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All recipes at a glance by taste/texture

The matrix here shows the meals and snacks that met my own taste and texture cravings. Of course, most meals have a mixture of tastes and textures but I’ve just listed them under the taste/texture they had that was most dominant for me. You’ll likely come up with your own matrix but I hope these get you going. All of these foods

  • are fairly quick and easy to cook (I was a virtual novice to cooking a few months ago, having existed mainly on convenience food, so they had to be!)
  • have a lower proportion/total amount of carb (bulky green vegetables fill you up but have a low carb density so visually they will take up much more room on your plate than your protein source) than traditional meals – except for a handful (like those with pitta bread) which you can occasionally eat as part of a ‘normal’ diet when you’ve reached your weight goal.
  Sweet Spicy/peppery Savoury (salty) Acidic (sour) Bitter
Creamy Cocoa milk shakeYogurt and raspberry pudding Yogurt and cocoa
Soft Yogurt and pear pudding Avocado half
Boiled organic free-range egg
Cheesy Ryvita with cottage cheese and cucumber
Meaty Thai fish and vegetable curryThai chicken and vegetable curry AnchoviesBolognese with cauliflower

Bolognese with Ryvita

Beef/salmon with cauliflower and broccoli

Beef with sweet potato and cauliflower

Roast chicken with salad/cauliflower and broccoli

Tuna and tomato/cucumber yogurt pitta

Spaghetti bolognese

Chewy Yogurt, pear, walnut and prune pudding
Porridge and fruit
Spinach and oil/seasoning Mussels in garlic sauce
Penne with tuna, cucumber and tomatoBean salad and chicken slices
Scrambled egg and salmon on brown toast
Grapefruit half Cocoa powder spoon
Nutty All-Bran and skimmed milk Ryvita and peanut butter
Walnut half
Crunchy Apple Broccoli/sprouts and oil/seasoning Cauliflower and broccoli saladCottage cheese

Celery/cucumber/sugar snap peas

Pickled onion/cucumber
Refreshing Skimmed milk Lime and soda Green tea

In most cases I haven’t detailed the ingredients/quantities and instructions however the internet is overflowing with recipes and you’ll in any case have to develop a rough understanding of the nutritional value (amount of carb, protein, calories, etc.) of the ingredients and foods you commonly eat and a feel for how large given quantities look (like 100g – for which a food scale is very useful when starting out)  to make a permanent change to your lifestyle. Generally, I made my protein source (typically cooked in a way that kept bad and saturated fats low – e.g. supermarket-rotisseried in the case of roast chicken) half the size of the plate and low carb density vegetables (typically steamed in a microwave steamer) the other half. Make up your own recipes that adhere to the general biochemical principles you’ve learnt (that apply to everybody) and are tailored to your own experiences/findings from monitoring your weight loss against the foods you eat – just keep the grams of carb below the threshold that you can tolerate without spiking your blood sugar (signified by feeling hungry again a short time later) at one sitting (typically 20 to 30g and ideally less than the grams of protein/fat) and make sure you get your daily allowance of nutrients (vitamins/minerals are OK to come from a tablet during your period of fat loss). Personally, I found my hunger following a meal was kept lowest when I kept carbs very low (under 20g/meal) but the level of carb you can tolerate without spiking your blood sugar will depend on

  1. how quickly it’s absorbed into the blood – which itself depends on (a) how the carb is exposed to the stomach e.g. diluting the carb with protein/fat/fibre/water will reduce absorption and (b) how much work the body needs to do to turn the carb into glucose i.e. the GI and
  2. how quickly it’s being taken out of the blood by your muscles – which depends on how exhausted i.e. depleted of glycogen they are.

Of course, you’ll probably break the principles from time-to-time e.g. when socializing (even then your body probably won’t want to gorge anyway if you’ve kept it well nourished) or when pressure of work means you don’t have time to cook but if you follow the principles you’ve discovered the large majority of the time and continue to monitor your weight don’t worry about it!

Enjoy 🙂

The Secret of How to Lose Fat!

By far the biggest change was WHAT and WHEN I ate but here’s the full story:

1) I changed WHAT I ate to stomach-filling meals with a much lower amount of carbohydrate (90 grams total per day is fine if you have a fairly sedentary lifestyle but go as low as you can comfortably manage while ensuring you get enough fibre in your diet – read the grams of carb on the nutrition label on your foods or google their ingredients e.g. here) combined in the meal in a low-GI way (see the videos here if you don’t know what GI means) while at the same time ensuring I got essential nutrients (proteins, vitamins, minerals, essential fats, fibre) so my body was not denied what it NEEDED and my blood sugar was kept at an even level (rapid rises in blood sugar are always followed by rapid drops – which make you feel incredibly hungry!). I gradually learnt about the calories in various foods and limited my food intake so I ate 1000 fewer calories than my body was using per day (to lose around 1kg a week). I came up with a list of meals I liked  that both satisfied my cravings for specific tastes, textures and smells like spicy, savoury, sweet, chocolaty, acidic, tart, crunchy, nutty, meaty, cheesy, chewy, creamy, aromatic but ALSO met my lower carb/high nutrient criteria and then shopped for those meal ingredients only, preparing batches of the cooked meals in advance (that I stored in my freezer) – I’ve posted pictures of the staple meals/snack ‘faithfuls’ I settled on (including a Slim-Fast style meal replacement milk shake) in the Recipes section. A strategy I found useful was to eat the majority of ‘feel-good’ carbohydrates in a pudding (like this) after the main meal – that way I finished the meal on a carb high feeling completely satisfied but without having consumed too many in total. I took a cheap supermarket-branded multivitamin and mineral tablet daily to ensure I got the nutrients I needed on my calorie-limited diet and made sure my diet included foods containing Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids. What you give your body is as important as what you deny it but I reduced saturated fats, eliminated products with artificial sweeteners (which stimulate appetite) and caffeine (which causes water and minerals to be lost from the body), drinking water or green/herbal tea (without sugar) when thirsty – note that you will feel more thirsty and need to drink more as you start to burn your fat reserves. Remember, you will eat a smaller quantity of food but once you get over your sugar cravings (which can last for a few days) your body will quickly adapt to burning fat when it needs energy and re-educate your body’s cravings for the healthier foods you have introduced into your diet – if you only source of XYZ vitamin or mineral is French fries then you will crave French fries; when your body has healthier food sources of the nutrients it needs it will actually crave those healthy sources and you will come to love several foods you didn’t before!

