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Whether you're 15 or 50, trying to figure out what you want to do with your life is an intimidating challenge and one that doesn't always lend itself to easy answers. Finding a passion, doing fulfilling work, making a difference in the world, and discovering the things that make us most successful and happy are all chief concerns in most of our lives, but they're not always goals that are easily attainable. For some, finding a life purpose can be very difficult and sometimes downright discouraging, but with the right support and guidance it certainly doesn't need to be an impossible feat. We've collected some excellent resources, from videos to reading material to essential web reading, that can help you define and fulfill your purpose in life, whatever it may be.
These videos are a short and sweet way to get some inspiration and motivation to find your life's purpose.
- Rick Warren on a life of purpose: Author and speaker Rick Warren explains his religious beliefs and shares his own crisis of purpose in this short talk.
- Finding Your Life's Purpose: Get some guidance on finding your purpose in life from Eckhart Tolle through this DVD program that asks you to free yourself from dissatisfaction with your life and to connect to a universal consciousness.
- Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success: The pursuit of purpose and success have many places where they overlap. In this short talk, you'll hear from analyst Richard St. John on the basics of success like ideas, service, persistence, and passion.
- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days:Having trouble finding purpose and direction in your life? Follow the advice of Matt Cutts and try out something new and interesting for 30 days. You never know, it might just be a perfect fit.
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work: If you're unfulfilled in your work, there's got to be a reason why. Shawn Achor thinks that work should make us happy, and that happiness should inspire us to work.
- Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do: Well-known speaker Tony Robbins shares a no-nonsense talk on the invisible forces that motivate every individual's actions here, offering insights into how to attain the things we all want most in our lives.
- Dan Ariely asks, "Are we in control of our own decisions?": Feeling out of control? To a certain degree, we're all out of control, Ariely explains, letting our emotions push us toward irrational, unwise decisions that can take us in a direction quite different than where we want to go.
- Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness: Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard explains how to train your mind to be happy, giving you a greater sense of serenity and fulfillment.
- Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds:If you need some inspiration that you're good enough to do what you love and that it's really possible, hear from Temple Grandin as she explains the need for all kinds of thinkers and doers in the world.
- Create a Life with Purpose: This video from Harvard Business School features professor and author Clay Christensen as he discusses the need to follow through on your commitments in order to create a life with purpose.
Books are excellent places to find guidance on everything, including life itself. Here are just a few of the best on finding purpose and taking charge of your life.
- The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work by Jon Gordon: Have you ever felt disenchanted with your job and wanted to take time off to figure out if your job was really right for you? That's just what Jon Gordon did. Read about his journey and learn about how to find meaning and passion in your work.
- The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose by Dan Millman: If you're looking for some spiritual (and a little bit mystical) guidelines for finding your purpose, then check out this deep read by Dan Millman.
- Your Life on Purpose: How to Find What Matters and Create the Life You Want by Matthew McKay, John P. Forsyth, and Georg H. Eifert: Don't just bumble through life; this book will show you how to live a purposeful life that isn't weighed down by self-doubt and judgment and allows you to connect with your true passions.
- A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle: This Oprah Book Club selection is a popular read and offers readers guidance on living in the now, finding happiness, and attaining a fulfilling existence.
- Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words by Kevin Hall:Words, even simple ones, carry a lot of power. Through this book, you'll learn to change your vocabulary and to think and speak in a way that helps you to become more positive, successful, and fulfilled.
- S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life by Erik Rees: Those looking for some religious-based guidance on finding their purpose should check out this book that directs readers to look at their own passions, talents, temperaments, and gifts to find purpose.
- What on Earth Am I Here For? by Rick Warren:Author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren returns with this book, offering his insights into just what it is you're here on Earth to do.
- The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life by Os Guinness: Another religiously focused work, this book addresses what God's call is for you in your life and how you can fulfill that calling in your work and actions throughout life.
- The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life by William Damon: With the job market in flux and college prices rising ever higher, it can be harder than ever for young people to figure out what to do with their lives. This book offers some guidance, explaining the importance of finding a purpose and following through with fulfilling it.
- The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place In The World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, And Uncommon Sense by Carol Adrienne and James Redfield: Learn how to use your intuition to find your purpose in life through this book that promises greater success, satisfaction, and serenity.
- The Saint, The Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Heart's Desires by Robin Sharma: Are you really living your passion? Learn lessons from this book to help you find happiness in all aspects of life, manage stress, and find a powerful vision for your future.
- End the Struggle and Dance with Life by Susan Jeffers: Learn how to feel calmer, more in control, and more excited about all that life has to offer with the help of Susan Jeffers.
Blog Posts
Do some deep thinking on your life purpose with the help of these educational and inspirational blog posts.
- Life on Purpose: 15 Questions to Discover Your Personal Mission: Take this quick quiz from Think Simple Now to start figuring out what your personal mission in life really is.
- Why It's Hard To Find Your "Life Purpose" In Today's World: Finding your life's purpose in today's world is increasingly hard, explains Psychology Today author Dr. Douglas LaBier, so don't worry if you're struggling: you're not alone.
- How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes: Productivity and personal development guru Steve Pavlina offers up his take on how to puzzle out what you're meant to do in life in just 20 minutes.
- How to Discover Your Life's Purpose – 7 Questions to Ask:If you're unsure about your life's purpose, maybe you're just not asking yourself the right questions. Here, Dumb Little Man posits seven that are essential to figuring out your life.
- 17 Quotes That Will Help You Discover Your Life's Purpose: Oprah's staff shares some amazingly inspirational quotes that will help you to figure out who you want to be in life.
- 7 Keys to Discovering Your Life's Purpose Today:At The Change Blog, you can read this article that asks some simple but important questions in determining your life's purpose.
- Discover Your Life's Purpose in Around 20 Minutes — or Not: Lifehacker also offers a method for quickly determining your life purpose, but it may not work for everyone.
- Why You're Still Stuck Trying To Find Your Life Purpose:The Wayfinder Post explains in this great article why you may be struggling to find a purpose in life, illuminating some of the biggest myths and misunderstandings about life purpose.
- The Benefits of Finding Your Life's Purpose:Here you'll find a list of 10 reasons why finding your life purpose can help you, from helping you to be more successful to offering self-confidence.
- How do you find your purpose?:This video and blog post offer up some helpful advice on how to find and work toward your life purpose.
- Life's Purpose for the "Multi-Passionate": Some people love too many things to ever stick to doing just one for a lifetime, which can make it hard to pin down a life purpose. This blog post suggests that you don't have to pin down one purpose and can work on many throughout your life.
- 10 Things to Know About Your Life Purpose: Here you'll find some revealing truths about finding and living your life purpose.
- Life Purpose May Help Reduce Heart Attack Risk: Finding your life purpose isn't just key to your mental health; it can also have a serious impact on your physical health, as this article explains.
- Top 10 Definitive Life purpose Resources: Looking for more resources to help you to find your life's purpose? You'll find some great ones through this blog post.
From quizzes to life coaching, these resources will help you to get the help and support you need in your journey of personal discovery.
- The One Question: This site focuses on answering one question: what should I do with my life? To help you find the answer, the site offers e-books, quizzes, and articles in abundance.
- Higher Awareness: Learn how to know yourself and grow yourself through this blog and personal development site.
- Passion Meets Purpose: Life coach Kammie offers some free advice on life and work through this blog and newsletter, as well as providing links to some very useful resources.
- Life on Purpose Institute: Looking for some guidance on bringing greater meaning and purpose into your life? That's what this site is all about! Use it to find help, reading material, and more.
- Your Life Purpose Blog: This blog shares a wealth of inspirational quotes, articles, and spiritual materials to help you connect with your purpose.
- Life Purpose App: Bring your life purpose quest with you anywhere you go with this app. Built around author Dan Millman's book The Life You Were Born to Live, the app uses your birthday and year to help you figure out your hidden calling.
