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Oakland chocolate brand promises quality, wellbeing
By Marthine Satris Nov. 19, 2014, 10 a.m. December 6, 2017
New Oakland company Endorfin Chocolat focuses on the cacao bean's natural flavors combined with herbs that "benefit or modulate the health of the body" such as wormwood and ginger. Photo: Endorfin Chocolat
By Marthine Satris
It's hard to imagine that many chocolatiers start off by confessing, "I actually never really liked chocolate." Brian Wallace, the founder of new Oakland-based Endorfin Chocolat, hastens to add, however, that it's because, growing up, he basically had sugar and milk with chocolate flavoring, "not real chocolate."
That difference — between "chocolate" and chocolate — is the energy that drives Wallace's sustainably sourced, herb-infused creations. From Ghirardelli to Scharffen Berger, the Bay Area has long led the way in the craft of chocolate. As we learn more and more about how our food choices affect not only our bodies but the world we live in, confectionary innovators like Wallace are offering sophisticated chocolates that strive to combine flavor, quality, and ethics.
Wallace is also an ethnobotanist, and his study of the human uses of naturally occurring plants led him back to chocolate, despite his youthful aversion. A cottage industry of passionate advocates for the healthful qualities of chocolate has sprung up in the East Bay. These alternative, small-scale chocolatiers — including the Oakland Chocolate Company and Coracao Confections — are revising our understanding of chocolate. We may know by now that dark chocolate is a superfood that's good for our hearts and our blood pressure. But does that mean we have to skip the Nutella and chew on unsweetened raw chocolate?
Endorfin supports cacao harvesting practices that do not contribute to Amazonian deforestation, and avoids sourcing chocolate from West Africa, where most cacao is grown. Photo: Endorfin Chocolat
Wallace wants to demonstrate the pleasure of the chocolate bean's natural flavors, especially when combined with what he describes as herbs and roots that "benefit or modulate the health of the body," including wormwood and ginger. Chocolate should never be a chore, so the spoonfuls of coconut sugar added to Wallace's vegan chocolate keeps these bars firmly in the "treat" category.
Despite the legal hurdles that have dissuaded many idealistic boot-strappers, Wallace has found support in the community of like-minded health and food activists in Oakland. He is committed to the ethos of a local economy, and has been able to learn from and grow alongside the many local, small-batch chocolatiers benefiting from the Bay Area's enthusiasm for locavore food.
Endorfin makes delicate vegan chocolate bars flavored with ancient recipes for tonics to improve overall wellbeing. Community Supported Chocolate is the company's subscription line that includes drinking chocolate, truffles, as well as flavored nut butters and Endorfin's infused chocolates.
Wallace explains that he uses only unroasted chocolate (not technically raw, since in the necessary fermentation process, the temperature of the bean can reach more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit). This allows for the preservation of many healthy properties, as well as of the subtle range of flavors innate in chocolate.
Endorfin uses unroasted heirloom cacao, low-glycemic sweeteners, and exotic botanicals and supplements to make its chocolate. Photo: Endorfin
"Some people say that roasting develops the chocolaty flavor, and I think that it develops a certain set of chocolaty flavors, and diminishes other ones," Wallace says. He has developed several flavors intended to do more than just satisfy the tongue: his Buddha Belly dark chocolate bar brings together the heat of ginger, the aromatics of cardamom, and the clean flavor of licorice.
While Bay Area foodies might be blasé about cinnamon combined with chocolate, or even chocolate studded with chilies, Endorfin Chocolat's blending of herbal flavors into chocolate strikes a new chord.
Eating an Endorfin chocolate bar reminds you that chocolate is a plant product, like wine or beer or coffee, and that one can appreciate the food's complexity instead of just scarfing it down. Wallace said he chooses flavors carefully to highlight the changes we taste as chocolate crosses the tongue. While we might think "sugar" when we hear "chocolate," a carefully manipulated chocolate also releases elements of sourness and bitterness, which are becoming more popular with American palates these days.
Wallace's bars, including the herby, chewy Absinthe and intense Turkish Coffee flavors, distill plant-based chemicals into complementary flavors that don't compromise on pleasure. It's akin to the pleasure derived from a very good cocktail rather than the rush of a shot.
Beyond simply bringing unexpected flavors together, Wallace also hopes to use his chocolates to open customers' eyes to the story of the food that we eat. He cooperates with other local, small-batch chocolate makers to purchase ethically sourced cacao beans, which are wild-harvested in Ecuador. Each of his herbs and other plant-based flavors is carefully researched to source that those that are environmentally sustainable and respectful of the laborers.
Endorfin founder Brian Wallace leads a chocolate workshop. Photo: Endorfin
The Endorfin founder explains that he came to study chocolate-making only after immersing himself in the science and ecology of the cacao trees.
"I needed to be out there, harvesting from the tree. Once I knew the plants, I decided to invest myself in going to chocolate school."
Wallace now wants to spread that knowledge. He excitedly describes the new packaging he envisions for his 1.5 ounce bars, which would allow the buyer to open a cardboard envelope to reveal both the chocolate and the stories of the bar's ingredients. He wears his chef's hat and his educator hat simultaneously.
Wallace is determined to be as ethical as possible in everything from packaging to distribution, which means that his bars aren't cheap, starting at $5, but he points out that they are fairly priced, considering the choices made at each stage. For instance, along with supporting harvesting practices that do not contribute to Amazonian deforestation, Wallace also avoids sourcing any chocolate from West Africa, where most chocolate is grown. Instead, he supports foragers and wild harvesters in cacao's native Amazonian and Andean environments. As was revealed by the 2010 documentary The Dark Side of Chocolate, the giant cacao farms in Western Africa frequently rely on child labor and human trafficking to keep their prices down, and most mainstream, big brand chocolate comes from those farms. Thanks to a greater awareness about these practices, many smaller producers are turning to South American cacao instead.
