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Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 'Mango' details
Faster, more open, less battery suckage
The next version of Windows Phone is getting faster, opening up and - Microsoft has promised - won't suck your battery dry.
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled changes in the version of Windows Phone codenamed Mango that will crack open the operating system so devs can finally work with smart-phones' camera data, compass and gyro, pivot and panorama, geo-location, ringtones and users' contacts.
The operating system, meanwhile, has been optimized to make applications run fast, gobble less memory and delivery "buttery smooth" scrolling. Execs unveiled the plans during Microsoft's MIX conference in Los Vegas, Nevada.
Microsoft corporate developer division Scott Guthrie, previewing code-level changes in Mango targeting devs, claimed that Microsoft is seeing applications running on early Mango builds use 25 to 30 per cent less phone memory than the current version of Windows Phone 7.
Other improvements will see image decoding no longer freeze the app while the data for the image is loaded, while garbage collection won't pause an application.
Guthrie said the code has been optimized without developers needing to change their applications.
Mango, expected in September, will feature TCP/IP sockets for devs building conversational applications like chat and IM.
Windows Phone Hubs, which group related data like music, are being integrated with Bing cards – templates that group related and relevant topics of information with your search returns. The change means when you search for something via Bing on a Windows Phone you'll be able to pivot across to applications on your phone that contain related information.
Windows phone program management corporate vice president Joe Belfiore used MIX to confirm and detail what we know was in the works: Microsoft will make Windows Phone's built-in SQL Server Compact Edition database open to use by third parties' apps. The database supports Microsoft's LINQ so you can query and save data in an application.
We knew, too, that multi-tasking and the ability for applications to run in the background were coming, but Belfiore explained how they'll work and how – theoretically at lest – Windows Phone won't suck the life out of your phone's battery.
Mango will come with APIs built in for background audio, file download and alarms so these are capable of running without the need for the phone's user having to do anything to activate them.
To illustrate them in action, Belfiore played a piece of music on an HTC phone running an early Mango build and had it continue playing when he navigated away to a different application. To illustrate the importance of file download and alarms, he demoed a Quantas airlines "concept app" working with location details and clock to alert him on when it's time to check in for a flight and provide updates on flight status.
Applications you move away from, meanwhile, will slip into suspend mode rather than sleep so you'll get instant resume - avoiding start-up delays - when you return to the app.
Microsoft's phone man reckoned that implementing background audio, file download and alarms in the operating system would save the phone's battery power.
Mango will feature a full version of Internet Explorer 9, complete with HTML rendering engine and JavaScript support. Belifore, though, tried to prove Windows Phone will display HTML5 pages faster than the iPhone 4 or Android, on a Nexus phone. Running a test application he claimed a frame rate per second of 26 for Windows Phone versus 11 on Android and two on the iPhone. IE9 is being juiced because it's using the same hardware acceleration that Microsoft has been boasting about on PCs.
Garnishing the whole event was a brotherly plug from Nokia, the phone giant that has agreed to dump Symbian, Qt and MeeGo on smart phones and install Windows Phone 7.
Marco Argenti joined Belfiore on stage to help convince Windows developers they should build mobile apps by talking "market" opportunity. Argenti said Nokia is "really committed" to its partnership with Microsoft, has the scale to reach hundreds of millions of customers, and is "working very very hard" to create the first Nokia Windows Phone. Argenti was billed as Nokia's "head of developer experience" but Argenti's LinkedIn profile describes him as responsible for media and games at Nokia, an empire that includes the Ovi Store.
To further convince Windows devs they should go mobile, Belfiore said they'll be able to sell apps for Mango in 35 countries, up from today's 16, and build apps in 36 compared to 30 now. It's not clear how much of this is down to the Nokia pseudo assimilation, but Belfiore said: "We are working with Nokia, who is strong in countries around the world." ®


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During my twenty-odd years as a union rep in a big-time factory (a 44-acre paper mill), I had occasion to talk to over a hundred people about the things we most regretted in our lives. It's true. That was our topic of discussion….regrets. Things we hadn't done but wish we had, things we had done but wish we hadn't, and things we would do differently if we could go back and repeat them. The whole gamut.
These conversations weren't nearly as confrontational or melodramatic as they sound. They weren't exercises in psychodrama or brutal self-analysis so much as casual, idiosyncratic ways of passing time on swing-shift or graveyard. They were fun. In a highly automated, modern plant like ours you could do your job quite efficiently and still have time to swap life stories with your fellow workers. Which is what we did.
The responses were revealing. Nearly everyone regretted the exact same thing. They regretted they hadn't been better students—and not just in high school, but all the way back to elementary school. These good people regretted that they hadn't been more mature, that they hadn't applied themselves more diligently, that they hadn't paid attention in class, and that they hadn't buckled down and done their assigned homework. They more or less regretted their entire attitude toward education.
And while I'm not suggesting that this informal survey was in any way "conclusive," the difference in responses between men and women was nonetheless surprising. Virtually every man I spoke to blamed himself for his deficiency. He readily
acknowledged that in elementary school all he did was watch TV and goof off, and that by the time he reached high school he was more interested in girls and cars and sports than school work.
But while the women also regretted that they, too, hadn't applied themselves, their assessment differed a bit from the men's. Women were more willing to fault their parents (particularly their mothers) for not having dogged them enough. They were critical of their mothers for not having sufficiently "pushed" them to be good students, and for not having "had higher [academic] expectations" for them.
It didn't seem that any of these women (most of whom were late thirties or older) were especially bitter, or were playing the martyr card, or were using their moms as scapegoats. What they were doing was simply looking back on their lives and candidly recalling that a lack of parental-imposed motivation and discipline had hindered them academically.
In any event, here's the kicker. Not one of them blamed their teachers. More than a hundred people gave reasons for not having done well (or well enough) in school, and not one of them took the easy way out and blamed the system. Not one person said, "I was a good student, but my teachers were too incompetent to teach me, which is why I didn't excel in school." They all knew that simply wasn't true.
And yet, if we believe what we see and hear in the media, the myriad problems with our public schools—from low test scores to a 25-percent drop-out rate—are the fault of incompetent teachers and their "powerful" teachers' union. No one dares blame the kids or the parents. It's the teachers who are the villains.
With all the lies, omissions, and exaggerations that we're regularly exposed to, many of us have become understandably cynical. Personally, I've pretty much come to regard everything with a jaundiced eye. Ever since the needle on my Indignation Dial got stuck in the "You've Got To Be Shitting Me" position, very little outrages me.
But this smear campaign against teachers is freakish. It's a new low. What's worse, even though it's being driven by reactionary right-wingers, it's not confined exclusively to the right. Everyone is buying into it. Self-avowed "progressives" blame the teachers. President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blame them.
Which is why so many teachers are reluctantly leaving the profession. This smear campaign is actually forcing good teachers to change careers because they no longer feel it's worth the aggravation. Teaching is demanding enough without being accused of incompetence. So we're forcing them out. Is this a great country or what?
DAVID MACARAY, an LA playwright and author ("It's Never Been Easy: Essays on Modern Labor"), was a former union rep. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, published by AK Press. Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com

