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What is anarchy?
wyrvan wrote:
Emperor Norton of the United States
The only true American monarch.
Norton was just an eccentric. There's only one state that ever had royalty, and that's Hawaii.
Monarchs are spoiled children in nice clothing.
jo momma
As has been previously stated, in theory, the best possible government for any human society is a benevolent, enlightened dictatorship. The reason it doesn't work that way though is because humans are, to oversimplify it, stupid. Things start out with good intentions, then they change a little, then a lot, then some more, and suddenly it's Stop questioning, work harder, worship King-Emperor Ganzulu I, blessed by the almighty! History is basically one long list of this happening time after time, with brief intermissions of King Good Guy being all chill and kind until his sadistic half-brother murders him with snake venom and usurps his throne, dedicating the rest of his life to messing with the peasants and starting wars in the eternal quest to attain the title of 'History's greatest douche'.
No one in their right minds wants to revert back to absolute monarchy (Despite how easy it is sometimes to wonder if it's actually possible for them to do a worse job than the current, elected incumbent of the boss-chair), and yet, having a figurehead monarch like we do here in the UK, is perfectly fine, better than fine, and it riles and saddens me when people won't see reason on this matter.
It has become terribly unfashionable to retain elements of our past and culture here in England (And note that I say England, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland; their historical and cultural stock has never been worth more), and it's a crying shame. My country has a rich history, filled with all manner of awesome, stupid and downright craziness, some of which even George R.R Martin couldn't make up, and we get nailed for it, even to this day. The Queen, and indeed our monarchy as a whole, are our figureheads; a rallying point, if you will. Even in the 1940's, still within living memory of some who yet breathe, the backbone of our country's morale consisted of two men: Churchill and the King. I'm asking you to think about this for a moment. Look at the United States. For all its wrongs and weirdness that people love to point out, it's probably the most patriotic western nation on the planet. They've mostly stayed true to what they created themselves from, their roots, their (Fabulously well written) constitution, and if there ever comes a day when the skies darken over North America and the proverbial shit hits the fan, they will have that as their rallying point, and the importance of that should not be underestimated. A sense of identity, of belonging, something or someone to rally behind in times of woe is required by all of us in the dark times, times which we on these forums have had the good fortune to never know. We can and should wish and eternally strive for a world where evil and bad people never darken our doorsteps, but believing we are already there because we have been raised in relative safety is naïve to the extreme.
Some people rant about our Queen and monarchy with such venom, you wonder if they themselves have been personally wronged by her. They shout and rant and stamp their feet, demanding the creation of a British republic, that they be torn from their ivory towers and shown how us poor, downtrodden peasants live. And yet, when you debate this topic with them, the argument is often predictable.
"It's wrong, they shouldn't have power!"
"They don't"
"It's wrong, we shouldn't lose money by paying them to sit there and be rich for nothing!"
"We don't, we make several times more from them existing than they cost us"
".........Well it's just wrong, f**k you, right wing filth"
"Thank you"
Almost every time.
If anyone here should have any questions regarding the above argument, I could go into detail but this is already turning out to be something of an essay, so I shall direct you to this short video which puts it all on the table in a rather neat fashion:
When it comes to us trying to forge our countries into something better; creating and polishing our systems of government into something just a little more ideal, there can be nothing more important than reminders of the past, surely? If you stand up right now, then try to think of the most random, idiotic thing your brain is capable of telling your body to do, someone at some point has done the exact same thing. Worse, probably, and it's the same when it comes to governance. The wars we're bogged down in, the wars and fires still being fuelled, the bigotry that still pervades even the most 'modern' of nations, the relentless intolerance, sexism, crime, mind numbing naiveté and selfishness from those we push to the top of the pyramid, supposedly the best and brightest of us all. It continues in a circle, ad infinitum. And so we fumble and we blame, we point fingers at the most visible vestiges of our questionable pasts, and we tear it to pieces. The Russians did so with their monarchy, and ushered in nearly a century of communism. The French did it with theirs, only to put an emperor on the throne a few years later. It is a fact that destruction can often lead to new life, but sometimes... sometimes it just leads to the loss of something important which can never be regained.
You may destroy the titles of king and noble, but kings and nobles there will always be.
TL;DR: Monarchy with power: Bad. Figurehead monarchy: Good. World: Grim. People: Stupid.
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
lordseth23 wrote:
Why are you such a hypocrite? You should take your own advice and be quiet if you cannot prove a point you are trying to make.
I'm not.
1. I have given a reason why we should want a monarchy (just like in your 'discussions'- where I show, beyond a doubt, that you are wrong), only that no one answers to anything that I have said, kind of like that our little argument where I explain to you with almost godly patience why you are wrong on this count and on that count, only you decide to answer in non-sequiturs and repeat the same question over and over. This particular quality of yours has been observe not just by myself, but by two other people, Mr CLarose and Mr Spazticus. Indeed, you two also seem to share a love of spamming people's in-boxes, which, in addition to your stupidities, amplifies your natural unpleasantness. Therefore, my own advice applies to me.
2. Your post is not intended to stimulate the discussion herein, and is only writ so as to defame and attack me to satisfy your petty desire for vengeance. In fact, it is so irrelevant, I may as well report it, were not for the fact that I don't particularly care.
Ask this man
Liar by nature
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
The main female character in V for Vendetta. Played by Natalie Portman in the film telling of the story. She gets saved by V and eventually becomes his successor to turn the fascist Britain into an anarchy.
Liar by nature
ZenZaku wrote:
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
The main female character in V for Vendetta. Played by Natalie Portman in the film telling of the story. She gets saved by V and eventually becomes his successor to turn the fascist Britain into an anarchy.
What does anarchy mean to you?
lordseth23 wrote:
You did not answer my questions, so therefore you did not prove your point and did not contribute to the discussion in a reasonable manner. You and your little troll buddies are completely disregarding the standards that you set.
At last, you have taken to try and graft your own image onto mine.
First, you do not hide the fact that the only reason why you are responding to me at all is for some act of petty vengance, wherein you like to catch me in the act of hypocrisy, that is, the popular, rather than actual definition of it- to commend one action over another, while living contrary to it.
That of course is not true, as in the first post, I have written out the reasons why we should have a monarchy, only to be responded with a post telling me that 'I'm an idiot', and then linking it to some youtube video that I can't be arsed to care about.
You then jumped in to call me a hypocrite when I pointed out that there is nothing by way of argument in that post, and then I have responded to that, and finally your responded with this.
Of course, you are just angry that I have proven you wrong over and over again, that you are reduced to a stuttering infant repeating irrelevant questions when you know that you have been shown wrong, and it is only pride the moves you to write this irrelevant bit of virtuperation and slander.
Since I have actually carefully argued for my points, rather than just blurt out untenable statesments, which is yours (and Vega's) preferred mode of argument, and as I back up my assertion with fact, you, irrational as you are, make unfounded statesments and you treat scepticism of your outrageous statesments as needful of proof. This only demonstrate your ignorance, and why no one needs to take you seriously, and why you should shut up, else think before your speak- Scepticism is the default position until something can be proved, scepticism of the soul and God, for example (as you, I assume, are some sort of Atheists), is the natural position to adopt until there is overwhelming proof that God and Soul does exist.
Or the fact that, to every answer, you respond with irrelevant questions and non-sequiturs- you even, at one point, gladly admit to being a troll. For example, for a lenghty explaination of why you are wrong, lucidly and clearly explicated, you simply respond, instead of a thoughtful response, with a simple 'Why?', which, I assume, is the only Interrogative word you know, and that, were you aware of the existence of 'what', 'when', 'where', 'how', 'who', 'whither' and 'whether', each one would be equally fitting for your mode of discourse- any discussion, whether an explanation of Justice and Ethics, to a measurement of the distance between Los Angeles and New York, would have engendered the question 'why?', and it is probably because you want to perpetuate a dead discussion, a discussion where you are proven wrong over and over again.
You are tiresome, you put no effort in reading, and even less in composing, and you would do well to simply shut up, and spare us of your stupidity and thougthlessness.
