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Bergbower, Harold A.
Interviewee: Bergbower, Harold A.
Place: Herndon, Virginia
Hanna Witherspoon
Andrea Blatt
Elaine Blatt
Harold A. Bergbower
Recommended Citation: Bergbower, Harold A. Oral History Interview, April 16, 2007, by Hanna Witherspoon, Page #, Rutgers Oral History Archives. Online: Insert URL (Last Accessed: Insert Date).
Hanna Witherspoon: I am Hanna Witherspoon and today is April, the 16th, 2007 and I am here interviewing Harold A. Bergbower. Mr. Bergbower, will you just tell us where you were born and when?
Harold Bergbower: Okay. I was born in Newton, Illinois, Jasper County, in May 11, 1920.
HW: Okay, and did you join the army or were you drafted?
HB: No, joined the Army Air Corps on the twelfth of May, 1939.
HW: And what happened from there?
HB: I went through school at Chanute Field and became an air mechanic, and, in January of 1940, I volunteered to go to the Philippine Islands. I went to the Philippine Islands by the way of New York City, the Panama Canal, up to San Francisco on the ... USS Republic. But anyway, we took the US Grant from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands, arriving in the Philippine Islands on the 20th of July, 1940. So I had a year and a half, I guess, of pleasure in the "jewel of the Orient," they called the Philippines. Then on December, the 8th, 1941, we had word that ... Pearl Harbor was bombed, and that was about three o'clock on the 8th of December, and everybody got ready for that. But, at breakfast time on December the 8th the news report said that Hawaii had been bombed and Nichols Field in Manila had been bombed and Clark Field had been destroyed, and being at Clark Field, we thought, I guess, "Not bombed here, so this must be a joke." But then, at ten minutes to one on the 8th of December, the Japanese bombers come over Clark Field and dropped their bombs. I was on my way to my duty station and I stopped to look up at the bombs and the bombers and I saw the first bombs land on Clark Field, and then nothing for a while. Then I was hit with a bomb and when I come to, I was in the morgue at Fort Stotsenburg. There were several people in the morgue. I crawled out and went back to my squadron and had my corpsmen clean me up and went back to duty. Now, I got to go back just a little bit. Before the war, I was a detached service in the emergency landing field in the northern part of Luzon, and I went to Clark Field on the 1st of December 1941, to get paid. The squadron commander said I better stay there because we were going to be at war within a week, and we were. But, anyway, after the ... [battle] I got permission finally to go back up to the landing field to get my possessions. When I was up there I took a ride on that army truck and he said, "I'll pick you up on the way back." He was going to Bagio and I said, "Okay," and I guess about five days passed and he didn't come. Troop B of the 26th Calvary unit had came by and the Lieutenant saw me and he asked me what I was doing there and I told him I was waiting for transportation back to Clark Field. He said, "Well, I have an extra horse, you better join us because the Japanese are about thirty minutes behind us." [laughter] So I fought with the Filipino Scouts on horseback until the middle of March, about two and a half months. ... By that time, the food was so scarce that they used their horses and the mules from the 26th Calvary Unit as food. ... The Scouts, asked me what I was going to do and I said, "Well, I don't know. My squadron is already on Mindanao." He said, "Well, we're going by outrigger to Mindanao. You are welcome to join us." So, five or six days in an outrigger, in the open waters, boy, [that's] scary. But we made it to Mindanao, a place called Cagayan. I went down to where my squadron was, they were at the Pulangi River, the second line of defense from the city of Davao, and there I fought in the infantry until the surrender went through. When the surrender went through, I was on patrol duty and I didn't know that the surrender had went through and the path that I was on we run into a Japanese patrol. We fought for a while and, finally, we were captured. The guy, I can't remember the major's name, but we called him, "Handlebar Hank," because he had a big, black mustache, but he asked me why I was still fighting and I said, "Well, we were at war," and he said, "Yeah, but you have surrendered." I said, "Well, that's the first I've heard of it." Which was true. I stayed with him for almost two weeks until he took me back to a prison camp called Malaybalay, which was in the northern part of Mindanao. We were at Malaybalay for two or three months and then we were transferred to Davao Penal Colony, which was, the city of Davao is on the southern part of Mindanao, and the penal colony was about twenty-six miles from there, in the jungles, and during our time there we farmed. We raised rice, learned how to use a caribou to plow in the fields and the paddies. They would flood the patties, they were probably what, thirty meters square, and you'd get it all mushy and then they'd plant rice. They plant rice going backwards through the rice fields. I was there until June, I think, either May or June. They took us to Davao and put us on a "hell ship." They were going to take us to Japan to work as slave laborers at different factories.
HW: Which "hell ship" were you on?
HB: I don't know. I don't know. But the next part of my story is that when I got on the ship, they packed us in there from shoulder to shoulder, front to back, where you couldn't even sit down. But I remember that part, but then I don't remember anything until we landed in Moiji, in Japan, and we were in the warehouse being hosed off, washed off, when I really started remembering again. From there, we went to a place called Toyama, and there was a steel mill. We scooped ore into an open hearth-type furnace. We were there until the war ended. The way we found out the war had ended is that the Red Cross people came into our camp and said, "The war is over, we have entered the atomic age. The atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that caused the Japanese to surrender." The guards all left the camp. Our captain, a Japanese that was in charge of the camp, stayed with us until we got back into American control, which I thought was pretty nice of him. But, then, we went to Tokyo, on the hospital ship The Rescue, and that's where we got our treatment, hot meals, and new clothes, Navy clothes, but that was all right. We got to send a telegram home. This telegram went by Marconi telegraph service in Canada and delivered to my folks' house by regular mail. But to back-track a little bit, my mother had received a letter and a telegram from the president [about] the death of her son December the 8th, 1941. Here it is August, September of 1945, and she gets this telegram. Of course she went into shock and the doctor took care of her. But anyway, I got back to the States in October of 1945. I went by train from San Francisco to Galesburg, Illinois to Letterman General Hospital there. I got to call my folks to tell them.
