It's well-known that I'm in love with Asian books.
I mean, I can't seem to shut up about Asian books I've loved and Asian releases I'm looking forward to. The Weight of Our Sky certainly isn't exempt from my love.
When Vicky @ Vicky Who Reads announced a blog tour for Southeast Asians for this book, I immediately signed up. A chance to read one of my most anticipated books of the year, and talk about how it related to my Southeast Asian identity? Hell yeah.
I was ecstatic to be accepted for the blog tour, and I'm so thankful that I got to read this stunning book. Hopefully by the end of my review I can convince you all to read it as well!
check out the full blog tour schedule here!
If there's anything I want in YA, it's girl gangs.
You've all heard me scream about the importance of female friendships in YA, and how much I love reading them.
I was very pleased to not be disappointed by this book! There wasn't a lot of hype for it (though there SHOULD be), so I didn't form the highest of expectations, but it definitely did surprise me. It took zombie girls to a WHOLE new level.
This is my stop on the Undead Girl Gang blog tour! Thank you to Penguin Random House for providing me a review copy in exchange for a spot on this blog tour.
So I absolutely ADORED The Nowhere Girls.
Pretty cover?* Check. Important messages? Check. Great characters? Check. AND SO MUCH MORE.
It was just such an inspiring book, and it's something that I feel EVERYONE needs to read, because it's just so so powerful. It made me feel all sorts of emotions—sadness, anger, frustration, hope, bittersweetness… I'M JUST A MESS FROM THIS BOOK OKAY.


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Apple Filming New iPhone Ads Featuring Video Chat
Monday May 24, 2010 8:36 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Engadget reports that Apple has already started filming new ads featuring the next generation iPhone. The new ads are reportedly being directed by Sam Mendes.
According to the site's source, the new iPhone is referred to internally as Mammoth / N90. At least one scene from the ad is said to be featuring a video chat conversation between a mother and daughter using the iPhone's new front-facing camera. Engadget also cites a few recent tweets from actors who have revealed they have been auditioning for the new Apple ads.
Video conferencing has been a long discussed possibility for Apple's iPhone, though it has not yet been a very popular feature across many other phones. We've put together this poll to ask how appealing a feature it really is for the next iPhone:
How appealing a feature is video conferencing in the next iPhone?online survey

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Кешобчондро Сен (; ) — индийский реформатор и , общественный деятель. Лидер радикального крыла организации «Брахмо самадж» (с 1862 года), резко изменивший направление её практической деятельности.

Биография и деятельность
Родился в вишнуитской небрахманской семье, получил английское образование . Был воспитан в среде, находившейся под сильным влиянием христианства.

Окончил Индуистский колледж в Калькутте (нынешний Президентский колледж). В 1854 году стал секретарём Азиатского общества. В 1855 году был принят секретарём в Братство доброй воли масонской ложи. В 1857 году стал секретарём учёного, поэта и композитора Двиджендраната Тагора.

С 1858 года Сен входил в «Брахмо самадж», где вёл широкую общественно-просветительскую деятельность, развивал идеи универсализма и расширения социальных реформ (всеобщее образование, доступность высшего образования для молодежи, социальное освобождение женщин, развитие женского образования, «религиозная война против кастовой системы»). Кешобчондро Сен усилил антикастовую направленность движения, решительно выступил за разрешение вторичного замужества вдов.

Сен активизировал пропагандистскую и благотворительную деятельность общества, попытался превратить его в массовую общественно-религиозную организацию. Он заявил, что термин «индусы» на его сторонников не распространяется, так как они отрицают авторитет Вед и признают прозелитизм всех религий, конфессий. Тем самым он поставил возглавляемую им организацию вне индуистской общины.

Стремление Сена преодолеть индуистский характер организации и отношение к кастам вызвало раскол и появление «Всеиндийского Брахмо самаджа».

В 1870 году мыслитель посетил Англию и основал Индийскую ассоциацию реформ. Сен способствовал принятию в 1872 году британскими властями закона о гражданском браке в Индии .

По этому закону были разрешены межкастовые браки и вторичное замужество вдов, запрещаются полигамия и детские браки, был установлен минимальный брачный возраст (14 и 18 лет для невесты и жениха). Правда, закон этот распространялся только на членов «Бхаратваршия Брахмо самадж».

Непоследовательность Сена, выдавшего свою 14-летнюю дочь за 16-летнего сына раджи княжества Куч-Бихар, спровоцировала новый раскол в 1878.

Сторонники Сена вошли в его «Нобобидхан Брахмо самадж», где пытались синтезировать мистические практики Востока с западной рациональностью и «духом науки». В последние годы жизни Сен испытал сильное влияние Рамакришны.

Сен провозгласил создание церкви нового божественного установления («Нававидхан»), в которой под влиянием идей Рамакришны предпринял попытку создать наднациональную всемирную религию. Для этой организации были характерны эклектическое смешение догм, культов и ритуалов, особенно заметным было влияние христианства. Христианские элементы постепенно стали преобладающими. Однако церковь оказалась нежизнеспособной и после смерти основателя Нававидхана прекратила свое существование, как предсказывал Дебендронатх Тагор, убеждённый сторонник социальных реформ. Он писал молодым брахмоистам во главе с Кешобчондро Сеном:

Вы желаете изменений, которые вполне естественны и продиктованы духом развития. Все правила должны приниматься в соответствии с изменившимися условиями и ситуацией, иначе они ведут к ослаблению и упадку. Перемены и приспособляемость — закон роста и развития. Единственный вопрос — в том, насколько настоящее состояние реально требует изменений…

Смысл бытия человека Сен истолковал как любовь к Богу, которая проявляется в служении миру. Называя учение Христа универсальным, Сен считал его последователем каждого, кто ведёт борьбу с грехом, страданием ближних и всеми видами зла «в сердцах и в обществе». Поэтому индийцы должны освоить христианский дух самопожертвования и всепрощения.

Социально-философская мысль Сена основана на идеях равенства, социальной справедливости, совершенствования человека для преобразований в обществе. Сен отстаивал синтез индийских традиций с западными достижениями в интеллектуальной, социальной и культурной сферах и наследием христианства с его порывом к совершенствованию общественного устройства, синтез религии, рациональности и науки. Для этого требуется разрушение предрассудков, изживание старых обычаев и системы каст в общеиндийском масштабе. Идеи прав личности, межрелигиозного братства и величия трудящегося народа, обеспечивающего благосостояние страны предвосхищали идеи Вивекананды и М. К. Ганди.

Сен был другом великого индийского поэта Рабиндраната Тагора.

Труды

Семья
Кешубчандра Сен был женат на Джагонмохини Сен (1847—1898). У супругов было десять детей: пять сыновей и пять дочерей.

Одна из его внучек, Наина Деви (1917—1993), стала известной классической певицей. Его внук Эррол Чундер Сен (ок. 1899—1942) — первый индийский летчик, служивший в Королевском летном корпусе и Королевских ВВС во время Первой мировой войны.

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Freeview is delivered through the normal terrestrial aerial transmitter network in the UK and receiving it is no more complicated than receiving a "normal" TV signal. Freeview is a digital transmission and the Confederation of Aerial Industries warns that this may cause reception problems in some areas, especially when using set-top or loft aerials. Installing a Freeview aerial follows the same process as installing a normal TV aerial. The same aerial is used for both signals.
Observe the aerials on surrounding rooftops and note the direction in which they point. Talk to neighbors and ask whether they have good digital reception using loft and roof aerials. After considering this information, decide whether to mount the aerial on the roof or in the loft space.
Establish the direction of nearby aerials using a compass. Note the compass bearing. Visit the Digital TV Reception website as an alternative way to locate the nearest transmitter and find the compass bearing to the transmitter tower.
Clamp the new aerial to an existing aerial mount, or install a new one according to the manufacturer's instructions. Attach the aerial to any suitable structure within a loft, but avoid positioning it behind water tanks or other large metallic objects.
Point the aerial at the nearest transmitter, using your compass and the bearing to the nearest transmitter to guide you. Align your rooftop aerial with your neighbours' aerials and then make further tuning adjustments using your compass.
Connect a length of coaxial cable to the aerial using the method prescribed by the manufacturer's instructions. This is usually via two screw terminals or two push-in clamps within a small plastic box.
Attach the free end of the coaxial cable to a portable TV set capable of receiving Freeview broadcasts, or to a Freeview box connected to a portable TV set. Steve Larkins, an electronics engineer and Freeview expert, recommends tuning the TV to BBC One or ITV 1 and then adjusting the aerial position to achieve the best reception.
If your TV has good picture quality on the existing terrestrial stations, you probably will not need to install a Freeview aerial.
A loft aerial may be hung from two or more lengths of string, or screwed to a wooden strut.
Tell somebody before you work on a roof or in a loft space. Rescue is unlikely in an isolated location unless somebody knows where you are.
Wear appropriate safety equipment, such as a harness when working on a roof, and a breathing mask when working in a loft space containing particle or fibreglass insulation.
Confederation of Aerial Industries: I Have Just Purchased A Freeveiw Box, Do I Need A Rooftop Aerial Or Can It Be Run Through Cable?
Confederation of Aerial Industries: Can I Use An Indoor Set-top Aerial With My Freeview Receiver?
Freeview: Will I Need A New Aerial?


