I didn't read it, but it should cover at least these four things:
1) The carbonation stretches your stomach so that next time you eat you have to eat more to feel full. The press still hasn't figured this out for the most part, but someday they will.
2) If it isn't the diet stuff, the sudden sugar surge spikes your insulin level and tells your body to put on fat (odd but it makes sense since the body is a kluge anyway!).
3) If it is the diet stuff, I personally feel that Nutrasweet is some of the most insidious stuff invented by man on many fronts. Try to avoid too much of it. If it is old it breaks down into ketones and wood alcohol, neither of which are good for you. This is one of many problems, but I just want to give you a peek. There are low-calorie sweeteners out there that are much less unhealthy for you, or in some cases maybe actually healthier! :-)
4) Drink juice, milk, and water. If it was good enough for your caveman ancestors, it's probably good enough for you! :-) Beer may be an exception here, but I have to do a lot more research before I come to any conclusions though.
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If you want to try a truly bizarre sweetener, try Stevia. It is derived from a south American plant, and is to ordinary sugar what a habanero pepper is to a bell pepper. That is, it is 300 times the sweetness of sugar.
When you taste just a tiny bit, it is incredibly sweet. But more than a certain amount and your taste buds can't taste any more sweetness, they are overloaded.
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DB: You may be right, but I don't think so. I have a friend who had his stomach stapled and the top docs in the country told him not to drink carbonated beverages for reasons related to this. If you disagree with this, try drinking a root beer and not burping and see how far you get before your stomach explodes. :-)
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DB: You may be right, but I don't think so. I have a friend who had his stomach stapled and the top docs in the country told him not to drink carbonated beverages for reasons related to this. If you disagree with this, try drinking a root beer and not burping and see how far you get before your stomach explodes. :-)
The doctor's advice might have more to do with the surgery than the carbonation. A normal stomach can stretch damned well -- the Mythbusters had to resort to an air compressor to get a pig's stomach to explode; carbonation was never enough. Throw in stapling, which reduces the stomach's volume and pokes holes in it, and you could have a problem.
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I don't question RC's efforts - they're well documented. Good on you, Rob.
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gorb, beer was invented by the ancient Egyptians, as a way to keep the food value of stored grain that would otherwise rot, get moldy, and/or be eaten by vermin. The alcohol was a delightful side effect. Not quite as old as the cavemen, but good enough (and if I can't stand the taste of the stuff, that's more for the rest of you).
Folks, the biggest myth here is that anyone is being made to do anything.
We all make choices and must accept the consequences they present. America's worship of unearned wealth and unmerited fame make its current rejection of personal responsibility a total no-brainer. Taking personal responsibility also would force people to evaluate their own philosophy andin light of the democratic partythis has evidently gone the way of the horse and buggy.
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Call me old-fashioned or what have you but this is the central root of the problem. Not the food we eat, not the beverages we drink but the near-total lack of rational or coherent personal philosophy in most specimens of humanity. Anyone doubting this merely need examine Islam's terminal case of cognitive dissonance, and I do mean terminal.
MALAYSIA'S first astronaut will blast off into space next month armed with guidelines from Muslim authorities on how to pray, wash and even be buried in space.
Two Malaysian candidates, a doctor and an army dentist who are both Muslims, are undergoing training in Russia with the winner expected to be announced on Friday, ahead of the 11-day space mission which starts on October 10.
Other Muslims have ventured into space, but none during the fasting month of Ramadan which began last week, and Malaysia's Department of Islamic Development (JAKIM) is hopeful the astronaut will choose to fast during his voyage.
"Conditions at the International Space Station which are so different from those on earth are not a hindrance for the astronaut to fulfil his obligations as a Muslim,'' it said in a 20-page booklet.
"In difficult conditions, Islam has conveniences to ensure that religious worship can still be performed.''
Because the space station circles the Earth 16 times a day, theoretically a Muslim would have to pray 80 times a day while staying there.
But the guidelines stipulate that the astronaut need only pray five times a day, just as on Earth, and that the times should follow the location where the spacecraft blasted off from - in this case, Baikonur in Russia.
In the unlikely event the Muslim astronaut dies in space, the religious directives said his body should be brought back to Earth for the usual burial rituals. If that's not possible, he should be "interred" in space after a brief ceremony, though the guidelines failed to explain how that should be done.
