Is Obese the New Normal, I'm afraid to say that here in the US it is. Nobody likes to be labeled or called names like; fat, overweight, corpulent, gross, stout,fleshy, heavy, portly, plump, paunchy, potbellied, beer-bellied, broad in the beam, bulky, bloated, flabby. So, I'm not going to call You names, I'm going to call Me names, using standard words and terms on how they relate to Me… Okay?
Overweight refers to an excess amount of body weight that may come from muscles, bone, fat, and water.
Obesity refers to an excess amount of body fat.
If a person's body weight is at least 20% higher than it should be, he or she is considered obese.
An obese person has accumulated so much body fat that it might have a negative effect on their health.
I'm a little hesitant to use BMI, because Body Mass Index (BMI) and measurements can be very misleading. For example a bodybuilder can have exceptional muscle mass and BMI goes out the window. But, the BMI is a good place to start for the "Average" person.
At 5' 10", in my adult life I've weighed between 145 and 245, that's a one hundred pound difference. At 145 lbs I looked like death, at 245 I could hardly walk a block. I was not Obese I was Morbidly Obese. At 180 I felt and looked my best. I was in my mid 30's my wife and I worked out at a gym, and we ran and competed regularly in 3.5 and 5 mile races.
Today, I'm at 190 lbs. that gives me a BMI of 27.3. I eat Healthy "Eat To Live" I exercise daily and my first goal is 180 lbs. At 180 lbs my BMI would still be 25.8 or still Overweight.
People look at my photo, or even the kids at work say, "Phil, you don't look Fat!" But, I know better. Who is the best judge of what you should look or feel like? For me it's Me. For you it should be You… Right?
I don't want to be Obese, or Normal or Fat or Pleasantly Plump… I want to be the Best Me I Can BE! If I can do that by Eating Healthy and Exercising daily I would have to be a complete fool not to… Right?
I'm not talking about Starving myself, or becoming a Gym Rat. I'm talking about eating all that I want of food that I love, and Walking.
Obesity is a serious health condition that can interfere with basic physical functions such as breathing or walking. Those who are morbidly obese are at greater risk for illnesses including diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gallstones, osteoarthritis, heart disease, and cancer.
We Eat More. We Consume Too Many Calories. We eat more than we used to. We don't even know what a Serving Size is and we're all too quick to "Supersize" it.
The sheer number of calories we consume keeps going up every year, we move less and eat more. Most people would expect this increase in calories to consist of fat – not so!
Most of the increased food consumption has consisted of carbohydrates (sugars). Increased consumption of sweetened drinks has contributed significantly to the raised carbohydrate intake of most young American adults over the last three decades. The consumption of fast-foods has tripled over the same period.
Fast Food, is Fast, it's easy, always available, It's Cheap! The real Question, Is It Actually FOOD? We're too lazy to shop and cook 'Real Food' for ourselves… even with a microwave. Now they make it even easier to deliver this junk to your obese, lethargic body. There's a good chance that you can pick up your cell phone right now, order whatever (and as much as you think) you might want, without having to move even one step until you went to answer your door when it's delivered.
In 1984 the Reagan administration freed up advertising on sweets and fast foods for children – regulations had previously set limits.
Agricultural policies have led to much cheaper foods.
The US Farm Bill meant that the source of processed foods from subsidized Corn (GMO), wheat and rice became much cheaper than fruit and vegetables (Real Food).
With all of our wonderful modern conveniences, televisions, computers, video games, remote controls, washing machines, dishwashers, robot vacuums and other modern devices, the majority of people are leading a much more sedentary lifestyle compared to their parents and grandparents.
The simple act of shopping for our food becomes too much of an effort, let alone taking the time to cook it. Who can be bothered?
Because of our dependence on the car has become so strong that even your average Gym Rat, will drive to the gym if it's only half-a-mile away. I know kids at work that workout every day and think I'm nuts to walk around the block during breaks at work. Yeah, I'm Nuts!
This is not about calories burned. Physical activity has an effect on how you feel. How your hormones work, and hormones have an effect on how your body deals with food. Several studies have shown that physical activity has a beneficial effect on your insulin levels – keeping them stable. Unstable insulin levels are closely associated with weight gain.
They get a late afternoon Double Espresso, I take a walk. Who do you think gets the longer benefit?
The Good News is that on "Eat To Live" there's No Need To Curb Your Appetite, Eat as much as you want and Still Lose Weight.
According to an article in Annals of Pharmacotherapy, some medications cause weight gain. "Clinically significant weight gain is associated with some commonly prescribed medicines.
The longer a person is overweight, the harder it becomes to lose weight. Many fear that Obesity is a Permanent State and that Obesity Promotes Obesity. Any obese person who loses just five to ten percent of their body weight will have significant improvement in health – this would mean between 12-25 pounds for an obese person who weighs 250 pounds.
Let's put that fear to rest, right now. I don't care where you are right now, what your weight is or how long you've been at that weight or even if your weight is going up. You Can Take Control TODAY! With your very Next Meal.
Don't Do As I Say… Do As I Do… Eat To Live… Eat What I Eat… You Will Never Be Hungry… You Will Lose Weight… The More You Weigh The Faster You Will Lose.
I want to be the Best I Can Possibly Be… What Do You Want?
You can be 10 pounds lighter in One Week. 20 pounds lighter on average in 6 Weeks.
You'll never want to go back to being overweight ever again.
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Phil, this is a great article. Unfortunately obese is the new normal in America. People seem powerless to control their burgeoning weight. It does take a lot of hard work to loose weight especially when people tip the scale into obese. I am not obese but I can almost feel their hopelessness – at least those who seem lost.
I think usually there are a lot of factors going on mentally and psychologically. I don't people would abuse food if they were in a good place because of the obvious consequences. what do you think?
Hi Mashal, the whole theme of my website is that what seems hard or impossible is actually EZ, with just I slight change of perspective.
I was Morbidly Obese, and a tv show on PBS, changed my perspective and my life. I went on "Eat To Live" and have never looked back.
I just want to introduce what I've learned to as many people as I can. I hope they find it, Fun, Delicious and EZ.
A main part of that is looking at what we put in our mouths differently, not everything you can shove in your mouth is food.
Eating Organic, is one of the most important things we can do. I've had guest blogs on Growing your Own and avoiding GMOs.
According to your BMI calculator, my BMI is 24.5. I don't know if that is good or bad, but Phil, I weigh more now than I have ever weighed! Its mostly belly fat, which is the most dangerous. In Louisiana they have a saying, the Cajuns here live to eat. I had my crawfish today and managed to get a little exercise too. I'm not overweight, but I am not skinny anymore either.
Well Ken, at 24.5 you've got a better BMI number than I do. But, you know better than anyone if you're at your ideal weight or not.
I'm of Italian descent and I'm a great cook, my Mom taught me. I know about living to eat, but now I choose to "Eat To Live". Life is a matter of choices. My choice right now is to get into the best shape of my life. If I have to give up something to get what I want, I will.
Last weekend I watched the Super Bowl, I made a mess of Buffalo Chicken Wings and they were wonderful. Blue cheese dressing, salad, carrot and celery sticks and a couple of Foster's. I enjoyed the game and my feast immensely. This weekend I'm fasting and doing the detox you suggested to me. I'm enjoying this weekend as well, because it's getting me closer to my goal.
It's all a matter of choices.
Yes, you right. We like comfort. We do not think about future. Today a food is tasty. It does not matter from where it came from. We do not care what type of ingredients are inside. Most of programs on TV keeps us glued to seats. Just when we see blood sugar levels getting up and our pictures are so different compare with couple years ago, it is time to think: what it is wrong?
We're sending ourselves the wrong message. Food should first nourish, it should be enjoyed, but not as a form of entertainment that never satisfies.
It is so strange how we have changed the way we see things; when I was a kid I thought Hoss, one of the Cartwright brothers, was fat! When I,by chance, saw an episode a while ago I realized that according to today's standard he was skinny, or at least normal.
It is really freightening to see how many people are overweight and worst of all; all the overweight children. I hear that the young generation growing up now will have shorter lives than their parents, isn't that awful?
Thank you for a very good post!
Kristina, you are so right on all counts.
We've played a terrible trick on our children. We have fed them too much garbage and told them it was food. We "Supersized" their portions of, sugar, fat, salt, empty calories and poisons that kept them wanting more. They're overfed and undernourished and we allowed it all to happen.
I work with a young single mother, she hates vegetables, she thinks a hamburger is good eats. She goes from sipping a light and sweet coffee and a Coke. I have to wonder what her 6-year-old son thinks of vegetables and what is his drink of choice. I'd be willing to bet it's not water. What chance does that kid have?
HI Phil Great information here. I have just lost about 34ib so am feeling pretty good about all this. According to BMI I am in a healthy weight range for my height. I agree with waht you say about you knowing what is right for you – I think I still need to loose a bit more. I have been fascinated by the excuses peoplehave given me as to why they can't loose weight – heavy bones! I've never seen a fat skeleton. To some extent I blame stretch clothing as it just gets bigger as you do and stay comfortable as well giving people no reason to slim down.
Vicki, I loved your website, the subject is near and dear to my heart. I'm sure growing and eating your own vegetables contributed to your weight loss. I was morbidly obese for many years and ate healthier than most. I just could not figure what I was doing wrong. I blamed my metabolism and my thyroid, but that wasn't it. It didn't come together until after I started on "Eat To Live" then it all became EZ.
Whatever it takes for somebody to take control and make changes. We can only add what we've learned and hope our message gets through to somebody else.
The problem with my family is that It's 5 of us, my parents and 3 girls, 19, 18, and 14. Daily arguments on what to eat because we all have different likes when it comes to food. Being on a tight budget us girls usually eat microwavable foods that we pick out ourselves when we go shopping. Right now we are all in good shape but I know that the older we get it will become a problem. Great article Phil.
Jaz, I can appreciate your families situation. Your government has made eating healthy more expensive than eating garbage. But, we are all as individuals responsible for what we put in our mouths. I eat healthy, not to lose weight, but to live longer. The weight loss is just an added benefit.
I can eat healthier for less than it costs to eat garbage. That's not even taking into consideration the reduced health costs of, not poisoning yourself.
To think that Greens, Beans, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries and Seeds cost more than microwaveable processed, GMO loaded, 'food' is just plain wrong.
Excellent post packed full of useful and valuable content. As a country we must take this issue on and your website will prove to be valuable resource. I am very concerned for our youth today as the childhood obesity rate is out of control and climbing. Keep the post coming…great job.
Well … off to dinner … a spinach salad.
Hi Jeff, thanks a lot. I thought long and hard about bringing up childhood obesity, but I don't think this website is aimed at kids. I'd like to get the parents and grandparents thinking about what they're feeding themselves and their kids, and what they're doing to them.
Obesity is an Epidemic, killing one out of five, and they want us to worry about Ebola. They want us to fear Isis and not Monsanto. I don't get it.
Enjoy your salad, I've decided to do a 'water fast' this weekend.
It is definitely a serious issue! And it is a combination of reasons why. All those you have mentioned and more.
So many people out of work adds to the issue in more then one way, because they are eating the cheaper unhealthier foods that are affordable to them and many are eating more because they are depressed.
I think the thing that amazes me the most is that with the great popularity of such shows as Extreme Weight Loss, Dr. Oz and others, there hasn't been a greater change in our culture.
Christa, you are of course right, there was so much more I could have covered. I will be revisiting this topic many times. I've found the poorer the neighborhood the worse the selection of quality fresh produce, fruits and vegetables.
But, obesity is not just limited to the poor. I know quite wealthy people who think you can actually buy 'Food' at a fast food joint. They fail to understand that just because you can shove it in your mouth, doesn't make it food.
I am not Obese as such but over the last month I have developed a good pair of moobs.THey actually disgust me but I am to see the doctor this friday,I think there could be a chemical imbalance causing this.I never had anything like these before as I usually am quite fit.
I do take medication for depression and I have an under active thyroid but I have looked this condition up and with men this happens with too much estrogen in the diet.
Mark, you just touched on the subject of the next guest blog for here. I will make a point of emailing you the article as soon as it's up.
I'm curious as to what your BMI is? You can email me if you don't want to make it public.
Nice read. Now that women are wearing tights as pants, it is even more noticeable. I see people in restaurants that are 3x my size (while I'm eating salad) wolf down their soda, double fries and huge burger. Don't they know or do they just not care?
Debbi, maybe they just don't care to know.
I know I let myself get Morbidly Obese, 245 lbs. When I lost 60 lbs only one person at work noticed. People told me they never thought of me as fat. Fat! I was immense!
It's all about what we now consider as Normal.


