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Obesity 'will cause more liver damage than alcohol'

Senior doctor says few understand that excess weight is linked to cirrhosis, diabetes and hypertension

One of the country's most senior doctors has warned that obesity will overtake alcohol as the main cause of liver cirrhosis in the "not too distant future".

Professor Christopher Hawkey's comments come as a new poll shows that more than five out of six people are unaware the disease is linked to excess weight. "Obesity is the biggest health problem we face this century," said Hawkey, president of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

"It is almost certainly going to reverse the rise in life expectancy – so we start living shorter lives than before. It will increase the risks of a number of cancers; hip and knee surgery requirement is going to be vast; and it is now projected to overtake alcohol as the biggest cause of liver cirrhosis within two decades."

Obesity has already become the main cause of less serious forms of liver disease, but cirrhosis is the end stage – an irreversible scarring that causes the organ to deteriorate.

A BSG poll of 1,959 people released today found that while the majority understood that obesity could cause diabetes, high blood pressure and infertility, few understood its link to certain cancers or liver problems.

New figures from the organisation show a huge spike in the number of people under the age of 65 dying of liver disease, while deaths linked to other problems – such as diabetes, cancers and stroke – have fallen for that age group.

The average age of death from liver disease is 59 compared with between 82 and 84 for heart and lung disease and strokes. It is the fifth largest cause of death in the UK, and in the past 10 years there has been a five-fold increase in cirrhosis for those aged between 35 and 55.

Hawkey said today's poll also showed that people don't realise other complications are related to obesity. "People don't know there is an epidemic of cancer of the oesophagus, for example, which is very hard to treat."

He said Britain had become a "nation of grazers" seeking instant gratification. The poll, he said, highlights a number of worrying trends. For example, it found that half of those questioned considered themselves overweight, and of these one in five women and more than one in six men admitted to binge-eating. Experts say bingeing is a disorder where suffers can consume 10,000 calories in one go.

"It is comfort eating – just like comfort drinking," said Hawkey, adding that bingeing could lead to many health risks beyond excess weight. The NHS defines binge-eating as a disorder where the sufferer feels "compelled to overeat".

"Binge eaters usually eat large quantities, including when they're not hungry, in a short period of time and in private. They feel they have no control over their overeating," the NHS information sheet says. Symptoms include "feelings of guilt, shame or disgust after overeating". Beat, a charity for those with eating disorders, says it is planning to draw attention to the issue over the next year. Susan Ringwood, its chief executive, said: "Some people experience sadness as an emptiness in their body which they want to fill. It is almost the opposite to anorexia.

"Binge-eating is not about people eating large portions – it is almost a ritual. They plan it, buy high-fat and sugary foods, find a time they can be alone, and lock the door. It is comfort eating – but way beyond having an extra chocolate biscuit because you feel down.

"People can take 10,000 calories in one go – four times what you would expect to eat in a day. They could, for example, eat a whole pack of butter." Ringwood said treatment includes cognitive behavioural therapy.

Hawkey said the healthiest option is for people to eat small portions of foods that release carbohydrates slowly. He also advocates vegetarianism, or "semi-vegetarianism" for those who can't give up meat entirely.


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Andy Parfitt: My thank you to Annie Nightingale for 40 years at Radio 1

From her legendary request show to her leadership among other DJs, Annie remains a shining example of a BBC broadcaster
Annie Nightingale, who celebrates 40 years at Radio 1. Photograph: BBC/David Venni

I've grown up with Annie Nightingale – first as a fan listening to her on Radio 1, then in my first BBC producer job I managed her debut on Radio 4. It was here that I first encountered her amazing energy, eclecticism and pages of scrawled notes and ideas.

As the controller of Radio 1 for many years I have watched (and encouraged) her rare ability to authentically pursue and champion new music genres – and to dive into new adventures. In particular I'll never forget being woken in the night with a call from Cuba, to hear the dramatic news of a terrible attack on Annie in the darkened back streets of Havana while she was in search of some underground club. It has been a long and eventful journey.

She has been, and continues to be, a role model at Radio 1 on a number of important levels – I want to talk about these as a way of thanking her for her friendship, and her support of Radio 1, the BBC and of me personally over the years, and to acknowledge her brilliant (and continuing) innings at the BBC.

Firstly, there was something so powerful about her legendary request show. The programme's attitude was perfectly clear. Here she was, sitting (you imagined) in a warm studio on a Sunday night, reaching out and connecting with you, understanding your life.

For teen audiences, in that no-man's land between childhood and adult life when you are wanting to join something new, something of your own, with others of a like mind and in a similar situation – then who better to have guiding you than Annie? An older, more assured sister with your best interests at heart, ready to share what she knew about music, about life.

It did that magic radio thing. It was personal, yet communal – a national community. And not only that, it was connected to "shiny" national and international music stars! She has been brilliant at repeating this approach throughout her career. Her night time show in the mid 90s became the "coming home from the club" community – a sort of "motorway service station ay dawn" vibe. Annie creates these moods effortlessly, and her attitude, skill and empathy provides a role model for how we at Radio 1 continue to connect with young audiences today – everyone can learn from her.

Secondly, the length of tenure or physical age doesn't have to define a broadcaster's ability to appeal to young audiences. I think this point is far better understood now. The idea of extended youth is now more widely accepted, as is the wide appeal of young media content like Twilight or Glee – or conversely, mums and teenage daughters dancing at a Take That gig or dads and their sons going to Download for AC/DC.

Broadcasters such as Annie, or the late John Peel, Tim Westwood, David Rodigan and others connect across generations. What counts for a music DJ first and foremost is a genuine enthusiasm for the music, the musicians, producers and fans. It means being on their level and joining in the struggle for wider recognition and expansion of a genre because of a passion for the music itself – indeed in many cases the Radio 1 DJ is the only broadcast platform to support and nurture that scene.

Thirdly, and this has been really important to me and my mission at Radio 1 over the past decade – is her leadership role among other DJs. She is universally respected and totally cool. The attention she gives to DJ meetings, her intelligent contribution to any debate, always joining in, and in doing so setting an example for others, has helped us build a team of like-minded, public service-oriented DJs who share a common understanding of our purpose.

Annie is a shining example of a BBC broadcaster. Her interests in the BBC and its role stretch far and wide – as I learned many years ago when I tried to pack them into a 45-minute Pick of the Week for Radio 4.

Thank you Annie.

Andy Parfitt is controller of BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Asian Network, Switch and popular music

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British banker set up firm ‘used by North Korea to sell weapons’

Nigel Cowie’s front company also allegedly helped regime expand nuclear programme, Panama Papers show

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Nigel Cowie moved to North Korea in 1995 and became head of its first foreign bank. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A British banker who spent two decades living in communist North Korea set up a secret offshore finance company allegedly used by the Pyongyang regime to help sell arms and expand its nuclear weapons programme.

Nigel Cowie – a fluent Korean and Chinese speaker, who studied at Edinburgh University – was behind a Pyongyang front company, DCB Finance Limited, registered in the British Virgin Islands, papers show.

He says DCB Finance was used for legitimate business and that he was unaware of any unlawful transactions.