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Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile ★★½ 2003 (PG-13)
Julia Roberts is Katherine Watson, an art history professor from California who takes a position at Wellesley College, an all girl college of impeccable standing. Watson, of course, wants to enlighten her students to the possibilities that lay outside of their safe, WASPish upbringing and expectations. You've seen the "Maverick-teacher-tries-to-inspire-the-complacent" plot before (think "Dead Poet's Society" on estrogen), and really there's nothing new here but the gender. Strong ensemble cast doesn't have much to work with. 117m/C DVD . US Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Topher Grace, John Slattery, Marcia Gay Harden, Jordan Bridges, Marian Seldes, Donna Mitchell, Terence Rigby; D: Mike Newell; W: Larry Konner, Mark Rosenthal; C: Anastas Michos; M: Rachel Portman.
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I've been researching alternative energy sources that could be used during an extended grid-down situation for a while now but haven't been able to find one that would work well in my situation (limited sun and wind).
Well just recently a good friend of mine had reminded me of one that I had long since forgotten (having originally passed over it in a Mother Earth News article a few years back): Wood or Biomass Gasification.
In a nutshell, gasification is the process of using heat to transform solid biomass, or other carbonaceous solids, into a flammable fuel much like natural gas. Basically, you can take practically any solid dry organic matter (wood chips, walnut/cherry shells, agricultural waste etc) and convert it into a clean burning, carbon neutral, gaseous fuel. And with this resultant fuel you can burn it in your internal combustion engine, power your generator, light up your cooking stove, and fuel your furnace — all from using the trees and waste lying around your property.
Well, not too long ago during WWII over one million vehicles in Europe ran onboard gasifiers to make fuel from wood and charcoal, since gasoline and diesel were severely rationed or sometimes altogether unavailable. This was all made possible using simple gasifiers about as complex as a traditional wood stove.
Plans to Build Your Own Gasifier: This was originally put out by FEMA (back when FEMA was cool). Since then many newer technologies have come out to make gasifiers more efficient.
GEK Gasifier: an excellent open source resource into all things gasification. There's a great community their who have a lot of expertise on making their own. Lots of newer as well as older plans to make your own.
Gasifier Construction Plans: a good collection of different plans.
FundamentalForm.com: Some alternative gasifier plans as well as all-around great ideas about alternate energy.
Over the next year, I will be experimenting with homemade gasifiers — beginning with very simple, small models and graduating to larger ones as I gain confidence. My ultimate goal is to build a homemade gasifier capable of fueling a generator that can power my home — and as always I'll be recording it all for your benefit. So stay posted!
This is a very interesting area. I have looked at these units. Still haven't built one. The first season of The Colony they built a couple and used them for running internal combustion engines. Thanks for the links.
I haven't watched the Colony yet but have heard good things about that show. I'll have to check it out to see their design.
When I click on "Plans to build your own gasifier" it takes me to "Victory Gasworks" which I think is a company that sells gasifiers, and not the FEMA information. I would really like to find that FEMA info – is there any way I can get it?
I would also like the "Plans to build your own gasifier" that is mentioned in the link above. Can you send this document to me or is there another place to download it from?
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Post-Revolution Iran Film Series: "The Day I Became a Woman"
Post-Revolution Iran Film Series:
"The Day I Became a Woman" by Marzieh Meshkini
Please join us for the third session in this film series – a screening of "The Day I Became a Woman" by Merzieh Meshkini; followed by a discussion led by Khatereh Sheibani.
About "The Day I Became a Woman"
The Day I Became a Woman (2000) is a collection of three short stories, each focusing on a different stage in the lives of Iranian women, and their struggles against the constraints that have been placed on them. This moving and visually striking film received awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival.
Khatereh Sheibani has a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Alberta, 2007) and currently teaches literature and cinema courses at York University. She has co-edited a special issue of Iran Namag on Abbas Kiarostami (w/ M. Tavakoli Targhi, Volume 2, No. 4, Winter 2017-18, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada). Her book, The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution, was published in 2011 by I.B.Tauris, UK. Khatereh has published articles in anthologies of film and literature, and in journals such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She has published poems in various literary journals and newspapers in Iran and Canada.
Date: Saturday June 15, 2019
Admission: General – $10; Unwaged/student – $5
For more information about the series – including the films and their screening dates – please click here.
This series is curated by Daniel Davidson-Kalmar, who holds a Master's Degree in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. Within his general interest in international film, he has a particular passion for Iranian cinema.


