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Title: Ferrara
Subject: Editio princeps, Roberto Melli, Ludovico Ariosto, Po (river), List of operas set in the Crusades
Comune di Ferrara
The Castle Estense
Location in the Province of Ferrara
Location of Ferrara in Italy
Ferrara (FE)
Aguscello, Albarea, Baura, Boara, Borgo Scoline, Bova, Casaglia, Cassana, Castel Trivellino, Chiesuol del Fosso, Cocomaro di Cona, Cocomaro di Focomorto, Codrea, Cona, Contrapò, Corlo, Correggio, Denore, Focomorto, Francolino, Gaibana, Gaibanella, Sant'Egidio, Malborghetto di Boara, Malborghetto di Correggio, Marrara, Mezzavia, Monestirolo, Montalbano, Parasacco, Pescara, Pontegradella, Pontelagoscuro, Ponte Travagli, Porotto, Porporana, Quartesana, Ravalle, Sabbioni, San Bartolomeo in Bosco, San Martino, Spinazzino, Torre della Fossa, Uccellino, Viconovo, Villanova
Tiziano Tagliani (PD)
404.36 km2 (156.12 sq mi)
Population (31 December 2012)
Ferraresi, Estensi
Saint day
Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 kilometres (31 miles) north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km (3 miles) north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance it has been qualified by UNESCO as World Heritage Site. Modern times have brought a renewal of industrial activity. Ferrara is on the main rail line from Bologna to Padua and Venice, and has branches to Ravenna, Poggio Rusco (for Suzzara) and Codigoro.
1.1 Origins
2 Main sights
3.1 Jewish community
4.2 Painting
4.6 Festivals
4.8 Culinary tradition
6 International relations
6.1 Twin towns — Sister cities
Ferrara City Hall.
Ferrara was probably settled by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of Po river; there are two early centers of settlement, one round the cathedral,[1] the other, the castrum bizantino, on the opposite shore, where the Primaro empties into the Volano channel. Ferrara appears first in a document of the Lombard king Desiderius of 753 AD,[2] as a city forming part of the Exarchate of Ravenna. Desiderius pledged a Lombard ducatus ferrariae ("Duchy of Ferrara") in 757 to Pope Stephen II.
Obizzo II d'Este was proclaimed lifelong ruler of Ferrara five hundred years later. He also became seignior of nearby Modena in 1288 and of Reggio in 1289. In 1452 the Este rulers were created Dukes of Modena and Reggio, and in 1471 Ferrara also became a duchy.
In 1597, when Alfonso II died without heirs, the House of Este lost Ferrara to the Papal States.
Ferrara remained a part of the Papal States from 1598 to 1859, when it became part of the Kingdom of Italy. A fortress was constructed by Pope Paul V on the site of the castle called "Castel Tedaldo", at the south-west angle of the town, that was occupied by an Austrian garrison from 1832 until 1859. All of the fortress was dismantled following the birth of the Kingdom of Italy and the bricks used for new constructions all over the town.
On August 23, 1944, the Ferrara synthetic rubber plant was a target of Strategic bombing during World War II.
The Renaissance walls.
The Castle Estense.
The Romanesque cathedral.
Palazzo dei Diamanti, seat of the National Gallery.
Palazzo Schifanoia.
The Certosa of Ferrara.
Piazza Ariostea.
The town is still surrounded by more than 9 kilometres (6 miles) of ancient walls, mainly built in the 15th and 16th centuries.[3] Together with those of Lucca, they are the best preserved Renaissance walls in Italy.
The most iconic building of the town is the imposing Castello Estense: sited in the very centre of the town, it's a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four massive bastions. It was built starting in 1385 and partly restored in 1554; the pavilions on the top of the towers date from the latter year.
The ancient City Hall, renovated in the 18th century, was the earlier residence of the Romanesque lower part of the main façade and the side façades were completed. According to a now lost inscription the church was built in 1135 by Guglielmo I of Adelardi (d. 1146), who is buried in it. The sculpture of the main portal is the signed work of the "artifex" Nicholaus, mentioned in the lost inscription as the "architect" for the church. The upper part of the main façade, with arcades of pointed arches, dates from the 13th century, while the lower part of the protiro or projecting porch and the main portal are by Nicholaus. The recumbent lions guarding the entrance are replacements of the originals, now in the narthex of the church. The elaborate relief sculptures depicting Last Judgement gracing the second story of the porch above date from the 13th century. The interior was restored in the baroque style in 1712. The campanile, in the Renaissance style, dates from 1451–1493, but the last storey was added at the end of the 16th century. As of today, the campanile is still incomplete, missing one additional storey and a conical top, as it can be seen from numerous historical prints and paintings on the subject.
A little way off is the university, which has faculties of law, architecture, pharmacy, medicine and natural science; the library has valuable manuscripts, including part of that of the Orlando furioso and letters by Tasso. Its famous graduates include Nicolaus Copernicus (1503) and Paracelsus. Near the main university facilities it raises the University of Ferrara Botanic Garden.
Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces, often retaining terracotta decorations; few towns of Italy as small have so many, though most are comparatively small in size. Among them may be noted those in the north quarter (especially the four at the intersection of its two main streets), which was added by Ercole I in 1492–1505, from the plans of Biagio Rossetti, and hence called the Addizione Erculea.
Among the finest palaces is Palazzo dei Diamanti (Diamond Palace), named after the diamond points into which the façade's stone blocks are cut. The palazzo houses the National Picture Gallery, with a large collection of the school of Ferrara, which first rose to prominence in the latter half of the 15th century, with Cosimo Tura, Francesco Cossa and Ercole dei Roberti. Noted masters of the 16th-century School of Ferrara include Lorenzo Costa and Dosso Dossi, the most eminent of all, Girolamo da Carpi and Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo).
The Casa Romei is the best preserved Renaissance building in Ferrara. It was the residence of Giovanni Romei, related to Este family by marriage to Polissena d'Este and likely the work of the court architect Pietro Bono Brasavola. It did not fall into decay because it was inherited by the nuns of the Corpus Domini order who lived there without making any changes to its structure. Much of the decoration in the inner rooms has been saved. There are fresco cycles in the Sala delle Sibille (Room of Sibyls), with its original terracotta fireplace bearing the coat of arms of Giovanni Romei, in the adjoining Saletta dei Profeti (Room of the Prophets), depicting allegories from the Bible and in other rooms, some of which were commissioned by cardinal Ippolito d'Este and painted by the school of Camillo and Cesare Filippi (16th century).
The Palazzo Schifanoia (sans souci) was built in 1385 for Alberto V d'Este. The palazzo includes frescoes depicting the life of Borso d'Este, the signs of the zodiac and allegorical representations of the months. The vestibule was decorated with stucco mouldings by Domenico di Paris. The building also contains fine choir-books with miniatures and a collection of coins and Renaissance medals.
The City Historical Archives contain a relevant amount of historical documents, starting from 15th century. The Diocesan Historical Archive is more ancient, mentioned in documents in AD 955, and contains precious documents collected across the centuries by the clergy.