Cowie moved to North Korea in 1995 when Kim Jong-il was in power, and went on to become head of its first foreign bank, Daedong Credit Bank. Initially operating out of a ramshackle Pyongyang hotel with a staff of three, Cowie led a consortium that in 2006 bought a 70% stake in the bank.

Giving his address as Pyongyang’s International House of Culture, he registered DCB Finance Limited, an offshoot of the bank, in the BVI in summer 2006, with a senior North Korean official, Kim Chol-sam. The Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca incorporated the company, despite North Korea being an obvious high-risk destination.

That July Kim Jong-il signalled his defiance of US sanctions by firing seven ballistic missiles. In October, North Korea carried out its first nuclear weapons test with a controlled underground explosion. The ensuing diplomatic crisis saw the UN impose asset freezes and and travel and trade bans.

In 2013, the US imposed sanctions on Daedong and Cowie’s front company, DCB, as well as on Kim Chol-sam. It alleged the bank provided “financial services” to North Korea’s main arms dealer, the Korea Mining Development Corporation, and its main financial arm, Tanchon Commercial Bank, which were subject to sanctions for the “central role they play supporting North Korea’s illicit nuclear and ballistic missiles programs”.

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Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea until his death in 2011. Photograph: KCNA/AFP/Getty Images

The US Treasury claimed that since “at least 2006, Daedong Credit Bank had used its front company, DCB Finance Limited, to carry out international financial transactions as a means to avoid scrutiny by financial institutions avoiding business with North Korea”.

Kim was suspected of facilitating transactions worth hundreds of thousands and managing millions of dollars in North-Korean-related accounts.

Before moving to North Korea Cowie worked for HSBC in Hong Kong. From Pyongyang he gave several interviews to visiting foreign journalists, extolling North Korea as an under-appreciated investment opportunity. He told the Wall Street Journal he was part of an “effort to try to get the country going again”. Asked if he might prefer to work out of New York or Hong Kong rather than under an oppressive Stalinist dictatorship, he told the paper: “This is a lot more fun.”

North Korea links ‘went unnoticed’

The Panama Papers reveal Mossack Fonseca failed to notice Cowie’s companies were linked to North Korea – even though he gave an address there. The banker also used Mossack Fonseca to register another company, Phoenix Commercial Ventures Limited. In a joint venture with Pyongyang’s ministry of culture, the firm made CDs and DVD players.

It was only in 2010 that Mossack Fonseca realised it had been dealing with North Korean entities, and resigned as agent. The discovery came after the law firm got a letter from the British Virgin Islands’ Financial Investigation Agency asking for details of Cowie’s company. The next year, Cowie sold his share in the bank to a Chinese consortium.

The Panama Papers: how to hide a billion dollars – video explainer

The Panama Papers include acrimonious emails between Mossack Fonseca’s BVI office and its head office in Panama. In 2013, a member of the firm’s compliance department admitted Cowie’s North Korean address “should have been a red flag”. She wrote: “It is not the ideal situation and it is not gratifying issuing a letter highlighting the inefficiencies of Mossack Fonseca BVI.”

The US sanction against DCB was issued in June 2013, but it referred to a period from 2006, when Cowie was running Daedong. Cowie responded that he had left banking in 2011 to focus on other business commitments.

In a letter, his lawyer said: “My client was a shareholder in DCB Finance Ltd, a company set up to enable DCB to continue to operate after correspondent banks had closed its accounts. The name was specifically chosen in order to reflect the historical connection with DCB. DCB Finance Ltd was used for legitimate business. My client was, and still is to this day, unaware of any transactions being made with any sanctioned organisation or for any sanctioned purpose, during his tenure.”


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Tech Weekly podcast: the web's enfant terrible, Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen talks about his new book, Digital Vertigo; plus news about the Microsoft tablet, problems at Nokia, and Google’s transparency report

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On the show this week, Aleks Krotoski is joined by Guardian Technology editor Charles Arthur for the latest technology stories.

Andrew Keen has been dubbed the anti-christ of Silicon Valley. His last book, The Cult of the Amateur, was a warning that user-generated content would kill mainstream media. Now he talks to Charles about his latest work, Digital Vertigo, where he warns about the dangers of social networking and the move toward transparency.

We look at the news on the Microsoft tablet, announced this week; the latest job cuts at ailing phone giant Nokia; the increase in government censorship as revealed by Google's Transparency Report; and Tesco's move into music downloads.

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Sticks and stones: outdoor art on the Channel Islands

Andy Goldsworthy and Antony Gormley are transforming the open spaces of Alderney and Helm in an art project that hopes to draw the Channel Islands together
Andy Goldsworthy collecting stones on Alderney. Photograph: Kevin Rushby

Along the headland, I find a sunny hollow and lie down out of the wind. I'm tired, having yomped over much of the island that day, and the warmth instantly grabs me. I will not sleep, however – there's a 100-metre drop into the sea just a few steps away. Where is Andy, I wonder. An hour ago I was walking with him – one of the world's best-known artists – and now he has disappeared, saying he has to work. That can only mean that he is out here, somewhere on this three-and-a-half-mile-long island, magicking things out of sticks and stones and splintered shards of rainbows.

I inch forwards on my belly, sending up scents of wild garlic, and peep over the edge. Down below is the sea, a jade sheet that's been ripped to tatters by tidal currents – little wonder there are so many wrecks under the surface. Glancing along the curving edge of the cliff top, I see that this is also a fabulous hanging garden: the glossy strokes of wild leeks topped with white flowers, the deep pink blooms of the hottentot fig surrounding patches of campion. Sensibly they are all hugging hard to the ground.

Then a little further away, almost hidden in yellow broom flowers, I spot the bony shank of a yellowing concrete wall. I crawl over to it and look into a gun embrasure. Inside is a very different world: stained concrete and a doorway with steps leading into darkness. I slide through the gap, stand up and look around. I know this is a second world war German battery, the guns long since removed, but it feels as though I've slipped into a Stygian underworld. I wait for my eyes to adjust to the gloom then, with some trepidation, walk down the steps.

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Alderney cliffs Photograph: Kevin Rushby for the Guardian

There is nothing like walking with Andy Goldsworthy to make you readjust your eyesight, look a little harder, and longer. I spend a good 10 minutes examining the flaking crust of a gun mount, its ironwork bleeding russets and Nazi golds down its concrete flanks. Then I clamber back to the grassy path and move off, walking further, but not finding Andy. I'm seeing with his eyes, or I think I am, and that after all is what art can do – readjust your vision, make you appreciate the world differently.

Goldsworthy has been on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, for some weeks now, patiently bringing to fruition a remarkable venture – the Art and Islands project. This is an unprecedented attempt to draw the Channel Islands together by allowing renowned artists to investigate and interpret the very different characters of each island. There is already a standing figure by Antony Gormley on the tiny jewel of Herm, an island just a short ferry ride from the creamy cosiness of Guernsey, but Andy Goldsworthy has chosen to get to grips with the remoter and more brutal beauty of Alderney. Next year, organiser Eric Snell – himself an internationally recognised artist – hopes to bring Cornelia Parker to work on the tightly woven and ancient charms of Sark.