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Taking action against anti-LGBT online hate speech
Article by Roberto Igual | April 10, 2018 | In HEADLINES, Mambagirl News
Website editor Naufal Khan has had enough of online homophobic abuse. He's taking a woman to the Equality Court after she allegedly called him an anti-gay slur on social media.
Khan, who is the openly gay founder and editor of Indian Spice, says he was harassed by a Durban woman because of a story he published about a radio presenter who allegedly posted anti-Muslim comments on Facebook.
Pauline Rosanna Sangham, who hosted the Christian show Gospel Hour, was recently fired from Lotus FM, reportedly in part because of the Islamophobic statements.
This controversy saw a group of Christian supporters coming to her defence, and that included attacking Khan, who had strongly criticised Sangham. In a series of heated exchanges, one of the individuals, Devi Munisami, allegedly made a number of derogatory references to Khan's sexuality.
"Naufal Khan, he needs a couple of women to drag him out of his comfort zone…" she is reported to have said, adding, "I must give him my grandmother's panties so he can act like one."
When Khan called her out on her homophobia, Munisami allegedly responded by describing him as: "A f****t with a mouth."
Munisami appears to have previously published homophobic comments online, including, for example, stating that "gay marriages have more rights than a baby's right to life".
Khan has refused to let the matter go and has approached OUT's Love Not Hate Campaign and the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. They have agreed to assist him in taking Munisami to the Equality Court over her comments.
Naufal Khan
"Taking onto context that Cabinet passed the Hate Crimes Bill last month, this is perfect timing," says Khan. "Vicky Momberg went to jail for what she said and it's time that Devi learned a lesson."
He believes that comments like the ones allegedly made by Munisami can fuel more hatred against the LGBT community and could lead to "someone actually harming an LGBT person".
Khan says that, "We see cases where it starts with an insult and sometimes leads to violence," and insists that it is important to take a stand against occurrences of hate speech.
"If not, we're just sitting back and letting everybody perpetuate the hate," he adds.
If you have been a victim of online LGBT hate speech you can report it to the Love Not Hate campaign or report the incident anonymously via South Africa's first LGBT hate crime reporting site.
You can also lodge a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission or take the matter to the Equality Court.
UPDATE 16/04/2018: Devi Munisami has messaged Mambaonline with a response to Khan's claims. She wrote: "As God is my witness I NEVER knew F****t was derogatory, just thought it's another word for gay, because I will never discriminate another human being." Munisami also alleges that Khan used derogatory words against her, which she described as "hate speech against women". She said she'd had discussions with POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) in this regard. Munisami added: "I am totally against any form of abuse against women and children or humanity."
I support Naufal 100%. I have looked at this woman's Facebook page and she comes across as a Charlatan. How dare she publicly call him a f****t. She is uncouth. I hope he takes her slander to the highest court.
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As American Airlines Flight 11 rocketed south over Westchester County on the way to Manhattan, CNN had on a fluff piece about maternity fashions. The bare swollen belly of a pregnant model filled the screen as the hijacked jet approached the island.
At the instant of impact, CNN had gone to a commercial.
Incredibly, after the commercial, there was a business piece on the air about Boeing stock.
The fires were already raging when CNN finally tuned in. Until the second plane hit, as if it were an odd but routine high-rise building fire, CNN continued to display the Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P index reading on the screen.
CNN at first didn't have much of an idea what had happened, merely repeating that "unconfirmed reports" had it that a small plane had flown into the World Trade Center. After a minute of floundering, CNN's VP of finance was put on the phone. The man had a window office a mile away and saw the first impact. He insisted it was a commercial jet with two engines.
For the eighteen minutes between jet impacts, CNN thought that a wayward navigation beacon had somehow directed the plane into the building – ignoring common sense, visual and instrument flight rules and the crystal clear visibility.
Ten minutes after United 175 exploded into the south tower, CNN was still scratching their heads that malfunctioning navigation equipment or autopilots put the planes into the buildings. A caller even handed them the answer, stating that the second plane's wings were wiggling and that it deliberately turned into the south tower, and that it was a kamikaze pilot. Yet still CNN anchors refused to recognize that the crash as deliberate. Finally some clear thinking staffer at CNN read the Associated Press wire, which said the FBI suspected that the first flight was hijacked.
When the south tower collapsed, CNN thought it was another explosion. No one thought the building had come down.
When CNN did finally understand that the south tower had collapsed, they commented about how sad it was that only one building would remain standing.
When the Pentagon was hit by American Airlines flight 77, CNN finally got it right that it had been a coordinated terrorist assault.
I'm not saying that CNN was incompetent. They actually did one of the best jobs on the air that day, and five years later had the guts to put their real time news on the air.
So how should we interpret our 9/11 naiveté? And were our leaders as stunned and surprised as CNN and the American people were? Many people have wondered about the extent of the government's foreknowledge, and if someone in power "allowed" the attack to happen, as allegations have been made about Roosevelt evacuating the aircraft carriers from Pearl Harbor and letting the Japanese take their best shot as a means to get America into World War II. Several elements point to this not being the case.
Later, the 9/11 came to be blamed on a "failure of imagination." Government agencies and officials couldn't imagine a time-on-target suicide attack being so successful, and no one wondered what would happen if airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center.
But fiction authors did. Late in CNN's morning coverage, author Tom Clancy was asked about the events of the day. At first, I wondered if CNN were truly desperate, asking a fiction writer to comment on the catastrophe, but Clancy gave the best and most cogent analysis of anyone on the air that morning. He mentioned that one of his novels depicted a hijacked jumbo crashing into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress, decapitating the government. Maybe Osama likes Tom Clancy novels.
I ran into this phenomenon of fiction writers being out front myself. One of my novels, written before the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, described a cruise missile with a nuclear "dirty bomb" as its warhead launched by a submarine belonging to a uniting dictator of a pan-Islamic West-hating organization called the United Islamic Front of God. The Islamic dictator was called "The Sword of Islam" and carried a dagger in the belt of his robes. Just like our pal Osama later did. The target of the dirty bomb was Washington, D.C.
It was chilling to get an email from a U.S. Army soldier stating that this novel was found in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. It was apparently well-read and dog-eared.
While none of us would ever want to give terrorists a leg up, it wouldn't hurt to infuse the governmental planners with a little of a fiction author's imagination – and perhaps his clairvoyance as well.
But WERE our government officials as clueless as CNN anchors? And if they were, is there meaning in that cluelessness? In the moments after the first plane hit, President Bush was in a classroom in Florida emphasizing reading. Perhaps the government's version of a fluff fashion model segment. After Bush had been informed of the first crash, he went on reading to first graders for another nine minutes. For that kind of reaction, you have to imagine more than just "a failure of imagination." You'd need to see that what our government suffered was what we in the nuclear Navy called the "oh sh**" factor.
The "oh sh**" factor happens when an emergency arises out of nowhere, an emergency so whacky and unprecedented that it leaves you stunned and paralyzed. Four hundred feet below the Atlantic, I was running a nuclear reactor drill, surrounded by three senior officers, each having a decade-and-a-half of experience in operating nuclear plants. I and another officer had less experience, but were still sharp, and we stood behind a seasoned reactor operator, the best on the ship. It was a drill, but was still a true "casualty" because the reactor was actually tripped out and we were trying to recover it (if you can do it without sinking, that's a good thing).
Suddenly something happened that no one had ever thought of, drilled, talked about or even theorized, and it caused a reactor runaway reaction. In the cold light of the post-emergency investigation, it was clear that someone should have hit the kill switch and "scrammed" the reactor. That one button would have made everything safe. No one even thought about it during the two minute freak accident. And although all the signs were there on the instrument panels to see, we all froze. If the automatic protection circuits hadn't acted as designed, the nuclear power spike and resulting steam explosion – a "prompt critical rapid disassembly" – would have blown open the hull and we would have coasted all the way to the rocky bottom of the cold Atlantic two miles beneath us.
That feeling of all your thought processes coming to a complete, paralyzed stop is the famous "oh sh**" factor. It is the reason that we drilled on every catastrophe or crisis we could think of. And if I learned one thing from the Navy, it was that what you sweat goes fine. It's what you don't think of that comes to get you.
This came to mind a month ago when I was watching a comedy movie in a dark theater with my five year old daughter. I'd always wondered what I would do if she were to choke, as it was one of my parenting fears. Suddenly she laughed and choked at the same time, and by the dim light of the screen I could see her eyes bug out in panic, and the choking sound stopped. Before a tenth of a second passed I grabbed her, and while running down the aisle steps toward better light, gave her the Heimlich four times, but as I could see in the light at the exit, she was still choking and absolutely terror stricken – as was I. I began to wonder if I had the stones to do an emergency tracheotomy with a pocket knife, and why I no longer carried one – terrorists were the answer to that one, as all my knifes were long since confiscated by airport security. I knew that nothing could stand between me and my daughter's survival, not broken ribs and not the frightening idea of making a hole in her throat. With one last titanic squeeze I gave her the Heimlich one last time, and she projectile-vomited all over me. It was the happiest sensation I think I've ever had. She was still terrified, and her chest was sore for days, but the little one was safe and sound. We returned to the movie, but she was afraid to laugh for fear of choking again.
Where was the "oh sh**" factor then? It didn't happen, because I'd mentally rehearsed what I'd do in that moment. Had this happened before everyone was educated on how to do the Heimlich maneuver, that story would have had a tragic ending.
The president continued reading to first graders for nearly ten minutes after the Flight 11 impact. After the first plane hit, the south tower was not evacuated. People returned to their desks and didn't live to regret it. Despite the FAA knowing that a coordinated hijacking was going on, no fighter jets made it to the hijacked flights on time. At supersonic speed, fighter jets could have either forced the hijacked flights down, or destroyed them before they could be used as air-fuel ultra-high energy missiles.
The inertia of the "oh sh**" factor paralyzed the U.S. government in the heat of the moment. The sins of our government happened long before with our lily-livered approach to taking down terrorists.
Unfortunately, having gotten a taste of victory on September 11, the Islamic militants will escalate. The next one will be a nuclear, biological or chemical attack. Why do I make it sound obvious? Because the Islamic militants covet it so much, and they've proved that what they envision, they can make reality. So far in this war, it has been the terrorists who have the advantage of imagination. Today, in America, the term "WMD" is now derided as a mere lie allowing us to topple the Iraqi government. But within half a decade, it will have a different connotation.
How will the bad guys accomplish a nuclear, biological or chemical attack?
Let's turn to a fiction writer for that answer. Imagine, if you will, an airfreight carrier's freight handlers being conspirators. If a FEDEX or UPS hub were compromised, components of nuclear weapons could be brought into the cargo holds of cargo jets, perhaps packaged in briefcase-sized boxes. Cargo jets could then be compromised by saboteurs. When they took off, the hijackers would wait to take them over until they neared their target cities, then enter the cockpits through the avionics bays. A cargo jet heading for JFK Airport in New York would only turn from its glide slope in the last moments of the flight, and then turn toward Manhattan. The assembled nuclear weapon, worked on during the hours of the flight, would be triggered. A half-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated over New York would make the fuel-air explosive kamikaze attack of 9/11 seem minor. In addition to the physical damage, the economic center of the world would be gravely injured. A nuke detonated over Washington would leave our government helpless and scattered. But New York and Washington would not be the only targets. This time, the hurt will be visited upon the heartland and the west coast. Memphis. Chicago. Denver. Cincinnati. Houston. San Francisco. Los Angeles. And Seattle. Ten 500 kiloton bombs. Ten cities in radioactive ruins. What will the post-nuclear-attack America be like?
We should vow that we'll never have to find out.
How can we fight terrorists like these while preserving the Constitution?
That answer, again, from a fiction writer. We should use the tactics of the enemy against him. Terrorists have triumphed using cells. Each is isolated from the others, and each have little or no command-and-control from centralized authority. And each is funded, given a mission but NOT the specifics of how to carry out that mission. And therefore, one of them succeeds.
Imagine, then, funding for American cells of volunteers. These cells' mission would be to strike and kill key terrorists by any means they can think of. Any means. The only official connection of these cells to the government would be the funding. Cells could arm up with the latest weapons, ammunition and James Bond gadgets. The budgets for these cells would be hotly debated, but also highly secret. A black program like no others ever conceived. Released to do whatever the cell leaders saw fit, however they saw fit, the cells would be the ultimate weapon. They would be accountable only for the ultimate success on their own timeline. No politicians, no Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee, no bureaucratic meddling or turf battles between the State Department, the FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA or Homeland Security. And no harm to the Constitution of the United States as the Executive Branch worries about overstepping its authority by imprisoning enemy combatants or spying on cell phone calls domestically.
Is that an episode of "Mission Impossible," a bad first draft of a thriller outline, or a recipe for success against men willing to do anything to harm us and our way of life?
I can't help but wonder what our way of life would be like with ten cities in ashes. Is that just a crazy nightmare? Or recognition that a handful of militant anti-American Islamics killed more of us on a September morning than the Russians did in four-and-a-half decades of the Cold War?


