Last Friday, according to LifeSiteNews.com, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the resolution to stand. The majority opinion stated that the city's Supervisors "have the right to speak out in their official capacities on matters of secular concern to their constituents, even if their statements might offend the religious feelings of some of their constituents."
Justices writing the minority opinion had this to say: "For the government to resolve officially that 'Catholic doctrine is wrong,' is as plainly violative of the Establishment Clause as for the government to resolve that 'Catholic doctrine is right.'"
The idea of government-in the form of a city, town, or state-declaring that a Church's teachings are wrong is pretty frightening. To say that it sounds like a slippery slope is an understatement.
The Thomas More Law Center says it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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In the 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy was nodding his head in demagogic agreement with himself, animation pioneer and Hollywood blacklist member John Hubley was tapping his toes to the rhythm of jazz. His experimental animation seemed uncontainable— wildly singular visions that owed more to Hans Hoffman than Max Fleischer. Hubley (whose films are currently touring the country to celebrate his 100th birthday) gave audiences intimate glimpses into the lives of those who were often ignored by major animation studios, and tackled topics such as nuclear war, agnosticism, and social justice. While children hunkered down in front of big, boxy televisions to watch Silly Symphonies, John Hubley was recording his children's voices and using them to create socially-conscious animated films.
Hubley started his career painting backgrounds and layouts for Walt Disney Studios in 1935, when he was 22-years-old. He worked on the first classic Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and acted as art director for "Bambi," "Dumbo" (uncredited), the "Rite of Spring" section of "Fantasia," and "Pinocchio." Of these projects, "Rite of Spring" best hints at the ambitious, idiomatic vision of his personal projects that was percolating just beneath the surface: the harmonious marriage of music and animation, and the lush, boundless backgrounds, and Hubley's penchant for breathing life into nebulous entities. "Rite of Spring" has a massive, cosmic scope, of course; Hubley would scale down these aesthetic peculiarities and funnel them into intimate exposés on quotidian life.
After leaving Disney during the strike of 1941, John Hubley joined the United Productions of America, for whom he created the Oscar-winning "Mr. Magoo." In 1952, Hubley was forced to leave UPA consequent of his blacklisted status. He subsequently founded Storyboard Studios, which acted as an alias, and started turning out wildly popular animated commercials. Though they didn't bear his name in the credits, Hubley's animated ads were wholly his own, stamped with his invisible signature; they felt simultaneously out of place within the advertising establishment and, somehow, in some inexplicable way, connected to each other, coursed by a common thread that tethered them to the unnamed artist behind the animation, like episodes of a television anthology.
Hubley's famous 1956 "I Want My Maypo" commercial featured his young son's voice, which lent the ad an authentic air (the child's whininess is undeniably that of a child who wants his Maypo). Hubley's triumph was unexpected, as the commercial was intended to be a failure: Heublein, Inc. planned on dumping their money into a bomb of a commercial for the poorly-selling Maypo in order to create huge loses and get tax-deductible expenses, so they hired Hubley, known for being independent, uncompromising, and antipodal to a capitalistic enterprise's desires, with the simple instructions of making a "slice of life."
The commercial didn't bomb, of course — it increased sales by an average of 78%. In the wake of this immense success, animated commercials proliferated, and the cowboy hat-wearing child, dubbed Marky Maypo, became a household name.
The irony of churning out commercial advertisements while maintaining the aspirations of an artist wasn't lost on Hubley: In his ten-minute live-action short "Date With Dizzy," a Hubley stand-in instructs iconic trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie on scoring (or "dubbing," as he calls it) a short commercial for an instant rope ladder. Gillespie and his band watch the cartoon with ambivalence (it's all very silly, as one might expect from a commercial for an instant rope ladder), and they break into a swinging number, which, while aurally stunning, has very little to do with selling instant rope ladders.
The director hangs his head in desperation as Dizzy's quartet lets the music flow. The commercial director tries, in vain, to get Dizzy and crew to play more commercial-apt music, but the real artist remains incorruptible, even as he tries to work with the careerist, whose inability to appreciate art is obvious. Hubley's subversion was subtle but not invisible: The mockery of commercials, capitalism, and the usurpation of art for the sake of the almighty dollar in Hubley's short burns like a freshly-struck match.
