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ACE 2021: Get a new Hyundai from RM958 a month; win an Ogawa Smart Vogue Prime chair worth RM12k
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Fans of SUVs can look forward to checking out the facelifted Hyundai Kona at the show, featuring a comprehensive redesign inside and out along with new features, and this is but one of the several models available for visitors to check out at the event.
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Hyundai is one of several brands present at ACE 2021, and this includes Ford, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen. Though ACE is primarily catered to mainstream makes, a selection of premium brands are here too, including Lexus, BMW and MINI.
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As we are still very much in the midst of a global pandemic, we will continue to take every possible measure to keep you safe. Visitors will be required to wear their masks at all times, and will need to be screened for their temperature to rear below 37.4ºC in order to be permitted entry into the event. Visitors will also need to scan a MySejahtera QR code and record details for contact tracing purposes.
In addition to the commonly used masks, all customer-facing personnel will wear face shields, and all major touch points including display and test drive vehicles will be sanitised regularly as well. Hand sanitisers will be provided at the event, and visitors are strongly encouraged to bring their own sanitisers and wash their hands frequently.
We will also be imposing a a strict maximum limit of 1,200 persons in the venue at any one time. We have decided to limit the number of total persons permitted to below SCCC's limit of 1,700, that is 50% of the venue's capacity, in order to ensure the safety of everyone in attendance.
Visitors will be required to adhere to physical distancing guidelines once inside the venue. Do note some limitations – for the health and safety of all who are present, children aged 12 and below as well as senior citizens aged 60 and above will not be allowed to enter.
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The Info List - Arab Revolt
Kingdom of Hejaz British Empire
Southern Rhodesia India
France Ottoman Empire
German Empire Emirate of Jabal Shammar
Hussein bin Ali Faisal Abdullah Edmund Allenby T. E. Lawrence Mehmed V Djemal Pasha Fakhri Pasha Muhiddin Pasha
Otto Liman von Sanders Saud bin Abdulaziz
30,000 (June 1916)[1] 50,000+ (1918)[2] May 1916: 6,500–7,000 troops[3] September 1918: 25,000 troops 340 guns[1]
Unknown 47,000+ 5,000 killed 10,000 wounded[4] 22,000+ captured[5][6][7] ~10,000 disease deaths
Mecca Medina Taif Yanbu Aqaba Wadi Musa al-Samna Megiddo Damascus Aleppo
The Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية, al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya; Turkish: Arap İsyanı) or Great Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية الكبرى, al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya al-Kubrā) was officially initiated by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, at Mecca on June 10, 1916 (9 Sha'ban of the Islamic calendar for that year) although his sons 'Ali and Faisal had already initiated operations at Medina
Medina starting on 5 June[8] with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab
Arab state stretching from Aleppo
Aleppo in Syria
Syria to Aden
Aden in Yemen. Though the Sharifian revolt has tended to be regarded as a revolt rooted in a secular Arab
Arab nationalist sentiment, the Sharif did not present it in those terms; rather, he accused the Young Turks
Young Turks of violating the sacred tenets of Islam and called Arab
Arab Muslims to sacred rebellion against the ostensibly "impious" Ottoman government.[9] Contrarily, Turks as well as many Arab
Arab leaders accused rebelling tribes of betraying the Muslim Caliphate during a campaign against imperialist powers which were trying to divide and govern the Muslim lands.[10] Ultimately, the revolt failed to generate significant support from within the Ottoman Empire's Arab
Arab provinces, and remained largely limited to tribal levies from the Arabian Peninsula loyal to Sharif Hussein.[11]
1 Background 2 Forces 3 Conflicts
3.1 Prelude 3.2 1916: T. E. Lawrence 3.3 1917 3.4 1918: Increased Allied assistance and the end of fighting
4 Aftermath 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links
Background[edit] Further information: Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire) The rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire dates from at least 1821. Arab
Arab nationalism has its roots in the Mashriq
Mashriq (the Arab
Arab lands east of Egypt), particularly in countries of Sham (the Levant). The political orientation of Arab
Arab nationalists in the years prior to the Great War was generally moderate. The Arabs' demands were of a reformist nature, limited in general to autonomy, greater use of Arabic in education, and changes in conscription in the Ottoman Empire in peacetime for Arab
Arab conscripts that allowed local service in the Ottoman army. The Young Turk Revolution
Young Turk Revolution began on 3 July 1908 and quickly spread throughout the empire. As a result, sultan Abdul Hamid II
Abdul Hamid II was forced to announce the restoration of the 1876 constitution and the reconvening of the Ottoman parliament. This period is known as the Second Constitutional Era. In the elections held in 1908, the Young Turks through their Committee of Union and Progress
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) managed to gain the upper hand against the Liberal Union led by Prince Sabahaddin. The CUP preached a message that was a mixture of Pan-Islamism, Ottomanism, and Pan-Turkicism, which was adjusted as the conditions warranted. At its heart, the CUP were Turkish nationalists who wanted to see the Turks as the dominant group within the Ottoman Empire. The new parliament was composed of 142 Turks, 60 Arabs, 25 Albanians, 23 Greeks, 12 Armenians (including four Dashnaks
Dashnaks and two Hunchaks), 5 Jews, 4 Bulgarians, 3 Serbs, and 1 Vlach. The CUP in the parliament gave more emphasis to centralization and a modernization program. At this stage, Arab
Arab nationalism was not yet a mass movement, even in Syria
Syria where it was strongest. Many Arabs gave their primary loyalty to their religion or sect, their tribe, or their own particular governments. The ideologies of Ottomanism
Ottomanism and Pan-Islamism
Pan-Islamism provided strong competition for Arab
Arab nationalism. The vast majority of the Arabs living in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire were primarily loyal to their own families, clans, and tribes and in terms of broader loyalties, saw themselves as Muslims rather than as Arabs, which in practical terms meant support for the Ottoman Empire, whose sultan also claimed to be the caliph.[12] Traditional Islamic theory preaches the message that all Muslims, regardless of their ethnicity or race, should live together in the Ummah, where usually been interpreted to mean one state, and for centuries Muslims living under Ottoman rule, whether they be Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Albanians, and so forth all saw themselves as united by a common religion and state. In the Ottoman Empire, Sunni Islam was the state religion, and the sultan-caliph was the supreme religious-political leader, thus making the crown and the faith one and the same. Before 1914, of the ten million or so Arabs living under Ottoman rule, only a mere 350 were involved in various feuding nationalist groups, most of whom wanted only autonomy rather than independence.[12] Arab
Arab members of the parliament supported the countercoup of 1909, which aimed to dismantle the constitutional system and restore the absolute monarchy of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The dethroned Sultan attempted to regain the caliphate by putting an end to the secular policies of the Young Turks, but was in turn driven away to exile in Selanik by the 31 March Incident
31 March Incident (where the Young Turks
Young Turks defeated the countercoup) and eventually replaced by his brother Mehmed V
Mehmed V Reşad. In 1913, intellectuals and politicians from the Arab
Arab Mashriq
Mashriq met in Paris at the First Arab
Arab Congress. They produced a set of demands for greater autonomy within the Ottoman Empire. They again demanded that Arab
Arab conscripts to the Ottoman army should not be required to serve in other regions except in time of war. None of this involved Sharif Hussein of Mecca, a man who spent most of his life living in Constantinople, who spoke better Turkish than he did Arabic, and until 1916 had been regarded by almost everyone as a loyal Ottoman official.[12] Hussein, a man with grandiose ambitions, had first started to fall out with his masters in Constantinople when the dictatorship comprising a triumvirate known as the Three Pashas, comprising General Enver Pasha, Talaat Pasha