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AGSM @ UNSW Business School has ranked 41st in the 2021 QS Global MBA Rankings, up one spot from last year.
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AGSM @ UNSW Business School has ranked 41st in the 2021 QS Global MBA Rankings, up one spot from last year. The result puts the AGSM Full-Time MBA in the top 16% of the 258 schools ranked.
AGSM ranked above the global average across all indicators: Employability, Diversity, Thought Leadership, ROI and Alumni Outcomes. AGSM performed particularly well in Diversity (24th globally) and Thought Leadership (25th globally) indicators placing in the top 10% globally.
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"AGSM @ UNSW Business School offers innovative, experiential, world-class programs taught by internationally recognised academics and Executives-in-Residence from leading corporate and government organisations," said Professor Nick Wailes, Director AGSM and Deputy Dean, UNSW Business School.
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Trudy, believed to be the oldest gorilla in captivity, has died
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Officials at an Arkansas zoo say a gorilla, believed to be the oldest Western Lowland gorilla in captivity, has died.
According to the Little Rock Zoo, 63-year-old Trudy passed away earlier this week. The zoo said Trudy was the oldest member of their Western Lowland gorilla group. Officials say she "outlived most of her counterparts in zoos around the world and in the wild."
Trudy came to the facility from the Buffalo Zoo in 1988. She arrived with Ollie on a breeding loan. Together they made history as being the first gorillas ever exhibited in the state.
"There are so many memories, stories, and anecdotes to share about Trudy," said Little Rock Zoo Director Susan Altrui. "She is a cherished member of the Little Rock Zoo family. To say that she will be missed and that her absence is felt is an understatement. We are glad to know she had a good home with us here."


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All three postflop streets went similarly, with Salomon check-calling Sexton each time. After the flop, Salomon check-called a bet of 150,000 right away. After the turn, Salomon checked and called a bet of 250,000, again without hesitation.
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The differences between various chess video games aren't always clear. Certainly you can expect that the rules, strategies, and nuances of the game will remain untouched. Rather, you have to look at the features wrapped around the core chess engine of games like Chessmaster on the PlayStation 2 to determine whether or not they're worth a look. If chess games do indeed live and die by their extra features, then Ubi Soft's Chessmaster is well equipped to enjoy a long life on the shelves of video gaming chess fans.
Of course, graphics and sound aren't the focus of a chess game, but Chessmaster is a noticeably solid product in this regard.
When you start playing Chessmaster, you'll be asked to create a player profile that the game will use to keep track of your performance and assign you a skill rating. Once you have an account, you can dive into a huge number of chess-related gameplay modes. Quick game simply drops you into a game as soon as you start it, squaring you off against one of Chessmaster's many AI opponents. In this mode, you can freely undo previous moves, switch sides mid-game, and otherwise bend the rules in the name of practice. The setup position mode lets you arrange an entire board to your liking and then start playing so you can test out new tactics and strategies. Unlike quick game, which doesn't affect your skill rating, the rated game mode tightens up the rules a bit and applies the outcome to your score. Puzzle of the day is a bit of a misnomer--in fact, you can receive new puzzles as fast as you can solve them, not just once a day. This mode will present you with a given board arrangement and ask you to achieve checkmate in one move or avoid being checkmated yourself. Finally, the championships mode lets you play through a virtual tournament against AI players of varying skill levels. Tournament structures available in this mode include swiss and round robin. The single-player modes are quite robust and make the game pretty worthwhile on their own.
Even given the varied gameplay in the single-player component, Chessmaster's online support is perhaps its most appealing feature, at least in theory. The game uses Sony's Network Adapter to connect to the Internet so you can match wits against actual human beings. "Great," you say, "but I can play online chess for free on a dozen different Web pages." This is true, but Chessmaster does provide a couple of advantages. For one, you're playing online chess from your couch, not at a desk. For another, the game gives you a persistent user account that lets you set up matches against players of similar ability. You have an online skill rating that's separate from your offline one, and when you set up games online, you can choose whether the match will affect your rating or merely count as a practice round. There are a few damning issues in Chessmaster's online component, however. For one, the interface for matchmaking isn't nearly as user-friendly as it could be--you have to access separate menus to see who's online and what games are available to you. The option to simply highlight a user's name and propose a match at the press of a button would have been nice. Another issue: Though you have a friends list that lets you be selective about who you offer a match to, there's no chat component or other easy means of communicating with other players. The final and most vexing flaw of Chessmaster's online component is that, as of a few days after the game's release, almost nobody is playing it online. Of course, this is entirely subject to the whims of people who own the game--a week from now, there may be hundreds of people playing (the game's two lobbies combined will hold 1,000). For now, though, it's not uncommon to log on to the Chessmaster server and find yourself alone.
Thankfully, Chessmaster on the PS2 contains a huge amount of supplemental material. The Pandolfini chess school mode contains more lessons relating to the game of chess than you might have thought possible. These lessons range from tutorials for absolute beginners, covering the way pieces move and basic chess terminology, to incredibly complex and cerebral treatises on strategy by well-known masters of the game. The lessons are written and narrated by players like Bruce Pandolfini, Larry Evans, and Josh Waitzkin, the chess prodigy and subject of the film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Famous games are even displayed with running commentary by the players involved in the game. Further, the famous games mode lets you view the moves of more than 800 matches throughout the centuries, from a 1619 Giachino Greco match in Rome to Gary Kasparov's defeat at the hands of the IBM computer Deep Blue in 1996. Whether you're just learning the game of chess or you're a studied veteran looking to absorb an enormous amount of strategy and information, Chessmaster has something to offer.
Chessmaster on the PS2 contains a huge amount of supplemental material.
Of course, graphics and sound aren't the focus of a chess game, but Chessmaster is a noticeably solid product in this regard. The chessboard is polygonal and can be rotated at will, and there are a number of alternate chess sets you can apply, like dogs and dessert dishes. One novel graphical addition to Chessmaster is the chess battlefield mode, which replaces the standard chessboard with a medieval scene in which you play as knights or orcs with animated pieces that fight when they take another piece. The game's menus are sparse but clean and easy to navigate. Finally, Chessmaster features a smattering of innocuous music tracks, as well as the extensive narration during the tutorial bits.
The PlayStation 2 version of Chessmaster certainly lives up to its pedigree. Of course, it won't change your mind about the game of chess itself--if you dislike chess, there's not a thing for you here. If you're a casual player or someone who's devoted to the game, though, you'll find a huge amount of meat in Chessmaster. The game's online component could have been implemented a little better, but it's still functional. And besides, Chessmaster retails for around $20, so the offline features alone make the game worth owning.


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I don't see any way that RR is at UM. I like him but it was a bad fit from day one, IF Harbaugh says no then move on, I don't think Harbaugh says no.
Brandon, apparently, has played this pretty well.
This is all pointless anyway. Fulmer would never be considered, unless the AD wanted to get fired.
Harbaugh is going to be in.
Yep. Say no to Phat Phil!
I'd bet that to be almost 100% true. I just happen to like Fulmer and put his name out there.
1. Wait a couple weeks and call Harbaugh again with a "last chance".
2. Give Urban Meyer a call. 97.1% chance he will laugh you off the phone, but you don't know if you don't call.
3. Give Les Miles a call. He has said he won't leave LSU, but talking to a newspaper is much different than talking to a possible employer.
I don't know what the press thinks a Michigan Man is, but you would think they would have been to enough football banquests and heard enough players talking about it to understand what it means. Being associated with the university does not make you a Michigan Man any more than not being associated prevents you. It's about personal responsibility, accountability, the team, etc.
I think Rodriguez has made it almost impossible for Brandon to retain him. The poor showings against the better conference teams ending with the bowl game performance just seem to give him no choice. The best he could do was give him another year and I don't think, after the 3 years the program has endured, you gamble again with the crown jewel of your department.
I really don't understand how Rodriguez, knowing what was on the line, could lay the eggs he did today and against Ohio State.
I'm pretty sure most people in the media would have you believe that Rodriguez's spread offense and southern accent excludes him from being a Michigan man.
Maybe UM simply isn't good enough to compete against those teams?
Maybe RR isn't that good a coach?
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon plans to talk to coach Rich Rodriguez about his future soon after both are back in Ann Arbor.
"After traveling back in the next day or two, I plan to sit down with coach Rodriguez to go through the evaluation I've been talking about for months," Brandon said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press a few hours after the Gator Bowl. "I probably won't have more to say until the back half of the week."
I like Rodriguez, and still think he is a good coach (heck, compare his resume to Michigan Man Brady Hoke) but he screwed himself when he hired Greg Robinson. An incomprehensible move at the time turned out to be far worse than anyone imagined. The last two games were just the culmination of two years of awful defensive coaching.
Darkhorse. He outcoached Bielema today at the Rose Bowl. I thought Wisconsin would rip through TCU and they did for awhile until TCU adjusted and Bielema did not.
Patterson has done a great job at TCU.
There's no way in hell that Brandon is hiring someone who's been fired from his last job. The message would be "we're dumping our bozo to hire somebody else's bozo". You think the RR hiring was a unpopular with the boosters...try selling that.
This has all the earmarks of a lawyers-hammering-out-a-buyout-deal kind of thing.
That was a name I've been thinking about too.
Well Rodriguez recruited the players so if they aren't good enough, wouldn't that be on Rodriguez head?
It will be Harbaugh. He has ultimate ambitions to be an NFL head coach, but also knows this could be his only chance to coach at his alma mater, Michigan. The next Michigan coach could be there 20 years, who knows. NFL jobs open up every year...he can always satisfy that hunger in the future.
Of course it would be. I wasn't trying to defend RR in any way.
I simply was trying to express the idea that it seems likely to me that the combination of UM players simply not being good enough paired with the coaching not being good enough --> laying an egg against a well prepared team.