Wallace is ramping up production of Endorfin Chocolates and his Community Supported Chocolate deliveries this month, and to do so, he's turned to loans from Kiva and is also beginning a Kickstarter drive which he says will allow him to create "sustainable, frustration-free" packaging for wholesale distribution.
Chocolate is necessarily a global product, but Wallace and other local, small-scale makers still emphasize community and one-to-one connections. There is a link of trust between the consumer and the small-scale producer. If you buy vegetables through a CSA, you have a direct connection to a local farm, and Wallace wants to be the trustworthy conduit between chocolate eater and cacao grower.
For Wallace, chocolate is a connection of an individual to the world around them. "Chocolate is the gateway into understanding what you are putting in your body," he said. Because it's so common we think we know all about it already – but there's so much more to learn.
Some Enforfin chocolate is currently available at Oaktown Spice Shop and Five Flavors Herbs, both in Oakland, at the Jack London Square farmers market on Sundays, and at the Endofin Chocolat online shop. Wallace said he hopes more local stores will carry the chocolate brand by the new year.
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DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled
Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years.
The action, dubbed "Operation Power Off," targeted WebStresser.org (previously Webstresser.co), one of the most active services for launching point-and-click distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. WebStresser was one of many so-called "booter" services — virtual hired muscle that anyone can rent to knock nearly any website or Internet user offline.
Webstresser.org (formerly Webstresser.co), as it appeared in 2017.
"The damage of these attacks is substantial," reads a statement from the Dutch National Police in a Reddit thread about the takedown."Victims are out of business for a period of time, and spend money on mitigation and on (other) security measures."
In a separate statement released this morning, Europol — the law enforcement agency of the European Union — said "further measures were taken against the top users of this marketplace in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Hong Kong." The servers powering WebStresser were located in Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, according to Europol.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency said WebStresser could be rented for as little as $14.99, and that the service allowed people with little or no technical knowledge to launch crippling DDoS attacks around the world.
Neither the Dutch nor U.K. authorities would say who was arrested in connection with this takedown. But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, the administrator of WebStresser allegedly was a young man in Serbia named Jovan Mirkovic.
Mirkovic, who went by the hacker nickname "m1rk," also used the alias "Mirkovik Babs" on Facebook where for years he openly discussed his role in programming and ultimately running WebStresser. The last post on Mirkovic's Facebook page, dated April 3 (the day before the takedown), shows the young hacker sipping what appears to be liquor while bathing. Below that image are dozens of comments left in the past few hours, most of them simply, "RIP."
Tuesday's action against WebStresser is the latest such takedown to target both owners and customers of booter services. Many booter service operators apparently believe (or at least hide behind) a wordy "terms of service" agreement that all customers must acknowledge, under the assumption that somehow this absolves them of any sort of liability for how their customers use the service — regardless of how much hand-holding and technical support booter service administrators offer customers.
In October the FBI released an advisory warning that the use of booter services — also called "stressers" — is punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and may result in arrest and criminal prosecution.
In 2016, authorities in Israel arrested two 18-year-old men accused of running vDOS, until then the most popular and powerful booter service on the market. Their arrests came within hours of a story at KrebsOnSecurity that named the men and detailed how their service had been hacked.
Many in the hacker community have criticized authorities for targeting booter service administrators and users and for not pursuing what they perceive as more serious cybercriminals, noting that the vast majority of both groups are young men under the age of 21. In its Reddit thread, the Dutch Police addressed this criticism head-on, saying Dutch authorities are working on a new legal intervention called "Hack_Right," a diversion program intended for first-time cyber offenders.
"Prevention of re-offending by offering a combination of restorative justice, training, coaching and positive alternatives is the main aim of this project," the Dutch Police wrote. "See page 24 of the 5th European Cyber Security Perspectives and stay tuned on our THTC twitter account #HackRight! AND we are working on a media campaign to prevent youngsters from starting to commit cyber crimes in the first place. Expect a launch soon."
In the meantime, it's likely we'll sooner see the launch of yet another booter service. According to reviews and sales threads at stresserforums[dot]net — a marketplace for booter buyers and sellers — there are dozens of other booter services in operations, with new ones coming online almost every month.
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Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global works on building capacities and awareness through seminars, courses, workshops and educational programs.
• Membership in the Global Compact, a United Nations initiative of a voluntary nature that helps in building the welfare of societies. •Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Portable Computer Initiative (TAGITOP), the first of its type for cognitive learning.
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• A package of professional services to improve the role and performance of Jordan News Agency (Petra).
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• Abu-Ghazaleh Arab Youth Initiative: a knowledge-based summit for the youth and an award for innovators.
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Cambridge Centre for IT Skills: contributing the building of knowledge society.
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• E-training Center in Gaza: to provide the youth with electronic knowledge skills.
• Cooperation between TAG.Global and the International Relief Organization: Training hundreds of people in Jordan on entrepreneurship skills.
•Support and train researchers and students and prepare them for the labor market.
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The artisans move quickly with the manual button press and we have to ask them to slow right down to be able to understand how the button is put together; even then, the machine is so quick. We watch closely as Vuong puts a piece of fabric and two shells together in the machine, turning the wheel and pressing them all together until they're a fabric-covered button.
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It is an operation in which the adenoids are removed. Adenoids are lymphatic tissue located at the back of the nose. Large adenoids can block the nasal airway causing mouth breathing, snoring and ear infections.
The operation takes about 30 minutes to an hour. This includes the anaesthetic, the operation and the time spent in the recovery room.
Usually it is a four to six hour stay in hospital following the procedure. This is to monitor your child for any signs of bleeding. An intravenous bung will be left in until your child goes home.
Children under the age of three and those with certain medical conditions may need to stay overnight.
If your child is awake on return to the ward, they can have clear fluids immediately. A light diet will be offered when fully awake.
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The Mauritanian Mineral Train is one of the most epic train rides one can take. This humongous set of train cars – in fact, the longest in the world – can sometimes measure up to 2.5 kilometres and the railway it rolls on is made of a single line of 704 kilometres.