Goal: To develop, through organic means, a mid-sized performance venue in Brantford/Brant that caters to the needs of community and independent artists looking for an affordable venue that hosts ~250 patrons.
In recent years, artists in Brantford/Brant – particularly in the performing arts – have been seeking help from City and community organizations to support a long-term mid-sized performance venue. With the recent closure of the Brantford Arts Block due to funding cuts – arguably Brantford/Brant's only mid-sized art space – artists have been struggling to exist and develop their business having to exist without affordable, purpose-built facilities.
Although there are other performance venues in Brantford/Brant that can cater to our artists, they come with a significant share of limitations: lack of consistent availability, small number of affordable options, lack of on-site support staff, priority often given to non-artists, lack of basic equipment for performances, to name a few.
Simply put, Brantford/Brant is in need of a performance space that can host ~250 patrons, that is affordable, and that meets the needs of community groups and independent artists.
It is a common question if there is need for physical venues in the current digital age. With access to online venues becoming increasingly easy and affordable, and the reality that a vast proportion of the population uses social media, pressure has been put on physical venues to adapt and/or reconsider their usefulness. There are many benefits that public space offers to a community and, in the context of Brantford/Brant, two are particularly important: the economic benefits of a thriving Arts sector and the social profit of a place that provides a sense of community, civic identity, and culture. Thriving arts spaces offer the community a means for collaboration and expression so that we may come together and imagine new possibilities for the future. It provides a means to belong, not just to exist, and can give us a sense of purpose and meaning through continuity and connection.
We are employing a phased approached to a co-existence model of art space administration in order to create an affordable and accessible venue for artists in Brantford/Brant that is self-sustaining and profitable. Co-existence encourages two or more arts groups (including fine art, heritage and culture) to sustain a working venue by pooling their resources and audiences to ensure maximum utilization and, thus, ongoing occupation.
In the first phase (early 2017), we started by creating and nurturing a relationship between two highly active theatre groups in Brantford/Brant (Ichthys Theatre and Stage 88) and a cultural hall with available space in a central location (Polish Alliance Banquet Centre) that began the process of fission and fusion amongst these groups. This relationship has been very fruitful, resulting in these groups signing on as co-partners for capital funding projects and doing cross-development of their programs. Furthermore, we played an integral part in negotiating rates and rental terms that are structured especially for artists and stagings.
We have now entered a second phase wherein we are tailoring the space to be purpose-built for both artists in Brantford/Brant and the members of this cultural centre. Our first task is to make the space accessible to persons with mobility needs by installing a new motorized accessibility lift, for which we have already secured 20% of the project cost (exp. late 2017). Upon completion, we will begin work on transforming the stage to be more conducive to technically complex stagings, such as reworking the lighting and sound system for better accessibility, installing newer equipment particularly professional quality stage lighting, and installing a skirt around the stage to increase capacity by 20% (exp. 2018).
Learn more on co-existence in the arts by reading "On Co-existence and Collaboration" by guest author Lindsay Golds.
This venue is accepting bookings from artists.
Book this venue and learn more by visiting the Polish Alliance Banquet Centre contact page.
Yang, Lisa. "Top Five Reasons Public Space Is Important." culture365, Culture Days, 11 Sept. 2015, culturedays.ca/blog/2015/09/10/top-five-reasons-public-space-important/.


Two games from the original campaigns swapped out, targets adjusted.
Label and publishing company VGM Classics has relaunched three Kickstarter campaigns to crowdfund three orchestral albums on CD, featuring music from classic video games.
The original campaigns that were launched in July have been cancelled in light of recent changes to Amazon services that affected distribution plans.
In their place now are three new Kickstarter campaigns with some input from patron suggestions and lowered funding targets, all aiming to raise $15,000 each in an all-or-nothing format. All three end on 20th September.
VGM Classics has invited award-winning composer and conductor Kentaro Sato to oversee the recordings as music director. Aside from his symphonic, film and TV works, Sato also orchestrated the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games, and the Dissidia Final Fantasy instalments.
The Budapest Symphony Orchestra has been chosen as the prospective orchestra for the projects.


Former Defence chief Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Anderson has died in Wellington, aged 83.
Born and educated in Hastings, Sir Neil was defence chief from 1980 to 1983.
He was chief of naval staff from 1978 to 1980, his promotion coming after a distinguished career in the Royal New Zealand Navy, which he joined as a cadet in 1944.
He served in Korea aboard the HMNZS Rotoiti in 1950-51 and was later a navigation specialist before becoming commanding officer of navy ships, such as the Taranaki, Philomel and Waikato.
He was made a Companion of the Order of Bath (CB) in 1982 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) two years later.
Sir Neil died in Wellington Hospital on Saturday after a fall at his home. He is survived by his wife, acclaimed author Barbara Anderson, and son Piers. Another son, Jeremy, died five years ago. The Andersons have five grandchildren.
His funeral will be held at Waikanae on Thursday.


