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Working at achieving cardiovascular health as defined by the American Heart Association (AHA) would go a long way in preventing premature deaths in the U.S., researchers found.
In recommendations published in 2010, the AHA defined cardiovascular health by the absence of cardiovascular disease and the following seven factors:
- Not smoking
- Being physically active
- Having a normal blood pressure reading
- Having a normal total cholesterol level
- Having a normal blood glucose level
- Maintaining a normal weight
- Eating a healthy diet
Meeting all seven criteria could have prevented 59% of all deaths, 64% of those from cardiovascular disease, and 63% of those from ischemic heart disease over a roughly 20-year period, according to Quanhe Yang, PhD, of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues.
However, no more than 2% of U.S. adults achieved all seven goals from 1988 to 2010, the researchers reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Healthy People 2020 and the AHA's national strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality by 20% by 2020 through promoting ideal cardiovascular health metrics represents a great challenge but also an achievable goal," they wrote.
"Coordinated efforts, such as the recently announced Million Hearts initiative, align cardiovascular disease prevention and control activities across the public and private sectors, creating opportunities to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease across a large segment of the population."
To examine adherence to the seven measures of ideal cardiovascular health and its relationship with mortality risk, Yang and colleagues turned to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1988-1994, from 1999-2004, and from 2005-2010. The analysis included a total of 44,959 adults ages 20 and older.
Over time, the percentage of current smokers declined, the proportion with ideal levels of total cholesterol and untreated blood pressure remained relatively stable, and the percentage of those consuming a healthy diet, maintaining a normal weight, and having a normal fasting glucose declined. The rate of physical inactivity increased.
In 1988-1994, 2% of participants had ideal levels of all seven health factors. In 2005-2010, that figure was only 1.2%.
Looking at the participants in the earliest cohort who achieved one or fewer of the criteria, the risk of dying through 2006 (a median of 14.5 years of follow-up) was 14.8 per 1,000 person-years for all-cause mortality, 6.5 for cardiovascular disease mortality, and 3.7 for ischemic heart disease mortality.
The corresponding risks were 5.4, 1.5, and 1.1 per 1,000 person-years among those who achieved six or seven of the healthy criteria.
Compared with persons who failed to meet the healthy-living criteria, those who met the criteria during the roughly 20 years studied had 51% reduction in relative risk for death from any cause, and were 76% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease. This healthy-living cohort was also 70% less likely to succumb to ischemic heart disease.
"These findings are consistent with recent analyses demonstrating similar marked reductions in short-term mortality and 20-year fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease event rates with higher numbers of ideal cardiovascular health metrics," according to Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, of Northwestern University in Chicago.
"Thus," he wrote in an accompanying editorial, "the case for the ideal cardiovascular health construct with regard to important outcome events appears to be settled."
Lloyd-Jones noted that there are many opportunities to bolster improvements in cardiovascular health.
"Continued focus through the healthcare system on meeting primary and secondary prevention targets is critically important, so that individuals at risk can take one step forward from poor to intermediate cardiovascular health," he wrote.
In addition, he noted, "advocacy will be needed for new public health and social policies to tilt the playing field toward healthier choices, so more individuals can move from intermediate to ideal levels or maintain ideal cardiovascular health."
Yang and colleagues acknowledged some limitations of the study, including the use of only baseline measures of the cardiovascular health criteria for the mortality analyses, the lack of information on physical activity duration in the earliest time period, and the possibility that the cause of death was misclassified.
From the American Heart Association:
- AHA and the Million Hearts Initiative
- What the Million Hearts Initiative Means for Stroke
- Unveiling Goals for Health Promotion and Disease Reduction
The study authors and Lloyd-Jones reported that they had no conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Yang Q, et al "Trends in cardiovascular health metrics and associations with all-cause and CVD mortality among U.S. adults" JAMA 2012; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.339.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Lloyd-Jones D "Improving the cardiovascular health of the U.S. population" JAMA 2012; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.361.


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My Mom is home and doing well after her surgery. The surgery took about 2 and a half hours. My contribution to her recovery yesterday was staying really quiet while she slept (basically...I took a nap too, and slept through many of your kind phone calls, though I did some how manage to get up when Aunt Lois brought soup, bread, and a gift over). I took the day off tomorrow, and Mom goes to the doctor. She has, of course, done way too much already and has already begun cutting back on her pain pills. If you look up 'tough' in the dictionay you'll find my Mom's picture.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
An Apple A Day....
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Monday, January 28, 2008
The Second Installment
Please pray for my Mom. This Wednesday at 9:30 she will be going in for the second of (hopefully 'just') 3 surgeries. I believe the operation will take about 2 hours. In preparing for the surgery, I'd really appreciate it if you would pray that they are able to put the IV in without any trouble, which has been a major theme in all the past surgeries, along with the rest of the procedure and recocovery.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone...Into India
Today, after church, Kelly suggested heading down to the Dallas Museum of Art to see the Domains of Wonder-Indian Paintings. It was a neat exhibit, there was so much DETAIL in the art work, which was the incredible part, but it was a lot of reading and looking VERY closely. I can appreciate art, but I'm not sure that I always understand it. Afterwards Kelly suggested ::gulp:: completing the experience with some Indian Food. We went to the Roti Grill. I'm not one for adventurous eating experiences, espeically with so many orange dishes to choose from, but I managed to find a tame salad and bread---I've never met a culture's bread I didn't get along with. Check back in a day or so for some more 'art interpretation pictures' by Kelly and Christy-they are on Kelly's camera, so I'm at the mercy of her schedule....
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
8 Things You May Not Know
Kelly 'tagged' me in a blogging commentary involved revealing 8 things your friends may...or may not know about you. The stranger the better. I'm supposed to respond on my 'myspace blog'.....but I'm going to respond here instead because I don't log on to myspace very frequently, and a definitely don't blog there. Feel free to do the same, I love learning (or relearning) interesting things about my friends, and I'm guessing a lot of you already know the following about me, but here it is-8 Things You May Not Know About Christy
1. I'm not a vegetarian, but I tend to eat meatless entrees. In fact, even when I order something with meat, the 'meat' is usually what is left at the end of the meal (and what I mean my meat is chicken-I never eat steak or hamburgers etc, though every once in awhile I'll get a wild idea and have a good bbq sandwich). I can go weeks without eating one piece of meat. It's all about the bread for me.
