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Quantum theorem shakes foundations | Nature News & Comment 2011-11-17
The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
Eugenie Samuel Reich - 17 November 2011
At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. Now, a preprint posted online on 14 November1 reopens the question of what the wavefunction represents — with an answer that could rock quantum theory to its core. Whereas many physicists have generally interpreted the wavefunction as a statistical tool that reflects our ignorance of the particles being measured, the authors of the latest paper argue that, instead, it is physically real.
“I don't like to sound hyperbolic, but I think the word 'seismic' is likely to apply to this paper,” says Antony Valentini, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum foundations at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Valentini believes that this result may be the most important general theorem relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics since Bell’s theorem, the 1964 result in which Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell proved that if quantum mechanics describes real entities, it has to include mysterious “action at a distance”.
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Hardik Pandya doesnt do regular. Life, king size seems to be more his thing. He is what they call filmy - read: dramatic. Pandya is a showman; look up his interviews on YouTube to watch him explode into a gazillion expressions in less than a minute. He is image-conscious, finicky about brands, and even shares his birthday with Amitabh Bachchan; you wonder why he isnt in Bollywood.Pandyas love for the limelight also means he loves taking on a challenge. In IPL 2016, he had the chance to be play-maker when Mumbai Indians promoted him to No. 3, but the move didnt quite work out. Both his batting and bowling form took a hit, and he was left out of Indias subsequent limited-overs series against Zimbabwe and West Indies. Up to that point, though, Pandya had featured in each of the 16 T20Is India had played in 2016, picking up 15 wickets at an average of 24. He was then sent to Australia with the India A team, where, statistically, he didnt have a great tour, but the selectors had seen enough to bring him back.A few minutes before the toss in Dharamsala, Pandya was surrounded by his team-mates as he collected his maiden ODI cap from Kapil Dev, incidentally 38 years to the day since Indias finest allrounder had made his Test debut. Pandya was in the spotlight again for about 30 seconds. MS Dhoni decided Pandya could bask in it a while longer when he gave him the new ball.Our thinking was to give him a chance to exploit the new ball. The reason being, we all felt, he is quite deceptive - he can bowl quick and he has got movement, Dhoni said. Even on wickets where some of the other bowlers dont get that kind of swing, he is still somebody who can get some purchase of the wicket.Pandya didnt begin well, though, as Martin Guptill took him for three fours off his first five balls. The numbers werent in his favour again, but two of those three boundaries were off edges, and a fourth delivery only just missed Guptills outside edge. Dhoni made note and installed a third slip before the last delivery of the over. Pandya got the ball to swerve in on a length and straighten to find Guptills edge, which went went to second slip.Pandya took off in celebration, with arms outstretched, but there was none of his usual vein-bursting screams. His only extravagance on the day, in fact, was a pair of sunglasses that appeared to be fashioned after cartoon characters Swat Kats headgear.Pandya maintained good pace, staying between the late 130s and early 140s, and married it with late movement to frequently find the batsmens body: Kane Williamson copped one on the thigh pad, while Tom Latham, who handled Pandya with the most ease, was hit on the box. While Pandya leaked a boundary in each of his first three overs and bled 26 runs - mostly by bowling too full - he made it up by giving away only five more runs in his next four overs.He was particularly effective against the left-hand batsmen, conceding only 18 runs off the 31 balls they faced. Pandya benefited as much from his Test match length as from his new-ball partner Umesh Yadavs accuracy at the other end; together they pinned down the returning Corey Anderson before his attempt to club Pandya was snaffled by a diving Umesh at mid-off.With the first leg of the Pandya experiment having gone well, Dhoni said he wanted to give him a decent run with the new ball. We only have eight games before the Champions Trophy [including the Dharamsala ODI], so we would like to see under different situations and conditions how he reacts and how he quickly he can adapt to the conditions, Dhoni said. 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He had nine rushes for 72 yards alone and capped the 82-yard drive by waltzing into the end zone from 5 yards .Bell also had 62 yards receiving to account for 298 of the 460 yards gained by Pittsburgh. It was the second three-TD game of his career, and first in which he scored three times rushing.Bell broke the franchise rushing record set by Willie Parker, who had 223 yards against Cleveland on Dec. 7, 2006He also extended his streak to four-straight games with 100 yards or more rushing, a span in which hes combined for 620 yards on the ground.The Bills mustered no response on offense or defense at a time when both quarterback Tyrod Taylor and coach Rex Ryan are having their future in Buffalo questioned.The Bills combined for seven first downs and 87 yards net offense on their first nine possessions. That included Sammy Watkins 8-yard touchdown catch set up by Stephon Gilmore returning Roethlisbergers second interception to the Pittsburgh 7 midway through the second quarter.Down 24-7, the Bills scored twice in the final 7:27 on Charles Clays 40-yard catch and LeSean McCoys 3-yard run with 1:25 left.Taylor finished 15 of 25 for 228 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.Ryans prized defense continued to struggle a week after Buffalo squandered a 24-9 third-quarterr lead in a 38-24 loss at Oakland.dddddddddddd Buffalo has now surrendered more than 200 yards rushing twice this season, including 256 in a 28-25 loss at Miami on Oct. 23, when Dolphins running back Jay Ajayi had 214 of those yards.BAD BENRoethlisberger finished 17 of 31 for 220 yards in continuing his struggles on the road. He has a 4-3 record away from Pittsburgh this season, when hes thrown eight touchdown passes and eight interceptions. Roethlisbergers numbers are far better at home, where hes 4-1 and thrown 17 TDs versus three interceptions.Buffalo linebackers Lorenzo Alexander and Zach Brown, on a pass intended for tight end Jesse James in the end zone, also had interceptions.MINUS YARDSThe Bills had minus-1 yards through two series in the first quarter, becoming the NFLs first team this season to have negative yards through the first 15 minutes. Buffalo didnt get into positive yardage until its first snap of the second quarter, when McCoy had a 9-yard run.DOINK!Steelers cornerback William Gay appeared to return an interception for a touchdown in the first quarter, only to have it nullified by a defensive holding penalty against Bud Dupree. What was amusing about the interception is how the ball landed in Gays hands. Bills receiver Robert Woods slipped to the ground and had Taylors pass hit him squarely in the facemask. The ball bounced up and directly to Gay, who ran it back from Buffalos 25.SNOW REMOVALThe start of the second half was delayed for nearly 10 minutes because of a buildup of rubber pellets that accumulated along the sidelines. The piles of pellets, which are part of the artificial turf, gathered up when tractors swept the field of a dusting of snow during halftime. Workers were required to use blowers and shovels to push the pellets further off the field.UP NEXTSteelers: At Cincinnati on Dec. 18Bills: Host Cleveland on Dec. 18.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '
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The UK Economy in the Long Expansion and its Aftermath
Part of Macroeconomic Policy Making
Jagjit S. Chadha, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London
Alec Crystal, Cass Business School
Joe Pearlman, City University London
Peter Smith, University of York
Stephen Wright, Birkbeck, University of London
Jagjit Chadha, Alec Crystal, Joe Pearlman, Peter Smith, Stephen Wright, Nicholas Oulton, Francesco Zanetti, Tomas Key, Varun Paul, Martin Weale, Tomasz Wieladek, Michael McLeay, Ryland Thomas, Alistair Milne, Justine A. Wood, Philip Bunn, May Rostom, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Sean Holly, Richard Barwell, John Lewis, Jumana Saleheen, Paul Johnson
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The financial crisis of 2007–11 has now been analysed and explained from almost every conceivable standpoint. Far less attention has been paid to the long business cycle expansion that started in 1992 and provided an exceptional period of macroeconomic stability in the UK. To many it seemed that the main problem of the UK economy had been solved: that of sustained non-inflationary economic growth. This book brings together senior macroeconomists from universities and the Bank of England to look at what policy-making lessons can be learned from looking at the period of expansion that preceded the financial crisis. It does so with the twin aims of encouraging more policy-focused research on the UK and encouraging policy debate in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the prolonged economic recession. Students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in the UK economy will need to absorb the lessons of this book.
The first examination of policy-making lessons that can be learned from the UK economy prior to the financial crisis
Each sector of the UK economy is analysed, including labour market reforms, price setting, the external sector, financial intermediaries, monetary and fiscal policy
Contains a unique mix of academic and practitioners' expertise, with chapters written by leading experts from UK universities and the Bank of England
Introduction Jagjit Chadha, Alec Crystal, Joe Pearlman, Peter Smith and Stephen Wright
1. Prospects for UK growth in the aftermath of the financial crisis Nicholas Oulton
2. Labor market and monetary policy reforms in the UK: a structural interpretation of the implications Francesco Zanetti
3. Property income and the balance of payments Tomas Key, Varun Paul, Martin Weale and Tomasz Wieladek
4. UK broad money growth in the long expansion, 1992–2007: what can it tell us about the role of money? Michael McLeay and Ryland Thomas
5. An old fashioned banking crisis: credit growth and loan losses in the UK, 1997–2012 Alistair Milne and Justine A. Wood
6. Household debt and spending in the United Kingdom Philip Bunn and May Rostom
7. MPC decision making, the long expansion and the crisis: integration with the global economy, heterogeneity and network dynamics Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly
8. Nine votes, one view and the never-ending consensus on the MPC during the great stability Richard Barwell
9. Emerging markets and import prices during the long expansion John Lewis and Jumana Saleheen
10. UK fiscal policy before the crisis Paul Johnson.
Jagjit Chadha is Professor of Economics at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Alec Crystal is Professor Emeritus of Money and Banking at the Cass Business School, London.
Joseph Pearlman is Professor of Economics at City University London.
Peter Smith is Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of York.
Stephen Wright is Professor of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing
Bridging the Divide
Author: Nicos P. Mouzelis, London School of Economics and Political Science
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There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and of social sciences in general.
Demonstrates how the central issues in sociology developed during the postwar period
Explores and proposes solutions to the big divisions in sociology between modernists and postmodernists
Provides a history of contemporary sociology as well as an original approach to its central issues
'Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing: Bridging the Divide is a truly outstanding contribution to knowledge in the field. Professor Mouzelis succeeds in unequivocally shedding light in areas where darkness and confusion have been allowed to reign in recent years. He has consolidated his position at the forefront among contemporary sociological theorists.' Eric Dunning, University of Leicester
'This is brilliant, the best formal sociological theory known to me, and a terrific analysis of the state of play of the field.' John Hall, McGill University
'In this masterly survey of developments in social theory over the last half century, Mouzelis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of competing schools of thought and sets out the means of their reconciliation. It shows concisely and convincingly where sociological theory should be going if it is to regain its original path. His resolution of the conceptual shortcomings arising from the unbalanced treatment of the relationships between agency and structure at both macro and micro levels of analysis is brilliantly set out in the concluding Part Five. With its comprehensive grasp of a complex body of work, this much needed reformulation of basic principles is in a class of its own. A tour de force.' David Lockwood, University of Essex
Part I. The Theoretical Background: The Development of the Agency-Structure Problematic:
1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis
Part II. Parsonian and Post-Parsonian Developments:
2. Parsons and the development of individual rights
3. Evolution and democracy: Parsons and the collapse of communism
4. Post-Parsonian theory I: neo-functionalism and beyond
Postscript: Alexander's cultural sociology
5. Post-Parsonian theory II: beyond the normative and the utilitarian
Part III. Agency and Structure: Reworking some Basic Conceptual Tools:
6. Social and system integration: Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens
7. The subjectivist-objectivist divide: against transcendence
8. Habitus and reflexivity: restructuring Bourdieu's theory of practice
Part IV. Bridges Between Modern and Late/Postmodern Theorizing:
9. Modernity: a non-Eurocentric conceptualization
10. Ethical relativism: between scientism and cultural relativism
11. Cognitive relativism: between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences
12. Social causation: between social constructionism and critical realism
Part V. Towards a Non-Essentialist Holism:
13. Grand narratives: contextless and context-sensitive theories
14. The actor-structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism
15. The micro-macro dimension: anti-essentialist holism
16. The inter-institutional dimension: beyond economism and culturalism
Instead of Conclusion: twelve rules for the construction of an open-ended holistic paradigm
Appendix: In defence of 'grand' historical sociology.
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Marine Corps Marathon Notebook: Staying Motivated
By Bethany Crudele on October 10, 2012 Fitness, Marines, Sports, Veterans, Washington, Wounded warriors
The marathon is now just around the corner. With less than three weeks until the race, my running partner Staff Sgt. Jeremy Boutwell (ret.) and I each completed a solid and steady 19-mile run over the weekend. We both finished in about three hours, causing us to slash our goal in the actual marathon by 45 minutes, from 5 hours to 4 hours, 15 minutes.
“That’s my goal. I think that’s realistic based on training,” Jeremy said over the phone.
Last weekend was the final long run for each of us. Our schedule has us slated to run 12 miles on Saturday, but 19 miles is the highest we’ll get before race day. Like most marathon runners, we’ll taper, or decrease our mileage, during the final weeks.
And all things considered, we’re each feeling strong. Not too sore, just a little more hungry than usual from all the calories we’ve been burning.
Jeremy said he “felt like a million bucks” after completing 19 miles and experienced little to no pain during or after his run. I’d say I felt more like a quarter of a million bucks. I think we’re both doing surprisingly well. As Jeremy points out, the anticipation of a 19 mile run was worse than actually running it.
Jeremy picked up his new race sneakers from the cobbler Tuesday. He has his left shoe built up exactly one inch in order to compensate for a shorter left leg from a combat injury. (Note the neon yellow laces I sent him)
We also got our bib numbers this week. I’m No. 803 and Jeremy is No. 804.
In the midst of everything, we’ve found some new ways to keep each other motivated and even exchanged surprise training gifts.
Jeremy sent me a pink CamelBak as a response to one of my previous posts in which I wrote about how I haven’t found a hydration pack that I like. I have to admit, it’s been an awesome addition to my running gear. It’s lightweight, rides high on my back and fits perfect.
“I think I did pretty damn good. I don’t mean to toot my own horn,” Jeremy said over the phone.
Without the CamelBak, I would have never made it through my 19 miles.
I sent Jeremy a pair of neon yellow laces. One of the first times we spoke he mentioned that he’s generally restricted to one type of sneaker (which usually only comes in the color grey). Jeremy has to have a cobbler build up one of his shoes exactly one inch in order to compensate for a shorter left leg from a combat injury. Because of this, he has to be careful not to buy a shoe that has an uneven tread which cuts down on his color selection.
Members of Team “Doc” Almazan, including Salina Jimenez (middle), completed The Long Beach 1/2 Marathon and 26.2 Bike Tour on Sunday. We’re running to remember Army Sgt. David Almazan in this year’s Marine Corps Marathon.
I thought the yellow laces would spice up his sneakers. I’m not so sure he’s as thrilled with my gift as I was with his.
“They’re a little bright for my taste. But they’ll work,” Jeremy said.
I suppose it’s the thought that counts, right?
We’ve also been in touch with Salina Jimenez, the widow of Army Sgt. David Almazan, who we’re running to remember. Members from our team, “Team ‘Doc’ Almazan,” which includes Jimenez, completed The Long Beach City Marathon and Bike Tour last Sunday.
“When someone on the route shouts out a ‘Hooah,’ it’s worth the training, the mileage and the drive to live for our fallen hero,” Salina wrote.
Staying motivated in these final weeks can be tough, but encouragement and communication with teammates around the country seems to be getting the job done.
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Home Gay Michael LaCour likely faked more than just his LGBT canvassing study
Michael LaCour likely faked more than just his LGBT canvassing study
5/25/15 1:42pm by Jon Green 9
Last year, Michael LaCour, a political science Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, published a widely-reported study in Science indicating that single, 20-minute, one-on-one conversations between canvassers and voters could produce significant and lasting increases in support for marriage equality.
There is significant empirical evidence that in-person canvassing can produce significant attitude changes on other issues, and those findings, along with LaCour’s were used as “a template” in the recent Yes Equality campaign in Ireland.
However, when a group of researchers were unable to replicate LaCour’s findings, they dug a bit deeper into his work and discovered that large portions of his paper appear to be faked. Even the organization credited with funding the study has no record of involvement with LaCour or his work. This led LaCour’s faculty co-author to request that the paper be retracted, and led Science to publish an official “editorial expression of concern.”
For his part, LaCour has vowed to respond to the allegations of faked data in detail:
(1/2) I read “Irregularities in LaCour (2014),” posted at http://t.co/SJ3jE89XeD on May 19, 2015 by Broockman et al. I’m gathering evidence
— Michael J. LaCour (@UCLaCour) May 20, 2015
(2/2) and relevant information so I can provide a single comprehensive response. I will do so at my earliest opportunity.
But LaCour is learning the hard way that one allegation of faked findings only invites further scrutiny. Yesterday, Tim Groseclose at Ricochet detailed evidence that he believes shows other instances of faked data in LaCour’s work.
Canvassers, via Wikimedia Commons
Groseclose examined two papers, one published in the Journal of Political Communication and one unpublished working paper that was presented at the most recent Midwest Political Science Association conference. While Groseclose believes that the research behind the peer-reviewed work is sound, he documents a number of irregularities in the working paper that lead him to believe that the data are pulled out of thin air.
