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College in Perspective: Introduction
In this section we will present information for students and their families about how to think about the value of a college education. As you will find when you review our content, we are approaching this issue from two directions. We are attempting to make clear that it is of great value in our society to seek higher education. We discuss the educational, employment and personal gratification that flow from completing post-secondary education. At the same time, we are trying to buffer the anxiety and stress around overvaluing the "brand" of the college. We try to convey that, in general, there is not nearly as much impact or difference in employment and life satisfaction outcomes as people imagine in attending different colleges.
But, more importantly, we are trying to introduce and examine the idea of "goodness of fit" in college choice. It is our conviction that much of the academic failure and poor retention in US colleges actually stems from students who are struggling with emotional and psycho-social challenges and the first step to academic and personal success in college is choosing a school that is a good fit for the individual student.
What do we mean by "goodness of fit"? It is very common in the college admissions process for advisers to tell their students that they should know themselves: consider their academic and (if they know them) their career interests and goals, students should think about their hobbies, athletic talents, and financial resources and challenges. But, we also want students to consider their emotional and personal proclivities. How have they done in the past with separations? This might help inform decisions about whether or not they should choose a school that is closer to home. Does the student like a busy, bustling setting with lots of stimulation and activity or a place that is quieter and more sedate? Is this someone who likes more independence or more active support?
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|Ted Sobel's influence? Santiam Brewing does cask ale.
That's just not possible now. I know because I talk to Brian Yaeger, who has been tasked by Stakepole Books with doing just that. He's writing a book on Oregon Breweries, and the publisher wants it to be comprehensive. That means that poor Brian is off to the far reaches of the state (a region greater in size than the island of Great Britain) every time a homebrewer decides to convert his half-barrel brewhouse into a commercial venture. I'm one of those dinosaurs who still gets a paper copy of the Oregonian*, and in today's edition there was an advertising insert for Oregon Craft Beer Month. Brian has an article in there where he talks about the valley's thirty breweries. Thirty breweries? What in the blue hell?
In the Corvallis area alone, beer-loving Beavers fans can choose from 10 breweries.... Not to be outdone, Ducks fans will find 12 breweries in the Eugene area. [I'd link to this article, but of course there's no online edition. But hey, that switch to online publishing is a great idea, Oregonian--you totally rock the internets!]Brian reviews Falling Sky, a brewery I've at least heard of (their beers come north for fests) but also Santiam and Agrarian Ales, which I had not. As I read Brian's article, I realized I had a lump in my stomach that was equal parts anxiety and embarrassment: how do I not know about these breweries? I've had that a lot lately. Recently I was sailing south on 101 and looked up to see a brewery I'd never heard of: Seaside Brewing. Uggh, anxiety and embarrassment. On reflection, though, I see that it's time to give that up.
We have to abandon our old mental models. It's just not going to be possible to keep track of openings when the breweries are getting ever smaller and the openings ever more rapid. There are 463 Oregon wineries, and nobody knows all of them (except maybe the people who are paid to keep track). The brewing scene is headed in that direction. A lot of these new breweries have opaque business models that may rely more on just having a brewery for the sake of having a brewery--selling fifty barrels a year is totally cool with the owners. Many just want to serve their local communities and have no grand plans to expand. If you happen to find yourself in that town, it'll be great to stop in for a pint. But otherwise, we'll be content to just keep up on the splashier larger breweries (you know, the seven-barrel giants) and those in our neighborhoods. We have to give up the idea that we'll know every brewery in our state.
And that's just fine.
*Though not for much longer.

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Any and all characters from MCU, pre-MCU, Foxverse, Sonyverse, DCEU, pre-DCEU, CW, and really any other live-action (no animated characters allowed) franchise, good/evil/other, are participating in the Speed Contest, which is ... exactly like standard Rumbles settings in the Arena.
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A small diversion from papercrafts today.....baking!
Kitchen Aid Stand MixerI finally took the plunge as I reported earlier this year when I purchased the Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer as my own personal 'birthday present'. Yes, I am that shameless!
But it is on my humble counter and I put it to good use making my lo-fat biscotti recipe! Recipe to follow!
I LUV it for this fact alone - I have trouble making biscotti because the dough is so thick to keep kneading!! But the KA and the dough hook make it like cutting through soft butter - its marvelous! And so quick!
Honestly - I keep trying new ways to make the biscotti shape - this time, I got super-lazy and just poured the dough on to my large cookie sheet (plus parchment sheet) ...and made one fat loaf! Afterwards I cut it down the middle, and then sectioned it into the smaller size sections. So it doesn't have rounded corners on both ends - you're gonna eat it - who cares much! {it saves time!}
Now staring at it day in and day out - I began to turn my thoughts to 'what accessory should we get next?' .....and that is when my guilty logic came into play,
.....the ICE CREAM MAKER!
" Why we could have PUMPKIN ICE CREAM FOR THANKSGIVING!!!! "
And so yes, introducing my newest 'baby' .....ta da!
Don't they look 'sweet' together - ha ha!
I'd be really happy to hear from anyone who has one! Please let me know how it is working for you - what recipes you have to make ice cream!!!! I know its gonna be awesome to make some - can you tell
I'm excited!
I have looked up a great video on this accessory from
a lady who I consider the best presenter - JO RICHARDSON!!
I just adore her videos - I have been watching them to learn about the Kitchen Aid and she is terrific at demonstrating the machine and all its attachements. So check her out!!
Hi Jo!
Of course they are only lo-fat if you keep them plain - which I often do not!
I will drizzle melted chocolate or add nuts - but you can just add 'flavourings' to keep them at the reduced rate of 2 grams each/for 36 slices. Again - mine are more like 6 grams each because I do not make
the tiny biscotti, but the more Americanized size - longer, thicker. Ummm!
So make it in your own happy way! They are still better than most choices! OK, here's the recipe.....!
My ' CLASSIC LO-FAT BISCOTTI ' Recipe
comes from the Joy of Cooking Recipe Book.
Position rack in the center of the oven. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease/parchment a cookie sheet.
Whisk together thoroughly:
3-1/2 cups all purpose flour; 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Beat on medium speed until well blended:
1/4 cup corn or canola oil; 1-1/4 cups sugar; 2 large eggs; 2 large egg whites;
1 teaspoon finely-grated lemon zest; 1/2 teaspoon finely-grated orange zest;
1 teaspoon anise or almond extract; 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Gradually stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture until well blended and smooth.
[*note - the dough should be moist yet holds its 'shape' - if you feel its too runny, add more flour till the dough is stiffer - if you add too much flour, you can add more oil. On my first try, I did one log first - then the second I adjusted - as you learn by doing!]
Shape the dough into smooth, evenly shaped 11 x 1-1/2 inch logs:
either by - a) wrapping each log in plastic and rolling it back and forth until smooth,
or b) by shaping it with lightly floured hands.
Arrange the logs:
as far apart from one another as possible on the sheet and press to flatten slightly.
Baking Stage 1
Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove the sheet to a rack.
Baking Stage 2
When the logs are just cool enough to handle,
carefully transfer to a cutting board :
cut crosswise, on a slight diagonal, into 3/8 inch thick slices.
Lay the slices flat on the sheet.
Return to the oven and bake for 5-10 minutes.
Turn the slices over and bake until lightly browned 5 minutes more.
Transfer the biscotti to racks to cool.
*Note: personally, I have adjusted the slice thickness and baking times to suit our preferences. We often skip the Baking Stage 2 because we like them a bit more 'softer' than is the European norm. Biscotti are meant to be dipped in a liquid such as coffee, hot chocolate or a glass of milk, therefore the dryness/hardness is a desirable quality. This also means they can be stored for a long time in a cookie jar.
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I don't have all of the answers, and I don't pretend to. I've spent the last few years of my life trying to understand my body and to make sense of my desire to sometimes (which used to be all the time) unhealthy amounts of food. And while I've learned a lot about myself, I'm still trying to figure some things out.
And last week during my behavioral psych class in which we were discussing hormones and stress, I realized that some of my actions (one in particular) hurts me much more than it helps me.