- LivingYourPurpose.net: Head to this site to find a number of useful resources that can help you better live the life you were meant to live.
- Life Purpose Planning: You'll find coaching and advice aplenty to help you figure out your purpose, with a religious take on some of the big questions in life.
- Talking Purpose: This blog is full of amazing articles about purpose and work, with interviews and advice from a wide range of individuals.
If you like your inspiration in 140 characters or less, head to Twitter to read tweets from these gurus.
- @PurposefullLife: Get inspiration to love, laugh, and inspire others through this feed, with loads of tweets about living a purpose-filled life.
- @PosPositive: Find great quotes, links to articles, and other positive, inspirational fare on this feed.
- @RickWarren: We've mentioned books and videos by this purpose guru, but here you can connect with the author and speaker himself.
- @tonyrobbins: This is the official feed of Tony Robbins. On it, fans can find quotes, articles, and even advice on getting motivated and finding success.
- @DeepakChopra:For many, finding purpose is a spiritual journey. Find guidance in that journey from guru and author Deepak Chopra here.


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Balise Nissan needs a special permit from the zoning board for retail sales at its proposed new location at Route 28 and Bearse's Way.
Balise Nissan needs a special permit from the zoning board for retail sales at its proposed new location at Route 28 and Bearse's Way. A proposed trailer storage business on Yarmouth Road needs more review of an accessory apartment. A plan to turn an ex-laundry on Airport Road into a car detailing shop needs a few tweaks. Barnstable Municipal Airport needs to review potential glare from a proposed ground-mounted solar array at the former Cape & Islands Steel on Airport Way.
The four Hyannis projects underwent formal site plan review Sept. 8.
Balise's demolition and new construction project for one of the "gateways" to Hyannis has drawn lots of attention as the town seeks to upgrade the corner. Site plan officials looked at various traffic movements within the property.
Cape Cod Trailer Storage wants to take down two buildings at 210 Yarmouth Road and replace them with a 3,000-square-foot building that would include an accessory apartment for security purposes. The applicant is not seeking to store motorized vehicles in the building; automotive repair is not allowed at the location.
The former All Seasons Laundry at 95 Airport Road is on its way to a new life as an auto detailing shop with the addition of floor drains and an oil-water separator. Revised drainage plans have been requested.
Taking advantage of new town overlay district zoning, Airport Way Nominee Trust wants to put up 1 1.4 megawatt ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system at the old steel facility at 180 Airport Road. The electricity produced there would serve, through net metering returns, other locations operated by the trust's owner.

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Espers II
Drag City / Release: May 16
Philadelphia neo-psychedelic folk group Espers plays ambient music. Not that it's good at low volume at your New Age dinner party; rather, true to the word's definition, the sound comes in from all sides, surrounds and encircles. On their sophomore record, Espers II, the sextet builds on its impressive take on the work of late-'60s British folk acts like Fairport Convention and Donovan; impressive, possibly, in that the three women and three men are able to make medieval lyrical references sound sophisticated, dreamy even. Espers' artwork is all vines and branches, apt because they rope their obscure wood and string instruments around their lovely haunted voices, growing out a vibe that envelops you like hazy smoke. If you play this at your dinner party, play it loud. Elliott Johnston
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Ten Silver Drops
The new Secret Machines disc finds the tuneful trio delicately balancing two musical approaches melodic alt-rock and slightly old-school prog-rock leanings with aplomb. The album begins on two high notes with "Alone, Jealous and Stoned" and "All at Once (It's Not Important)," casting the Dallas act you'd swear it was a Brit pop export in Travis-land, with lush harmonies and sweet melodies. Any aspirations to take the listener to greater heights is met with the eight-plus-minute jam "Daddy's in the Doldrums," which possesses driving beats and chords similar to moments found on Now Here is Nowhere. It recalls gasp post-Peter Gabriel, pre-sellout Genesis. Indie rock fans open- minded enough to appreciate a major label artist won't be disappointed. John Benson
The Fiery Furnaces
Bitter Tea
Fat Possum
While always on the eclectic side of the indie rock spectrum, The Fiery Furnaces reached new heights of wackiness with Rehearsing My Choir, a concept album that found Eleanor Friedberger trading lines with her 83-year-old grandmother. With Bitter Tea, the siblings are slightly more grounded, but have not retreated to the more accessible, guitar-friendly sound on earlier releases. This album mimics their live show, moving from piano riff to riff and odd sound to sound with little respect for transition, as if twisting your radio dial from station to station. But the result is engaging, stimulating and sometimes danceable, with just enough song structure and hooks to snag you, even if the siblings are talking backwards to each other. Josh Johnson


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The sub-forum, titled "Protection of Spiritual Environment", of the 2nd World Buddhist Forum on 31 March 2009 is highly anticipated and has received great interest.
The sub-forum of the 2nd World Buddhist Forum, "Protecting the Spiritual Environment in Buddhism", co-organized by Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Foundation, will take place at the Dharma Drum Degui Academy in Taipei on the morning of 31 March 2009. The Abbot President, Venerable Guo Dong, will give a speech to express the warmest greeting on behalf of Dharma Drum Mountain to all the scholars and honorable guests from countries all over the world.
The vision of "Protecting the Spiritual Environment" was proposed by the Founder of Dharma Drum Mountain, Venerable Master Sheng Yen, in 1992. It has become the common consensus in Taiwan's religious sphere today and has often been raised in discussions of various issues including suicide prevention, vegetarian diet, Six Ethics of the Mind, financial crisis, energy renewal and carbon reduction. The sub-forum, "Protecting the Spiritual Environment", has been one of most popular sub-forums of the 2nd World Buddhist Forum and at least 38 theses will be presented.
Presenters including Venerable Bodagama Chandima thero, the Founder of Theravada Samadhi Education Association in Taiwan, the Vice Chairman of Buddhist Association in Sichuan Province of China, Venerable Suquan, the Abbot of Lohan Monastery in Shifan City of Sichuan, Venerable Daojian, the Abbot of Huayan Monastery in Zhongqing City of Sichuan Province can also be regarded as true practitioners of this inspirational vision in life. They are wholehearted supporters of DDM's humanitarian relief works, such as the reconstruction of hometowns and setting up Peace of Mind Relief Stations following the deadly earthquake in Sichuan and tsunami in Southeast Asia.
To enable honorable guests to truly experience the atmosphere of the Buddhist practice center built on the spirit of "Protecting the Spiritual Environment" and to realize the present situation of Buddhism in Taiwan, Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Foundation has arranged for them to visit the DDM World Center for Buddhist Education in Jinshan Township after the forum. This is with the hope that they will understand how DDM has embodied the idea of "uplifting the character of humanity, building a pure land on earth" and sense the beauty of Chan from the tranquil and delightful environment of the Center.
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1 Summary of MLW-LT Requirements Breakout session at MLW Workshop, Luxembourg March 2012
This session was facilitated by David Lewis, one of the co-chairs of the new MultilingualWeb-Language Technology W3C workgroup. He introduced MultilingualWeb-LT as the successor to the ITS standard, but with the aim to better integrate localisation, machine translation and text analytics technologies with content management. Therefore, the standardisation of meta-data for interoperability between processes in content creation, through localisation/translation to publication was now in scope. MultiligualWeb-LT would retain successful features of ITS, including support for current ITS data categories, the separation of data category definitions from its mapping to a specific implementation and the independence between data categories so that conformance could be claim by implementing any one. It would however address implementation in HTML5, using existing meta-data annotation such as RDFa and microdata and round-trip interoperability with XLIFF
The session focussed largely on the general characteristics of data categories more than on specific data categories, e.g. whether it was generated automatically or manually (or both) or whether it affected the structure of a HTML document or the interaction with other meta-data processing, e.g. for style sheets or accessibility. One specific data category to emerge was the priority assigned to content for translation. A point that repeatedly emerged was the importance of relating meta-data definitions to specific processes. This would influence how meta-data for processing provenance and processing instruction would be represented and was also important in defining processing expectations. The challenge identified here was that process flow definitions are intimately linked to localisation contracts and service level agreements. Therefore trying to standardise process models could meet resistance due to the homogenising effect on business models and service offerings. CMS-based workflows that were contained within a single content-creating organisation and assembled from multiple LT components, rather than outsourced to LSPs, may be more accepting of a common process definition. It was recognised, however, that language technologies, including machine translation and crowd-sourcing may mean that many process boundaries will change, quickly dating any standardised process model.