HW: Oh, my goodness, what a wonderful phone call.
HB: Yeah, it sure was, and they came up to visit. I got released from the hospital and went to my folks' home in Decatur, Illinois; got there on Halloween night. [laughter] But there are a couple of stories I would like to tell. When I served with the 26th Calvary I was going into General King's headquarters during a raid and, of course, you always dismount a horse from on the left side, and a bomb, went on the right side of the horse, and it killed the horse, and I had a piece of shrapnel went through my finger and into the saddle and I couldn't get it out, off. So ...
HW: You couldn't get your finger off the saddle?
HB: Couldn't get my finger off the saddle, and so I finally got my knife and I cut the strap and got the saddle off the horse and I carried that into the headquarters and the General says, "You didn't need to bring the saddle with you," and I said, "Well, if you can get it off, my finger off of that saddle, I would appreciate it." [laughter] They finally sent me down to the woodwork shop and they chiseled it out.
HW: Oh, my. So you went in to see General King with a saddle on your finger. [laughter] You also, well, you said that the horse saved your life.
HB: Yeah. It took all the shock pretty well, except for my hand was still on the saddle, until I reached the ground. Then I couldn't get it off.
HW: There was another story that you wanted to tell me that I heard.
[TAPE PAUSED]
HW: Okay, would you like to give us the prison camps and kind of your journey through the war?
HB: Okay. My first prison camp was in a place called Malaybalay. We were only there for a few months, because there was no farming there in that area. There was no, the only thing we could do to get wood for fires, for cooking, but then our supplies were running low and there was no way to get anymore supplies, so we moved to Davao. It was Davao Penal Colony, which is a prison camp for Filipinos, you know, in peace time. There, our main project was farming. We raised rice and a lot of different vegetables, cabbage, okra, and ...
HW: Now were these vegetables used to feed the prisoners or did the Japanese take the vegetables?
HB: The Japanese took most of them, ninety to ninety-five percent of them, and most of the rice [that] was good rice they shipped off to the Japanese troops and we got the rice that had the weevils and the worms, and everything else in it. All and all, Davao was a well-run camp and we didn't have too many difficulties, except when the prisoners escaped from Davao. Their policy was to shoot ten people for every one that escaped. So I was put in a restricted area, wasn't allowed to go back to the main camp until they decided to either shoot or release us. As you know, well, I was released, along with a bunch of others. At the next camp we got on a "hell ship" that went, I don't know if it was bombed or torpedoed, but it, I found this out later in life because I didn't know anything about this till I went back to the Philippines in 2002, I found that out. The ship was bombed and it went into Leyte for a couple of days for repairs and then went on to Manila. I was in Bilibid Prison for a couple of weeks and was sent to Cabanatuan. I was at Cabanatuan, two, three, maybe a month, but then back to Bilibid and then another "hell ship." [It] was the Noto Maru that went on to Japan. We landed in Moiji, Japan and then we went by train, they were slowing and stopping and taking a lot of troops off the train, and we were in the last group to get off. We were in a place called Toyama, and Toyama is where I stayed until the war ended.
HW: After the war ended, how did the United States inform you that the war was over? Did they drop leaflets into your camp, or did you hear on the radio?
HB: No leaflets, we got it from a Red Cross worker that come in and said that the war was over, that they had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that ended the war. The Emperor decided that that was enough.
HW: Did you ever have food dropped?
HB: Yes. After that, food was dropped, and it was even dropped before the Red Cross people came. The Navy sent over food, hot food in fifty-gallon drums. They dropped them by parachute into our camp, which was probably the best food we had for years and years and years. [laughter]
HW: I'm sure.
HB: Then they dropped parcels of K-rations so that we used [them] on the train going across Japan to the port where the hospital ship, called The Rescue, was what we got on.
HW: When you were in Japan were you in a cold area?
HB: Yes, snow in the winter time was maybe four to five feet deep. When we first got there, it was cold and, boy, we worked these furnaces and we'd get sweaty, and then they'd march us back to our camp and our clothes would freeze. At first, we had no heat in the building, no windows and no doors, and we'd wake up in the morning and our clothes would still be frozen. It's a wonder we all lived, because, we'd get back to working and you'd get thawed out.
HW: How did you get to work from your sleeping quarters?
HB: We walked. It was probably a half to three quarters of a mile.
HW: So without food, without much food, little clothing, you walked through the cold to the factory, to the mill, the steel mill, and worked until you couldn't, and then you walked back home.
HB: That's right.
HW: Do you know how long you were there?
HB: From, until, the first part of September of '44, to the 28th, I think, of August of '45. I was in Tokyo Harbor when they signed the surrender on the USS Missouri.
HW: That must have been a wonderful day.
HB: [I was] probably about, oh, a hundred yards, maybe a football field away from the battleship.
HW: Oh, my goodness.
HB: But it was a fantastic day. Then, we went from there back to the Philippines and the 29th Replacement Depot to wait for transportation to go back to the States.
HW: How did you get back to the States?
HB: By boat, by ship.
HW: Oh, so that was another long journey.
HB: Yeah, a delightful journey.
HW: Yes, I'm sure. Were there people from your prison camp who were on your ship going back to the United Sates?
HB: Well, I got separated. You know, in our camp in Toyama, in Japan, there was a lot of people from Scotland and from England, English troops, and I got mixed up with some troops from 200th Coast Artillery from New Mexico.
HW: Well, I'm sure there were thousands of people transported back and they got you back as well as they could. How did you survive this internment? I know there was almost no food, almost no clothing.
