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Bye bye bugs? Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
OXFORD, Pa. — A staple of summer — swarms of bugs — seems to be a thing of the past. And that's got scientists worried.
Pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroaches are doing just fine. But the more beneficial flying insects of summer — native bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs, lovebugs, mayflies and fireflies — appear to be less abundant.
Scientists think something is amiss, but they can't be certain: In the past, they didn't systematically count the population of flying insects, so they can't make a proper comparison to today. Nevertheless, they're pretty sure across the globe there are fewer insects that are crucial to as much as 80 percent of what we eat.
Yes, some insects are pests. But they also pollinate plants, are a key link in the food chain and help decompose life.
"You have total ecosystem collapse if you lose your insects. How much worse can it get than that?" said University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy. If they disappeared, "the world would start to rot."
The 89-year-old Wilson recalled that he once frolicked in a "Washington alive with insects, especially butterflies." Now, "the flying insects are virtually gone."
It hit home last year when he drove from suburban Boston to Vermont and decided to count how many bugs hit his windshield. The result: A single moth.
Several scientists have conducted their own tests with windshields, car grilles and headlights, and most notice few squashed bugs. Researchers are quick to point out that such exercises aren't good scientific experiments, since they don't include control groups or make comparisons with past results. (Today's cars also are more aerodynamic, so bugs are more likely to slip past them and live to buzz about it.)
Still, there are signs of decline. Research has shown dwindling individual species in specific places, including lightning bugs, moths and bumblebees. One study estimated a 14 percent decline in ladybugs in the United States and Canada from 1987 to 2006.
Last year, a study that found an 82 percent mid-summer decline in the number and weight of bugs captured in traps in 63 nature preserves in Germany compared with 27 years earlier. It was one of the few, if only, broad studies. Scientists say similar comparisons can't be done elsewhere because similar bug counts weren't done decades ago.
Most scientists say lots of factors, not just one, caused the apparent decline in flying insects.
Suspects include habitat loss, insecticide use, the killing of native weeds, single-crop agriculture, invasive species, light pollution, highway traffic and climate change.
"It's death by a thousand cuts, and that's really bad news," Wagner said.
To Tallamy, two causes stand out: Humans' war on weeds and vast farmland planted with the same few crops.
Weeds and native plants are what bugs eat and where they live, Tallamy said. Milkweeds, crucial to the beautiful monarch butterfly, are dwindling fast. Manicured lawns in the United States are so prevalent that, added together, they are as big as New England, he said.
Those landscapes are "essentially dead zones," he said.
Light pollution is another big problem for species such as moths and fireflies, bug experts said. Insects are attracted to brightness, where they become easy prey and expend energy they should be using to get food, Tallamy said.


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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), US will support a four-year follow-up study on the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. The study will also follow their offspring for any potential long-term effects.
The effort is part of NIH's Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, which aims to understand why some individuals who have had COVID-19 don't fully recover or develop symptoms after recovery.
Known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or more commonly as Long COVID, these conditions affect all ages. Long-term effects include fatigue, shortness of breath, difficulty concentrating, sleep disorders, fevers, anxiety and depression.
The current study will enroll some participants from an earlier study by the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network, a 36-site research collaboration supported by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Researchers hope the study findings will inform efforts to reduce the risk of Long COVID after pregnancy and to treat its symptoms.

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Is Cannabis a Natural PCOS Treatment? We Asked an Expert
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder affecting one in 15 people with ovaries worldwide. It's frequently painful and a cause of infertility.
Dr. Iris Crawford is a Seattle-based naturopathic physician specializing in hormonal issues and cannabis. She took the time to chat about the origins of the disorder, misconceptions surrounding the disease, and the use of cannabis to treat some of its most problematic side effects.
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Leafly: Your specialty is in hormonal variations. Do you work with a lot with PCOS patients in your practice?
Dr. Iris Crawford: I did a podcast [about PCOS] a couple of times which generated a lot of phone calls. I had women from around the country calling and going "help me!" because there's just not a lot of options out there for women with PCOS. There's a lot of information they aren't getting from their general physicians.
I quickly learned about the different ways people have been helped by cannabis as medicine when they have so few other options—especially when managing chronic pain.
Dr. Iris Crawford
What's one thing about PCOS that isn't well understood?
Crawford: With the majority of PCOS sufferers, there is an issue that if never corrected, never lets you be free of the condition. It lies within insulin resistance. If you have insulin resistance and it continues to be untreated, you will constantly be in the pathology of irregular testosterone production and the entire gamut of symptoms that go with it. Even lean people can have insulin resistance.
Some providers treat weight as a symptom of PCOS, while others treat it as a root cause. Where do things fall in that spectrum? Is it different for everyone?
Crawford: It's both. It's very much a "chicken-and-egg" scenario. PCOS can occur while you have extra weight on your body, but insulin resistance also causes weight gain.
The other thing that causes insulin resistance is not weight but stress, especially in women. Stress causes high cortisol which promotes insulin resistance as well.
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Tell us about your background using cannabis as a holistic treatment.
Crawford: When I grew up, I became very comfortable with recreational use around me because my mom used cannabis. It was never something that was scary for me. I've always found it harmless.
When I became a naturopathic doctor, of course, I could see the benefit of plant-based medicine as a whole. I took a class about the use of cannabinoids and how our endocannabinoid system evolved with the plant. I quickly learned about the different ways people have been helped by cannabis as medicine when they have so few other options—especially when managing chronic pain.
Especially pertaining to female reproductive issues like constant inflammation, how do you think cannabinoids can help in managing the chronic pain of PCOS as well as post-rupture treatment?
Crawford: Every type of pain has been successfully treated with cannabis, especially in terms of spasming muscle fibers—organ spasming, as well as general muscle spasms. It helps with the way our brain experiences pain.
It has so many benefits and so few side effects compared to any pain medication, namely something like Vicodin, which is addictive and constipates you. Cannabis is virtually free of side effects.
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[Pain also] makes us irritable and grumpy, and a lot of people have major depression when they are chronic pain sufferers. Cannabis is beneficial for those things, too.
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Not to mention mood as it relates to the side effects of hormonal swings and PMS.
Crawford: I recently began to focus on outreach messages regarding women and depression. Women are two to four times more likely to attempt suicide.
Anxiety, depression, and insomnia are all issues related to hormone imbalances. Hormonal imbalances are twice as likely to happen in women, and this isn't with women who are perimenopausal — I've treated a girl as young as 16 who was having panic attacks due to hormone imbalance. These hormonal imbalances are caused by stress which is part of a syndrome called Adrenal Fatigue. This has become an epidemic among women and I am dedicating the rest of my career to it.
So using cannabis to control stress seems incredibly helpful.
Crawford: And it comes back to the cortisol connection to blood sugar. Every woman who struggles with PCOS should be evaluated for adrenal fatigue as well as hormonal imbalance. It's part of the whole picture. Facial hair and acne can also be typical complaints of sufferers with PCOS.
Most of the work I do with women will involve a weight loss component. I have an approach that helps take the extra weight off very quickly and then allows them to keep it off without dieting. It works as a reset to metabolism. It's a huge piece of the puzzle for sufferers, as they have usually tried every diet out there.
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Dietary advice can be very trendy.
Crawford: Yep. I work with women who can't lose weight even on a keto diet, so it's very frustrating. That's where I become a detective. There is an underlying cause as to why your body won't release that fat. Usually, it's a hormone imbalance and/or a broken metabolism from a history of dieting, and also environmental toxins.
Oftentimes my experience with Western medicine has been reduced to a number on the scale. The vast majority of my doctors have focused on that number, which can bring a lot of guilt and shame into picture. The general conclusion is you're sick because you're fat.
Crawford: Yes, totally. You'll often see the focus on BMI, which has no relevance to your general health. The Incredible Hulk would be obese according to BMI standards. Percentage of body fat is really where it's at.
Can Cannabidiol (CBD) Help Support Weight Loss and Metabolism?
If someone wasn't based in the Pacific Northwest, how could they access your service?
Crawford: I have patients calling from all over the country and I'm able to help them long distance. I don't refer out because it's so specialized. It's called the Crawford Hormone Revitalization Method and it's my specific specialty. It grew out of me seeing, on a nationwide level, women who were not getting the help they needed.
Group of Irish Doctors Publish Letter Outlining Health Concerns About Cannabis
Does Weed Make You Live Longer?
Second Hand Marijuana Smoke Will Not Ruin Your Life
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A Christian militia in Iraq, called the Nineveh Plain Protection Units, has said it has taken back a traditionally Christian village from Daesh with the help of the U.S.-led international coalition. The Assyrian-led militia announced on its Facebook page that it has liberated the village of Badanah in the southern Mosul countryside. The militia also said this was their … [Read more…]
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Taxonomic Comments: GENUS COSMOPOLITAN, SPECIES ENDEMIC TO NW KAUAI.
Reasons: Endemic to Kauai, there are four current occurrences, with a total of fewer than 200 individuals. The major threats to the species are competition with alien plants and habitat degradation by pigs, goats and deer.
Range Extent Comments: Current range: Kauai. Historically no additional range.
Number of Occurrences Comments: 5 current (between 1982 and 1997) and 3 historical occurrences.
Population Size Comments: Currently 96-151 plants observed.
Overall Threat Impact Comments: Threats include alien plants and alien animals (pigs).
Global Range: Current range: Kauai. Historically no additional range.
Basic Description: A milky-sapped climbing shrub with long vine-like stems. Cyathia (specialized flower clusters) are borne in dense head-like inflorescences, or are occasionally solitary in the leaf axils.