If you read my blog or if we're connected through Facebook or follow me on twitter then you probably know that I weigh-in on Thursday evenings. You may have also noticed that my food intake changes drastically on Thursdays before weigh-in (stupid, I know…) I tend to eat the same thing every single Thursday before weighing in, and I definitely do not eat enough.
For the record, I also wear the same outfit every week. (Yes, I'm that person.) During the first year of my weight-loss, I wore the same dress every week (even on cold, snowy days in NY.) I wore the dress until it was 10 sizes too big, and I'll my current weigh-in dress until it's 10 sizes too big too. It's just what I do. I don't do it out of superstition. I do it because it's hard weighing in at 6pm every week. Our bodies change so much throughout the day, everyday, that I do everything I can to control the variables that I can control before stepping on the scale which brings me to my next point…
Actually first, let's talk about what I've been eating before 6pm over the last 6 weeks or so. On a typical day by 6pm I have eaten a green smoothie with whey protein powder or Greek yogurt, spinach/kale, banana and strawberries and milk…I may have also eaten an egg with two egg whites for breakfast with a little patties of turkey sausage wrapped in a carb smart tortilla and a pear with a separate salad of leafy greens (3-5 cups) and cucumber and tomato sprinkled with garlic pepper. And I've had at least half a gallon (8 glasses) of water…usually more.
On a typical Thursday by 6pm all I've eaten is 3 cups of leafy greens, a banana and another piece of fruit like an apple or a pear. (Yes, that's all, and like I said, I know it's ridiculous.) And after years of this habit of eating too little on Thursdays, it's hard to change. It's hard to accept that if I eat more this Thursday than I usually do on a Thursday, this week's weigh-in won't reflect the effort I put in all week. And I've put in effort again this week.
But after sitting in class last week, as we discussed the long-term effects of our eating habits, cortisol, endorphines, etc. I realized that I've been doing myself more harm than good on every weigh-in day since day 1.
And look, I'm not dumb. I know it's not smart to starve myself all day because I'd rather see a number I like on the scale. I also know it will even out after next week. And I know that my history proves that when I'm doing what I know I should be doing, I lose weight. And I realize that if I'm not starving by the time I weigh in, I am less likely to overeat later. I'm also more likely to stop at the gym on my way home because I can wait to eat until after my workout.
So before my next weigh-in, I will change my routine. I will eat as I normally would before my weigh-in and drink water as I normally would as well because that's what is better for my body long-term even if I have to take a hit on the scale.
It's so obvious as I write this out that the numbers mean too much to me (even though I do believe they should matter.) They play games with my head that I didn't even realize they played, and it's hard to change. But I've done a lot of things lately that seemed hard before I did them, and the rewards have been great. So at my next weigh-in I'll take the hit. I'll do something that isn't easy because it's better for me in the long run, and I'll be proud of myself for finally doing it.
In the title of one of my posts last week, I said that I believe that I can do anything, and I do. But sometimes, in order to accomplish things that we've never accomplished, we have to change the way we do things. And as soon as I thoughtfully considered it, I knew that I'd rather see my numbers go up artificially than to starve myself which is really just makes reaching my goal harder.
People sometimes say that weight-loss is simple, and they're wrong. If it were so easy, we wouldn't struggle to do it. It's hard (harder sometimes than others…) but I'm doing it. And I'm not fighting myself anymore. Instead, I'm going to respect my body and be thankful that I'm still a work in progress.


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▪Substance abuse and impairment are serious societal problems. Physicians have historically had high rates of substance abuse, which has been viewed as an occupational hazard. Most authorities agree that the rate of alcoholism among practicing physicians is similar to that among control populations and that the rates of other substance abuse are greater, although some studies have shown no difference. Data about substance abuse among residents in training are limited but suggest that the use of benzodiazepines is greater than that among aged-matched peers, whereas the use of alcohol is similar between the two groups.
Medical institutions, including those with teaching programs, have legal and ethical responsibilities concerning substance abuse among current and future physicians. Many training programs, however, do not provide educational programs on this subject, do not have faculty trained in substance abuse medicine, and do not have a formal system to address the problem of residents who are suspected or known to be substance abusers.
This position paper examines the extent of substance abuse, including alcohol abuse, among physicians in residency training. It outlines approaches to the problem and delineates responsibilities of institutions and residency program directors. Recommendations are made to establish an informational program and a clearly defined, organized process to address the problems of substance abuse among residents.
Careful and humane approaches can be used to identify and treat residents with substance abuse problems and thus allowing them to complete their training as competent and drug-free professionals.
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Following was "Te Receurdo amanda" ("I remember you Amanda," Victor Jara), packed with flamenco-like interludes with the bass and drums balancing the act with jazz rhythm lines, on which Acuna exemplified her strong story-telling capabilities, with guitarist Juan "Juancho" Herrera taking the song into a tender and harmonically pleasing solo. The keywords remained "passion and tenderness," as she repeatedly changed the mood from intimate to passionate flamenco-style singing, ending with a small scat section, Spanish style.
With "Silencio" ("Silence"), an Acuna original, she continued demonstrating how she masters the stage. It's actually a little samba in a modern dress, with guitarist Herrera going into a solo reminiscent of "Fantasia para un Gentilhombre" (Joaquin Rodrigo), the fantasy of a young gentlemen indeed with a small scat section at the end.
Enter the most captivating piece of the evening"Like Two Strangers"performed as a duo, a dialog between the singer and the guitarist. It was a scene taken out of an Almodovar movie, storytelling at its best with jazzy tints added to achieve a perfect equilibrium.
A country feeling creeps into the Bimhuis with Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday," with a unique rendition, extra slow, mysterious and thoughtful. "Twin-peaks" style blues was the name of the game with a solid bass solo, built from the ground up very carefully by bassist Carlos Henderson. The standard ended with an introspective trumpet like scat section.
After the intermission, Acuna continued with "Gracias a la vida" ("Thanks to life") followed by "That's what they say" (Acuna/Lindner) and "El Derecho de Vivir en Paz" ("Our right to live in peace," Jara) rendered as a slow funeral march beautifully accompanied by guitarist Herrera.
Following was the torch number associated with Lady Day, "Don't Explain," taken from the tribute to Billie Holiday project of Acuna, expressively slow and dream-like, with unusual phrasing culminating in the word "sweet."
Enter Astor Piazzolla's "Vuelvo al sur" ("I am from the south"), performed as a duo with the guitar, one of the most accomplished songs of the evening, with an enticing bugle-like scat section in the middle.
The evening ended with two standardsCole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" and Jimmy Van Heusen's "But Beautiful"delivered very slowly, including flamenco handclapping, with minor dark chords in abundance.
The original group included pianist Jason Lindner, which would have lent a more acoustic sphere to the evening though Acuna, a fully-rounded storyteller, compensated with her warm voice and scatting abilities.
Personnel: Claudia Acuna: vocals; Juan "Juancho" Herrera: guitars; Edgardo "Yayo" Serka: drums; Carlos Henderson: bass.
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- Hey, I know what's going on here, no one gets it more than me. When it happened to the dinosaurs -- they didn't see it coming. They didn't have the intellect or capacity to understand it. But you do. You're watching it happen and it stings like a bitch. If the roles were reversed I don't know what I'd do.