The Corpus Domini Monastery contains tombs of the House of Este, including Eleanor of Aragon, and many more.
The Ferrara Synagogue and Jewish Museum are located in the heart of the medieval centre, close to the cathedral and the Castello Estense. This street was part of the Jewish Quarter in which the Jews were separated from the rest of the population of Ferrara from 1627 to 1859.
Other sites include:
Piazza Ariostea
Communal Theatre
Church of Santa Maria in Vado
Church of St Luca
Church of St Benedict
Church of St Charles
Church of St Cristopher
Church of St Dominic
Church of St Francis
Church of St George
Church of St Roman
House of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, erected by him after 1526 and in which he died in 1532.
Massari gardens
Monastery of Sant'Antonio in Polesine
Palace of Ludovico il Moro
Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este
In 2007, there were 135,369 people residing in Ferrara, of whom 46.8% were male and 53.2% were female. Minors (children ages 18 and younger) totalled 12.28 percent of the population compared to pensioners who number 26.41%. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06% (minors) and 19.94% (pensioners). The average age of Ferrara residents is 49 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Ferrara grew by 2.28%, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.85%.[4] The current birth rate of Ferrara is 7.02 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births. Ferrara is known as being the oldest city with a population over 100,000, as well the city with lowest birth rate.
As of 2006, 95.59% of the population was Italian. The largest immigrant group was other European nations (mostly from the Ukraine, and Albania: 2.59%) North Africa: 0.51%, and East Asia: 0.39%. The city is predominantly Roman Catholic, with small Orthodox Christian adherents. The historical Jewish community is still surviving.
The Jewish community of Ferrara is the only one in Emilia Romagna with a continuous presence from the Middle Ages to the present day. It played an important role when Ferrara enjoyed its greatest splendor in the 15th and 16th century, with the duke Ercole I d'Este. The situation of the Jews deteriorated in 1598, when the Este dynasty moved to Modena and the city came under papal control. The Jewish settlement, located in three streets forming a triangle near the cathedral, became a ghetto in 1627. Apart from a few years under Napoleon and during the 1848 revolution, the ghetto lasted until Italian unification in 1859.
In 1799, the Jewish community saved the city from sacking by troops of the Mirandola fortress. The besieged garrison made several sorties from the Saint Paul's Gate, which were repulsed by the insurgent peasants. The French attempted two rescues of the beleaguered fortress: the first, on 24 April, when a force of 400 Modenese was repulsed at Mirandola. In the second, General Montrichard tried to raise the city-blockade by advancing with a force of 4,000. Finally, at the end of the month, a column led by Pierre-Augustin Hulin reached and relieved the fortress.[6]
Klenau took possession of the town on 21 May, and garrisoned it with a light battalion. The Jewish residents of Ferrara paid 30,000 ducats to prevent the pillage of the city by Klenau's forces; this was used to pay the wages of Gardani's troops.[7] Although Klenau held the town, the French still possessed the town's fortress. After making the standard request for surrender at 0800, which was refused, Klenau ordered a barrage from his mortars and howitzers. After two magazines caught fire, the commandant was summoned again to surrender; there was some delay, but a flag of truce was sent at 2100, and the capitulation was concluded at 0100 the next day. Upon taking possession of the fortress, Klenau found 75 new artillery pieces, plus ammunition and six months worth of provisions.[8]
In 1938, Mussolini's fascist government instituted racial laws reintroducing segregation of Jews which lasted until the end of the Nazi occupation. During the Second World War, ninety-six of Ferrara's 300 Jews were deported to Nazi concentration and death camps; five survived. The Italian Jewish writer, Giorgio Bassani, was from Ferrara. His celebrated book, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, was published in Italian as Giardino del Finzi-Contini, 1962, by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a. It was made into a film by Vittorio de Sica in 1970.
During WWII, the Este Castle, adjacent to the Corso Roma, now known as the Corso Martiri della Libertà, was the site of an infamous massacre in 1943.
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
ii, iii, iv, v, vi
UNESCO region
Europe and North America
Inscription history
1995 (19th Session)
The Renaissance literary men and poets Torquato Tasso (author of Jerusalem Delivered), Ludovico Ariosto (author of the romantic epic poem Orlando Furioso) and Matteo Maria Boiardo (author of the grandiose poem of chivalry and romance Orlando Innamorato), lived and worked at the court of Ferrara during the 15th and 16th century.
The The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Long Night in 1943). In historical fiction, British author Sarah Dunant set her 2009 novel Sacred Hearts in a convent in Ferrara.
During the Renaissance, the Giorgio de Chirico.
Ferrara gave birth to Girolamo Savonarola, the famous medieval Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498. He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and hostility to the Renaissance. He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time, and his main opponent was Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).
The Ferrarese musician Johann Sebastian Bach.[9][10] Maurizio Moro (15??—16??) an Italian poet of the 16th century best known for madrigals is thought to have been born in Ferrara.
Ferrara is the birthplace and childhood home of the well-known Italian film director, Michelangelo Antonioni. The town of Ferrara was also the setting of the famous film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica in (1970), that tells the vicissitudes of a rich Jewish family during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and World War II. Furthermore, Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds in (1995) and Ermanno Olmi's The Profession of Arms in (2001), a film about the last days of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, were also shot in Ferrara.
Corso Ercole I d'Este, Street in the Renaissance town center of Ferrara, Italy
The Buskers Festival is a non-competitive parade of the best street musicians in the world. In terms of tradition and dimension it is the most important festival in the world of this kind. Additionally, Ferrara is becoming the Italian capital of hot air balloons, thanks to the ten-day-long Ferrara Balloons Festival, the biggest celebration of balloons in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.
Ferrara's local football team, Società Polisportiva Ars Et Labor 1907 is going to play in Lega Pro Prima Divisione (former Serie C1), which is the third highest football league in Italy. The local basketball team, Carife Ferrara, have been doing considerably better; they won the 2007-08 title in the second-level LegADue, thereby earning promotion to Serie A. The city is hosting the Ferrara Marathon since 1979.
The cooking tradition of the town is characterized by many typical dishes that can be traced back to the Middle Ages and reveals in some instances the influence of the important Jewish community. The signature first course is cappellacci di zucca, a kind of ravioli with a filling of butternut squash, Parmigiano-Reggiano and flavored with nutmeg. It is served with a sauce of butter and sage. The traditional Christmas first dish is cappelletti, meat-filled ravioli served in chicken broth or with a white sauce made from cream and, optionally, local truffles. A peculiar first dish is the pasticcio di maccheroni, a domed macaroni pie, consisting of a crust of sweet dough enclosing macaroni in a Béchamel sauce, studded with porcini mushrooms and ragù bolognese. The second course that is a must of the Christmas table is the Salama da sugo, a one-year old dry salami made from a special selection of pork meat, spices and red wine. Seafood is an important part of the town tradition, due to the vicinity to the sea, and grilled or stewed eel from the river Po delta is especially appreciated. In the Ferrara's pantry you can also find a kosher salami, made of goose meat stuffed in goose neck skin. The Christmas traditional dessert is a chocolat pie, the pampepato, and the zuppa inglese. The clay terroir of the area, an alluvial plain created by the river Po, is not ideal for wine; a notable exception is the Vini del Bosco Eliceo (DOC), made from grapes cultivated on the sandy coast line. The typical bread, called coppia ferrarese, has been awarded the IGP (Protected Geographical Status) label .
