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Witch World by Andre Norton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge (for sci-fi/fantasy books that were nominated for awards but did not win).
Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, and Andre Norton – the forgotten triumvirate of women who moulded the science fiction and fantasy we know today. Well, also Ursula LeGuin, but for some reason people remember her. I think perhaps the difference is that LeGuin is considered a "literary writer"; not that this is something she asked for or sought out.
Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, and Andre Norton (who took said pen name because when she was writing sword and sorcery, publishers believed it was necessary to market to adolescent boys because girls didn't read that sort of thing) are legends in the field, if you ask other science fiction and fantasy…
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AMV in the News
Named Amongst the Top 3 by Snooth
Our Syrah Tous le Jours was named by Snooth as amongst the top 3 value Syrah bottlings…I am SO proud of our Tous les Jours. And to think that this is not bulk plonk, but rather carefully grown and artfully blended Syrah from about 6 different vineyards, all within a 5 mile radius of my new front door, read more here.
Wander and Wine
Humbled and thankful to read the Wander and Wine post about her visit to the new and improved Andrew Murray Vineyards visitor center on Foxen Canyon Road, read more here.
"Santa Barbara: The Thrill of Discovery" by Antonio Galloni
"I tasted few wines from Andrew Murray this year than last, which is partly a reflection of Murray's move to focus his range. At their best, these wines – the Syrahs in particular – deliver compelling quality and value, a balance that is frankly commendable in today's market."
– "Santa Barbara: The Thrill of Discovery" by Antonio Galloni, July 2014
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Wandering Wino Top Wines
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Student hit by school bus outside Bentonville High School
A Bentonville High School student was hit by a school bus in front of campus Friday morning.
The school confirmed that a 17-year-old male student was crossing J Street in front of the campus, walking in between northbound bus traffic where there was no crosswalk. As he crossed the street, he was struck by a southbound bus.
A person who called 911 told dispatchers the victim was hurt, but conscious after the crash. The caller said the victim was talking to them and knew his name; however, the caller said the victim complained about his leg.
The student was transported to Northwest Medical Center in Bentonville. The hospital reported his condition as good. Officials said his injuries were not serious.
Bentonville police said the bus driver did not receive a ticket in connection with the crash. They said children were on the school bus, but none of them were injured.
School officials said they were investigating the incident.
This is not the first instance of a student getting hit by a school bus at Bentonville. In 2012, a bus driver was put on administrative leave after striking 17-year-old Megan Davis at the intersection of 14th Street and P Street. An investigation determined that the driver, Lisa Fitzner, was not at fault for the accident.


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Who is Jeff Griffith and why is he running for Palomar Health?
I wanted to introduce myself while asking for your support this November.
I am not a career politician. I am a second generation Firefighter and while growing up I remember my father being gone most of the summer months. He would come home smelling of smoke and usually exhausted. We were evacuated once due to fires, only to return to our home covered in pink retardant. Our dog was also pink for about a week, but he was still happy to see us. To me growing up it was a normal part of life. After my father retired, with two back surgeries and high blood pressure, I attended college looking for a future for myself, but I kept returning to the fire service and I found my home in the firehouse.
Fast forward to my time as a Fire/Paramedic transporting to the Palomar Health District, seeing the overcrowding and dysfunction in the local Emergency Departments I wanted to solve problems. The younger me would seek out others to help, as I got older I decided I could help solve the problems. That is why I decided to run for Palomar Health Board of Directors (the largest Healthcare District in California).
I brought transparency and accountability to Palomar Health after winning my first campaign in 2012, during my first term I was elected as Vice Chair by my peers on the board and I am currently the Chair of the Governance committee where bylaws and policies are addressed. I was the only incumbent to be re-elected in 2016. Now I see problems in California and I want to help solve them.
There is no longer a Fire Season, we are having extreme weather all year long. The cost to life, property, and the environment are rising. California will have challenges that will need to be addressed before conditions get worse. I fear for anyone wanting to join the fire service because the size and intensity will only grow with time.
Every social problem I see in the field relates to behavioral health, from overdoses, homelessness, and even PTSD for our public safety workers. I want to utilize my experiences in public safety and healthcare to help protect and heal California for generations to come.
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You can imagine ,dream,explore all your knowledge, your experiences by running away from rules and regulations of traditional art painting , you can find out all these techniques in one style only one , abstract painting style , you can paint any figures, any faces , any kind of creatures , any fiction , any inspiration you have .
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Thanks to the Aurora Massacre there's been a lot of loose talk about Miss God (see above) and what she was up to regarding it. To take but one example at CNN's website Holy Dweeb (aka. "Belief Blog Contributor") Stephen Prothero
described as "a Boston University religion scholar and author of The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation." offers few uh "insights"
"Over the last few days, CNN's Belief Blog has received more than 10,000 responses to its question, "Where was God in Aurora?"
The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all-powerful God? As CNN's readers struggled to make sense of God's presence (or absence) in the Aurora, Colorado, massacre, I counted seven different answers to this question:"
Seven Wishes. Seven Dwarfs. Seven Cities of Gold. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
"1. There is no God.
Self-professed atheists may make up only 2% of the U.S. population, but they are extraordinarily active online, and on CNN's Belief Blog. A commenter who identified as Jason spoke for them when he wrote, "Where was God? He was where he has always been. Nowhere because God does not exist." Bob Dobbs agreed: "God is imaginary. The question is moot."
Many in this camp also quoted the ancient Greek philosopher (and skeptic) Epicurus:
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"
Epicuris is right.
Why not call him George Burns?
Tom Cruise?
or The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
"2. Don't blame God, blame Satan.
Many theists on the site described the world as a battleground between God, who is working for good, and Satan, who is working for evil. "As long as Satan is loose to promote evil, bad things will happen to good people," wrote kat."
Poor Satan!
"3. Don't blame God, blame us.
Probably the most common response from Christian commenters was that evil is a result of free will. Do we really want to be "puppets" or "robots"? Of course not. So God has given us the will to choose either evil or good.
Believer summed up this position well:
"It's been said that the only thing we can truly give God is our will because its the only thing we possess that is uniquely ours. Everything else was given to us by him, and is, in effect, not ours to give in the first place. As such, and despite his omnipotence, he cannot intervene. . . . He only possesses power where power can be possessed – and controlling our actions is not within that realm."
Here Deborah also chimed in: "This act of violence was not God's will. I get so tried of people blaming God for evil acts. Humans of their own free will do evil things."
You mean it was because of
rather than
"4. God was behind the massacre, and it was just.
Some believers saw God's righteous hand in the Aurora massacre, inflicting a just punishment on a wayward nation now run by secular liberals rather than conservative Christians.
Lenny wrote:
"We as a country have been telling God to go away. We told him to get off our currency, get out of our schools, get out of our Pledge of Allegiance, take your Ten Commandments out of our courthouses, get those Bibles out of hotels and no graduation ceremonies in our churches. How can we expect God to give us his blessing and his protection if we demand that he leave us alone?"
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas,
took a similar tack in an appearance on the Heritage Foundation's "Istook Live" radio show, laying the blame at the feet of a nation that has turned away from its God:
"You know, when people say, where was God in all of this? Well, you know, . . . we've threatened high school graduation participants that if they use God's name that they're going to be jailed, we had a principal of a school, and a superintendent or a coach down in Florida that were threatened with jail because they said the blessing at a voluntary off campus dinner. I mean, that kind of stuff… where is God? Where, where? What have we done with God? We told him that we don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present."
"5. God was present at the massacre but with the victims, not the perpetrator
One classic claim in the Abrahamic tradition of Jews, Christians and Muslims is that God is with those who suffer – the poor and the oppressed. Some commenters saw God's miraculous hand in the midst of this suffering, not causing it to happen but bringing it to an end. "This may sound crazy," wrote Diana, "but I believe God had a hand in that the gun jammed so that more people weren't killed."