Apart from its size, what is special about it is that the owners, the state agency Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (National Mining and Industrial Company, or SNIM) allows people to jump on the train and use it as a mean of transportation. The train goes from the mine deep inland of Mauritania in Zouerate and carries iron ore to the port of Nouadhibou and then back. Most people ride it until Choum.
It is the experience of a lifetime, blasting through the Sahara without a roof over your head, rocked by the sheer power of the locomotive and spending the night under the starry, pristine sky of the desert. Curious about how to ride it?
The SNIM lets people board the train and use it as transportation, but do not expect any infrastructure around it. There will be no ticket, no food car or conductor to tell you where you are. It is also not bound to a timetable and might leave earlier or later than the usual departure time. It is thus very important to have a local contact who will be able to organize your trip and get the latest updates about the departure.
Likewise, the arrival time is not set in stone and the trip can take anywhere from 9 to 15 hours. The train also makes a few stops on the way, but nobody will call them and the length of time the train will be stopped varies from time to time. For this reason, we highly discourage you from leaving the train at the stops. The train starts very abruptly and you could easily be stranded in the middle of nowhere.
The most important thing to remember is to bring an offline map app (such as maps.me) so you can keep track of your location. Have an offline map because mobile connection in Mauritania is notoriously bad. If travelling inland, you wouldn't want to stay on the train past Choum and end up in Polisario-controlled Western Sahara, illegally leaving Mauritania.
The train can be taken in both directions. You can either drive up to Choum and take it on its way from the mine to the coast, at Nouadhibou, or the other way around. The train usually leaves Choum around 6 pm and Nouadhibou around 4 pm.
Taking it on its way from the mine to the coast means that there will be iron ore on the cars; taking it the other means that the car will be empty.
At YPT, we prefer taking it empty as it offers the best of both worlds. When the car is empty, you can still see the view outside by using the ladders to prop yourself up. However, when you are tired of looking out, you can go down the ladder under the shelter of the walls to either stay under the shade when it is too hot or block some of the wind and sand.
It is also much safer as you are not walking on a soft and uneven surface, but walking on flat metal. You can also place your things flat on the ground and organize the whole car to your liking. If you wanted, you could even pitch a tent in there.
If you are in a group, it is definitely safer to travel in an empty car, as you will all be able to move without having to crawl. In an empty car, 10 people can easily fit and have plenty of room.
This may not be everyone.
We get it: for some strange people, the idea of spending a night in an open mineral ore train car is either not that interesting, or may even be scary. Know that there is one passenger car attached to the end of the train and that it is possible to do the ride from there. However, in our opinion, this is much less enjoyable and even maybe less comfortable than the empty train car.
The passenger car is a car with cabins each containing 6 bunks. Again, this car is just put there by the company to reduce the amount of people in the open cars; nobody actually maintains it. It is extremely dirty, old and crowded with people as the bed and spaces are first come, first serve.
For this reason we felt like the open cars, where you can have a whole car to yourself and a guaranteed view of the desert, with sunset and a moonset (yep, it exists and it is incredible here in the Sahara) is the best choice. One advantage of the passenger car is that it has a washroom, but it is truly nasty.
If you are in the passenger car, you won't sleep much because the ride is still extremely bumpy, warm and noisy. In the open-air car, you'll experience what we tenderly nicknamed the ''sonic booms''. The sonic booms are the tremors and loud noises caused when the cars hit each other. You can expect your whole body to shake and a very loud noise to be caused, at any time. It gets the adrenaline pumping and is definitely a large part of the experience.
Because you won't sleep much, you should have accommodation prepared upon arrival. If you take the train to Nouadhibou, it is not so bad as you will arrive in town in the morning. Heading to Choum, however, will see you getting in at around 3 am. If nobody is picking you up there, you might find the night quite long.
You might think that the desert is always hot, but the truth is that when the sun goes down, the temperature sinks dramatically. And in the wind-chill factor and it gets freezing past midnight. It is therefore essential to bring very warm clothes and blankets with you. Another advantage of the empty car is that you will be able to move around to warm yourself up. You could even bring a thermos of hot drinks for the night or some coal to brew Saharan tea on the spot.
Since you'll have to haul your stuff on the car, you don't want to have big luggage. You can always arrange transportation for your bulky things by car and travel only with a bag containing what you need.
Make sure to bring some food, such as fruits and sandwiches. You don't want to eat too much, as it is not too convenient to make toilet whilst onboard, but you'll definitely be hungry after a few hours.
Bring plenty of water; if you run out, you're out until arrival.
Blankets are a good idea, as mentioned and maybe a mat to make the floor a bit softer.
The ride is long, so you can think about bringing books, cards and games. A good idea would be to bring chalk to draw on the car's walls and fool around.
Bring a fully charged power bank to make sure your phone doesn't run out of power.
The train gets extremely dusty, especially if you ride it when it's loaded up, as it is basically carrying iron dust. You might want to bring trash bags to wrap your bags in so that they don't get too dusty. You could also wear old clothes you don't mind throwing away. To protect your eyes, nose and mouth from the dust, do like the locals do: wrap a scarf around your head and wear sunglasses.
With these few tips in mind, we are sure that you will have the experience of a lifetime riding the mineral train of Mauritania. The scenery is incredible, the adventure will get your blood pumping and, if travelling with friends, good times are bound to happen!
The easiest way to experience the mineral train, however, is surely to join us on our next Saharan Odyssey tour!


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When producers at US network CBS launched a show in 2007 chronicling the lives and dating woes of four nerdy California Institute of Technology scientists and their cute female neighbour, they didn't expect to create one of the biggest television sensations in China.
Yet that's exactly what they did with The Big Bang Theory, a sitcom that has garnered almost 1.3 billion views since appearing on video site Sohu TV in 2009. The socially inept protagonists have found an audience on the mainland, just as it has entered an era of geek culture.
