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The Monticello Buckaroos boys basketball team completed their season with a fine fourth place finish at the 1A State Tournament in Richfield last week.
The fourth place finish matches 2010 and betters the fifth place of 2011 and the best since the Bucks placed third in 1997 and won their only state basketball championship in 1994. The Bucks have become a competitive fixture at the 1A tournament once again with a 19-6 record on the year.
The Bucks started things off with a bang by besting the Wayne Badgers in the first round, 56-35. Monticello jumped to a 9-4 lead after one quarter, but then, led by the shooting of Austin Maloy and Gunnar Hollingsworth, ran off 12 straight points and led at halftime, 26-13.
Wayne closed to within nine, 32-23, in the third quarter, but the Bucks went on another 12-0 run paced by three point field goals by Tanner Eardley and Collin Hatch to push the lead to 44-23.
The Bucks kept the pressure on in the fourth to get that critical first round win for the fifth year in a row. Maloy and Jake Duncan led the Bucks in scoring with 12 points each.
Hollingsworth and Tanner Eardley both pitched in with seven points as nine Buckaroos found the scoring column.
The quarterfinals found the Bucks matched up against the Tabiona Tigers, over whom Monticello prevailed in a hard fought contest, 55-47, putting the Bucks in the semifinals.
Monticello had a hot start with Collin Hatch scoring seven points and Eardley and Hollingsworth both scoring six to race out to a 22-10 lead halfway through the second quarter, though the Tigers clawed back in the game to trail only 26-21 at halftime.
The Tigers made some runs in the second half, with a little help from a tightly-called game, but each time they did, Duncan, Eardley and crew kept the Buckaroos in front and ultimately winning.
Duncan scored 13 points, Eardley 12 as the deep Buckaroo bench saw eight Buckaroos score.
The semifinals against the Duchesne Eagles started out well for the Buckaroos, when they ran their way to a 24-13 first half lead.
But then the bottom fell out for the Buckaroos and the shots stopped dropping. Duchesne bottled up the Bucks inside and then outscored the Bucks the rest of the game 43-18 to tie the game at the end of the third quarter at 32-32.
Then they doubled up the Bucks in the fourth quarter, 20-10, to send Monticello to the third/fourth place game. Maloy had 16 points and Duncan had 14 to lead the scoring.
The shots continued to miss in the third/fourth game against the Rich Rebels. The Rebels scored the first nine points of the game and never trailed to beat the Bucks.
Monticello rallied a little to only trail 22-18 at halftime, but Rich poured it on in the second half as the Bucks shots simply would not go down. Rich outscored Monticello 37-22 in the second half to win going away, 59-40.
Duncan and Holllingsworth ended their MHS basketball careers by both scoring 10 and seven points respectively. Congratulations to them and to the team, including the other three seniors, Collin Hatch, Nash Freestone, and Zach Johnson. All represented San Juan County in a fine manner.
1A Champs
Ultimately, the Bryce Valley Mustangs won the 1A state championship with a double overtime win over Duchesne.
Duchesne wanted to send their legendary coach, Stan Young, off with a state championship in his final game after 39 years as a head coach and more than 500 victories.
Stan began coaching at Duchesne the year Sport-shorts graduated from high school, back in 1972. Duchesne won the state championship in football this year to go with a second place trophy in basketball after that double overtime loss in the final.
It was just 43 short years ago that Monticello accomplished the exact same feat, winning the Buckaroos first state football championship, 7-6, in 1969 over the highly favored Beaver Beavers and taking second in the 1A state tournament, losing in double overtime to the South Sevier Rams.
Amazingly, Sportshorts was at both of those events, and even had on a football uniform in one of them. I can't seem remember the final score of the basketball double overtime thriller. However, I'm sure Blen Freestone and Steve Young do. You could ask them for not only the score but a second by second account, I'll bet.
The win for Bryce Valley is a healing balm for the communities of Tropic, Cannonville, and Henrieville, who suffered the pain of having ten people in the communities pass away in the past year, including the head basketball coach Eric Jessen's son, Jesse Jessen.
Jessie lost his life in a car accident just last August. He was a budding baketball star for the Mustangs, having led his sophomore team to the sophomore region championship in 2012 while playing important minutes for his dad's varsity team, which took second place at last year's 1A tournament.
He scored two points and grabbed three rebounds against the Buckaroos in last year's state tournament, helping BV beat the Bucks 47-41 in the quarterfinals.
Big number 35 was hard to miss, what with bright red hair and 6'8" height. The oldest of five children, it is said that Jesse was a humble giant, friendly to everyone and an example to all.
If you watched the championship game Saturday night, you might have noticed a red headed player sitting on the bench with the #35 jersey on. That is Jesse's younger brother, who, as the game finally looked to go BV's way after two overtimes, would simply hold up a number 35 Bryce Valley jersey.
A poignant reminder of what is really important. Congratulations to Bryce Valley High School and all the best.


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It appears DU's Miller will remain with Pioneers
DU associate head coach Steve Miller told me the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League have not contacted him about their head-coaching vacancy. Miller was a finalist for the Green Bay job a year ago, before Eric Rud was hired. Rud, a former CC defenseman and captain, resigned from Green Bay last week to join CC as an assistant, his second stint in that role with the Tigers.
Based on the Green Bay website, the Gamblers' coaching search continues, but it doesn't appear Miller, a Wisconsin native, will be leaving Denver.


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Enabling persistent naming in /etc/fstab is easy, just replace the device name in the first column by the new persistent name. In my example I would replace /dev/sda7 by one of the following:
/dev/disk/by-label/home or /dev/disk/by-uuid/31f8eb0d-612b-4805-835e-0e6d8b8c5591 Do so for all the partitions in your fstab file.
... is this really truely ?
I have to use :
UUID=31f8eb0d-612b-4805-835e-0e6d8b8c5591 /home
or I understood somewhat wrongly.
- It works, yes. But I prefer LABEL over UUID:
- LABEL=HOME-jfs /home nodev,nosuid,noatime 0 2
- --byte 08:19, 19 December 2006 (EST)
Found this howto easy & very usefull :) Have got a few HDDs & USBKeys that love to be (disk-label) mounted so easy but still a sure way (by easy i mean, compared to udev rules ;).
- --kozaki 15:19, 7 January 2007 (PST)
but I havn't this /dev/disk/by-label directary,why? firstname.lastname@example.com
That's because that directory is actually created (and destroyed) dynamically when you attach (or detach) some disk or partition that has a label! A bit scary for the uninitiated, but true....
- --jf 15:32, 29 March 2007 ("Why couldn't everybody JUST use easily-referenced 'GMT', or 'UTC'?!!!")
by-path and by-id unsuitable?
the article says by-path is unsuitable because it "contain[s] strings to indicate which subsystem they belong to (i.e. "-ide-", for 'by-path', and "ata-" for 'by-id')"
How does that make it unsuitable? For by-path, that string is the same each boot, because the bus doesn't move (even if the buses get initialized in a different order) -- e.g. suppose you've got two SATA disks, on SATA connector #1 and #2 on your motherboard. #1 may become /dev/sda on one boot, and /dev/sdb the next time. Its by-path name won't change, though -- /dev/disk/by-path/sata-1 will point to /dev/sda in the first case and /dev/sdb in the second case, so it's persistent.
