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Nourishing Traditions Book Review: Part II – Fats

This section of the introduction was only about 16 pages, but it took me a few hours to read because of all of the minute detail, chemistry and facts.  I found it fascinating, but there is no way I can completely summarize this portion.  It is VERY well written and it didn’t seem like there was a good way to condense or reduce the amount of information or just convey what was most important… so I had to just summarize what I found most interesting.  I hope you find this helpful!

The premise: Fat is good for you!  There are a lot of details to back up that statement and there are a lot of fats better for you than others.  Some fats are bad for you, but those are the ones that are super processed or refined.

In the early 1900s there was hardly any heart disease and by the 1950s it became the leading cause of death and today about 40% of the nation will die from it.  What could have changed during that time?  Yes, part of it could be that it was better diagnosed, but that can’t be the whole cause.

From 1910 – 1970 the animal fat consumption decreased from 82% to 62%.  The consumption of butter went down from 18 lbs per person per year to only 4 lbs of butter consumed per person per year.  And even with those decreases in the “bad fats”, per the leading medical advisors, average cholesterol levels have only decreased by 1%.  Dietary vegetable oils, margarine, shortening and other refined oils increased 400% during those years and the consumption of sugar and processed foods increased by 60%.

Children especially need cholesterol for brain development.  What health problems could this be causing if they aren’t getting what they need?  Most baby formulas are cholesterol free, but breast milk is about 50% fat and most of that is saturated.  The American Heart Association recommends low fat diets for kids, but low fat is thought to be a cause of kids with failure to thrive.

The Japanese have the longest lives in the world today and what do they eat?  They consume few dairy fats, but moderate amounts of animal fats, eggs, pork, chicken, beef, seafood, organ meats, shellfish and fish broth almost on a daily basis.  Since WWII their life span has continued to increase.  Austria, Greece and France eat high fat diets as well and are next in line for longest life spans.  France however has fallen behind due to increased sugar and processed food consumption.

At the turn of the century Americans used mostly saturated fats in the form of butter, lard, tallow, coconut oil and small amounts of olive oil.  Modern medicine tells us that polyunsaturated fats are the fats we should be eating and that the saturated fats are the bad fats to avoid.  A few examples of polyunsaturated fats include vegetable oils derived from soy, corn, safflower and canola.

The follow quote (on page 10) lists a few of those illnesses:

“Excess consumption of polyunsaturated oils has been shown  to contribute to a large number of disease conditions including increased cancer and heart disease, immune system dysfunction, damage to the liver, reproductive organs and lungs, digestive disorders, depressed learning ability, impaired growth and weight  gain.”

Polyunsaturated fats are usually liquid in the refrigerator.  They are easily oxidized (usually by heat) which creates free radicals, which attach and alter DNA and RNA.  There is speculation that exposure to free radicals can cause premature aging, autoimmune disorders, arthritis,  Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s, Alzheimer’s and cataracts.

Most polyunsaturated fats have a lot of omega 6 and very little omega 3 fatty acids. It is important to ingest as close to equal parts of both as possible.  Here is an example:  Super market eggs raised on grain have nineteen times more omega 6s than omega 3s, but on the flip side, eggs from chickens eating insects and green plants have equal ratio of omega 6s and 3s.

The book also has a HUGE list of why we need healthy fats and what functions they are needed for in our bodies.  There are many functions that won’t occur or that are impaired if these fats aren’t ingested. Most importantly it is used for healthy cellular structure and as we all know EVERY part of our body is made up of cells.  Low cholesterol levels have been linked to aggressive and violent behavior, depression and suicidal tendencies.

A concise summarization by Fallon on the “bad fats” is as quoted on page 13:

“The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin A, C an D, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.  These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.”

There was probably a whole other page on how oils are extracted and what hydrogenation and homogenization is.  It was very interesting, but there is no way to explain it except by reading the section.  It is very detailed, but VERY interesting and VERY disgusting.  It makes you want to never eat them again!  There is probably a whole page or more dedicated to the health benefits of butter from raw, grass fed milk.  Some of the positive points were that it lubricates joins helping in arthritis, high in fat soluble vitamins like A, D, K and E.

I really enjoyed reading about fats and how important it is to eat good fats to help your body function the way it was created to! It was also encouraging to know that we can and should be eating good butter, animal fats (from bacon and sausage!! Mmmmm, lard, tallow, etc), coconut oil and raw (unheated) olive oil. It’s encouraging to know that there are some things our family is on the right page with!  I’m sure I won’t always feel as encouraged as I continue through the book.

Next up… Carbohydrates, proteins, milk and milk products… Stay tuned!

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Family Photos {2014}

It’s high time we have our family photos updated!  The photos we had done in 2012 are quite outdated and we’ve had a new addition since then… in fact, that addition came 13 months ago!

Of course we had the privilege to have our photos done with the talented Alyssa Anne.  It’s such a treat to have her document our family over the years and see such beauty in her work.  I’m always surprised at how amazing her photos are and how much I love EVERY photo!  She does such an amazing job of capturing our family, who we are and how we role!

Enjoy some updated photos and visit her bog to see more of her work!

Please Note:  Do not reproduce or use these photos with out giving Alyssa Anne credit for them.  Also please do not enter them in any photo contest before contacting her and asking her permission.  Thank you.

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Andretti Autosport becomes first US Formula E team

INDIANAPOLIS (July 17, 2013) – Renowned IndyCar team Andretti Autosport, led by racing legend Michael Andretti, has today become the third of 10 teams to sign up to the FIA Formula E Championship – the world’s first fully-electric global racing series, beginning in 2014.

The launch, held at the team’s headquarters in Indianapolis, was attended by Alejandro Agag, CEO of Championship promoters Formula E Holdings and President, Chairman and CEO of Andretti Autosport Michael Andretti.

Andretti Autosport currently fields multiple entries in the IZOD IndyCar Series along with multiple campaigns in the Firestone Indy Lights, the Pro Mazda Championship and in the USF2000 National Championship. It is one of the most well-known and decorated teams in US motorsport with four IZOD IndyCar Series championships (2004, 2005, 2007 and 2012), two Firestone Indy Lights titles (2008 and 2009), one USF2000 championship (2010) and has won the world-famous Indianapolis 500 twice (2005 and 2007). Michael himself boasts a racing career spanning more than 20 years competing in CART and Formula One with a remarkable 42 victories in CART, a runner-up on five occasions and second on the list of the most IndyCar laps led, just behind his father Mario.

“It’s an honour for Andretti Autosport to have been selected as one of the 10 founding Formula E teams for the inaugural season,” said Michael Andretti. “I look forward to further exploring the series and helping build the future of open-wheel racing across the world.”

Andretti Autosport becomes the third team to join the new zero emission series which will see Formula cars racing on 10 city-centre circuits all around the world. They join UK-based Drayson Racing, who recently set the world electric land speed record, together with China Racing, headed up by the highly-regarded Steven Lu.

Alejandro Agag added: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Andretti Autosport to the series; a team with an incredible racing pedigree and track record who I have no doubt is going to make a big contribution to the FIA Formula E Championship. It’s fantastic too for such a highly-established outfit to show its commitment to sustainable motoring and with two US races on the inaugural calendar – Los Angeles and Miami – I’m sure American motorsport fans will have a lot to cheer come race day.

