Marriage was a primary occasion for commissioning portraits through the middle of the nineteenth century. James Reynolds (1754–1834) and Mary Kimberly Thomas (1754–1833) were wed about 1788 and were probably painted then; their first child was born the following year, in 1789. Each is shown in the separate sphere determined by gender: Mr. Reynolds's masculine presence is emphasized by his standing posture in the conventional hand-on-hip attitude, while Mrs. Reynolds is seated on a fiddleback chair, her receptive pose belied by her direct and determined gaze. Mr. Reynolds's open jacket reveals a buttoned vest, forming a triangle that points directly to his face. He wears a powdered tie-wig with the hair combed back into a fixed braid; one hand grasps an ivory-handled cane, and a watch key and fob hang at his waist. His tricorne hat is on the wall behind him, and a snuffbox sits on the table. Mrs. Reynolds wears a beautiful, figured open robe over a dark petticoat, a lace shawl crosses over and is tucked into her waistband, and an elaborate lace cap with lappets tops her hair. She holds a rose to her bosom in one upturned hand, and a pot of flowers in bloom sits on a table beside to her, drawing on emblematic traditions associated with love and fruitfulness. Even so, both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are painted without sentimentality. Lines creasing their foreheads and the sides of their mouths hint at a sense of humor and make their otherwise severe and masklike faces unusually expressive.
These portraits may have been painted by Reuben Moulthrop, an East Haven, Connecticut, artist who achieved renown for his waxworks of full-size figures arranged in tableaux, which were displayed throughout Connecticut, in New York City, and as far away as the West Indies. The portraits of the Reynoldses predate Moulthrop's earliest documented work, portraits of Sarah and Job Perit, painted in 1790, and show the influence of John Durand, who was active in East Haven, New York, and Virginia. Some of the conventions associated with Durand's portraits are evident in the portrayal of Mrs. Reynolds: the hand raised to her breast and holding a rose, the other arm crossing at the waist, and the careful disposition of fingers, with their delicate fluttering. The portrait of Mr. Reynolds also refers to Durand's work in the hand-on-hip pose and the curled little finger, an affectation borrowed directly from Durand's The Rapalje Children. In both Reynolds portraits, heavy outlining describes hands and clothes and suggests the overlapping of three-dimensional forms. An attempt to create a spatial context is seen in passages such as the black ribbon around Mrs. Reynolds's neck, which recedes behind the sheer gauze of her shawl.
The only major exhibition of Moulthrop's work—at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford in 1956—demonstrated the great disparities in the portraits thought to be by Moulthrop, making firm attributions problematic. Discrepancies between the Reynolds and Perit portraits at first make it seem unlikely that Moulthrop painted both pairs. Similarities of treatment do exist, though, in the artist's fascination with skin texture; the waxy, sculptural folds of the curtains in the Reynolds portraits recall the ruffles of Job Perit's shirt; and the star-shaped motif on each of Mr. Perit's buttons is similar to flowers shown from the stem side in the portrait of Mrs. Reynolds. Heavy outlining is also used in the portraits of the Perits, though with greater discretion than in the Reynolds paintings. Another link between the two pairs is provided by Captain Amos Morris, which is clearly painted by the artist of the Reynolds portraits and related to the signed portrait of Job Perit in the unusual scalloped coat hem that appears in both works.
1. In his statistical analysis of early nineteenth-century American folk portraiture, Jack Larkin discovered that portrait pairs of married couples accounted for up to one-half of the paintings he studied; see Larkin, "The Faces of Change: Images of Self and Society in New England, 1790–1850," in Caroline F. Sloat, ed., Meet Your Neighbors: New England Portraits, Painters, & Society, 1790–1850 (Sturbridge, Mass.: Old Sturbridge, 1992), 17.
2. This was a second marriage for Mary Kimberly, who was married to Seth Thomas until his death, in 1782. They had four children, at least three of whom died before reaching adulthood. Her second marriage produced two children. A portrait in a private collection similar in style, size, and composition to the portraits of the Reynoldses depicts a young girl. Her relation, if any, to the Reynoldses has not been determined, however. See Nina Fletcher Little, Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775–1800 (Boston: Leether Press in association with Museum of Fine Arts, 1976), 38–41, for additional biographical information on the Reynoldses.
3. "Reuben Moulthrop, 1763–1814," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 20, no. 2 (April 1955): 45. In the (New Haven) Connecticut Journal, September 4, 1793, Moulthrop advertised that an "Artist in PAINTING and WAX-WORK" would be in residence at the "Sign of the GODDESS IRIS in State Street," exhibiting sensational representations in wax such as "the KING OF FRANCE in the Act of losing his Head, under the GUILLOTINE, preserving every Circumstance which can give to the Eye of the Spectator a realizing View of that momentous and interesting Event. Also A SPEAKING FIGURE, which, even in its unfinished State, has afforded the highest Satisfaction to the Curious." In the same advertisement, Moulthrop offered miniature and portrait painting, as well as likenesses taken in wax. To further the realism of his wax vignettes, Moulthrop hired two dressmakers from England to live in his home and sew costumes for the figures, which were constructed from a wooden framework, stuffed, and dressed. The heads, hands, and feet were cast in beeswax and painted in oil colors, and natural hair and glass eyes were used to complete the semblance of life.
4. The Perit portraits are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Each is inscribed on the back with the sitter's name and age, the year, and the artist's signature: "Ruben [sic] Molthrop, Pinxit." See Stacy C. Hollander, "Reuben Moulthrop: Artist in Painting and Waxworks," Folk Art 19, no. 3 (fall 1994): 40, 41.
5. The Rapalje Children is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The use of the hand-on-hip convention in America, frequently employed by Durand, is derived from European mezzotints.
6. The small number of documented examples, changeable styles, and deterioration of surface over time have contributed to the difficulties in making firm attributions. The exhibition sparked reactions regarding the attributions, and these were discussed in the pages of the Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 21, no. 4 (October 1956), and 22, no. 2 (April 1957). Later, several of the portraits were discovered to be by other Connecticut artists.
7. The portrait of Morris is in the collection of the New Haven Colony Historical Society; see Hollander, "Reuben Moulthrop," 39. It was painted about the same time as the Reynolds portraits and before the documented Perit portraits. The handling of the faces is similar. Moulthrop was the likely artist of the Morris portrait as the two men were related through marriage, of Morris's granddaughters to Moulthrop's brothers-in-law.
8. The letters were published in the Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 20, no. 2 (April 1955). The portrait of Thomas Robbins is in the collectio of the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford; see ibid., 38.
Source: Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 375–76.


