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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Have you seen the film " THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA"? This is one of 2006 most talked about movies ( based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same header) that featured Meryl Streep as a savage psychopath who takes great pleasure in terrorizing her staff with steady streams of insults and sadistic head games that would make Manny Pacquiao shrink in pain and distress. Aside from Streep's superlative potrayal of the role, one of the reasons why this Academy Award-nominated comedy-drama film was so successful at the box office was just everyone can relate to having a BOSS FROM HELL.

So what do you do if you are in such situation and the DEVIL wears your BOSS who unreasonably does things such as yells and screams at you, forces you to work overtime, insults and humiliates you personally and infront of others, repeatedly make changes and blames you when things went wrong, brags with her hoaxed credentials, name callings and more? According to Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute, USA, an abusive boss is more likely to be woman than man. That is right, babae po! Woman bosses are more abusive than their counterpart.

It is said that a worker's relationship with the boss is almost equal to the relationship with his spouse when it comes to the impact on his well being. Medical research found that workers who felt that their boss treated them fairly were 30% less likely to die from coronary heart disease than those who didn't. Aside from the health consequences of having a bad boss, there is the practical issue of the effect that the abusive superior have on one's job prospects.

I have worked with people who suffered years of abuse at the hands of a BAD BOSS and their entire lives are messed up! They can't sleep, can't work effectively, their relationships are damaged and they feel terribly about themselves, after hearing how incompetent they are everyday and getting yelled at and humiliated they are really in bad shape! A lot of them have serious health problems affecting their work and morale. Yung iba namatay pa nga. . .

Abusive Boss tends not to target one person even if it feels like tha attacks are personal. Usually, target of abusive bosses tend to be HIGH ACHIEVERS, PERFECTIONISTS, WORKAHOLICS. Oftenly bully bosses try to mask their own insecurities and mistakes by striking out ( nagtatago sila sa ulap ng kanilang kasalanan at kahinaan)! Bad bosses come in many flavors and that employees should explore the nature of abuses that may be occuring. If your boss insults you and puts you down, try to reason out professionally and express your rights. Calling you "BULLSHIT" , "MORON" , or an "IDIOT" would never solve the problem. If your boss is bad-mouthing you , you can confront her directly and if she's defaming you, aba bawal yun! Taunting and insulting your face in a private office at work, your feeling severely hurt and may become ill as a result - - - (if the symptoms persist ika nga) consult a doctor and a lawyer as well (ha!ha!ha!) That's the best you can do if the tounge-slashing is too much and turned out to be inapproppriate, unjustified and unbearable. Documenting your boss' bad behavior is important. Your written records can testify how severe the situation is. Just incase you decide to take legal actions down the line, you may need these information. It is best to record all the rotten things your boss did to you as soon as possible so they are fresh in your mind. Dont miss the idea of taking the bull by the horns. Mas madali daw disiplinahin ang nagwawalang toro kung sa sungay mo susunggaban! Ha!ha!ha!ha!
No one is perfect. Not even bosses. But if your boss is abusing you, malaking problema yan! This problem takes on greater urgency. If the abuse starts to make you feel bad and the bullying has had prolonged impact on your health or your life outside of your work aba'y mag-isip-isip ka na! It's time to get out, lalo na when you feel that your confidence or your usual exemplary performance has been undermined! In general you really feel deteriorated with you bad boss. But if quitting cant be you option to address this problem, hanggang kailang mo kaya kakayanin ang masamang ugali ng amo mo and get abused forever? I understand older workers can't just simply walk away from their job they really hate. It is culturally accepted reason sa Pinas lalo na sa mga datihan at matagal ng empleyado. They are trapped by tuition fees, bayad sa renta ng bahay, kuryente, tubig at telepono and other everyday expenses that keep them working with their bad bosses. Idagdag mo pa yung hirap ng paghahanap ng trabaho lalo na kung datan ka na! They may reason out that finding a new job may be harder than it would be for someone younger, in this case they may be right, but they can still protect themselves. Maraming trabaho po diyan! Maniwala ka at tulungan mo ang sarili mo dahil mas marami ka pang magagawang mas maganda sa buhay mo than to stay and serve an evil employer! As I have said, target of bad bosses tend to be those EXCELLENT, EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE workers of the company and YOU are one!
CONTROL YOUR DESTINY ( manalig ka at maniwala sa kakayanan mo!) You may want to consider leaving the job off your resume all together. Even after you leave your nightmare boss you still have to explain why you left to potential new employer, One way to gracefully side step the issue is to say: MY BOSS AND I HAD A LONG STANDING DISAGREEMENT OVER THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF GETTING THINGS DONE ( anyways they wil never know naman kung gaano talaga kawanghiya ang boss mo, unless you tell them so!) The most important thing to remember with abusive boss is not to take the insults to heart ( naku mahirap atang gawin ito a?) but to make it as challenge to become a better person and prove your worth. Get out and move on. This is the most professional way to resolve it.

Employees leave their bosses not the company. If the abuses are too much -- you may want to head out of the door, change yourself, and throw away (worthless) things in your life. Huwag mong hayaang insultuhin ka ng amo mo habang buhay ( ano na lang ang sasabihin ng asawa mo at mga anak mo sa yo? Maipagmamalaki ka pa kaya nila?) You can be a better person inspite of all the miseries your bad boss had done to you. Just convert these rotten things into source of inspirations, learning and enjoyment! Just hope that your next boss would not be just as bad or worse! If that would be the case --- work on your own and be the KING of yourself!

If you are a BAD BOSS FROM HELL let this serve as a wake up call.

" I urge then, first of all , that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving He made for everyone - for KINGS and all those in AUTHORITY, that we may live peacefully and quiet lives in all GODLINESS and HOLINESS."
( I Timothy 2:-1-2)

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Islam at a Glance

Discover Islam! The eternal and universal religion of more than one billion people from every race and nationality.

“Say: We believe in Allah (God Almighty) and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and to the Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him (God) we submit.” (Holy Qur’an 3:83)

Islam is an Arabic word which means peace, purity, acceptance and commitment. The religion of Islam is the complete acceptance of the teachings and the guidance of God, (i.e. surrender to the Will of Allah).

A Muslim is one who accepts freely and willingly the supreme power of Allah and strives for total re-organisation of his life according to the revealed teachings of God. He also works towards the establishment of a just social order which would totally reflect the guidance of God.

Islam is not a new religion. It is in essence the same message and guidance which Allah revealed to all His Prophets. ‘Say: We believe in Allah and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and to the Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we submit.’ (Holy Qur’an 3:83)

The message which was revealed to Muhammad, the last Prophet, is Islam in its comprehensive, complete and final form.

Every action which is done with the awareness that it fulfils the will of Allah is considered an act of worship in Islam. Nevertheless, the specific acts of worship, termed the pillars of Islam, provide the framework of spiritual life.