“As well being the first team from the US, today’s announcement now means we have three teams from three different continents and we’re looking forward to announcing many more over the coming months.”

For the inaugural season, teams including Andretti Autosport will use the new Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E car, built by French-based company Spark Racing Technology, together with a consortium of the leading manufacturers in motorsport including McLaren, Williams, Renault and Dallara – with Michelin being the Championship’s Official Tyre Supplier and TAG Heuer the Official Time Keeper.

Patrice Ratti, CEO of Renault Sport Technologies who are overseeing the systems integration of the Spark-Renault SRT_01E, added: “As technical partner to Formula E and as a brand committed to motorsport for over 100 years, it is a great honour for Renault to welcome Andretti Autosport onboard. Andretti Autosport is one of the largest and most respected motorsport organizations in the world and we are delighted of their decision to join us in the new Zero-Emission professional racing series pioneered by FEH. Such great professional teams as Andretti Autosport will further inspire our engineers to develop an amazing race car and create a great show for motorsport fans around the world. With three professional teams now confirmed and more interested, we should soon have a complete grid for any other series to envy.”

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Australia can't afford an Abbott Government failure to deliver the “cash-for-containers” economic windfall

Today Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson called on Environment Minister Greg Hunt to outline his new plan for delivering the economic, social, and environmental windfalls of a Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) given the Standing Council on Environment and Water (SCEW) was disbanded this month.

“With up to 3,000 jobs and $500 million in sustainable investment at stake nationally, on top of the millions to be saved by local governments across Australia, Minister Hunt needs to immediately outline how he will get this process back on track,” Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said.

“As Environment Minister, Greg Hunt knows CDS, or 'cash-for-containers', is good for our ecosystems, oceans, and wildlife, and as a member of the Abbott Government he should care about jobs, investment, and savings.

“This month we saw the release of an independent consultants report for the Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) that showed CDS could mean $26.8 million over 20 years to Tasmania and possibly even more to local governments on the mainland.

“This latest independent report follows on from other investigations, including an Australian Greens Senate Inquiry, which collectively and comprehensibly show that a national CDS will not only be good for our environment but will be a boon for jobs and social enterprise.

“The economic windfall outlined in the LGAT report hinges on a ‘Decision Regulatory Impact Statement’ (DRIS) that is overdue from SCEW, however this COAG council has just been disbanded on Greg Hunt's watch.

“The message is getting out that CDS is in the national interest on so many fronts and the final nails are being hammered into the coffin of the corporate lobbyists who have been behind the misleading advertising spun for their own selfish interests.

“The five year investigation into a national CDS is sitting on Minister Hunt’s desk and he must get it back on track for the sake of our environment and economy,” concluded Senator Peter Whish-Wilson.

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One Down, One to Go

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Thoughts From the Porch: I shared the porch with my lovely wife this morning. The sun was just rising though its efforts were thwarted by an overcast September sky. A southbound cold front and a northbound low-pressure system promise rain for the next couple of days. I’m enjoying the porch in advance of our son’s wedding tomorrow (we don’t have step-kids, Brandon). The rehearsal dinner is tonight and judging by the level of stress and anxiety of all involved, I’m sure everyone will be sleeping in Sunday morning. I’ll have some real quiet time then. As for now, the whispered conversation Margaret and I share is broken only by the squirrels, who started early, chasing each other through the trees in our front yard.

North Texas Giving Day is over, the wedding soon will be, and I can go on to other things I’ve been putting off due to time constraints. I watched the 10:00 o’clock news last night and the total one-day contributions for North Texas Giving Day were over $43,000,00.00 and counting. I can’t tell you how many local charities will be helped. It restores my oft-waning faith in human beings…

Astronomical Fall begins tomorrow. I’m so ready for it. It’s my favorite time of year. We have five Pecan trees and several other trees in our yard. As Fall moves forward and they prepare for Winter, they tend to make mowing a little difficult. Still, that can be remedied by blowing the fallen leaves into big piles that the grandkids (and Pops!) can jump into and crush into a fine mulch.

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Fall brings out the kid in me, at least I think so. I only have fleeting glimpses of childhood. It’s not because I have middle-aged memory lapses. It’s always been that way. Others share about their childhood and I’m at a loss for mine. Ironically, I can remember most of the years I drank and drugged my way to the bottom. There’s something wrong with that picture…

Maybe that’s why I long to jump in a big pile of leaves. I’ve been given the opportunity to create new childhood memories. Jumping into the leaves isn’t really an adult thing. It requires letting go of some adult inhibitions. I keep hearing that one enters a second childhood when one gets older. If that’s true I hope I live a long while…

The Rabbi once told his disciples that “unless you return to square on and start over like children, you’re not even going to get a look at the (spiritual) kingdom”. He went to say that life is about becoming “simple and elemental, like a child”. Sounds like good advice to me.

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  1. I love it! Thank you so much. I’m off tot he wedding in a bit. I’ve performed several ceremonies over the years, but the best thing about them when it’s your kids are the day after it’s over!

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10 High Energy Vinyasa Yoga Videos

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In Vinyasa, we practice breath initiated movement. Class pace is aerobic, fluid, and challenging for beginners. There is a strong emphasis on delicate transitions, with steadiness and ease recognized as elements of graceful movement. Refined movement through powerful postures create integrated strength, flexibility, and a kick butt workout.Fast-paced yoga offers a satisfying workout because of the strong demands it places on the body. While you may be dripping with sweat and begging for mercy, you will find that you’re thrilled with the results. If you think yoga isn’t a “real workout” because it’s of its slow pace and calm nature, fast-paced yoga will make you eat your words. This energetic yoga style has you constantly switching from one pose to the next, and it is expressly practiced daily – that’s right, even if you’re still sore from the previous day’s workout. Yoga for Energy and Inspiration by Julie Montagu
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Fluid movement to bring out your inner dancer. Come find the child-like sense of freedom and exploration on the mat with Grokker expert, Beth Stuart. This dance class will utilize flowing dance inspired-moves with vinyasa poses, to give you an amazing full body workout. You'll need a little extra space around the mat for this class. When your ready to start moving, may your way to the mat!
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Go with the flow. This Water based practice, part 2 in a 6-part series, invites you to 'ride the wave' through dynamic and rhythmic breath and body movements. In this Grokker Premium video, this fluid sequence fosters a playful exploration as we move through a circular (mandala) pattern around the yoga mat. Grokker Yoga Expert, Christy Evans, focuses on hip opening postures that are emphasized as we connect to our orange energy center for play (lila), creativity, and permission to go with the flow on and off of the yoga mat.
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If you're short on time and looking for a fast-paced flow, then you're in the right place. This class will get your heart rate pumping through cardio vinyasa that also incorporates elements of interval training. You'll definitely be sweating on this one, so grab a towel and make your way to the mat.
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Sometimes you just don't feel like doing chaturanga in your practice. But don't let that fool you, this class will still be plenty challenging. Beth Stuart will guide you through a vinyasa flow that will open your chest, and strengthen the muscles in your arms and shoulders. When you do come back to a practice involving chaturanga, you'll feel stronger and be able to practice more safely.
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A strong core is about more than just aesthetics. Find better posture and mobility as you join Grokker expert, Emily-Clare Hill for this intermediate vinyasa flow class that focuses on building strength throughout your core. Through a number of dynamic movements, Emily will show you how to best engage and strengthen your entire mid-section while reaping the benefits of a flow class. Grab your mat, and a blanket or scarf and make your way to the mat.
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This standing series is called the rocket, and will test your balance, get you sweaty, and leave you feeling absolutely fantastic. Join Steffy White in this Grokker Premium Video where she'll take you through a strengthening rocket standing series.
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A healthy spine is essential to unleashing the inherent freedom of your body, heart and spirit. By playing with spinal movement through backbends and experimenting with inversions and transitions, you will liberate powerful access points to spinal freedom. In this 3rd video in the Free Your Spine series with Grokker Yoga Expert Ashleigh Sergeant, you will explore new and familiar poses. Follow your own creative energy and discover new pathways to freedom in this Premium video. Suitable for Advanced Levels.
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A healthy spine is essential for feeling freedom in your body. In this 3 part series lead by Grokker Yoga Expert Ashleigh Sergeant, you will move dynamically through challenging twists to experience a deep range of motion along the spinal column. Spiral through this Grokker Premium video to unravel tension in a challenging and playful practice. This is the first video in a three part series focused on feeling, understanding, and deepening movement within the spine through twists, core strengthening, and backbends. Suitable for intermediate to advanced levels.
10. Full Body Breakdown: Tone Your Asana
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Wind Advisory Issued for Northwestern U.S. Gusts of 85 MPH Possible