Awkward bookworms such as the male characters in The Big Bang Theoryare becoming more hip in China, or at least more mainstream: one of the mainland's most popular words in 2013 was diaosi, a once-pejorative term for poor, girlfriend-less geeks that translators render as "loser".
In one survey conducted by the mainland internet portal Sohu, over 80 per cent of respondents aged 24 to 34 identified themselves as diaosi.
On Douban, a social media platform for TV and book lovers, a commenter noted that "many diaosi were watching" The Big Bang Theory.
The Guangzhou Daily wrote in an August 2012 review of the sitcom that "we have experienced the life of a diaosi, which is why we see ourselves in The Big Bang Theory".
It may seem odd that young Chinese would label themselves losers, but as non-profit research website Civil China explains, diaosi are different: their status is shaped not by personal failings but "by larger social conditions".
By embracing the moniker, youngsters are implicitly blaming their lack of material, professional or romantic success on problems such as the mainland's low social mobility, a growing gender imbalance, and the high cost of urban living.
College students constitute a healthy portion of The Big Bang Theory's audience, perhaps because more than 90 per cent of all students identify themselves as diaosi. As China's growth slowed, its class of 2013 faced the toughest job market in recent history.
Almost seven million Chinese graduated in 2013, up 300 per cent from 2003. Partly as a result, only 35 per cent of graduating college students had found jobs as of mid-April last year, a 12 per cent drop from 2012, according to an online survey conducted by internet company Tencent and data firm MyCOS.
The relationship challenges that The Big Bang Theory's characters endure also resonate in China, where men outnumbered women by 15 million in 2011, a figure expected to rise to 30 million by 2021.
Even those who do land girlfriends may get no further should they struggle to buy the houses that many see as a prerequisite for marriage, but which are prohibitively expensive. Buying a flat in Beijing is "almost three times as expensive for Chinese as buying a home in New York City is" for US citizens, adjusting for average income, according to Reuters.
The US sitcom's success has not escaped the notice of producers. A popular domestic show called iPartment has translated and adapted entire scenes from the US programme for use in its own plot.
One 2010 web series even went so far as to call itself The New Big Bang Theory. However, a backlash against its slavish repurposing of the beloved US sitcom led producers to cancel it after only two episodes.
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Excerpt from Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, plus links to reviews, author biography & more
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Yeongdo, Busan, Korea
History has failed us, but no matter.
At the turn of the century, an aging fisherman and his wife decided to
take in lodgers for extra money. Both were born and raised in the fishing village of Yeongdo—a five-mile-wide islet beside the port city of Busan. In their long marriage, the wife gave birth to three sons, but only Hoonie, the eldest and the weakest one, survived. Hoonie was born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot; he was, however, endowed with hefty shoulders, a squat build, and a golden complexion. Even as a young man, he retained the mild, thoughtful temperament he'd had as a child. When Hoonie covered his misshapen mouth with his hands, something he did out of habit meeting strangers, he resembled his nice-looking father, both having the same large, smiling eyes. Inky eyebrows graced his broad forehead, perpetually tanned from outdoor work. Like his parents, Hoonie was not a nimble talker, and some made the mistake of thinking that because he could not speak quickly there was something wrong with his mind, but that was not true.
In 1910, when Hoonie was twenty-seven years old, Japan annexed Korea. The fisherman and his wife, thrifty and hardy peasants, refused to be distracted by the country's incompetent aristocrats and corrupt rulers, who had lost their nation to thieves. When the rent for their house was raised again, the couple moved out of their bedroom and slept in the anteroom near the kitchen to increase the number of lodgers.
The wooden house they had rented for over three decades was not large, just shy of five hundred square feet. Sliding paper doors divided the interior into three snug rooms, and the fisherman himself had replaced its leaky grass roof with reddish clay tiles to the benefit of his landlord, who lived in splendor in a mansion in Busan. Eventually, the kitchen was pushed out to the vegetable garden to make way for the larger cooking pots and the growing number of portable dining tables that hung on pegs along the mortared stone wall.
At his father's insistence, Hoonie learned to read and write Korean and Japanese from the village schoolmaster well enough to keep a boardinghouse ledger and to do sums in his head so he couldn't be cheated at the market. When he knew how to do this, his parents pulled him out of school. As an adolescent, Hoonie worked nearly as well as a strong man twice his age with two well-shaped legs; he was dexterous with his hands and could carry heavy loads, but he could not run or walk quickly. Both Hoonie and his father were known in the village for never picking up a cup of wine. The fisherman and his wife raised their surviving son, the neighborhood cripple, to be clever and diligent, because they did not know who would care for him after they died.
If it were possible for a man and his wife to share one heart, Hoonie was this steady, beating organ. They had lost their other sons—the youngest to measles and the middle, good-for-nothing one to a goring bull in a pointless accident. Except for school and the market, the old couple kept young Hoonie close by the house, and eventually, as a young man, Hoonie needed to stay home to help his parents. They could not bear to disappoint him; yet they loved him enough not to dote on him. The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much.
Other families in the land were not so fortunate as to have two such sensible parents, and as happens in countries being pillaged by rivals or nature, the weak—the elderly, widows and orphans—were as desperate as ever on the colonized peninsula. For any household that could feed one more, there were multitudes willing to work a full day for a bowl of barley rice.
In the spring of 1911, two weeks after Hoonie turned twenty-eight, the red-cheeked matchmaker from town called on his mother.
Excerpted from Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Copyright © 2017 by Min Jin Lee. Excerpted by permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Arm is two-way MSU star Troop's path in MLB draft
Left-hander highlights MSU baseball players who could be selected in this week's MLB First-Year Player Draft
Arm is two-way MSU star Troop's path in MLB draft Left-hander highlights MSU baseball players who could be selected in this week's MLB First-Year Player Draft Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2slQbTx
Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press Published 5:31 p.m. ET June 12, 2017 | Updated 4:01 p.m. ET June 13, 2017
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Michigan State pitcher Alex Troop only allowed two hits while striking out 10 in Michigan State's 6-1 win over Michigan on Thursday.(Photo: MSU Athletic Communications)
EAST LANSING – Alex Troop is one of the best two-way players in recent Michigan State baseball history.