They are the following:

The declaration of faith: ‘I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger; the prophethood of Muhammad obliges the Muslims to follow his exemplary life in every way.
Prayers are prescribed five times a day as a duty towards Allah. They strengthen and enliven the belief in Allah and inspire man to a higher morality. They purify the heart and control the temptation towards wrong doing and evil. It should be stressed that while Allah does not need our prayers we cannot survive without His blessings and guidance. “0 you who believe! Seek help with patient perseverance and prayer, for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.” (Holy Qur'an 2:153)
Fasting is observed once each year during the month of Ramadaan. This means abstention from food, drink and intimate marital relationship from dawn to sunset. and also from evil intentions and desires. It teaches love, sincerity and devotion. It develops a sound social conscience, patience, unselfishness and willpower. When we fast by choice. Allah remembers our sacrifice.
Zakaat - payment annually of 2.5% of one's net savings as a purifying sum to be spent on the poor and needy. Zakaat implies that everything man possesses belongs to Allah and therefore anyone in need has a share in it.
Pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah - once in a lifetime provided one has the means to do so. Hajj implies man's temporary suspension of all worldly activities and his realisation of himself as a naked soul in front of Allah alone.

Islam enjoins faith in the Oneness and Sovereignty of God, which makes man aware of the meaningfulness of the Universe and his place in it. This belief frees him from all fears and superstitions by making him conscious of the presence of Almighty Allah and of man's obligations towards Him. Belief in one God requires that we look upon all humanity as one family irrespective of colour, class, race or territory, under the Omnipotence of Allah the Creator and Nourisher of all. Islam rejects the idea of a chosen people, making faith in Allah and good action the only way to Heaven. Thus a direct relationship is established with Allah, open to all alike, without any intercessor.

Man is the highest creation of Allah and chooses his own way. Created with the highest potentialities, man is left relatively free in his will, action and choice. Allah has shown him the right path and the life of Prophet Muhammad provides a perfect example. Man's success and salvation lies in following them. Islam teaches the sanctity of the human personality and confers equal rights upon all without any distinction of race or sex.

The law of Allah, enunciated in the Qur'an’ an and exemplified in the life of the Prophet, is supreme in all cases. It applies equally to the highest and the lowest, the prince and the peasant, the ruler and the ruled.

The world according to Islam, is a place of trial and man is being judged in it. Man is accountable to Allah for all that he does herein. Life on earth will, one day, come to an end: and after that a new world will be resurrected. It will be in this Life after Death that man will be rewarded or punished for his deeds and misdeeds. Allah will judge man on the day of existence which leads to further blessings. or to Hell, a stage of suffering and punishment.

The Qur’an is the last revealed Word of Allah and as such affirms and completes the total process of revelation which has come from the Divine Guidance for the human race. The Qur’an is the basic source of Islamic teachings and laws and deals with the bases of creed, morality, history of humanity, worship. knowledge, wisdom, the God-man relation, and human relationship, in all aspects. Comprehensive teachings on which sound systems of social justice, economics, politics, legislation, jurisprudence, law and international relations can be built, are important contents of the Holy Qur’an. Prophet Muhammad himself was an unlettered man who could not read or write. The Holy Qur’an was revealed to him piece-meal over a period of 23 years and committed to memory and writing by his followers under his supervision during his lifetime. The original and complete text of the Qur’an is available to everybody in Arabic, the language in which it was revealed. Translations of the meaning into many languages are widely used.

Hadith, the teachings, sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad, meticulously reported and collected by his devoted companions, explain and elaborate the Qur'anic verses.

Islam does not teach or accept mere ritualism. It emphasises intention and action. To worship Allah is to know Him and love Him, to act upon His laws in every aspect of life, to enjoin goodness and forbid evil and oppression, to practice charity and justice and to serve Him by serving mankind. Islam seeks to implant in man's heart the strongest conviction that his every thought and action are known by Allah, Who sees him at all times and in all places.

The Qur’an presents this concept in the following sublime manner: “It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or to the West, but righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day the Angels and the Books and the Prophets; and gives his wealth for the love of Him to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observes proper worship and pays the Zakaat. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and they are patient in the tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are those who are Godfearing;” (Holy Qur’an 2:177)

Islam provides definite guidelines for all people to follow in all walks of life. The guidance it gives is comprehensive and includes the social, economic, political, moral and spiritual aspects of life.

The Qur’an reminds man of the purpose of life on earth, and his duties and obligations towards himself, his kith and kin, his community. his fellow human beings and his Creator. Man is given fundamental guidelines about a purposeful life and then he is left with the challenge of human existence before him so that he might put these high ideals into practice. In Islam man is a wholesome, integrated unit and not a collection of fragmented, competitive parts. The sacred and secular are not separate parts of man; they are united in the nature of human being.

Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was born in the year 570 A.C. in Makkah, Arabia. He came from a noble Arab family. He received the first revelation at the age of forty. As soon as he started preaching Islam, he and his followers were persecuted and had to face severe hardships. He was therefore commanded to migrate to Madinah, another city in Arabia. During a short span of 23 years, he completed his prophethood and died at the age of 63. He was put to rest in the city of Madinah. He left no wealth or property. He led a perfect life and set an example for all human beings. His biography illustrates in real life. the meaning and implications of the Qur’anic teachings.

Islam is a simple, rational and practical religion. The unity of God, the Prophethood of Muhammad and the concept of life after death are the basic articles of faith. There is no hierarchy of priests and there are no complicated rites and rituals. Everybody may approach the Quran directly and translate its dictates into practice.

Islam stands for the middle path and the goal of producing a moral man in the service of a just society. "Our Lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter" (Holy Qur’an 2:201)

Islam guides towards a better and complete life glorifying in all Its phases Allah, the Almighty Creator.

No discrimination is made on the basis of sex. Islam recognises that the sphere of potential capabilities and hence responsibilities of men and women are equally important in themselves but not exactly the same. The roles of men and women are complementary to each other.

Marriage is a very important and sacred bond of relationship between man and woman and a step towards a better, purer and happier life. Islam gives both man and woman full right to divorce. Nevertheless divorce is discouraged and is allowed as the last resort. Islam allows limited polygamy only as a remedy subject to certain conditions.

A major problem which modern man faces is that of racism. The materially advanced nations can send man to the moon but they cannot stop man from hating and fighting his fellow man. Islam, over the last 1400 years, has shown in practice how racism can be ended. Every year During the Hajj, the Islamic miracle of the real brotherhood of all races and nations can be seen in action.

The family which is the basic unit of civilisation is disintegrating in all western countries. Islam's family system brings into a fine equilibrium the rights of man, wife, children and relatives. Islam nourishes human unselfishness, generosity and love in a well organised family system.

Human beings live according to their view of life. The tragedy of secular societies is that they fail to connect the different aspects of life. The secular and the religious, the scientific and the spiritual seem to be in conflict. Islam puts an end to this conflict and brings harmony to man's vision of life.

What is the state of the world today? Has man freed himself from all superstitions, imbecilities and absurd beliefs? Has he discovered the man from within himself? Has he liberated himself from the yoke of worldly tyrants indulging in the exploitation of man by man? If such a millennium has not been achieved despite all the developments in science and technology, then Islam has still a great and glorious part to play.