The paper in question examines the “news diet” of voters and concludes that, contrary to conventional wisdom, voters don’t live in echo chambers; LaCour claims to show that our “news diet” is, for the most part, balanced.
Depending on which research you rely on, there’s support for some version of this conclusion. However, as Groseclose outlines, LaCour’s path to results he claims to have found is checkered at best.
LaCour’s paper relies on a method of measuring ideology in the media that he appears to not understand. The method, previously developed by economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, constructs a list of “loaded phrases” (like “death tax” or “amnesty”) and measures how often such phrases are used in congressional speeches and news outlets. By comparing frequencies, one can then make statements like “The New York Times is approximately as liberal as a speech by Sen. Joe Lieberman” with some degree of empirical confidence. As Groseclose notes, this method was itself inspired by a method that he had formulated previously — a method that Gentzkow and Shapiro give him credit for.
In LaCour’s paper, however, the method appears to have been tweaked manually, leading Groseclose to write: “I do not believe he actually wrote the code that would be necessary to execute his method and, accordingly, I don’t believe that he really computed the estimates that he reports from his method.”
Perhaps the simplest reason to believe that this is the case is that there doesn’t appear to be any rhyme or reason to LaCour’s confidence intervals. Basic statistical theory dictates that the larger your sample, the smaller your confidence interval should be. However, in LaCour’s work, this is not the case; the news shows with smaller sample sizes have smaller confidence intervals than shows with larger ones. One would expect anomalies like this to have a plausible explanation in the methods section, but, by Groseclose’s estimate, “approximately 90% of the first two pages [of the methods section] is a word-for-word copying of sentences from Gentzkow and Shapiro’s article;” not a sin in and of itself if the paper states that it relies on Gentzkow and Shapiro’s work, but also no help when it comes to explaining the anomalous results.
As Groseclose also notes, LaCour appears to have a loose understanding of the statistical principles he cites, mistranscribing terms like “Chi-squared” with an “x” instead of the Greek letter. Again, this isn’t incriminating in and of itself, but it does suggest a lack of understanding of the work LaCour is claiming a working knowledge of. As Groseclose writes: “If a researcher is not really familiar with the Chi-Squared distribution, I don’t see how he or she could fully understand the Gentzkow-Shapiro method. And if LaCour does not fully understand the Gentzkow-Shapiro method, I do not see how he could have executed the method that he describes in his paper.”
Groseclose goes on to outline other suspect elements of LaCour’s work, including the lists of loaded phrases used by liberals and conservatives bearing highly unlikely levels of consistency over the three-year period LaCour observes.
Also of note, LaCour’s method labels the Thom Hartmann show as having a conservative bent which couldn’t be farther from the truth. Groseclose discusses what this anomalous result means, and speculates as to why LaCour declined to discuss it in his paper, but at the end of the day it’s either a sign of methodological error or imputation.
As Groseclose notes, the simplest way to prevent issues like these in the future is for academics to provide the data and code they used to produce their results — something LaCour has yet to do. If their data weren’t faked, the output should be the same on someone else’s computer. As political science has become increasingly technical over the years, with the mathematical models becoming more and more complex, Groseclose speculates that if the major political journals were to institute this requirement they would find that a significant number of the papers submitted for publication — and many that have already been published — would not pass muster, as they rely on methodologies that the papers’ authors don’t understand and, therefore, cannot use effectively.
What’s a shame in all of this is that LaCour’s faked LGBT canvassing study is going to be used as evidence against the LGBT movement — and the field of political science — for years to come, when in fact the finding that LaCour made his research up is an example of the field working as intended: No matter how groundbreaking your research is, it doesn’t mean anything if no one can replicate it. The scientific community polices itself by not taking the work of others for granted, and researchers should always conduct their work under the assumption that whatever they publish will be tested elsewhere.
And in the grand scheme of things, LaCour’s fraud looks rather benign compared to prior debunkings of studies after attempted replications. After all, it’s not like LaCour sparked a global austerity movement based on a typo in Excel.
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9 Responses to “Michael LaCour likely faked more than just his LGBT canvassing study”
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I had my doubts about this study from when it was first announced. Yes, one-on-one conversations do help, but after 20 minutes, you’ve still only conversed with a stranger. This is not likely to change deep-seated attitudes on a lasting basis. Or to put it another way, 20 minutes of a sympathetic chat with someone won’t offset the beliefs of someone who watches Faux News (by choice) several hours every day and who listens to Hannity and Limpballs because they like the radio shows.
What we’ve seen is that what seems really to change people’s attitudes about LGBT folks and with respect to civil rights is when someone ends up with an LGBT person close to them — a family member or good friend. True, many react with rejection, but a surprising number have their personal epiphany and realize they don’t want their family member or friend to be disadvantaged. It’s familiarity which is important.
Anyway, it’s always sad to see when someone f*cks up so spectacularly. I’ve no doubt LaCour was sure he could prove his hypothesis, but then he got sloppy. And he let desired outcomes get in the way of ethical research methods.
The real lesson here: The liberal/progressive left will see a study like this and acknowledge it was flawed, and furthermore not continue to depend on it for scientific support. Whereas the conservatives take THEIR flawed studies such as Regnerus and Marks, who didn’t even study the relationships they purported to find negative conclusions about, and still cite them.
It was a nice idea so maybe it was kinda sort real after all because LaCour had a vision he wanted to communicate. Okay, but that’s not science, it’s not even reputable tealeaf-reading.
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Donut Burger @ Red's True Barbecue / London, UK
Northern smoke-power-house Red's hit London last year, first as a pop up and then as a fully fledged restaurant in Shoreditch. Finding truly good American-style barbecue in this city is a very hit and miss affair, some popular spots we have tried unfortunately turned out to not be very good at all, so we are always hesitant as fuck to try places for fear of disappointment. But when a bunch of friends suggested we go the Red's, we figured it was worth it for the ridonkulous Donut Burger at least.
The jokeshop concept of a Donut Burger is bombastic, but in essence it is a really only a bacon double cheese with a more doughy and hella calorific bun. The two glazed doughnuts mean that the initial clout in every mouthful is a familiar cloying of the sweet glaze and easy collapse of the soft dough. But then comes a wave of sweet smokiness from the smoked peppered bacon, and then classic undertones of the patties, cooked to a fine pink, and melted American cheese combination. The meat is soft and the cheese is gooey, a classic cheeseburger might be pretty decent here. And then the sweetness of the doughnuts push back again with a wave of the creamy dirty sauce. The battle of sweet with smoky all the way through is an odd but not unpleasant experience, like having a continual barrage of soft toys at your head. It is a stunt, and you would eat it purely for the sake of spectacle. Doubtful you'd need to revisit it.
We need to talk about barbecue. It unfortunately turned out to not be very good at all: The brisket was dry, chewy and lacked flavour and the bark was rock-hard jagged and exuded none of the smoky nuances you would hope from a nicely smoked cut. The bone dry pice of bread underneath was evidence enough of the lack of any moisture. The burnt ends were a chore for the jaw and smothered in so much sauce you couldn't have tasted the meat if you had wanted to. The pit smoked buffalo wings had a fine smokiness to them, but were also dry and lacking in any real trace of buffalo sauce or flavour. The gang we took are wing fans and they were disappointed-to-the-point-of-miffed. The diminutive portion size of the £20 Pitmaster Tray was also called into question (in a more 'Is that fucking it?' way).
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Ayoade on Ayoade book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has. Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Richard Ayoade is an English comedian, actor, writer, TV presenter and director, best known for his roles as Dean Learner .
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Ayoade on Ayoade - Richard Ayoade - Ebook download as PDF File .pdf), Text File .txt) or read book online. Fiction, joke. In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. They have called their book Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey. Ayoade on Ayoade captures the director in his own words. By Richard Ayoade. During this ebook Richard Ayoade - actor, author, director, and novice dentist - displays on his cinematic legacy as purely.
Our camera respectfully pans away. Richard Ellef Ayoade is an English actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter. To celebrate. This book tells the story of the men and women of Fighter Command who worked tirelessly in air bases scattered throughout Britain to thwart the Nazis. Repeat back to me the precise words I used.
Richard Ayoade's CV is formidable in its diversity. He's perhaps most recognisable from his work on the British comedy scene: He's appeared on a variety of panel shows. He's also directed two acclaimed feature films, 's Submarine and 's The Double. Both, like the man himself, possess a distinct style and trade in off-beat humour. And now he can add author to the list: A parody of Faber's highbrow Directors on Directors series, in which critically celebrated filmmakers discuss their work, the book sees Ayoade research and conduct several interviews with himself.
The Director-Ayoade persona he creates is ludicrously pretentious and surreal, recounting memories of his cinematic ambitions in the womb, and boasting of his plumbing skills.
Part faux biography, part collection of invented interviews, part mock journals, and wholly silly, the book is shambolic, farcical and anxiously self-aware.
Only a genuine neurosis over self-presentation could provoke such a hyperbolic semi-autobiographical character. Last month, Ayoade appeared on Channel 4 news , and showed a real aversion to any earnest interest in his career, sidestepping Krishnan Guru-Murthy's questions, from the importance of his background Ayoade was born in Hammersmith to a Nigerian father and Norwegian mother to the contents of the book itself.
This distaste for self-promotion comes through in Ayoade on Ayoade. Director-Ayoade proclaims: The prospect of needing to make a whole film before a stranger tapes my thoughtless utterances and uses them as the basis for a speculative, semi-hostile character portrait makes me very sad.
His own overtly hostile character portrait of himself is, at its best, very funny. The interviews are characterised by Director-Ayode's constant subversion of logical conversation, and crisp one-liners. But with over consecutive pages devoted to Ayoade interviewing himself, the joke is spread thin.
I feel cheated and used. I am too sad even for brunch. They should be labelled. Whither now? Slow fade to black.
My lips are ugly. The kiss becomes full. I am too sad for tears. Our eyes meet. Ayoade makes no reference to his particular epistolary process of courting actors in the first place. I have betrayed myself and my subject. I felt that that was an awkward segue. My mouth is swollen. I think people who label should themselves be labelled.
Do you like being labelled? When I wake up. Ayoade leans over and gently kisses me on the cheek. He certainly reacted with pique when an actor dared send him notes on a scenario. We end up making love. I have wet myself. Quick Steadicam push into — A buffet-style eatery. Ayoade fills a large bowl with rough chunks of onion and sits down. I do so in a politically engaged way. I believe I made some scathing comments about the euro just before I touched your underside.
It would depend what had been on Radio 5 Live that morning. I choose not to eat. When I eat. My questions have a harder edge to them. If memory serves. I still have it somewhere. Why are we putting things on pins all of a sudden? Are women a particular interest of yours? I think if my life and work is about anything. Why are you so cold?
Have you ever met a woman before? I did have a frightening episode myself once. He catches the eye of a beautiful woman at an adjacent table.
The sound of distant thunder. Why is that? I cannot take this brute a moment longer. Snap to black. I take my leave. His eyes averted. I just feel more comfortable that way. Ron Howard. It takes me several months to arrange another intervista with Ayoade. He had expected me to pick up the tab for our last meal. It takes me several more months to persuade him to reveal the location of the undisclosed location so that I could type it into MapQuest.
It is merely good or bad. And fiction is neither true nor false. Are his films in Italian? I think the only reason U2 tried to break America was so that The Edge could start wearing cowboy hats without arousing suspicion.
Call me over. No one had dared. He very wisely gave up acting before he became bald. He came up with it himself. On the one hand. Always sung in English. If he were a lawyer. Certainly not in functional terms.
Very smart guys. You know who else is smart?
To sum up: Give them a box. The Edge did the same. And team players. The Edge. The furthermost point that one can occupy is in this room.
You see what I did? I always wanted to ask — is Ayoade your real name? I am The Edge. I want to show you something. What I did was this: I brought a very radical concept into our discourse. I wanted to be an icon in my own right. Ayoade asks me to leave his speedboat. Get out. I vault over the side of the speedboat and give chase. The Hermeneutics of Howard. I explain that the speedboat is owned by the showroom. I feel I probably put too many vowels in there. I ask if he has any documentation to back that up.
He counters by saying that. But then again. I was the one who obtained permission from the showroom to conduct the interview on the speedboat. He opens his holdall and produces a roll of microfilm. Ayoade is also a fan of Star Wars. With no prelude and no explanation. Ayoade racing up a stairwell.
Well-wishers throng the streets. Ayoade wryly swipes a bowl of onion from the buffet and gives it to the Beautiful Woman we saw earlier.
His colleague. A beat of shared humanity: A barricade across the road! Ayoade screeches to a halt. They both shrug their shoulders. We run in and out of buildings. The Assassin. He sees a lone sniper on the top of a nearby building. Ayoade and I weave in and out of traffic.
Me behind. Ayoade slips out of the door and hops onto a scooter. Its owner. Perhaps it was best that nothing was said. How I knew the despair of Uncle Owen!
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On its release. Ayoade and the Assassin fight hand to hand. The Assassin reaches for a blade stashed in his boot. I watch. When he is in the middle of the river. Ayoade fires a zip line to a building on the other side of the Thames and travels rapidly along it.
Grace Jones hits the accelerator and they race away. How could I have told him that I was pregnant? I race to the edge of the high-rise building and look at him longingly. Do you feel your films belong to any kind of genre?
The genre of All Life on This Planet. The camera swirls round and round as if in a vortex. I like Starlight Express. What do you think of other art forms? The sky lets out a silent scream. And I like to research twenty-four hours a day. Do you go to museums? If I need a leak. Then I realise I could just text him. How much research do you do? For me. As in L. Clouds darken. All is lost. How would you like to be remembered? Do you read reviews? Only on Amazon.
A KKK I can do business with. Kula Shaker. I excite me. The latter displays an unusual naivety regarding the level of hospitality that he would have to provide. Is Ayoade saying that he wishes to become so wealthy that he would be able to own all property in which the Queen currently resides?
Or is he implying that he would like the Queen to move in with him? The former seems to ignore the enormous constitutional implications thrown up by having royal residences in the hands of one sole citizen. Or a total spanner? After this last text. What excites you? Peace excites me. Would Ayoade be responsible for maintenance. Numerous things. Reception in and out. As the freeholder. Are they allowed to put property on the market and keep the proceeds? Surely Parliament would intervene?
And if they were in such dire need of money that they did and could! I keep a wide span. Would he deal with them directly or through an agency? I like to span the totality of humanity.
Shall we meet? He can certainly engender narcolepsy in the listener. I have my transcripts. And then it hits me like the pain of finding an expired Argos. Something dangerous. Something darker. Had I met Ayoade? I need a beat. I thought I could get a thumb in.
I had some loose ends to tie up. Not one bit.
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Something that can topple dynasties: Had I really met Ayoade? And that house was vide. This is the reason I will never watch Speed 2: Cruise Control on a commercial television network. And this. But this is not so much a break as a breakdown.
The jury can go hang while you and I stagger into a blind alley. I started to wonder — whose finger was on the ribbon? Was it hell. Wherein we ask.
The breaks ruin the poetry. It was my finger. Suede on top. I might creep towards clarity. By their fruits you will know them. I turn to Socrates for help. But for me.
Whenever I wear it I feel like the New Zealand-born. I will dive. And there. Where do you find T. I had to approach Ayoade afresh. Where do you find [insert name of female writer for balance]?
On [low-rent programme that works alliteratively with her name]? No [further comment deriding said programme]. Perhaps by asking myself questions. This pungent clarion call contains top notes of blackberry.
Where do you find Tolstoy? On T4? No he skews too old for their demographic. Not for the last time. Never has a scent made me feel so emotionally connected to a celebrity. Australian-raised musician and television-competition judge is wrapped around me like warm breath. I feel so confident when I wear it.
A lot of celebrity perfumers might have settled with just the smell of suede. How does one find the true essence of a great artist? How do we get close to them? On Daybreak? The Ellen DeGeneres Show? Later that morning I lop off my finger with a bolt cutter and come up with a new re solution: I had time and one other proud Prufrockian possession: Who would dare peer into those peripheral fields of film-related whim? Who had the courage?
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Who had the passion? His target? The Moving Pictures Business. As I review these pieces. Especially for something so tiresomely specific. I have resisted the urge to rewrite or tinker. Quaff deeply or sip demurely — I entrust them to your care.
I looked forward to bin day. I believe everyone has been given one special gift. I had great swathes of time. They could be freed from the compulsion to critique film on the page. Like Lady Gaga. To pastiche. I was drunk with time. I got up early. They could use their time for the things that were important to them: I am reminded of my younger self. I had it marked on the calendar.
He was an unruly buck. Each month I sat on my puce aqua bench and carefully honed five hundred words of non-topical. The writer must recede and the reader must reign! They could focus with unearned confidence on their sublimely average quests towards the quotidian. Let us consider his introduction to Compose Thyself: The Collected Columns of Richard Ayoade.
Film Flap and The Eye Inside. I humbly present them to you now. But I was often not busy. I wrote these columns. And while I waited in vain for mine. I hope and expect that this collection will change your life for ever.
I must march on. You WILL brood on your unworthiness as my mots justes offer up fresh riches and insights. Ayoade is so terrified of criticism that he prefers to criticise himself often mid-sentence.