However, most big-league teams view his arm as the prize they are seeking in this week's MLB draft.
"He's in a pretty good spot as far as leverage with the draft," MSU coach Jake Boss said. "You could say anywhere from the sixth to the 10th (rounds). Who knows – the draft is such a crazy thing. … It just takes one organization to like a guy."
The draft will open with the first and second rounds tonight. Boss said Troop, a redshirt sophomore, could be selected somewhere between the third and 10th rounds. Those will be held Tuesday, with Rounds 11-40 on Wednesday.
The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Troop is the Spartans' highest-ranked player according to Baseball America at No. 179. Like Mark Mulder and Tony Wieber before him, Troop produced a stellar season on both the mound and at the plate and has pro scouts liking what they saw.
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While playing designated hitter and first base this season, the Batavia, Ill., native hit .321 with 12 RBIs and three home runs in just 81 official at-bats, posting a .531 slugging percentage and a .444 on-base percentage.
But it's as a left-handed pitcher where Troop – who missed most of the 2016 season with a right wrist injury that required surgery – is projected to be an impact should he turn pro. Troop went 8-3 in 14 starts with a 2.47 ERA this season. He struck out 83 and walked 29 in 83 2/3 innings pitched, limiting opposing hitters to a .223 average.
"Alex probably showed more consistency offensively," Boss said of Troop, who is a finalist for the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award, given to the nation's best pitcher/hitter combination. "He was just so good on the mound for us that we really ended up not playing him at first base a whole lot because he was too valuable on the mound. I didn't' want to take any chances of getting him hurt again."
Joining Troop in earning second-team All-Big Ten honors was outfielder Brandon Hughes, who Baseball America considers the 241st-best player in the draft. The 6-2, 215-pound junior from Sterling Heights set MSU's single-season stolen base record with 30 while hitting .330 batting average with 12 doubles, five homers and 35 RBIs. He also had a .983 fielding percentage while patrolling centerfield.
"I think Hughes is going to have a really good opportunity," Boss said. "He's another one that came as a two-way guy but ended up having some arm issues. We got him healthy, but he was too valuable in centerfield for us to put him back on the mound."
Boss said a number of other Spartans could be taken in the three-day draft. That includes catcher Matt Byars, who was selected in the 24th round by the Minnesota Twins last year before deciding to return for his senior season.
Others include junior right-hander Jake Lowery, redshirt sophomore right-hander Nathan Witt, senior infielder Dan Durkin, senior left-hander Joe Mockbee and senior right-hander Walter Borkovich. Boss also said incoming left-handed pitcher Jesse Heikkinen (Holt) and catcher Adam Proctor (St. Johns) also are on scouts' radar.
"Tuesday and Wednesday could be big days for us," Boss said.
The Spartans have had 25 players drafted under Boss. Of the 14 who were underclassmen, all but pitcher Cam Vieaux, after his redshirt sophomore season in 2015, and Byars, last season, signed pro contracts. Vieaux got taken in the sixth round last year as a junior and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of four MSU underclassmen drafted a year ago.
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How Alicia Keys Gets Her Flawless Makeup-Free Skin
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Alicia Keys attends the Tom Ford Fall 2016 fashion show during New York Fashion Week September 2016 at The Four Seasons on September 7, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)Getty Images
News of Alicia Keys's makeup-free movement has been heard 'round the beauty world, much to the delight of those who felt liberated by it (and to the disdain of those who know that going foundation-free is, well, somewhat of a privilege when you're already at the top of your game and in a position of power.) When we see Keys on The Voice or the red carpet, we see her dewy, flawless complexion, and we know that even with exceptional genes, a lot of work—and money—can go into maintaining that.
In a recent interview with W, the music star's makeup artist, Dotti, detailed how exactly Keys maintains her healthy glow, and her routine has a distinct holistic bent to it. "Alicia gets regular facials, does acupuncture, and she eats healthy and exercises," she said. "She knows you have to invest internally for your skin to look great externally. It's also about how you process your energy. She comes from a very strong place and she comes from a very kind place. That in itself is superimportant. But it's about the choices she's making and the products she's using. It's the work of a good team."
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A facial routine like Keys's isn't as unattainable as it may sound on the surface: Dotti also broke down a few of the methods they're currently using, and get this: It comes down to supersimple ingredients like ice, cucumber, and face oils.
Dotti said they use ice to tighten her skin and bring blood to the surface. Cucumbers are also used to cool irritation, and face oils, as expected, are a "staple" for how they are able to mimic the natural sebum our skin produces on its own but can run short of during drier weather. All of this—plus a few masks here and there, some acupuncture, and good old fashioned get-your-body-moving exercise—keeps Keys looking as healthy as she really is.
Her makeup-free movement is incredibly important in deconstructing so much of the subconscious narrative around makeup. It should be something you choose out of self-expression, not in a desire to cover up who you really are. And Keys's replacement beauty routine is aligned with what she says her intentions are: Keeping it natural, keeping it real, keeping it her. (We couldn't love it more.)
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LG Mobile, Sprint Bring Fairy Tales to Life at LG Viper 4G LTE Launch Event
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"A lot of today's parents work hard on the job then come home to commitments and family demands," said power parent Landry. "It can be easy to fall into the trap of mixing work with family time. That's why it's paramount for busy parents to have a smartphone like LG Viper 4G LTE that is not only dependable, but easily fits into their lifestyle. LG Viper 4G LTE makes its easier for me to stay connected with family, friends and business partners, and its technology and wide variety of useful apps allow me to juggle my personal and professional time in this fast-paced world."