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued several wind advisories for the states of Oregon, Washington, and Northern California on March 9, 2016. There could be gusts of wind of up to 85 miles per hour (mph). These high wind warnings vary depending upon their geographic location in the Northwestern United States.

Southern Oregon and Northern California

The Medford office of the NWS indicates the warning is in effect through 10 a.m. PST on March 10. This is an update to the previously released high wind watch. Winds from the south and southwest averaging 35-60 mph with gusts up to 80 mph are likely, with the strongest winds between the evening and late night hours on March 9.

Areas affected in Central Siskiyou County include the city of Weed, located in the Shasta Valley area of California along the Interstate 5 corridor, and in Oregon, the Siskiyou mountains and Southern Oregon Cascades, including Crater Lake National Park, the city of Crater Lake, and Mount Ashland. The mountain peaks will likely be the location of the highest wind gusts.

Central Coastal Mountain Range and Southwest Washington Willapa Hills

The high wind warning for this area will remain in effect between 4:00 p.m., March 9, through 4:00 a.m., March 10. Highest winds are likely to occur during the early evening hours through midnight.

Northward winds will average 30-40 mph with gusts possible of up to 60 mph in the Central and Northern Coastal range in Oregon, including Vernonia and Veneta cities. In Washington’s Willapa Hills, the winds are expected to be between 25-40 mph and the predicted gusts could reach 65 mph. The strongest winds will likely occur in elevated terrain.

Central and Northern Oregon Coast and South Washington Coast

This area has a high wind warning that will be in effect between 1:00 p.m., March 9, through 2:00 a.m., March 10. Beaches will experience winds from the south averaging between 35-45 mph and the likelihood of gusts up to 75 mph.

The coastal cities of Ocean Park, Raymond, and Long Beach in Washington, and in Oregon, the cities of Florence, Newport, Tillamook, Lincoln City, Newport, and Astoria will experience winds between 30-45 mph from the south with gusts likely up to 65 mph.

South Central Oregon Coast

In the Curry County Coastal cities of Gold Beach, Port Orford, Bandon, Harbor, and Brookings, the high wind warning is in effect between 1:00 p.m., March 9, and 4:00 a.m., March 10. The winds coming from the south will be the strongest in the evening, averaging 40-55 mph with gusts likely between 55-85 mph. Exposed locations on Oregon State Highway 101 will experience the strongest winds.

Metro Areas of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington

The metro areas of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, including South and Central Willamette Valley, the Interstate 5 corridor in upper Northwest Oregon, and Southwest Washington, have been issued a wind advisory. This warning is in effect between 4:00 p.m., March 9, and 6:00 a.m., March 10. Peak winds are expected to occur in the evening and last until 3:00 a.m.

Cities include Oregon City, Hillsboro, St. Helens, McMinnville, Springfield, Eugene, Gresham, Corvallis, Portland and Vancouver metro, Washougal, Kelso, Longview, and Battle Ground.

Possible impacts of high winds can include downed trees or tree damage. Falling limbs could be extremely dangerous. There may be power outages. Highway and vehicle travel in open areas could be hazardous, especially for motorhomes, trucks, and any vehicles towing trailers. Highway overpasses could be subject to whipping winds which could cause drivers to lose control of their vehicle.

On the coast, high surf is possible, and low-lying coastal cities could also experience minor flooding from the high surf. Remain cautious when driving and avoid water on roadways in flooded areas.

By Cathy Milne

National Weather Service Medford Oregon: High Winds Alerts
AccuWeather: Severe Weather Alerts – Portland, Oregon
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As you may already know, the human body is composed of over 50% water! So it is easy to see why clean and pure water is so essential for optimal health.

waterToxic Tap Water

Although tap water is usually sanitary and free of pathogenic bacteria and parasites, there is unfortunately a litany of over 300 different artificial chemicals, toxins, and heavy metals that have dramatically contaminated most municipal water supplies.

Unlike bacteria and parasites that usually cause more noticeable acute illness such as fever and gastrointestinal distress, these man-made pollutants slowly accumulate in the body and lead to long-term chronic disease.

Some of the contaminants found in tap water include:

  • Disinfection byproducts (carcinogens)
  • Perchlorate (rocket fuel)
  • MTBE (gasoline additive)
  • Prescription drug residue like antidepressants, antipsychotics, and hormones from birth control
  • Heavy metals
  • PCBs

These are all dangerous toxins that can disrupt health and should be avoided at all costs. That means it is imperative to avoid drinking unfiltered tap water!

Is Bottled Water the Solution?

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Over 73 billion half-liter bottles of water are consumed in the US per year. Of those, 50 billion bottles end up in landfills or polluting waterways and eventually contributing to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It also takes over 17 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic required for the number of water bottles purchased by American consumers in a single year. That is enough oil to fuel more than 1 million cars for an entire year!

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Ensure The Water You Consume is Pure

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Ninefox Gambit-Yoon Ha Lee

“Seven, Subcommand Two said. “Do you have anything better to suggest?”

Cheris didn’t look at the ninefox’s eyes. “Five suggested one weapon,” she said. “I can do better. You can win this with one man.”

She had their attention.

“Specify,” Subcommand Two said. It knew. What other gambit could she have brought to the table?

“General Shuos Jedao.” There. She had said it.