HB: One day at a time, I guess, is all you can do. At Davao,I got malaria and dysentery and got down to seventy-eight pounds. Well, when I was able to stand up, I weighed seventy-eight pounds. When I was liberated I weighed a hundred and seven, and when I got back home, from good meals starting August of '45, so I got home in October of '45, I gained up to one hundred and seventy-seven pounds.
HB: So, I just bloated.
HW: Yes.
HB: In fact, on the ship from Japan to the Philippines I had my stomach pumped out twice. [laughter] You get to the point where you can [only] eat so much, you know, and then you have to stuff yourself, and then you get bloated and sick and, oh man, it hurts bad.
HW: Was there any one person who kind of kept you going, or did just visions of your family wanting you to come home keep you going?
HB: Well, yeah, I always dreamed of being on the farm and, I think, that you live in another world. You had to create another world in your mind to forget where you're at and what your doing.
HW: To survive it.
HB: The memory of your childhood and the food that you have at home. When I did get home, they had rations, and my mother said, "What do you want?" I told her about her pies, you know. "Well, I don't have any sugar." So I went to the, what do you call it? The place where they ration out the food, and they gave me twenty pounds of sugar.
HW: Oh, my. So you got a pie.
HB: Yeah.
HW: What kind of pie was it?
HB: It was cherry pie and rhubarb pie.
HW: You needed the sugar for the rhubarb for sure.
HB: That's right, that's right.
HW: Where do you live now?
HB: I live in Peoria, Arizona which is just a suburb of Phoenix.
HW: Do you have children?
HB: I have three children. My oldest boy is a Lutheran minister in Long Island.
HW: New York?
HB: New York, and my youngest son is retired from the Air Force and lives in Abilene, Taxes, and my daughter, who I want to say, is my daughter, my chauffer, my traveling companion, and my best friend; I live next door to her. I lived in Sun City for thirty-five years and she bought some property out on the northern part of Peoria. She had three lots, each an acre and a quarter, and she rented out the one and I said, "Well, when that guy leaves I want to move in there, and I want to bring my two horses." I went back to riding again. It is so nice to live next door to my daughter.
HW: Is she married, and does she have children?
HB: She is married. She has one boy and he's married now and has two children.
HW: Do you tell your family your stories?
HB: No. My wife, I feel so guilty, but I used to wake up at night and she wouldn't be in bed with me, and I would get up and check and she's sleeping on the sofa in the living room. I'd ask her, "Why?" and she would say, "I was restless and I didn't feel too good, and I was restless and I didn't want to disturb you." Years later I found out the reason she was doing this was I kicked her out of bed. Then one day I saw she was bruised and I asked her why, and I had nightmares. After this interview I will probably still have nightmares tonight.
HW: Oh, I hope not.
HB: I always do.
HW: I'm so sorry.
HB: I gave a lecture at Arizona State University. I worked at a golf course, after I retired from the Air Force, and taught golf and played golf and the guy who owned the place, the manager, his son was going to Arizona State University and he asked me if I would give a talk to his class, about eighteen or twenty people. Well, when I got out there, the word got around and the class was all joined, and there must have been three hundred people in this auditorium. I talked for about thirty minutes and asked if there were any questions, and, man, it's amazing that the kids were so interested and had so many questions, and I was there for almost three hours.
HW: Oh, my.
HB: But I certainly enjoyed that, certainly enjoyed that.
HW: You certainly educated those young people too.
HB: I must say also, in 2002 my daughter, she didn't know really too much about what I went through. I got an e-mail about a trip going to the Philippines for the sixtieth anniversary of the fall of Bataan, and I had kind of decided I would go, and then I decided I wouldn't go. But my daughter got a hold of this and she said, "We're going," so, we went.
HW: And was it a good trip?
HB: It was a fantastic trip, fantastic. We stayed at the Manila Hotel when we were in that area. We made the trip up to Camp O'Donnell and Camp O'Donnell was the first POW camp in the Philippines, and they have planted thirty-one thousand trees at Camp O'Donnell, one tree for each guy that died at Camp O'Donnell, and that's American troops and Filipinos.
HW: That's quite a legacy.
HB: They reenacted the Death March, with college students that dressed up like Japanese soldiers and other guys dressed up like the Americans, they fell, and the guy was kicking them and they act like they bayoneted them. It was real nice. Then we went to Cabanatuan, which, nothing left of Cabanatuan except open fields, and they have a wall with names on it. I have a prize picture at home, the Stars and Stripes, you're familiar with them, they were with us on this tour, and they took a picture of me, ... my daughter and I. She saw me looking at these names, and I got a little teary-eyed, and she come up and put her arm around me and the guy took this picture. It was in theStars and Stripes. I have that picture now and I framed it.
HW: Good.
HB: Since then, I have been to the White House twice for breakfast, met General [Richard B.] Myers who was then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and met Admiral Norman Clark, General Michael McGee of the Marine Corps. Met Colin Powell, what a nice guy; we talked for quiet awhile. He was quite interested in my story, and I talked to Mr. [Donald] Rumsfeld, and we had our picture taken with George and Laura, and my daughter was really tickled about that.
HW: I saw your photo album and I saw the pictures with the President and ...
HB: Well, she is a school teacher. Mrs. Bush was a school teacher, a librarian, and they would have liked to talk more, I think, but they rushed us through.
HW: Yeah.
HB: Also, on Veteran's Day, I went back to the White House and took my granddaughter, from New York, and she met the President; Laura, Mrs. Bush wasn't there.
HW: Okay. We have been talking with Harold Bergbower, B-E-R-G-B-O-W-E-R, and this is April 16, 2007 and I'm Hanna Witherspoon. This concludes our interview, unless there is there any thing else you would like to include?
HB: One more item, that my family migrated from Bavaria, came to the States in 1837.
HW: You come from good German stock. [laughter] Thank you so much, Mr. Bergbower, we appreciate you doing this.
HB: My pleasure to be here.
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Reviewed by Elaine Blatt 9/6/2007
Reviewed by Sandra Stewart Holyoak 9/7/2007
Reviewed by Harold A. Bergbower 10/5/2007