Furthermore, by-path is actually safer than by-label and by-uuid, because those rely on the disk data to identify the disk. Suppose you and a friend both named your boot drive "root". Your friend's power supply blows, so you plug his drive into your eSATA port to retrieve some data for him -- but oops, your system found his "root" label before yours, and suddenly you're trying to boot to the wrong disk. (I've actually tested this, and it can/does happen. It's most likely to happen when something is wrong, e.g. one of your drives is dying -- which is also when you least *want* it to happen.)
Thetrivialstuff 01:04, 13 August 2011 (EDT)
- I am also confused by that statement in the article with respect to "by-id". E.g. elsewhere I see:
- http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Online_Storage_Reconfiguration_Guide/persistent_naming.html
- The World Wide Identifier (WWID) can be used in reliably identifying devices. It is a persistent, system-independent ID that the SCSI Standard requires from all SCSI devices. The WWID identifier is guaranteed to be unique for every storage device, and independent of the path that is used to access the device.
- This identifier can be obtained by issuing a SCSI Inquiry to retrieve the Device Identification Vital Product Data (page 0x83) or Unit Serial Number (page 0x80). The mappings from these WWIDs to the current /dev/sd names can be seen in the symlinks maintained in the /dev/disk/by-id/ directory.
- For example, a device with a page 0x83 identifier would have:
- scsi-3600508b400105e210000900000490000 -> ../../sda
- Or, a device with a page 0x80 identifier would have:
- scsi-SSEAGATE_ST373453LW_3HW1RHM6 -> ../../sda
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 automatically maintains the proper mapping from the WWID-based device name to a current /dev/sd name on that system. Applications can use the /dev/disk/by-id/ name to reference the data on the disk, even if the path to the device changes, and even when accessing the device from different systems.
- Am I missing something?
- Goulo 04:42, 11 January 2012 (EST)


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Have you heard of augmented reality? Augmented reality (AR) is kind of like a two-dimensional barcode, or QR code, on steroids. I have to admit, prior to yesterday I'd never heard of it, but this technology has been out there for a few years. Last year, Esquire magazine published an entire issue using AR. I'm not an Esquire subscriber nor am i in the magazine's target audience, so this bit of information never made it across my news feed.
Yesterday, though, my husband received a T-shirt from his company, Cisco. The T-shirt came with instructions for the user: go to the Cisco.com/app website, download the app, point it at the T-shirt, tap "Wake Up T-Shirt" and then view the T-shirt through the app on a supported device. I'm a tech geek — albeit one who is obviously a bit behind the times when it comes to AR —and I have to say that this is the coolest corporate T-shirt I've ever seen.
It's hard for me to describe exactly what augmented reality is, so I'll let this video describe it:
As you can see, you scan an AR-enabled item with your iOS or Android device and the product comes to life. I immediately associate this technology with QR codes but AR is more of a QR code on steroids. With an AR ad, businesses can educate consumers about their products via video and sound as well as provide quick access to a variety of information.
QR codes serve a similar purpose but AR presents the data in a more eye-catching, dynamic and feature-rich setting. I'm not a marketing expert, but I think that AR could definitely be the future of high-tech advertising campaigns, especially since you can pretty much turn anything into an AR product — even a T-shirt.
The photo at the beginning of this blog post is the T-shirt that my husband received. The photo below is a screenshot I captured while the video was playing on my iPhone. My 11-year-old son watched the T-shirt come to life and was absolutely amazed. Then he quickly said, "that means they can use AR in video games!" Smart kid, and I'm not just saying that because I'm his mom. This AR stuff is pretty cool — and to multiple generations of tech geeks.
Even though I'm new to the AR bandwagon, I'm not alone. In a December 2012 guest post for VentureBeat, Trak Lord shared his five reasons to get excited about augmented reality in 2013. Reason number one: AR-equipped glasses.
"A few companies have however made some pretty impressive technological leaps this year: this fall, Vuzix debuted their monocular AR prototype for industrial use at the annual InsideAR conference; Innovega showcased their Augmented Reality contact lens prototype at the 2012 Consumer Electronic show, for which they're currently seeking FDA approval; and researchers at the University of Washington successfully displayed a single pixel on an eye (albeit, that of a rabbit)."
As the head of U.S. Marketing for Metaio, an augmented reality technology leader, Lord is an AR expert. If he's excited about it, then I know that I'm in good company.
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So what about YT vids? Would that be considered advertising?
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Susan J. Birren, Professor of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Eve Marder '69, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Division of Sciences, have spent their careers unraveling many of the fundamental processes involved in the development and function of the nervous system. While Birren is a developmental neurobiologist and Marder studies the properties of small circuits, they have both studied cotransmission: the release of multiple transmitters (signaling molecules) by the same neuron.
Now, in the current issue of the journal, Science, Birren and Marder co-author an invited commentary on a discovery by Dulcis et al from the University of California at San Diego suggesting that changes in the mixture of neurotransmitters released by neurons (nerve cells) can induce changes in behaviors.
"It has been known for many years that nerve cells can make and release more than one neurotransmitter and that some cells can switch between different neurotransmitters. This particular finding is exciting because it ties neurotransmitter switching to changes in how adult mammals respond to the light-dark cycle," said Birren.
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Unprecedented Rebound of Whitetail Deer Began With Conservationby Pursue The Outdoors on December 4th, 2007 in Conservation and Restoration
By the time the sun is high enough to illuminate the patch of oak trees on the hill, a herd of whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) will have been feeding in the shadows for quite some time. A group of mature does, fawns and a few bucks browsing on the acorns strewn across the ground stop feeding only long enough to glance in the direction of the faintest noise or to engage in social activities. Once the air is warmed with the sun's light, the group will disappear at its leisure into the cover of the grassy creek bottoms nearby.
But they will be back – maybe in the evening's fading light, if not sooner. In 2007, this sight occurs every morning in thousands of places across the country. One hundred years ago, however, the return of the whitetail deer was far from certain.
By far the most popular big-game animal in North America, pursued by more sportsmen and women than any other in this country, the whitetail deer is endowed with many physical adaptations, which make it a challenging quarry. Whether valued by hunters for its table fare or for the beautiful antlers that adorn the heads of mature bucks, the deer survives day-to-day with a wealth of keen senses that few species can rival. But no matter how keen their vision nor how powerful their hearing and senses of smell were, the whitetail deer was no match for the arrival of European settlers and the westward expansion of the United States. The whitetail was at the forefront of each of these events, with its meat and hide serving as a means of both survival and trade for a rapidly expanding population.
Though exact numbers have never been compiled, it is estimated that whitetails in North America numbered between 30 and 50 million prior to the arrival of settlers. Ranging from the deserts of Mexico to the frozen plains of many Canadian provinces, from the wooded hills of Virginia to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the whitetail inhabited all manner of ecosystems. It is its adaptability that has aided its rebound in the last century. The establishing of hunting seasons, bag limits and stocking have all increased the population to levels never before seen. The money collected from the sale of sporting goods and the efforts of sportsmen and women nationwide have resulted in the greatest conservation success story the continent has ever seen.