Talaat Pasha and Cemal Pasha representing the radical Turkish nationalist wing of the CUP seized power in a coup d'état in January 1913 and began to pursue a policy of centralization, which crimped Hussein's powerbase in the Hejaz
Hejaz more and more.[12] Hussein started to embrace the language of Arab nationalism only after he began his revolt against the Ottoman government in June 1916, and even then Arab
Arab nationalism was one out of the many arguments that he used to advance claims to rule most of the Middle East, which were just as often justified by the need to hold together the Islamic Ummah.[13] Hussein saw himself as the founder of a new empire, and looked down upon his fellow Ottoman Arabs as backward, ignorant people whom he was "destined" to rule.[12] Forces[edit] It is estimated that the Arab
Arab forces involved in the revolt numbered around 5,000 soldiers.[14] This number however probably applies to the Arab
Arab regulars who fought during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign
Sinai and Palestine Campaign with Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and not the irregular forces under the direction of T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence and Faisal. On a few occasions, particularly during the final campaign into Syria, this number would grow significantly. Many Arabs joined the Revolt sporadically, often as a campaign was in progress or only when the fighting entered their home region.[15] During the Aqaba
Aqaba raid, for instance, while the initial Arab
Arab force numbered only a few hundred, over a thousand more from local tribes joined them for the final assault on Aqaba. Estimates of Faisal's effective forces vary, but through most of 1918 at least, they may have numbered as high as 30,000 men. The Hashemite Army comprised two distinctive forces: tribal irregulars who waged a guerrilla war against the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire and the Sharifian Army, which was recruited from Ottoman Arab
Arab POWs, and fought in conventional battles.[16] In the early days of the revolt, Faisal's forces were largely made up of Bedouin
Bedouin and other nomadic desert tribes, who were only loosely allied, loyal more to their respective tribes than the overall cause.[17] The Bedouin
Bedouin would not fight unless paid in advance with gold coin,[18] and by the end of 1916, the French had spent 1.25 million gold francs in subsidizing the revolt.[17] By September 1918, the British were spending £220,000/month to subsidize the revolt.[17] Faisal had hoped that he could convince Arab
Arab troops serving in the Ottoman Army to mutiny and join his cause, but the Ottoman government sent most of its Arab
Arab troops to the front-lines of the war, and thus only a handful of deserters actually joined the Arab
Arab forces until later in the campaign.[19] The Hashemite forces were initially poorly equipped, but later were to receive significant supplies of weapons, most notably rifles and machine-guns from Britain and France.[20] Ottoman troops in the Hejaz
Hejaz numbered 20,000 men by 1917.[19] At the outbreak of the revolt in June 1916, the VII Corps of the 4th Ottoman Army was stationed in the Hejaz
Hejaz to be joined by the 58th Infantry Division commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ali Necib Pasha, the 1st Kuvvie- Mürettebe (Provisional Force) led by General Mehmed Cemal Pasha, which had the responsibility of safeguarding the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad and the Hicaz Kuvvei Seferiyesi (Expeditionary Force of the Hejaz) which was under the command of General Fakhri Pasha.[19] In face of increasing attacks on the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad, the 2nd Kuvvie- Mürettebe was created by 1917.[19] The Ottoman force included a number of Arab units who stayed loyal to the Sultan-Caliph and fought well against the Allies.[19] The term Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt is actually a misnomer as it implies that the majority of the Ottoman Arabs rebelled, when in fact the majority stayed loyal.[12] During the First World War, between 100, 000 and 300, 000 Arabs served in the Ottoman Army.[12] The Ottoman troops enjoyed an advantage over the Hashemite troops at first in that they were well supplied with modern German weapons.[19] In addition, the Ottoman forces had the support of both the Ottoman air forces, air squadrons from Germany and the Ottoman gendarmerie.[21] Moreover, the Ottomans relied upon the support of Ibn Rashid, the King of Ha'il whose tribesmen dominated what is now northern Saudi Arabia and tied down both the Hashemites
Hashemites and the Saud forces with the threat of their raiding attacks.[22] The great weakness of the Ottoman forces was they were at the end of a long and tenuous supply line in the form of the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad, and because of their logistical weaknesses, were often forced to fight on the defensive.[19] Ottoman offensives against the Hashemite forces more often faltered due to supply problems than to the actions of the enemy.[19] The main contribution of the Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt to the war was to pin down tens of thousands of Ottoman troops who otherwise might have been used to attack the Suez Canal, allowing the British to undertake offensive operations with a lower risk of counter-attack. This was indeed the British justification for starting the revolt, a textbook example of asymmetrical warfare which has been studied time and again by military leaders and historians alike.[citation needed] Conflicts[edit] Further information: Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Arabia after the Battle of Aqaba.
Ottoman Empire took part in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, under the terms of the Ottoman–German Alliance. Many Arab nationalist figures in Damascus
Damascus and Beirut
Beirut were arrested, then tortured. The flag of the resistance was designed by Sir Mark Sykes, in an effort to create a feeling of "Arab-ness" in order to fuel the revolt.[23] Prelude[edit]
Outline Map of Hejaz
1918 British Government map entitled "Map illustrating Territorial Negotiations between H.M.G. and King Hussein"
When Kitchener was Consul-General in Egypt, contacts between Abdullah and Kitchener had eventually culminated in a telegram of 1 November 1914 from Kitchener (recently appointed as Secretary of War) to Hussein wherein Great Britain would, in exchange for support from the Arabs of Hejaz,
"...guarantee the independence, rights and privileges of the Sharifate against all foreign external foreign aggression, in particular that of the Ottomans"[24]
The Sharif having indicated that he could not break with the Ottomans immediately, it was not until the following year, over the period July 14, 1915 to March 10, 1916, a total of 10 letters, 5 from each side, were exchanged between Sir Henry McMahon and Sherif Hussein. Hussein's letter of 18 February 1916 appealed to McMahon for £50,000 in gold plus weapons, ammunition and food claiming that Feisal was awaiting the arrival of 'not less than 100,000 people' for the planned revolt and McMahon's reply of 10 March 1916 confirmed British agreement to the requests and concluded the ten letters of the correspondence. Hussein, who until then had officially been on the Ottoman side, convinced that his assistance on the side of the Triple Entente would be rewarded by an Arab
Arab empire encompassing the entire span between Egypt
Egypt and Persia, with the exception of imperial possessions and interests in Kuwait, Aden, and the Syrian coast, decided to defect over to the Allied camp because of rumours that Sharif Ali Haidar, leader of the competing Zaid family for the position of Sharif of Mecca, was in increasing favour with the Ottoman government, and that he would soon be deposed.[25] The much publicized executions of the Arab
Arab nationalist leaders in Damascus