Lengthy it may be, it necessary to flay you here as an example to other fools out there, that they may profit from your example and think.
No Place so Sacred from such fools is barr'd,
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-An Essay on Criticism (modified), A. Pope
-Vega- wrote:
ZenZaku wrote:
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
The main female character in V for Vendetta. Played by Natalie Portman in the film telling of the story. She gets saved by V and eventually becomes his successor to turn the fascist Britain into an anarchy.
What does anarchy mean to you?
Anarchy to me is the state of a society being without a governing body. There are no laws and everyone is equal to everyone else. The idea is sort of like what Lordseth has been saying, people caring and understanding each other and working together to solve the problems of that society. While it's wonderful as an idea the human condition prevents this from ever being a reliable way to run a country or a group of people. The fact is as humans we are jealous, envious, and mainly self-centered beings. SO the peaceful anarchtic society can't happen due to the few people who realize that they can take whatever they want whenever they want and the only people who can stop them are the ones who'd rather live in peace than fight back.
Liar by nature
mhibicke wrote:
"In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!"
I plan on ruling from the Space Needle in Seattle, where I can watch my subjects grovel before me. When this world is completely mine, we will conquer space.
I like your style, You start from the west coast, I'll start from the east coast, We'll mash armies in the middle.


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STOCKTON - An apparent murder-suicide Monday that left four dead and partly played out in an upscale retirement home capped three days of violence in Stockton, surpassing the city's all-time homicide record set last year.
STOCKTON - An apparent murder-suicide Monday that left four dead and partly played out in an upscale retirement home capped three days of violence in Stockton, surpassing the city's all-time homicide record set last year.
In all, nine people died violent deaths in a span of 51 hours beginning Saturday, bringing Stockton to a grim record of 59 homicides. There were 58 in all of 2011.
The string of killings began with the brazen lunchtime shooting of a man outside a fast-food restaurant Saturday. Two other fatal shootings followed late Saturday and early Sunday. Add that to Monday's violence, and police were investigating eight new homicides.
"I've never seen this many homicides in such a short time span," said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. "Our detectives have worked around the clock since Saturday."
Investigators believe the murder-suicide began at 3:06 p.m. in the 400 block of North Regent Street, a few blocks from University of the Pacific, where officers found a 64-year-old women shot dead in her home.
Witnesses saw a white man leave in a silver minivan, which officers spotted minutes later parked at O'Connor Woods Senior Living, an upscale retirement home six miles north in the 3500 block of Wagner Heights Road.
Inside a room, officers found two people dead from gunshot injuries - an 88-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, who is the suspected gunman.
Officers found a woman wrapped in a blue tarp in the back of the minivan. Firefighters tried to resuscitate her for several minutes with chest compressions before finally covering her with a yellow tarp and stepping back.
Police Chief Eric Jones arrived at the retirement home and joined a swarm of homicide detectives and uniformed officers behind the yellow crime scene tape.
Police brought in the department's large mobile command center, preparing to work the scene through the night. Worried relatives asked through the fence if their loved ones were OK, and employees had trouble getting inside.
Ron Cutler, who lives across the street, said he was in disbelief. His grandfather had lived at O'Connor Woods, a heavily wooded complex of elderly homes for residents with varying degrees of independence.
"I get the shakes when I see this kind of stuff in Stockton," Cutler said. "This is not what this town is about."
North Regent Street, where the first victim was found, is a tree-lined street right off Pacific Avenue, where residents say they know each other well, have a strong Neighborhood Watch program and enjoy walking to the nearby Miracle Mile.
Neighbors said the house where the woman was found was the home of a woman they knew as Cathy, who lived there on her own.
It was the time of year the woman typically baked intricately decorated Halloween cookies she would bring to neighbors.
"The kids always looked forward to her little treats," said Gloria Yamada, one of the handful of neighbors gathered at the crime scene tape stretched across their street. They were shaken by the violence in their neighborhood.
"This is pretty close to home," Yamada said. "I feel like I want to get out of Dodge."
Investigators were piecing together the relationships among the people involved in the killing Monday and had not released the names of the three victims or the suspected gunman.
Monday's violence began at 12:46 a.m. with a double homicide that was apparently unrelated to the afternoon bloodshed.
It occurred at an apartment complex in the 300 block of Burkett Avenue in south Stockton. Two shooting victims were pronounced dead at the scene: a 23-year-old man inside his apartment and a 31-year-old man outside. The younger victim was a documented gang member, and the older victim was a parolee, Silva said.
A relative of the younger victim lived in a nearby apartment. A search of his apartment turned up an assault rifle; investigators were trying to determine if it had been used during the homicides, Silva said. As of Monday evening, no arrests had been made.
The victims' identities have yet to be released.
Gunshots are commonplace in the area, said Vyancan Lopez, 17. "I've been living out here for 12 years," she said. "It's nothing. You get used to it." She just moved into a new apartment in the same complex. It has already been struck by gunfire.
Her roommate, Maria Martinez, 23, isn't accustomed to the gunshots. "I don't think I can get used to this," Martinez said.
Monday also saw the death of a 23-year-old man who had been shot outside a bar over the weekend.
The unidentified victim had been on life support after he was shot in the parking lot in the 8100 block of North West Lane at 12:35 a.m. Sunday, according to Stockton police.
It was unknown if there was a fight inside the bar before the shooting, but it is possible the shooting was preceded by a disturbance in the parking lot, Silva said.
Authorities on Monday also identified victims of two Saturday homicides.
Dennis Martin Jr., 38, was the man shot and killed in the Wilson Way parking lot outside McDonald's about 12:25 p.m. Saturday, according to the San Joaquin County Coroner's Office.
At 10:49 p.m. Saturday, an unknown assailant shot a man and a woman parked in a car near Mist Trail and Paintbrush drives in Weston Ranch, according to police. The man survived the attack. The woman, 27-year-old Denise Lemberg, died the next day.
There were four people in the car at the time of the attack, police said.
According to reports, the two couples had returned from a date when the attack took place.
Neighbors said they have had problems along the street in the past. It runs alongside a park and appears to be a magnet for drug dealers, they said.
One neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation, said he heard at least eight gunshots, fired in rapid succession from what sounded like a handgun.
His 9-year-old daughter thought it was fireworks, he said.
From his property, he could see the woman as a man tried to stanch her bleeding with a T-shirt. "She didn't deserve to be shot like that," the neighbor said. "It's like the Wild West out here."
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Comcast bills to increase: 1.6 percentFrom Staff Reports
January 07. 2013 11:05PM
Comcast cable subscribers will see increases in several services, scheduled to take effect on Jan. 22, according to notices received by municipal officials throughout the state.
"While we've worked hard to hold down price adjustments, the average customer bill will increase by 1.6 percent, beginning with the February 2013 billing cycle," said Comcast spokesman Marc Goodman.
A notice sent to Manchester officials detailed the price hikes. The monthly charge for limited basic cable in the Manchester area will go from $23.07 to $24.60. Expanded basic will go from $44.20 to $45.15.
The Starter Triple Play Bundle, with telephone, digital television and high-speed Internet, will go from $137 to $142 per month.
"We continue making investments in our network and next-generation technology to make enhancements customers want," said Goodman, "including faster Internet speeds, more multi-platform video, improved customer service and self-help options."
Customers currently on a Comcast promotional offer won't see increases until that promotion expires.
Dish Network recently announced an increase in the price of its core TV bundles effective this month, with most packages rising $5 per month. DirecTV announced price increases averaging 4.5 percent, starting in February.
Cable and satellite providers cited the higher costs for programs and the need for investments in new technology as reasons for the increases.
A DirecTV spokesman said that company has to pay about 8 percent more for programs, since almost all of its providers are hiking their rates, according to Reuters.
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Hi All,
I updated the forum last night. Today I will be moving Textkit to a new platform under wordpress. After there move, there will still be plenty of big changes and work to be done, so if you see something you don't like - let me know because I'll be listening and there's more work to be done.
Last night, I did some reading on forums with this simple question in mind, 'how to make forums easier to use?' If you have thoughts on that, please share. I do no that I'll be condensing some of the boards that are not used too much and I''ll be working with rss feeds to better bring out out both new and active threads across textkit.