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Help DProgress
Helping the progress of D
There are several things keeping D from "going mainstream" in many people's minds. Here, a collection of things that could be done to help push D along its way to becoming a more widely recognized and used language is presented.
This is not intended to be a list purely for speculation or for giving reasons why D isn't popular yet. This is intended to be a list for people who want to help D to progress to pick something and start helping.
- StalePages -- cleanup stale content
Contributing to Phobos
New code with major additions must run through a Boost Review cycle. It is suggested that you post to the Development Newsgroup to gauge interest and identify it isn't already being worked on. Don't get discouraged from low response as this can be for several reasons, but hopefully a sign that others agree it should be in Phobos will comment. And even if it is decided not to fit, if it is code you are interest in having others are likely too and can be its own library.
The process is a standard three weeks once the code is ready. Two weeks are left for review of the source and API, and is followed by a week of voting. During the review the code can be modified to appease the criticism, and it will be up to the submitter and review manager to decide if it makes sense to continue with a vote or postpone for a later review.
Smaller additions such as expanding existing functionality or fixing bugs can skip the formal review process. Remember that it is volunteers running this which means pull requests could have long waiting periods before getting reviewed. You can use the newsgroups to peek more interest in the request.
Compiler Support
There are those who believe D is not viable until there are several implementations that are working to their fullness (in other words, nearly fully up to date with the spec).
- DMD - The reference implementation, from Digital Mars (Win32 and X86 Linux)
- Needs better packaging (Windows installer, RPM package, Gentoo ebuild, etc.)
- convince Walter to make DMD redistributable so that installers can be made by third parties
- convince Walter to update the instructions at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html
- update D Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler when these happen
- GDC - GCC D Compiler.
- Older GDC information:
- Perhaps even add PPC Assembly one day...
- Remove stale old web information (2002!)
- A new web page (Anders said it, not me)
- Need a few hundred megs of space and lots of bandwidth (for GDC binaries), that's why... -- AndersFBj�rklund
- Put the Mac binaries up at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcmac/
- Put the Win binaries up at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcwin/
- LDC - LLVM D compiler.
- Check their status
- Debugging - There's not really any fully-functional debugging for D yet. What can be done:
- A GDB patch to support D demangling
- Demangler: http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/bindings/trunk/demangle.d
- Project: http://dsource.org/projects/gdb-patches/ (targets: GDB 5.3/6.3)
- Fix the line number bugs in DMD on Linux (just adding symbols for a few of the lines)
- A Windows debugger, or better support for Windows debuggers (I don't really know, I don't use Windows much...)
- DebugEnvironments has some information that might help.
- Improve runtime library (Phobos)
- Remove usage of printf from object.d
- Up-to-date library Documentation
- Wish List: Template Library (STL)
- Wish List: Widget Toolkit (GUI)
- Wish List: Database Bindings (SQL)
- Windows API bindings
This probably isn't very well thought-out, so hopefully some others will come and clean this page up and make it make more sense and lay it out better?
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By Hal Dardick and Kristen Mack Clout Street
4:08 p.m. CDT, July 28, 2011
Mayor Rahm Emanuel won approval today of a 25-year deal that will replace a clout-heavy concession operator at O'Hare Airport's international terminal with a company that's pledged to invest $26.2 million to improve the quality of shopping and restaurants.
After the 45-3 vote in favor of Westfield Concession Management, Emanuel declared "a new future for the city," one with more transparency and fairness in contract negotiations. Noting the prominence of the international terminal, he quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, saying approval was "a shot that was heard around the world."
"For years, Terminal 5 has been operating on a month-to-month contract, costing the city and its taxpayers millions of dollars in lost revenue," the mayor said. "Those are the days of the past. Chicago will no longer operate the way Chicago did."
In the past, no one scrutinized the details of contracts, "because everyone knew what the outcome would be," Emanuel added. "That will no longer be the rule of the day going forward."
But the victory did not come without opposition and a small measure of controversy. Three independent-minded aldermen voted against the deal, saying they still knew too little about the details.
Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd, Scott Waguespack, 32nd, and freshman Ald. John Arena, 45th, raised the specter of the much-maligned long-term parking meter lease, which marred the reputation of previous Mayor Richard Daley.
They aruged that as with the meter deal, aldermen did not have enough time to review the details of a too-lengthy contract that paid the city too little money.
"With just two months in the council, I have a fuller understanding of just how a deal such of that could have been done," Arena said. "I will vote no to this deal today, not because of who is getting the contract, but for the fact that they are getting it for too small a return to the city."
But independent Ald. Joe Moore, 49th, a longtime critic of former Mayor Richard Daley and how much information he shared with aldermen, said there was no comparison.
"I can tell you that this process was different, and is different than what we may have experienced in the past." Moore said.
"All of my questions were answered," he added. "All of the documents that I needed to make a decision were provided. . . . I think if we are comparing where we are today to where we have been in the past, there is a light year's difference."
He also noted Westfield had "a track record" in airports throughout the country, while the losing company, Chicago Aviation Partners, had failed over an 18-year period to attract enough quality shops and restaurants in convenient locations beyond the security checkpoints, when passengers tend to need them most.
"It really is an embarrassment," he said of the current state of shops and restaurants. "They didn't get the deal because they've done a miserable job so far."
Other aldermen agreed that Emanuel's administration offered up far more information than would have been under Daley, whose reputation was marred by the meter deal.
"I can assure you, from previous experience, this has been transparent," said Ald. Sandi Jackson, 7th. "We have an opportunity to ensure that this airport is a world-class airport that matches the global needs of a global city."
Ald. Leslie Hairston, one of only five aldermen to vote against the meter lease, said, "I think that this is a much better proposal."
The contract also was endorsed by United and American Airlines, the two largest at O'Hare, long one of the world's busiest airports.
Westfield runs the concessions at eight other airports, noted Ald. Michael Zalewski, 23rd, chairman of the Aviation Committee.
"This group has been a proven industry leader, and we now have a chance to bring them here as a partner," he said. "Westfield will make significant infrastructure improvements, add first-class amenities to terminal five, increase revenues to the airport and create 300 jobs."
The 25-year Westfield proposal guarantees the city at least $5.1 million in annual rent in addition to the renovations.
Chicago Aviation Partners had ties to Daley, even though the recommendation to dump it in favor of Westfield was first made when he was still mayor.
Westfield, however, was not without key connections. It's lobbying team included Tim Dart, brother of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, and Demetrius Carney, president of the Chicago Police Board.
Among CAP's shareholders is Jeremiah Joyce, one of Daley's political advisers. Former Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine lobbies for the group.
Joyce testified briefly. He urged aldermen to look closer at the proposals.


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Here we have a toy car modified to use a drill as the powertrain. [Hans] has thrown a 12v 4.5 amp battery in to power the motor and it tops out around 9 miles per hour. This is similar in concept to the trash-based go cart from last week but this time there's video. He's built a couple of these and there's footage of both after the break. Our favorite part is from the first video when dad chuckles with glee from behind the camera as son whips around the neighborhood on the mean-sounding machine.
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Backyard living: Homeowners building cottages for parents, guests or just more space
15 Nov Backyard living: Homeowners building cottages for parents, guests or just more space
This is an interesting article from brandonsun.com that discusses a recent housing trend:
Something small is afoot. Backyard cottages — from 800-square-foot bungalows to Lilliputian studio cabins — are springing up behind houses in many cities, some of which have changed zoning laws to accommodate them.
Often, the cottages are built for aging parents or grown children. Sometimes, they're rented out for extra income, or are used as studios or offices.
"Backyard cottages increase density in a nice way," says Bruce Parker, principal of the Seattle-based design collective Microhouse. "They use existing infrastructure and … they're inherently sustainable. A cottage is the antithesis of a big house on a tiny lot."
Seattle updated its zoning laws in 2009 to allow for "accessory dwelling units" on single-family lots of at least 4,000 square feet. (Permits are needed depending on the size of the cottage and whether it has plumbing and electricity.)
While Parker had been designing small homes for several years, the microhouse law inspired him to focus on backyard dwellings. Soon, he was teaching classes on backyard cottages with the Seattle firm NCompass Construction.
About 90 per cent of his students, he said, wanted to build a cottage for their parents.
"Rather than paying thousands of dollars a month for assisted living, you can have your parents with you and they can help with the kids — but everyone gets their own space," says Parker.
Often, it's the parents who pay to build the cottages. "It's an investment for their comfort and a way to improve their children's property," says Parker. "One pragmatic woman told me she hoped her great-granddaughter would use it for college housing after she was gone."
In Portland, Ore., which changed zoning rules in 2010 to allow for backyard cottages, Jasmine Deatherage and her mother, Diane Hoglund, looked for a house with a large yard specifically with this living arrangement in mind.
"We really wanted to live together," says Deatherage. "I have a 2-year-old and my mom will be taking on some of the childcare. It's a special time to live together."
Before her mother bought the house, they asked the previous owner to build a basic single-car garage, which they plan to convert into a fully functioning mother-in-law cottage by next summer.
While not every young family would opt to have their parents so close, Deatherage notes that it's common historically and globally. "My husband is from Mexico where it's very normal to live with your family," she says. "His whole family lives together and if we lived there we'd live with them too."
For other homeowners, backyard cottages are an opportunity for small-scale entrepreneurship.
Bob DiPalma of Burlington, Vt., didn't set out to run a mini-hotel out of his yard but the project "crept up on me." While rehabilitating their 100-year-old barn, he and his wife saw the opportunity to convert the space into an apartment above a garage. They drew up designs, hired a contractor and soon had a fully-functioning vacation rental.
"Over the last four years, we've had really wonderful guests who have appreciated the space," DiPalma says.
Sometimes, the need for more space is just a need for . more space.
"So many people are working from home," says Gayle Zalduondo, principal of the Miami-based Cabin Fever, which sells prefab cabins. "Rather than going offsite, they're adding a cabin. People need more space, but they're not comfortable upsizing to a larger house, especially in this economy."
Some of her customers want a guest house, while others are artists, musicians and independent service providers — from freelance graphic designers to massage therapists.
Unlike the fully outfitted miniature homes being used for rental properties and mother-in-law quarters, small backyard cabins without kitchens and bathrooms do not require permits in many states.
"We have a model you can build in a weekend," says Zalduondo. "It comes flat-packed. It's tight and weather-proofed and you don't even need to pour a full slab. You can just prepare a lightweight foundation and put the cabin on top of it."
Seattle resident Isaac Vicknair pioneered a new kind of off-the-grid, backyard living in his quest for affordable housing. He builds simple 8-by-8-foot sheds in exchange for free rent in them for three to six months after completion.
"It's a great deal for everyone," says Vicknair. "They cost me about $800 in materials and then I save around $5,000 in rent while I live there. All the homeowner has to pay for is the electricity I use, which is almost nothing."
Vicknair picks a neighbourhood he wants to live in and posts flyers advertising his trade proposal. He says he generally receives calls from three or four interested parties, and takes the project that seems most appealing.
The cabins are built without plumbing or electricity, so Vicknair runs an extension cord from the house and makes do with a space heater, electric skillet, small fridge and a couple of lamps. He bought a portable marine toilet that he sets up behind the cabin, and he showers at friends' houses or the gym.
"The only downside is it's really hard to get a date to come back to a miniature house in a backyard," says Vicknair. "But I don't think I'm ever going to pay rent again."