2. I've never smoked a cigerette, I've never tried a beer. I'm allergic to cigerette smoke, beer smells like urine, I have no desire to 'acquire the taste.' I'm a pretty conservative gal, I can add a lot of other 'nevers to this list'....but should I have to make another list someday, I'll save them for later :O)
3. I'm a list-aholic. I write list all day, and I even have list of my list. Grocery List, Chore List, Wish List, Gift List, Job List, Home List. They are on my desk at work, in my car, by my nightstand, next to my computer. I even write list for other people, it's obnoxious. My favorite list is a list of 101 things I want to do (no time limit set) about 7 years ago. I have about 40 things checked off. It ranges from places I want to visit, dishes I want to try making, classes I want to take, movies I want to see, books I want to read, things I want to do for others, and things I want to do for myself. It's fun.
4. I've never seen the movie Star Wars---and I have no plans of seeing it anytime soon.
5. I read a LOT...for hours on end, and though I'll eventually dedicate myself to finish one book, I usually have about 5 books I'm 'currently reading' sitting on my nightstand.
6. The earliest I go to bed is midnight-I'm a nightowl.....during the summer when I get to set my own schedule I stay up until 3 or 4 am, and then get up about 9 or 10 in the morning. I'm just not a big fan of sleep.
7. One of my biggest pet peeves is people that are chronically late. It really frustrates me when people are late on a regular basis because time is so precious, and I just think it's really selfish to make someone sit around and wait on you.
8. I have a fear of bridges and whales. When I was little my Mom read from an illustrated bible series and I repeatedly asked to hear Jonah and the Whale-since then I have had recurring whale nightmares, and large bodies of water bring back a fear of large fish. As a child even fishing at a lake I would worry that I would catch a whale or a shark and it would 'pull me in.'
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Movie Review
Tonight I saw 27 Dresses...or...as one of my friend's said "The Christy Robbins' Story" (and some of you might could insert your name there as well).....I have had a few of the conversations with brides....word....for....word. I'm going to search my house for cameras, spyware, and bugs. 2 bridal party manicured thumbs up!
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Friday, January 18, 2008
342 Month Check Up
This week one of my friends mentioend her son was turning 18 months old. I decided to try to figure out how many 'months' old I was. Today I am 342 months old. When did we stop counting in halves? Nobody seemed impressed by the fact that I'm not 28 and a HALF!
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Life is "Ruff"
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....I've done a lot this Saturday morning, but this was definitely my most interesting stop. I had my camera (because the plan was to print off the rest of my 2007 pictures so I can have the 'whole collection' ready to work with when I FINALLY pick up scrapbooking again). For the last few months, and in particular-this week, Friend's and Co-Workers have been telling me about this new Dallas bakery called-Sprinkles. Imported from the original location at Beverly Hills www.sprinklescupcakes.com. The story is they have delicious cupcakes, and though the menu varies from day to day, the quality never does. I was out, and decided it was time (twist my arm) to stop for a cupcake. This doesn't really adequately capture the experience b/c the line hanging out the door and down the sidwalk past the building had dwindled down after awhile, but it was worth the wait. This afternoon's cupcakes included the Red Velvet, White and Black, and Peanut Butter Chocolate. I had half of the Red Velvet (and help with the other half), I'll be back.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Ponderings from the Peanut Gallery
I love to check blogs, and I do so on a daily basis, but I have not been good about updating mine the last few weeks with the frequency in which I would like my friend's to update theirs :O). I guess I'm waiting for the 'excitement' to begin...I love life every day, but the outside might not be quite as 'in love' with my day to day life as I am. At the expense of wanting to at least attempt a little bit of entertainment, here are my updates:
-Prior to going back to work I got a lot of socializing in (I know, I know, pick yourself up off the floor. The ongoing (not such a joke) is that you do have to book a reservation quite awhile in advance, spontaneous outings just don't happen as frequently as I would like.). It amazes me the number of coffee outings I have despite the little fact that I don't drink coffee, and the number of meals I eat out despite the fact that I'm always watching calories (I usually watch them exit my fork and enter my mouth).
-I also have been working on my scrapbook for 2007. I use the word 'work' very lightly. The 'stuff' is out....perhaps through some sort of process so creative I don't even know I'm 'working' I am gathering ideas? There just isn't much going down on the pages...but that's typically how I work-All, or nothing. I choose nothing for now.
-I have been ADDICTED to the day to day election news. I watch debates and caucus results like most people follow their favorite team. I do love the democratic process. I like it best when my guy wins.
-Keep my Mom in your prayers, her next surgery is now scheduled for January 30th. Her take on the situation is that she is looking forwared to the time off. I guess there is nothing quite as fun as live daytime TV :O) It's not the way I'd choose to get some time off work, but it's not atypical for her to make lemonade out of the lemons life deals.
-In the dash entitled 'deep thoughts'....can I just say I feel as though I have a million little-to-big decisions to be making in the next few weeks and months, and sometimes it's interesting the more you know, the less you know what to do. I pray, look in the bible, ask my friends, ask my dogs, and come back to square one. I war within the gray areas when I wonder if I'm called to do something, or NOT to do something, or to do something a different way. In the end, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
This is What it Means to be Held...
I love this song! I got to hear Natalie Grant sing 'it' tonight at church, and I took some time just to listen to the words...I've been doing a lot of reflecting on the "New Year" coming I heard so often from people "I can't wait for 2007 to be over with." Despite all the things I left behind in the year 2007, I take along the things I learned, and I'm grateful for all 365 days of 2007. I learned a lot about myself. This year I had to be 'held' a bit during certain periods, but how blessed I am to know that when all else fails-God never has and never will fail to hold me. I hold nothing against "2007"...and I look forward to 2008.
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On the night of the full midsummer moon, as I tried to out-race pain in the bones of my smallest finger, I finished writing my novel. It was a big moment, at least according to my daughter and facebook friends, but my own feelings were so tangled up with doubt, worry, hope, and of course wondering what to write next, that I could not really acknowledge the achievement. I may have written three other books, but the novel is a very old dream I had long ago let go, letting god.
Oh, but my god has a wicked smile and a determination to cross me when it comes to every abandoned hope, every shrugged-away dream.