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Thick crust pizza
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Pizza, for real. (Ziti pizza with a new and improved crust recipe)
Thick crust pizza
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Rice flour mix is posted on the side of the page, I use the same mix in all my recipes.ReplyDelete
I just noticed the "Important information, flour mix, etc." tab at the top of your blog. Dopey me. All mysteries are solved. Thanks.ReplyDelete
That one looks great ! Will try it soon :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks in advance.
- Anonymous12:57 AM
I can understand how you can have a ton of ziti left over, what I can't understand is how you can have a ton of ziti leftover that is palatable enough to want to use it in another recipe or the next day. :-(ReplyDelete
Any gluten free pasta in my house that is leftover is wrapped up and refrigerated (yes I am still creature of habit from my gluten eating days) even though time after time I see that it is not worth anything the next day, either pasty or hardened and when reheated, just awful.Still it never fails to disappoint me.
How do you do it? I could never have the heart to cook up a big enough batch of ziti to have leftovers, because it always gets tossed.
I microwaved the pasta leftovers, which softens it up, if yours crisps up you could try microwaving it with a damp paper towel over the container to add moisture. To tell the truth I rarely end up eating leftover pastas either but it works on pizza covered with cheese and more sauce.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:46 PM
Thanks Jill Elise for getting back to me. My computer has been on for days with your newly discovered site up...I try to check it back whenever I pass by to look at something else. There are so many yummy thins here. Thank you so much for your positive outlook on eating Gluten Free. It is so easy to feel isolated, often deprived. Especially since I do not eat meat. A LOT of foods went out ouf my diet.ReplyDelete
I just looked at your Stuffed Karpusta (I am Ukrainian Heritage :-) )
I don't eat meat but still that speaks to my senses as my Nana used to make that for me. Maybe I can make it with substitutes rice and seasoned tofu or something.
I am also a pizza FREAK!!! I am from NY and my Deduska was from Kiev to New Haven Connecticut, so I too know the beauty of real pizza. On that never ending quest for the decent GF Pizza! :-)
Keep up the wonderful blog.
Blessings & Good health!
Can I say that you have elevated your self right next to a god in our house now! My husband recently was diagnosed with a gluten allergy and he's been "suffering" from not eating breads and gluten packed things like pizza and cookies. I've been making many of your recipes but have to say that the look on my husbands face when he got to eat pizza again was priceless! As we speak a batch of chocolate chip cookies are also in the oven! Thank you, thank you, thank you!ReplyDelete


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The undersecretary of marketing and regulatory programs for USDA/APHIS says the agency did nothing out of the ordinary when it pushed through an approval for the genetically engineered rice line LL601.
In August 2006, trace amounts of LL601 were found in commercial rice supplies. Subsequently, Bayer CropScience, which developed the variety, filed a petition to deregulate it. Prior to that, Bayer CropScience had not sought deregulation of the genetically-engineered strain because the company did not intend to market it.
USDA requested public comment of the process and received nearly 16,000 comments, most of which were form letters from individuals or groups who were largely opposed to biotechnology products, according to Bruce Knight, speaking at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Las Vegas.
On Dec. 1, 2006, APHIS announced the deregulation of LL601 "because a review of the scientific evidence showed that this variety is as safe as its traditionally-bred counterparts."
There were subsequent reports in national and international media that the agency took shortcuts in pushing through the approval. Not so, says Knight.
"When a crop strain is very similar to other strains that have already been deregulated, APHIS procedures permit a company to seek an extension of deregulation. This means we consider the scientific evidence that has already been submitted as sufficient to support the earlier deregulation as right for the newest consideration.
"That's what we did for LL601. We did not create a special shortcut for LL601, nor was there a compromise in the terms of the safety evaluation. Rather, the extension option enables companies requesting deregulation to build upon the scientific base that's already been established and add it to the information that the APHIS staff had already analyzed and evaluated.
"This same process has been used at least a dozen times in the last 20 years. In this specific case, APHIS deregulated two similar Bayer rice lines in 1999. These contained the same proteins designed to make them resistant to Liberty.
"This protein has been approved for use in many of the foods we already eat. Bayer has commercialized those strains in corn, cotton and canola. This protein has been thoroughly and scientifically approved and the foods including it have been approved for use in the United States and a dozen other countries around the world. Our recent actions in extending non-regulated status to LL601 was thorough and rigorous and based on earlier scientific evaluation."
Knight also brought U.S. rice producers up to date on an ongoing investigation to determine how grains of LL601 ended up in commercial rice supplies, "despite our best efforts not to do so."
"Normally, we don't release results at this stage, but growers need to be making key decisions for the 2007 year. Furthermore, our trading partners deserve full transparency. So we chose to release a limited amount of information that may be helpful.
"The good news is that the only foundation seed that tested positive for LL601 was contained in one rice line, Cheniere. Trace amounts of LL62, one of the strains previously deregulated in 1999, were also found in 2003 Cheniere foundation seed. Since LL62 was already deregulated and had undergone a full safety evaluation by USDA, this rice line was not the focus of the USDA investigation.
"All other tests of foundation seed have been negative for LL601. So the scope of this unintended release is limited to the foundation seed of one variety of long grain rice. Medium and short grain rice are not affected.
"At this point, I can't say any more about the investigation or how much longer it will take. But as soon as it is complete we will share the outcome of that investigation with the public."
Knight also emphasized the importance of getting U.S. rice trade back up to speed. "U.S. growers supply about 13 percent of the world rice trade and 80 percent of those exports are long grain. In a world where two-thirds of the people depend in some part on rice for their daily food, that is an incredible contribution. Toward that end, USDA and other agencies have been involved in a broad-based effort to address the international concerns raised about LL601.
"We are working hard to reopen markets affected by the finding of LL601. We've hosted delegations from other countries and traveled abroad to assure your customers that U.S. rice is safe and healthful.
"Unfortunately, the market in the EU remains problematic to this day. But there is some good news. Mexico and Canada are continuing to purchase U.S. rice. More Latin American countries are moving forward with U.S. rice imports, including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama."
At the time of the meeting in early December, the rice industry knew of the rejection of at least 30 LASH barges of U.S. long-grain rice due to the presence of trace amounts of LL601. Each LASH barge has a cargo capacity of 385 tons.
Bob Cummings, USA Rice Federation's vice president for international trade policy, said rice trade is continuing as usual for 59 percent of the $1.3 billion U.S. rice export market. The biggest of those importing countries are Mexico with $165 million in export value, followed by Haiti, $102 million, Ghana, $49 million, Saudi Arabia, $41 million and Nicaragua, $40 million.
Trade has been disrupted to some extent for the remaining 41 percent of the U.S. export market, including Japan's $160 million market, where testing of rice will be required. Testing will also be required in Iraq, a $102 million market, Canada, a $95 million market, and Korea, a $7 million market.
Trade in long grain rice has stopped in the European Union, $87 million, and Taiwan, $17 million, and the Philippines, $18 million.
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The CDC has released a new report on home birth statistics in the US that shows a 36 percent increase in home births among (non-Hispanic white) women in the US between 2004 and 2009. Though the numbers are still very small-- that jump brought home births to just 1.09% of all US deliveries (whereas home births by far dominate the scene in countries like Japan and the Netherlands)-- 36% is a pretty big step up. Other information included in the report, too, sheds light on some of the reasons behind the increase. Reading between the lines, I'm willing to bet-- if our healthcare and hospital systems continue operating according to the profit- over- patient status quo-- this recent upward trend will continue to climb.
You don't have to dig too deep to derive from the report what's behind the home-birth boom. "Women may prefer a home birth over a hospital birth for a variety of reasons," it reads, "including a desire for a low-intervention birth in a familiar environment surrounded by family and friends." One CDC statistician told USA Today , in decidedly less vague terms, "a lot of women are worried about higher C-section rates and other types of intervention that happen once you go to the hospital."