2) I changed WHEN I ate to (a) include a breakfast and (b) rarely eat anything substantial later than 8pm so I didn’t go to sleep on a full stomach and had a restful night’s sleep. I also only ate at a meal time or when I was really feeling hungry in my stomach – rather than when I wanted a food ‘high’/’hit’ to cheer me up because I felt stressed or down or tired or bored or wanted a pleasurable distraction giving life a purpose/goal. Distinguishing real hunger from thirst (dehydration) or just feeling low in mood/energy is a skill that can be developed fairly quickly by allowing yourself to drink water/unsweetened tea or eat a limited repertoire (like apples, low-carb-density vegetables and canned tuna) of nutritious but not highly pleasurable foods when feeling the urge to eat. I never starved myself and always allowed myself to eat one of my repertoire of nutritious but not highly pleasurable foods if feeling truly hungry between meals. By BALANCING your energy intake (how much you eat and when) against your energy expenditure (how active you are) before and after that intake you can ‘coast’ along at a comfortable medium-to-low (but not so low that you feel hungry and end up over-eating) blood sugar level and get your body to burn fat by doing nothing – even when you sleep! In fact, the easiest time to deal with low blood sugar is at night while you’re sleeping since your body ordinarily burns fat then anyway and you don’t feel hungry at all. Modern work life can be stressful but if you allow yourself the time to savour tastes on your palate and take at least 30 minutes over your main meal of the day from the first bite to the last your stomach will have time to register how full you are and you’ll naturally know when you’ve had enough to eat. Listen to your body (but not false hunger cravings) and eat until you are satisfied. Remember that whatever you do during your weight loss phase has to also be manageable comfortably long term – there is no point exerting lots of willpower to deny your body’s real hunger cravings since you will just end up compensating (and more) down the line.

3) I kept a weekly record of my weight and fat % (using a set of electronic scales) and took weekly photos of my body to monitor my PROGRESS. Seeing the results gave me feedback on how various foods impacted my weight loss and looking more conventionally attractive and feeling healthier motivated me to continue losing weight. Muscle in fact weighs more than fat and your weight can change by 3kg from one day to the next depending on your intestine contents and level of hydration so recording fat % and pictures of your muscle tone is vital to know how amazingly well you’re doing!

4) I did 1 minute (yes, that’s not a typo!) of INTENSE (heart rate up to 120bpm) exercise a day on 3 alternate days a WEEK – as 3 bursts of 20 seconds of intense running on the spot (or cycling or swimming) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The effects of this small amount of exercise on your blood biochemistry are profound and extend well into the next day.

Prior to my new lifestyle (it’s now a way of life I enjoy rather than a temporary regime of denial) I had in the main eaten foods I mistakenly thought were healthy and good for weight loss (like brown bread, wild rice, baked potatoes, cereals) together with convenient supermarket ready-meals (lasagne, fish pie, curry, M&S ‘fuller for longer’ meals) and in fact spent more time exercising (though at a lower pace). I had also dieted from time to time in the past when I felt the waistline had gone too far but always ended up putting the lost weight back on.

This is a lot of information to take in presented in a condensed way but my hope is that this site will provide you with a sufficient understanding of nutrition and your body’s biochemistry to enable you to implement the lifestyle changes that will let you take charge of your weight and stay healthy throughout your life – as well as pass on the understanding you develop and good habits you learn to those you care about. If you have questions not answered here then do please ask/comment.

Some people find it easier to be given a more prescriptive approach to what to do when starting out – a kind of one-size-fits-all template – and I have provided such a ‘prescription’ here, however, it’s important that as you see positive results you understand why the regime works so you can continue to lead a healthy lifestyle and keep your weight at a healthy level forever.

Find someone near you to chow down with!

If you’ve read the tips section, begun to practice them by following the lifestyle and recipes and been overjoyed with your results you may, like me, have come to the conclusion that the surest route to long-term healthy eating is consuming in the main fresh home-cooked food – where you know how much of which ingredients of what nutritious quality you’re consuming.

The trouble is that if you have a busy working life then unless you make a concerted effort to plan your meals in advance (perhaps taking time at weekends or when less busy to shop for the necessary ingredients and prepare batches of meals for freezing so they are ready for you to eat when you have less time in the week) it’s difficult to maintain a healthy diet – either for weight loss or to maintain the weight and health you’re happy with.

“I don’t have time to cook!”

Well, the chances are that somebody near you will have a different work-life balance and be able to prepare home-cooked food for those times when you’re not.

Hence, if you want to find somebody who can prepare chow for you or someone who’d like to chow down on your food just post a reply here. Of course you’ll need to agree the commercial arrangements between yourselves to make the exchange worth both your whiles. This will include details of the ingredients used (e.g. 2% fat minced beef is more expensive than ‘value’ 20% fat), when the meal(s) will be collected/delivered and when/how payment will be made. All parties should satisfy themselves that adequate standards of hygiene are followed and chow makers are responsible for declaring any profits they make.

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Anyone interested in finding a chow ‘partner’ can just type in the first part of their postcode (e.g. SW20  or even just SW) in the search box that you’ll find in the top right corner of this page and make direct contact with prospective partners.

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Why Is Sprint Rushing a WiMAX Phone to Market?

Sprint (s s) will launch its fist WiMAX-enabled handset in the first half of this year, several months earlier than expected, according to a Forbes story this morning — an HTC Supersonic, a dual-mode, Android-enabled device that boasts a 4.3-inch LCD display and Wi-Fi connectivity. But does Sprint really need a WiMAX phone yet?

The phone will reportedly switch automatically switch between Sprint’s 3G EV-DO network and the 4G infrastructure it’s building with Clearwire (s clwr), enabling it to take advantage of average download speeds of 3-6 Mbps. But that’s only when it can find a WiMAX network, which covers some 10 percent of the U.S. population and doesn’t yet include cities such as New York, San Francisco and Washington.

Just as importantly, the industry has yet to agree on a handover for voice between 3G and WiMAX which — like LTE — is all-IP. Depending on how Sprint decides to handle voice on its WiMAX network, folks making a call on its WiMAX phone could find themselves unable to use the 4G data services while on a call. Sprint will obviously need to produce phones that leverage WiMAX as it builds out its new footprint and as the industry addresses the technical problems involved in moving to 4G from 3G. But rushing a WiMAX phone to market in the next few months doesn’t seem to make much sense.

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“doesnâ€™t yet include cities such as New York, San Francisco and Washington.” sounds like sour grapes from people in above cities.

why should those of us WITH 4G coverage be denied hardware? hubris can be ugly.

Carl Townsend

No rushing here. This phone has been planned by Sprint for well over a year.

Colin, here is another proposed article for you: “Is Verizon Rushing their LTE Newtwork with No Devices Available?”

I’m a sprint customer. I want an Android phone with latest iteration and fastest processor. I live in WIMAX coverage. Of course they should bring out this phone. I’ll buy it on day one.

I personally think this is a very illogical question. The towers are there already, the logical thing to do is rush a phone to market to take advantage of it. Why wouldn’t you? From the last I read 30 million people could be on the Wimax network. Thats a lot of people. I heard Seattle was going through testing, I live in Seattle. Rush that phone! Don’t listen to this guy! This all sounds like anti-Sprint speech to me.

Oooh, scary story, with lots of conjecture (that would apply equally to other still in the lap technologies). Are you perhaps on the LTE bandwagon?

As for the comment question above about whether anyone is concerned that WiMax is going to kill us? Of course there is, there always is, from the same people who think that grapes and tuna and bottled water are going to kill us.

Okay, so let’s play a little thought experiment…

Let’s assume that EM radiation (electricity and radio waves) really do cause cancer in some percentage of the population. Let’s also assume that it has been doing so for quite awhile now, since pervasive radio and electricity has been around for quite awhile now. Now, some percentage of the pre-EM society population probably had no resistance to EM exposure and some percent probably was naturally resistant. Over time (the last century), through natural selection, those percentages have undoubtedly been shifting in favor of those who are naturally resistant to EM exposure. As well, over the last century we have made medical advances in treating a great many varieties of cancers, some of which may be caused by EM exposure. We’ve also learned something about shielding EM radiation, although probably not nearly enough.