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Tsuneko Sasamoto: the first Japanese Photojournalist who still works at 105 years
Tsuneko Sasamoto was born in Tokyo on September 1st 1914. Although photography had been invented the previous century, it was still a not very common practice, mostly a studio work. World War I had begun a little over a month, television was far in the future and some of the inventions that would have characterized the 20th century, such as airplanes, telephones or cars, were in the early stages of dissemination.
Tsuneko grows in the Japanese capital, and manages to become the first female photojournalist in her country, shortly before the American bombs that massacre the city in 1945.
She became a professional photographer at 25, and garnered attention for her photos of pre- and post-war Japan, images that are great classics of reporting photography, and tell the story of evolution not only of Tokyo but of the whole country. Her photographs highlighted the country's dramatic transition from a totalitarian regime to a capitalist-based economic superpower, with all the social implications that followed.
Dome in Hirosima after bombing, 1953:
Zaikeinews reports that Ms. Sasamoto's inborn curiosity has always driven her to work. "Pretty scared but curious, don't like it but want to see it. I feel compelled to face the world and let people know what I see, just want to have the pictures taken…" she said.
A close friend of hers, Tetsuya Terashima, an editor, testifies that Ms. Sasamoto's "way of photography" never budged through her 70-year career as a photojournalist. "She has seen plenty of roughness, but she kept steadfast and courageous. People feel it through her work", he says.
Tsuneko is now 105 years old, and continues to take her images with an enthusiasm often unknown to people younger than her.
Her latest works include a 2011 photo book called Hyakusai no Finder or Centenarian's Finder. In 2015 Inquisitive Girl, 101 is published, but in the same year the photojournalist was victim of an accident in which the left hand and both legs broke. The injured, of course, would have stopped anyone at this age, but not Tsuneko.
She has in fact continued his professional activity, and she is now undergoing rehab while photographing flowers for a project titled "Hana Akari," or "Flower Glow," a tribute to friends who have passed away.
"In my own way I believe man and flowers are deeply correlated. As I think of my dear friends, I want to relate each one of them with flowers and let flowers deliver them my appreciation, impression…." she tells.
Determined not to be discouraged by the difficulties of physical recovery, despite her age, she managed to regain much of the functionality of broken limbs.
Interviewed by NHK, she explained her longevity secret:
"You should never become lazy. It's essential to remain positive about your life and never give up. You need to push yourself and stay aware, so you can move forward."
Below, a video shows the photographer who tells her life:
Geisha School, 1951:
Politician Inejiro Asanuma, 1955:
Antarctic ship Soya, 1956:
Soho Tokutomi, 1957:
Sources: NHK, Zaikeinews. Images from Web.
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Beastmaster - L'occhio di Braxus (Beastmaster III - The Eye of Braxus) è un film per la televisione statunitense del 1996 diretto da Gabrielle Beaumont.