Today, wildlife watchers and hunters alike can find whitetail in the swamps, suburban developments, isolated farms and deserts. More than just a prime example of what careful conservation practices can do to benefit both wildlife and humans, the lure of the whitetail deer draws millions of hunters into the woods every autumn, the same hunters who spend billions of dollars on licenses and equipment and help finance the future of the same game animal that they so revere.
On the fourth Saturday of every September, millions of Americans celebrate the success of the whitetail deer and many other species as part of National Hunting and Fishing Day activities that will be going on nationwide. National Hunting and Fishing Day began after a presidential proclamation in 1972 that sets aside the fourth Saturday of each September for the event. Since then, national, regional, state and local organizations have staged thousands of open house hunting- and fishing-related events everywhere from shooting ranges to suburban frog ponds, providing millions of Americans with a chance to experience, understand and appreciate traditional outdoor sports.
The careful whitetail deer conservation efforts of the past have given millions of people the thrill of seeing a big buck chase does in an open field and to spy fawns bedded in the thickest summer grass. Conservation groups, sportsmen and women and wildlife watchers alike are all stakeholders in the future of the whitetail deer, to ensure that the future of the whitetail deer is as bright as its present.
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The one thing more impressive than the F-35B in the air (when it's working) is the F-35 hovering in the sky and plopping down onto the ground. Watch it for the first time, ever.
Sure, the Harrier jet's been making vertical manoeuvres for decades, but not with this kind of grace — and not with this kind of fighting capability. One good question, which DefenseTech raises — will carriers like the USS Wasp (no, not from Caddyshack) be able to take the heat? The jet exhaust from the F-35 is immense, and having it all focused on one small part of the deck might cause serious, and unforeseen problems decades down. Basically, this thing might start scorching holes in aircraft carriers. The Wasp's already installed a heat shield, but nobody knows if that'll be enough.
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Jonah And His Many, Many Whales
Jonah Lehrer, a regular contributor to Radiolab, is now on a book tour, touting his new best-seller Imagine. It's a book that explores creativity and the brain. The other day at a book signing, he bumped into a fourth-grader who asked him if there's such a thing as too much creativity. "Isn't it possible," the 9-year-old asked, "that humans are too creative?"
(Jonah attracts worried 9-year-olds. It's his curse.)
Jonah says he mumbled something about brilliant minds creating terrible weapons, and the kid gave him a "that's all you got?" look, and they went their separate ways. But, Jonah being Jonah, he kept rolling the question around in his head until last week, he came up with a better answer, which he's just published on his blog, Frontal Cortex.
I found it riveting.
You could read Jonah's version, but as long as you're here, I offer you this synopsis.
New ideas can create unhappy consequences, says theoretical physicist Geoffrey West (who runs a think tank designed to think up new ideas). Jonah and I once visited Dr. West at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. We were doing a story for Radiolab about cities. West reminded us that creativity comes with costs.
Consider The Light Bulb
A quick illustration: Once we invent a light bulb, people will, of course, want light bulbs in their homes, their offices, their streets, their stores, their factories, their advertising billboards, their movie theaters, their cars. The richest folks will want more of them, and the aspiring poor will dream of one day having more of them, too, so every good idea eventually produces a stream of things that people will want to buy. Light bulbs let you stay up at night, allow you to read more, play more, travel, go out, party to the wee hours. So with the light bulb comes a desire for more books, more restaurants, more dance halls, more bands, more instruments and so on.
As Jonah puts it, "new ideas, after all, have a disturbing tendency to become new things, and things aren't free."
Geoffrey West tells the same story, but when he tells it, he uses "watts" instead of light bulbs. "A human being at rest runs on 90 watts," he told Jonah. "That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can't have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It's not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales."
New Ideas Create Scarcity
There is always a tension, says West, between what we want and the resources available. We want to move, see, explore, hunt. To do that, we need more food, more fire to cook food, more wood for those fires, more animals to ride. When trees got scarce, when horses clogged our streets, we invented engines — steam engines, then coal engines. Then oil, then gas. And when those fuels got scarce, we tried nuclear; and when nuclear got too dangerous, we invented hybrids. And soon we'll have electric cars until we run out of lithium for the batteries. Human history, says Professor West, is the story of new ideas creating scarcity. We create, we build, then we run out of what we need. Then we invent something new.
Every time we come to the brink, when we run out of resources, we innovate. "The only solution to the problem of human innovation is more innovation," says Jonah.
"These major innovations completely changed the way society operates," West says. "It's like we're on the edge of a cliff, about to run out of something, and then we find a new way of creating wealth. That means we can start to climb again."
But then the new solution creates yet another shortage, and we've got to innovate to keep from collapsing. "So here's the paradox," says Jonah. "Creativity is the only solution to the very real problem of creativity."
At some point, this cycle of more-ness — our increasing whale-ness — is going to hit the wall.
"Because our lifestyle has become so expensive to maintain," Jonah writes, "every new resource now becomes exhausted at a faster rate. This means that the cycle of innovations has to constantly accelerate, with each breakthrough providing a shorter reprieve. The end result is that our creativity isn't just increasing the pace of life; it is also increasing the pace at which life changes."
"It's like being on a treadmill that keeps on getting faster," West says. "We used to get a big revolution every few thousand years. And then it took us a century to go from the steam engine to the internal-combustion engine. Now we're down to about 15 years between big innovations. What this means is that, for the first time ever, people are living through multiple revolutions."
How Much Longer?
How much longer can this go on? Will we think up ways to accommodate 7 billion (8 billion? 9 billion?) blue whales on this little planet? Can we keep rescuing ourselves? Is creativity boundless? Or will our appetites get the better of us? "The treadmill is going fast," writes Jonah. "And it's getting faster."


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This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle Directory Integration Platform. It includes the following topics:
This section describes general issues and workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Enabling the Domain-Wide Administration Port on Oracle WebLogic Server Prevents use of the DIP Command Line Interface
The AttrMapping Rule dnconvert() function is not Working During Directory Synchronization
The Oracle Password Filter for Microsoft Active Directory is not Certified for use With Oracle Unified Directory or Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition
LDIF Files That Contain Non-ASCII Characters Will Cause the
testProfile Command Option to Fail if the LDIF File has Native Encoding
Some Changes May Not Get Synchronized Due to Race Condition in Heavily-Loaded Source Directory
Synchronization Continues After Stopping Oracle Directory Integration Platform
Be aware that enabling the domain-wide administration port on any WebLogic server running Directory Integration Platform will prevent you from using the DIP command line interface using a standard administrator account. Entering DIP commands will result in an error similar to the following:
User: "weblogic", failed to be authenticated
Administrators can still use the Enterprise Manager (EM) GUI to configure and manage Oracle Directory Integration Platform.
During directory synchronization, the
AttrMapping Rule
dnconvert() function does not properly apply the attribute mapping rule. The
dnconvert() function is supposed to take a
dnvalue as its only argument and transform the value based on the domain mapping rule. Instead, no transformation is taking place.