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Nutley Velodrome Anniversaries Marked by Nutley Historical Society
75th Anniversary of Nutley Velodrome
By Michael C. Gabriele
Seventy-five years ago the world came to the Nutley Velodrome as a premier venue for the grand sport of international bicycle racing. The greatest bike riders from around the world traveled to Nutley during the 1930s to compete at the wooden "saucer" built by businessman and cycling enthusiast Joseph Miele.
The velodrome represents a colorful, turbulent period in Nutley's history. It also carries the sad distinction as being the final chapter in the golden age of velodrome racing-a lost era when professional cycling was a major spectator sport in the United States. The Nutley track was hoping to rekindle interest in the bike game, following the closing of the Newark Velodrome three years earlier.
On Tuesday, April 18, 1933, the Nutley Town Commission, led by Mayor Walter F. Reinheimer, granted Miele permission to build a cycling track on a 12-acre lot along the northern side of Park Avenue near River Road; a site known as the Joyce Quarry. Today the property is the site of Little League fields and Nutley's Department of Parks and Public Property building. Ground-breaking ceremonies for the Nutley Velodrome were held on April 19, 1933. Grandstand seating for the velodrome was built to accommodate 12,000 spectators. The oval saucer was built to a dimension one-seventh of a mile.
The Nutley Velodrome opened Sunday, June 4, 1933 before a standing-room-only crowd. Racing at the Nutley Velodrome was slated for Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings. The first night race was held June 7, 1933, drawing 7,500 fans.
The first two seasons-1933 and 1934-were successful as the saucer appeared to fill the void left by the old Newark Velodrome. World-class cycling stars like Cecil Walker, Alf Letourner, Gerard Debates, Tino Reboli, Torchy Peden and Franco Georgetti drew a steady stream of fans.
But while all seemed well, trouble was brewing. The partnership of Miele and Mendel broke up prior to the start of the 1935 season. Thought they made peace midway through that season, there were clear signs the cycling game was losing its loyal fan base-a trend similar to the decline seen during the final years at the Newark Velodrome.
On July 16, 1936, Miele removed himself from the cycling game and leased the velodrome's operations to sports promoter Edward J. Malone and legendary Australian cycling champion Alf Goullet. However, two months later there were serious financial problems at the Nutley track.
Attendance declined, prize money began to dry up and investors became scarce. Near the end of the season there was a confrontation between the riders and management. The riders walked out, refusing to compete at the track as prize money could not be guaranteed.
The Nutley Velodrome suspended operations on Oct. 26, 1936. Goullet and Malone made another attempt to hold races in the 1937 season, but by Aug. 5 of that year operations again were halted due to lackluster fan support.
There were four boxing matches held at the Nutley Velodrome in an attempt to attract fans. The first bout was held on June 10, 1935.
On Dec. 17, 1937, town commissioners granted Jack Kochman of Eastern Speedway Inc. a license to run "Midget" auto races at the wooden saucer. Midget auto racing evolved in California and New York during the early 1930s. Called "doodlebugs" due to their compact, beetle-like shape, these cars were designed with powerful, eight-cylinder engines.
The Nutley Velodrome would be one stop for Midget car racing on the eastern circuit. Races on the banked, wooden saucer would be unique, as most Midget car races were held on flat dirt tracks.
The American Automobile Association (AAA) sanctioned the Midget car races, which debuted at the Nutley Velodrome on Sunday, April 3, 1938.
Over 8,000 fans filled the grandstands. Immediately there were numerous complaints over Midget racing regarding the noise the cars created as well as concerns over track safety. Near the end of the first season, the worst fears were realized when Charlie Helliker, a racer from Long Branch, N.J., was killed on Oct. 9, 1938. Helliker hit another car and crashed into the track's guard rail. His vehicle burst into flames, flipped over and crushed him.
Despite the fatality, Midget car races were a financial success that first season, attracting an estimated nearly 300,000 fans. Even thought there was growing public opposition to the high-octane spectacle, Midget car racing opened for its second season Sunday, March 19, 1939.
Henry Guerand, considered a big-name driver on the East Coast circuit, was competing at the saucer on April 2, 1939. Guerand, while driving in the 21st lap of the 35-lap main event that Sunday afternoon, struck the guard rail and his car began to fishtail out of control. He hit the guard rail a second time and the impact bumped him out of his car. While in this exposed position, he struck an overhanging steel fence support, which decapitated him.
Tragedy struck again on Aug. 26, 1939 as Karl Hattel crashed into the upper railing of the track's east bank during the final heat of a five-mile race, which fractured his skull. He died hours later in the emergency room of St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic.
Essex County suspended Midget races following the death of Hattel.
Nutley commissioners, on Sept. 8, 1939, announced that a town referendum would be held to let citizens decide the fate of Midget car races at the velodrome. Nutley voters struck down Midget auto racing at the velodrome on Nov. 10, 1939.
There were two ill-fated attempts to reinstall bike races at the velodrome. Carmine Bilotti organized several races late in 1939 and 1940, but those efforts failed. The track was torn down in 1942 and eventually Nutley established a public park on the site: Father Glotzbach Park, named after a popular priest from nearby Saint Mary's Parish.
All but forgotten, the legacy of the Nutley Velodrome was rediscovered in a three-part series of page-one articles that appeared in the Jan. 22, 29 and Feb. 5, 1981 editions of The Nutley Sun. June 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the track.
Gabriele was the editor of The Nutley Sun from 1983 to 1985 and has researched the Nutley Velodrome's history for more than 25 years.
85th Anniversary of the Velodrome - June 4, 2018
New Jersey Author Michael Gabriele marked the 85th anniversary of the opening of the legendary Nutley Velodrome with a program at the Nutley Museum on June 4, 2018.
Eighty-five years ago, the world's top professional bike riders came to Nutley to compete at the legendary Nutley Velodrome. The cycling track opened on Sunday, June 4, 1933, before a standing-room-only crowd of 12,000 cycling fans. The velodrome was located on Park Avenue, occupying an area where the present-day Little League field and the township's Parks and Public Properties building sits.
Joseph Miele, an entrepreneur from East Orange, stepped forward to fill the void left by the Newark Velodrome, which closed on Sept. 21, 1930. Professional cycling, a popular spectator sport in Newark for more than 40 years, saw its fan base sharply decline during the late 1920s. Miele thought a new velodrome in Nutley could rejuvenate the bike game.
U.S. Olympian Victor Hopkins made his debut at the track on June 7, 1933—the first Wednesday night race at the velodrome, which drew over 7,000 fans. International sprint champion and Newark native Bill Honeman, wearing his eye-catching "Stars and Stripes" racing outfit, made his first appearance at the Nutley track on June 14, 1933, winning the one-mile pro race.
The velodrome enjoyed success during its first two seasons, but by 1935 the fan base declined, much like it did at the Newark track. On Sept. 15, 1940 the Nutley Velodrome closed its gates for the last time. The golden era of U.S. velodrome cycling came to an end and the track was demolished in February 1942.
Gabriele is a member of the executive board of the Nutley Historical Society. In 2011, he wrote a book titled "The Golden Age of Bicycle Racing in New Jersey," published by The History Press, which detailed the history of professional bicycle racing in the Garden State.
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The 1/7-mile, 45 degrees-banked wood oval was built in 1933 by Joe Miele, and opened for bicycle racing. It closed in 1937 after interest in bicycle racing dropped off.
It was reopened on April 3, 1938, for motor-racing by Jack Kochman, and continued through until August 26, 1939, when it was shut after a series of fatalities. (See the New York World - Telegraph April 4, 1939.)
Paul Russo was the first auto race winner. Eddie Staneck was the 1938 AAA track champion, Johnny Ritter was the 1939 AAA track champion.
Three drivers were killed in 60 race dates before it was demolished in February of 1942.
Nutley built a park and playground on the site in 1950, named after Father Glotzbach, a priest who worked with troubled children.
NUTLEY VELODROME DAY
Mayor Joanne Cocchiola's resolution honoring the velodrome "as a symbol of Nutley's history" and declaring that "June 4, 2008 be proclaimed 'Nutley Velodrome Day' was adopted unanimously.
The resolution reads:
"WHEREAS, The Nutley Velodrome was built in 1933 on a 12-acre lot known as Joyce Quarry by Joe and Anthony Miele with the permission of Mayor Walter F. Reinheimber and the Board of Commissioners; and
"Whereas the Nutley Velodrome, with a capacity of 12,000 spectators, held bicycle races every Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon and also was the site of four boxing matches and midget car racing; and
WHEREAS, the Nutley Velodrome attracted the best cyclists from Europe, Australia and the United States; and
WHEREAS, in 1942 the Nutley Velodrome was closed and torn down after interest in the races diminshed; and
WHEREAS, June 4, 2008, marks the 75th Anniversary of the opening of the Nutley Velodrome;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Nutley would like to honor the Nutley Velodrome as a symbol of Nutley's history; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Mayor and the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Nutley, County of Essex, State of New Jersey, that June 4, 2008 be proclaimed
and the Mayor and Board of Commissioners join with the citizens of Nutley and the Nutley Historical Society in recognizing the 75th Anniversary of the Nutley Velodrome."
The resolution was approved unanimously by all five members of the Township Commission and attested to by Township Clerk Evelyn Rosario.
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There are a number of options within Cradle for saving the change history on items. While it would seem logical that one would want to save all changes to all items, there are a number of scenarios where this may not be the case. Cradle allows control of these options through Project Setup in WorkBench under the Item Definitions Option on the Item Types tab. Each item type can have its own Change History setting, providing for flexibility in how you manage your data.
Highlight an item type in the left hand column and click the Change History button. This brings up the Change History Settings dialog. The options for Change History are: Never, Always, Changing draft items that have a baselined instance and Named category matches specified value.
While Never does not seem like a good engineering option but there are cases where it serves a project well. DOC SECTION items may contain generic text used in general documentation. The primary value of the item type is for the links and traceability to produced documents. Keeping track of the changes to the text may not be necessary for engineering. This will likely be your least used option.
Always tracks every change to every item of that type. The good thing is you have all the changes. The bad thing is if there is a lot of volatility in your project you can collect a large volume of changes to store and sort through to find meaningful changes.
Changing draft items that have a baselined instance; this option allows you to get a project started, import initial data and reach a point where your data is ready for its first baseline. All of the changes in this initial step represent the typical flux of a new project. The option is best used when you know the project data will settle down once the initial data entry is complete. After the data is baselined, all of your future drafts changes will be recorded.
Named category matches specified value sits between Always and the baselined instance options. There is still the need to enter a volume of new data and make a considerable number of changes before data is clean enough to track the history but you do not want to start the baseline process without some idea of an item's history.
Item categories can be useful to define when an item is ready to be tracked. As an item owner, you can set a status category which indicates to the project that the item is stable enough to start tracking the changes. This will allow for those in the approval process for the initial baseline to see relevant change history but not require every change and spelling correction from the initial entry of the item. One process note, if you change the category for that item the history is no longer tracked. For instance, if your schema indicates that the Item Status of Accepted is used to start tracking history and the Item Status is later changed to Disputed, history is no longer tracked for this item until such time as the Item Status is reverted to Accepted.