So, what we see is, there are a lot of variables, and they are shifting over time, but this is clear: the population is becoming more EM resistant and science is becoming more adept at treating EM-triggered cancers and in controlling EM exposure. So, what we really have to ask ourselves is this: Are we really willing to give up the Internet, computers, CRT, MRIs, X-rays, cellphones, cordless phones, television, radio, long-distance communication generally microwaves, toasters, heating, light bulbs and electricity generally in order to element a small percentage risk that is already shrinking due to natural selection and scientific advancement?

It is a rough call, especially if it is you, or your kid with the tumor, but is going back to pre-EM society really the answer? I think not. A better choice would be to remove the limited liability laws that allow corporations to disregard risk when they are producing these products. If corporations were striped of their special privileges and made to account the same as any other business, or person, for their actions, they would undoubtedly find a solution for EM overflow, and in fairly short order.

Corporatism and the corporate-state that protects it is what allows situations like this to develop. If we were to strip government of the power to protect business, situations like this would diminish, if not resolve altogether. If a comparable wall of separation existed between commerce and government as now exists between religion and government, we would be living in a decidedly better world — think it though.

Yup, just like , Colin Gibbs rushed this article
“The phone will reportedly switch automatically switch between Sprintâ€™s 3G EV-DO network and the 4G infrastructure”.

I totally disagree with this, why not have a phone if you can tap into WiMAX network. Its still not know whether we can do voice and data simultaneously. But why is it a bad idea to get a 4.3 inch screen phone ?

If the markets are launched, and the handset is ready, how is it rushing, exactly? Will it be rushing in “x” months when Verizon has 10 cities lit by LTE and offers a 3G/4G handset?

Have to agree with Paul here — hard to see much wrong with launching a phone for a network that’s already up and running.

The linked article on “the industry has yet to agree on a handover for voice between 3G and WiMAX” doesn’t mention WiMAX, just LTE… and in any case, handover is probably irrelevant as the device will only use the CDMA 3G/2G network for voice.

Paul Kapustka

Not sure I follow the logic here — what doesn’t make sense about having additional devices for markets you have already launched, especially when they can be used right now (over 3G) in markets that don’t yet have WiMAX?

Most of the 4G “phones” coming out in the next two-three years are going to use 3G for voice anyway, whether they are WiMAX or LTE — and why not, since that’s what the 3G networks are good for?

In terms of surfing while you talk — does anybody really need that functionality, other than has-been actors in commercials?

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The Story we live by

We all have stories we tell ourselves – such as there’s no support for me, I’m not good enough, nobody listens to me, other people are strong but not me –  and these stories colour our experience of life.

Now there is a story that we as humanity have been living out for a very long time – It goes something like this –

I am a physical body, an ego and I’m separate, on my own. I must always be ready to see the threat to me in any given situation.  I must be ready for fight or flight.

I must conform, fit in and make sure not to be rejected.

I must try to be approved of, liked, please others so that I feel ok.

I must constantly focus on what other people expect of me.

I need to impress others.

Fear is the feeling I experience a lot.

I keep looking for proof that I am lovable and worthy from other people  – as if only they can prove to me that I am lovable and worthy.

The world is a terrible place and the only solutions to our problems are war and looking after ourselves, looking after our own. Bad things keep happening – life is hard, tough, traumatic.

There is so much lack.

Life happens to us. You just get through it.

I need entertainment, distractions , to make it ok.

Now, I am going to tell you another story – a very different one –

See what happens inside you as you listen to this –

I am a Soul, Spirit living in this physical body.

I am here to learn, grow and discover – to seek truth, remember who I am, to make a difference.

Everything is teaching me exactly what I need to learn. Everything is helping me to grow in unconditional love. Life is a journey of discovery.

I trust in the benevolence of life.

I am never alone.

I have a Higher Self who is always there guiding me and loving me.

I can ask my Higher Self to throw light on any issue I am experiencing.

When I don’t know what to do, I can ask my Higher Self to guide me.

I know the Soul/Higher Self is my compass in life but it cannot guide me if I deny its existence and don’t turn to it for help and guidance.

I know that once I turn my attention toward the light of my Soul that I will no longer feel lost and I know I need to do this every day and not just when I am in trouble.

I need to practise this every day so that I learn to hear this guidance in my life.

I have experience that love heals. It connects me with other people. It builds bridges. It brings me to a sense of unity and oneness.

I see how love is truly more powerful than fear and how, when I choose love, it really helps me to overcome fear.

I know that we are all connected. Life is about working together for the greater good of all. My love can stretch to everyone.

I see in the world that many of the world challenges are sorted when we work together, reach out and care for one another. I feel so uplifted and inspired when we work together to find solutions and when I witness people out in the world making a difference.

I know that as we work together we can find solutions to challenges and discover resources among ourselves and within us that we never would have believed were there.

I enjoy my life and I give thanks for all my challenges and lessons and the opportunities they bring me to learn how to live in love and oneness.

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I Tried To Grow Organic Mushrooms In My Apartment, And This Is What Happened

It started when my roommate was gifted a boxed Back to the Roots Organic Mushroom Farm by a friend. The three of us, working professionals in our late 20s, sort of squinted at it in the Sunday afternoon light. We had never seen one before, although lately they are abounding at Whole Foods and other organic stores.

The idea of the farm is that the mushrooms grow within 7-10 days out of a cardboard box filled with live mushroom spawn (just as terrifying as it sounds), organic soil, and recycled coffee grounds and other composted waste. All you have to do is soak it in water, place it in a bright area—but not in direct sunlight—and then mist daily. Afterward, you get to harvest and cook the crop, which comes with recipes like mushroom sage flatbread, mushroom sesame ramen, or vegetable lasagna.

Read my whole article at Rodale’s Organic Life.

How To Write Your Way Out Of An Emotional Funk In Just 20 Minutes

What if you could write your way to a happier you in as little as 20 minutes?

That’s the promise of a new book, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life, that looked at decades of psychological research to determine that writing about something emotionally poignant for just 20 minutes at least 3 times a week can drastically change a person’s outlook and emotional stability…

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The MS 261 C-M features low emissions, high fuel efficiency and the advanced STIHL M-Tronic™ engine management system. STIHL M-Tronic™ helps deliver maximum performance across a wide range of cutting conditions. The system digitally monitors changes in elevation and temperature and automatically adjusts for fuel quality, varying octane levels and dirty air filters. The MS 261 C-M also features red...Read More
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DISPLACEMENT 50.2 cc (3.06 cu. in.)
ENGINE POWER 3.0 kW (4.0 bhp)
POWERHEAD WEIGHT 4.9 kg (10.8 Ibs.)
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GUIDE BAR LENGTHS* (Recommended ranges) 40 to 50 cm (16" to 20")
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Green Garden Pizza

18 10 2012

Garden clean-out continues as I figure out what to do with parsley  basil, green tomatoes and zucchini. Try this easy pesto pizza!

Pizza crust

Fresh pesto

1 Large onion

3-4 cloves garlic

2 Zucchini

2 Green tomatoes

olive oil

Sautee the onions and garlic in a small amount of olive oil, when they are almost done add in the green tomatoes and cook until soft.  Fry the zucchini until browned lightly.  Cook the pizza crust for 10 minutes, then take out and top with pesto, onions, green tomatoes, and zucchini.  Cook a second time (this time on a pizza stone) for 10 more minutes. Serve fresh or the next day cold, because who doesn’t love waking up to cold pizza?