The next night, for all my typing, I paid the price of considerable pain. For sure, I'd hurt all through those three months, but that was heart-ache. It was worry and doubt, and being poked in the ribs by uncertain words, difficult grammar. This now was the deep bone-ache that my smallest finger had been murmuring.
I went to bed contemplating what sort of post I could offer to share My Lessons on Writing a Weekly Serialised Novel. But the raw and unrelievable pain of fibromyalgia carried me far beyond thought. And so this morning I have only three pieces of advice to share on how to write a serialised novel. And how to cope when your god is hauling you back into hope.
Open your heart to the pain and doubt, the pointy pieces, the silences. Say it right out loud : I don't think I'm worthy. Feel the fear, but nevertheless, and with wild and ferocious trust, let yourself get carried away.
I promise, all the pieces will fall into place as you go. Decisions I made late in the story were supported by things I'd written earlier, as if I was telling the story backwards in memory. You will always be given what you need, even if you don't recognise it until much later.
And offer your bones. Writing is a physical act. It has physical consequences. I am fragile, my bones hurt, and yet still I will go on writing, because it is where the magic and the mortality meet in me.
Know your frailties. I knew my heart would ache, and I knew why. I also knew all that typing would lead to problems. I wasn't surprised when the pain hit hard. Being aware of the risk meant that I could consent to it. I think that's something often left out of messages about God's intervention in our lives. We get to say yes or no to the promises of Love and its risks. Saying no is okay : every heart grows in its own time. Saying yes opens us to the potential for pain.
But Love is worth it. I don't just have a novel written (for better or worse). I have proof that my god will not just leave me sitting forlorn and wordless in the scrappy wishes of a lost hope. That's worth everything.
(I took this post down for a while. I'm putting it back up again because ... well, I don't want to tell you why because. I know why, and I hug me for it.)
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So many wonderful words from you here. I don't know where to begin. Congratulations on finishing the book! There are some very specific words here that mean something very special extra super duper important to me. More on that later. Just. For now. I send peace and love. :DReplyDelete
Thank you for these words, especially the ones about opening your heart to the pain and doubt. I feel those every day I sit down to write.ReplyDelete
Thankyou for your gentle and moving words.ReplyDelete
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Congratulations on finishing, on never giving up and pushing through despite everything.ReplyDelete
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Sharon Historic Locations
The following historic locations are located in Sharon, South Carolina. Please select a historic place in Sharon to view detailed information including address information, historical signifiance, and much more.
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York and Shannon Sts.
Sharon, SC
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Sharon, SC
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York St. and Woodlawn Ave.
Sharon, SC
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You can perform each events such as lectures, congresses, fairs, theatre or music events in this location in Fellbach near Stuttgart. The various rooms cater for events and celebrations of any kind due to their flexible properties.
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CLEVELAND -- Asdrubal Cabrera has been carrying the Cleveland Indians all season.
He did it again Tuesday with a leadoff home run in the fourth that broke a tie game, and the Indians defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-3 in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.
"He's had an outstanding season," Indians manager Manny Acta said of his switch-hitting shortstop. "He's hit for power and driven in runs. His numbers have been great."
Cabrera's home run put Cleveland ahead and was his team-leading 24th of the season. He also leads the Indians with 87 RBIs, eclipsing his previous career high of 68 in 2009.
"I'm really happy with what I've done, but I haven't thought too much about it," he said. "I think we've had a good season, and it's not over yet."
Cabrera has been a constant in a season that has seen several teammates miss significant time with injuries, including Shin-Soo Choo, Grady Sizemore, Travis Hafner and Michael Brantley.
But even he can't escape the injury bug.
Cabrera said he hurt his back during his last at-bat in the eighth inning attempting to bunt for a hit.
"It hurt a lot when it happened, but it feels better now," said Cabrera, who hopes to be back in the lineup in a couple of days.
Cabrera, who entered Saturday's game against Minnesota in an 0-for-20 slump, has eight hits in his last 13 at-bats. He has homered in back-to-back games.
"He's struggled a little bit in the second half, but he's played well all season," Acta said.
Fausto Carmona (7-15) allowed three runs in six innings and won for the first time since Aug. 17.
Hafner and Kosuke Fukudome also homered off Gavin Floyd (12-12), who hasn't won since Aug. 29. Chicago has lost eight of its last nine games.
"I didn't think they were terrible pitches, they just got the right part of the bat on the ball," Floyd said of the home runs. "They could have just as easily been fly balls, but today they weren't."
The teams, who were eliminated from the AL Central race last week when Detroit clinched the division, are battling for second place. The Indians lead the White Sox by 2½ games.
Hafner's two-run homer in the first gave Cleveland the lead, but Chicago tied the game in the second on Adam Dunn's RBI double and Alejandro De Aza's run-scoring single.
Fukudome homered with one out in the fifth.
Carmona struck out three and walked two. Relievers Joe Smith, Vinnie Pestano and Chris Perez, who recorded his 35th save, blanked Chicago over the final three innings.
Chicago's first four hitters reached against Carmona in the second. Singles by A.J. Pierzynski and Alex Rios started the inning. Dunn, batting .165 when the game began, slapped a double down the third base line that scored Pierzynski. De Aza's single to right tied the game.
De Aza added an RBI groundout in the sixth.
Floyd gave up four runs and seven hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out seven and didn't walk a batter.
Game notes
The game was the makeup of a July 23 rainout at Progressive Field. ... White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen says LHP Mark Buehrle will start Wednesday night. Buehrle (11-9, 3.74 ERA) has sore biceps after being hit with a ball in his last start. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (4-2, 4.56) will start for the Indians. ... Guillen played most of his regulars in Tuesday's first game. ... The White Sox are 9-6 against the Indians with three games to play in the season series. ... Indians 3B Jack Hannahan was a defensive replacement in the eighth inning, his first appearance since straining his left calf Sept. 4. ... C Lou Marson struck out in all three at-bats. ... The Indians are playing nine games in seven days on their final homestand of the season. Cleveland played a makeup game with Seattle on Monday and will play another day-night doubleheader against Minnesota on Saturday. ... The Indians recalled RHP Corey Kluber from Triple-A Columbus.


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Born to Lead
Todd Michael's first memory of working on the farm is driving the potato harvester at the age of 9. Not only did he learn the mechanics of growing potatoes early on, but he also developed a keen interest in the promotion of potatoes from his father, Doug.