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LG also used this event as a platform to announce the results of a study about parents' use of smartphones. The survey of 2,222 U.S. adults (ages 18 and older) who have children ages 3 through 12 and own a smartphone was commissioned by LG Mobile and conducted online by Harris Interactive. The survey uncovered surprising statistics about parenting and smartphone use:
Smartphones are an integral part of parents' lives—and more than half (57 percent) of all parents surveyed rely on their smartphones to keep them on track. More than two-thirds of these parents who are employed agree having a smartphone enables them to have a better work/life balance.
Smartphones allow parents to stay in touch, but maybe a little too much. 62 percent of parents with smartphones indicate they check or use their smartphone during family time.
Smartphones keep the family connected, but they also keep the family distracted. Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of parents with smartphones surveyed give their smartphone to their children to entertain them.
Parents also are using smartphones to bond with their children. Nearly one-third (27 percent) of parents from the survey indicate they have read a book to their children from a smartphone.
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The sleek, ultra-thin smartphone boasts a 4-inch touchscreen display that is remarkably bright and clear, even in direct sunlight. LG Viper 4G LTE runs on the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system and features a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, WiFi hotspot capabilities and a microSD™ slot that supports up to 32GB. The ideal mobile device for anyone who wants superior performance without giving up personal style, LG Viper 4G LTE makes multitasking a breeze. The smartphone also features a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and VGA front-facing camera, which allows for a fun and easy face-to-face video chat experience with family and friends.
In addition to having the latest technology, LG Viper 4G LTE is ULE Platinum Certified with the highest level of environmental performance recognized by UL Environment and Sprint. LG Viper 4G LTE features a case made of 50 percent recycled plastics and is RoHS compliant, meaning it is free from many potentially hazardous materials such as PVC, phthalates, halogens and mercury. LG Viper 4G LTE also uses soy ink, is packaged in up to 87 percent of post-consumer paper, is made with a glueless construction and is 100 percent recyclable. Included with LG Viper 4G LTE is a charger that only consumes 0.03 watts of power when plugged into a wall socket without being connected to the phone. Unlike other chargers, this device exceeds the EC Code of Conduct on energy efficiency when it comes to no-load consumption.
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Salt Lake County Lifts 'Stay Home' Portion Of Health Order
Apr 17, 2020, 5:42 PM | Updated: 5:46 pm
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson announces changes to the county's public health order on April 17, 2020.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Salt Lake County officials announced the stay home portion of their public health order has been lifted during a press conference on Friday.
Under the revised public health order, county restaurants can open for take-out ordering, as long as proper social distancing protocols are followed.
Large gatherings are still banned under the order and residents were asked to continue maintaining a six-foot distance from others.
Mayor Jenny Wilson said the decision was based on the facts.
"We're starting to feel like, in our data and our information that we're getting in most areas, is strong enough that we can feel comfortable with people going out again," she said.
Wilson highly recommended people take a face mask with them as they move about.
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"We want people to enjoy the outdoors. It's one of the reasons we love living here, but we have to do it with caution," she said.
She also announced county restaurants were allowed to reopen their doors but only for people who are there to pick up their food or place a take-out order.
"No seating inside. No outdoor seating," Wilson emphasized.
She added the restaurants are still expected to enforce six feet of social distancing.
Friday's announcement was aligned with a decision Governor Gary Herbert made as Utah gently stepped into the stabilization phase of responding to the pandemic.
Gary Edwards, executive director of the Salt Lake County Health Department, laid out strict safety rules for the restaurants, saying, "employees need to be wearing a face-covering while working. The establishment needs to set aside clear distinctions of an ordering line and a pickup line."
Edwards said limits must be placed on the number of customers allowed inside and employees who handle cash and credit cards are not allowed to handle or prepare food.
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He strongly recommended employees wear face masks.
Wilson said additional changes are coming soon.
"We are excited to share that we are looking at other areas, we're in the process of evaluating other areas that we will, in the future, be lifting restrictions on — provided the data remains moving in the right direction," she said.
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Waste-to Energy: New Perspective for a Sustainable Transition
Massimo Lombardini
In the past few weeks, the treatment of waste has been receiving increasing attention in the media further to the proposal of the Mayor of Rome to build a large waste-to-energy plant to treat some of the capital's refuse.
Before assessing the Italian situation, we should recall that the treatment of waste, and in particular its conversion into energy, is not happening in a legislative vacuum but it is strictly regulated by European Union laws.
On 2 December 2015, the Commission adopted a Communication announcing an EU action plan for the circular economy. This emphasised that the transition to a circular economy requires: "action throughout the whole of a product life-cycle from production to the creation of markets for secondary (waste-derived) raw material".
The Communication stated that, to be consistent with the EU hierarchy, waste should be ranked according to its sustainability and priority should be given to preventing and recycling waste. However, efforts should also be made to reduce the amount of waste disposed of in landfill facilities. In this respect, energy recovery from waste has a key role to play.
The Communication clarified that, besides incineration for the generation of power and heat, waste-to-energy technologies also include treatments such as anaerobic digestion of biodegradable waste, and the production of solid, liquid or gaseous fuels. The Communication also pointed out that all new installations should ensure full compliance with EU legislation for incineration and co-incineration facilities and in particular with the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EC.
Waste-to-energy to reduce landfilling
Those opposing waste-to-energy installations claim that the ultimate objective of the circular economy should be the complete reuse or recycling of our waste. However, even the most virtuous citiesstill generate approximatly 30% of residual waste, that needs to be treated in one way or another. In other words, while the transition towards a circular economy does require opportunities for reuse and recycling to be maximised, a certain amount of waste which cannot be reused or recycled is likely to remain.
The claim that recycling and energy-to-waste are in competition is therefore fundamentally flawed. The real competition is between land fill disposal and the production of energy from waste. In this respect, it should be recalled that the European Union has adopted the target of reducing the landfilling of waste to 10% by 2035. Data from Eurostat indicates that in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria this objective has already been achieved and only a small percentage of waste still ends up in landfill, with approximately 60% of waste recycled or reused and the remaining part treated in waste-to-energy plants.