"We are in a new age for art," Eric told me when we met in Guernsey's St Peter Port at the start of my trip around the islands. "We can go beyond the gallery. A place like the Channel Islands can have great art. People like Andy Goldsworthy are proving that."

Eric is a keen apostle of the islands, well aware of the irony that in his youth he was desperate to escape to art school in London, convinced that nothing of any artistic consequence ever happened on Guernsey, or the other seven inhabited islands in the archipelago. Now, however, he wants to tune me in to the possibility that great things, unusual things, can indeed happen in a place often written off as a bankers' bonus bunkhole. We walk away from the quayside in St Peter Port, up a curling road of elegant whitewashed Georgian houses, to a green door at the head of stone steps.

"Victor Hugo lived here for 15 years," says Eric. "And in between writing Les Misérables and Toilers of the Sea, he did something to that house – made it a work of art. As his grandson said, 'a poem in three floors'."

I enter into darkness: the entire lower floor is cased with dark, heavily carved oak: casements and doors rescued from other buildings, then adorned in surreal profusion. Iron trivets act as heraldic devices in a canopied chair; tapestries and plates decorate the ceilings. As we climb the stairs, the house lightens, revealing more and more of Hugo's single-minded genius. When I stagger out into the street an hour later, I am ready: remarkable art, I have to concede, can happen anywhere, even in the Channel Islands.

We head down to the port, passing another fine piece of art, a five-metre-high modernistic granite pillar that is actually the gnomon of a sundial. Every Liberation Day, 9 May, it casts a shadow along an adjacent curved seating area, touching inscriptions describing the events of that day in 1945 at the precise times they occurred. "Accurate to five seconds," says Eric, who ought to know as he made it, together with astronomer David Le Conte.

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Antony Gormley's standing figure on Herm. Photograph: Kevin Rushby

A little way along the quayside, we board the ferry for a 20-minute ride to Herm, followed by a 20-minute walk along grassy footpaths to where the Antony Gormley figure stands on a low rocky knoll. I love this outdoor approach to a sculpture – striding up over boulders and tussocks of grass with views to Herm's famous Shell Beach. For someone like me who develops "gallery feet" when I am barely through the doors of Tate Modern, it is wonderful.

The Gormley figure is reached by just a short stroll from the harbour, but with Goldsworthy the Art and Islands project has hit on an artist who can make walking a major element in the experience. Next morning, after a spectacular 15-minute plane journey, I am finding out why. Goldsworthy is on Alderney, applying the finishing touches to his work, a collection of 11 rammed earth balls (earth mixed with other materials), each about five feet in diameter, which will be placed at significant points around the island. The total route will be about 16 miles on lovely grassy footpaths and beachside shingle – a long day's hike or an easy weekend. And with the small town of St Anne in the centre of the island, there's always an easy escape from the circuit.

One of the first things I notice about Goldsworthy, however, is that he doesn't really do footpaths. He simply takes off in the direction he wants to go, changing course only when the brambles get too thick. "I didn't want to do something pretty," he tells me, as we stride across rough grassland near Saye Bay. "Alderney is beautiful, but not pretty. As an artist I have to respond to what I find."

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One of Goldsworthy's 11 giant earth balls in a second world war bunker. Photograph: Chris George

What he has found is plenty of human and natural debris to bury within the earth globes, "the stones" as he calls them. And these things will gradually be revealed as the "stones" are eroded.

"Everything that went in was found on the island," he says, pointing to a spot next to a boulder-strewn beach. "There was a big rope here that I had to use a tractor to pull out. While I was doing it, someone came along and pointedly said, 'That rope's been there a long time.'" He grins. "I'm working in a social context here. We're going to put that particular stone back here so the rope will slowly reappear, then eventually return to its place."

Goldsworthy's enthusiasm is clear. He loves the way the erosion process introduces an element of chaos and chance. "We simply don't know how the stones will react. Some will be close to the waves during storms and they might be gone within a year or two, leaving just a few marks. Others, like the one inside the machine gun post, will be around for longer."

What this means for admirers of Goldsworthy is that revisiting this work will be constantly rewarding – but an initial visit should not be put off for too long.

Andy is striding ahead of me and when I catch up, we are near the Cats Bay lighthouse. His mind is on to another creative obsession of his. "I made a rain shadow here," he says with a kind of grim glee. He does this by lying on the ground as rain begins to fall, then capturing on camera a dry shadow of his figure on the ground. In some American cities this activity is tantamount to subversion and has attracted heavy security reactions, but on Alderney there were different dangers. "I waited till it was about to rain then lay down in the road, but it was nearly dark and I had to listen for cars. With the sound of the wind and waves it was nerve-racking, but I had to be immobile. Then a woman's voice suddenly said, 'Are you all right?' I was so startled, I just leapt to my feet." He laughs at the recollection.

It's this type of ephemeral work that made Goldsworthy's reputation. His books documenting the creation of objects using materials such as ice, leaves, sticks and even rain, have reportedly out-sold works by any other living British artist. His other, more permanent, work is equally loved: crafted sheepfolds in Cumbria, the roof of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the astonishing Refuges d'Art project in Provence. The Alderney stones project has clearly given him a great amount of inspiration. "I found a local farmer with a huge pile of old hand tools, which we put inside one stone. Then in another we put gloves – loads of fishermen's gloves – and they'll emerge fingers first. When the earth is all eroded, there'll just be a pile of gloves."

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Andy Goldsworthy with one of the balls. Photograph: Chris George

We walk through an old firing range and drop down on to one of Alderney's perfect beaches, a semi-circle of white sand backed by a concrete wall – built by the Nazis as an anti-tank measure, but now a rather convenient windbreak and sun reflector for the handful of people basking under it. Up on the hill is Fort Essex, an earlier defensive installation started by Henry VIII. The island is covered in forts, battlements and gun emplacements dating right back to Roman times. Not every islander likes to see second world war installations identified as visitor attractions, a view with which Goldsworthy has some sympathy. The German occupation was a brutal and violent time: the inhabitants of Alderney had fled to Guernsey but the SS brought prisoners in to work on the defences here. They lived in what would prove to be the only concentration camp on British soil, a place where hundreds died, from disease, over-work and starvation.

One of the Alderney stones will sit close to concrete pillars that mark what was the entrance to the camp. "In that stone we've included some poppy seeds," says Goldsworthy. "And they should sprout, maybe on top, maybe around it in a circle. And when the stone is gone, I hope the poppies will still be here."

We cut back across the island – this is not difficult as it is only a mile-and-a-half wide – and explore one of the German defensive installations at Bibette Point. It's a warren of dark passageways, some flooded with seawater. Climbing out of a gun turret, we clamber across a concrete roof that's been camouflaged with stones, then jump down on to a plinth. Andy stops and points down. "See this?"

There are footprints in the concrete. One of the prisoners working here left a trace of himself. Was it deliberate? Andy is thoughtful. He starts tapping his fingertips together and says, "I think you should walk the cliff top section alone – you'll get the atmosphere better without me."

"And you?"

He smiles. "I'm going to do a bit of work – ephemeral stuff – on my own."