If you saw yesterday's post, it was all about my shopping list for Black Fridayweek and what I had my eye on. If you noticed, there were no Express items on that list! That's because Gina summarized my wish list items in her post HERE. I honestly wasn't planning on posting anything else until after my Black Fridayweek purchases were complete, but then Jenna said she was waiting to see some outfit collages from me of all the things she needed from Express! I figured she may not be the only one with this request, so here is YOUR shopping list post! For the sake of time, I am only linking to those items I know are available and on sale, so if there is something I have not linked to that you'd like to know more about - please let me know, and I'm happy to dish the product info!
These distressed jeans are my absolute favorite!
This moto jacket has limited sizes in the berry color, but still worth sharing this remix - snag it if you see it in person!
I also have the moto jacket in ivory and olive. Ivory is still available (shop here)!
This minus the leather jacket is a holy grail piece. I have three of these jackets. That should speak to their awesomeness!
And last but not least - grey skinnies. Mine are ankle zip, but this version is basically the same thing just without the ankle zip. I've been reaching for them often!
That should do for now! There are seriously so many good sales right now, I'm trying not to look! I really want to do the bulk of my shopping on Friday because there's something so fun (and insane) about shopping at 6 in the morning! Ha! Hope you all have a super fabulously happy Thanksgiving!!!!
SO excited for the express sale! I want to get new jeans!
I love how you put together you looks! The ones with the berry colored moto jacket are my faves!


Dr Kate Dewes, veteran peace and disarmament campaigner and Coordinator of the Peace Foundation Disarmament & Security Centre in Christchurch, has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to his Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. The Secretary-General chooses Board members from all regions of the world for their knowledge and experience in the field of disarmament and international security.
3) To advise the Secretary-General on the implementation of the UN Disarmament Information Programme.
The Board meets twice a year: Dr Dewes will attend her first meeting in New York 20-22 February, and then in Geneva in July. In recognition of the influential role of civil society in the field of multilateral disarmament, the Board exchanges views at its meetings with representatives of the NGO Committees on Disarmament.
The current Board membership of 19 includes Ambassadors and officials from China, Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Sweden; academics from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, the UK and US; and the Executive Director of the Movement against Small Arms in West Africa based in Senegal.
This appointment complements the role played by New Zealand's former Disarmament Ambassador Tim Caughley, who was appointed by the UN in 2006 as Director of Disarmament Affairs in Geneva and Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament.
Dr Dewes is deeply honoured by this appointment. "It reflects the high profile New Zealand citizen groups, government officials and parliamentarians have in the field of peace and disarmament", she says. "For example, while I am in New York for the first Board meeting, the NZ Government will be hosting a major international conference in Wellington as the next step in negotiations to ban cluster munitions."
She sees her initial two-year appointment as a wonderful opportunity to follow up on the work she did from 2000-2002 as the NZ Government expert on a UN Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education.
Dr Dewes will be able to draw upon her experience over more than 30 years of campaigning for peace and disarmament, including her role in the World Court Project 1987-96, a Christchurch-initiated citizen campaign which resulted in a ruling from the International Court of Justice that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would be generally illegal. "My hope is that I will also be able to support the NZ Government's efforts to revive progress in the struggle for a nuclear weapon-free world, following their recent success in sponsoring a UN resolution calling for the de-alerting of all nuclear weapons."


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A newfound fossil reveals that the ancient shark Phoebodus has an eel-like body plan similar to that of the modern frilled shark, like the one seen here off Portugal.
Amazing fossil shark skeleton is the first of its kind
Skulls and a nearly complete skeleton offer our best look yet at a shark that lived about 360 million years ago.
By Tim Vernimmen
Shark teeth are among the most commonly found fossils around the world, yet the cartilage-based skeletons of their owners were rarely preserved. As a result, researchers have no idea what many early sharks looked like, even if they were once very abundant.
That's why paleontologists working in the eastern Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco were stunned to find several skulls and an almost complete skeleton from two species of Phoebodus, a primitive shark genus that, until now, was known only from its three-cusped teeth. Described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the fossils reveal that Phoebodus had an eel-like body and a long snout, which makes it look a lot like the frilled shark that still roams the deep sea today. (Explore our interactive showcasing the sizes of the world's sharks.)
This fossil of the ancient shark genus Phoebodus was found in Morocco.
Image by Linda Frey and Christian Klug, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, University of Zurich
And while these two animals are only distantly related, the teeth of Phoebodus and those of the frilled shark look really similar as well, suggesting that their feeding modes didn't differ drastically.
"Many modern sharks have serrated teeth that allow them to cut up their prey before ingesting the pieces," says study coauthor Christian Klug of the University of Zurich. By contrast, the cone-shaped, inward-pointing teeth of Phoebodus and the frilled shark are only good for capturing prey and then swallowing it whole.
Snapping sideways
The fossilized Phoebodus remains were found in a layer estimated to be about 360 to 370 million years old, in what used to be a shallow sea basin. When the sharks died there, the limited water circulation and low oxygen levels created an environment in which their bodies were largely left alone by bacteria, scavengers, and currents, preserving them for posterity.
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The resulting fossils are damaged by sediments and time, but Klug and his team were able to CT scan some of the material they recovered from the Moroccan mountains to get an even better picture of what these primitive sharks looked like during the Late Devonian period.
"The quantity of data that is emerging from studies such as this is staggering," says John Maisey, a paleontologist with the American Museum of Natural History who was not part of the study team. "We are experiencing a renaissance of anatomy."
The scans revealed some striking similarities to the frilled shark, not just in body shape, but in the teeth as well, which offers some clues to how the more ancient predators might have hunted. (Find out why great white sharks may be responsible for the extinction of the Megalodon.)
"The frilled shark is a specialized predator, with the ability to suddenly burst forward to catch its prey," says David Ebert, a modern shark expert at the Pacific Shark Research Center who has studied the frilled shark for decades. "The inward-pointing teeth then help to make sure the prey can only go one way: into its throat. Maybe Phoebodus did something similar."
Because the reclusive frilled shark is so rarely observed, however, there are many outstanding questions about the way it feeds. So, for a better understanding of how Phoebodus may have gotten its food, the researchers also looked at another unrelated species with a surprisingly similar skull, jaw, and teeth, a large freshwater fish called the alligator gar. Like Phoebodus, the alligator gar has long jaws and a flat skull, which limit its bite force. Yet there are also benefits to having a head like that, says Justin Lemberg of the University of Chicago, who has studied the gars' feeding behavior.
"They hunt in open water, where they don't have the luxury of choosing which direction their next meal will come from. And flat heads and long jaws are great for snapping sideways at prey."
Physics of feeding
While it may seem unusual to compare the feeding strategies of species as different as sharks and gars, such analyses are often among the best ways paleontologists have to reconstruct how extinct animals behaved, Lemberg says.
Sharks 101 Sharks can rouse fear and awe like no other creature in the sea. Find out about the world's biggest and fastest sharks, how sharks reproduce, and how some species are at risk of extinction.
"When a certain structure or strategy is effective, there is a tendency for it to show up time and time again—both in living creatures and in the fossil record," he says. "While a lot has changed since Phoebodus swam the Devonian oceans, the physics of feeding in water have not."
Nevertheless, Phoebodus went extinct in the early Carboniferous, millions of years before the re-emergence of some of its features in a modern shark. So, might some species belonging to this ancient genus still be lurking in the deep, like the elusive frilled shark?
"I really don't think so," Ebert says. "I've spent a career looking for new species, but I've never come across anything quite like this."

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Car accidents fall under an area of tort law known as "negligence." To make out a successful case, a plaintiff must prove four things: 1) the defendant owed him or her a duty of care, 2) the defendant breached that duty, 3) the plaintiff sustained actual damages, and 4) the plaintiff's damages were caused by the defendant's breach of duty. It seems simple enough, right?
Unfortunately, many cases are not as simple as they initially seem. Issues such as comparative fault – an allegation by the defendant that the plaintiff is responsible for some part of the accident – can quickly complicate matters. The resolution of such issues often depends upon the law of the state in which the wreck occurred. This Tennessee car crash case is an example.
Kentucky is one of about a dozen states that follow the "pure comparative fault" doctrine, under which a plaintiff's damages are reduced in proportion to his or her fault, but he or she is still allowed to recover against the defendant for the defendant's percentage of fault. In Tennessee, however, the rule is one of "modified comparative fault," with the plaintiff only being allowed to recover if his or her fault is less than 50%. If the plaintiff is found to be 49% at fault, he or she can recover 51% of his or her total damages, but there is no recovery at all if the parties are determined to bear equal fault.
The harsh modified comparative fault rule recently came into play in the case of Muller v. Higgins, in which a plaintiff who was allegedly injured in a car accident suit sought to recover compensatory damages against another driver. The jury found that the parties were each 50% responsible for the accident, which occurred as both drivers attempted to use a turning lane near the intersection of Northpoint Boulevard and Hixson Pike in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Based on the jury's verdict of 50-50 fault, the trial court entered judgment in the defendant driver's favor.
On appeal to the Court of Appeals for Tennessee at Knoxville, the court affirmed the circuit's judgment, holding that the trial court did not err in denying the plaintiff's challenges for cause to exclude certain prospective jurors and that the evidence presented at trial supported the jury's allocation of 50 percent of the fault to each party. In so holding, the court noted that the appellate court's role in reviewing the findings of the jury with regard to matters of fault is extremely limited, such that the court may only disturb the jury's verdict if there is no material evidence to support it.
If you have been hurt in a car accident, the law firm of English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley can help you file suit against the responsible party. We handle truck wrecks, car collisions, and other accident cases throughout Kentucky and Tennessee, and we will be glad to schedule an appointment to discuss your case with you. Call us at (270) 781-6500 or use the contact form on this webpage.