For example:
DomainRules cn=users,dc=ADdomain,dc=com:cn=users,dc=OIDdomain,dc=com:cn=%,dc=OIDdomain,c=com ### AttributeRules # attribute rule common to all objects objectguid: :binary:top:orclobjectguid:string:orclADObject:bin2b64(objectguid) ObjectSID: :binary:user:orclObjectSID:string:orclADObject:bin2b64(ObjectSID) distinguishedName: : :top:orclSourceObjectDN: :orclADObject: samaccountname:::user:cn::person: manager:::organizationalperson:manager::inetorgperson:dnconvert(manager)
In this example, the new entry from Active Directory to Oracle Internet Directory does not pull the
samAccountName value but rather the DN value for the
To use the Oracle Password Filter for Microsoft Active Directory, your Oracle back-end directory must be Oracle Internet Directory. The Oracle Unified Directory back-end directory and the Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition back-end directory do not support integration with the Oracle Password Filter for Microsoft Active Directory.
testProfile Command Option to Fail if the LDIF File has Native Encoding
When running DIP Tester from a command-line, the
manageSyncProfiles testProfile command will fail if the
-ldiffile option is specified and the LDIF file contains non-ASCII characters.
Note that LDIF files with UTF-8 encoding are not impacted by this limitation. If an LDIF file containing multibyte characters cannot be saved with UTF-8 encoding, then use the following workaround:
From a command-line, add the entry using the
ldapadd command and include the
-E option to specify the locale. See the Oracle Fusion Middleware User Reference for Oracle Identity Management for the required command syntax.
Get the specific
changeNumber for the last add operation.
Execute the
testProfile command using the
changeNumber from the previous step.
For more information, see "Section 184.108.40.206, Running DIP Tester From the WLST Command-Line Interface" in the Administrator's Guide for Oracle Directory Integration Platform.
If the source directory is heavily-loaded, a race condition may occur where database commits cannot keep pace with updates to the lastchangenumber. If this race condition occurs, Oracle Directory Integration Platform may not be able to synchronize some of the changes.
To work around this issue, perform the following steps to enable database commits to keep pace with the lastchangenumber:
Increase the value of the synchronization profile's Scheduling Interval.
Control the number of times the search is performed on the source directory during a synchronization cycle by setting the
searchDeltaSize parameter in the profile. Oracle suggests starting with a value of 10, then adjusting the value as needed.
If you stop the Oracle Directory Integration Platform application during synchronization, the synchronization process that the Quartz scheduler started will continue to run.
To work around this issue, restart the Oracle WebLogic Managed Server hosting Oracle Directory Integration Platform or redeploy the Oracle Directory Integration Platform application.
This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds. It includes the following topics:
Do not use localhost as Oracle Internet Directory Hostname When Configuring Oracle Directory Integration Platform
You may Need to Restart the Directory Integration Platform After Running dipConfigurator Against Oracle Unified Directory
When Configuring a Profile, you may Need to Scroll Past a Section of Whitespace to View Mapping Rules
Resource Usage Charts will not Display if Multiple IDM Domains are Running on the Same Host
If Directory Integration Platform is integrated with Novell eDirectory, or if you plan to integrate with Novell eDirectory later, edit the mapping rules in the
eDir profile, otherwise the installation program will return this error message:
Map rules "orclodipattributemappingrules" have the following errors: Attribute rule "0" has error: Invalid destination attribute's type: Expecting 'binary'; found 'string'.
If you have not yet integrated with Novell eDirectory, update the mapping file in the default template before registering a new profile.
Refer to the "Updating Mapping Rules" section in the Administrator's Guide for Oracle Directory Integration Platform for information about how to modify an entry in a mapping rule file.
Update the mapping rules in the existing profile or new profile for the following entry:
Replace it with this mapping:
Save your changes.
When configuring Oracle Directory Integration Platform against an existing Oracle Internet Directory—using either the installer's Install and Configure installation option or the Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) Configuration Wizard—you must specify the hostname for Oracle Internet Directory using only its fully qualified domain name (such as myhost.example.com). Do not use
localhost as the Oracle Internet Directory hostname even if Oracle Directory Integration Platform and Oracle Internet Directory are collocated on the same host.
If you use
localhost as the Oracle Internet Directory hostname, you will not be able to start the Oracle WebLogic Managed Server hosting Oracle Directory Integration Platform.
After running dipConfigurator against an Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) endpoint, if you are unable to open the Directory Integration Platform (DIP) UI in Enterprise Manger, stop and start DIP to fix the UI problem.
If you are using Internet Explorer to view the Directory Integration Platform (DIP) UI, you may need to scroll past a large blank space to see the profile mapping rules section. This issue is not known to affect other browsers.
If two
IDM domains on the same host share the same
Oracle home and are both configured to use
wls_ods1 managed servers, then the DIP home page will not display the resource usage charts if both instances are running at the same time.
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Brenda Maddox, project manager, Pratt & Whitney Facilities & Services, knows all too well how important it is to have all the right supplies for a baby, as she herself is a mother of two: Tyler, her adult son, who also works on campus, and three-year-old Desi. Maddox chairs the West Palm Beach Employee Volunteer Organization and led the team for the Diaper Drop drive for the second consecutive year to help support Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies and their initiative to collect baby supplies for mothers in the local area.
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Note from Gina: Blogging has given me the opportunity to meet some fabulous preschool teachers from around the world: one of which is Ms. Kierna Corr, the author of the blog, "Learning for Life." Kierna and I bonded over a flubber recipe, and we soon realized we had similar approaches to teaching. When I decided to open up the blog for guest posting, she was the first person to come to mind! I hope you learn to love her as much as I do!
I live in N. Ireland, and everyone knows that the island of Ireland is known for its green landscapes. There is a very good reason for that - loads and loads of rain!
I decided that rather than fight against it or try to stay inside when it rains that I needed to embrace it.
As the old saying goes, 'When life gives you lemons make lemonade!" When life gives me rain, I make puddles!
I teach 26 three and four year olds, and we go outside everyday, no matter what the weather. In fact I can't imagine anything worse than having to spend the 5 hours each day inside. It helps that all staff are in agreement with me, and are prepared to don waterproof trousers & boots & get stuck in to!
We usually find that after about 2 weeks the children are all happy enough to be outside in all weathers provided they are dry, warm & comfortable. We have invested in waterproof clothing for everyone. In fact we have 2 sets of coats & trousers so that if we out first thing & get soaked we have another set to put on later if we go again again.
I watch the forecasts so closely because I like to know if it is going to be a very wet or windy day so I can plan to have the powder paints out so we can decorate the playground with the rain or fly our kites.
From following other preschools around the world I also now appreciate that although we may have rain & sun in the one day, we don't get the extreme heat that some people have to worry about. Our slide is never going to be too hot to use; nor would I ever have to put the tyres away in case anyone got burnt on them.
I like that we can have hailstones one minute & sun the next, literally as this photo shows.
We do spend a lot of time in our 'rain gear,' but it means we can enjoy whatever the weather throws at us.
We can always take our coats off if we get too warm. Most parents comment on how much their child enjoys going out in any weather after a few weeks at our school, and none of them have ever complained or asked that their child stay inside, even on the coldest, snowiest days. They were delighted that their child was getting the opportunity to go out.
It really is all about the right clothes, not the weather!