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Is Detective Pikachu a Shockingly Good Time?
A deeper look on the biggest video game based movie
Jenna Prelle, Staff Writer
The words Detective Pikachu brings up nostalgia for many people, but more specifically the Pikachu part. It reminds many of their own personal experiences with the Pokémon franchise. Whether it was video games, television shows, or collecting cards, Pokémon holds a special place in many people's hearts. This movie Detective Pikachu certainly lives up to all that in my opinion. The movie follows Tim Goodman, the grown-up kid of a cop and also used to want to be a Pokémon trainer. Tim leaves his small-town life to go to Ryme City after his father who works and lives there is apparently killed in a car accident. Ryme city is known as a place where Pokémon and people live together as equals and there is no Pokémon fighting allowed. Tim goes to the police station where his father worked and then to his father's apartment to close up the loose ends of his life. In the lobby of the apartment, Tim runs into a girl named Lucy Stevens who is a journalist and is investigating the circumstances around his father's death along with her Pokémon companion a Psyduck. Although Tim quickly dismisses her and goes up to his dad's apartment to begin to settle things. At his father's apartment, Tim discovers a strange vial filled with purple smoke and accidentally opens it. The smoke quickly escapes out the window and has a strange and violent effect on the Aipom Pokémon outside who breathe it in.
Tim is interrupted in his task though by a clatter and movement in the apartment. To his disbelief, it's a Pikachu wearing a detectives hat, but that's not the weirdest part. The Pikachu can talk and he can understand him. Naturally, Tim freaks out but before he can really come to terms with it the Aipom pack from before who breathed in the mysterious purple smoke burst in through the window and attack. Cut to the Pokémon giving chase as Tim along with Detective Pikachu try to escape them with a few mishaps along the way. Although the pair don't actually technically escape but rather eventually the enraged Aipom back off and seem to go back to their normal selves. Confused, scared, and a little embarrassed Tim and Detective Pikachu make their way through the streets and crowd talking things out about their strange situation. This mainly consists of Tim asking passers-by if they can understand Pikachu speaking, which sadly for him and his sanity they can not.
The pair make their way to a grungy cafe and sit at the bar where Pikachu explains his situation while chugging mug after mug of coffee. He basically explains that he was Tim's dad's partner and survived the accident but now has amnesia so doesn't know what happened. This is proven by him taking off the Detective hat to reveal Tim's dad's name written inside it which is what gave him the clue to go back to the apartment. Pikachu eventually convinces Tim that they need to investigate this and so for their next step they attempt to find Lucy the reporter who seems to know something about the case. They find her at her work where she isn't actually a reporter but an intern who aspires to be one. She takes them to her "office" and shows them the information that she has gathered so far and gives them the vital location of an apparent informant on the docs that Harry Tim's father used in his newly revealed investigation of the purple gas. The informant, funnily enough, turns out to be a Pokémon, a Mr.Mime to be exact which leads to hilarity along with the trail continuing on. This leads to the group of Tim, Lucy, Psyduck, and Detective Pikachu all working together to crack the case and follow the leads of their various sometimes confusing clues. This steers the motley crew on the path to discovering not only what has happened to Harry but also the intersection of the mystery of the enraging purple gas and other factors along the way. If you want to know more about the investigation and its results read on to the spoilers section of this review or simply watch the movie yourself, which is currently still in theaters as of today.
Alright now for the actual review portion of this review. Detective Pikachu is an engaging and interesting movie, with a well-paced moving plot of the investigation and the different things that branch out from that. The characters in the movie Pokemon and human alike are well characterized and quickly have you caring about them and what happens to them. I specifically thought Pikachu himself was done very well, he was fun and likable character and not really what you'd expect a Pikachu to be like but in a good way. Ryan Reynolds as the voice actor for Pikachu was a great choice and definitely improved the experience of viewing and listening to his character but of course who could forget the CGI Pokémon roaming around and interacting with the people within the film. The more "realistic" and less cartoony designs really worked for the various Pokémon, still keeping them looking like themselves but in addition to that making them feel like they could actually be real. Plus it was just nifty seeing them in this realistic lifelike format.
I've never played the Detective Pikachu game that the movie is based off of so I can't really compare them, but from what I hear they match up with each other or at least keep the spirit of one another pretty well. I enjoyed how they developed certain Pokémon characters personalities even though they couldn't speak in a way we could understand, they did this through how they acted and reacted to things within the film and plot. The plot was a little predictable, leaving some of the twists easily guessable but that isn't necessarily a bad thing and it didn't make it boring or not worth watching in my opinion. Detective Pikachu is a humorous movie, with a lot of good and sometimes not-so-good jokes peppered in throughout. It was just a really fun movie to watch and sit though. I'd definitely recommend this movie to fans of the Pokémon franchise on nostalgia points alone but I don't have to because it actually has an enjoyable premise and plot. Also, in general I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone who likes a good not quite so gritty detective movie or just wants to watch something enjoyable. Essentially it's a good movie and whoever you are and if you're interested you should go out to see it.
FROM HERE ON, SPOILER WARNING!
I'll start off with the twist of the founder of the city that's supposedly all for peace and love between Pokémon and humans actually being the main villain behind everything. It's interesting to think back on the foreshadowing much earlier into the film about his motivations too. But I haven't even talked about what exactly happened with the mystery. Basically, everything revolves around Mewtwo who can pull a body switch and put human consciousnesses into a Pokémon. It didn't really explain what happened to the Pokémon's mind though when the humans would take over, so that's concerning and maybe even a possible plot hole. But anyways the main villain used Mewtwo because he was sick and in a wheelchair and wanted to have his old body back, which in turn lead him to think the very rational thought that chillin' in a Pokémon body was a tremendous idea. But in fact, as the movie demonstrated, it was not a good plan for moral and technical reasons.
Also, as everyone or at least most of those I saw the movie with predicted, Ryan Reynolds is Tim's mysterious not so dead father. But let me backtrack a second, it turns out Mewtwo didn't hurt Harry but rather saved his life from the main villain and transferred his consciousness into his Pokémon companion the Pikachu. So all this time in the search of his estranged father Tim is actually traveling with him. I thought that was a nice if expected twist of events that made their interactions more meaningful, considering Tim grew to like Pikachu or rather his father even though he holds a grudge against him. Since Ryan Reynolds voiced Detective Pikachu it only makes sense now that he plays Tim's non-Pokémon father. I just really liked that aspect of it and thought it was a pretty neat touch. There are certainly more twists and turns and cool moments within the film Detective Pikachu that I haven't talked about or covered that took place in this movie. So as I've said before and as I'll say again whoever you are you should go out and watch the new movie Detective Pikachu. It's fun to watch, has good characters, and an engaging plot, so go out there and watch it (if you want to).
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Product Description Capture the spirit of Christmas with this delightful animated classic! Based on one of the most beloved holiday tales of all time and featuring the voices of some of today's brightest stars, this enchanting, heartwarming film is a very merry treat the whole family can enjoy! "Bah humbug,"says Ebenezer Scrooge, the grumpy miser who would rather count his money than celebrate Christmas. But as Yuletide cheer spreads through all of London and two friendly mice try to change Scrooge's ill-tempered ways, Scrooge receives three unexpected visitorsthe Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Futurewho take him on a wild and wonderful journey and help him discover the true meaning of Christmas. Amazon.com This animated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Christmas classic retains the essence of the timeless tale while introducing some fresh interpretations. A celebrity cast provides voices for the roles of Scrooge (Simon Callow), Marley (Nicolas Cage), and Belle (Kate Winslet), yet the beauty of the film flows from its artistic usage of CG technology, such as the "painted" scenery of Scrooge's thoughts during his journey through Christmases Past, Present, and Future. The script honors the original story while proving that it is indeed possible to be moved to tears by a group of animated characters. Dickens purists may argue that few movie versions of A Christmas Carol can compete with Alastair Sim's 1951 rendition, or George C. Scott's 1984 remake, yet this film does not need to supplant, but rather complement, such predecessors. It is an especially good choice for young viewers who may find the black-and-white version too scary. (Ages 5 and older) --Lynn Gibson