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Intro from Dave Lewis, co-chair of the MultilingualWeb-LT working group.
Workflow emphasis (both CMS and MT)
MLW-LT will be the successor to ITS
Need standard ways to mark up texts so that implementers can use them. Need to move beyond verbal agreements between two parties.
Need to recall that there are at least three potential implementations: XML, XLIFF, html5
Dave: Recall that we need to separate the definitions of the categories and the specifics of the implementation. We need to define an abstract model, but there are some suppositions: there are tags where attributes can be applied. Also, each data category is independent from the others: there is no obligation to support them all. We want to lower the barrier to entry.
List of existing tags:
• translate • localization note (communication between parties) • text direction • language • text in element (flows, nested elements, e.g., distinguish a bulleted list from a footnote) • term • ruby
Many were discussed in the internationalization activity and then moved up to html. This gives it higher profile than ITS.
Comment: this principle of only requiring a bit is good. Too many standards are too complex.
Text in element can be important for accessibility. How do we deal with dynamic content in HTML apps? What exists now seems to focus on institutions creating content. How do we get websites to work when you have dynamic content?
We need standards useful for large companies but also by individuals working on their own?
Dave: The idea of standardizing on the definitions of the data categories goes part of the way for that. Think of "translate", which started for XML in DITA, Docbook, but is now in html5. If we can seed these things in more popular locations, it will lead to greater adoption. Some things may not be used, others may be, but if we structure it right, those that are not adopted won't slow down those that are. Olaf: Are these structured so that they can cascade? Do we have to identify language in terms of a tag? The Commission is doing automatic identification of languages.
Olaf: There are two groups of tags: those that are automatable and others that require manual automation. It may be simplified if these things are split into two groups.
Des: I don't think that distinction needs to be made.
Olaf: I think if you split those out, it would encourage adoption.
Ryan: At Microsoft, we typically have a large amount of metadata in our system that we use to determine what should be localized. We don't want to pass those twenty pieces of metadata to translators: e.g., is the string stable or still changing, what tier is it in, revenue value of the feature. It generates one priority in the end. All of it can be overridden.
Dave: express a prioritization as an item of metadata.
Ryan: There is a lot of metadata that could be relevant, but we don't need to define all of it as a standard.
Depth of information. Information can cascade. It can be defined at the element or in the ITS rules that describe document-wide behavior using X-Path.
We want to use microdata or RDFa rather than coming up with our own way of doing things.
Arle: we need provenance for the tagging that is added to the document so you know what added the metadata.
Dave: We need to consider the end-to-end flow.
• Create (CMS) • Translate/localize (CAT/MT) • Consume (CMS?)
We need to know how it was produced (MT, HT, etc.)
The last two steps can often be swapped.
Des: ITS defines only one arrow in one direction in the workflow. We need to open up the entire picture. You need to be sure that information gets back to the CMS, for example. How do you know that what is produced in one node will survive as it passes through other nodes?
Metrics are needed about failures and actions.
Processing expectations need to be laid out.
Dave: me may want to distinguish between imperative and informative.
Ryan: but that is relative. We are missing state of a document. Both what needs to be done, but what has happened?
Dave: state is difficult to define.
Dave: we are missing a set of labels.
Des: State is dangerous. It will need to reference user-defined data.
Dave: how about putting a pointer to an external state document.
Tadej: term tag. I may want to annotate non-terms similarly. E.g., a personal name may not be a term, but I may want to be able to annotate an arbitrary fragment of text with some properties.
Make sure that our tags cannot break CSS hierarchies.
Des: one of the tenants of ITS is that it is non-invasive. Do we want to make sure it stays. It can't change the document structure.
Send link to questionnaire to attendees.
Report back to the plenary:
• Distinction between flows where we remain on the CMS and those where we deal with interface between parties. • Boundaries are going to go away: information can come from anywhere (e.g., crowdsourcing). Persistent metadata will become more important. • Much of the discussion was around recording state, but we anticipate that this will be external to the standards we are working on. State is critical, but CMS state may be a bit more tractable in future versions of ITS. TMS state will be out of scope. We decided that a pointer to external state data may be sufficient. • Principle: cannot break CSS or document structure. Need to anticipate ways in which our requirements could create problems with HTML structure. • Some of the metadata and annotation is specific to the original language and some to the target language. • Provenance may be related to state. We believe that this will be an important issue (e.g., where did a piece of information come from?) • The standards must define process expectations. • Automated metadata vs. manual metadata; informational vs. imperative metadata. Automated processes must be overridable.


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The first Nissan Skyline GTR R35 crash in Malaysia! Pictures are very graphic, be warned. This is a RM750k car that is faster than a Porsche Carerra GT. Thanks Edward for the heads up!
Before the crash, the GTR was seen at Sunway. There were discussions in forums suggesting that it was a Singaporean car and the driver had driven all the way from Singapore to show off his GTR at Sunway. How much of this is true I cannot say.
I have eaten at the food court located beside this GTR. This is at Sunway by the way.
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For much of human history, we have been able to conduct our private lives separately from our public ones. Upstanding, productive citizens during the day, we were free to be seditious, depressed or kinky by night. However, the computers we use in our homes during those private hours create and preserve evidence of our interests, relationships and beliefs, blurring the line between private and public.
Congress and the courts have responded by giving privacy protection to the contents of communications, including phone calls and e-mail messages, but denying strong protection to transactional information like phone numbers dialed and websites visited. Two recent Fourth Amendment cases illustrate that we need to understand that internet-use records are more like mind readers than phone bills if we are to retain any privacy in our communications.
In 1986, out of a concern that privacy protections were not keeping up with new modes of communication, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, which criminalized the interception and unauthorized access of electronic communications.
Congress also gave individuals the right to sue anyone who discloses customer information to a governmental entity without proper legal justification. However, Congress gave much stronger protections to the contents of phone calls and e-mail messages than to transactional information like telephone numbers dialed or IP addresses visited.
The history and growth of the internet reveals gaping privacy holes in this dichotomy. In one of my cases, which will go to hearing later this month, a police officer allegedly told the defendant's internet service provider that a life-and-death emergency required immediate disclosure of my client's internet-usage records.
The ISP gave the police the information, thereby subverting the statutory rule that law enforcement must use some kind of legal process before collecting internet-use records. Because these kinds of transactional records are less protected than content, my client may be left with no legal recourse against the police officer.
ECPA doesn't provide for the exclusion of illegally obtained transactional evidence, and our client has no money to sue the officer, who probably has no money to pay if a judgment went against him.
As technology develops and internet usage becomes more widespread, privacy gaps in ECPA rear their ugly heads, so citizens are asking courts to protect internet information under the Fourth Amendment. So far, the courts are doing a mixed job of it.
In mid-June, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Warshak v. United States (pdf). (I was a signatory on a law professors' amicus brief in support of plaintiff Warshak). Agents investigating Warshak for fraud obtained court authorization to seize his e-mail, but did not have probable cause to believe that Warshak was engaged in a crime, as the Fourth Amendment generally requires.
Warshak sued, alleging that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his e-mail messages, and thus a probable-cause warrant is required, and that no court order based on lesser evidence would do. Over vigorous objection by the government, both the trial court and the 6th Circuit agreed with Warshak.
At the heart of the case was the question of whether e-mail users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their messages, even though those messages are transmitted and stored by ISPs. The "reasonable expectation of privacy" triggers Fourth Amendment protection.