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5 11 2012
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I love this recipe! I included it in my Links You’ll Love post today, keep up the great work!

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A hand printed tussar silk saree in multiple colour combination was woven by the weavers of Gopalpur, Odisha. Tribal prints on the body with stripes on the border. Pallu has been printed with tribal motifs. Antique ruby colour blouse piece comes attached in running with this saree.
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Just A Quickie: Movie Review for Batman: The Dark Knight

Because we at GGG run busy lives, we didn’t have a review for the movie of the year on Friday, when it might have actually mattered. Nope, Sunday was the soonest I could get to it. That said, everyone and their mother has already seen this movie, leading Dark Knight to break the record for opening weekend box office, topping last year’s mediocre cash cow Spider-Man 3 (which apparently still sold more tickets than Batman). Iron Man, Hulk and now Batman have shown that the superhero genre is anything but over this summer. It’s not possible to gush about this movie enough, but due to the fact that it’s hard to say anything original about how awesome and incredible The Dark Knight is at this point, I’ll try and keep this short.

Simply put, it’s the best comicbook movie of all time. And really, that’s my review, but if you want the obligatory raves about the cast and action and Christopher Nolan, click on. But I wouldn’t be insulted if you didn’t.

It would, on the other hand, be insulting to say that the acting in this movie is the best in the superhero genre, because everyone involved compare favorably to any type of movie, bar none.

Christian Bale continues to cement himself as the best Batman since Michael Keaton and perhaps topping him (I’m off and on about Bale’s gruff Batman voice), Michael Caine plays a stellar Alfred, Morgan Freeman is just fun to watch as Lucius Fox, Maggie Gyllenhaal was a suitable replacement for Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes, Gary Oldman’s Sergeant Gordon provides the big thumping heart in this movie, Aaron Eckhart provides the second most dynamic performance in the film as district attorney Harvey Dent, and Heath Ledger’s tragic demise is only made worse by watching the vilest, most fascinating, scary villain EVER and wondering what else he had to offer. His Joker predictably steals the show and meets and exceeds all the hype that the role was given. During the film it was a common happenstance to laugh and shiver at the exact same line that Ledger delivers. The action and cinematography give Spider-Man a run for its money, and due to the fact that Batman doesn’t have the benefit of webs, the scenes where Batman is gliding and jumping off rooftops are some of the most gripping and terrifying things I’ve seen in movies (I can only imagine how it feels in IMAX). I’m not even going to bother with the plot, but this action/crime drama delivers in every possible way.

Christopher Nolan is the genius that made it possible, starting it all with Batman Begins and following it up with a whole other level of awesome here. Every decision he made was great, and even the run time, while long, didn’t hit me until it was over, despite seeing it at midnight. It was just so jampacked with stuff that I couldn’t imagine them cutting anything. After this ending, I’m very curious to see where Nolan could take it, but it’s clear that no one else should get the chance to make Batman 3.

That is all. And I know I missed plenty of things to talk about, but I was really trying to keep this short, because while seeing a movie with a boner is fun, reading about said boner gets old.

4 Responses to “Just A Quickie: Movie Review for Batman: The Dark Knight”

  1. davidry214 Says:

    I don’t really know what I can possibly add to this, but yeah, it was extraordinary. One thing that I think if easily overlooked, because of the deserved attention Ledger is getting, is that while his Joker was the greatest villainous performance ever, the other villain performance in the movie was at least Top 5 all-time, maybe Top 3.

  2. spiffyithaca Says:

    I tried to write this post without spoilers, but it was too vague. I agree that the performance by Eckhart as Dent and Two Face was incredible, and the arch of the character was really well done and perhaps THE highlight after Joker. I couldn’t say so explicitly in fear of spoiling it, but yeah, he delivered the second best performance in the film. As far as top 3 or 5 villain of all time? At first I was going to disagree and say that’s hyperbole, but I guess I could see him being discussed in the top 5, but no way in top 3. I think the potential was there EASILY if Two Face was primed for a big showdown in the third film, but since Two Face HIMSELF wasn’t in the movie for more than a half hour or so, I find it hard to put him there.

    I would put both Joker’s in there, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Magneto and….maybe DeVito’s Penguin because he’s so creepy. I don’t know, that’s off the top of my head. But Eckhart as Two Face definitely could slot in there and be respectable, which is a testament to the movie and the performance considering the screen time of the character.

  3. gokitalo Says:

    The Dark Knight was incredible. There’s so much I can say about it, but I’ll wait until I get back August 9 😉

  4. The Belated Top 25 Films of 2009 « Goki’s Giving Groin Says:

    […] 1. The Dark Knight: The best comicbook movie ever? I feel like that phrase is thrown around each time a new film comes out these days (although Watchmen, review coming soon?, doesn’t inspire the phrase, although color me impressed), but this movie transcends comics and superheroes. It’s not a superhero movie. It’s a fucking brilliant film period. Christopher Nolan is a God. And one of the most talented casts ever doesn’t hurt either. See what I said when it came out. […]

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Why the Right Has Such Lousy Information

i-65852b51ef52889c0f5e7cd2ef5908bb-journalist.gifYou have to be a certain age to remember the days when Republicans tended to be better informed and more rational than their opponents. Back before the conservative media complex took on its present shape, conservatives constructed their vision of reality from the same pool of facts generally available to everyone else. They just drew a different set of conclusions about that picture than their rivals on the left.

Going back as far as the sixties, many on the Republican right flank became convinced that they were losing not because their ideas were unpersuasive, but because the media landscape was hopelessly tilted against them. Guys like Nixon aide Roger Ailes envisioned a counter-balance, a conservative journalistic infrastructure that might counter this tilt.

Ailes and other conservative media critics were both right and wrong. While it is true that Journalism is an inherently liberal institution, they were completely wrong about what that means. Their “success” generating a parallel news institution coincided with the emergence of unfiltered, Internet-based media to spawn a storm of unintended consequences for Republicans.

Instead of an alternative news source, conservative media has developed into a dangerous misinformation machine, threatening to cripple conservatism by blinding it. Self-identified conservatives are now some of the most hopelessly and militantly misinformed voters in our system. It may be too late to repair the damage.

Conservative media is nothing new.  There has always been a strong culture of conservative commentary, producing figures like William F. Buckley and George Will. What’s new in this landscape is the attempt to manufacture a completely unnatural creature – conservative journalism.

No one should trust a liberal police force or a conservative university. Some institutions are inherently bent toward a certain philosophical perspective. Conservatism, as a philosophy, is built on a respect for tradition, history, and inherited authority. Conservatism values faith more than doubt. It places a higher premium on belief than on inquiry. Conservatives are suspicious of any force that would upset traditional understandings of the world or challenge the established order, with good reason.

Journalism seeks to establish a set of facts through inquiry, investigation, and relentless doubt. Journalism is perpetually at odds with authority, a nuisance to the privileged. Good journalists are relentless turd disturbers who refuse to let well enough alone. Journalism is based on liberal values.