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package org.apache.cassandra.db.virtual;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.datastax.driver.core.ResultSet;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Row;
import org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CQLTester;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;

public class SystemPropertiesTableTest extends CQLTester
{
    private static final String KS_NAME = "vts";
    private static final Map<String, String> ORIGINAL_ENV_MAP = System.getenv();
    private static final String TEST_PROP = "org.apache.cassandra.db.virtual.SystemPropertiesTableTest";

    private SystemPropertiesTable table;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpClass()
    {
        CQLTester.setUpClass();
    }

    @Before
    public void config()
    {
        table = new SystemPropertiesTable(KS_NAME);
        VirtualKeyspaceRegistry.instance.register(new VirtualKeyspace(KS_NAME, ImmutableList.of(table)));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectAll() throws Throwable
    {
        ResultSet result = executeNet("SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties");

        for (Row r : result)
            Assert.assertEquals(System.getProperty(r.getString("name"), System.getenv(r.getString("name"))), r.getString("value"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectPartition() throws Throwable
    {
        List<String> properties = Stream.concat(System.getProperties().stringPropertyNames().stream(),
                                                System.getenv().keySet().stream())
                                        .filter(name -> SystemPropertiesTable.isCassandraRelevant(name))
                                        .collect(Collectors.toList());

        for (String property : properties)
        {
            String q = "SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties WHERE name = '" + property + '\'';
            assertRowsNet(executeNet(q), new Object[] {property, System.getProperty(property, System.getenv(property))});
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectEmpty() throws Throwable
    {
        String q = "SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties WHERE name = 'EMPTY'";
        assertRowsNet(executeNet(q));
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectProperty() throws Throwable
    {
        try
        {
            String value = "test_value";
            System.setProperty(TEST_PROP, value);
            String q = String.format("SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties WHERE name = '%s'", TEST_PROP);
            assertRowsNet(executeNet(q), new Object[] {TEST_PROP, value});
        }
        finally
        {
            System.clearProperty(TEST_PROP);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectEnv() throws Throwable
    {
        try
        {
            String value = "test_value";
            addEnv(TEST_PROP, value);
            String q = String.format("SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties WHERE name = '%s'", TEST_PROP);
            assertRowsNet(executeNet(q), new Object[] {TEST_PROP, value});
        }
        finally
        {
            resetEnv();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testSelectPropertyOverEnv() throws Throwable
    {
        try
        {
            String value = "test_value";
            System.setProperty(TEST_PROP, value);
            addEnv(TEST_PROP, "wrong_value");
            String q = String.format("SELECT * FROM vts.system_properties WHERE name = '%s'", TEST_PROP);
            assertRowsNet(executeNet(q), new Object[] {TEST_PROP, value});
        }
        finally
        {
            System.clearProperty(TEST_PROP);
            resetEnv();
        }
    }

    private static void addEnv(String env, String value) throws ReflectiveOperationException
    {
        Map<String, String> envMap = Maps.newConcurrentMap();
        envMap.putAll(System.getenv());
        envMap.put(env, value);
        setEnv(envMap);
    }

    private static void resetEnv() throws ReflectiveOperationException
    {
        setEnv(ORIGINAL_ENV_MAP);
    }

    private static void setEnv(Map<String, String> newenv) throws ReflectiveOperationException
    {
        try
        {
            Class<?> cls = Class.forName("java.lang.ProcessEnvironment");
            Field field = cls.getDeclaredField("theEnvironment");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Map<String, String> envMap = (Map<String, String>) field.get(null);
            envMap.clear();
            envMap.putAll(newenv);
            field = cls.getDeclaredField("theCaseInsensitiveEnvironment");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            envMap = (Map<String, String>) field.get(null);
            envMap.clear();
            envMap.putAll(newenv);
        }
        catch (NoSuchFieldException ignore)
        {
            Class[] classes = Collections.class.getDeclaredClasses();
            Map<String, String> envMap = System.getenv();
            for(Class cl : classes) {
                if("java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableMap".equals(cl.getName()))
                {
                    Field field = cl.getDeclaredField("m");
                    field.setAccessible(true);
                    Object obj = field.get(envMap);
                    envMap = (Map<String, String>) obj;
                    envMap.clear();
                    envMap.putAll(newenv);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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"I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson."
"I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then."
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"I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards."
"I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes."
"It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit."
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"Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products."
"Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry."
"Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'."
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With calm comes cleanup
In the calm after the storm that tore a hole in their lives Thursday evening, residents along Matheny Road in Athens County wondered yesterday whether they had been forgotten.
"We haven't seen the Red Cross or anybody," Clarence Dye said as he sat on the porch of his neighbor's tattered home. Dye, 34, had a clear view of his own house, which had been struck by a mobile home hurled off its foundation by a tornado packing winds of more than 100 mph.
"We're not getting near the help we need."
Neighbor Brien Arnold, 43, complained that all of the attention seemed to be focused on an Athens County village 5 miles to the southeast.
"All you hear about is The Plains," he said.
Several neighbors said they were told that if they left to get food or supplies, they might not be allowed back down Matheny Road, which remained closed yesterday as crews removed trees and repaired power lines.
Athens County Commissioner Lenny Eliason heard the same complaints and said The Plains was perceived as getting all the attention because the county set up its emergency command center there, at Athens High School. He said residents of Matheny Road can come and go by showing identification to law-enforcement officers operating roadblocks.
He conceded that the Matheny Road area in York Township sustained damage roughly equal to that of The Plains and needed just as much help. The National Weather Service determined that The Plains was hit by straight-line winds and the Matheny Road area by a tornado.
An estimated 37 homes were destroyed and 103 sustained major damage, primarily in those two areas, when the storm struck just before 7 p.m. Thursday, preliminary figures compiled by the county's emergency-management agency show. Eliason said 13 people were injured, five of whom were hospitalized, but that there were no deaths.
The Weather Service confirmed that a tornado struck 4 miles south of Nelsonville at 6:54 p.m., cutting a path 3miles long and 300 yards wide. The tornado, one of at least 12 tornado touch-downs in the state that night, generated winds of 111 to 135 mph.
It followed Matheny Road east through the rural valley for about a mile, flattening mobile homes, lifting roofs from houses and splintering trees.
Somehow, it skipped over the York Township Fire Station at Matheny and Kimberly roads, bending the flagpole out front and tearing the American flag.
"It should have come right down on the fire station," said Jeremy Sharp, who lives on Kimberly Road. "It was like the hand of God moved in and said, 'No, we're gonna need this place.'"
The tornado didn't miss Greg Kennard's mobile home at Matheny and Spice Lick roads. He was standing on the back porch and saw the funnel cloud swirling toward him from a black-green sky. He barely had time to get inside and warn his girlfriend, Karen Young.
"I said, 'It's a' comin'. We've had it.' As soon as I said that, it just exploded."
The tornado lifted the mobile home off its foundation and tossed it over the back porch, slamming it against a hillside in a pile of rubble. Kennard, 63, freed himself from the debris and heard Young, 67, screaming for him. He needed the help of neighbors to dig her out.
"She was beat up like someone took a ball bat to her," he said. She was released the next morning after treatment at Doctors Hospital Nelsonville but was admitted yesterday to Holzer Medical Center in Jackson with chest pains. Kennard walked away from the wreckage with a few scrapes.
"I can't explain it," he said.
Just down the road, two children and four adults, including a pregnant woman, walked away from the mobile home that was tossed into Clarence Dye's house. None was seriously injured.
Everyone in the neighborhood whose home was destroyed or heavily damaged found housing with family members or friends. Anyone in the county who needs housing is asked to contact the Red Cross at 740-707-7571.
A Red Cross Service Center will be open from 10 a.m. to 7p.m. today at The Plains United Methodist Church at North Plains Road and Rt. 682.
Residents who need help because of structural damage or the loss of personal property such as clothing are asked to bring identification and proof of residence such as a utility bill or vehicle registration.
American Electric Power reported that 735 customers remained without power in Athens County as of 8:30 last night. The company expected to have all power restored by Monday afternoon.
jfutty@dispatch.com
South of Nelsonville, residents survey the storm damage


