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Online measurement of hemodialysis adequacy using effective ionic dialysance of sodium ‐A review of its principles, applications, benefits, and risks
Hemodialysis International, EarlyView.
Source: Hemodialysis International - Category: Hematology Source Type: research
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Constipation is common in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Nondrug strategies to manage constipation are challenging because of dietary potassium, phosphate, and fluid restrictions. Nuts are a high-fiber food but are excluded from the diet because of the high potassium and phosphate content. The aim of this study was to examine the safety and efficacy of using nuts to improve constipation in adults undertaking hemodialysis (HD).
Source: Journal of Renal Nutrition - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Kelly Lambert, Luke Bird, Addison C. Borst, Andrew Fuller, Yanan Wang, Geraint B. Rogers, Jordan Stanford, Martina L. Sanderson-Smith, Jonathan G. Williams, Brett C. McWhinney, Elizabeth P. Neale, Yasmine Probst, Maureen Lonergan Tags: Original Research Source Type: research
Nature Reviews Nephrology, Published online: 27 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41581-020-0251-3The KALM-1 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled phase III trial showed that intravenous difelikefalin, a selective κ-opioid receptor agonist, significantly reduces itch intensity in haemodialysis patients with uraemic pruritus. However, 49% of difelikefalin-treated patients showed no improvement. In light of the increasing number of patients with end-stage renal disease, additional treatments are sorely needed.
Source: Nature Reviews Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Elke Weisshaar Robert F. Ofenloch Source Type: research
Uric acid is associated with cognitive impairment in the elderly patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis —A two‐center study
It was reported elevated serum uric acid (SUA) has been associated with vascular cognitive impairment (CI) in the elderly. However, its relationship with cognitive function in the elderly patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) has not been elucidated. Herein, we enrolled 180 elderly HD subjects from two hospitals. Their cognitive function domains were evaluated using MMSE scores at the beginning of the trial, and their demographic and clinical characteristics were collected. We found that the elevated SUA maybe contributes to cognitive impairment in the elderly HD patients. AbstractBackgroundElevated serum uric acid (SUA) ha...
Source: Brain and Behavior - Category: Neurology Authors: Jing Zhang, Lijuan Tang, Jun Hu, Yuwei Wang, Yuzhen Xu Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH Source Type: research
Deceased donor kidney transplant complicated by spontaneous rupture of native kidney in a HIV patient
AbstractSpontaneous native kidney rupture (SNKR) is a rare occurrence, commonly associated with underlying renal tumors or acquired renal cystic disease in both the kidney transplant (KT) and non-KT populations. Herein, we present a 65-year-old African American man who experienced a non-malignant SNKR 6 days after a deceased donor KT and underwent emergent native nephrectomy. The patient's hospital course was complicated by thrombocytopenia and refractory hypertension. He experienced delayed graft function and was maintained on hemodialysis until post-operative day 30. This case demonstrates an unusual presenta...
Source: CEN Case Reports - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research
A case of cerebral infarction caused by painless acute aortic dissection in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
We report the case of a 71-year-old Japanese woman who complained of hemiparesis. She required maintenance hemodialysis therapy with a background of ADPKD. Cerebral infarction was initially diagnosed by excluding intracranial hemorrhage and aneurysm rupture that are recognized as common complications of ADPKD and thereby anticoagulation therapy was initiated. However, the patient was suspected as having painless aortic dissection because a chest X-ray examination showed expanded upper mediastinum. Sequential vascular imagings revealed dissection of the aorta, originating from brachiocephalic trunk to the right common carot...
Source: CEN Case Reports - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research
AbstractBackgroundSerum anion gap (AG) has recently been proven to represent a biomarker for predicting prognosis in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, whether change in AG ( ΔAG) at the time of starting hemodialysis predicts mortality after starting hemodialysis in elderly patients with ESRD remains unknown.MethodsThis retrospective cohort investigated the association between ΔAG and mortality after starting hemodialysis in the elderly. The cohort comprised patients ≥ 75 years old who started hemodialysis for ESRD at National Center for Global Health and Medicine betwe...