In Rome, currently just over 40% of waste is recycled, with most of the remainder shipped outside the municipality. Efforts must therefore continue to align Rome's rate of waste recycling with the European standards achieved by other Italian cities. However, we must also accept that even if efficiency is optimised, approximately 30% of the 1.7 million tons of waste generated annually in the municipality will still need to be treated.
To avoid disposing of this remaining 30%, or part of it, in landfill sites, and to comply with the European requirement of limiting landfilling to 10% by 2035, an incineration to energy plant will have to be constructed.
The capacity of this plant should be carefully calculated to avoid possible overcapacity when the level of recycling in Rome reaches standard of other cities and, as a consequence, the amount of residual waste is reduced.
Italian media have given much resonance to energy-to-waste plants outside Italy, such as the Amager Bakke in Copenhagen, which provides electricity and heat for 150,000 homes in the city. It is sometimes forgotten that similar plants have been operating in Italian cities like Milan, Turin and Brescia, for decades. The Turin plant, for example, can function in power generation mode to provide electricity to 200,000 households, or in cogeneration mode to provide both electricity and thermal energy.
The recent sharp increase in energy prices should give additional impetus to the construction of waste-to-energy plants. The utilisation of waste for the generation of electricity or heat would permit a decrease in fossil fuel imports besides a reduction in disposal to landfill. For example, the annual savings of the Turin plant is estimated at 70,000 tons of oil equivalent, which, at current oil prices, equates to almost 50 million euros.
Energy-to-waste plants therefore have a three-fold advantage: replacement of imported fossil fuels, benefitting our balance of payments; increased security of supply thanks to reduce dependence on third countries and an environmental benefit thanks to a reduction in fugitive emissions from imported gas. For example, gas imported from Russia travels for thousands of kilometres from Siberia to our border, generating leaks estimated at up to 10% of the total transported. it is to be noted that methane emissions in particular have a terrible carbon footprint as 1 ton of methane has the same global warming potential as 20 tons of CO2.
Finally, it should be added that incineration to produce energy is not the only way to reduce residual waste; additional opportunities exist in the form of plants that anaerobically digest biodegradable waste to produce biogas. The Italian National Plan for Climate and Energy includes the target of producing 7 billion cubic metres of biomethane by 2030, corresponding to almost a quarter of Italian imports of natural gas from Russia in 2021. Moreover, the waste-to-energy Communication sustains that diverting one tonne of biodegradable waste from landfill to anaerobic digestion for biogas production can prevent up to 2 tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions.
As clearly indicated in the Commission's Communication on the role of waste-to-energy, this option "can play a key role in the transition to a circular economy provided the EU waste hierarchy is used as a guiding principle and choices do not prevent reuse and recycling".
Therefore, building of energy-to-waste installations should not be disregarded as long as they fulfill the overarching principle of the Circular economy and comply with relevant EU legislation. A number of waste-to-energy plants have already been constructed in the European Union and in Italy, demonstrating the possibility of taking advantage of this technology while fully respecting relevant EU legislation.
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Addressing How We Talk About Aging Never Gets Old: 'Whatever You Do, Don't Say Elderly'
Robin Seaton Jefferson Contributor
"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children and call that maturity. What that is, is aging." ~Maya Angelou
Wearing out, crumbling, declining, fading, waning, stale. These are just a few of the synonyms for aging on Thesaurus.com. On a slightly more positive note, though, the word-finder lists maturing, developing, mellowing and getting on.
I guess you can't argue with the English vernacular, but there are people and companies out there that are trying to put a more positive spin on the twilight years. And they're not calling them the twilight years.
Just days ago, the beauty publishing giant Allure Magazine declared it would no longer use the term "anti-aging," as they believe among other things, it suggests, "…looking at our life as a hill that we start rolling uncontrollably down past 35."
Allure's editor-in-chief Michelle Lee, in her article on allure.com, writes, "This issue is the long-awaited, utterly necessary celebration of growing into your own skin — wrinkles and all. No one is suggesting giving up retinol. But changing the way we think about aging starts with changing the way we talk about aging. With that in mind, and starting with this issue, we are making a resolution to stop using the term 'anti-aging.' Whether we know it or not, we're subtly reinforcing the message that aging is a condition we need to battle — think anti-anxiety meds, antivirus software, or antifungal spray."
"Anti-ageing has been a beauty byword since the 1980s, when it was dreamed up by an advertising exec to sell products to older women," says Alyson Walsh in her blog for The Guardian. "Is It Time To Ditch The Term 'Anti-Ageing'?"
Allure's announcement comes a month after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it would begin cracking down on advertisements that stereotype gender roles and almost a decade after the ASA started banning ads containing the term. The United Kingdom's independent regulator for all media advertising, said that ads that mock people for not conforming to traditional gender types or reinforce gender roles had "costs for individuals, the economy and society." The decision will result in new rules from the organization next year.
It makes sense that advertisers don't want to make seniors feel bad about their age. The market stands to make bank on senior purchasing now and for the foreseeable future. The number of people over the age of 65 is projected to increase to 72 million—over 20% of the U.S. population—by 2030 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And the Internet is riddled with senior marketing solutions and scholarly articles on elderly consumer behavior.
Jane Cunningham, founder of the site britishbeautyblogger.com, uses the terms 'age inclusive' and 'for older skin' when talking about products she would recommend for women over 50, Walsh writes, regularly taking a stand against an industry that consistently champions youth by promoting a more inclusive approach. "Treating age as something that needs 'curing' is pointlessly demoralizing for anyone over 30," Cunningham points out.
Dove, Olay, L'Oreal and Vichy have all coined new phrases for their products in lieu of anti-aging, including Pro Age, Age-Defying, Age Perfect and Slow Age, respectively.
"Language matters, and so does representation – with older models trending and age-shaming terminology being questioned, it feels like things are improving for women over-50, if only a little," Walsh writes. "Admittedly, it's not a walk in the park, but at 53, I'm growing-in my grey hair, embracing my wrinkles and wearing what I please. I know I don't look 35, but I'm fine with that. I've found that most women of my age and beyond are interested in looking good rather than looking younger; and that it's not about age, it's about mindset."