The most common claim in this category came from peacemaker, who wrote, "God is and was with the victims and s/he is weeping." In a more explicitly Christian vein, Lauren wrote: "He was there in the theater, pierced by bullets with the victims. He was scarred by the shrapnel. His eyes were scorched with gas and then burned with tears as He mourned alongside the broken."
"6. Which God?
Some commenters interrogated the question itself, arguing that the knots it twists us into are rooted in what commenter Ego_Death called "a false idea of what God is." After all, the problem of evil in a world ruled by a sovereign and good God only presents itself if you posit one personal God who is both good and all-powerful
Referring to "our idea of a human-like personal God"
as "an ancient myth," Northstar56 wrote:
"But just because this kind of God does not appear to exist, does not mean that God, in fact, does not exist. I think many have developed a more mature and realistic perspective . . . in which God exists as a pure fundamental consciousness or state from which all of existence arises. This God does not control anything, but rather continues to perpetually emanate as reality . . . God was present in all of the victims, and everyone else. God was present in the killer as well. The tragedy is that the killer's awareness was so distorted and twisted that he could not see or be aware of the intrinsic priceless value of every person he gunned down."
Evoking something more akin to the "watchmaker" God of the deists, who makes the world and its laws and then refuses to intervene in its operation, Norm wrote: "God is not involved in our everyday mundane activities. How arrogant of man to think he's the center of the universe and has God's constant attention and every action is 'God's will.'"
Taking a different tack, "varun" invoked the teachings of the beloved Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita:
"Only the followers of Semitic religions have problem with understanding this – because they do not believe in rebirth and karma. As soon as you introduce these two concepts into (the) picture along with the eternal indestructible soul (something Semitic religions do believe in), everything makes sense. Read Bhagavad-Gita and everything would be as clear as daylight."
Or as clear as Metro
"7. Who knows? It's a mystery
Agnosticism is a rare virtue in the United States nowadays, but there were a few commenters who admitted to something less than the absolute certainty exhibited by atheists and evangelicals alike. "The answer," wrote Terry, "is we don't know where he was." Fluffy the Gerbil of Doom saw this "God works in mysterious ways" move as "ultimate cop-out/rationalization," but I am not so sure."
Well Randy Newman doesn't agree.
"In September 1862, in the midst of a much greater American tragedy, Abraham Lincoln wrote a private "Meditation on the Divine Will" in which he struggled to make sense of what God was doing in the Civil War. He later reworked those reflections into his second inaugural address, one of the greatest speeches in American history."
Certainly the greatest ever delivered by an undead adept.
"Surveying the corpse-ridden landscape of North and South, Lincoln observed, "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Clearly there was little good in slavery, he reasoned, yet equally clearly God was not giving a swift and sure victory to the Union. So what was God up to? In the end, Lincoln had to admit he did not know. Or, as he put it, "The Almighty has His own purposes."
I suppose this is in a sense a "cop-out," but it is a humble one, uninfected by the absolute certainties (either pro- or anti-God) that have shed more blood on earth than agnosticism ever will. It is also a classic example of answering a question with a question: What is God doing with this war? Who knows?
"Josephpusateri" also answered our question with a question. His comment was in my view the best of the hundreds I read, so I will end with it here:
"Oh, the blindness of such a question… as if only theodicy was a relevant question in white, American suburbs. Where is God in Afghanistan? Where is God in Gaza? Where is God in Syria? . . . Where is God, indeed."
Oh bother! Frank O'Hara
had more pressing concerns
"Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
there is now snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up"
As for Miss God, let's give Tom Waits the last musical word.


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The Technical Committee on drafting the Zambian Constitution has called on all Zambians to gear up for expression of their views on the first draft of the Zambia Constitution.
ZANIS reports that Committee spokesperson Simon Kabanda says the committee wants all Zambians to ensure that they participate by making their view on the country's supreme law heard.
He said the document will be made public by the end of this month.
Mr. Kabanda said the Technical Committee assigned to draft the Zambian constitution was working hard and that the process was progressing well adding that Zambians should not be worried but have faith in the process.
He said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the committee was working within the time frame communicated to the public and further stated that the dates stated were not just to excite citizens but to be met.
Mr. Kabanda said the Technical Committee would ensure that measures are put in place so that the first draft of the Zambian Constitution reaches all parts of the country within few days.
He further emphasized that people across the country should not be worried that the draft might reach them late because the Committee would consider all such problems when time to distribute the document draws closer. Committee member are paid huge but undisclosed sums of money each day they sit so the more time they take, the more money they make.


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The 80' Mystica is an extremely well built and luxuriously appointed yacht. She is a proven Alaska and around Vancouver Island Vet in the last three summers. Due to the owners demands of peaceful travel and comfortable over night sleeping at anchor, they have spent a considerable amount of time and money to make her quiet at rest. A full description of work completed is available. Over the past few years they have also upgraded and installed a whole new dash with electronics found on much larger yachts. A list of equipment is below. Not only is she a beautiful yacht, highly customized, extremely well maintained, but she has also benefited to being boathouse kept since new.
The extended sport deck is equipped with a hydraulic platform for easy launching and retrieval of the Novurania tender. An additional Steelhead 800lbs capacity davit is cleverly hidden under the coaming on the starboard side of her boat deck. An extra bonus to the aft deck platform was a very cleverly designed rack that easily slides and holds two 3 person sea doos on the aft deck and you could have the tender up. There are lots of options to have extra toys on board, including kayaks, paddle boards etc.
If a new or used sky lounge motor yacht is on your wish list, then this vessel is a must see. She is duty paid into Canada. The boathouse is available for purchase or long term lease in North Vancouver in a very desirable location.
Entering the salon from the main deck dinette you will see the striking custom carpeting and beautiful headliner with teak and mirrored accents and recessed lighting. Opposite the comfortable sectional couch is a hidden hi/lo 42" flat screen TV. Cabinets are finished in Makore wood with Camphor burl accents.
Forward is the galley to port and a convenient day head to starboard.
The galley features black Galaxy granite countertops & backsplash with a custom patterned glass bar top. Cabinets are finished in Makore wood panels with Camphor burl accents. There is a large built in dining area forward with a pantograph door to access the starboard side deck
The enclosed sky lounge on this vessel may be her most desirable feature. It offers an all weather climate controlled location for the vessel's operation, navigation and management of ship's systems. It also provides a cozy retreat from the salon and galley below on her main deck. There is a comfortable L-shaped sectional and table opposite a built in, NEW hi-lo 42" Panasonic flat screen TV. The owners have custom built a small office desk into the aft cabinet/wet bar that provides working space for a lap top & scanner while staying in touch with your home base, but it easily slides away to be hidden if work is not your priority.
The sky lounges aft watertight door provides access to the teak covered boat deck where you have a hidden Steelhead 800lb tender crane. Currently this space is being utilized as a sun deck with an L-shaped seating area, large Force 10 Stainless steel barbecue and teak loungers.
Additional stairs from the boat deck to the aft deck & transom provide easy access up & down for your crew.
Amazingly, this is a five stateroom yacht, each with en-suite heads. There are three owner's staterooms forward and two "crew" staterooms aft. The crew staterooms are finished to a high standard and can easily be considered for guest accommodations.
Access to the owner's area is from the forward salon-down. There is a lovely foyer separating the three stateroom's entrances. The owner's stateroom is mid-ship and is a full beam stateroom with his & hers baths separated by a shared frameless glass shower enclosure. All cabinets are finished in Makore wood panels with Camphor burl accents.
The VIP Guest stateroom with island queen is forward and comes with it's own en-suite head & large stall shower.
Forward to port with a lovely double bed, en-suite head with generously sized stall shower,
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Accessed from the salon or aft deck the Captains stateroom can easily double as a fourth guest area. It is finished to a very high standard and it features an island bed, en-suite wet head, opening port lites, separate audio visual equipment and decorative lighting.
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This is an extremely well built vessel with solid fiberglass below water line with vinyl esther resin barrier coats. The bottom is finished with three coats of Gel shield and two coats of anti fouling paint. The hull is cored fiberglass above the water line.