Looking for healthy alternatives to sugar? Wondering which sweetener options work best for you?
While raw, unpasteurized honey is by far the best option when it comes to natural sweeteners, honey still contains fructose which can be burdensome when consumed in excess. Fructose is metabolized primarily in the liver, kicking the liver into fat storage mode. This can lead to insulin resistance and other health complications.
The following chart shows the similarities between natural sweeteners and manufactured sweeteners. Note that agave offers the highest level of fructose.
Where does this leave us when it comes to sweetening our food?
Small amounts of raw, unpasteurized honey may be the best option for healthy individuals.
Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose (Splenda) are 100% chemically derived. As they easily cross the blood brain barrier with the potential for neurological damage, they are best avoided.
Thankfully, there are low-fructose options that work well in moderation.
Stevia is a sweetener extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana. The leaves have up to 150 times the sweetness of sugar without the fructose. Stevia can leave a bitter aftertaste which may or may not be noticeable. Most commercially available stevia involves some processing, but the carb count is still negligible. Our son with type 1 diabetes prefers stevia over all other sweeteners.
If you're so inclined, try your hand at making your own liquid stevia. Find the recipe here.
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol appearing naturally in some fruit and vegetable fibers. It is probably the least optimal of the alternative sweeteners.
Xylitol can be extracted from corn husks, sugar cane bagasse (the fibrous material that remains after sugar cane is crushed), and birch. The extraction and processing of xylitol can be problematic, especially when derived from corn.
To avoid corn-based xylitol choose non-GMO birch xylitol. It's important to note that sugar alcohol is not fully digested by the body and can lead to abdominal pain, cramping, or gas. The lack of digestibility also means that unmetabolized xylitol can create an environment for undesirable bacteria and pathogens.
Xylitol is also toxic to dogs.
This is a unique low carb sweetener offered exclusively by Wilderness Family Naturals. It is 100% organic and uses inulin as the base. Inulin is a dietary fiber extracted from the roots or rhizomes of plants with minimal impact on blood sugar. Additional ingredients include freeeze dried coconut water and pure monk fruit.
Coco Monkey has no bitter aftertaste and is water soluble.
This 100% organic sweetener is derived from the blue agave plant. As noted above, inulin is a dietary fiber. According to agave inulin provider Z Natural Foods, 6 pounds of agave is needed to produce 1 pound of powder. Agave inulin is water soluble with a clean sweet flavor.
Lo han is a sweetener derived from the Chinese monk fruit ( luo han guo in Chinese). It is said to have first been used by monks in China in the 13th century. The fruit itself has been used medicinally for sore throat and coughs for hundreds of years. Monk fruit derives its sweetness from natural antioxidants known as mogrosides.
Monk fruit has minimal calories and is up to 200-500 times sweeter than sugar. It is water soluble and may be the best option in terms of purity and safety when purchased from a reliable source.
*Note: Lakanto is a proprietary blend of non-GMO erythritol (a sugar alcohol derived from corn) and monk fruit.
Rotating and/or combining these sweeteners offers some variety without too much emphasis on one sweetener. I also try to keep sweetened foods to a minimum to keep our tastes diverse and drawn to nutrient dense foods like vegetables, healthy fat and fermented foods.
What about you? What's your favorite sweetener?
ok this is the second time now im seeing monk fruit this week – i think its a sign 🙂 thanks for the info!
I think you'll like it Renee. It's a bit expensive but I've made mine last a long time.
I have never heard of monk fruit or coco monkey before! Thanks for the info.
I bet you'll have fun using either or both with all of your great recipes.
Is agave syrup the same as agave inulin??
They are very different. Inulin is fiber and not nearly as sweet. The best explanation comes from Wilderness Family Naturals which sells both agave and inulin.
Inulin is a fiber that cannot be broken down by the digestive enzymes in the stomach or small intestine. Therefore, it remains "intact" until it reaches the large intestine where lactobacillus species of bacteria have been shown to preferentially ferment inulin, especially the Bifidus species. These microscopic organisms predominantly live on undigested fiber in our diet and love inulin. This is why inulin is categorized as a "prebiotic". Probiotics are the actual "friendly" bacteria that live in your gut. Prebiotics are substances (fiber) that these organisms like to live on.
Inulin, as it is "digested" by "friendly" gut flora converts to fructooligosaccharides (polysaccharides) and eventually these more complex substances are turned into simple sugars, until finally becoming acids of fermentation (also known as short chain fatty acids such as acetic acid, butyric acid and propionic acid). Energy for the cells lining the intestinal tract comes predominantly from these acids of fermentation/short-chain fatty acids.
Because inulin is a fiber, it has no real caloric value, meaning, it does not convert into calories or energy in the body. However, it is the benefits of fiber and the "feeding" of gut flora that make inulin a nice ingredient.
Wilderness Family Naturals' organic inulin has a neutral, clean, mildly sweet flavor. It is not nearly as sweet as sugar, but definitely enhances sweetness when added to foods. There are 10 grams of fiber in a one ounce serving.
I have never heard of coco monkey before. Looks great! Thanks for sharing this with us.
I have never heard of monk fruit or coco monkey before either! Thanks for sharing!
I haven't heard of a couple of these will go check them out. Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting! Thanks for the information; I hadn't heard of some of these before. Unfortunately I can't tolerate any kind of sweetener, sugar or alternative.
Stevia is my favorite. I look forward to learning more about coco monkey. I'm not sure if the fiber would bother me but I like learning about new sweeteners and their sources. Great post!!!
Thanks for showing other sugar alternatives. I'm one of the few that absolutely hate stevia (I don't understand how people think it tastes good) and have been looking for something that won't make me gag. I'll look into the monk fruit and coco monkey. Thanks again!
I can't do stevia either. I love the Coco Monkey and do fine with a little xylitol.
I definitely prefer Stevia. I wonder where coconut sugar lands in this line-up though?
Coconut sugar is still a concentrated sweetener from what I understand and contains fructose. It certainly is unrefined and a better choice than table sugar, though.
I love honey and maple but i've been curious about these others so this is great!!! Thanks!
Great post! I'm curious about the flavor profiles…can you describe the taste and what your favorite uses are for these? I've only tried Stevia (brand matters- it can be very bitter or leave a hollow sweet taste that doesn't play well with chocolate or naturally bitter foods) and lo-han or monk fruit, which has a honey like taste. Oh, and some people are allergic or have sensitivities to stevia (it's in the ragweed family)…do any of the other sweetener options have things that you need to be aware of like that?
The closest in taste to sugar in my opinion is xylitol. I love it. The problem is my digestive system doesn't like it. My kids seem to do fine with it. The Coco-monkey is a fine powder and easy to work with. It is delicious – along the line of monk fruit – since it does contain some. I'm not sure how to explain the inulin…it's not bitter like stevia can be that's for sure. I hope I emphasized in the post how important it is to know about xylitol and digestive disruption. Thanks for the question, Gwen!
Which would you suggest to be the best for baking? Do any of these sweeteners crystallize when baking so they would be a good choice for cookies, etc?
My favorite for absolutely everything is the Coco Monkey – the texture works great. Xylitol seems to do fine in baking too. Brandon who does most of the baking says that he likes to use both stevia and xylitol because the xylitol has a long lasting sweetness and the stevia gives it a nice burst of flavor. Nothing weird happens with any of these from my experience, Shelly.
I've never heard of CocoMonkey before! Good to know. I also didn't realize that honey was as high in fructose as HFCS. May I ask where that chart is from?
I use stevia, xylitol and erythritol, in combination or rotation. Erythritol may be easier on the GI tract for more people than xylitol, and it has zero insulin response, while xylitol and most other alternative sweeteners have some impact on blood glucose.
It's worth pointing out, and I'd appreciate it if you would edit your post to reflect this, that xylitol is extremely toxic for dogs and can be fatal to them. If you use it and have a dog, be very careful that the dog never has access either to the xylitol or anything made from it. Note also that lots of sugarless gums or mints are sweetened with xylitol. Thanks!
I gathered the information on fructose contents from a variety of sources including Dr. Robert Lustig, Dr. Mercola and others. I thought it would be helpful to put it into a graph to show how similar the sugar options are when it comes to fructose. I have mentioned the issue with dogs in a previous post, but added it to this one. Thanks for the feedback.
Have you looked into the processing of those alternative sweeteners?
Yes, I'm aware of the processing of some of these sweeteners. The bottom line is to minimize all sweeteners. Coconut sugar has quite a bit of fructose so I don't use that as an alternative. Our son has type 1 diabetes and it sends him high whereas these alternatives do not. No perfect sweetener that's for sure! Thanks for the question.
Last week stirrin' with my finguh worked out well when i made persimmon pudding (British style pudding) & used 1/4 of the recommended sugar.
Thanks for your great article. Do you have any thoughts on brown rice syrup?
Brown rice syrup is still a sugar, but as I understand it is lower in fructose. So it seems to be a better option than agave or cane sugar.
Have you ever used Monk Fruit or Stevia? They are neither one sweet. I have seen so many times they are 100 or more times sweeter than sugar and that is just not true. By the time you add enough to even get kinda sweet they are so bitter you can't drink your drink. And hasn't it been found out agave is not good. Is that also true of agave insulin?
Agave inulin is different than the syrup. It's not as sweet as stevia or monk fruit. Everyone is so different in how they respond to sweeteners. No matter what the sweetener, less is more that's for sure.
As a Type II diabetic, I am trying to get off artificial sweeteners as a matter of principle, so I've tried several. While I do like Splenda, it's artificial. I recently tried Monk Fruit powder (80% pure, not a blend) and Stevia powder (90% steviosides, not a blend). I get mine from Nuts.com. I really like monk fruit for baking. I make a flaxseed chocolate muffin that I really like.
I like them both, but they're slightly different and I wonder if a blend of the two would "level out" the sweetness? Does anyone have any experience doing this?
I mix my sweeteners for more flavor and diversity. I would try it and see what you think!
I have trouble with sugar alcohols, I cannot digest them. I was wondering in your opinion which sugar alternative would you suggest for a sensitive gut? Thank you so much for sharing your insights on sugar.
I do best with the Coco Monkey linked above. My son does great with stevia. I'm with you on the sugar alcohols.
I've found found that Truvia, which is made from the Stevia plant, gives me loose stools and full-blown diarrhea if I have 2 packets in coffee. Have you heard anything negative like that about Stevia or any other of the sweeteners you recommend?
Truvia also has erythritol in it, which is a sugar alcohol and is not digested. So for those who are sensitive to xylitol or any sugar alcohol, they could be sensitive to erythritol which I'm guessing is the problem for you rather than stevia.
Not sure on that. It would need to be refrigerated for sure.