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Bristol VMD to bring Ambulanz vehicles to GCC
Created: Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:37
Abu Dhabi-based rescue and safety vehicles manufacturer Bristol VMD has been appointed as sole distributor of Germany's Ambulanz Mobile in the GCC
Based on an agreement signed between the two companies, Bristol VMD can even customise Ambulanz vehicles according to the specifications provided by the Abu Dhabi Police and Dubai Ambulance.
Emergency vehicles can be customised at the 20,000 sqm plant that belongs to Bristol VMD in Abu Dhabi. Vehicles will locally assembled and fitted with medical equipment, according to client demands. To ensure high safety standards, stringent crash tests were carried at the Dekra accident research facilities as well.
"To be able to take a vehicle built by Ambulanz Mobile to the highest European safety standards and customise it according to the specifications of our local clients is an aspect of our service that we are proud of and that distinguishes us from our competitors," said Mahmoud Awad, managing director of Concorde-Corodex Group, which owns Bristol VMD.
Officials from Bristol VMD are expecting strong sales as a result of this partnership. Overall, Bristol VMD is planning to expand its supply to international markets such as Africa and Central Asia this year.


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Q: VSCode Extension API to evaluate when-clauses Ultimately, I'd like to create a VSCode extension with a command to hide sidebars and panel and another one to recover them with another command. The idea is to have a quick keybind to maximize / unmaximize editor on smaller screens.
Calling a command to hide components is easy, but I also need to be able to check whether any of the three components (two sidebars + panel) are hidden. It is possible to add a when clause to a keybinding, or to register a context key for your own extension.
I'm looking for a way to evaluate when clauses programmatically inside my extension or just manually inspect context values properties of bars/panel. I'd expect something like:
vscode.commands.evaluateWhenClause("sideBarVisible")

or
vscode.commands.executeCommand('getContext', 'sideBarVisible')

Is it possible in VS Code extension API?
I guess this is similar to this question, but a bit more generic.

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The Shadow of the Wind
By Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Review by Robert Weibezahl
Recent reports indicate that very few foreign language books are being translated into English. This is mostly due to economics, but the upshot is that American readers are missing out on some marvelous books. Fortunately, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is not among the casualties. A huge success in Ruiz Zafon's native Spain, where it spent more than a year on bestseller lists, the novel is being published in more than 20 countries. It arrives on our shores with the full force of its publisher's promotional machine behind it.
Happily, The Shadow of the Wind lives up to the advance hype. Formidable in size and scope, it is a literary mystery calculated to appeal to book lovers because its plot hinges on books. It begins in a marvelous place called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a repository for literary works no longer remembered by anyone. A 10-year-old boy named Daniel is taken there by his bookseller father to assuage the lingering pain of his mother's death. The old caretaker tells Daniel to choose one book from the labyrinthian stacks, take it away and make sure it never disappears. Daniel selects The Shadow of the Wind by an all-but-forgotten writer named Julian Carax.
The boy is mesmerized by the book and immediately sets out to read all of Carax's novels, only to discover that they are impossible to find. Carax never reached a wide readership, so very few copies of his work were printed. Yet the real explanation for the shortage, Daniel soon learns, is that a shadowy, disfigured man named La'n Coubert has been methodically hunting down and destroying every extant copy. Intriguingly, La'n Coubert is the name of one of Carax's own characters, a fictional embodiment of Satan.
Over the next few years, Daniel embarks on a mission to figure out who La'n Coubert is and why he is bent on destroying Carax's literary output. As he roots around in the past, Daniel pieces together the fragments of Carax's fascinating story, but soon runs into serious danger as it becomes apparent that more than one person wants to prevent the truth from coming to light. This is Spain circa 1945, and the villain of the piece is an ur-fascist police detective, Fumero. Fumero's connection with Carax dates back to their school days, and the source of his abiding hatred unfolds along with the mystery of Carax's sketchy life story.
Daniel's search for information entangles him with many people from Carax's past, none of whom seems to be telling all. It is this array of colorful characters that brings Ruiz Zafon's novel to life. He creates a gothic Barcelona that borrows not only from the Spanish literary tradition, but from the noir atmosphere of period detective fiction as well. The odd blend works The Shadow of the Wind is certainly a tour de force of storytelling.
More than just a well-crafted mystery, though, the novel also provides a deeper look into questions of familial identity and our attachments to the past. Daniel's coming of age is a central component of the story, and his life begins to mirror Julian's in significant ways, not least in his love affair with Bea, the sister of his best friend. This turbulent liaison, as well as Daniel's own childhood heartaches, provide him with insight into Julian's ill-fated life and work.
The Shadow of the Wind is about the way books can tie us to the past and how easy and dangerous it would be to destroy that connection. The English translation is by Lucia Graves, daughter of poet and novelist Robert Graves, and she has rendered Ruiz Zafon's distinctive sensibility with the seamless invisibility of a good translator. Her unsung efforts make it possible for the English-reading world to enjoy this gem of a novel.
Robert Weibezahl's book, A Second Helping of Murder (Poisoned Pen Press), has been nominated for an Agatha Award.
Penguin Press


but how can anything be worse than nothing?
as I inhale – short of breath.
as I slowly swallow all the bitterness of this cruel world.
And, for a moment I sense happiness.
It showers onto me like autumn rain.
but as I turn around to look at you – you disappear.
I bite my lips, staring at the nothingness.
My skin – so cold.
My soul – so damaged.
My heart – so fragile.
It's not you the one that upsets me.
It's not me – because, I am only an imagination.


