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Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen recalls taking Bon Scott to Mexican restaurant
The Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen said in an interview with Noise11.com that he has a beautiful friendship with AC/DC members and was the first person to take the late singer Bon Scott to an Mexican restaurant. Cheap Trick will release on April 9 their 20th studio album "Another World".
Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen recalls taking Bon Scott to Mexican restaurant:
"I had Angus and Malcolm, and Cliff (Williams) came to my house in 1979. I was the first guy to ever take Bon Scott have Mexican food; he had a taco and Scotch. They were sweet guys. I mean, we loved them. They were just the ultimate. There's a version of us doing 'Johnny B. Goode' with Robin (Zander) and Bon singing and Angus playing with us."
"The last time I saw those guys was right before Malcolm had died," he revealed. "I went to see them on their last show of the tour; it was in Nashville. And the friend that I flew down with and myself were the only guys they allowed backstage. I walked in, and they said, 'Hey, Rick, you're still living in Rockford?' 'Yeah, I am.' [Laughs] They're sweet guys."
In an statement, singer Robin Zander talked about the band, saying:
"This band is held together by music. It's the super glue that keeps us writing and putting records out. The reason we started the band in the first place was to tour and write songs and put records out. If all that went away, there would be no point then, would there?"
"In Another World" tracklist:
The Summer Looks Good on You
Quit Waking Me Up
Boys & Girls & Rock N Roll
Light Up the Fire
Here's Looking at You
Another World reprise
I'll See You Again
Gimme Some Truth
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Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam (), född den 10 september 1984 i Tigray, är en etiopisk friidrottare som tävlar i medel- och långdistanslöpning.

Gebremariam genombrott kom när han 2002 vann guld på 10 000 meter och brons på 5 000 meter vid junior-VM. Han deltog vid VM 2003 i Paris där han slutade sexa på 5 000 meter. Samma år blev han trea vid IAAF World Athletics Final i Monaco.

Han deltog vid Olympiska sommarspelen 2004 i Aten där han slutade fyra på 5 000 meter. Vid VM 2005 valde han att tävla på 10 000 meter där han slutade på femtonde plats. Han deltog även vid VM 2007 där han blev sexa.

2009 vann han guld vid VM i terränglöpning i Amman.

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"For us, the play-offs start now"
6 September 2012, 10:31 News
Lev of Prague will play today its first ever official game in the KHL Championship, at home in the Czech capital against Dinamo Riga. On the eve of his team's long-awaited debut, Lev's head coach Jozef Jandac shared his thoughts with the KHL press service.
How do rate your team's readiness for the season?
"In the summer we played ten games and won seven, but of course, we know only too well that action in the KHL will be at a much higher level. During our preseason trip to Switzerland we had two games, against Lugano and Biel, but unfortunately for us the performances from our opponents were very weak (Lev won 7-3 and 9-1) and so those games were of no real use to our preparations. But the tournament in Donetsk matched us up against teams from the KHL, and they really highlighted our mistakes. That was a useful tournament for us."
What can you tell us about the KHL teams you've already faced?
"We had two games against Severstal and we won them both, but I can't say we were clearly stronger than them. We lost to Donbass in the Donetsk tournament, and I put that down to us playing twice in two days, which made it hard for us to match our opponents for pace. Donbass have two very formidable lines: the one with the Finns, Tuppurainen – Virtanen – Kiiskinen, and also the Pettersson – Kaspar – Dadonov line. These are very high caliber players. The Donetsk guys gave us plenty of problems. And SKA is one of the strongest teams in the KHL, as we can confirm after a very tough game against them, although I'm glad that we held our own against such a team and in the end we dug out what was a creditable result for us. We were leading 2-0 in the first period but then allowed three quick goals in the second, so I'm happy that we were able to fight back and take the game to a shootout."
Have you chosen all the players your main line-up yet?
"About 80% of them. But over the first few games of the season we'll be trying to find the best combinations, and we have a new team, so I cannot rule out making quite a few changes to the roster from game to game."
Will any of your players miss the start of the season through injury?
"Forward Juraj Mikus was injured playing for Slovakia in this year's World Championships and he needed an operation. His recovery is quite quick, he's already back in training, but I'm still not sure whether he's ready to play the entire game. He had a few minutes of ice time against Avtomobilist in the Donbass Cup, but we don't want to rush his return. The other guys are all fit and ready."
Do you feel the excitement building in Prague before Lev's first ever KHL game?
"In the Czech Republic hockey is the number one sport, so I really hope that we'll get passionate support from the fans at the game. Although, to give you an accurate answer, I would need to have been in Prague and seen all that's going on, but we've been away training for two months and only got back here on the night of September 1st. I want our fans to get behind us because we have a very tough season ahead of us. We'll have 52 games in the regular season and if you have a disappointing start, it is very hard to make up that lost ground on your opponents. So for Lev, the play-offs really start on the 6th of September. My own children are desperate to see our first game, but it starts at eight in the evening, so I'm still undecided about bringing them along. But I will have about fifteen of my closest friends there, and they'll be supporting me and my team. And if every fan brings fifteen of his friends to cheer us on, then we'll even fill this big arena to the rafters."
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Warnock Declares 'This Is A 1965 Moment' Amid Battle Over Filibuster And Voting Rights
Vitter: 'Obvious To Everybody' Jindal Running For President In 2016
December 23, 2013 2:38 p.m.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) on Sunday said that he believes that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will run for President in 2016.
"I do think he'll run. I think he's been running. And I think he'll be a meaningful and significant candidate," Vitter said on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers." "I think that's very obvious to everybody who's paying attention."
While Vitter was confident that Jindal will make a presidential bid, the senator stopped short of endorsing him, and just stated that he respected the governor's leadership and political views.
Jindal last week defended the star of "Duck Dynasty" Phil Robertson after he made anti-gay comments in an interview with GQ magazine.
Vitter is weighing a run for Louisiana governor and said earlier in December that he will decide on that race in January.
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Scout's Run to Warn Of Peril To Be Marked Edmeston Local June 25, 1937.