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Home » Blogs » john's blog » The 12th Triennial Indo-Pacific Conference, 1-6 Nov 2013 from Dr Olga Gostin Adelaide
In presenting a brief summary of this engaging and profoundly moving conference, I have chosen to focus on those aspects that seem to me most relevant to our commitment as TOS members. Indeed, the conference had "Practising Theosophy" as its overarching theme, a delightfully ambiguous title that invited either an exploration of the tenets of theosophy, or the exploration of theosophy 'in action'. Not surprisingly, most talks straddled both nuances.
In his opening address entitled 'Actorless Action' Ravi Ravindra reminded us that humans are essentially social beings and that our task is to engage in conscious, mindful action and interaction with others. Paradoxically, however, he pointed out that since we cannot foretell the outcome of action, we should not expect or demand 'right' action from others. Instead, we should act with focused awareness, remaining free from attachment to the fruits of our actions, or indeed from expecting any outcome at all. In a final salvo Ravi Ravindra warned us against delaying action while seeking perfect motivation. The important thing is to start action from where we currently are.
Vic Hao Chin's talk 'Mainstreaming Theosophy' addressed the vast societal changes that have occurred since the TS was founded in 1875, and the ensuing need to redefine our vision of theosophy. Whereas the ageless wisdom continues to offer us a pathway through individual transformation, he sees this as a necessary step to larger-scale social transformation where theories are translated into practice. Thus he suggested that it is imperative to engage with and harness the power of social media and websites to create a so- called theosophical academy, which would promulgate and popularise the premises of theosophy. (This was also the focus of Pedro Oliviera's interactive talk on 'Challenges and opportunities in making Theosophy more widely known').
Such engagement, however, is but the necessary foundation for practical action in pressing social issues, be they of an educational, political or other social context. As examples of such practical theosophy he spoke of the ethos and values inculcated at the Golden Link schools in the Philippines, as well as TS engagement at the government's request, in providing peace education for soldiers engaged in sectarian warfare. Vic Hao Chin provided us with a blueprint for action:
1. Identify key ideas or social issues that need to be addressed.
2. Develop an appropriate transformative self- preparation or training of those who would be engaged in social action.
3. Act with synergy and determination within the context of long-term planning and commitment.
4. Start small, but start. Be ready for failure, and start again.
Several speakers expanded on the themes outlined above. In his talk entitled 'Practising Theosophy: Knowing and Being', S. Sundaram spoke passionately about the need to internalise theosophical values in order to live not just 'side by side' but together, actively and consciously. Only such internal transformation will ensure proper relations with others, and enable us to address some of the pressing problems before us. Brother Sundaram posited a progression in which heart and head combine in a threefold engagement with others through sensitivity, commitment and social action.
In a symposium on the relationship between TOS and TS Vicky Jerome reviewed the history of the TOS, reminding us that Annie Besant originally launched it as the Theosophical Society Order of Service, with widespread engagement in education (especially of women) and political activism based on inner transformation through action. This point was concisely summarised by Jean Carroll in her three-step journey of progression from Awareness to Action and Altruism. There need be no dichotomy between spiritual engagement and social action. This was powerfully illustrated by Rosal Santos' talk on broad-ranging and dynamic practical initiatives in the Philippines. Two other presentations focused on detailed regional accounts of theosophy in action: Isis de Resende blew our minds with the breadth and energy of theosophical activism in Brazil; while Ng Ay Na spoke about theosophy in Malaysia.
In addition to the topics discussed above, there were four historical presentations: Dianne Kynaston reviewed the evolution of the TS in the participating countries of the Indo-Pacific Federation; Michelle de Jong attempted to unravel for us the complex Hindu-Buddhist history of Bali, starting with the exile of the Majapahit kingdom to Bali following the coming of Islam to Java; S. Sundaram outlined the evolution of the TS in India, while Sanne Chong presented a fascinating insight into theosophical engagement in China under the almost solo activism of one Dr Wu Ting Fang in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
In conclusion I must repeat that I have limited this brief review to those presentations that I thought might be most appropriate for our TOS publication. In the end, of course, this is a silly point of demarcation as the whole tenet of the conference was that true theosophists express their internalised spirituality through action. How could I then not have addressed Ravi Ravindra's two other talks: 'Knowledge and the state of unknowing' and 'Mindfulness in action and mindlessness in love'? Or Vic Hao Chin's. The power of awareness' and Linda Oliviera's 'Discovering the diamond: inner disarmament'? The answer is simple: I did what I could in the space allocated! It was a wonderful conference and I thank Jean for the opportunity to reflect and share with those unable to attend.
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"Animal Rights"
Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.
Douglas Wolk
March 14, 1997 1:00AM (UTC)