Ferrara railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Padua–Bologna railway. It is also a terminus of three secondary railways, linking Modena with Ravenna and Rimini, Suzzara, and Codigoro, respectively. The station is located at Piazzale della Stazione, at the northwestern edge of the city centre.
Twin towns — Sister cities
Ferrara is twinned with:
Gießen, Germany[11]
Opatija, Croatia
Highland Park, USA
Kaufbeuren, Germany
Makarska, Croatia
Koper, Slovenia[12]
Krasnodar, Russia
Lleida, Spain
Saint-Étienne, France
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 1964[13]
Swansea, Wales, UK
Szombathely, Hungary
Tartu, Estonia}[14]
Žilina, Slovakia[15]
The last municipal elections was held on May 25, 2014, resulting in the election of Tiziano Tagliani (Democratic Party) as Mayor of the city of Ferrara. The division of the 32 seats in the city council is as followed:
Democratic Party - 20
Forza Italia - 4
Lega Nord - 1
Fratelli d'Italia - 1
Movimento 5 stelle - 5
Giustizia, Onore e Libertà - 1
^ The See was moved here from Vicohabentia (Voghenza) in 624 (Chronology of Catholic dioceses: Italy).
^ Ferrare city website.
^ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". Demo.istat.it. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^ Colonel Danilo Oreskovich and 1,300 Croatians of the 2nd Banat battalion, 4,000 Ferrarese auxiliary troops commanded by Count Antonio Gardani, and several hundred local peasants commanded by Major Angelo Pietro Poli. Acerbi. The 1799 Campaign in Italy: Klenau and Ott Vanguards and the Coalition's Left Wing April – June 1799.
^ Acerbi, The 1799 Campaign in Italy: Klenau and Ott Vanguards and the Coalition's Left Wing April – June 1799.
^ Accerbi reports that wages were the equivalent of a daily intake of 21 "Baiocchi" in cash and four in bread. Acerbi, The 1799 Campaign in Italy: Klenau and Ott Vanguards and the Coalition's Left Wing April – June 1799.
^ Acerbi, The 1799 Campaign in Italy: Klenau and Ott Vanguards and the Coalition's Left Wing April – June 1799; Klenau's force included a battalion of light infantry, a couple battalions of border infantry, a squadron of the Nauendorf Hussars (8th Hussars), and approximately 4,000 armed peasants. For details on Austrian force, see Smith, Ferrara, Data Book, p. 156. Klenau's force also captured 75 guns from the fortress.
^ Paul Badura-Skoda. "Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard", p. 259. Translated by Alfred Clayton. Oxford University Press, 1995, 592 p. ISBN 0-19-816576-5.
^ John Butt. "The Cambridge Companion to Bach", p. 139. Cambridge University Press, 1997, 342 p. ISBN 0-521-58780-8
^ "Gießen: Städtepartnerschaften" [Giessen: Twin towns] (in German). Stadt Gießen. Archived from the original on 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
^ "Comune di Ferrara – Portale Telematico Estense". Ferrara.comune.fe.it. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
^ "Fraternity cities on Sarajevo Official Web Site".
^ "Friendship and co-operation agreement between the towns of Tartu and Ferrara".
^ "Žilina - oficiálne stránky mesta: Partnerské mestá Žiliny [Žilina: Official Partner Cities]".
Acerbi, Enrico. "The 1799 Campaign in Italy: Klenau and Ott Vanguards and the Coalition's Left Wing April - June 1799". Napoleon Series, Robert Burnham, editor in chief. March 2008. Accessed 30 October 2009.
Published in the 19th century
"Ferrara". Italy (2nd ed.). Coblenz: Karl Baedeker. 1870
"Ferrara". Hand-book for Travellers in Northern Italy (16th ed.). London: John Murray. 1897.
"Ferrara". Northern Italy (14th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1913
Official Tourism Office Site - in six languages
Search engine and index of websites related to Ferrara
The Comunale Theatre
Ferrara Balloons Festival - the biggest Hot Air Balloons Fiesta in Italy
Ferrara Under the Stars - The most important Italian summer music festival
Ferrara Buskers' Festival
Palazzo dei Diamanti - Ferrara National Museum of Art
The University of Ferrara
Local Newspaper
Emilia-Romagna · Comuni of the Province of Ferrara
Massa Fiscaglia
Migliaro
World Heritage Sites in Italy
Crespi d'Adda
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Monte San Giorgio1
Porto Venere, Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto, Cinque Terre
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Castle of Moncalieri
Castle of Racconigi
Castle of Rivoli
Castello del Valentino
Royal Palace of Turin
Palazzo Carignano
Palazzo Madama, Turin
Palace of Venaria
Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi
Villa della Regina
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes1
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
The Dolomites
Modena Cathedral, Torre della Ghirlandina and Piazza Grande, Modena
Orto botanico di Padova
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
Cerveteri and Tarquinia, (Necropolis of Monterozzi)
Hadrian's Villa
Medici villas
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Castel del Monte, Apulia
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, Paestum and Velia, Certosa di Padula
Oplontis and Villa Poppaea
Palace of Caserta, Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio Complex
Sassi of Matera
Archaeological Area of Agrigento
Barumini nuraghes
Syracuse and Necropolis of Pantalica
Val di Noto
Villa Romana del Casale
Longobards in Italy, Places of Power; 568-774 A.D.
Temple of Clitumnus located at Campello sul Clitunno
Santa Sofia located at Benevento
Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo located at Monte Sant'Angelo
Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps3
1 Shared with Switzerland
2 Shared with the Holy See
3 Shared with Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland
Articles containing Italian-language text
CS1 German-language sources (de)
Articles with inconsistent citation formats
Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna
Communes of the Province of Ferrara
Italian Jewish communities
Middle Ages, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Florence, Italian Renaissance
Italy, Austria, Croatia, European Union, Serbia
Editio princeps
Basel, Cicero, Milan, Bede, Cologne
Roberto Melli
Rome, Italy, Avant-garde, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Orlando Furioso, Ferrara, Epic poetry, Rome, Authority control
Po (river)
Italy, Turin, Venice, Veneto, Ravenna
List of operas set in the Crusades
Voltaire, Rome, Opera, Crusades, Vienna


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Fate of white deer hangs in balance
Former army depot is put up for sale
Associated Press,November 15, 2015, 7:08 p.m.
There are about 200 white deer, a natural variant of the brown white-tailed deer, on 7,000 acres of the decommissioned site that will soon be put up for bid.Dennis Money/Seneca White Deer Inc. via AP
ROMULUS, N.Y. — Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former Army weapons depot face an uncertain future after living and breeding largely undisturbed since the middle of last century.