Plans are underway already to mark the 160th anniversary next summer of the run of John Adam Helmer, a Revolutionary War scout, from West Edmeston to Fort Herkimer of the imminent approach of enemies, it was learned this week. The exact course followed by the scout in his run, which is reminiscent of that from Marathon and that of Paul Revere.
Harry Bush of Canajoharie is chairman of the committee set up by the Mohawk Valley towns association to lay plans for the observance. Mr. Bush is now awaiting the historic facts from a descendant of Helmer in order that the exact route may be followed.
The run, which is famous over a wide territory and part of the lore of the Mohawk Valley, will go down in the annals of that section. It recently was brought before the eyes of the reading public in "Drums Along the Mohawk", Walter D. Edmonds' best selling work and also was mentioned by the same author in a recent nationally known magazine article.
Question Over Famous Run Is Finally Solved — Authentic Account of Adam Helmer's Feat by a Descendant, Edmeston Local, Oct 12, 1937.
Historical Setting — Start at Edmeston Manor, South East Outpost of Otsego Nearest Indian Stronghold.
The St. Johnsville Enterprise News of Wed., Aug. 4th, published an account of Adam Helmer's heroic run of September 16, 1778, made to save the German Flats settlers from Brant's raiders. Helmer's run was successful and only two of the people of the western Mohawk Valley settlements met death when the red and white savages destroyed houses, barns and crops.
"Adam Helmer's Famous Run" is the work of Mrs. Mildred R. Staunton, a teacher of Mount Vernon and a great-great-granddaughter of Scout Adam Helmer. As the Enterprise News Truly says: "It is a valuable contribution to Mohawk Valley history." Leu D. MacWethy, editor of the Enterprise News, has done a real public service in securing and publishing this thrilling account, which should have printing in pamphlet form. Through his courtesy this paper is enabled to publish Mrs. Staunton's article.
Before the publication of Mrs. Staunton's description, there had been many versions of Helmer's run — as to where it started and the route taken. Her account now clears up the discrepancies and contradictions and the argument over the feat made famous in the popular novel "Drums Along the Mohawk". One of these, which affected the length of Helmer's run, or seemed to, was the statement in the Gov. Clinton papers, Vol. 4, p 39, that Helmer lay in bushes "about nine miles south of German Flatts and saw the enemy pass." This was so but the brief report mentioned does not say that Helmer had previously run about 25 miles, as Mrs. Staunton's account brings out.
Following is Mrs. Staunton's article in full.
Plaque at the Carr farm where Adam Helmer escaped and started his run to warn the residents of the Mohawk Valley. It reads "IN MEMORY OF THE THREE SCOUTS KILLED ON THE ESTATE OF PERCIFER CARR BY BRANDT'S INDIANS SEPTEMBER 1778"
D.A.R. Marker in Plot Near West Edmeston — Edmeston Local June 24, 1938.
The marker erected by the Col. Israel Angell Chapter DAR. Of New Berlin on the Carr farm two miles south of West Edmeston and dedicated June 19, 1914, has been moved to a plot 12 by 20 feet farther south to the new road to South Edmeston.
The old road has been abandoned. The inscription on the tablet reads: "In memory of the Three Scouts killed on the estate of Percifer Carr by Brandt's Indians. September 1778. Erected by the Col. Israel Angell Chapter, N.S., D.A.R."
Albert Talbot has bought of A.J. Menard his interest in the theater business and the opera block. Possession was given last week. Mr. Talbot has conducted a farm near Burlington Flats for a number of years but plans to move to Edmeston to make his permanent home. It will be recalled that Mr. Talbot and Mr. Milton Shatzel, now of Edmeston, started the moving picture business in Edmeston way back in the silent picture days. They held their first shows in the Grange Hall, starting about 1918, and later moving the business to its present location. Mr. Talbot continued in the business until about 1924 when he removed to his farm at Burlington Flats.
Motorcade to Mark Famous Run — Adam Helmer's Trip Started at the Carr Farm, Edmeston Local September 2, 1938.
A 35-mile run through Ilion which saved Fort Herkimer settlers from an Indian massacre in 1778, will be commemorated this month by a motorcade which will cover the same historic route.
The hero was Scout Adam Helmer, who ran from the Carr farm, Unadilla River, near South Edmeston, to Fort Herkimer, after eluding a band of redskins who were on his trail and intent on wiping out the Herkimer settlers.
Helmer was one of eight scouts dispatched by Col. Peter Bellinger, commander at Fort Herkimer, to attempt to locate a party of Brandt's Tories and Indians. About 10 a.m. September 16, 1778, Helmer and his companions were surprised by a war party of 40 savages who attacked them at a spring on the Carr farm. They were driven into the Unadilla River, but Helmer finally escaped and started his dash to Herkimer.
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Principal Darryl Taylor, Jr. is pleased to announce the April Students of the Month at Carr School.
They include (front row, from left) KB George Bates, 1A Trevor McDaniel, 1B Tristian Covey, 2A J. T. Whitehurst, 2B Aaron Kollarik, 3A Shane Pitts, 3B James Tyler, 4A Cade LaWarre, 4B Megan McWaters, 5A Hannah Tyler, 5B Jay Tipton, 6th Tyler Burke, 7A Ashley Whitehurst, 7B Fritz Carter, 8th Vaughn Pelham. Not pictured is KA Katelynn Miles.


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SBG Systems to Unveil Qinertia INS/GNSS Post-Processing Software at Ocean Business
Qinertia INS/GNSS post-processing software. Photo source: SBG Systems.
Rueil-Malmaison, France-based SBG Systems will unveil Qinertia, its in-house post-processing software, at the Ocean Business show, April 4-6 at Southampton, U.K.
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Experienced in real-time data fusion, SBG Systems — a designer of inertial navigation systems from the internal Inertial Measurement Unit to the filtering with GNSS data — takes another step in the surveying industry by unveiling Qinertia, a fully in-house Post-Processing Kinematic (PPK) software. Whether the survey is made from a car, a UAV, a plane or a vessel, it will secure and enhance your acquisition, according to the company.
