Some people have actually downloaded Battle Blog and gotten it to run successfully. Here's a list of currently operating Battle Blogs. If you manage to get one running, be sure to come back here and add to the list!
Powerful blog of a Cheryl, a cancer fighter. Seems to be her preferred conduit to her family and friends while she fights (and apparently beats) the disease.
What appears to be a German hobby blog. The site features a live IP based camera over a door, and seems to discuss things like remote control vehicles, etc. Very nice and clever application of a third column (I know how tricky BB is and that must have been a feat!).
Demystifying Digital is an independent website created by Jerry Grossman, former VP of Marketing for Nikon and Editor of Photo Industry Reporter. Demystifying Digital adopted the core Battle Blog engine for its foray into a blogging medium that helps people to better understand everything digital - from photography to wireless to printers to home theater. It is by far the most creative and effective implementation of the Battle Blog engine. DMD developers actually implement a series of Battle Blogs, one for each of its reporting (and clever) characters. Obviously a major fork of an early Battle Blog version, but a Battle Blog nonetheless! Note - they seem to have switched to another blogging platform around late October 2008.
Blog speaking to the larger website's property portal operation. Discusses site engagements and successes in matching real estate owners with buyers and other customers.
Fullhouse Property blog is part of a website that provides property-related services online. The site strives to be a one-stop property search engine encompassing all local properties in Malaysia and to reach out globally in the future.
“Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as the pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.”
Samuel Johnson (British author)
'I am always doing what I can't do, in order that I may learn how to do it.' Pablo Picasso
Mental Attitude 1: Exercise May Ward Off Anger. Before and after 30 minutes of moderate-intensity cycling, male participants viewed a slideshow known to evoke anger mixed with images designed to induce fear, pleasantness or no emotions. After exercising, watching the pictures didn't make the men angrier, while after rest, the pictures did so. An exercise class or weight lifting can take your mind off things. The distraction offered by exercise can have a calming effect, as well.
Mental Attitude 2: Too Much Stress May Lead To Major Depression! Chronic stress leads to elevated hormones such as cortisol, the 'stress hormone,' and reduced serotonin and dopamine levels. At proper levels, these hormones regulate sleep, appetite, energy and sex drive, and allow expression of normal moods and emotions. When the stress response fails to shut off and bring these hormones to normal levels, it can lead to depression in susceptible people.
Diet: Brown Rice vs. White Rice. 70% of rice eaten in the US is white. Two or more servings of brown rice weekly lower the risk of type 2 diabetes by 11%. Five or more servings of white rice weekly increase the risk by 17%. Replacing white rice with brown rice lowers the risk by 16% overall. Replacing white rice with whole grains (barley and wheat) reduces the risk by 36%. Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2010
Diet: Special Delivery. Eating high-fiber foods ensures timely digestion and elimination of wastes (whereas over consumption of animal fats and low-fiber foods lead to colonic inactivity and constipation). Foods high in saturated fat also can contribute to plaque buildup in the arteries, reducing the ability of blood to move through the body and potentially causing a blockage - leading to a heart attack or stroke.
Wellness/Prevention: Keep Breathing! How important is oxygen and lung capacity? The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. Unfortunately, without exercising your lungs (slow deep breathing -- 5 to 10 deep breaths every hour and exercise), your lung capacity will shrink as you age.
'Oh; the powers of nature! She knows what we need.'
Benvenuto Cellini
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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements for Healthy People….
Why take vitamin and mineral supplements?
For healthy people, supplements may help prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies when the diet does not provide all necessary nutrients. They can also supply amounts of nutrients larger than the diet can provide. Larger amounts of some nutrients may help to protect against future disease. Many of these nutrients will be briefly discussed here. However, for more information, refer to individual nutrient articles.
People may consume diets that are deficient in one or more nutrients for a variety of reasons. The typical Western diet often supplies less than adequate amounts of several essential vitamins and minerals.1 Recent nutrition surveys in the U.S. have found large numbers of people consume too little calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, and, possibly, copper and manganese.2 3
Weight-loss, pure vegetarian, macrobiotic, and several other diets can also place some people at risk of deficiencies that vary with the type of diet. Certain groups of people are at especially high risk of dietary deficiencies. Studies have found that elderly people living in their own homes often have dietary deficiencies of vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin E, calcium, and zinc,4 and occasionally of vitamin B1 and vitamin B2.5 Premenopausal women have been found often to consume low amounts of calcium, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin C.6
What is the potential importance of taking vitamin A?