The white deer — a genetic quirk that developed naturally on the 7,000-acre, fenced-in expanse — have thrived, even as the depot itself has transitioned from one of the most important Cold War storehouses of bombs and ammunition to a decommissioned relic.
Now, as local officials seek to put the old Seneca Army Depot up for bids next month, there is concern that the sale could also mean the end of the line for the unusual white deer. A group of residents dedicated to saving the animals has proposed turning the old depot into a world-class tourist attraction to show off both its rich military history and its unusual wildlife.
The Nature Conservancy also is looking at options for preserving the largely undeveloped landscape.
"When we ran bus tours on a limited basis between 2006 and 2012, we had people come from all over the United States to see the deer," Dennis Money of Seneca White Deer Inc. said. "People are enchanted by them."
The white deer owe their continued existence to 24 miles of rusting chain-link perimeter fencing that went up when the depot was built in 1941, capturing several dozen wild white-tailed deer in the area's extensive woodlands.
The white deer are natural genetic variants of the normal brown ones. They're not albinos, which lack all pigment, but are leucistic, lacking pigment only in their fur.
In the wild, white deer are short-lived, being easy targets for predators and hunters looking for an unusual trophy. Small herds of white fallow deer roam protected sites in Ireland and on the campus of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, but the Seneca Army Depot has the largest known population of white white-tailed deer, Money said.
With protection from the Army and its fence, the Seneca white deer have grown to an estimated 200. If buyers take down the fence, the white deer aren't expected to last long.

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What is back bonding in coordination compounds?
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What is the difference between back bonding and co ordinate bonding?
Is there back bonding in O SiH3 2?
How does back bonding affect bond angle?
Does back bonding affect hybridization?
Is there back bonding in CCl2?
Is back bonding present in ccl4?
This type of bonding occurs between atoms in a compound in which one atom has lone pair of electron and the other has vacant orbital placed adjacent to each other. A compound with back bonding has pi-bonding character since it results after formation of sigma bond.
The exchange of electrons between an atomic orbital on one atom and an antibonding orbital on another atom is known as back bonding. Back bonding can be considered to be a type of resonance that is exhibited by several chemical compounds. Back bonding is known to offer increased stability to chemical compounds.
What is meant by back π bonding?
π backbonding, also called π backdonation, is a concept from chemistry in which electrons move from an atomic orbital on one atom to an appropriate symmetry antibonding orbital on a π-acceptor ligand.
The key difference between back bonding and coordinate bonding is that back bonding refers to a chemical bond that forms between an atomic orbital of one atom and an antibonding orbital of a ligand whereas coordinate bonding refers to the sharing of a pair of electrons between an electronegative species and an electro- …
However,in (SiH3)2O molecule,the Si atoms don't have lone pairs and hence their completely vacant p orbital makes the backbonding feasible as the backbonding would be p pi-p pi and as orbitals having similar energy make it easier to perform back bonding, (SiH3)2O would be having more feasible backbonding.
Is back bonding present in n SiH3 3?
N atom has a lone pair in p- orbital which is transferred to the empty d-orbital of Si atom resulting dπ-pπ back bonding. So, N(SiH3)3 has planar structure. However, N atom in N(CH3)3 is sp3 hybridised and N(CH₃)₃ does not have any such back bonding due to the absence of d- orbital in C – atom.
Back bonding increases electron density in between the two bonding atoms hence it should increase the bond angle as a result of inter-electronic repulsion.
"Hybridisation of central atom does not always change due to back bonding".
Is back bonding more stable than resonance?
backbonding b/w 2p-2p orbitals. 3.2nd and 4th structures have simple resonance..and thus are second last and last in stability. 2nd structure is more stable than the 4th structure coz of more number of resonating structures in 2nd structure.
Is there back bonding in CCl2? CCl2 is a well-known carbene in which carbon has a lone pair that can be donated to cl. Since cl has vacant d orbitals, c can easily form a pi dative bond (back bonding) with cl as 2p-3d backbonding.
CCl4 has covalent bonding. Carbon has four electrons in its valence shell and shares these with four chlorine atoms to form carbon tetrachloride molecule.
In which molecule weaker back bonding is present?
So, the correct answer is 'BF3'.
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and alsoe a gill of sack and work it in your botle as if you were churning it, then after you have wrought it after that maner a considerable space pour it into your dish being seasoned with rose water and put in a litle yearning amongst it. To make sack milk another way. Take a chopin of sweet milk and boyl it into a mutchkine and then put in some mace and some eggs weel casten then cut some slices of [cordindror?] and some slices of bread and as much sack as will ralish it to your own taste then stir it up on a slow fier untill that it come to a right consistance, and be sure that you let it not boyl after you have put in these ingredients. To make [triffell?] cream.


Gene Cotton currently works as a web developer, software engineer, graphic designer, and marketing expert for top companies in Orange County.
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IP Result of anti-WDR1 (IP:13676-1-AP, 3ug; Detection:13676-1-AP 1:500) with mouse skeletal muscle tissue lysate 3600ug.
WDR1 Promotes Cell Growth and Migration and Contributes to Malignant Phenotypes of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer through ADF/cofilin-mediated Actin Dynamics.
A Cardiomyocyte-Specific Wdr1 Knockout Demonstrates Essential Functional Roles for Actin Disassembly during Myocardial Growth and Maintenance In Mice.
WDR1-regulated actin dynamics is required for outflow tract and right ventricle development.
Knockout of Wdr1 results in cardiac hypertrophy and impaired cardiac function in adult mouse heart.
AIP1-mediated actin disassembly is required for postnatal germ cell migration and spermatogonial stem cell niche establishment.
Trp-Asp (WD) repeat domain 1 is Essential for Mouse Peri-implantation Development and Regulates Cofilin Phosphorylation.


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Discovery — 'low-key' cruise with Brits
My wife, Esta Lee, and I took the "Grand Voyage to Scandinavia," May 13-June 5, 2006, on the MV Discovery of Voyages of Discovery, formerly Discovery World Cruises (1800 SE 10th Ave., Ste. 205, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316; 866/623-2689).
The package combined a 2-week transatlantic cruise from Nassau in the Bahamas to Harwich in the U.K. and a one-week round-trip cruise from Harwich along the Norwegian coast.
The first segment, which included stops at Grand Turk (nothing to see, I felt) and the Azores (quite worthwhile), was the last cruise in Discovery's winter season (and the last leg of a long repositioning cruise which had begun in Auckland). The second segment was the first of the ship's summer cruises.
The fare for the two of us was $10,700, including airfare from Washington to Nassau and from London to Washington, D.C.; a deluxe cabin; gratuities, and a 2-night hotel stay in London.
We enjoyed the trip and would sail the ship again, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea.
The Discovery, which holds around 650 passengers, is an older ship closer in design to the liners of the '50s and '60s than to a modern cruise ship. There are no balcony cabins, and most outside cabins have portholes rather than windows. It is decidedly low-tech. Cabin doors are still opened with metal keys.