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Qinertia will be available during Q4, 2017. You can contact the company if interested in entering the public beta test program starting early summer 2017. SBG Systems also recently released the Ekinox 2 Series Inertial Sensors.
In other news related to this week's Ocean Business event, new for Ocean Business 2017 will be two events organized by the Marine South East and Enterprise Europe Network and supported by the European Commission. The new events will focus on defense and commercial applications in autonomous systems and satellite applications. Both events are free to attend for all Ocean Business visitors.
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Family owned and locally operated NOCO, founded by Reginald B. Newman in 1933, began by delivering coal to residential customers with its one-truck fleet. A few short years later, NOCO expanded by adding the delivery of heating oil to homes, and eventually expanded once again by delivering lubricants and fuels to commercial and industrial businesses. The one-truck fleet started by Mr. Newman has grown to over 165 trucks run by the third generation of Newman's. In 2001, Jim and Mike Newman were named President and Executive Vice President, respectively.
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WEATHER: Arctic air arrives this weekend
Minneapolis residents continue to dig themselves out following winter storm
Minneapolis plows continue to work their way through 1,400 miles of roads and alleys covered with snow.
Author: Morgan Wolfe
Published: 8:45 PM CST January 5, 2023
Updated: 8:45 PM CST January 5, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS — The 14th largest snow event in Minneapolis came with a punch, but residents are the ones still holding up their fists.
"It's too much snow! It's a lot of hard work," Amin Abdi said.
The south Minneapolis resident couldn't get his car out of his normal street parking spot last night, so he said he had no choice but to call out of work.
"We usually see 52 inches of snow a season in Minneapolis and we're already up to 48," Minneapolis Public Works' Joe Paumen said.
Paumen says the nearly 2 feet of snowpack has created challenges in clearing the snow. Keeping busy streets clear for first responders was a priority this week, leaving residential road cleanup to begin Thursday at 8 a.m. The city reports having roughly 60 snow-clearing machines out.
"With snow emergencies, it's important to move your car. We don't want to tow but we have to get our plows in to clean up to the curb," Paumen said.
Minneapolis towed 171 cars within the first 24 hours of the snow emergency, meanwhile, St. Paul says it saw a lower number of tows at 118.
St. Paul Publics Works' Lisa Hiebert said they have 70 plows working around the clock to clear the city's 1,800 miles of road.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was even a part of the clean-up efforts. He posted a picture of him in a plow and said, "The last 48 hrs have proven to be a true test of our resources, and Team Saint Paul stepped up in incredible ways to dig us out of one of the largest (and heaviest) snowfalls we've seen this early in the season."
Both St. Paul and Minneapolis Public Works Departments keep in contact about their snow removal plans. Hiebert says the city made the decision to wait until Wednesday for the snow emergency because of the duration and strength of the winter storm.
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On behalf of Menges Law Firm posted in asbestos-related diseases on Friday, November 16, 2018.
Being one of the most polluted states, Illinois sees a high number of fatalities from diseases linked to asbestos exposure. In fact, it comes in seventh in a list of the 15 worst states. These states saw a combined total of over 100,000 asbestos-related deaths between 1999 and 2013. The following is a brief summary of that list.
Minnesota, North Carolina and Wisconsin form the bottom three, reporting between 4,800 and 5,300 deaths. In North Carolina especially, many miners and manufacturing workers are exposed. Its tobacco policy, according to some, also leaves something to be desired. Next are Massachusetts and Virginia, two states associated with their shipbuilding industries. Shipbuilders are known to use asbestos freely.
Washington, a hub for paper production, exposes many workers in paper mills to asbestos. Michigan and New Jersey follow on the list. The latter is the most densely populated state, so many residents find themselves living close to factories that carry the mineral.
Ohio comes in sixth with hotspots in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo. Texas, a center for oil refining and shipping, follows. New York and Pennsylvania, with their large industrial sectors, reported over 10,000 deaths each between 1999 and 2013. The list ends with Florida and California. California saw over 21,000 deaths; 45 of its 58 counties have naturally occurring asbestos deposits, and there are additionally two mines and a dump site.
Workers may find themselves developing asbestos-related diseases like mesothelioma, in which case they might want to find out just what caused it. If it was due to the employer's negligence, then workers may be awarded damages that cover long-term medical care, lost income, pain and suffering and other losses. This means filing a claim, though, which is generally best undertaken with legal assistance. A lawyer could handle all negotiations and prepare the case for court if a settlement isn't reached.


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D.L. Leonine at an Anime event in Cary, NC (photo courtesy HugeWolf)
D.L. Leonine (known as DL or Leo) is a fursuiter from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Leo is a white lion. He is the alter ego of his creator, and started out as the main character of a webcomic. The comic ran from 2005-2008 and centered around Leo's real life experiences working on a help desk. The fursuit of Leo was built by Wally Wolf. A partial version was done in 2007, with the full version completed in early 2008.
Leo is a crossover character, known locally in both the furry fandom and the anime fandom. Most local fandom activity in Leo's area is anime-based (including his home con, Animazement). As Leo was inspired, to some degree, by the Kimba series, at these events, he cosplays as Jungle Emperor Leo.
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Animazement 2008 (May 23-28, Raleigh, NC) -- 1st Place, Advanced Craftsmanship Cosplay
Con-Carolinas 2008 (May 30-June 1, Charlotte, NC) -- 2nd Place, Best Costume, Professional Division
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Tip 2: Samir Nasri anytime goal scorer @ 3.75 (Betfair) | Brace @ 12/1 (B/sq) Havn't heard anything about Nasri being rested for Arsenal tomorrow and that's a huge price on offer for the man who was short listed for PFA player of the year. Found scoring form again v Spurs and that can kick start a streak for him tomorrow and if a starter, expect him to be key v Bolton.


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One data firm thinks Trump might end up with a 'red mirage' on Election Day
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Election Day 2020 is going to be like nothing most of us have seen in our lifetimes — possibly because of a phenomenon that some data scientists are referring to as a "red mirage."