He's right. The atmosphere of the cliffs is better experienced alone, without the temptation of talking. But I don't find him or whatever he has gone off to do – a transitory piece of magic, no doubt, conjured out of flotsam. Perhaps it's still out there, waiting for a lost walker to stumble upon, one of those ghostly traces of a human presence that Alderney reveals to the careful observer – like the prisoner's footprints in the bunker or, in years to come, the eroded remains of the Goldsworthy stones.


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Gore fights ruling and the clock

Al Gore was yesterday fighting for his political life in Room 3D of the Leon County courthouse in the Florida state capital of Tallahassee.

Lawyers for the Vice-President still believe there is a chance to overturn the certified result in the state and wipe out George W. Bush's slim lead of 537 votes - but time is running out.

The Gore team have been pinning their hopes on disputed ballots they claim have either never been counted or unfairly excluded. Three separate courts - the US Supreme Court and two in Tallahassee - are making the rulings that should finally end the electoral confusion, possibly by the middle of this week.

The man who could effectively decide who the next President of the United States should be is a droll, folksy, 59-year-old judge who would probably rather have spent his Saturday afternoon chatting to his buddies in the sports bar down the road.

Judge N. Sanders Sauls made it clear that he wanted to rule swiftly on Gore's challenge when he told lawyers acting for Gore and Bush: 'Let's slim it down and get all the fluff off.'

At issue are around 14,000 disputed ballots from Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. The Gore team argued yesterday that around 10,000 votes from heavily Democratic Miami-Dade were never counted, having been rejected by the vote-counting machine, and that about 4,000 votes from Palm Beach were wrongly excluded from a manual recount. They believe that these votes could put Gore comfortably ahead.

Barry Richard, a local lawyer acting for Bush, protested that there was no case to try: 'It is unreasonable and contrary to the law.'

Expert witness Kimball Brace of Election Data Service, told the court a manual hand count was 'the only way of knowing exactly how many votes were cast for each candidate'.

The Bush team's position is that machine counts are more accurate.

Another legal battle that will be decided in Tallahassee on Wednesday could tip the balance to Gore. Individual voters from Seminole County will argue that Republican officials there illegally added voter identification numbers to absentee ballots that would otherwise have been excluded.

Judge Nikki Clark could agree with the voters and throw out all the disputed ballots in that county, effectively putting Al Gore into the lead by around 4,000 votes. Bush's lawyers would then certainly appeal.

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There's an article floating around that is targeted for the mom who doesn't feed her kids organic food, an article that I of course had to read and scope out. I'll say that I was proud of the mama for taking a stance and saying that it doesn't make any mother better for what she chooses to feed her child...kudos to her for that; I wholeheartedly agree.

Unfortunately the article is somewhat inaccurate and contains old sources that recent studies can dispute. Organic food IS healthier for us and our children; science HAS recently proven that. Now is it a tremendous difference that gives organic eating children superpowers who will score high on their ACTs and who will be the future leaders of America? Um, no. Organic food isn't that super.

Whether or not you feed your child organic food should never distinguish what kind of mother you are. No mother should ever feel down because her child is snacking on animal crackers while her friend's child is snacking on Annie's Bunnies made with organic wheat. That is simply a parenting choice, but not one that makes any parent a "better" or more loving parent.

While feeding your child organic food is wonderful for the reasons I'll list below, it's more about making sure you feed your child a balanced diet that contains more whole foods than processed foods (but who am I to even judge that?). There is a chance that some people simply can't afford the small price difference between organic and conventional and that IS okay; it's even expected. I choose what fits our budget and what is important to me when it comes to selecting organic items. Often times organic shredded cheese is just too pricey for me, so helllooo Kraft.

We all strive to love our children and parent them to the best of our capabilities. As a mother who buys on average 70-75% of our groceries as organic or natural oriented, I can assure you that I'm not perfect and either is my child. Sure my child probably hasn't eaten many of the yummy snacks that other toddlers have eaten, but I assure you that her day will come too. As someone who is known in the social media world for loving organic and natural things, I won't lie and say that sometimes I feel hypocritical when I reach for that bag of Oreos at the grocery store. Will someone see me? The truth of the matter though is that I put it all out there and my readers and followers know that I live life on the edge (ha!) and I indulge in good, non organic foods (especially while pregnant). I envy the mamas who are even crunchier than I am who nosh on kale chips and mango smoothies all day. I just can't do it quite like that. I need chocolate and I crave fried chicken.

But as a mother, I choose organic food as much as possible for my family. It's our choice and it makes me no better than any other mother out there. I do it for the future health of my family and here's why:

Organic food DOES contain more nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants. Science has RECENTLY proven that and has shutdown an old 2009 study (and others) that said organic food was no different than conventional food. Here are some results:
  1. Organic crops contain an average of 17 percent more antioxidants than conventionally grown crops.
  2. Some of the organic crops, including fruits, vegetables, and grains, had as much as 60 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds than conventional crops.
  3. The levels of flavanones, which are associated with a lower risk of stroke, were 69 percent higher in organic foods tested.
  4. Pesticide residues were found to be three to four times more likely in conventional crops compared to organic.
  5. Overall levels of pesticides were found to be ten to 100 times lower in organic food than in conventionally produced food.
Organic foods can also contain higher levels of vitamin C, iron, magnesium and phosphorous as well.  And why should we be concerned with our exposure to pesticides? Well, because pesticides can be linked to the following: respiratory problems, memory disorders, skin conditions, depression, miscarriage, birth defects, cancer and neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease (source). Recent studies have even shown a link between pregnant women living near pesticide treated fields and autism. So if we can't live near it, should we eat it?

When I look at our culture and realize how many people suffer just from cancer (not even mentioning all of the other things), I firmly believe that our environment around us is linked to this increase. From what we eat, to what we breathe and what we use daily, we are surrounded by chemicals that are supposed to make our lives easier and improve our economy, but in actuality I think they just harm us in the long run.

So yes organic is a bit healthier, but it isn't for everyone and that's okay. Being informed and mindful of what your child eats and making sure they have a healthy diet with minimal processed foods, artificial coloring and additives is what matters more in my opinion. Going the extra mile to protect your future by choosing organic is up to you.

In the end, nothing should ever make a mother feel less worthy or less of a supermom than any other mom out there. Whether breast versus bottle, cloth versus disposables or organic versus conventional, I truly believe in what the other author was trying to say: that we are ALL doing the best we can.

Our choices as mothers can never show someone just how much we love our child. No one can know the depths of a mother's love for her child; no one can distinguish that by a label for sure.

You do you and I'll do me, and in the end we'll just all hope for healthy children who all have their own super powers. And along the way, we'll share information, share joys and triumphs and raise each other up and not bring each other down.

So that's what I've tried to to do today. I wanted to share new information with you to correct the old information out there that says organic food isn't any healthier, but I also want to raise you up and say GREAT JOB MAMA. No matter what you choose, you're doing a great job mama!