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Ludwig has had a rocky start to life on YouTube Gaming, being whacked with three DMCA-related stream suspensions in just the past seven days.
Ludwig's latest suspension came during his Sunday stream, just six days after his defection.
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Xiaomi's new flagship model, Mi Mix 3, the successor to last year's Mi Mix 2, is being talked about since July this year but now some authentic leaks have somewhat confirmed (not officially by the company itself though) that the phone may be launched this October itself. A leaked poster teasing the Mi Mix 3 has surfaced on Weibo.
The poster which you can see above, tells about the Xiaomi event this October 15, taking place at the Nanjing Olympics Sports Centre, in China. Earlier too, it was speculated that the device was going to be launched last month, on September 15, which couldn't happen eventually.
Xiaomi President Lin Bin had also previously confirmed a launch event in October and now the new leaks imply that this launch event may be regarding the Mi Mix 3 only.
As per the rumors, the phone will also have a camera slider, just like this year's early revolutionary phone, Oppo's Find X. Although, Find X had a motorized slider, the Mi Mix 3 will be having a manual slider instead. The display may be a Samsung's QHD+ AMOLED panel, with COP packaging technology. The performance will be fastened by the latest Snapdragon 845 chipset and for selfies, there may be a 20MP front sensor.
When it comes to pricing, it's still not known about what will be the exact details, but again, the predictions say that the phone will be coming in four variants. The 6GB/64GB model may be priced for about $510 (Rs. 36,300), 6GB/128GB model for $555 (Rs. 39,500), and 8GB/128GB model for $600 (Rs. 42,700). Apart from these variants, there will also be an 8GB/256GB model which may be priced at around $645 (45,900).
The official news may be announced soon regarding the event as October 15 is just around the corner. Xiaomi has become a hot brand these days and whatever new device they announce, becomes a popular one among the customers, because they know that Xiaomi offers the premium specs in a limited budget.
For an overview, you can watch a concept video of the phone itself-just a concept, not official.


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Juan Pérez Calvo (Madrid, ? — Madrid, 30 de diciembre de 1870) fue un periodista y escritor español, hermano del también periodista y jurista Quintín Pérez Calvo.

Biografía
Estudió administración en Madrid junto a Francisco de Paula Madrazo, teniendo por profesor a José de Posada. Comenzó su carrera como taquígrafo y jefe de redacción de La Gaceta de Madrid, donde firmó numerosos artículos de crítica literaria. El 25 de mayo de 1845, apenas aprobada la Constitución, fue arrestado junto con Fernando Corradi y conducido al presidio del castillo de Santa Catalina en Cádiz a causa de un artículo publicado en El Clamor Público que no gustó al Gobierno y estuvo a pique se der deportado a Filipinas. Fue redactor con Antonio Ferrer del Río y Antonio Flores de El Nuevo Avisador (1841), de Revista de Teatros (1844), El Nuevo Avisador (1845), El Clamor Público (1845) y, junto a Francisco Javier de Moya, La Libertad (1846), de tono democrático. Fue redactor-jefe de El Eco de Europa y estuvo en Cuba y Estados Unidos. Fue alcalde corregidor de Barcelona en 1849. Dirigió el Boletín Oficial del Ministerio de Comercio, Instrucción y Otras Públicas. Y colaboró en El Laberinto (1844). Según Cristino Martos en La revolución de Julio en 1854, el periódico satírico clandestino El Murciélago publicó un anuncio en que se decía lo siguiente:

Juan Pérez Calvo es autor de una importante Galería de la prensa o colección de retratos políticos de los periodistas de España (1846), con noticias curiosas para la historia del periodismo. Figura en Los españoles pintados por sí mismos con tres artículos, de los que el más interesante es "El cómico". Se refiere al desprecio que se tiene al tipo, sus dificultades para hacer carrera y a diversas costumbres teatrales. Pérez Calvo se admira de que haya actores en España.