But sometimes the city is a character in the film. I hope this book goes some way to allowing men one small step towards parity within the entertainment industry. Whom you MUST not thank. We can only conclude that his braggadocio masks a more heartfelt desire to express his truth using the written word. As a husband. I challenge the reader to think of more than two really great male directors. You WILL feel guilty to have received so much.
But enough. We have come too far to turn back now. But before we set up camp inside the man.
A wearisome refusal to use a comprehensible idiom. The chest-puff. We must not fail. You be Good Cop and get me a coffee. I want to elevate you. For far too long. Our voices go unheard. Artists are often frightened folk. The pre-emptive strike. We must not falter. A simple. These pieces are gifts. But like some scrawny jackdaw frog-marching up to a mighty falcon. I needed that. But you and I are looking to breach its walls. We have before us.
For perhaps these walls form a pentagram. Or maybe they evoke The Pentameron. Writing Routines II. A Writing Masterclass V. Writing for Hire X. Scriptwriting VIII. So this is the part of the mission where we agree on a plan.
An Audition II. Space for Notes VII. A Plum Part X. Pause for Thought VI. Pause for Thought XII. Writing Music XI. The Art of Adaptation IV. Where we work out how to crack the safe. A Pentagon. Acting the Part IV. The joint divides into two main areas.
An Actor Asks V. I always inferred from the way he spoke that Ayoade was borderline illiterate. Rewriting IX. Terms of Engagement III. And like that institution. Character Acting IX. And a praise.
We can do this. Several close friends and colleagues said that they resented the thought of even lifting up the book in order to dispose of it. If you have no loved ones. And this is the right time. Do not attempt to read these articles in one go.
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We pose no immediate threat to the USA. I was effectively holding your hand all the way through. The original quote was.
But before you undertake this journey. Take breaks. My recommendation? I would recommend that you put aside no less than FIVE days to read these pieces. And I want to give you an acknowledge. Reading any of this material is an achievement. So just trust me. I advise you to skip straight to Part 2C. I had to get you ready. Very well. Credit for much of this passage must go to my encyclopaedia.
There are designated rest points for you to gather your wits and make notes. I assumed he would seek to avoid any embarrassing mention of his thespian divertissements. I have added my own comments and analysis. If you feel depressed. We are comrades. But here you will find him thumping on into next week about composition and his mimetic method. As such. You had a very clear objective going in. You have done well.
We had to wait till it was the right time for your mind and your body to do this. Clearly he does not advocate a reader-led free state. There are sixteen in all: Ayoade ironically and literally could not give these columns away. I wake up at 5. I only have one acting muscle.
I like peaches. I like to make sushi but am sadly unable to. This can take up to four hours. Therefore I eat a lot of curry. I outline an average day in the life of Ayoade. At about 2. Nectarines have been the ideal solution. A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade. Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has changed the way the film community thinks about itself and indeed how it thinks about the concept of community?
It wouldn't. In fact, it's actually pretty insulting that this so-called 'Community' hasn't done more to acknowledge or even begin to repay its undoubted debt to me. Richard Ayoade is many things - Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has changed the way the film community thinks about itself and indeed how it thinks about the concept of community?
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Showing Rating details. Sort order. Richard Ayoade is a treasure. His comedic style is pretty much unrivalled on television today. So how well does his unique branch of humour translate to the page? Quite well actually, well, at least I thought so. Ayoade on Ayoade can be seen as a spoof, a mockery, a satire on those pretentious novel length interviews given by directors who only a handful of intellectuals have heard of and even fewer have actually witnessed their works.
One that comes to mind is probably the most famous, Hitchcoc Richard Ayoade is a treasure. This book is presented as a series of interviews given by Richard Ayoade to Richard Ayoade hence the name stupid! His quick-witted and subtle humour flows wonderfully throughout these interviews. However it's more than just that. It is entirely held together by a series of footnotes, in fact nearly half of the book is just footnotes. It would make David Foster Wallace proud but made navigating this book on my Kindle a task akin to Dante's journey through the Inferno.
The footnotes are full anecdotes within themselves, made up of letters and diary entries and strange Pinteresque short film scripts. The book's subtitle, "A Cinematic Odyssey", is really the best description of it.
So who wants to read this book? Well, let's see. Here's a test. If yes, then congratulations this book is for you! If no, well then, carry on with your life. View 1 comment. Jan 10, Joey Woolfardis rated it liked it Shelves: Richard Ayoade: Actor, Writer, Director. Father, Husband, Man. Nasal, Norwegian, Nigerian. Some Other Things, Too. In this book, Richard Ayoade interviews himself, Richard Ayoade, about his life in the limelight, mostly concentrating on his love for film and the films he has made, namely the only two he has made, Submarine and The Double.
This is not a biography. Or an autobiography, though there are some elements of such here. It's more of an assault of autobiographies and interviews and cinema a Richard Ayoade: It's more of an assault of autobiographies and interviews and cinema as a whole, and so many other things.
Don't buy this book on Kindle. You will regret it and want to kill yourself for not heeding my Wise Words. This book is built upon the footnote and appendix system, and you MUST flick back and forth between the three in order to fully appreciate Ayoade's might.
View all 5 comments. Dec 27, Laura Caley rated it it was ok. I was disappointed with this book if I'm honest - I'm a huge fan of Richard Ayoade and had high expectations for this book. The first part with the interviews was funny at times and I could cope with reading this but the second part was far too Annoying I guess is the correct term. Jokes had been stretched too far and it just wasn't my cup of tea sadly.
That Richard Ayoade is so willing to poke fun at this, whilst apparently engaging with it in his own films, made me like him even more - and I already like him a lot.
I would suggest that if you like the idea of Richard Ayoade interviewing Richard Ayoade about half of the book whilst taking celebrity introspection to absurd new levels, or - for example - you know who Terrence Malick is, and you are attracted to reading a series of highly unlikely tweets he sent whilst making the film 'The Tree of Life', then you should find much to enjoy here.
If not, give it a miss. I wanted so much to like it! I tried so hard to like it! But the appendices were Just. Ayoade is probably one of my favourite actors and comedians. I hadn't read anything from him before this, and maybe if I had I would have been better prepared for this book, but it was not to be.
Settled for 2. Jan 18, Gareth rated it really liked it. Mostly pointless in a charming way. Then a bit irritating. Just enough "laugh-out-loud moments" to qualify for my enduring respect. View all 4 comments. Sep 25, Theediscerning rated it liked it. For those who, like me, wondered if this was coming a little too early in the career of Richard Ayoade, rest assured — this is a spoof of those grandiloquent career-spanning interview books.
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It's a very competent spoof, too — one showing that he can put pen to paper and come up with something clever enough, enjoyable and witty and at times sprightly, and very well sustained. Unfortunate, then, that he has sustained mediocrity too far. From the book we can gather that he has a brilliant line in se For those who, like me, wondered if this was coming a little too early in the career of Richard Ayoade, rest assured — this is a spoof of those grandiloquent career-spanning interview books.
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Some classic Janis. A celebration of what made the difference in the elections, Tuesday. We tried just a little bit harder.
Reliving the Exorcism of November 7th
Exorcism complete. Democrats control Congress (unlike Republicans who tried to own it).
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I confess that this one makes me the most pessimistic about Wisconsin. When it comes right down to it, I believe that Jim Doyle is fundamentally dishonest. I believe that he is corrupt. And I believe that the evidence of his faulty character is overwhelming. I truly believed that when people were in the ballot box, that they would choose to cleanse their government. Again, I was wrong. I think that the fact that a majority of Wisconsinites were willing to ignore Doyle’s ethical issues speaks poorly about the character of too many Wisconsinites.
This comment seems fairly endemic of conservatives everywhere from what I've read and illustrates what is truly going on here: Conservatives are the ones lacking character. Heck, Tom Reynolds (the most principled guy in the Senate according to Jessica McBride) can't even bring himself to make that concession phone call like well-mannered and gracious opponents do when defeated.
From viewing the comments sopping with tears and sour grapes over at conservative websites, I have come away with the belief the defeat of the Republicans had nothing to do with the Democrats being any better (though I hope we have learned our lessons well), but with the ethical lapses and boorish behavior of many conservatives. Oh, did I forget arrogance. Check this comment out from Owen at Boots and Sabers.
Looks like it is over as far as governor goes. I admit, I’m surprised and I’m very disappointed. We get the government that we deserve and Wisconsinites have chosen another four years of corruption, expanded Tribal gambling, higher taxes, selling of state contracts, and an out of control regulatory and litigation climate. I’m pretty ashamed to be a Wisconsinite tonight. I thought that Wisconsinites were sincere about clean government and ethics. I was wrong.
That seems to be a common thread … that the voters are somehow to blame. It apparently doesn’t concern Owen that perhaps he and his own are the ones to blame.
One person couldn’t understand how the “Ban Gay Marriage” amendment could pass (their base?), but conservatives could not get elected. The answer is fear. Opponents of gay marriage used fear and other sanctimonious imagery to get this amendment passed. They succeeded in convincing a substantial number of normally undecided people to vote for the ban. It’s sad, though it does lay bare the Republican agenda which hoped that a vote for the ban would also carry water in the election.
And now, of course, unable to accept defeat, others are turning to the fraud gambit. The Game is saying that Democrat’s victories were all garnered because of voter fraud. They must have won that way he says, because the races were all within two to three percent, which is the amount, of course, of voter fraud that occurs whenever Democrats are involved in lections (I’m paraphrasing).
And finally, my nemesis, Chris, at spotted horse 2 had this to say in a responding comment (to mine) at Boots and Sabers:
I am really torn right now wondering if Wisconsin is worth fighting for anymore its not sour grapes Tim now that the crook has won reelection be honest would you tell you children to use Governor Doyle as a role model?
Between Doyle and Falk how many businesses will be driven out of Wisconsin?
Hey the people of Wisconsin have spoken and unlike our Rat enemies have done since 1994 I will
not say they were dumb or stupid Tim is right the people have spoken if they want Jim Doyle's style of leadership they are welcome to it.
What a night I imagine this was what it felt like in 94 if you were a Rat.
Time to rethink some things and some long term plans
Let the looting begin.
For Chris this is relatively tame. However, it is indicative of conservatives in general. It was never that their candidates may have been flawed, and it was never about the blind eye they turned to the obvious ethical and moral problems of their candidates … nope, the campaign was always about the evils of liberalism. If they had taken more time to right their own ship instead of being power-hungry, boorish and arrogant, the Republicans might still be in power.
Face it guys … You blew it. You had your opportunity. I hope this is the beginning of another 40 years of Democratic rule, because the 12 years the Republicans held power nearly tore this country apart.
God Will Be Angry
Psst. Don’t tell Jessica McBride.
MINNEAPOLIS - Voters elected a black Democrat as the first Muslim in Congress on Tuesday after a race in which he advocated quick U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and made little mention of his faith.
Keith Ellison, a 43-year-old defense attorney and state representative, was projected to defeat two rivals to succeed retiring Democrat Martin Sabo in a seat that has been held by Democrats since 1963.
Ellison, who converted to Islam as a 19-year-old college student in his native Detroit, won with the help of Muslims among a coalition of liberal, anti-war voters. "We were able to bring in Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists," he said. "We brought in everybody."
Goes to show that there aren’t so many bigots like McBride. Thankfully!
Voter Intimidation by Right-Wingers?
It figures.
RICHMOND, Va. - The FBI is investigating complaints that phony callers tried to intimidate Virginia voters amid the hard-fought race between GOP Sen. George Allen and Democratic challenger Jim Webb, officials said Tuesday. State Board of Elections Secretary Jean Jensen said her office had forwarded several reports to the FBI of phone calls to voters apparently aimed at misleading them into not voting or directing them to the wrong polling place. “If something is going on that worries and alarms voters enough that I’m contacted to look into it, I have a responsibility to do that,” Jensen said.
The reason Republicans rant and rave about voter fraud is because they want to deflect attention from what is really going on: Republican voter intimidation. How much you want to bet that bomb threat prank in Madison was sent by some hillbilly conservative hoping to derail liberals in Madison from voting?
More Republican Malfeasance?
This is too good.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County’s elections chief said Wednesday.
One can only hope this goes badly for her.
Wigderson Predictions
The hardly feckless writer James Wigderson, the patron saint of right-wing humor and proud owner of Wigderson Library & Pub (but does he do his chores?), has come out with his fearless election predictions (was he on medication when he made them). We at the Other Side will compare his with the final results and have a good laugh, or in the unlikely event his are fairly accurate, we will provide congratulations. Here are a few of his predictions.
Mark Green 51% Jim Doyle 48%
John Gard wins handily
F. James Sensenbrenner wins big
Dave Magnum does better than expected but still loses to Tammy Baldwin
Republicans lose control by 2-5 seats
We'll see!
It's the next day and it's time to compare. How did James do with his fearless predictions.
Mark Green over Jim Doyle of 51% to 48%.
Reality sucks. Doyle clobbers Green 52.7% to 45.4%.
Steve Kagen’s self destruction will be complete.
Hmmm. Kagen defeats John Gard 51.2% to 48.8%.
Bryan Kennedy loses big.
He did. Fat Slob Sensenbrenner 61.8% to 35.7%.
Van Hollen will defeat Falk.
He did, but it was close. Van Hollen 50.2% to 49.8%.
On the national level, Republicans lose control [of the House] by just 2-5 seats.
Whoa. Just a little off. Latest projections now have Democrats leading in House 234-201.
Burns in Montana, Allen in Virginia and Corker in Tennessee all win.
One out of three ain’t bad (though to be fair, the Montana and Virginia races are not yet done, but Dems lead).
Talent loses in Missouri …
Right on. McCaskill wins 49.45% to Talent 47.43%.
Republicans will lose one Senate seat, State Senator Tom Reynolds.
Just a little off. Sullivan wins and the Senate could switch to 18-15 Democratic. Who would have thought.
Republican McReynolds in Racine County will win handily.
Oops. John Lehman 53.1% to McReynolds 46.9%.
Correct on the Waukesha County races.
This was all done in fun and to be fair, James is not the only one missing big on this election. Some serious prognosticators did not see this wave happening. I certainly didn’t. But … Woo Hoo!
It was a rainy grey day, followed by a cold, wet night. I was not very inspired today ... I think it's called election burnout. Tomorrow is the day ... I will get up nice and early and vote ... prbably sometime around 10:30 or so.
I had a dream that Tom Reynolds supporters accosted me outside the polling place and asked for whom I would be voting. They were all women. They wore dresses that completely covered their legs, and they all wore those Amish-type bonnets. When I answered that I could not vote for their candidate, they chased me into the building and waited for me after I was done voting. I swear J.J. Blonien and Bob Dohnal were hiding amongst the gaggle of god-fearing womenfolk.
It was a weird dream.
I spent the day learning how to do a little plumbing. The drain lever broke off and I had to remove the offending part underneath the vanity top and replace it with a brand new healthy piece. I managed to complete the task in four hours ... hey, I never did this before and the first visit to Home Depot for repair parts was a waste as I was directed to purchase the wrong part.
But the new stopper is now in place and working better than the old, corroded one ... and it doesn't leak. Woo hoo!
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Guest Post #2: Oldest Girl
Posted by jael under Family, Parenting, Spiritual Journey
The Zuks, a Wedding, and the Rose That Changed Everything
The sunrise paints beautiful streaks of color over the Zuks’ home. Streaks of gold, orange, pink, and crimson swathe the dawn sky with a feeling of tranquility. Zyklezo, the tribe’s leader sits up and stretches. His petals are a blood red hue, and his body is grass green. He has small, strait, and delicate arms and legs. His face is made of rose petals and his features are made up of dots and lines. In short, Zyklezo is a miniature rose. He rubs his black eyes with his knobby hands, and stands. Zyklezo looks almost identical to the other members of the Zuk tribe; one of the only differences is that he is about a centimeter taller, a big distinction by the standards of the rose people. The only other difference of the people of the rose tribe is that no Zuk has the same color of petals. As he did his morning yoga which involve bending, stretching, and over all unfolding, Zyklezo thought about the beautiful rose that his tribe called home. The stem was thick and healthy; the petals were a beautiful pink with white lines twisting through them and best of all, it was in the middle of a huge garden of roses. Roses of all shapes, sizes, and colors bloomed in the field. It was bliss for the peaceful Zuks. They felt truly at home.
Zyklezo straightened. The chief of the Zuk people started through the forest of petals that makes up the uppermost part of the rose inhabited by the Zuks. He made his way to the hollowed out stem and stuck his petals in to it.
“Hak lak mekr nssd sohfls” He called. It’s time to gather the dew. Making a noise that was his way of sighing contentedly, he made his way up the rose petal staircase to the top of the rose. The Zuks would come to his call. They always did, every morning when they were called for breakfast. The dew gave the rose people the vitamins that they needed to function through out the day. Each morning they would come, eat the dew, and start their daily activities.
The other Zuks that also lived in the rose slept in the cozy tunnels burrowed in the stem of the rose. The leader of the tribe would always sleep in the top, so that he or she could protect the tribe in case of trouble. As Zyklezo reached the top of the staircase, the dewdrops came into view. Zyklezo froze when he saw the rose crushers. They had the garden tools in their hands, and they were shouting at the top of their lungs. (They weren’t really shouting, but the Zuks have very sensitive ears, so regular speech seems extremely loud.”