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Among the very few people celebrating our country’s fiscal crisis are criminal justice reformers. Bill Piper, national affairs director for the Drug Policy Alliance, gushed recently, "Budgetary issues is where I’m most optimistic. Given the fiscal climate, there could be real cuts in the federal budget. Next year is probably an unprecedented opportunity to defund the federal drug war." His enthusiasm reflects a confluence of somewhat surprising events. For the first time in decades, politicians across the political spectrum, including some who were once "get tough" true believers, are wondering aloud whether the drug war has become too expensive. The conservative Heritage Foundation issued a report on the eve of the midterm elections calling for a whopping $343 billion in federal budget cuts, including elimination of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the Justice Assistance Grant program (formerly known as the Byrne grant program), which has long provided the financial fuel that powers regional drug task forces and the drug war machine. At the state level, where the economic crisis has been felt most acutely, at least eighteen legislatures have reduced or eliminated harsh mandatory minimum sentences, and more than two dozen have restored early-release programs and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenders.

Could this be the beginning of the end of the drug war, a war that has reportedly cost more than $1 trillion in the past few decades, with little to show for it beyond millions who have been branded criminals and felons, ushered behind bars and then released into a permanent second-class status? More than 30 million people have been arrested since 1982, when President Reagan turned Nixon’s rhetorical "war against drugs" into a literal war against poor people of color. During the past few decades, African-American men, in particular, have been arrested at stunning rates, primarily for nonviolent, relatively minor drug offenses—despite data indicating that people of all races use and sell drugs at remarkably similar rates. In some states, 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders admitted to prison have been African-American, and when released they find themselves ushered into a parallel universe where they are stripped of many of the rights supposedly won during the civil rights movement. People labeled felons are often denied the right to vote and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits—relegated to a second-class status for life simply because they were once caught with drugs. Could the economic crisis finally put an end to this madness? Is the drug war machinery that produced a vast new racial undercaste finally winding down?

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At first blush, Piper’s optimism seems well-founded. Bipartisan zeal for budget cutting has coincided with the Obama administration’s expressed support for kinder, gentler drug policy. Obama’s drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, told the Wall Street Journal last year that he would no longer refer to our nation’s drug policy as a "war on drugs" because "we’re not at war with people in this country." Drug abuse ought to be viewed as a public health problem, he says, with more resources devoted to ensuring that fewer people suffer from addiction. That’s music to the ears of many criminal justice reformers, who have fought heroically for such reform in far less sympathetic political climates.

Kerlikowske insists that the shift is not purely rhetorical, and in a certain respect he’s right. More money is being channeled into drug treatment. But here’s the rub: as the overall drug control budget continues to grow, the ratio between treatment and prevention (36 percent) and interdiction and enforcement (64 percent) remains the same as that found in the Bush administration budget in fiscal year 2009. Expenditures for "lock ’em up" approaches continue to climb.

Many well-intentioned advocates argue that the best way to push the Obama administration to move beyond kinder, gentler rhetoric to meaningful policy reform is by presenting drug law reform as a budget issue. Given the belt-tightening mood in Congress and the reluctance of the administration to show leadership on issues of race, the thinking goes, now is not the time to link drug law reform to a broader movement for racial justice. Ending our nation’s racial divisions and anxieties is pie in the sky, a utopian dream. Better to stick with cost-benefit analyses of drug treatment versus incarceration, and show the public that it’s cheaper to send a kid to college than to prison.

The problem with that strategy is that it won’t work, even during a time of economic crisis. This moment of opportunity, which Piper rightly celebrates, will inevitably fail to produce large-scale change in the absence of a large-scale movement—one that seeks to dismantle not only the system of mass incarceration and the drug war apparatus but also the habits of mind that allow us to view poor people of color trapped in ghettos as "others," unworthy of our collective care and concern.

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Why the pessimism? Two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that the current economic crisis cuts both ways. The same fiscal concerns that have inspired a growing number of states to reconsider harsh and expensive mandatory minimum sentences have also inspired the Obama administration to increase funding for failed law enforcement initiatives, like the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the Byrne grant program—two programs the Bush Administration had begun to phase out.

According to Slate, Vice President Joe Biden once boasted that the COPS program, which put tens of thousands of officers on the streets, was responsible for the dramatic fifteen-year drop in violent crime that began in the early 1990s. But empirical studies proved that claim false. For example, a peer-reviewed study in the journal Criminology found that the COPS program, despite the hype and the cost—more than $8 billion—"had little to or no effect on crime." The Byrne grant program, originally devised by the Reagan administration to encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to join the drug war, has poured millions of dollars into drug task forces around the country that are notorious for racial profiling, including highway drug interdiction programs and neighborhood "stop and frisk" programs. These programs have successfully ushered millions of poor folks of color into a permanent undercaste—largely for engaging in the same types of minor drug crimes that go ignored in middle-class white communities and on college campuses.

Despite the ineffectiveness of many of these federal programs, the temptation to revive them has proven irresistible. Putting more police officers on payroll and preventing layoffs seems politically savvy when unemployment figures remain high and key states are up for grabs. Indeed, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced last year that Byrne grant funds (now known as JAG funds) would be used to save jobs in Columbus, Ohio, the story made the front page of the Columbus Dispatch. As Holder explained in his press release: "In January, 25 Columbus police recruits learned that they would be let go rather than sworn-in; but because of Recovery Act JAG funds these police officers will keep their jobs protecting their community." Similar considerations inspired Democrats to include $2 billion in increased funding for the Byrne grant program in the 2009 stimulus package, nearly a twelvefold increase in financing. The channeling of stimulus dollars to law enforcement may help some keep their jobs, but as New York Times columnist Charles Blow recently observed, it’s a "callous political calculus…. The fact that they are ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men and, by extension, the communities they belong to barely seems to register."

For those who might imagine that the 2009 stimulus package was an aberration, Obama’s proposed drug control budget for 2011 reveals that hard economic times are not translating into any scaling back of the drug war. John Carnevale, former director of planning and budget at the ONDCP, testified before a Congressional subcommittee charged with reviewing the 2011 drug control budget in April that "with the arrival of the Obama administration came the hope that a new budget would emerge that would redress the failures of the past"; but instead the new budget looks much like the old one. To make matters worse, Carnevale explained, the 2011 budget does not represent a comprehensive accounting of federal drug control expenditures. Many spending categories that have been counted as "prevention" or "treatment" are actually funding law enforcement or non-drug-related programs—calling into question the claim that treatment funding is on the rise. In Carnevale’s words, "The last time this nation saw such a large emphasis on supply reduction was the Reagan administration."

Whether one believes, as Carnevale apparently does, that Obama’s drug war is actually worse than his predecessors’, one thing is clear: Obama is in no hurry to scale it back to any significant degree, much less end it. The drug war is now too deeply rooted in our nation’s political and economic structure to be cast aside. The war rhetoric may have ended and the song may have changed, but the system hums along.

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This brings us to the second, and more important, reason fiscal concerns won’t end mass incarceration: the race card will be played by those who seek to preserve the system. In the absence of a major social movement that proactively deals with race in a constructive way, old racial divisions will trump new concerns about cost.