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Publisher: Solaris

Date of Publication: June 14, 2016

Kel Cheris is an infantry captain of the Hexarchate, known for her unconventional use of formation tactics in the Hexarchate’s perpetual war against heretical doctrines that periodically arise to threaten their long-established hegemony. A mathematical prodigy, Cheris’ talents are wasted in the infantry, but Kel are soldiers, and as such, her duty is to serve. Yet her capabilities are not long overlooked by her superiors, and when the Fortress of Scattered Needles falls to a faction of heretics believed long eradicated, Kel Cheris is tasked with the mission of retaking the fortress before its loss causes irreparable harm to the Calendar by which all in the Hexarchate live. Her proposed solution to the problem is as unconventional as it is controversial—General Shuos Jedao.

In his time, Shuos Jedao was a strategist of unparalleled skill and his tactics entirely suited to the task at hand. Long deceased, his consciousness was preserved in the Black Cradle, a device that made him immortal, yet incorporeal. Using him is the best chance of retaking the fortress and thus bolstering the defenses of the Hexarchate against a looming invasion by the Hafn. Yet two caveats face Cheris at the prospect of working with Jedao. The first—his motivation, as he has no love for the Hexarchate he once served. The second—he is most certainly insane. For the Black Cradle is not only an immortality device—it’s a prison designed to punish the Hexarchate’s greatest traitor for all eternity.

Paired with Jedao as his corporeal host, Kel Cheris must utilize his brilliance while safeguarding both her mission and her sanity from the brilliant General’s influence. As the fight to retake the fortress progresses, Cheris discovers that while Jedao may be the monster she’s been warned of, he may not be the monster that needs fearing. Defeating the heretics and unravelling the mystery surrounding his past will lead to questions concerning their future path and the true agenda of the Hexarchate.

Arthur C. Clarke’s third law states that, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” With Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee has accepted the challenge and crafted a novel of stunning audacity, bursting the conventions of traditional Space Opera/Military Science Fiction. In the process, Lee has crafted a genre-bender of sorts, blending traditional science fiction with elements of the fantastical. Whether it works for the reader depends on their willful suspension of disbelief and the concordant ability to blur the line between Fantasy and Science Fiction.

In Ninefox Gambit, we’re introduced to a society where technology is subject to the quasi-religious belief of its inhabitants, what Lee describes as, “The Calendar”, both figuratively and literally their system of perceiving time and space and the mathematical principles sustaining it. Since the fall of the Fortress of Scattered Needle, a space habitat that defends their border and sustains the calendar over a large portion of their empire, “calendrical rot” has set in, where the weapons and tactics of the Hexarchate have become either weaker or non-existent.

A stable calendar is essential to the functioning of the Hexarchate, as their technology is concordant with belief in a certain set of constants, such as the 24 hour system of gauging time. If a dissident faction creates a system using a different calendar, some technology no longer works, while those “exotic” weapons and devices linked to the new calendrical system will. Formation tactics work in a similar manner, in that the placement of troops or ships in a given situation and rigid adherence to that formation affects the strength of their attack and the effectiveness of their weaponry. Soldiers of the Hexarchate rely on lists of different formations—a standardized playbook—to wage war, and non-standard formations create unexpected effects that are generally discouraged. It’s a rigid system of warfare, combining a blend of Numerology and Feng Shui with a large element of “handwavium” to achieve their goals.

Battles are won and lost by the use of quasi-magical devices such as the carrion glass bomb, reducing its victims to shards of glass containing their memories, amputation guns firing an arcing beam in which victims limbs literally fall off, and that most devastating of weapons, the threshold winnower, whose effects are terrifying, ghastly, and beyond human comprehension. The use of exotic weapons and formations to wage warfare is as analogous to magic as to make a mockery of the appeals to science and mathematical formulas the characters claim as the basis of their technology. Not surprisingly, it’s the least convincing element of the novel.

Yet this sufficiently advanced magic disguised as technology—and let’s not quibble, this is good old-fashioned magic dressed up as science for Hallowe’en—constitutes a unique take on the norms by which we assume technology should work, and in these days of Wi-Fi and virtual reality environments, kudos must be given the author for thinking so far beyond of the conventional.

The world-building of Ninefox Gambit is both complex and inscrutable. There are six factions of the Hexarchate, seven if you include the long eradicated Liozh, and each performs a specialized function in the proper functioning of their empire:

  • The Kel, to whom Cheris belongs, are the grunts, the military with which the Hexarches keep order. The reader learns early on that the Kel are conditioned to be unquestioningly obedient, up to and beyond the point of sacrificing themselves to accomplish their mission.
  • The Shuos, responsible for strategic planning. They’re the schemers, always taking a long view, attempting to influence the rest of the factions into furthering their goals.
  • The Nirai, who oversee much of the technological evolution of the Hexarchate. They’re the engineers.
  • The Rahal, essentially the government overseers, responsible for the maintenance of the Calendar.
  • The Vidona, specializing in indoctrination and stamping out heresy. They’re the commissars of the Hexarchate, enforcing doctrine at the end of a gun.
  • The Andan, whose purview is both culture and finance. They hold the purse-strings, giving them an outsize influence within the Hexarchate.

And finally we come to the Liozh, the seventh faction, the philosophers and ethicists, perhaps the most interesting of the factions. Eradicated for advocating the heresy of Democracy, their enduring influence continues to frustrate the Hexarches and encourage their foes.

Lee reveals the motivations of the various factions in a piecemeal manner, so it’s best to keep a running track of who’s who and which faction they represent if the reader wants to keep from getting confused. Luckily, most characters use their faction as a surname (see Kel Cheris or Shuos Jedao), which makes it somewhat easier to divine their motivations, although a glossary would have come in handy at times.

As to the characters, Yoon Ha Lee does an exemplary job of fleshing out both Kel Cheris and Shuos Jedao, but is somewhat deficient regarding ancillary characters. Early on the reader meets the captain of Cheris’ Cindermoth(command ship), Kel Nerevor, who seems as though she might have a major role to play in the course of the novel, yet she’s casually tossed aside just as she’s getting interesting.

Cheris and Jedao are both portrayed sympathetically, she a slave to her training as a Kel, but still imaginative enough to embrace borderline heretical doctrine, and he a cold tactician willing to throw away the lives of those around him, but only if the benefits outweigh the cost. Seemingly heartless, we’re given a window into his motivations that belies this notion. He’s a villain with depth of character that will hopefully be fleshed out in the next installment.

Lee also introduces readers to the Servitors, autonomous and sentient A.I. forms that serve menial roles within the Hexarchate. They act as servants within the Hexarchate, but are well aware of their status as virtual slaves, and share a subculture their masters show little appreciation for. However, it becomes apparent that the servitors have their own agenda, one not necessarily in line with that of their masters and worthy of further exploration.

Ninefox Gambit is not a particularly easy read, but with some perseverance, readers will come away with an appreciation of the author’s audacious take on the conventions of the genre. It’s as if the author has written a fantasy novel encased in a sci-fi binding, a daunting task to be sure, yet one that puts an interesting spin on what would otherwise be a commonplace Space Opera. Ninefox Gambit has been nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Best Novel award this year, and while this reader doesn’t see it reaching quite those heights, the novel does constitute an entirely readable debut, one that the author will hopefully build on with Raven Stratagem, the second of the Machineries of Empire series.

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Coffee drinkers have better arteries – Tufts

Drinking three to five cups a day linked to lower risk of arterial plaque.