During the United States Potato Board's annual meeting in March in Colorado Springs, Colo., Michael was elected chairman, replacing Cheryl Koompin of American Falls, Idaho. This isn't the first national leadership position for the 51-year-old Michael – in 2002 he served as president of the National Potato Council, 17 years after his father filled that same role.
Following his selection as chairman, Michael addressed the USPB members about how 40 years ago his father was one of the NPC committee members that lobbied Congress to pass the law authorizing the Potato Research and Promotion Act in an effort to stop the decline in potato consumption. The USPB would result from the legislation.
Michael and his two brothers, Kurt and Scott, grew up on the family farm in Urbana, Ohio. Together they have formed a family corporation, Michael Farms Inc. Prior to incorporating in 1980 the operation was called Michael and Sons.
Since incorporating they have grown the farming operation from 800 acres to 2,800 acres, with 500 acres of potatoes and the rest of the acreage divided among sweet corn, green beans and cabbage. Everything is grown for the fresh market.
"I do the potatoes," Michael said, "and Scott does the other three vegetables. That's the growing of it and the packing and the marketing. We're kind of vertical. Where most farms are set up where someone does the farming, where someone does the marketing, we do all three in our discipline and our brother Kurt does all the farm maintenance. He keeps all the equipment and all that going and does a lot of field work."
Michael said that he grows mostly round whites and some yellows and reds, and they pack potatoes year round.
He and his wife, Jill, have two children, Kyle and Kathy. Kyle has a diesel performance business in Urbana and Kathy works for John Deere in the dealer development and marketing division in Kansas City.
He said that Kyle and Kathy could return to the family business someday but he believes that it's important for them to find a career outside the farm before coming back.
Issues at Hand
At the USPB's annual meeting, Michael spoke about successful efforts by the USPB to reverse the trend in declining potato consumption.
"Over the past 40 years, the decline in potato demand continued," he said, "but at a much slower pace. This past year that all changed for the first time ever, consumer demand for fresh potatoes increased."
Michael cited the successful efforts by the industry and the USPB to improve consumer attitudes toward potatoes in the in the years since the introduction of the Atkins Diet in 2004.
Prior to the Atkins Diet negative consumer attitude to the potato was 18 percent. In 2004 negative consumer attitude increased to 33 percent and has taken seven years to return consumer attitudes to pre-Atkins Diet levels.
While industry leaders welcome this news of consumer attitudes returning to pre-Atkins numbers, Michael is wary of looming issues facing the industry.
"Acrylamide is an issue that is kind of out there," he said. "The industry has to respond and so we're putting a lot of effort forth."
Michael said that there are multiple efforts at work on reducing acrylamide in all sectors of the industry.
"We formed a group to work on it from the breeding standpoint," he said. "There is one group specializing in potato chip varieties and there's another group specializing in processing varieties for frozen french fries and then we're applied as a national industry to get some federal grant money."
At the same time Michael welcomes the challenges facing the industry and call it a very exciting time to be leading the USPB.
"I think the most exciting is going to be what we can accomplish along with the fry alliance working on french fry demand," he said.
"We've seen the numbers now coming out of Wendy's when they took a bold step and redid their french fry and their marketing, reminding people that it is a potato and it is good for you. I think that's a positive step there and we want to keep that momentum."
Building Consensus
Michael sees his role as USPB chairman as one of a consensus builder. He eschews a top-down leadership role.
"I've been in leadership positions before and I think my biggest strength is not what I can bring to the industry but what I can get the industry to bring out for themselves," Michael said. "Not only do you get a better direction, a truer direction but you also get buy-in from the industry, we have to have the support of the industry.
"We've got 100 growers on our administrative committee and there is no way that any one or any group of them is going to sit there and say, 'Hey, I know what we should do to help this industry.' I've seen enough of that. A partial idea will be presented, then it's built upon and its molded, it's the positive side of committee," Michael said.
Tim O'Connor, president and CEO of USPB, said Michael "brings a ton of experience and dedication" to the job.
"Todd is the potato industry," O'Connor said. "He makes his living in a great family business. He has extended beyond his own farm and networked with other potato farmers and shippers and so he is really at the core of where the industry is today."
Michael has been involved in promoting the potato industry for nearly 30 years. Obviously he does it because it helps his the bottom line in his business but he also said that he does it because he wants to give back to the industry and yet he believes that as much as he gives, he receives and he encourages growers, if they have the time and the time is right, to get involved in the USPB or the NPC.
"I was just a kid when I started attending the national meetings," Michael said. "You know, I was 23 years old. I grew up in the national organization but the more I've gotten involved I really don't think you can ever really give back. Because the more you try, the more you receive. There's such a wealth of knowledge that's learned from networking and understanding the whole industry versus the industry in your state."


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Eco-Ideal Consulting has been engaged as the CDM consultant for a biogas (methane) recovery from palm oil mill effluent project located in Kluang, Johor.
Sg Kahang Palm Oil Sdn Bhd is an existing independent private palm oil mill generating substantial amount of palm oil mill effluent (POME). Currently, POME is treated with open anaerobic lagoons, followed by aerobic treatment and polishing before final discharge. In view of the potential to recover and utilise the methane gas generated from the POME treatment, Sg Kahang Palm Oil Sdn Bhd is planning to invest in upgrading of the POME treatment by introducing closed tank aerobic digestions. This advancement of technology will lead to improved efficiency of the treatment of the POME (save land space, more efficient and controlled treatment etc.). The project would also allow renewable energy from the recovered biogas to be utilised on-site for additional processing of biomass waste. With such voluntary endeavour that can reduce the greenhouse gas emission to the atmosphere, Sg Kahang Palm Oil Sdn Bhd is eligible to apply the project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
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Doctor Kris A. Hanchett, a member in good standing of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Cambridge Who's Who®, publishes a life-changing work of fiction based on real-life patients and personnel in the medical field, titled Instant Infinity. Hanchett's book carries within its pages a noble three-fold mission: to help people, to entertain, and to pay tribute.
"The original goal was an effort to help people, you, understand the nature of circumstance and the central role that we all play in it," says Hanchett. "From years of observation I have come to believe that we are not victims of circumstance, but rather the creators of it." Throughout his book, he harps on one all-important philosophy: All experiences have value and our perspective on them is a vital determinant of our physical and mental health.