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======
Device
======

.. default-domain:: tempoiq

Definition
----------

.. class:: Device

   The device is the core business object in TempoIQ. All data is stored
   within a device, and analytics can be performed on a device or by
   comparing across several devices.

   A device generally corresponds to a discrete physical unit that has one
   or more associated sensors. For example: a solar panel, vehicle, or activity
   monitor.

   A device contains the following fields:

   .. list-table::
      :header-rows: 1

      * - Name
        - Type
        - Description
      * - key
        - String
        - Required. Unique identifier for the device
      * - name
        - String
        - Human-readable name
      * - attributes
        - Attributes hash
        - Key/value metadata describing the device
      * - sensors
        - Array of :class:`Sensor`
        - The sensors attached to the device

Field details
-------------

key
~~~

Device keys are immutable and must be globally unique. If you delete
a device with a given key, it is possible to create a new device with
the same key, but the new device will not retain the metadata and sensors
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Good choices for device keys include serial numbers, UUIDs, and other
identifiers that will not change or conflict with other devices.

As with all strings in TempoIQ, device keys support unicode characters.

name
~~~~

Optional field for storing a human-readable description of the device. Names
are not required to be unique and may be modified after creating the
device.

attributes
~~~~~~~~~~

Mutable key/value metadata describing the device. Attributes
behave similarly to fields in a schemaless document store like MongoDB.
It's possible to define different attribute keys on different devices, and
TempoIQ does not enforce the existence of any attributes.

Defining meaningful attributes allows you to construct
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define attributes **building** and **floor**. This would let you query for
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sensors
~~~~~~~

List of :class:`Sensor` objects attached to the device. Currently, it is not
possible to add or remove sensors from a device after the device is initially
created.

TempoIQ supports a maximum of 256 sensors on a device.

Considerations
--------------

Attributes vs. sensors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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associated with a device, but they are fundamentally different. A sensor
represents a measured value or state from the device that changes over time.
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-------

Smart power meter device with two sensors::

    {
      "key": "m34234589",
      "name": "Bldg 4 mains meter",
      "attributes": {
        "building": "4",
        "type": "mains_meter"
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          }
        },
        {
          "key": "cumulative_energy",
          "attributes": {
            "unit": "KWh"
          }
        }
      ]
    }


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You always asked me about why I loved you the way that I did.
When is it the right time for a person to move on from a failed relationship? How long does it take exactly? Some say it depends on how long the relationship was. Others say that it depends on how much you loved one another. Some have told me that it shouldn't take that much time at all. Others have told me that I should be taking as much time as I need. I'm starting to learn that perhaps there isn't a set time period for a person to move on. Maybe there isn't any deadline that I need to be chasing. All I know is that I still haven't gotten over you. We are long over but I'm still desperately in love with you. I'm still feeling all of this bottled up pain inside and there seems to be no end in sight.
Today is not the day that I'm going to definitely let you go, but I have to come to terms with the fact that I'm going to have to let you go eventually. I'm going to have to try. I'm just going to go right out and say that I'm no longer going to be a necessity in your life. In fact, I haven't been one for a very long time. And it took me so long to accept that truth, but at least now I've come to terms with reality. You only ever needed me when you needed someone else to make you feel better about yourself. You never really needed me per se. You just needed the idea of me the idea of someone validating your worth; the idea of someone making you feel like you were a person of value in this life.
And I know I played that role perfectly for a time. But somehow, it wasn't enough and you chose to leave me. You always asked me about why I loved you the way that I did. And I know now that you only asked me this because you wanted to hear me list down the things about you that are actually worth loving. And I did so obediently. I never asked you to do the same for me even though I wanted you to. I wanted you to tell me that you loved me and I wanted you to tell me why. But I never got an answer. And maybe that's why it's so hard for me to move on from you. You never gave me anything that I needed you never gave me closure.
I feel my heart constantly ripping itself into shreds. I feel the pain of loss and incompleteness over and over again. It's like an endless cycle of sadness that renews itself every single day that I refuse to let go of you. And it really hurts. It's a pain that's unlike any other. I know that I can't possibly go on living life in this manner. For my sake, I need to make a change. For my own well-being, I have to be able to let you go. Despite the fact that I'm still madly, desperately, hopelessly in love with you, I'm going to have to remove the space in my heart that has been solely reserved for you.
I'm not making light of this situation at all. I know how difficult it's going to be for me. I know that moving on and getting over isn't the easiest thing in the world. I know that letting go was never designed to be simple. If it were, I would have done it a long time ago. The very fact that I'm still trying to hold on is a testament to just how screwed up I am on the inside. But hey, I'm trying. I'm doing my best. I'm doing this because I know I have to; because for the longest time, I was always putting you first. But now, I have to start thinking about my own heart. I have to start putting my own self first.