Birth is, after all, a natural process. And medicine in America operates on the basic premise that the body doesn't know what it's doing. (Case in point: the CDC also recently released a paper suggesting women abstain from breastfeeding so as to maximize vaccination efficacy... I'm not even gonna get started on that noise!). That modern medicine should, as a matter of course, serve as a kind of chaperone (at best) during pregnancy and birth is an assumption that is fairly recent, if also pervasive, in our culture; most births before the 1940s did not take place in hospitals (anyone seen the baby-birthing episode of MadMen? Things got crazy, fast, when hospitals entered the baby business...). But it's an assumption that women are beginning to question. Particularly white women, according to the report, who account for the significant increase in home births, with a three to five times higher home birthing percentage than any other racial or ethnic group. One out of every 90 of their babies is now born at home. While these demographic statistics may not tell us exactly why these women are picking up the home birthing ball and running with it, they do clearly indicate that-- having gained a foothold with this group-- home birthing has hit the mainstream. A cultural shift is under way, as the popularity of documentaries like The Business Of Being Born, as well as alternative birthing services and-- yes!-- blogs circulate through mom-circles. They're changing minds, beliefs, and behavior. The numbers don't lie.
So who are these mommies, anyway? According to the report, they're mostly married, over the age of 35, and have multiple children. Their home births are almost always planned, and are usually assisted by midwives.
There are a few interesting nuggets in there, no? Let's start with age. The 35-and-up preggo set is, in medical birthing circles, usually treated as higher-risk, often based on age, and age alone (a 34-year-old friend of mine who recently gave birth to her daughter was classified as 'high risk' for this reason. She was induced at term as a result). Copious ultrasounds, possible amnios and, eventually, epidurals are just a few of the technologies utilized in bringing this population's babies to their birth days. Yet a bunch of these moms are now going low-tech (like, birthing in a bathtub-style). And for many of them, this is not their first rodeo, even if it is their first home-birthing bash. Statistically speaking, it's reasonable to guess that most of them have delivered at least one other baby in the hospital. So why the shift toward home birthing? These women know from experience that having babies hurts like hell... Why don't they want the doctors? Or the drugs? Perhaps they had unsatisfactory hospital-birth experiences, or perhaps they simply realized that growing and birthing a baby, in most situations, doesn't require DNA testing, constant monitoring or, finally, a panoply of interventions to see the process through.
The report goes on to note, "Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital births, with fewer births to teenagers or unmarried women, and with fewer preterm, low birthweight, and multiple births." The CDC's deduction? "The lower risk profile of home births suggests that home birth attendants are selecting low-risk women as candidates for home birth." But why not interpret this the other way around? As in, more low-risk pregnant women are selecting home birth attendants, in place of doctors, to oversee their deliveries. This locates the mama in the decision-making role (which-- listen up, CDC!-- she is; Midwives aren't running around jumping healthy pregnant ladies. The pregnant women are finding the practitioners! Duh). Which makes a lot of sense, and starts to reflect the approach to birthing that countries like Japan and the Netherlands take as a matter of course. Sometimes hospital births are, of course, necessary. And thank goodness for capable, caring doctors who are ready and willing to deliver those babies! But in many places around the world-- places that also happen to have some of the lowest infant mortality rates worldwide-- midwives and home births are standard practice. Obstetricians are the backup plan.
I was 25 when Kaspar was born, but I was classified as high-risk because I'd had a blood clot in college (caused by birth control pills, which had been handed to me like candy back when I was 16). During my pregnancy, I underwent all of the (highly profitable, sometimes alarmist and usually unnecessary) tests that are available, because I was told to-- though I did not have an amnio, nor was this recommended for me. I was a nervous first-timer, and wanted all of the reassurances I could get, especially in the beginning. Frankly, an experienced doula or midwife telling me to chill out and let the magic happen would have been far more reassuring than the medical conveyor belt I rode down instead, but I took "high risk" seriously and followed doctor's orders. (My doc did tell me, before I delivered, that I was his healthiest "high risk" patient ever... and he's delivered a LOT of babies).
Kaspar's delivery was induced, and while that experience itself was wonderful-- because holy cow, I had a baby! -- the post-delivery experience, in the hospital (a world-famous, high-tech NYC hospital, no less. *Cough* Mount Sinai *Cough*), felt like a brief, somewhat traumatizing imprisonment. What you won't see in our birth story photos is the roommate I was assigned to share my small post-delivery space with (I could have had a single room for 5 grand out of pocket); she had newborn twins and smoker's cough, and she watched TV day and night at full volume. 24/7. She had to pee in a cup twice a day, too, and that cup sat on our shared bathroom floor for hours... and hours... on end. Nurses rarely stopped by to retrieve it, let alone confirm we were alive. I hobbled, barefoot, up and down the hall one afternoon in search of a glass of water. And the nurses that did occasionally appear were straight-up mean. As for Kaspar, he was healthy, but was kept in the nursery for much of our stay. I'd put a "breast ONLY" sign on his little cart, so he was occasionally whisked in for me to feed him, seemingly at random. But something was up with his eating... He couldn't seem to get a good latch (he was brand new, after all), and once he finally did, and ate, he'd end up crying not long after. I later realized he was suffering from reflux, and-- an epiphany-- that I, as his mom, know when something isn't right. But back then, I wanted guidance, instruction... something! My whole pregnancy and delivery had been managed by the world of medicine... I was never, in that process, reminded that I am, in fact, the expert on my body and my baby. I pleaded for a full forty-eight hours to talk to the lactation consultant that was rumored to be available on staff. She didn't appear until about ten minutes before I was discharged, during which time I was changing Kaspar into the tiny clothes I'd brought with me, having daydreamed about this moment for months. She suggested I get a breast pump. I nodded, signed the papers confirming I'd been told a newborn should pee six times a day, and finally escaped.
Escorted home by my husband and some of our closest friends, I felt exhausted, and terrified. It was only once we'd arrived, home at last-- our fridge filled with food from friends and our apartment warm and nesty-- that I soaked for hours in Kaspar's smell and sounds. Snuggling with him, staring at him, I felt content and calm. I felt like a mother.
Three months later, I wrote a letter to the hospital about my experience. I received a reply, an apology and a promise that changes would be made based on my concerns. I threw that letter away, and moved on, not wanting to remember Kaspar's beginning as anything but beautiful. I've never written about this before. But I will say that if I could do it all again, there's no way I'd go for the induction; my little man was baking along just fine. (I've often wondered if his initial reflux, and the food allergies that followed, would have occurred if he'd been able to bake to his self-determined lebel of doneness). I'd birth my baby right in our little nest, and indulge the bare minimum of medical monitoring required to get us there. I'd trust the process. I know other moms who had less-than-stellar hospital births, and who had a hard time getting over it. I deliberately didn't wallow and rarely think about do-overs, because life doesn't work that way. But if I do it again, I'm gonna try for a home birth. This shift in my perspective is based on hindsight, though, and in this way I am like the majority of women choosing to forego hospitals these days.
What about you? Have you had an experience with home birth? How about hospital experiences-- how'd those go? I know some are totally fine! Would you try a home birth next time, if you haven't already?
As a final note, alternative health care is currently mostly paid for out-of-pocket in this country. Many women who are a part of minority groups may have only mainstream medicine as an option; although the CDC report notes that home births cost about one-third as much as hospital births (!), if a woman has Medicaid or another form of state-subsidized health coverage, the medical establishment (and pharmaceutical companies) still stand to make a small fortune off of her hospital delivery. I wonder if this is part of the reason that minority groups, as a whole, aren't keeping pace on the home birth front? While the new data from the CDC reflects a really cool climb in women taking charge of their birthing experiences, I hope we'll feel appropriately challenged by the demographic disparity and do what we can to get the information, and options, to all women in this country. Let's make the next report show a continuing upward trend in home births-- and birthing options-- among women of all backgrounds!
I'm looking forward to hearing about your experiences and thoughts on home and hospital births!
PS. Extra special thanks to dfwbirthphotographer.com for the beautiful pic for this post! Mamas, check out all of the amazing birth stories and photos on the site. Wowza!
PPS. Bonus round! Here's a six-year-old sibling's adorable account of what home birth is like; Enjoy!