you can't claim that Moby is unwilling to take risks. Having made a name for himself as the techno hero with a face (a straight-edge Christian vegan techno hero, no less), the former Richard Hall is now turning his attention to rock -- a move anticipated by tracks like "All That I Need Is To Be Loved" on 1995's "Everything Is Wrong." But if you take risks, you also have to be willing to fall on your nose. Ambitious, cleverly produced, long-anticipated by his fans, "Animal Rights" finds Moby falling on his nose so hard it's a wonder the cartilage hasn't been driven into his brain. "Animal Rights" is a catastrophe on almost every level, a record so howlingly awful it suggests that he completely misses the point of, well, music involving electric guitars.
In fact, it's so bad it's instructive. Great rock is visceral, and its immediacy and power is what Moby is reaching for here. But even at its dopiest, great rock has a certain depth and ambiguity that's utterly absent from "Animal Rights" (so named because, duh, Moby wants us to know that he supports animal rights). Most of the album's first half is a noncomprehending stab at hard-core punk; though Moby was in an actual speed-metal band, the Vatican Commandos, way back when, these songs are weirdly sterile, devoid of surprises or real energy. Moby's voice is rangeless and characterless -- when he screams, you can't imagine he's breaking a sweat -- and what he uses it for is worse. "When you're fuckin' me it powers up my soul," he sings on "Heavy Flow," and the words don't get much better than that.
The centerpiece of "Animal Rights" is a cover of Mission of Burma's underground rock classic "That's When I Reach For My Revolver." The original is rich and complex, a gradual eruption of welled-up bitterness. Moby's version is just loud. He steamrollers over its subtleties and doesn't bother getting the trickier chords right. He also blows the words rather significantly. The last verse of M.O.B.'s version goes "Tonight the sky is empty/But that is nothing new/Its dead eyes look upon us/And they tell me we're nothing but slaves" -- a profound expression of religious doubt. Moby's version isn't just non-doubting, it's meaningless: "Now that the sky is empty/And that is nothing new/Instead they look upon us/When they tell me we're nothing but slaves" (actually, that last word could be "saved"). As Jimi Hendrix didn't sing, "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."
That's followed by a 10-minute instrumental mantra, "Alone," which is a rather lovely retread of Moby's rather lovely signature instrumental mantra, "Go!" It only serves to throw into sharp relief the mind-boggling awfulness of the subsequent 10-minute lighter-waver-wannabe, "Face It." As its "climactic" guitar solo drags on for five Godforsaken minutes, it goes from unbearable to actively hilarious. Then there's "Living," which starts out as an inoffensive soundtrack-guitar-instrumental and gradually becomes a brainless plummet into "Hey Jude" territory. By the time "Animal Rights" ends, it has carved itself a place in the Mount Rushmore of rock 'n' roll misfires. Maybe somebody should try to convince Moby that guitars are actually made out of dead animals.
Douglas Wolk is the author of the books "Reading Comics" and "James Brown's Live at the Apollo," and has contributed to a variety of periodicals, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and The Believer.
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Today, we will look at our signals for the day. We are Friday 02nd of October. I still remind that the hour of the station is based on London time and so are our signals. Be careful not to be confused with that. At first it may disturb.
You see it was given bearish earlier today. We had a brief release at 12:16 pm. I mark them in live. We will try to be accurate. You see that the signals are given in advance.
If you are a member of the private group, you know this pdf document that is sent to you every night. And you see that the signal at 12:16 pm worked very well. It was not given with a high probability of occurrence, that means only 65%, but here we have the confirmation with this beautiful shooting star. In any case, it is the spirit of a shooting star. This is because we are not there.
I say that because the shooting star is always on the highests. Here, we had to play the rebounds of course.
As we are in a downtrend, we should obviously avoid to get in front of the market. You know that markets are not falling all the time and don't rise continuously. There are phases of stops and flat consolidations phases. For now, we will wait for our future signals : 03:55 pm and 05:16 pm that are given bearish with strong realisation probability.
This is certainly an end of wave, I think it will happen. So, we will be looking for the lowest. I also wanted to show you what we have on our rebound.
We have our MT4 indicator, a station which is also interesting. These are exactly the same signals that are given, in advance of course, by the indicator. The signals are continually updated and it is not an indicator that repaints.
I remind you that everything is given in advance, everything is calculated in advance. You have the lines of price and time. It is something extremely powerful. I am showing it because it will soon be available for people who want to subscribe. There is a version that is still in the testing phase.
You can also see that our price lines worked incredibly well here. All intermediate price lines that are crossed, it is a very simple rule : it means we will look for the next one. And if you cross here with the price, you have something extremely powerful. I think we will soon look for the lowests.
There are movements showing us that we are certainly in the middle of an announce. So, because of this, we must wait. When it is like that, we can expect traps for sellers! You see that it is also important to look at economic announcements. There must have been many people who suffered here.
That is the reason why, when I have no time signal, I just do not trade. And now, we take into account economic announces more often in our signals.
We retrieved some signals because they fell at the same time. So, it is better to be there on those shots. I give you an appointment later on because, I might do a video for the 2 strong signals (in the probabilities rate) 03:55 pm and 05:16 pm. So, I'll see you later.
See you soon, be cautious !