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Galería de la prensa ó Colección de retratos políticos de los periodistas de España, hechos al daguerrotipo, Madrid: Julián Saavedra, 1846.
Siete días en el campamento de África al lado del general Prim: comprende desde el día 2 al 8 de febrero inclusive en que han tenido lugar los principales acontecimientos, Madrid, [s.n.], 1860.
Causas formadas á consecuencia de la sedición militar que tuvo lugar en esta córte en la noche del 7 de octubre de 1841, publicadas por D. Nemesio Fernández Cuesta, Don Francisco de Paula Madrazo y D. Juan Perez Calvo, taquigrafos del diario de las sesiones del Senado. Francisco de, Madrid: impr. de D. S. Albert, 1841, nueve entregas correlativas con las causas vistas y falladas por el Consejo de Guerra Permanente de los Generales Diego de León, Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, de los brigadieres de infantería Fernando Norzagaray y Gregorio Quiroga y Frías, del Conde de Requena, del Tnte. Cor. Dámaso Fulgosio, de Manuel Montes de Oca y otros jefes y oficiales.
Con José de Posada de Herrera; Juan Antonio de Bascón; Francisco de Paula Madrazo, Lecciones de administración, Madrid: Establecimiento Tipógrafico, calle del Sordo, 1843-1845

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Ricardo Navas Ruiz, El Romanticismo español. Madrid: Cátedra, 1982 (3.ª ed.).

Escritores de España del siglo XIX
Escritores de España del Romanticismo
Escritores de Madrid
Escritores en español
Periodistas de España
Nacidos en Madrid

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Rudolf "Cäsar" Sabetzer (* 28. Juni 1934; † 25. Juli 1983 in Grünau im Almtal, Österreich) war ein österreichischer Fußball-Nationalspieler. Er spielte insbesondere für den FK Austria Wien und den Linzer ASK.

Karriere
Rudolf Sabetzer spielte zu Beginn seiner Karriere vor allem in der Läuferreihe, wurde aber später auch offensiver als Verbinder eingesetzt. Insgesamt gelangen ihm 109 Tore in der höchsten österreichischen Liga. Sein Debüt feierte er 1953/54 für die Wiener Austria, nachdem er zuvor beim 1. Schwechater SC seine Karriere begonnen hatte. Rudolf Sabetzer war bis 1959 sechs Saisonen lang Stammspieler bei den Veilchen, die aber in dieser Zeit durch viele Turbulenzen im Umfeld nicht mehr über das Mittelfeld der Liga hinauskamen.

Im April 1956 kam er unter Karl Geyer sogar zu einem Länderspieleinsatz gegen Brasilien. Rudolf Sabetzer brachte Österreich in Führung, wurde aber danach bereits früh ausgewechselt, bald jedoch wieder eingewechselt. Ihm gelang ein weiterer Treffer zum zwischenzeitlichen 2:2, letztlich gelang aber Didi drei Minuten vor Schluss das Siegtor für die Brasilianer.

1959 wechselte Rudolf Sabetzer zum Linzer ASK und stieg dort zum Kapitän auf. 1962 konnte er mit der Mannschaft – hinter der Austria – Vizemeister werden, 1963 erreichte man das ÖFB-Cupfinale, welches ebenfalls an die Austria ging. Letztlich klappte es für den Verbinder aber doch noch mit einem großen Titelgewinn: 1965 erreichte Rudolf Sabetzer sogar das Double mit dem LASK. In seiner Linzer Zeit kam er auch noch zu zwei Einsätzen in der Nationalmannschaft: 1962 gegen Bulgarien und 1965 gegen die Sowjetunion.

Nach sieben Jahren in Linz ging Rudolf Sabetzer 1966 zurück nach Wien und schloss sich dem SC Wacker Wien an. Nach dem Abstieg in die Regionalliga Ost zog er weiter nach Kärnten, wo er mit der WSG Radenthein aber 1968 ebenfalls den Klassenerhalt verpasste. Nach der Beendigung seiner Profikarriere arbeitete der ehemalige Verbinder als Finanzbeamter in Wien und betreute als Trainer unter anderem den FAC und den ESV Ostbahn XI mit dem jungen Herbert Prohaska. Er war auch Betreuer des österreichischen U23-Nationalteams, doch trat er schon im April 1976 zurück. Er wurde am Wiener Zentralfriedhof bestattet.

Erfolge
 1 × Österreichischer Meister: 1965
 2 × Österreichischer Vizemeister: 1954, 1962
 1 × Österreichischer Cupsieger: 1965
 1 × Österreichischer Cupfinalist: 1963
 3 Spiele und 2 Tore für die österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft 1956, 1962 und 1965

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Fußballnationalspieler (Österreich)
Fußballspieler (SV Schwechat)
Fußballspieler (FK Austria Wien)
Fußballspieler (LASK)
Fußballspieler (SC Wacker Wien)
Fußballspieler (WSG Radenthein)
Österreichischer Meister (Fußball)
Österreicher
Geboren 1934
Gestorben 1983
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I've been a television critic for a long time – quick, find an orchestra to start playing My Way! – and I've seen too many dramas to mention. Probably the number of dramas I've seen can circle the world twice, or is the equivalent of 28 Nelson's Columns – isn't that how everything is measured?
Anyway, if I have learnt anything, it's that the only sure-fire, lead-lined, copper-bottomed way of telling whether anything is good or not is (pause while the orchestra segues into Everybody Hurts by REM) if I care about the characters after they've left my screen.
More recently I've been terribly anxious about Sergeant Catherine Cawood from Happy Valley and am willing series two to hurry up so I can check on her progress. And what of ill-used detective Lindsay Denton from Line of Duty? How is she coping?
Even more recently, in fact right now, I care about Broadchurch's cops Ellie Miller and Alec Hardy (Olivia Colman and David Tennant), and bereaved parents Mark and Beth Latimer (Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker). The second series has been pummelled for its not-by-the-rules courtroom scenes and, frankly, I'd be cross, too, if this was all that was going on.
But it's not. Broadchurch has always been about its characters, which is why it worked the first time and why it's worked, for me anyway, on its return. I can get over the outrageous assertions of the barrister of accused killer Joe Miller, things she'd never be allowed to say in a real court (she wouldn't be allowed to point the finger at an alternative "culprit" with impunity).
Why? Because I cherish the friendship between Miller and Hardy, which has grown in a wholly realistic way during this series. Particularly I love their brusque, flinty feelings for one another (most certainly not romantic, despite that poisonous barrister's claims). It's not something you see that often in dramas; characters fall in love, but they tend not to fall into friendship.
One of my favourite scenes was a little throwaway thing in the first episode when an angry, tearful Ellie took refuge in the ladies' loos, pursued by Hardy. As she stormed out she tripped over a cleaner's sign. "Did you put that there?" she rages at him, totally unreasonably, but totally believably. We've said such silly things to people of whom we are fond, but exasperated.
I also like the way she thumps him when he is being emotionally dense, or fires her displeasure at him with both barrels before stomping off. Yet, despite all of this, you know that they are close and have come to depemd upon one another as they set about solving what's become known as the Sandbrook case. Which, incidentally, is much more absorbing than anything going on in court.
A second series of anything huge will always suffer in comparison with its parent. It's second album syndrome, only with TV drama, and any sequel inevitably positions itself for a kicking. An early, unwise press campaign that amounted to a lockdown on all plot details didn't help. No one wants to spoil anything but everyone loves a teaser and when the omerta descended, critics' backs went up.
Yet, despite all of this, Broadchurch scores where it matters, with our emotions. I'll miss Ellie and Alec. And worry about them, of course.