The teak covered aft deck or California Deck is well set up for outdoor dining and entertaining. There is a large table that should comfortably seat 8 for lunch. A wet bar allows drinks to be prepared away from the galley. Outdoor speakers add to the atmosphere.
Two cockpit helm stations make slow speed maneuvering and docking stress free. A ICOM Command mike keeps you in touch. There are oversize bollards for mooring and two side deck gates and a collapsable set of stairs stowed out of sight until ready for use.
Further aft on the teak swim step is the 2014 Novurania tender with 30hp Evinrude E-Tech outboard motor that is launched and retrieved easily via the hydraulic tender lift. A watertight transom door allows sun bathing guests access to the aft head and shower or the crew access to their staterooms and engine room.
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The small checkpoint along Montana's border with Canada, which served about three travelers every day, was set to receive $15 million for upgrades under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. On April 1, 2011, Canada closed its border to northbound traffic through Whitetail. The US followed suit and closed the southbound crossing on January 25, 2013.Coordinates: 48°53′42″N 105°09′50″W / 48.895°N 105.16389°W


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My family has had more than a passing acquaintance with MSG. For years my father woke up with splitting headaches unaffected by Ibuprofen or Asprin, lasting for at least 24 hours. Some foods seemed to give my sister an instant, tingly headache. Friends complained of nausea, migraines, dizziness seemingly uncaused by anything they could figure out.
MSG has been defined as the sodium salt extract of the non-essential amino acid of glutimate. Other research has revealed MSG to act as an excitotoxin of the highest degree. It overstimulates the brain cells which are associated with tasting glutamates until the cells die. This causes a momentary "addiction" to MSG, because it creates a tongue-tingling craving for another bite, stimulating more cells as the old ones die. Often added to salty, zesty, or creamy foods, MSG gives a hearty boost often associated with the adjective "savory." My family did research to figure out what foods MSG was in and did a few cause-and-effect experiments in our home to figure out if MSG was causing the intense headaches my family members were suffering from. My sister found that her instant, tingly headache happened only when eating foods that contained strong amounts of MSG. Once she could warn my dad about which foods triggered her headache, he began to avoid those foods too, and for the most part, his worst migraines stopped, though we began to realize that his sensitivity to MSG required abstinence from several other lesser-known food ingredients also related to MSG (see Foods Containing MSG below).
Long-Term Effects of MSG
Though migraines are bad enough, much of the serious damage happens in the long run to people who have been consuming MSG-containing foods for years with no noticeable allergies, sensitivities, or side effects. My family realized this when we read the book, Excitotoxins: the Taste That Kills, by Dr. Russell Blaylock. Dr. Blaylock explored the lasting damage MSG gives to the brain, and found MSG was an initiator or encourager of Alzheimer's disease, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, ADD and ADHD, Parkinson's disease, strokes, autism, learning disorders, memory loss, nerve damage, and hormonal imbalance. MSG is also said to mobilize cancer cells. From this perspective, ultra sensitivity to monosodium glutamate is a blessing because it forces the people who have it to stop eating MSG, which could be inflicting lasting damage on their systems without them ever knowing.
According to Gailon Totheroh (science and medical reporter interviewed in the videos, below) MSG gives a "drug effect to the tongue," causing people to want to eat more and thus being a major cause of obesity in America. This is partly because of the taste, but also because of what it does to the brain cells --triggering an insatiable desire for more. Babies still in the womb are highly endangered by MSG, as the MSG that is eaten by the baby's mother instantly goes into the baby's system, Gailon Totheroh says. Pregnant mothers should avoid all forms of it. Totheroh attributes the learning disorders and slow mind function we see in schoolchildren today to the effect of MSG consumed while these children were in the womb. Even those who don't notice after-effects from MSG should seriously consider a diet change to stop this harmful additive from causing lasting harm.
Scientific Studies on MSG
Evidence for MSG's toxicity is mostly anecdotal, scientists say, though this anecdotal evidence is enough to have given itself a name, "The Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," because of the high amounts of MSG found in nearly all types of Chinese food, and the many adverse reactions that this food seems to produce. MSG remains the most-tested food ingredient, but scientists have not produced any results that back up the anecdotal evidence. People who claimed they were sensitive to MSG were given pure MSG and showed little to no signs of sensitivity different from those given a placebo. Those given MSG with food showed no signs of sensitivity.
Challenges in subjects who reported adverse reactions to MSG have included relatively few subjects and have failed to show significant reactions to MSG. Results of surveys and of clinical challenges with MSG in the general population reveal no evidence of untoward effects. We recently conducted a multicenter DBPC challenge study in 130 subjects (the largest to date) to analyze the response of subjects who report symptoms from ingesting MSG. The results suggest that large doses of MSG given without food may elicit more symptoms than a placebo in individuals who believe that they react adversely to MSG. However, the frequency of the responses was low and the responses reported were inconsistent and were not reproducible. The responses were not observed when MSG was given with food. (From the abstract of "Review of Alleged Reaction to Monosodium Glutamate and Outcome of a Multicenter Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study")
MSG: a Bad Way to Make Food Taste Good
Chips Without MSG
Recently, Frito-Lay has come out with some great chips without MSG or preservatives. Regular and flavored Lay's potato chips no longer contain MSG. Also, Sun Chips are now MSG-free. However, they do still contain "yeast extract" and "natural flavors," which are code words for a less-dangerous form of MSG, and sometimes affect people who are very sensitive to Monosodium Glutamate. Those who love the taste of MSG will find no taste difference between the new and the old Frito-Lay's chips.
Identifying Foods Containing MSG
The research done by Dr. Blaylock was enough to convince my family that we needed to cut monosodium glutamate entirely out of our diet. However, there was much more to stopping my family's MSG headaches than just avoiding blatantly "MSG" labeled ingredient lists. We found that many foods which do not contain the chemical MSG contain naturally created ingredients that mirror MSG in taste and effect. These are especially harmful for those people who are hypersensitive to MSG from many years of exposure to this harmful additive. Below is a list of the foods or labels that we have found that contain MSG, as well as a list of the other names of MSG.
On-the-Shelf Seasonings Containing MSG
The highest concentrate forms of MSG have largely been banned since they first came out, because of the increasing allergies to it. Indeed, in several of these seasonings, the only ingredient is MSG.
- Accent enhancer: no longer sold in the US because of the growing number of people allergic to it. Accent's only ingredient is MSG. It is flavorless on its own, but stimulates glutamate receptors in the tongue to give meats, soups, and dressings a savory, augmented taste.
Ajinomoto enhancer: translated "essence of taste;" this was the original MSG flavor enhancer, first marketed in Japan. Accent is the Western equivalent. Another Japanese brand is Kyowa Hakko.
- Ve-Tsin: the Philippine food enhancer, also just pure MSG.
- Spike seasoning and food enhancer: has many other spices and ingredients, but one of its top ingredients is Hydrolyzed Yeast Protein, which is subtle labeling for MSG.
- Maggi seasoning or sauce: contains wheat gluten and guanylate, which often gives MSG-like symptoms to people allergic to MSG.
- Beef Bouillon Cubes: nearly every brand and every flavor is chock-full of MSG. All-natural or claimed "MSG-free" beef bouillon cubes may have less dangerous forms of MSG.
MSG as an Ingredient
Be Cautious of:
- Ramen soups, noodles, and soup packets. Known as the staple dorm-food of campuses all across the US, Ramen soups have one of the highest concentrations of MSG found in any food item.
- Flavor-dusted chips, snack mixes, and crackers such as the seasoned flavors of Doritos, Cheez-Its, Pringles, Lays, Chex-Mix; also look out for all barbeque, lime, salsa, parmesan, or sweet onion flavored chips and crackers. We have found that usually the "Original" or "Plain" flavor is without MSG, but check the label just in case.
- Canned soups, especially Campbell's, Kraft, and other name brands.
- Soup broths, such as the kind you would buy in a carton or can off the shelf.
- Salad dressing, especially if it is not labeled "natural."
- Meat cuts, lunch meats, hotdogs and bratwursts, frozen meats. Again, read the ingredient labels; any type of meat could have MSG injections, but you should also be able to find the same kind that does not.