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Iron Angels: Chapter Four

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    Special Agent Vance Ravel rubbed his eyes. Poring over the data a few months back had been exciting, and on occasion provided some decent leads resulting in instances of anomalous activity. These past few weeks, though? Nothing. Boring. At least Sentinel, the Bureau’s case management software, allowed for the use of keywords and even an RSS feed. In the old days — he chuckled — let’s say, the year 2010 or so — he would have had to search manually for what he was after. Well, what he and his superior, Supervisory Special Agent Temple Black, were after.

    “Hey,” Temple called out.

    “Yes, boss,” Vance said.

    “It’s too late –”

    “Or early, depending on how you look at it,” Vance said.

    Temple sighed, a sound Vance heard all too often, especially late at night when they’d both forsaken caffeine in the hopes of heading home.

    “All right, what do you need?”

    “I got news of some crazy incident earlier this evening, have you seen anything come through?”

    Temple leaned close. Her soap or perfume, Vance couldn’t tell the difference, was in the final throes of its effectiveness.

    “Yes, and I’ve been sitting on it for hours now.” Vance stared at the computer screen and didn’t even glance in Temple’s direction.

    “You’re becoming quite the sarcastic little human, aren’t you? Tell you what,” Temple said, “rather than be like that, how about finding something useful for a change?”

    “How about you tell me about this crazy incident?” Vance asked, tapping away at the keyboard, adding new search strings, and ready to add more based on Temple’s information.

    “There was a kidnapping out in Indiana, close to Chicago.”

    “Wow, that sounds so strange.” Vance rolled his eyes.

    “Look, I know it’s late, but how about we don’t turn on one another, okay?”

    “Yes, boss,” Vance said, and winced.

    “You know how I feel about that word, right?”

    “Yes, b — Temple.” Vance shook his head. “Tell me more, please.” But he had already begun a search for Indiana and kidnapping and before she started talking again he had it.

    “– ah, here it is. Huh. This is a draft, and you know how drafts can sometimes be a little too raw and, might I add, a prank of some sort?”

    “What does it say?”

    Vance turned and grinned. “How does suicide by thermite sound? That strange enough for you?”

    Temple pursed her lips, tapping them with her forefinger. “Not bad, anything else?”

    “There is mention of a weather anomaly…”

    “You mentioned thermite. Could this supposed weather simply be the remnants of the thermite’s exothermic reaction?”

    He glanced back and up at Temple and whistled. “I’m impressed.”

    “Here you go again.”

    “No, really, you’ve been listening to me.”

    “I do remember basic chemistry from my high school days,” she said, folding her arms. “And before you make another crack, it wasn’t that long ago. Now, read that part of the report to me, that bit about the weather.” She had taken to pacing behind him when they went through this exercise on at least a daily basis the past couple of days. She must be worried about her future, and perhaps that of their fledgling unit, the Scientific Anomalies Group. They’d been made fun of for the acronym, SAG, but there was nothing for it now. The name was theirs and would stick even if they changed the name down the road.

    “But what about the thermite? Or how the men who killed themselves with the substance looked alike?”

    “Interesting. All right, you know what? I’ll take the entire report. Print it out for me.”

    Vance sighed. “Aye, aye, captain.” He stood and saluted her, garnering a quick “pfft” from Temple. He smacked the printer, which beeped at him. “We need a new printer.” He withdrew the toner cartridge and shook it.

    “We need to use our funds carefully, and if this report is as good as I think it’ll be, we’ll be taking a trip.”

    The pages printed. Temple read. Vance removed his glasses, a beat up pair he kept around the office, and rubbed his eyes. Temple didn’t say anything while she read, only emitting an “oh” or an “hmmm” and one single gasp.

    A few minutes later, Temple said, “Vance, we’re heading to Indiana. You better phone the agent who drafted this and let him know. He’ll bitch about getting local concurrence to travel to their AOR, but this is just a heads-up we’re giving. We’re not asking permission. Got it?”

    “Yes, boss — uh, ma’am.”

    “A simple ‘yes, Temple’ will do.” She walked off, shaking her head, but turned back before she hit the door leading to the outer office, “Go home, pack enough for a few days and get back here ASAP. We’re heading out on the first available flight.”

    “But –”

    “You can nap on the plane.”

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Friday, April 08, 2011

Soon, With More Better Stuff?

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings."
- Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass

Well, actually, no. The time has most certainly come, but not to talk of many things. The time has come, instead, to talk of fewer things. It is time for me to bid you a fond farewell.

[*waits a beat, for you to regain your breath*]

Yes, I'm serial. This blog is history (or, at least, will be after you've read this.) The race is run, the book is read, the play has reached the final curtain. This blog is an ex-parrot.

I've been coming here and writing nonsense for the better part of six years.

(Or, at least, they would have been the better part of six years had I not been filling them up with twaddle.)

(Actually, I like twaddle. Some of my best friends are twaddlers. I don't mean to unduly denigrate twaddle. The descriptive fits, however, so I've used it, much the same as I've used you.)

(No, I haven't really used you. At least, not consciously. I have, it's true, acquired a few fruitcakes along the way - and I'm mighty grateful for them, too - but they weren't acquired via subterfuge. It was overterfuge.)

(One thing you can be glad about is that you'll never again have to navigate through a sea of unnecessary parentheses only to find, by the end, that you'll need to consult a Neptunian dictionary in order to translate what you've just read.)

So, like a dog under the dinner table on liver night, the question begs: Why?

The truth of the matter...

(Isn't that a hell of a thing for me to say? As though I haven't told you the truth before. Saint Peter on a pogo stick! If there's one thing I've done here, it's tell you the truth. As a matter of fact, here's the one time I did!)

The truth of the matter is I'm tired of embarrassing my mother. When did I do that? Three sentences ago, if you clicked onto that link. And I'm sick of it. Also, MY WIFE.

(No, no, no. I'm not sick of MY WIFE. I'm also tired of embarrassing her. Although it was her idea for me to begin blogging in the first place, so she's hardly without blame in this affair, I'm going to stop writing stuff like THIS. And THAT.)

Mostly, I'm just plain tired of writing. If I was making some money from this thing, maybe it would be different. I'm not, though. I've gotten lots of fruitcake, and that's a good thing, but money? No. There's been a decided lack of that. And, really, money isn't what it's about in the end, either. What it is, is that I don't have anything useful left to say. I've pretty much gotten out of my system everything I felt an overwhelming need to say, so why stick around? It can only go downhill from here. I mean, just look at this pile of crap you're reading right now, if you want proof.

Before I go, I want to make sure you know I'm not leaving because of anything you said. It's quite the opposite. I love the stuff you guys say. That's why I've stayed with it for so long. Seeing your comments made my day. And, as a matter of fact, I'll probably be visiting you on a regular basis ("haunting you" might be a more apt way of putting it, when one considers how often I hijack other people's comments sections) so it's certainly not that I don't like you. I LOVE YOU! You've given me four years of joy!

(Of course, I've been blogging for 5 and 2/3 years, so...)

Enough. I'm done, at least for the present.

(Ah, what the hell. I'm done for the past, too. However, I regress.)

What will the future bring? Who knows? Something could stick in my craw and I'd be back here tomorrow to rant about it.