I enjoy coffee and have some every morning. I drink decaf because I don’t like to introduce unhealthy chemicals like caffeine into my system. That’s just me. I am not trying to proselytize here, just get the facts down, because the latest from the Tufts Health Letter interested me as a coffee drinker and blogger who covers health.

“Scientists may now better understand at least one way in which coffee could help to protect against cardiovascular disease. A large new Korean study reports that people drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 41% less likely to show signs of coronary artery calcium than non-coffee drinkers. This calcification is an early indicator of the artery-clogging plaques (atherosclerosis) that cause coronary artery disease, which afflicts nearly 16 million Americans.  Continue reading

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Should I Eat Less Chocolate? Costco Love Crunch

Regular readers know that I ride my bike an average of 20 miles a day which covers a multitude of sins at the table. A 20 mile bike ride burns over 1000 calories a day, or about 50 percent more than the 2000 I need to maintain my 150 pound body weight.

Because of that 1000 calorie ‘buffer’ until recently I had been enjoying a Hershey’s with Almonds bar most evenings.

Here is the nutrition breakdown for that Hershey’s with Almonds bar:
Calories 210
Total Fat 14 grams
Saturated Fat 6 grams
Cholesterol 10 mg
Sodium 25 mg
Carbs 21 grams
Sugar 19 grams
Fiber 2 grams
Protein 4 grams

As you can see, this isn’t horrible as far as nutrition is concerned, particularly in view of the 1000 calorie buffer. But, six grams of saturated fat isn’t great and the 19 grams of sugar amounts to almost 5 teaspoons full (4.2 grams/tsp).
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Southern fried foods heart-risky – Study

Reasons to think twice before you order chicken from the colonel …

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Eating Southern-style foods may be linked to a higher risk of stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2013.

In the first large-scale study on the relationship between Southern foods and stroke, researchers characterized a Southern diet by a high intake of foods such as fried chicken, fried fish, fried potatoes, bacon, ham, liver and gizzards, and sugary drinks such as sweet tea. In addition to being high in fat, fried foods tend to be heavily salted.

“We’ve got three major factors working together in the Southern-style diet to raise risks of cardiovascular disease: fatty foods are high in cholesterol, sugary drinks are linked to diabetes and salty foods lead to high blood pressure,” said Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., M.P.H., lead researcher and a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Alabama Birmingham’s biostatistics department.

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Is it Healthy to Eat Eggs Regularly?

Not long ago a study published in the journal Athersclerosis reported that the more egg yolks a people ate the thicker their artery walls became. That indicates a higher risk of heart disease. Also, the effect was nearly as bad as from smoking cigarettes. The Egg Nutrition Center and American Egg Board voiced other ideas.

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The incredible edible egg

Researchers measured the buildup of carotid plaque in the arteries of 1,231 subjects. The men and women in the study were all patients at cardiovascular health clinics. For comparison’s sake, the team also measured the carotid plaque buildup of smokers in the study.

Plaque buildup increased according to age – after age 40 in a fairly steady fashion. But among the 20 percent of participants who reported eating the most egg yolks – three or more per week – carotid plaque increased “exponentially,” according to the study. The buildup equaled about two-thirds of that seen among the heaviest smokers in the group.

Arterial plaque buildup is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke; as plaque accumulates on artery walls, it narrows the space through which blood can pass, making the heart’s job of pumping more difficult. Moreover, plaque buildups can break away from the arterial wall, forming clots that can do terrible, even fatal, damage if they reach the heart or brain.

For the record, here is the nutritional breakdown of a large (56 gram) egg from SELFNutritionData:

Calories 80
Total Fat 6 grams
Saturated Fat 2 grams
Cholesterol 237 mg
Sodium 78 mg
No Carbohydrates
No Fiber
No Sugar
Protein 7 grams

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North Carolina General Statutes 130-A require that the local public health authority administer the Vital Records Program under the direction of the health director. The goal of this program is to assure vital records are filed as required by state statutes and are submitted to the North Carolina State Division of Vital Records within the required time period.

Vital Registration

The health director appoints deputy registrars to process vital records. The purpose of vital registration is to administer and enforce the General Statutes of North Carolina for Vital Statistics and related laws.

The deputy registrar is responsible for the completion, maintenance, and transmittal of the following:

  • Birth Certificate / Affidavit of Parentage
  • Burial Transit Permits
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  • Home Births
  • Monthly Vital Statistics Reports
  • Notification of Death and Certificates
  • State Queries – Birth / Death Certificate
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  • Report of Fetal Death

Additional Registration Information

It is the responsibility of the hospital to file birth certificates and funeral directors to file death certificates with local deputy registrars. Certified copies of birth and death certificates are available at the Granville County Register of Deeds, Vance County Register of Deeds, or from the North Carolina Office of Vital Records.


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Koinonia Farm
The concept that grew into Habitat for Humanity International was born at Koinonia Farm, a small, interracial, Christian community outside of Americus, Georgia. Koinonia Farm was founded in 1942 by farmer and biblical scholar Clarence Jordan.
The Fullers first visited Koinonia in 1965. They had recently left a successful business and an affluent lifestyle in Montgomery, Alabama to begin a new life of Christian service.
At Koinonia, Jordan and Fuller developed the concept of “partnership housing.” The concept centered on those in need of adequate shelter working side by side with volunteers to build simple, decent houses.

The Fund for Humanity
The houses would be built at no profit and interest would not be charged on the loans. Building costs would be financed by a revolving fund called “The Fund for Humanity.”
The fund’s money would come from the new homeowners’ house payments, no-interest loans provided by supporters and money earned by fund-raising activities. The monies in the Fund for Humanity would be used to build more houses.

Inception of Habitat for Humanity
In 1968, Koinonia laid out 42 half-acre house sites with four acres reserved as a community park and recreational area. Capital was donated from around the country to start the work.
Homes were built and sold to families in need at no profit and no interest. The basic model of Habitat for Humanity was begun.

In 1973, the Fullers decided to apply the Fund for Humanity concept in developing countries. The Fuller family moved to Mbandaka, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo.) The Fullers’ goal was to offer affordable yet adequate shelter to 2,000 people. After three years of hard work to launch a successful house building program, the Fullers returned to the United States.
Expansion into Habitat for Humanity International
In September 1976, Millard and Linda called together a group of supporters to discuss the future of their dream. Habitat for Humanity International as an organization was born at this meeting. The eight years that followed, vividly described in Millard Fuller’s book, “Love in the Mortar Joints,” proved that the vision of a housing ministry was workable. Faith, hard work and direction set HFHI on its successful course.

Phenomenal growth
In 1984, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn took their first Habitat work trip, the Jimmy Carter Work Project, to New York City. Their personal involvement in Habitat’s ministry brought the organization national visibility and sparked interest in Habitat’s work across the nation. HFHI experienced a dramatic increase in the number of new affiliates around the country.

Habitat today
Through the work of Habitat, thousands of low-income families have found new hope in the form of affordable housing. Churches, community groups and others have joined together to successfully tackle a significant social problem―decent housing for all.
Today, Habitat has helped build or repair more than 600,000 houses and served more than 3 million people around the world.