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So... you play Splatoon. Favorite weapon?
Hey, can you remove me from Pitch's shop in Resources? He seemed to not want to do it willingly himself, despite me asking in thread as well as in a Visitor Message.
Loool, dude, that's actually really funny.
No, the one in our section in the Chat Thread that I just replied to. As well as you.
Hey, what should we do about that one moderated post? Warning and delete?
Can you lock this thread pls?
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Unfortunately, the Ku Klux Klan has been a thorn in America's side for several decades now. Their angry white supremacist mentality is as dangerous now as it was back then.
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The ARM-Based Mac: Revisited — Again!
It's not a novel idea. Apple has done so much to enhance the performance if iPhones and iPads using customized ARM chips. When it comes to Macs, Apple remains at the mercy of a third-party company. When the Motorola/IBM alliance failed to deliver the goods nearly a decade ago, Apple went to Intel. But the next generation of Intel chips, better known as Broadwell, has been delayed until the latter part of the year, which means new Macs will probably be delayed as well.
Sure, there was a modest update to the MacBook Air, using a slightly more powerful Haswell chip. The performance change is insignificant in the scheme of things, but paying $100 less could surely jumpstart Mac sales for the spring and summer. Or at least till something better comes along.
Meantime, an old rumor has become new again, that Apple is testing Macs using multicore ARM chips, perhaps as a future replacement should Intel's roadmap not deliver the goods. This isn't to say Intel's processors are bad. But recent generations have emphasized power efficiency over improved number crunching. Sure integrated graphics are far better, but the overall benchmark improvements aren't significant, or even noticeable, for the majority of Mac and Windows users.
In recent years, Apple has spent an estimated billion dollars in recent years acquiring chip design technology. You've seen it bear fruit in the A-series processors, particularly the A7 with 64-bit capability. Apple boasts it's a "desktop class" processor, and that surely fuels speculation that it might turn up in a future Mac.
In the scheme of things, however, the A7 is nowhere near as powerful as a Haswell mobile processor. It's getting better, but it may take a while for ARM technology, with Apple's help, to catch up. If it does, maybe Apple might consider moving the Mac platform, aside from the Mac Pro, to ARM.
But it won't be a casual move. Apple has done the processor-switching thing twice before and it wasn't easy. Yes, porting OS X to ARM is not an issue, since the iOS led the way. But what about the tens of thousands of apps optimized for Intel? How well do they translate? This is a key issue that the rumors barely touch.
Apple's solution would, in the near-term, probably be some sort of on-the-fly translation capability. Although the feature expired beginning with OS 10.7 Lion, Rosetta was the tool that allowed PowerPC apps to run on Intel Macs with decent performance. Not as good as native apps, but good enough for most purposes until developers had time to upgrade their products. Of course, some never bothered, but that's another story.
In moving to ARM, Apple would have to offer a similar capability, and one that's processor based would present the least performance hit. Indeed, the first ARM-based Macs, should they appear, would likely have to offer performance that represents a fairly decent improvement over Intel, partly to overcome the speed loss for translated apps.
But Apple wouldn't make this move out of hubris. The A-processor roadmap would have to demonstrate a reasonable boost in performance and power efficiencies over what Intel is doing. The ARM architecture has come a long way, but nobody can say an iPad, snappy as it seems with those slim iOS apps, can approach even the lowly MacBook Air or Mac mini.
There is also the Mac Pro factor. Even of Apple can build a chip that offers good performance on an iMac doesn't mean it will be powerful enough to match a Xeon, a cost-no-object chip for workstation and server use.
So what's behind those Mac-on-ARM rumors?
Perhaps some of it is wishful thinking. It may also be true that there are indeed ARM-based Mac prototypes out there undergoing tests. I'd be surprised if there weren't. But a prototype doesn't necessarily represent a finished product. This may simply be an ongoing process with Apple considering options for the future.
After all, OS X on Intel was tested for several years before the processor switch was announced in 2005. During his WWDC keynote that year, in fact, Steve Jobs famously showed a satellite photo of the Apple facility in which the OS was under development. The revelation confirmed rumors that had been around for several years.
To be sure, Apple's processor team is certainly working on chips that will be released for several years, and it may well be that, in a lab setting at any rate, there is an ARM processor that is fully capable of matching what is expected to arrive from Intel. Moving a prototype to a finished product, however, doesn't happen overnight, and this is the sort of complicated move that would require careful thought, careful testing, and a long-range plan to actually occur.
Regardless of how it turns out, I have no doubt Apple could accomplish a successful ARM transition. The Intel example, where Macs migrated to the new processor faster than even Apple predicted, is an example of how well these turnovers can be accomplished.
Right now, though, I expect any testing with the ARM architecture is done more to have an alternative than as a potential final move for the Mac platform. It may happen, but it won't occur that quickly unless Apple has achieved a design miracle or two that we know nothing about. Sure, one can speculate about the ARM switch as a potential "one more thing" revelation during a WWDC for this year, or the next. That doesn't mean it'll happen, so don't make too much of the latest rumors.
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Didn't I see this in some sword&sorcery epic? Two brothers scrap and fight for the throne when one seemingly is victor and the other banished. After a 20 or so year exile that brother is back with a credible challenge. The revenge of RISC! Sure, why not? The Itanium knights never prospered and multiplied and the ARMies of the challenger are far too numerous. It could happen.
It is hard for me to see Apple moving the Mac to ARM processors at this stage. But, this is coming from someone who was utterly shocked when the announcement of the future use of Intel processors was made.
The Intel-based Macs are very successful and in hindsight one of the greatest moves by Apple. Looking at Intel's road map, it is all about energy efficiency. The big processing power jump was the Sandy Bridge processors and all the later ones are much smaller increments. Macs are trucks and just need a few tweaks, new body and new engine to keep it going.
The future is iOS and Apple's processors.
If the trick is to look where the puck is going to be, wonders if Apple will move beyond Intel to whatever crazy computing is ahead when silicon is dead.


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The U.S. should not intervene in Liberia
U.S. Marines are waiting off the Liberian coast to take part in the international peacekeeping effort in the war-torn country. President Bush has said that the Liberian President must step down in order for US troops to take part in any peacekeeping mission, that requirement was fulfilled within the last week.
I was critical of the Clinton Administration's use of military force for peacekeeping missions in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, none of which represented a national security interest for the United states. The fact that President Bush is a Republican does not make this Clintonian policy any less unwise.
Yes, Liberians cheered West African peacekeepers when they arrived. It is important to remember that U.S. forces were cheered not only when they arrived in Iraq a few months ago but when they arrived in Somalia to help end a famine.
In Iraq, American troops were cheered when our invasion toppled the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. But the euphoria over the elimination of Hussein did not last. Even now American troops continue to die as Iraqi guerrilla fighters chip away at the occupying force. This is not surprising, as any invading force would be met with hostility, no matter how bad the old regime was. But since we toppled Iraq's government, we have an obligation to help them build a new one.
In Somalia, we sent troops to end a famine caused by Somali warlords, certainly a noble motive. But a year later, Somali savages were dragging the naked bodies of murdered American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, while Somali children played on a downed American helicopter.
Is this the "thanks" that America gets for sending its young men to put their lives in danger for purely humanitarian reasons?
Does President Bush have an exit strategery if he sends U.S. troops into Liberia? Why should we put American lives at risk in Liberia, when American troops are already stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a potential military conflict with North Korea is looming? American troops are already committed in Afghanistan and Iraq, so do we need another open-ended nation-building commitment? No, we do not. The war in Afghanistan was justified because the Taliban was harboring Osama bin Laden and his cohorts, and the war in Iraq was justified due to Saddam Hussein's connections with Al Qaeda as well has his efforts to establish a weapons of mass destruction program.
The roots of Liberia's civil war stretch back more than 20 years. Liberia endured a civil war from 1989 to 1996, and the recent fighting is four years old. If Bush sends peacekeepers into Liberia, how long will they be there? How do we define "victory" in this peacekeeping operation? Finally, how do we know that fighting will not resume once American peacekeepers leave? Simple. We don't.
There is no national security interest in Liberia. Military force should be a last resort to deal with a problem, used only when necessary to defend our national security interests. Is Bush willing to tell American mothers that their sons are going to die defending not their homeland, but to soothe the moral conscience of Americans who want to "do something" about the conflict in Liberia?
The United States is hated all over the world. Some of this hatred is due to the ideals of freedom we advocate, some is due to jealousy over our wealth and power. But some of the hate directed at the United States is justifiably caused by the fact that we insert ourselves into many areas that are none of our business. If President Bush sends "peacekeepers" to Liberia, they will eventually be seen as interlopers and will be resented, and probably violently resisted, by Liberians.
Should the United States ignore the mess in Liberia? Of course, we should not. Humanitarian aid (ideally from private individuals and foundations, not government) and assistance to a regional peacekeeping force is justifiable. (After all, Liberia's neighbors have an interest in preventing the chaos there from spreading further.) As the richest nation in the world, we should help when we can and Liberia is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. But military force should not be committed.
President Bush should not follow in the footsteps of disgraced ex-President Clinton.


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The succession of kings at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt is a matter of great debate and confusion. There are very few contemporary records that can be relied upon, due to the nature of the Amarna Period and the reign of Akhenaten and his successors and possible co-regents. It is known that Akhenaten reigned for seventeen years, and it was previously believed that in the last 3 or 4 years, he had two co-regents: Smenkhkare, who was possibly his brother or son, and Neferneferuaten, who was either one of his daughters or his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. It is unknown in which order they followed each other, and neither of their reigns lasted long, for Tutankhamun succeeded not long after Akhenaten's death.

The last dated appearance of Akhenaten and the Amarna family is in the tomb of Meryre II, and dates from second month, year 12 of his reign. After this the historical record is unclear, and only with the succession of Tutankhamun is it somewhat clarified.