(Or later today, for that matter. I'm looking forward to seeing how we do without a government. Won't happen, of course. Governments always threaten to shut down, but then all sorts of hideous malcontents like me come out of the woodwork, saying, "Who gives a shit?", then they somehow find the funds to continue.)

Or I might decide to come back in May and bore you to tears with thirty or forty posts about mens fast-pitch softball. Perhaps, if the Celtics win the NBA Championship in June, I'll not be able to resist crowing about it. Whatever the case, if I return it will be because I truly want to say something new. It won't be because I feel a need to fill space via the expedient of posting a re-run, something of which I'm sure you've had more than enough during the previous five or six months.

Before I go, I'd like to leave you with some words of wisdom: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. That's what my grandfather kept shouting when they carted him off after he had performed an unrequested circumcision on the neighbor's poodle, so it's good enough for me, too.

(Lovely. If that doesn't convince you I've got nothing but fumes left in the tank, there's not much that will.)

As a going away present, here's something I wrote once when I was feeling underappreciated, and you can read it whenever you feel like you might be missing me. It should cure you.

(Here comes a lie...)

Soon, with more better stuff.

Uncle Skip, said...

Well, crap!
I'm going to miss this. I sort of feel like I came too late to the party.

Snappy Di said...

Do as ye must. See you in May..?? Right?

Bruce Coltin said...

I am not happy about this.

Nick Thomas said...

You should have announced this last Friday, then we'd have known you were just kiddin'

lime said...

*gasp* say it isn't so! nope, sorry, you're not allowed to go. i give you permission for a hiatus but then get back here.

Hilary said...

Nooooo.. this is just WRONG. What will we do without our regular dose of Suldog? The withdrawal will be unbearable. It's a late April Fool's Day joke.. right? Please?

You're the first person who has announced they've quite blogging who has made me cry. No fair!

You are always a must-read blog (except when it's heavy on the sports) ;) and I'll miss your words terribly.

Oh wait.. it's just like baseball. You quit playing.. but then you return. OK, I feel much better now.

Craig said...

Sully, we hardly knew ye. . .

Well, I at least, having only been here for the last 2 or so of yer 6 years. . .

This isn't some monumental over-reaction to the Red Sox starting 0-6, is it? 'Cuz they'll get better; you know they will. . .

Ah, 'tis the season. I was part of an energetic little circle of bloggers maybe five years ago, and maybe 2 or 3 of us are still around, posting about a quarter of what we once did. The 'Blog Wave' seems to have crested, in a major way.

I wish you well, Suldog, and I'd be honored to see you from time to time in my comment-space. I'm glad to have gotten to know you (thank Lime for that), and I have enjoyed most everything I've read here. Even the re-posts ('cuz, see, I've only been here for maybe 2 years, so most of 'em I hadn't seen before anyway, and these days I don't have time to read your whole archive. . .)

Honestly, I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be around, either. I'm a story-teller by nature, and I don't know how many more stories I've got left to tell (but as soon as I say that, somebody will post something that will prod me to recall a story I haven't told before; so you never know. . .)

Do me a favor, tho, and leave the blog up; don't delete it. Please? So I can at least come back here and remember the Glory that was Suldog. . . ;)

Quirkyloon said...

Aye! It's not a happy day in blogland!

But I understand. Sometimes we need a break from this called blogging.

I've been known to do it once. And it was quite liberating.

But you notice something? I obviously came back!

And I'm hoping you will too. I'll just keep my eyes and my blogroll waiting. *grin*

You're a good man Sully [Brown].

Shammickite said...

The only thing I can honestly say about this post is that I feel sorry for the neighbour's poodle.
Other than that, I am without words.

Expat From Hell said...

I hope you know you are more than just a clever and gifted writer. You are an inspiration and an encouragement to many, including this guy. I understand the need to stay off the front lines for a while, but don't leave camp just yet. EFH

Michelle H. said...

Yeah, like Hilary said. It's like baseball... or Governor Arnold. "I'll be BACK!

(Besides, you can't resist... and I know the real reason why! MWAHAHAHAHA!)

TechnoBabe said...

Actually I saw this coming. You wrote what you wanted to say and got it out of your system. Yes, and we enjoyed all of it. See ya around.

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Chris@Knucklehead! said...

Say it ain't so, Joe.

I've been spending less time in the blogosphere than usual over the last several months, but I've never missed a new piece over here in Suldogland. Still, I don't think I've completely read your archives, so I may have to do just that.

Loved the ex-parrot reference, by the way. By coincidence, there's a Monty Python reference in my piece today.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll see you around the interwebs. You're a good man, Jim. I'm pleased to have met you, in this techie sort of way.

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to do some weepy tribute at my place.

IT (aka Ivan Toblog) said...

OMGWTFBBQ! The Interwebs will never quite be the same.
Oh, the insanity...or is that inanity? Hmmmm, maybe they're the same thing.

Anyhow, if enough bloggers present you with awards, you will have to continue posting just so you can get even... huh?

BTW - I'm looking forward to seeing Knuckleheads tribute. Maybe then I could do a rebuttal, or whatever?

Karen said...

Have a good rest. You'll be bach! xoxo

Cricket said...

I would have to guess "later, with more better stuff... probably." Still, I will miss your posts for the time being. That said, enjoy the break. Even only a year into this, I get that.

And should the bug bite without your wanting to open any doors just yet, "Michelangelo" will always have a place to make a guest appearance.

I'm just sayin'.

Matt Conlon said...

Here's my two cents... I'm hoping that what's going on is that you've painted yourself into the corner of some sort of self-inflicted notion that you HAVE to post regularly, because that's what you've always done, and that's what you feel your readers (we) expect. In this case, you've been blogging for the wrong reason!

My hope is that once you've taken some time off and cast off the pressure of feeling like you have to post something, that you'll get the itch to post for fun again. :)

Moannie said...

I have decided that I am not going to believe you-and that is that. I cannot conceive of you not being here and I won't, so there [stamps her foot and screams for her mummy]

Have a break, Jim, a lovely break with your long suffering Lady, then come back, good as new.

Mike Z said...

I am not a blogger. Neither am I a writer. But, I am a reader and I have mightily enjoyed reading your entries. I don't feel like I know you (that would exagerate my experience) but I do think that I would really have enjoyed getting the chance to get to know you. You have written interesting, entertaining, thought provoking things - and for that I thank you. I would say it's been nice to get to know you, but I think it would be more accurate to say, it's been wonderful knowing that you are there. Peace to you and yours. May you hit everything in the strike zone out of the infield - and be careful running the bases. Thanks. Mike Z.

Craig said...

Hey. . . You're not retiring from softball, are ya?

'Cuz that would just be too much stuff leavin' yer life all at once, y'know? I mean, YOUR WIFE would start wonderin' if you were the same guy she married. . .

Hap said...

Thanks for this blog, Jim! And good luck on whatever it is you do next!

connie/mom said...

Although you have embarassed me now and then, please don't give up completely. How will I keep in touch with what's going on in your life?

Luv Ya, Kid.

Christina LMT said...

I guess as a friend, I should be all supportive and tell you to do what you need to do, etc., etc...but I'd rather be selfish and tell you that I don't WANT you to stop writing, dangit!