- Soup mixes, salad dressing mixes, flavor packets, rice mixes, hamburger helper mixes, "just add water" mixes, etc. Anything that you would buy mostly for the flavor packet probably has MSG unless it specifies "all natural" or "no MSG."
- Frozen Asian stir-fry, frozen dinners and entrees, frozen finger foods. Not all in this category contain MSG, but enough do to make checking the labels worthwhile.
- Salsa, tomato/spaghetti sauce, guacamole, barbeque sauce, Worcestershire sauce, steak sauce, marinades, etc. Get used to making these things from scratch at home, or buy all natural!
- Beef jerky; unless bought at an all-natural supermarket, you will rarely see this without MSG.
- Salted and honey-roasted nuts. Store brands are usually great; Planter's Peanuts are loaded with monosodium glutamate.
Bad MSG
Other Names for MSG
Though not as strong or as concentrated as Monosodium Glutamate, these other food additives have a smaller amount of MSG and will cause the same problems. Be especially cautious of food labels that have more than one of the ingredients listed below, because that could be more potent than MSG. Read ingredient labels carefully, keeping in mind that there are many disguises for MSG, the killer food additive. Some other names for MSG include:
- Any kind of hydrolyzed protein or hydrolyzed/autolyzed yeast extract
- Glutamates, glutamic acid
- Natural flavors, flavoring, seasonings
- Modified food starch
- Soy protein, soy protein isolate, soy sauce, soy extract
- Amino acids
- Broth, beef bouillon
- Anything that is protein flavored, also modified or fermented protein
Be cautious about your soy and modified protein intake if you have been extremely sensitive to MSG in the past. I have known soy sauce, unsalted peanuts, and even plain tomato sauce to cause headaches because the amino acid structure of soy and tomato is similar to MSG.
The sheer quantity of foods we eat every day that contain MSG is staggering. However, don't let the list above discourage you. There are many food options for each category and many food production companies that don't use any MSG. Store brand foods, amazingly enough, are often flavored without MSG. This is especially true of the fresh meat cuts from the butcher's department in your grocery store. As the awareness of the after-effects of MSG spreads, more and more companies will be forced to make a decision about including or rejecting MSG in their products. In the past three years we have seen MSG go from being virtually unheard of to appearing in bold on labels advertising "No MSG!" or "MSG free!" Until MSG becomes more widely shunned, be an ingredient detective. This is one dietary change that will pay off in the moment as well as in years to come.
© 2010 Jane Grey
I think I am allergic to MSG, I get really sick after eating some. I know a restaurant that used it, and I got so sick from there.
Good informative Hub, thank you.
Once sensitized to MSG you can have a cascade of sensitivities to other chemicals.
To make matter worse, all your veggies - even Organic- are now grown in fertilizer that contains free glutamate. It is in the form of Hydrolyzed Feather Meal or Hydrolyzed fish or vegetable protein.
Accent is still sold in the US... Just saw it in the store...
This is scary, even though no research can proof it. The fact that people show signs is enough to say to me that something is wrong here. Avoiding MSG though is very difficult as it is everywhere.
It is time to fight back against this sort of nonsense article.
MSG is NOT BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH.
After years of scientific testing no one can identify any neurotoxic results from the consumption of MSG.
The author even cites the lack of evidence for harmful effects caused by MSG and then continues to ignore their own research in favour of spurious " anecdotal evidence" because it suits their agenda.
By all means avoid any food additives that suit you, but stop citing urban myths as points of fact.
Hi great hub. I am using a Betty Crocker Cookbook to make homemade chicken noodle soup and one of the ingredients calls for MSG. Since it gave the longer name I did not realize that it was MSG until I looked it up. I heard so many bad things about MSG and was a little reluctant about using it until I did read further that it is used in many soups. I did check the ingedients of Campbells chicken soup and it does contain MSG, so I am trying it in my recipe since none of us ever had any issues after eating the Campbells brand. I bought the Accent food enhancer for the MSG. I did read in this hub that Accent no longer is sold in the US. But this hub was published in 2010, so maybe the US decided to sell it again.
This article says it early on...there is NO medical evidence to support the MSG myth.
MSG is not bad for you.
Jane, thank you for approving the comment. Your response, though, highlights exactly why this issue is so bewildering. The science required to understand my comment, and disagree if one feels inclined, is high-school-level. This is not hard stuff to get. One does not need a Ph.D. to process this; the 15-year-old down the street already knows enough to handle it.
The only "components" to MSG are Sodium and Glutamate. It is not a complicated substance. A 90-second google search will confirm this. Sodium is required for proper functioning of your body, and in any event constitutes only 5% of MSG. Yes, it is possible to consume too much Sodium. FDA recommends 2400mg per day, which works out to 6 grams of table salt. If you were to get all that Sodium from MSG, though, you'd have to consume 33 grams of the stuff. There is just not much Sodium in MSG -- it is almost all Glutamate.
Glutamate, in addition to being non-toxic, is already synthesized by your body, as well as in the bodies of every other living, breathing, animal that was ever butchered for a meal. That is why the average person (assuming that person consumes animal proteins) ingests 13 grams of the stuff daily. The average amount of MSG (the "artificial" stuff) consumed in a day is only 0.5 grams. Even 10 packs of ramen noodles daily wouldn't equal the amount that the average chicken, steak, and pork eater already consumes.
I don't have an answer to your question about why some people provide anecdotal accounts of MSG allergies. I do, however, understand that many people provide anecdotal accounts of all sorts of illnesses without basis in science or medicine. See, e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, gluten allergies, etc. No amount of actual science will persuade such people, and they will continue to find support in people that echo their anecdotes. I understand that, and I am resigned to that, but I still find it utterly bewildering.
At the end of the day, I'll continue to trust scientific, double-blinded, controlled studies, before a collection of anecdotes. I guess I'm just crazy that way.
You deleted my prior comment explaining the science behind MSG, rather than allowing your readers to view it and, if they chose, state their disagreements.
So hurry up and delete this comment before your readers have a chance to view it.
Miss Annie . Thank you for the information about the MSG. It is true about some food can make you sick to pass away. When I was younger. I used to eat Chinese food with no problem. I am older. Chinese food does not agre with my body. The cooks told me that was going to happen. If I eat food with MSG.
This website, and the countless others like it, are absolutely ridiculous.
Here's a chemistry lesson that I hope is simple enough even for the people that subscribe to this type of hysteria to understand. MSG is an abbreviation for Monosodium Glutamate, which is just the sodium salt of glutamate. You could write it as Na+ Glu- where "Na+" is the positively charged sodium ion ionically bonded with "Glu-", the negatively charged Glutamate ion. When you dissolve it in water (which is what happens when it enters your body), it dissociates into free roaming Na+ and Glu-. They don't hang around together in your body -- they're "summer camp friends" that don't talk to each other anymore once they leave the cozy confines of the seasoning container and enter the wilderness of your body.
Glutamate is found *naturally* in just about every type of meat or other animal protein that will ever make it onto your plate. This is because glutamic acid is a "non-essential" amino acid (which this web posting acknowledges, but apparently to imply that one's body does not need it, which is not true). Non-essential amino acids are those that your body can synthesize on its own, and therefore are not required to be consumed in your diet. All those delicious organic, free range, farm fresh, hormone-free animal proteins that end up on your plate come from animals that naturally synthesize so much of the stuff that the *average* person consumes 13 grams of glutamate every day. At least, that's if you trust the FDA, and the published scientific research on which the FDA relies, which I know may be a tall request on this site... (http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredientspackaginglabeli...