Dietary deficiency of vitamin A is uncommon in healthy people except in older age groups.7 Although vitamin A is important for the function of the immune system, vitamin A supplementation did not help prevent infections in elderly people living in nursing homes, in one study.8 Due to concerns about birth defects9 and bone loss,10 people should not take over 10,000 IU of supplemental vitamin A in the form of retinol without consulting a doctor.
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Mental Attitude: Hydrotherapy, A Natural Way to Reduce Stress. Relaxing in a hot bath relieves sore muscles and joints, reduces stress and tension, and promotes a good night's sleep. Add some soft music and lighting and naturally scented bath salts or bubble bath to create an inexpensive and convenient spa experience in the privacy of your own home. Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc.
Diet: Calcium In Early Life Is Important. During an 18-day trial involving newborn pigs, researchers found markedly lower levels of bone density and strength in pigs fed a calcium-deficient diet, compared to pigs that received more calcium. When researchers looked at certain stem cells in bone marrow, they found many of these cells in the calcium-deficient pigs appeared to have already been programmed to become fat cells, instead of bone-forming cells. Because these programmed mesenchymal stem cells replicate to provide all the bone-forming cells for an animal's entire life, very early calcium deficiency may have predisposed the pigs to have bones that contain more fat and less mineral, possibly making those pigs more prone to osteoporosis and obesity in later life. This suggests that calcium nutrition of the neonate may be more important to lifelong bone health, due to its programming effects on mesenchymal stem cells. Health professionals may want to think about osteoporosis not as a disease of the elderly, but as a pediatric disease with later onset. The big message is that calcium nutrition, or mineral nutrition as a whole, needs to be a priority from day one. North Carolina State University, May 2010
Exercise: 4 Ways To Slow Aging - #4 Swimming. Regular swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. Swimming tones your upper and lower body because you're using almost all of your major muscle groups. There is low risk for swimming injuries because there's no stress on your bones, joints or connective tissues.
Wellness/Prevention: Cholesterol. Cholesterol isn't inherently bad. It's essential to normal body functions and is found in all your cells. Cholesterol helps with digestion and hormone production. Too much LDL ('bad' cholesterol) can narrow blood vessel walls. As blood flow is restricted, the risk of heart attack or stroke increases. The leading cause of elevated LDL levels is a diet high in saturated and trans fats. Eat more foods high in soluble fiber such as oatmeal, apples and kidney beans. A sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise are major causes of low HDL ('good' cholesterol) levels. Consuming omega-3 fatty acids by eating fatty fish (salmon, mackerel) or taking fish oil supplements will help boost your HDL levels. Mayo Clinic, May 2010
Quote: 'I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.' ~ Donald Trump
July 2010
Supplements Beat Sun for Vitamin D Boost
Adequate vitamin D levels are best achieved by supplements because of the side-effects of ultraviolet (UV) exposure, say the results of a new computer simulation model from the U.S.
The body produces vitamin D in the skin on exposure to sunlight, but the merits of getting vitamin D via sunlight or from supplements is a source of ongoing debate. In the U.S., where over 1.5 million people are diagnosed with skin cancer every year, experts are pushing supplements, claiming recommendations for sun exposure are 'highly irresponsible.'
Scientists from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in Tromsø, Norway, used a computer model to determine optimal sun exposure times to produce blood levels of vitamin D3 equivalent to 400 or 1,000 IU of vitamin D.
The researchers chose two geographical sites—Miami, FL and Boston, MA—for their simulation and selected four months—January, April, July and October.
Data showed that in summer in Boston, people would need between three and eight minutes of sunlight exposure to about 25% of their body surface to synthesize 400 IU of vitamin D. In winter, the simulation indicated that it would be difficult to produce any vitamin D in Boston. No such problems were calculated in Miami, however, with between three and six minutes needed to produce 400 IU at all times of the year.
'There are many limitations to these models, and clearly the estimates are only rough approximations,' the researchers said. 'Although it may be tempting to recommend intentional sun exposure for a few minutes several times a week, cutaneous vitamin D synthesis is an intricate process and depends on numerous variables.