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I dance to spread positivity and relief through music and movement. To unite people from all corners of the world and create a community with a positive atmosphere and feel-good vibe.
My secret talent
Class clown. Even though I teach a non-verbal cueing class, I can make people smile and laugh in and out of the classroom.
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Diego Chauca is certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America to teach group fitness sessions and Zumba®. While completing his premedical school requirements and undergraduate degree in psychology from Stony Brook University, Diego took his first Zumba® class at the campus recreation center. Having grown up in a Latino family, Diego embraced the program's familiar rhythms and soon decided to make a career of helping others achieve their fitness goals. Five years into his Zumba® career, Diego is a highly-respected instructor, dancer and choreographer, and is currently working closely with Zumba® as a teacher and mentor. His passion for teaching and coaching has led him to be heavily involved with the ZIN Jam™ Program, where he shares his knowledge, experiences, and business tactics with instructors worldwide. He has been featured in many different Zumba® Convention flavors, featured instructor in AFAA Japan Fitness Concert, danced with the creator on Zumba®, Beto Perez, and featured on the Zumba® Tone Up Consumer DVD sold worldwide.


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Title: New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children
Author: Polish Children's Reunion Committee
Publication details: Polish Children's Reunion Committee, Wellington
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New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children
The Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua
The piece of land on State Highway 2, some 3km south of Pahiatua where the rest area with the Polish Children's Memorial is situated, was once part of the Pahiatua Racecourse, established in 1901.
Shortly after Japan entered World War II on 7 December 1941, the New Zealand Government rounded-up all foreign enemy nationals (Germans, Italians, Japanese and Samoans of German extraction) and interned them on Somes (Matiu) Island in Wellington Harbour. However, the fortification of Somes Island meant that the internees had to be shifted. In 1942, a prison camp was built at Pahiatua Racecourse for these "alien" civilian internees.
When on 9 June 1943 the US transport ship Hermitage, carrying a group of 706 Polish refugees from Iran to Mexico, anchored for a short time at Wellington, the wife of the Polish Consul, Countess Maria Wodzicka, visited them and conceived an idea of bringing some of the other Polish orphans from Iran to New Zealand. She shared her idea with Prime Minister Peter Fraser's wife, and eventually that idea become a reality when Mr Fraser and his government offered hospitality to 733 Polish children and 102 staff who were to accompany them. So the journey from Isfahan to Pahiatua began.
On 1 November 1944, Mr Fraser, the Polish Consul Count Kazimierz Wodzicki and his wife Countess Maria Wodzicka welcomed the children to New Zealand on board the USS General Randall in Wellington. That same day, the last part of the long journey was completed by two special trains from Wellington to Pahiatua.
The Polish children were farewelled from Wellington Railway Station by hundreds of Wellington school children waving New Zealand and Polish flags. There were also big welcomes at Palmerston North and Pahiatua, and all along the way there were groups of children waving to the arrivals. In a gesture of further goodwill, some of those children were driven to other railway stations to cheer on the refugees again.
Thirty-three army trucks transported the arrivals from Pahiatua station to the old internment camp whose official name was now the Polish Children's Camp in Pahiatua. At last they had a new home. The long journey was over.
Ladies from Pahiatua's Polish Children's Hospitality Committee prepared the beds, put flowers on tables and tidied up the camp for their arrival. The camp was administered by the New Zealand army. All army maintenance staff took orders from Camp Commandant Major Foxley. In addition, the page 25Polish administration was headed by the Polish Delegate Jan Śledziński and the Polish staff received their orders from him.
All teaching at the camp was in Polish and even some of its street names were in Polish. It was intended that after the war all the children and staff would return to Poland. However, after the Russians had pushed the Germans back across Poland in 1945, the Russians installed a pro-Soviet communist government in Poland and retained, with some adjustments, the territories occupied in 1939. It was at this stage that the New Zealand Government assured the children and staff that they were welcome to remain in New Zealand.
The limited financial assistance from the Polish Government-in-Exile in London soon came to an end and the New Zealand Government took over the entire financing of the camp. The Polish authorities were aware of the huge costs of running the camp, and it was decided to try to lower them by cultivating a vegetable garden, and taking over the running of the laundry and kitchens.
The children performed their duties and chores outside of school hours by cleaning the campgrounds, working in the vegetable gardens, cutting the grass, washing dishes, and also tidying their dormitories, classrooms and washrooms. To help them get acquainted with the New Zealand way of life, the army and Catholic hierarchy collected 830 invitations from New Zealand families for the Polish children and adults to spend two weeks' holiday with them in May 1945 and January 1946.
In early 1945, one of the first groups of girls left the camp to attend New Zealand schools, and at the beginning of the 1946 school year a second group left for Catholic secondary schools or to towns to learn various trades. Towards the end of 1946, the new Russian-installed Warsaw Government sent a special envoy to New Zealand, Mrs Zebrowska, to inspect the living conditions of the Polish children in the camp and New Zealand schools. After inspecting the camp, she returned to Poland completely satisfied with the conditions.
As the Polish army was demobilised, there arose the possibility of bringing some of the children's relatives to New Zealand. Soon afterwards, Polish ex-servicemen and other relatives began arriving from Africa, India and Britain. In 1948, they formed the Polish Association in New Zealand, which was based in Wellington. Thus, the children formed the nucleus around which the Polish post-war community in New Zealand developed.
The exodus from the camp continued as each year those children who had finished Polish school up to Standard 6 left for New Zealand schools or apprenticeships. The last group of children left the camp on 15 April 1949. Thus, by the time the camp was closed in 1949, many of the children were page 26already working or attending New Zealand day and boarding schools. The youngest girls were transferred to the Polish Girls' Hostel "Ngaroma" in Queen's Drive, Lyall Bay, Wellington, which closed in 1958. The older boys were accommodated at the Polish Boys' Hostel, Clyde Street, Island Bay, Wellington, until 1952. A group of the youngest boys was cared for at the Polish Boys' Hostel in Princess Street, Hawera, until 1954.
When the last of them left the camp, it was converted to accommodate "displaced persons" who migrated from forced-labour camps in Germany. They were also stateless because of the boundary changes in Europe after the war. By 1952, the last people left the camp and it was finally closed.
The buildings were sold for use as barns, halls and beach cottages. Some of the best-preserved camp buildings are still in use, such as at the Southern Cross Abbey in Takapau, Hawke's Bay. The land then reverted to farmland. Thereafter, nothing remained of the original camp to remind anyone that a huge camp had existed, except for a small grotto shrine on its northern perimeter which the Polish children had helped to build from rocks from the local Mangatainoka River in 1945 for their religious devotions.
In 1971, the Jaycees of Pahiatua notified the Polish Association in Wellington that the grotto structure was rapidly deteriorating. The former children of the camp felt that they could not allow the only tangible reminder of their happy years at the camp to disappear. So the Polish Children's Memorial Committee was convened to build a monument and establish a rest area.
The land and air-landing strip for top-dressing on which the former camp stood was now owned by Balfour Stud Farm Limited, and part of it was donated for the rest area through Mr P Williamson of Wellington. The rest area was established at the northern entrance to the old camp, and the stones and masonry from the grotto shrine were incorporated in the monument now standing there.
The monument, a white marble monolith, was unveiled on 22 February 1975. Based on Greek mythology, its shadow at midday represents a mother holding a child. A historical noticeboard, prepared by Józef Zawada under the auspices of the Historical Places Trust, was unveiled in the rest area by John Falloon, the Member of Parliament for Pahiatua, on 23 October 1994 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Polish children.


Carpenters holds the top position this week with (They Long To Be) Close To You. Mama Told Me (Not To Come) by Three Dog Night is at number two on the chart. Make It With You by Bread comes in at number three.