“Why are we cutting the roses down this time?” the tall one asked.
“The clients are planning a wedding, a big one.” The fat one replied. “It should be huge; we need to cut down a lot of roses.” They grinned at each other. The tall one started to say,
“Did you hear the proposal? They say that the guy hired-” Zyklezo needed to hear no more. He needed to warn the others, fast! Then, Zyklezo did something that is only done when there is great peril. Emitting a faint popping sound, the chief of the Zuks drew in his knobby arms and stubby legs closed his petals so that his facial features were hidden, and rolled down the stairs faster than dew down a Zuk’s throat.
“Hak dak rak bak neert! Hak dak rak bak neert! Hak dak rak bak neert!” He called, meeting in the conference room now! Distressed, disheveled, confused, but ever loyal, the members of the Zuk tribe promptly drew in their equally knobby arms and equally stubby legs, closed their petals, and rolled after him.
Once in the conference room, Zyklezo told his tribe about the “invasion.”
“Mek mak hak rak tak dak gak bak wak tredgthy howds vowds quensd.” He told them about the huge invasion coming up, how a lot of roses would be ruthlessly slaughtered, and how somebody had hired a gunman to take them down. When the chief of the army forces, a subdued person, Zekles, asked him to be surer of the translations, Zyklezo consulted the books.
“Joh hos wic bwei sic khdsil iosj lis fh” Wedding definitely translates into invasion. The plan was made; the peaceful Zuk people had no choice but to defend their nest. The parting word of the council was the chant that all Zuk people were obligated to do before going into battle:
“We fight for protection, not glory money or fame. For the least amount of harm possible is our aim. We will return soon to our home. For far from that we never shall rome.” The night before, they had been peaceful people, now; they readied their weapons for war.
The next morning, everything was prepared. The rose guns had been loaded, and the warriors were ready. The design of the guns was that they shot rose seeds, and when they landed, a rose sprouted. It didn’t matter where the seed landed. Every seed had been coated in a top-secret growth formula. If the seed landed on a person, that person would have a rose sprout, and would even have to water it daily. If it landed on a brick wall, a huge creeping vine of roses would soon envelop it. If it landed in the ocean, there would be a surfer rose riding the waves, and doing tricks. The small guns were only to get to the satellite controls however. Once the Zuks had overridden the system, they would transform satellites into huge guns and have them all shoot at once to transform the very planet itself into a huge, blooming, rose. The “rose crushers” would all be killed instantly, and the Zuks would have a whole new planet all to themselves. Everything was in place, except for one thing, or Zuk.
Zekles, the leader of the Zuk warriors, was taking one last ride through the field before it was destroyed. He personally didn’t see any need for violence because he could understand the language of the rose crushers perfectly, and he knew that it wasn’t really a “yegd” an invasion. But, orders were orders and he had no choice but to follow them. Also, what was better than one huge rose that they could be completely safe on? This is better. He thought to himself as he burrowed down into his flowerpot. Zekles had begun to sneak out of the rose five years ago. He simply hung back when the others were eating the dew, clambered up to the top of the rose, and, using a seed gun, shoot a flower into a flower pot so that it would get picked up by the plant trolley and, sitting on top of the rose, he could see the whole field. The workers had cut some roses for the wedding, but now they were planting new ones in their place. Not that he hadn’t seen this before, Zekles had snuck out before and he had made this trip thousands of times. The trolley carried the plants that needed a lot of care; so everyday it was wheeled around the field and back. But, this would be the last time.
As he gazed at the endless haven of roses, Zekles thought about how he could convince Zyklezo that the rose crushers really weren’t earth crushers and were really good things. After a good deal of contemplation, an irrational plan came to him. It had a 99.99% chance of failure, but he had no choice except to rely on that 00.01 chance. It was time to stand up for what was right. The plan relied on one secret, the fact that the Zuk people weren’t totally a secret from the humans. There was one person who knew, a girl whose name was Zuri.
Five years earlier: Zekles was riding his regular flowerpot through the field of roses. It was considerably smaller than it is now, but it was still huge to the curious Zuk. It was a normal day, they had recently eater their dew, and Zekles had hopped on the flowerpot for the daily ride across the field. Today a girl with extraordinary eyesight pushed the cart. She was half way through the field when she saw him. Being a smart girl, she kept her head and didn’t scream. She pretended that she hadn’t seen him, and wheeled the cart into the lab.
“I’ll just check some samples she said aloud, hoping that Zekles would be fooled luckily, he was. Zekles wasn’t unduly worried. He was slightly annoyed that he would miss origami class, but he didn’t realize that anything was wrong. He did realize this however, when Zuri plucked him up and set him under the microscope.
“Interesting” she said, peering at him. Zekles was so flustered that he forgot to pretend to be an inanimate object like he had been taught to do in the What-To-Do-If-Under-a-Microscope-Being-Looked-At-By-a-Human crash course that he took in school, instead, he stood up and, calling on him limited knowledge of the rose crusher’s language, he slowly said,
“I am nothing of the sort my dame, hem hem madam! Now led me go, let me go I demand it!” instead of being scared, Zuri was fascinated. She quickly explained that she wanted to do Zekles no harm and that she worked as a gardener in the field. As soon as that was cleared up, they began chatting amicably and by the next day, they were friends. Zuri taught Zekles more English and, in turn, Zekles told Zuri any thing she wanted to know about everything. Because they were so small, Zuks could see things that humans couldn’t, so he told her about the thing that he saw.
Present: Zekles needed to contact her, now! When the trolley stopped right next to the intercom, he knew how. Zekles climbed up onto the edge of the trolley and jumped! He was able to grab the cord and, as he fell, he said through the speaker,
“Zoe, person who works in the rose field, please take the trolley from other person who also hopefully works at the rose field.” Zoe came over.
“I wonder why.” She thought to herself. She immediately spotted Zekles, jumping up and down and waving his thin arms like a crazy person. She went down on the pretense of fixing her shoe. “What are you doing?” she whispered.
“You don’t have to shout.” He said back.
“What?” she asked? “Oh, just come here!” She him picked up and plopped him on the cart. When they got to the lab, He scuttled to the microscope and went underneath it. A few months earlier, they had installed a microphone/silencer in the microscope so that both could see and hear each other more comfortably.
“There,” he said. “Zuri, the most terrible thing has happened! Zyklezo, the chief has misenterprited some workers talking about a wedding! He thought that in our language, it translates to invasion! He called a council and weapons have been made. Tomorrow we will take over the world! I will have to lead the warriors in a desperate march across the country to the NASA space station! Then, our technology will take over their system, and we will take over the satellites and turn the whole planet into a giant rose!” By the end of his sentence, Zekles had become so distressed that his words blended together in to a long assertion.
“Calm down, calm down!” Zoe protested, “What do you suggest that we do? You have tried reason with Zyklezo, haven’t you?”
“Yes!” Zekles nearly shouted in his desperation. “During the council I asked him to check to be sure because I knew that he was wrong, but I can’t contradict the chief. So he looked at the books,” Here Zekles slumped down defeated. His voice shrank down to barely a whisper. Zuri waited patiently as he let out a huge sigh and continued. “The books, the books. They are all wrong! They say that white means black and that solid means liquid and they are just all wrong!”
“Are you just going to let it happen?” Zuri asked. There was no accusation in her voice she just wanted her question to be answered.
“I was going to, but I can’t!” Zekles answered. “It wouldn’t be right,” he continued, “to destroy something that is so beautiful. I was thinking about it on my way around on the trolley. I could refuse to fight, but there are many other warriors, I could sabotage the weapons, but I would be thrown out of the Zuk tribe, and Zyklezo would just order new ones to be made. He won’t give up until the earth is destroyed unless-”
“Unless we change his mind.” Zekles and Zuri said at the same Zekles quickly explained his desperate plan; Zuri listened quietly, pointed out some minor flaws, and softly suggested some revisions. In five minutes, they had constructed a plan that could save the world.
Zekles raced breathlessly into Zyklezo’s room.
“Zyklezo, there’s something that you have to see!” He shouted, “it’s in the field, we already have a ride.” If the chief was suspicious he didn’t show it, he silently followed Zekles through the maze of tunnels that the Zuk people had drilled in the rose.
“Zekles-” he started to say,
“No time!” Zekles shouted he was worried that if Zyklezo asked to many questions, his and Zuri’s plan would be discovered. They had made it through the maze of tunnels, up the rose petal staircase, and through the delicate walkways on top, and on to the trolley, Zuri had phase two of the plan set up, and the chief had grown impatient, he wanted an explanation, and he wanted it now!
“Zekles!” Zyklezo shouted with indignation, “What is the meaning of this? Taking us into enemy territory, not resting up for the attack! What on Zunis has gotten in to you?”
“I just thought that you should see the world the way I see it.” Zekles tried to explain. “No offense, but you look at the world through reftg eyes, you vision is cloudy.” Then, Zekles repeated an old Zuk prophecy: “Rewt huyt besd, hefd kelsd makexd, if you have dirt in your eyes, it is hard to see.” Being a reasonable Zuk, Zyklezo agreed with one condition:
“If I am not convinced, we will go on with the invasion.”
“I understand completely.” Zekles replied. I hope that this works! He thought to himself, the plan had started, and now it was time to let it unfold.
While Zekles had been working on Zyklezo, Zuri had been talking to the field inspector, Ayden. Using the power of persuasion that she was born with, Zuri convinced Ayden to inspect the field with her right now, even though the inspection was scheduled for the next month with the field supervisor. Zekles never figured out how one quick text on her part convinced the inspector to fly all the way back from Paris to California, but it had.
“I take it that this is the um… how do you Americans say it? Oh yes, yes, the special plant trolley.” Although Ayden was strictly American, when he went on vacation in foreign places, he picked up there habits.
“Yes Mr. Ayden,” Zoe started on the tour making sure to keep her body angled towards the trolley so that Zyklezo could hear. “This is where we put the plants that need more air and sunlight then all of the others. Every day we wheel it around the field and talk to them, we believe that this helps them grow.” Zyklezo was amazed. What is this? He thought to himself. “These are the rose crushers! Why are they giving such special attention to the roses? He listened in amazement as Zuri continued:
“It is time to take the trolley around, and I really don’t want these poor plants to miss their walk. Do you think perhaps that the inspection could take place during the walk? We would go around the whole field.”
“That would be fine.” Ayden replied.
“Thank you very much Mr. Ayden.” Zoe responded “Now, to continue, this is the main rose garden. As you can see, we water our plants every day, and also fertilize with our specially made, all natural, completely safe to both plants and humans stimulant. We make this in our lab, to the left, and use it on all of our plants.” As the tour progressed, Zuri hinted all she could about loving the roses and taking care of them. By the end of the tour, Zyklezo was dumb struck.
“Meet me in my rooms after this is over.” He ordered Zekles. Then he sighed, hopped down from the trolley, and made his way carefully down the stairs. Zuri had seen him go, but had no idea what he had said, and she had Ayden looking at her expectedly.
“I’ll just straighten these blossoms.” She improvised, and then quickly bent down towards the rose that Zekles was still on. “Did it go well?” She inquired.
“I have no idea,” He replied helplessly. “But I’ve never seen him like this, the news is either good, or bad. This might be goodbye though.”
“Don’t talk like that!” Zuri admonished. “We are going to get out of this! You will convince Zyklezo that we really won’t cut down all the roses in the field! You have to help all the humans, you can’t let Zyklezo destroy the earth!”
“I know, but what will I say?”
“You know Zyklezo more than I do! I think that he was impressed with the tour, but he might need some more convincing. Just tell him the truth, that we really won’t destroy the rose!”
“I’ll try, but it might be tough.”
“You have to try, the world depends on it!”
As it turned out, Zyklezo needed no convincing.
“For the first time in my life, I, the amazing, the dependable, the faultless,” Zyklezo began, “the perfect, the humble chief of the Zuks am wrong. I have misjudged the rose crushers. The one called Zuri has taught us all a lesson. When there is dirt in your eyes, you can’t see.” Zekles decided to not say that it had been Zyklezo that had been taught the lesson, not the other way around.
“I believe that we all have all learned many different things in many different ways oh chief.” Zekles proclaimed, “Do you think that this would be enough reason to call of the attack?”
“Of course it would!” Zyklezo shouted with indignation. “It would be wrong to attack something that would not hurt us! That would be barbaric!” With some difficulty, Zekles avoided stating that Zyklezo was about to do just that.
“Excellent decision Zyklezo,” he began “I am glad that you cancelled the takeover.”
“Yes, yes, now,” The chief began, “later we will have a council meeting to tell everyone that the invasion has been called off. Until then, go do something.”
It wouldn’t be fair or true to say that there was never another almost invasion from both the Zuks and the humans. There was one narrowly avoided mishap where the Zuks’ rose was almost clipped, but with Zuri’s help, that to was avoided. After a while, Zyklezo stepped down, and Zekles became the chief. He was truly humble, wise, kind, and the best chief that the Zuk people will ever know. As for Zuri, she worked happily in the rose field for many years, averting many an unfortunate disaster. When she retired, her son, Zachary took her place and his daughter after that. It went on like this for many years until the rose field was shut down for financial reasons. Zabrina, Zuri’s great great great great great granddaughter helped the Zuk people manufacture the rose guns into gardening tools and eventually made a very successful business out of it. As for the Zuks, their tribe lived happily for some time on their rose. Many chiefs came and went, although none quite as good as Zekles. They became more trusting of the “rose crushers” which they eventually promoted to humans, and not more than a few days went by when a young, adventurous Zuk was not sent out with a pack, and a compass to have an adventure, and come home stronger and happier than when they had left.
Paul’s Playbook
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content, (Philippians 4:11).
As previously posted, the promise that I can learn what Paul grasped through Christ’s strength
and be glad in every condition stokes my GO! fire.
If interested, you may check out the entire post about my recent infatuation with Paul here.
My thoughts continue to dwell upon Paul and the masterpiece of transformation God crafted with his willing soul.
Paul proffered the young church a godly Where-Our-Thoughts-Should-Dwell-Punch-List in his thank you note to the Philippians for their ready aid when he was in the clink in Rome:
Finally, brothers,
whatever is
______ true
______ noble,
______ right,
______ pure,
______ lovely,
______ admirable
______ if anything is excellent
______ praiseworthy
think about such things, (Philippians, 4:8).
<Aside: That’s exactly how I see this verse in my head.
For me,
it uploads as a check-list,
not a sentence
or benediction.>
I would benefit from this being tattooed on the front of my right forearm where I could not fail to see it before taking action into my own hands.
Through the inspiration of the Holy Dove, Paul equips believers with the spiritual equivalent of a pilot’s preflight check-list.
Just as pilots must file a flight plan to ground control before take off, Paul challenges us to record a metacognitive, quality plan prior to thought habitation.
In other words, Paul directly warns us to responsibly plant what thoughts we allow residence in our minds as they not only germinate expectations, but self-fulfilling outcomes that directly enhance or impede our Joy.
Paul’s assurance to the Philippians that through Christ that strengthens him (representative model) he has learned how to be happy despite his circumstance (and therefore we can too) resonates with his admonishment to manage the soundtracks in our own heads.
Don’t you want that lesson plan?
Don’t you wonder
how that fleshy guy,
formerly known as Saul,
accessed such a feat of Grace?
I want Paul’s Playbook!
I wear His colors.
Put me in Coach,
I’m ready to play!
I’m ready to burn it up for You.
I imagine one of Paul’s signature plays is the Thought Sack.
I expect Paul clipped thoughts he did not want to live in his mind at the knees like a hot quarterback that needed to be shut down.
A more aggressive maneuver could be called the Thought Interception.
Such a call would be important were an unwelcome thought already in play, and one needed to catch it and run it down the other side of the field.
Here’s a sample of what such Thought Interceptions might look like:
Thought: Grr! I have to drive my son to soccer practice again!
Thought Interception: My son made the team!
Thought: Hmmph! I have to figure out what to make for dinner.
Thought Interception: We have more than enough to eat. Let’s double-batch tonight. Who can we carry a meal to tomorrow?
Thought: Snarg! I am drowning in a vile sea of filthy laundry and, if my kids throw any more clean clothes in the hamper, they can go to school naked.
Thought Interception: My washer and dryer is right here in the house, not a laundromat across town.
Thought: Spit! This bathroom sink is full of toothpaste and cereal slobber.
Thought Interception: My kid brushed his own teeth before school without a reminder.
Thought: Snarl! My kids have too much homework! Don’t those teachers respect our family time?
Thought Interception: My children love their school and want to be successful.
Thought: Huff! All they do is eat! We are out of milk and Cheerios AGAIN!
Thought Interception: My child is home, not in a PICU ward on intravenous fluids.
Thought: Ack! My husband brings his work home! He’s constantly checking his flipping iphone.
Thought Interception: In this economy, where 1 in 10 are out of work, my husband has a job he loves.
Thought: $$$! The family budget kicked us in arrears again.
Thought Interception: The only eternal currency is Relationship.
Thought: Yawn! Not tonight. I’m tired.
Thought Interception: Meow! (Kegel, Kegel, Kegel.) May you never weary of doing good nor want another.