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This morning, I finished "Columbine" by Dave Cullen.
Here's what I wrote as a review in Visual Bookshelf:
"I read this because it's on the American Library Association Notable Books list.
It's tough to read–I had a nightmare or two reading it.
But here's what I appreciate about this…so much came out in the hours, days and weeks following the Columbine massacre that was later shown to be not true. It wasn't that people were intentionally putting out inaccuracies, but that the craziness of the attack made it hard to sort out quickly.
Cullen was able to make use of many sources and to pull together information that was finally released by law enforcement to make timelines, go back and correct reports, and try to pull pieces together. He gave people reasonable benefit of the doubt, and largely let people speak for themselves.
I was irritated by the way that Cullen sometimes very awkwardly drove home his point. He would present very reasonable evidence, and then conclude by stating what he'd made obvious. Other than that, I learned an awful lot reading this, and will recommend it to others."
What I'd add to that is that he seemed to work hard at presenting Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who orchestrated the attack, and who killed themselves in the process, in as complete and fair a way as possible. He eventually describes Harris as a classic psychopath. Their parents come off as regular people who did their best in raising their children in loving ways, in ways that reflected their values.
I admire that Cullen did this hard work, and I'll be suggesting this book to many, to add layers of complexity to what may have seemed like a simple story.


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Miranda Lambert Thinks She Should Cover Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats'
Miranda Lambert isn't one to be afraid to tell you what she's thinking or feeling. The song that scored her the first Top 10 single of her career, 'Gunpowder and Lead,' showed the world of country music that she may be little, but she's one tough chicky!
While she does write nearly all of her music the she records, Lambert does think back on one song that she wishes that she had the opportunity to cut. "There are so many [great songs, but] 'Before He Cheats' [by Carrie Underwood] … that's a good one!" Lambert tells People. "Maybe I should cover it!"
To balance out emotions, Lambert also reveals the song that makes her cry time and time again, which also happens to be her new single, 'Over You.' "I wrote it with my husband for my new record," Lambert says. "It's a really personal song about his brother passing away in a car accident when he was 24. I can't listen to it or sing it without getting teary-eyed."
Music has played many roles in Lambert's life, and she has a song for everything. "Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' gets [me] pumped!" she beams. "Steven Tyler is a bada–."
As far as her dream duet partner, Lambert turns back to her own format of music when stating it would be the one and only Merle Haggard. "I'd sing anything with him," Lambert grins. "Merle could sing the phone book and it would sound amazing."
'Over You' is the second release from Lambert's newly-released 'Four the Record' album that hit stores this past November. The album's lead single, 'Baggage Claim,' reached the Top 5 on the country singles chart in December.


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1969 Camaro Rear Clip Install - The Bionic Camaro, Part 2
An Unbeatable Backside Bolt-In...For The First Generation
When we last left this Camaro it was undergoing some extensive performance surgery at Total Cost Involved (TCI). TCI just finished developing its latest project, a tubular bolt-in front clip designed for the first generation Camaro. Not being one to leave a job half done, the backside of this F-body is also being reworked with TCI's four-link, coilover disc brake setup. With the TCI tubular front clip and rear four-link in place, this Camaro will soon demonstrate its blacktop bionic powers on our proving grounds at California Speedway.
Perhaps the most advantageous action associated with this four-link setup is the engineering and design that went into its creation. If the thought of cutting into your Camaro's floorboards, and fabricating brackets gives you the shivers, shiver no more. Truthfully, the welder you convinced your wife that you just had to have will remain dormant during this four-link install.
This TCI four-link bolts right into the existing holes in the vehicle. Of course, it will be necessary to drill a few of you own, but it is nothing that can't be accomplished in the home garage with a decent set of tools, and a floor jack.
With this rear end package, it's all the available options and upgrades. Let's take a look at a few of the options before we dive under the car.
Rear End:
The standard rear in this kit is a new 58 1/2-inch unit with new 31-spline axles from Currie Enterprises, and it can accommodate some wickedly wide wheels. The optional gearing is as follows: 3.00, 3.25, 3.50, 3.73, 3.89, 4.11 and 4.56. Positraction is also another available option. A Panhard bar is supplied when a 9-inch rear end is used, and a track bar is supplied when a Chevy rear end is used.
Brakes range from 12- and 13-inch Wilwood drilled and slotted zinc washed rotors, with optional painted or polished calipers. Standard GM 12-inch smooth rotors and GM calipers are also available. Drum brakes and the backing plates are another possible option. All brake kits have an internal parking brake assembly similar to that of the Corvette.
The four-link options include billet adjustable coilovers (manufactured by TCI) or polished billet coilovers, chrome bars with chrome coilovers, polished stainless bars with chrome shocks, antisway bar (also with chrome option). If coilovers are not desired, Shockwave airbags from Air Ride Technologies are also available.


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Large 3 bedroom Copacabana. Special retes on request.
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Daily rate: R$ 350,00 . Valid for 30 days minimum stay during low season. Rates can vary from year to year. Please contact us for prices on request.
Confortable three bedroom apartment in Copacabana, 2 full bathrooms, fully equipped kitchen.
, special for people of the same family or friends.
Situated on the 10th floor, close to all attractions, night life, restaurants, stores and 1 small block of Copacabana beach.
One minute of walking distance to the famous Copacabana Beach and 3 blocks far from Subway Station.
Spacious living room and with adjoining dining room. Equipped with air conditioner, two sofas, cable TV, padded chairs, nice paintings, dining table with 6 chairs and many other items.
The first bedroom is equipped with air conditioner, closet, 2 single beds, one sofa bed for one person and other items.
The second bedroom is equipped with air conditioner, double bed, closet and television.
The third bedroom is equipped with air conditioner, double bed, closet and many other items.
The kitchen is large and equipped as follows: fridge, stove and microwave and totally equipped. The building has a social and service elevators and 24h doormen.
Near the laundry there is another full bathroom with basim, shower and toillet.
Laundry area with washing machine and place to hang the clothes for fast drying.
Broadband Internet service included.
This is a one of a kind apartment for those clients that wish to enjoy their living surroundings at a near to all Copacabana location.
Ideal accommodation up to 7 people of the same family or friends.
Included weekly maid cleaning service with bed linens and towels changing.
Super familiar building, safe. Very well located, close to the whole trade of Copacabana.
Located one short block and a minute walking distance to Copacabana Beach. Really convenient to most bus lines and few blocks to the Metro (subway). Located near from every bars, restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies, etc. Rio has everything you could wish for: culture, beaches, fine or cheap dining.
This apartment is available for weekly and monthly rentals. Rental values under consult in agreement with the rental period.
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Coming soon…
For now, please investigate the work of Dr. Russell Blaylock and Dr. Joseph Mercola on this subject. We have much backwards when we demonize this life-saving compound called cholesterol and employ the drugs we have created to lower its levels.
Dogtor J
These are little tidbits of knowledge I've discovered or insights I've gained over the years while doing my in-depth studies.For example, did you know researchers have found that nearly 40% of the genetic information in our DNA is viral information? This explains what we call "genetic diseases" including familial and breed tendencies toward food intolerance (e.g. celiac disease), neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy), and numerous cancers.
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Welcome to the blog of the new DogtorJ.com. New research into the origin of our medical woes has revealed something startling: As it turns out, we are our own worst enemy. Yes, the Pogo quote of yesteryear found in the title of this article is quite accurate when applied to our medical lives. We love to discuss those things that we call "causes" of diseases even though we often have little clue as to how these things really cause illness. Even medical professionals can have difficulty grasping the true cause-and-effect. But that is understandable once some insight is gained into the true nature of medical training.
In this section, I will be placing links to the latest breaking news in the food world, including updates on the use of elimination diets to control disease, articles on pet food, the truth about GMO foods and more. I will do my best to balance the bad with the good, but try to remember: Much of this will seem like bad news but at least we know about it now…and can change it!
With some of these stories, I will include a link to a blog entry so that you can comment on the article. This idea came to me after reading the first entry, which is a news flash that made my blood boil.
Shoot me an Email by clicking on the icon at the top of each page. Video testimonials are also welcome.
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What is the "Leaky Gut"? The "leaky gut syndrome" is the root of many medical evils once the "big 4" induce it. Read how Italians have survived being a pasta-based society.
Hip Dysplasia – "Genetics" vs. Diet
As misconceptions go, this is a high-priority item. Hip dysplasia is not what we were taught.
Epilepsy and Diet
I have been studying "idiopathic epilepsy" extensively since April of 2000. Guess what? It's not idiopathic anymore. A diet change can cure it!
The Truth About Pet Food
Dogs and cats are carnivores yet most pet foods are grain-based. Knowing how to read a label is also very important. Does your pet food really have vegetables in it? Really???
I have been successfully treating pets with epilepsy using diet changes alone for nearly 10 years. The results have been astounding. This paper helps to summarize my findings and recommendations.
This is the first blog placed on BlogtorJ.com (6-24-07) and pretty much covers the gamut of topics – from heartburn to cancer – that are discussed on this Website. The bottom line? Viruses and bacteria are not the enemy. We are! The good news: We do have our health destinies in our own hands.
This paper is an article I wrote for the newsletter of www.celiac.com when asked about the prevalence of celiac disease (gluten intolerance) in the dog and cat. This condition has been definitively diagnosed in the Irish Setter but not many other breeds of dogs. I will not be at all surprised when we find that it does exist in numerous other breeds… and even the lovable mutt…but as this article explains, that may very well be a moot point. Gluten is only the beginning.
This 40-plus page paper is my first major paper, written in 2001 and hurriedly placed on this site on that fateful and tragic day of 9-11. It represents the culmination of nearly two years of research on the subject of food-related disorders and contains an amazing amount of facts that have been hidden from public view concerning this subject. It covers how the "big 4" trouble foods- gluten, dairy, soy and corn- came into being, catapulted into common usage, and became directly involved in most of our serious medical conditions, including epilepsy, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, ADHD, pain syndromes, depression, and allergies. Severe immune-mediated diseases such as diabetes, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis are also covered.
Yes, it is quite long, but it appeared on my computer screen and was placed onto the Web just as it came out of my head. And it is wordy in places. But, as I tell my clients, "There is no law that you have to read it all in one sitting. Think of it as a free, short book rather than a long research paper. It's all how you look at it, right?"
The one thing I can say is that this information WILL change your life…guaranteed!!!