- -- Dr. Henry McCoy to Dr. Henry Pym
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Steven Rogers (First appearance historically)
- Scott Summers
- Emma Frost
- Alison Blaire (First appearance historically)
- Simon Williams (First appearance)
- Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (First apparence as Captain Marvel)
- Detective Sam Wilson (Only appearance)[1]
- Human Resistance (First appearance historically)
- Daniel Rand (First appearance historically)
- Felicia Hardy (First appearance historically)
- White Tiger (Angela del Toro) (First appearance historically)
- Luke Cage
- Misty Knight (First appearance historically)
- Robert Reynolds (Only appearance)[1] (Main story and flashback)
- Dr. Stephen Strange
- Piotr Rasputin (Only appearance)[1]
- Stark Industries (First appearance)
- Dr. Hank Pym
- Dr. Hank McCoy (First appearance)
- Queen Ororo Munroe (First appearance historically)
- Commander Wolverine (James Howlett)
Supporting Characters:
- Janet van Dyne (First appearance)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (First appearance historically)
- Red Guard (First appearance historically)
- Remy LeBeau (Only appearance)[1]
Other Characters:
- Mary Jane Watson (Mentioned)
- Franklin Richards (Mentioned)
- Reed Richards (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Susan Richards (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Sentinels (First appearance)
- NYPD (First appearance)
- Moses (Mentioned)
- Jesus (Mentioned)
- Prince Namor (Mentioned)
- Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Mentioned)
- The Void (Only appearance)[1] (Only in flashback)
- Tony Stark (Mentioned)
- House of Magnus (Mentioned)
- Erik Magnus (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- House of M (First full appearance)
- Earth (First full appearance)
- United States of America (First full appearance)
- New York (First appearance historically)
- New York City (First appearance historically)
- Bronx (First appearance)
- 63rd Avenue (First appearance)
- Steven Rogers' Apartment (First appearance)
- 63rd Avenue (First appearance)
- Hell's Kitchen (First appearance historically)
- Dr. Strange's Office (First appearance)
- Bronx (First appearance)
- New York City (First appearance historically)
- Connecticut (First appearance)
- Hartford (First appearance)
- Scott Summers and Emma Frost's Home (First appearance)
- Hartford (First appearance)
- California (First appearance)
- Los Angeles (First appearance)
- Ohio (First appearance)
- Cincinnati (First appearance)
- Ms. Pryde's School (First appearance)
- Cincinnati (First appearance)
- Illinois (First appearance)
- Chicago (First appearance)
- Stark Industries (First appearance)
- Chicago (First appearance)
- New York (First appearance historically)
- Russia (First appearance)
- Europe (First appearance)
- Wakanda, Africa (Mentioned)
- United States of America (First full appearance)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth (First full appearance)
- Marvel Universe (Dream)
- Earth (Dream)
- Canada (Dream)
- Alberta (Dream)
- Weapon X Facility (Dream)
- Alberta (Dream)
- Canada (Dream)
- Earth (Dream)
- Remy LeBeau's Car (Only appearance)[1]
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (First appearance)
Synopsis for 1st story
This story shows the roles of characters in house of M:
Steven Rogers is an old man who didn't get frozen in suspended animation in WWII; Scott Summers and Emma Frost have been happily married for a while and Emma is in charge of working with children such as Franklin Richards, who's parents died in a rocket crash; Dazzler has her own show on which she asks Wonder Man about the world's most popular homo sapien super hero, Ms. Marvel. Meanwhile Captain Marvel battles and defeats Gambit, a common mutant thug who gets arrested in front of a sentinel statue; Kitty Pryde teaches her class about the first mutant - Namor, the sub-mariner; Detective Sam Wilson goes to Hell's Kitchen to talk to Luke Cage about the attack on Wilson Fisk, he is also met by Misty Knight; Robert Reynolds has repeating episodes of the Void, endangering his son at one point and is receiving therapy from Doctor Strange, not a master of mystic arts; Colossus is a farmer in Russia; Dr. Henry McCoy is an employee of the most successful homo sapien businessman, Tony Stark and advises Dr. Henry Pym not to try and create a cure for mutant genes. Janet van Dyne is a fashion designer currently working with Ororo Munroe. Wolverine awakes from a dream to find himself in bed with Mystique, he rushes to the roof of the building he is in and discovers he is on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, it is assumed he somehow remembers the real world.
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When we last spoke about meal planning we discussed the basics of how to plan. Today I want to take a deeper dive into one of my favourite ways of being prepared for the week ahead: batch cooking.
Batch cooking is a great strategy for those who like to mix and match their meals a bit, or like to make things that parlay into other meals. For example, if, on Sunday, you roasted up a big tray of vegetables, on Monday they could become roasted vegetable quesadillas. On Tuesday they could be part of your packed lunch with some cooked grain and some sort of sauce. And on Wednesday you can finish 'em up in a roasted vegetable frittata.
Or, say you cooked up a big pot of brown rice. On Monday you could make rice bowls (maybe with those roasted veggies and some hummus?) or you could do a quick and easy veggie stir-fry to serve over the rice. Later in the week you could what's left of the rice in a vegetarian fried rice, or you can even make these broccoli and quinoa nuggets with rice instead of the quinoa.
If you feel overwhelmed by the prospect of batch cooking, here's the game plan I like to use:
1. Choose a grain or two
2. Pick a protein
3. Make a sauce
4. Prep your veg
5. Bonus items
Let's break it down point by point!
1. Choose a grain or two
Healthy whole grains take a lot longer to cook than their refined counterparts, so they're a good thing to make in bulk. Consider that white rice takes about 15 minutes to cook whereas brown rice typically takes about 45, and it's no surprise that people aren't keen on cooking up a batch of brown rice on a Monday night.
But! If you cook up a big pot of brown rice (or wild rice or kamut or farro or barley…) on the weekend while you're prepping everything else, you'll be good to go all week long. Cooked grains will be good in the fridge for 3-5 days (and to be honest, I usually push it more like 5-7 days). They'll start to dry out, so towards the end of the week are better in dishes like fried rice or those aforementioned nuggets, where they'll get to soak up a bit of moisture.
Oh! And did you know that you can totally freeze cooked grains? It's true! I always intentionally cook more than I know I'll need, and I portion one and two-cup portions into freezer bags to use another time.
2. Pick a protein
Pick a protein… any protein! What floats your boat? Tofu? Then I recommend you take steps to make it tasty ahead of time. Cube it up and throw it in a marinade. Bake it, roast it, barbecue it, fry it. Whip up a batch of tempeh bacon. Any of that stuff's amazing on salads, in sandwiches, in lunch bowls…
Maybe you're more of a bean person? No problem. If you prefer soaking and cooking your beans from scratch, here's a handy tutorial on how to cook dried beans. Use some of those beans to make a batch of black bean and quinoa freezer burritos, or, if you don't feel like rolling burritos, how about this black bean burrito stack?
You can cook up a batch of this spicy black bean ragout, which is a perfect side dish, taco filling, or bowl topper. Or, you can make a batch of these chipotle black bean burgers, which are a bit of work to pull together, but they freeze like a dream.
If you eat 'em, hard boil some eggs. They're great for snacking, healthy breakfasts on the go, egg salad sandwiches, or as toppers on salads.
3. Make a sauce
A good sauce can really help turn your batched cook food from just a bunch of ingredients into a tasty meal. I like to prep a protein-packed hummus, which can be used in sandwiches and wraps, as a snack, as a bowl topper, or even as the base of these Roasted Cauliflower Hummus Bowls.
Other favourite sauces include this Orange-Carrot-Miso-Ginger Sunshine Sauce, the magic tahini sauce from these Winter Veggie Meal Prep Bowls, and the zippy almond-chili-ginger sauce from these Summer Salad Rolls.
4. Prep your veg
When you do your weekend meal prep, spend some time making your veggies eatable. By that I mean, wash your salad greens so they're easy to use on the fly. Chop up your carrot sticks and stick 'em in water for easy snacking. While you're at it, chop anything else you might be cooking with later in the week.
And get busy roasting veggies to be used in pastas, sandwiches, salads, and bowls, such as these Winter Veggie Meal Prep Bowls, a roasted vegetable tray bake, roasted butternut squash soup, or roasted sweet potato burrito bowls.
While you're at it, bake a couple of sweet potatoes, make a batch of kale chips, and roast some broccoli too?
5. Bonus items
This is what I spend the least amount of time on, so I call them bonus items. This is where I'd spend any extra time I had on things like making batches of pizza dough to freeze. I like to half-bake my pizza bottoms and freeze them like that, so when I'm ready to make pizza all I need to do is pull one out of the freezer, top it, and throw it in the oven.
I usually also spend some time baking a batch of bran muffins for weekday breakfasts and work snacks, and maybe I'll throw some cookie dough into the freezer if I have time.