You know we love hanging an extra long shower curtain all the way to the ceiling to add height to the room (the 95″ waffle curtain is from amazon.com and the 86″ fabric liner is from Bed Bath & Beyond by the way). But the trick doesn't work so well when the tension rod you inherit is too stumpy to hang on the higher tile-less portion of your shower wall (it was literally about a half-inch too short to grab the slightly wider wall up top). Then the tricky part becomes being ok with the bottom of the extra-long curtain sitting bunched under the toilet seat.
We were not ok with it.
Which is why our first post-move trip to Home Depot was to get a new longer tension rod. And now we have this going on. Ooooh. Ahhh. Note: You can read more about raising your shower rod and finding extra long liners and curtains here.
It's a small start in the process of making this bathroom feel a bit more like our own. It's a great bathroom with lots of good stuff already, but not necessarily an overall style that we'd pick for ourselves. So eventually we'll do some tweaks / upgrades / remodeling to make it more "us." And yes, we're definitely planning to swap out the light fixture for something smaller that doesn't encroach as much on the newly hung ceiling-height shower curtain. And speaking of light, anyone who is wondering if it's super dark with the shower curtain that high- amazingly it's not. It sort of glows and light shines through the light curtain and the liner so the whole shower is lit up through the curtain if that makes sense. In our old house we didn't even have a ceiling light (just a wall-mounted one above the mirror) and it was still nice and bright.
'Til then, we at least get to enjoy nice finishes like these sleek stainless shower fixtures.
We don't really have a clear vision of what we'd eventually like our master bathroom to be, but there's a good chance both of those items will be kept long term. The only thing we can say for certain will be going sooner rather than later is the mirrored door. Shocking I know. When have you known us to remove a mirror from our house? We can usually be found hanging them left and right.
Looks great you two! Love the lux look, looking forward to seeing the light fixture you pick!
Next month my husband and I are moving into a really old, charming brownstone apartment with hardwood floors, high ceilings and crown moldings (YAY!). I can't wait to apply all the cool DIY and decorating tips I've learned from your blog in our new space! The first thing I'm going to do is hang an x-long shower curtain (the one from your Amazon store!) at ceiling height in our tiny bathroom! Thanks so much for all your hard work and great ideas!
I LOVE it how Burger shows up randomly in a lot of pics. LOL! Do you encourage him to get in the pictures or is he really that attached to you? I know my cat, Gaby, would be my shadow too. : ) Either way, it cracks me up everytime. Looking good so far, guys. Keep up the great work.
He just follows us around trying to get in on the fun! We love seeing where he pops up too.
Still a little confused… where did you get the actual longer tension rod from? I want to try the same technique with my bedroom window. I would like to extend the curtains and have the whole wall covered. Would that too be the use of extra long curtain rod?
Home Depot! But it's only extendable to a certain length so you'd need to see how wide you need yours to be and hunt one down. JC Penney also sells extra long rods (that aren't tension rods) which could work too.
We took a mirror off a closet door in our bedroom when we moved in. It looked a lot like the setup of yours. It was really easy too. All I did was have the hubby hold the mirror while I unscrewed it and it came off in about 2 minutes. I have to agree that I'm not a fan of mirrors held on by those little clips. I'm always afraid I'm going to close the door too hard and the mirror will break. Good luck with yours!
Looks like the mirror is just held in place with the mirror clips. Easy enough – unscrew the clips, remove mirror. ;) At least that's the exact setup I had and I removed a rather large mirror solo without any issue.
I liked the extra long shower curtain in your old home, but I don't like it in this new bathroom. It looks odd that it is all the way to the ceiling in my opinion.
Seems like you guys are getting quite a few things done quickly in the new house!
I love the height of the shower curtain! We did the same in our master bathroom, but not yet in our lower bath.
As for the mirror, my only advice is don't lean it up against an open window, or you'll end up with pieces everywhere when the wind gusts in! We had a similar mirror on one of our master bedroom walls which we removed when painting, intending to rehang it at least temporarily until we found a more interesting mirror. I found one on clearance the next week though, so we avioded the 7 years of bad luck I guess!
We're loving all the new projects swirling around in our heads! The only slightly overwhelming part is people asking for photos of every single thing we plan to do all at once. We'll definitely be making over our house in real time as we go- so nothing is going to be an instant after! Hopefully people are in it for the journey and not just the destination. We always prefer the journey more anyway because when we're "done" we get antsy and bored. Haha.
I love the long shower curtains! I would think the next to-do in this bathroom is the light fixture? Are you guys moving it so it won't look toocramped near the curtain rod?
Moving it is a bit of an undertaking so we're planning to replace it with something a lot less wide so it's not as close to the rod as it is now.
2 things: doesn't the higher curtain impede on the steam's ability to escape? Or do you vent like crazy when you get out (and leave the curtain open for a while)? You may have just been lucky to not have mold issues in your last house, I'd watch carefully to see how the area clears moisture.
And, the long tension rod… I had a heckuva time finding one long enough for my last house. Finally found one that was advertised as a "closet rod" at Ace hardware. Very long, very, very sturdy. I sprayed it with rustoleum to make it more suitable for wet conditions.
Love the blog, perhaps you'll visit mine sometime – I'm getting ready to do a bathroom, too!
Great tip about the "closet rod" at Ace! Thanks for sharing. As for the steam issue you bring up, we've been showering for a good week now and there's no issue with steam which escapes out the sides and the top (it's not sealed like tupperware, so there are one or two inch gaps all around it).
Look at the b-man getting double the exposure by posing in front of the mirror. That savvy little devil. I'm telling you, mom and dad, I think he's wistful about his blog. ;). So happy that y'all keep posting even in a holiday week — you're champs!! Love experiencing the house with you!!
Amazingly it's not super dark in there with such a high curtain. It sort of glows and light shines through the light curtain and the liner so the whole shower is lit up through the curtain if that makes sense. In our old house we didn't even have a ceiling light (just a wall-mounted one above the mirror) and it was still nice and bright.
Any trouble with it being too dark in the shower because your curtian is so high?
Love the look of the long shower curtain! Glad you're planning on changing the light fixture, but that got me wondering if it's a tad dark inside the shower with the curtain closed (since it's sorta blocking the light) or is it not a problem because the curtain is white?
I love the look of your shower curtain! But I have one question. Do you have a light in your shower? With the curtain all the way up to the ceiling does it get a little dark in there?
I agree that raising the curtain is awesome, but I'm a little confused. Why couldn't you use the current curtain rod and just move it up towards the ceiling? Was it a tension rod, too?
It was a tension rod but it was slightly short since the untiled part of the walls was a bit wider (and it wouldn't grip). So we needed something a half-inch longer.
You know…you could do a DIY of your floor mirror just for fun by using that door mirror. Just build a frame(4 pieces of wood) for the mirror-you could stain/paint the frame and place that mirror inside. My husbands a carpenter BUT he said doing this would be a piece of cake ( we have a door mirror waiting for this treatment). Nice to see your tweaks for settling in-happy settling!
Oooh the Kohler Purist series! Those are some nice fixtures. Did you guys put those in or inherit them from the move? I just put the Purist series in a client's bathroom and now want those in our house! Have you ever seen the Kohler yin yang sink? Another one of my loves!
Anyway, enough drooling over your shower fixtures! Your new bathroom has some good bones. Love the natural light from the window! Can't wait to see what you guys do with it.
We inherited those with the move. Haven't seen the Kohler yin yang sink yet but we'll have to check it out!
How do you feel about the tiles in your bathroom?
we completely renovated our bathroom this summer and those are the fixtures we bought! they're pretty pricey kohler fixtures (and there are other matching pieces), so you should try to keep them if they're in good shape.
You should totally DIY the mirror. Put it on a larger piece of plywood and add moldings around the mirror. I'm sure you can always use one more mirror. Maybe in clara's room. I love your blog.
Having a mirror on that bathroom door is really good feng shui. It helps deflect the draining energy of a bathroom, and keeps it out of your peaceful bedroom. Just something to consider!
Have you ever thought about using one of those curved rods to give you more space? I've always wondered if those really give you the "extra 8 inches" they boast about, or if they really just serve to make a small bathroom seem smaller since they jut out into the room.
Yeah, we wondered if the jutting-out-into-the-room aspect of a curved rod would crowd the space, so we're happy with a straight rod since the shower doesn't feel tight or anything as it is.
I'm curious to hear about the mirror removal. We have a similar one mounted to our bathroom door. We thought it would be an easy removal, but after unscrewing and removing the clips, we found that it was also mounted with double-sided foam tape. Thus, it is still attached to the door for fear that it will break when we apply any pressure in our attempt to remove it.
I removed a large mirror that used to span an entire two sink bathroom vanity. It was super easy to remove and we cut it down and framed three smaller mirrors from it which looked much nicer hung over the new countertops. The mirror was heavy though, so I recommend more than one set of hands and a few towels to lean it on.
Just be glad that mirror on your door was on the outside, not inside! In one of the houses we rented there were mirrors on the counter/toilet side and the opposite wall. It's kind of awkward to use the toilet while looking into a huge mirror!
Carol, you can try steaming off the double-sided tape. Also, I once had success using fabric softener diluted with water (which also works as wallpaper remover).
that high shower curtain gives such a nice effect. love it!
love what it does to the room when you hang the shower curtain so high and would love to try it myself, but am nervous it would block a lot of light in the shower. Have you had any problems with that? Or perhaps choosing a white curtain allows enough light to come through… would you ever try it with a darker or print curtain?
Oops, just saw you already answered that question.
Are you planning on putting the mirror by to use it at a later date somewhere else, obviously if it doesnt break on removal from the door?
It's definitely a possibility! We're just taking things one day at a time and seeing where we end up. Trial and error and taking on new projects as we go has always been our chosen method to try to keep from going crazy with such a long to-do list. But we promise we'll share every detail of repurposing that mirror if we tackle that someday!
If you want to be extra careful about the mirror make a star pattern with masking tape on it before taking it down. If it does break that should help keep some pieces together. When we moved in there were no less than 5 of those mirrors around and yet there's only 1 full bath and 2 bedrooms; why so many mirrors? We masked the first one, then just went with it.
Our tried and true method was I hold the mirror from tipping forward while DH unscrewed the top clips. Then I would lean it far enough away from the wall/door to get a grip on it and DH would unscrew the bottom clips. Oh, and this may be obvious to you, but close the door before you start trying to unscrew things!
Looks great guys! I love how one small touch make such a difference. Where do you think you're going as far as a lighting type in the bathroom?
We're renovating our master bathroom right now and took down two huge mirrors that ran along two whole walls of our bathroom. In addition to be ridiculously heavy, I was SO scared we would drop it and shatter it! Slow and steady wins the race.
Another option with tall shower curtain and small bath is to hang the shower curtain high but the liner a little lower (on a 2nd tension rod) and then have a "hidden" place to hang the damp towels. That's what I do and love it! The shower curtain doesn't seem to get wet/damp for the 4-6″ that aren't covered by a liner. Molly in Fla.
It's already looking great.. you guys rock!
While on the subject of bathrooms I have a question for you 2 experts… is a good idea to use wallpaper in the bathroom (upper part of the wall, above the tile) and if so do you need a special kind? I really feel a good design would give ours what it's missing.
Thanks & congrats on the new place!
Definitely only use bathroom-approved paper since the steam will most definitely cause the regular stuff to crack and peel! Good luck!
Don't these little upgrades make you feel like progress is being made? That small change makes a big difference. I never even knew there were tension-style shower curtain rods until we showed up at our house and found no rod at all. I was surprised to find that they look and work just like the installed version.
We just took down an enormous mirror that was above the sink in our bathroom – it was easy enough to take down, though super awkward to hold – but we did not like what was behind it. Because we want a smaller mirror, we will probably first need to re-sheetrock.
Any ideas on projects for re-working an old mirror like that? My plan now – yet to be executed – is to get glass cutters and cut it into pieces that will fit in inexpensive picture frames that I plan to spray paint and make a mirror collage with. However, my mirror is big enough for several projects, and I'd love any ideas from anyone on here.
Ooh that's a great idea Pam! You can also make a nice framed out floor mirror as a bunch of commenters have already recommended. You can even create a mirrored backsplash in your kitchen or mirror the back of a bookcase for tons of reflective and chic style. Good luck!
LOVE the long shower curtain!! And I'm wondering if another Youngster Approved pocket door might not make sense in that door as it looks like it opens right on to the toilet?? ;0) Just a thought!
Alas, a pocket door would have nowhere to "pocket" into – there's not enough wall to accommodate one. Oh well! It's not that bad. But we do LOVE a pocket door!
What a difference it does make to raise the shower curtain that much. Much better that way.
Hello again! I just read your other post about raising the curtain and am so glad to know about the benis of a fabric liner! I never would have considered it! Lo-oove the enviro-friendly and sustainable choices. Can you tell I'm eager to bring my bathroom into the new century?! And I can really appreciate the tall curtain in the other bathroom — I'm sold!! (Mine doesn't go all the way to the ceiling but you've got me convinced now!! Molly in Fla.
yeah, i was wondering if you were going to repurpose the mirror too…perhaps you could use it in your guest bedroom/bath…? guests would love that I'm sure!