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Возникновение редуцированных гласных в праславянском языке — праславянское фонетическое изменение, заключающееся в переходе кратких *ĭ и *ŭ в редуцированные гласные, традиционно обозначаемые как ь и ъ.

Качество редуцированных
Традиционно ь и ъ рассматриваются как редуцированные гласные, что получило отражение в терминологии: «иррациональные гласные», «полугласные», «шепотные гласные», «гласные неполного образования», «сверхкраткие», «редуцированные», «глухие гласные», , , , .

А. Лескин и В. Вондрак считали, что ъ соответствовал звуку в  «птица» (), а ь — звуку в  «думаю» ().

Р. Ф. Брандт полагал, что ъ звучал как первый звук в  (), а ь как первый звук в  ().

Примеры
  > , ,  «туман».
  > ,  «дочь».

Хронология

Абсолютная хронология
Ю. В. Шевелёв датирует возникновение редуцированных временем около 800 года н. э. З. Штибер помещает возникновение редуцированных после VII века и полагает, что в IX веке они уже присутствовали в фонетической системе праславянского языка. М. Шекли относит это событие к временному интервалу между 800 и 850 годами н. э.

В ранних финских славянизмах мы находим на месте редуцированных i и u:

 *lъžьka >  «ложка»;
 *okъno > диал.  «окно»;
 *tъska >  «боль, мука»;
 *tolkъno >  «толокно»;
 *krьstъ >  «крест»;
 *dъxorь «хорёк» >  «норка».

Это, по мнению З. Штибера, говорит о том, что в эпоху первых финно-славянских контактов праславянские *i и *u сохраняли своё первоначальное качество. С. Б. Бернштейн возражает, что в этом случае мы сталкиваемся с субституцией отсутствующих в финском языке редуцированных близкими им звуками i и u. З. Штибер, однако, считает, что редуцированные были звуками среднего ряда, и при субституции были бы заменены на e и o.

Редуцированные в древнерусских заимствованиях из финно-угорских языков:

  > *Vьlьjędь > ;
  «чёрный» > ;
  «Швеция» > ;
  > *pъrě >  «парус».