However, the coregency theory has now been slightly discredited by the December 2012 announcement of the discovery of a Year 16 III Akhet day 15 inscription dated explicitly to Akhenaten's reign which mentions, in the same breath, the presence of Queen Nefertiti--or the "Great Royal Wife, His Beloved, Lady of the Two Lands, Neferneferuaten Nefertiti"--in its third line. The badly legible five line text, found in a limestone quarry at Deir el-Bersha "mentions a building project in Amarna"--Egypt's political capital under Akhenaten and was deciphered and interpreted by Athena Van der Perre. This means that Nefertiti was still Akhenaten's living wife late in this pharaoh's 16th year (and second last year); thus, the Amarna pharaohs Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten could only have succeeded to the throne in Akhenaten's 16th year in a brief 9 month coregency or have had an independent reign of their own over Egypt which lasted for around two full years after this king's death.

The royal line of the dynasty died out with Tutankhamun, for two foetuses found buried in his tomb may have been his twin daughters, according to a 2008 investigation.

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The Coregency Stela, found in a tomb in Amarna possibly shows his queen Nefertiti as his coregent, ruling alongside him.

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Jacaranda House is a wonderful property full of character that is situated in a traditional Peloponnese village that has spectacular views across the Gulf of Corinth. This old, stone house, surrounded by a mature walled garden with private swimming pool, has been sensitively restored by its owners retaining many traditional features such as stone arches, fireplaces, wood burning stoves, thick stone walls, vaulted wooden ceilings and spacious rooms.
A large double wooden gate leads through the thick stone wall surrounding the property into the garden. The stone pathway meanders down through the flower beds planted with lavender, majoram, rosemary and a profusion of cloudy-blue plumbago and heavy-scented jasmine to the main entrance.
The house is on two levels. On the ground floor level, there is a farmhouse style kitchen with dining area and comfortable living area with sofa and armchairs around a wood burning stove. This is a great space for serious cooks with a very well-equipped kitchen. Down the corridor is a guest double bedroom with windows overlooking the garden. Next to the kitchen is a hallway with entrance to the main bathroom featuring Italian tiles and the original stone walls with full-size bath and shower.
Moving through the hallway on this level are two further bedrooms: The first is a spacious bedroom with twin beds which also has doors leading directly into the garden. Next to the twin bedroom is the master bedroom with an antique bed, large corner fireplace, en-suite bathroom and doors leading to the garden. These two bedrooms can either be accessed independently from the garden, or are well designed for families with small children since there is also an inter-connecting door through a thick stone arch between the rooms.
From the kitchen/living area a spiral staircase leads to the upper level. The upper level is one very large living room with vaulted ceiling that also has a double bed for extra guests. Two sets of doors open onto a very spacious veranda with sea and mountain views. The veranda has a large outdoor dining table for 8 people as well as various armchairs, comfortable outdoor sofa and day bed with plenty of pillows. An external staircase leads from this veranda and level down to the garden which is planted with many flowers, herbs, climbers, shrubs and trees including a magnificent purple-flowering jacaranda tree. The focal point of the garden is the swimming pool nestling amongst the flowers. It has a 9 metre swimming length and a large rounded area with steps across the width of the pool which is excellent for cooling off or for children to play. The swimming pool terrace is also partially railed so avoiding difficult drops.
In the garden there are two additional terraces - the sun bathing terrace above the swimming pool with its teak loungers, and the coffee terrace with its elegant table and chairs punctuated by a pink-plumed silk tree and four mature yucca trees. A large barbecue is situated conveniently close to the main kitchen door.
The villa has ADSL wireless internet, DVD, TV, i-pod outlet, dish washer, washing machine, piano and an excellent library of books and CDs.
The village itself is 200 metres above sea level and the local beach is a few minutes by car. This is a traditional, farming community where olives, oranges, lemons and grapes are cultivated in abundance. The village has two good tavernas, a cafe in the main square which also serves food in the evenings and a bar set in a leafy garden overlooking the sea. The local greengrocer and fishmonger visit the village twice a week. Otherwise, all amenities can be found in the neighbouring town about 7 kms distance. Kalavryta Ski Centre is about 40 mins from the house along a spectacular road that cuts straight through a gorge. The archaeological sites of Delphi, Corinth, Mycenae and Epidavros can be visited as day trips and there are many surrounding towns and villages of interest to visit.
Jacaranda House with its different areas for relaxing is a perfect choice for families or a group of friends wanting to 'chill out' in comfortable surroundings in one of the more authentic parts of Greece.
Thank you for your kind e-mail. We had a wonderful holiday in Platanos. It was such a lovely village and the locals were very friendly and welcoming. We ate in all the tavernas in the upper village. The lady at the cafe on the square prepared us a mixture of Greek home-cooked dishes one night and this was delicious.
One evening, we went to the meat taverna in the mountains by the petrol station and watched the sun set. We were the only people there and it felt like they had just invited us into their home and cooked us a meal. They didnít seem prepared for us on arrival but the food they cooked-up was delicious. We also went to Longos beach a couple of times ñ this was our favourite beach. The water was so still and blue. There were lots of nice places to eat, too.
We went to Daphneís bar a lot too she was very welcoming and the bar was beautiful. They boys loved the canoes and Dad loved the beer.
James and I had a drive up into the mountains one afternoon (after Benís suggestion) and the scenery was breathtaking. We found Ancient Aigeria on route and this was very special.
Anyway, thought I would just drop you a line to say thank you for a lovely holiday. The owners have truly created a Greek Oasis at Jacaranda House.
We had a great holiday and loved the villa. The kids were more than happy playing in the pool and would have stayed there all day if they'd had their way!
Thank you for your message. We did have a good holiday; Platanos was delightful and real and we particularly enjoyed the smallest bar/taverna. The people were extremely pleasant and friendly and we really appreciated the lack of tourists around us.
Dinoís was a bonus too. Platanos was well placed for us to explore the area which was very beautiful and dramatic. The garden at Jacaranda was a treat with lovely flowers and scents.
Please pass on our thanks to Ben and Marie Louise for their help with things like printing boarding passes, making telephone calls and such like! Ben telephoned the Avis hire car people about our missing bag. Would you be kind enough to email back to me a confirmation that we reported our bag missing as soon as we could, and that Ben reported it on our behalf as our agent.
to say cheerio. Speak to you soon.
in Greece in the future).
Best of luck and thanks again for everything.
We have thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Jacaranda and have loved the house, the village and all the surrounding areas ñ with thanks for your very informative, and now well thumbed guide. I think we very quickly took for granted the things that made it perfect for us ñ the almost deserted beaches, the crystalline waters, the friendliness of everyone we came across. Our high point was the afternoon and evening spent at Lake Tsivoli, it was just so beautiful.
May we take this opportunity to thank you for a very nice and relaxing time at your house. It's exactly what we needed. Our daughter left for university last year and just spending time with her has been amazing.
If you ever want to come to England we have a narrow boat We could swap a week !
I just wanted to write and say thank you - we had a wonderful time at Jacaranda House and were very sorry to leave last Thursday. The house was absolutely perfect for our needs and the situation just wonderful.
We particularly loved not meeting another Brit for the duration of our stay, even though we were out and about a lot.
Thanks to your recommendations we had some great meals, although we were turfed out of the Veranda by a rather rude waiter (the son, I think!). We tried to go to Mourayo in Aiyera but found it closed, but did enjoy the pizza place in Akrata very much. However, our favourite place was Trifona in the village - we were made to feel so welcome and I think this was the highlight of our stay. Our daughter was kept well entertained by the very friendly staff and locals while we enjoyed the views and food. We also had really lovely days out at Trapeza on the beach and Kalavryta where we went on the train. And absolutely loved the baker and greengrocer in Akrata - both run by the friendliest of people.
Thanks again for all your help in making a very memorable holiday.
Our stay at Jacaranda House was delightful. The accommodations were lovely, the setting could not be more beautiful - even the weather was perfect! It was a wonderful stay, certainly enhanced by the experience we had at the villa.
Feed back about our 11 day holiday to Jacaranda House.
A wonderful, hidden away gem with great facilities. We thought it was surprisingly spacious! The pool was fantastic. The pool and outside balcony (with the day bed) being the most used areas of our stay.
Aristos and Maria were brilliant and they both did a great job; the villa, gardens and pool were spotless.
Even though we didn't speak any Greek (other than hello and thank you) we got by and when we found we were struggling to be understood, we used apps on our phones to translate or find pictures to assist when ordering in tavernas/restaurants. It really was an authentic Greek holiday.
A great place to rest and relax, all tavernas in the village were within walking distance and were wonderfully welcoming - with lovely food. Only the old lady in the opposite villa was interesting, as she clearly was struggling for money. We only saw one english person for our entire 11 day trip! So we felt as though we had truly visited somewhere different.
The directions were very good, including the ones to the doctors which we had to use. Mountains, caves, snorkelling at Rams Head/Planantos and ruins at Ancient Olympia were all stunning.
All queries and contact from Marie-Louise and Ben were prompt, efficient, answered fully. Pretty Greek Villas were very good with communication. I was nervous about booking without the company being registered with ATOL or ABTA or using paypal however, I need not have been.
All in all a wonderfully relaxing and impressive place to stay - authentic luxury Greek holiday in the heart of a village away from all the normal British tourist areas. I would highly recommend Pretty Greek Villas.
you'll be first on our list if we go abroad again next year.
last week. Apart from the rain, the food, the beaches and the tent it was just like being back at Jacaranda.
Many thanks, and thank you again for a great holiday.
Many thanks. We had a really lovely time at Jacaranda and particularly enjoyed the general style and feel of the place, the privacy (although this may be less so in the summer with neighbours around) and the really high quality of the reading materials in the house which was an absolute joy. If we had realised the owners were such an erudite couple we would have come without any books at all as we wanted to read pretty much everything they had.
The service from Pretty Greek Villas was very good with full, detailed descriptions of all properties and efficient answering of all emails as well as good directions. The people who looked after the property were all very charming and friendly and we really enjoyed the area and the village.
As we wrote to Ben in our short note, we had a lovely time in Platanos.
The house was well equipped although we couldnt get the TV to work but for us, that was no loss.
Otherwise we had a wonderful time in what is a comfortable house.
Thanks to Ben for the warm welcome - the few things left for us were most appreciated.
We will certainly include Pretty Greek Villas in our plans again next time we travel to Greece.
We are just settling back into our normal schedules in Chicago this week, the jet lag is almost gone, but our fun memories of a truly special holiday are still with us! Thanks for all your help in making sure mums birthday trip was one to cherish and remember. We loved villa jacaranda and all the authentic Greek experiences we had during our time there! It was everything we had hoped for, and allowed us to spend quality time as a family which is so relatively rare these days because of our geography!
We hope you are both well, and especially thank you for helping us on the night we had drinks and dinner at the bottom of the hill. So much fun, such a pleasure to meet you both and we look forward to future trips to Greece Im sure!
We had a wonderful stay at Jacaranda House and I have already given Ben feedback which he has responded to.
As I said to Ben the service we received from all the staff at Pretty Greek Villas was excellent and we shall definitely be using you again in the future.
Yes it was good to meet you too! We have had an absolutely lovely stay and are both very chilled! House is lovely and perfect for what we wanted. Never did manage to find Coral though! Had some very nice food along the front in Akrata and went back a couple of times. Having lunch there today before the drive back to the airport! Really wish we were staying longer and will certainly be using Pretty Greek Villas in the future. Your service has been excellent and everyone we have spoken to has been very friendly and helpful, nothing too much trouble. Been good to know there is someone on hand anytime. However we managed well enough and have had a really good holiday.
Many thanks to you and your staff at Pretty Greek Villas!!
Hope to speak again sometime!!
Thank you so much for getting in touch. We had the most wonderful time in Jacaranda House. It couldnt have been more perfect and everyone was so kind. We would also like to thank you all for the delicious cake that was awaiting us on our arrival.
We would like to leave a good review so where is the best place to do so? On the website?
Thanks for your message. Yes, we had a wonderful two weeks at Jacaranda House. Everything was great and we really appreciated the generous Welcome Pack.
The house is lovely without being too personal and we had everything we needed.
thank you so much, we loved it. We shall be back!