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Type what you'd like Santa to say to a particular person, and Chatty Santa will say it.
Then send it to the designated person or post its link on a student or teacher blog or website.
I'll add it to The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa.


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A yogurt aimed at easing digestion with the help of "good" bacteria may not be much help for children's chronic constipation, a new study suggests.
The study, of 159 children with persistent constipation, looked at whether an Activia-brand yogurt could help make the kids more "regular."
Activia yogurts and other cultured dairy products contain a strain of friendly bacteria, or probiotic, called Bifidobacterium lactis, which is thought to help regulate the digestive system.
Some studies of adults have found the products to help ease chronic constipation.
But in the new study, researchers found that the probiotic yogurt was no better than a non-cultured dairy product without probiotics in easing kids' constipation.
Over three weeks, children who were randomly assigned to eat the probiotic yogurt each day did start to have more bowel movements, on average. But so did children in the comparison group.
In both groups, children went from having fewer than two bowel movements per week, on average, to about four per week.
It's not clear why both groups improved to a similar degree, according to the researchers.
But based on the findings, the probiotic cannot be recommended for children's constipation, lead researcher Dr. Merit M. Tabbers told Reuters Health in an email.
Some parents may still want to try it or other probiotic products, noted Tabbers, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Emma Children's Hospital in Amsterdam. And it's possible, the researcher said, that for certain kids, probiotics will help.
But for now, Tabbers said, "there is not sufficient evidence to support a general recommendation about the use of probiotics in the treatment of childhood constipation."
The study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics, was funded by Paris-based Danone (Dannon in the U.S.), which makes Activia. Two co-researchers on the study work for the company.
The findings are based on 159 children who were 7 years old, on average, and had been suffering from constipation for at least two months.
They were randomly assigned to have two servings of either the probiotic yogurt or the non-probiotic every day for three weeks. In the end, both groups showed similar improvements.
Tabbers said that children in the comparison group did better than expected. One reason might be the general attention that kids in both study groups received, the researcher explained.
All of the children were told, for example, they should try to go to the bathroom after each meal.
In general, less-than-ideal bathroom habits -- like trying to "hold" it in -- are thought to underlie many cases of constipation in children.
That and other differences between children's constipation and adults' might help explain why the probiotic appears to have different effects in kids and adults, according to Tabbers.
Typically, Tabbers said, the first step in easing children's constipation includes teaching them better bathroom habits and making diet changes, like adding more fiber-rich foods such as fruits and vegetables.
If that fails, a doctor might prescribe laxatives.
If parents want to try a probiotic, Tabbers said, they still can. But if there's no improvement within a few weeks, they should move on, according to the researcher.
One theory on why probiotics might help with constipation is that the products help restore any imbalances in the natural, friendly bacteria dwelling in the gut. However, Tabbers said, researchers don't know whether the gut bacteria in healthy children differ from those of children with constipation.
"Further research should therefore also focus on the composition of the microbiota in healthy and constipated children," Tabbers said.


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"The former chief pharmacist for the state Public Welfare Department, who earned extra income from sources that included two drug manufacturers, was charged Tuesday with crimes that carry potential prison time.
Steven J. Fiorello, of Palmyra, was fined more than $27,000 last year by the State Ethics Commission for using his position to get consulting work. He was arraigned Tuesday on criminal charges for the same activity.
"Pennsylvania law very clearly prohibits state officials from using their public positions for personal financial gain," said state Attorney General Tom Corbett. "Accepting illegal payments and then failing to report them is not only a conflict of interest, but also a violation of the public trust."
Fiorella was arraigned Tuesday on two felony counts of conflict of interest, which each carry a maximum five-year prison term and $10,000 fine, and misdemeanor counts of accepting honoraria and failing to disclose income on annual statements of financial interest.
Fiorello, 59, served as pharmacy director for the welfare department's Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for several years. He left state government and now works in the pharmacy industry as a consultant, his lawyer said. He already paid Ethics Commission fines totaling $27,269 in April 2005.
Fiorello allegedly accepted more than $10,000 for consulting work he did and trips he took between 1998 and 2003 for various companies, including the Pfizer and Janssen drug companies, according to court papers."
Nice work if you can find it, especially if you can get away with it, which is looking increasingly doubtful for Mr. Fiorello.
Source: BusinessWeek
Reading more, I found that...
"Fiorello was employed as the Director of Pharmacy for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's Office of Mental Health, Substance and Abuse Services. As part of his responsibilities, Fiorello served on a committee that decided which drugs would be used for mental health treatment in all state hospitals - decisions which guided more than $9 million in annual drug purchases by the Commonwealth."
And a third source said that:
"According to former investigator turned whistleblower, Allan Jones, PA taxpayers are saddled with an expensive drug treatment model known as PennMap, for the treatment of mentally ill persons in state care.
"This model is part of a large pharmaceutical marketing scheme designed to infiltrate public institutions and influence treatment practices," he explains, "Pennsylvania is paying tens of millions of dollars for patented drugs that have no proven advantage over cheaper generic drugs." [See here and here for examples on this point]
As part of the overall scheme, on July 27, 2001, Tom Ridge appointed Gerald Radke, an Eli Lilly Marketing Director, to head the PA Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. With Radke at the helm, PA Medicaid funded sales of Lilly's Zyprexa rose from approximately $26.5 million in 2000 to $34.2 million in 2001, and reached $39.2 million in 2003. In state hospitals, hundreds of patients had their medications switched in the absence of medical need or indication, to comply with administrative decisions."
OK, the third source is an article by Evelyn Pringle, with whom I have some credibility issues (see here), but if her story is even close to accurate, then it looks like the money given to Fiorello by drug companies was a GREAT investment. Pay him a few measly thousand dollars and suddenly atypical antipsychotics are everywhere in the PA mental health system, which is of course worth millions.


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The Functional Genomics team has a production aspect in the handling of the processing, analysis and interpretation of RNA expression experiments produced at the CNAG.
The team also has a research aspect in the development and deployment of a diverse array of expression analysis pipelines, as well as participating in European research projects.
The team interacts closely with the Bioinformatics and Statistical Development team (in particular with the development of the analysis pipelines, choice of statistical analyses, and in the larger collaborative projects) and with the genome assembly and annotation team (for expression analysis in species lacking a comprehensive genome annotation).