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Health Disparities vs Health Equity:
The Outcomes Matter, Not the Words.
Since release of the Institute of Medicine signature report, "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Institute of Medicine", in 2002, the term "Health Disparities" has been widely used in the health field. However, the outcomes to date, to the extent known, don't match the talk. Therefore, Health Power has the following concerns:
1. There has been Inadequate analysis, summarization, and reporting of individual and overall health disparities outcomes as a result of various efforts to decrease racial and ethnic health disparities since 2002.
2. The basis in recent years for movement to the term, "health equity" rather than "health disparities" by many in the health field needs to be revisited and if appropriate, put in a broader context. What I've heard is that the term "health disparities" has a more negative meaning than the term "health equity". Hopefully, that's not the main reason for change because health disparities are a reality, and a negative reflection on society and the health field. This reality cannot be erased by changing terminology.
Further, the term "health equity" means different things to different people. While some assume that the term has a more positive meaning than the term "health disparities", others define "health equity" as referring to those differences in population health status that can be traced to unequal economic and social conditions that are systematic and avoidable, and thus unfair. While Health Power agrees that social and economic factors are unfair, and have a significant negative effort on health behavior, health status, and health care outcomes, to the extent they are emphasized as causes for health disparities, they might inappropriately be used by some as an excuse for not eliminating health disparities.
Clearly, there needs to be a general consensus about the meaning of "health equity" as it relates to racial and ethnic populations, since the latter term is being increasingly used rather than the term "health disparities".
3. If "health equity" is going to become the favored term instead of health disparities, in my view it needs to be seen as the following goal: going "From health disparities to health equity" – with "health equity" meaning equal health status, AND receipt of equal health care. Further, progress needs to be documented by comparing baseline and progress outcome measurements.
As I mentioned in the Opening Page of our "Racial and Ethnic Health Channel" in discussing preferred terms for different racial and ethnic populations, we can go on and on about 'best terms' to use. However, we cannot afford the luxury of spending a lot of time focusing on which terms are more politically correct while too many minorities/people of color/multicultural populations are:
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Terry "MrsRon" Moore posted this on the skiffy forums the other day:
It is official. The BSG writing staff spent their day yesterday working on the rest of the season. They're back.
THUD has more:
Impeccable sources tell me that Battlestar Galactica's fourth season, put on hold for three months by the just-ended writer's strike, will not be truncated. The SciFi Channel has told Ron Moore that they want to complete the entire 22 episode season four order! The network will be giving Ron Moore, David Eick and their embarrassingly good writing staff a lot of hours to wrap up the show's story without rushing or trimming.
When the show shut down three months ago, there were some worries as to whether it would start up again. Battlestar is expensive, and other expensive shows that weren't burning up the ratings found themselves axed during the strike. Getting BSG a 22 episode fourth season order was seen as nothing short of miraculous at the time, so people wondered if SciFi wouldn't just 'cut their losses' (in their shortsighted eyes) and end the season at the 12 or so episodes in the can, maybe giving Moore et al the chance to finish everything up in a TV movie.
Thankfully that didn't happen, and there's more good news: the entire writing staff is back. They gathered this week to rewatch the completed season four episodes to get back up to speed, and now that the strike is completely and officially over, they'll be revisiting the outlines of future episodes and break those stories. There are still some details that will need to be ironed out - actor's deals may need to be renegotiated to get them secured past when their season four contracts end, for example - but the sets in Vancouver were never struck and the behind the camera types are raring to go and finish their epic story. I've heard that the show is firing on all cylinders in the season four episodes filmed to date, and I hope that three months away has given everybody new energy and perspectives to match the first half of the season.
The one mystery that remains is how SciFi will air the final season. Currently the feeling is that they'll split it in half and we'll only get ten or eleven episodes now, with the rest following as late as 2009. Here's to hoping that they wise up and give us the complete story in a more reasonable time frame.
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CBS decided that carrying Sunday afternoon N.F.L. games, playoff matchups and, every third year, a Super Bowl was not enough. So it announced Wednesday that it would carry eight Thursday night games in 2014 on a one-year contract that was believed to be worth at least
$250 million.
"There is truly nothing like the N.F.L.," said Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS. "You want as much as you can get. It's the most powerful programming on the air."
In effect, CBS Sports has taken control of what had been a 13-game Thursday night schedule on NFL Network.
Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, CBS's lead N.F.L. announcing team on Sunday afternoons, will have the same role for Thursday night games.
"Their priority will be Thursday," said Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports, who added that they would probably get some Sundays off. "We won't burn out our A talent and A production teams."
Beginning Sept. 11, CBS will produce and show eight games, each of which will be simulcast on NFL Network; eight other games will be on NFL Network.
Two of the 16 games will be played as a Saturday doubleheader, on Dec. 20.
Not surprisingly, the league received bids for the Thursday night package from all of its current broadcast partners — CBS, NBC, Fox and ESPN, on behalf of ABC — as well as from Turner Sports. Ultimately, the victory went to the strongest network in prime time, which, it could be argued, needed the games the least.
"CBS has more viewers than any other network, and it was important for us from the beginning to have the biggest megaphone possible," said Brian Rolapp, the chief operating officer of NFL Media. "Their reach was very attractive. They're aggressive on all fronts."
CBS is hoping the deal, with a league option to extend for a second season, is the prelude to a lengthier one. There has been speculation that the league might use a short-term deal with a broadcast network as leverage to secure a longer and more expensive one with a cable network.
"We're looking at this as a long-term commitment," McManus said. He added that the network was playing aggressive defense against its competitors.
"Our goal is to have a highly rated N.F.L. package on Thursday night and not have to compete against one on another network," he said.
Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBC Sports Group, said from Sochi, Russia, "We wish we had won it, but we take solace in knowing it's a short-term deal and we'll compete for it again."
Lazarus said Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth, who call NBC's Sunday night games, had been part of the network's plan for Thursday night.
To make room for the games, CBS will delay the start of its fall season on Thursday nights until early November. Moonves said that some of the series affected — which include "The Big Bang Theory" at 8 p.m. Eastern and "Elementary" at 10 p.m. — could shift to help programming on other nights before returning to their regular time slots after the final game.
This season, CBS has a large lead with its Thursday night programming among all viewers and among men ages 18 to 49. But ABC leads among women 18 to 49 and could have used football to raise its distant second-place rank among men in that range.
The CBS deal is central to the N.F.L.'s strategy to expand the audience for Thursday games. NFL Network reaches 72 million subscribers, about 40 million fewer than the broadcast networks. The league wants to promote and build the Thursday games into a franchise whose viewership could approach that of its Sunday and Monday night games.
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This is a document introducing a unique articulation technique to trumpet players who perform jazz music. Information of the doodle tongue technique was analyzed from various spectrums, including the history of the doodle tongue technique, the common instruments that use and/or require doodle tonguing for particular musical situations, and the individual musicians that master this articulation technique. The doodle tongue technique is used in genres of music outside of jazz. Definitions and step-by-step instruction were used to determine how the doodle tongue technique is executed. Diagrams and figures were used to demonstrate tongue placement of the doodle tongue syllables, along with introductory exercises, scales, and etudes. Several musicians claim that this articulation technique can be used on all instruments. Through various interviews, master classes and method books by trumpeters, including Clark Terry and John McNeil, it was concluded that doodle tonguing could be used in jazz performance for the trumpet player.