As an inspirational fiction, Hanchett's book takes readers through a series of events as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Rose Barbera Kirk, as she follows her physician father around in his clinic during the week of her school assignment. Each event brings readers closer to understanding how Hanchett's philosophy seems to work. This reflects his second goal of which he said, "My second of three goals was to entertain you, the reader. Learning, indeed life itself, is fun or at least it can be depending on how we look at it. So let's have some fun."
Brilliantly crafted while preserving patient privacy, Hanchett breathes life to a composite character—"super patient," as he calls it—with common medical ailments so people can easily relate with. The names of some patients and the medical staff are real, but their characters are embellished to keep their identities in a way that readers feel they know them or someone like them, making them realize Instant Infinity is everyone's story.
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I was looking for a way to transcode a bunch of medium quality Mp4 videos into good quality MPEG-2 formatted video so I could then make them into a DVD.
I had problems with my favourite transcoder (MediaCoder) and also a bunch of other transcoders that I unsuccessfully tried.
[Note: I use VLC media player to play my media files. Since VLC has no requirement for codecs to be installed on one's computer, it turns out I didn't notice that some of the codecs on my computer were corrupt. After working around the problem with the solution I discuss below, I found that I couldn't even open the MP4 files in Nero ShowTime – I would get a StackHash_1703 error when it crashed. The root cause of the problem that prevented me from using the transcoders I tried was a corruption of codecs from my installation of Nero. The root cause of the problem has been solved by applying an update to Nero, and now I can once again use my favourite MediaCoder for everything…]
However before I solved that root cause problem, the following is what I did.
I found that AviDemux 1.4 successfully converted the videos to MPEG-2, but version 1.5 would give an error. But, even after using version 1.4 to do the conversion, the MPEG-2 videos were not compliant with DVD standards. From here though I could then use MediaCoder to add the borders I wanted, increase the brightness, increase the volume, deinterlace the video and convert it to 25 frames per second for PAL. But, I wasn't happy about doing double encoding and so I wanted a better solution.
And so we finally come to the alternative solution that worked very well for me and forced me to learn some lower-level details about transcoding. This solution required the following tools:
- ffdshow – a DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats
- AviSynth 2.5.8 – a powerful tool for video post-production that provides ways of editing and processing videos, and the Decomb plugin
- QuEnc 0.72 – a tool that uses a built in FFMPEG library to encode from an AviSynth Script file to a raw MPEG-1/MPEG-2(VCD,SVCD,DVD) video stream
While learning the AviSynth syntax, I found it very useful to open the AviSynth script in VirtualDubMod so I could immediately see and confirm the effects of the script on the video.
I created the following AviSynth user-defined function, and put it into a file named ConvertCommon.avsi:
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\decomb.dll")
function Convert(string mp4Filename)
FieldDeinterlace(show=false) #DECOMB
Tweak(bright=10, cont=1.1)
AddBorders(0, 84, 0, 84, $000000)
return AmplifydB(3)
This user-defined function is specific to the video processing I wanted to perform on all the MP4 files in my batch. It resizes the video to the size and aspect ratio that I carefully pre-determined, converts the colour to YV12, deinterlaces the video, converts it to 25 frames per second, tweaks the brightness and contrast, adds letterboxing to make the final video size 720×576 for PAL DVD compliance, and amplifies the volume by 3 decibels.
I also stumbled on the following AVS2DVD Batch Script which automates the use of QuEnc on all the AviSynth scripts in a particular folder, and also goes even further to create DVD-Video files. This provided me with a good starting point for automating the conversion of my MP4 files. There were however three issues I has with that script (for my purposes):
- I didn't want to manually create AviSynth Script files for every MP4 file in the batch I wanted to process – because I wanted the exact same post-processing to occur to all the videos.
- I needed to edit the resulting MPEG-2 videos so I didn't want to automatically convert them to DVD-Video files.
- It was using the command-line syntax of an older version of QuEnc, which errored in the new version.
Below is the modified batch script which loops through all of the MP4 files in a specified folder, creates a temporary AviSynth script which calls my user-defined function, and passes the temporary script to QuEnc with PAL DVD-compliant settings.
@SET MP4SourceFolder=F:\Videos\Mp4
@SET MPG2OutputFolder=F:\Videos\ConvertedMpeg2
@SET quenc=F:\Videos\QuEnc
@SET QBitrate=3000
@SET QMaxBitrate=9000
@REM Set to the max bitrate minus the sum of all the audio track bitrates. For DVD, 9800-xxx
@SET QPasses=2
@SET QMPEGType=2
@SET QMPEGMuxProfile=DVD
@SET QGOPSize=15
@SET QMaxBFrames=2
@SET QAspectRatio=1:1
@SET QAudioCodec=AC3
@SET QAudioBitrate=192
@REM AC3 @ 192/256 kbps for stereo and 384/448 kbps for 5.1ch is recommended
@REM Leave QHQ blank if you want High Quality turned on, otherwise set it to no
@REM Leave QVBR blank if you want VBR turned on, otherwise set it to no
@SET QSCENE=no
@REM Leave QSCENE blank if you want Scene Detection turned on, otherwise set it to no
@REM Leave QTRELL blank if you want Trellis Quant turned on, otherwise set it to no
@SET QCGOP=no
@REM Leave QCGOP blank if you want to use Closed GOP, otherwise set it to no
@SET QInterlace=no
@REM Leave QInterlace blank if you want to use Interlaced Encoding, otherwise set it to no
@SET QExtreme=no
@REM Leave QExtreme blank if you want to use Extreme encoding, otherwise set it to no
@SET QCMatrix=no
@SET QCMatrixFile=
@REM If you wish to use a Custom Matrix, leave QCMatrix blank and add your file path to QCMatrixFile,
@REM otherwise set QCMatrix to no, and leave QCMatrixFile blank.