There are only two elevators, and it was not unusual for one or both to be out of service, making this a questionable choice for people with mobility problems.
While the line is marketed in the U.S., it caters mostly to British passengers. This may be why it seemed more relaxed and low-key than ships of most other lines we have sailed on. Diversions are limited.
Although the ship reveals its age, it is in no way shabby. Rather, it reminded us of a well-broken-in armchair — very comfortable though not showy.
We chose a deluxe cabin because of its relatively large size (225 square feet) and the fact that it had full windows that were in the hull, giving us more privacy. There was also more-than-adequate storage space. Standard outside cabins are on the small side. In addition, several people told us that some of the standard cabins, being lower in the ship, suffered from engine noise and vibration.
Our cabin steward did a first-rate job.
The main dining room served breakfast, lunch and two seatings for dinner. Food generally ran from very good to excellent. My wife was particularly impressed by the fish, which was not overcooked as with most other lines. We could also get breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea at a buffet on the top deck.
Service in the dining room at breakfast and lunch was sometimes rather indifferent, but our dinner waiter, Angelo, was so good and so accommodating to my wife's dietary preferences that when he changed tables for the second part of the cruise we went along with him.
The only other sit-down restaurant is the Yacht Club, which alternates an Asian menu with an Italian one. You must have reservations at least a day in advance, but there is no surcharge.
The main lounge of the ship also serves as the showroom. It fills up quickly, so get there early. There were no specialty acts brought aboard for short-term stays, but, for a small ship in a one-ship cruise line, the resident entertainment troupe was surprisingly good.
Other diversions were limited mainly to trivia contests, lectures, bridge lessons and games (mostly duplicate) and a movie theater. The tiny casino has been permanently closed, the small nightclub had been turned into a pub, and only one of the two small swimming pools was working. There were no art auctions, which we consider a plus, and no special program for children (of whom there were hardly any).
There were no Internet lessons, but the few PCs were available for a flat 15¢ a minute.
One peculiarity worth noting — on the winter cruises, the official currency is the U.S. dollar; on summer cruises, it is the British pound. This change works against Americans. For example, in the first two weeks a can of Coke cost $1.50; in the last week, it was £1 (which converted to $1.88). Also, if you pay for cruise extras with a U.S. credit card during the summer cruises, your credit card company may hit you with a currency conversion fee.
HARVEY LAMPERT


Custom designed crowns and scepters, handcrafted in the traditional European manner, is the mark of Oliver Irivng, Jr., perhaps America's only Black maker of crowns and scepters. Oliver employs the lost art of handscrolling metal wire into intricate and ornate swirls and patterns. The delicate beauty and quality of his works of art is unattainable by modern machine-pressed metals and plastics.
Festivals and pageants strive to be unique, finding a theme and developing it in various ways. Simply because of the many photos published of kings and queens of festivals, the crowns and scepters are a part of that theme development.
After the festival is over, the designs created by Oliver are destined to become heirloom pieces.
Oliver Prince of Crown Jewels, Inc. is a Christian family-owned business located in Harvey, Louisiana five miles from New Orleans. Both Oliver and Betty Irving are available to meet with you to discuss your needs. Call or email us.


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Proverbs from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – 4 (Defiling the Soul of Sweet Delight)
March 5, 2019 December 6, 2019 Simon Pettet
Allen Ginsberg on the Proverbs of Hell from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" continues.
"The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled"
AG: That's not.. Well, has anybody seen a "soul of sweet delight" recently defiled? – Yeah, I wonder of that's true. (William) Burroughs has an opposite statement. He says, "Human beings can't be expected to act like human beings under non-human circumstances", or "under inhuman circumstances". That's an interesting.. I was thinking about that earlier today – "Human beings can't be expected to act human under inhuman circumstances" (and he was thinking of, like, putting metal pans on the head and beating them, as a form of torture practice, from Hungary to China, you know, in order to reduce the brains to gelatinous mass because of the vibrations under metal, a metal drum continually beaten, would actually reduce the nervous system, the cells of the nerves to, and the brain too to jelly
Student: And what would the purpose be?
AG: To prove that "the soul of sweet delight" can "be defiled" ! – to send a shudder of thrilling fear into the entire consciousness of all sentient beings. I was wondering if Burroughs' apothegm was true or not. I'd always assumed that it was so, as a big excuse for being a coward – Well, if they really tortured you and put dentists' drills up your teeth, they got at the nerves, and gave you acid, and put electrodes in the back of your brain, and – what to do with the rats, you know? – open up your brain and put them in, and sutured you in, and connected you up with wires, and took you apart in a robot room – could you be "defiled"? – Is there..
Well, of course, he's assuming there's a soul to begin with, that's another thing. He's assuming an entity called the soul, which then can't be defiled (or, if there is an entity, it probably can be defiled). But there's another view which is the soul is a non-entity, that is it is not an entity but is a collection of disparent appearances – sight, sound, smell taste touch, or "eyes of fire, nostrils of air, mouth of water, beard of earth" – a composite, a compound, an aggregate, of heaps of appearences (or skandas, as it's called in Buddhism), the aggregates, or heaps, or the aggregates of phenomenal flashes of all kind. That would leave out the soul there.
Student: (Was Burroughs thinking that if they did that to you, you would either be… Was he was thinking that possibly, that if you turned into a spirit, the ghost could be like that and you could still be like that, and..)
AG: No, he was saying that.. You could.. Burroughs, see, was not sure whether there was a soul or not. That's really interesting. We've been talking about that over the last year, Because I've been taking the non-theistic Buddhist point of view that there is no anatta ("an" – no, or, like, "a"-theist, "an"-atman, atman, soul, you know? – ultimate essence?) So Burroughs, because of his cut-up procedure, I always thought, I assumed he thought , "Well, anything that occurred, you can cut it up, and so therefore you're liberating yourself from sensations and "apparent sensory phenomena" (quote-unquote – apparent sensory phenomena), therefore he has the same position that of open blue space as being the ulimate mind. In other words, no person, no solidification, no reference point. However, recently, last year, he was standing around his apartment, muttering about the trouble with the radiation is (that) it is a killer of souls, quoting (J.Robert) Oppenheimer's first remarks when he saw the Atomic explosion at Los Alamos, (or wherever – where was the first one? – I forgot). So Burroughs was theorizing that the trouble with the nuclear technology, nuclear mill, the nuclear mill, the trouble with that is that at that high level of heat or intensity there may be some rareified thing, some rareified emanation of the body which might be equivalent to a soul. And that the trouble of dying from atomic blast, as distinct from a knife, bad pork, falling off a roof, sinking in the ocean, shot in the heart, the trouble with the atomic is that it might burn up the soul, burn up that little evanescent material, figment. Well, it's just an interesting idea.