The 6th Circuit held that we do have a constitutional privacy interest in our e-mail messages, particularly in the absence of user agreements that indicate that the ISP will monitor or audit us. This expectation is reasonable even though the ISP has the technological capability of collecting the message for the government, and even though the message was sent to a third party who could have voluntarily disclosed it to officers.
The court analogized the e-mail message to a telephone call or a letter, both of which are transmitted by third parties, both of which are intended for another person and both of which are protected by the Fourth Amendment.
While the opinion may yet be reviewed by the full 6th Circuit, the essence of the ruling, that the content of communications deserves constitutional protection regardless of the technological vagaries of its transmission, is clearly sound.
In contrast, last week the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided United States v. Forrester (.pdf), a case that argued unsuccessfully for constitutional protection for to/from addresses of e-mail messages and the IP addresses of the websites that the defendant visited.
The 9th Circuit analogized the facts in Forrester to Smith v. Maryland, a case that denied Fourth Amendment protection for dialed telephone numbers.
Yet, to/from addresses – and particularly IP addresses – are vastly more revealing than phone numbers, which, at the time of Smith, only told what business or residence was called, not who answered or what was discussed.
An IP address tells you what content I viewed on a web page, which could include books I shopped for, information I researched, articles I read – all of which are windows into my interests, preferences, sympathies or mere curiosities.
IP addresses tell far more about what I'm thinking than telephone numbers do, and the 9th Circuit is wrong to give them cursory constitutional protection. This is especially true because there's a seductive but mistaken temptation to think that law enforcement can predict my future behavior from what I read. A research scientist may look for bomb-making information, a news junkie may read jihadist websites. Future bad behavior cannot be inferred from nontraditional thinking.
The 9th Circuit opinion may also be reheard by the full court, and if so, the judges will need a more accurate understanding of the nature of IP addresses and the wealth of information and insight they reveal about a person's innermost thought processes.
The 9th Circuit should also view IP address seizures in light of new federal proposals to require ISPs to store customers' search histories and retain other transactional data. In combination, the two will create a digital mind reader that can trace every internet user's thoughts and interests, and take away the security of knowing that your thoughts are your own.
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If you've gone for your annual physical recently, you're staring at a report that may as well have been written in a foreign language. Which numbers are especially important in predicting kidney health—and what's in the normal range?
- Estimated GFR number – Measures kidney function, over 60 is normal, under 60, talk to your doctor. GFR, or glomerular filtration rate, tells you how well your kidneys are doing their job of filtering the blood. More info on this test here
- Blood Pressure Reading --High blood pressure leads to kidney disease. Normal blood pressure is 120/80. If the upper number is over 140 and the lower number is above 90, your blood pressure is too high.
- Albumin to Creatinine Ratio - Estimates the amount of protein found in your urine in a day. Protein in the urine is one of the earliest signs of kidney disease. Less than 30 is normal, over 30, talk to your doctor.
- Total Cholesterol –Over 200, you may be at risk for heart disease.
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Turkey hunting season is coming to an end in a few days. The hunters that have not filled their tags yet ask in desperation for last chance tips on forums like SHS hunting Chat Forum and Jesse's Hunting and Outdoors. If my email is any indication then there are quite a few of them.
This late in the season there are three categories of hunters.
The happy hunter: he has scored early and is now happily telling his tale over and over again.
The disillusioned hunter: like all of us he started out with high hopes of getting a tom, but as the season's end comes closer he gives up. His favorite excuse usually is: "I hunted hard all these days and didn't get a turkey- a few more days won't change that".
Then there is the determined hunter: he will not give up no matter what. His theme is: "It ain't over till it's over!".
It is often the last category of hunters that close the season with a turkey in the freezer. Lets face it, you can't kill a turkey if you sit at home contemplating the bad luck you're having so far. So get out there and hunt till the last day. With a little change in strategy and some last ditch tactics you still have a more than an average chance at walking out of the woods with a turkey slung over your shoulder.
Here are some of the tactics that I use when there are only a few days left in the hunting season.
Late season turkeys are the smart birds. The dumb ones are in the freezer. These turkeys are a true challenge to hunt. You have to be a skillful caller and keep it simple. Forget the usual set ups and change your tactics to get you directly on top of the traveling toms. The birds you hunt now have heard just about every call from the good to the bad and the ugly. These turkeys have learned that calling means trouble and thus they shut up. It is possible that a gobbler will come in to your calls but he will not answer you. Instead, he will sneak along quietly, using available cover, towards you. These birds will usually hang up well out of shotgun range and watch for the slightest movement. If the tom does not see a hen where he expects to see one, he will slip away the same way he came in. To be successful with these paranoid, call-shy birds the set up becomes even more critical than at any other time during the season.
Despite all the challenges the later part of the spring turkey season is still one of my favorite times to be in the woods and chase a gobbler or two. I have the woods to myself and I do not have to get up so early to be in the hunting area at the crack of dawn. I am also more relaxed since my expectations are not as high as they where at the beginning. At this time of the season I am not after a boss tom; any turkey will fit the bill provided it is a legal bird.
I share the opinion of many other experienced turkey hunters that in the late season turkeys become call-shy. Especially in areas where there has been a lot of hunting pressure. So I keep my calls mostly in the pocket and instead spend more time scouting the area and trying to pattern a tom's movement. I try to find the roosting tree and the strutting zones and from there figure out the gobbler's travel path and time of day he travels. Then, the next day I set up as close to the travel path as possible, preferably within shotgun range, ambushing the bird when he walks past me. The best set ups for this tactic are where the turkey has to walk around a corner or over a hill. Anywhere where the bird cannot see me from a long way. For some hunters not seeing a turkey until he is in shooting range is a bit frustrating. But lets face it: If you can see the tom coming from a mile away then he will very likely see you too. Add to this the fact that a gobbler is always looking for a hen and at this time of the season has become very cautious- picking the surrounding terrain apart with his binocular like eyes for unusual movement-the you can understand why I set up where a tom cannot see me until it is to late for him.
Another tactic I sometimes employ is to be in the woods at around 9 am. By that time most other turkey hunters have left or are on their way out. Where legal also consider hunting in the afternoon. These are the times when the turkeys begin to relax and resume their normal activity with less paranoia and alertness. I try to get to a high point where I can observe a lot of territory below me with my binoculars. If I spot a tom I watch what route he takes. Then I try to move toward him, using the terrain to move unseen ahead of the tom and intercept him. This trick has worked for me often enough to give me confidence. If this tactic sounds familiar to you from elk hunting then you're right, I borrowed this elk hunting tactic and modified it a bit for turkey hunting. It may sound strange for some of you but turkey and elk hunting are very similar with the difference that a turkey is much smaller than an elk of course.
If all else fails I move to a rather desperate last-ditch effort by employing a tactic that is very successful in the fall turkey season. Breaking up a flock of turkeys is not something you see often in the spring season, but can work well too. I admit that this is a rather off the wall tactic for spring turkeys. But hey, what do you have to lose when the clock is working against you? There are two ways to bust a turkey flock. Either you go right at dawn to the roosting tree and chase the birds out of the tree or the other method is to scatter a flock in the field. When you bust a flock the plan is to separate the tom from the hens. Watch where the tom is flying to and then follow him from a safe distance. The tom quickly will get lonely and starts to gobble to assemble the hens.
Try to be near the tom before a real hen is. Set up close to him and then give him some sweet hen talk; gentle yelps mixed with purrs and kee-kee runs. Kee-kee runs are associated with fall hunting but can work very well in the spring too; these such calls soon will convince the tom that one or more of his lost hens are searching for him. He will quickly come toward the calls to meet up with the hens but that's where you are waiting for him with your shotgun at the ready. One precaution with this tactic though: please do not use this strategy if you are certain that there are still other hunters in the area. It's just not safe plus the other hunters could get upset at you for spoiling their chances.