The average amount of non-naturally occurring MSG, added to foods as a seasoning, that a person consumes in a day is 0.5 grams, or less than 4% of the naturally occurring amount in the organic meats that I'm sure everyone hear swears by. Now, I know what you're thinking: "well it's that extra 4% of the *chemical* version that I'm allergic to!" No, it's not. Back to the chemistry lesson -- the only other "chemical" in MSG is the positive sodium ion (Na+). Guess where else you find Na+? Table salt. That's good old NaCl, which even people here must recognize from high school chemistry. Now, there are all kinds of health issues with consuming too much sodium, including high blood pressure, water retention, etc. But *nobody* -- literally no single person who is alive -- has an allergy to Na+. This is because Na+ is an indispensable ion that your body uses to regulate water content in cells and blood, and to maintain the electrical gradients that power your nerves. Without it, you die (more accurately, without it, you would never even survive the first few cell divisions after fertilization).
"Well, I don't want to consume too much sodium!" Fair enough. Here's another chemistry lesson. Na+ has a molecular weight of 11, and Cl- has a molecular weight of 17. So if instead of 0.5 grams of MSG you have 0.5 grams of table salt, that means you have consumed 0.2 grams of Na+. The Glu- ion is HUGE (147.13), meaning that the same 0.5 grams of "artificial" MSG provides only 0.034 grams of Na+ (34mg out of of the recommended 2400mg per day). The rest is 0.465 grams of Glutamate, on top of the 13 grams you probably ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday in your organic meats and eggs.
Now, far be it from me to insist that people consult empirical data and scientific research before claiming medical effects resulting from naturally occurring materials. I have no doubt that the people here just "know better" than all those scientists, who after all, only want to mislead people.
Absolutely unscientific and rampantly speculative.
For those sensitive to gluten or who have celiac/coeliac disease, yeast extracts can contain gluten so you're in for a double whammy from the MSG and probably more so from the gluten if the manufacturer's label doesn't specifically state that the item is gluten free.
doritos and ramen are like an afrodisiac to me..... (;
i agree brittany
this is no help
I have a bottle of Accent with a big NO MSG stamp on it... So if Accent is "pure" msg, what is in this bottle? Also, what foods naturally contain msg?
Just saw your hub and would like to share my story.
When I was a kid, I noticed that some packets of chips gave me headaches shortly after eating them. I was never quite sure why. The headaches wouldn't come until about 2 hours later and it took me some years to piece it together. Eventually I worked out that the brand of chips that didn't use MSG (unfortunately, the expensive one!) didn't give me headaches and the one that did, did give me headaches.
Later on when I started eating Chinese food, I found that their foods containing MSG also gave me headaches also. Likewise with miso soup.
Since realising this, I have tended to avoid large quantities of MSG.
I don't think I am very sensitive to MSG but certainly eating an entire pack of chips or entire soups with MSG will give me a headache every time.
About 10 years later (now), I decided to do some research on MSG. I was sure that there would be scientific reports about how it is bad for you. Surprisingly, I could only find studies that suggested absolutely no side-effects for MSG, basically calling it a myth and attributing it to 'chinese restaurant syndrome'.
I looked at the finer details of these studies and it seems that none of them took a serious approach. For instance, one of the studies only reported a reaction in cases with two or more symptoms (which would rule me out every time) and others had looked at symptoms during eating (instead of after) or looked for different symptoms such as numbing.
All I can find is that there is a lot of anecdotal evidence. I don't understand why this has not resulted in study data.
When I suffered migraines for two weeks, it was enough for me to give up foods containing MSG. Thanks for your well-researched hub and a warning to us all. Up and useful.
Hi, I am a seventeen year old girl working on my Girl Scout Gold Award. I have suffered from migraines since I was five years old. My doctor put me on a restrictive diet slowly adding ingredients back in until we found that the trigger of my migraines was MSG. I have been on a MSG free diet ever since. I will still get migraines from stress, lights, weather and lack of sleep too but the quantity of migraines has dramatically decreased since my diet has changed. A part of my Gold Award is writing to companies requesting for removal of MSG from their products. I am also raising awareness about people with migraines and the correlation it has with MSG. I was glad I saw this article because I want to get the word out about MSG. Many people do not realize how many foods MSG is in. Thanks for the article!
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We helpful to find high on living nevertheless as of late I have developed some sort of resistance.
Once you figure out what triggers your headaches and you discover it's msg, then its a life long challenge to figure out how to avoid the stuff. Food manufacturers will get it someday - perhaps!
I am highly alergic to MSG. It causes me a very fast HEART RATE and irregular beating, very light headed . When to ER and they thought that it was a heart attack until they asked what I ate (chinese food) MSG
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I found out a couple of years ago the I have MSG problems. If there is a reaction I have it. It is awful. I read that taurine helps with the reactions. Do not know if it is true. Do you know of anything that helps? I can not even take any medication because the reactions are the same.
For years I've been affected adversely by MSG. I went to a restaurant, the type notorious for using MSG, several years ago, and required vast amounts of water half way through the meal. I began to see shadows, got light-headed and nearly passed out. From that day forward, I have always requested a meal with no MSG when eating at particular restaurants. And finally, the innocuous bag of corn chips with the hip, slick and cool flavors is riddled with MSG. Was studying for finals, ate a bag during a study session and did not fare well, with respect to the feeling of "dimming lights", as I reported to my study mates. Well enough of me, for now. Thank you Miss Grey for your well-written and informative article. God Bless! (And read your labels, y'all, if yer interested in what yer eatin'). PS: I wrote that in my Southern accent, which is real cool if ya hear it in person. What, wait, am I eating MSG, oh, no, no. Not again....
Excellent hub, with great information. It is a sham that the food industry keeps poisoning all of our food.
I know what you mean by temptations. I recently became aware that I have a strong gluten intolerance, may as well be celiac, in that my intestinal walls are damaged. I'm working with a hollistic doctor to repair my systems from years of eating too much wheat products, which is just about everything out there. Its been a hard transition but it is getting easier to find substitutes. Bad food will kill you, it is just a matter of when????
Day 29! Hey Jane, thanks for the reply. Yeah, a veggie fast could be just the thing for you. Incidentally, I do eat tomatoes, cukes and peppers during my fruit fast, since they are fruits too. However, what you eat during your fast really depends on what you intend to gain from it. For me, I wanted to detox, and citrus and fruit do that very well. If you're looking to better regulate blood sugar, a veggie fast could be better. Good luck with that and let me know if you do start a fast. I'm definitely thinking of doing this fast at least once a year now.
Day 28 today and still holding strong! Although, I was soooo tempted when I went to the bakery today and smelled its freshly baked bread...drool....
You may be able to handle eating fruit if you just make sure to eat it every few hours or so. I get tired and weak if I've gone too long without fruit- but after a glass of OJ or some raisins I'm perfectly fine. This fast has really helped me heal and improved me mentally and spiritually. I highly recommend it.
Hi Jane, thanks for replying to my comment. I am currently undergoing a fruit fast to hopefully detox my body from its many years of MSG exposure. In the process, I hope to lose my sensitivity to items like soy sauce. I'm still OK with other natural glutamate sources like tomato sauce and parmesan cheese, though, so go figure. We'll see what results! I just can't give up my beloved sushi...
let's eaT what God gave us.. Like fruits,grains, veggies,crops..etc..they're healthy. Unlike the manmade foods.full of msg,and preservative.it'll weaken our body.
I can understand not eating MSG-laden foods, but what really makes me sad is that I must now give up glutamate-rich foods like soy sauce and seaweed wrapping on sushi. I went out tonight to eat sushi and had to stick mostly to sashimi and vinegar/wasabi, and the taste was completely off. I did not enjoy my meal at all. I am wondering if I could at least become "rehabilitated" to natural glutamate sources- it's just bringing me to tears that I may never be able to enjoy my favorite food again...
Great, informative hub. I hope that more people learn what is actually in all of the processed and cheap foods. You can save some money now only to pay for it later with your health, particularly where ramen noodles are concerned. Voted up and useful.
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yeah right.its a profitable product..still my m0m sells it.. But i just add an alternatives when it comes to our dish like adding sugar..it could enhance the flavor too..
i think every household here in the philippines consumes msg..msg,like maggi, ajinomoto and kn0rr are the bestsellers here in our store.. Msg is added in our every dish.. I already told my mom not to sell those products and n0t to add it on our dish.