I don’t see a way we can be like Paul and learn how to be content in all situations unless we pray for the Direction, Self-Control and Faith to reset our internal monologues. Paul’s challege to critcally manage and map our cognitive process streams is in it’s own way, like fishing:
Then he said, “Throw out your net on the right-hand side of the boat, and you’ll get some!” So they did, and they couldn’t haul in the net because there were so many fish in it. (John 21:6)
As for me, I’m going to toss back every discontent idea I net.
I’m only gonna fry the fish fit to feast with Thanksgiving.
Grace & Chips.
I’ve told the truth,
I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah!
Noisy Eyebrows
Posted by jael under Parenting, Spiritual Journey
I remember as clearly as I fixated over the color of the skirt I wore my first day teaching how amused I was by the tilda eyebrows of one of my most beloved students of all times.
Her glorious brown brows wagged up and down simultaneously,
a glorious earthworm of indignation,
or perhaps incredulity
at my assignment
and too hasty Nothern vernacular.
I was so delighted by her radiant sincerity that I stopped talking midsentence,
and pointed my finger at her,
horrified,
and noisy eyebrows.
“Tilda!” I exclaimed amazed,
“You’re eyebrows are tildas!
Go write that down!
_one of the advantages of the bastion of my own classroom_
Happy to escape me if only for a moment,
she did and recorded
tilda (eyebrow description)
on the pad I keep by my computer.
When she returned to me more animated than she had left, a praise song of well-groomed, question-mark, eyebrows inquired without words, “Now what?”
I had always thought this student exceptionally beautiful and brilliant, but never loved her more than that day as there is something elastic and time-stamped about a 13 year-old’s ability to express herself exclusively through the subtle, arced mustaches above innocent yet wordly eyeballs.
I knew I wanted to write about the vignette and how it connected me to my own adolescence.
Alas, it was poetry never penned as our lives somersaulted from There to Here. Also at that time, my oldest was 12, not 13, and I ignorantly considered myself immune to the domestic challenges furrowed once noisy eyebrows take root in a peaceful and unsuspecting home.
The Boy can simply look at The Oldest Girl and she’s ready for combat like a grunt on juice.
As for The Mamma?
I might need to be fitted
for a bite plate,
what with all the tooth-grinding
his eyebrows inspire.
Perhaps it was the shock of the move,
or the humidity here,
the hormone poisoning,
or the salt water swims,
but somewhere between the land of There
and our arrival Here,
The Boy got him some noisy eyebrows:
These brows say,
“You did NOT just say that to me;
we are not amused.”
These brows ask,
you’re a waste of good oxygen.”
These brows gasp in social horror,
“You did NOT just say that in front of me (and/or my friends):
You embarrass me and humiliate yourself with that mouth of yours.”
These brows chuckle,
<genuine laugh, giggle, hiccup),
He had these same beloved brows _then blonde_ when he was five.
These brows challenge,
“You did NOT just say that to me,
You want me to do/say/wear what?”
For those of you who enjoy backstory, when I was around his age, I admit that I spent precious time in furious practice to perfect the questioning-one-eye-brow lift.
If you haven’t ever seen me do it, it’s only because The Husband made me give it up cold turkey because it so irritated him. He found the look to be condescending. Given the context of when he saw it on my face, I had to submit and repent. Ironically, it took me longer to extinguish the lift than to perfect it.
As such, it’s not that I don’t respect how much can be conveyed in a good brow lift or its relational implications.
Like when we were kids, my brother could stand across the room and just give me the look and I was furious. Of course, he had practiced and perfected the look that was all eyebrow, by the way, and knew it made my skin crawl.
My reaction was his Payday and better than the candy bar.
Naturally, all my parents observed upon me catapulting myself across the room like a ravenous vampire toward his jugular was him innocently standing there with crossed arms and a perplexed brow.
Let’s just say, the gene did NOT skip a generation.
Now it’s The Boy,
and The Oldest Girl
just might draw first blood.
The Boy versus The Mamma,
The Boy dares a stare down against his old man
(like he could win).
And it’s all so raw,
and real,
and naked,
and intense,
or life experience.
Painful,
and oh,
bittersweet.
May it ever be my boy’s elastic brows express his heart as transparently as the cross pours Grace.
May he ever feel free to test limits and find safe boundaries in our Faith and home.
May he never, ever bait his sister unto the point of death.
And however bushy, may his own tilda brows ever raise Hallelujah to the One who made Him ours.
Wed 10 Aug 2011
Today I Slew
750,362,957 work stops from the children
(I’m suddenly as popular with them as I was when they were two-years old)
7 loads of laundry
5 more damage claims
(including vintage clutch purse my mother carried at her prom)
5 more times to exercise Grace
(less than 7×70…)
4 meal cycles
(another day when it seems all the kids do is eat)
3 crying spells
(Middle Girl, The Baby and The Mamma)
2 family meetings
2 broken outlets
1 sibling mediation
(Don’t even get me started…)
1 broken garage door
1 workout
It’s a challenge not to brew overwhelm like sun tea.
I think the boxes might actually be asexually reproducing.
For all I know sexually reproducing
given the perversity of the prospect.
The discovery of damage continues to rise and each box takes 2-5 times longer than it should to process as most are so poorly packed that it looks like a boxed Goodwill donation bin.
I worked most of the day and did not accomplish half of what I had hoped.
I am seriously contemplating tossing boxes unopened into the pool as a new water sport like polo. We could host a tournament. What a great way to meet the neighbors.
Speaking of the neighbors, we haven’t seen any. We learned yesterday that we arrived not only in the “hottest season,” but also the “like Winter season, this is the time of year that people stay in and don’t come out much because it is too hot.”
This news thrilled the children who are so sick enough of each other as to consider me good entertainment. We spend lots of time together. It’s like the old days and I once again can’t go to the bathroom without interruption. It’s not a good hiding spot; they keep finding me.
A little sore and cranky, I nonetheless look forward to many things:
Like the first day I find a box without something in it broken,
the first morning no one cries,
when obligatory food no longer tastes like sandpaper,
the first room empty of boxes,
art hung on yellow walls,
familiar photos on wiped,
well lit shelves,
empty laundry hampers,
a full larder,
being able to do the splits for the first time in my life,
(I’m getting closer every day)
the first new friend,
the first visit Here from somebody from There,
a church that fits like Dansko clogs
and ready to walk this with us,
the first day of school,
being able to bench 120 pounds,
my first visit There from Here,
the first waffle as it melts pools of
butter puddles
in square pockets of yum,
sleeping through the night,
(even the Mamma regresses behaviorally here…)
and puffs of breath
that polish hope
like silver Hallelujahs.
Hallelujah,
Mon 8 Aug 2011
Pappaw, The Husband’s paternal grandfather, never threw anything away.
As a mechanic and farmer, it was impossible to convince him that what most people would consider to be garbage, let’s say the ancient, dust-covered, treadmill that wore a spider web shall and had a squirrel’s nest under the buckled belt and lived on his crowded porch.
Something of a Hoarder show candidate before that reality ever hit television, he was convinced he could use castoffs for something handy. As he was brilliant with tools and could fix anything with a motor, this was too often true to lend credibility to any foolish soul outlandish enough to suggest he declutter things.
As an in-law and a wiper, I am certain you can appreciate the tension each time I visited the farm. It was a front of Windex that collided with a Force of Smudge, in other words, a complete festival of futility.
Happily, we delighted in each other and it was a constant source of banter between us. He’d complain that I don’t know how to sit still and begged me would I please stop wiping stuff and I’d chide back I’d comply as soon as he’d stop making messes.
Mutually loving and genuinely warm, it was nonetheless a stand-off.
It should have come as no surprise to me then that one of the things that journeyed home with us after his funeral was a barren stump in a dry pot of thirsty dirt.
Auntie J insisted that we take it back with us and that Pappaw would have wanted it in our new home.
A barren stump in a dry pot of thirsty dirt.
I was touched?
The gesture so charged irony with hilarity that I was all in.
So I watered it.
Often.
and faithfully.
And as I’m convinced only Pappaw surly believed that it would,
It grew
and grew,
Just like The Giving Tree.
In the end, that hunk of stump propagated four planters of towering tall, vibrant trees, the same number we bore children.
As some of you know, it is illegal to transport plants into Grapefruit. I was obedient and gifted my most precious plants to dear friends as keepsakes of how our families and homes have forever intersected through living, vital, transplantable relationships of the heart.
98% faithful.
I snuck one planter across the border.
We named him Sprout.
I claim him as fruit.
The fulfillment of a promise
there’s a place here for us.
I look at his tender shoots as fragile as a newborn next to a stump as crooked and stooped over as an centurion’s spine and see bookends.
Sprout’s our sabbatical here all new and floppy. We have to support his little head and touch him like novice parents afraid they’re going to break the baby.
Stump’s a reminder of our community and home there. His roots sink deep. He’s anchored and stable. Nothing can blow him apart or knock him down. He’s strong, established and seasoned.
He’s got a Legacy.
I was a dead bulb when you met me.
You sent me forth more like Stump with roots I can sink deep wherever He is.
You helped me change our family tree.
Well baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
Declaration of Pubertyence
Dearest The Boy,
One score less thirteen years, three months ago, Our Heavenly Father brought forth on this family, a new born son, conceived in Love, and dedicated to the proposition that, “They who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength,” (Isaiah, 40:31).
Now we are engaged in a great hormonal transition as you puberty season rises, testing whether this family, or any family so challenged and similarly tested, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that transition. We have come to dedicate our resources to insure our family creates a balance between your guidance and your correction. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate—those resources alone we seek God to fill our stores. You The Boy, brave boy, who must struggle in the world at school and among your friends to find your space and grow your self, you, The Boy, who must negotiate your own relationships with God, integrity, quality work, your family, alcohol, drugs, sex and the turbulent myriad of feelings and hormones that compete for your attention you, The Boy, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but your parents can never forget your courage to rise. It is for us, your parents, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which your fight has thus so nobly advanced. It is rather for us nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task to remaining before us – to assure you of our abject LOVE, to hold the limits placed before you and to constantly, ardently and unceasingly ENCOURAGE you to wait upon the lord and heed His Call upon your life – that from these honored, adolescent struggles, we take increased devotion to that cause for which He gave the full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that their struggles shall not have been in vain—that this family, under God, shall have a New Birth of Freedom—and that our only son, of our hearts, by his own hand, for his Call shall long bless our family and this earth.
The battle, The Boy, is less important than the cause. You’ve begun to make yourself, as much a Maker as Alvin. The work will challenge you as it excites you to test limit and face logical consequences. We’re not afraid to fight beside you, our boy. We are also ready to fight you, if necessary, to hold the line.
I pray we consistently bring enough balance to our duty that you will NEVER doubt, even for an instant, how much we love you, Son. May you also NEVER even for an instant, doubt how perfectly and gloriously you were made… how fine a heart and brain you have been gifted… how witty and guided you are with words and ideas… how valued you are as a friend… how helpful on a soccer field… I could go on & on & on & on…
Most humbly yours, xo
And even though
It all went wrong
Rummage Station
Posted by jael under Parenting
This week I was transported back in time.
Short of actual time travel, I cannot conceive of a more thorough free fall down memory lane than my preparations for our Moving Sale, Everything Must Go! impulsively blocked with the self-conscious whimsy of the opening night of a new director’s very off Broadway play.
As I tore through dressers, closets, hidden caches, and deep corners, I excavated the landscape of our family history of like an archeologist on a dig.
I found pictures
and artwork,
and lovies,
and stains.
As captains, my closest circle of cherished friends surrounded me with tangible help as well as practical and emotional support.
One dear friend who walked it with me was almost constantly at my side.
she showed up with Starbucks
and proceeded
not just to the day’s chores,
but kicked my ass,
encouraged me,
cried,
laughed,
cajoled,
hugged,
teased,
threatened,
made me eat peanut butter apples,
scolded
and bid me rest
as was needed in turns
like stations.
The entire process underscores a gift of Words given me on wings of the Holy Dove:
The events of our lives are not randomly thrown together coincidences
cooked up by a whimsical universe,
The Stations of our lives are supernaturally architected God-incidents
crafted by a loving Father.
I don’t have a notebook thick enough to catalogue all the God-incidents of this one especially dense week of challenge and discovery.
God-incidents happen 24/7 @1623 and evermore.
Tue 7 Jun 2011
wikiHow Edit for Mammas
Today @ wikiHOW, the how to manual that you can edit you can find a manual about how to respect yourself during a breakup that you can edit.
wikiHow posts clean process pieces that most often employ bullet or numerical points. Additionally, their invite to edit brings out the red pen in all of us.
As I considered the advice offered to safeguard personal integrity during a breakup, I realized that with very little edits, the same bullet points could readily counsel Mammas on how to maintain self respect while rasing a teenager.
By their own invitation I offer my edits to this wikiHow post:
How to Respect Yourself While Raising a Teen
After their childhood ends, how can parents behave in a way that communicates to their teens that they are worthy of their adolescents’ respect? It’s hard because parenting a teenager is like slamming an icepick into your own ear and can make you feel you’ve failed somehow. Still, it’s important that parents respect themselves as a people and maintain their relevance in their childrens’ lives. Let’s assume you are a Mamma whose teenage son has just told you, “You always put words in my mouth. I hate you.”
Don’t beg.
He disrespected you. He’s already made up his mind. No matter how shocked, panicked, and in pain you are, don’t beg him for an apology, or worse yet, assurances. It’s very hard to do, but to let this end leaving you with some shred of dignity try hard not to cry too much – of course, it may be impossible not to cry. But crying a little, then saying, “I’m so sad about this, but if that’s your opinion, I have no choice but to accept it,” is much more dignified than screaming, “I am your MOTHER, you can’t talk to me like that!”
Ground him to his room sans technology and then pitch your hysterical fit.
Gather your supporters.
Now is the time you need your friends and family, more than ever. Call them and tell them that a large, hairy, smelly monster has eaten your precious, baby boy. They will hopefully come flying to your side to comfort and keep you company while you nurse your broken heart back to health. Don’t try to go it alone.
Recognize when it’s no use trying to talk to him any more.
He’s trying to not be seen as a bad guy, but the reality is, he’s betrayed you by growing up and moving on, getting hormones and texting girls who actually look good in bathing suits, and he deserves to be punished.
Don’t let him string you along after the fact.
He’s told you he that he hates you, but he still wants you to stop at Starbucks to buy him an iced mocha. Even though you still love him, this is a losing proposition for you. Your son wants to have his cake and eat it too – he wants to keep you in his pocket as wallet and taxi service. He’s relegated you to the position of a service provider. What an adolescent! No matter how much you love him, tell him this will not work for you, and let him know that he still has to kiss you in public, eat his peas, and say his prayers. Period.
Never let him see you sweat.
Once the big grounding is over with, don’t keep on letting him get to you. Even if you don’t feel like it, go get dressed up and go out with your friends. You don’t have to get drunk, or try to pick anybody up (like your son may be doing), but just to go and hang with pals is a good thing. Try to avoid going to places where you will be likely to run into him. If you do see him while you’re out, just smile and nod. If you feel like you might cry, excuse yourself and walk to the restroom. Do your crying in there, and don’t come out till you look strong again (even if you feel shaky inside, you must try your best to look like you’re okay).
Review the relationship.
There’s a good chance that now that your son is a teenager, you can look back and realize there may have been warning signs. Reviewing the relationship and recognizing that he gave up his sippy-cup and big, yellow Tonka trucks years ago can be valuable in later relationships for example, they can clue you in to dangerous signs of independence in your younger children, or let you have a chance to adjust your own behaviors, if you really believe you had some fault.
Listen to coming of age songs and stories.
It helps fill you with a positive feeling of power to hear songs like “Don’t Ever Grow Up,” and “Her Father’s Eyes.” It can help to hear other moms tell their coming of age stories, too. Just knowing that others Mammas have gone through similar heartaches can help you feel less alone. Crank up your stereo and rock out – it’ll help, too, knowing that someone wrote a song you can relate to now. You go, Mamma!
Let done be done.
A lot of sons grow up and realize their mothers aren’t perfect. Think of all the words that have flown out of your mouth like rabid locust, and forgive him. It will end up costing both of you fewer therapy sessions in the long run if you just accept you still belong to each other; he’s just becoming the man you raised him to become.
Pray unceasingly that he becomes a good one and try to remember this is his season.
Recognize that few people will respect you unless you insist.
If you don’t respect yourself, you’re giving your son the go-ahead to treat you like dirt. Don’t you dare do that to yourself! Stand up and insist that you be treated with dignity, the way all human beings should be treated. Allowing your son to walk all over you is the worst disrespect in the world.
Realize that you have addressed his behavior, not his character.
That puts you one step closer to negotiating how you and son will treat each other. Together you will create a compact about what behaviors are acceptable in your family. And whatever you do, never settle for brokeness.
and even though it all went wrong,
with nothing on my tongue
but Hallelujah!
Mon 6 Jun 2011
to anticipate transitional speed bumps.
My son is a rising 8th grader. If you do the math, this means that we have transitioned from a school schedule to a summer rhythm eight years in a row.
Each year, however, I seem to forget the inevitable transition period as we shift from the full warp of school pace to the impulse speed of summer vacation.
This year our youngest also being in school and two different school calendars augmented our adjustment phase.