@SET QCMD=-auto -close
@REM Use for additional parameters such as Silent, Auto, Close and Shutdown
FOR /F "usebackq delims==" %%I IN (`dir /b "%MP4SourceFolder%\*.mp4″`) DO (
@REM Make AVS file
@echo Import^("ConvertCommon.avsi"^) 1> temp.avs
@echo Convert^("%MP4SourceFolder%\%%~nxI"^) 1>> temp.avs
@REM Compress AVS file to MPEG2 using QuENC
"%quenc%\quenc.exe" -i ".\temp.avs" -o "%MPG2OutputFolder%\%%~nI.mpg" -b %QBitrate% -maxbitrate %QMaxBitrate% -dc %QDC% -%QPasses% -%QHQ%hq -%QVBR%vbr -%QSCENE%scene -%QTRELL%trell -%QCGOP%cgop -%QInterlace%interlaced -%QExtreme%extreme -gopsize %QGOPSize% -maxbframes %QMaxBFrames% -%QCMatrix%cmatrix %QCMatrixFile% -aspectratio %QAspectRatio% -mpeg%QMPEGType%mux %QMPEGMuxProfile% -audiocodec %QAudioCodec% -audiobitrate %QAudioBitrate% %QCMD%
del temp.avs
And after running the batch script over a few days, my transcoding is now complete!


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Properties of Irreducible Root Systems III
Today we conclude with our series of lemmas on irreducible root systems.
If is irreducible, then roots in have at most two different lengths. Here I mean actual geometric lengths, as measured by the inner product, not the "length" of a Weyl group element. Further, any two roots of the same length can be sent to each other by the action of the Weyl group.
Let and be two roots. We just saw that the -orbit of spans , and so not all the can be perpendicular to . From what we discovered about pairs of roots, we know that if , then the possible ratios of squared lengths are limited. Indeed, this ratio must be one of , , , , or .
If there are three distinct root-lengths, let , , and be samples of each length in increasing order. We must then have and , and so , which clearly violates our conditions. Thus there can be at most two root lengths, as asserted. We call those of the smaller length "short roots", and the others "long roots". If there is only one length, we call all the roots long, by convention.
Now let and have the same length. By using the Weyl group as above, we may assume that these roots are non-orthogonal. We may also assume that they're distinct, or else we're already done! By the same data as before, we conclude that . We can replace one root by its negative, if need be, and assume that . Then we may calculate:
We may note, in passing, that the unique maximal root is long. Indeed, it suffices to show that for all . We may, without loss of generality, assume is in the fundamental doman . Since , we must have for any other . In particular, we have and . Putting these together, we conclude
and so must be a long root.


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Give most kids a refrigerator box and they'll re-imagine it as a race car or spaceship. Some of us never outgrow that ability, and a fortunate few actually parlay it into a career.
One of them is Thaddeus Phillips, who will perform his solo play, Capsule 33, at TheatreWorks starting this weekend. The production, which the 1994 Colorado College graduate co-created with Tatiana Mallarino last year, focuses on Milo, a physicist living in a "pod" in Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower.
Onstage, the pod is a box modeled after the real Nakagin capsules — closet-sized living units — and spins 360 degrees in all directions. The tower is scheduled for implosion, but Milo intends to stay until the bitter end; in monologue directed at his rubber duckie, he reflects on his life during what could be his last day on Earth.
That may sound like a depressing theater experience, but TheatreWorks artistic director Murray Ross promises audiences will enjoy Phillips' "childlike core of playfulness and adventure." About a year ago, Ross saw the play in Denver with his grandchildren.
"I was just thrilled by it," he remembers. "I thought, 'This is just so charming and so magical and inventive and fun.' I thought it would work really well in our theater."
We spoke with Phillips (who last performed here in 2007 with Flamingo/Winnebago, which he co-wrote and directed) via e-mail; he's in New York, wrapping up the Capsule 33 run off-Broadway. He says he wrote up the character of Milo to represent the world's apathy as it faces some inevitable doom.
"Capsule 33 is aimed to show a new way of doing things, of powering a show off the power grid, of looking at lost ideas, from Japanese architecture to the ideas of Nikola Tesla — and examining what it is literally 'to be or not to be,'" he writes. "The performance is an action-packed adventure meditation about one man's last day — and the idea is to get people thinking about the possibilities for our future and where we are going."
That's right, the script gives a nod to Nikola Tesla, the scientist who lived briefly in Colorado Springs and "starred" in the recent TheatreWorks production, I Am Nikola Tesla. Ross considers it a happy accident. While he doesn't want TheatreWorks audiences to be "Teslafied" out, he notes there are parallels between Milo and Tesla, the latter who spent his later years on the 33rd floor of the New Yorker Hotel, talking to pigeons. The Capsule 33 script draws from Tesla's writings, among other sources.
What's more, the play is billed as the first production to be powered by sustainable energy; the audience will be invited to operate foot pumps to generate electricity for the lighting. Phillips points out that Tesla proposed using solar energy ... in 1933.
Ross compares the pod, made of recycled materials, to a phone booth — or that refrigerator box.
"It looks very simple, but he manipulates it in the most amazing way," Ross says of Phillips. "It's better than Doctor Who. This phone box becomes completely magical. It's a stage-magician kind of show in that sense. He's pulling rabbits out of that pod."


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The SIRSI/Wilson alliance enables libraries to supply users with online
access to reviews and abstracts of a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction.
When iBistro users open a bibliographic record of possible interest, they
will be able to read reviews of works they are considering, rather than
searching separate publications for information.
Laura Dawson, SIRSI's director of content development, said: "The relationship
between H.W. Wilson and SIRSI will provide library users everywhere with
access to the very best, most complete information on the books they are
searching for. The addition of Book Review Digest to the content being
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Deborah Loeding, H.W. Wilson's vice president of sales and marketing,
said: "Wilson is delighted to be working with SIRSI. iBistro is a great
tool, and with the addition of Book Review Digest users gain greater insight
into a work of interest in a single search. This relationship brings Book
Review Digest to the patron in a highly usable and creative way."
Connecticut Libraries
According to Alan Benkert, director of the Groton Public Library, and
Vince Juliano, director of the Waterford Public Library, the SIRSI system
satisfied the libraries' requirements for an easy-to-use client/server
system to replace their outdated character-based automation system.
"Of the three library automation systems demonstrated, SIRSI's was the
top choice of the library staff," Benkert said. "We found the iBistro electronic
library very appealing, and we know library users will like it. iBistro
has the familiar Windows interface that will enable users to come into
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learn how to use the character-based system. They will also have easier
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Established in 1923 and 1959, respectively, the Waterford and Groton
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|Eric's group in the MTC
He is the last one on the right :)
So first off my flights got delayed so before I got on the first flight, I was shipped off to the Detroit airport. I had to wait until 9 pm for my plane to leave on a direct 10 hour flight from Detroit to Sao Paulo.