"Date With Dizzy" acts as a lens through which we can decipher the filmmaker's career. As John Sayles aptly notes in the recent film issue of The Believer Magazine (which features a DVD of films Hubley made with his wife, Faith, spanning 17 years, including "Date With Dizzy"), Hubley's cartoons feel alive, attuned to the syncopated rhythm of the world. Sayles likens Hubley's effect on animation to that of Miles Davis on jazz. Sayles remembers how Hubley's cartoons and commercials seemed to infiltrate the drive-in theater screen, those sneaky, subtly subversive clips slipping into the otherwise milquetoast pre-programming galère of kiddy cartoons, as the sun receded and the screen glowed in the night. Sayles succinctly describes his pre-filmmaker impression of the cartoons: "It's one of those again!"
Hubley, who often made use of Benny Carter's boppin' music, released "Date With Dizzy" at a time when jazz was in that odd synapse between being niche— "black music"—and breaking into the mainstream. As well as being a paramount moment in self-referential filmmaking, its sharp, satirical edge on clear display, "Date With Dizzy" remains a fascinating snapshot of a brief, fleeting moment in jazz history — that breath before the very definition of "jazz" was obscured beyond recognition, with the advent of modal jazz and free-jazz.
Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and other pioneers of experimental jazz were recording seminal albums, such as Davis' "Kind of Blue" and Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come," both of which came out in 1959, and Davis' controversial, brilliant "Sketches of Spain," which came out the next year. There was the dissolution of Davis' first great quintet, and the birth of the embryonic stages of Impulse! Records. Jazz was movin' on up, into the realm of the mainstream.
As Davis and Coleman and Coltrane were altering and reshaping the concept of what jazz could be, John Hubley was reshaping the concept of what a cartoon could be. Still operating under his Storyboard alias, Hubley began orchestrating more aesthetically complex, narratively opaque projects. He worked in oils, water colors, pen and ink, felt-tip markers; he commingled black-and-white sketches — wiry, emaciated things, like scratches from low-hanging tree branches — and splashes of color, over-saturated, under-saturated, deeply layered and endlessly energetic. Hubley made family-friendly acid trips with delightful liberal leanings while he was black listed during those scary, shrouded years known as McCarthyism. These cartoons (and one live-action, pseudo-meta film) are vivid portrayals of a hazy time in American history, when the Martini and gray flannel suit were giving way to the counter culture and rock 'n' roll.
The last short he made before his blacklisting, 1951's "Rooty Toot Toot," is the most structurally linear, and thus most well-known of Hubley's shorts. It's the story of two sweethearts, Frankie and Johnny, the former of whom shot the latter dead. There's love, lust, treachery and murder in this ten-minute cartoon, which is notable for its depiction of black characters on the jury in Frankie's trial. Hubley eschews outlines and simply paints their skin color directly onto the backgrounds, leaving the characters in ethereal, opaque shapes. It's not an overt political statement, but the presence of blacks integrated, not assimilated with whites in a court room, as a jury of peers, stands in stark contrast to, say, "Cinderella," which Disney had released the previous year.
As with "Rooty Toot Toot," Hubley set his more sober, sedate "Harlem Wednesday" to the rhythm of Benny Carter's sultry music. "Harlem Wednesday" is a wordless vignette that illustrates the daily banalities and trivialities of black life in Harlem. Gregorio Prestopino supplies the static paintings of people carrying ice, taking out trash, sitting on sidewalks, often framed in front of wrought iron fences and looming black gates. The backgrounds and the characters nearly blend together, creating a feeling of symbiosis, of people rooted in their environment, and an environment that conforms around its people. Hubley begins and ends the short with the same shot of a young boy sleeping. At the end of the day, much has happened but nothing has changed.
Hubley's shorts offered myriad innovations and detours from established norms: the use of his children's voices in "Moonbird"; the beautiful controlled chaos of "Adventure of an *"; the use of layers to create parallax and depth in "The Tender Game"; the gentle encapsulation of commerce and consumption's Sisyphean cycling in "Urbanissimo," which originally ran paired with Godard's "Weekend — the list goes on.