Note from Gina: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes! I'm drooling over that weather gear--especially the rain boots! If you would like to see more from Kierna, hop on over to her blog: Learning for Life
You can also find her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/nosuchthingasbadweather
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My wife, Tianna, recently rescued a very pregnant abandoned cat. This cat was extremely friendly with humans, indicating that this is yet another abandoned pet in a military town, in this case Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
All three of her kittens are now dead. Friday night we found out that a local man attempted to drown this cat earlier that day. He admitted this to a shocked staff of a local veterinarian's office. He also slammed on her cage repeatedly as he screamed, "This cat is from hell! It's evil!"
Back story
Tianna fed and sheltered this friendly 'mama cat' for several weeks. The cat was a total sweetheart, and almost never stopped purring. We were scheduled to move to a new city any day, so it was urgent to find a new home quickly. Tianna contacted local rescue, Thundering Paws. They quickly pledged their support even arranged for her to be spayed and vaccinated as soon as possible.
So I feel a little guilty about what happened next, because with our time running out, I urged them to expedite the process. We assumed most people interested in fostering a pregnant cat are good people, perhaps not perfect, but who is? It turns out we relied too heavily on this assumption.
Mama cat gave birth about two weeks ago to a litter of three. One of the kittens died within 24 hours. A week later mama cat apparently suffocated another one of her kittens. She continued to nurse the only surviving kitten. The last kitten was killed on Friday, as mama cat was reported to have physically attacked it. Feline infanticide is uncommon, especially by the mother, but not unheard of. More on that in a bit. Tianna was crushed, thinking she caused the stress that triggered this ancient instinct – perhaps simply by removing mama cat from her familiar territory.
Thundering Paws checked in on mama cat's litter multiple times, in person. After speaking with founder, Katherine Gable, I'm absolutely convinced the rescue acted in a responsible and reasonable manner. The following is just so awful that you can't expect to predict or prevent these things.
Nightmare scenario comes true
Tianna came to bed in tears Friday night. She had just gotten off the phone with Katherine from the Thundering Paws rescue. The news was sickening. The foster family's young adult son (NAME WITHHELD) attempted to kill the mother cat yesterday. He perceived that this cat was 'evil' and deserved to die.
The suspect arrived at Highland Animal Hospital in Fayetteville on Friday, December 7th, for a scheduled round of vaccines for the mama cat. He was screaming about the cat being literally from hell. He was violently banging on the cat carrier, forcing mama cat to retreat to the corner. It was a futile attempt to escape the situation.
At one point he screamed something about how the cat was evil because "It wouldn't die… I tried! I drowned it but it is evil and it survived!.. It's from hell!" (paraphrased.) Clearly he assumed that the sizable audience he attracted were in total agreement. He was convinced of demonic influence, and sure that everyone else thought so too.
Thankfully, this cat's nightmare is probably over now. The staff refused to release mama cat back into the man's care. Instead, they called
the police Thundering Paws. As soon as they found out, and they called the police. Soon after that, my wife received the call informing her about the heartbreaking story.
Police reports have been filed, and a sheriff assured Thundering Paws that an animal cruelty officer will be assigned to the case as early as Monday morning. The suspect's mother has very recently become extremely ill, and bed-ridden. Sources indicate that this household does have other animals. Mama cat is currently safe in a new temporary foster home. I'll update this section as I get more information.
Update: the 'evil' and 'from hell' language was definitely present in a Wednesday evening phone call between the man and Thundering Paws, when it was first learned that the final kitten had died. The rescue demanded he take mama cat to the vet immediately and leave her there. It is unknown why the man waited until late Friday afternoon. The staff at Highland Animal Hospital briefly relayed his Friday statements along these lines: "This cat killed all her babies and is a pretty good swimmer because I tried to drown her and it didn't work." It was a protracted ordeal, including making a disturbing scene in front of the staff and a crowded waiting room. He is described as having been in a rage, violently banging on the cat's cage while screaming about her. More to come. [end update]
Was it really feline infanticide after all?
Here's a scholarly reference to feline infanticide:
Of less common occurrence is the killing and eating of newborn domestic kittens by their mothers. When such cases do occur, it is noticeable that the offending queen cat may not have prepared a den for the birth or occupied some secluded place by herself when parturition started. With such abnormal prepartum behaviour, the affected queen tends to wander from place to place, giving birth in different locations, and may eat each kitten immediately [after] it is born. In this type of case, the obviously confused animal may keep one dead kitten in her mouth and continue to wander about, while holding it in her mouth. No kittens in the litter survive in these cases and the affected queen returns to normal behaviour by the following day. The cause may be some neurohormonal abnormality, but neutering is advised soon afterwards.– Andrew F. Fraser | University of Cambridge Veterinary School (retired) | Feline Behaviour and Welfare (pp 127)
Due to the extreme nature of the suspect's behavior, I'm dubious. I'd like to hear from more scholarly / scientific / medical sources (not stories from random people) before reaching a solid conclusion. Judging from the University of Cambridge Vet School expert, the facts of the case do not line up with a natural explanation. Apparently when this rare situation happens, it happens immediately after birth and all in the same day, and none of the kittens survive.
Additionally, the 'suffocation' explanation for the deaths of the first two kittens jumps out as suspect. Infanticide among mother cats seems to universally be carried out by tooth and claw. Suffocation sounds very similar to drowning. Potentially, a mother could sit on her kitten, but it really doesn't add up. I really hope the investigating officers take a hard look into this angle too.
Save mama cat!
If you live in the Fayetteville / Fort Bragg area, please consider adopting this sweetheart of a cat. She's been through so much. Her experience at the hands of young man's violent religious outbursts is potentially scarring. She's a little scared of other animals, but otherwise exceptionally friendly to humans (including 'grabby' toddlers like my daughter, Zoe). A home with no current pets is preferred, but not an absolute necessity.
She needs a name and a loving home.
Support Thundering Paws
If you aren't local or can't adopt, please consider making a donation. The rescue group is a local 501(c)3 non-profit, and have successfully placed hundreds of cats and dogs. They operate at a loss.
Donate to Thundering Paws (View 501(c)3 information)
Here's how the money gets spent:
They spend all of their donations on the actual cause, and have no overhead.
Hundreds of dollars have already been spent on this cat. This is an extreme case. This rescue operates with no overhead and have been going strong for over a decade.
Increased rates of animal abandonment are a sad side-effect of the transient and often intercontinental military lifestyle. Typically, families are moved every 2-3 years, with a whole new set of apartment standards, or perhaps even country-specific health codes to worry about. There are responsible ways to move with and keep pets, but they aren't easy or obvious, especially to junior service members. Please help Thundering Paws, and other local rescues do what they can.
Thundering Paws founder, Katherine Gable, is my wife's friend. She's also a devout Christian who is completely shocked at the turn of events. I'd like my readers to take care not to color all Christians with this tragedy. Most people in America are Christian, but they don't drown cats. I'd concede upfront that a 'grenade with the pin still in' argument could be made regarding religion in general, but it's not relevant to whether or not you should support this rescue. Keep such arguments to my comment section, and not in her email box.


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Chapter four concluded with various surprising twists in the storyline, plus an inference that changes should be expected in the closing moments of the final series. Can Elaine punish Guybrush if he truthfully passes the criteria of pirate bravery to her? Does Guybrush's fate end forever? Chapter 5 is the last chapter: The Rise of the Pirate God. In this chapter, Guybrush is in the after world of pirates and he's expected to connect the cracks so that he can return and be with the living again, rescue Elaine, and reconcile his issue LeChuck forever.