Journalists, individually, tend to be liberal in their philosophical orientation because the profession largely demands it. There aren’t a lot of liberal FBI agents or conservative reporters. Journalism is as a discipline is the most accurate and reliable method for uncovering news. That does not mean that journalists, or liberals, formulate the best policies. It means that journalists do the best job of uncovering the facts on which intelligent policy decisions are made.

Conservatives like Roger Ailes imagined they could build an inherently conservative journalistic enterprise. They ended up with a product that straddles the line between tabloid and propaganda. Imbue Journalism with conservative values and you will stop getting news. Take away the liberal-oriented critical thinking that goes into the journalistic process and you will get a consistently misleading picture of reality.

This may not matter if you are merely looking to build a base for political activism, but it will exact a merciless price when you need to operate intelligently in the world. If you wish to govern, rhetoric must at some point bend to external realities. Failure to accurately calculate those external realities is like driving blind.

Liberal journalists might vote for Democrats, but theirs’ are the methods that will tell you accurately what’s happening in the world whether you like it or not. They may not draw the right conclusions about policies or philosophy, but they will always do a better job than conservatives at reporting the news. Tune them out and you’ll get unskewed polls, endless fantasy scandals, a deluded base, and a political movement that is never capable of governing.

Conservative’s misguided hostility to the “lamestream media” is the Achilles heel of the modern Republican Party. Obama’s secret weapon in every political standoff with Republicans is that he actually knows what’s happening. Democrats are no smarter than Republicans. They just cheat by turning on their headlights.

Fox News, Breitbart, and the rest of the right wing journalistic engine are political opium. They deliver a rush of unskewed reality that briefly soothes the ache of cognitive dissonance that increasingly ruins conservatives’ moods. Conservatives have consistently lousy information because the rise of Fox News coincided with the Internet age to create a storm of disinformation, too tantalizing to turn down.

There are only two functioning political parties in this country. It will always be possible for Republicans to win some elections no matter how dysfunctional the party becomes. The price of our hostility to information comes not from elections, but from in our steeply declining capacity to govern and the weakening of conservatism as a relevant political philosophy.

It is unclear how many failures it may take to shock the American right out of its stupor, but the toll from this binder is mounting. We could be in for a long, painful ride. Perhaps it’s time to buy more gold?

Chris Ladd is a Texan living in the Chicago area. He has been involved in grassroots Republican politics for most of his life. He was a Republican precinct committeeman in suburban Chicago until he resigned from the party and his position after the 2016 Republican Convention. He can be reached at gopliferchicago at gmail dot com.

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  1. […] the social capital institutions that once blunted the influence of dumb ideas and daffy candidates. A conservative entertainment complex has destroyed any means by which Republican voters might confront dissonant information. Whatever […]

  2. ss396 says:

    If the right has such lousy information and are genetically inferior to their liberal media counterparts, why has almost everything that talk radio and Fox “Noise” has tried to warn people about Obamacare, coming to pass? Speaking of Obamacare, how ’bout that crack bit of “journalism” on MSNBC the other night where MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry went off on a near hysterical rant about equating the use of the term Obamacare with the “N” word?

    Chris, you are totally off the rails with this one.

    • Crogged says:

      SS, you are absolutely right since you and Fox have stuck to the same story since early November. Try changing with the calendar, the web site is working, more people signing up and you need another way to convince people of the horrors of more people obtaining medical help.

      • DanMan says:

        extending deadlines again, about a 15-20% rate of actual payment to enrollee, somewhere between 38,000 to 1.2 million depending on who’s reporting are in the system that needs 7 million according to their numbers, more than 5 million insignificant people have had their policies cancelled so far – or not – or maybe depending on what the king declares the day you try to pin it down

        I’m predicting it gets worse in January. Care to make a counter prediction?

    • Renfield says:

      Nobody said anybody was “genetically inferior.” And hardly any of Fox’ dread and panic came to pass.The very fact that you believe it has and that your first response to analysis is an absurd straw man proves the man’s point.

  3. way2gosassy says:

    Hi guys! Been gone for awhile and except for Capt. Stern looks like the same crew. Just dropped in to say hello and wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  4. Turtles Run says:

    The tea party claims that Obamacare should be repealed now because the faulty website proves government cannot run health care.

    Today I tried logging into my vision care plan’s website and it did not recognize me as a member even though I just used my benefits. Should that company shut down because their website did not function properly?

    • GG says:

      LOL. You don’t wartin’ anyone. No one takes you seriously. You are a rightwing shill, nothing more. You don’t have an original thought in your head merely parroting Fox, etc. Jesus, you used to link to WorldNutDaily. No one takes that seriously.

      • DanMan says:

        You sure have a problem with Fox don’t you? I don’t since I cancelled my satellite TV after the Super Bowl last year. I’m up about $1,200 so far.

  5. DanMan says:

    well looky here! it’s despo and eljefebob’s old crowd spinning the same lies in the goper’s blog

    Like I said on the front page, who needs information if it can’t be manipulated right Chris? Your democrat party hides, distorts and down right lies about most aspects of every issue. And to make sure the lies stick, any questioning of them is racism, homophobia and all the other worn out invectives that are blithely tossed around by your friends in the media.

    “Journalism seeks to establish a set of facts through inquiry, investigation, and relentless doubt. Journalism is perpetually at odds with authority, a nuisance to the privileged. Good journalists are relentless turd disturbers who refuse to let well enough alone. Journalism is based on liberal values.”

    That right there is pure BS in today’s world of journolisters and you know it. Your left ward journalists that dominate the media seek to establish a narrative based on the democrat party’s insistence.

    Your paid media hacks are the most servile bunch of cheerleaders we have had to withstand in my life time. They would do anything to stay close to this administration and have prostituted themselves in their efforts to remain close. You nailed tha lst line though. Journalism today is based on based on liberal values. That is as has always been “The ends justify the means”. The turd disturbers is pretty spot on too I’m guessing, you guys have the penchant for scat.

    • GG says:

      “Your democrat party hides, distorts and down right lies about most aspects of every issue.”

      Kind of like Fox Noise?

      P.S. You sound paranoid and quite possibly nuts.

      • DanMan says:

        meh, I think the same about you…”My father is the same. In fact, as a retired journalist (back when journalism was still good) he literally roars with laughter when he listens to Faux.”

        So you agree journalism isn’t what it used to be. How exactly does one laugh literally? Ask your ex-journalist father for us, he would know the rules.

        If you like your lies, you can keep your lies. Period.

      • GG says:

        I never said journalism is great now but Fox isn’t even journalism. It’s entertainment hence he finds it hysterically funny that people take it as “serious” as I do.

        Are you deliberately obtuse? Oh, wait……

    • Turtles Run says:

      Hey Dan! Did you get tired of playing with yourself….I mean by yourself over there at Sparkle’s.

    • Texan5142 says:

      Dude, DanMan, please seek help.

  6. lomamonster says:

    About this ‘maybe buy more gold’ thing – – A better approach to the future would be to establish a bitcoin position because new economies are on the horizon and bitcoin seems to be the most remarkable horse in the race at present. Gold will be worthless in comparison if the new currency takes off.

  7. Turtles Run says:

    Lets see, in the past week the conservative pundits have pushed these…..uh….reasonable news stories

    – A tea party activist suggested the United States may be conquered by foreign armies because abortion and Islam were permitted.

    – Obama Administration slaps Roman Catholics in face for moving Vatican Embassy

    – A Florida Tea Party leader is decrying the takeover of the local Republican Party in Broward County by gay “thugs.”