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package io.cattle.platform.register.process;

import static io.cattle.platform.core.model.tables.CredentialTable.*;
import io.cattle.platform.core.dao.GenericResourceDao;
import io.cattle.platform.core.model.Account;
import io.cattle.platform.core.model.Credential;
import io.cattle.platform.engine.handler.HandlerResult;
import io.cattle.platform.engine.handler.ProcessPostListener;
import io.cattle.platform.engine.process.ProcessInstance;
import io.cattle.platform.engine.process.ProcessState;
import io.cattle.platform.process.common.handler.AbstractObjectProcessLogic;
import io.cattle.platform.register.util.RegisterConstants;

import javax.inject.Inject;

public class RegisterTokenAccountCreate extends AbstractObjectProcessLogic implements ProcessPostListener {

    GenericResourceDao resourceDao;

    @Override
    public String[] getProcessNames() {
        return new String[] { "account.create" };
    }

    @Override
    public HandlerResult handle(final ProcessState state, ProcessInstance process) {
        Account account = (Account)state.getResource();

        boolean found = false;
        for ( Credential cred : children(account, Credential.class) ) {
            if ( RegisterConstants.KIND_CREDENTIAL_REGISTRATION_TOKEN.equals(cred.getKind()) ) {
                found = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if ( ! found ) {
            resourceDao.createAndSchedule(Credential.class,
                    CREDENTIAL.ACCOUNT_ID, account.getId(),
                    CREDENTIAL.KIND, RegisterConstants.KIND_CREDENTIAL_REGISTRATION_TOKEN);
        }

        return null;
    }

    public GenericResourceDao getResourceDao() {
        return resourceDao;
    }

    @Inject
    public void setResourceDao(GenericResourceDao resourceDao) {
        this.resourceDao = resourceDao;
    }

}


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'I don't feel bad': Perth Wildcat's brutal message to Covid-hit rivals
Covid-19 has upended the NBL fixture, but you won't find the Perth Wildcats sympathising with the teams hit the worst.
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Perth Wildcats coach Scott Morrison has no sympathy for the four NBL teams who have been sidelined for nearly three weeks due to Covid-19, suggesting those teams could find themselves at an advantage as the season progresses.
Covid outbreaks have given the NBL a headache since just before Christmas when a positive test result in the Illawarra Hawks camp forced their December 23 clash with the South East Melbourne Phoenix to be postponed.
The virus has since found its way into other teams' ranks and forced a handful of other fixtures to be scrapped.
As a result, the Hawks, Phoenix, Adelaide 36ers and Brisbane Bullets have all gone almost three weeks without playing a game.
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The Sixers had been due to make their long-awaited return to the court against the Wildcats on Friday, but the NBL confirmed on Wednesday that the game would be pushed back to January 12 in accordance with its biosecurity protocols.
While the news was frustrating for patient South Australian basketball fans hoping to see their team in action, Morrison said he couldn't care less that the Sixers' hiatus would continue.
"They're our rivals," said Morrison, whose Wildcats are on a road trip that will keep them out of Perth until February.
"I want them to be healthy; I'd never root for sickness or injury, but at the same time, I'm not rooting for anybody to get a break other than us.
"I'm sure they're not rooting for us to catch any breaks and they're not shedding any tears for us being away from home for six weeks.
"So no, I don't feel bad."
You won't find Scott Morrison worrying about the Wildcats' rivals. Picture: Ian Hitchcock / Getty Images
Morrison said the teams who went through the Christmas and new year period without playing may find themselves at an advantage in the long-term.
While the NBL has previously postponed games when sides still had enough fit players to field a team, Morrison said that could change as the season progressed.
"(The Sixers, Hawks, Phoenix and Bullets) had a disadvantage for a minute, but it almost worked in their favour," he said.
"If every team was to get Covid at some point in time, they got it at the right time because it didn't cost them any games in terms of the full roster.
"I think now the league's going to try and push for replacement players, and as long as you have eight guys you can play.
"So in a certain way, those guys kind of took the brunt of it early, but maybe history will show they got it at the right time."
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Morrison said while it could be challenging to adapt to the schedule's changes, he predicted there would soon be a light at the end of the tunnel.
"Overall, the delays are pretty frustrating, probably for everyone from the players and coaches to the fans," he admitted.
"We just want to see some basketball, so I wish we could get some clarity to our schedule, but hopefully that's coming this week."
Round 6 of the NBL season is due to get under way this Saturday when the Tasmania JackJumpers meet the Sydney Kings in Hobart.
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Allow 100g-175g raw meat per person for boneless joints and 225g-350g for bone-in joints.
For the stuffing, mix together the sausage meat, black pudding, breadcrumbs, onion, mango and mango chutney.
Season, add the rosemary and mix well. Take your joint, make a deep insert into the fattiest part, just above the lean round muscle, and stuff with the stuffing.
Make the remaining mixture into stuffing balls and bake around the joint.
Weigh the stuffed joint and calculate the cooking time as follows - medium 30 mins per 450g plus 30 mins / well done – 35 mins per 450g plus 35 mins.
For crackling, dry the rind, deeply score and rub with 1 tbsp oil and 1 tsp salt.
Place on a rack in a roasting tin and open roast in a preheated oven for calculated cooking time.
Serve with roasted squash or pumpkin, parsnips, mini roast potatoes and steamed broccoli.