Elaine's short courageous minute where she tries to punish Guybrush towards the ending of the earlier chapter finally doesn't go anywhere, plus Guybrush needs to save her one more time from LeChuck's control. Inevitably, the pirate eternal life converts into three locations encouraged by the triangle of missions from The Secret of Monkey Island: Swordfighting, Thievery, and Treasure Hunting. Guybrush searches the eternal life for vaguely quantified elements to finish a voodoo spell, and in the long run his scavenger quest goes via the land of the living and deceased to finish the voodoo he has to halt LeChuck.
The central idea of this new sequence is to interpret the older series' well-known personalities in a fresh way, from LeChuck's altering behaviours, to the pox plague, and lastly to Guybrush's and Elaine's makeovers within the peak of this chapter: Elaine the demon fiancée whom LeChuck has desired consistently, and Guybrush takes a leaf out of LeChuck's playbook and goes back to the physical universe in the form of a spirit and a sleepwalker. The voodoo woman appears on several occasions; however, her exertions appear a lot more scheming compared to what they did earlier, whilst the additional personalities slowly become aware that she's accountable for the on-going fights between Guybrush and LeChuck.
The last chapter provides a bit of improvement within the gameplay in comparison to the usual record mix-and-match in earlier chapters. The sword fighting trial is a really intelligent shot on the concept of offensive sword fights, where Guybrush currently needs to equal his retaliations to two separate announcements that make sense with the two of them and not just one. Apart from the reappearance of the disputed Morgan, the key personality that shines on this occasion is a robber. Guybrush has to fight his brains against him and ends up being the best supporting character that the sequence has come into contact with. The ending is indicative of earlier Monkey Island games, when Guybrush is tossed everywhere by a revengeful LeChuck whilst he attempts to discover some way of turning the tables over.
Towards the ending of the game, at the point where Guybrush confronts his last hunter search, the appropriate places he has to go and see extend between unrelated landscapes that he's been to already. Similar to earlier chapters, the game includes a Monkey Island convention by moving via a huge voodoo formula with a freely translated constituent list, although the fresh sequence handles brain teaser resolutions in a different way: inside the older series, the voodoo procedure is customarily followed by a combination of puzzle solving plus a lot of the necessary components are there for you by now, therefore you've got to take something that you've utilised already and work out fresh ways of looking at it; in the fresh sequence, due to the tinier scope and inventories, the voodoo techniques generally exemplify an assertion towards your future activities by informing you about the things you should search for, instead of making you interpret what you've already got again. Consequently the voodoo recipes frequently make usage of things that don't have any additional intention apart from fulfilling the recipe's needs.
Style wise, the pirate eternal life isn't as drastic or as folklore driven like, for instance, the Realm of the Dead in King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow. The afterlife universe is mainly unoccupied and dull plus there isn't a really transparent image of exactly how the pirates (who are not dead/undeaden) universe works. Guybrush's motive for not seeing the eternal life in more detail is because he has a dying impulse to follow LeChuck's path and cross the opposite side. The final chapter manages to handle with the big queries that lie beneath the fresh series: why does LeChuck keep on annoying Guybrush and Elaine, why Guybrush and LeChuck are destined to battle with one another, and what's the score between Guybrush and Elaine.
One of the biggest strengths of the Tales of Monkey Island sequence is the new takes it has on its characters. Moreover, it has an excellent storyline. This last chapter is successful in both of these aspects. At the core, the fresh sequence is a narrative that is spread out by using brain teasers, instead of a lengthy set of puzzles that are searching for a narrative. Its flaw is because the scope of the periodic episode is smaller; the drawbacks of using similar locations again and personalities, and an intermittent unevenness amid the strong points of the core tale arc, plus its personalities alongside the adjacent missions and supporting personalities stumbled upon on the way. The Tales of Monkey Island sequence takes some brave strides in interpreting the Monkey Island mythologies again, and whilst the sequence is really successful at winding up a few of the bigger queries it raises, it appears to be determined to further investigate them at some point during the future.
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Alternate Names
- Diet, Low-GI
- Diet, Low Glycemic Index
- GI Diet
- GL Diet
- Low Glycemic Load Diet
- Glucose Revolution
- Sugar Busters
Mainstream groups, such as the American Heart Association and the American Dietetic Association, endorse a unified set of guidelines for the optimum diet. According to these organizations, the majority of calories in the daily diet should come from carbohydrates (55% to 60%); fat should provide no more than 30% of total calories; and protein should be kept to 10% to 15%.
However, many popular diet books turn the standard diet on its head. As described in the entry on low-carbohydrate diets , the Atkins diet, the Zone diet, Protein Power, and other "alternative" dietary approaches turn thumbs down on carbohydrates and advocate increased consumption of fat and/or protein. According to theory, the low-carb approach aids in weight loss (and provides a variety of other health benefits) by reducing the body's production of insulin.
The low glycemic index (low-GI) diet splits the difference between the low-carb and low-fat approaches. It maintains the low-carb diet's focus on insulin, but it suggests choosing certain carbohydrates over others rather than restricting carbohydrate intake.
Evidence suggests that carbohydrates are not created equal. Some carbohydrates, such as pure glucose, are absorbed quickly and create a rapid, strong rise in both blood sugar and insulin. However, others (such as brown rice) are absorbed much more slowly and produce only a modest blood sugar and insulin response. According to proponents of the low-GI diet, eating foods in the latter category will enhance weight loss and improve health. However, as we shall see, despite some promising theory there is as yet no solid evidence that low-GI diets enhance weight loss.
Besides weight loss, preliminary evidence suggests that the low-GI approach (or, even better, a related method called low glycemic load) may help prevent heart disease. The low-GI approach has also shown promise for treating and possibly preventing diabetes.
What Is the Glycemic Index?
The precise measurement of the glucose-stimulating effect of a food is called its glycemic index. The lower a food's glycemic index, the less potent its effects on blood sugar (and therefore insulin).
The glycemic index of glucose is arbitrarily set at 100. The ratings of other foods are determined as follows. First, researchers calculate a portion size for the food to supply 50 g of carbohydrates. Next, they give that amount of the food to at least 8-10 people and measure the blood sugar response. (By using a group of people rather than one person, researchers can ensure that the idiosyncrasies of one individual don't skew the results.) On another occasion, researchers also give each participant an equivalent amount of glucose and perform the same measurements. The glycemic index of a food is then determined by comparing the two outcomes. For example, if a food causes half of the blood sugar rise of glucose, it is assigned a GI of 50; if it causes one-quarter of the rise, it is assigned a GI of 25. The lower the glycemic index, the better.
When scientists first began to determine the glycemic index of foods, some of the results caused eyebrows to rise. It didn't surprise anyone when jellybeans turned out to have a high glycemic index of 80—after all, jellybeans are mostly sugar. Nor was it unexpected that kidney beans have a low glycemic index of 27 because they are notoriously hard to digest. But when baked potatoes came back with a reading of 93, researchers were taken aback. This rating is higher than that of almost all other foods, including ice cream (61), sweet potatoes (54), and white bread (70). Based on this finding, low-GI diets recommend that you stay largely away from potatoes. (However, the concern regarding potatoes is probably unnecessary. See the discussion of glycemic load below.)