Jim, go and do what you need to do. We'll be here if and when you come back.

messymimi said...

Pop in to tell us how you are once in a while, okay?

Enjoy whatever adventures come next.

Crazed Nitwit said...

I'll miss you. I hope you'll still come by and visit once in awhile.

I really will miss you.

Buck said...

A sad, SAD day. Still, we do what we must and all I can say is: you'll be missed, and missed in the worst way. Your voice is unique, Jim... no one has near the uniquely different take on "stuff" as you. I'm gonna put ya in my RSS feed so I'm SURE not to miss ya if ya decide to come back. Which I hope you do.

Red Hamster said...

Suldog, I hardly got to know ye.
You will be missed by many.

I don't do usually do RSS feeds cause I'm supposed to be busy working all day. However, as Buck says, you are quite unique...and worth keeping track of in case you feel the need to come back for a quick rant.

I was hoping when you told me that you, too, were thinking of Lewis Carroll this week...that you meant more, better stuff...not the last stuff. *Sigh*

mibsphil said...

I will miss you! I've been reading you for a long time, but only occasionally post a comment. Still, I count myself among your loyal fans. Good luck with whatever! --Miriam

Eddie Bluelights said...

To coun a well known phrase, "You cannot be serious, man!!" A few friends have tripped out of the BlogLand arena of late . . . not you as well!!
Where am I to find a comparable bloggy adversay and pal like you. I even forgive you about the ducks LOL.
Is this a dream? A nightmare? Shucks . . . all the ladies are weeping and some of the guys have a tear or two in their eyes.
I understand why you want to quit but . . . . WE WON'T LET YOU!! So there!!
Bloody 'ell, I feel sorry for that Poodle LOL.
I tried to quit blogging once and returned the following day LOL.
I still feel like quitting . . . but I just cannot do it!!
Anyway, Jim, we shall all miss you.
But I am pleased you are going to visit us.
Hope life is very good to you ~ Eddie

Sarah said...

Hhmmmm....this is the first time I've come here and left unhappy. This seems grossly unjust.

Jeni said...

What the Hell happened? I just wrote a really nice farewell comment to you and hit the publish button only to be told "Sorry, we are unable to fulfill your request!" The nerve, the very nerve of Blogger to do that to me and to deprive you of all the wonderful thoughts I had of how much I'm gonna miss you not being around here. Hopefully, you'll find something shortly though to rant about and will be back doing that at least every now and again! In the meantime, I am sure as Hell gonna miss you, my friend!

Kathleen said...

Nooooo....come back, Suldog. I didn't even realize I'd made your sidebar!!! Your humor and humanity give this old blogworld such spice. I'll even send you $10 if you come back!

The Broad said...

Say it ain't so, Sully, say it ain't so... I've just got used to you being around -- I'm a fan, man, a fan -- one of many, I know -- but ... but ... but ... sooooooo sad ...

Bruce Coltin said...

First you. Now Manny. Other than baseball and drugs, what the hell is the connection?

Thumbelina said...

You as well huh?
Well blogging is to be enjoyed, not endured. Your reasons are pretty much why I hung up MY keyboard. Nothing left to say but it didn't take me 6 years to get it off my chest!
And as you can see, I'm still haunting folks.

Good getting to know you Sul. And YOUR WIFE. And your mom/Connie... etc. Take it easy and enjoy the softball. :)

Barbara Shallue said...

What? I got a little behind on my blog reading and this is what I find when I'm trying to catch up? This makes me sad - I've only just started reading! And what about Thanksgiving? Sigh.
Well, at least there's about 5 years worth of Suldog I haven't read yet. Don't completely shut the door, okay?

Linda said...

You'll be missed, Sully.

Maggie May said...

All the best ones seem to go and you will definitely leave a big gap.
Hope you change your mind.
Maggie X

Nuts in May

haphazardlife said...

Well that sucks. Your inane posts made me laugh a lot over the years. It was great.

Hope you'll change your mind though, eventually.

- Jazz

Angela Christensen said...

I could bitch, and whine and cry, which I surely feel like doing.

I could do the right thing and wish you well in your next adventure, whatever it may be, and I think we ALL know you well enough to know there'll be more of those.

I should do the right thing, and tell you honestly that when I was beginning to write a blog, you were one of the early voices of encouragement among people I'd never met. Without that encouragement I might never have stuck with it.

I find I have to do this, though: I really do believe you ARE A Writer. And real writers have things to say. Whether you say them here, or through another medium, whether you're ready after a short break or it takes you a long time to want to write again...please let me know. You're a writer whose work I always want to read.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Love, love,
Angie at Eat Here

Ruth and Glen said...

Oh no, say it isn't so! No Suldog?? How will we ever deal with the withdrawal? We thoroughly enjoyed our doses of the adventures of Suldog over the years. We looked forward to it. We've come to expect it. You've provided years of entertainment for us on the road Jim. We hope you change your mind, stick around, and don't make us go cold turkey!!

Ruth & Glen

Lori said...

A blog friend of mine and yours, sent me a note today to tell me that you were doing this because she knows I am still not online much these days and she knew how much your recent posts to make me smile/laugh meant to me...(she guessed it was me) When I read this, I had instant have really touched me with your words...and the recent posts you did for me, just to make me laugh was the best kind of medicine...and for that I will always be grateful. I showed my husband what you had done and he was stunned...and amazed at the kindness shown me in blogland...blogland that he has teased me about over the last couple of years(because he can barely turn a computer on let alone navigate on one :) but has come to highly respect. He asked me, "Isn't this the guy that does this Not before Thanksgiving thing?

I think what I have loved the most about you and your place here is your realness...your genuiness is evident in your writing...and your ability to make me smile and think.

Honestly, I hope that this is just a break and that when you have something to say you will come back here and write...and of course share it with us in blogland. Even though I have been absent much, I am not giving up the hope of coming back to writing and reading again in the near future.

I wish the very best for you and yours and what life has to offer. Thank you for caring and showing me kindness...and for making me laugh and for the times you've made me think outside the box.

Bless you Jim. XX

Clare Dunn said...

Bye, Sully.

xoxoxo, cd

notactuallygod said...

If Sully needs a break, to quote Commodus (from Gladiator) "Well, no one's earned it more. Don't get too comfortable. I may call on you before long."

But methinks a wit like his will always be ready. I wxpect it will spill out on these web pages before long.

Rodell said...

Keith Richards threatened Bill Wyman about quitting the Stones. You can't quit, he said. You can only die.

I hope something aggravates you enough to bring you back to pounding the keyboard. You don't have to write a lot. You don't have to write often.

But you do have to write, my friend.

Joan said...

Take care Jim. You are a kind, kind man. Thank you for all your nice comments.

Sandra said...

Yeah, right. I'm buyin' that and do you have a bridge to sell me too?

Do you really think you can resist the interaction with your readers? I doubt it. I have found blogging addictive, but in a good way.

I hope I'm right, because you have added much fun and cleverness to my life. (my favorite post was the one about the three letters you wrote to a potential employer -- I laughed 'til I cried.)