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In this dissertation, I explore how workers' human capital, local industry composition, and business cycles affect employment outcomes and residential migration for job losers and other workers. I first examine whether the poor employment outcomes of job losers are due to a lack of jobs that require their human capital within their local labor market. I answer this question by analyzing the extent to which the industry composition in the job loser's local labor market affects employment outcomes when job loss occurs during expansions and during recessions. I find that if job losers reside in an area with a high employment concentration of their original industry of employment, they are 2.1-2.8 percent more likely to be re-employed at another job if job loss occurs during an expansion; I find an insignificant relationship in most specifications when job loss occurs during a recession, and in some specifications I even find a negative relationship between industry concentration and employment. I conclude that the industry composition within an area matters for job losers, since firms are more willing to hire workers from within their own industry, as these workers have more relevant accumulated human capital. However, firms are less likely to hire during a recession, making job losers' human capital less important for job finding. Next, Erika McEntarfer, Henry Hyatt, and I examine whether the business cycle affects earnings changes for job losers, and the factors that explain these differences across time. We find that job losers who lost their job during the Great Recession have earnings changes that are 10 percent more negative relative to other job losers from other periods. This result is driven primarily by longer nonemployment lengths and worse subsequent job matches. Finally, Erika McEntarfer, Henry Hyatt, Alexandria Zhang, and I explore the extent to which residential migration is driven by job opportunities. We use four databases and find that changes in job moves explain some of the changes in residential migration, but the relationship is not as strong as previously documented. We find that migration patterns differ across databases, with some databases documenting steeper declines and more cyclicality.


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The Iranian national beach soccer players defeated Egyptian squad 4-1 in their second match at the 2016 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup which is the 6th edition of the event underway in Dubai city of the UAE on Wednesday.
The Iranians had thrashed the US 6-2 in their first performance on Tuesday with goals scored by Mohammadali Mokhtari, Moslem Mesigar, Mostafa Kiani, Seyed Ali Nazem and Mohammad Ahmadzadeh.
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh, who had scored twice for Iran in the match against the US, scored two more times in the event against Egypt. The other two goals of the Iranian side to Egypt were scored by Moslem Mesigar
The Iranians have to line up against Russia today on Thursday.
Iran has been drawn in Group B together with defending champion Russia, the US and Egypt while Group A comprises the UAE, 2014 champion Brazil, Tahiti and Poland.
Team Iran claimed the title in the third edition of the sportive event after defeating powerhouse teams Brazil and Russia.
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Natalie Wainwright kicked off the luncheon with our network time at each table. While all were exchanging business cards and making friends, Natalie asked Melissa Campanella, the Chapter Champion, to enlighten us on what she has going on with the CREW Foundation.
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Natalie than introduced the new members and new sponsors, as well as the current sponsors and thanked all for their support.
The luncheon was sponsored by a new member, Nevada General Construction, represented by Mike DiFabbio. Mike said he was afraid of attending CREW events and being the only guy in the room. Now he realizes, that is not the case and he is thrilled to be part of CREW Las Vegas. Nevada General Construction focuses on Tenant Improvements and Ground-up Construction!
The Folded Flag Foundation is the charity we are supporting during our special event, Run for the Roses, in April. Tom Rankin is the Las Vegas representative of the Folded Flag Foundation and he described the organization as providing scholarships for surviving spouses and children of fallen soldiers. Support even extends to suicide victims family members which really makes the Folded Flag Foundation different from other fallen soldier organizations.
Cassie Catania-Hsu of Sun Commercial was introduced as the moderator of the panel on technology for brokers. Cassie then introduced the panel including Jen Ott, of ROI, Dan Palmeri of Cushman and Wakefield and Cathy Jones of Sun Commercial. Each of the panelists answered questions such as, how has technology changed the business, are you seeing deals from social media, name a technology you cannot live without, behind the scenes what does it take to make a deal, what is the longest time it took you to make a deal, trends in the market, did you have a mentor, what advice do you live by, what is the best method for people to reach you today.
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Teen singer and actress Han Groo has landed several major roles in TV dramas just 11 months after her debut. The 19-year-old played a heroine in the popular cable drama "Little Girl K" and is now appearing in MBC's "Just Like Today".
She said that she already feels the burden of celebrity and the weight of responsibility in having to carry such major roles despite her short career in show business. But her love of acting overrides any sense of stage fright.
"I feel more attached [to my role in the MBC drama] as I can find similarities between myself and the character", she said, explaining that she had to live by herself for eight years after heading to the U.S. as a fourth-grader and then moving to China.
Instead of feeling lonely or sorry for herself in a foreign land, she tried everything she could to expand her life experience. As she spent four years in the U.S. and another four years in China, she became fluent in both English and Mandarin, while engaging in various activities such as dancing, horse riding, martial arts and golf.
She also excelled at her academic studies -- to the extent that she won a U.S. presidential award for her achievements.
"I have never dreamed of becoming anything but an actress", said Han, whose father made his name as a director of TV commercials and whose mother used to be a professional model. The talented young teen became familiar with show business from a very early age and felt naturally drawn to the industry.
Han aspired to become an actress but debuted as a singer early this year by releasing a short album. "It was not my first choice", she admitted frankly, explaining that she wanted to start out as an actress but was suggested to try her hand at singing by her management agency.
"I thought it made sense to grab whatever opportunities I could while they were available to me", she said, adding that it was difficult to stand out given the huge level of competition in Korea's music industry, especially among girl groups riding the coattails of the K-pop revolution.
In contrast to her fledgling career in the entertainment industry, Han is now preparing for her university entrance examination for a third time. As she debuted in show business shortly after returning to Korea, she failed the exam for a second year -- a mistake she does not intend to repeat after finishing shooting the MBC drama.
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As much as I'd like to think I have a lot of 'travel' books on my shelf, but...I had trouble with this list! I tried to get as many YA books as possible on to my list, but some really amazing Adult Fiction got thrown in there too! Onwards with the list!....
1. 'Level 2' by Lenore Appelhans
Travelling/going to the world between Earth and Heaven counts as travel, right? Felicia does this in 'Level 2', the book I just couldn't resist when I placed one of my everlasting book orders.
2. 'Tempest' by Julie Cross
Time travel really is the best travel of all. I have tons of time travel books but I just put a few of my favourite on this list. Tempest is just one of those books you devour in a day or two just because it's better than real life, ha.
3. 'Amy & Roger's Epic Detour' by Morgan Matson
Of course this is on my list! It's one of the sweetest, most powerful YA Road Trip Books of all. A sweet romance and a trip around America. What more could you ask for in a book?
4. 'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer
I was 50/50 on putting this on my list. One; there's not really "travel", only for a second of the first chapter when Bella moves from Phoenix to Forks, but I'm counting that. Hehe.
5. 'Fall of Night' by Rachel Caine
Claire, lead character of the Morganville Series, leaves the town in the latest addition and penultimate in the series, for an opportunity at MIT. If you read the book, you'll understand how it was kind of bittersweet at that moment.
6. 'The Time Traveller's Wife' by Audrey Niffenger
I stole this book from my sister because I just loved it so much. There is the depth and sadness of the characters, and although the jumps in reality could be confusing, Audrey made it romantic and touching. I want to review it so bad!
7. 'Kitty Goes to Washington' by Carrie Vaughn
If you've ever read the series by Ms. Vaughn, you know they are phenomenal and I could real them for hours. I bought the first three in the series on a whim and ended up really loving them. A supernatural spin and travel. Yay.
8. 'Eat, Pray, Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert
Another Adult book? Come on, Becca, where's your YA list going? Okay, seriously...this book wasn't "YA-Amazing" but it was travel related and super interesting. I really did love it, though. Ms Gilbert really painted a picture with her words.
9. 'Where She Went' by Gayle Forman
In the sequel to "If I Stay", it's implied that Mia "goes somewhere", given the title. Yes, it involves travel and some emotional, incredible moments...but I'm not giving too much away...because I'll be reviewing it real soon (just after my review of 'If I Stay' of course).
10. 'I Heart Vegas' by Lindsay Kelk
I feel like in all Lindsay Kelk books, there is travel?! I mean, there's 'I heart; Vegas, Hollywood, Paris, London...' so, I could have based my whole list around them! Super incredible series by an amazing author!
So, that's my TTT list this week! I was really happy with all the comments I had last week on my post and I'm glad everyone loved my picks! As always, I adore comments and reply ASAP/will comment on your TTT post, too! :) Please take a look at my page 'my original meme' and join in every Sunday for 'Pretty Pick' of the Week!