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The video of our lecture at the University of Hawaii is about 95 minutes long. My friend, Sensei Angel Lemus, tried to upload a single video, which took a whole day. It turned out it is too long for Youtube. We need to split it into parts, which is being done now. I will let you know when the video is available, but wanted to give you the status.
In the meantime, perhaps you could visit Lemus Sensei's One Minute Bunkai website. His latest video is one he showed at our most recent Kenkyukai training session.
If I was making a bunkai team and got to pick members, Lemus Sensei would be tops on my list. At our Kenkyukai training, he showed an opening movement with an application. I asked him to show a different finishing movement, then another, and another. I think I stopped at 10 or 12, each of which he spontaneously and smoothly demonstrated. Could you do that? Could you do that without any advance notice? Could you do that for all the movements you know? To me, that is really impressive.
Charles C. Goodin
Video Update
The video of our lecture at the University of Hawaii is about 95 minutes long. My friend, Sensei Angel Lemus, tried to upload a single video, which took a whole day. It turned out it is too long for Youtube. We need to split it into parts, which is being done now. I will let you know when the video is available, but wanted to give you the status.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A story of Karate.
Once upon a time, there was a baker who made the best cookies in the whole word. People would stand in line just to be able to purchase a single cookie and when they ate it, they would feel an overwhelming sense of happiness. Each cookie was unique and a masterpiece. But the baker could only produce three or four each day.
One day a cookie company contacted the baker and offered to mass produce his cookies. A factory was built near the original bakery, which was bulldozed to make a parking lot. The new cookies looked the same and were made with the same ingredients, but they were not the same. The lost their uniqueness. When people bought them, they tasted like ordinary cookies.
After selling millions of the new cookies, the baker became disillusioned. He missed making masterpieces. And so he decided to make a new bakery and start over again.
Unfortunately, the cookie company obtained an injunction preventing the baker from ever selling his cookies again, as he had sold them his rights.
And so the baker retired and dreamed for the rest of his life about his original cookies.
The moral of the story is that three or four masterpieces are better than a million ordinary cookies. For that matter, even one or two masterpiece Karate students are better than a million mass produced ones. Sorry, did I say "Karate students"? I meant cookies.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Respect and Acceptance
I have found that two things are very inexpensive to give but are worth a great deal: respect and acceptance. This is especially true in Karate.
There is a respect given because a person is physically strong. This is shallow. Physical strength declines with age, and even with the best mechanics and conditioning, we do grow slower and weaker with age. Respect for physical strength alone would diminish as a person ages.
But respect for a person's character and humanity will grow with age.
I know people who study many different styles of Karate. I am sure that each of us like our own style, and sometimes might question another person's emphasis in Karate. But I have learned to appreciate and respect different styles and emphases in Karate. My own emphasis has changed many times during my Karate life. One of the things I appreciate is that my Karate friends and I accept each other. We don't look at each other with a look of "I think I could take you." Instead, we have a look of "I think I could learn something from you." "And if you had a problem,I would have your back."
Respect and acceptance, of course, are just as important outside of Karate. Everyone is different. Thank goodness for that! The older I get and the more I experience life, the more I respect people and the more I accept different views and lifestyles.
Life is small when a person is narrow minded. The opposite is also true.
In Hawaii, we have a "mixed plate" for lunch -- different kinds of food. Together they are great. A musubi is good but you can't beat a good mixed plate lunch.
Now I'm hungry.
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, February 25, 2012
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The video should be ready very soon. Just a little longer.
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Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, February 25, 2012
Karate In the Ryukyu Kingdom Lecture Follow-up
Last Thursday, Sensei Pat Nakata and I presented the lecture,
How is Okinawan Culture Spread through Karate?
at the Manoa Campus of the University of Hawaii. The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Okinawn Studies, which is headed by Dr. Joyce Chinen. My contact at the center for the lecture was Lynette Teruya, who was very supportive and helpful. Gay Satsuma of the Center for Japanese Studies attended, as did Dr. Alfred Yama Kina, who had given a lecture a few months ago about his experiences in Shuri. My Sensei in Hawaii, Sensei Rodney Shimabukuro, and his wife, Joyce also attended.
Here are links to the Flyer and Handout for the Lecture. I hope that you will review the Handout as it presents some of the materials we covered. It includes a Bibliography, a chart about the Ryukyu Caste System, and a list of ten Karate people with their Ryukyu Kingdom titles.
The lecture started at 3:00 p.m. and the room was filled with attendees, including three members of our Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai: Sensei Herbert Ishida, Sensei Hisae Ishii-Chang, and Sensei Sean Roberts. Sensei Angel Lemus who is also a member of the Kenkyukai attended and took video of the entire lecture. He is working on the footage for uploading to Youtube. Nakata Sensei and I are very grateful to Lemus Sensei for his expertise and hard work. I will post here when the video is uploaded.
I had prepared a Powerpoint presentation with about 90 slides. Lemus Sensei is incorporating the slides in the video. I'm sure that this is a big job for him.
I started the lecture with information about the Ryukyu Kingdom and its caste system. Karate experts and instructors were almost exclusively members of the Uekata and Peechin class, with most being in the Pechin class. Sometimes these classes are compared to "Lords" or "Daimyo" and "Samurai", but in my opinion, comparisons to Japanese classes are not very helpful. To me, the Uekata and Pechin classes (with the various subclasses), were Ryukyu Kingdom officials and the equivalent of civil servants with many privileges.
I contrasted the historical information we have about Karate experts in the Ryukyu Kingdom with the popular story about Karate being developed by Okinawan peasants and farmers to protect themselves against the invading Satsuma samurai (1609). In fact, I have found that most of the "popular" stories about Karate are simply myths. To understand the development of Karate, it is essential to study the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Nakata Sensei presented information about the Chinese origins of Karate, outlining some of the sources of Chinese contacts. He shared how his teacher, Chosin Chibana, said that known Karate began with Kanga Teruya, who became known as Tudi (or Tote) Sakugawa. You can see the handout for his birth and death dates and social rank.
I was given a lot of help with the Caste System chart by my Sensei in Okinawa, Sensei Katsuhiko Shnzato, and Dr. Alfred Yama Kina. Dr. Kina also studies Okinawan dance here in Hawaii with Sensei Kikue Kaneshiro. My Hawaii Sensei's wife, Joyce Shimabukuro, also studied with Kaneshiro Sensei. I learned a lot about the Kingdom period by reading Dr. Kina's thesis, which is listed in the Bibliography.
I mentioned that in the Ryukyu Kingdom, rank in Karate either did not exist or was pretty irrelevant -- what mattered was your position in Ryukyu society and the level of your service to the King. Karate instructors might have taught students who were of higher social classes, and I'm sure that each was acutely aware of this.
Lemus Sensei and I both study styles of Karate that trace to Chotoku Kyan. Kyan Sensei's father, Chofu Kyan, is listed in the handout, and was a member of the Ryukyu Kingdom's last Sanshikan (Council of Three). The Sanshikan was one of the highest bodies in the Ryukyu government. Chofu Kyan was a student of Sokon "Bushi" Matsumura, who is also listed in the handout. Chofu Kyan also became King Sho Tai's Chamberlain and oversaw all of this assets. He is another example of a Karate expert who was a member of the Ryukyu Kingdom's "official" classes.
Shinzato Sensei had actually prepared a much longer list of Karate experts for me. I reduced this to 10 for the handout. During the Ryukyu Kingdom period, all were of the Shizoku, or privileged classes. Okinawan elders I have spoken to all said that life for "commoners" was very difficult in Okinawa, and working people worked extremely hard all day. Natural resources were very limited. Only the privileged classes had time for Karate -- and access to instructors.
After the Ryukyu Kingdom was abolished and King Sho Tai was forced into exile in Tokyo, Karate had to adapt to the policies of the Japanese Empire. It is very interesting that Karate experts where of the same social classes as Ryukyu dance and music experts. All of these "professionals", deprived of their stipends, lands (if applicable), and titles, had to find a way to make a living. Many moved away from Shuri and began to teach their respective arts to the pubic -- rather than just to members of their own social classes. To me, this probably brought about the greatest change in Karate. Teaching Karate to the public resulted in two Karates -- the old and the new. The new was ultimately taught in the Okinawan school system and this form of Karate, generally, is what spread to mainland Japan and other countries.