Wow I'm surprised to read all this I didn't know anything about it until today. And that is because someone really close to me can't eat anything with MSG and I didn't know what it was. And on my search to find out I came across your article. This is crazy so many things that you eat daily can cause so much harm. But I honestly don't know how to stop using and eating a lot of these things since this is all I been using as condiments and eating. It will be hard but I guess trying wont hurt. Thank you for this article it was a lot of help.
Monosodium glutamate has cause a lot of damage to lot of people,but most people don't know the symptoms.I wish to know the effect.
You can certainly buy Accent in the US. I just bought some the other day at my local supermarket. It really "wakes up" the flavor of food!
Both, when I would prepare the risotto, it would 80 percent prepped, and in that procedure he would want maggi in it, so when I would cook to order, not even tasting it that night, I would get stomach aches by the end of the night, it got so bad I started bringing my own food, now that is sad. The guy had ordered a friggin container of it. eck
Thank you! Someone else who "gets it". My last restaurant gig the owner used that godforsaken maggi and every night after work I felt like my stomach was going to explode. I would shed a tear everytime I saw him use msg enhanced ingredients. I think that is cheating in the restaurant industry. A true chef or cook should never use "chemically altered" anything.
You have written some interesting things about MSG. Thanks so much for informing us about many things we didn't know and reminding us of the things we already knew.
Excellent hub. MSG is prevalent in so many foods. Some foods will list no msg added, but that sometimes means the manufacturer didn't add it, but it still can be in ingredients they bought prepackaged from their suppliers. MSG also doesn't have to be listed as an ingredient if it the quantity is below the FDA's minimum. But the problem is that since it is in some many foods we consume, parts per billion can be parts per million in the course of a day, and that difference may be too much for our system. MSG is neuroexicter. It can stimulate brain activity in an unnatural way. The food industry is very powerful and MSG is very profitable. The only way we can elicit change is by educating consumers. The industry is looking to expand MSG in other foods to imitate tastes without the actual food, which of course will increase their profits. Thanks for raising the awareness on this subject.
MSG has been proven bad since the 80s. It was actually used to kill brain cells in scientific experiments. The US did not start adding it to food products until the 1940s. It's chronic effects take many decades to cause real obvious damage. Every decade, since 1950, its presence in food products has grown exponentially. The problem is that all food additives are considered safe until proven unsafe. The food industry has come out with many deceptive studies to prove msg as safe. Unfortunately, it is harder to find a product without it than with it at most grocery stores. It is in canned, boxed, and bagged foods. It is in granola bars, cereal, soup, bread, milk...almost everything. Other names it hides in are: Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Carageenan, Malt extract, barley extract, malted barley, spices, anything hydrolyzed or autolyzed...Your best bet is to avoid any prodect with an ingredient that is not a food. there is too much non-food in food, your body does not know what to do with these types of ingredients. Your body has evolved on real food. Fake food is very recent in the span of human life and it is causing havoc on our biology.
So good to know something. Thanks for the post.
Thank you so much for the information. I made lumpias with Maggi seasoning because I didn't read the word MSG on it, but after I took a bite, I got a migraine and the first thing I looked at was the Maggi bottle. I am very allergic to MSG. My migraine lasted two days and it finally went away today. I Googled Maggi and came across your site and there it was....Maggi has MSG! I will be returning the bottle today at my local grocery store. Thank you so much for the information. Happy Holidays!
This is a great article, very informative. It is amazing how many people have bad reactions to MSG. I read labels when I go grocery shopping. I am very picky about what I eat. The FDA website has a page, Everything Added to Food in the United States(EAFUS), that has information on over 2000 substances. At one time or another MSG was on the GRAS(Generally Recognized as Safe)list. I think it is still there. Love this article. I will read more. Teresa
Interesting...I am Asian and grew up with MSG my whole life. You have a good article but two facts remains unchanged MSG is still a controversial issue because scientific researches still lack sufficient amount of evidence on the effects of MSG being the main cause of allergic reactions. Secondly, MSG are found naturally in human milk,vegetables,eggs, and etc. Here is an interesting blog I found that you might be interested in:http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2005/jul/10...
Wow! I will be very careful how I choose my gluten free food alternatives now. I am coeliac as well as fructose malabsorption allergic already, however I will seriously look into this. Any idea of labelling in Oz?
MSG is such a villain! Thanks for this superb hub. Good job!
This is an excellent, thorough, well-written hub! I am a huge label reader, although now, I don't buy too many packaged foods. I hope you don't mind if I link one of my hubs about dangerous additives to this one! I think there are lots of people out there walking around with MSG headaches. thanks for sharing this info!
You say in your hub: "I have known soy sauce, unsalted peanuts, and even plain tomato sauce to cause headaches because the amino acid structure of soy and tomato is similar to MSG." Soy solids are processed using MSG. Soy, acids, and MSG, are dumped into aluminum vats and mixed. The aim is to kill the bean taste of the soy beans, so that a cheap flour and plant protein can be added in foods such as bread. Such saves bakeries millions of dollars that otherwise would be speant on wheat flour. I have experienced extreme insomnia and tinnitus from foods containing soy (due to its content of MSG used to process it). (The FDA does not require foods containing soy solids to be labeled as containing MSG. So people with insomnia caused by MSG should ALSO avoid all soy-solids foods. Soy oil, however, contains no MSG because it is extracted before solids are processed to kill the bean taste.)
What a frightening article. I thought that I had eliminated MSG from my diet, by just not using Accent, but I never knew so many foods contained it. Now I'm going to be more vigilant and try at least to cut my usage down significantly. Thanks for all the research. I'm going to Digg this hub. Very good Hub Jane.
Terrifc hub. It's hard to believe that food companies are allowed to coat their products in this chemical.
Wow, this is a great hub, Jane! I didn't realize that MSG could be labelled under different names - it's rather sneaky, isn't it...
Every few years it seems that MSG comes under fire. I wonder why they keep using it. By now there must be a dozen alternatives that provide the same manufacturing qualities without all the bad press.
Absolutely, this stuff is really bad news!
Great informative warning. Thanks for a good resource.
Thanks, Jane Grey. While I was aware of MSG, and thought I avoided it, I will be reading labels with even greater care.
Great hub on this subject. Thanks.
Did you know that MSG is my initials. Just kidding! Great hub! I have started asking them to leave the MSG off!
Juist the word gives me a headache...yet it is so many foods...Great Hub and filled with much information


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Golden oldies roll in for Meet
MORE than 170 of the classic A Ford cars synonymous with the 1920s will hit the bitumen this week as the National A Ford Meet begins in Ipswich.
The classic car owners have converged on Ipswich for the biennial event to celebrate the Ford model produced between 1928 and 1931.
Run organiser Ken Gehrke said most of the Fords arrived yesterday in preparation for a week of car rallies and get-togethers for club members from around Australia.
The car club cruisers will roll around Ipswich until Saturday, taking in the region from the windows of their restored rides.
On Thursday the 170-strong convoy will head to Boonah for lunch in the main event of the week.
Mr Gehrke expects a few interested onlookers to drop by during the meet to get a closer look at the automobile relics.
"It's a love of old cars, and for a lot of us they are part of the family. My car has been in the family since 1939. I have been driving it since I was 12," he said.
One of the enthusiasts is Jim Allingham, of Sydney, who brought his New York taxi-styled Ford for the event.
Mr Allingham bought the car 45 years ago and last year was approached by Fox Studios, who wanted to use it in a movie.
They transformed the paint work into that of a 1920s New York cab for a yet to be released film.
"I just like the old cars and saw this one and approached the owner," he said. "I took it home and my mother asked me what I was going to do with it, and she wanted me to give it away but I persevered.
"I restored it from a total farm wreck into what it is today. Four years of restoration and it has been used by us ever since as a family car and a club car."
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- Model A Fords were first produced in Detroit.
- Fewer than five million were produced in three years.
- The cars will be on show at the Ipswich Showgrounds.