Having said all that, if I were a wagering woman I'd give you two weeks, before you come up with more better stuff that you just have to share with your friends who are patiently waiting. :)

Jenn Flynn-Shon said...

This makes me sad but only in that sense of loss for something I never really had in the first place kind of way. I will definitely miss reading your posts so I hope you do come back eventually but I can completely and fully understand how its tough to keep something going for so long. You were blogging way before blogging was considered "cool' (and long after that judging by all the comments on Facebook these days). Anyway, I'll miss your humor, whatever that means ;-)

Ananda girl said...

I did gasp... loud enough for Randy to ask me what was wrong.
I will miss you terribly! Though I have been absent lately myself and only spotty at posting.
I do understand. The reason for my own lack of posting lately was that my blog was located by my stb mother in law...and that took a great deal of fire and freedom out of my blog. I began to worry about what I said and how I said it. I've even considered closing my blog and opening a bran new one.
I don't know though. We will see.
I want you to know that you have been an absolute delight to me and an inspiration on a number of occasions.
You better haunt! I'll miss you.
You can bet I will keep an eye on the chance that you will return.
Thank you, Jim... for much and many things.

Chuck said...

NOO! I do understand though, as I have trouble blogging on a regular basis myself. I didn't comment here enough but you were one of my writing inspirations and I will miss checking out your new material. Thanks for all the laughs over the years.

Ericka said...

wait. what? honest to god, i wander off for a little while and the whole f*cking internet falls apart.

i hope you aren't serious. and if you are... well, i hope you'll haunt me. and let me know if you visit chicago again - i'm back in the area. (and i made a list of the stuff you did on your vacation. thanks for that, btw.)

Tim King said...

Well, that kinda sucks. In case you change your mind, Jim, I'll keep this feed in my RSS reader. Feel free to post something useless once in a while to let us all keep track of how you are. :) Cheers. -TimK

i beati said...

I plan to harass you on facebook at my earliest date as I start year 6 sk

Daryl said...

What if I promise to read all the sports posts and comment enthusiastically? I cant believe I didnt see this before now ... AAARGH!!

eileen said...

I'll miss the blog but wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, even if you opt not to share them with the entire internet. Hugs!

Three Hundred Sixty Five said...

Oh, crap. I had a lot of thoughts in mind, but my first thought is sufficient. I wish you well! Love, 365

Saz said...

oh my gosh....l've missed this...and l feel responsible..if I';d spoken out sooner I couldve have stopped this from happening..

ah the guilt the guilt..

you are just on hiatus....

and thats the truth of it...

enjoy the break Jim....looking forward to the softball season...and your reportage

back goes my head into the sand...

luv you jimbo!! !

Saz xxx

Carolina said...

Oh...sweet Suldog. I'll miss you. But at least you're not dead and it's baseball (or is it softball? I'm sure it's not soccer. Is it?) season, so there is an upside to this. Wishing you a wonderful blogless life, but I'm hoping you will be back soon with more, even better stuff.

Big hug for you (and your wife)

Uncle Jim said...

Well heck. This is the worse news I ever got next to the time I looked down and saw my pecker caught in my fly. OH THE PAIN!

George said...

I shall certainly miss you, Jim, but i know how you feel. Hopefully, this won't be the last we hear from you.

Jayne said...

Oh, Suldog. And we've only just met... Well you jump off the grid and take a well earned vacation. I for one, entirely understand. I'm poopin' out and it's not even been a year of blogging. Enjoy the sabbatical (yes, I'll call it that - I have a feeling you'll be back). Take care! ;)

Matt Conlon said...

well shit. I dare say, he wasn't kidding.

Some Blogging Guy said...

Hope you change your mind. Take a break. Go for a walk. But keep writing, we need ya!

thepowmill said...

I'm sorry!!! You were one of the first blogs I followed in my short blog career . I have always liked the your style for being just who you are ...nothing more ...or less.Take a break...then decide.

Balcony Gal said...

Yuck. But I get it!

MI said...

Sorry about the neighbors poodle.

Otherwise amazing post.

Menaka Indrani

Mariann Simms said...

Oh, I just read this. This is a sad, sad thing. I thought you were one of the best writers out there.

You will be missed. :(

Sandi McBride said...

Okay, so I was going to refuse to comment on your abandonment of your duties but then changed my mind and came back to say...should I stop embarrassing my family? Why should I, they constantly embarrass me and turn about is fair play. I expect to see you back in here huffing and puffing...blowing houses down and threatening all and sundry with your wittisisms...omg I can't spell for crap

Have a blast on your hiatus, hope to see you again soon

Apryl said...

This is poppycock ( I just wanted to use a word that ended in cock...)

You must come back. You are a breathe of fresh air after someone has just passed gas.

You got Blog of Note, you cannot just leave. Pssh.

Thimbelle said...

What can I say?

I won't miss you, because I hope our friendship endures beyond the pixels and the bits and bytes of Teh Interwebs.

But I do hope that you keep writing - even if it isn't for anyone but yourself.

You aren't obligated to do this; none of us are. But I'm so glad that you did, and that you let me come along for the ride these last few years.

With much love from everyone at our house...

thefunnytruth said...

I'm gonna miss the the stories of your youth I havent been around long but I get some good advice from your blog thanks for the help you didn't even know you gave and long live suldog

Shrinky said...

Oh crap. What if we had a whip-round?? Darn it Jim, now I feel like quitting too!! Nahhh, you can't leave, it's not allowed.. is it?

You have to come back (pulling up a chair). S'okay, I can wait.

(Pass the fruitcake..?)

Merisi said...

*crash* (I fainted hard)

Say it ain't so, Mr. Suldog!
You are kidding, aren't you?

Julie said...

you'll be missed .. sniffle, sniffle ... sniffle ...

Fi from Four Paws and Whiskers said...

We have a bloody earthquake and I get behind in my blog reading.. And now I finally discover you have quit and Michele has given birth.... I can't stand these surprises. Or maybe just the fact they happened and i missed them!
Living with thousands of aftershocks is quite enough adrenaline and now, losing Jim is not fair!!!
Pleased about Overlord Jaq though :)
Hope you will still visit and return occasionally for our amusement and to know you are ok.

Lisa said...

Wow. I was not expecting this from you. Others maybe. Like Oprah. But not you. It's the end of an era. But it was a good one while it lasted! : )

Melinda said...

Sully, I've been quietly following you despite ending the relationship with my own blog. I'll be sorry to see you go.
You were my first "blogger friend" and I'm glad I can go back and reread your amazing posts. (Christmas wouldn't be the same without "Pointy".)

take care, God bless, and live long & prosper

(Of course I don't think this is a true goodbye since I'm sure one day we'll see you back here)

(but then again if it IS goodbye, I'm glad you have lots of love heading your way. It's well deserved)

I'm Jane said...

Sometimes it just comes down to not having anything else to say. I respect that.

I'll miss ya, darlin'!

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Vacuum Veneering - Tips, Tricks, and More

From James Bodnar's Combat Page (A vacuum system for RC planes/gliders)
Used with permission.

Continuous run vacuum pump for vacuum bagging.