Славянизмы, содержащие редуцированные, в румынском:

 sъto «сто» > sutǎ;
 stьklo «стекло» > sticlǎ;
 metъla «метла» > mǎturǎ (диал. meturǎ).

Примечания

Литература
 Чекман В. Н. Исследования по исторической фонетике праславянского языка. — Минск: Наука и техника, 1979. — С. 175—213.
 Shevelov G. Y. A Prehistory of Slavic. — Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1964. — P. 432—465.

Праславянский язык
Гласные


Professor Richard Feinman is a biochemist who came late to nutrition. He was shocked by the poor quality of the science he found there. HIUK asked him about the background to his paper summarised in another post published here today – Twelve reasons why diabetes charities should ditch the low fat diet. It calls for a major U-turn on the diet diabetics are advised to follow.
HIUK/ You have been a consistent advocate of the low-carbohydrate diet which is the major challenge to orthodox dietary advice. How did you get involved? Presumably you once believed the mainstream view. What changed?
So, I used low-carbohydrate diets as a unifying principle. The theory behind such diets is that carbohydrate is the major stimulus for secretion of insulin. Insulin is a kind of global hormone. It is primarily anabolic, that is, a building-up hormone, stores fat and glycogen and increases protein synthesis. In this way insulin controls most aspects of metabolism and is a good unifying thread in teaching and, practically, it bears on obesity and diabetes which is of obvious importance in medical school.
I didn't think of this as particularly controversial, so when I became involved in in research I was surprised to find that, not only was it not mainstream, but much of the nutrition and medical community was totally opposed to it. Instead they mounted a rabid defense of low-fat and calorie-lowering diets, while portraying fat as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Now I had worked in blood coagulation which is related to cardiovascular disease but the science is very specialized so I had not really paid much attention to the so-called diet-heart hypothesis – the idea that fat, particularly saturated fat, raises cholesterol which, in turn, causes heart disease.
I was suspicious of such an idea because biology tends to run on hormones and enzymes, that is, control mechanisms, not on mass action (the idea that chemical processes run on how much stuff you put into them). However I hadn't questioned the hypothesis very deeply. But when I began to look at the evidence, I had a great surprise. If the field is not totally bogus, it is pretty close.
HIUK/ What did you do? How did your colleagues respond?
RF/ I just wrote what I knew. My immediate colleagues were supportive but did not have a great interest in the subject. In the scientific world, I naturally sought out researchers working on low carbohydrate diets but apart from them scientists in nutrition and in medicine were actually quite hostile, sometimes in person. Our first paper in this field was rejected with incredibly dumb reviewer comments.
I am still astounded more than insulted that, several years ago, the session chair at a medical conference, shouted me down for asking, to an audible gasp from the audience, why we keep recommending low cholesterol given its limited effect on plasma cholesterol. Because your body makes cholesterol, it is hard to regulate levels solely by intake.
The problem is that the panels which make health recommendations and the "usual suspects" who speak at every conference do not represent everybody's thinking. Many physicians use low-carbohydrate diets to treat obesity and especially diabetes but are unlikely to have the time to fight with the American Diabetes Association, even if they wanted to.
HIUK/ Do you treat patients and if so how do they respond? Do some do better on low fat others on low carb?
RF/ I am not a health-care provider but many people do send me emails and the like. Naturally, those who have success with low-carb diets – especially if they've not benefited from following the low fat food pyramid – are the ones most likely to contact me, so I can't say if it is the best diet for everybody. But a very large number do well with it and the big failure of the medical establishment is in not offering it seriously as one of the options.