One predictive model shows President Trump handily winning re-election on November 3, thanks to GOP voters who show up in person to vote in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.
But that win on Election Day 2020 could actually end up being a "red mirage," thanks to the surge in mail-in voting this year as a result of Democratic voters who don't want to vote in-person because of the coronavirus and opt for mail-in ballots instead, which will likely take several days to tabulate after Election Day.
Back in July, I took a stab at sorting through some possible 'October surprise' and late-season Election Day 2020 scenarios that we might be in store for and which could sway the outcome of the contest between President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. It's admittedly a near-impossible task this time around, given the unprecedented nature of everything this election falls in the shadow of — everything from the coronavirus pandemic to issues around racial justice and police brutality to a supremely bad economy. This year's "Comey letter" could be anything from news about a successful COVID-19 vaccine to the coronavirus numbers getting either a lot worse or a lot better, to White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci resigning, a new Supreme Court vacancy, more civil unrest in cities around the country and so much more.
Meanwhile, some data scientists are starting to talk about what could amount to a nightmare scenario on Election Day this year — something they're calling a "red mirage."
Josh Mendelsohn — the CEO of Democratic data and analytics firm Hawkfish, funded by Michael Bloomberg and which reportedly works for pro-Biden Super PACs as well as the Democratic National Committee — explained it thus in an interview with Axios:
There is a very real possibility that President Trump may score what looks like a pretty solid re-election win on November 3. The reason is because of the assumption that his voters, undaunted by the prospect of the coronavirus, will show up en masse in person on Election Day.
However, Hawkfish's models estimate that an "unprecedented" 40% of registered voters in the US will vote by mail in the presidential election this time around. The assumption is that the vast majority of those will be people choosing that route because they don't want to do it in person as a result of trepidation about the pandemic.
Hawkfish has one modeling scenario whereby Trump ends up on election night with as much as 408 electoral votes to Biden's 130 (it takes 270 to win), assuming 15% of the total vote-by-mail haul has been tabulated at that point. But a few days later, once 75% of the mail-in ballots have been recorded, this scenario (based partly on August data from FiveThirtyEight) shows Trump's electoral numbers crumbling and actually flipping to give Biden the edge, 334 electoral votes to 204.
Thus, the thought is that what Trump enjoyed on election night, in this case, was just a mirage — or, as noted, a "red mirage."
"We are sounding an alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump," Mendelsohn told Axios. "When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be some day after Election Day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage. It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted."
The Biden result under a scenario like this would be legitimate, but just imagine the uproar over the optics of seeing a Trump win on November 3 get erased and handed instead to Biden. President Trump, remember, has spent four years attacking enemies both real and imagined — and he actually won last time. This is why the Hawkfish firm decided to sound the alarm now about this possibility. It's not that the result is foreordained, but it could put a cloud over the election results like nothing the country has seen yet.
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There's a principle that we all deal with. When we discover new evidence about something that we already have an opinion about, we are required to re-evaluate our opinion. If the new evidence contradicts what we believed before, then we probably need to change our previous opinion.
It happens in movies: Throughout the movie, you're led to believe a particular opinion about one of the characters (perhaps "the butler did it!"), but at the end of the movie, new evidence is revealed, or old evidence is shown in new light. All of a sudden, everything changes. My favorite for this was The Sting. When they got up off the floor, it floored me! I realized that I had seen things wrong, interpreted things wrong. And suddenly, I understood previous bits of the movie in a whole new light! Suddenly I understood the characters completely differently.
I saw Philadelphia Story recently. Throughout the movie, Clark Gable's character looked like a troublemaker, but in the denouement at the end, it's revealed that he did it all out of love. Suddenly, I understood Mr. C.K. Dexter Haven completely differently!
It happens in TV shows: Well, it did when I watched TV, anyway. In the old courtroom series Ironsides, Raymond Burr's character did that every week. Barretta, a slightly less antique show, did the same thing. I imagine that many crime shows use this pattern regularly.
It happens in real life: We interpret the news one way, but then something happens that reveals that maybe things aren't the way the media spun it the first time.
It happened in the Bible: Throughout the Old Testament, we were shown evidence that suggests certain things about the nature of who God is: what His character is like, what moves Him, what's important to Him. But the New Testament is all about the denouement: Jesus himself is the new evidence, and it reveals a whole lot more about God, and reveals Him more clearly than we've ever seen before. And suddenly, I understand previous bits of the story in a whole new light. Suddenly, I understand God so differently, so much better.
For example, throughout the Old Testament, God seems far off and aloof, not really interested in hanging around the human race; after all, He keeps sending prophets to lead them instead of coming Himself. But in the New Testament, we see God in human form walking the streets of a subjugated city in order to be among humankind. Maybe He's not really far off and aloof! Maybe that's not a good picture of Him.
But in the New Testament, Jesus, the "God in human form," the "exact representation of the Father," who "always does what the Father is doing," never smites a single person, not even once. And it's certainly not like he doesn't have the chance! Rather, he reveals a God who not only turns the other cheek, but lets himself be murdered rather than smite a few deserving Pharisees. The God that Jesus reveals is not a smiter, isn't eager to judge, always brings healing and life abundantly, and never brings death or destruction. We had understood him wrong before, but now, we have new evidence.
We've found ourselves in an interesting place. We have lots of evidence – and I'm going to call it inferior evidence – about who God is and what He's like. And we have, in some measure, allowed that evidence to create or to inform our opinion of who God is and what He's like.
We know better now, or at least we should. We have been given better evidence, been adopted into a better covenant. The evidence we have now, in the person of Jesus, and in our own relationship with God, tells us that the wrathful, judgmental, distant smiting God of the Old Testament is not a true picture of who God is. We have better evidence than that now: if we don't believe it, then it's our own fault that we're deceived.
Well said! Enjoyed it very much.