After his death in 1977, Hubley's wife Faith continued producing abstract, often mythical animated films, even after being diagnosed with terminal breast cancer (she would live another 26 years). It seems wonderfully fitting that John Hubley got his start working for Disney: Hubley, that sly, subversive artist, chipped away at the establishment from within, and his art and his ambitions were the antithesis of Uncle Walt's gargantuan company.
As Hubley's style evolved over time, it felt organic in its constantly shifting, swaying aesthetic. He portrayed human characters lost in an irrational world that was ill at ease with itself. He channeled Picasso, Klee, and Matisse; and he conjured coteries of aesthetic and philosophical –isms, upon which Uncle Walt would have frowned: modernism, minimalism, postmodernism, deconstructuralism, surrealism, Dadaism — synthesizing them all into potent commentaries on culture and society. It was social realism through artistic abstractionism.
But above all he was, ultimately, an idealist, perhaps the sole trait that he shared with Disney (though Hubley's idealism landed him on Hollywood's blacklist, whereas Walt decried "communist agitation" and testified before the HUAC). Hubley's works, rooted in the sad realities of the Red Scare, offered an unflinching gaze into everyday life. A fine conscience he turned out to be.
A traveling program of films by John and Faith Hubley, all in new 35mm prints, are currently touring the country in honor of the animator's 100th birthday. Go here for more information.


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Whoa; quite the '80s CanCon nostalgia kick, you've got going on with your music posts lately!
Takes me back to the days of watching 'Video Hits', with Samantha Taylor, after school on CBC, while waiting for my folks to get home...
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The move that brought Shaquille O'Neal to the Cavaliers has come with much fanfare, but it has also drawn a lot of scrutiny. The Cavs were exploited by the sharp-shooting Orlando Magic last season and set out to make moves that would position them better of the upcoming year. While they did not add the upper tier stretch forward that they had hoped, there is no denying that the team got better. And one of those reasons is because of the presence that Shaquille O'Neal will bring in the low post.
But not all will be roses, according to the Wall Street Journal's Hannah Karp. Karp expounds upon the egos that will be featured in The Q this year as it is somewhat rare to have two worldwide superstars on the same team. And while there will be a debate on whether O'Neal is the "answer" to the Cavaliers' problems from a basketball perspective, the WSJ prefers to look into the behind the scenes aspects; mostly from the point of the newly acquired O'Neal.
Mr. O'Neal is no stranger to public feuds with teammates. He jockeyed for the spotlight with Penny Hardaway in Orlando during his early days in the league and feuded constantly with Kobe Bryant while playing for the Lakers—even though they managed to win three championships together. Mr. O'Neal demanded a trade in 2004, complaining that Mr. Bryant had too much power, though now he says their feud was merely a publicity stunt.
There was no talk about the recent media barbs between Shaq and his former teammate Steve Nash, but they did mention the David Beckham bit (without noting that it was for O'Neal's television show).
Thankfully, Karp also examined the other side of the coin by declaring that similar goals tend to make things "work." In this case, said goal would be a championship for the city of Cleveland.
In typical WSJ form, there were quotes from sociologists, psychologists and couples therapists. Oh, and Bill Walton.
"You can never have too many good players on one team," [Walton] says, adding that one of the few things Mr. O'Neal can teach Mr. James is to lighten up. "LeBron can still learn how to enjoy it – Shaq has a great way of making it fun."
Personally, the fact that the two players have not exchanged more than a few text messages does not concern me. It has become pretty obvious that each man has quite a schedule during the offseason; O'Neal with his television shows and endorsements, James with the release of More Than a Game as well as his new shoe line. I would love to find a team that hangs out together socially all summer long after spending the previous nine months together.
Did Dwayne Wade take Michael Beasley condo shopping? Did Kobe Bryant go on vacation with the Gasol family? Sure, O'Neal is a new addition to the team, but it isn't like he hasn't played with a star before.
Whether or not this "arranged marriage" works out will only be decided by one thing: a championship banner hanging from the rafters of Quicken Loans Arena. Of course, the team can opt to move O'Neal by the trade deadline if things did notwork for the better, but as a fan, one cannot help but be excited to see what these two superstars can do together once the orange roundie hits the hardwood.