There you have it. Don't be disillusioned or frustrated because you didn't score on a bird yet. There are still a few days left of the season, so you had better get up, take your gun and try some of these tips rather than sit at home and bemoan your bad luck. Remember, its not over until it is over. Good luck.
Tags: Turkey Hunting Tips, Hunting Tactics, Wild Turkey, Hunting, Turkey Calling Tips, Shotgun,
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Late Season Turkey Hunting Tips
Posted by Othmar Vohringer at 11:14 PM
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3 comments:
Love reading others tips on turkey hunting and am putting them all together in one big collection! Great article!
- August 10, 2007 10:43 PM
- Othmar Vohringer said...
I am glad you found the turkey hunting tips useful.
-Othmar Vohringer-
- August 10, 2007 10:57 PM
- Jagtstøvler said...
Great List. Will definitely be saved.
- May 11, 2016 2:53 AM
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NASA is doing what was once considered unthinkable and launching the world's first outer space art gallery. The famed space agency will be accepting submissions from various artists to send their work into space.
NASA plans to send a spacecraft on the first U.S space mission to bring back a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In 2013, Bennu was only 22,000 miles away from Earth and scientists have reason to believe that the asteroid could collide with our planet in year 2182. Until then, NASA is hoping to make the asteroid the first outer space art gallery known to mankind. The organization is inviting the public to contribute artwork inspired by the exploration that will be encoded onto a chip and left on its soil.
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Lexanox Plus Oral Paste is an anti-allergic, anti inflammatory drug used as a medicament against aphthous ulcer, which is more commonly known as canker sores or mouth sores. Though canker sores take about 7 to 10 days in self healing, but Lexanox Plus Oral Paste helps to accelerate the process and helps in faster healing of the said problem. This medication is applied to the affected area for about 4 times a day or as directed by the physician. In Japan it also has a use as a medicament against bronchial asthma, eye drops for varied eye complications and allergic rhinitis.
Lexanox Plus Oral Paste is applied in a pea sized amount with the help of the finger tip on the affected area after the area is washed and soaked duly.
This medication is safe if used adequately after doctor's advice. But over usage or wrong application may draw some side effects as well. A temporary pain, or a sensation of burn may be felt at the site of application. Serious reactions like nausea, diarrhea etc may also be experienced by the patient if the patient is allergic to it. Lexanox Plus Oral Paste rarely results in very serious allergic reactions but any itching, swelling or other reactions in the site must be notified to the doctor as soon as possible.
Information given here is based on the salt and content of the medicine. Effect and uses of medicine may vary from person to person. It is advicable to consult a Internal Medicine Specialist before using this medicine.
Is your skin looking swollen and feeling dry and itchy? If yes- you may be suffering from eczema. Eczema is a skin condition characterized by these symptoms along with redness. When scratched the skin may break and develop a rash. Children are more susceptible to this condition as compared to adults. Eczema is typically a recurrent infection. Treating it with conventional medication helps subdue the symptoms but does not reduce the risk of it recurring. In cases like this, Ayurveda is often the most preferred form of treatment.
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You will be surprised to know that about 35 million men and 21 million women suffer from excessive hairfall in India. Excessive hair fall can be the result of certain illnesses, hormonal changes, over-use of hair products that contain chemicals or a poor diet. What you may not have considered is that you can also lose a lot of hair by combing it the wrong way.
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If you start combing from your roots, you may have to fight more tangles on the way to the bottom. This induces strain on your scalp, and increases hair breakage. The end result is weak hair and roots, and more hair fall.
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A comb should never be used just after the application of a hair paste, serum or cream for treatment or styling. You must use only your fingers to comb through your hair once you've applied a styling product.
If you use a comb post-application of a styling product, it not only loses its effect, but may also harm your hair and its texture.Consequently, it may lead to increased breakage and hair loss over time.
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You can't go a day without seeing a new article about which diet is the best for losing weight, staying healthy, building muscle, or being environmentally responsible. There always seems to be some new trend that everyone is trying out. It can be hard enough to sort out which one is right for you before you even start asking the question I'm always thinking…
"What will it do to your teeth??"
I know. I know. It's probably not the first question that comes to most people's minds. I think it is a really important one though. A healthy set of teeth is important for eating and chewing as well as overall health. Many people are starting to realize that your mouth is a window into the health of the rest of your body. A great diet should be healthy for your teeth as well as for the rest of your body. Figuring out that part… Not so easy, but I've got you covered!
I'm going to go through all the major diets out there, and rank them according to how tooth friendly they are (This doesn't take into account if the diet is effective for anything else… just how "safe" it is for your teeth). These rankings are my subjective ratings on the diets based on how I think the average person would use the diet.
One last piece of advice before we get into the rankings….
Almost any diet can be made "teeth healthy" if you understand and follow the basic rules about how to eat for healthy teeth. The problem is that people don't usually understand how the process works, what foods can actually cause cavities, and how to avoid it.
Diets with a Tooth Score of 0-2 will be very challenging to follow as is and not develop cavities long term.
Diets with a Tooth Score of 3 can be made teeth healthy if you watch what and how you're eating.
Diets with a Tooth Score of 4-5 will typically be quite teeth healthy without much modification.
This diet recommends six meals a day, each meal containing at least two of it's twelve superfoods (Almonds/Other Nuts, Beans, Spinach/Green Veggies, Dairy, Instant Oatmeal, Eggs, Turkey/Lean Meats, Peanut Butter, Olive Oil, Whole Grain Breads and Cereals, Whey Protein Powder, and Berries. Smoothies are a highly recommended way to get many of these meals in.
Pros: It recommends limiting refined carbohydrates and sugar.
Cons: It keeps you eating all throughout the day. Whole grain breads and cereals can still cause cavities. Sipping on smoothies, especially if they are berry heavy, is a good way to get cavities.
Tooth Score: 2/5. The constant eating is the biggest risk factor with this diet.
This diet is a relatively complicated one to follow! Here are the basic rules… 1) Eat as much fresh food as possible 2) Avoid processed foods and sugars 3) Get 40-50% of your calories from carbs, 30% from fat, and 20-30% from protein 4) Eat whole grains 5) Eat pasta in moderation 6) Avoid high fructose 7) Reduce your intake of saturated fats 8) Eat more vegetable based protein than animal based protein other than fish 9) Eat fruits and vegetables from the entire color spectrum and 10) Drink water
Pros: It recommends you limit most refined carbohydrates, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup. These are the biggest contributors to tooth decay.
Cons: It can be complicated to follow and know if you're doing right.
Tooth Score: 4/5. It cuts out the vast majority of foods that are known to cause cavities.
The Atkins diet is one of the most popular low carb diets out there. It has you cut out almost all starchy and sugary carb foods including candy, cookies, chips, potatoes, pasta, bread, and sugary drinks.
Pros: It cuts out almost all carbs and sugars which are the biggest contributors to tooth decay.
Cons: None for your teeth.
Tooth Score: 5/5. By cutting out almost all carbs (except those you get from vegetables) you reduce your risk for cavities drastically.
The Biggest Loser Diet, popularized by the reality television show, focuses on small portions of food eaten in 5-6 meals throughout the day. It emphasizes weight loss which is achieved by eating fewer calories. The recommended foods for this diet include lean proteins such as turkey or chicken, low fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans and nuts.
Pros: It cuts out refined carbohydrates.
Cons: You are eating more frequently and still have a good number of sugars and carbs in your diet from grains and fruits.
Tooth Score: 2/5. The combination of eating frequently and carbs isn't usually a good one for your teeth. Limiting how often you eat grains and fruits will help lessen the impact on your teeth.