If you doubt that’s the case, consider what is at stake. If we were to return to the rates of incarceration our nation had in the 1970s—a time, by the way, when many civil rights advocates thought incarceration rates were egregiously high—we would need to release four out of five people currently behind bars. More than a million people employed by the criminal justice system could lose their jobs. Most new prison construction has occurred in predominantly white, rural communities already teetering on the edge of economic collapse. Those prisons across America would have to close. Private prison companies and all the corporate interests that profit from caging human beings would be forced to watch their earnings vanish.

Clearly, any attempt to downsize our nation’s prisons dramatically would be met with fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments and other benefits. The emotion and high anxiety would almost certainly express itself in the form of a racially charged debate about values, morals and personal responsibility rather than a debate about the prison economy. Few people would openly argue that we should lock up millions of poor people just so other people can have jobs or get a good return on their private investments. Instead, familiar arguments would likely resurface about the need to be "tough" on "them"—a group of people defined in the media and political discourse not so subtly as black and brown.

The public debate would inevitably turn to race, even if politicians were not explicitly talking about it. Willie Horton–type ads would likely resurface, as would media coverage of the "pathologies" of the "urban poor." As history has shown, the prevalence of powerful (unchallenged) racial stereotypes about the undeserving "others," together with widespread apprehension regarding major structural changes, would create an environment in which implicit racial appeals could be employed, yet again, with great success.

Even if significant reforms can be won in the midst of an economic crisis without addressing our nation’s racial divisions and anxieties, such gains will likely prove temporary. If a new, more just and compassionate public consensus about poor people of color is not forged, we as a nation will not hesitate to sweep them up en masse for minor drug crimes as soon as we can afford once again to do so. Similarly, if and when crime rates rise, nothing will deter politicians from making black and brown criminals once again their favorite whipping boys. The criminalization and demonization of black men is one habit that America seems unlikely to break without addressing head-on the racial dynamics that have given rise to our latest caste system.

Although colorblind cost-benefit approaches often seem pragmatic in the short run, in the long run they are counterproductive. They leave intact the racial attitudes, stereotypes and anxieties that gave rise to the system in the first place. The problem lies in the nature of the system itself, not the cost. And the only way to dismantle the system is by building a broad coalition of Americans unwilling to accept it at any price.

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Rewind: A Charlie Brown Christmas gets better with age

When the TV special debuted on Dec. 9, 1965, it was a revelation: Charlie Brown could actually talk.

Charlie Brown and Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas, which debuted 50 years ago this month.
Charlie Brown and Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas, which debuted 50 years ago this month.  (CHARLES M. SCHULTZ / ABC/AP)

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A Charlie Brown Christmas wasn’t just exciting for me and my family, friends and schoolmates when the TV special debuted 50 years ago this month, on Dec. 9, 1965.

It was also a revelation: Charlie Brown could actually talk!

Everybody faithfully read the Peanuts comic strip in the newspaper, both the weekday black-and-white version and the Saturday colour one.

We knew the characters and their quirks well: fretting Charlie Brown, bullying Lucy, philosophizing Linus (with his security blanket), piano-pounding Schroeder, hot-dogging Snoopy and many more.

What we didn’t know was the sound of their voices, and how they looked in motion. There had never been a Charlie Brown TV show or film before.

I was 9 years old, not that much older than the age of Charlie and his pals. I was aware that A Charlie Brown Christmas was coming, because it received a fair bit of advance publicity on TV and in the two newspapers my family read: the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram (RIP).

Enthusiasm was high as my family and I sat down to watch it together on our big old B&W television set. The grainy images came in through one of the three American channels — 2, 4 and 7 — that we pulled in via an antenna my Dad had set up in the attic, because it was verboten in our neighbourhood to have it on the roof. This was also pre-cable TV. I didn’t see A Charlie Brown Christmas in colour or in sharp focus until sometime in the 1970s.

I loved seeing the Peanuts gang skating on the pond in their neighbourhood, singing “Christmas Time is Here.” I didn’t know at the time that it was unusual that child actors rather than adult ones voiced the characters.

I laughed at the weird dancing of the kids at school, not to rock ’n’ roll but to Vince Guaraldi’s bouncy jazz score, another innovation and inspiration that has kept this Yuletide perennial fresh. To this day, it’s the only Christmas music I don’t mind hearing played over and over.

I identified with Charlie’s distress over the commercialization of Christmas, even though, like any capitalist kid, I had a list of Christmas presents I wanted.

My sweet tooth ached for the ads for delectable Dolly Madison donuts, which weren’t available in Canada then and are still hard to find here. Whenever I visited the U.S., I would seek out Dolly Madison donuts, all because of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

It was all over in what seemed like a flash — the show runs just 25 minutes — and I recall feeling faintly disappointed when it ended.

Was that all there was? Perhaps my critical instincts were kicking in early.

But the show has grown steadily in my affection over the years, which is why I rate it higher as a nostalgic adult than I did as an ever-so-slightly disappointed 9-year-old.

I used Guaraldi’s score as the music for a first-year journalism project at Carleton University in 1974, thinking myself clever. But everybody in the class immediately recognized it, asking me why I was using the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I’ve seen the show at least once every year since that first viewing a half century ago. It doesn’t seem like Christmas until I’ve watched the show, even if it’s just me by myself with my iPad, sitting by a roaring artificial fire.

I always get a lump in my throat when the Peanuts gang gather around Charlie’s sad little Christmas tree and sing, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” Fifty years doesn’t seem so long ago, after all.


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Foot fetishist must exercise control during the summer

Summer is full of temptation for foot lovers, but take steps to ensure your behaviour is appropriate.

Individual counselling can be of benefit when one partner in a relationship has a domineering personality capable of "charming" others, including a counsellor. But experienced therapists will see through that.
Individual counselling can be of benefit when one partner in a relationship has a domineering personality capable of "charming" others, including a counsellor. But experienced therapists will see through that.  (Dreamstime)

How can I enjoy summertime activities, like barbecues and pool parties, when all I can think about and desire, instead of small talk, is to fondle and lick the beautiful female high-arched feet all around me?

This is a serious question: how can people pretend to enjoy the commonplace when bare feet are there, ripe for play?

Over the years, a few foot lovers have sent me this question in summer, wanting their passion to be taken seriously.

A foot fetish is the most common of sexual fetishes for otherwise non-sexual objects or body parts. It’s an intense sexual interest, centring on feet, toes, high arches and soles. The fetishist may need to play with a partner’s feet in order to reach sexual satisfaction.

So yes, summer provides a greater array of visible attractions and stimulation to the foot lover.

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However, people who aren’t so inclined will not appreciate being touched or approached about sexual play with their feet, by a passing stranger.

Foot petting without mutual consent may, if aggression’s involved, even be considered assault.

So exercise self-control, just as all people must do when summer activities bring out more revealing clothes.

Strappy sandals are part of the less fettered season, not an invitation.

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I’ve left a verbally abusive, bullying husband. I’ve learned many things, partly from getting independent counselling and partly from lots of research.

I read that marital counselling can do more harm than good to the abused partner, as bullies often manipulate counselling sessions to make it appear as if the other person’s unreasonable. He/she is then left confused from these sessions and open to further bullying.

It’s actually highly recommended that the victim gets personal counselling to help determine the depth of the bullying and also to regain self-confidence.