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Cyko & Rich Homie Quan Reveal Their Plan To Make "So Much Money"
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Rapper Cyko of Lost Key Records is going above and beyond for the release of his forthcoming body of work, and Rich Homie Quan believes it's going to be major. On Sept 29, the West Palm Beach emcee took over the House Of Stoli at Rec Room Studios in North Miami to give his team and fans an exclusive break-down of his new mixtape I'm Just Different, which holds his summer single "So Much Money" featuring Rich Homie Quan. Rich Homie, who's a former member of Birdman's Rich Gang, has accepted Cyko into his close circle of trustworthy confidants.
"It's deeper than music," Rich Homie said with Cyko nearby. "He came to the studio, and I heard the song. I love the song. Ever since, we've been doing interviews together, and a lot of other stuff together. Also, we've been around each other so much that we've built a relationship. I think that's more important than anything. So it's bigger than the music."
During the event, the Vision Booth allowed guests to feel like a celebrity while DJ Khaled's beloved personal Chef Dee served up delectable treats courtesy of Empty Plates Catering as well as tasty treats from The Cupcake Galleria. After Rich Homie arrived to the scene with his entourage, Cyko premiered the official video for "So Much Money" inside the studio and outside on a white truck. Meanwhile, the Stoli vodka generously from the open bar as tunes provided by 103.5 The Beat's DJ Ivory P and DJ Epps filled the wide-open room, which was jam-packed with numerous special guests like rapper and REGIME magazine owner King Buckley and We The Best's Steph Lecor.
READ: Miami Knights: 30 Florida Rappers You Need To Hear Right Now
Cyko, who alleged got his name by "going bonkers in the studio," explained to VIBE that he originally intended the "Flex" rapper to appear on another song, but Quan couldn't get his mind off of "So Much Money." Rich Homie is a fan of few songs on Cyko's new mixtape like "European Swag." However, they both knew that their single would be "the one."
"Rich Homie had the record," said Cyko. "He was already f*cking with the record. Once he got in the studio, I played another record for him, and was like 'Quan I need you on this.' but he said 'Nope. I need to get on that 'So Much Money.' That's the one.'"
It's evident that Rich Homie Quan plans to keep his partnership with Cyko alive in the 4th quarter. Once the listening session came to an end, Cyko and Rich Homie Quan moved their party to Downtown Ft Lauderdale where they performed their new single for the first time in South Florida at EURO.
I'm Just Different is set to hold 17 brand new tracks with special appearances from Freebandz/Epic Records rapper Zoey Dollaz, AiStayFly, and of course Rich Homie Quan. With a majority of the beats crafted by Cyko himself, DunDeal, Teck and more lend a hand in the production. Cyko's latest project I'm Just Different is expected to drop before the end of 2016.
Watch Rich Homie Quan list his favorite Cyko tracks off I'm Just Different below.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CZJ74ml_sbk
Rich Homie Quan


The sieve-test command is part of the Pigeonhole Project ( pigeonhole(7)), which adds Sieve (RFC 5228) support to the Dovecot secure IMAP and POP3 server ( dovecot(1)).
Using the sieve-test command, the execution of Sieve scripts can be tested. This evaluates the script for the provided message, yielding a set of Sieve actions. Unless the -e option is specified, it does not actually execute these actions, meaning that it does not store or forward the message anywere. Instead, it prints a detailed list of what actions would normally take place. Note that, even when -e is specified, no messages are ever transmitted to remote SMTP recipients. The outgoing messages are always printed to stdout instead.
This is a very useful tool to debug the execution of Sieve scripts. It can be used to verify newly installed scripts for the intended behaviour and it can provide more detailed information about script execution problems that are reported by the Sieve plugin, for example by tracing the execution and evaluation of commands and tests respectively.
The original envelope recipient address. This is what Sieve's envelope test will compare to when the "to" envelope part is requested. Some tests and actions will also use this as the script owner's e-mail address. If this option is omitted, the recipient address is retrieved from the "Envelope-To:", or "To:" message headers. If none of these headers is present either, the recipient address defaults to recipient@example.com.
Force compilation. By default, the compiled binary is stored on disk. When this binary is found during the next execution of sieve-test and its modification time is more recent than the script file, it is used and the script is not compiled again. This option forces the script to be compiled, thus ignoring any present binary. Refer to sievec(1) for more information about Sieve compilation.
Causes a dump of the generated code to be written to the specified file. This is identical to the dump produced by sieve-dump(1). Using '-' as filename causes the dump to be written to stdout.
Enables true execution of the set of actions that results from running the script. In combination with the -l parameter, the actual delivery of messages can be tested. Note that this will not transmit any messages to remote SMTP recipients. Such actions only print the outgoing message to stdout.
The envelope sender address (return path). This is what Sieve's envelope test will compare to when the "from" envelope part is requested. Also, this is where response messages are 'sent' to. If this option is omitted, the sender address is retrieved from the "Return-Path:", "Sender:" or "From:" message headers. If none of these headers is present either, the sender envelope address defaults to sender@example.com.
The location of the user's mail store. The syntax of this option's mail-location parameter is identical to what is used for the mail_location setting in the Dovecot config file. This parameter is typically used in combination with -e to test the actual delivery of messages. If -l is omitted when -e is specified, mail store actions like fileinto and keep are skipped.
The final envelope recipient address. Some tests and actions will use this as the script owner's e-mail address. For example, this is what is used by the vacation action to check whether a reply is appropriate. If the -r option is omitted, the original envelope recipient address will be used instead (see -a option for more info).
Enables runtime trace debugging. Trace debugging provides detailed insight in the operations performed by the Sieve script. Refer to the runtime trace debugging section below. The trace information is written to the specified file. Using '-' as filename causes the trace data to be written to stdout.
Configures runtime trace debugging, which is enabled with the -t option. Refer to the runtime trace debugging section below.
Using the -t option, the sieve-test tool can be configured to print detailed trace information on the Sieve script execution to a file or standard output. For example, the encountered commands, the performed tests and the matched values can be printed.
Print debug messages as well. This is usually only useful for developers and is likely to produce messy output.
Print byte code addresses for the current trace output. Normally, only the current Sieve source code position (line number) is printed. The byte code addresses are equal to those listed in a binary dump produced using the -d option or by the sieve-dump(1) command.
To improve script debugging, this Sieve implementation supports a custom Sieve language extension called 'vnd.dovecot.debug'. It adds the debug_log command that allows logging debug messages.
Tools such as sieve-test, sievec and sieve-dump have support for the vnd.dovecot.debug extension enabled by default and it is not necessary to enable nor possible to disable the availability of the debug extension with the -x option. The logged messages are written to stdout in this case.
In contrast, for the actual Sieve plugin for the Dovecot LDA ( dovecot-lda(1)) the vnd.dovecot.debug extension needs to be enabled explicitly using the sieve_extensions setting. The messages are then logged to the user's private script log file. If used in a global script, the messages are logged through the default Dovecot logging facility.


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import sys
sys.path[0:0] = [""]

import unittest
import flask
from werkzeug.exceptions import NotFound

from flask.ext.mongoengine import MongoEngine, Pagination, ListFieldPagination
from . import FlaskMongoEngineTestCase

class PaginationTestCase(FlaskMongoEngineTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super(PaginationTestCase, self).setUp()
        self.db_name = 'testing'
        self.app.config['MONGODB_DB'] = self.db_name
        self.app.config['TESTING'] = True
        self.app.config['CSRF_ENABLED'] = False
        self.db = MongoEngine()
        self.db.init_app(self.app)

    def tearDown(self):
        self.db.connection.drop_database(self.db_name)

    def test_queryset_paginator(self):
        with self.app.test_request_context('/'):
            db = self.db

            class Post(db.Document):
                title = db.StringField(required=True, max_length=200)

            for i in range(42):
                Post(title="post: %s" % i).save()

        self.assertRaises(NotFound, Pagination, Post.objects, 0, 10)
        self.assertRaises(NotFound, Pagination, Post.objects, 6, 10)

        paginator = Pagination(Post.objects, 1, 10)
        self._test_paginator(paginator)

    def test_paginate_plain_list(self):

        self.assertRaises(NotFound, Pagination, range(1, 42), 0, 10)
        self.assertRaises(NotFound, Pagination, range(1, 42), 6, 10)

        paginator = Pagination(range(1, 42), 1, 10)
        self._test_paginator(paginator)

    def test_list_field_pagination(self):

        with self.app.test_request_context('/'):
            db = self.db

            class Post(db.Document):
                title = db.StringField(required=True, max_length=200)
                comments = db.ListField(db.StringField())
                comment_count = db.IntField()

            comments = ["comment: %s" % i for i in range(42)]
            post = Post(title="post has comments", comments=comments,
                        comment_count=len(comments)).save()

            # Check without providing a total
            paginator = ListFieldPagination(Post.objects, post.id, "comments",
                                            1, 10)
            self._test_paginator(paginator)

            # Check with providing a total (saves a query)
            paginator = ListFieldPagination(Post.objects, post.id, "comments",
                                            1, 10, post.comment_count)
            self._test_paginator(paginator)

            paginator = post.paginate_field('comments', 1, 10)
            self._test_paginator(paginator)

    def _test_paginator(self, paginator):
            self.assertEqual(5, paginator.pages)
            self.assertEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], list(paginator.iter_pages()))

            for i in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:

                if i == 1:
                    self.assertRaises(NotFound, paginator.prev)
                    self.assertFalse(paginator.has_prev)
                else:
                    self.assertTrue(paginator.has_prev)

                if i == 5:
                    self.assertRaises(NotFound, paginator.next)
                    self.assertFalse(paginator.has_next)
                else:
                    self.assertTrue(paginator.has_next)

                self.assertEqual(i, paginator.page)
                self.assertEqual(i-1, paginator.prev_num)
                self.assertEqual(i+1, paginator.next_num)