We collided like combustible atoms all morning, and by 10:00 a.m. I had lost my zen, my patience, my perspective and I realized that I was more frustrated than I have been in months. I teetered on the edge of spraying anger around the room like rancid silly string. Before too much maternal anghts could ooze from the can like aresol hairspray and rip a crater in the ozone of our summer launch, however, I remembered something I said to a friend on the phone last night.
Last night I was all calm and philosophical like a woman who is not outnumbered by children 8:1. Could it only have been last night, and not three weeks ago, that mediation seemed plausible and thoughts of summer smelled like warm coco butter?
Yes, it was just last night that I had donned my educator’s cap and opined to my friend that if children come to consensus on what their needs are and commit in community to meet each other’s needs, relationships flourish and behaviors shift to support positive group mores.
Last night that didn’t register as more redolent of crap than any diaper I changed today.
I grabbed the fleeing vestiges of calm like a bolemic mines the last traces onion dip out of the bottom of the tub when there are still Ruffles in the bag and shifted gears.
I absolutely admit that the intial phase of our family exercise was a bit tense. Picture children marched to a table as pencils and notebook paper slam into their work space in churlish percussion.
All was still when I told them that we were all going to write down ten things that we needed to feel safe and supported in community.
The Middle Girl asked a question that liberated the exercise from route to heart. She inquired, “Do you mean what do I need to be able to be myself with people? To feel safe.?”
Her question reframed the moment like an engraved invitation assures the reception of the wedding will have white lines, silver flatware and crystal champange flutes instead of a pig roast.
The attention of each person shifted as we discussed her idea. Soon the only noise in the room was the sound of pencils as they fox trotted across the ballroom of each page.
1. to have my voice heard
2. to be able to trust the other person
3. to not be made fun of
4. to share jokes
5. to resolve arguments
6. to love and be love
7. to be respected
8. to know the other person likes me for me
9. to know that they care
10. to have good times
1. people to be honest with me
2. people to not put words in my mouth
3. people to be nice to me
4. them to be a good friend
5. them to understand me
6. them to be listen to me and think about what I said
7. them to be fun be around
8. them to be not mean
9. them to be careful with people
10. them to like me
1. to know that I am can trust them
2. to know that they will treat me with respect
3. to feel safe and safe and happy with the person, them being nice
4. to know that they will always be there for me
5. to feel safe with the person and knowing will always follow through when I ask them so I can count on them
6. to feel free to be myself around them
7. to know they will always be my friend and be loyal
8. people to be kind
9. know they will not tease or be mean to me
10. to trust they will never be mean just because it’s popular
1. to feel included
4. Freedom
8. Justice
9. Kindness
10. People to be careful with me
1. to feel considered, that my feelings are important to others
2. to feel heard, that what I say matters
3. I need to feel appreciated, that I bring value
4. to be able to have fun
5. to be able to contribute
6. to know what to expect
7. to know it’s not all about me
8. to feel loved
9. to laugh
10. to be able to take breaks
The ages of the speakers of these needs range from 5 (The Baby) to 187 (The Mamma, calcuated by the MyTrueAge formula like used on The Biggest Loser.)
Who knew we had so much in common… like we were related even!
There was genuine accord and group consenses that we all operate with the same basic sense of needs. The kids made their own novel and insightful connections that fractured the axiom that the majority of unhappiness in life is relational as a new truth for the next generation.
We committed to respect and meet each other’s needs.
Our communication extended relational hospitality and a vocubulary common to each other’s process.
It was not the beginning I expected for the first day of our summer vacation together, but it was the one we clearly needed.
I know this by its fruit.
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Korean Toothbrush with Propolis
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Longan Honey High in Volatile Organic Compounds
Volatile organic compounds of Thai honeys produced from several floral sources by different honey bee species
PLoS One. 2017 Feb 13;12(2):e0172099
The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of four monofloral and one multifloral of Thai honeys produced by Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis mellifera were analyzed by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The floral sources were longan, sunflower, coffee, wild flowers (wild) and lychee.
Honey originating from longan had more VOCs than all other floral sources. Sunflower honey had the least numbers of VOCs. cis-Linalool oxide, trans-linalool oxide, ho-trienol, and furan-2,5-dicarbaldehyde were present in all the honeys studied, independent of their floral origin. Interestingly, 2-phenylacetaldehyde was detected in all honey sample except longan honey produced by A. cerana. Thirty-two VOCs were identified as possible floral markers. After validating differences in honey volatiles from different floral sources and honeybee species, the results suggest that differences in quality and quantity of honey volatiles are influenced by both floral source and honeybee species. The group of honey volatiles detected from A. cerana was completely different from those of A. mellifera and A. dorsata. VOCs could therefore be applied as chemical markers of honeys and may reflect preferences of shared floral sources amongst different honeybee species.
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Bee Venom May Help Treat Dermatitis
Bee Venom Phospholipase A2 Ameliorates House Dust Mite Extract Induced Atopic Dermatitis Like Skin Lesions in Mice
Toxins (Basel). 2017 Feb 18;9(2)
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a biphasic inflammatory skin disease that is provoked by epidermal barrier defects, immune dysregulation, and increased skin infections. Previously, we have demonstrated that bvPLA2 evoked immune tolerance by inducing regulatory T cells (Treg), and thus alleviated Th2 dominant allergic asthma in mice. Here, we would like to determine whether treatment with bvPLA2 exacerbates the AD-like allergic inflammations induced by house dust mite extract (DFE) in a murine model. Epidermal thickness, immune cell infiltration, serum immunoglobulin, and cytokines were measured. Ear swelling, skin lesions, and the levels of total serum IgE and Th1/Th2 cytokines were elevated in DFE/DNCB-induced AD mice. Topical application of bvPLA2 elicited significant suppression of the increased AD symptoms, including ear thickness, serum IgE concentration, inflammatory cytokines, and histological changes. Furthermore, bvPLA2 treatment inhibited mast cell infiltration into the ear. On the other hand, Treg cell depletion abolished the anti-atopic effects of bvPLA2, suggesting that the effects of bvPLA2 depend on the existence of Tregs. Taken together, the results revealed that topical exposure to bvPLA2 aggravated atopic skin inflammation, suggesting that bvPLA2 might be a candidate for the treatment of AD.
Labels: Bee Venom
Stingless Bee Honey May Help Protect Pancreas
Pancreatoprotective effects of Geniotrigona thoracica stingless bee honey in streptozotocin-nicotinamide-induced male diabetic rats
Biomed Pharmacother. 2017 Feb 17;89:135-145
Stingless bee honey (SLBH) has been claimed to possess multiple health benefits. Its anti-diabetic properties are however unknown. In this study, ability of SLBH from Geniotrigona thoracica stingless bee species in ameliorating pancreatic damage and in maintaining metabolic profiles were investigated in diabetic condition.
SLBH at 1 and 2g/kg/b.w. was given orally to streptozotocin (STZ)-nicotinamide-induced male diabetic rats for 28days. Metabolic parameters (fasting blood glucose-FBG and lipid profiles-LP and serum insulin) were measured by biochemical assays. Distribution and expression level of insulin, oxidative stress marker i.e. catalase, inflammatory markers i.e. IKK-β, TNF-α, IL-1β and apoptosis marker i.e. caspase-9 in the pancreatic islets were identified and quantified respectively by immunohistochemistry. Levels of NF-κβ in pancreas were determined by enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA).
SLBH administration to diabetic male rats prevented increase in FBG, total cholesterols (TC), triglyceride (TG) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) levels. However, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and serum insulin levels in diabetic rats receiving SLBH increased. Additionally, histopathological changes and expression level of oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis markers in pancreatic islets of diabetic rats decreased with increased expression level of insulin in the islets. LC-MS analysis revealed the presence of several compounds in SLBH that might be responsible for these effects.
SLBH has great potential to be used as agent to protect the pancreas against damage and dysfunction where these could account for its anti-diabetic properties.
Health Benefits of Manuka Honey
Manuka honey: What is it, what are the health benefits and how do I tell if it’s the real deal?
BT, 2/18/2017
Used as a sweetener, made into supplements, sore throat lozenges and beauty products, find out why, when it comes to superfoods, manuka honey is the Queen Bee.
One of nature’s most versatile ingredients, manuka honey is just as useful as a sweetener in a hot drink or smoothie as it is in a supplement or the latest must-have beauty product.
Opera singer Katherine Jenkins has said that she adds the ancient ingredient to a homemade drink to relieve a sore throat and help her voice recover after a performance, while Scarlett Johansson uses it as a makeup base.
With so many varied uses, it’s easy to think it sounds too good to be true. Alexander Thompson, nutritionist at Holland and Barrett, told us exactly what it is and what the health benefits are...
Honey, Propolis Component May Help Treat Prostate Cancer
Chrysin Induces Death of Prostate Cancer Cells by Inducing ROS and ER Stress
J Cell Physiol. 2017 Feb 18
Chrysin is a natural flavone found in numerous plant extracts, honey and propolis that has multiple biological activities including anti-cancer effects. Understanding of biological mechanisms mediated in response to chrysin in cancerous cells may provide novel insight into chemotherapeutic approaches with reduced side effects in cancers. In the present study, we investigated functional roles of chrysin in progression of prostate cancer cells using DU145 and PC-3 cell lines.
The results showed that chrysin induced apoptosis of cells evidenced by DNA fragmentation and increasing the population of both DU145 and PC-3 cells in the sub-G1 phase of the cell cycle. In addition, chrysin reduced expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen in the prostate cancer cell lines compared to untreated prostate cancer cells. Moreover, chrysin induced loss of mitochondria membrane potential (MMP), while increasing production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lipid peroxidation in a dose-dependent manner. Also, it induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress through activation of unfolded protein response (UPR) proteins including PRKR-like ER kinase (PERK), eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α), and 78 kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78) in DU145 and PC-3 cells. The chrysin-mediated intracellular signaling pathways suppressed phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and the abundance of AKT, P70S6K, S6 and P90RSK proteins, but stimulated mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and activation of ERK1/2 and P38 proteins in the prostate cancer cells.
Collectively, these results indicate that chrysin initiates cell death through induction of mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis and ER stress, and regulation of signaling pathways responsible for proliferation of prostate cancer cells.
Labels: Honey, Propolis
Pectin-Honey Hydrogel Prevents Postoperative Complication
A pectin-honey hydrogel prevents postoperative intraperitoneal adhesions in a rat model
BMC Vet Res. 2017 Feb 17;13(1):55
Adhesions are a common postoperative surgical complication. Liquid honey has been used intraperitoneally to reduce the incidence of these adhesions. However, solid barriers are considered more effective than liquids in decreasing postoperative intra-abdominal adhesion formation; therefore, a new pectin-honey hydrogel (PHH) was produced and its effectiveness was evaluated in a rat cecal abrasion model. Standardized cecal/peritoneal abrasion was performed through laparotomy in 48 adult Sprague-Dawley rats to induce peritoneal adhesion formation. Rats were randomly assigned to a control (C) and treatment (T) group. In group T, PHHs were placed between the injured peritoneum and cecum. Animals were euthanized on day 15 after surgery. Adhesions were evaluated macroscopically and adhesion scores were recorded and compared between the two groups. Inflammation, fibrosis, and neovascularization were histologically graded and compared between the groups.
In group C, 17 of 24 (70.8%) animals developed adhesions between the cecum and peritoneum, while in group T only 5 of 24 (20.8%) did (p = 0.0012). In group C, one rat had an adhesion score of 3, sixteen had scores of 2, and seven rats had scores of 0. In group T, four rats had adhesion scores of 2, one rat had an adhesion score of 1 and nineteen have score 0 (p = 0.0003). Significantly lower grades of inflammation, fibrosis, and neovascularization were seen in group T (p = 0.006, p = 0.001, p = 0.002, respectively).
PHH is a novel absorbable barrier that is effective in preventing intra-abdominal adhesions in a cecal abrasion model in rats.
Patch Test Recommended Before Using Product Containing Bee Venom
Bee venom in some wrinkle creams may be dangerous
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Most people do what they can to not be stung by bees. But a beauty trend has some people using that venom in creams and cleansers to help stop wrinkles.
Doctor Elizabeth Geddes-Bruce from Westlake Dermatology thinks some patients may be using products containing bee venom, but not reading the warnings or realizing the potential dangers.
The creams will list bee venom as an ingredient and experts say higher concentrations could cause stronger reactions, especially if your skin isn't perfectly smooth.
"If you have a serious reaction, it can be the kind where your throat closes and you have trouble breathing. It can be life threatening," explained Dr. Geddes-Bruce. "You might have little micro-breaks or tears or an acne bump that causes a break in the skin and then you are potentially getting exposed to it and it getting into the bloodstream."
Dermatologists recommend doing a patch test before you slather a product containing bee venom all over your face.
Toxins 2017, 9(2), 68
VIDEO: Is bee venom the secret ingredient to fighting wrinkles?
CBS, 2/15/2017
Bees are becoming buzz-worthy when it comes to smoothing out wrinkles. Bee venom in creams and lotions promises to fool the skin into thinking it’s been stung. The jury is still out on whether bee venom works, but using it could be dangerous for the two million Americans allergic to insect stings.
Tanya Phillips takes great pains not to feel the pain of getting stung by her honey bees.
"Bees don't like smoke, so this keeps them away from us," said Phillips as she squeezed a handheld smoker.
Deep in southern Travis County the master beekeeper knows if she stays calm the bees might too.
"I haven't done any quick fast movements that make them feel like they're under attack," said Phillips, the owner of Bee Friendly Austin.
Phillips works so hard to avoid bee venom she doesn't understand why the toxin is creating so much buzz.
"When it's injected into the skin there's a definite plumping that occurs, but it's not something that looks good," said Phillips.
She isn't sold on using bee venom, but it's becoming a trendy new ingredient for creams and cleansers. In a small study in South Korea 22 women applied bee venom twice a day for 12 weeks...
Propolis is Nature's First Aid
Nature’s First Aid From Comvita
Comvita, 2/15/2017
Now that summer is truly here, we are all spending more time outside, and children in particular love to be outside during the warmer weather, playing, exercising and enjoying New Zealand’s outdoor activities. Comvita has some great ways to assist with those cuts, burns and grazes which are bound to occur during this time and they have some great tips for ‘nature’s first aid’.
Propolis is known as ‘nature’s best defence’ as it is a substance made from plant resin and collected by bees to prevent the hive from infection – using it to fill breaches in the hive wall and on foreign invaders in the hive itself. Propolis has been used for health and healing purposes since the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Today it is available in capsule, tablet, spray form and many more from Comvita. In tincture form, Propolis can be applied directly to the skin to cleanse small open wounds when kids get into scrapes...
Antibacterial Activity Of Several Western Australian Honeys
Antibacterial activity and chemical characteristics of several Western Australian honeys compared to manuka honey and pasture honey
Archives of Microbiology
March 2017, Volume 199, Issue 2, pp 347–355
The physicochemical parameters and antibacterial activity of 10 Western Australian (WA) and two comparator honeys were determined. Honeys showed a pH range of 4.0–4.7, colour range of 41.3–470.7 mAU, methylglyoxal levels ranging from 82.2 to 325.9 mg kg−1 and hydrogen peroxide levels after 2 h of 22.7–295.5 µM.
Antibacterial activity was assessed by the disc diffusion assay, phenol equivalence assay, determination of minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations and a time-kill assay. Activity was shown for all honeys by one or more method, however, activity varied according to which assay was used. Minimum inhibitory concentrations for WA honeys against 10 organisms ranged from 4.0 to > 32.0% (w/v). Removal of hydrogen peroxide activity by catalase resulted in decreased activity for several honeys.
Overall, the data showed that honeys in addition to those derived from Leptospermum spp. have antimicrobial activity and should not be overlooked as potential sources of clinically useful honey.
Labels: Apitherapy and Beekeeping, Honey
Thai Longan Honey Has More Volatile Organic Compounds
The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of four monofloral and one multifloral of Thai honeys produced by Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis mellifera were analyzed by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) followed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
The floral sources were longan, sunflower, coffee, wild flowers (wild) and lychee. Honey originating from longan had more VOCs than all other floral sources. Sunflower honey had the least numbers of VOCs. cis-Linalool oxide, trans-linalool oxide, ho-trienol, and furan-2,5-dicarbaldehyde were present in all the honeys studied, independent of their floral origin. Interestingly, 2-phenylacetaldehyde was detected in all honey sample except longan honey produced by A. cerana.
Thirty-two VOCs were identified as possible floral markers. After validating differences in honey volatiles from different floral sources and honeybee species, the results suggest that differences in quality and quantity of honey volatiles are influenced by both floral source and honeybee species. The group of honey volatiles detected from A. cerana was completely different from those of A. mellifera and A. dorsata.
VOCs could therefore be applied as chemical markers of honeys and may reflect preferences of shared floral sources amongst different honeybee species.
Analyzing Nitrofuran in Bee Pollen
Development of an analytical method for detecting nitrofurans in bee pollen by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2017 Jan 9;1046:172-176
Bee pollen collected by honeybees, which is in powdered form, is a good nutritional supplement. Nitrofuran antibiotics are assumed not to be present in bee pollen, which is important as the level of antibiotics in bee pollen is strongly regulated in many countries.
A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method to detect nitrofurans in honey has been developed, but this method is not suitable for bee pollen because of it being in powdered form.