I met a nice man at the McDonald's while I waited and we talked for a while. And while on the flight, I got a whole two seats to myself!
But before I got the seats, I had a person sitting next to me. A lady from Brazil who had just finished her PhD in plant biology in Kentucky (probably spelled that wrong) She helped me with my papers for immigration. And we traded cards. :3 She gave me her business card and I gave her a pass along card.
So my companion here is Elder Webster, he seems like he´ll be a fun guy to work with. We got to unpacking in our room and there´s just so much stuff to unpack that I probably won´t unpack even half of it. I officially have my missionary name tag too! We got to come to the computer lab just now. Okay it was: arrive, get companion, eat, go to room and unpack/rest, and now at 12:00 pm-ish it´s write the family time. Next will be lunch, then orientation, then probably class. P-day will be next week on Wednesday or Friday. NOT Monday.
Shoot, I don´t know what else to say... um... I slept for like a total of maybe two hours in segments of about 15 minutes at a time. My shirts are super wrinkly and I forgot to ask you to teach me to iron so I´ll probably just wear my suit coat until I can wash my shirts to unwrikle them. Apparently we´ll be going to the temple on our next p-day. The handkerchiefs are useful already. Oh! When Flint shipped me off to Detroit, I was given two complimentary $15 meal tickets so I had a big lunch and a bunch of frozen drinks to stay cool at the airport while I waited. I read the white missionary handbook two times while sitting there. I can´t really think of anything else... I love you mom. I love you and my family and friends.
Okays... bye-bye.


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Hangar 25 boasts a plug-in jet system, solar panels, sustainable landscaping, and electric vehicles, among other green features.
On December 9, Los Angeles officials and notable guests including Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and Rick Fedrizzi, president and founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council, welcomed Hangar 25 at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California. If an aircraft hangar servicing planes consuming tremendous amounts of fuel can be green, the 60,000-square-foot facility is the most sustainable one in the world, with the highest possible LEED rating, Platinum.
Designed by Shangri-La Construction, the hangar is expected to operate at reduced operating costs--thanks to reduced energy consumption--and was constructed at a price comparable to other aircraft hangars, according to the construction firm. Shangri-La Construction outfitted the hangar with green features including a plug-in jet system, solar panels, sustainable landscaping, electric vehicles, and a chemical-free fire system. Walls are decked out in public art. Shangri-La Construction hopes the hangar's green design elements will be adopted as a green model for other new construction and retrofit projects.


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I'm Sorry so Sorry; Maybe he can get Brenda Lee to sing it!
America's Apologist and Chief took to the podium at the Amalgamation of Hate America Countries and delivered his Apology Tour Part II speech. His opening line set the tone for the Great Mea Culpa as he proclaimed, "I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust; this was due to opposition to specific policies, and a belief that on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others." Can you believe the President of the United States would stand before a gathering of thieves, murderers and thugs and say such a thing?
Continuing on he asks all present to look at his first day in office. The Supreme Being says, "I prohibited - without exception or equivocation - the use of torture by the United States of America. We were never guilty of torture. We never sawed the head off a screaming victim as he sat bound and blind folded in a concrete slaughter house in Iraq. We never fed people through giant industrial shredders. What the hell is he talking about, Water Boarding! Well O Great One, Water Boarding saved thousands maybe tens of thousands of lives!
The absurdity continued as he proclaimed I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed! That was a great accomplishment, he should be very proud. Now we have Chinese Uighur terrorist basking in the sun on Bermuda's beaches thanks to Barrack Hussein's brilliant decision to close Guantanamo. And as for the rest of the Terrorist still residing there, well give him time, he'll surely find suitable accommodations for them as they await their return to the battlefield!
The Lefty Loon he is shone through with his next line, "I have outlined a comprehensive agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. This institution was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because man's capacity to kill had to be contained. For decades, we averted disaster, even under the shadow of a super-power stand-off. But today, the threat of proliferation is growing in scope and complexity. If we fail to act, we will invite nuclear arms races in every region, and the prospect of wars and acts of terror on a scale that we can hardly imagine." So, in order to contain the proliferation of Nuclear Arms we will lead the way by relinquishing our lone Super Power status and disarm. The only thing that ended the needless slaughter of World War II was the Atomic Bomb. Our ability and willingness to use it has been the only deterrent to the expansion of Socialist and Marxist regimes throughout the world. They are still out there and if we willingly give up the only deterrent keeping them in check then God help us; no not you Obama; you're not God even though you think you are!
Next, the Middle East! The pontification continued as his Majesty said, "America has worked steadily and aggressively to advance the cause of two states - Israel and Palestine." He then referred to a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas during which he encouraged greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians. Next he once again threw our most reliable ally in that region under the bus as he said, "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." He pushed for negotiations without preconditions that would result in an independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967! That so called occupation was the result of capturing territory during the 1967 War during which Israel was attacked by Egypt and Jordan!
Any proclamation from on high would not be complete without a reference to the Holy Grail of Liberalism Climate Change. The Climatologist and Chief proclaimed "to confront climate change, we have invested 80 billion dollars in clean energy. We have substantially increased our fuel-efficiency standards. We have provided new incentives for conservation, launched an energy partnership across the Americas, and moved from a bystander to a leader in international climate negotiations." What he failed to add was and all this has resulted in record unemployment levels not seen since the Jimmy Carter era! Continuingin his blame America First vein he accused America of dragging its feet on this issue saying "those wealthy nations that did so much to damage the environment in the 20th century must accept our obligation to lead." He's apparently not satisfied with a 10.5% unemployment rate, let's drive this up even higher!
Reiterating his commitment to substantially reduce our strategic warheads and launchers, Obama vowed to move forward with ratification of the Test Ban Treaty! Well, that strategy is a resounding success when it comes to China, North Korea and Iran, wouldn't you agree! Concluding with, "I am not naïve. I know this will be difficult. But all of us must decide whether we are serious about peace, or whether we only lend it lip-service." Israel recognizes it takes more than lip service to deter Iran and is preparing to take matters into its own hands should they (Iran) not cease and desist with their relentless march towards acquiring a nuclear weapon; such is the plight this Pollyanna has left Israel with!