                # Paginate to the next page
                if i < 5:
                    paginator = paginator.next()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Oftentimes we experience periods of stagnation in our lives wherein we come into a rut of things. The same cycle gets repeated over and over again, and we get left without anything new to look forward to. Whilst we may be getting the necessary support and strength from people around us and may even be grateful to them for the same, the one thing that we cannot be assured of is the other person's gratitude for us as a person. There are always days where we go without a drop of appreciation and at those times, things do get a bit dark because there is a severe lack of positive reinforcement for our actions. And at those times, feeling listless is bound to happen.
At other times though, an encouraging encounter with a stranger can work wonders like it did for me a few weeks ago. I was on my way back home from the university and was waiting for the bus to arrive. That's when a girl approached me wanting to know whether the drivers on the bus give back change or not. I saw her holding a five pound note and a one pound coin and I figured she would have to forgo 4 pounds if she didn't manage to get any change. I offered to give her change but did not have a total of 5 pounds in coins, so I took out one pound and told her to keep it. She of course refused to take it a hundred times, but I insisted on giving it to her because I could somehow fathom her predicament.
As a stranger in a new city and country, I could imagine the situation this girl was in. She was probably away from her family, from her home and from everything familiar- a situation I had found myself in a few months ago, and I knew how intimidating that could have been for her. So from my end, I just wanted to help comfort her a little, and I did so by paying forward a gesture that I would have liked extended to me if I were in her place.
But that's not where the beauty of the story lies. The beauty of the story lies in what happened right after. From the moment the bus came and we got on it, she started searching for something in her bag desperately. At the same time, I could see her trying to pay attention to the map on her phone so she could figure out where she had to get off. A few minutes later she took out a little mirror from her purse and gave it to me. By the look of it, I realised that it must have been a very precious part of her life and the only reason she parted ways with it was in order to express her gratitude to me.
I didn't want to keep it because I knew she probably had so many memories as well as emotions attached to it, but despite my denial of its acceptance, the feeling she gave it to me with was far more precious to me than the mirror itself. I know for a fact that each time I look at that mirror, I will remember the Turkish girl who showed not just the grandeur of her culture (Kültürel olarak, Türk insanı çok konukseverdir!), but also of her heart. I'll be reminded of the small miracles that life brings with it when we need our souls to be renewed.
And I'll always remember, that sometimes an incident as small and yet as pure as this has the capacity to restore the balance of our entire personal universe.
Previous Hrithik Roshan: There's So Much More!
What a precious incident- heart warming! And you were able to grasp the emotions attached.


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Chapter 3: Hypertension
Pharmacologic Treatment
Several classes of drugs effectively lower BP and reduce the complications resulting from hypertension. The most commonly prescribed antihypertensive drugs include diuretics, β-blockers, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and CCBs. Table 3-5 lists these and other types of oral antihypertensive drugs. Figure 3-2 provides an algorithm for the treatment of hypertension.
The 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines focus on the pharmacologic treatment of hypertension. The JNC 7 guidelines recommended thiazide-type diuretics as the initial drug therapy unless compelling reasons dictated otherwise. In the 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines, thiazides are not necessarily the first-line therapy; CCBs, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and β-blockers are alternatives. The initial drug choice for nonblack patients may be selected from 4 drug classes, based on clinical setting and comorbidities: thiazide-type diuretics, CCBs, ACE inhibitors, and ARBs. For black patients, the initial drug choice may be selected from 2 drug classes: thiazide-type diuretics and CCBs.
Table 3-4 2017 Recommended Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Prevention and Treatment of Hypertensiona
Table 3-5 Oral Antihypertensive Drugs
Diuretics Diuretics are categorized by their site of action in the kidney and are divided into thiazide, loop, and potassium-sparing types.
Thiazide-type diuretics send more of a sodium load to the kidney's distal tubules, initially decreasing plasma volume and cardiac output through natriuresis. As the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system compensates for the diminished plasma volume, cardiac output returns to normal and peripheral vascular resistance is lowered. Chlorthalidone, 12.5–25 mg, can be used in patients with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of less than 30 mL/min and has a strong safety and cardio-protective profile.
Loop diuretics act on the ascending loop of Henle and block sodium resorption, increasing free water loss, resulting in an initial decrease in plasma volume. As with thiazide-type diuretics, BP is eventually lowered because of decreased peripheral vascular resistance. Loop diuretics are used primarily in treating patients with moderate renal insufficiency.
Figure 3-2 Blood pressure (BP) thresholds and recommendations for treatment and follow-up.
(Modified with permission from Whelton PK, Carey RM, Aronow WS, et al. 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation and management of high blood pressure in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Hypertension. 2018; 71[6]:e74.)
Potassium-sparing diuretics may block the actions of aldosterone to prevent potassium loss from the distal tubule, or they may act directly on the distal tubule to inhibit aldosterone-induced sodium resorption in exchange for potassium. They are often used as adjuncts to the thiazide-type or loop diuretics to counteract potassium depletion, but in patients with suspected hyperaldosterone states they may be used alone.
Side effects of diuretics vary according to class. Thiazide-type diuretics can cause weakness, muscle cramps, impotence, hypokalemia, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, hypercalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hyponatremia, azotemia, and pancreatitis. Thiazide-type diuretics may also unmask type 2 diabetes and aggravate lipid disorders. On a positive note, they may also slow the demineralization that occurs with osteoporosis. Loop diuretics can cause ototoxicity, as well as electrolyte abnormalities such as hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, and hypomagnesemia. Potassium-sparing diuretics can cause hyperkalemia, renal calculi, renal tubular damage, and gynecomastia. Diuretics are particularly effective in individuals with salt-sensitive hypertension such as older persons and in black persons.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) catalyzes the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II. Angiotensin II, a potent vasoconstrictor, is the primary vasoactive hormone of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, and it plays a major role in the pathophysiology of hypertension. ACE inhibitors block the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II, resulting in vasodilation with decreased peripheral vascular resistance and natriuresis. They also decrease aldosterone production and increase levels of vasodilating bradykinins. Some ACE inhibitors stimulate production of vasodilatory prostaglandins. The efficacy of ACE inhibitors is enhanced when they are used in combination with diuretics, reducing hypokalemia, hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, and hyperuricemia caused by diuretic therapy. ACE inhibitors are beneficial in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and with proteinuria, especially in patients with diabetes. ACE inhibitors may also help improve insulin sensitivity.
Adverse effects of ACE inhibitors include a dry cough (5%–20% of patients), angioneurotic edema, hypotension, hyperkalemia, abnormal taste, leukopenia, and proteinuria; in addition, patients may have a reduced GFR (30% of patients). Preexisting renal artery stenosis should be considered in this clinical situation. In patients with volume-reduced states, ACE inhibitors should be suspended and reassessed later. ACE inhibitors should be avoided in patients with a history of angioedema or known renal artery stenosis (RAS). They are contraindicated during pregnancy and in patients trying to become pregnant because of the adverse effects on fetal renal function and risk of fetal death.
Angiotensin II receptor blockers Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) inhibit the vasoconstrictive and aldosterone-secreting effects of angiotensin II by selectively blocking the angiotensin II receptors that are found in such tissues as vascular smooth muscle and the adrenal gland, resulting in decreased peripheral vascular resistance. ARBs are effective in managing hypertension in a variety of situations, including in patients with heart failure who are unable to tolerate ACE inhibitors. ARBs also have been associated with a reduced incidence of new-onset diabetes mellitus and, like ACE inhibitors, improve insulin sensitivity.
The adverse effects of ARBs are similar to those occurring with ACE inhibitors, though they occur less commonly with ARBs. The dry cough caused by ACE inhibitors generally does not occur with use of ARBs, and angioedema is rare. Like ACE inhibitors, ARBs are contraindicated in pregnancy unless there is profound proteinuria, and then use is very closely monitored. ACE inhibitors should not be combined with ARBs.
Calcium channel blockers Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) block the entry of calcium into vascular smooth muscle cells, resulting in reduced myocardial contractility and decreased systemic vascular resistance. CCBs are divided into 2 types: dihydropyridine and nondihydropyridine. Dihydropyridine (DHP) CCBs tend to be more potent vasodilators, whereas the nondihydropyridine CCBs have more marked negative inotropic effects.
Adverse effects of CCBs vary according to the agent but include constipation, headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, flushing, edema, gingival hyperplasia, arrhythmias, and cardiac ischemia. Because of their negative inotropic effects, nondihydropyridine CCBs should generally be avoided in patients with cardiac conduction abnormalities such as atrial fibrillation or heart failure associated with left ventricular dysfunction and in patients with acute MI. Dihydropyridine CCBs may be helpful in patients with Raynaud syndrome and in some arrhythmias.
β-Blockers There are 2 types of β-adrenergic receptor sites: β1 is present in vascular and cardiac tissue, and β2 is found in the bronchial system. Circulating or locally released catecholamines stimulate β sites, resulting in vasoconstriction, bronchodilation, tachycardia, and increased myocardial contractility. β-Blockers inhibit these effects. They also decrease plasma renin, reset baroreceptors to facilitate lower BP, induce the release of vasodilatory prostaglandins, and decrease plasma volume, and they may have a central nervous system–mediated antihypertensive effect.
β-Blockers are divided into those that are nonselective (β1 and β2), those that are cardioselective (primarily β1), and those that have intrinsic sympathomimetic activity (ISA). The cardioselective agents may be prescribed with caution in patients with pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, or peripheral arterial disease, but at higher doses they lose their β1 selectivity and can cause adverse effects in these patients. Those agents with ISA minimize the bradycardia caused by other β-blockers. β-Blockers with α-blocking properties, such as carvedilol or labetalol, have additional vasodilatory effects caused by selective α1-receptor blockade. In patients with heart failure due to systolic dysfunction, the use of certain β-blockers—particularly carvedilol, metoprolol succinate, and bisoprolol—reduces hospitalizations for heart failure and improves survival rates. Nebivolol has nitric oxide–potentiating vasodilatory effects. β-Blockers are beneficial in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and tachyarrhythmias, migraine, thyrotoxicosis, and essential tremor.
Adverse effects of β-blockers include bronchospasm, bradycardia, masking of insulin-induced hypoglycemia, insomnia, fatigue, depression, impotence, impaired peripheral circulation, impaired exercise tolerance, nasal congestion, and hypertriglyceridemia (except for β-blockers with ISA). Angina pectoris and increased BP can be precipitated by abrupt cessation of β-blocker therapy. β-Blockers should generally be avoided in patients with asthma, reactive airway disease, or second-degree or third-degree heart block.
Ophthalmic Considerations β-Blockers are used in the treatment of glaucoma and are effective in lowering intraocular pressure; they have a long duration of action. Systemic adverse effects resulting from the use of these topical agents may occur; these can be minimized by nasolacrimal occlusion for 3 minutes after drop installation.
α1-Blockers α1-Adrenergic antagonists block postsynaptic α-receptors, resulting in arterial and venous vasodilation. Selective α1-blockers have replaced older nonselective agents in the treatment of hypertension. Although these agents are not as effective as diuretics, CCBs, and ACE inhibitors, they may be prescribed as adjunct therapy in selected cases, not as a primary agent.
Adverse effects include the "first-dose effect," in which BP is decreased more with the initial dose than with subsequent doses; orthostatic hypotension; headache; dizziness; and drowsiness.
Combined α-adrenergic and β-adrenergic antagonists Combined α-adrenergic and β-adrenergic antagonists block the action of catecholamines at both α-adrenergic and β-adrenergic receptor sites. Adverse effects are similar to those of other α-adrenergic and β-adrenergic antagonists.
Centrally acting adrenergic drugs Centrally acting adrenergic drugs are potent antihypertensive agents that stimulate presynaptic α2-adrenergic receptors in the central nervous system (CNS), causing reductions in the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, cardiac output, and peripheral vascular resistance.
Adverse effects include fluid retention, dry mouth, drowsiness, dizziness, orthostatic hypotension, rash, impotence, and hepatitis; positive results on the direct antiglobulin (Coombs) test and the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test; and heart failure in patients with decreased left ventricular dysfunction. There may also be severe rebound hypertension if the drug is abruptly discontinued.
Methyldopa continues to be widely used in pregnancy because of its proven safety. Older centrally acting sympatholytic agents (eg, reserpine) have significant adverse effects and are seldom used.
Direct vasodilators Direct-acting vasodilators such as minoxidil and hydralazine decrease peripheral vascular resistance by direct arterial vasodilation. They are generally reserved for special situations, such as pregnancy or intractable hypertension. They should be avoided or used with caution in patients with ischemic heart disease.
Adverse effects include headache, tachycardia, edema, nausea, vomiting, a lupuslike syndrome, and hypertrichosis. Because of the sympathetic hyperactivity and the sodium and fluid retention caused by direct vasodilators, they are often used in conjunction with diuretics or β-blockers.
Combination therapy Combination therapy usually includes small doses of a diuretic, which potentiates the effects of other drugs such as ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and β-blockers. This therapy may improve patient adherence and reduce BP to target levels more quickly than other classes of drugs. Another advantage of combination therapy is that low-dose therapy with 2 antihypertensive drugs is associated with fewer adverse effects than is higher-dose therapy with a single agent.
Direct renin inhibitors Aliskiren is the first orally active renin inhibitor launched to treat hypertension. It has a high specificity for renin and has a long half-life (approximately 24 hours), which makes it ideal for once-daily treatment of hypertension. Direct renin inhibitors (DRIs) are more likely to be effective in younger white patients, who, in general, have a more active renin system, and in any patients receiving diuretics or CCBs, in whom the renin system has been activated. The main adverse effect of DRIs is possible diarrhea at higher doses.
Parenteral antihypertensive drugs Parenteral antihypertensive therapy is indicated for immediate reduction of BP in hypertensive emergencies.
Sodium nitroprusside, a direct arterial and venous vasodilator, is the drug of choice for most hypertensive emergencies. Nitroglycerin may be preferable in patients with severe coronary insufficiency or advanced kidney or liver disease. Labetalol is also effective and is the drug of choice in hypertensive emergencies that occur in pregnancy. Esmolol is a cardioselective β-adrenergic antagonist that can be used in hypertensive emergencies when β-blocker intolerance is a concern; it is also useful in treating aortic dissection. Phentolamine is effective in managing hypertension with acute drug intoxication or withdrawal. Nicardipine is a CCB that can be administered intravenously for postoperative hypertension. Intravenous enalapril is an ACE inhibitor that can be effective in the treatment of postoperative hypertension, although unpredictable results have been reported with its use. Diazoxide and hydralazine are used infrequently now, but hydralazine does have a long-established safety profile and may be useful in pregnancy-related hypertensive emergencies.