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Union Carbide Bhopal Gas Disaster: 25,000 Poisoned to Death & Over 500,000 Crippled
December 2, 1984 (updated June 1, 2020) Published by Lee Floyd
Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster, the US based Chemical giant, was responsible for the killing of 25,000 people in Bhopal, who died due to leaking of a poisonous gas from their factory. Incidentally, the incident is still the worst industrial disaster this planet has ever witnessed, which subsequently crippled more than half a million people. Warren Anderson was the then Chairman of that organization. Anderson was arrested. And then…? After a phone call from the then American President to Rajiv Gandhi, who was then the Indian Prime Minister, Anderson was released and ensured his safe passage to the US through a special government flight. A lawsuit by the Indian government was eventually settled for the paltry sum of less than $500 per victim, but the funds were not distributed to many – only rotten cereal. Fear of Bhopal Memorial Hospital frightens victims from dare going to get treatment due to mistreatments.
Harish Singh Yadav vividly remembers that chilly December night in Bhopal, 30 years ago. Events of that night changed his life forever, the 58-year-old said.
"We were sleeping, when suddenly my daughter woke us up. She said her eyes were burning," said Yadav, a father of two. "Soon, all of us in the family had the same sensation, as if someone was burning chilies. We all began coughing. Then, when I opened the window, I saw people running for their lives."
On Dec. 3, 1984, almost 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, leaked from a Union Carbide India Ltd. insecticide-manufacturing plant situated in the middle of Bhopal, a city in central India, and the capital of Madhya Pradesh state. The plant manufactured Carbaryl, an insecticide that was sold under the trade name "Sevin."
Within four hours that night, over half a million people would be exposed to the leak, and several thousand would not see sunrise. While, officially, the government put the immediate death toll at just under 4,000 people, unofficial estimates vary from anywhere between 8,000 to 10,000 to much higher numbers. No one knows for sure how many perished that night and in the following month and years. Scores were never identified or accounted for. It was, in any case, the deadliest industrial accident in history.
Yadav said that he, like hundreds of others in the city, has had to live with the aftereffects of the leak, which left him with chronic breathing problems and reduced vision.
"I have had to spend almost a million rupees of my own on treatment, and that is what has kept me alive," he said. That sum translates to $16,000, an enormous expenditure in India — more than 10 times the nation's gross domestic product per capita.
"Whoever escaped the gas alive that day is now like a living dead body," said Yadav, who, in an ironic twist, now guards the decaying and eerily silent plant, spread over 60 acres.
The facility was shut down following the leak, never to be revived.
Thirty years on, the average Indian, indeed the average city resident who was not around at the time of the disaster and was fortunate enough to be not touched by it, has moved on, with precious little learned in terms of disaster management.
The accident itself has not led to any significant improvements in occupational safety standards in the country. Several experts who spoke with International Business Times said that while the Indian government set up various committees to assess the damage and recommend safeguards, the efforts amounted to little real change. Accidents are commonplace in the country's mines and factories. And across Indian industry, which is flooded with cheap immigrant labor from the country's villages, workplace hazards and workers' rights continue to remain unaddressed. The problem is compounded by a lax regulatory environment and endemic corruption, which analysts said stack the odds against people like those suffering from the Bhopal disaster.
'Negligence Led To The Disaster'
The Bhopal gas tragedy, as it came to be known, was a result of negligence followed by an attempted cover-up, say locals.
T. R. Chouhan, an engineer and a plant operator at the time who has written a book on the subject, said that the events leading up to the tragedy began almost as soon as Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Michigan-based Dow Chemical Company, decided to set up the unit about 12 years earlier. A faulty industrial design was primarily to blame, he said, adding that rising maintenance costs and mounting losses led the company to cut back on safety measures that could have averted the leak.
"The actual cause of the accident was … an unproven design," he said. "Secondly, they built this plant at a very low cost, so they used double standards in the construction material."
The plant's setting in Bhopal, close to habitation, had been opposed by Shakir Ali Khan, a Madhya Pradesh legislator, in the early 1970s, according to Abdul Jabbar Khan, a prominent activist who runs the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, a nonprofit that helps affected women. "He raised an alarm, but no one listened to him since he was a communist and was seen as opposing an American multinational company setting up shop in India," Khan said.
Chouhan said the safety equipment could only control smaller leaks and could not neutralize a leak of the magnitude that occurred that night. He claims that initially the operating and maintenance staff was trained well, but over time there was a deterioration in the quality and numbers of such staff.
When the leak occurred, the warning siren could only be heard inside the factory and not by the community, he said. "So, they got to know about the leak when the gas itself hit them. Moreover, the hospitals were not informed [about the chemicals], so there was no line of treatment or antidote," Chouhan claims.
Swaraj Puri, then the chief of police in Bhopal, said that he had never before heard of methyl isocyanate until a police forensics expert informed him of its deadly nature.
"MIC gas was never known to people in Bhopal before it was leaked. There was no antidote developed and even doctors could not read the patient's condition," said S. A. Pillai, director of the Bhopal-based Institute of Industrial Management for Safety, Health and Environment.
However, this claim is refuted by N.P. Mishra, a Bhopal-based doctor who was then the dean of the Hamidia Hospital, the city's largest, and head of the team of doctors that responded to the medical emergency that night.
"One hundred percent, we had an idea," he said, when asked if doctors knew of the leak's nature. "Antidote for every poison is not available. But we knew how to treat patients of inhalation of toxic gases. The treatment is the same for every gas, not much different," Mishra said. He said that most of the deaths that occurred that night were a result of pulmonary edema: "People drowned in their own secretions."
The massive leak that night was not the first fatal accident at the plant. In 1982, at least one plant worker had died after being exposed to phosgene gas, an intermediate chemical used in making Sevin.
Kumkum Saxena Modwel, who was then a doctor working at the plant, remembers taking the worker to the hospital where he later died. "There were lots of chemical exposures," she said. "We were very worried that with holding all these toxic chemicals, a big disaster can happen," she said.