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- After taking it on the chin in October, U.S. small cap equities rose 11.2% in November, extending their year-to-date lead against the S&P 500 by 8.2%. Small caps have outperformed large caps in five (5) of the last six (6) months. Strong performance in November was driven by higher interest rates and the potential for an inflation pick up, which propelled the U.S. dollar higher. A strengthening dollar has historically boded well for small cap performance. The Russell 2000 (R2K) is now trading over 20x forward P/E, which is a level not seen since 2001. Though no new tax policy is for certain with a Trump presidency, hypothetically, if corporate taxes were cut to 22%, small caps would sport a forward P/E of 16.9x, which is still well above long-term historical averages. Small caps reached an all-time high on November 25th, right before December, a month that has historically had strong performance.
- For 2016, the Russell 2000 Value Index (R2KV) has outperformed the Russell 2000 Growth Index (R2KG) in eight (8) of the first eleven (11) months, with November having the largest outperformance this year. Value outpaced Growth by 4.3% for the month. In November, the R2KV's overweight in banks boosted performance with increased speculation of the Federal Reserve raising rates for the first time in a year. The R2KV has over 19% more exposure to banks than the R2KG. For the year, the R2KV continues its dominating lead over the R2KG by 16.7% even though Value lagged Growth from February 11th until September 30th.
- November's performance was bolstered by the likely candidates; Energy, Materials & Processing and Banks. For only the second time this year, every sector posted a postive return in November. Sectors that performed relatively poorly were those that are sensitive to higher interest rates, i.e., REITs and Utilities. Over the last five months, Energy has been either one of the top performing sectors or the worst performing sector during the given period. For the past four months, if Energy's return has been positive, the market's return has also been positive, and vice-versa. Though Energy is a nominal weighting within small caps, it has fueled investor sentiment that has continued to drive many sectors that have an indirect exposure to oil. For the year, Materials & Processing continues its dominating lead, while Energy jumped to the second best performing sector for the year during November.
- The R2KV continued its theme for the year of favoring lower quality stocks with an emphasis on companies that do not have any earnings.
U.S. Small Cap Value
Coupled with extended valuations and a slow start to earnings season, small caps took it on the chin in October, but came roaring back post-election on speculation of lower corporate tax rates and a strengthening dollar, which has historically boded well for small caps. Valuations remain elevated at over 20.0x forward P/E, which is over one standard deviation above its historical average. Though no policy is certain with a Trump presidency, it has been widely speculated that the new administration will lower corporate taxes. If the tax rate was cut to 22%, the forward P/E for small caps would be 16.9x, still above historical averages. If companies feel comfortable with fiscal policies and start to pick up spending, this will help boost GDP. Small caps thrive on better GDP growth and we would see a pick up of earnings and sales growth.
October exhibited a glimmer of hope with the market favoring higher quality stocks, but this was short lived after November's performance was buoyed by companies that do not have positive earnings. Lower quality and lower market cap outperformed as we saw increased inflows into small cap ETFs, which throw a blanket over the universe, buying the smallest and most illiquid names.
Lower leverage prevailed this month with expectations of higher interest rates in the future as economic data has continued to favor an interest rate hike in December. This is the second month in a row that lower leverage has outperformed and only the third time since May. The fastest growers trailed by over 3%, thus Value outperformed Growth in the month. Though dividend payers lead year-to-date, non-yielders have outperformed in four of the last five months.
Russell 2000 Value Sector Performance
Last month, October did not have a single sector post a positive return. Ironically, November bucked the trend by having every single sector sport a positive return for the month, bringing every sector positive for the year. For the R2KV, Energy and Materials & Processing were throttled forward at the end of the month after OPEC announced that it had agreed to curb production, driving oil up 8% on the last trading day of the month. This boost may be short-lived as the deal may not be enough to reduce the glut, especially if non-OPEC countries fail to comply. Inadvertently, the OPEC deal could create a lifeline for shale producers as increased oil prices could entice U.S. drillers to pump additional crude, potentially capping crude prices.
Furthermore, interest-rate-sensitive REITS and Utilities underperformed as the U.S. 10-Year Treasury Note skyrocketed on expecations of the Fed raising rates in the middle of December with stable economic data continuing to pour in. On the other hand, Banks, which benefit from higher rates, drove the Financial Services sector along with Steven Mnuchin's, Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, rumored policy of loosening lending restrictions as he targets the repeal of Dodd-Frank.
At the end of October, there were two sectors that had negative performance for the year, Health Care and Consumer Discretionary, both of which turned positive. Health Care was bolstered by BioTechs, which were depressed due to the expecation of a Hillary Clinton victory and her public dislike for pharmacutical pricing strategies. Consumer Discretionary, which has a relatively "cheap" valuation against the market, was driven higher by a stronger economy.
For the year, Materials & Processing continued its outsized performance, returning an astounding 61.9% for the R2KV. This is almost 25% higher than Energy, which overtook Technology as the second best returning sector for the year. Health Care continues to be a laggard due to BioTech's underperformance throughout the year. For the second time this year, every sector has a postive return year-to-date.
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But is such uncertainty such a bad thing? Compared with the British system, uncertainty is a small price to pay for allowing all shades of political opinion to have their say. While a British party can receive below 40% of the vote and still have a bumper majority, the German/New Zealand system forces politicians to seek consensus.
Uncertainty reinforces the Churchillian view of democracy as being the worst form of government apart from all the others. In the meantime, the obvious answer to the problem would be for Germany's SPD party to form a grand coalition with New Zealand's Labour and rule both countries - New Zealand did once rejoice in a 19th-century nickname as "the Prussia of the Pacific".


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I don't like maggots. I also don't like trimming sheep or alpaca hooves. I worry that I will cut too much off, that it will bleed, that I will hurt the animal.
Echo (the giant lamb I had to help get born) has been limping for a while. We thought she might have bumped her leg. Our shepherd friend suggested I check her foot. I did, it seemed fine. I sprayed it with expensive blue stuff anyway – to be on the safe side. I checked a while later and saw her hoof was a little overgrown. We don't routinely trim our sheep' feet. We only do it if there is a problem. I left it. The limping would come and go. I kept an eye on her but have been more worried about Bowie (the last orphan lamb) and making sure he gets enough food – he is a small, thin lamb – not unsurprisingly)
On Tuesday morning before work I looked again and saw a maggot – uh oh. I only found out this year that maggots in feet were a thing – the whole shepherding lark involves a steep learning curve.
I rushed off and got shears, blue stuff, crovect (fly strike medicine) and ewe boost. Then I got Echo in a corral, flipped her over and got to work trimming her hoof. It is amazing how your fear of one thing can disappear when the situation is serious. I scrapped out all the tiny maggots – only a couple of millimetres long so newly hatched – but there were a lot of them. I trimmed and sprayed and then gave her lots of love and food. I also gave her an antibiotic jab to help heal the foot.
Yesterday evening I checked again and it all seems to be healing up OK, but I will be keeping a close eye on her.
It was her mum that got flystrike earlier in the summer. I have heard that some sheep have a greater genetic propensity towards it. It looks like neither Echo, nor her mum will be kept for our breeding stock …. one of the hard facts of having a small farm is that you have to breed for strong animals and eat the rest however cute they are.
N.B. looks like my fear of hoof trimming has been overcome … as has the fear of maggots …. more or less.


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Editor's Note: The article is based on interviews with Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Center for China and Globalization, Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs under Renmin University of China, and Wang Peng, an associate research fellow with Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies under Renmin University of China and Charhar Institute.
The first face-to-face meetings since Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump agreed to a 90-day tariff truce in Argentina wrapped up on a positive note on Wednesday. The two sides agreed to further implement the Xi-Trump consensus, exchanged views on trade and structural differences, and pledged to maintain close communications.
"Talks with China are going very well!" Trump tweeted earlier. The stretched negotiations are strong evidence that both sides are attaching great importance to their trade relations, determined and serious about hammering out details of an eventual deal.
Trump boasted about Sino-U.S. trade negotiations on Twitter.
The nine-month standoff has exerted tremendously negative effects on the economy, prompting the two countries to the clinch a deal as soon as possible, Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG), told CGTN.