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32 Attachment(s) I just bought a 51,000 mile 97 intrepid from a convent.


My Low-Carb journey began back in 1998. You can find my full story, weight loss diet journal and before and after pictures online here. I have made these public in the hope that they will be helpful to others on their personal path to slimness. If you are struggling with what to eat or need low carb products, low carb diet plans or low carb recipes then consider a few of these fabulous Low Carb Books and Cookbooks.
For those of you who are just getting started, "Low-Carb" Diets are a high protein diet and are much lower in carbohydrates. It includes a moderate amount of Meat, Eggs and Green Vegetables and a limited quantity of Fruits, Seeds and Nuts (most foods with a low glycemic index). It excludes all high carbohydrate foods such as Potatoes, Rice, Grains (Breads and Pastas), Corn, Beans and Sugar. If it's "white" it's probably not allowed. Cauliflower is probably the only exception I can think of. The most well known low-carb diet was introduced by Dr. Atkins back in the 1970s. Newer versions like the South Beach Diet have become very popular today.
Proper nutritional supplementation can greatly enhance your low carb diet and facilitate easier weight loss. Some of the better used food and diet supplements are all natural vitamins, amino acids and herbs such as Vitamin C, Niacin, Fish Oils, 5-HTP and Glutamine.
Carbohydrates stimulate the body to produce the hormone called Insulin. Insulin controls the movement of sugar from food into the cells of the body where it is then either used for energy or stored as fat. Years of excessive insulin production (Hyperinsulinemia) from eating high amounts of carbohydrates leads to a steady decrease in the sensitivity of the cells to insulin which in turn leads to the body having to make more and more insulin to get the same job done. This condition is known as Insulin Resistance and if left untreated it eventually leads to high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity and type II diabetes.
Restricting one's consumption of high carbohydrate foods is the most effective way to control Insulin Resistance and the host of disorders and health problems which typically accompany it. Most low carb diet plans like the Atkins Diet and the Protein Power Life Plan etc. promote eating nutrient dense carbs like green vegetables and salads with moderate amounts of protein-rich foods like meat, eggs and cheese. The goal is to force the body into buring fat for fuel instead of carbohydrates. This is known as benign dietary ketosis. Although the emphasis is on counting "carbs" instead of calories, one does still need to consume fewer calories than one is burning in order to lose weight. See my Low Carb Foods list for more details on what to eat during the induction phase.
The main difference with low carb diets is that the low carbohydrate intake will reduce hunger and appetite which makes it much easier to eat smaller portions than a regular low calorie diet. Low carb diets also gives you more energy thus making you more likely to want to exercise. So the bottom line is that you are not starving all the time. And the best part of it all is that this way of eating can be modified for maintenance when you are finished with your diet so that you don't regain your weight.
Since Low Carb Diets have become so popular there are now many new Low Carb Products, Low Carb Snacks and Low Carb Recipes available to help the dieter stay on track. If you want to add variety to your diet and eat Low Carb Pasta, Low Carb Bread or Low Carb Cereal.
Netrition has the largest selection of low carb products. They carry a full selection of Atkins Bars and Atkins Shakes. Their prices are competitive and shipping is very reasonable.
If your weight loss has come along more slowly than you wanted or if you have stalled, you might want to check out my Stalls and Plateaus or Low Carb Tips pages as they may give you a few ideas on what might help you lose weight again.
Some new things I've added to the site recently which you may find of use are the Carb Counts for common fruits and vegetables. There is also a Hidden Carb Calculator and a page about carbs in alcohol.
Since I am not a medical doctor, please take a minute to read my legal disclaimer before exploring my site. If you have any questions about low carb diet plans that are not answered in my FAQ or other pages here, please feel free to E-Mail Me. If I don't know the answer I will do my best to find out for you.
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The material posted here on Low Carb for Life should NOT be considered medical advice and is NOT intended to replace consultation with a qualified medical professional. Please consult a medical doctor before making any changes to your diet or medications!