Source: Clinical and Experimental Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research
CONCLUSION: Dialysis was not an inhibitory factor affecting outcomes during subacute rehabilitation in patients with stroke. Rehabilitation should be considered for patients with subacute stroke requiring haemodialysis, in order to provide every opportunity to achieve adequate functional outcomes. PMID: 31974589 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - Category: Rehabilitation Tags: J Rehabil Med Source Type: research
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2020Source: The Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAuthor(s): Zhi-Huang Qiu, Liang-Wan Chen, Lian-Ming Liao, Jun Xiao, Xiao-Fu Dai, Guan-Hua Fang, Liang-Liang Yan, Qing-Song Wu, Quan-Fang LuoAbstractBackgroundThe efficacy of hemiarch replacement combined with a modified triple-branched stent graft in Debakey type I aortic dissection remains to be confirmed.MethodsFrom January 2016 to December 2017, 167 patients with acute Debakey type I aortic dissection underwent hemiarch replacement combined with a modified triple-branched stent graft. The clinical and imaging data were retrospectivel...
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research
Elevated serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] level is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic diseases in the general population and hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, the association between Lp(a) levels and mortality has received little attention in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.
Source: Journal of Clinical Lipidology - Category: Lipidology Authors: Zhong Zhong, Fenfen Peng, Dianchun Shi, Yuan Peng, Bin Li, Mengjiao Xiao, Shaozhen Feng, Haiping Mao, Fengxian Huang, Xiao Yang, Jianbo Li, Zhijian Li Tags: Original Research Source Type: research
Association of less-contrast media with clinical factors in elective percutaneous coronary intervention
Abstract Since the amount of contrast media during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is closely related to the exacerbation of renal function, it should be important to reduce the dose of contrast media during PCI. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the association of less-contrast media with clinical factors in elective PCI. A total of 709 patients were divided into the less-contrast media group (n = 142) and the conventional-contrast media group (n = 567) according to the quintile of total contrast volume. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses w...
Source: Heart and Vessels - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
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The Mission of St. Thomas Aquinas High School
St. Thomas Aquinas High School is a caring community, transforming the lives of students through a rigorous Catholic education, guided by the light of the Gospel – developing their unique gifts, strengthening their personal faith and integrity, and fostering within them a commitment to justice, service, and moral leadership.
Living our Mission
Welcome to St. Thomas Aquinas High School. And welcome to our website.
For over fifty years, St. Thomas has served numerous families of many faiths, all of whom have had the same desire: to be part of something larger and more meaningful than simply a four-year education. Here at STA we offer that experience.
Our academics are superb, our extracurricular programs are exceptional, and our faculty and staff truly professional...but it is the total St. Thomas Aquinas experience that sets us apart. Here we strive to guide our young men and women toward goals that are noble, faith-based, and aimed at serving their fellow human beings.
When one becomes a member of our community, each person is celebrated as unique, talented, and above all, capable of changing the world. Experience it for yourself.
Walk into any classroom at St. Thomas Aquinas -- whether the students and teachers are discussing Chaucer in Honors British Literature, giving a multimedia presentation in a freshman Morality class, or measuring the charge of an electron in an AP Physics lab, the academic rigor our students experience prepares them for scholarly life beyond our walls.
Walk onto the athletic fields at STA, or step on the stage. There you will experience the same rigor and achievement. But underlying each discipline remains a desire to serve. Knowledge with a goal; skills with a purpose. Students at St. Thomas Aquinas care for each other, and in turn reach out to bring their abilities to serve a greater good.
Here at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, they learn to embody a mission well-lived.
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FoundCare is a non-profit health care provider with convenient locations in Palm Beach County.
FoundCare's mission is to fulfill unmet healthcare and social service needs of individuals and families in Palm Beach County.
In order to accomplish this mission, FoundCare operates a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers pediatric and adult primary care, chronic disease management, infusions, behavioral health counseling, laboratory work, X-rays and dentistry, as well as an on-site pharmacy, in two locations in Palm Beach County. FoundCare accepts most insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and self-pay on a sliding fee scale based on household size and income. In 2016, our Health Center served 14,807 patients who came to us for a total of 51,992 visits.


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A weekly meme hosted by Sheila @ Book Journey.