However, so from that point of view, Burroughs says human beings "can't be expected to be human under inhuman circumstances" (like, you take a fish out of the water, he can't breathe – fish can't be expected to behave like fish if you take them out of the water. Fish can't be expected to behave like fish in non-fishy circumstances. So, human beings put under the ocean. Or in a situation of total pain. However Blake says, "The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled", which is a declaration of independence from the vegetable universe ("vegetative universe", as he speaks of it). He's also saying, ultimately, in the plot of the…of competition for power between the body and reason and the imagination and emotions, the one person that never gets totally done in by Urizen (who does in the body, and does in the emotions),the one figure who never gets fully done is is Urthona (the imagination, poetic imagination) because the whole point of the imagination is that it's free from fixed body form, it can go anywhere, it's totally inquisitive, it pervades all space. It can create any kind of universe. It's free from all rules. It's free from the limitations of "the horses of instruction" (or it's free from the instructions of the horses), free from the mill, free from the grip of the mill, is not bound by the horizon (of reason). So, therefore, "The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled", because it does not exist in the.. because "defilement" is only another boundary, or condition, whereas imagination, Blake keeps saying, is totally unconditioned, absolute. Or, no matter what happens to body, emotions, and mind, the imagination will still, like water going downhill, find some way through the barriers, just by its very nature. He says! – Can you believe it?
Audio for the above can be heard here, beginning at approximately twenty-five minutes in and concluding at approximately thirty-seven minutes in
J Robert Oppenheim
William S Burroughs
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On this day, thirty years ago Stuart Ambrose joined the ESE team. Here we take a look at his journey.
So, Stuart, or Stuey as he is better known around the office, began his ESE life on Tuesday 7th July 1987 as a worker in the warehouse and as a delivery driver at the tender age of 23 (you can now work out how old he is now!).
A couple of years later he stepped out of the warehouse and into the office into general sales. In 1991 he adopted the role of Operations Supervisor where he was in charge of stock control, deliveries and all things warehouse! In 2002 he took on the role of project co-ordinator.
Being the versatile chap he is, Stuey later moved back into direct sales as a sales administrator and after gaining a considerable amount of product knowledge was awarded his current title Technical Sales Consultant. With five years experience in this position he is our go-to man for all things product related.
More recently Stu has also undertaken the important jobs of Fire Warden and most recently Health & Safety Representative.
Stuey even met his now wife, Lisa at ESE when she joined to work in the office in 1989, they have now been married for almost 24 years and have three boys.
Congratulations, and here's to another 30 years eh Stu?!


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E3 Offering Fans Tickets for the First Time
Gamers will be able to attend the convention for as little as $149.
By Tom Brant
https://www.pcmag.com/news/e3-offering-fans-tickets-for-the-first-time
E3, an annual gathering of video game industry bigwigs, isn't just for insiders anymore. With the 2017 meeting, the general public will be able to buy tickets too, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 13 at 12 p.m. Eastern time and cost $149. Buyers will get access the show floor, panel discussions, and other events from Tuesday through Thursday of the convention week, which starts June 13 in Los Angeles, according to GameSpot.
E3 will join other well-known insider events that have opened their doors to the public, including South by Southwest and Comic Con. The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is also open to the general public, with an Expo pass selling for as little as $199. Rich Taylor, the ESA's senior VP of communications, said that the decision to open up E3 was a nod to fans' enthusiasm.
"The feedback we heard was clear--they wanted to play the games inside the convention center. In addition, exhibitors inside the convention center wanted to have access to the fans. So this year we're bringing the two together," he told GameSpot.
In addition to opportunities to play games themselves, E3 attendees typically—but not always—get some hands-on time with new hardware as well. Sony teased its new PlayStation 4 Pro just a week before the E3 convention last year, but the console didn't finish testing in time to make it to the show.
If you're thinking about attending E3, you'll want to act quickly once the tickets go on sale next week. There are only 15,000 of them, and the price will jump to $249 after the first 1,000 are sold, USA Today reports.
About Tom Brant
As a hardware analyst, Tom tests and reviews laptops, peripherals, and much more at PC Labs in New York City. He previously covered the consumer tech beat as a news reporter for PCMag in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where he rode in several self-driving cars and witnessed the rise and fall of many startups. Before that, he worked for PCMag's sister site, Computer Shopper, where he occasionally dunked waterproof hard drives in glasses of water. In his spare time, he's written on topics as diverse as Borneo's rain forests, Middle Eastern airlines, and big data's role in presidential elections. A graduate of Middlebury College, Tom also has a master's degree in journalism and French Studies from New York University. Follow him on Twitter @branttom.
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Taran Killam to make his Broadway debut as King George in Hamilton
Caroline Siede
Hamilton clearly isn't a show that needs to rely on stunt casting to succeed. But if there's one part tailor made for a celebrity cameo, it's King George. The comic relief role is basically only onstage for three quick songs, which is a pretty cushy schedule for a Broadway star. And the part is all but designed as a scene-stealing one. Now after having been played by Brian d'Arcy James (off Broadway), Jonathan Groff (on Broadway), and Rory O'Malley (as Groff's replacement), Taran Killam is the first non-Broadway celebrity to step into the role.
The former Saturday Night Live star will make his Broadway debut in Hamilton on January 17. No end date has been announced yet, although Groff played the role for about a year while O'Malley's tenure will total about 10 months. Killam is a pretty natural fit for King George, who is basically just one step removed from the officious 1860s newspaper critic Jebidiah Atkinson he played on SNL. And, of course, the casting announcement will also allow everyone to reminisce about the time Killam played a pop heartthrob in a Disney Channel Original movie called Stuck In The Suburbs.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]


It's hard to imagine worse news for the average weight in Sweden. Hopefully the welcome will be lukewarm.
Hi Joe, I'm donating $1 to Heifer International for every troll comment I read. Heifer International provides needy people with livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats and pigs (animals that provide the ingredients for bacon, butter and cheese) and training to take care of them. Have a great day!
I think occasional indulgences on special occasions is absolutely part of a healthy life. Like toasting with champagne. You shouldn't do it every day, but on NYE or at a wedding it makes perfect sense and it's just a drop in the bucket when measured against am otherwise super healthy diet.
Let's hope it fizzles. Krispy Kreme opened an outlet near us and it went under within a year. So did a place that sold "funnel cakes." But then a yogurty's opened and it is thriving. They sell low-fat (that is, high sugar) yoghurt only, so people are duped into thinking it's healthy food, and then sell candy toppings by weight. It is frightening how much people heap on in large cups of yoghurt. Worse than doughnuts I imagine.
Donuts at least are visible. The bigger problem is the healthy menu loaded with starch and sugar.
If I had my way, each box would have a Skull and Crossbones poison warning clearly visible. No one needs this junk.
OT, but that's the perfect description of Starbuck's coffee: incinerated.
Dunkin Donuts is also returning to California this year after a 30 year absence. I'm not sure how they'll do. The large Winchell's Donuts chain is now almost extinct and Krispy Kream's expansion here 15 years ago was a flop. But there are still many independently owned donut shops.