Damascus led Hussein to fear for his life if he were deposed in favour of Ali Haidar.[14] Hussein had about 50,000 men under arms, but fewer than 10,000 had rifles.[26] On June 5, 1916 two of Hussein's sons, the Emirs Ali and Faisal, began the revolt by attacking the Ottoman garrison in Medina, but were defeated by an aggressive Turkish defence led by Fakhri Pasha.[27] The revolt proper began on June 10, 1916, when Hussein ordered his supporters to attack the Ottoman garrison in Mecca.[28] In the Battle of Mecca, there ensued over a month of bloody street fighting between the out-numbered, but far better armed Ottoman troops and Hussein's tribesmen.[14] The Hashemite forces in Mecca were joined by Egyptian troops sent by the British, who provided much needed artillery support, and finally took Mecca on July 9, 1916.[14] The indiscriminate Ottoman artillery fire, which did much damage to Mecca, turned out to be a potent propaganda weapon for the Hashemites, who portrayed the Ottomans as desecrating Islam's most holy city.[14] Also on June 10, another of Hussein's sons, the Emir Abdullah attacked Ta'if, which after an initial repulse settled down into a siege.[14] With the Egyptian artillery support, Abdullah took Ta'if
Ta'if on September 22, 1916.[14] French and British naval forces had cleared the Red Sea
Red Sea of Ottoman gunboats early in the war.[29] The port of Jidda
Jidda was attacked by 3500 Arabs on 10 June 1916 with the assistance of bombardment by British warships and seaplanes.[26] The seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree provided crucial air support to the Hashemite forces.[30] The Ottoman garrison surrendered on 16 June.[26] By the end of September 1916 Arab armies had taken the coastal cities of Rabegh, Yenbo, Qunfida, and 6000 Ottoman prisoners with the assistance of the Royal Navy.[26] The capture of the Red Sea
Red Sea ports allowed the British to send over a force of 700 Ottoman Arab
Arab POWs (who primarily came from what is now Iraq) who had decided to join the revolt led by Nuri as-Sa'id and a number of Muslim troops from French North Africa.[30] Fifteen thousand well-armed Ottoman troops remained in the Hejaz.[26] However, a direct attack on Medina
Medina in October resulted in a bloody repulse of the Arab forces. 1916: T. E. Lawrence[edit]
Lawrence at Rabegh, north of Jeddah, 1917
In June 1916, the British sent out a number of officials to assist the revolt in the Hejaz, most notably Colonel Cyril Wilson, Colonel Pierce C. Joyce, and Lt-Colonel Stewart Francis Newcombe.[31] Herbert Garland was also involved. In addition, a French military mission commanded by Colonel Edouard Brémond was sent out.[31] The French enjoyed an advantage over the British in that they included a number of Muslim officers such as Captain Muhammand Ould Ali Raho, Claude Prost, and Laurent Depui (the latter two converted to Islam during their time in Arabia).[31] Captain Rosario Pisani of the French Army, though not a Muslim, also played a notable role in the revolt as an engineering and artillery officer with the Arab
Arab Northern Army.[31] The British government in Egypt
Egypt sent a young officer, Captain T. E. Lawrence, to work with the Hashemite forces in the Hejaz
Hejaz in October 1916.[29] The British historian David Murphy wrote that though Lawrence was just one out of many British and French officers serving in Arabia, historians often write as though it was Lawrence alone who represented the Allied cause in Arabia.[31] David Hogarth credited Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell for much of the success of the Arab
Arab Revolt. She had travelled extensively in the Middle East since 1888, after graduating from Oxford with a First in Modern History. Bell had met Sheikh Harb of the Howeitat in January 1914 and thus was able to provide a "mass of information" which was crucial to the success of Lawrence's occupation of Aqaba
Aqaba covering the "tribal elements ranging between the Hejaz
Hejaz Railway and the Nefud, particularly about the Howeitat group." It was this information, Hogarth emphasized, which "Lawrence, relying on her reports, made signal use of in the Arab
Arab campaigns of 1917 and 1918."[32] Lawrence obtained assistance from the Royal Navy
Royal Navy to turn back an Ottoman attack on Yenbu in December 1916.[33] Lawrence's major contribution to the revolt was convincing the Arab
Arab leaders (Faisal and Abdullah) to co-ordinate their actions in support of British strategy. Lawrence developed a close relationship with Faisal, whose Arab Northern Army was to be become the main beneficiary of British aid.[34] By contrast, Lawrence's relations with Abdullah were not good, so Abdullah's Arab
Arab Eastern Army received considerably less in way of British aid.[35] Lawrence persuaded the Arabs not to drive the Ottomans out of Medina; instead, the Arabs attacked the Hejaz
Hejaz Railway on many occasions. This tied up more Ottoman troops, who were forced to protect the railway and repair the constant damage. On December 1, 1916 Fakhri Pasha
Fakhri Pasha began an offensive with three brigades out of Medina
Medina with the aim of taking the port of Yanbu.[34] At first, Fakhri's troops defeated the Hashemite forces in several engagements, and seemed set to take Yanbu.[36] It was fire and air support from the five ships of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy Red Sea
Red Sea Patrol that defeated the Ottoman attempts to take Yanbu
Yanbu with heavy losses on December 11–12, 1916.[36] Fakhri then turned his forces south to take Rabegh, but owing to the guerrilla attacks on his flanks and supply lines, air attacks from the newly established Royal Flying Corps base at Yanbu, and the over-extension of his supply lines, he was forced to turn back on January 18, 1917, to Medina.[37] The coastal city of Wejh
Wejh was to be the base for attacks on the Hejaz railway.[33] On 3 January 1917, Faisal began an advance northward along the Red Sea
Red Sea coast with 5100 camel riders, 5300 men on foot, four Krupp
Krupp mountain guns, ten machine guns, and 380 baggage camels.[33] The Royal Navy
Royal Navy resupplied Faisal from the sea during his march on Wejh.[38] While the 800-man Ottoman garrison prepared for an attack from the south, a landing party of 400 Arabs and 200 Royal Navy bluejackets attacked Wejh
Wejh from the north on 23 January 1917.[38] Wejh surrendered within 36 hours, and the Ottomans abandoned their advance toward Mecca in favor of a defensive position in Medina
Medina with small detachments scattered along the Hejaz
Hejaz railway.[39] The Arab
Arab force had increased to about seventy-thousand men armed with twenty-eight-thousand rifles and deployed in three main groups.[39] Ali's force threatened Medina, Abdullah operated from Wadi Ais harassing Ottoman communications and capturing their supplies, and Faisal based his force at Wejh.[39] Camel-mounted Arab
Arab raiding parties had an effective radius of 1000 miles (1600 km) carrying their own food and taking water from a system of wells approximately 100 miles (160 km) apart.[40] In late 1916, the Allies started the formation of the Regular Arab Army
Arab Army (also known as the Sharifian Army) raised from Ottoman Arab
Arab POWs.[31] The soldiers of the Regular Army wore British-style uniforms with the keffiyahs and unlike the tribal guerrillas, fought full-time and in conventional battles.[21] Some of the more notable former Ottoman officers to fight in the Revolt were Nuri as-Said, Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari and 'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri.[41] 1917[edit]
Map of the Hejaz
Hejaz railway (Damascus-Mecca pilgrim route); built at great expense by the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, but quickly fell into disrepair after the Arab
Arab revolt of 1917
The year 1917 began well for the Hashemites
Hashemites when the Emir Abdullah and his Arab
Arab Eastern Army ambushed an Ottoman convoy led by Ashraf Bey in the desert, and captured £20,000 worth of gold coins that were intended to bribe the Bedouin
Bedouin into loyalty to the Sultan.[42] Starting in early 1917, the Hashemite guerrillas began attacking the Hejaz railroad.[43] At first, guerrilla forces commanded by officers from the Regular Army such as al-Misri, and by British officers such as Newcombe, Lieutenant Hornby and Major Herbert Garland
Herbert Garland focused their efforts on blowing up unguarded sections of the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad.[43] Garland was the inventor of the so-called "Garland mine", which was used with much destructive force on the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad.[44] In February 1917, Garland succeeded for the first time in destroying a moving locomotive with a mine of his own design.[44] Around Medina, Captain Muhammand Ould Ali Raho of the French Military Mission carried out his first railroad demolition attack in February 1917.[45] Captain Raho was to emerge as one of the leading destroyers of the Hejaz railroad.[45] In March 1917, Lawrence led his first attack on the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad.[46] Typical of such attacks were the one commanded out by Newcombe and Joyce who on the night of July 6/7, 1917 when they had planted over 500 charges on the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad, which all went off at about 2 am.[46] In a raid in August 1917, Captain Raho led a force of Bedouin