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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Best Shot Monday- Almost
This weekend we took our first little road trip with just the four of us. We went to the Chattanooga Aquarium, took a walking tour of the Cave at Raccoon Mountain, and rode the Incline Railway. The kids had a blast. I haven't had a chance to upload all of my photos, but thought I would share this one for my Best Shot Monday. My daughter is fascinated by anything little and living that she can pick up. There was a butterfly garden with hundreds of butterflies everywhere and she almost picked this one up. I captured this shot right before it flew away.
Labels: Best Shot Monday, Road Trips
4 comments:
- tracey clark said...
this is a wonderful shot. full of magic!
- June 2, 2008 at 10:18 AM
- HipMomma said...
I like the flutter in that shot. Very nice.
- June 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Andrea said...
what a great photo. We can never catch theme either.
- June 2, 2008 at 2:05 PM
- Golightly said...
Gorgeous!! I love that action of it. We are all about butterflies here, too.
- June 2, 2008 at 6:26 PM
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L.A. Noire TrailerFriday, January 12th, 2007
I'm fascinated with video games as a new form of storytelling and so I've always thought two of my favorite films–Chinatown and L.A. Confidential–would make fantastic games. Great minds think alike, it appears. Rockstar (have they ever published a boring game?) is working with Team Bondi on L.A. Noire, a next-gen crime/detective/open world game set in a pre-highways 1940s Los Angeles and featuring a jazz soundtrack. It looks very much like it was inspired by either or both of those two movies. By Team Bondi's own words, it is an attempt to blend cinema and gaming.


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You can find most of the appliances you use every day in the United States while in Europe, but sometimes it just makes sense to bring your own things. This is especially true of expensive portable products that are difficult to replace, like laptops and personal DVD players. When you want to use your American appliances in Europe, you can turn to voltage converters and plug adaptors to get the job done. Depending on the appliances you want to use them for, these products can be inexpensive and easy to transport.
Find the voltage/hertz requirements on the appliance you want to take. Many devices list the voltage/hertz on a label attached to the power cord, but if your appliance doesn't have a label, check the location where the power source goes into the product. All American appliances will operate on 110 volts/60 hertz, but some devices will contain internal converters that allow them to work with the European convention of 220 volts/50 hertz as well. If your appliance contains such a converter, it will usually indicate somewhere on the product that it can handle up to 240 volts.
Purchase a voltage converter for products you need to take with you but that don't contain an internal converter. Voltage converters vary greatly in size and price, depending primarily on the size of the appliance and the quality of the conversion.
Buy a plug adaptor to use your American appliances in Europe. Plug adaptors tend to be less expensive and easier to come by in the United States. Find out which type of adaptor you need before you leave for Europe. Continental plugs typically use a small, round two-prong plug, while the United Kingdom and Ireland use a larger three-prong plug. ElecticalOutlets.org maintains a comprehensive list of plug and voltage requirements by country to eliminate surprises while travelling. (See Resources.)
Plug your American appliance directly into the plug adaptor or voltage converter. For voltage converters, the appropriate (female) socket will be indicated by an "output--110v" label on the transformer. The plug, or male, end of either the adaptor or converter should insert into the wall without any problems. Appliances using just plug adaptors will be ready for use, but those needing voltage converters will need both the appliance and the converter to remain on during use.
Check your appliance periodically to guard against overheating. Both appliances with internal converters and those using external transformers can be prone to overheating. This can be especially problematic for hair appliances and can result in singeing and burning during use.
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- Purchase small appliances, like hair dryers and curling irons, when you get to Europe. These types of American appliances have the most difficulties with power conversion, and they often don't work right even when a power converter is used.
- If your appliance is still under warranty, plugging it into a European socket, even if it is technically capable of handling the voltage conversion, may void your warranty if something goes wrong.
- Never force an American plug into a UK outlet. Although the prongs may fit in the socket, forcing the plug could cause serious damage to both your appliance and the electrical wiring in the building.


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Conrad Guangzhou
Welcome to Conrad Guangzhou, located in the heart of CBD Zhujiang New Town. This modern luxury hotel is uniquely situated by the Pearl River, providing beautiful views of the river and dynamic city from guest rooms, restaurants, meeting spaces and leisure areas. Walk to the Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou Opera House and Haixinsha Island, and count on the Conrad concierge team for flawless service and insider knowledge for an inspired stay.
Conrad Guangzhou resides in a complex of office towers, residences, and an art park - an 'artisan oasis' for every traveler. This elegant hotel has a world of style, with modern and Xiguan Mansion design elements as well as a stunning 20-meter-high Czech crystal light installation in the lobby.
Luxury meets smart technology in our chic guest rooms, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows and a motion-sensor power system. Executive suites offer sweeping river views and exclusive access to the 27th floor Executive Lounge.
More luxuries to enjoy:
• 3 restaurants, a lounge and a bar to tempt every guest
• Pool, whirlpool, fitness center, steam baths and ice fountains
• Pillar-less Conrad ballroom, 7 multifunction rooms and a wedding showroom
The hotel is next to igc shopping mall, near Canton Tower, Hunter Lane restaurants, and Xingsheng Road nightlife.


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An unexpected work opportunity, lack of sleep and various other domestic projects of late, have all conspired to keep me from getting out on the water. We havent had time to get out in the tinny for weeks and blood salt levels are at an all time low. This was compounded last weekend by the cancellation of a long anticipated day's racing on Sydney Harbour with some girlfriends. So by late Thursday afternoon, with eyes on stalks from burning the midnight oil and a pair of restless kids on my hands I remembered that we're still only a stones throw from the beach at Brighton Le Sands. I didnt have my camera with me so I decided to get in the retro photo craze and test out my recently acquired iphone App "Hipstamatic", and the results were quite pleasing.
An hour down on the sand late in the afternoon reminded me what this blog is all about: being inspired to snatch some time (even just an hour) away from the rug rat race and make the most of what's on the doorstep. Once you step down off the boardwalk you can't even hear the traffic.
OK, so you can see the industrial silos at Botany Bay and the planes landing and taking off at Kingsford Smith, but they're in the back ground. Their visible presence only served to remind me that I had stepped back from the rush for a second and was in respite mode.


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Remember Dr. Spivey, the director of the mental hospital in the classic, Oscar-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ? That was no actor. That was Dr. Dean Brooks, the real life superintendent of Oregon State Hospital in Salem, who passed away on May 30th, 2013 at the age of 96.
Dr. Brooks was the only superintendent of a psychiatric hospital that would open its doors for the film's director, Milos Forman. He even let Mr. Forman and one of the film's screenwriters live in his hospital for weeks to gain an understanding of life in a mental institution.
Dr. Brooks is remembered as an innovator with an unusual approach, who let his patients wear their own clothes rather than hospital uniforms and took them on therapeutic trips into the wilderness.
Read more about Dr. Dean Brooks in his New York Times obituary .


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How Lyme Disease Was My 'Miracle'
Last summer I spent four incredible months in the south of France, interning and teaching yoga at an international Buddhist meditation center.
Surrounded by pristine natural settings and a slew of hyper-mindful people, the obvious assumption (or so I thought) was that I would return home from this adventure with some marvelous level of self-awareness; that through my meditational diligence I would finally be rewarded with that ever-elusive absolute understanding of the world I'd read and heard so much about.
Four months of work, two hours of meditation daily—this was surely adequate time to sort everything out, right? Absolutely, I thought. Definitely. Enlightenment was mine.
What I returned with, however, was not some innate understanding of the processes of the universe, but a nasty spirochetal infection transmitted by the bite of a spider I got during my stay instead: Lyme disease. That lovely and increasingly common disease also sometimes affectionately known as Life Chaos, or, if you like, Absolute Goddamn Physical and Emotional Insanity.
In early September I finished my internship, and traveled north from the center to stay a night in Paris, all set to fly out to Chile the next morning. The plan was to go complete an extended apprenticeship with a shaman in the Andes, and although I was excited about this potential for new adventure, I had begun to feel very strange in the couple weeks prior. Restless sleep, knee pains, eye inflammation—odd symptoms started to pop up that I had never experienced before, and while I was doing my best to ignore them or chalk them up to shaky nerves, they just kept rising in both intensity and frequency.