Here's what it is... It is the pump out of a small refrigerator. We had a fridge that didn't have any freon in it so we disassembled it. The best place to find a pump is at a appliance repair or appliance second hand shop. If you get the whole fridge, please recycle the freon, don't just cut the lines. I don't want to get skin cancer because you depleted the ozone. Let me explain how this contraption works. It creates pressure on one side and a vacuum at the other. On the left it the vacuum side. We bought a brass fitting with a 1/4 compression ring on one side and male 1/8 pipe threads on the other. It screws into a T-coupler. One side goes to the fuel pump/vacuum gauge, the other goes towards the vacuum bag itself. But, before it gets to the bag, we need a way to regulate the pressure. Without it, the pump would draw max vacuum (around 27 inches of Mercury I think) and would crush the foam in the vacuum bag.

My Dad found the perfect thing. It is a brass valve designed to bleed air out of natural gas lines for natural gas fireplaces. From there, it goes to clear 3/8 tubing to the vacuum bag. On the right side of the pump is the pressure side. The pump has oil in it. As it operates, a little of the oil flows out the pressure side. To fix this, that white bottle on the top of the pressure line is a reservoir. The bottom of the bottle (pointing upward in the picture) has holes drilled in it to let the air out. As the air and oil come out the tube into that bottle, the air slows down, the oil separates from the air and stays in the bottle as the air escapes out the bottom of the bottle. When you shut the pump off, the oil runs back into the pump. We've run this pump for as long as 48 straight hours with no problems. It did get slightly warm so we put a household fan on low pointed at it. The pump works great and is so quiet, you hardly know it's running.

Now, you may ask, what am I vacuum bagging? My combat wings of course. I found a great place for inexpensive Fiberglass, Kevlar and Carbon Fiber fabric, West system epoxy, and peel ply. It is called the John R. Sweet Co. It is a nice sized business that got its start from supplying canoe and kayak enthusiast with composite materials. He now caters to Model enthusiasts too but at a signifigant savings compared to those other places. I'm using a two inch wide piece of 5.7 ounce Carbon Fiber on top and bottom of the thickest part of the wing, a layer of 1.7 ounce Kevlar from there forward then a piece of 2 ounce fiberglass over the top and bottom of the wing. Put on your epoxy, squeegee it off and put it in the bag for two days. Voila.

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Preschool food Fascism in Australia

Preschool teachers are inspecting lunch boxes and decreeing which ingredients are acceptable in birthday cakes in a dramatic escalation in the war against childhood obesity. Chocolate frogs, lollies, cakes and fruit roll-ups are among foods banned at some NSW preschools and kindergartens. If daily lunch-box checks reveal such foods, they are sent home uneaten. And parents who send in a cake to mark their child's birthday are being left in no doubt: small plain cakes are in, big creamy chocolate cakes are out.

The crackdown in preschools comes as junk food is being officially phased out of canteens at the state's primary schools. But some experts, including leading nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, say lunch-box inspections take the healthy eating strategies too far. "There is no direction from anyone in an official position to examine children's lunch boxes or to forbid any child to eat any food and I would not support such draconian measures," she said. Dr Stanton said efforts to cut junk food from lunch boxes should be a group decision made by parents. But kindergartens say they are doing it with children's health in mind.

At Red Robin Kindergarten in Eastwood, parents had been told that birthday cakes should be as simple as possible, preschool teacher Jess Karhu said. "For birthdays we encourage a vanilla cupcake," Ms Karhu said. "It should be something little, not too big." And lunch boxes at the 40-child centre, which provides fruit platters for the children, do not escape scrutiny, with regular checks carried out. "If it is not appropriate it goes back in the lunch box," she said.

Council of Catholic School Parents executive director Danielle Cronin - who has a daughter at Red Robin Kindergarten - said the lunch-box checks and healthy birthday cake recommendations were helping youngsters develop good habits. "Preschools are probably leading the way with healthy-eating strategies in schools," Ms Cronin said, admitting lunch-box inspections could prove controversial. "Parents want to make sure that their kids are not hungry at school and they have the tendency then to load up the lunch box with all sorts of things," she said. "There is a sense that it is their right as a parent to fill their child's lunch box with whatever they choose or whatever their child is telling them they want. It possibly could be a bit a bit controversial. Some parents might object and some kids might object."

Ms Cronin is tackling the task of creating a healthy, but tasty, birthday cake that her daughter Virginia, who will turn five this week, can take to kindy to share with her friends. "The healthy cake option for us will probably be a plain homemade vanilla cake. We may put Smarties on top but we won't be doing the icing and cream option," she said.

Food and recipe writer Anneka Manning runs in-school cooking classes. She said parents of preschool- and school-age children must take responsibility for what goes into a child's lunch box. "It is just as much about educating parents as it is the children," she said.

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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Meat bad for you (maybe)

The vegos will like this finding -- but since humans evolved as a meat-eating species, the conclusion is a highly improbable one

Women who eat red meat more than once a day double the risk of getting the most common form of breast cancer, doctors have found. A study of pre-menopausal women examined the effect of diet on different types of breast cancer and found that those who ate the most meat - especially in processed forms such as hamburgers and sausages - were at the greatest risk of hormone-sensitive breast cancers. The natural female hormones oestrogen and progesterone are essential for a range of bodily functions but are also responsible for stimulating growth in 70 per cent of breast cancers - those known as hormone receptor positive.

Eunyoung Cho, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who led the study, said there were several reasons red meat triggered this type of breast cancer. They included the treatment of American beef cattle with hormones to speed up growth, carcinogens created when meat was cooked at high temperatures and the presence of a certain form of iron in meat.

More than 90,600 pre-menopausal American nurses aged 26 to 46 filled in questionnaires about their diets between 1991 and 1999, according to Archives of Internal Medicine, which published the research. Twelve years after the start of the study researchers identified 1021 cases of breast cancer in the group. Women who ate more than 1« servings of red meat a day (where a serving is defined as the main part of a dish) were 97 per cent more likely to have a hormone receptor positive breast cancer than those who ate three or fewer servings a week. The increased risk for those who said they had between three and five servings a week was 42 per cent.

Women who had meat in processed form such as sausages, salami and mortadella more than three times a week were 2.3 times more likely to get a hormone receptor positive cancer than those who ate them less than once a month. Those who ate hamburgers between one and three times a week were 71 per cent more likely than those who did so less than once a month.

There was little difference in the risk of hormone receptor positive breast cancer between those was ate unprocessed beef, pork or lamb between one and three times a week and those who did so less than once a month.

Dr Cho checked to ensure that causes of breast cancer such as obesity, smoking, alcohol and family medical history were not the real causes of the increased risks.

But did he check for confounding from that powerful health predictor, social class? NO. Journal abstract follows. Note that the results as reported imply that red meat eating lifts your probability of getting cancer from about 1% to 2% -- a very small effect, the sort of effect that is often not replicable. Although the large sample size makes the results statistically significant, that does not exclude other sources of random error:

Red Meat Intake and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women

By: Eunyoung Cho et al.

Background The association between red meat intake and breast cancer is unclear, but most studies have assessed diet in midlife or later. Although breast tumors differ clinically and biologically by hormone receptor status, few epidemiologic studies of diet have made this distinction.