The booklet covers Islamic washing rituals required before prayer, saying that if water is not available the astronaut can symbolically "sweep holy dust'' onto the face and hands "even if there is no dust'' in the space station.
There are also suggestions on how to pray in a zero-gravity environment.
"During the prayer ritual, if you can't stand up straight, you can hunch. If you can't stand, you can sit. If you can't sit, you should lie down,'' according to the booklet.
Muslims are required to eat food that is halal, which rules out pork and its by-products, alcohol and animals not slaughtered according to Koranic procedures are forbidden - but again in space there is flexibility.
"If it is doubtful that the food has been prepared in the halal manner, you should eat just enough to ward off hunger,'' the booklet said.
JAKIM said it held a conference with the Malaysian National Space Agency last year to identify the issues and problems facing a Muslim astronaut, and compiled the results in the booklet released earlier this year.
Malaysia's would-be astronauts were chosen from thousands of hopefuls in a nationwide contest.
The project was conceived in 2003 when Russia agreed to send a Malaysian to the space station as part of a billion-dollar purchase of 18 Sukhoi 30-MKM fighter jets.
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Since it is Ramadan, could he eat all the time since it is space or will he have to peek out the window every bite and sip? or does he go by the time at the launch pad even if the sun is in view? What happens if, by landing back on earth, the astro-not prays less than 5 times in a 24 hour period? What about using the toilet?
But I guess since this trip is happening because of a sidenote in an arms deal 4 years ago and not because of scientific merit, it is just a tourist trip and they can do WTF ever they want. And because there is flexibility in Islam in space, go ahead and have that cosmo while up there. Amazing, all that effort for a space station so a dentist can perform religious experiments.
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will he have a mecca-gyroscope to pray to, or will his random Islamo-urgings go off into the space-ether to infect affect other impure civilizations? Should they be killed now or wait? How long til Islamists can perfect space flight without infidel help? 2000 yrs?
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Frank G, will never happen. Gene Roddenberry knew!
I went over to the Fox News story on Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit and was laughing my head off over the charge that he was fired to "pacify the White House" when my eye fell on the right-hand column of current headlines. What a snapshot of the world. In order:
* Idaho Man Blames Wild Sex for Car Crash
* Man Declared Dead Awakens During Autopsy
* Court Revokes Britney Spears' Teen Role Model Career
* New Zealand Cops Discover Woman's Body in Car Belonging to Father of 3-Year-Old Abandoned Girl
* British Woman Divorces Son of Usama Bin Laden
* Questions Raised Whether Tasered Student Planned to Stage Incident at Kerry Forum
* Alicia Silverstone to Appear Nude in PETA Commercial
* O.J. Simpson Released From Jail After Posting $125K Bail in Armed Memorabilia Heist Case
* Iranian General: We Have Plans to Bomb Israel if They Attack Us
* Armless Man Will Not be Charged With Head-Butting Death of Ga. Man
* Meteorite Crash Causes "Mystery Illness" in Peru
* Milwaukee Nun, 79, Charged With Having Sexual Contact With Two Boys
* Youngest of 3 Sisters Allegedly Set on Fire by Mom Dies in Hospital
* Pop Tarts: Jamie Foxx's Fertile Fantasy: Impregnating Halle Berry
* Dan Rather Expected to Report Boeing 787 Unsafe
* Report: Jesse Jackson Says Barack Obama "Acting White" in Case of Six Blacks Accused in Assault Case
What I like about the list is the vague feeling that it's computer generated and would make no difference randomly reshuffled:
* New Zealand Cop Divorces Son Of Usama Bin Laden
* Alicia Silverstone Expected To Report Boeing 787 Unsafe
* Milwaukee Nun Will Not Be Charged With Head-Butting Death
* Report: Jesse Jackson Says OJ Simpson "Acting White"
* Dan Rather To Appear Nude In PETA Commercial
UPDATE: More fun with headlines courtesy of NRO readers:
* Armless Man Blames Wild Sex For Car Crash
* Dan Rather Awakens During Autopsy
Actually, Dan Rather improves almost any headline ("Dan Rather Causes 'Mystery Illness' In Peru", etc).
Try these on for size:
* New Zealand Cops Discover Britney Spears' Plans to Bomb Israel
* Meteorite Will Not be Charged With Impregnating Dan Rather
* If Jesse Jackson Appears Nude In PETA Commercial, Son of Usama Bin Laden Will Stage Incident at Kerry Forum
Add your own in the combox. The only rule is that your headline must be composed of words found in the list in the article above.