And then that night in Paris, drinking wine on a patio overlooking the city, I felt an intense burning sensation crawling up the left side of my body. Pulling up my pant leg in slightly drunken curiosity I discovered a scary tell-tale ring around a bite I had procured over a month before: a large bulls-eye rash had formed around the entire side of my left calf, leaving the whole leg red, inflamed and extremely painful.
To put it lightly, I lost it.
I knew clearly what this symptom—coupled with the others I had been having—meant, and it was not good. Like, really not good.
You know that feeling you get right before you know something horrible is going to happen? That sinking, sickly sensation of doom, even if you can't quite pinpoint what it is you're anticipating? Uh-huh… right then that took over every cell of me. Every part of my body was filled with dread.
And so: flight changed, life altered, plans adjusted. Enlightenment? Forget it. This was a full on freak out zone. Every ounce of zen that had been meticulously accumulated and pocketed away over the last four months was obliterated in an instant.
I immediately switched my ticket to fly back to San Francisco instead of Santiago and canceled the apprenticeship, unsure of what that choice would bring but certain that it would be a more logical one than heading south where I neither spoke the language nor knew just about anyone. And yet, I had no visa to reenter the states when I got back there, no plans, no job, no home left in San Francisco. I suppose it was just an automatic reaction to head back here where I had friends and support when faced with the scary proposition of such an intense disease, but I can't even begin to tell you how lost and afraid I was; how unsure everything in my world had suddenly become.
I knew people who had been infected with Lyme already—people who dealt with mind-numbing pain on a daily basis, perpetual emotional imbalance, mental sludge, full-on life disability, even the potential of death. I began to run the Google gamut on a French keyboard with a huge glass (bottle) of Pinot Noir as my companion, freaking myself out further with pictures of those paralyzed by the neurological symptoms, mountains of medications, never-ending suffering. The plane ride home consisted of eight hours of worst-case scenario exploration, coupled with the obvious stress of not knowing what life would hold for me once I arrived back in the States. By the time I landed I was an utter and complete mess. As if to give my ego the one-two punch it deserved, I landed in North America with exactly the opposite to that which I had assumed would happen.
Enlightened zen hero? Um, no. Basket case.
Somehow—quite incredibly—I found a place to live, was given a visa, and tracked down a job all before the symptoms really started to set in. What I thought might be the extent of them—that which I had been experiencing in France—turned out to be just the icing on a very big cake of crazy. Within weeks my knees and joints were swollen and sometimes entirely unusable, I was experiencing chronic migraines and dizziness whenever I moved too quickly, and sleep—that which my body and mind wanted more than anything—gave me the runaround nightly, leaving each day an exhausted, foggy and miserable experience.
This was not just any disease, I soon realized; oh no, this was a whole-body multi-angled intelligent assault, one that would seemingly stop at nothing to unbalance the entirety of my body and mind and spirit.
You see, Lyme bugs have this amazing ability to massively mess with just about every hormonal pathway and neurological function in your body. Amongst their many and diverse talents, they prevent the creation and use of thyroid hormones (so you're cold and low all the time, and you get to gain weight too. Fun!), reduce the availability of serotonin and dopamine in your brain (so you can't focus and kinda hate people all the time. Super fun!), and then release a ton of ammonia and acetaldehyde into your system (so your joints swell, your brain swells, your eyes swell, and when you cry it's like bleach is coming out of your retinas. This was not fun. This was absolutely goddamn awful).
I passed out in Whole Foods one day.
I started speaking backwards and mixing up my words even though it all sounded relatively fine in my head (if you count a brain full of cotton balls as 'fine').
I lost the feeling in my hands and feet quite regularly, and sometimes couldn't feel the entire left side of my face.
Yeah… I got—to put it lightly—really, really sick.
Because I had been diagnosed almost two months after getting the actual bite, and Lyme needs to be treated in the first couple weeks with antibiotics in order to be successfully eradicated, the options for treatment were either years and years of antibiotics (according to conventional doctors) or a combination of the allopathic route for a short time with herbal and homeopathic concoctions to finish off the job. These are no regular bacterium you're dealing with here though—Lyme has an intelligence to it that allows the spirochetes to avoid destruction when they sense a hostile environment, meaning that treatment often will be required for 18 months or longer in order to see change, as you have to wait until the suckers come out of hiding so you can zap 'em. So I took the antibiotics, I took the herbs, I took the vitamins, the detox support, the homeopathy and the mushrooms—you name it, I ingested it. I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month on various potential healing aids, some of which seemed to temporarily help for a bit, but none of it seemed to really stick. I was exhausted, frustrated, miserable, and completely confused. There seemed to be no end in site for any of it either, and that awareness was almost enough to make me give up.
And then something changed.
No, you know what? Not something changed, everything changed. My whole world flipped upside down in a single night, two months in, sitting at my computer crying bleachy tears and lamenting my bad fortune.
Lost and despondent amongst bottles of pills and potions on my kitchen table, I stumbled across a quote from Einstein on a site somewhere. In his incredible brilliance, he had apparently once said:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Perhaps the time was just right for me to hear it. Perhaps I had been blown so wide open by the pain and distress of the disease that I was finally ready to incorporate this knowing into my experience (cause I'm pretty sure that I had read that quote before, but it never had near the effect that it did in that moment). Whatever it was that made that statement so profound, instantly everything in me shifted. Every part of this, every aspect of this disease—of my life as a whole—evolved into a place I couldn't quite yet understand, and this profound sense of ease came over me, ammonia streaming down my face and all.
What if this was a miracle? I quite obviously (as most of us do, I think) associated miracles with something positive, and the time I was having with Lyme so far was about as far from positive as I could imagine. But, just hypothetically, my brain seemed to be trying on this idea for size.
What if me getting this disease—being this low and ill and pained and absolutely wasted—was actually something for my benefit, something that was meant to happen, something that had greater meaning than it first appeared to have? What if these little Lyme bastards aren't something bad or terrible that has happened to me, but rather some kind of goofy gift from the world that I can't quite yet understand? Could I believe that? Would it help this process at all to do so? What would that even look like to live that way with this?
There was a bizarre lightness to these thoughts, though their appearance was coupled with intense internal emotional and psychological resistance. It's not an easy feat to believe in the benevolence of the universe when you can't stand up without incredible pain or make a complete sentence, and yet I knew that this was the only way out of it all for me. I had to find the miracle in it.
Now granted, this was not an entirely new thought. Anyone who's been to a yoga class has likely been exposed to such a perspective, and I'd tried to live this truth as best I could up until then. I had been able, historically, to appreciate that view for most things in my life that had already happened, finding great comfort in choosing to believe that my crappy ex-boyfriend or failed job were blessings in disguise, and even in the present moment I could find appreciation for mildly difficult things or situations on most days (sometimes in retrospect), thinking myself ever so enlightened for being able to do so. But what Einstein was implying is that there is no grey area in this approach, and no 20/20 hindsight in your life experience: either you're in with both feet, living that truth and trusting that everything—everything—is miraculous as it happens, or you're not doing it at all. You don't get to pick and choose to say that these nice things over here get to be miracles while that junk over there or back then doesn't cut it, and you don't get to do this after the fact. This is the place your mind stays in, every day, forever, no matter what comes your way. Even if Lyme disease comes your way. Even if cancer comes your way. Even if the worst thing you can ever imagine comes your way. Everything is seen as a miracle.
And so then, what does that mean?
According to the dictionary (cause, you know, I live my life by dictionary definitions), a miracle is defined as "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine."
Um… surprising and welcome? Divine? Lyme disease?!?
You've got to be kidding me.
However, after that night at the kitchen table instead of spending all my time reading horror stories about the pain and damage caused by Lyme, I began exploring other blogs and experiences people reported from an empowered perspective; writings on how they too had reached this point of experience and then utilized the situation as an opportunity for growth and awareness.
All of a sudden Lyme became a teacher, a great message from somewhere, here to help me on my path, not to damage me irreversibly. That arrogance with which I boarded the plane to France? That impatience and profound egotistical assuming nature?—that was its target, I soon realized. That was why it was showing up now: to pull my inflated head down to size, where it needed to be. To help me see the error of my arrogance.