I've been reading more & reviewing less...yet again. Plus I'm working on a family history project with a reunion coming up in a couple of weeks and school will be starting up again before I blink. I'm hoping to catch up on reviews for American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, Night by Elie Wiesel, and my recent finish from this week, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin. I might need to pair these reviews up--two Holocaust-themed books and two by comedians. All very good reads, not a disappointment among them.
Here are my week's stats:
Read This Week: (2)
Isn't it funny how we sometimes dip into a book just for kicks and it grabs hold of you? This happened to me twice this week...
Born Standing Up- Steve Martin--A jack-of-all-trades in Hollywood, Steve Martin is a sharp writer, his voice as clear (and deliciously sarcastic) in print as it is on the screen
Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll--Charming, delightful story, impossible not to love
Currently Reading: (2)
The First Wives Club- Olivia Goldsmith-- I'm about halfway through. It's not bad but feels padded. Definitely needed some trimming. I like the movie better.
My Life- Bill Clinton
Reviews This Week:
None :( Time to play catch-up this week!
Next to Read:
I watched the movie Dreamcatcher (based on a Stephen King novel) this week (my reaction: so-so, pretty cheesy CGI), but it's getting me back in the mood for a King novel--maybe Pet Sematary. I keep putting off The Stand until I can devote lots of time to it.
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Youth volunteers across Virginia help make schools 100% tobacco-free Richmond, VA– The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) is launching its 24/7 Campaign, a youth-driven initiative to help schools become tobacco-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week. VFHY is also launching a website,... Read more
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More than 350,000,000 people speak Spanish and it is the second business language world-wide.
Businesses are investing heavily in the Spanish and Latin American markets so, in almost any international career, you will not only need to speak Spanish but also know the different cultures to be successful. In the past, "studying Spanish" was believed to be a convenient way to open doors, now knowing Spanish and the Latin social and business culture are a necessity.
How Can I Best Learn Spanish?
Our students tell us "there is a difference between studying and learning Spanish". Learning another language is more than memorizing vocabulary and grammar. "Many things you can't learn in class or from a book. Being there is key... experience is the real teacher". Through use technique, you speed up comprehension and through use because you are living the language. You should consider these reasons too:
You've temporarily left job, family, school responsabilities aside... You won't be distracted and can focus on learning the language.
Everything around you will contribute to learning the language. Catching a bus, ordering a meal... You'll have a 24-hour learning environment.
All your interests can be included...wether it's food, art, social contacts, history, beaches, outdoor activities or something else, we offer a program that will allow you to pursue those interests while you learn Spanish.
Compared to the costs of many home-country courses or university tuiton, your study abroad immersion program can cost less... Even when airfare, lodging and meals are taken into account.
Too, considering your career goals, you should know that many advanced degree programs and some of your future potential employers... require foreign languages and international exposure or experience.
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Staffing is currently accomplished using a combination of full-time and part time employees. There are currently 36 full-time fire fighters and about 50 part-time firefighters including officers. Except for Chief Officers, full-time employees work a 24 hour shift every third day. This is known in the fire service as a 24/48 shift (24hours on, 48 hours off duty). Most part-time employees work a 12 or 24 hour shift based on their availability.
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When you call 9-1-1 in Green Township, the call is automatically routed to the Hamilton County Communications Center. Within seconds, your location and phone number as well as other data is displayed on the call taker's computer screen. They will then ask a few questions to determine the type of help you need. After determining what the proper station to notify is, the information is sent to a radio dispatcher who alerts us to the emergency. So far, the elapsed time is usually about one minute. After sending the detail to us, the call taker may elect to gather further information or give the caller instructions on how to handle the situation until professional help arrives. In most cases, we are on the way before you even hang up the phone. It is important to remain on the phone with the 9-1-1 call taker until all necessary information has been gathered and the operator's instructions are understood. This in NO WAY slows our response! Remember, we are already on the way.
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Book Review: Firefight by Brandon Sanderson (Reckoners #2)
Review of Steelheart a.k.a. Reckoners #1
This book came to me as a surprise. I finished reviewing this book and shortly realized I ran out of books to read. Well, good books for my taste.