'Even in a simplified model such as the one used here, it can be seen to vary considerably by geography, season and skin type. Furthermore, even if a more accurate and practical model were developed, titrating one’s own exposure to sunlight is difficult, if not impossible.
'Because of these practical difficulties combined with the detrimental side-effects of UV exposure, we endorse the IARC assessment that even if it is ultimately demonstrated that increasing vitamin D levels impacts chronic disease, oral supplements of vitamin D would probably represent the safest way to increase vitamin D status,' the researchers concluded.
An ever-growing body of science supports the benefits of maintaining healthy vitamin D levels. In adults, it is said vitamin D deficiency may precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fractures, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 62(6): 935-936, 2010
Omega-3 May Slash Risk of Heart Failure
July 2010
Increased intakes of fatty fish may reduce a woman’s risk of heart failure by up to 30%, according to new findings from the U.S. and Sweden.
The benefits appear to be linked to the omega-3 content of the fish, report researchers in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The heart-health benefits omega-3 fatty acids are well documented. To date, the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have been linked to improvements in blood lipid levels, a reduced tendency of thrombosis, blood pressure and heart rate improvements and improved vascular function.
The new study adds to previous data in men from the same researchers and published in the European Heart Journal (Vol. 30, pp. 1495-1500). That study, said to be one of the largest studies to investigate the association between omega-3 intake from fatty fish and heart failure, found that omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of heart failure by 33%.
Heart failure, which arises when the heart can no longer pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs, is the leading cause of hospitalization among the over-65s, and is characterized by such symptoms as fatigue and weakness, difficulty walking, rapid or irregular heartbeat and persistent cough or wheezing.
In the new study, the researchers analyzed data from 36,234 women participating in the Swedish Mammography Cohort. Dietary intake data for the women, aged between 48 and 83, was obtained using 96-item food-frequency questionnaires.
Over the course of 18 years of study, 651 cases of heart failure were documented. Eating one serving of fatty fish per week was associated with a 14% reduction in the risk of heart failure, compared with women who did not eat any fatty fish. Furthermore, eating two servings of fatty fish per week was associated with a 30% reduction.
'Moderate consumption of fatty fish (1-2 servings per week) and marine omega-3 fatty acids [was] associated with a lower rate of first heart failure hospitalization or death in this population,' the researchers concluded.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 62(6): 935-936, 2010
A blog covering the evolution of Tampa urban rail. Promotes and advocates the implementation of light rail in particular, but also rhetorically encourages a denser more urban Tampa lifestyle.
A good example of a Battle Blog implemented at the most domestic of levels. This blog has been implemented by the Knuth Family and appears to begin with the birth of their first child.
One of the most profound Battle Blog's yet. Its author is a dedicated philosopher and intellectual of the new information age (though he doesn't believe there's anything new about the information age per se). One thing that separates this blog apart from the other Battle Blogs is the actual use of promoting and demoting features. The operator has implemented it well and it works. This feature has been somewhat neglected by most BBs, even my own.
Personal blog of Battle Blog author David Pinero. Technically a fork of my own product, but only because I've customized it so much. I can't even apply the most current Battle Blog updates.
A Battle Blog designed to support SolidWorks 3D imaging software by Tridaq, Inc. SolidWorks is the world's #1 3D mechanical design software for the mainstream market based on the number of users in production, customer satisfaction and sales.
Somehow, and our great lord only knows how, you managed to get a Battle Blog up and running. Here's to you! Bravely forgoing all those other far more established and professionally coded blogging applications like WordPress or Blogger. Interoperality with your blogging buddies? - phooey you declared. Because you share a dream of pain and risk in your publishing platform, when it came right down to it, you spit in WordPress's eye and said, in no uncertain terms, you want a blogging platform that's down and duuuurty. You picked Battle Blog.
Even though you know perfectly well that I, David E. Pinero, could be dead in a year due to a heart attack or some such thing, and leave behind absolutely no credible support or bug fixes for this code base. Hell, I could be alive and well and those things still might not happen. But for some reason you took this chance and now you have something to be proud of. You're a Battle Blogger. You've joined the evolving nation of fellow Battle Bloggers, and now, you get to report and list your Battle Blog right here. Hold your head high and join the legion of Battle Bloggers!