Finally the one that great Humanitarian Muammar Gaddafi, Kaddafi, Qadhafi, Gadhafi, Kadafi, Qaddafi (or however you choose to spell his name) calls his son issues his last apology of the day saying, "Wealthy nations must open their markets to more goods and extend a hand to those with less, that's why we will support honest police and independent judges; civil society and a vibrant private sector." What the hell's he saying, relinquish the purview of our economy to independent judges from other countries?
During his closing statement Premier Hussein Obama had the audacity to say, "Governments of the people and by the people are more likely to act in the broader interests of their own people rather than the narrow interest of those in power." Has he not paid attention to what His People have been saying in response to his Health Care Proposal? As of today, 56% of Americans oppose His Health Care Reform proposal but yet he is determined to press on and literally shove it down our throats! Sounds like his government isn't interested in serving the people's interest but in serving the interest of his Oligarchy!
shelia b
Welcome, hope to see more of you around here and yes, he doesn't have a clue!
I've concluded Obama doesn't have a clue.
Thanks Tex
He is a hell of a speaker as long as he's in front of a teleprompter. Remove the teleprompter and he's left to drown in a sea of incoherent Uhhhsssss!
Good Hub, the messiah is a hell of a speaker! I feel so safe with him at the helm.
Dear Partisan,
Fantastic critique of Obama's appalling speech at the UN. I think I am going to print it and use it as a terrific source of clarity and information. Thanks..
Spot on Partisan, he is ridiculous.


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Suggestion: The Films of Stanley Baker
- pharrer
- 7/31/10
Having witnessed the recent showing of "Yesterday's Enemy" on TCM, I nominate Sir Stanley Baker for consideration as a Star of the Month. One of the outstanding British acting talents of the '50s and '60s, isn't it time to honor his memory with a retrospective of some of his best and/or least seen movies? Here's a list of his best: "Hell Drivers" ('57), "Violent Playground" ('57), "Chance Meeting" ('59), "Jet Storm" ('59), Concrete Jungle" ('60), "Hell is a City" ('60), "Eva" ('62), "Robbery" ('67) and "Perfect Friday" ('70). One could also include "Zulu" ('64), "Sands of the Kalahari" ('65), and the aforementioned "Yesterday's Enemy", but the first two are shown so often and the last I've seen already on TCM. Let TCM uncover more gems from the career of this seminal actor!
"Yesterday's Enemy"
- pharrer
- 7/29/10
A film that is at once withering and unimpeachable in its portrayal of the grim facts of warfare and the high price men in uniform are asked to pay: The ragged remnants of a WWII British brigade in Burma caught far behind enemy lines struggle to maintain themselves against impossible odds and an encroaching enemy. Stanley Baker is outstanding as an officer pushed to the limits of his endurance, even to the point of committing a war crime in order to notify headquarters of an impending attack. Leo McKern as a skeptical journalist and Guy Rolfe as the sincere padre are twin voices of conscience to counter Baker's excesses with Richard Pasco as a foundering second-in-command who finds his courage moments before dying. The lessons about the politics of armed conflict and the importance of maintaining moral conduct in the face of certain death are harrowing. British Cinema at its finest.
Tightly directed morality play w/consummate acting
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- 7/29/10
The showing of Hammer's YESTERDAY'S ENEMY, a gem in the pocket of film history, continues to make all of us, who are lovers of this art form of the millennium, deeply appreciate the growing ambitioniousness of TCM's programming. The film is directed by Val Guest w/ a fierce cinematic pulse that drives the story into an inexorability where the only release for its characters is death. Guest's precise mise en scene continually pulls the viewer into the strophe-antistrophe of its powerful argument. It is acted with an expertness that prevails as bravado: all of the actors are soaked in the storyline, so that each moment is being spun from a vortex--they are ahead of the viewer, which is what keeps alive the expectations of the action structure. I grew up w/ Sir Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, Richard Pasco, who all had their roots in the theatre & were therefore heroes of mine. Gosh, it is not impossible, for example, to imagine from Baker's supercharged performance the early line drawing for a great Macbeth. And how 'bout Wolf Morris' creative freedom in the role of the informer? A dogged unpredictability pervades his work.
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Stages of Sin Part 2 of 4
Lola Frost
Veronica Vex
Dahlia Embers
Jason Beaudoin
Ruby Tuesday
Stella North
Scarlet Delirium
Ben Whipple
Story by:
Dahlia Embers and Veronica Vex
Written by:
Dahlia Embers
Produced and Directed by:
Dahlia Embers and Veronica Vex
Technical Direction by:
Michael Bock
Videographer and editor:
Nauris Nikans
Film noir nostalgia, hollywood glamour and burlesque meet in this original production. The story is set in an underground club where the drama of the stage unfolds.
Stages of Sin takes you into the lives of six women who are struggling to make it big in a world of darkness, crime, disillusionment and existential fatalism.
The delicious dialogue is lasciviously laden with euphemism and innuendo; leading into eye-popping burlesque which leaves the audience salivating for what will be revealed next.
The film is made in the style of a reality TV show: one full rehearsal and show.
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Labels: Ben WHIPPLE, burlesque, Dahlia EMBERS, film noir, Jason BEAUDOIN, Lola FROST, Michael Bock, Nauris Nikans, play, Ruby TUESDAY, Scarlet DELIRIUM, Stages of Sin, Stella NORTH, the sin bin, Veronica Vex
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AT&T will be back in court facing a challenge to its right to install its U-verse cable television package in Kentucky under an 1886 telephone franchise from the state, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held March 2, reversing a dismissal from the court below.
The perpetual franchise given to AT&T's predecessor-in-interest, BellSouth Telecommunications Inc., gave the company the right to "purchase, construct, maintain and operate, within this State and elsewhere, telephone lines, exchanges and systems, and to conduct all the business incident and pertaining thereto,"and to "construct, equip and maintain telephone lines along, over or under the highways, streets and alleys, and across any water-course within this Commonwealth, so as not to obstruct the same." A competitor argued that under the state constitution and local law AT&T needed a new cable franchise.
The district court granted AT&T's motion to dismiss, but the appeals court said that the lower court "prematurely reached the question of law, and improperly dismissed the case in the absence of a sufficient factual record." It explained that the district court did not apply the correct standard for a motion to dismiss, and erred by noting the question presented by the competitor was "whether the transmission of IP video signals is outside the scope" of AT&T's franchise, when the proper question at the motion to dismiss stage was "whether the plaintiff's complaint includes 'enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.' "
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