There are other surprises hidden in the glycemic index tables. For example, fructose (the sweetener in honey) has an extraordinarily low glycemic index of 23—lower than brown rice and almost three times lower than white sugar. Candy bars also tend to have a relatively good (low) glycemic index, presumably because their fat content makes them digest slowly.
It's difficult to predict the glycemic index of a food without specifically testing it, but there are some general factors that can be recognized. Fiber content tends to reduce the glycemic index of a food, presumably by slowing down digestion. For this reason, whole grains usually have a lower GI score than refined, processed grains. Fat content also reduces GI score. Simple carbohydrates (such as sugar) often have a higher GI score than complex carbohydrates (such as brown rice).
However, there are numerous exceptions to these rules. Factors such as the acid content of food; the size of the food particles; and the precise mixture of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates can substantially change the GI measurement. For a measurement like the glycemic index to be meaningful, it has to be generally reproducible between people. In other words, if a potato has a glycemic index of 93 in one person, it should have pretty much the same glycemic index when given to another person. Science suggests that the GI passes this test. The glycemic index of individual foods is fairly constant between people, and even mixed meals have a fairly predictable effect according to most (but not all) studies. 1-6
Thus, the GI of a food really does indicate its propensity to raise insulin levels. Whether a diet based on the index will aid in weight loss, however, is another story.
How to Follow a Low Glycemic Index Diet
Following a low glycemic index diet is fairly easy. Basically, you follow the typical diet endorsed by authorities such as the American Dietetic Association, but you choose carbohydrates that fall toward the lower end of the glycemic index scale. Books such as The Glucose Revolution give a great deal of information on how to make these choices.
Do Low Glycemic Index Diets Aid in Weight Loss? Problems With the Theory
There are two primary theoretical reasons given why low-GI diets should help reduce weight. The most prominent reason given in books on the low-GI approach involves insulin levels. Basically, these books show that low-GI diets reduce insulin release, and then take almost for granted the idea that reduced insulin levels should aid in weight loss. However, there is little justification for the second part of this argument. Excess weight is known to lead to elevated insulin levels, but there is little meaningful evidence for the reverse: that reducing insulin levels will help remove excess weight. For more information on this very complicated subject, see the article on low-carb diets .
Books on the low-GI diet give another reason for using their approach as well: they state that low-GI foods fill you up more quickly than high-GI foods and also keep you feeling full for longer. Unfortunately, as we shall see, there is more evidence against this belief than for it.
The Satiety Index
A measurement called the Satiety Index assigns a numerical quantity to the filling quality of a food. 7 These numbers are determined by feeding people fixed caloric amounts of those foods, and then determining how soon they get hungry again and how much they eat at subsequent meals. The process is similar to the methods used to establish the GI index.
The results of these measurements do not corroborate the expectations of low-GI diet proponents. As it happens, foods with the worst (highest) GI index are often the most satiating—exactly the reverse of what low-GI theory proponents would say. 8
For example, the Satiety Index tells us that potatoes are among the most satiating of foods. However, as noted above, the GI analysis gave potatoes a bad rating. According to the low-GI theory, you should feel hunger pangs shortly after eating a big baked potato. In real life, that doesn't happen—even without the sour cream!
There are numerous other contradictions between research findings and the low-GI/high-satiety theory. For example, one study found no difference in satiety between fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose when taken as part of a mixed meal, even though fructose has a GI more than four times lower than glucose. 9
A few studies do seem to suggest that certain low-GI foods are more filling than high-GI foods. 10-12 However, in these studies the bulkiness and lack of palatability of the low-GI foods chosen may have played a more important role than the food's glycemic index. 13
Thus, the satiety argument for low-GI diets doesn't appear to hold up to scrutiny.
Is the Glycemic Index Even the Right Measurement?
There's another problem with the low-GI approach: It's probably the wrong way to assess the insulin-related effects of food.
The glycemic index measures blood sugar response per gram of carbohydrate contained in a food, not per gram of the food. This leads to some odd numbers. For example, a parsnip has a glycemic index of 98, almost as high as pure sugar. If taken at face value, this figure suggests that dieters should avoid parsnips like the plague; however, if you've ever eaten a parsnip, you know that it's not exactly candy. In fact, parsnips are mostly indigestible fiber, and you would have to eat a few bushels to trigger a major glucose and insulin response.
The reason for the high number is that the glycemic index rates the effects per gram of carbohydrate rather than per gram of total parsnip, and the sugar present in minute amounts in a parsnip itself is highly absorbable. The high glycemic index rating of parsnips is thus extremely misleading. Books such as The Glucose Revolution take care of issues like this on a case-by-case basis by saying, for example, that you can consider most vegetables "free foods" regardless of their glycemic index. But in fact the same considerations apply to all foods and distort the meaningfulness of the scale as a whole.
A different measurement, the glycemic load (GL), takes this into account. The GL is derived by multiplying the glycemic index by the percent carbohydrate content of a food. In other words, it measures the glucose/insulin response per gram of food rather than per gram of carbohydrate in that food. Using this system, the GL of a parsnip is 10, while glucose has a relative load of 100. And remember the potato problem, that terrible bogey of GI diets? The GL of a typical serving of potato is only 27—not such a bogeyman at all. Such numbers make a lot more sense.
What Is the Direct Evidence Regarding Whether Low-GI Diets Enhance Weight Loss?
Theory is one thing and practice is another. It is certainly possible that making sure to focus on low-GI or low-GL foods will help you lose weight, even if the theoretical justification for the idea is weak. However, there is only preliminary positive evidence to support this possibility, and the largest and longest-term trial failed to find benefit. In one of the positive studies, 107 overweight adolescents were divided into two groups: a low-GI group and a low-fat group. 14 The low-GI group was counseled to follow a diet consisting of 45% to 50% carbohydrates (preferably low-GI carbohydrates), 20% to 25% protein, and 30% to 35% fat. Calorie restriction was not emphasized. The low-fat group received instructions for a standard low-fat, low-calorie diet divided up into 55% to 60% carbohydrates, 15% to 20% protein, and 25% to 30% fat. Over a period of about 4 months, participants on the low-GI diet lost about 4.5 pounds, while those on the standard diet lost just fewer than 3 pounds.
Unfortunately, this study does not say as much about the low-GI approach as it might seem. Perhaps the most obvious problem is that the low-GI diet used here was also a high-protein diet. It is possible that high-protein diets might help weight loss regardless of the glycemic index of the foods consumed. (In fact, that is precisely what proponents of high-protein diets claim.)
Another problem is that participants were not assigned to the two groups randomly. Rather, researchers consciously picked which group each participant should join. This is a major flaw because it introduces the possibility of intentional or unintentional bias. It is quite possible, for example, that researchers placed adolescents with greater self-motivation into the low-GI group, based on an unconscious desire to see results from the study. This is not an academic problem, and modern medical studies always use randomization to circumvent it.
Finally, researchers made no effort to determine how well participants followed their diets. It might be that those in the low-fat diet group simply didn't stick to the rules as well as those in the low-GI diet group because the rules were more challenging.