Bedouin in destroying 5 kilometers of the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad and four bridges.[47] In March 1917, an Ottoman force joined by tribesmen from the Kingdom of Ha'il led by Ibn Rashid
Ibn Rashid carried out a sweep of the Hejaz
Hejaz that did much damage to the Hashemite forces.[37] However, the Ottoman failure to take Yanbu
Yanbu in December 1916 led to the increasing strengthing of the Hashemite forces, and led to the Ottoman forces to be forced more and more onto the defensive.[37] Lawrence was later to claim that the failure of the offensive against Yanbu
Yanbu was the turning point that ensured the ultimate defeat of the Ottomans in the Hejaz.[36] In 1917, Lawrence arranged a joint action with the Arab
Arab irregulars and forces under Auda Abu Tayi
Auda Abu Tayi (until then in the employ of the Ottomans) against the port city of Aqaba. This is now known as the Battle of Aqaba. Aqaba
Aqaba was the only remaining Ottoman port on the Red Sea
Red Sea and threatened the right flank of Britain's Egyptian Expeditionary Force defending Egypt
Egypt and preparing to advance into Sanjak Maan of the Syria Vilayet.[40] Capture of Aqaba
Aqaba would aid transfer of British supplies to the Arab
Arab revolt.[48] Lawrence and Auda left Wedj on 9 May 1917 with a party of 40 men to recruit a mobile camel force from the Howeitat, a Syrian tribe renowned for fighting on camels.[48] On 6 July, after an overland attack, Aqaba
Aqaba fell to those Arab
Arab forces with only a handful of casualties.[48] Lawrence then rode 150 miles to Suez to arrange Royal Navy
Royal Navy delivery of food and supplies for the 2500 Arabs and 700 Ottoman prisoners in Aqaba; soon the city was co-occupied by a large Anglo-French flotilla (including warships and sea planes), which helped the Arabs secure their hold on Aqaba.[48] Even as the Hashemite armies advanced, they still encountered sometimes fierce opposition from local residents. In July 1917, residents of the town of Karak fought against the Hashemite forces and turned them back. Later in the year British intelligence reports suggested that most of the tribes in the region east of the Jordan River were "firmly in the Ottoman camp."[49] The tribes feared repressions and losing the money they had received from the Ottomans for their loyalty.[50] Later in the year, the Hashemite warriors made a series of small raids on Ottoman positions in support of British General Allenby's winter attack on the Gaza-Bersheeba defensive line which led to the Battle of Beersheba).[51] Typical of such raids was one led by Lawrence in September 1917 that saw Lawrence destroy a Turkish rail convoy by blowing up the bridge it was crossing at Mudawwarah and then ambushing the Turkish repair party.[52] In November 1917, as aid to Allenby's offensive, Lawrence launched a deep-raiding party into the Yarmouk River valley, which failed to destroy the railroad bridge at Tel ash-Shehab, but which succeeded in ambushing and destroying the train of General Mehemd Cemal Pasha, the commander of the Ottoman VII Corps.[53] Allenby's victories led directly to the British capture of Jerusalem
Jerusalem just before Christmas 1917. 1918: Increased Allied assistance and the end of fighting[edit] By the time of Aqaba's capture, many other officers joined Faisal's campaign. A large number of British officers and advisors, led by Lt. Col.s Stewart F. Newcombe and Cyril E. Wilson, arrived to provide the Arabs rifles, explosives, mortars, and machine guns.[54] Artillery was only sporadically supplied due to a general shortage, though Faisal would have several batteries of mountain guns under French Captain Pisani and his Algerians for the Megiddo Campaign.[54] Egyptian and Indian troops also served with the Revolt, primarily as machine gunners and specialist troops, a number of armoured cars were allocated for use.[54][55] The Royal Flying Corps
Royal Flying Corps often supported the Arab
Arab operations, and the Imperial Camel Corps
Imperial Camel Corps served with the Arabs for a time.[56] The French military mission of 1,100 officers under Brémond established good relations with Hussein and especially with his sons, the Emirs Ali and Abdullah, and for this reason, most of the French effort went into assisting the Arab
Arab Southern Army commanded by the Emir Ali that was laying siege to Medina
Medina and the Eastern Army commanded by Abdullah that had the responsibility of protecting Ali's eastern flank from Ibn Rashid.[31] Medina
Medina was never taken by the Hashemite forces, and the Ottoman commander, Fakhri Pasha, only surrendered Medina
Medina when ordered to by the Turkish government on January 9, 1919.[57] The total number of Ottoman troops bottled up in Medina
Medina by the time of the surrender were 456 officers and 9,364 soldiers.[57] Under the direction of Lawrence, Wilson, and other officers, the Arabs launched a highly successful campaign against the Hejaz
Hejaz Railway, capturing military supplies, destroying trains and tracks, and tying down thousands of Ottoman troops.[58] Though the attacks were mixed in success, they achieved their primary goal of tying down Ottoman troops and cutting off Medina. In January 1918, in one of the largest set-piece battles of the Revolt, Arab
Arab forces (including Lawrence) defeated a large Ottoman force at the village of Tafileh, inflicting over 1,000 Ottoman casualties for the loss of a mere forty men.[59] In March 1918 the Arab
Arab Northern Army consisted of
Arab Regular Army commanded by Ja'far Pasha el Askeri
brigade of infantry one battalion Camel Corps one battalion mule-mounted infantry about eight guns
British Section commanded by Lieutenant Colonel P. C. Joyce
Hejaz Armoured Car Battery of Rolls Royce light armoured cars with machine guns and two 10-pdr guns on Talbot lorries one Flight of aircraft one Company Egyptian Camel Corps Egyptian Camel Transport Corps Egyptian Labour Corps Wireless Station at 'Aqaba
French Detachment commanded by Captain Pisani
two mountain guns four machine guns and 10 automatic rifles[60]
In April 1918, Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari and Nuri as-Said
Nuri as-Said led the Arab
Arab Regular Army in a frontal attack on the well-defended Ottoman railroad station at Ma'an, which after some initial successes was fought off with heavy losses to both sides.[61] However, the Sharifian Army succeeded in cutting off and thus neutralizing the Ottoman position at Ma'an, who held out until late September 1918.[62] The British refused several requests from al-Askari to use mustard gas on the Ottoman garrison at Ma'an.[62] In the spring of 1918, Operation Hedgehog, a concerted attempt to sever and destroy the Hejaz
Hejaz railroad, was launched.[63] In May 1918, Hedgehog led to the destruction of 25 bridges of the Hejaz railroad.[64] On 11 May Arab
Arab regulars captured Jerdun and 140 prisoners. Five weeks later, on 24 July Nos. 5 and 7 Companies of the Imperial Camel Corps
Imperial Camel Corps Brigade commanded by Major R. V. Buxton, marched from the Suez Canal
Suez Canal to arrive at Aqaba
Aqaba on 30 July, to attack the Mudauwara Station.[65] A particularly notable attack of Hedgehog was the storming on August 8, 1918, by the Imperial Camel Corps, closely supported by the Royal Air Force, of the well-defended Hejaz
Hejaz railroad station at Mudawwarah.[66] They captured 120 prisoners and two guns, suffering 17 casualties in the operation. Buxton's two companies of Imperial Camel Corps
Imperial Camel Corps Brigade continued on towards Amman, where they hoped to destroy the main bridge. However 20 miles (32 km) from the city they were attacked by aircraft, forcing them to withdraw eventually back to Beersheba where they arrived on 6 September; a march of 700 miles (1,100 km) in 44 days.[65] For the final Allied offensive intended to knock the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire out of the war, Allenby asked that Emir Faisal and his Arab
Arab Northern Army launch a series of attacks on the main Turkish forces from the east, which was intended to both tie down Ottoman troops and force Turkish commanders to worry about their security of their flanks in the Levant.[67] Supporting the Emir Faisal's army of about 450 men from the Arab Regular Army were tribal contingents from the Rwalla, Bani Sakhr, Agyal, and Howeitat tribes.[68] In addition, Faisal had a group of Gurkha troops, several British armored car squadrons, the Egyptian Camel Corps, a group of Algerian artillery men commanded by Captain Pisani and air support from the RAF to assist him.[69]
Feisal party at Versailles Conference. Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), T. E. Lawrence, Faisal's slave (name unknown), Captain Hassan Khadri.