Low-carbohydrate diets are primarily therapeutic. We describe it as the "default" diet for diabetes and metabolic syndrome, the one to try first. I personally don't think that there is a best diet for everybody. Evolution favored adaptability. At least half of the population may be obese or overweight but that means that even with all of the advertising and carbohydrates ubiquitous presence, almost half are not overweight or obese. Many people do fine with a high carbohydrate intake. As the Pope says, who am I to say no?
HIUK/ So why is the nutritional establishment so firmly wedded to the low fat diet? Is it simply commercial interest plus professional inertia? How accurate is the reporting of low fat research?
RF/ I worked in protein chemistry and blood coagulation at the (U.S.) National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for 18 or 19 years. The Institute didn't fund all my grants and some decisions involved more politics than science but that's normal – science is a human activity. However people in general did try to acknowledge their own prejudices and the system largely ran on merit.
The difference when I got into nutrition was shocking; the standards of the entrenched establishment were far removed from serious science. I don't know what the motivations are. People say it is drug money but I am inclined toward psychological explanations: group think and refusal to admit mistakes.
There is a fundamental problem with the way nutritional research is carried out and reported. Both medical journals and the media continue to report group statistics and percentages and relative risk. But nobody loses and average amount of weight. We need to be told how many people lost weight on each diet and how much.
Similarly, knowing there was a 30 % decrease in mortality (relative risk) is not much help if it turns out that only 10 vs 13 out of 1000 people died (absolute risk). Combine this with a lack of basic common sense and the result is that we are not getting good information.
For instance, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine will report a 30 % decline in heart disease on a Mediterranean Diet but when you look at the absolute differences between the diets studied it is about 2 % and since the specific details of what the diets involved and how they were recorded are often missing, we don't really learn anything at all. Everybody knows that reporting relative risk is not informative but they keep doing it. If you want to double your chances of winning the lottery, I suggest you buy two tickets instead of one.
It is impossible to tell if the frequent reports of failures and errors in the current advice – that there never really was any evidence that saturated fat is bad; that diabetes drugs have a growing catalogue of serious side effects- will translate into any real change. The fact that the low carb diet is a serious alternative to the drugs must be a factor.
To make change happen we need authoritative guidance. We need high level hearings in which all the players are in the room. It is likely that only Congress has the scope and nominal disinterest in carrying this out but I am afraid that I agree with Mark Twain that there is no organization so despicable that it doesn't have some saving grace, with the possible exception of the United States Congress.
RF/ I think that there will be some real progress. We chose those features of carbohydrate restriction that are the least controversial for our review: nothing is as effective as carbohydrate restriction for reducing high blood glucose the major diagnostic feature and cause of symptoms and there is a reliable reduction in medication. Nothing is better than low-carb for weight loss but the real plus is that you don't have to lose weight to see the benefit in blood glucose control and cardiovascular risk factors. This is a real plus in that is hard to lose weight for many people on any diet. We specifically made it clear that the burden of proof is on anybody who wants to go against such obvious data.
There is already a certain amount of what I call "slouching toward low-carb." The most recent long-winded recommendations from the American Diabetes Association emphasized "individualization" although there were no indications of what different individuals are supposed to do. While it is really no recommendation at all, it is a step up from recommending high carbohydrate. Despite the dogged resistance of most of the medical journals, the message will get out — we are most grateful to the editor of Nutrition for giving our paper a fair shake. So, the individual dieter and diabetes patient will have access to a lot of information. Overall, as in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," we'll see.