During preparation of bee pollen samples, the dispersal of powder particles in an aqueous solution often makes them susceptible to forming an emulsion with solvent components such as hexane and ethyl acetate. This may reduce the reproducibility and sensitivity of analyses of nitrofuran levels in bee pollen. Therefore, we attempted to optimize the sample preparation conditions to detect nitrofurans in bee pollen by determining three nitrofuran residues, namely, 3-amino-2-oxazolidinone (AOZ), 3-amino-5-methyl-morpholino-2-oxazolidinone (AMOZ), and 1-aminohydantoin (AHD), using LC-MS/MS.
The optimized method prevented the formation of powder-induced emulsion. To verify the reproducibility and sensitivity of this method, it was validated using nitrofuran-free bee pollen spiked with analytes with different side chains at 1.0, 2.0, and 5.0μgkg-1. The accuracy levels were 94.1%-104.0% and the coefficients of variation were less than 12%. The limits of detection for AOZ, AMOZ, and AHD were 0.18, 0.25, and 0.30μgkg-1, respectively, while their limits of quantitation were 0.59, 0.83, and 1.00μgkg-1.
The LC-MS/MS method developed to analyze nitrofuran in bee pollen should contribute to the quality control of bee pollen and food safety.
Labels: Bee-Collected Pollen
Propolis Gel May Help Treat Gum Disease
Design, formulation, and physicochemical evaluation of periodontal propolis mucoadhesive gel
Dent Res J (Isfahan). 2016 Nov-Dec;13(6):484-493
Periodontitis is a disease of tooth supporting tissues, and Gram-negative Bacteria are the main cause of this. Propolis has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects due to its high polyphenol and flavonoids content. The aim of this study is the formulation of a mucoadhesive gel containing concentrated extract of propolis for treatment of periodontitis.
Formulations containing carbopol 940, sodium carboxymethylcellulose (NaCMC), hydroxypropyl methylcellulose K4M, and propolis extract were prepared. Among ten prepared formulations, five formulations had acceptable and proper physical appearance and uniformity; thus, they were selected for physicochemical tests (centrifugal, thermal change, cooling and heating, freeze and thaw, thermal stress, and pH evaluation), quantification of flavonoids, viscosity, mucoadhesion, drug release, and syringeability tests. We investigated the antibacterial activity of F10 (carbopol 940 1%, NaCMC 3%) against Porphyromonas gingivalis using the disk diffusion method.
Phenolic content was measured 39.02 ± 3.24 mg/g of concentrated extract as gallic acid and flavonoid content was determined 743.28 ± 12.1 mg/g of concentrated extract as quercetin. Highest viscosity (3700 cps) and mucoadhesion (21 MPa) were seen in F10. Study of release profile in F10 also revealed that propolis could release from this system in more than 7 days. All of the five selected formulations had ease of syringeability in 21-gauge needle for drug delivery into periodontal pocket. In the disk diffusion method, F10 produced significant growth inhibition zones against P. gingivalis.
Controlled release of drug into periodontal pocket helps effective treatment and recovery, higher persistence and reduces drug use frequency. Increase of carbopol 940 leads to viscosity and mucoadhesion elevation and accordingly decreases of release rate. F10 was the best formulation because of highest viscosity and mucoadhesion and lowest release rate. It had efficient function in treatment of periodontitis, so we recommend it for clinical evaluation.
Manuka and Honeydew Honey Membranes Show Activity Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Antibacterial activities of Manuka and Honeydew honey-based membranes against bacteria that cause wound infections in animals
Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd. 2017 Feb;159(2):117-121
In this study, membranes composed of honey (Manuka or Honeydew) and pectin were developed, and the ISO 22196 method was used to evaluate their antibacterial activities against (i.e., Staphylococcus pseudointermedius, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) that cause wound infection in animals.
The results demonstrated that both Manuka and Honeydew honey-based membranes had strong antibacterial activities against the strain of methicillin-resistant S. pseudointermedius tested. Specifically, membranes composed of Manuka honey were effective in inhibiting the growth of Gram-negative bacteria within 3 h, whereas those composed of Honeydew honey needed 24 h to neutralise bacterial growth.
The antimicrobial activities of both membranes developed in this study suggest that they can be effectively used as wound dressing in veterinary clinical medicine.
Anti-Cancer Activity of Portuguese Propolis
Flavonoid Composition and Antitumor Activity of Bee Bread Collected in Northeast Portugal
Molecules. 2017 Feb 7;22(2). pii: E248
Bee bread (BB) is a fermented mixture of plant pollen, honey, and bee saliva that worker bees use as food for larvae, and for young bees to produce royal jelly. In the present study, five BB samples, collected from Apis mellifera iberiensis hives located in different apiaries near Bragança, in the northeast region of Portugal, and one BB commercial sample were characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to a diode array detector and electrospray mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-ESI/MS) in terms of phenolic compounds, such as flavonoid glycoside derivatives. Furthermore, the samples were screened, using in vitro assays, against different human tumor cell lines, MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma), NCI-H460 (non-small cell lung cancer), HeLa (cervical carcinoma) and HepG2 (hepatocellular carcinoma), and also against non-tumor liver cells (porcine liver cells, PLP2).
The main phenolic compounds found were flavonol derivatives, mainly quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin, isorhamnetin and herbacetrin glycoside derivatives. Thirty-two compounds were identified in the six BB samples, presenting BB1 and BB3 with the highest contents (6802 and 6480 µg/g extract, respectively) and the highest number of identified compounds. Two isorhamnetin glycoside derivatives, isrohamnetin-O-hexosyl-O-rutinoside and isorhamnetin-O-pentosyl-hexoside, were the most abundant compounds present in BB1; on the other hand, quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside was the most abundant flavonol in BB3. However, it was not possible to establish a correlation between the flavonoids and the observed low to moderate cytotoxicity (ranging from >400 to 68 µg/mL), in which HeLa and NCI-H460 cell lines were the most susceptible to the inhibition.
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report characterizing glycosidic flavonoids in BB samples, contributing to the chemical knowledge of this less explored bee product.
Labels: Propolis
Honey Allergy is Rare, But Serious
Anaphylaxis caused by honey: a case report
Asia Pac Allergy. 2017 Jan;7(1):48-50
Honey allergy is a very rare, but serious health condition. In this study, we presented 1 patient who had anaphylaxis after the honey allergological investigation with skin prick-prick test with honey. Honey as a food has been associated to allergic reactions and as the increased consumption of honey in health food may increase the incidence of honey-related allergic reactions.
Anti-Cancer Properties of Saudi Arabian Propolis
Characteristics, chemical compositions and biological activities of propolis from Al-Bahah, Saudi Arabia
Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 6;7:41453
Propolis has been used to treat several diseases since ancient times, and is an important source of bioactive natural compounds and drug derivatives. These properties have kept the interest of investigators around the world, leading to the investigation of the chemical and biological properties and application of propolis.
In this report, the chemical constituents that are responsible for the anticancer activities of propolis were analyzed. The propolis was sourced from Al-Baha in the southern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Standard protocols for chemical fractionation and bioactivity-guided chemical analysis were used to identify the bio-active ethyl acetate fraction. The extraction was performed in methanol and then analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The major compounds are triterpenoids, with a relative concentration of 74.0%; steroids, with a relative concentration of 9.8%; and diterpenoids, with a relative concentration of 7.9%. The biological activity was characterized using different approaches and cell-based assays.
Propolis was found to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells in a concentration-dependent manner through apoptosis. Immunofluorescence staining with anti-α-tubulin antibodies and cell cycle analysis indicated that tubulin and/or microtubules are the cellular targets of the L-acetate fraction. This study demonstrates the importance of Saudi propolis as anti-cancer drug candidates.
Be Careful of Fake Manuka Honey
Bee careful: that manuka honey may be fake
The Sunday Times, February 6, 2017
Kourtney Kardashian swears by it, Scarlett Johansson loves its “amazing glow” and Gwyneth Paltrow used to pour it in her smoothies. There is only one snag with New Zealand-made manuka honey, the high-priced, high-profile superfood much loved by celebrities and their fans: a lot of it is as fake as spray-on tan.
Research commissioned by The Sunday Times has found that honey sold under the New Zealand manuka label at up to £45 ($73) a pot may not be manuka.
Results of the research last week persuaded Fortnum & Mason, the upmarket London grocer, to clear its shelves of its own-brand manuka honey after tests showed that it might not be genuine. Honey sold by Holland & Barrett and Amazon also failed the tests.
Commonly sold in health shops and believed by some to have a wide range of healing properties, the thick, dark-brown honey is supposed to be made from the nectar of bees that forage in manuka bushes found mainly in New Zealand.
However, any claims to being a health food are not accepted by New Zealand and British officials, and there has long been suspicion that cheaper honeys have been mislabelled as manuka to fetch higher prices, not least because an estimated 10,000 tons of supposed manuka honey is sold around the world each year...
Royal Jelly as a Superfood
Two superfoods you have never heard of!
Hindustan Times, 2/5/2017
In the cornucopia of ancient remedies culled from the plant and animal world, two superfoods stood out among others for their special properties. These two were expensive and not easily available, so they were classified as treasures. They are a little easier to get now, and perhaps not as expensive. So here’s a look at them.
1. Royal jelly
This special compound is a unique health food that has been in use since ancient times across China and South East Asia due to its many health and youth bestowing properties.
What is royal jelly?
A product of honey, royal jelly is the food that worker bees feed their queen bee. The queen bee is the most fertile bee in the hive and her only job is to rest and eat this magical food. With this as her sole diet, the queen bee grows to a very large size and eventually is so fertile that she gives birth to many, many bees.
Today, royal jelly is used to treat menopausal symptoms, it helps manage infertility and is added in skin creams for its anti-ageing effects. It is also used to improve brain and neuronal functions that are linked with ageing...
Beeswax Ointment in Traditional Iranian Pharmacy
Qairooti (Cerate or Cera Beeswax Salve) in Traditional Iranian Pharmacy
Iran J Med Sci. 2016 May;41(3 Suppl):S8
Qairooti (Cerate), a medicinal salve or ointment, compounded of wax and oil, is a formulation used alone or as a basis for medicinal dosage forms. It is widely used from the ancient times to the present. Based on its structure, beeswax has unique characteristics. It builds stable emulsions and increases water absorbance of creams and ointments. The aim of this study was to gather all pharmaceutical information about preparing Qairooti products from traditional pharmacopoeaes, such as the various types of Qairooti and their preparation methods.
In this article, various types of Qairooti, their producing method and related indications have been discussed based on the main medical Persian manuscripts including Al-Canon fil tibb (Canon of Avicenna), Gharabadin-e-Kabir, Gharabadin-e-Salehi, Exir-e-Azam, Alhavi, Kamel-al-sanaat, Zakhireh-ye Khwarazm shahi, al-Shamel-fi-sanawat-al-tebie, Ekhtiarate badiee, Kholasat-al-tajarob, Tib-e-Akbari, Mofareh al-gholoob, Makhzan-ul-Adwiah, Hedayat-al-motealemin-fi-al-tibb, Altasrif-le-man-ajeza-an-talif, etc.
About 500 different formulations from the above-mentioned manuscripts were found and their preparation method and other required information were collected. The amounts of oil and wax in Qairooti are not fixed and depend on different factors; providing the best consistency and appearance of the formulation, such as seasonal temperature. In order to prepare cerate, wax has to be melted by indirect heat and then mixed with the isothermal oil. Mixing process should be performed precisely to provide a homogenized product. If the multi-ingredient cerate is needed, other constituents have to be added to the warm mixture of oil and wax.
There are many kinds of Qairooti in traditional Iranian pharmacopoeias recommended for different indications. Cerate was a common medication for injuries and wounds. Although it is still used in conventional medicine, some clinical applications in traditional Iranian medicine have been forgotten nowadays. It is recommended that we have a smarter approach to the traditional pharmacopoeias in order to use past experience and transcend existing knowledge of modern pharmacy.
Honey Inhibits Candida Growth
Fungicidal efficacy of various honeys against fluconazole-resistant Candida species isolated from HIV+ patients with candidiasis
Effet fongicide de miels différents contre les espèces de Candida fluconazole-résistants isolées de patients VIH+ avec une candidose
Journal de Mycologie Médicale / Journal of Medical Mycology
Available online 31 January 2017
Honey is well known to possess a broad spectrum of activity against medically important organisms. The purpose of this study was to assess the antifungal activity of different honeys against 40 fluconazole (FLU) resistant Candida species, including Candida albicans (C. albicans), Candida glabrata, Candida krusei and Candida tropicalis.
Three honey samples were collected from northern (Mazandaran, A), southern (Hormozgan, B) and central (Lorestan, C) regions of Iran. A microdilution technique based on the CLSI, M27-A2 protocol was employed to compare the susceptibility of honeys “A”, “B” and “C” against different pathogenic Candida isolates.
The results showed that different Candida isolates were resistant to FLU, ranging from 64 μg/mL to 512 μg/mL. All of the honeys tested had antifungal activities against FLU-resistant Candida species, ranging from 20% to 56.25% (v/v) and 25% to 56.25% (v/v) for minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and minimum fungicidal concentrations (MFCs), respectively. Honey “A” (MIC: 31.59%, v/v) showed higher anti-Candida activity than honey “B” (MIC: 35.99%, v/v) and honey “C” (MIC: 39.2%, v/v). No statistically significant differences were observed among the mean MIC values of the honey samples (P > 0.05). The order of overall susceptibility of Candida species to honey samples were; C. krusei > C. glabrata > C. tropicalis > C. albicans (P > 0.05). In addition, the mean MICs of Candida strains isolated from the nail, vagina and oral cavity were 33.68%, 36.44% and 39.89%, respectively, and were not significantly different (P > 0.05).
Overall, varying susceptibilities to the anti-Candida properties of different honeys were observed with four FLU-resistant species of Candida. Further research is needed to assess the efficacy of honey as an inhibitor of candidal growth in clinical trials.
Saudi Propolis Used in 'Baby Root Canal'
Formulation of Saudi propolis into biodegradable chitosan chips for vital pulpotomy
Curr Drug Deliv. 2017 Jan 25
Propolis has been widely used to treat oral cavity disorders, such as endodontal and periodontal diseases and microbial infections.
The study aimed at formulation of commercial Saudi propolis into biodegradable chitosan chips and evaluation of its effectiveness as a pulpotomy agent.
The composition of 80% ethanolic propolis extract was evaluated regarding its total phenolic content, total flavonoid content and antioxidant activity. Chitosan chips containing propolis extract were prepared by the solvent / casting method. The investigated variables were % of chitosan polymer (2, 2.5 and 3%), % of plasticizer (1, 5 and 10%) and incorporation of different concentrations of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (5, 10 and 20% of polymer weight). The chips were characterized for weight and thickness uniformity, content uniformity, pH, percentage moisture loss, swelling index, tensile strength and in vitro propolis release. The optimal propolis chip formulation was further investigated in dogs regarding the short term response of primary dental pulp to propolis chips compared with the most commonly used formocresol preparation.
The prepared films were flexible and demonstrated satisfactory physicochemical characteristics. The optimal formulation showed an initial release of about 41.7% of the loaded propolis followed by a sustained release extended up to 7 days. The kinetics study demonstrated that propolis release was controlled by Fick´s diffusion. The optimal propolis chip formulation resulted in less pulpal inflammation compared to formocresol, and produced hard tissue formation in all specimens.
Formulation of commercial Saudi propolis as a biodegradable chitosan chip is an effective alternative to the commercially available chemical agents for treatment of vital pulpotomy.
Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Annu Rev Entomol. 2017 Jan 31;62:249-264
Beekeeping had its origins in honey hunting-the opportunistic stealing of honey from wild honey bee nests. True beekeeping began when humans started providing artificial cavities within which the bees could build comb for the queen to lay her eggs and the workers could process honey. By 2450 BCE, the Egyptians had developed sophisticated apiculture, and, within two millennia, beekeeping with horizontal hives had spread throughout the Mediterranean. During Europe's Middle Ages, honey and wax became important commodities for trade, and beekeeping in skep, log, box, and tree hives flourished to meet the demand. Other species of honey bees contributed to the development and spread of beekeeping in Asia beginning around 300 BCE. Meanwhile, beekeeping evolved independently in Mesoamerica with the stingless bee Melipona beecheii, as documented by archaeological finds and written accounts that survived Spanish conquest.
Labels: Apitherapy and Beekeeping, Bee-Collected Pollen, Beeswax, Honey, Propolis, Royal Jelly
Propolis Has Anti-Pseudomonas Properties
Antibiofilm and Antioxidant Activity of Propolis and Bud Poplar Resins versus Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2017;2017:5163575
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common biofilm-forming bacterial pathogen implicated in lung, skin, and systemic infections. Biofilms are majorly associated with chronic lung infection, which is the most severe complication in cystic fibrosis patients characterized by drug-resistant biofilms in the bronchial mucus with zones, where reactive oxygen species concentration is increased mainly due to neutrophil activity.