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15 Pin Up Hairstyles for the Retro

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#1: 1940s Vintage

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#2: Retro Blonde Pageboy

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The pageboy haircut is back on the scene ! This short cut with bangs frames the face superbly and curls underneath (in its original model). It was a big coiffure for girls within the 50s and 60s due to its easy maintenance and daring look.

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#4: Black Classic Pin Up

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Black women’s natural hair can have a classic retro look. This image is perfect for mid-haired women.

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It has been done perfectly. The cool and curly hair looks very natural. Here are your hair goals!

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Your neighbors will be amazed at you. Because you are very different from them. To master the ‘do, style your hair into a polished low updo with pin up bangs.

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Abstract : In South America and the Caribbean, a region representing a relevant share of global GHG emissions with a weight of 7.7% in 2011, slightly more than its share of the world’s population (6.9% in 2010), the latest estimates point to a 1.5% to 5% GDP loss by 2050. Particularly, Brazil already ranks fourth in the world when it comes to national contributions to global warming and a strong increase in GHG emissions can be anticipated in the years to come throughout the region on a BAU basis. In this context, quite logically, the region has a relevant role to play in mitigating global emissions. The energy sector, the largest contributor to GHG emission, shows promising potential to achieve climate mitigation worldwide and South American NAMAs consider it extensively. Given Latin America’s regional specificities, what contributions can its energy sector make to the fight against climate change, and at what cost? This paper investigates this specific aspect of the energy-climate nexus in Latin America through the prism of ongoing climate negotiations. This analysis focuses on the climate commitment of Latin America pledged before the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) asked to publish through the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December and which led to the signing of a historical global agreement on climate change. We use a bottom-up energy prospective model from the MarkAl/TIMES family with four contrasted scenarios for future climate policies in South America.
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Sébastien Postic, Sandrine Selosse, Nadia Maïzi. Energy sector contribution to regional climate action: The case of Latin America. [Research Report] Working Paper 2016-01-20, Chaire Modélisation prospective au service du développement durable. 2016, pp.24 - Les Cahiers de la Chaire. ⟨hal-01290055⟩

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The lack of natural light in the bathroom may make it seem dreary and dingy. Overcoming the issue is made easy by our experts at IKEA, whose philosophy of making products that are artfully coupled with functionality is a boon when it comes to working on such spaces.

Follow these simple tips to make a windowless bathroom bright and stylish.

Lights on!

  • Depending on the size of the room and the style you are going for, lighting plays a major role in illuminating and setting the tone.
  • While overhead lighting is important, smaller additions like lamps or candles can also work magic on the décor.
  • IKEA’s diverse collection of lamps, lighting, and candles can help set the tone for your bathroom.
  • Try warm yellow lighting and a few well-placed wall lamps, to up the ante.

For the love of mirrors

  • Mirrors are an essential in every bathroom, so why not have some fun?
  • When you’re dealing with a windowless bathroom, a large mirror becomes indispensable, as it creates the illusion of more space. This is especially true if the mirror extends all the way to the floor or till the rim of the wash basin.
  • An interesting-looking mirror with a nice frame can also jazz up your bathroom by adding a nice focal point, making the room seem larger and less dull.

Colour happy

  • Another way to brighten up the bathroom – or any space – would be to use colour.
  • If you want to make your bathroom seem more spacious and airy, putting a light colour or even white on your walls is recommended.
  • Or you could try something striking and go for a vivid look, with bold patterns and vibrant tones. The aim here is to make you forget all about the lack of a window.

Small mercies

  • Accessories such as a handrail or knobs for hanging essentials are functional accompaniments that will also help take the focus off your bathroom’s negative aspects.
  • A fresh bouquet of flowers – or even artificial plants – will do the trick when it comes to brightening up and breathing life into the space.

Small accessories, plants, and other products you can find in IKEA’s collection are additions that promise to make your bathroom appear stylish, breezy, and a lot more you.

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compassionPeople in positions of power, clinical or otherwise, have voices that others hear and listen to; as such, they should embrace a broader advocacy role working toward not just the wellbeing of their patients but also justice for the disempowered. Jean Fagan muses on the responsibilities of clinicians in our society.

In the past week I have been coincidentally linked to two key note addresses given to medical students by two health leaders who could not be further removed from one another, but whose messages are both so strikingly similar that they caused me to reflect on my personal responsibility.Both leaders happen to be in HGI’s contact network i.e. they are personally known to one or more HGI consultant. One was addressing graduating medical students at Harvard University 2012 Class Day; the other, delivering a key note presentation to medical students from the University of Tasmania. One is a paediatrician and appointed by President Obama to lead the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services from July 2010 to December 2011; the other, a Fellow of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine ( FAChAM) and the clinical head of Addiction Services in Tasmania. I guess it’s a little clearer why I would suggest that at face value, at least, they are worlds apart!

Both leaders spoke from the heart and from a conviction that many in positions of power, influence and leadership have either lost or never had their compass bearings focused on responsibility to help the vulnerable in society, are prepared to distort the facts for their own purpose and are moved by fear of “authentic” questions and media headlines.  Both professionals work at the top levels in their respective professions, close to the politics of health and government. They shared these common themes:

  1. The day a medical student graduates he / she gets a compass to navigate a pathway which should, firstly, always be the oath to care for all patients. However, they talked about a second compass bearing that might not be favourable to some; nevertheless, just as there is a duty to heal the sick, there is a second duty, which is to cure injustice.
  2. Graduating as a doctor gives you entry to a career of privilege, rights and licence. It gives you a voice in public debate and the oath you take bestows on you the responsibility to use that voice –  “to be ashamed of miseries you didn’t cause” (Berwick), to be a voice in a compassionate society and to understand that a physician is a “healer, who is not a leader who permits pragmatics to quench purpose” (Berwick).
  3. Both quoted compelling data and statistics that evidenced their concern for the health and well-being of many in our society and the choice being made by many individuals in power not to speak for the disempowered or against injustices or to support a common humanity. Serious and disturbing data such as: 20 million people live in extreme poverty in the United States, which means that they live on less than US$11,000 per year as a family of four. And: alcohol, tobacco and other drugs are responsible for 12% of Australia’s burden of disease and injury (Beg et al, 2008). The estimated proportion of ED injuries attributable to any level of drinking in the 6 hours prior to injury was 28% (Australia-wide; Chikritzhs et al 2011).
  4. Healthcare and health are a human right, and health is a “critical resource for life, a resource that provides opportunity for maximising one’s capacity to flourish in life” (Ottawa Charter, 1986; Culyer and Wagstaff, 1993).
  5. There is, because of the duty bestowed on you by the oath you took as a graduating medical student, a responsibility “to apply your minds to evidence-based public policy and to the range of commercial and social counter-drivers of health” and “to drive appropriate and necessary policy change” ( Dr Adrian Reynolds, AMSA / UTAS FutureMed, 2012).
  6. Dr Berwick noted the quote on a plaque in the foyer of the Hubert Humphrey Building, headquarters of Health and Human Services: “The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, in the twilight of life and in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped”. He reflected that as a physician, you must not forget your purpose as a healer to the people in the dawn, the twilight and the shadows of their lives. “Those that suffer need you to be something more than a doctor; they need you to be a healer. To become a healer you must do something even more difficult than putting your white coat on. You must take your white coat off. You must embrace and treasure the memory of your shared, frail humanity – of the dignity of each and every human being”.