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These costs are measured on a cash accounting basis, net of any reimbursements, subsidies or rebates. A number of labour costs have not been covered by this survey. These include training, costs associated with employee welfare services, and recruitment. With the exception of training costs, these items are not considered to make a significant contribution to total labour costs. (footnote 2) Total labour costs Total labour costs incurred by employers in 2002-03, as defined in the MLC survey, were $354,150m (table 6.59). Total labour costs for the private sector were $270,330m, representing 76% of the labour costs of all employers. Total labour costs for the public sector, which includes public trading and financial enterprises as well as Australian (Commonwealth), state and local government departments and authorities, were $83,821m.
Components of labour costs Table 6.59 shows the largest component of labour costs was employee earnings ($306,609m), which accounted for 87% of total labour costs. Earnings, as defined in the MLC, includes gross wages and salaries, the value of salary sacrificed (excluding fringe benefits tax), the ungrossed value of fringe benefits provided by employers through arrangements other than salary sacrifice, and severance, termination and redundancy payments. Superannuation was the next largest labour cost after earnings, with a total value of employer contributions paid on behalf of employees of $26,930m (8% of total labour costs). Payroll tax accounted for $10,121m (3%), Workers' compensation costs $7,815m (3%), and Fringe benefits tax $2,675m (1%). Labour costs per employee In 2002-03 total labour costs per employee were $42,578 (table 6.60). Labour costs per employee varied considerably across industries, with the mining industry having the highest labour costs per employee of $96,399, followed by the electricity, gas and water supply industry with $75,361. These high labour costs per employee industries reflect the high level of earnings in these industries. The service-related industries had the lowest labour costs with the accommodation, cafes and restaurants, and retail trade industries recording labour costs per employee of $23,934 and $25,061 respectively. In part, this reflects the high proportion of persons in these industries who are employed part-time (49% in accommodation, cafes and restaurants, and 47% in retail trade in 2002-03). In contrast, the proportion of part-time employees in mining, and electricity, gas and water supply - the two industries with the highest labour costs per employee - was only 3% and 5% respectively. Table 6.60 also shows industries that traditionally involve a high degree of manual labour had the highest per employee workers' compensation costs. The mining industry recorded a per employee workers' compensation cost of $3,026, followed by the construction ($1,871) and manufacturing ($1,652) industries. This could reflect the higher premiums as a result of the increased risk of physical injury in these industries.
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Garland has approved a deal with Germany's Kirchhoff Automotive to significantly grow their current operations, located at 3901 West Miller Road, from 94,000 to 115,000 square feet. As part of the project, $20+ million will be invested in the acquisition and installation of new advanced machinery and equipment at the facility.
The relocation and expansion of Kirchhoff Automotive will begin in April 2019 and they expect to be fully operational in their new Garland space in 2020. This expansion in both size and product output is in response to new vehicle models under development and production by the company's major customers. Their current operation is expected to run parallel to the new operation for approximately a year while the transition is underway.
Though initially under the corporate banner of Van Rob, the company launched operations in Garland in 2012. The family-owned German company was established in 1785 and today is part of the Kirchhoff Group, consisting of the Kirchhoff Automotive, Ecotec, Mobility and Witte Tools business units. Kirchhoff Automotive currently has more than 9,000 employees and 30 production plants in over 11 countries.
As part of this expansion, the Garland plant will retain all of the nearly 200 employees that manufacture parts for all models of SUVs produced by Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac. These include grille opening reinforcements, radiator supports and C-pillar parts from stampings supplied by other Kirchhoff Automotive plants. Every day, over 1,300 parts undergo both laser and traditional welding at the Garland facility. They are then shipped to General Motors plants to be installed as part of the final vehicle assemblage process. E-coating, a high-tech process of powder coating metal components to prevent corrosion, is also performed at Kirchhoff Automotive's Garland location.
"We have enjoyed being in Garland for numerous reasons. We looked at different facilities in the area for this exciting expansion project, but it made the most sense for us to stay and expand in Garland. The local community college is able to help us to re-train our employees and the local support we are able to receive is a key to our continued success." said Marco Garza, Plant Manager at Kirchhoff Automotive.
Over the past several years, Garland has attracted significant investment from numerous international companies. Nutribiotech, a South Korean nutritional supplement manufacturer; Mapei Corporation from Italy; RagingWire Data Centers from Japan; and most recently, Quest Window Systems, a Canadian high-rise window manufacturer, are just a few of the many international companies that maintain sizeable operations in Garland.
"We are very excited to have Kirchhoff Automotive expand in Garland. Their latest operations model will be much more automated and highly robotic, thus keeping pace with the latest trends in global manufacturing technology. We look forward to many more years of continued growth for this company and industry in our community" said David Gwin, Garland's Director of Economic Development.


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Open source cloud-builder respawn: Eucalyptus 3.0 looms
Mickos & Co craft 'hot spare' NASA-proof cloudware
Marten Mickos and Eucalyptus have pumped new life into their build-your-own–cloud platform, revamping its approach to open source while adding new code designed to protect users from catastrophic failures.
On Wednesday, Eucalyptus unveiled version 3.0 of its eponymous platform, a means of building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds" inside your own data center. Unlike version 2.0, the new incarnation is a single platform built on a single open source code tree. Previously, the company offered an open source version of the platform as well as a for-pay "enterprise" version that included proprietary code.
"For the last nine months, we've had just one branch of code, so all the code we produce for the platform is now open source. We do still build add-ons for paying customers only, but these are truly add-ons, which they weren't before," Eucalyptus CEO and former MySQL boss Marten Mickos tells The Register.
In other words, you needn't install a whole new version of the platform in order to use proprietary pieces. These proprietary tools let you use the platform with certain third-party products, including NetApp and JBOD EBS storage area networks and the VMware hypervisor. Without plug-ins, the platform must run atop the KVM or Xen open source hypervisors.
According to Mickos, Eucalyptus had originally planned to build a closed source version of the platform that would eliminate single points of failure. But somewhere along the way, this work was moved to the open source project.
"A single code branch creates better quality software," says Mickos. "It allows people to test the platform more and make modifications as they're needed." But he also indicates that the company was responding to NASA's very public decision to drop Eucalyptus over the company's use of a second, proprietary code branch.
According to NASA chief technology officer Chris Kemp, Eucalyptus didn't scale as well as NASA hoped, and when the organization tried to submit patches that would improve scaling, Kemp told The Register, they were rejected because they conflicted with the for-pay enterprise version of Eucalyptus.
In any event, Eucalyptus is a single platform again, and over the past nine months, the company's engineering team – which now numbers about 25 people – has worked to better protect this platform from drive failures, memory corruption, network snafus, and power outages. "We've created 'hot spares' for all the control components that are responsible for coordinating what goes on inside your cloud," explains Rich Wolski, the Eucalyptus chief technology officer who first built the open source platform at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"There are a series of processes that all have to be up and talking to each in order for Eucalyptus to run properly. With the current version, if a machine that is hosting one of those processes goes down, Eucalyptus can't accept any more requests until the machine comes back up. But we've identified all those control points and created a 'hot spare' mechanism to keep them running.
"If you lose a process, the hot spare can step in and the cloud can continue to run."
This "high availability" version of the platform includes twice as much code as Eucalyptus 2.0, released a year ago, and in addition reducing single points of failure, it offers what the company calls significant enhancements to the platform's resource access controls, letting admins more closely manage the operation of their services and those using the services.
The new version also lets you boot instances from Elastic Block Storage volumes, persistent storage volumes similar to the EBS volumes available on Amazon. Eucalyptus seeks to mimic each Amazon API. "When you boot an image from EBS, you can make changes to the image and shut it down, and when you bring it back up, all those changes will still be there," says Wolski. Previously, if you shut down images, you lost your changes.
In October, Eucalyptus will cease to be the default cloud platform offered by Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distro. With the release of Ubuntu "Oneric Ocelot", Canonical will switch to OpenStack, the open source platform NASA helped build. Mickos acknowledges that this will have some affect on the progress of Eucalyptus, but he points out that the platform can still run on Ubuntu, and he says the platform is also widely used on Red Hat, CentOS, and SUSE.
According to Mikos, about 25,000 private cloud services have been built with the platform over the past year. But he declined to say many businesses are actually using the platform.
A compiled version of Eucalyptus 3.0 will be available within the next thirty days to those who pay for a Eucalyptus subscription. ®


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Judge tosses out patent infringement verdict against Microsoft
Uniloc's $388m damages turn to dust
Microsoft has won an appeal against a $388m patent infringement jury verdict meted out to the company in April, following a lawsuit brought by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc.
The long-running legal spat was originally brought by Uniloc USA and its Singapore-based parent company in 2003, with the firm alleging Microsoft had infringed its patented technology for its software activation methods.
Yesterday US district judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island overruled the jury's verdict.
Smith said in his order that the jury "lacked a grasp of the issues before it and reached a finding without a legally sufficient basis".
The $388m damages award Microsoft had been ordered to Pay Uniloc was one of the largest on record in legal disputes involving patents.
In April, Redmond said it was disappointed with the jury's verdict, insisted it hadn't been guilty of infringement, claimed the patent was "invalid", and that the award of damages had been "legally and factually unsupported".
Smith concluded in his order that Microsoft hadn't infringed the patent, but also dismissed the software giant's efforts to challenge the validity of the patent.
It's unclear at this stage if Uniloc, which could not be reached for comment at time of writing, will appeal the judge's decision. ®