But the old was also preserved, particularly with people such as Chosin Chibana, Nakata Sensei's teacher in Okinawa (his original teacher in Hawaii was Sensei Walter Nishioka, who is also a member of our Hawaii Karate Kenkukai -- in fact, I saw him today at our training). Chibana Sensei learned from Anko Itosu (who learned from Sokon Matsumura, who learned from Tote Sakugawa, who learned from Kusanku (a Chinese envoy)). I asked Nakata Sensei to share Chibana Sensei's Karate-Do No Kokoroe, which is printed in the Handout. I will let you watch the video to hear Nakata Sensei's words. One story that moved me involved a challenge match that Nakata Sensei was forced to accept when he studied in Okinawa. In the end, Chibana Sensei intervened to restrain Nakata Sensei from finishing off his challenger, saying that we must also have compassion for our enemies.
Karate was taught in the Okinawan school system around 1903 or so. The first Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii left Okinawa in December of 1899 and arrived on January 6, 1900. At least three Karate practitioners were among them. Kisaburo Kawakami had actually arrived four years earlier. His son, Kitaro Kawakami, was a student of Kentsu Yabu, which makes me suspect that his father had learned from Sokon Matsumura. Succeeding waves of Okinawan immigrants continued to bring Karate to Hawaii. The early students had learned the "old" style, not the public school version.
One question we asked was "How is Okinawan Culture Spread Through Karate?" I summarized some of the exhibits, demonstrations, lectures, and events that our Hawaii Karate Museum and my friends in the Hawaii Karate Kenkyukai had participated in over the years. I also described our museum's donation to the University of Hawaii of the Hawaii Karate Museum Collection, a permanent collection at the Okinawan Collection of the Hamilton Library at the Manoa Campus. Please check the Digital Archives for some excellent books and materials that are online.
We have worked to help establish Karate as a subject worthy of study, individually and at the University level. But the way that Karate is taught is from Sensei to student, and the way that Karate is learned is through training. If Okinawan and Ryukyuan culture is to be spread, it will have to happen in the dojo, school, recreation center, or garage. It has to be spread from Sensei to student, and from older brother or sister to younger.
I have often been advised by Okinawan elders that in order to understand and appreciate Karate, you should study the history and culture of its homeland -- Okinawa. I agree completely. Together, as Instructors and Students of Karate, let us do our very best not only to learn the physical aspects of the art, but to also learn about the Ryukyu Kingdom and Okinawa, and the values that shaped and guided the early Karate pioneers.
Nakata Sensei and I hope that the lecture was one small step in this direction. We were supposed to end at 4:30 p.m., but with questions we went to about 4:45 p.m. The Center for Okinawan studies then served some refreshments.
I am very grateful to Nakata Sensei of sharing his insights and lessons. I have learned so much from him over the years, and continue to do so today. We also want to thank Lemus Sensei, Shinzato Sensei, Dr. Kina, Dr. Chinen, Lynette Teruya, and everyone who helped us with the lecture, and to all the attendees. I also want to thank Shimaburo Sensei and his wife Joyce, and the Center for Okinawan Studies, Dr. Kina, and Joyce for the beautiful lei.
If you like the video, I hope that you might ask your students to watch it. Again, I will announce here when it is available online.
Respectfully in the art,
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Sunday, February 19, 2012
Good Basics -- Like a Propeller
This is a simple principle, but an important one:
If your basics are good, as you gain more power and speed, the movements will be stable.That is why it pays to take your time and learn your basics well. For instructors, this is why it pays to take your time and teach the basics to your students well.
If you basics are bad, as you gain more power and speed, the movements will fall apart.
It is like the propeller on an airplane. At slow speed, flaws or imbalance in the propeller will probably not cause too much of a problem. But at high speed, the propeller will fly apart and destroy the airplane -- and cause a crash.
With good basics, increased speed and power makes the movement feel even more stable -- like a perfectly balanced propeller!
Charles C. Goodin
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, February 02, 2012
Just One Week Until Our Lecture!
The lecture by Sensei Pat Nakata and me,
How is Okinawan Culture Spread through Karate?
will be in just one week! I hope that you can attend or will be able to watch it when it is available on Youtube.
Karate is not just from Okinawa, it is from the Ryukyu Kingdom (and China too). In order to understand Karate, it is very helpful to student the history of culture of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Kingdom. This is the shared history of all Karate students.
Here is my earlier post:
On Thursday, February 9th at 3:00 p.m., Sensei Pat Nakata and I will give a lecture at the University of Hawaii. A poster is above (click the poster for a larger pdf file) and the information is included below. Please feel free to distribute this information to anyone who might be interested. I am very honored to give this lecture with my good friend and senior, Sensei Nakata Sensei.
I have asked my good friend, Sensei Angel Lemus, to take video of the lecture and we hope to be able to present it on YouTube after the event.
I am very encouraged that this lecture is sponsored by a the Center for Okinawan Studies at the University of Hawaii. The subject matter of Karate and its place in Okinawan history and culture is truly worth of study. Those of us who are fortunate to practice and teach the art, are caretakers of this great tradition.
Charles C. Goodin
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Karate in the Ryukyu Kingdom, Okinawa Prefecture, and Hawaii
How is Okinawan Culture Spread through Karate?
Learn about the origins of Karate (Tudi, "Tang or China" Hand) among members of the highest levels of Ryukyuan society. Karate was part of the upbringing of selected sons of noble and samurai families who were trained to become bushi, cultured gentlemen. Based largely on Chinese martial arts and values, Karate was usually taught secretly or in private.
About twenty years after the Ryukyu Kingdom was abolished and Okinawa became a prefecture (1879), Karate became a part of the public school curriculum. Taught publicly and to a large number of students for the first time, Karate had to adapt to Japanese values and objectives. But the old form of Karate still existed with the new. Explore why the myth of Karate being developed by Okinawan farmers and peasants was spread in Japan... and still exists today.
Karate came to Hawaii with the very first Okinawan immigrants starting in 1900. Originally limited to members of the Okinawan community, the art is now widely practiced by students of all ethnic groups. Through Karate training, students are provided an opportunity to learn about Okinawan history and culture.
Speakers: Sensei Pat Nakata (Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate Association) &Event is free and open to the public.
Charles C. Goodin (Hawaii Karate Museum)
Date: February 9, 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Location: Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room)
For more information or disability access, please contact:
Center for Okinawan Studies, tel. 956-0902 / 956-5754
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Thursday, February 02, 2012


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For decades, people have turned to diet soft drinks as a healthier alternative to regular soft drinks. However, consuming diet soda on a regular basis may have some serious health ramifications, including weight gain.
It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that diet sodas may be causing people to gain weight, particularly because these sodas are commonly consumed by people who are trying to lose weight. However, artificial sweeteners found in some diet sodas may increase a person's risk of obesity. It's not entirely what you are eating that can cause weight gain but what the body thinks it is eating (or drinking) that plays a role.
There are two factors at play with regard to the artificial sweetener conundrum. First, The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio has researched the potential link between obesity and artificial sweeteners. Researchers have found that something in the chemical structure of these sweeteners alters the way the brain processes the neurotransmitter serotonin. In addition to helping with sleep, mood and other functions in the body, serotonin helps tell the body when it is full. When natural foods and sugars are consumed, serotonin signals to the brain to turn off your body's appetite. However, artificial sweeteners may prolong the release of serotonin, and your appetite remains in full force long after it should have abated.
Another component of artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame, is that these chemicals can trick the body into thinking it has, in fact, consumed sugar. That triggers the pancreas to produce the insulin needed to regulate blood-glucose levels. It also causes the body to store the glucose as fat. This can lead to low blood sugar, which may cause you to eat a sugary treat in response. Having diet soda or eating a sugarless item once in a while won't create any long-term effects. But repeatedly relying on artificial sweeteners could affect appetite and change blood sugar levels for good.