Following this incident, Chauhan claims, several employees, including him, had expressed concerns with senior government officials, but nothing came of it. He said that after the 1982 accident, UCC made a safety survey and highlighted several problems in their report. A similar survey, he said, was done in September 1984 in West Virginia in the U.S. "That too threw up several severe problems, including contamination of the MIC storage tank. Both the reports were marked confidential. Those reports were not provided to those who were working in the plant," he said.
A scientific panel appointed by the Indian government reportedly concluded that the tank that leaked had become vulnerable more than a month before the disaster.
A UCC spokesperson, in response to a query, emailed the following statement:
"During the past 30 years, much has been written and broadcast about the tragedy and it continues to evoke strong emotions even three decades later. While Union Carbide continues to have the utmost respect and sympathy for the victims, we find that many of the issues being discussed today have already been resolved and responsibilities assigned for those that still remain."
An inquiry by the company claimed that the accident was the result of sabotage.
"The evidence showed that an employee at the Bhopal plant had deliberately introduced water into a methyl isocyanate storage tank. The result was the cloud of poisonous gas," the company's report claims. "Also in 1988, an independent study of the incident by the prestigious international engineering consulting firm of Arthur D. Little supported the analysis by the Union Carbide team," the report further said.
Investigation And Conviction
Soon after the gas leak, the criminal probe was taken over by India's federal investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which was mired in controversy as well.
In 2010, after a lengthy trial, an Indian court convicted eight people accused in the tragedy, including industrialist Keshub Mahindra. Mahindra, who was the nonexecutive chairman of Union Carbide India, and seven others were handed two-year sentences, but soon released on bail. Mahindra's office said that he would not comment on the matter.
B.R. Lall, the agency's officer in charge of the probe between 1994 and 1995, said that he had been told to "go soft" on Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. "Communication received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking us not to pursue extradition … he (Anderson) was the main culprit as far as we were concerned, " NDTV, a local news network, quoted Lall as saying.
Four days after the tragedy, Anderson arrived in Bhopal, and was arrested by Puri, the city police chief. The arrest was made on the orders of the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Arjun Singh. Within hours, Anderson was released and left the country, never to return. Puri, who has reportedly been accused of helping Anderson flee, declined to comment on the incident, as it is still a matter of investigation by an inquiry commission.
"But I will say this, I wish Anderson or someone from his family was in Bhopal on the night the gas leaked. They would have realized how people suffered," Puri said.
On Sept. 29, Anderson died, never having faced trial in India.
'No Lessons Learned'
Pillai, the industrial safety expert, said that few lessons on the subject appear to have been learned in India in the last three decades.
"There are four issues in learning – one is the infrastructure of the government, second is rules and regulations, third is enforcing of the rules and regulations, fourth is the total awareness of the subject," he said. "If these four issues are taken care of, this type of disaster will not be repeated. Are we on that track or not? If you ask me, I will say no."
According to Puri, contingency plans were put in place by the police following the disaster. "Now, we have fixed protocols, we have the involvement of the community in community-based disaster management, we have a state disaster management authority, people are getting trained and oriented," he said. But, he concedes, it would still be hard for India to cope with a disaster of the magnitude of the one in Bhopal.
"The realization that it can happen is missing. We think it is going to happen to somebody else."
In 2005, India established the National Disaster Management Authority to respond to such events, but its effectiveness has been far from satisfactory. And, in the recent past, the agency has been made largely redundant.
"Wherever there has been a disaster, the army has had to be called in. So, probably (the) army is the only organization which is ready to combat disaster," said Manoj Pandey, who heads the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (BMHRC), set up in 2001 to serve gas victims using the sale proceeds of UCC's stake in its Indian operation. "We do require rapid response teams. Not just industrial disasters, there could be man-made disasters, biological and chemical warfare could be there. So, definitely, we require rapid response teams."
According to Pillai, one of the major impediments is that the industrial safety law, which was enacted when India was still under British government, is not stringent enough.
"People thought of amending it after the Bhopal disaster, why not before?" he asks, adding that industries in India simply do not follow safety protocols unless their customers compel them to. And, even then, they might only adhere to regulations until an official inspection, he said.
Pillai said that while India may not have learned much from its own disaster, other countries have. "All developed countries, including the U.S. have learned from Bhopal. I visited the U.K. and Japan and I have seen that they are very afraid of the Union Carbide disaster," he said.
The issue of liability is yet another point of contention in India, according to Pillai.
"Both the process and the product should be covered under the liability clause," he said. "But unfortunately, what happens in our country is that the management bargains, the insurance compromises, and ultimately liability is compromised. This should be stopped."
Long-Term Health Effects
The incriminations, investigations and convictions mean little to Madan Lal, a 70-year-old unemployed resident of J. P. Nagar, a poor residential area just across from the boundary wall of the UCC plant.
"I was a balloon seller. Since I got exposed to the gas, I cannot breathe properly. I lost my only means of livelihood that night," said Lal, who claims he lives on the generosity of his neighbors.
Lal's story is by no means unique. Almost all gas victims complain of chronic ailments, including lung, eye and renal problems. A vast majority of those who were exposed to the toxic gas that night continue to suffer long-term side effects. Apart from the nearly 600,000 people directly affected by the disaster, BMHRC also caters to another million dependents, providing them free medical care, according to Pandey.
Privately, however, hospital staff say the facility is understaffed as doctors are leaving for greener pastures. Mishra, who treated disaster victims at Hamidia, said that eight of the 13 departments in the hospital are without doctors and blames the previous Congress Party-led government for the decay.
"I had told them, hire good doctors on contract and pay them good money, but no one listened."
Several victims who have taken to activism claim that the effects of exposure to the toxic gas have been passed on to later generations. Some of them run a nonprofit, Chingari Trust, that provides special education and medical help to more than 700 children who suffer from mental health issues, which they say is directly linked to the gas leak. However, Pandey said there is no data to support this theory.
"Honestly, we don't know, because there is no empirical evidence as of today to suggest that some of the changes might have passed on," said Pandey. "So, I'll say there is an absence of evidence but there is no evidence of absence," he adds.
Mishra refutes activists' claims that there are any seriously ill survivors alive today.