I have happy memories of donuts. :-) We used to get "breakfast in bed" on our birthdays. My mom and all my siblings would walk into the bedroom singing happy birthday carrying a tray with a sugary cereal, orange juice, and a donut. We got to pick the cereal and the donut! Such happy memories. My parents would also take us to McDonald's for dinner on our birthdays. However, the sugary cereal, donuts, and McDonald's happened ONCE a year. Please don't stone me, but I think they can still be part of a healthy lifestyle if they are rare treats.
The coffee is excellent at DD, and you get real half and half or cream (depends on where you are) for it.
I eat the ham and eggs sandwich without the bread (bagel, English muffin, or croissant) and my husband can get what he wants, so it's a good choice when we're traveling.
They'll even give you cream cheese without the bagel if you ask and only charge you for the cc.
Love tz's description of Starbucks coffee!
Not to stone you (well, not really), but donuts are never part of a healthy lifestyle.
I will allow that they can be a rare treat, but this would be an intentional break from the healthy lifestyle. Donuts are about as healthy as eating chocolate frosted cake for breakfast.
While vacationing on Cape Cod, we stopped for coffee at DD...my guess is they dumped a quarter cup of sugar into the regular sized coffee we ordered.
I wouldn't have touched those doughnuts even before I went paleo; they look truly evil.
Just in time for National Doughnut Day!
In all seriousness, their coffee IS tasty and cheap.
Neither are bacon cheese or butter!
My dad ran a donut shop (spelt "doughnut" back when I was a kid in the early 1960s). Okay, it had the wheat, it had the sugar. But our doughnuts were made with real eggs, and real chocolate. They were fried in animal fat. Maybe not part of a LCHF diet, but nothing like the chemical-laden crap on offer today!
Sorry should have checked The Cholesterol Conundrum - and Root Cause Solution this should work.
It's nearly 2 hours of fairly dense science based explanation. Which may be somewhat overwhelming if you are new to the topic. However it is logical so best watched in sequence. If you sign into You Tube it remembers where you've got to so you can break the video into smaller sessions and carry on from where you left off more easily.
Physical Activity Offsets the Negative Effects of a High Fructose Diet.
Bidwell AJ1, Fairchild TJ, Redmond J, Wang L, Keslacy S, Kanaley JA.
To determine the interaction between a high fructose diet and PA levels on postprandial lipidemia and inflammation in normal weight, recreationally active individuals.
Twenty-two men and women (age: 21.2 ± 0.6 yrs; BMI = 22.5 ± 0.6 kg/m) consumed an additional 75 g of fructose for 14 days on two separate occasions: high physical activity (∼12,500 steps/day: FR+Active) and low PA (∼ 4,500 steps/day; FR+Inactive). A fructose-rich test meal was given prior to and at the end of each intervention. Blood was sampled at baseline and for 6 h after the meal for triglycerides (TG), very-low density lipoproteins (VLDL), total cholesterol (TC), glucose, insulin, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and c-reactive protein (CRP).
Log transformed TG AUC significantly increased from pre (10.1 ± 0.1 mg/dL x min for 6 h) to post (10.3 ± 0.08 mg/dL x min for 6 h; p = 0.04) in the FR+Inactive intervention with an 88% increase in Δpeak[TG] (p=0.009) and an 84% increase in Δpeak[VLDL] (p=0.002). Δpeak[IL-6] also increased by 116% after FR+Inactive intervention (p=0.009). Insulin tAUC significantly decreased after FR+Active intervention (p=0.04) with no change in AUC after the FR+Inactive intervention. No changes were observed in glucose, TNF-α and CRP concentrations (p>0.05).
Low physical activity during a period of high fructose intake augments fructose-induced postprandial lipidemia and inflammation while high PA minimizes these fructose-induced metabolic disturbances. Even within a young healthy population, maintenance of high PA (>12500 steps/day) decreases susceptibility to cardiovascular risk factors associated with elevated fructose consumption.
Thanks Lori. Great idea. I was about to make a very sarcastic comment to Joe. I'll pass, as you said it all quite gracefully. Hopefully, your noble idea will not call in too many trollish comments. There were quite a few posts where trolls commented. it could get expensive! But I love the idea.
Thanks for your support, Francois. LC has saved me money--no more cavities, Nexium or trips to the chiropractor!
You could also add less money spent on a skin care. Lori looks better at 45 than at 20 http://relievemypain.blogspot.com/2014/02/im-45-and-grateful.html with a radiant wrinkles free skin and gorgeous hair.
Most of us who don't avoid butter, cheese and bacon are grateful to our food choices not only for improved health and lost fat, but also for the preserved appearance, unlike Bill Clinton who is much thinner now than before, but looks frail and 10 years older than his age. .
Reply to comment #21 by Galina L.
Thanks for the kind words, Galina. At one time, I had cystic acne and from my mid-teens, I took every acne medication there was and did a lot of extra skin care. On a LCHF, vitamins and mostly dairy-free diet (dairy except butter in any meaningful amount still gives me pimples at 45), I don't need nearly the amount of skin care I used to.
People continue to think that pimples are the youth issue. Rosacea is the one of many underdiagnosed conditions, in most people it manifests itself as a face redness, but for some it is a Papulopustular rosacea which looks like an adult case of acne. My personal opinion is that a Rosacea belongs to a large family of autoimmune conditions, and it is logical to have the less or no symptoms of it on a LC diet. If asthma or eczema got better, why not rosacea? BTW, it looks for me that Bill Clinton has a rosacea too.
My opinion is that eating fats, especially grassfed butter(vitamin K2) and coconut oil (very good types of fats) is very important for the immune health, but the fat/carbohydrates combination is the unhealthy one. My choice at the moment is - carbs limitation. I feel sorry for the people who choose to limit fats.
Glad we can help by sending DD your way. The only good thing about them is their coffee though I do have fond memories of having a donut (before low carb lifestyle) and coffee in the morning on the way to work.
Maybe, they can come up with an actual low carb donut...though I doubt it.
Might be interesting to repeat this experiment with glactose.
There's a persistent myth that fructose (and galactose) are (somehow) converted into glucose.
Whilst this results clearly show hepatic lipogenesis they don't show any evidence of such sugar "conversion".
Reply to comment #23 by Galina L.
Galina, I used to have Rosacea all through my 30's and 40's. Then in my 50's I went on the LCHF lifestyle and guess what, no rosacea since then. I always just assumed I had 'aged out' of the affliction! Thanks for that bit of useful information.
That is terrific news! My guess is that it would be do the clean eating that is indicative of a lc diet. Not only are you giving the processes that trigger the condition a rest, but you are likely eliminating a number of additives and chemicals that are in many high carb foods.
You are welcome, Marcy. Most people are getting redder with age, and "aging into" rosacea is more wide spread scenario than "aging out" of it according to my field observations (and people often ignore ocular rosacea - irritated eyes). My rosacea is much better now than before, but I still have to be careful - I cover my face from sun, avoid foods which cause the flush (chocolate, spices, wine, tomato sauces, citruses, smoked meats), Florida is my place of residence now, and our sun is really strong. Roascea could be a sensitive indicator of something being wrong for your body, I noticed I can get redder next morning after a stressful day, or after taking painkiller or antibiotic. I suspect aspirin is the substance to be avoided for the people with all types of rosacea.