Aim of this work is to verify the anti-Pseudomonas property of propolis or bud poplar resins extracts. The antimicrobial activity of propolis and bud poplar resins extracts was determined by MIC and biofilm quantification. Moreover, we tested the antioxidant activity by DPPH and neutrophil oxidative burst assays. In the end, both propolis and bud poplar resins extracts were able to inhibit P. aeruginosa biofilm formation and to influence both swimming and swarming motility. Moreover, the extracts could inhibit proinflammatory cytokine production by human PBMC and showed both direct and indirect antioxidant activity.
This work is the first to demonstrate that propolis and bud poplar resins extracts can influence biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa contrasting the inflammation and the oxidation state typical of chronic infection suggesting that propolis or bud poplar resins can be used along with antibiotic as adjuvant in the therapy against P. aeruginosa infections related to biofilm.
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Last year Lorne Michaels was all that stood between NBC and disaster— but what has he done for them lately? By Ron Base15 min
From November, 1971 to January, 1973, C. Jackson Grayson Jr. was chairman of the Price Commission under the U.S. wage and price controls program. In 1972, the only full year during which mandatory controls were in effect, the consumer price index rose by only 3.2%—the rise has been double and sometimes triple that rate since—but Grayson believes, nevertheless, that the controls were a mistake, and his experience in Washington sent him back to his home in Dallas to write a book, Confessions Of A Price Controller, and to found the American Productivity Centre. By C. Jackson Grayson15 min
Your Preview item concerning the government’s failure to introduce reforms to the Narcotic Control Act in the House of Commons (September 20), while of great interest, misses the point. The continuing reluctance of the government to have this very important legislation passed is a matter of great regret, but the real victims are those who are charged with importation of cannabis, trafficking in cannabis, or having possession of cannabis for the purposes of trafficking, and not those who are charged with the simple possession of the stuff.
A terminal failure to communicate?
On a cool, overcast October day, Pierre Trudeau was unveiling a statue of Louis St. Laurent. In a short speech, the PM remarked of the man who was the last French Canadian to lead the country before Trudeau himself: “The unpredictability, the impassioned debate, and the frustrations that mark political life could not have been attractive to this man of order and reason, and of measured, regular habits.
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The Foreign Investment Review Agency was supposed to call a halt to the selling of the country. Instead it has become one of the better salesmen By Ian Urquhart10 min
Is Bourassa really campaigning to keep the French language in, or get English people out?
During the Canada Cup hockey series, the same edition of the Montreal Gazette that reported that French had been booed in Maple Leaf Gardens carried another banner headline: NOT TWO SOLITUDES, TWO HOSTILITIES—René Lévesque. I have never met Lévesque outside a television screen but I’m sure I’d like him. By Hugh MacLennan5 min
Après Tito, le déluge?
In the sultry heat of a late summer night, the sounds of a violent struggle erupted from a room in Bucharest’s Hotel Dorobanti, located near the bustling centre of the Romanian capital. A Yugoslav guest appeared soon after in the lobby, paid his bill and disappeared into the Balkan darkness. By HELLA PICK, TAD SZULC7 min
The Word in Ottawa is'Turner’ and The Word could soon be made flesh
The story is vintage Stanfield. The up elevator on Parliament Hill is crowded when it stops by automatic command on one floor. The doors silently open to reveal no one, then silently close and the elevator continues its journey. From the back of the car comes the sepulchral voice of Robert Stanfield: “Hello, Mackenzie. By Allan Fotheringham5 min
He may be just a voice in the wilderness, but his message-‘Deflation!'-still disconcerts
“Let a hundred flowers bloom.” Although Mao-Tse-tung was far from thinking about the financial markets when he uttered this noble sentiment, it fits them fine. Without differences of opinion, there would be no sellers to feed hungry buyers, as they do even in the most dramatic bull market, and no gamblers willing to bet against professional opinion, thus enabling industrial users of commodities to hedge their positions and ensure price stability for their supplies. By Peter Brimelow5 min
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Edric Sylvaticus - Wild Shropshire Thane & Rose
Rosa 'Wild Edric' - May 30 2012
One of the reasons why I so love my roses, is their names. They evoke history, composers, actors and often forgotten moments in history. Such is the case of my English Rose Rosa ‘Wild Edric’. I know that David Austin who breeds English Roses from his home base in Shropshire likes to name his roses after poets, writers, saints (one at least, St. Swithun), luminaries of his area or family friends and heroes (but no villains) of Shakespeare plays. When I purchased Rosa “Wild Edric” three years ago I bought it knowing that its rugosa rose heritage meant it would be a good grower with no affinity to bugs and diseases. It has taken three years to finally burst into voluminous flower. The flowers are as wide as my hand and the fragrance is strong. But I was stumped by the name. Who was Wild Edric? What I found is charming. Within the essay is the statement that Wild Edric was a thorn in the side of William the Conqueror. I now see that Austin has named his rose well. Austin lists this vigorous rose as a hedge rose that will soon grow and be impenetrable. I can see that! The thorns are plentiful, thick and thin. The thin ones fester in my fingers and I must deal with this plant with gloves in the future. I have spent a few nights with a small needle trying to pry out the almost invisible thorns.
In a few days the bush (which is already about 7 ft tall) will be in bloom. Wild Edric is a rose to fear but also a rose to love.
I found this fine account of Edric Sylvaticus in the interesting and nicely laid out web page of Shropshire Tourism
Rosa 'Wild Edric' - July 23 2009
Edric The Wild - Another Wild Shropshire Man
Does Shropshire breed ‘wild’ men? Perhaps, and certainly history tells of another wild Salopian, this time way back in the days of William the Conqueror.
Edric the Wild was a Saxon thane who held huge tracts of land in Shropshire. Places like Lydham, Clun, Hodnet, and Dorrington were in his domain along with some forty others, including some in neighbouring Staffordshire. No doubt in those days he would have thought of these holdings as being in the kingdom of Mercia.
Now Edric liked nothing better than to hunt, indeed, another name by which he was known was Edric Sylvaticus, or Edric the Forester, and doubtless the income from all his manors afforded him ample time and opportunity to indulge in his passion for the chase.
All went well then until the year 1066 when, on October 14th William the Conqueror defeated King Harold’s Saxon Army at Senlac Hill near Hastings and ushered in the era of the Norman invaders.
Edric the Wild did not swear fealty to William the Conqueror, the proud Saxon found the idea of the Norman yoke too hard to bear. In 1067 he began to harry the invaders as they tried to impose their harsh will on the western borderlands. We have few details of his actions but it is clear that Edric became such a thorn in the side of the Normans that Richard FitzScrob and the garrison of the newly built castle at Hereford were ordered to invade his lands and wreak vengeance for the havoc he was causing.
Sadly for Richard and his Normans they proved no match for Edric, and each time they went into the western borderlands of Shropshire to apprehend their wily opponent the raiding parties suffered heavy losses including those of mailed knights and their squires.
Realizing he had the upper hand Edric deepened his revolt. Allying with Blethyn ap Cynyon and Rhywallon, the Princes of North Wales and Powys, the three marched together into Herefordshire where their armies devastated the city with its castle, and continued as far as the bridge over the River Lugg at Leominster. Triumphant they returned home richly laden with the spoils of war.
In 1069 revolt flared again and the rebels made for Shrewsbury and laid siege to the castle there. This time they were not so successful but, having failed to take the castle, they burnt the town as they withdrew.
Incensed by this refusal of his authority William now felt it necessary to give up personal command of the brutal campaign he was leading in the north of England and come south to finally settle the uprisings in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire, including those of Edric and Bleddyn. At Chester the rebels submitted and it was here Edric finally swore fealty to King William.
Two years later Edric was accompanying the King into Scotland on the occasion when King Malcolm was forced to pay homage to Norman rule.
There is some dispute as to whether Edric rebelled yet again. One tradition maintains that he did and was finally captured, some say at Wigmore, by Ralph de Mortimer who certainly came into possession of many of the Saxon rebel’s estates.
According to this version of the story Edric was thrown into prison where, presumably, he died. Another account hints that he escaped and lived out his days in Wales. Anyway, whichever version of the story we may choose, Wild Edric now passes from the pages of history
From the pages of history maybe, but long before he submitted, or was captured, or escaped into Wales if that is your choice, Edric Sylvaticus had already assumed another, altogether stranger, history. You see, for a long time weird and other-worldly tales had been told about him and, believe it or not, some of these stories echo and reverberate to this very day in those areas where Wild Edric once hunted.
Link to: Edric Sylvaticus - Wild Shropshire Thane & Rose
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Robyn Gray: biker and friend
June 3, 2018 Willy Williamson 3 Comments
On Thursday, May 24, at approximately 11:00 pm, officers from the Oakbank and Beausejour RCMP responded to a collision between a vehicle and a motorcycle that occurred on Provincial Road 213, near Lornehill Road, in the RM of Springfield.
Investigators believe that a motorcycle travelling westbound on PR213, being driven by a 71-year-old male from the RM of East St. Paul, was struck from behind by a vehicle, being driven by a 16-year-old male, also from the RM of East St. Paul. This collision resulted in the motorcyclist being thrown from his motorcycle.
He was subsequently struck by a second westbound vehicle, being driven by a 30-year-old female from Portage la Prairie.
It is believed that the motorcyclist was also struck by another vehicle heading eastbound on PR213. The driver of this vehicle did not stop at the scene and has not been identified. Police are asking anyone with information that may help identify this driver to contact the Oakbank RCMP at 204-444-3847.
The driver of the motorcycle was pronounced deceased at the scene. It is unknown if alcohol was a factor in the collision.
Officers from the Oakbank Detachment along with an RCMP Forensic Collision Reconstructionist continue to investigate.
Robyn Gray was the 71-year-old man killed in that motorcycle crash late last month. I first met him in 1982, when my great-aunty Isabelle lived in the Chateau Guay Apartments across the street from Harley-Davidson of Winnipeg, on Goulet Street in St. Boniface.
I was 15 and already motorcycle crazy with a dirt bike of my own back home in St. Norbert so, against my aunt’s wishes, I strolled across the street to the then-spiffy new dealership and met my very first real bikers.
Sure, my dad and his buddies knew some guys, but these were THE guys.
Robyn owned the place, and he and his band of bearded bohemians obviously made a lasting impression on me. Throughout my teens, I visited the shop often and by 1985 I was riding a battered black Yamaha Virago on the street — and wearing a black Harley-Davidson T-shirt in the bar.
Robyn would never miss the opportunity to take a few good-natured jabs at me for riding a Japanese bike, whenever I’d stop in at the shop. I think he knew that crummy bike was all I could afford. I may not have owned a Harley ‘yet’, but it sure didn’t stop him from selling me tires and T-shirts.
There was 20 years between us, so back then I never dreamed of being anything more than an acquaintance of Robyn’s. I mean, what would a local biker legend want with a punk kid on a Virago? Time passed and that’s exactly what we remained. Casual acquantances.
All that changed in 2002, however, when I started writing the Willy’s Garage column in the Winnipeg Sun. Robyn was one of the first business owners to call me. He was shrewd and knew free advertising when he saw it. He’d invite me to his swap meets and show-and-shines and I’d write about and shoot photos of the events, and he’d keep inviting me back.
“Oh shit — here comes the paparazzi,” Robyn would bellow when I rolled in. Then he’d start gearing up for a photo shoot. “Don’t take my picture, I hate getting my picture taken,” he’d say, as he was checking his moustache in a nearby motorcycle mirror.
It may have taken nearly two decades for Robyn to finally learn my name, but for the next 18 years he was among my closest and dearest friends and he and his partner, Bonnie, treated me like family.
Robyn and his partner Bonnie Smith at their Winnipeg dealership in 2005.
On the morning my father died in the summer of 2006, I instinctively headed to Robyn’s place. He hugged me for a good long time on his driveway as I sobbed like a baby.
“This pain will ease as time passes,” he said to me, “but you’re going to miss your dad every single day for the rest of your life.”
That was the man Robyn Gray was to me. A soft shoulder to cry on offering hard words to live by.
Over the years I learned many things from Robyn and met many fascinating people through him. He truly knew folks in every corner of the earth and couldn’t walk five steps in Manitoba without bumping into someone he knew. After he’d introduced me to his friend and they’d chatted and parted ways, he would lean in and say, “he is a very successful man,” or “she is a very talented woman,” and explain that person’s accomplishments to me in great detail. Robyn had many good words to say about many good people.
He also shared countless stories with me, often multiple times. He was a fascinating storyteller and when he spoke I would always listen intently — something that is sometimes difficult for me to do. He was never boastful and frequently uproariously entertaining.
Robyn, on the bike, with Willy and legendary designer Arlen Ness.
There was usually a moral to Robyn’s stories, and the lessons learned will serve me for the rest of my life. I learned from him to stand up for myself no matter the cost, apologize when I’m wrong, cry when something is sad and laugh when something is funny.
The funny thing is though, despite how close we were, Robyn rarely spoke of how he became the legend I grew to know and love. The occasional nugget would emerge here and there, like the time last summer when he casually mentioned he crossed the border illegally in the middle of the night in the early 1970s and lived in America for a year. He was having the time of his life, “shacked up with some nurse,” until the Minnesota State Troopers pulled him over one day, realized he was Canadian and not paying taxes, and sent him home with nothing but his motorcycle and the clothes on his back. That was Robyn.
Earlier in the week, while I was still in the thinking stages of writing this, sitting at my desk, staring off into space, hoping for inspiration in a time of sorrow, I received an email that told me of a story written in the Winnipeg Free Press about Robyn, back in 1982. I found it in the archives, and here’s an excerpt. And who knew that my friend’s name was actually Robert?
Robyn at the Winnipeg store, circa 1989.
BIKER STRIKES IT RICH WITH ‘HOGS’
Robert (Indian) Gray, 35, the guy with the moustache and the disarmingly unpretentious sensibilities, is the sole owner of the franchise (Harley-Davidson of Winnipeg). He’s a source of odd, contradictory social signals. Not quite defiantly longish hair, a bumptious tone qualified by quick laughter, an expression that suggests either mild aggression or furious concentration. He has a chipped front tooth and rabid eyes. If it were 1970, he would pass for a civil libertarian lawyer. Or his client.
He’s also one of the seven founding members and a past president of the Spartans, a local biker club of ambiguous repute and vigorous bonhomie. Gray, who maintains his Spartans’ colours and is a lifetime member, is retired from active service. Still, he’s the first hugely successful local example of an unlikely hybrid: the corporate biker.
And, the word on corporate bikers is money is in, breaking up beer parlors is out.
“I was planning a trip to South America by motorcycle about 1977,” Gray says, “when I met a friend at a motorcycle show here at the Convention Centre. He asked if I’d heard that Harley-Davidson was considering a franchise in Winnipeg. “I figured, what the hell, I’ll check it out. So, I phoned Fred Deeley Imports in Toronto, the exclusive distributor for Harleys in Canada. I asked if they were considering franchising Winnipeg. When they stopped laughing, they said no they were not. So, I went home and wrote them a letter. I told them who I was, what my background in Harleys had been, how I felt about them, what my friends felt about them, what my qualifications were. That kind of stuff.” They phoned back and said ‘You got it if you can put it together.’ All I needed was $100,000 and an acceptable building. I had the financing, but not the building. That was March of ’78. By April, I had my first building at Corydon and Osborne and was in business. And, we were making money from the start.”
Within three years, Gray incorporated, then designed and built his splendid new quarters on Goulet.
He studied management and investment courses sponsored by the Federal Business Development Bank. Last year, he sold 100 cycles. The shop is custom-building another 120. His T-shirt line tops $20,000 annually. His mail order service is Canada wide. He has one of the largest Harley inventories in western Canada and he’ll sell every bike he touches.
Gray grew up middle-class and suburban in East St. Paul, the son of an Air Canada pilot. His passion was mechanics and he was riding a trail bike by 10, driving a car at 11. He went to Miles MacDonnell Collegiate and then opened a motorcycle customizing shop on Portage Avenue in 1972. He took aircraft mechanics at Red River College, and went to work for Perimeter Aviation. He intended to be a helicopter pilot-mechanic and he earned his pilot’s license. But the hog market always intervened.
“The Spartans came from where we came from, the east side of the river. Those were some of the best times of my life. Those runs down to Sturgis, South Dakota, where more than 50,000 bikers used to get together from all over the continent. Whoo. I went down there seven times. I wish I could do it all again and get away with it,” he says, a bit wanly.
Leaning forward over his desk, he says, “I work on my image now. I’m going to be a millionaire someday. I enjoy making money, the edge, the challenge, the people. Of course, my association with the club has helped business. They can relate to me. You can’t put yourself above the customer, the average street biker. It’s necessary to have been there. So, my image is important.”
He brings himself up short, as though a part of him catches a whiff of crass artifice and is appalled. “Still,” he adds, “there are a lot of times I’d like to just go for a ride and get loaded. But, you know, I have too much at stake.”
There it was, locked away for safekeeping in the archives of the newspaper, in the Tempo section, just above an ad for an $1,849 Sony Betamax.
Robyn Gray teaching me one final lesson.
I know this pain will ease with time, and I know I’m going to miss him every day for the rest of my life — and I’d like to just go for a ride and get loaded… but, you know, I have too much at stake.
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3 thoughts on “Robyn Gray: biker and friend”
Ryan H Craig says:
Nice tribute, Willy. Seems like an interesting guy.
Sorry for your loss Willy, he sounded like a good guy.
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