Great article below on quality and effective protein rich foods. The article explains why the foods are effective and provides tips on sourcing healthy choices.
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Fat loss and achieving a lean, strong body is not about starving yourself or spending hours in the gym.
Rather, it is about eating the right foods that energize you, fill you up, and give you the most nutrients per calorie. Protein foods happen to be the best macronutrient for achieving all three of those goals. They are a pivotal component of any diet aimed at changing your body.
• It raises your metabolism because it costs the body more calories to process protein than carbs or fat.
• It is filling because eating it causes the release of gut hormones that keep you satisfied.
• It helps manage blood sugar and insulin, decreasing cravings for carbs.
• It triggers protein synthesis, preserving (or building) lean muscle mass so your body burns more calories at rest.
1) Is this food nutrient rich?
2) Can my body digest this food easily?
Individual tolerance of protein foods varies based on genetics, so what one person might be able to digest without a negative immune response may not work for someone else.
Physical activity, in particular strength training, is a necessity for health and optimal body composition. You should be training!
Eggs are a perfect source of protein, scoring highest on the scientific scale for protein quality because they provide a wealth of amino acids that are used by the body to repair muscle tissue.
Add to that an array of powerful brain nutrients and beneficial fats and you've got a super food that will keep you satisfied and promote optimal body composition.
• They have the second highest concentration of leucine after milk, which is the most important amino acid for building muscle.
• They contain choline, which is used by the body to make a critical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine that improves brain function and is beneficial for motivation.
• Choline also helps the liver to detoxify and avoid accumulating fat, and a healthy liver means you'll have a better metabolism and produce energy efficiently.
• Eggs are high in two important vitamins, D and K, that are fat soluble, which means eggs are a highly bioavailable source that allows for maximal absorption. Both vitamins are necessary for bone building, and vitamin D is involved in metabolic processes and development of muscle quality and strength.
• They are rich in the antioxidants selenium, lutein, and zeaxanthin that can reduce inflammation in the body and promote overall health.
• One study found that people who ate 3 eggs a day on a reduced carb diet lost more body fat (5 kg in body in a 12-week study) than a group on a reduced carb diet without eggs.
• Eating eggs for breakfast instead of a bagel results in better glucose tolerance and satisfaction with a meal. Eggs also cause the release of hormones that keep you full, which leads people to eat less at subsequent meals.
• They're a valuable protein source for athletes. In a review that discusses how egg protein, researchers write that eating eggs can enhance energy production, stimulate protein synthesis, and aid in recovery from intense training.
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You probably know that whey protein is the best "sports" protein because it stimulates protein synthesis more than all other sources, and it has performed well in long-term muscle and strength building studies.
The reason is that along with eggs, whey scores highest in protein quality. Whey is highly digestible and contains boatloads of amino acids that are involved in muscle building, metabolism, and immune function.
What you may not know is that it's a super fat loss food and it has a number of therapeutic benefits.
Scientists are using it in the clinical setting to cure diabetes, stimulate mitochondrial activity, reduce blood pressure, fix your gut, prevent muscle loss in the elderly, treat cancer, and improve all of the following: antioxidant status, function of the arteries, cholesterol, levels, and bone health.
• It stimulates fat burning and has a greater thermic effect than other supplemental protein, which means that when you eat it, you burn more calories.
• Taking it regularly can significantly improve blood sugar tolerance and insulin sensitivity, even in diabetics. This is interesting because whey, like all dairy proteins, is very insulinogenic, which means it leads to a release of insulin that is greater than what would be expected.
For example, whey supplementation was found to lead to fat loss in the absence of exercise in overweight men. Insulin levels were lower by the end of the study and the men reported feeling less hungry when taking the whey protein.
• Whey protein can reduce cravings for high-fat, high-carb foods and taking it before eating pizza has been found to lead people to eat significantly less of the pizza. Compared to a control group, a 40-gram dose of whey resulted in subjects eating 100 calories less even when the energy from the whey was added into the calorie total.
• Evidence of the long-term benefit of consuming whey for fat loss is seen with two studies: In one, overweight men took whey protein but didn't exercise, and lost more fat than a group that took soy protein. In a group of Division III female basketball players, those who took whey in conjunction with training lost more body fat than a group that took soy.
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Beef provides an excellent profile of essential amino acids (it's packed with the powerhouse branched-chain amino acids isoleucine, leucine, and valine) and it performs well in metabolic studies.
Grass-fed (versus grain-fed or conventional) beef is abundant in non-protein nutrients. It's high in omega-3 fats that are also found in fish, carnitine (the nutrient that aids in fat for use as fuel), glutamine (known as a muscle builder and immune booster by body builders), glycine and glutathione (immune boosters), and CLA (anti-inflammatory and immune enhancing).
It's also got zinc (for healthy androgen levels), iron (for energy production), and magnesium (for fighting stress).
• Beef builds muscle. Older women who ate 160 grams of lean beef daily in conjunction with a strength training program gained more muscle and increased strength by 18 percent more than a group that ate a carb meal. They also had a16 percent drop in inflammation by the end of the 4-month study.
• Eating beef leads to less hunger by favorably changing hunger hormones, and neural signals that keep you full and satisfied.
• Eating beef regularly when creating a calorie deficit (either by cutting calories or increasing exercise) has been shown to lead to greater fat loss than control diets in which people eat as they normally would.
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You could argue that salmon, sardines, and tuna sans contaminants are the very best fat loss foods because they are so high in omega-3 fats. But wait! This article is about protein content, and fish measures up there as well.
Salmon has 20 grams of protein in one serving of salmon, just slightly less than beef. Salmon has a wide array of amino acids and is higher in the BCAAs than chicken. It's nutrient rich, providing healthy doses of vitamin B12, niacin, selenium, potassium, and iron.
• In young Europeans on a low-calorie diet, those whose main protein source was salmon or cod lost more body fat and reduced oxidative stress markers more than those who just reduced calories.
• A second study showed similar results with the groups that ate fish losing the most body fat. Interestingly, inflammation was reduced most in the salmon group, whereas in the previous study, the cod group lowered oxidative stress markers the most.
• Researchers haven't pinpointed why cod and salmon are so beneficial for reducing inflammation, but they cite the beneficial fats in seafood. In addition, fish is high in amino acids with antioxidant properties that eradicate oxidative stress, such as taurine and arginine.
What all this means is that variety is paramount when it comes to diet because you'll get a wider array of nutrients: Don't just eat salmon or cod everyday. Try mackerel, sardines, shrimp, mussels, scallops, oysters, and whitefishes like tilapia.
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Chicken has the highest protein content per gram, but it's lower in the powerhouse muscle building BCAAs than the other proteins on this list. For example, in 100 grams of broiled chicken, you get 1.8 g of leucine, whereas in one serving of whey protein you get double that.
But tunnel vision on specific amino acids isn't all that useful in real life, and the array of amino acids in chicken as well as the different fat sources (mono, poly, and saturated) make it a useful fat loss food.
For example, a study of overweight women on a 1,250 calorie diet for 9 weeks found that those who ate chicken as their primary protein source lost the most body fat (5.6 kg or 3.3 percent) compared to groups that ate beef or carbs.
The chicken group ended up eating the fewer calories daily over the course of the study than the other two groups. The difference in calorie intake between the beef and chicken group was small, but it's possible that the greater array of amino acids in chicken or a difference in the thermic effect of the proteins influenced body comp changes.
• The term cage-free is irrelevant when it comes to poultry meat because birds raised for eating are not housed in cages even on industrial farms. That's a practice for egg production. So cage-free means something when it comes to buying eggs, but not meat.
• The label free-range from a large-scale farmer simply means that the animals have access to the outdoors. That doesn't mean they ever actually go outside. If you can get free-range from a small or local farmer, there's a better bet the animals made it outside to forage.
• Pasture-raised animals are in fact, raised on the free range, so look for this label rather than free-range.
• The label hormone-free is irrelevant. It's never been legal to give poultry hormones, whereas cows can be raised on hormones.
• Antibiotic-free is a legitimate claim because poultry can be given antibiotics to fatten them up.