And the forced slowing down the illness brought? The pain and mental discord? Well, quite honestly the level of impatience that I had operated with before getting sick would have astounded you. Even after years of yoga practice I still found myself rushing through life, perpetually unsatisfied with the successes and experiences I was having, as they just seemed too small, too slow, too insignificant. But now, crippled by this experience and with so much crazy pain and internal anarchy, I just couldn't expect to go fast anymore.
… nor could I expect other people to go fast or accomplish prodigious things either, because the basic reality was that, if they spoke too quickly, I felt like I was having an aneurysm.
From this perspective, life with Lyme became a process of patience and compassion, both for myself and for the people around me. No longer could I approach the path I was on with aversion and hurriedness, because it just wouldn't work. I had to take naps. I had to sleep in. I was suddenly forced to live day by day and to speak honestly and compassionately with both my body and mind as well as the world around me.
I became, in short, a much nicer person. A much more patient person.
An increasingly aware and balanced person, moreso than ever before.
And, not surprisingly, the symptoms started to fade. Not that I was concerned with the speed of them (now being all patient and compassionate and whatnot), but they faded pretty darn fast. That quantum-leap healing stuff you might hear about? Yeah, that happened.
And so, is it over yet? It's almost a year later, so how am I now?
It's up and down, honestly. I apparently don't have an active Lyme infection anymore according to the healers I work with, but am now just dealing with the ongoing damages done to various systems of my body. On the days that I feel better, I am more balanced, conscious and energetic (but in a un-frenetic way) than I was before getting sick. And these, thankfully, are becoming more numerous while the rough days decrease. And while the rough days are trying—still tired, headachey and pained—they are no longer "bad" days. They are days that show up when I have usually tried to push myself too hard in the week before, or when I forgot to spend some time in nature or make art or just enjoy the beauty around me. I swear I'm not a masochist, but I see my symptoms now not as punishment or something wrong, but this loving, intelligent guidance that will continually inform me when I'm not living my truth. They don't happen if I'm kind, if I'm calm, if I take care of myself and others with love and appreciation, and only get really difficult if I stray off this path. With that outcome in mind, how could they be considered anything but loving, anything other than benevolent?
This disease has been nothing short of miraculous. It has been a surprising and most welcome event.
I know, thanks to this experience, that every disease, every experience can do the same, and this is actually the point in everything uncomfortable that has ever happened: it is all here to show us where we're moving off course, to remind us that the point of being here is to evolve into more compassionate, mature, powerful beings, and getting sick or having relationships fall apart or what have you are all just feedback from life, attempting to drive us in the right direction. Illness is like a big, red, scary, flashing traffic sign right before the road before us runs off a cliff, there to yell "HELLO BUDDY, WAKE UP!" to someone who has fallen asleep at the wheel.
Perhaps you approach this with skepticism and want to hold on to the belief that life is trying to actually get you down in certain circumstances; that perhaps you can believe in the potential of continuous miracles only with the good stuff—babies born, butterflies transformed, first bloom of spring—or maybe you can stretch that to even the slightly bad stuff—getting fired, bad breakups—but will go no further, and especially refuse to include the really sh*tty parts like sickness and death.
Well, that's up to you. But I figure the reality is that you're in charge of the thoughts that go through your head, and so why not just choose to believe that life is trying to build me up, not break me down? Either way, the outcome is going to be the same (illness, difficulties, death—can't escape 'em), so it seems silly to allow anything in my head other than good thoughts. Appreciative thoughts. Miraculous thoughts. Thoughts that empower my experience so that life becomes a process of opportunities and support rather than intentional pain and suffering.
People who have spontaneous remissions from cancer, who heal from terrible diseases or get themselves out of horrible situations collectively all attribute their success to a single thing: changing their belief system to incorporate a sense of trust and gratitude for the situation that they're in. To see their discomfort or disease not as a random terrible occurrence or as punishment for choices made, but as a miracle. They are awakened from victimhood by an overwhelming sensation of divinity or acceptance, and then—poof—everything changes.
And you know, we're all capable of this. You know you're capable of this.
For showing me this way, this perspective, I am eternally grateful to my little spirochete frenemies, and indeed for every difficult situation or relationship that has ever shown up. From the wisdom gained in this experience not only do I get to spend my time counseling and coaching people through their own diagnosis of Lyme or other diseases now, but I have found myself kinder, more balanced and more aware in ways four months of meditation never came close to.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
(Go for the latter.)
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More threats of mock violence from MrsBootstraps and her pitchfork.
It's the Monsanto "terminator seeds" that make me want to go and stab them with a pitchfork, Thaum. For millenia farmers have been retaining a portion of their crop as seed for the next crop. But if it's Monsanto "terminator" seed, it won't germinate, so you would have to buy fresh stocks from them every year. Fortunately there is a moritorium on their commercialisation at the moment, but I have no idea how long that will last, especially if there is a major food supply crises in the developing world…
Monsanto – one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse…
Here's SkeptEco: Not a barrister but a lecturer in Permaculture, Natural Building and Sustainable Woodland Management'
The idea that farmers are being prevented from exercising their traditional right to save seeds is false: farmers choose to buy seeds often from certified seed-savers because they get better results. Farm-saved seed may not be pure, it may not have the improved qualities that the breeder has created. Seed-saving is a specialized job to be done to a high standard; most farmers in developed nations do not save their own seed any more than they would make their own tractors. Seed-saving is fine for the home gardener- I save some vegetable seeds myself- but in developing countries, moving away from farm-saved seed for commercial crops is more likely to be an indicator of moving away from poverty.
And there's lot's more for the innocent MrsBootstraps on SkeptEco's site, such as:
In my experience, anti-GE activists in the west, many of them inexperienced in farming, believe that there is something perhaps purer or more "natural" if developing farmers remain on a subsistence level; they see an increase in their income as being a bad thing, taking them away from their close connection with the land and doing things locally for themselves. They do not seem to realize that if a farmer cannot enter the cash economy, they will not be able to have the money to send their children to school, or buy labour-saving devices like washing machines that we take for granted. I wonder how much of Vandana Shiva's false claims against GE is underpinned by a paternalistic philosophy that we should Keep the Poor Poor.
Of course it's quite possible that SkeptEco is wrong but if he is, it's up to MrsBootstraps and her UT acolytes to demonstrate that with rather more evidence than they've produced so far.
Update 1.
The Deadly Opposition to Genetically Modified Food
Vitamin A deficiency has killed 8 million children in the last 12 years. Help is finally on the way.
Two recent studies in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that just 50 grams (roughly two ounces) of golden rice can provide 60 percent of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A. They show that golden rice is even better than spinach in providing vitamin A to children.
Vitamin A supplementation programs costs $4,300 for every life they save in India, whereas fortification programs cost about $2,700 for each life saved. Both are great deals. But golden rice would cost just $100 for every life saved from vitamin A deficiency.
Greenpeace and many others claim that GM foods merely enable big companies like Monsanto to wield near-monopoly power. But that puts the cart before the horse: The predominance of big companies partly reflects anti-GM activism, which has made the approval process so long and costly that only rich companies catering to First World farmers can afford to see it through.
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On the concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number of people:
"which also means it won't take that long to identify or hang the fuckers."
BeautifulBurnout – Barrister at Law and armchair anarchist, on the release of Meadows and King from the dock by Judge Douglas Marks Moore:
"Absolutely, Deano. I bet the old bugger is irritated that he can't order yet another retrial until they give a guilty verdict!!"
Here's Anne Tanner (AT42) the lone Marxist survivor of Old Labour, venturing into "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder" territory:
…after the revolution we need to shut down the Bullingdon club – its the stinking canker at the heart of British society. It symbolises precisely what is wrong with the public school system.
Ropes and lamposts? Too good for them!
Wasn't it Anne Tanner who among others of the Untrusted, protested about the execution of the genocidal Stalinist Nicolae Ceausescu?