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The youngest of the Three Kings, Morávek joined the resistance in 1939, shortly after the demobilization of Czech troops following the 1938 signing of the Munich Dictate, says Pobříslo.
Relieved from his post of artillery battery commander in Olomouc, staff captain Morávek became part of the National Defense (Obrana národa), an underground diversionary organization that communicated intelligence to Allied forces and sabotaged the Nazi occupation.
It was at one their first meetings that Morávek met Balabán and Maín. Maín asked [Morávek] what he believed in, Pobříslo says. He answered with a legendary sentence: I believe in God and my guns.
Seasoned by their military experience, Morávek, Balabán and Maín were soon at the helm of National Defense missions. Their operations were so bold that the Gestapo itself nicknamed them the Three Kings, Pobříslo says.
In 1941, after three years of resisting the Nazis, the Gestapos noose around the National Defense tightened. After numerous close brushes with the Gestapo, Morávek was killed March 21, 1942, during a shootout in which he was vastly outnumbered.
A modest plaque near the Powder Bridge in Pragues Dejvice neighborhood marks the spot where he fell, Pobříslo says.
Vandals targeted the grave of Marshal Philippe Petain, the leader of France's wartime Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis, an official said Wednesday.
Vandals smashed vases and mortuary plagues from nearby tombs onto Petain's grave on the Ile d'Yeu off the coast of western France, said Vincent Lagoguey, an official in the western Vendee region. Petain's tomb itself was not damaged. Police have opened an inquiry, and no suspects have been identified.
Petain was a hero of World War I, but was discredited later for collaborating with the Nazis. He was convicted of treason after World War II, but his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He died in 1951 while imprisoned on Ile d'Yeu.
It doesn't take much in the way of guts to beat up the dead.
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Vincent Lagoguey, an official in the western Vendee region
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It doesn't take much in the way of guts to beat up the dead.
On the other hand, we are talking about the head of state of the Vichy government here.
If he were being rehabilitated or venerated, I'd be worried.
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There were a number of genuine resistants: that is people whose resistance began in 1940 and even before battke 1940 who respected him and had no doubt that he wished for an allied victory and did what he could to help it: eg his role in the succes of Torch.
The true collaorator was Laval and Petain sacked him and had him arrested as soon as he was able to but the germans liberated him.
Of course rehabilitating Petain would be dangeroulsy close to rehabilitating Vichy.
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In many ways, Pétain's National Revolution was a last ditch attempt at returning to a France lost to the relentless assaults of the IIIrd, hence the laws against what was perceived as the pillars of the Republic, the jews and the free-masons (this was very true for them, at least for the IIIrd); remember, France was in a quasi-civil war, a true "Culture war" between the traditional France and the Forces of Progress, since 1793, and by 1940, the old France had lost.
Pétain is a sad figure, really, pushed into power as a last resort by the soc9al9st parliament, after the war was lost due to inept leadership, and the same people made him a scapegoat after the war, with the help of the then allied gaullists & communists bent on imposing theitr own version of the story.
Having vichy rehabilitated would indeed worry me, but having Philippe Pétain's name and memory if not rehabilitated, at least forgiven and led to rest, would be a major improvement and step in the right direction... that is freeing us from the overbearing, unescapable shadow of WWII and its defeat.
I suppose that makes sense, in a Paki sort of way.
TIMERGARA: Angry mob comprising residents of Maidan town in Dir Lower and college students stormed and set on fire a power grid station here on Tuesday and damaged the equipment and office furniture. The staff of the grid station complained the protesters would have taken their lives and destroyed the whole installation had the local residents not come to their rescue, as police disappeared after seeing that the protesters were approaching the grid station.
The residents and college students wanted to express their anger over unannounced power outages in their town. They covered 40-kilometre distance and reached Timergara in several vehicles. Many of them were armed with automatic rifles. Soon after reaching Timergara, the protesters straightway went to the grid station and started destruction there.
According staff of the grid station, the protesters set on fire the electric transformers and other equipment causing loss of millions of rupees. They also smashed glasses of offices and damaged furniture and office record.
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Cuz nuthin' protests power outtages better than torched substations.
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Reminds me of an old gentleman in a community I once lived in, who got so angry at the condition of his (Government supplied, rent-free) house that he smashed all the windows with an axe. That showed 'em!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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