"One who can live for 30 years, can he be serious? All those who were seriously ill have since died," Mishra said. "One-time exposure can cause damage only once. That damage has limited their breathing capacity. One-time exposure will not produce repeat diseases," he said.
'Inadequate Compensation'
In 1989, the Indian Supreme Court approved a compensation of $470 million from UCC, which translated to 25,000 rupees ($400) for each survivor, while the family of each person who died received 62,000 rupees. In 2010, the Indian government approved an enhanced relief package for seriously affected victims.
In 2001, UCC was acquired by Dow Chemical. On Nov. 19, IBTimes UK reported that Dow's shareholders were to "table two resolutions calling for the company's management to accept responsibility" for the Bhopal disaster and to "fully compensate victims and to pay for a full-scale clean-up of the still-contaminated area."
"The second resolution will call for Dow Chemicals to acknowledge that, rather than becoming a shareholder in UCC (which Dow's management claims), the companies became a single entity, thus combining assets and liabilities," the report added.
Meanwhile, the activists refuse to relent. "Our main fight is not for money," said Abdul Jabbar Khan.
"We want that those who suffered should get proper medical aid and the following generations should be looked after well," he said. "I cannot bear to see people in pain … I feel like being in a long, dark tunnel. I just want to see some light at the end of it," Khan said, almost in tears.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/30-years-after-bhopal-disaster-india-has-not-learned-lessons-worlds-worst-industrial-1731816
Category: Corrupt Organizations, Environment
Tags: 1980s, 1984, chemical disaster, Corporatism, India, Rajiv Gandhi, toxic chemicals, Union Carbide
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Do you want to lose weight? Here's part 11 of 17 in a series of blog posts on the subject. You can read the whole series on the How to Lose Weight page. Note that these later parts of the series are primarily meant for people having a hard time losing weight despite doing "everything right".
Can one eat as much as one likes, and still lose weight? Yes, it tends to work just fine with a low-carbohydrate diet, as appetite regulation happens effortlessly.
Dairy products all contain a varying amount of lactose (the milk sugar), which slows down weight loss. What's more, part of the protein in milk generates an insulin response, which can have the same effect. Consequently, cutting back on dairy products may accelerate weight loss. This applies especially to dairy products typically lacking in fat, such as regular milk and different yoghurts, but be careful with full-fat dairy such as cream and cheese all the same.
Exempt from all these dairy product warnings is butter, which is almost pure fat. Butter may be consumed liberally as desired.
Nuts, which are the second food to watch, contain a fair amount of carbohydrate, and it's very easy to unwittingly scarf down large quantities. Cashew nuts are among the worst carb-wise – you'll find that they contain around 20% carbohydrate by weight. For someone following a strict LCHF diet with a 20 grams of carbs per day allowance, this means that consuming 100 grams (which happens in a flash!) will have filled their daily quota. Peanuts tend to be around 10-15% carbohydrate – not putting them in the clear either.
So, for those of you having trouble losing weight: use nuts sparingly. When in a situation where nuts are an absolute must, know that the most harmless ones carb-wise are macadamia nuts (usually around 5% carbs), or Brazil nuts (around 3%).
Doesn't Paleo allow unlimited fruits?
Also, limiting dairy can be a tool used for restarting stalled weight loss or stopping slow weight gain during weight maintenance. Whey protein is well known for its glucogenic properties and people react differently. For some it is absolutely no problem to eat dairy in abundance.
Limiting nuts is unnecessary unless there is a known sensitivity to these. Walnut and coconut are among the healthiest foods one can find out there.
Yes they calls it white soda.. try water instead.
is there a limit of fuit you can have or cut out the fruit altogether, i love my fruit sitting on 76kg would the fruit be stopping me get to my target of 70 kg.
Moste fruits is real food, but they provide mostly water and sugar.. if you are healty and eat regular meals/real food, then take a fruit for dessert.
Try it out, nobody els know if it affect your goals!
But think about it.. how much carbs are there in an apple?
If you are an adult I suggest that you forget about milk altogether and focus on full fat fermented and matured dairy products instead. Galactose is now linked to aging in several animals and if you think about it there is some sense behind it. Milk is originally secreted to feed infants of mammals and support them in growing quickly. That can indeed have different implication in adults. Quite the same as sugar (and some kinds of protein) which also seem to promote aging via insulin secretion and activating IGF-1 receptors. Fasting is a great way to reduce levels of both hormones and in a way very low carb and high fat diets mimic long term fasting.
I consume on average 2-3 tablespoons of full-fat cream daily in my 2 to 3 mugs of hot tea. Should I cut back?
Do you think you got any bad effects by those spoons?
Hi all just got started with LCHF. I got injured a few years back (doing cross fit, whodathunk?) dropped out of fitness and good eating, lots of stress, and mostly got into a habit of not eating anything until late afternoon, so naturally put on 40 lbs.
Everything I read made sense except now I see this whole dairy/no dairy thing. If I can summarize my understanding it is that dairy as a way to make dressing (mayo/cream/blue cheese based salad dressing, cooking with butter, adding cream or sour cream to sauces for fish/meat or even say creamed spinach, cream in coffee in am) is ideal, while not necessarily consuming dairy as main meal e.g. glasses of milk, handfuls of cheese/brie, cups of yogurt as a snack,etc. Would that be a good summary?
One thing I am aiming for is food quality; I went online and found good sources for grass-fed butter/cream/sour-cream/eggs/beef/chicken and some good homegrown bacon. I also even prior to this had an excellent Whey Protein source (non denatured, cold processed, etc). I also found a source locally for bone broth.
Salad with spinach/kale and protein like tuna/salmon/steak/grass-fed eggs and home made dressing with a blue cheese / olive oil / sour cream /cream type base.
Steak or Fish or Burger with a home made hollendaise or Bearnaise type sauce also cooked in butter (all grass fed) with some side side like cauliflower-mash or creamed spinach or broccolli cooked in butter/olive oil and garlic or some other lchf side.