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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The rookie steps into the batter's box, his palms sweaty, his heart racing like a Justin Verlander fastball.
The odds of hitting a home run in a first major league at-bat are minuscule. There have been only 114 first-at-bat home runs since 1895, the year Babe Ruth was born.
But two current Red Sox players know the magic feeling. Daniel Nava hit a grand slam on the first pitch he saw in the big leagues in 2010. Mike Napoli, then of the Angels, took American League Rookie of the Year Verlander deep in Detroit in 2006.
In the Red Sox clubhouse, remembering your first major league at-bat brings smiles. Men become boys again, if only for a moment.
"In the scope of things it's insignificant," says catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. "But everyone remembers their first."
Outfielder Jonny Gomes was a 22-year-old Devil Ray when he stepped into the batter's box at Yankee Stadium Sept. 12, 2003.
"I remember everything," says Gomes, who was initially scared because Yankee Stadium was "so big."
But his fear quickly struck out.
"Once I stepped in the batter's box it was like, 'OK I'm right at home,' " he says.
"First pitch from David Wells, a big old curveball. I'm thinking like, 'He's got to know I have zero time in the big leagues, I'm wearing No. 60."
Gomes guessed fastball.
"No way he throws a kid two curves in a row," he says. "I'm sitting dead red, and I hit a stand-up double down the left-field line."
Coaches know to call time and ask for the ball as a souvenir. Gomes still has it at home.
"I didn't know what to do," says Gomes. "Oh yeah, [Derek] Jeter gave me a tap on the butt and said, 'Congrats.' That was awesome."
Shortstop Stephen Drew remembers having an accelerated heart rate during his first at-bat.
"It's heart-pounding, for sure," says Drew, who walked on a 3-2 pitch as a Diamondbacks rookie against the Brewers July 15, 2006, at Chase Field. "It's unique and it's special. You're looking around and there are too many emotions. This is the elite of the elite, you want to have a good at-bat. Your dream is coming true."
Catcher Ryan Lavarnway flied to deep center field against the Royals' Luke Hochevar Aug. 18, 2011, at Kauffman Stadium. But that's not what he remembers.
"In the minor leagues you have two [helmet flaps], and in the majors you only have one, so it felt like everybody was closer to me because I had nothing blocking my sensory perception on the right side of my face," Lavarnway says. "It felt like everything was closer on my right side because I wasn't used to the helmet."
Outfielder Shane Victorino, then with San Diego, batted in the eighth inning against Dodgers reliever Paul Quantrill April 3, 2003, at Qualcomm Stadium.
"I definitely had a lot of adrenaline," Victorino says. "I was just trying to put the bat on the ball, wasn't trying to jack one. I knew he was a sinkerball pitcher and he threw me a ground ball. I hit it pretty good. [Adrian] Beltre made a nice diving play to his left, scooped it, picked it up, and threw me out from third."
Victorino was playing center field for the Phillies when Nava came up with the bases loaded in the second inning June 12, 2010, at Fenway Park.
Joe Blanton was on the mound. "First-pitch fastball," says Victorino. "Trying to sneak the cheese past a rat. Bam! Right-center into the bullpen. I said, 'Oh my God!' "
Nava was only the second player in major league history to hit a grand slam on the first pitch he saw.
He remembers being in Indianapolis with the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox the day before.
"We had a rain delay, I was just hanging out and Torey [Lovullo], our manager, said, 'Hey, I got some good news, you're going up to Boston but I don't know if you'll be activated.' "
When Nava arrived at Fenway, there was more good news.
"Tito [manager Terry Francona] called me in his office and said welcome and shook my hand and made me feel at home. And then he said, 'Hey, you're going to be starting in left, hitting ninth. We've got a great lineup so don't feel like you've got to carry the load. Just go out there, have fun, and get a couple of knocks.' ''
Nava wasn't worried about hitting, he was worried about The Wall. He immediately ran outside to practice fielding balls off the Green Monster.
"We didn't take BP on the field because it was raining," he says.
Veteran broadcaster Joe Castiglione had some advice for him. "He said, 'You only get one first pitch, so you might as well be up there swinging.' The gist was to make the most of the situation."
The 5-foot-10-inch outfielder came to the plate in the second inning with the bases loaded and the Sox trailing, 2-1. He did what he always does.
"The first at-bat I always say hi to the umpires," Nava says. "I wasn't thinking too much. Just if I got a pitch to hit, to do my job. Then all of a sudden Joe got set, came to, and threw a fastball and I reacted. I think it was right down the middle. He later said, 'I tried to throw a sinker down and away and it didn't sink and it didn't go away.'
"At first I really thought I went unconscious and my instincts took over. I don't really remember thinking, 'Oh, this is a pitch to crush.' It came off the bat and I thought, 'Hey I got a sac fly. I put the ball in the outfield, I'll take that.' And then I saw [right fielder] Jayson Werth keep on running, and by the time he just stopped running the ball went over the wall. I was like, 'No way. I actually hit a home run. Oh yeah, I just hit a grand slam.' "
In the Red Sox bullpen, reliever Manny Delcarmen leaped and caught the ball, keeping it from going into the first row of the bleachers.
"He said, 'Hey man, you owe me a hug,' " Nava says. " 'Dude, I went up for that ball. I haven't jumped that high since high school.' He was cool about it."
Nava calls his dramatic debut, "a God moment."
The bat he used that day, a 33½-inch Trinity, broke the next day. His dad kept the pieces.
Nava says his story almost seems like fiction now. Rising from being the former equipment manager of the Santa Clara University baseball team to making major league history.
Nava spent all of 2011 in the minors and is battling for a roster position this year.
"In the big picture, it puts things into perspective, the bigger story of how I got there," he says.
Nava looks around the Red Sox clubhouse and smiles at his teammates.
"They are studs, and I think I'm pretty blessed to be in the same locker room," he says. "I was one of the guys picking up uniforms and washing them years before. So, I think it's pretty cool."
David Ortiz, dressing nearby, says Nava has adjusted his expectations.
"You hit a grand slam in the big leagues on the first pitch, you might think, 'Damn, this is easy,' " says Big Papi.
Ortiz's first major league at-bat occurred in the 20th century.
On Sept. 2, 1997, he joined the Twins, pinch hitting in an interleague game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
"I was excited," he says. "I wasn't afraid. I think I hit a fly ball somewhere." He flied to deep left-center.
"When I got there, I saw my boy Sammy [Sosa] was playing right field and he came and said hi.
"Sammy used to play winter ball with the team I used to play on.
"I said, 'I can't believe I'm watching Mark Grace playing here.' And the next thing I know Mark Grace signed a glove and sent it to me. It was a nice experience. The next day I got a pinch-hit double."
Dustin Pedroia was playing in Ottawa with the PawSox when he was told to report to the Red Sox in Anaheim, Calif., some 2,800 miles away. He slept for two hours and hit the road Aug. 22, 2006.
"I got up real early and took the long flight," he says.
His parents picked him up at the airport and his wife, Kelli, also flew in. They all went to the ballpark together and arrived five hours early. When he met Francona he called him "coach". Francona yelled at him.
"Call me Terry," he said.
The bases were loaded and there was no score in the second inning when Pedroia, batting ninth and playing shortstop, stepped into the batter's box. He took the first pitch.
"Joe Saunders was pitching, a lefty. I was just excited, not scared. Yeah, I lined into a double play."
Shortstop Orlando Cabrera made a leaping grab and stepped on second to force Mike Lowell.
"It's just part of the game," Pedroia says. "It was fun. I got a line-drive single my next time up."
When Will Middlebrooks came to bat in the second inning on the night of May 2, 2012, he got some advice from a former MVP.
"[Pedroia] told me, 'Just relax and have fun. Play your game. It's as simple as that,' " says Middlebrooks.
He already knew the pitcher quite well.
"It was actually against one of my buddies, Brandon McCarthy of the A's, I work out with him in the offseason," Middlebrooks says. "And I walked, and I don't do much of that. I felt good about it."
He then stole second.
"I was surprisingly pretty calm," he says. "It was at Fenway, my family flew in. I didn't know where they were sitting. I wouldn't have looked anyway. I never do. I know Brandon and I know he works sinkers and cutters off the corner of the plate, and you have to be pretty patient against him, but he just didn't give me anything to hit. "
Five years earlier to the day, Saltalamacchia stepped into the box May 2, 2007, at Turner Field as the Braves' catcher. It was his 22d birthday.
"I didn't get much sleep," says Saltalamacchia. "I couldn't really feel my legs, they were shaking.
"You're not really thinking, except for, 'Don't screw up, don't look stupid with all these people watching.' "
The Phillies' pitcher, Freddy Garcia, threw him two straight balls.
"I remember saying to myself, 'Hey, get a fastball, swing hard,' " Saltalamacchia says. "I felt comfortable. I hit the ball to deep center. [Aaron Rowand] went to the warning track and caught it. It was still pretty cool."
Napoli was in Salt Lake City when he got the call to report to the Angels in Detroit.
"I flew all night to get there," he says. Sleep was impossible.
"I was excited," Napoli says. "I tossed and I turned. Is there any self-doubt? Yeah, I had butterflies, but I like that sort of thing. It didn't bother me too much."
He arrived at Comerica Park May 4, 2006, and was in the starting lineup, catching and batting eighth.
"I was tired and I think it relaxed me a little bit," he says about how he felt when he stepped into the box against Verlander in the top of the third inning.
"I actually had two strikes and he threw me a curveball, and I hit it to left-center. It was pretty exciting, all the guys in the dugout were going crazy. It's something I'll never forget, they were on the top step, giving high fives. It was a cool experience. I guess it [homer] is part of history. Hank Aaron never did it, but he hit 755 home runs."
Jose Iglesias entered the game as a pinch runner for Jed Lowrie in the eighth inning May 10, 2011, at the Rogers Centre. It was his third game in the big leagues, but he still hadn't batted. Iglesias was scared in the top of the ninth.
"I was [21] years old and I was late to go to home plate for my at-bat because I didn't know it was my turn," he says. "It was crazy. Oh my God. Everybody had my back. They told me to relax. But it was tough. It was against Frankie Francisco, the closer. It was fun."
After fouling off a pitch on an 0-and-2 count, Iglesias made up his mind to not go down looking.
"Even if he threw me a rosin bag, I was going to swing at it," Iglesias says. "I was so nervous. I struck out — I didn't even see the ball — but the ball got away and I made it to first. That's good for the team."
Pitchers are a real long shot to get a hit in their first at-bat. The exception was Hall of Fame knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm, who homered on his first at-bat, then never hit another.
But what is extremely rare is a pitcher getting a triple in his debut in the show.
Sox closer Joel Hanrahan did just that July 28, 2007, while with the Nationals.
"I did the old take-a-first-pitch-strike as a [starting] pitcher against Mike Pelfrey against the Mets at old Shea Stadium," Hanrahan says. "He was throwing 94-96 at that time, I think. I worked the count full, so I choked up a little bit. Basically I said to myself, 'He's going to throw me a fastball.' I just closed my eyes and swung and I hit a line drive to left-center. I guess the center fielder was playing me to the right, playing me [opposite field]. I hit it good and I started running. And then I almost fell down between second and third. It was a good time."
Jacoby Ellsbury was batting ninth in the lineup when he was introduced at Fenway Park June 30, 2007.
"It was a lifetime dream and I came up and got a nice fan ovation," Ellsbury says.
The at-bat, against the Rangers' Rob Tejeda, didn't go as well.
"I swung, and it just went right in front of the plate," Ellsbury says. "I can't remember if it was a check swing or a swing, but I remember it not going very far and me getting tagged out. I thought it was foul. But anyways, I got a hit my next at-bat. All I knew is that my career was going to go up from there.''
Sox manager John Farrell has some advice for the rookies striding to the plate, knees shaking.
"A guy comes to the big leagues because he's earned it," Farrell says. "We're going to share this first experience with you. No reason to do anything different than what you've done. A lot of times young players think, 'OK, now I'm in the big leagues, I've got to have more power, run faster.' No, it's a matter of maintaining the routine you've established and applying it here."
Red Sox sports psychologist Bob Tewksbury says there's only so much coaches can do.
"It's like being a parent . . . there's nothing you can say, and they've just got to do it," Tewksbury says.
Looking back at the first time:
A look at how some members of the current Red Sox fared in their major league debuts:
Player | Team | Year | Date | How he fared |
David Ortiz | Twins | 1997 | Sept. 2 | 0-1 vs. Cubs |
Shane Victorino | Padres | 2003 | April 2 | 0-0 vs. Giants |
Jonny Gomes | Rays | 2003 | Sept. 12 | 2-3 vs. Yankees |
Dustin Pedroia | Red Sox | 2006 | Aug. 22 | 1-3 vs. Angels |
Mike Napoli | Angels | 2006 | May 4 | 1-4 (HR) vs. Tigers |
Stephen Drew | Diamondbacks | 2006 | July 15 | 0-3 vs. Brewers |
Jarrod Saltalamacchia | Braves | 2007 | May 2 | 0-2 vs. Phillies |
Joel Hanrahan | Nationals | 2007 | July 28 | 6 IP, 3 ER, ND vs. Mets |
Jacoby Ellsbury | Red Sox | 2007 | June 30 | 1-4 vs. Rangers |
Daniel Nava | Red Sox | 2010 | June 12 | 2-4 (GS) vs. Phillies |
Ryan Lavarnway | Red Sox | 2011 | Aug. 18 | 0-4 vs. Royals |
Jose Iglesias | Red Sox | 2011 | May 8 | 0-0 vs. Twins |
Will Middlebrooks | Red Sox | 2012 | May 2 | 2-3 vs. Oakland |
Stan Grossfeld can be reached at email@example.com.


