Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 5/18/18

Asparagus Basil Salad

This easy Asparagus Basil Salad is not only healthy, it’s an incredibly tasty paleo side dish. It’s especially delectable during the summer when vegetables are in peak season. I found this recipe in Sunset Magazine. Actually, I didn’t find it, our family friend Mrs. Rose found it and made it for Mr. Rose’s 75th birthday, a fabulous gathering that the boys and I attended when we were in Davis, visiting my folks in 2010.

How Do You Handle Your Special Diet?

Special diets and social events can sometimes be a challenge. When family and friends don’t understand, accommodate, or respect your dietary restrictions things can get a bit dicey. However, Mrs. Rose made tons of healthy gluten-free food for us! So, a yummy dinner was enjoyed by all.

Maintaining Dietary Boundaries

I believe it really is up to us to maintain our boundaries and not eat food that makes us feel awful, just to spare someone else’s feelings. I would rather hurt someone’s feelings than hurt my body. Has anybody else been in a situation like that? If so, what did you do?

Asparagus Basil Salad

In a total dietary win-win, here’s a yummy salad that most everyone can enjoy. If you have a nightshade allergy, it’s still delicious without the tomatoes. And remember, my third book, Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry, is 100% nightshade-free!

Asparagus Basil Salad

Servings4-6

Ingredients

• 1lb asparagus,trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1cup grape tomatoes,halved
• 1 ripe avocado,cut into cubes
• 1cup sliced basil leaves
• ¼cup olive oil
• 2teaspoons lemon juice
• 2teaspoons dijon mustard
• ½teaspoon celtic sea salt
• ½teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Steam asparagus for 5-7 minutes until fork tender
2. Place asparagus, tomatoes, avocado, and basil in a large bowl
3. Stir in olive oil, lemon juice, and mustard
4. Sprinkle with salt and pepper
5. Serve

Leftovers for Breakfast

I actually made a huge batch of this Asparagus Basil Salad recently and ate it for breakfast with Hard Boiled Eggs, and then had the rest for dinner with the incredible Turkey Burgers from my first book, The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook.

Paleo Summer Salad Recipes

Here are some of my other healthy paleo salad recipes:

• No Potato Salad
• Spicy Coleslaw
• Bubby’s Cucumber Salad

This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first published this recipe in 2010.

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“Why You Gotta to Be So Mean?”

Why you gotta be so mean? — Taylor Swift

One of my friends and a close colleague for many years asked me why I don’t write about all the good things police do — or “why you gotta be so mean!”

He mentioned last month’s police stop in Timmonsville, SC as an example. It involved the head of the local NAACP. After being stopped, the man portrayed the police stop on Facebook as one which disrespectfully racially profiled him. (The post was subsequently taken down by the man).

The chief of police, having seen what the man posted on Facebook and having reviewed the officer’s body camera video, labelled the NAACP official a “liar.”

From the news account, it was quite obvious that the man involved in the officer’s stop had exaggerated (lied?) his police encounter. Comparing what the man claimed to have occurred was not consistent with the body camera video.

Calling our critics “liars,” however, is not the right way to proceed. Might I suggest that this would call for the chief and the complainant sitting down and having a talk about what happened and his feelings regarding the matter? Trying to resolve that matter and building a better relationship in the future?

It is apparent, the officer acted appropriately, but I am taken back to this excellent California POST video about Procedural Justice and empathic conversation. Every good officer knows that historical baggage is always present in a police stop involving an African American male. Knowing this is one small step toward reconciliation and building that most important ingredient in American policing — trust. And that happens one stop, one encounter at a time.

Where to from here? Am I remiss in capturing good policing? (For that answer check out my Twitter feed.) But what does that have to do with the mission of this blog — improving police? Do suspects create a different set of facts, even lying? Of course they do. That’s why we all work to have smart, emotionally balanced, respectful and well-trained police in our towns and cities.

The long road ahead for American policing is for our nation’s police to walk that slow and difficult path; that of being both aware and empathic — simply being as kind as possible; of being sensitive to encounters such as these involving a person of color — to always be the “adult” in the encounter.