    Finally, no wingnut site would be complete without a story on the take over of our nation by Sharia Law.

    – Fox News anchor Heather Nauert announced on Monday that a YMCA swim class that respected the religious traditions of Muslim girls was proof that “Sharia law is now changing everything.”

    Good job teabaggers with keeping journalistic integrity alive.

    snark off

  8. GG says:

    This is what I currently see is wrong with the right. Allowing people this to speak into a microphone. They are insane and the mainstream does not identify with them. This is why the TP is failing.

  9. Anse says:

    I appreciate this column, especially the part in which you point out that it’s not a matter of Democrats being more intelligent than Republicans. It’s the fact that Democratic leaders, while they certainly spin things to suit them as all politicians do, they don’t tend to invent a whole reality out of the ether the way the right wing media does. I listen to some of my conservative relatives talk and it’s like we’re on totally different planets. And of course they would never agree with this statement and would insist the opposite is true.

    The shock on Republican faces as the election results rolled out back in 2012 are a perfect reflection of this. They simply had no idea that Romney was going to lose. It was a total surprise, even though a ton of pollsters had been saying for months that Obama had the edge. And they’re still in denial about why it turned out that way.

  10. “Journalism seeks to establish a set of facts through inquiry, investigation, and relentless doubt.”

    David Gregory, “relentless turd disturber”? LOL. Now, that’s funny. We have met the press, and they have clearly made the transition from fourth estate to fifth column.

    “Relentless doubt” is not exactly what I would call the fawning derriere kissing lavished upon the likes of David Plouffe (a.k.a. “The Mouth of Sauron”) and Ezekiel Emanuel on the Sunday morning ‘news’ shows, as they and other Obama minions gushed about the ‘fixed’ healthcare.gov website. No, you’d have to go to a “tabloid” like the WSJ for that: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304854804579232213683736826

    Face it, Chris: Journalism, as a discipline fitting your description, is largely dead in this country, if in truth it ever really existed. The *only* reason that we now know better is because of alternative media. The monopoly of the networks and large news publishers has finally been broken, and people have come to realize that much of what they are fed as ‘news’ from the lamestream media isn’t worth consuming, much less believing.

    • Turtles Run says:

      In other words. Its not news unless they are feeding your alternate reality.

      Kinda explains why the Benghazi, IRS, birth certificate, and other “scandals” seem to take a life of their own. Just because there is no proof of wrong-doing that does not mean the story is just another wild-ass conspiracy, it just means the lame-stream media is covering up for the President.

      Is that about it?

      • DanMan says:

        pretty much, even by their own admission. Here’s a hilarious article out of Politico explaining why the Obamacare story was bungled. What’s funny is it’s omission of the most obvious reason the facts weren’t reported, which is slavish bias. But hey, at least they admit it wasn’t well covered despite hundreds of fluffy words written to support it.

        Yeah, we have an alternate reality alright turtle. It’s not your world of lies.

      • Turtles Run says:

        DanDude: Reread the article. It claims that the media focused on the talking points, right and left, the policy wonks, and politicians. In other words the things that they felt got them more readers.

        The news business is just that…..BUSINESS. Like any other business they are focused on the bottom line. Don’t confuse news reporting for journalism because they are two different things.

    • Anse says:

      If there is anything that so wonderfully exemplified the rotten propaganda that defines the conservative media, it was the last presidential election. Pollsters had been saying for months that Obama had the edge. Talking heads on Fox insisted they were all liberals and they were all biased. But poll after poll after poll said the same thing. Fox pundits kept up the drumbeat of optimism. They aren’t talking to conservatives, they insisted. They are slanting the polls. And then election night came, and like children watching their pet hamster die, Republican voters exhibited the shock, the total astonishment, at the result that everybody who wasn’t on Fox said was going to happen. It wasn’t a surprise to anybody except conservative voters. And why? Because they were lied to. And to this day, this has caused no self-reflection, has inspired no inner dialogue.

      • DanMan says:

        yeah, we didn’t count on every swing state being taken by Obama, and of course the 140% turn outs in Ohio cities and the Florida fiasco weren’t handled well by the side that doesn’t cheat elections. Maybe we should up our game and cheat and lie like democrats.

    • Crogged says:

      Wall Street Journal announces progress in battle against more American’s obtaining medical insurance.

    • JohnGalt says:

      Is there any chance a commentary written in the manner Tracy’s WSJ link is written is published in that paper 10 years ago? The op-ed pages of the WSJ have long been conservative and often used to feature biting wit and clever satire. Fact-free righteous indignation is a relatively new trend. I wonder if it has anything to do with who owns it.

    • Crogged says:

      When you decry inaccuracy in the media with an op/ed piece, do you care?

    • Crogged says:

      The paper itself is still wonderful and has some great reporting. In some ways I agree with the post which started this thread, I never watch Sunday ‘news’ programs or any cable news because some subjects and/or thoughts actually deserve an entire sentence or five.

  11. Old Dispatcher says:

    When Rush Limbaugh was getting started the one thing he warned people about was reading The New York Times. He said it was the worst sort of news source and that if you needed information he was the most trusted source alive. This worked for him from a ratings standpoint and it was not long before all right wing talkers started braying the same thing.

    There’s real money in telling people what they want to hear, and as long as the ratings are up and the cash is flowing in there is no reason to think the entertainment form known as Conservative News is going anywhere but up. Conservatives really do feel they are entitled to their own set of facts, and as long as those facts continue to deliver solid Democratic vote getters like Romney then I really have no problem with the entire fake news industry.

    • kabuzz61 says:

      Just a flat out lie OD. What he did do was read a story from the NYT’s and compare it to the FULL story of what is going on. He demonstrated quite well how the elite MSM stroked/molded stories to put the GOP in the worse possible light and the dem’s in the best light.

      Question to you: Has the NYT’s ever ran a story with a headline with the word Far-Left?

      • Crogged says:

        So why not expect to receive ‘bias’ from all sources of information? The prior posting regarding evaluating scientific claims is a little narrow casted-some of those principles apply to evaluating everything you hear or read.

        Differences and chance cause variation
        Bias is rife
        Correlation does not imply causation
        Feelings influence risk perception

        Multiple, independent sources of evidence and replication are much more convincing.

      • Turtles Run says:

        Speaking of liars. How are you Buzzy? Where is the old hoodie?

      • Proud_Illusion says:

        As a matter of fact they have! Try the Google next time. It is a wonderful thing.

      • Old Dispatcher says:

        I guess I have been listing to Rush far longer than you have. He not only has referred to the NYT as a ‘fake web site’ but also to any other site that counters what he says. Rush also once, and maybe still does, quote World Net Daily as a trusted news source. His routine was to quote a news source and then praise it while warning everyone to stay away from the NYT.

        I don’t keep up with the headline from the NYT, but if the Far-Right makes news should it not be named as such? After all, who is claiming the world is 6,000 years old and that man and dinos walked the Earth at the same time? It”s not the folks Rush has warned you to stay away from, it is the Far-Right. If the Far-Right is ashamed of their views then why do they take credit for them?

    • rightonrush says:

      Speaking of the idiot Limbaugh, he’s calling Pope Francis a Marxist.

    • DanMan says:

      If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.

      It was a crazy video.