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Hammer stuns Shanks to defend world pursuit crown
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- Published Mar. 25, 2011
APELDOORN, Netherlands (AFP) - American Sarah Hammer launched a stunning fighback to defend her 3km pursuit title against New Zealand's
U.S. women finish second to Britain in team pursuit
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- Published Mar. 24, 2011
- Updated Mar. 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM EDT
APELDOORN, Netherlands, March 24, 2011 (AFP) — Britain won the women's team pursuit gold medal after dominating the United States in the
Sarah Hammer wins omnium in UCI track World Cup meet in Manchester
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- Published Feb. 20, 2011
- Updated Feb. 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM EDT
Sarah Hammer of the United States wins the women's omnium at the UCI World Cup track cycling meet in Manchester, England.
Burnaby 4-Day race gallery
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- Published Jan. 3, 2011
Farrar, Tuft and others tune up for the road season at 4-day track race
- By Jennifer Kohm
- Published Jan. 3, 2011
Tyler Farrar, Christian Meier, Svein Tuft and Zach Bell are among the top roadies using the Burnaby four-day track race for a pre-season
Hammer sets new world mark in pursuit
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- Published May. 11, 2010
- Updated May. 12, 2010 at 6:10 AM EDT
Hammer sets new world mark in pursuit
Hammer and Phinney: Chasing gold among friends
- By Ben Delaney
- Published Mar. 23, 2010
- Updated Mar. 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM EDT
Americans Taylor Phinney and Sarah Hammer are looking forward to a little friendly competition as track worlds kick off Wednesday in
Hoy back for worlds, but has London on his mind
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- Published Mar. 23, 2010
- Updated Mar. 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM EDT
Sir Chris Hoy is back on track for the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hammer sets U.S. pursuit record
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- Published Dec. 11, 2009
- Updated Aug. 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM EDT
Two-time world champion Sarah Hammer set a new U.S. record in the individual pursuit Friday, clocking a 3:27.5 in qualifying rounds at the


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At a special Bridger Canyon Rural Fire District Board of Trustees meeting tonight Fire Chief Dan Astrom tendered his resignation to the board due to the intractable situation involving the board and himself and the firefighters. On announcing his resignation, about a half dozen firefighters also in attendance resigned as well. The resignations are effective at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 22nd, when they will turn in their pagers at the weekly training meeting. A number of other firefighters not in attendance tonight are also expected to resign at that time as well. The 48 hour delay is intended to give the board the chance to contact other fire departments to arrange for extra mutual aid coverage upon our absence or to otherwise try and insure continued protection of the canyon.
The firefighters involved sincerely apologize to the canyon for leaving them with less than desirable protection come Wednesday evening. We have tried and tried to get through to the board but they steadfastly refuse to act in good faith in regard to our concerns. Residents should expect a barrage of propaganda from them trying to make us look like the villains in all this. The attacks will be a continued indication the lack of respect they have for us and the breaking point in the situation tonight. We are volunteers who have given thousands of hours of our time over the years and to be treated with such disrespect is inexcusable and intolerable.
We would like to qualify these comments by saying that our views of the board do not extend to their newest member, Dennis Guentzel, who did his best in his short tenure with the board to try and change things. He personally called a number of firefighters and genuinely listened and actually heard our concerns. Denny, we really appreciate your efforts and consider you a stand-up guy! We wish you luck in your continued dealings with the other board members.
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Amazing videos of Meteor in Russia!
Posted 22 February 2013 - 05:23 AM
I like to question everything ... and I seriously question to what degree NASA might be saving face in coming to such a quick conclusion here. I am skeptical of the prevailing authoritative "answer" that has been disseminated by most major media outlets worldwide.
There were numerous fireball sightings being reported in the hours before and after. Were those not related either? Has NASA mapped the trajectories of all of those meteors as well? To not seriously analyze this further, and explore all of the possibilities in this 'mere coincidence' here is not even rubbish science to me, it is the absence of science.
I am perplexed by just how quick so many have seemed to be in dismissing the possibility that these two hunks of matter may well be linked in some way (perhaps going far, far back in time). Maybe they are not linked ... but to claim to know so quickly? It reeks of arrogance.