Your perspective on this certainly applies when the bullying is part of a controlling, domineering personality who’s capable of “charming” others, including a counsellor.

Fortunately, experienced marital therapists have seen it all before, and know when they’re being “snowed” by a would-be charmer.

The therapist may even let the bully spouse tell his/her version of their marriage’s issues, in order to win confidence in the therapy process … and of course to get a full picture of the couple’s dynamics.

But it can be discouraging and worrisome to the person who’s been abused/bullied, to sit through this distorted description.

So getting individual counselling is very wise and helpful. It’s also highly possible that a bully won’t even consent to marriage counselling, whereas anyone who’s been abused can use help to find the courage and confidence to break away.

COMMENTARY: I wished I’d read your column earlier in my life. I know too well the art of selling myself short, and would love if you could provide more insight/elements for other readers.

A relative once told me that I was too nice. It didn’t sound like a compliment, but I only got the depth of the meaning years later during a crisis. Don’t underestimate the challenges faced by your readers.

Ellie: The first step toward change, in the face of crushing difficulties, is recognizing that there’s another way to think and act, rather than blaming oneself.

People write me of being “stuck” in bad situations because of their own inertia, sadness over lost love, poor upbringing, limited resources, etc.

They need to dig deep into their survival instinct, and reclaim the will and the right to surmount obstacles. It often takes counselling as a boost, plus avoiding toxic influences and people.

Foot worship, or fetishism, is harmless when both partners consider it sexual play.

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Mayor Rob Ford's weight loss challenge: The highlights and lowlights

A timeline of Mayor Rob Ford's suddenly aborted “Cut the Waist Challenge.”

Mayor Rob Ford drew praise from across the political spectrum when he launched his weight-loss campaign with great fanfare in January. It was supposed to end next month.
Mayor Rob Ford drew praise from across the political spectrum when he launched his weight-loss campaign with great fanfare in January. It was supposed to end next month.  (CARLOS OSORIO / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO)

Mayor Rob Ford announced Sunday that he has abandoned his diet three weeks before the scheduled end of the “Cut the Waist Challenge” he launched in January with his brother, Councillor Doug Ford. A look back at the highs and lows of the brothers' unique — and uniquely competitive — public weight loss quest:

January 10: Doug tells NewsTalk 1010 that he and Rob will soon be launching a weight loss challenge for charity. He says they will weigh themselves weekly — on a giant scale they will borrow from their family's label company — and that making their goals public will help them succeed. “When you tell 3 million people that you're gonna lose weight,” he says, “you sure better lose weight.”

January 11: Doug tells the National Post that he and Rob will challenge other mayors to join them. “The first mayor we might target is our friend over in Calgary,” he says, “because he has a little beef on the front of him.” When told of the comment, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi responds: “Did they call me a fatty?”

January 16: John Tory, a “recovering politician and recovering fatty,” emcees the first mayoral weigh-in; the phrase “mayoral weigh-in” enters the lexicon; Rob and Doug both say they want to lose 50 pounds by mid-June; Rob weighs in at 330, Doug at 275. Doug mocks Rob for mistakenly reading the scale as “229” rather than 329. “When you were in grade school you were 229,” Doug scoffs.

Rob is in high spirits, but he turns somber when talking about why he launched the diet. “Enough’s enough,” he says. “It’s the heaviest I’ve ever been. And Doug and I went down to Florida and we just discussed it. I’ve got young children, and this is not healthy. You can’t be running the city, you can’t be doing all this, at 330 pounds. You guys know it, I know it.”

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After the weigh-in, Rob — or, far more likely, a staffer — takes to his Twitter account to challenge other North American mayors to join him. Bizarrely, the challenged mayors include Chicago's Rahm Emanuel, a trim triathlete, and New York's Michael Bloomberg, a health buff whose spokesperson responds with dismissive sass.

January 21: Rob and Doug hold their first public walkabout of the challenge. Rob posts on his Facebook page: “Time to get in shape Toronto! Please join us at Bridlewood Mall this afternoon at 1 pm where we will start our Mayor's Walk. Cut The Waist!”

January 23: Success: Rob weighs in down 10 pounds. He says he is “eating like a rabbit,” running laps around a track, gulping water, and, to distract himself from hunger pangs, returning constituents' phone calls. But trouble lurks: “I drive by Baskin Robbins, and — I don't know, it's like — it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.”

January 26: In a Q-and-A published in the Star, Dr. Mehmet Oz joins lots of other people in giving Rob advice. He says the mayor should eat 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of awakening, and, also, “dramatically increase the fibre in his diet and eat fresh fruits and vegetables.”

January 28: The brothers hold their second walkabout, this time at Eglinton Square mall in Scarborough. Rob takes 140 photos with well-wishers, walks half a kilometre.

January 30: After TTC Chair Karen Stintz is quoted in a weekend Globe and Mail article questioning Rob's plan to bury the entire Eglinton LRT, he is peppered at the Monday weigh-in with tough transit questions. Previewing his doggedly one-track communications strategy on the issue, he says the word “subways” nine times in semi-comical rapid succession. (Reporter: “Do you think you’ll win this vote? It doesn’t seem like you have the votes.” Rob: “It’s all subways. It’s all about subways.”)

February 21: Rob hits his weight loss peak: 22 pounds lost in total. “This is getting hard, trust me. This is getting very, very hard,” he says. “It’s the food that’s the hard part. The exercise I can do, it’s the food.” Doug is down 23 pounds in total.

February 27: Doug loses 2 pounds. Rob gains 2 pounds. “It’s easier said than done,” he says. Councillor Frances Nunziata, a close ally, gives him some non-Oz-esque advice as he steps on the scale: “Start smoking.”

March 26: Rob postpones the weigh-in from its usual 9:30 a.m. start until noon, then cancels it via Twitter. “Very busy day today,” he tweets.

April 16: Two PETA activists dressed in lettuce bikinis — they're called “Lettuce Ladies” — attend the weigh-in to promote veganism. Doug chats with them, Rob ignores them. Asked if he’d consider adopting a vegan diet to help lose weight, Rob replies: “No. Any other questions?”

April 17: A woman named Cordella films Rob as he enters the KFC outlet she had just exited. She laughs and mocks him.

April 18: Cordella sends the video to reporters and posts it on YouTube. The Star publishes it. Doug professes outrage but quickly begins mocking Rob himself. “The guy’s trying his hardest — well, maybe not his hardest, but he’s trying,” he says. “Even if Rob hits 30 pounds, that’s huge. He’s (down) what, 18 pounds? He’ll make it. If I’ve got to get a piece of duct tape and stick it across his mouth, and put a little hole in there for a straw…” He weighs 249 pounds, down 26, and says there is no doubt he will reach the 50-pound goal even if Rob doesn't.

April 22: Doug hosts their Sunday radio show without Rob, who is “under the weather.” He does not sound overly concerned about his brother's health. “The mayor's out gettin' KFC right now, I guess,” he says with a laugh. “He's tied up.”