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A Tribute to Our Indispensable Heroes
The events of the past couple of weeks have emphasized in a new way how much we as Americans owe our everyday heroes--the loyal public servants who, mostly without applause or recognition, run the business of our government and create and maintain a stable and functional system. That they have, for the most part, managed to keep government on an even keel even in the face of extraordinary threats to the fundamental structures of our democracy is a tribute to their loyalty, their dedication, and their quiet competence.
Now, as a former government employee myself, I'm well aware of their public reputation--the jokes about their incompetence and laziness, the strident (and completely inaccurate) claims that they're "overpaid." And as a former government employee I can say that that reputation is justified in the case of some government employees. Certainly the federal bureaucracy is not the most efficient or effective organization business-wise, and there are many flaws in the system.
But I can say with certainty, from my contacts with numerous government employees, both as a government employee and a contractor, that the vast majority of the federal employees I have encountered are dedicated to the work they do--considering it a mission more than just a job--a mission to serve the people of this country to the best of their ability. They are proud of the work they do, and determined to do the best job they can, even in the face of daunting obstacles.
This dedication was nowhere better exemplified than in the courage and integrity of two career State Department employees with decades of exemplary service to this country, who defied Trump's ban and agreed to testify regarding the corrupt and self-serving actions of the President and his cabal. Actions that now appear, almost certainly, to meet the constitutional threshold for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
These two brave diplomats have defied Trump, despite his demonstrated war on State Department career officials. According to the New York Times, "The administration has sought all along to minimize the role of career officials. In the foreign service, 45 percent of the 166 ambassadors serving under Mr. Trump are political appointees chosen based on loyalty and campaign contributions, the highest rate in history, according the American Foreign Service Association.
"As a result, there has been an exodus from public service. According to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan organization, the Trump administration lost nearly 1,200 senior career service employees in its first 18 months — roughly 40 percent more than during President Barack Obama's first 18 months in office.
"But now more are speaking out. In a letter to Mr. Pompeo this week, 36 former foreign service officers complained that he had 'failed to protect civil servants from political retaliation,' citing in particular Ms.Yovanovitch, who was removed as ambassador to Ukraine after being targeted by Mr. Trump's allies.
"'The politicization of our diplomatic corps and the erosion of the values of our oath of office,' they wrote, 'will make us more susceptible to the personal interests of an elite few, at the direct cost of our national security.' https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/politics/trump-deep-state-impeachment.html
Despite, or perhaps because of Trump's overt hostility, Marie Yovanovitch and William Taylor, and several others, were willing to risk their illustrious careers to testify in defiance of the Administration's orders. Examining the careers and characters of these officials explains why.
Regarding Marie Yovanovitch, Time Magazine explained, "Yovanovitch, a State Department employee for 33 years who also led U.S. embassies in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, is well known in diplomatic circles for her measured demeanor and diligence in representing both Republican and Democratic administrations, former colleagues said. "She is 'a top-notch diplomat, careful, meticulous, whip smart,' and unlikely to have badmouthed Trump, either to Ukrainian officials or her colleagues, said John Herbst, a predecessor as ambassador in Ukraine who worked alongside Yovanovitch there in the early 2000s.
"That reputation is all but impossible to square with what some view as a smear campaign, capped by the Trump administration's removal of Yovanovitch from her post in May. The move came as Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer, pushed Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump rival Joe Biden and his son. The former New York mayor labeled Yovanovitch a political hack bent on undermining those efforts, charges that apparently resonated with Trump." https://time.com/5698930/marie-yovanovitch-former-us-envoy-ukraine/
As for William Taylor, Bloomberg reported, "As he recounted in his opening statement, Taylor has served the United States for fifty years, "starting as a cadet at West Point, then as an infantry officer for six years, including with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam," then at the Department of Energy, the U.S. Senate, and NATO. He then became a Foreign Service officer at the State Department, and served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and twice in Ukraine—as the U.S. Ambassador, from 2006 to 2009, and, from June of this year, when he replaced Yovanovitch, as the interim chargé d'affaires.
Bloomberg explained that "Taylor has much on the line. He jeopardized his career by speaking out, and by defying White House orders not to cooperate with Democrats managing the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry. But he made it clear in his testimony what motivates him: He sees Ukraine as a promising and important U.S. ally and a bulwark against Russian aggression in Eastern Europe. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/bill-taylor-s-testimony-deals-trump-a-crushing-impeachment-blow?srnd=premium
In the magazine Salon, a childhood friend of Bill Taylor gave a fundamental explanation of who Taylor is: "The question on everyone's lips all week has been, what makes a guy like Bill Taylor do the right thing? The answer I've got for you is this: That's who he is. He's one of the most careful, conservative guys I've ever known, in the best and most real sense of the word 'conservative.' He took the West Point motto, 'Duty, Honor, Country' seriously. He took the West Point honor code seriously. He took his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States seriously. I've known him since we were in high school, and he's never wavered in all these years.
"When I was growing up, there was one question my father used to ask me and my brother when we were at the dinner table and said someone was bullied at school, or a kid had used racist language, or a teacher had acted unjustly to another kid in class. 'Did you stand up?' our father would ask us, hardly looking up from his plate. The rule in our house was, when you were asked that question, you had better be ready to answer in the affirmative.
"Our fathers were classmates at West Point. They lived by the West Point motto and honor code, too. I'd be willing to bet Bill Taylor was asked the same question by his father at the dinner table. And I'll bet I know his answer." https://www.salon.com/2019/10/26/who-is-bill-taylor-ive-known-the-guy-who-rocked-capitol-hill-this-week-for-50-years/
That answer would apply equally to Ambassador Yovanovitch and all the other courageous government officials who have had the courage to "stand up," at the risk of their reputations, their careers and their livelihoods. Thank God for them!


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