In 1918, the Arab
Arab cavalry gained in strength (as it seemed victory was at hand) and they were able to provide Allenby's army with intelligence on Ottoman army positions. They also harassed Ottoman supply columns, attacked small garrisons, and destroyed railroad tracks. A major victory occurred on 27 September when an entire brigade of Ottoman, Austrian and German troops, retreating from Mezerib, was virtually wiped out in a battle with Arab
Arab forces near the village of Tafas
Tafas (which the Turks had plundered during their retreat).[70] This led to the so-called Tafas
Tafas massacre, in which Lawrence claimed in a letter to his brother to have issued a "no-prisoners" order, maintaining after the war that massacre was in retaliation for the earlier Ottoman massacre of the village of Tafas, and that he had at least 250 German and Austrian POWs together with an uncounted number of Turks lined up to be summarily shot.[70] Lawrence later wrote in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom that "In a madness born of the horror of Tafas
Tafas we killed and killed, even blowing in the heads of the fallen and of the animals; as though their death and running blood could slake our agony".[71] In part due to these attacks, Allenby's last offensive, the Battle of Megiddo, was a stunning success.[72] By late September and October 1918, an increasingly demoralized Ottoman Army began to retreat and surrender whenever possible to British troops.[73] "Sherifial irregulars" accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence captured Deraa on 27 September 1918.[74] The Ottoman army was routed in less than 10 days of battle. Allenby praised Faisal for his role in the victory: "I send your Highness my greetings and my most cordial congratulations upon the great achievement of your gallant troops ... Thanks to our combined efforts, the Ottoman army is everywhere in full retreat".[75] Main article: Battle of Aleppo
Aleppo (1918) The first Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt forces to reach Damascus
Damascus were Sharif Naser's Hashemite camel cavalry and the cavalry of the Ruwallah tribe, led by Nuri Sha'lan, on 30 September 1918. The bulk of these troops remained outside of the city with the intention of awaiting the arrival of Sharif Faisal. However, a small contingent from the group was sent within the walls of the city, where they found the Arab Revolt
Arab Revolt flag already raised by surviving Arab
Arab nationalists among the citizenry. Later that day Australian Light Horse troops marched into Damascus. Auda Abu Ta'yi, T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence and Arab
Arab troops rode into Damascus
Damascus the next day, 1 October. At the end of the war, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force had seized Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, large parts of the Arabian peninsula and southern Syria. Medina, cut off from the rest of the Ottoman Empire, would not surrender until January 1919. Aftermath[edit] See also: Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
The Aqaba
Aqaba Flagpole holding the flag of the Arab
Arab Revolt, commemorating the site of the Battle of Aqaba.
United Kingdom agreed in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence that it would support Arab
Arab independence if they revolted against the Ottomans. The two sides had different interpretations of this agreement. In the event, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom and France
France reneged on the original deal and divided up the area in ways that the Arabs felt were unfavourable to them under the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. Further confusing the issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which promised support for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine. For a brief period, the Hejaz
Hejaz region of western Arabia
Arabia became a self-declared state — but have not been universally recognised as such — under Hussein's control. It was eventually conquered by Ibn Saud in 1925 as part of his military and socio-political campaign for the unification of Saudi Arabia.[76] See also[edit] World War I
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Medina by the time it surrendered and does not account for Arab
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British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920, The War Office, p. 633: 8,000 prisoners taken by the Arab
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Gertrude Bell Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. London: Phoenix/Orion Books Ltd. ISBN 1400096197. pp. 25, 115–8, 202. ^ a b c Parnell, p. 78 ^ a b Murphy, p. 36. ^ Murphy, p. 13. ^ a b c Murphy, p. 37. ^ a b c Murphy, p. 38. ^ a b Parnell, p. 79 ^ a b c Parnell, p. 80 ^ a b Parnell, p. 81 ^ Murphy, pp. 14–15. ^ Murphy, p. 38 ^ a b Murphy, pp. 39–43. ^ a b Murphy, p. 43. ^ a b Murphy, pp. 43–44. ^ a b Murphy, p. 44. ^ Murphy, p. 45. ^ a b c d Parnell, p. 82 ^ Rogan, Eugene (2011). The Arabs: A History. Penguin. p. 152. ^ Rogan Eugene (11 April 2002). "Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921". Cambridge University Press. p. 233. Retrieved 1 June 2017. ^ Parnell, p. 83 ^ Murphy, pp. 56–57. ^ Murphy, pp. 57–59. ^ a b c Murphy, p. 59. ^ Rolls S.C. (1937). Steel Chariots in the Desert. Leonaur Books. ^ Murphy, pp. 59–60. ^ a b Murphy, p. 81. ^ Murphy, pp. 39–46. ^ Murphy, pp. 64–68. ^ Falls, p. 405 ^ Murphy, pp. 68–73. ^ a b Murphy, p. 73. ^ Murphy, pp. 73–74. ^ Murphy, p. 74 ^ a b Falls, p. 408 ^ Murphy, pp. 70–72, 75. ^ Murphy, pp. 75–76. ^ Murphy, p. 75. ^ Murphy, p. 76. ^ a b Murphy, pp. 76–77. ^ Murphy, p. 77. ^ Murphy, pp. 77–79. ^ Murphy, p. 79. ^ Falls, pp. 582–3 ^ Jeremy Wilson (1989) Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence. William Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-434-87235-0. p. 548 ^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. pp. 799–802. ISBN 978-1598843361.
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New Champion Thoroughbreds trainer Danny O'Brien was on hand at the Inglis Syndication Day on Sunday at Oaklands Junction to showcase the three quality colts he will train for the gun syndication company.
Champion Director Jason Abrahams and Danny O'Brien spoke to the crowds, as can be seen the photo attached, at the Open Day about their decision to work together with syndicating horses.
The pair provided a running commentary while the three yearlings paraded, outlining the qualities that made these three colts stand out and secure a spot on the pairs "must buy" list at this year's Karaka Sales.
These three will be the first horses that Danny O'Brien will train for Champion Thoroughbreds, which is venturing into Victorian-based horses for the first time.