      Obama didn’t have anything to do with the IRS targeting conservative groups. That’s why even after sworn testimony revealed the directions and oversight came from DC no targeted person or group has been contacted during the justice department’s exhaustive investigation.

      Obama had nothing to do with Fast & Furious and didn’t even know about it. That’s why he locked down the investigation under executive order. To protect the innocent, right?

      The left has declared war on truth. Truth will win.

      • bubbabobcat says:

        Yes Danny Boy, truth will win. And that is why Republicans have not won the last two Presidential elections and 5 out of the last 6.

        Why I believe Karl Rove is STILL ranting to this day on Fox that Romney has a chance to win…

      • DanMan says:

        Well bubbababy they sure didn’t win I’ll give you that. How’s are the lies working out for you? Is this how you want the country to run? How do you like your betters excluding themselves from the law you so covet? That there is funny stuff that you libs cling so desperately to a liar who is only bankrupting your future. And doing it with your sparrow like devotion on full display.

        And some of us have as much regard for Karl Rove as you do, so there’s that. As far as I’m concerned Mr. Rove is closer to you than he is to me what with his efforts to throw open the borders.

  12. Crogged says:

    For those convinced about their sources…..how many of you have heard anything about California and doom lately? Moving on is omitting is propagandizing…….and avoiding all of these sins of the media is completely within the power of every citizen of this nation.

    • Old Dispatcher says:

      If you think CA has underfunded pension plans you should check out how deep in the hole Texas is on this item. This takes some doing since there is no one source that gives a total figure, but as you keep adding up one fund after another it starts to look pretty bad. The folks here in Texas in charge of this are doing the best they can with what they have to work with, though, and the stock market gains will help out as much here as they are in CA.

      Republicans don’t seem to notice the economy is getting better and the stock market is rising as fast as it is. I wonder why the Conservative news outlets don’t do more reporting on this?

      • kabuzz61 says:

        OldDispatcher, there is a huge difference between the TRF and California, but you knew that correct?

      • Old Dispatcher says:

        I do know that both are underfunded and yet no one in Texas seems to be concerned about it except those in charge of it. Conservatives tend to turn away from news they cannot deal with and let others try to correct their errors. Dealing with facts is just to hard for some folks, hence the rise of the Conservative fake news industry which tells Conservatives they are right about everything.

      • Old Dispatcher says:

        A good case in point would be your comment about the difference between Texas and CA. Yes, there is a difference, but not in the way I was talking about. If you think that Texas pension funds being underfunded is nothing to be worried about then you must be a Conservative since the facts of the matter defy the Conservative mantra that everything in Texas is perfect.

        But good people are working on the problem, so don’t worry about it. Democrats will soon take over the state and repair the damage done by ten years of Republican mismanagement.

      • DanMan says:

        City of Houston pension fiasco started under Lee. P. Brown, continued under Bill White and Annise Parker and underfunded by all three. No other party this pension mess throughout the US more than the democrats. Ms. Parker admitted to “approximately $10 billion” in unfunded liabilities on Ed Hendee’s show a couple of days before the election, something the Chronicle refuses to cover.

  13. kabuzz61 says:

    No one should trust a liberal police force or a conservative university. Some institutions are inherently bent toward a certain philosophical perspective. Conservatism, as a philosophy, is built on a respect for tradition, history, and inherited authority. Conservatism values faith more than doubt. It places a higher premium on belief than on inquiry. Conservatives are suspicious of any force that would upset traditional understandings of the world or challenge the established order, with good reason

    I tried to stop reading your tripe after this gerrymandered paragraph but kept on like watching a train wreck. Then you had to say liberal journalists will only tell you the truth about what is happening in the world. At first I laughed but then became sad that someone supposedly as intelligent as you would say such a thing.

    When have you ever heard a MSM reporter identify a democrat as far left, left wing, etc? Never. Those labels do not apply to democrats. Well, there goes the ‘truth’ you so much want to believe in.

    And again, I know you lefties hate Fox News but why, oh why is it so successful? Why is it killing the competition?

    The real truth is no one wants to hear the far left because they simply are what they accuse everyone else of being.

  14. Sharon Kass says:

    Today’s liberalism is another kind of orthodoxy. Journalists talk about their ethics but they generate the propaganda their bosses demand. (Omission is part of propagandizing.)

    • Anse says:

      Why is Fox News successful? Why in the heck does Lady Gaga sell a million records? It’s not a good way to judge quality.

      • porter50 says:

        Apples and oranges.

      • DanMan says:

        why is Fox successful? because they don’t parrot Obama’s narrative like the rest. Obama is a proven liar.
        why is Lady GaGa successful? because people are attracted to shiny things and she knows it

        Yeah, I see a correlation alright.

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Light No Longer Reaches My Window

Curtains cannot keep out the weight of concrete pressing in. Light no longer reaches my window. The city piles over me. My skin turns yellow and thick dust gathers on the doorstep. Streets are filled with dogs. As much as I fear the side effects I need help – I open the pack and take the first tablet – 75mg. I feel sick and dizzy.

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  1. Oh dear D: It’s very sad to think that people have to go to such extremes as a cry for help. this is a most succinct and vivid portrayal of desperation.

    • I signed up for the counselling course instead of writing – it is much more in my price range. Depression and mental health is a theme that crops up so often in my writing.

      • I’m sure you’ll be a brilliantly empathetic counsellor, and perhaps it was meant for you to do this rather than the writing course. It’s not as if you can’t do writing at the same time. Training-wise — be warned, if it’s anything like the psychiatric nursing course from years ago (can’t speak for now) the early sessions include a great deal of tough self-examination of one’s mental processes, behaviour, and social interaction.

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When Google announced details about its ultra-high-speed Internet service on July 26, all of Kansas City was excited.  Here at the Green Impact Zone, we were particularly excited about the potential for free connections at the schools and public institutions that serve our neighborhoods.  We were also excited about Google’s plan to help shrink the digital divide by offering free Internet connectivity for seven years (at lower speeds) for a minimal installation charge.

Google came up with a demand-based plan to determine where the fiber service would go and who would get it first. They divided the city into “Fiberhoods” and set a goal for how many residents had to pre-register (by paying a $10 fee online) to qualify each neighborhood for the service.

A few days later, it was clear to see where Google Fiber was definitely going to be installed. On Google’s Fiberhood map, neighborhoods west of Troost — the city’s historic racial dividing line — were meeting their goals very quickly, while east of Troost the registrations were much slower.

Our Green Impact Zone staff knew immediately that the problem wasn’t lack of demand, but lack of education.  We didn’t want our neighborhoods and residents to be left behind, so we contacted the Google Fiber Team and met with them.  We explained the Green Impact Zone’s mission of community transformation and talked about how Google Fiber could help our efforts. For example, we learned from the Fiber team that just having a house wired for Google Fiber could raise the property value anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000! The schools and libraries in our communities need free high-speed Internet, and our lower-income residents could definitely benefit from having free Internet access, too.

We asked the Fiber team how they calculated their pre-registration goals for each Fiberhood, and made sure they understood some of the unique challenges in our neighborhoods, such as the large number of vacant properties and the high percentage of renters.  We worked hard to make sure that Google understood the concerns of the neighborhood associations and residents in Green Impact Zone neighborhoods.