That mindset is being manipulated in the most positive sense in everything from products to pastimes. In what seems like the age of offensiveness and offendedness, changing the language about aging might, in fact, be the one campaign everyone can get behind. After all, we're all in the aging boat.
And we can all agree that language matters. Considering how we talk about aging and how we refer to older folks really isn't new, just slow growing, as evidenced by Marianne Kilkenny's November 2014 article, "How Names Influence Perception: Community and Aging."
Kilkenny founded Women for Living in Community, an online source in a network of individuals, families, groups and professionals focusing on the power of women as advocates and leaders for alternative housing choices.
"You know what I don't like?," Kilkenny asks. "I don't like the word 'elderly.' I'm not a big fan of 'senior citizen' or 'person of a certain age,' either. There is no perfect option it seems. When you go to a store that offers a discount by age they call it a senior discount. I sometimes think I would like to hear 'wisdom discount' instead. See, the words we use have meaning. For instance, 'elderly' and 'elder' have entirely different connotations. I don't need to tell you which one is negative."
New York Times writer Judith Graham tackled the subject in her column "The New Old Age" back in 2012. She opined that maybe we should stop creating categories in the first place.
Neither woman came up with a solution, but they were talking about it.
Kilkenny said people were talking about it in the decade before this one when she wrote, "Gerontologist Dee Wadsworth addressed her concerns in the last decade. 'As a gerontologist I use the phrase 'older adult.' Cohort words like Senior and Boomer refer to specific generations. Boomers will never respond to the term senior because that was their parent. I was taught to avoid ageism best to use older adult just like we use younger adult. It refers to the continuum of lifespan development.'"
Kilkenny said terminology is not necessarily the issue, but rather the underlying attitudes about aging that need to be addressed. "It isn't the actual, specific words that are the problem. It is the meaning and cultural attitudes that surround them. Because we lump a group of older adults into the category of Elderly or Senior we are perpetuating certain strongly held beliefs that may or may not be true of all the people who are being described." She said it's this "systemic problem" that leads us to a culture where nursing homes and retirement communities are the norm rather than aging in place or within communities."
Aroha Philanthropies is currently seeking to change the way we think and talk about aging. In the Spirit of Aroha—a core value of the Maori culture of New Zealand—a word whose full meaning does not even exist in a single equivalent English word, the organization is built on the foundation of love and combines selflessness, tolerance, kindness and compassion.
Founder and president, Ellen Michelson created the organization for all ages, but specifically for "adults in their encore years" to learn to participate in art to open the creative spirit, build social engagement, encourage new skills and bring joy. She called it the emerging field of "artful aging."
Aroha Philanthropies seeks to improve the quality of life of people age 55 and older by encouraging the proliferation of arts in their lives. Aroha Philanthropies defines "artful aging" as a subset of the broader field of "creative aging"—both new and different ways of describing aging.
The Aroha Philanthropies Foundation created a three-minute animated video called "The Wall" to inspire everyone to think differently about aging. They ask visitors to their website to share the video, using #artfulaging along with it as well as with anything people share that promotes interest in the arts with older adults. They also created a continually updated resource guide to teach others about the emerging field of artful aging. The guide provides a platform to find inspiration, discover current research and locate leading organizations in the field throughout the country.
"Today, we can expect thirty more years of life than past generations – years that hold tremendous, but often untapped, potential for vitality and contribution. As we age, our capacity for creativity increases. We seek meaning and connection," the site states.
Even Next Avenue, part of PBS, and public media's first and only national journalism service for America's booming older population, talks about aging in terms of what comes next as we age rather than what has been. "Every day, we invite readers to consider what is next, what lies just ahead and what will be revealed in their lives," the site says. "By exploring questions big and small, we spark action — 95% of readers take an action after reading our stories — and open up a world of possibilities."
In August of 2007, Marilyn Gardner, columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, wrote about "The Names We Use For People Over 50." In her article she said, "Whatever you do, don't say 'elderly.' The preferred word of choice in a new survey: 'older.'"
She wrote about the work of Paul Kleyman, then national coordinator of the Journalists Exchange on Aging to gauge the opinions and preferences of reporters and editors. Of a network of 900 journalists, nearly 100 participants responded who covered issues on aging.
At the time their top choice for a neutral and flexible general term to describe those in later life is "older," used to modify people, adults, individuals or Americans. The second most widely accepted group description for older people was "seniors."
"Elderly" was decidedly the word that grates the most, though "elders," on the other hand, was thought to convey respect. Age-specific references such as "those over 50" or "people 65 and up" were ok among the journalists.
"It's not just generational labels – nouns – that can convey negative images," Gardner wrote. "Pesky little words, such as 'still,' as in, 'still driving' or 'still jogging,' imply that these activities are something out of the ordinary, defying the norm. Then there are the adjectives that are meant to sound complimentary but actually boomerang. Think of spry, perky, chipper, feisty, sweet, little and grandmotherly. For one journalist responding to the survey, the cloying phrase "100 years young" represents the worst possible cliché about aging."
Gardner said part of the challenge for everyone in choosing the right words involves the huge age span in America's aging population. "It begins around 50 – the qualifying age to join AARP – and stretches to 100 or more."
That was 10 years ago. Not much has changed, but there is Allure and the ASA and all of the other organizations that even if they don't care deep down how we talk about aging, will come up with something if for no other reason than to sell us something. Again, it's slow going.
But no matter what you call it, we're all aging every day. In fact, science will confirm that we've been aging since the moment we were conceived. So no matter what we name it, let's embrace it. Let's claim it. And let's, well, put it off as long as we can.
Robin Seaton Jefferson
I was the girl who stayed at grandma's table after the others went out to play. I relished stories like grandpa's tale of the American Indian woman who was laid to res