As citizens of the world, we all have a responsibility to contribute to a shared humanity and to navigate with a moral compass that gives us our bearings to contribute to a compassionate society.

Lastly, I want to share a quote sent to me by one of my sons yesterday. It struck a chord with me, because without health, this fundamental human characteristic can’t be realised – “A decent society should maximise the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic (the need for creative work, for creative enquiry) to be realised.” – Noam Chomsky


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Cropped Sensor vs. Full Frame Comparison

Awhile back I wrote a post about why sensor size matters when choosing your camera body/lens combination. In it I shared this video which demonstrates the difference in focal length between a Canon 5D MKII and a 7D.

Well just yesterday I had the opportunity to test it out first hand using a 5D and 40D. Here’s the set-up: I was shooting a bedroom with the 5D. I had it on a tripod to make sure I was shooting from the same position when I switched to the 40D.  I was using a 17-40mm f/4 L on the 5D and a 17-55 f/2.8 on the 40D. Below is the shot on the 5D. I thought I had it racked to 17mm but it was actually 19mm; but hey, I’m not gonna cry over 2mm!

f/10, 1/15, ISO 200, 19mm

 Next, I switched to the 40D and dialed in the same exact settings.

f/10, 1/15, ISO 200, 17mm

You can see how dramatic the difference is even without the 2mm discrepancy. I knew that a 17mm on a cropped sensor lens is about 24mm (1.6 x 17 = 27.2) so I put the 5D back on the tripod and set it to about 24mm to compare.

Bedroom shot with a Canon 5D

f/10, 1/15, ISO 200, 25mm

It’s pretty close I think (remember I’m off by 2-3mm). This is just another illustration of the difference between full frame and cropped sensor cameras. It’ not a bad thing or a good thing; just something to be aware of. With the knowledge you can take advantage of either a full frame of an APS-C sensor depending on what type of shooting you do.

I want to take a few moments to share a couple of related stories. First, a photographer friend of mine has a 35mm 1.4 and he wants the 24mm 1.4 to get a wider focal length. For an extra 11mm, I would take a step back when composing and save the $1700.

I was reading a blog about the 17-55mm f/2.8 and it said the lens gives you a wide focal length. I commented that it’s comparable to the 24-70mm f/2.8 but at a lower price point and with the added benefit of image stabilization (IS). The writer wrote back and said because it is an EF-S lens that the true focal length is 17-55. I referred him to some supporting documentation and never heard back. Just goes to show that just because it’s in a review or a blog (even this one) doesn’t mean it’s gospel.

Lastly, I’ve been asked if a full frame camera will deliver sharper images than an APS-C sized sensor. Sharpness is a function of the lens and your camera settings (shutter speed, focus drive etc.). The weakest part of a lens is typically the edges. Now imagine a circle inside a square. The square is your sensor and the circle is the image coming from your lens. Because the square is larger than your circle (full frame) you are going to see every part of the lens. This is why most lenses produce vignetting on full frame cameras but not cropped sensors.

 Now imagine a square inside a circle. Because the square is smaller (cropped sensor) you will not see the edges of the circle. So in general lenses perform better on cropped sensor cameras; but that’s not due to some design flaw in full frame cameras. It’s just the nature of the beast. The better the lens, the fewer the distortions. Again, I am generalizing and simplifying here.  Every lens generally performs better when stopped down from its maximum aperture. You really have to research a camera and lens and test drive it yourself.

Well let me leave you with the final edited image of that bedroom.

Master King Bedroom

Technique Tuesday: Bedroom

Ok, I’m calling this “Technique Tuesday” but I can’t promise I’ll do this every week. But today is Tuesday and this is about a technique I use almost everyday; hence the title. Brilliant, no?

A Master Bedroom

f/10, 1/3 second, ISO 200

The image above is pretty much the RAW image straight out of camera. It’s shot with a Canon 5D and a 580EXII on camera with a diffuser and bounced off the ceiling. If I remember correctly, I believe I have the flash set to TTL and boosted it by +2.

I then set up an Alien Bees 1600 strobe to camera left fired through an umbrella and set to 1/8 power for the image below.

Master Bedroom

f/8, 1/8 second, ISO 200

You can see right away what adding an extra off-camera light adds to the image. (Note: the image above was tweaked slightly in Adobe Camera Raw.) I then took another exposure for the window:

Master Bedroom

f/10, 1/180th, ISO200

I also tweaked the image above to bring out the blue in the sky a little. I then placed that image on top of the first one in Photoshop and masked out the window for the final image. I also got rid of that bothersome sensor dust in the ceiling.

Master Bedroom

That’s it. No fancy HDR tricks. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

Canon and Nikon DSLR Timeline

UPDATE Feb. 20, 2016: I originally wrote this post in 2010. In case you’ve run across it, here’s an updated graph showing both Canon and Nikon through 2014. It doesn’t include the most recent cameras like the 5Ds series, 80D or 1Dx MKII on Canon’s side or the D5 and D810 on the Nikon side.

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Canon DSLR Timeline

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So I was trying to figure out how old some Canon DSLR models were and I had trouble finding one source until I found the nifty little graph above in an on-line forum.  Click for a larger view and underneath the model number you’ll see the megapixel count and the sensor crop factor (1.0x = full frame, 1.6x = APS-C, etc.). For more on crop factors, check out this previous blog.

The graph ends in 2009.  For a list which includes 2012 check out this list on Wikipedia.

The prices are interesting. Eight-thousand for the 1DS MKIII in December of 2007! Three years later it goes for about 6-thousand. Not bad depreciation.

I’m not leaving Nikon shooters out. Check out this similar graph on Wikipedia for the Nikon lineup through 2012. If you want a more visual presentation, Ken Rockwell has a timeline from 1973-2012 in reverse chronological order with pictures of each model beginning with the D1, the  “worlds first practical DSLR”, in 1999.

Nikon D1

Nikon D1

It’s also interesting to see how quickly or slowly Canon and Nikon replace some models. The 50D, for example, replaced the 40D in only one year. But the 5D MKII came along about 3 years after the 5D.  Nikon seems to average about 2-years between upgrades. This is why I tell people to invest in good lenses and not to worry too much about camera bodies.  My problem is… I want both!

Here’s hoping you get one or the other in 2011 if you didn’t for Christmas. On that note…Happy New Year!


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Recent Acquisitions

Vide gear

In a recent blog post I mentioned that I recently invested in quite a bit of gear to start doing more real estate videos. I really want to increase the production value and make the videos cinematic. Here is some of the equipment I’ll be using:

1.) Westcott Spiderlite TD 6 Continuous Lighting Kit

2.)Manfrotto  535 Carbon Fiber Tripod with 502 Video Head

3.) Tether Tools Wallee iPad Connect

4.) Cinevate Atlas FLT 26 inch slider with vertical kit and counterbalance

5.) Manfrotto 494 mini ball head

6.) Rode Smart Lav

7.) Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote

I plan to review each piece to let you know how it works and why I use it. So stay tuned for that.