With DMTN-030 we have a conceptual design for Science Pipelines package documentation design. I've realized part of that concept in pipe_base documentation (DM-1253). The next step is to document these content patterns and the Git repository layout more precisely so that the pipe_base documentation effort can be replicated by anyone in any other package.
It's hard in that example format to document libraries of repeatable content snippets, like Task documentation pages, for example, that aren't essential parts of a package, but are nontheless standardized.
This ticket is intended to prototype a new organization of the lsst/templates repository that allows more effective documentation of both package structure and documentation templates.
Ability to document repeating content fragments in a way where an original source of truth is clear, and that templated information is propagated throughout the template project.
Ability to have template documentation alongside the template itself.
On a practical level, Simon Krughoff notes that obs_test is probably a more up-to-date example of a package than the lsst/templates repository is.


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Q: Icecast radio status does not work So I'm busy on this website, and it needs a radio on it. They're using a icecast server, so I grabbed a Icecast status from the internet:
    <?php
$icecast_url='http://178.32.13.195:8002';

$output = file_get_contents($icecast_url);

$search='#
.*?Point /(.*?)<.*?href="(.*?)">M3U<.*?Listeners.*?class="streamdata">(.*?)<.*?Song:.*?class="streamdata">(.*?)<.*?
#si';
preg_match_all($search, $output, $matches);

$j=count($matches[0]);
for ($i=0;$i<$j; $i++) {

    $point_name=$matches[1][$i];
    $pount_m3u=$icecast_url.$matches[2][$i];
    $point_listners_count=$matches[3][$i];
    $point_current_song=$matches[4][$i];
//
    echo 'mount point: '.$point_name.'
';
    echo 'm3u: '.$pount_m3u.'
';
    echo 'listners_count: '.$point_listners_count.'
';
    echo 'point_current_song: '. $point_current_song.'

';
}
?>

But it doesn't work. It just shows a blank page. Does any one of you know what's wrong?
Thanks

A: They are using Icecast 2.4.0, which got a redesigned Admin interface, and this breaks your parsing code.
Please just don't try to parse the html, it will break whenever they update Icecast and the HTML changes.
Instead you could try the newly introduced status-json.xsl, i.e. for this server it is located here: http://178.32.13.195:8002/status-json.xsl
Please note, unfortunately due to a bug in the json xslt this is not valid JSON. This issue  is fixed in Icecast 2.4.1, so if you have access to the server you can update to Icecast 2.4.1 soon (will be available probably in a few weeks). If you don't have access to the server, there isn't much you can do, but parsing HTML is the worst possible method.


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In recent months, the Trump Administration has ramped up efforts to make life harder for people in poverty. Their latest sneak attack would brazenly declare, by government fiat, that fewer people in this country are poor. By making people already receiving assistance suddenly ineligible for government programs that help them put food on the table or see a doctor, and preventing new applicants from qualifying for aid, President Trump would be sharply increasing poverty, yet shockingly be able to release data claiming that he has lowered it.
Each year, the federal government uses a complex calculation to set the income level at which an individual or a family is deemed to be poor, and therefore eligible for government aid. While eligibility varies by program, a family of four making more than roughly $25,000 per year will lose eligibility for certain benefits, while others will cut off at a hardly more generous $33,000. That is a mere $2,000 to $2,750 per month, which must pay for all family expenses.
The original poverty guidelines were developed in the early 1960's. Since then, the guidelines have increased annually to account for inflation — ensuring that current beneficiaries do not lose assistance when their incomes grow modestly. Today, however, numerous studies have demonstrated what we instinctively know — primarily due to dramatic increases in the cost of family housing and health care expenses, the guidelines are far too low to allow Americans to meet the burdens they face, particularly in an economy where too many workers are trapped in minimum wage jobs.
Unmoved by these challenges, the Trump Administration is considering a proposal that would lower the annual inflation rate by which the poverty guidelines are raised. While this sounds technical, the impact would be enormous. In a country where fairness dictates that we provide help to more people in need, by lowering the poverty line our government would instead take away benefits from millions who currently receive them. Communities would be torn apart, not brought together.
Today's economy does not work for most people. As a result, even when parents hold down two jobs to try and make ends meet, they are forced to make almost impossible choices between paying the rent, putting food on the table each night, or seeing a doctor. Fortunately, a number of successful government programs help ensure that adults can live in dignity, and raise their children to pursue their full potential.
Nutrition assistance programs keep millions of children and families from being hungry, allowing parents to provide healthy food and children to perform better at school. Health coverage ensures that adults and children who are sick can see a doctor and stay healthy. And the Head Start program gives kids the chance to succeed in school.These successful programs help preserve a minimum level of economic security for many families.
If these proposed changes to the poverty guidelines are implemented, millions of children and families would either lose federal help entirely, or receive reduced benefits — at a time when we need to be offering more help. This new effort is just another piece of the Administration's ongoing war on the poor. They have opposed raising the minimum wage, fought to take health care from people who need it, and sought to tear apart immigrant families by restricting their access to housing and public benefits. The Shriver Center is fighting all of these attacks, and stands ready to oppose the newest audacious proposal to harm the lowest income people.
Join the fight by signing up for the Shriver Center's Take Action tool which makes it easy to contact elected officials about policies that impact economic and racial justice.
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Hi! I'm David Celis. I'm a software engineer at HashiCorp (where I write APIs) out in Portland, Ore. (where I drink IPAs). In the past, I have worked for other top-tier companies such as GitHubStaff, DigitalOcean, and New Relic.
I also write open-source software as much as possible; I believe strongly in the world of free software and the amazing community it fosters. I have written and maintained several popular libraries and contributed to dozens more.
My main hobby is music. I've been a classical pianist for a while, but in the past few years I've turned to folk music. On my own, I mostly do covers, but I've also played in several groups. I'm currently a member of The Jackalope Saints, where I play trumpet, keyboard, and even sometimes the glockenspiel.
Looking for a great web developer to do some freelance work for you? Check out my résumé and get in touch.