"Jason has a fantastic track record of racing some wonderful horses with John O'Shea in Sydney and I was thrilled when he was looking to expand his syndication business into Victoria," O'Brien said.
"To say we are starting with three cracking types is an understatement as we were thrilled with what we could secure at an excellent price point together in New Zealand this year."


Go Sheriff! I hope it works for him, maybe more sheriffs will follow his lead. Who needs to deport them? Let's just make life miserable here so they'll want to go home.
I agree that more sheriffs should follow suit.


Add the panko bread crumbs to a mixing bowl. Add the butter and crumble it with your hands to incorporate it into the crumbs. Add in the parmesan cheese, chilli powder, chives and a very small pinch of salt. Mix everything well together and set aside.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Lightly butter a baking dish.
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the pasta, stir, and cook until it is al dente. Drain in a colander and transfer the pasta to the baking dish. Drizzle with some olive oil and toss to coat to keep it from stick with each other.
Melt 3 tbsp of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 to 4 minutes, until transparent.Add the garlic and jalapenos and cook for 1 minute longer, stirring constantly so the garlic doesn't brown.
Stir in the cream, reduce the heat to low, and simmer, stirring frequently, until the sauce is reduced by half(about 10 minutes). Add salt and pepper. Drop the heat to low and stir in all the cheeses. Whisk thorougly and continously until it becomes a smooth sauce. Check for seasoning.
Pour this sauce all over the pasta in the baking dish. Mix well.
Sprinkle the bread crumb topping evenly over the pasta.
Bake for 30 minutes or until the sauce is bubbling around the edges and the top is golden brown. Serve with any bread of your choice. I served it with Roasted Garlic sourdough bread rolls.
I have entered this post to the "Winter Treat" event hosted by Recipe Center.


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Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that's better than dying from prostate cancer. Catch it when it's localized and the five-year survival is practically guaranteed, but once it really starts spreading, chances drop to one in three. "Thus, identification of modifiable factors that affect the progression of prostate cancer is something that deserves study," noted Dr. Erin Richman and colleagues at Harvard. So, they took more than a thousand men with early stage prostate cancer and followed them for a couple years to see if there was anything in their diet associated with a resurgence of the cancer, such as spreading to the bone.
Compared to men who hardly ate any eggs, men who ate even less than a single egg a day had a significant 2-fold increased risk of prostate cancer progression. The only thing worse was poultry consumption, with up to four times the risk of progression among high-risk men. They think it might be the cooked meat carcinogens that for some reason build up more in chicken and turkey muscle than in other meats. For more on these so-called heterocyclic amines, see my videos: Heterocyclic Amines in Eggs, Cheese, and Creatine?, Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens, and PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen.
But what about the eggs? Why would less than once-a-day egg consumption double the risk of cancer progression? "A plausible mechanism that may explain the association between eggs and prostate cancer progression is high dietary choline," the researchers suggested. Egg consumption is a determinant of how much choline you have in your blood, and higher blood choline has been associated with a greater risk of getting prostate cancer in the first place. So the choline in eggs may both increase one's risk of getting it and having it spread.
Studies have associated choline consumption not just with getting cancer and spreading cancer, but also with significantly increased risk of dying from it. Those who ate the most had a 70% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer. Another recent study found that men who consumed two and a half or more eggs per week — that's just like one egg every three days — had an 81 percent increased risk of lethal prostate cancer.
Maybe that's why meat, milk, and eggs have all been associated with advanced prostate cancer—because of the choline. Choline is so concentrated in cancer cells that doctors can follow choline uptake to track the spread of cancer throughout the body. But why may dietary choline increase the risk of lethal prostate cancer? Dietary choline is converted in the gut to trimethylamine (see my video Carnitine, Choline, Cancer and Cholesterol: The TMAO Connection), so the Harvard researchers speculated that the TMAO from the high dietary choline intake may increase inflammation, which may promote progression of prostate cancer to a lethal disease.
In one of my videos, Eggs and Choline: Something Fishy, I talked about what trimethylamine might do to one's body odor.
In the New England Journal of Medicine, the same Cleveland Clinic research team that did the famous study on carnitine repeated the study, but instead of feeding people a steak, they fed people some hard-boiled eggs. Just as they suspected, a similar spike in that toxic TMAO. So it's not just red meat. And the link between TMAO levels in the blood and strokes, heart attacks, and death was seen even in low-risk groups like those with low-risk cholesterol levels. Thus, because of the choline, eating eggs may increase our risk regardless of what our cholesterol is.
With regard to the prevention of prostate cancer progression, chicken and eggs may be the worst foods to eat, but what might be the best? See my video Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio.
What about reversing cancer progression? See Dr. Ornish's work Cancer Reversal Through Diet?, followed up by the Pritikin Foundation: Ex Vivo Cancer Proliferation Bioassay. Flax may help as well (Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer).
Is there a human or dietary need for choline?
KWD: Thanks for that link.
Sam: I can provide a little more info on the topic. A good reference book for our nutritional needs is the book, "Becoming Vegan, Express Edition" By Brenda Davis and Vasanto Melina. They did a *ton* of research to write that book, and they have a lot of experience behind them.
You can learn more about the topic by reading the book itself. I just wanted to share that really interesting bit. I interpreted the above to mean: As long as you are generally healthy and eating a healthy diet, you don't have to worry about choline intake.
fish also contain choline. However reports say if u dont eat fish u double the risks of dementia.
Maybe that why Previously choline has been touted as brain food !
Two new studies found that omega-3 supplements, often sold in the form of fish oil, do not improve the health of the brain or heart.
After following more than 12,500 type 2 diabetes patients over the age of 50 for an average of 6.2 years, researchers saw no difference in heart health between those taking an omega-3 supplement versus a placebo. Diabetes patients are two to four times more likely to suffer from heart disease or a stroke, compared with people without diabetes. Another recent meta-analysis came to the same conclusion for people with a history of heart problems.
Additionally, in a new review looking at omega-3 supplementation for brain health, researchers found no link between omega-3 supplements and the prevention or improvement of dementia.
Bosch J, Gerstein HC, Diaz R, et al. n–3 fatty Acids and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with dysglycemia. N Engl J Med. Published online June 11, 2012.
Kwak SM, Myung SK, Lee YJ. Efficacy of omega-3 fatty acid supplements (eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid) in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Arch Intern Med. Published ahead of print, April 9, 2012.
Also, if you read Dr. Barnard's book, "Power Foods For The Brain", you can see that he does not recommend eating any fish. (He explains why.) I'll also refer you to my reply to Sam previously on this page. The Becoming Vegan book mentions that lots of plant foods are also rich in Choline. My take-home message is: there really is no need to eat fish, most especially if you are concerned about your brain.
I don't think one should use data about omega-3 supplements to argue a point about eating fish. Various studies have shown omega-3 supplements do not "track" fish-eating results e.g. as reported in the Berkeley Wellness Letter v30, issue 13, July 2014 in summarizing the findings of the recent meta-analysis on fat intake that's caused such a stir, fish-eating but neither omega-3 supplements or plant-provided ALA is associated with lower coronary risk. The two studies you cite refer to omega-3 supplements, not fish eating.
Choline is the precursor to acetylcholine, one of our primary 'thinking' neurotransmitters. There are many individuals who supplement choline in a variety of forms (Alpha-GPC, Citicoline, and phosphatidylcholine) to increase cognition. Acetylcholine deficiency is linked to Alzheimer's disease.
I'm always suspicious of these correlation studies. Maybe it's something else in eggs, rather than the choline, that causes prostate cancer.