The DASH diet was originally created as a diet to help keep blood pressure in check. It has since been rated by several publications as one of the best overall diets to follow. It recommends eating the following servings of food each day (on a 2000 calorie diet): 7-8 servings of whole grains, 4-5 servings of fruit, 4-5 servings of vegetables, 2-3 servings of low fat or non-fat dairy, 2 or less servings of lean meats, fish, or poultry, 4-5 servings per week of nuts, seeds, and legumes, and limited consumption of fats and sweets. It also recommends keeping sodium intake very low
Pros: Great for your overall health
Cons: It has a large proportion of your food coming from grain and grain products as well as fruits. All of these can contribute to cavities if eaten too frequently.
Tooth Score: 3/5. To make this diet more teeth healthy, limit grain products, fruits, and any sugary items to your specific mealtimes and don't snack on them throughout the day.
The fast diet (the most popular of which is the 5:2 variety) is a diet in which you eat normally 5 days out of the week and the other two days you eat a very small number of calories (usually around 500 calories). The goal of this diet is to lose weight. It says you can pretty much eat what you want on your non-fast days. The major goal is calorie reduction.
Pros: One of the easier ones to follow.
Cons: There aren't any recommendations about cutting out refined carbs and sugar.
Tooth Score: 1/5 if your 5 regular days are like the typical western diet (high in refined carbs, sugars, and sweet drinks). If you eat more healthy foods on your regular days this could be a reasonable diet for your teeth.
The Fertility Diet as the name suggests was created to help people get pregnant. Many cases of infertility are related to the woman not ovulating which this diet can help with. The rules include avoiding trans fats, using unsaturated vegetable oils, eating vegetable proteins instead of animal proteins, eating slow carbs such as whole grains, vegetables, and fruits, drinking whole milk, eating iron containing plants, and staying hydrated while avoiding sugary drinks.
Pros: It recommends avoiding refined carbohydrates and extra sugars.
Cons: It is recommended that some women gain weight on the diet to get to a more healthy BMI for fertility. It is easy to eat the wrong foods in order to do this (such as ice cream or too many carbs).
Tooth Score: 4/5. Overall a good diet as long as you watch how often you're consuming carbs and fruits.
The Flat Belly Diet claims you can lose up to 15 lbs in a month with their system. For the first four days of the diet you can only eat 1200 calories and avoid all salt, processed foods, carbs, and gassy foods such as broccoli, onions, and beans. After the first four days you shoot for 1600 calories a day, eating a small meal/snack every four hours and sticking to a Mediterranean style diet. You also have to drink 2 liters of water a day that has been mixed with ginger root, cucumber, lemon, and mint leaves.
Pros: After the first four days, it sticks to a Mediterranean style diet, which is pretty tooth safe.
Cons: The water concoction isn't great for your teeth (regular water would be much better) and eating all throughout the day is associated with a higher rate of developing cavities.
Tooth Score: 2/5. If you drink plain water instead of their "sassy water" and avoid most processed carbs and sugars, it'll be much safer for your teeth.
The Flexitarian diet aims to have you add five new food groups to your diet without putting specific restrictions on what else you can eat: Plant proteins such as tofu, beans, nuts, eggs, or seeds, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, dairy, and sugar and spice. It also aims to reduce the calories you eat each day.
Pros: Relatively easy to follow.
Cons: Easy to justify eating too many carbs and sugar.
Tooth score: 2/5. While much healthier than the standard diet, it still allows a lot of cavity creating foods, which if eaten too frequently will definitely cause tooth decay.
The Glycemic Index Diet attempts to get you to only eat foods that have a low glycemic index (eg. that don't spike your blood sugar quickly such as refined carbohydrates, sugars, crackers, etc).
Pros: Many of the foods that have a high glycemic index are also cavity causing. Cutting them out will help.
Cons: Some of the moderate to low glycemic index foods can still cause cavities (such as fruits, pasta, or ice cream).
Tooth score 3/5. If you watch how often you eat those additional cavity causing foods, you can lessen the impact on your teeth.
Intermittent fasting is a pretty broad term that spans everything from the 5:2 fast diet to one meal a day to a whole variety of other diets. The one thing that binds them all together is the emphasis on extended periods of not eating / minimal eating.
Pros: Extended fast periods are good and safe for your teeth.
Cons: No guidance on what types of foods to eat.
Tooth score: 4/5. One of the biggest factors in developing cavities is the frequency with which you eat sugars and carbohydrates that cavity causing bacteria feed on. Intermittent fasting makes it so that you don't eat them frequently, even if you do eat them.
Many people love the Jenny Craig Diet because they make it easy. They send you pre-packaged meals and provide you with the meal plans so that you can stay on track. Portion size control is the biggest thing that they do for you.
Pros: By having pre-set meals and snacks you are able to avoid constant snacking throughout the day.
Cons: There are still a lot of refined carbohydrates and sugars in their meals, snacks, and desserts.
Tooth Score: 3/5.
The Mayo Clinic Diet focuses on eating according to their Healthy Food Pyramid which emphasizes eating a lot of fruits, vegetables, and in lesser amounts, "smart" carbohydrates such as whole grains. For the initial portion of the diet, they also recommend cutting out artificial sweeteners, alcohol, and all sugary items but are added back after losing the weight you'd like to lose.
Pros: It recommends cutting out refined carbohydrates and eat "smart " carbohydrates such as you'll find in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Cons: Carbohydrates (with a picture of pasta) are still high on their list of foods to eat.
Tooth Score: 3/5
The Mediterranean Diet basically has four different categories of foods to eat… Eat regularly, Eat in Moderation, Eat Rarely, and Don't Eat. Eat regularly includes fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads and pasta, nuts, beans, fish, and healthy oils such as olive oil. Eat in moderation includes eggs, dairy, and poultry. Eat rarely includes red meat. Don't eat includes refined carbohydrates, processed foods, processed meats, and sugars.
Pros: It cuts out refined carbohydrates.
Cons: It still has a heavy emphasis on carbohydrates and fruits which can both cause cavities if eaten frequently.
Tooth Score: 3/5
MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (quite a mouthful!). The goal of the diet is to reduce your risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Studies have shown that it is effective in doing this if followed well. The foods it recommends eating are a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets, specifically the ones that are good for brain health. These include green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, berries, nuts, whole grains, fish, and poultry.
Pros: It cuts out refined carbohydrates.
Cons: Like the two diets it is based on, a large proportion of calories still come from carbohydrates and fruits. This can cause cavities if eaten too frequently.
Tooth Score: 3/5.
The Nutrisystem diet is similar to the Jenny Craig Diet in that you select from pre-packaged meals that are shipped to your house. It focuses on portion control and eating many small meals throughout the day. The meals shoot for 50% of your calories from carbohydrates, 25% from protein, and 25% from fat.
Pros: You have some flexibility in what meals you get.
Cons: A lot of meals have sugar or a lot of carbohydrates in them and it also recommends you eat frequently throughout the day.
Tooth Score: 2/5. Too many carbohydrates too often can lead to cavities.
In the Ornish diet foods are broken up into five categories, Group 1 being the most healthy all the way to Group 5 which is the least healthy. Group 1 includes fruits, vegetables, beans, non-fat dairy, and whole grains. Group 2 includes avacados, nuts, seeds, and various oils such as canola or olive. Group 3 includes seafood and reduced fat dairy products. Group 4 includes poultry, whole fat dairy products, cookies, and cakes. Group 5 includes red meat, butter, fried foods, and other highly processed foods. The goal is to eat primarily from groups 1 and 2, occasionally from group 3, and infrequently from groups 4 and 5.
Pros: It cuts out most refined carbohydrates.
Cons: Depending on how you implement the diet you can end up with a lot of carb heavy meals.
Tooth Score 3/5
The goal of the Paleo diet is to eat like early humans used to eat. This can be quite variable so there are a good number of variations on this diet. Most practitioners of the Paleo diet recommend getting the vast majority of your calories from fruits, vegetables, nuts, and meat. Beans, sugars, and most carbohydrates, even whole grain, are a big no-no.
Pro: It cuts out most carbohydrates except for what you get from fruits and vegetables.