My First Time Lapse

I’m starting to do more real estate videos. Not satisfied with run-of-the-mill videos, I recently invested quite a bit of money into equipment that will step up the production value. One of those items is an intervalometer to help me do time lapse.

I did the short clip above by hand; meaning I did not have an intervalometer. I simply used the timer on my iPhone and a cable release to take the necessary exposures. After trying that, I knew I needed a remote timer to make it easier on me, so I went ahead and bought it.

There are a ton of tutorials on the web about time lapse so I won’t rehash here. Just know there is some math involved to figure out how many frames you need. I knew I wanted a 4-second clip and I’m recording at 24 frames per second. So I need 96 pictures to cover 4 seconds (4 x 24=96). I want to take a picture every 3 seconds to show the movement of the clouds. So I multiply 96 x 3=288. That’s how many seconds I have to shoot with a 3-second interval to get 96 frames. 288 divided by 60=4.8 or about 5 minutes. So for five minutes, I took a picture every 3 seconds and got 96 frames to cover 4 seconds of footage. In other words, you just saw five minutes fly by in 4 seconds.

Soon, I’ll post reviews on all the pieces of equipment I acquired including the intervalometer, so stay tuned for that.


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The Christmas Story Starts and Ends With a Tree

by Greg Laurie on Dec 8, 2018

A family who was going to go out of town for Christmas loaded up their SUV with their luggage, took the dog over to a neighbor’s house, entered the coordinates in their GPS and had even recorded a CD with songs for the road. Everything was ready, and they were so relieved to finally be in the car. They were halfway down the street when the woman suddenly cried out to her husband, “We forgot the baby!”

To me that is a picture of Christmas. We trim our trees. We make our list and check it twice. We shop ’til we drop. We go to endless Christmas productions and parties. Then it dawns on us that we forgot the baby: the baby Jesus, the one whom Christmas is all about.

It is possible to celebrate Christmas and forget all about Christ. It is possible to lose Jesus at Christmas. It is possible in this celebration of Jesus’ birth to forget all about Jesus. Thankfully, even when we forget about him, he never forgets about us.

Really, the story of the birth of Jesus is the greatest of all stories. The Bible tells us, “But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law” (Galatians 4:4 NLT).

Jesus came to this earth at the perfect time, when the time was just right. These were dark days for the nation of Israel. Almost as difficult as their bondage in Egypt under Pharaoh, they were living under the tyranny of Rome and its puppet governor, Herod. To make matters worse, the Jewish people hadn’t heard from God for 400 years – not a single prophet, not one angelic appearance, not one miracle. There was nothing but an icy silence … or so it seemed.

Then suddenly the silence was broken, and God dispatched a high-ranking angel named Gabriel to a godly man called Zechariah. He told Zechariah that he and his wife, Elizabeth, would be the parents of the forerunner of the Messiah.

The Christmas story starts with a tree – not a Christmas tree but a family tree. Both the gospel of Luke and Matthew start with genealogies. Genealogies were very important to the Jewish people. Their pedigree, their genealogy, was a bit like a résumé. Both Mary and Joseph traced their genealogy back to King David.

It’s interesting to note that the Christmas story does not begin with the words “once upon a time” as so many fairytales do. It starts with a series of “begots” – so-and-so begot so-and-so. That is because the Christmas story is a factual, historical event. It still has all the pathos and magic and pageantry of the best fairytales, yet this is a real story. All other stories we’ve heard are, at best, pale imitations of the greatest story ever told. The story of the birth of Jesus started in heaven and unfolded on Earth.

When the angel appeared to the shepherds and announced, “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11), the angel effectively was saying, “Listen, Earth. Augustus Caesar is not the savior of the world. Jesus is. The savior of the world is not in a palace in Rome. The savior of the world is wrapped in strips of cloth in a manger in Bethlehem.”

Historians believe Caesar Augustus was around 5-feet-7-inches tall. God touched this man who was big in his own mind to set about a chain of events that would bring Mary and Joseph from Nazareth to Bethlehem, because the Scriptures predicted the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem (see Micah 5:2). Today Caesar Augustus wouldn’t even have been known if he weren’t mentioned in the Bible. He is a footnote to the greatest story ever told.

Jesus is the most influential person in human history. It has been said that history swings on the hinge of a stable door in Bethlehem.

God came to this earth as a baby to die an agonizing death to ransom us from an eternal death sentence. The shadow of the cross lay over the beauty of that first Christmas night. This child was born to die so that we might live.

When we look back at the first Christmas story, we need to remember that the real Christmas tree wasn’t decorated with lights. The real Christmas tree was a cross that Christ hung on. The Bible says, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” (Galatians 3:13 NKJV). Jesus died on a tree – on a cross – for the sin of all of the world. In fact the Bible says, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13 NKJV).

That is why red is the color of Christmas – not because Santa wore red or because we wrap our presents in red paper or attach red bows to holly wreaths or put red bulbs on our trees. Red is the color of Christmas because it is the color of the blood that was shed from the cross for each and every one of us. Jesus died for the sins of the world so he could make available to us the greatest of all gifts.

One Christmas morning when I was a little boy, I clearly remember sitting and staring at our Christmas tree, one of those fake white trees lit up by rotating colored lenses that changed from blue to green to red. Christmas music was playing in the background, and the house smelled of alcohol and stale smoke. I had just opened my Christmas presents, and my mom was lying there asleep, passed out from drinking.

I had been excited for Christmas, like any other child. But I thought, “It has to get better than this.”

It did get better. I realized over time that what I needed wasn’t Christmas; I needed Christ. I didn’t need presents; I needed his presence. That is the ultimate answer. That is what we really long for, deep down inside. Jesus came to this world to save you and to save me – to save us from our sins.

Taken from my weekly column at World Net Daily.

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Grenada Makes A Splash In The Villas Market With Silversands

The market for luxury villas in island locales can often feel totally oversaturated. Finding a great villa in a perfect location is no easy task, which makes the new launch of Silversands in Grenada all the more exciting and interesting. Silversands is set to open in March of 2018 as the first modern-designed resort in the region.

The villas come attached to the luxury resort on the premises, which feature 43-suites, a hotel spa, beach club, restaurant, the longest pool in the Caribbean, and more. The beachfront and hillside villas, are 6,000 and 5,000 square feet, and hit the market at $11 million and $5.7 million, respectively. The villas offer three bedrooms, four bathrooms, and two private pools overlooking the jungle and sea. The lot sized though are even more impressive coming in at 13,500 and 26,350 square feet.

Maybe most helpful too, is that the purchase of the villa also comes with Grenadian citizenship, which grants visa-free access to 125 countries and other perks. The modern looking homes reflect a mid-century design that make this no ordinary island home, but rather something chic to walk around when there, and away from the hoards of tourists in the jungle/ocean climates of beautiful Grenada.


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Nigerian players abroad: Onyekuru, Osimhen and Chukwueze among the goals in Europe while Ighalo continues scoring form in China

It was goal galore for Nigerian players abroad as a host of them including Henry Onyekuru, Victor Osimhen and Odion Ighalo scored for their respective teams abroad.

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