Then we got busy!  We helped organize door-to-door engagement of residents using volunteers from the neighborhoods to share information about all of our Green Impact Zone strategies and about Google Fiber.  We helped the Fiber team schedule informational events at churches and other locations in the zone.

Shontrice Patillo, our office administrator, used her contacts to get detailed data about vacant lots and structures in the zone.  This data supported our contention that Google’s initial numbers for our neighborhoods were high, and as a result of Shontrice’s efforts the registration goals for most of the Fiberhoods in the zone were lowered.

But even with lower goals and all of our outreach efforts, many of the zone’s neighborhoods were still a far cry from meeting their goals as September began, with the registration deadline just a few days away. Without enough time to educate all of our residents about the importance of Internet connectivity — how it could help schools, public institutions and individuals — we needed help. Zone staff reached out to Paint the Town Green, an effort launched by the Social Media Club of Kansas City to help urban core neighborhoods qualify for Google Fiber. With help from Paint the Town Green and our neighborhood leaders, we were able to connect with funders who were willing to pay the $10 registration fee for residents who were interested in Google Fiber but either couldn’t afford the fee, didn’t have a debit card to pay online, or didn’t have access to a computer to sign up.

With help from a team of volunteers, we began a final push, registering hundreds of residents on the Google website.  This was a tedious process that took the better part of a week and a large amount of patience — from those of us doing the registrations and from our families and friends.

In the end, we’re pleased to announce that all of the Fiberhoods associated with the neighborhoods we serve in the Green Impact Zone met their pre-registration goals!

While the Green Impact Zone doesn’t recommend one Internet provider over another, we want our residents to have the same range of options available to them as other neighborhoods.  Thanks to all of these efforts, zone residents will now have the option to access Google Fiber in their homes — and ultra-high-speed Internet will be available for the schools and public institutions that serve our residents!


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Helloooo world! Okay,firstly let me introduce myself to the vast world of technology and blogging! I’m Cleo and am still a newbie in blogging but have been given loads of guidance and ‘how-to-do’ tips by my good good friend Arrica (do check her blog out.She a little naive but a great person to be with.)

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Me in my new hairstyle! Mind you,I’m was a long babe hair before this. (and yes,I’m a girl – not a guy)

I’m currently still in highschool studying in the science region and yes! I DO have ups and downs of a normal teen girl but I’m still not your average girly girl type.I wrestle with boys (but I end up losing most of the time :X) kick their @ss (lol XD) and show them who’s boss.No, I don’t bully but rather the way I treat them is like how a guy treats a guy.

Right having said that, I would also like to express my love for the environment and animals.I have 2 chinese sharpei dog(what breed is that you ask? go google ;),it’s quite a rare species so don’t worry about not knowing it) and I love them dearly.Their excess skin are just so … fun!I also consider myself to be a stereotype of person somtimes. I sometimes isolate myself and shy to speak when I’m in a new environment. It is hard to explain this situation but I’ll tell you that I also find it difficult to speak to instructors/teacher of a class.It is that hard for me.(well,sometimes)

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BrownieThese are my two ‘beauties’ ❤ (click for a bigger view.)

Okay now to my ‘I-like-to-do’ region. I like martial arts and I’ve tried only kendo so far and I would love to try Jiujitsu and some other couple of martial art next time. I also love doing art and craft,stuff like glass deco,sewing,knitting and some couple of other neat stuff.I also adore collecting action figures/models/dolls.Oh and I pretty much love photography too! Especially flowers. I also have a knack for science and am starting to love numbers.(thanks to my tuition teacher) (And no, I’m not a nerd.) I love to read – especially when waiting for the bus. It fills my time. I love Carolyn Keene’s book – Nancy Drew. AND I LOVE the HORRIBLE SERIES!! Horrible Science & Horrible History! ❤ hearts them!

Books!My obsessions! I’m so glad I found my love for books back. *hugs*

I’m also very aware of my health (I’m known as a health freak in my class XD and no,it’s not a good thing because it’s sometimes embarassing – really) and I do have a health journal before this blog and Asclepius is it’s name. I’m trying to get it into the health and fitness tab in this blog (that’s if I can though…) so everyone can read about it 😉

okay,I found out that I can’t do it. 😦

The reason why I’m so health concious is just because I am so obsessed with how much I weight and look. Right now, I have this flab that I wouldn’t mind trading with nice defined abs so,I am now trying to work on it and squeeze my time with school works,exams and stuff. arrgh…! It’s just sometimes so hard to keep up with it! Not to mention my gym actually sucks.

Right,I think that’s just about enough on myself and I hope you enjoy your stay in my blog!

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  1. I am a Nancy Drew fan too! I read the whole series when i was younger, but the new paperback series, i haven’t started.

    i swear it a different writer using her pen name! because of the way the stories go.

    a few chapters of my novel is posted on

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Back in Boston

So I got my wish, another placement in the top hospitals in essentially every field of medicine. I was glad to return to Boston and live with my lovely roommates yet again, and even more so that it’s started to warm up since january.

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7 Things I learnt this month:

1) it doesn’t always snow in Boston and people do actually venture outside longer than merely to get from point A to point B.

2) That I definitely want to work with kids

3) that New York is only a 4hr bus ride away

4) that I forgot how much fun blowing bubbles really is

5) that JFK grew up here

6) that there are wild turkeys in the city

7) that soaking pineapple in salt water makes it sweeter 🙂

Boston :)

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Steel and Magnets

I had been debating about whether to load up my new refrigerator with art held on by magnets. I didn’t want to risk scratching the stainless steel surface, so I had halfway decided not to decorate it. Then when sorting through all the stuff I’ve stashed here and there over the last few months, I found the darling butterfly magnets that Herm gave me for my birthday, in anticipation of my new kitchen. They have a soft backing, so I ran downstairs to put them on. But they wouldn’t stick at all!

Mr. Glad had just come home from work, and we puzzled together as he saw me try to attach them to the microwave instead. Nope. They don’t hold on there, either. Isn’t steel magnetic? Made of iron? Is this really stainless steel, or some knock-off? The magnets do stick to my powerful range fan hood, so there they sit, brightening up the back of the stove.

When I googled this subject the first article I found was written on a blog of stories by journalism grad students at Columbia University, and stated that some stainless steel appliances are not magnetic because they “are made of high-grade stainless steel and don’t contain iron.” What?? I don’t know very much, but I always thought steel was made of iron. So I went on searching.

From what I read here, it appears that various metals can be added to the steel (that is, yes, mostly iron) in small amounts, to make it rust-free. One of the metals that often goes into the alloy is nickel, which also alters the steel in a way that negates the magnetic quality. I’m guessing that my range hood doesn’t have nickel. But it does have butterflies.

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  1. How interesting about the stainless steel…no iron, hmmm….I was thinking perhaps it was aluminum. I've heard others say that it's not magnetic. I like the clean look and I like our fridge with a TON of magnets and papers all over it, too. Guess you have no choice now, eh?

  2. Those are especially pretty magnets! I didn't know that about stainless appliances but I think it is interesting. I go back and forth with decorating my fridge. Right now I am on a minimalist kick so the idea of a fridge that won't stick appeals to me a lot.

  3. Did you get complete instructions on cleaning the stainless steel? All the stratches in the “main house” are from eager to help guests over the years.
    Refrigerators magnet are “old fashioned now…” so we know they will be back.

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