Cons: It's unclear if this diet is actually healthy for the rest of your body (even though it is pretty good for your teeth)
Tooth Score: 5/5
You eat Slim Fast products as meal replacements. These primarily include shakes, meals bars, and snack bars. You also fix one 500 calorie meal a day. The primary goal of this diet is to lose weight, not to be a long term diet plan.
Pro: It is an easy diet to follow, if not very exciting.
Cons: Most of the products have sugar or carbs in them.
Tooth Score 1/5.
The Slow Carb Diet was popularized by Tim Ferris in his book, "The Four Hour Body". Tim Ferris differentiates between "fast carbs" and "slow carbs". Fast carbs are things like sugar and refined carbohydrates (such as white flour) that break down quickly into sugars. He specifically says to avoid anything white and starchy as well as fruits. Slow carbs are things like whole grains and vegetables that your body breaks down much more slowly. You basically cut out all "fast carbs" from your diet 6 out of the 7 days of the week. The 7th day is a cheat day and you can eat whatever you want. You also shouldn't drink any calories so no sugary drinks allowed.
Pros: The diet really cuts out the vast majority of foods that cause cavities.
Cons: Most people go crazy on the cheat day, but it shouldn't be too much of problem if eat the right things on the other days.
Tooth Score: 4/5
Several documentaries have extolled the virtues of a smoothie or juicing only diet for some period of time in order to lose weight. The most popular of these is "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead". The basic idea is that you only make fruit and vegetable smoothies or juice for whatever period of time you need in order to lose your required amount of weight.
Pros: None that I can think of.
Cons: Drinks with sugar (such as almost every smoothie or juice) are terrible for your teeth, especially if you consume them frequently.
Tooth Score: 0/5. This is a dangerous one for your teeth.
The South Beach Diet is another low carb / right carb diet. It breaks up the diet into three separate phases. Phase 1 is the most restrictive and cuts out all carbohydrates except those with a very low glycemic index such as such as vegetables. This phase is very tooth friendly and intended to help you lose a lot of weight. Phase 2 lets you re-introduce some of those carbs back into your diet. It recommends only whole grains, fruits, whole wheat pasta, and sweet potatoes. This is moderately tooth friendly. Phase 3 is when you are at a stable weight and are just maintaining. It recommends you make good food choices based on your experiences in the first two phases. You can go back to phase 1 and 2 if you need to lose more weight.
Pros: Cuts out refined carbohydrates for the most part.
Cons: Once you're at a stable weight, it is far less restrictive and you might start choosing foods that are bad for your teeth again.
Tooth Score 3/5. Depending on what phase you're in, it can be either good or bad for your teeth.
This isn't so much a "diet" as it is the typical way many people eat today. It started in the United States and has since spread to most other parts of the world. There is a heavy emphasis on refined carbohydrates, meats, and sugary drinks. Fruits and vegetables are usually an afterthought. It is responsible for the skyrocketing rates of obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and many other diseases. As expected it is terrible for your teeth too.
Tooth Score: 0/5
The TLC diet aims to lower your bad cholesterol levels and be heart healthy. It does this by reducing saturated fats in your diet. On this diet you'll want to avoid most saturated fats including butter, whole fat dairy, and fatty meats. It also increases the amount of soluble fiber you consume. The recommended foods include fruits, vegetables, fish, skin off lean meats, bread, pasta, and other whole grains.
Pros: It is rated as a good diet for your heart.
Cons: There are a lot of recommended carbs in this diet. If you're eating fruits, bread, and pasta too frequently you'll likely develop cavities.
Tooth Score: 2/5
This one spans a good variety of different diets prevalent in the area of Asia. Most of them are low fat and include large amounts of rice, vegetables, fruit, and fish. Red meat is very limited.
Pros: It is typically considered a pretty healthy diet.
Cons: Rice, fruit, and noodles can definitely cause cavities, especially if combined with any added sugars.
Tooth Score: 2/5
A vegan diet aims to cut out all animals products. That means no butter, eggs, dairy, cheese, meats, or fish. Most people on a vegan diet eat large amounts of fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, pasta, and bread.
Pros: A well done vegan diet (heavy on the vegetables, fruits, beans, and nuts can be really healthy).
Cons: It is easy to load up on carbs or sweets while on this diet since you have so many other restrictions.
Tooth Score: 2/5. I recently had a patient who had 15 cavities while eating a vegan diet. She was snacking on potato chips all day which led to the cavities. I've seen the same thing with fresh fruit heavy diets. You can make it more teeth healthy by eating more whole grains, limiting the frequency with which you have them (don't snack on them!), and avoiding added sugars.
The vegetarian diet cuts out all meat products but other animal products such as dairy and eggs are OK for most people. There are a couple of different variations that allow different items. Most people eat a large amount of vegetables, fruits, cheese, nuts, beans, pasta, and bread.
Pros: A well done vegetarian diet can be really healthy.
Cons: As with the vegan diet it is easy to load up on way too many carbs and sugars.
Tooth Score: 2/5. To make this one more teeth healthy avoid eating carbs and extra sugars except at meal times.
The Volumetrics Diet is different than many of the other diets I've featured on here. Instead of focusing on food groups or calories, it recommends simply eating high volume, low calorie foods to keep you full without eating excess calories. Examples of these high volume, low calorie foods include fruits, vegetables, low fat dairy, whole grains, and lean meat.
Pros: It recommends cutting out refined carbohydrates.
Cons: You can still develop cavities if you are eating a lot of the fruits and grains too frequently.
Tooth Score: 3/5
Weight Watchers works by using a SmartPoints system. You have a set number of points you can use each day. Foods that are healthy cost very few points while calorie heavy, non-nutritious foods cost a lot of points. No food is banned in this diet. The SmartPoints system aims to get you to eat low calorie and fillings foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean vegetables.
Pros: Most of their "good" foods are pretty healthy for your teeth.
Cons: You can eat small amounts of the "bad" foods on this diet and if you are doing it frequently throughout the day they can still cause cavities.
Tooth Score: 2/5
This diet ends up being a relatively low carbohydrate diet. It allows you 3 meals a day a two snacks. Each meal is supposed to be 30% protein, 30% fat, and 40% non-starchy/non-sugary carbohydrates. High sugar fruits and vegetables are discouraged as well as bad fats like red meat and egg yolks. Most meals end up being about 1/4 lean meat, 2/3 good fruits and vegetables, and the rest good fats such as avocados, etc.
Pros: It cuts out most foods that cause cavities.
Cons: Not many from the perspective of your teeth.
Tooth Score: 5/5
Gastritis / acidity part -2
Simple ways to manage gastritis / acidity
Gastritis/ acidity is usually mild and can be cured easily by following better food habits and regular healthy lifestyle. However, sometime gastritis can cause pain in the upper part of the abdomen and may lead to stomach ulcers. Few over-the-counter (otc) antacid medicines and a set of do's and don'ts can relieve gastritis. Some of the lifestyle and dietary changes are as follows:
Lifestyle / dietary changes:
Excess spicy food and use of painkillers, alcohol, cigarettes and acidic beverages lead to symptoms of gastritis. To get rid of symptoms of gastritis, one should follow these simple remedies.
Small meals: eat food in smaller quantity and switch to several small meals.
Avoid painkillers: painkillers lead to ulcers in your stomach and cause bleeding. So, avoid unnecessary use of painkillers.
Yoga and physical exercise: kapalabhati, bhastrika and anulomaviloma yoga increases movement of body and organs, helpful in the treatment of gastritis.
Foods to be taken:
A healthy meal plan with low unhealthy fat, salt, and added sugar helps in relieving gastritis. Eat fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fat-free or low-fat dairy foods. Lean meats, poultry (chicken and turkey), fish, beans, eggs, and nuts are also advised to gastritis patients.
Fruits: fruits contain vitamins, minerals, fibers and antioxidants should be the part of the diet plan.