As it turns out, there is: Egg yolks contain a lot of arachidonic acid, of which the body rids itself by producing a dangerous enzyme called 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), and 5-LOX directly stimulates prostate cancer cell proliferation.
Fortunately, there's an Ayurvedic herb — boswellia serrata — which is sold under various trade names, one of which is "5-Loxin" — that helps to counteract the dangerous effects of 5-LOX. If one has prostate cancer, this particular herb may be worth considering in addition to eliminating egg yolks from one's diet.
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Although I recently stopped a Low-Carb Paleo diet, I do still read information from varying sources, in hopes of having a broader view. But, all this seems to do is confuse me even more.
So does this mean that egg whites are okay and egg yolks are to be avoided?
Because egg whites are a rich source of animal protein, we should generally avoid it due to the IGF-1 increasing effects. Please see here for details.
Egg whites are only water,protein,sodium,selenium.Nothing wrong with egg whites.All the (possible dangers) are with the yolk.If you wanna consume just eggs from the animal byproducts then go only with the egg white.
Heisenberg: The devil is in the details. That protein you mention is animal protein, and one that is particularly linked to cancer risk through it's high methionine content (the highest). Here is some info on methionine.
So, there are at least two known mechanisms (the first being IGF-1 which Rami mentions above and links to more info) by which egg whites raise the risk for serious disease. There's the rub.
As Dr. Barnard says, there are only two problems with eggs, the yolk and the white.
What about organically raised free-range REAL chickens, not the prisoners of mass chicken producers?
Most organic/free range operations use the same breeds, which have been bred to grossly overproduce eggs. "Real" hens live in the jungle and produce about 15 eggs a year. And I don't know if any of this affects choline amounts.
The study sited here ("Choline intake and risk of lethal prostate cancer: incidence and survival") does not explicitly say how the men with the "highest quintile of choline intake" obtained their choline, although it strongly implies that they got it strictly by eating "Meat, milk, and eggs". To say that choline is the reason for their being in the 'highest quintile' requires a study involving supplemental choline intake alone, rather than getting choline from meat, milk and eggs, which contain a lot more than just choline.
For me, it won't make any difference. I intend to continue taking supplemental choline as it is the only nootropic substance I take that noticeably improves my memory. If doing so increases the risk of prostate cancer, the thing to do is to also supplement with Vitamin D3 and Saw Palmetto and other substances that decrease the risk of prostate cancer. In any case, going around in a choline-deficient stupor for the rest of my life is definitely worse than shortening it by a few years via prostate cancer.
I'm confused about the studies such as this one which conclude choline to be preventative of cancer. Does choline help prevent other types of cancer?
And what about this study, which points to betaine as helpful in the case of lung cancer?
What about those trying to prevent or reverse NASH of the liver?
I am a volunteer for Dr. Greger. Thanks for your question. Cancer may be the most difficult disease to show causality for. While cohort studies (the ones analyzed by the papers you cited) are very useful, they can also be very limiting. Only after seeing a consistent change over a long period of time can we begin to conclude that something causes cancer.
Only time and further research will tell, but food is a package deal (eggs contain vitamin D, vitamin B-12, selenium, lutein, etc., but also contain animal protein, cholesterol, and saturated fat). Lifestyle choices may also have mixed outcomes on our health. For example, smoking actually prevents Parkinson's disease, but obviously increases cancer and heart disease risk. Perhaps eggs are in the same boat–they may decrease certain cancers, but increase others. Ideally, we should only be putting foods in our mouths that have little to no harmful nutrients in them, and have little to no negative influence on our health. Therefore, it is hard to make the argument for eggs as part of an optimal diet.
What's your take on egg whites? I see some other websites that say yolks are bad, but whites are ok?
I eat about 4 dozen raw eggs a week. I guess I really should watch out for prostrate cancer? I have done this for several years. I am 61 years.
Garry- If you are serious about wanting to minimize your risks, you really need to focus on the research and how the consumption of that many eggs is so clearly associated with prostate cancer (not to mention the contamination risks from raw eggs). Because you have not experienced negative consequences yet does not make you immune; it may just mean your body has managed to escape the consequences so far. Why test your luck? Again use the SEARCH bar to read about health risks of eggs– then can surely answer your own question about watching out for prostate cancer.
Somebody should warn the Chinese, apparently they eat an average of 300 eggs per year.
Oh, wait a minute, they have one of the lowest rates of prostate cancer in the world.
We'd appreciate a citation of some peer reviewed, published evidence showing that the Chinese that eat 300 eggs per year have the lowest prostate cancer. I for one would love an excuse to start eating eggs again if someone could prove health benefits. All the unbiased studies I've seen demonstrate an increased risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death in populations that consume eggs.


A Thai curry is not exactly a stir-fry, but more like a stew. For a good beef curry, I would cube some chuck or whatever, add a can of green chiles, a chopped onion, some chopped garlic, some chopped cilantro, 1/4 cup of fish sauce, a Tbsp or two of sugar, and a can of coconut milk.
Stew it all together about an hour. For a much hotter sauce, you can use a Tbsp. or two of canned red curry paste. But I can't stand the heat. For chicken, I would do basically the same thing, but use canned green curry paste. For a mild paste, put the chiles, onion, garlic and cilantro in the blender with a bit of water, and add that to the coconut milk and chicken. Don't forget the fish sauce…it's the salt.
That was when bought my first fish sauce. I always enjoy looking at the many brands in the store I go to. This photo is of the one I have in my cupboard currently. It's hard to imagine that the flavor varies much; in any case, it's not something I want to sample by the teaspoon, or even quarter-teaspoon.
Thai curry paste – ½ to 2 T.
fish sauce – ¼ c.
Cook until done. Adjust seasonings. Put some Sticky Rice in a bowl and ladle the stew on top.
These are flexible amounts where given. You can make this with chicken, pork, fish, shrimp or tofu. Adjust the cooking times accordingly. You can also use part vegetable, fish or meat stock in place of part of the coconut milk, and use part or all soy sauce in place of the fish sauce. But the Thai curry paste (not expensive if you can find it at a Southeast Asian store), fish sauce and coconut milk make the Thai flavor.
I will i nterrupt the string of recipes to talk about the rice. I do have another post in which I discuss the rice component, but just today I showed my housemate Kit how I make it, and that generated some more pictures for me to share.
When this stew first became part of my repertoire, I probably served it over sweet brown rice, but eventually I learned how to make the Thai Sticky Rice that really finishes off the exotic meal. I like to form it into balls while it is still warm; some go into bowls with the stew, and some are to serve on the side, for dipping into a mild coconut sauce.
One time I had three different brands of coconut milk in my pantry and when I opened them I noticed how different they looked and tasted, so I wrote down my findings; the calories listed below are per can. This week I added to my information card when I discovered the last brand, and now I have two favorites. I found them both at the Thai store, and also at Food Maxx, a dollar more expensive. I know many people will only be able to find the Thai Kitchen brand in supermarkets, but if you can locate an ethnic market to shop at even once a year you can save a lot on all these ingredients.
After I wrote down that very flexible recipe above, I had occasion to create a fish stew for a crowd, on a Lenten "fish day." I've done it three times now, and have this "new" recipe on its own card. I needed the stew to not be too spicy, so I switched to Yellow Curry Paste, the main ingredient of which is lemongrass instead of chiles. I like to get these pastes at the Southeast Asian store, where they cost only about $2 each.
And whatever other vegetables you may like, however much you like. I have used bok choy, snow peas, sweet potato, butternut squash, mushrooms, sweet red pepper….