Despite these many flaws, the study results are still promising. Losing weight without deliberately cutting calories is potentially a great thing.
In another study, 30 overweight women with excessively high insulin levels were put on either a normal low-calorie diet or one that supplied the same amount of calories but used low-GI foods. 15 The results over 12 weeks showed that women following the low-GI diet lost several pounds more than those following the normal diet.
In another small study, this one involving overweight adolescents, a conventional reduced-calorie diet was compared against a low-GI diet that did not have any calorie restrictions. 40 The results showed that simply by sticking to low-GI foods, without regard for calories, the participants on the low-GI diet were able to lose as much or more weight as those on the low-calorie diet.
However, in an 18-month trial of 203 Brazilian women, use of a low-GI diet failed to prove more effective than a high-GI diet. 52 Additionally, a smaller study failed to find a low-GI diet more effective for weight loss than a low-fat diet except in people with high levels of circulating insulin. 50
While losing weight is challenging, most dieters will acknowledge that maintaining the loss is even more difficult. In an unusually large randomized study, researched enrolled 773 overweight or obese adults from 8 European countries who were trying to maintain a recent weight loss of at least 8%. 54 Over a 26-week period, participants assigned to a low-GI diet regained less weight than those assigned to a high-GI or a control diet.
Does the Low-GI Diet Offer Any Health Benefits?
There is some evidence that a low-GI diet (or, even better, a low-GL diet) might help prevent cancer and heart disease. The low-GI approach has also shown promise for preventing or treating diabetes.
Heart Disease Prevention
One large observational study evaluated the diets of more than 75,000 women and found that those women whose diets provided a lower GL had a lower incidence of heart disease . 16 In this study, 75,521 women aged 38 to 63 years were followed for 10 years. Each filled out detailed questionnaires regarding her diet. Using this data, researchers calculated the average GL of each participant. The results showed that women who consumed a diet with a high GL were more likely to experience heart disease than those who consumed a diet of low GL.
Other observational studies suggest that consumption of foods with lower GL may improve cholesterol profile—specifically, reduced triglyceride levels and higher HDL ("good" cholesterol) levels. 17,18 These effects, in turn, might lead to decreased risk of heart disease. However, yet other observational studies have found little or no relationship between heart disease and GI or GL. 19,41
These contradictory results are not surprising. But, even if the observational study results were entirely consistent, it wouldn't prove the case for a low-GI approach. Conclusions based on observational studies are notoriously unreliable due to the possible presence of unidentified confounding factors. For example, because there is an approximate correlation between fiber in the diet and GL, it is possible that benefits, when seen, are really due to fiber intake instead. Factors such as this one may easily obscure the effects of the factor under study, leading to contradictory or misleading results.
Intervention trials (studies in which researchers actually intervene in participants' lives) are more reliable, and some have been conducted to evaluate the low-GI diet. For example, in the large weight-loss trial mentioned earlier, the low-GI diet failed to prove more effective than a high-GI diet regarding weight loss. The results did suggest, though, that a low-GI diet can improve cholesterol profile. 52 However, this study was not primarily designed to look at effects on cholesterol. A study that primarily focused on this outcome followed 30 people with high lipid levels for three months. 20 During the second month, low-GI foods were substituted for higher-GI foods, while other nutrients were kept similar. Improvements were seen in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, but not in HDL. Interestingly, a close analysis of the results showed that only patients who had high triglycerides at the beginning of the study showed benefit. Another controlled trial found that a high carbohydrate, low-GL diet optimized lipid profile as compared to several other diets. 47 But another study found that both low-fat and low-GI diets were about equally effective regarding lipid profile. 50
Another approach to the issue involves analysis of effects on insulin resistance. Evidence suggests that increased resistance of the body to its own insulin raises the risk of heart disease. 21-26 One study found that use of a low-GI diet versus a high-GI diet improved the body's sensitivity to insulin in women at risk for heart disease. 27 Similar results were seen in a group of people with severe heart disease 28 as well as in healthy people. 29,53
While these results are preliminary, taken together they do suggest that consumption of low-GI foods might have a beneficial effect on heart disease risk.
Low-GI Diet and Diabetes
Two large observational studies, one involving men and the other involving women, found that diets with lower GLs were associated with a lower rate of diabetes . 30,31 For example, one trial followed 65,173 women for a period of 6 years. 31 Women whose diets had a high GL had a 47% increased risk of developing diabetes compared with those whose diets had the lowest GL. Fiber content of diet also makes a difference. People who consumed a diet that was both low in fiber and high in GL had a 250% increased incidence of diabetes.
However, as always, the results of these observational studies have to be taken with a grain of salt. It's quite possible that unrecognized factors are responsible for the results seen. For example, magnesium deficiency is widespread and may contribute to the development of diabetes; whole grains contain magnesium and are also low-GI foods. Therefore, it could be that the benefits seen in these studies are actually caused by increased magnesium intake in the low-GI group, rather than effects on blood sugar and insulin. 32
Furthermore, one observational study found no connection between the glycemic values of foods and the incidence of diabetes. 33 Another observational study did find a correlation between carbohydrate intake (especially pastries) and the onset of diabetes, but no consistent relationship with glycemic index. 34 Other studies have found no relationship between sugar consumption (a high-GI food) and diabetes onset. 35-37
Thus, reducing dietary GL may help prevent diabetes, but we don't know this for sure.
Whether or not low-GI diets can prevent diabetes, for people who already have diabetes, going on a low-GI diet might improve blood sugar control. 38,45 However, the benefits seem to be small at most. 39,42,48
Other Uses of Low Glycemic Index Diet
Weak evidence hints that a low glycemic index diet might help prevent macular degeneration . 46 Although there are theoretical reasons to believe that use of white sugar and other high glycemic index foods might promote colon cancer, a large observational study failed to find any association between colon cancer rates and diets high in sugar, carbohydrates, or GL. 43
It has been proposed that low-GI foods may enhance sports performance . One study involving a simulated 64-km bicycle race found no performance differences between use of honey (low GI) or dextrose (high GI) as a carbohydrate source. 44 However, another study did find benefit with a low-GI snack prior to endurance exercise. 49
One interesting, though far from definitive, study compared a low glycemic load diet against a high carbohydrate diet in people with acne , and found evidence that the low glycemic load diet reduced acne symptoms. 51
The Bottom Line
As you have seen, the evidence that a low-GI diet will help you lose weight is not yet very impressive. Its theoretical foundation is weak, and it appears to be using the wrong method of ranking foods regarding their effects on insulin. Conversely, however, there's no reason to believe a low-GI diet causes harm. If you find that you lose weight with a low-GI diet, stick with it.
Note: While the most popular low-GI diet books ( The Glucose Revolution , Sugar Busters ) recommend a diet that is generally reasonable and should be safe, it is easy to design some fairly extreme low-GI diets. For example, a diet consisting of nothing but lard would be a very, very low-GI diet, since the glycemic index of lard is 0. While it no longer seems that saturated fat is as harmful as once thought, a pure lard diet is probably not a good idea. If you run across a diet book that recommends achieving a low-GI by consuming an extreme diet, approach it with caution.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO CAM Review Board
- Review Date: 09/2014 -
- Update Date: 09/18/2014 -


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