For some SPH faculty and graduates, history is alive, well, and very much a factor in what they do today.
"In the decades following World War II, SPH played a critical role in strengthening radiation protection across the country. The professional society to which I belong—the Health Physics Society—originated at U-M, where its first full meeting was held in the 1940s. In 1957, the Radiation Health Program was established at SPH to determine how to positively exploit the benefits of radiation and radioactivity while protecting humans and the environment.
"My career path led me into the fields of military application/nuclear weapons and counterterrorism. The tie to public health is inextricable. Whether working in national security, homeland security, or defense, you have to think about health care, protecting people, and protecting the environment. Currently, I run a company that focuses on counterterrorism and countering weapons of mass destruction. As a result of my education at U-M, I have a unique technical expertise in understanding the effects of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. That expertise affords me the remarkable opportunity to ensure the public health and safety of Americans and our allies against weapons of mass destruction.
"It's really quite amazing to be a Michigan alum and to run into people who also have SPH degrees. There's a string that ties us all together. I think it's because there is an identity to each of the students while they are at Michigan, and there is such an intimacy between the students and the faculty."
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, BS '83, MPH '86, studied health physics at SPH before making her way to Washington, D.C., where she served from 1998 to 2003 on the White House National Security Council as director for combating terrorism. She is now president and CEO of LEG Inc., a consulting firm specializing in domestic and national security, global energy, crisis management, and related issues.
The U-M Health Physics Program existed as a formal track within SPH from 1957 to 2002. It now resides within the U-M College of Engineering as the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.
"When the W.K. Kellogg Foundation first funded the school's community-based participatory research (CBPR) program in 1992, researchers had begun to recognize that some public health interventions were failing, in part, because they lacked input from the communities whom the interventions were meant to help. SPH Professor Barbara Israel, a pioneer in the field, advocated for equal partnerships between researchers and communities. Since then, CBPR has dramatically changed public health—and research more broadly. Now we want to engage the communities and people being impacted by our work, recognizing that they have a lot to contribute to framing the problems and the solutions. Their lives are being impacted.
"I was intrigued by the possibilities of CBPR when I came to SPH in 1996. My colleagues reached out to me, and I eventually became involved in Flint as principal investigator (PI) of the Fathers and Sons Project. Our Flint partners were initially a bit skeptical of the university and its interests. So often people come into their neighborhood, do research, and leave. But ultimately, our partners were willing to learn along with us as we figured out how to do research that would benefit their community.
"The community PI on our very first grant was a Flint resident named Mrs. E. Hill De Loney. Sixteen years later, she is still the community PI. Mrs. De Loney has traveled around the country with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help other places implement CBPR. Recently, she came with me to a community breakfast in Chicago, where we're replicating the Fathers and Sons Project. After all these years, we're still together doing this work—and SPH is recognized as a global leader in the field."
Cleopatra Caldwell is a professor and incoming chair of the SPH Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and principal investigator for the Fathers and Sons Project, which aims to reduce youth substance abuse, violent behavior, and early sexual initiation by strengthening bonds between nonresident African-American fathers and their eight- to 12-year-old sons. Caldwell and her community partners recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to replicate the project in Chicago, including a focus on depression and substance use among fathers.
Barbara Israel is a professor of health behavior and health education at SPH, with more than 30 years' experience in community-based participatory research. She directs the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center.
"My professorship is named after former SPH Professor Felix E. Moore, who helped design the famous Framingham Heart Study. Since 1948, the study has followed residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, tracking their health in order to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Over the years, the study has grown to include children and even grandchildren of that original cohort.
"In 1961, the Framingham Heart Study helped establish the link between blood cholesterol levels and heart attack risk. This discovery led to the development of statins, which lower cholesterol levels and reduce the frequency of heart attacks. The study has also become a treasure trove for the field of genetics—in fact, I've worked on it.
Using the DNA of Framingham study participants, we can explore the genetic causes of familial risk for heart disease. Specifically, my research group and I have been working to identify genes that modify cholesterol levels and then checking to see if these genes affect the risk of heart disease. Thanks to the study, we've identified a couple of dozen different genes. Each one of them is a potential target for medicine in the future.
"By observing people in detail over a long period of time, the Framingham Study established an effective model for identifying health outcomes and risk factors. We've adapted this model for a number of our own studies, including one in Sardinia, where we've enrolled 60 percent of the adult population in four neighboring villages. Every three years, we measure participants' health in terms of bone density, immune function, etc., and combine that with genetic information to learn about the causes of disease and the causes of variation among people."
Gonçalo Abecasis is the Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics and chair of the SPH Department of Biostatistics. His research team in the U-M Center for Statistical Genetics develops statistical tools to analyze the genetics of human disease.
Felix E. Moore (1912-1993) was an SPH faculty member from 1957 to 1979, during which time he devoted 14 years to chairing the Department of Biostatistics. In addition to his work with the Framingham Heart Study, Moore played a key role in designing U-M's pioneering Tecumseh Community Health Study.
"I'm inspired by our graduates and what they've accomplished. Jonas Salk is the most obvious example. As a postdoctoral fellow, Salk studied virology at SPH with Thomas Francis Jr. He then went on to create the polio vaccine, which has saved over a million lives and prevented countless debilitating illnesses.
"Sometimes when I'm in a classroom I wonder what this current crop of students is going to contribute to their world. The students undoubtedly have similar questions as well, although their attention likely focuses on more prosaic matters such as, "Where am I going to find a job?" One of the more effective things I did as a teacher occurred years ago in a departmental course with all of the first-year master's students. Each week or two, I'd bring in a highly accomplished alum who had sat in those same seats 20 years earlier. Transfixed, the students would listen to each alum describe his or her professional career. You could almost see the students' brains churning with excitement at the idea that they might be looking at themselves a couple of decades hence. The experience enhanced their sense of purpose and their optimism concerning where this otherwise sometimes abstract education might take them.
"It's been fun watching our alums' careers flourish. I had the privilege of teaching Larry Brilliant and Marianne Udow, among others, and frequently crossing paths with Julio Frenk. Each has become a close friend, in addition to being a highly valued colleague. They—and all of our graduates—are part of our history and a defining variable of who we are today."
A member of the SPH faculty since 1972, Kenneth E. Warner is the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health and a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy. He served as dean of the school from 2005 to 2010. In this Findings Web Extra, watch Warner's keynote address from the SPH 75th Anniversary Symposium.
Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH '77, participated in the World Health Organization smallpox eradication program. In 1978, he co-founded the Seva Foundation, whose programs and grantees have returned sight to more than 3.5 million people worldwide. Brilliant is a past director of Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, and the current chair of the Skoll Global Threats Fund.
As Minister of Health of Mexico, Julio Frenk, MD, MPH '81, PhD '83, launched the country's first comprehensive universal health insurance. Now president of the University of Miami, he founded the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico in 1987. Subsequently he served as second-in-command of WHO and, later, as dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Marianne Udow-Phillips, MHSA '78, directs the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a nonprofit partnership between U-M and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. She is a past director of the Michigan Department of Human Services and former senior vice president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
"When I was applying to graduate schools in hospital administration, Walter McNerney told me if I didn't come to Michigan I'd be making a big mistake. He was right—and he continued to be right as he mentored me throughout my career.
"McNerney was unique in his ability to influence the field of health care administration. He was a teacher and an accomplished executive, one of the first with experience running health care organizations and an insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield. McNerney influenced young people entering the field, physicians, health care executives, even government officials who wanted to know what he thought about the changes taking place in health care.
"Throughout my early career, McNerney helped steer me toward key jobs. He helped me understand that the country was moving toward pre-paid health care—what would become HMOs. McNerney always told me to consider where the future was going to be in health care. It's like when you're playing hockey: you skate to where the puck is headed.
"McNerney believed that pre-paid health care could reduce medical costs and encourage insurance companies to take responsibility for a given population. His efforts stimulated some of the early attempts at capitation, where experts identify what it will cost to provide care to a given population. These plans incentivize preventive health care.
"He was an amazing person. I was lucky to have him as a mentor. Because of that relationship, I learned how important it is to mentor others."
Gail Warden, MHA '62, is a professor of health management and policy at SPH and president-emeritus of the Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, where he served as president and CEO from 1988 to 2003. A chairman emeritus of the National Quality Forum, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, and a past chair of the American Hospital Association, Warden helps direct the Gail L. Warden Leadership Fellowship at U-M.
Walter McNerney (1925-2005) founded U-M's Program in Hospital Administration in 1955. Its curriculum remains the core of Michigan's graduate degree program in health management and policy, which U.S. News & World Report has ranked #1 in the nation every year since 1993. McNerney left U-M in 1961 to become president of the Blue Cross Association. He helped create the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the 1960s and oversaw the merger of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the late 1970s.
"I had the privilege of meeting Rich Lichtenstein, or Doc, as I call him, when I applied to the inaugural class of the U-M Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) in 1986, when I was 21 years old. He was fascinating. I thought, here's this white guy from New York, accent and all, who is taking an interest in health care disparities. As a young African-American man, I remember wondering, why does he care? Doc had compassion and integrity. He wanted to do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing.
"Through SEP, I worked at Henry Ford Hospital in inner-city Detroit and saw firsthand the disparities that Doc talked about in lectures. As a person of color, you see and experience things that you probably wouldn't otherwise, and so you're sensitized to certain aspects of the health care system, especially as they relate to the care that you or a loved one might receive. With that perspective, there's almost an obligation to change the system—be it through trying to eliminate bias in hiring practices, or through the actual delivery of health care, where you try to ensure that the policies you implement are fair and just, regardless of color.
"The quote that I use to describe Doc comes from the late U-M Professor Avedis Donabedian, who reminded us that "systems awareness and systems design are important for health professionals, but they are not enough. It is the ethical dimensions of individuals that are essential to a system's success. Ultimately, the secret of quality is love." Doc gave us an opportunity to help shape the health care system by working to end health care disparities. To me, that's an aspect of love, of something coming from the heart that you don't see every day."
Bill Manns, MHSA '91, is president of Mercy Health Saint Mary's in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Founded in 1986, the U-M Summer Enrichment Program in Health Management and Policy educates future leaders who are committed to eliminating racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health inequalities. More than 90 percent of its graduates have completed graduate study in public health, medicine, health sciences, and business. Richard Lichtenstein, the S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy, retired earlier this year as the program director.
Avedis Donabedian (1919-2000) was the Nathan Sinai Distinguished Professor of Public Health at SPH, where he worked for 28 years until his retirement. He is world-renowned for his work in the area of quality assessment and monitoring of health service.
"Marshall Becker is the only professor who made me fall out of my chair laughing. Buried in his humor, however, was a scorn for the intellectually mediocre, shallow, and lazy. Not afraid to challenge the hype of 1980s-era health promotion, Marshall Becker deftly excoriated "researchers" who pushed a vast array of behavior changes with flimsy evidence.
"Eating Chinese food at his favorite lunch place, Marshall would point the newspaper at me. "First, cholesterol is supposed to be bad for you. But look at this headline: 'Impulsive Homicidal Behavior Can Be Connected with Low Cholesterol Levels.' Does adhering to a low-cholesterol diet make one wish to commit murder? Tell you what, Vic. Next time someone is chasing me down the street with a knife, I'm leading him here for General Tso's Chicken!" While noted for his development of the Health Belief Model, Marshall saw the behavior of individuals within a broader context. And with the advent of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, the world needed this perspective. He was asked to join the effort and contributed immensely to our understanding of risk-reduction behaviors of different populations in different environments. In his early fifties, Marshall fell ill to a cancer that swept through his body. Despite this devastating blow, Marshall remained funny, positive, and insightful. And poignant. In an address he gave in 1992, shortly before the end of his life, Marshall said: "The purpose of life is not only to be happy; it is to matter—to be productive, to be dedicated to goals higher than one's own self-indulgence; in other words, to have it make some difference to the world that you have lived at all.
"These words have stared at me in my office for the past 20 years and continue to resonate with me both personally and professionally."
SPH alumnus Vic Strecher, MPH '80, PhD '83, is a professor of health behavior and health education at SPH and director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. He is the founder of Health Media, which pioneered web-based health coaching, and the founder and CEO of JOOL Health, a digital company integrating the science of purpose, advanced mobile technology, and big data analytics to help improve health and overall well-being through sustainable behavior change.
Marshall Becker (1940–1993) was professor of health behavior and health education from 1977 until his death in 1993. He was internationally known for his elaboration of the Health Belief Model and pioneering work on patient compliance with medical regimens.
"I met Victor Hawthorne when I was a junior faculty member, in 1998. By that time, he was one of the grandfathers of epidemiology. He was quite the storyteller, with his wonderful Scottish accent. He told stories of the real championship efforts that individuals make when they believe in something. He talked about how he had to work his way up the channels. We often forget how important a story is to capture the imagination, to inspire. I miss that.
"One of Victor's biggest contributions was his work helping public health departments conceptualize their role in tracking the major health outcomes in their states. Victor was one of the early advocates for departments of health to start regular surveillance of their populations for the major chronic diseases, as well as infectious diseases.
"Thanks in large part to Victor's work, now when people are concerned that something systematic is making people sick within a community, often there will be data on the disease trends in a given locale. Consider cancer, for example: we can pull the data to see if there really is an excess of cases in a location. It shortens the investigation time considerably between the first signs of community concern and an evidence-based assessment of the community.
"I was really inspired by Victor's relational ethic. He was tremendously kindhearted. I remember a conversation when he was extolling how we should be collecting good data regularly to help people and communities and institutions identify culprits and act quickly. He was always talking about how it was both a privilege and responsibility to be a faculty member, to be working in public health. He was a longstanding member of the Michigan Governor's Advisory Committee, including the years when the state's Public Health Code was being created. He had a deep concern for people and felt that faculty should be standing up for the people who cannot, in order to make sure that their places of work and play are safe for them."
Sharon Kardia is an SPH alumna (PhD '91), senior associate dean for administration, and professor of epidemiology.
Victor Hawthorne (1921-2014) came to U-M in 1978, serving as chair of the Department of Epidemiology until 1986. He was named professor emeritus in 1991, but remained active in research and practice until shortly before his death in 2015.