May 8: Rob weighs in at 314 pounds, up 4, in his worst showing of the challenge; Doug, peering at the scale, mistakenly says he has “done good.” “Gained four pounds. That’s really good, isn’t it,” Rob retorts, then hurries back into his office without taking any questions from reporters. Doug continues to lose weight; he is 247 pounds, down from 249 in mid-April.

May 13: Appearing on the radio show for Mother's Day, Rob and Doug's mother, Diane, scolds Doug for continuing to make fun of Rob's KFC visit. Rob announces that he will now be weighing in only every two weeks. “I love how the mayor just changes the rules,” Doug complains. “All of a sudden, boom, bang, every second week now. Doesn't matter: June 18, there's no escaping it, we're weighing in.”

May 22: Rob cancels the weigh-in for the fifth time in the last nine weeks. As usual, he provides no explanation.

May 27: Doug threatens to drag Rob to the weigh-in the next day. Rob announces that he has given up: “I don’t care about the weigh-in. I’m not even dieting anymore. It’s gone! It’s water under the bridge. So I gotta — we gotta refocus.”


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ACLU Asks Federal Judge To Throw Out Arizona Governor’s Medical Marijuana Lawsuit

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The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed in May by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer that seeks to have her state’s medical marijuana law struck down.

In a motion filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the ACLU charges that the lawsuit should be dismissed because, among other reasons, there has been no threat that state employees charged with carrying out the state’s law would be prosecuted by federal authorities.

“On the pretext of protecting her state employees, Gov. Brewer is simply seeking to thwart the will of Arizona’s voters and unconscionably block sick people from accessing their vital medicine,” said Scott Michelman, staff attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project. “People should have the freedom to choose the medicine their doctors believe will be most effective for them.”

In May, Brewer filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke and potential dispensary applicants seeking a ruling from a federal court that the law is preempted by federal law and should be struck down. The ACLU, along with the Phoenix law firm Gammage & Burnham, represents the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association (AzMMA), a non-profit, membership-based professional association that seeks to advance the interests of Arizona’s medical marijuana profession and the patients it serves, and that is a named defendant in Brewer’s lawsuit.

Brewer’s lawsuit claims that Arizona officials fear federal prosecution for implementing the law, even though Burke said in the days leading up to Brewer filing the lawsuit that the federal government has “no intention of targeting or going after people who are implementing or who are in compliance with state law.”

Brewer’s lawsuit also claims that Arizona’s medical marijuana law is in conflict with the federal Controlled Substances Act. But three appellate court decisions in California have previously rejected claims that California’s medical marijuana law is preempted by federal law. And the Oregon Supreme Court in May backed away from its previous ruling that a part of Oregon’s medical marijuana law is preempted by federal law.

A majority of Arizona voters in 2010 passed Proposition 203, which allows terminally and seriously ill patients in Arizona who find relief from marijuana to use it with a doctor’s recommendation. The law allows marijuana to be distributed by tightly regulated clinics to patients with state-issued registry cards and creates penalties for false statements and fraudulent cards.

“Gov. Brewer’s efforts to derail Prop 203 are bad for patients and bad for public safety,” said Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the ACLU of Arizona. “This law received broad public support because it was thoughtfully written to give patients access to vital medicine, while at the same time creating a well-regulated system of distribution. By preventing state health officials from doing their jobs, Brewer is actually doing more harm than good and creating chaos in a system sanctioned by Arizona voters.”

Along with Michelman, attorneys on the case are Daniel J. Pochoda of the ACLU of Arizona, Lisa T. Hauser and Cameron C. Artigue of Gammage & Burnham, Flagstaff, Ariz. attorney Thomas W. Deene, who represents the Arizona Association of Dispensary Professionals, Inc. and attorneys from the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Rose Law Group PC, who represent the remainder of the named non-federal defendants in Brewer’s lawsuit.

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Natural Vibrations, aka Natural Vibes or Natty Vibes, is Hawai'i's most popular and acclaimed band from the Windward side of O'ahu. They started out as a group of friends who loved playing music and went from playing backyard parties to headlining some of Hawai'is biggest shows and venues. Since 1996 they've recorded 6 full length albums featuring a sound with strong roots in reggae, rock and pop. Their unique musical blend combined with a party and dance energy has allowed them share the stage with artists like Prince, 311, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, UB40, Jack Johnson, Pepper and SOJA, to name a few. The same sound and vibe that has earned them the respect of some of reggae's biggest names has also brought them multiple Best Reggae Album and People's Choice awards at the Hawaii Music Awards, as well as, Hawai'i's prestigous Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.

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In 2007 FNB competed on Fuse TV's Bodog Music Battle of the Bands in front of millions of weekly viewers. Although they placed 2nd out of 8,000 unsigned bands they were offered a contract and went right into the studio to record "Yardcore" with legendary producer Terry Date (Deftones, Staind, Pantera, Korn, Soundgarden, Fishbone to name a few). Unfortunately Bodog Music shut their doors shorty after and the band had to start over and make new plans.

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On election day Nov 6th 2012 FNB released their latest album "Vibes Love Revolution" which debuted at #2 on Itunes Reggae Charts and reached #8 on Billboard's Reggae chart in between heavy hitters SOJA and Sean Paul. VLR has guest appearances by Stephen Newland from Rootz Underground, Hellman and Rafa from SOJA, Jordan Miller formerly from The Movement, and Germany's rising reggae star Sara Lugo.

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From Training to Tacos: How Tigerpaw Helped Us Find Our Workflow Groove

A Tigerpaw guest blog by Chet Neal President of Sound Stage, Inc.

Many small businesses experience growing pains at some point and we at Sound Stage are no different.

As an audio and video integration specialist based in Winter Park, Florida, we’ve been fortunate enough to double our number of employees in the last three years and increase sales at a double-digit clip for the last decade.

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For example, our employees quickly noticed that Tigerpaw tracks the training scores of not just Sound Stage employees, but compares how Sound Stage scored against other Tigerpaw customers too. Our competitive juices started flowing.

When you put a group of people in front of monitors for a couple of days, a certain fatigue sets in. But when so many people starting going through the modules and ranking nationally—one employee reaching #1!—that’s effective. It made it fun and it kept people on track. We didn’t need to give them any more incentive. We listed the rankings on our SharePoint page and everyone could see where everyone else was sitting.

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This 46-seat Brazilian buffet sells traditional barbecued meats by the pound, all cooked on a rotisserie imported from the home country. Round out plates of skirt steak, short ribs and chicken legs with hot sides, like the traditional sausage-and-bean stew feijoada.

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Raga might be synonymous with sitars, but the slide guitar has also staked out a place for itself in the pantheon of Indian classical music. The instrument was first popularised by Brij Bhushan Kabra, but it was his student, Debashish Bhattacharya, who unleashed its full potential. Bhattacharya created instruments of his own – what he dubs the 'Trinity of Guitars' – in order to expand the sonic range of the guitar and incorporate the drones that are a key part of Raga music. He's since collaborated with the likes of Indo-jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and Okinawan sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu, but is just as apt to join forces with his brother, tabla virtuoso Subhasis Bhattacharya. After making an impressive debut here last year, the sibling duo are returning for a one-off Tokyo date, which the promoters have proclaimed a veritable 'Raga Odyssey'.

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