These aren't the only consequences to diet soda and other beverages. Drinking diet soda regularly may affect cardiovascular health. According to the American Heart Association, research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference found people who drink diet soda every day have a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events than those who reported no soda consumption.
Regular soda isn't a better alternative. It can contribute to weight gain and cardiovascular issues as well as an increased risk for diabetes. A 2011 review published in the journal Circulation stated that a positive association has been shown between sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption and weight gain in both children and adults.
Nutritionists and doctors have advised that instead of adding artificial sweeteners to water and other beverages, flavor them with lemon or lime juice. Instead of drinking diet soda, opt for unsweetened tea or plain water.
Although diet soda may seem a likely option to help curb calories and prevent weight gain, such beverages may actually be having an adverse effect on a person's weight. (Metro)


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UPDATE: Ergon Energy believes bats on the lines may have been the cause of a power outage that affected residents across three suburbs last night.
A spokesman said it was likely a fault current had been set off because there were a few reports of loud bangs and arcing from residents in the area.
North Toowoomba residents lose power overnight
EARLIER: About 2650 Ergon Energy customers lost power last night after powerlines came down at the intersection of West and Fanny Sts.
A police crew came across the fallen lines about 10.45pm.
A Toowoomba police spokesman said the cause of the power lines being across the road was not clear.
An Ergon Energy spokesman said the high-voltage network was reinstated by 3.25am today, but about 80 customers could not have their electricity restored until 8.30am due to safety checks on the low-voltage network.
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By BEN MCCARTY
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February 21, 2007
Even though his team did not come away with a state championship, Hood River Valley wrestling coach Rich Polkinghorn could not be disappointed with his team's effort.
Alex Titus took second place in the 285-pound division, while Sean Baker, after losing his first match, advanced to the consolation finals at 130 pounds and wound up with fourth place. The Eagles, which qualified seven wrestlers for the first-ever Oregon 6A state competition, finished in 15th place as a team, with a score of 47.0
"To take 15th at state with a school of 1,100 people is pretty good," Polkinghorn said. "The tradition of wresting at Hood River Valley is great."
Roseburg won the 6A team championship, as well as individual titles in three weight classifications.
It was a disappointing end to an otherwise spectacular tournament performance by Titus, who defeated Oregon City's Scott Shugert in double overtime to advance to the championship match.
In the championship, Titus appeared to have much of the momentum in the first round of the match, but at the opening of the second round, Milwaukie's Jimmy Haman was able to pry Titus out of his "down" position, and flip into his shoulders, a move that Titus could not escape from.
After wrestling Shugert for eight minutes to earn the right to battle for the title, the championship match lasted two minutes 25 seconds.
"I just got caught and he was strong enough so that I just couldn't get out," Titus said.
After the first day of competition, Titus and Baker were the only two Hood River wrestlers remaining in the tournament, but both notched themselves small parts in Hood River history with their performances over the remainder of the tournament.
Titus became the second Hood River heavyweight to place at state, following Jimmy Donnelly, who won the state title in 1995; and Sean Baker became the second Hood River sophomore to place at state, following in the footsteps of Doug DeHart, who took fourth place at 145 pounds in 1988.
Even though his Hood River wrestling career ended on a down note, don't expect to find Titus moping for long.
He will now be focusing on concluding his senior year and getting ready for college.
He has applied to both Stanford and the University of Puget Sound and expects to wrestle collegiately wherever he ends up.
Polkinghorn, for one, will be sad to see him go.
"It's a tough way for Alex to end," he said. "He's been a stud for us and the hardest worker in the room."
In the past several years, Polkinghorn has seen the team make dramatic improvements and is confident that the team will be bouncing back next year.
"Four returning state qualifiers is a lot to grow on," he said.
Baker will headline that group of of returners for the Eagles next season.
Despite the loss in championship, Titus gave Hood River wrestling fans one to remember with his dual with Shugert in the Friday night semi-final.
As the wrestlers battled into overtime tied at 2-2, they were the only wrestlers left on the mat for the evening.
Titus barely avoiding falling behind in the first overtime when Shugert took him down, but could not stay in bounds.
In the first 30 seconds of the second overtime, Titus was able to escape from Shugert's grip from the bottom position to get two escape points that Shugert could not match in the second portion of the overtime.
The same move would not work again in the championship, but Titus was content with what he accomplished in the tournament.
"I had fun," he said. "I think I wrestled pretty well and I'm satisfied."
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Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals
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Updated BT will be forced to cut the prices of the access charges it applies to the company's broadband and telephone lines when leasing them out to other providers, Ofcom said today.
The communications watchdog, which regulates BT's Openreach division because the business has a dominant market position in Blighty, submitted its "provisional new charge controls" to the European Commission this morning.
Ofcom said the decision was at a draft stage, and that it would be scrutinised by Brussels' officials before a final ruling is reached in March this year.
For a fully unbundled line (telephone and broadband) to a property, the watchdog proposed that Openreach should reduce its annual rental charge from £91.50 to £87.41 for the 2012/13 financial year.
It provisionally set the cost of a shared unbundled line (broadband only) to a property, slapping on a wholesale price tag of £11.92 per year, compared with the current annual charge of £14.70.
Finally, Ofcom said it also wanted to see wholesale line rental costs fall from £103.86 per year to an annual price tag of £98.81.
The regulator reiterated that it wanted to see BT's Openreach prices continue to decrease.
Previously, rival ISPs have been deeply critical of the national telco's "restrictive pricing".
In September last year, TalkTalk's commercial boss David Goldie claimed that BT was trying to regain "the monopoly position that it lost many years ago" courtesy of its provision of fibre optic broadband.
Concerns over the pricing of BT's duct-and-pole infrastructure were repeatedly highlighted to Ofcom, which eventually convinced the company to reduce its pricing.
BT, for its part, has warned the City that its wholesale business was being hampered by too much regulatory meddling.
A BT spokesman told The Register: "Whilst the prices are within the range outlined by Ofcom in November, we disagree with some of the underlying assumptions that they have used to determine these charge controls. Our primary concern throughout this process is to ensure that we are able to achieve a fair rate of return in order to continue our investment in the future of the UK's communications infrastructure. We will consider all options available to us, including appealing, after Ofcom confirms its final decisions." ®


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BEIJING (AP) — A mounting dispute between Washington and Beijing over access to records of Chinese companies with U.S.-traded shares might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine Baidu to withdraw from American stock exchanges.
The dispute highlights the clash between heightened U.S. anti-fraud efforts and official Chinese secrecy despite Beijing's desire to profit from deeper links with the global economy.
This month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused the Chinese affiliates of five major accounting firms of impeding fraud investigations of nine companies by failing to hand over documents. Separately, an American panel that oversees accounting wants to inspect Chinese auditors of U.S.-traded companies.
Beijing has resisted expanding access to corporate records as a violation of its sovereignty.
Without a compromise, China-based accountants might be stripped of authorization to prepare financial reports required by U.S. regulators, said Paul Gillis, an accounting professor at Peking University's business school. Eventually, that could make it impossible to trade Chinese shares in the United States.
"I think it's become fairly difficult for a deal to be done," Gillis said. "The SEC action makes it seem as if the Chinese have to give in. Any concessions will have to come from the Chinese side, which will make them lose face, so they are unlikely to give way on that."
No changes are required immediately. A ruling on the SEC's Dec. 4 complaint is not due until next year. That allows time for negotiation and, if no settlement is reached, for companies to buy back their shares or move to Hong Kong or another non-U.S. exchange.
Still, the wholesale departure of Chinese companies from American stock markets would be a setback to closer financial ties between the world's two biggest economies. Chinese companies are expanding abroad and acquiring assets such as state-owned CNOOC Ltd.'s $15.1 billion purchase this month of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen.
"We may soon see the market-wide delisting of all Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges," warned an American investment newsletter, The Motley Fool, last week.
Other governments including the 27-nation European Union also have resisted U.S. pressure for more access to corporate records but most reached compromises that satisfied Washington. That often involves joint audits by American and local regulators.
Chinese companies have raised more money in U.S. stock markets in the past decade than companies from any other country except the United States itself.