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Simple living may appear intimidating to people who have only read about it or maybe know someone who practices that spiritual discipline.
Does it mean having to wear hemp clothing to church, digging a well in the backyard or going "off the grid" and living in isolation?
It doesn't mean any of that, according to Christians who live or study the intersection between simplicity and their faith. In fact, they say, living simply is, well, pretty simple.
"Simple living is no more complicated than a commitment to removing the excess from your life and recognizing how many of your possessions are excess," said Joshua Hearne, executive director of Third Chance Ministries (thirdchanceministries.wordpress.com/about) and abbot at Grace and Main Fellowship, a Danville, Va.-based organization that adheres to the new monasticism movement.
Simple living can be practiced by anyone, whatever their context, Hearne insisted.
"It can be just paring down your possessions, getting by with a little less, and that often means finding ways to do more with less things," he said.
Of course for many, including Hearne, the lifestyle can go much further.
The new monasticism movement started in June 2004 with a conference in Durham, N.C., whose participants devised rules for living in intentional communities, Christianity Today reported (christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/september/16.38.html).
They modeled themselves after ancient and more recent church thinkers, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and used the term "new monasticism" from the book Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World by Jonathan R. Wilson.
Common denominators between the groups that developed include submitting to the larger church, living with the poor, living with or in proximity to other ministry members, shared economy, peacemaking, creation care and reconciliation, Hearne said.
Rutba House in Durham and Grace and Main in Danville are communities typical of the movement.
The movement and its offshoots emphasize a Christian faith marked by adherence to the example of intentional poverty and simplicity displayed by Jesus in the gospels, Hearne said. He and his wife, Jessica, serve as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel.
The lifestyle also is marked by practices of hospitality that include inviting strangers and homeless to live in homes, feeding the poor and communal living.
Among Baptists, the inspiration to live more simply dates back to at least the 1960s, when the Second Vatican Council led to more ecumenical dialogue between Catholic leaders and Protestants, said Loyd Allen, professor of church history and spiritual formation at the McAfee School of Theology in Macon, Ga.
Among other developments, the shift brought Catholic monastic and contemplative Thomas Merton (merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=915) into contact with Southern Seminary professor Glenn Hinson, Allen said. Influenced by Merton's ideas on spiritual formation, Hinson later wrote A Serious Call to a Contemplative Lifestyle.
"It is in that conversation that simplicity is defined, is spoken of as a discipline" among Baptists, Allen said. "You start hearing about silence, solitude and simplicity as the three classic characteristics of contemplative life."
But the movement didn't really take off among Baptists and other Protestants until the 1980s, he added.
"It was a time of such unbounded enthusiasm for materialism and consumerism, and I think there was a backlash against that by the next generation."
The movement continued, resulting in new monasticism but also in Baptists and other Protestants adapting the principles of the movement to their own lives, said Molly Marshall, president and professor of theology and spiritual formation at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kan.
"A number of our students have become very committed to simplicity, living with others and offering hospitality to others — including a warm meal and a bed," she said.
"We even have a couple living in a very depressed part of the city. To get into low-cost housing, they had to rid themselves of a third of their possessions."
Some faculty members have chosen intentionally frugal lifestyles, many of them seeking to lower their carbon footprint, Marshall said.
As it did in the 1980s, a materialistic society drives the movement, Marshall said.
"It's basically driving a stake into the consumerist pattern, which has this seductive notion that if I just own a few more things, I will be happy," she said. "It's a way of paying attention to what our longings and desires are and how we fill those desires with temporal stuff."
The movement follows the same rough lines as the rise of contemplative and liturgical worship in Baptist and other traditions, she added.
"There has been a real hunger to learn the traditions of the desert monastics and the medieval spiritual writers, and I think Baptists have awakened to a rich stream of Christian spirituality that we had neglected," she said.
In Danville, Hearne said he, his wife and others who minister at Grace and Main have found a simple-living attitude toward possessions bleeds over into other areas of life, including worship.
They've recently undertaken to declutter and remove many of the decorations that adorned an already sparse living room that doubles as worship space in the home. The music is usually sung a capella unless someone brings a guitar or other instrument to services.
"When you're living simply, you do develop an inherent distrust of flash. You start realizing when people are manufacturing a feeling."
The New Testament is replete with examples where Jesus and members of the early church lived lives that were beyond simple, Hearne added. Jesus urged his followers to remember that if the birds and flowers of the field didn't worry about their material needs, neither should they.
In Acts 2, the early church practiced simplicity in their common lives and common purse, Hearne said.
The Apostle Paul used a discussion of the Lord's Supper to caution Christians against great disparity between members of the church.
Implementing even small degrees of simple living can relieve great amounts of stress, because practitioners become less concerned about what they have to lose. The result, Hearne said, is an increased ability to focus on practicing faith as Jesus lived it.
"We sometimes talk about simple living being a treatment for greed and the desire to acquire," he said. "It's not just a spiritually uplifting spring cleaning. It's a spiritual discipline and a way of life."