The U.S. stock market, a visible referendum from financial markets on Trump's policies, has been on the rocks since the president unilaterally launched the fight against China. Trade saber-rattling is also discouraging the flow of overseas investments into the United States, the costs of which are eventually shifted onto American citizens.
Economic difficulties have made two heads of state determined to find a way out. Political sincerity is of vital importance in trade negotiations, Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University of China, echoed Wang Huiyao.
China and the U.S. are not in the new Cold War as some Western media outlets have hyped. Cooperation, instead of confrontation, is still the major theme of the world's most important pair of relations, Wang Yiwei stressed, adding that as long as the two sides have the political will to meet each other halfway and address their respective problems, a fundamental solution is in the near future.
As the 90-day clock ticks, both China and the U.S. have made considerable concessions. Trump has been softening his harsh rhetoric and refraining from provocative acts against Beijing, making two phone calls in less than two months to his Chinese counterpart. Beijing, for its part, is showing sincerity to reduce tariff restrictions on autos, agricultural products and financial services.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., December 27, 2018, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered drastic drops. /VCG Photo
Moreover, as China deepens its reform and opening-up, a number of measures have been introduced to further open its economy to the outside world, creating favorable conditions for Sino-U.S. trade. All of the above have paved way for the world's largest two economies to clinch an eventual deal.
However, although the talks concluded on a positive note, experts hold divergent views on whether Trump would stick to it. After all, the president is known for his fickleness and has retracted his promises several times.
"Capriciousness is not only a 'political style' of Trump, but an attempt by the president to win more leverage in future negotiations," Wang Peng, an associate research fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies under Renmin University of China and Charhar Institute, told CGTN, confident that Trump would for sure go back on this week's consensus.
According to the statement released from the U.S. side, the meetings were held as part of the Xi-Trump agreement "with a view to achieving needed structural changes in China." Structural differences between China and the United States, a major reason for their trade conflicts, are hard to overcome, and this has made Trump's fickle performance more likely.
Wang Huiyao holds a contrasting view – "The current political quagmire means that Trump is unlikely to [back away from] the existing agreement with China." Indeed, the president has shifted his stance on the trade issue several times in the past, but that was merely a political tactic to woo voters in midterm elections.
A sign is displayed on a government building that is closed because of a U.S. government shutdown in Washington, December 22, 2018. /VCG Photo
Following a stinging defeat in November elections which gave Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives, Trump is under increasing political pressure at home. The GOP-Democrat standoff will become a regular event until the 2020 presidential election.
Under this context, improving people's livelihood, the key to winning greater popularity in the 2020 re-election campaign, has become a top priority for Trump's administration. The president cannot afford to ruin ties with the world's second largest economy, and is happy about closer ties with China.
This week's trade negotiations will for sure revive Sino-U.S. ties in 2019. In the era of global integration, the world's two largest economies can resume talks on the Bilateral Investment Treaty, cooperate on Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and even work toward free trade agreements for multi-win results. But still, structural differences determine that frictions are unavoidable between the two countries, of which China should be aware.From CGTN,2019-01-11


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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian CF-18 fighter pilot was killed on Monday when his single-seat jet crashed in a training area near Cold Lake, Alberta, the country's military said.
"The name will not be released until next of kin are notified," the Department of National Defence said in a statement. "A flight safety investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the incident."
In a tweet, the Royal Canadian Air Force called the crash an accident, but did not elaborate. The defense department said there were no other casualties.
The incident happened near the community of Cold Lake, which is close to the neighboring province of Saskatchewan and is home to 4 Wing Cold Lake, the busiest fighter base in Canada, according to the defense department.
The pilot involved was from 4 Wing and crashed his CF-188 Hornet at about 11 a.m. in the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range in Saskatchewan, said Captain Mat Strong, public affairs officer for the base.
A defense department spokeswoman said helicopters were dispatched following the incident.
The base, used to train Canada's fighter pilots, attracts international crews to its annual air combat exercise, Maple Flag, according to the department.
In July, a plane crashed in Cold Lake during a military air show, killing the pilot.
Reporting by Ethan Lou and Nia Williams; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Steve Orlofsky
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Police now believe a man who allegedly ran down another man with a car while wearing clown-type makeup is not a "Juggalo," as initially suspected, Bartlesville Police Chief Tom Holland told the Examiner-Enterprise today.
Twenty-year-old Andrew Joseph Davis is facing charges of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and leaving the scene of an injury accident as a result of a May 10 incident.
Davis was arrested after police received a report of a man being run over by a car in the 3800 block of Northeast Ohio. Witnesses told authorities that the victim was walking northbound on the west side of the street when a black two-door car swerved toward the victim, striking him. The report states that after the vehicle struck the victim, "he was dragged approximately one hundred feet into his other neighbor's yard."
The witness said that as this was happening, the two occupants of the vehicle were yelling "woop woop." After hitting the man, the driver of the car reportedly backed the vehicle up before speeding away. Witnesses contend the car had been seen earlier in the evening driving slowly past the house. Witnesses also noted that the driver was wearing "black and white face paint."
A short time later, police stopped a car matching the description and found that the driver, Davis, was wearing black and white clown-like face paint. The passenger in the car was a 17-year-old male.
At the time, police speculated Davis might belong to a group known as the "Juggalos." Juggalos are fans of the rap act Insane Clown Posse and often wear black and white clown makeup to emulate the band.
"We don't have any evidence to support him (Davis) being in the Juggalos," Holland said today. "We know our Juggalos here. They've always been law abiding and, for the most part, keep to themselves. We've never had problems with them in the past."
Holland said the investigation indicates Davis is not a member of the local group.
"There is a group of Juggalos that gets together here locally," Holland said. "As a national group, they have their own slang (and) their own signs."
The victim in the case was transported to the Jane Phillips Medical Center Emergency Room where he was treated for "multiple bleeding abrasions to his entire body."
The case has garnered national attention due in no small part to the mugshot of Davis wearing clown-type makeup.
Davis is currently free on $25,000 bond and is set for preliminary hearing in the case on July 19.


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Middletown Hotel Management Plans 118-Key Springhill Suites in Beavercreek
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By Adrian Maties, Associate Editor
Middletown Hotel Management plans to start construction this fall on a 118-key Springhill Suites by Marriott on two recently acquired parcels in Beavercreek. Completion is expected by the end of 2015. Middletown did not disclose terms of the land acquisition or the cost of the project.
The new Springhill Suites will be located next to The Mall at Fairfield Commons, close to many restaurants and offices. Amenities will include an indoor pool, a fitness center and meeting space.
"Beavercreek is an area that continues to grow and expand," Bob Ritter, Middletown's vice president of operations, said in a statement. "We feel that the demand is out there for a new hotel." Sue Zickefoose of CBRE Group Inc.'s Dayton office represented the Beavercreek-based hotel developer and manager in the transaction.
According to a first-quarter report from Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc., hotel occupancy and rates are on the rise in the Midwest, in which Marcus & Millichap includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Ohio. Growth in the region's manufacturing sector will spur additional demand from business travelers in 2014. Meanwhile, leisure travel during the warm-weather months will boost room rates 1.5 percent for the region.
Marcus & Millichap projects that occupancy will climb to 59.5% this year as the average room rate reaches $99.91.
Middletown is looking to further expand a portfolio that includes five Ohio hotels: the Hilton Garden Inn in Beavercreek, Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Dayton, Fairfield Inn & Suites in Columbus, Hilton Garden Inn in Columbus and the Hampton Inn in Fairfield.
Rendering: CBRE Group Inc.Charts courtesy of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc..


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After a very special day, send baby shower guests home with a sweet gift to remember it by. These personalized Blue Monkey Candy Boxes are just the right size to hold homemade treats and goodies. Further embellish your blue boxes with blue and green personalized labels that feature a baby monkey design to go with your safari themed shower. Each set of blue boxes includes a matching set of satin bows that are the same color as the box. Or, set these boxes up as a stylish accompaniment to your candy buffet.
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