Chinese companies raised billions of dollars by selling shares to American investors since the late 1990s. Many were private companies that could not raise money on Chinese exchanges, which were created to finance state industry, or wanted to show they could meet more rigorous U.S. reporting standards.
Beijing encouraged the move to finance private business and speed economic development.
More recently, however, Beijing has encouraged companies to sell shares on China's own exchanges to help develop its financial markets and give Chinese families better investment choices.
Many U.S.-traded Chinese companies are small but some are industry leaders such as PetroChina Ltd., Baidu Inc. and Internet portals Sina Corp. and Sohu Inc. with outstanding shares worth tens of billions of dollars. They are widely held by investment funds and individuals. A departure would reduce the options American investors have for profiting from China's rapid economic growth.
Spokespeople for Baidu Inc., traded on the Nasdaq market, and solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Ltd., traded on the New York Stock Exchange, declined to comment on how they might be affected. PetroChina did not respond to a request for comment.
A series of accounting scandals at Chinese companies has battered share prices in the United States, costing investors several billion dollars.
The SEC wants to see "work papers," or corporate documents used by auditors to prepare financial reports for nine Chinese companies suspected of fraud. Its complaint said Chinese affiliates of the "Big Four" accounting firms — Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers — and a fifth firm, BDO, failed to comply with orders to hand over the documents.
The accountants say Chinese national secrets laws bar the release of documents, but the SEC said firms "face serious consequences" if they conduct audits knowing they cannot comply with U.S. disclosure requirements.
The SEC complained that it had sent its Chinese counterpart, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, 21 requests for assistance in 16 investigations since 2009 and failed to receive any audit papers. It said negotiations aimed at establishing a framework for sharing information have made no progress.
Separately, the accounting oversight panel created by a 2002 anti-fraud law, says it is required to conduct regular inspections of Chinese auditors of companies with U.S.-traded stocks. Chinese authorities have resisted that.
Pressure from American regulators could accelerate a trend among some Chinese companies to buy back their U.S. shares and move to China's domestic exchanges or go private.
U.S.-traded Chinese companies saw share prices plunge following the 2008 global crisis, while economic growth at home, even after a recent decline, is still forecast at about 8 percent this year. Rising Chinese incomes are creating a bigger pool of money for investment.
In the biggest delisting this year, Focus Media Holding Co. said in August its chairman and private equity firms would buy back its U.S. shares in a deal that valued the Shanghai-based advertising company at $3.5 billion. Company managers complained its U.S. share price was too low and failed to reflect the strength of its business.
Smaller companies also are pulling out of the United States, helped by financing from Chinese institutions that are flush with cash from the country's economic boom. A business magazine said the government's China Development Bank has lent $1 billion to companies this year to buy back U.S. shares and move their listings to domestic exchanges.
Beijing has made it easier for private companies to join China's two exchanges in Shanghai and the southern city of Shenzhen, though most listings still are for state enterprises. The Shenzhen exchange created a second board for small companies, imitating the U.S.-based Nasdaq market.
If Chinese companies leave American financial markets, "the only one that gets hurt is the U.S. exchanges that lose some business but gain credibility for having high standards," said Peking University's Gillis.
"And the accountants get rich, because if they move to Hong Kong, they have to be audited again," he said. "So perversely, the accountants are probably the biggest winners if this thing blows up."


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At the other end of the pay scale, David Scales, a doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance, points out that the current focus on training physicians for empathy misses 'the glaring deficits in the work environment, which squelch the human empathy that doctors possess'. Facing an endless stream of patients, huge financial pressure to keep visits short, and 80-hour working weeks, doctors can find it impossible to be truly present with the particular person in pain sitting before them. As Bates found in her study of British care girls, Scales suggests looking at the tension between addressing people's most pressing needs as quickly as possible within an overburdened system and really taking the time to care for them. Having some autonomy, being treated decently and not being overstressed all the time might be the biggest keys to being an effective emotional worker.
T here's an enormous opportunity before us, as robots and algorithms push humans out of cognitive work. As a society, we could choose to put more resources into providing better staffing, higher pay and more time off for care workers who perform the most emotionally demanding work for the smallest wages. At the same time, we could transform other parts of the economy, helping police officers, post-office workers and the rest of us learn to really engage with the people in front of us.
This isn't something our economic system, which judges the quality of jobs by their contribution to GDP, is set up to do. In fact, some economists worry that we haven't done enough to improve the 'productivity' of service jobs such as caring for the elderly the way that we have in sectors such as car manufacturing. Emotional work will probably never be a good way to make money more efficiently. The real question is whether our society is willing to direct more resources toward it regardless.
Technology-driven efficiency has achieved wonderful things. It has brought people in developed countries an astonishingly rich standard of living, and freed most of us from the work of growing the food we eat or making the products we use. But applying the metric of efficiency to the expanding field of emotional labour misses a key promise offered by technological progress – that, with routine physical and cognitive work out of the way, the jobs of the future could be opportunities for people to genuinely care for each other.
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James Lofton reflects on his accolade, and why not?
"It's one of those things that nobody can take it away from you,'' Lofton said. "It's also just a great honor because when I look at the selection process... it is still overwhelming because I still look at myself as a skinny high school quarterback.''
The skinny on the award? Actually Lofton is talking of his 2003 Hall of Fame induction for being among the all-time best wide receivers.
But Lofton was selected for something else recently, and while it pales to the HOF, he's thrilled.
Lofton, a longtime San Diego resident, calls the NFL's Sunday night games for the Dial Global Network and was named the radio analyst of the year by the Associated Press. Along with Dave Sims, the pair present the game in a unique and entertaining manner.
"We have fun sitting up there and this week is it for us,'' Lofton said of Sunday's NFC Championship Game matching the 49ers and Falcons.
The real joy comes when tuning it. Despite a long day of football, capping it by dialing up Lofton is a treat. Listeners always learn something, with Lofton drawing on his playing, coaching and life experiences.
He's come a long way from delicately loading Smart and Final trucks with groceries as a teenager, his first job to prove he had reliable hands.
But what's akin to stacking eggs on the bottom is Lofton no longer coaching. He had a seven-year stint with the Chargers and those he touched always sang his praises.
Lofton, 56, who once interviewed for the Raiders' head-coaching position, occasionally feels the urge to return.
"I miss it a little bit when watching a game and I see somebody not using the technique that would benefit them,'' Lofton said. "So I'm sitting up there in press box and I know the receivers coach so I think maybe I'll go tell him.
"Then I think I shouldn't because that would be like someone coming into your house and rearranging your furniture a little bit.''
Lofton's broadcasting style entices his audience like a comfortable couch. The 16-year-pro obviously knows the schemes, but its his off-beat slant and delivery that makes him special.
He's blunt without being a bully; informative without talking down to those with attentive ears.
For Sunday's assignment, he's leaning toward the host Falcons, but he's not certain. Lofton, like others, is mesmerized by Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco's dual-threat quarterback. Lofton called the 49ers' playoff win over Green Bay on Sunday.
"For me it was like watching a Friday night high school game and you look down and the quarterback is the best athlete on the field,'' Lofton said.
"And when you watched San Francisco-Green Bay last week, despite players like Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews and Charles Woodson being out there, you looked at the guy playing quarterback for the 49ers, Kaepernick.
"He dominated the course of the game and you say, 'where did he come from?' He was bigger, stronger and faster than everyone else on the field. You think,'Oh my goodness, now we know what (coach) Jim Harbaugh saw in practice when he made his decision''
The verdict was sitting a proven, but less spectacular, Alex Smith. Kapernick, who rushed for two scores and a playoff-record 181 yards, has everyone's tongue wagging.
Just like locals speculating on how Mike McCoy, a former Denver offensive coordinator, will fare as the Chargers' fresh head coach.
"Any time you hire an assistant coach, it's to be determined,'' Lofton said. "You got to give these guys some time to come in and reshape the team a little bit. We all know from a distance where we think that team needs work.''
Lofton will be busy this weekend at the Georgia Dome. But it's a labor of love for a trusted football voice which defies the notion that silence is golden.