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I need a civics lesson.
This according to the keepers of acceptable opinion at two divergent publications.
Both The Economist and the Montgomery Advertiser recently ran opinion pieces skewering nullification, specifically state efforts to block unconstitutional federal gun laws in Kansas and Alabama. Interestingly, both the author of The Economist piece and the editorial board over at the Alabama newspaper used the same strategy. They both try to make their readers believe anybody who actually views nullification as legitimate must not be too bright. Their implication? "The federal government enjoys absolute supremacy and a bunch of dumb racist, rednecks who don't know anything about the U.S. government want states to ignore laws they don't happen to like."
From the Economist: "It is remarkable that a civics lesson like this is necessary."
The Montgomery Advertiser editorial board gets even snarkier.
"That body (the Alabama Senate) has taken a plunge into the past by revisiting and embracing the long-discredited practice of nullification, the notion — abandoned decades ago by most people who passed sixth-grade civics."
Talk about groupthink. Federal supremacists apparently find the whole "civics lesson" theme clever. I have to admit – it does effectively create the impression that nullification supporters wander around in ignorance among the illiterate and uneducated. But the mockery would prove even more effective if the writers actually knew what in the hell they were writing about.
Here's the problem: these amateur historians actually think the three things they leaned in their government school sixth-grade civics class make them some kind of experts. They might want to move on from pre-civics to basic civics before they try demeaning those of us who actually know the historical and the philosophical basis for nullification.
Let's touch on a few basics, shall we?
1. Federal Supremacy – These wanna-be historians actually think the federal government stands absolutely supreme all the time, no matter what. They apparently never bothered to put down the sixth-grade textbook and read the actual supremacy clause in the Constitution. If they did, they would find that only acts "in pursuance of" the Constitution stand supreme. Yes Virginia, federal supremacy actually has limits! Alexander Hamilton made this clear in Federalist 33.
"If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which the latter may enact, pursuant to the powers intrusted [sic] to it by its constitution, must necessarily be supreme over those societies and the individuals of whom they are composed….But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the large society which are not pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such. Hence we perceive that the clause which declares the supremacy of the laws of the Union, like the one we have just before considered, only declares a truth, which flows immediately and necessarily from the institution of a federal government. It will not, I presume, have escaped observation, that it expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution."
2. The extent of federal power – While we're on the subject of limits, our civics professors apparently need a reminder. The federal government can't just do whatever it wants. It operates under strict limits. The feds can only exercise powers delegated to it in the Constitution. James Madison described the extent of federal power in Federalist 45. He insisted that the powers delegated to the general government were "few and defined," and those left to the states and people were "numerous and indefinite." The ratifiers even insisted on a Bill of Rights "in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers."
3. Who decides constitutionality? – Federal supremacists sell you a load of crap. They want you to believe the people of the states created a federal government with limited, enumerated powers, insisted on further "declaratory and restrictive clauses" – the Bill of Rights – and then left it to that government to decide the extent of its own power. This idea not only earns them an F on their civics test, they also fail their logic test. Basically, these geniuses want the Dallas Cowboy player to referee the Dallas – New York Giants football game. How do you think that would turn out for the Giants?
Fact: the people of the states created the federal government in the first place. Therefore, the people of the states retain the right, in the last resort, to determine the extent of the powers they gave to the government they created. So yes, Kansas can determine what limits the Second Amendment places on federal regulation of firearms. Granted, this idea may fall into the realm of advanced civics, so maybe we should let a real expert explain it. How about we call on Madison, the "Father of the Constitution?"
"The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition."
Extra reading HERE.
4. Separation of powers – Even our journalists with their sixth-grade civics background probably remember separation of powers. If you ask them, they will tell you about the three separate branches – executive, judicial and legislative – and how they serve as a check on each other. What seems to escape our intellectual elite is the fact that these three branches all belong to a single entity – the federal government. That raises an interesting question that Madison asked some 200 years ago. What happens in "those great and extraordinary cases, in which all the forms of the Constitution may prove ineffectual against infractions dangerous to the essential rights of the parties to it. " In other words, what happens when all three branches conspire to exercise undelegated powers?
In sixth-grade civics world, apparently nothing.
Again, these federal supremacists sell a crock of smelly stuff. They want you to believe that a government can exist as a self-limiting institution. That being the case, why did the founders go to all the trouble to create checks an balances WITHIN the federal government? Doesn't it logically follow that some check on federal power in general must exist?
Uh, yeah. The branches of government serve as horizontal checks on power and the states serve as vertical checks on federal power. During the ratification debates, anti-federalists insisted the federal government would not remain constrained to limited, enumerated powers as supporters of the Constitution promised. Madison argued that the states would serve as the check.
"Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular State…the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union, the frowns of the executive magistracy of the State; the embarrassment created by legislative devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any State, very serious impediments; and were the sentiments of several adjoining States happen to be in Union, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter."
Madison's blueprint sounds an awful lot like nullification, doesn't it? Kansas says it refuses to cooperate with acts violating the Second Amendment. Alabama say it refuses to cooperate with federal acts violating the Second Amendment. Maybe Madison needs to take that sixth-grade civics class these guys talk about.
5. The Second Amendment – Even without the Second Amendment, the federal government still would not have the authority to regulate gun ownership within the borders of a state. The Constitution does not delegate that power to the federal government; therefore it remains with the states and the people. Secondly, the language of the amendment itself defines much greater restriction on federal power. "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." (Infringe – v: Act so as to limit or undermine something; encroach on, block.) The federal government may not constitutionally act in a way that limits the right to keep and bear arms – period – even when exercising a valid constitutional power. So even though the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, it doe NOT have the authority to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms in the process.
6. Extra Credit – John Calhoun didn't come up with nullification prior to the Civil War to support slavery, or even to oppose a tariff. He didn't come up with it at all. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson get the credit for formalizing the principles of nullification in 1798, in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Nullification wasn't used in defense of slavery. Not ever. In fact, northern states appealed to the principles when blocking the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. It was so effective, South Carolina listed "nullification" of the Fugitive Slave Act in its Declaration of Causes for Secession. (Which kind of punches a big huge hole in the "nullification has never worked" talking point parroted by federal supremacists.)
Yes, Andrew Jackson opposed nullification. So what? He uses the same lame arguments federal supremacists today use. They were just as lame in the 1820s and 1830s.
Sadly, tomorrow I will run across some other pseudo-historian repeating the same false "facts" about nullification, acting all intellectually superior. These people continue to run around and act like counter arguments to their tripe don't exist. But they clearly do. These folks just need to start reading outside of that sixth-grade civics book.
Class dismissed!
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It's all very well to test the metabolic effects of high-fat diets in RCTs. There are usually beneficial results in type 2 diabetes, but compliance is limited. The trial isn't showing what the diet does, but what effect the advice has on people who may be more or less indifferent to it. In fact, it's amazing these trials produce the positive results they do.
A metabolic ward study involves subjects who follow the diet because they have nothing else to eat; all variables such as exercise are kept constant. Because you don't get huge numbers volunteering for these studies, and the cost is high because of the round-the-clock supervision and testing, the crossover method is normally used. Half the subjects eat the test diet, the other half the control, then they switch over. Results from the end of each period in both groups are averaged.
This is a 1988 study authored by Abhimanyu Garg, Roger Unger and 3 colleagues.
N Engl J Med. 1988 Sep 29;319(13):829-34.
Comparison of a high-carbohydrate diet with a high-monounsaturated-fat diet in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Garg A1, Bonanome A, Grundy SM, Zhang ZJ, Unger RH
Thanks to Ivor Cummings, I have the full-text pdf, and it's very interesting.
The other dietary variables are well controlled for.
The types of fatty acids, if that makes any difference, are also well-matched between diets (low fat diet used corn and palm oils, high fat diet used olive oil, so neither was high omega-3).
The results are fascinating (this is the average from the last week of each period, days 21-28).
Who knew that a urinary glucose output of 142 mg/day was normal on a high-carbohydrate diet in subjects with "non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus treated with insulin" - to disappear completely on a diet with 50% of calories from olive oil?
Oh, and the base line? That was after a week on the diet recommended by the ADA in 1988, which was the lead-in diet.
What about lipids? They improved too:
What's especially interesting aboout these lipid results is the comparison between this study (second phase T2D) and Garg and Unger's 1992 study of the same diets in mild (first phase) T2D. In mild T2D, a high MUFA diet improved lipids but did not influence insulin sensitivity. This seems consistent with high-carb/high-calorie diets and hyperinsulinaemia in those prone to diabetes driving lipotoxicity, when then produces the phase 2 phenomenon of hyperglycaemia plus hyperlipidaemia by altering the ratio of alpha- to beta- cell sensitivity and activity. Dietary carbohydrate drives fat which drives endogenous glucose.
The authors of the 1988 paper sum up thus:
Abhimanyu Garg has authored this convenient review of all the studies using a high-MUFA diet for Type 2 NIDDM.
It includes this classic line:
Of course what we lack is a comparative series of studies with high SFA diets, or indeed diets in the normal range of mixed SFA, MUFA and PUFA. Does the type of fat matter if carbohydrate is low enough? Quite possibly not, at least for the majority. Is 35% carbohydrate low enough to see the full benefit of a high-fat diet? Maybe not, but the results, after only 28 days, were impressive enough.


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SaudiGulf, a new Saudi Arabian airline wholly owned by Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al Qahtani & Sons Co.has signed a firm contract with Airbus for four A320ceo, to be delivered early 2015. The aircraft is equipped with Airbus "Sharklet" fuel saving wing tip devices.
As one of the two airlines to obtain carrier licenses to operate domestic and international flights from Saudi airports, the airline will contribute to increase the Kingdom's air transport links with the region and the rest of the world.
SaudiGulf plans to launch its operations out of Dammam, in the first quarter of 2015 before expanding to Riyadh and Jeddah.
"It is an incredibly exciting time for us, as we work to launch SaudiGulf next year," said Tariq Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Chairman of Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Sons Co.
"The A320 is an ideal choice as it provides us with the perfect mix of performance, reliability, flexibility and great economics whilst offering a very high level of passenger comfort," he added.
"The A320 is a market leader and will contribute positioning SaudiGulf as a premium service airline as soon as it begins its operations. It is used in a full range of services from very short-haul airline routes to intercontinental segments, providing a new airline with a great deal of flexibility. We are thrilled to see a new airline starting its business today and we feel privileged to be part of this journey," said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers.
Sharklets are newly designed wing-tip devices that cut the aircraft's fuel burn and emissions by up to four per cent on longer sectors. They are made from light-weight composites and are 2.4 meters tall. With over 10,200 Airbus single aisle aircraft sold and 6,000 delivered today to 400 customers and operators, the A320 Family is the world's best-selling and most modern single aisle aircraft family.