And simmer until the fish is opaque, just a couple of minutes. Serve over sticky rice.
This is the version of stew that I made yesterday to take to the family with a new baby and sickness in the house. It seemed to me that they might like something different from the usual chicken or lasagna. I made eight quarts, enough to keep half at home. This was the first time I used bok choy; I loved the yams in there, and noticed that the cilantro stems I hadn't had time to remove had disappeared on their own. When the vegetables were almost done I took out half for us and put that in the fridge, and added pork to their pot.
Tonight I heated up our portion and added fish, and made another batch of rice. We made it all into balls, and ladled the stew over three of the rice balls in each bowl. The rice in the bowls quickly gets soft, but you can enjoy a still-chewy rice ball on the side dipped in a sauce.
Here is one version; you can experiment and make your own, varying the amounts and seasonings. This sauce can also be spiced up, all or in part, by the addition of extra curry paste. If your stew is mild but some people enjoy more heat, they can add spicy sauce to individual bowls.
What could be more traditional than banana bread? Every thrifty cook has her special recipe that makes very good use of the ripe fruit. My old favorite was the Laurel's Kitchen recipe, because it used the most bananas, and it includes both toasted walnuts and dried apricots – yum!
Nowadays I rarely bake this kind of cake, for several reasons, but I still acquire bananas that am loath to toss. Last month I cut a few into chunks and froze them, with hopes that someone someday will want to throw them into a smoothie.
But then my Coconut Flour Project loomed. It all started with a humongous bag of coconut flour I bought at Costco, because I love everything coconut and am always trying to cut back on grains. Beyond the flour itself I hadn't anything to show for my time spent thinking about what to do with what I thought was a great resource.
That's not exactly true: I saw a recipe for coconut flour bread in Pippin's files, and she warned me that for her it turned out "kind of dry," but I eventually tried it. It might as well have been made with sawdust. Lesson learned: don't use the stuff alone.
I had given up surfing and searching for coconut flour recipes and instead bought an old fridge to use in my garage, in which to keep my bag of coconut flour and other currently neglected semi-perishables, against some misty future when I would suddenly bake a lot again.
THEN Nikkipolani made some banana bread and mentioned it briefly on her blog, and because she said it was grain-free I followed the link to SlimPalate and found a recipe for which I had all the ingredients right here in one refrigerator or another. I even had the cacao nibs, but I didn't add them, and it doesn't seem that nikkipolani did either.
The crumb of this bread is so moist and tender – nothing dry about it. The banana flavor melts into the subtle almond and coconut, with honey and vanilla. I'd like to try it with the cacao nibs next time. I'm not sure this loaf will have enough opportunity to become the New Traditional, but it is now my favorite banana bread.
Update: I bought some bananas for the purpose of making this bread again, which I have now done. I had extra mashed banana so I made a 50% bigger loaf by increasing all the ingredients that much. I used large instead of extra-large eggs this time, so the batter was thicker, but the end result is not much different from the first time, and just as delicious.
In the course of telling about various pies over the years, I've mentioned this versatile pie crust recipe which can easily be made vegan, and is mixed up right in the pie plate.
In the Orthodox Church we have a good many days all throughout the year when we fast from dairy and eggs, those go-to ingredients for many desserts, so I've made use of this recipe on special occasions that also happen to be fast days.
An example is the pineapple-coconut pie which I mention on a rambling post that offers vague instructions indeed. But the crust recipe comes originally from the Amish, who aren't known for fasting or eating vegan, and it's a wonderfully quick shell to throw together even for a rich pie, like the colorful first one I ever blogged upon.
Since my last detailed pie recipe here, I have acquired a convection oven, and I want you to know that I no longer have to do the foil collar thing to keep my crusts from over-browning. Now it is easier (what?) than ever to whip up a pie, any day of the year.
As the Nativity Fast is soon upon us, any pie I make will likely be a vegan one using this recipe, which I am giving in the original Amish version with my notes. Finally, what you've all been waiting for… back for a second appearance… TA DA!
Place the flour, sugar, and salt in a pie pan and mix with your fingers until blended. In a measuring cup beat the oil and milk with a fork until creamy. Pour liquid all at once over the flour mixture. Mix with the fork until completely moistened. Pat the dough with your fingers, first up the sides of the plate, then across the bottom. Flute the edges.
Shell is now ready to be filled. If you are preparing a shell to fill later, or your recipe requires a pre-baked crust, preheat oven to 425°. Prick the surface of the pastry with a fork and bake 15 minutes, checking often, and pricking more if needed.


Sufferers of a heart condition that runs in families and can cause sudden cardiac death, especially amongst the young, could look forward to new treatments for the disease thanks to a novel stem cell technique announced this week.
The disease, known as long QT syndrome (LQTS), leads to a delay in the rate at which heart cells electrically reset themselves between each beat. This can cause the heat beat to become irregular, especially when the heart is under heavy load, and places carriers of the condition at risk of potentially fatal cardiac arrest. But studying the condition, which is caused by abnormalities in a number of different genes, is difficult because it is hard to recreate a model heart cell to study in order to understand the underlying abnormalities. Similarly, without a model cell, it's also much more challenging to develop drugs to alleviate the problem, or identify drugs that actually exacerbate or trigger the disease.
But now Ilanit Itzhaki, who's based at Israel's Institute of Technology in Haifa, has successfully used stem cell technology to culture long QT syndrome cells in a dish so that they can be studied. The work, which is published in Nature, involved first collecting a small number of skin cells called fibroblasts from a patient with one form of LQTS.
Next, a virus was used to add to the cells three genes, called SOX2, KLF4 and OCT4, which caused them to "un-specialise" and become so-called IPSCs - induced pluripotent stem cells, resembling the cells found in an early human embryo. When these cells were grown in a culture dish they then began to transform themselves into many of the different cell types found as an embryo develops, including cells that naturally began to beat like embryonic heart cells.
Studying these cells further revealed that they looked and behaved, both chemically and electrically, like early heart cells. Critically, they also showed electrical abnormalities identical to those seen in adults with LQTS.
Isolating these cells, it was then possible to test them against a range of drugs known to aggravate or ameliorate LQTS to see how these agents were impacting on the electrical behaviour of the cells.
This means that, for the first time, it is possible to produce model cells directly from an affected patient in order to test possible therapies and also to rationally develop novel drugs in vitro. The same approach could also be used to learn more about a range of different diseases, not just heart conditions.
As Itzhaki points out, "The concepts described may also be extended to model several other human genetic disorders, enabling translational research into disease mechanisms and therapies."
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Dale A. Bettes, age 87, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, passed away Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at Oklahoma Heart North, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Dale was born in Hollywood, Oklahoma on October 26, 1930, a son of the late Martha L. (Townsend) and William A. Bettes.
Dale was a college instructor. He was a member of Wilburton Church Of Christ.
He was the husband of Carol B. (Ratliffe) Bettes. On May 28, 1951, they were married at Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Wife: Carol B. Bettes, of the home.
Gloria Susan Bettes, of Owasso, Oklahoma.
Son/Daughter-In-Law: Dale (Chip) A. Bettes, Jr., husband of Connie, of Edmond, Oklahoma.
He is also survived by 9 Grandchildren, 12 Great Grandchildren.
Dale was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Lee Bettes, Wilbur Bettes; grandson, Charles Helt.
Memorial Service at Church of Christ, Edmond, Oklahoma, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 8, 2018 with Mr. Logan Cates officiating.


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