When it comes to diets, most of the time weight loss is reported, or better management of serious health issues like diabetes, epilepsy, GERD, asthma, while more subtle conditions get ignored like better skin, less face redness, or even forgetting about such invisible for others thing as a vaginal yeasts infection .
Thank you Emory, and I am sure you are correct about all the additives and chemicals in the crappy food I was eating. Galina, again I think you are on to something regarding the aspirin and GERD. I had an ulcer from using aspirin and Ibuprofen. I have been ulcer free since I stopped using these drugs. I used to live in Florida and now live in Colorado, which also has very intense sun. I do try to shun the sun as much as possible since it just doesn't work with my skin and body type.
When it comes to aspirin, I am more concerned about the effect of taking that drag on allergies. It is widely recommended as a daily pill to prevent a heart attack, and in my opinion it will increase the susceptibility of a human body to allergies. People mostly pay attention on the substances which cause severe and quick reaction, but ignore things which, for example, slowly make their face slightly redder day by day.
Mark, pure fructose has a glycemic index of about 20, so it raises blood glucose somehow. Feinman and Fine have a paper setting out the metabolic pathway in the liver to convert fructose into glucose. So some amount of conversion of fructose to glucose is possible and it happens in at least some circumstances. The issue, I suppose, is determining when such conversion occurs and at what rate.
While pure fructose does have GI of 20 it poses problems as it get processed in the liver.
When too much fructose enters the liver, the liver can't process it all fast enough for the body to use as sugar. Instead, it starts making fats from the fructose and sending them off into the bloodstream as triglycerides.
Fructose ends up circumventing the normal appetite signaling system, so appetite-regulating hormones aren't triggered--and you're left feeling unsatisfied. This is probably at least part of the reason why excess fructose consumption is associated with weight gain.
There is growing evidence that excess fructose consumption may facilitate insulin resistance, and eventually Type 2 Diabetes. However, some of this effect may be from chemicals in soda which reacts with the high fructose corn syrup.
Of course, the best way to take in fructose is by eating a small piece of fruit and in my opinion, with some form of fat such as peanut, cashew or almond butter.
I am curious as to the basis for your thinking on having fat with fructose. I recall Lustig (or Davis?) gives the opposite opinion, namely, that it is bad to combine fat and fructose and that nuts are an exception among unprocessed foods.
I would do it...and do, simply to slow the absorption rate. Peanut butter with dates, banana with full fat yogurt, etc. I don't use pure fructose nor products with fructose added. The amount in fresh fruit is negligible if eaten in moderation.
> I think occasional indulgences on special occasions is absolutely part of a healthy life.
One needs to have full awareness of the consequences. For a grain-free LCHF'er, eating one Dunkin Donut a month would be like an ex-smoker having one cigarette a month. Apart from the immediate health hazards (wheat re-exposure reactions can be acute), it's apt to trigger significant craving problems.
In the particular case of donuts, it's a completely needless cheat. It's pretty easy to whip up paleo donuts that you could eat all day long with zero ill effects.
No apparent transfats, at least.
Wheat is addictive and high glycemic. Between it and the sugar, it will screw up your HbA1c, triglycercides and small LDL particles for some time after consumption.
With any luck, DD has picked precisely the incorrect moment to launch this junk in Sweden.
Totally agree with Boundless, why would you put a toxin into your body even if it is once a month PatrickP ?, I am sure there are other means to 'indulge in life' (as far as culinary aspects are concerned) without the need for DD.
Fructose can also be stored as Glycogen after which it is available to the body as Glucose. For diabetics especially, this is one of the issues with relying on the Glycemic Index of a food... while a food high in Fructose may not lead to an immediate BG rise, it can increase the overall load of Glucose in the body and as such, lead to an higher Fasting BG the next day (for example).
I have had a reaction after eating simple carbs at a wedding or event. I used to eat one piece of cake or some rolls with butter and the next morning had a hangover similar to the ones I had in college. The unpleasant feeling isn't worth the immediate gratification.
I do, however, eat a few dates or a banana on occasion...with cashew butter and have no ill effect at all.
> (as far as culinary aspects are concerned) without the need for DD.
When people are pining for the pastries, it's more than just the wheat exorphins talking.
These treats are scientifically designed, and extensively focus group tested, to ensure that they are as appealing and as addictive as possible, with absolutely zero consideration given to the immediate or long term health consequences.
Don't be a donut dupe.
For people just switching to LCHF (esp. wheat-free), part of them is usually still addicted. They are usually unaware of it, or in denial (what, me, an addict?). They don't want the emerging metabolic truth about human nutrition to be true, and are hoping to find some exceptions in the footnotes.
Quest needs to sell some of their bars in the shape of a donut.
I don't agree that pastries are addictive. I think that people eat them because they taste good. It's simply a lack of discipline.
> that people eat them because they taste good.
and everything else about scripted mass-market pastries is specifically designed to keep you coming back for more. Pastries are the new tobacco in many ways.
> It's simply a lack of discipline.
I actually don't think Sweden is "ready" for Dunkin' Donuts. My general impression is that people simply find this too sweet and greasy. We already have donuts and they've just never gained any popularity and the thought of dipping them in e.g chocolate is probably more nauseating than aanything else to most Swedes. Guess we'll see..
Dunkin Donuts likely did their research before branching out. It's likely they have regionalized their product after holding several focus groups with average Swedish consumers.
Interesting. By what mechanism does the olive oil work? I would assume that it slows the digestion of carbs that you take in...much like vinegar has been shown to do.
Lots of great blogs, lectures and research.
olive oil is not a weight-loss tool, but ahaizoune is a troll who puts comments with stupid links (like potato diet and olive oil for a weight loss) everywhere . Just today I put in a garbage bin 10 comments made by that person on old blog-posts.
Dr. Andreas, could you, please, ban ahaizoune or many of us will have to unsubscribe from old comment threads just in order to escape that spam.


You may be wondering what happened to me. I'm wondering too. I'm a teacher, so we went back to school last week (and worked without students the week before that). However, we're already off because the Chicago Teachers Union is on strike. So I've been picketing and rallying every day.
All I need is shower glass. And to raise hell about the tile, but thats another story.
Until I can share an actual real life bathroom (probably without accessories, because someone is not getting paid here), help a girl out. Which towel do you like better?
And do you like my paint color? Its green with a lot of gray to it.
And a few more. There is no shower glass yet, and I'm not going to explain anything, but I figure something is better than nothing, so here have some pictures.
One of my favorite things is all of the storage I added.
The extra six inches make the vanity feel so much larger.
The shower glass should go in Friday (Saturday at the latest?) and I will do a more thorough post. I'll have way more free time not spending half my time travelling to find a shower!
It's been a busy few weeks all around! I still prefer the towel with the teal–I like the tie-in to the hallway color. I love the paint color–it looks almost like the color in my bedroom. I also love all the marble.