Rice gruel: rice gruel helps in the formation of watery gastric juice and reduces the acidity level within the stomach. Only rice that has been aged for one year must be used. Wheat and barley are beneficial.
Vegetables: garlic and onion limit the growth of bacteria. Carrot juice, spinach juice, pumpkin, bitter gourd (kaakarakaya), cucumber (dosakaya), and green banana are effective. Broccoli is effective against h. Pylori bacteria in the stomach lining.
Dairy products: the calcium and vitamin d in milk reduce the stomach acids and gives relief to the stomach but, it should be with low content fat.
Grains: whole wheat chapattis, pasta, noodles made from whole grains should be included in the diet. Refined flour (maida) products should be strictly avoided. Limit the consumption of whole grain chapattis to about 2 chapattis, per day.
Green coconut water: drink green coconut water, as it provides the stomach with the necessary rest, vitamins, and minerals which provide an excellent and easy remedy for gastritis.
Foods to be avoided:
Several foods produce a large amount of acid in your stomach leading to gastritis. You should avoid intake of such foodstuffs in your diet:
The lifestyle we lead plays an important role. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important to overcome many diseases as it helps in bringing the blood pressure to normal and in turn reduce the risks of diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Factors like smoking, diet, stress and sedentary lifestyle can lead to hypertension and diabetes. Hypertension is known as silent killer as it is symptomless.
There are various traditional medicines known to lower the blood pressure. Also, there are certain herbs that help in controlling blood pressure and preventing other diseases.
Some of these herbs are:
In case you have a concern or query you can always consult an expert & get answers to your questions!


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Dan Deacon Launches Totally Amazing Awesome Crazy Poster Contest
Win your portrait painted by Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is firing up the veggie bus once again this fall for a tour starting October 1. And to promote the trek, he's set up an insane poster contest. This isn't your typical "design a poster" contest. The poster, created by Post Typography, is actually already in place, and pictured above. What you have to do is name every single one of the 243 cartoon characters drawn on it. There goes my Friday night.
A big version of the poster is here, the answer form is here, and a numbered diagram of the poster is here. (Don't worry, they already identified "Super-Obsessed-Too-Big-Glasses-Wearing-Super-Dan-Fan," "Really Bad Drawing of Philip Glass," and "Skull on a Skateboard" for you.)
If you're the first person to send in an answer form with all the characters correctly identified to firstname.lastname@example.com, there is a prize. Actually, four prizes:
01 $500 cash
02 A portrait of you painted by Dan Deacon.
03 One of the last copies of Wham City Box Set #1.
05 A copy of each of Dan Deacon's first eight impossible-to-find releases: Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat, Meetlemice, Goose on the Loose, A Green Cobra Is Awesome vs. the Sun, Porky Pig, Twacky Cats, Live 2003, and Acorn Master.
Good luck, everybody!


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Assassin's Creed Altaïr's Chronicles is the direct prequel of the critically acclaimed console title Assassin's Creed, where players discover more about the protagonist Altaïr and his deep history. The game features a fully realized 3D world in which players will travel and battle through four cities of the Crusades Middle East, using acrobatic moves and exhilarating combo attacks that mix sword skills and high-flying kicks.
Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles
Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles at a Glance
- Platform(s): Nintendo DS
- Genre: ACTION
- Developer: Ubisoft
- Publisher: Ubisoft
- ESRB Ratings: Mature
- Release Date: N/A


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Frozen Foods Gaining Ground in Supply Chain Channels
While manufacturers are trying to refresh the image of frozen foods and revive retail sales, some areas are reaping the benefits of going cold.
Your grocer's frozen food locker is beginning to resemble Davy Jones' locker, with a dwindling shopper base a cause for concern.
The steady sales descent of major categories in the frozen aisle hardly rates as a fresh observation. With the exception of ice cream, slippage in unit sales, dollar sales or both are continuing, with frozen entrees hemorrhaging the most.
For the 52 weeks ending September 8, sales of today's TV dinners were off more than 3 percent by both measures, according to scanner data from multi-unit retailers compiled by IRI, a Chicago-based market research firm. Frozen pizza limped through the year with a 1-point loss in dollar volume. As grim as that is, it's an improvement from the prior year, when unit sales slid more than 3 percent, according to "Cold Facts about Frozen Foods," an October 2012 report from AMG Strategic Advisors. "In 2011, frozen food unit sales dropped to 2008 levels," the report observes.
Trying to reverse the slide, a coalition of major manufacturers, including ConAgra, Nestle USA and H.J. Heinz, plans to spend up to $50 million on a frozen-is-fresh message campaign, according to Advertising Age. The effort to overcome frozen's negative health perception takes particular aim at millennials, who are giving a cold shoulder to these processed foods.
"In particular, younger shoppers are seeking options they perceive as both a better value and a healthier option," writes AMG analysts. The number of buyers under the age of 35 has plummeted 37 percent in five years, according to AMG. The bulk of the remaining shoppers are closer to getting their meals from a nursing-home commissary than a supermarket.
There are glimmers of hope, however. Seafood is poised to supplant pizza as the fourth largest category at retail, and architectural/engineering/construction (AEC) companies report brisk business in helping seafood processors expand their capacities.
The foodservice supply chain may be the greatest cause for optimism. With sodium and other preservatives out of favor, clean-label products are being subjected to extreme cold before going through distribution, and many manufacturers are flash-freezing or blast-freezing finished goods that will be slacked off when they reach a store or foodservice outlet.
Baked goods are a prime example. Be it bread and rolls or dessert items, products sold as fresh at ambient temperature are increasingly likely to have undergone freezing. Rather than multiple direct-store deliveries to its restaurants, McDonald's has directed bun suppliers to ship frozen products to distribution centers, where store orders are consolidated into a single delivery.
Bakeries also are discovering value in freezing. Amoroso's, a Philadelphia bakery whose sandwich roll is considered essential for authentic hoagies and Philly cheese steaks, has achieved a national profile thanks to flash freezing. Now the focus is on maintaining that strength while driving down costs.
In partnership with Atlantic City, N.J.'s Ginsberg Bakery, Amoroso's established the contract manufacturer Omni Baking Co. in 1996. Since 2003, Omni has operated a 171,000-sq.-ft. facility in Vineland, N.J., producing par-baked and thaw-and-serve goods. Lacking mechanical refrigeration, Omni relies on a battery of cryogenic freezers to lock in moisture and freshness in products distributed across the country.
Cryogenic freezers require less space and capital investment than ammonia refrigeration, but they also elevate a plant's gas salesman to major-supplier status. Omni already had four cryogenic freezers in 2009 when it agreed to test a new cross-flow spiral freezer from Linde North America, its Murray Hill, N.J., supplier of liquid nitrogen.
"Linde reached out to us to be the R&D site for the freezer," which uses a cylindrical shape to improve the flow of air and nitrogen across the belt for faster heat transfer, recalls Dan Mulloy, general manager of Omni. "The freezing's a little more intense because of the amount of air blowing across it, and the footprint is smaller than freezers with similar throughput."
Cleaning and sanitation is accomplished "in probably half the time" because a sloped floor eliminates the need to squeegee water to drain, he adds. Mark DiMaggio, head of food and beverage at Linde, maintains the cross-flow freezer uses 15 percent less gas than a conventional spiral-in-a-box cryogenic freezer. Mulloy says he hasn't compared per-unit freezing costs for the new vs. older units, but he believes savings are "in the teens" in terms of gas consumption.
The cross-flow's compact design is another plus, but rapid freezing may be the greatest benefit from both a quality and yield perspective. "A raw hamburger typically experiences 0.5 percent dehydration in a mechanical freezer," according to DiMaggio. "With impingement freezing at -200 degrees Fahrenheit, we can lower it to 0.1 percent. We can often increase yield 4, 5, 6 percent by reducing dehydration," more than enough to offset cryogen costs in a high-throughput application.
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