This is not to rant about NASA, as I am a big admirer of all they have accomplished and continue to discover as a group of many, many dedicated individuals. I am in awe of so much of it. But, they have had problems over the years with politics and bureaucracy as well, it is no secret. I am not stating here that I think there is some conspiracy or coverup. It just sounds a bit more like ineptitude mixed in with embarrassment than anything else to me right now. I surely don't have the answers. But I just wish that the current authorities that be could exercise a little humility here and there, and acknowledge that perhaps they don't exactly know either.
Most scientists seem to agree that it is important to do one's best to exhaust all possible scenarios ... and I do not feel as though such careful scrutiny has been applied here in this particular case, where a conclusion was doled out almost immediately. If humanity is indeed going to attempt the planning of any truly long-term goals for the betterment and sustainability of lifeforms on Earth, then it seems that an improved analysis of such objects might be in order.
Posted 22 February 2013 - 04:28 PM
Like I said it's debated right now. But there has been some increasing meteors during this time. Especially with N-S paths and being very bright.
Posted 23 February 2013 - 03:41 AM
Regarding other fireballs at the time. There is a video of a bright evening fireball over Russia (in fact, only about 700 km west of Chelyabinsk!) on Feb 12. But it clearly fell at a very steep angle, so its radiant was most probably in the northern celestial hemisphere. Not related. The Feb 15 Cuba meteor is very dubious with no videos and very few (if any) eyewitness reports. At its supposed magnitude, it should have been seen over a very large area by many people. The Feb 14 Japan fireball (which is not really very large anyway) has a different orbit, although both are Apollo-type orbits with aphelia in the main asteroid belt. The Feb 15 California fireball (which is even smaller) requires a slightly more detailed analysis of the video and eyewitness reports, so not sure about that one.
There is, apparently, at least one confirmed Near-Earth Asteroid and meteorite-dropping fireball association: http://www.spmn.uji....2NY40_MNRAS.pdf
Posted 23 February 2013 - 03:17 PM
-Thomas Huxley
Posted 25 February 2013 - 01:59 PM
Evidence is growing about a new meteor shower. The Russian event could well be tied to this since they typically have a North to South part over the North pole.
In fact there are many, many showers not yet confirmed.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 10:58 AM
"But some YouTube-aided detective work suggests that the meteor's parent body belonged to the Apollo family of Earth-crossing asteroids, whose elliptical orbits take them farther than one Earth-sun distance (about 93 million miles) from our star at some point, researchers said."
This one does appear to be an isolated rock at this time.
Posted 02 March 2013 - 07:01 PM
Excellent video...
Posted 03 March 2013 - 05:20 AM
Comments are funny
Excellent video...
That's a 747 flying towards the sun rise with the sun reflecting of it's belly.
Last time i checked, Russia wasn't in the middle of the rainforest, and they didn't speak Spanish
Posted 07 March 2013 - 09:45 AM
Posted 10 March 2013 - 11:22 AM
Excellent video...
I've just learned that this is a video of some type of Russian aircraft test..
Sorry for the inconvenience...


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"Twenty-two."Edward corrected you on which you rolled your (e/c) eyes. "Still not enough to risk your life for."you remarked as you prepared a needle and thread. The cut on his arm was long and pretty deep. Stitches were needed. Luckily for a certain assassin-pirate you had enough skills thanks to your boring yet mandatory sessions of sewing with your mother when you were little.
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The Gaming space in Vancouver continues to flourish thanks to a supportive community that has developed around the Big Companies and the smaller studios that call the West Coast home.
Offshoots of the larger studios continue to sprout up but these 'Radical' departures seem to be an accepted by-product in this burgeoning space. Industry events unite the space locally with the Game Design Expo taking place last month, New Media BC's Fusion Forum later this month, and DemoCampVancouver06 being tagged as a Gaming Edition next time around. As a non-gamer, it's hard to really appreciate how large the industry is.
I've put together a list of BC's game studios - both developers and publishers - and I'm asking our readers for feedback. How many staff do these studios employ? Who's the largest? Who's buying who? Who are we missing? Please comment on this post.
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