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I love baseball as a game. The Deity herself speaks to me through baseball. While baseball to use the words of George Will is "Heaven's gift to mortals" it is played, managed and judged by fallen humanity…thanks so much Adam and Eve, you should have gone to the concession stand in the Garden of Eden and got a hot dog and beer and left that that tree that you were told not to touch alone. As the New Baseball Edition of the Bible says: "And God spoke to Adam and Eve saying "Thou mayest eat and drink freely from any concession stand, vendor or restaurant in the park, but thou shalt not eat from the Tree of the Knowlege of Good and Evil, lest you die or otherwise blow the game." It is my opinion that baseball's problems can be traced to the failure of the first couple to get this one little thing right.
As a result of the fall we can be assured that while baseball is the chosen sport of the Deity who "in the Big Inning created the heavens and the earth" it will not be perfect in this world. This is readily apparent in the past 7 or 8 years or so of the baseball steroid scandal. There is much blame to go around in this whole sordid affair from the commissioner's office, to owners, the MLB Players union President Donald Fehr and the players themselves who blocked efforts to initiate tough and fair drug testing managed by them and the league.
Because of the league and players inability to police themselves they opened themselves to machinations of congressional committees led often by congressmen who have to assert their dominance in every aspect of American life. I actually found the inquisitional hearings led by Representative Henry Waxman to be a disgusting overreach of government power directed by people who couldn't get picked to play on a little league team. The unbridled jealousy of career politicians who haven't worked a real job in years toward the highly successful athletes was displayed as they dragged player after player before their committee. Congressmen asked them leading questions about the use of substances that were not always illegal setting them up for eventual prosecution of lying to Congress because like in the case of Bonds they gave ambiguous answers to the questions. Now I am not saying that the players were without blame, many set themselves up for this by blatantly looking guilty if they were not guilty of anything. The league and player's union policies and response did nothing to help the matter and now we sit with what seems to be a never ending circus which harms the game.
My beef with many of those involved is that they do not respect the game. This goes for players, owners, union officials, media, politicians and investigators. This disrespect for the game has reached epic proportions as the hubris of all concerned reached incredible heights. While I could go on and on about this I am going for now focus on the inequitable treatment of the accused players by the media and government which I believe is glaringly apparent in the treatment given to Barry Bonds as opposed to players such as Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez.
Baseball purists are perhaps the most religious of fans. We don't like it when people mess with the game. The game itself is sacred, thus when players, owners, union people, media or the government do things that we perceive to hurt the game we get just a tad bit upset. Football, Basketball and Hockey players, owners and officials can just about get away with murder and not only remain in the game but become or remain stars who eventually reach their respective Hall of Fame. Baseball on the other hand will take the person who has committed an infraction and like the ancient Israelites cast heavy stones upon their reputation and memory to the seventh generation. Baseball can be a very unforgiving game. The diamond is "holy ground" and the game is to be respected by players, owners, media, government and fans alike. This has not been the case in regard to steroids and other performance enhancing substances including their use by players, toleration by owners and "fishing expedition" investigations by Federal agents and Congress.
"The paucity of illegal profits and drugs raises the question whether prosecutors realized that the only potential for criminalizing the behavior of athletes who took banned substances was to set perjury traps or bait athletes into lying to the grand jury or to a federal agent.
Now Bonds may not be the most sympathetic character, but he does deserve to be treated as innocent until proven guilty. Instead the prosecutors and some in the media have gone out of their way to destroy any chance of Bonds either playing again ever reaching the Hall of Fame. He is called a cheater in an era when it is likely that that a large number of players were doing the same thing, without penalty. It seems to me that Bonds has been singled out while others are left alone.
This is nowhere nearly apparent than with the recent admission by Alex Rodriguez that he took steroids, after having previously denied it and the positive test and 50 game suspension of Manny Ramirez for the use of a banned substance, a suspension that Ramirez just completed. A-Rod seems to have weathered his admission and I see no one coming after him while Ramirez's return punctuated every other game during the day. Neither man received the abuse heaped upon Bonds and they have admitted or actually tested positive for the use of steroids or banned substances.
Having had to administer drug tests as a Army Company Commander I know that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor. The manner of testing and the chain of custody must be impeccable, otherwise allegations are just that and you cannot, unless you want to look like a fool and attempt to prosecute under Article 15 proceedings or Courts-Martial without unimpeachable evidence that a person took a substance known to be illegal at the time it was used, not something that was made illegal after the fact. The Bonds prosecution looks to me like a gross misuse of the Grand-Jury system and government power to make an example of Barry Bonds. If Bonds had been a mediocre player or not hold the records for the all time home runs and single season home runs he would not be a target.
Having said all of this the entire steroid era, especially the actions of the baseball owners, commissioner and players union sullied the game and opened the door to political opportunists like Waxman and investigators who use questionable and likely unethical and maybe even illegal means in order to trip up as suspect, as Novitzky appears to me to have done. Baseball must police itself and both players and owners must subscribe to a fair and clearly defined drug policy that leaves no room for misinterpretation. Maybe they should look to military rules of evidence for such a program which apply to all players equally with both random tests throughout the season which would ensure that every player was tested as well as periodic sweeps of the entire league.
In the case of Bonds and those whose real or alleged crimes now date back six or more years it is time to stop the madness. It is a waste of taxpayer money to continue this sham puritanical inquisition against Bonds while so many others are given a pass. Bonds name and reputation have been destroyed and he has never been convicted of a crime by prosecutors who continually have their evidence thrown out and indictments overturned by judges.
As far as A-Rod and Manny, they are not going to the All-Star game this year as baseball fans are tired of this kind of behavior. If owners and players will not police themselves those of us who love and respect the game will ensure that they are accorded no honors.