Unfortunately, these events happen from time to time in the life of a police officer. And, most certainly when they occur, officers involved feel greatly offended — but in a growing profession such as policing, that should not alter those officers’ contacts with other people of color.

Police cannot expect other people to act appropriately, but what they can do is to make sure inappropriate behavior does not control them — that’s Emotional Intelligence — being self-aware, self-managed, empathic, and skilled in relationship building.

But when police violate the law or common decency and kindness in conducting their business it is NOT a common event, but one that should be identified by those of us who care about police and fixed. “Back the Blue” and “Blue Lives Matter” are important, but so is “Black Lives Matter.” Both have a role and need conversation in our society.

Just as I learned many years ago as a budding sociologist, deviancy can be a positive event in a society because it tells a community what is acceptable behavior and what is not. That is why I often focus on mistakes in order that they be acknowledged and fixed.

I see a lot of parallels here between policing, health care, and aviation. It is comforting to know that most surgical procedures and commercial airline landings are successful. It is important to know how safe they are. It is also important to know that when accidents happen, when a negative outcomes occur, there are mechanisms and systems in place to study what happened and propose ways to prevent mistakes in the future. That’s what’s important and that has not been the tradition of policing in America. It needs to be.

While I often point to mistakes in police leadership, I also try to lift up those police leaders who I believe are exceptionally in practicing the art: a few examples have been these police chiefs: Bernadette DiPino in Sarasota, Scott Thomson in Camden, Sue Rahr in Washington State, Mike Masterson when he was in Boise, Charley Beck in Los Angeles, and Sheriffs Dave Mahoney in Dane County, Wisc. and Jerry Clayton in Washtenaw County, Mich. to name a few.

All this has tended to put me in the category of being a “drum major for justice.” The pursuit of justice is the focus of this blog and much of my existence. And the way I have chosen to do this is to focus on systemic mistakes (not bad cops) and offer ways to keep those mistakes from happening again (improvement strategies).

I was a cop for over 30 years. I get it. At the same time, I know we can do better, much, much better — and cops know that, too; that’s why I have hope.

So, hang with me as we press on — together. But let’s not be mean!

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ADR512 Testing

by Andrey Fedorov The purpose of this article is to find additional information about the capabilities, specifics, and USPs of the ADR512 Android Data Recovery program. A full description of this software can be found here. Developers from 512 BYTE, who created the software, invited specialists from digital forensics lab Gross to test it. Let’s take a look at the practical tests. The essence of the experiment step by step was as follows. Read More

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Atola Technology Sets A New Bar For Acquisition Tools With Atola TaskForce

Today Atola Technology announced the launch of Atola TaskForce, the next generation of evidence acquisition tools. Having optimized its imaging algorithm in 2016 to match maximum speeds drives operate at, Atola now presents a system that further solves the market’s number one issue: time required for evidence acquisition. TaskForce’s robust hardware, which includes multi-core Xeon CPU, supports 8+ concurrent imaging sessions at overall speed of 15 TB/hour. “We are thrilled to have beaten our own speed record,” says CEO Dmitry Postrigan. “Our previous flagship product, Atola Insight Forensic acquired up to 1.8 TB/hour, which secured its place as the most efficient forensic imager in the world. With Atola TaskForce, our clients are able to image up to 15 TB/hour when running 8 or more concurrent imaging sessions, and it makes this device a uniquely fast and mighty acquisition tool. Certainly, our signature damaged drives capability is supported in this tool”.

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Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this month’s round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Is it possible to wipe BitLocker encrypted USB drives? Add your thoughts on the forum. Forum members help jblakley to recover Gmail artifacts. Would you be interested in speaking at a digital forensics conference in the US? Do you have any advice for a member who is worried about anti-forensics in the cloud? Have you moved into a digital forensics position in the UK, from the USA? Share your advice on the forum.

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Spring Sale: Final Day!

In case you haven't already heard, I'm running my spring sale right now, with four of my products for sale at 40% off. Just enter the coupon code SPRING (all CAPS) at checkout to apply the discount. The discount runs until tonight (Tuesday) at midnight. You can learn more at the following links:

Cressey Sports Performance Innovations

The Art of the Deload

Understanding and Coaching the Anterior Core

The Truth About Unstable Surface Training

Enjoy!

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