Snacks; Hard boiled gf egg or olives or occasionally nuts or occassionaly but not daily grass-fed full fat plain yogurt.
Does this sound like the right interpretation/plan? Any input appreciated.
I can confirm that you got it right!
There are no shortcuts to a healty lifestyle!
Whey protein is almost as insulinogenic as starchy foods. I am not sure about consuming it as a drink, but normally that adds on top by not stimulating satiety. Due to the fact that 1.5 g of high quality protein (per kg or 2.2 lbs lean body mass) is sufficient for high physical activity, if I were you I would not add process stuff, rather include natural sources only like meat, fish and eggs.
I did get a Keiurig Single Cup Maker and a small blender and started to make Bulletproof coffee (coffee, butter, coconut oil). Not to replace meals each day but as a snack and also planning on doing EatStopEat by fasting one day with a BulletProof for Breakfast and the afore mentioned non protein protein shake mid-afternoon.
So far amazingly enough I lost 6 lbs first week. Last summer tried losing the weight I put on after being injured several years by doing 5-7 intense workouts a week (boxing, bootcamp) and ate 'really well'; salad with skinless chicken, oatmealand blueberries, you know the typical lose weight healthy diet. 8 Weeks of this I lost 4 lbs. I am at 4x a week intense workouts now, didn't lose much and first week of lchf lost 6 and under 180 first time in years.
The case about peanuts. Paleo people say peanuts are legumes so should not be eaten!
Is this a case of tomato is a fruit, by its biological definition, but by practical definition is used as a vegetable.
My question is are peanuts getting a bad rep because of their carb content or just a bad rep to motivate certain communities.
I love pure peanut butter from Woolworths South Africa. Its delicious, a teaspoon as a snack is fantastic. My only problem I tend to snack on it a lot when I have it.
Teaspoon would be awesome. I just had a tablespoon. And another. And another. I think it's safe to say it's a trigger food for me and is henceforth banned from my house, together with chocolate and cake! Damn. ?
I spent 4 months on low carb, then the weight loss stalled. I was exercising way too much, and some of the things I was still consuming were probably contributing to the problem. I took a week off to rest, think and eat whatever I wanted and noticed the the foods I thought I'd been missing didn't taste the same anymore. They tasted too sweet, or like chemicals, and I felt weepy, sleepy and achey. I decided to resume the low carb diet, this time also eliminating dairy, nuts and artificial sweeteners. I'm pretty sure that doing that, and also increasing water intake, adding more fiber, and taking a more creative approach to exercise, will do the trick. This time, I won't "miss" the things I'm not eating because now I know that eating them won't be a good experience.
How do so many people that do not know much about nutrition get to write articles like this one? Is that so many people are searching but refuse to accept the truth or do not have the will power to follow the truth?
Look around at the long-living healthy cultures in the world....they all focus on whole plant-based products for at least 80% of their calories. The answer is not low-carb....the answer is whole plant-based foods which have the fiber and nutrients that you need with few exceptions. You do not need any toxin-filled animal products and can simply take B-12 supplements. Get some sun or take D-3 supplements. Your salt will be drastically reduced, as well as iodine, so you either consume some seaweeds or take a supplement. Whole grains are good carbs, not to be confused with low-carb bad carb diets. You will have ample good fats with nuts/seeds and avocados.
I recently reintroduced milk into my diet and try to drink at least one glass of lactose-free skim milk each day for calcium. I can't take calcium pills and was concerned about bone health and osteoporosis later in life. Since drinking milk and doing planks my stomach is actually much flatter than it has been in a couple of years. Other sources of calcium, like kale, just aren't as calcium rich. I am not overweight but my weight has fluctuated a little over the years. It feels good to look in the mirror. Having milk is the only major change I have made recently, other than to reintroduce old cheddar cheese in limited quantities. Maybe it's the planks.
I don't see many replies to peoples questions but I'll ask anyway. I have 1 percent milk in my fridge. What is another alternative for a milk, whether dairy free or not , used for drinking or cooking?
Jill, I think the answer is that all milk will have some carb content so you just have to watch it if you are following strict low carb. Whole milk will have higher fat content and slightly less carbs I think. I think a lot of recipes call for almond milk. I personally don't enjoy it for drinking but some do.
I see Richard still believes counting calories is relevant; sad!
I found this really helpful!!
Okay finally found my answer! I started a week ago and my cloths feel less tight seven days later. I'm not going to weight myself until the end of May so I have a good surprise. ? My question was about including Almond milk unsweetened and plain into my diet plan because I'm lactose intolerant. I can eat some aged cheese but have to not over do the goodness. Have tried using cream in my coffee but will have to stop that! Ugh!! Anyway plan to continue on my quest to loss 25 unneeded pounds on a 5' 2" frame.
Hi Samanatha, well done for doing so well, yes the OMAD is convenient for making meal planning simple. I also find that I really enjoy sitting down and savouring the meals flavour most often meats and eggs fried in butter finished off with a cup of coffee.
Depending on the hours at my job which is split shifts early morning and late evening I will swap around the meal times it's either at 9am after I get home or 4pm before the evening shift.
I am finding a preference for 4pm so I can fast during my sleep 10am-4pm which I believe is more beneficial for autophagy and naturally avoids snacking.
When I first started the OMAD was quite easy but due to absent co workers I did not get days off and eventually a lack of sleep caught up with me and caused problems with my grellin signals (the stomach hunger hormone) making me snack on cheese, nuts and biltong in the evening. Quite an unusual sensation the stomach was not empty but it did not feel full either, the feeling of satiety was not taking hold. I know Dr Fung says the hunger is illusional and often put aside by drinking however this did not work. I now realise it important to obtain my days off and get sleep so the brains grellin receptors can properly process that my stomach has an ample amount of food.
While my snacking was not too serious a problem because my keto metabolism seemed to minimize extra caloric intake over 24 hours the constant craving in the evening caused much disatisfaction.
Dr Andreas Eenfeldt has an ability to give the right advice and his five tips series are excellent starters. I agree with his statements for loosing weight placing "Sleep 8 hours" at third priority.