Happy July in Christmas, Day Three! If you missed them, we have been celebrating all week, DAY ONE, DAY TWO. We have our wonderful Pam Bray on the blog today with an amazing Greatest Blessings Jingle Christmas Planner using our new Jingle Collection. We have had a blast sharing with you this week, and cannot wait to share with you all of the details of Jingle and a new collection!
Decorate with doilies, Ephemera Card, border strips.
Pam this is such a delight!! LOVE each of those vintage tags and that happy santa face on the front! Fabulous and so want everything!!


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Q: Word for exaggerating a response In soccer, players often exaggerate their injuries to make their opponent look more guilty.
I've also seen this on TV shows with a hostile police officer, saying things like "Whoa whoa whoa, calm down, sir." after the person with whom they are speaking says something innocent.
The idea is exaggerating a response to make it seem like there was aggression that would have merited such a response.
Is there a succint term or phrase for that?

A: I think you can use ther term overreaction:
Overreact:

to react in an extreme, especially an angry or frightened, way:

*

*Try not to overreact to criticism.

(Cambridge Dictionary)

A: I've often seen this described as "hamming up an injury", which is to say they are overacting, rather than overreacting. The distinction there captures the element of deceit that I think you're going for.

A: I think you've already found exactly the word you need:

Exaggeration
a. The action of exaggerating or magnifying unduly in words or representation.

In soccer specifically, I've seen this called diving or "taking a dive." From Wikipedia:

In [soccer], diving is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground and possibly feigning an injury, to give the impression that a foul has been committed. Dives are often used to exaggerate the amount of contact present in a challenge.

A: Could also be simulating

to make a pretense of; feign:

Or drama queen.

a person who habitually responds to situations in a melodramatic way.

A: We also use the phrase 'hamming it up', which means 'to over-act' and comes from a trait common amongst younger actors to overdo the drama a bit when playing the role of Hamlet in Shakespeare's eponymous play.

A: of some idioms, I like: blown out of proportion. TFD

Exaggerated or magnified beyond the true scale or truth of the matter.

As in:
In soccer, players often blow out of proportion their injuries to make their opponent look more guilty.
In the case of the police in particular, as you referenced, to embellish comes to mind:  Vocabulary.com

That's what can happen when you embellish by adding too many false or
  exaggerated details to a story.

As in:

"Whoa whoa ... whoa! Calm down, sir." after the person with whom they
  are speaking says something innocent.

Here the officer is embellishing his response and his authority to the 'words' of a suspect/prep/innocent person.

A: melodramatising
Meaning 3 seems to fit.
melodrama (ˈmɛləˌdrɑːmə)
n

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*(Film) a play, film, etc, characterized by extravagant action and emotion

*(Theatre) (formerly) a romantic drama characterized by sensational incident, music, and song

*overdramatic emotion or behaviour

*(Theatre) a poem or part of a play or opera spoken to a musical accompaniment

A: As an idiom, those people are making a mountain out of a molehill.
From Wikipedia:

Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue. It seems to have come into existence in the 16th century.
Metaphor
The idiom is a metaphor for the common behaviour of responding disproportionately to something - usually an adverse circumstance. One who "makes a mountain out of a molehill" is said to be greatly exaggerating the severity of the situation. In cognitive psychology, this form of distortion is called magnification or overreacting. The phrase itself is so common that a study by psychologists found that with respect to familiarity and image value, it ranks high among the 203 common sayings they tested.
Similar idioms include 'Much ado about nothing' and 'Making a song and dance about nothing'.

A: In the case of the soccer player I might suggest the word 'baiting'.  Perhaps this could describe the Police Officer too however, there is the element of controlling the situation when a Police Officer does this - they are establishing a power dynamic; whereas the soccer player is just hoping for a positive outcome.
The word 'juking' also comes to mind.

A: While the question is about exaggerating a response, the examples given seem to be more about active deception (particularly in the police officer example). A few words could help explain:
feign

verb (used with object)
  1.to represent  fictitiously;  put  on an appearance  of:
  to feign  sickness.
2.to invent  fictitiously  or deceptively,  as a story  or an excuse.

For example,

The soccer player was feigning his injuries.

Dissumulate

verb (used without object), dis·sim·u·lat·ed, dis·sim·u·lat·ing.
  2.to conceal  one's  true  motives,  thoughts,  etc.,  by some  pretense;  speak  or act  hypocritically.

For example,

"Woah woah woah, calm down", the police officer responded, dissimulating.

See also dissemble.
Additionally, a charade, can often involve using exaggerated actions or appearances for the purpose of deception.

*a blatant  pretense  or deception,  especially  something  so full  of pretense  as to be a travesty.