Methods Red meat intake and breast cancer risk were assessed among premenopausal women aged 26 to 46 years in the Nurses' Health Study II. Red meat intake was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire administered in 1991, 1995, and 1999, with respondents followed up through 2003. Breast cancers were self-reported and confirmed by review of pathologic reports.

Results During 12 years of follow-up of 90 659 premenopausal women, we documented 1021 cases of invasive breast carcinoma. Greater red meat intake was strongly related to elevated risk of breast cancers that were estrogen and progesterone receptor positive (ER+/PR+; n = 512) but not to those that were estrogen and progesterone receptor negative (ER-/PR-; n = 167). Compared with those eating 3 or fewer servings per week of red meat, the multivariate relative risks (95% confidence intervals) for ER+/PR+ breast cancer with increasing servings of red meat intake were 1.14 (0.90-1.45) for more than 3 to 5 or fewer servings per week, 1.42 (1.06-1.90) for more than 5 per week to 1 or fewer servings per day, 1.20 (0.89-1.63) for more than 1 to 1.5 or fewer servings per day, and 1.97 (1.35-2.88) for more than 1.5 servings per day (test for trend, P = .001). The corresponding relative risks for ER-/PR- breast cancer were 1.34 (0.89-2.00), 1.21 (0.73-2.00), 0.69 (0.39-1.23), and 0.89 (0.43-1.84) (test for trend, P = .28). Higher intakes of several individual red meat items were also strongly related to elevated risk of ER+/PR+ breast cancer.

Conclusion Higher red meat intake may be a risk factor for ER+/PR+ breast cancer among premenopausal women.

Trans fats antidote

The unmentionable alternative

We have heard angst, outrage and political rhetoric about traces of much-maligned trans fats (TFAs) in our diet -- and about the growing problem of obesity and the health problems it spawns. There is one overlooked proposal that could address both issues, leaving our foods free of TFAs and allowing us to eat french fries, ice cream and doughnuts with less risk of getting fat. The secret weapon not even considered: the fat substitute olestra.

The food cops prefer to talk about proposals that would (a) make it illegal to use oils and spreads with trans fats in restaurants and (b) require that most restaurants prominently feature calorie counts on all menu items. These two plans actually address two very different issues:

The first -- trying to reduce heart disease rates by banning trans fats in eateries -- is based only on speculative data and unusual level of exposure. True, high levels of dietary trans fats -- derived primarily from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and frequently used in frying and preparing foods such as doughnuts and spreads -- can raise levels of LDL, the so-called "bad cholesterol." But TFAs are only one of several dietary factors that affect cholesterol levels (saturated fats are more important) and, more importantly, serum cholesterol is only one of several factors that may influence the risk of heart disease.

Cigarette smoking and high blood pressure, as well as diabetes and obesity, contribute far more to heart disease than any specific dietary factor. Even the strictest low-fat diet often modestly cuts cholesterol. So how could we expect significant effects on LDL cholesterol from banishing levels of just one type of fat -- one that on average represents less than 3 percent of our total daily calorie intake?

The second proposal would ineffectively confront a real problem, our life-threatening obesity epidemic. Including caloric information on every menu would likely do little to curb our waistlines. Most so-called "fast food" restaurants already display the calories on wall posters, food wrappers and placemats. Providing information on calories will not help if consumers do not fully understand what a desirable caloric intake actually is. A display of numbers will only confuse.

There is an obvious solution, though, that will address the perceived problems of trans fats and the real problem of obesity: invite restaurants to use olestra as a substitute for fats and oils in frying, baking and roasting. Olestra, the first noncaloric fat replacer, could be used in many ways. Not only is olestra stable in frozen products -- making it suitable for foods like ice cream -- it is stable at high temperatures, making it available for deep-frying, unlike other fat replacers. Olestra could replace a good portion of the 34 percent of fat calories we take in daily. In addition to protecting us from the (speculative) threat of TFAs, olestra would protect our hearts from the real deleterious effects of saturated fat.

Why aren't nutrition advocates petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to approve a whole slew of new applications for olestra? (It is now only FDA-approved for savory snacks and microwave popcorn.) The olestra solution is not even being considered by, for instance, those who held anti-trans-fat rallies outside the New York City Department of Health recently, nor by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. CSPI is trying to exorcise trans fats and regularly decries obesity as the work of "greedy" food companies -- but it drove many potential low-calorie and trans-fat-free products from the market with hyperbole about alleged side effects of eating olestra.

For the record, there is no scientific evidence ingestion of foods made with olestra has serious gastrointestinal effects. In large quantities, it can have some minor effects -- in the same way any other high-fiber diet (lots of beans, for example) would. But people can easily adjust their diets. Using olestra would give consumers a wider selection of foods --and permit them to enjoy foods they might otherwise shun. What's not to like about that?

Another reason why you have to be your own doctor as far as possible

General practitioners need to improve their knowledge of heart disease, according to an alarming report that found only 1 per cent of doctors could name the medications that reduced the chance of dying following heart failure. A survey of 803 GPs also found that only 15 per cent of GPs always asked their patients what over-the-counter medicines they were taking. When reviewing medication, only 12 per cent always asked whether the patient was using any complementary medicines. Australian Divisions of General Practice chairman Tony Hobbs said GPs tended "to prescribe the drugs that they are used to prescribing".

Just some problems with the "Obesity" war:

1). It tries to impose behavior change on everybody -- when most of those targeted are not obese and hence have no reason to change their behaviour. It is a form of punishing the innocent and the guilty alike. (It is also typical of Leftist thinking: Scorning the individual and capable of dealing with large groups only).

2). The longevity research all leads to the conclusion that it is people of MIDDLING weight who live longest -- not slim people. So the "epidemic" of obesity is in fact largely an "epidemic" of living longer.

3). It is total calorie intake that makes you fat -- not where you get your calories. Policies that attack only the source of the calories (e.g. "junk food") without addressing total calorie intake are hence pissing into the wind. People involuntarily deprived of their preferred calorie intake from one source are highly likely to seek and find their calories elsewhere.

4). So-called junk food is perfectly nutritious. A big Mac meal comprises meat, bread, salad and potatoes -- which is a mainstream Western diet. If that is bad then we are all in big trouble.

5). Food warriors demonize salt and fat. But we need a daily salt intake to counter salt-loss through perspiration and the research shows that people on salt-restricted diets die SOONER. And Eskimos eat huge amounts of fat with no apparent ill-effects. And the average home-cooked roast dinner has LOTS of fat. Will we ban roast dinners?

6). The foods restricted are often no more calorific than those permitted -- such as milk and fruit-juice drinks.

7). Tendency to weight is mostly genetic and is therefore not readily susceptible to voluntary behaviour change.

8). And when are we going to ban cheese? Cheese is a concentrated calorie bomb and has lots of that wicked animal fat in it too. Wouldn't we all be better off without it? And what about butter? It is just about pure fat. Surely it should be treated as contraband in kids' lunchboxes! [/sarcasm].

9). For a summary of the weak science behind the "trans-fat" hysteria, see here. Trans fats have only a temporary effect on blood chemistry and no lasting harm from them has ever been shown.

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