I went about my usual day at the mall, browsing for books when I remembered Firefight was supposed to come out in January ( I read about it in my daily Goodreads newsletter) but I never really thought about looking for it yet since it was still just recently launched.
Nonetheless, my eyes widened when I saw the book glaring at me. Lo and behold, it was the last copy too as I took a few minutes looking for other copies just to see if I can grab a fresher book (I'm strict with book preservation). I didn't even hesitate to buy this book. I immediately fell in line at the nearest cashier and moments later, I'm inside Starbucks reading this book fresh from the plastic. I'm not even afraid to admit that I sniff books particularly when old and newly bought.
With regards to my review, it will be quick and short as the time I have to type it down is not as long as I want it to be. It's getting late here and I have work (and a workout) in the morning. I also have to play Civilization: Beyond Earth and I'm probably the country's biggest Civ fan since I started playing Civilization III when I was just 10 years old.
To get things started, the book cover wasn't as subtle compared to its predecessor. I normally don't have any preferences to covers but I found Firefight's cover (pictured above) a bit loud and too bright. Although it embodied action and a whole lot of fire, I always did prefer a bit of subtlety. Well, it's just me anyway.
I found the character development going deeper as expected of a sequel. What I didn't expect was how the story opted to let a few of the well known characters out of the story this time only to be replaced by new characters. They had interesting backgrounds but I really wished the whole team worked together in this book. Nonetheless, the new characters were well thought out though they may be short-lived. (And yes, that was a spoiler back there)
The plot of the story was deeper than the first. A lot of secrets and treachery in this one. One of the main Epics is a bit of a cuckoo head which miraculously lets the hero live as a form of gratitude and the other Epics weren't all that scary or had some complicated weakness. Save for Regalia, this Epic is probably their smartest foe so far or maybe ever. The book, as I realized, was a lot bloodier this time around. Although Steelheart had its share of gruesome and realistic cruelty, this book displayed the blood stained hands of our heroes this time around.
The ending was a bit rushed for my taste but perhaps that's what cliffhangers are all about.
Overall rating: 8.5/10 It didn't exactly fail in becoming the successor to the book but it also didn't surpass it on any counts. If anything, the book recycled a few of the first book's great drivers but on a whole new setting which I found a bit forced. It's still a good read and would still draw you in like any fast-paced book should but it may leave you disappointed after realizing the page you've read was the last.


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"The beauty of an escort is not in her facial looks but the true beauty of an escort is reflected in her passion for her job as an Independent escort"
Hey there, my name is Sowmya Nair and of course that is not my real name
I am an successful escort in Bangalore and I am told to share my feelings in this web site of ours and I am doing the same on anonymity of my identity and to share my feelings with my team mates who are there in this field of escorting and to my dearest clients.
I have no shame of fear in admitting to this world other than my family members that I am an escort.
I have no negative feelings or thoughts in being an escort in Bangalore and would like to have a very much a positive thoughts on my actions and willingly penning myself as a honest confessions of an escort in Bangalore.
I was requested to tell my story here and in honesty I do not know how to write good and so do kindly ignore any grammatical errors or any any damage I had done to this native alien language English ! !
Here no dishonest confessions and I an not here to tell my misery or how I has chosen the path of escorting and not out of poverty or need greedy for money.
I did it for money and I am doing it more and more for the money that i passion and that money that gives me power.
I started my life as a routine 9 to 6 job going person in Bangalore and how long does it takes to climb in the corporate ladder and it took me enough and more time to realize I am in the wrong boat.
I realized escorting is a easy way to climb the ladder and to move fast.
I understand so many here expected me to say issues about laden with family issues or financial hardship NO and i am clear like any working lady in the corporate field I am doing this for fun and money and no less and no more.
And when making money involves fun and passion its more an easy way to live in this world and in our society being poor seems to be ones destiny and there is no kind hearted samaritans in this world to look upon myself and the more you push your self to the next level you cannot move forward in this life.
The beauty of an escort is not in her facial looks but the true beauty of an escort is reflected in her passion for her job and It is the caring and the love that she gives to the passion and to her clients her career graph as an escorts grows multiple times.
Every dream of an escort starts with dreaming and with constant endurance and diligence efforts and with enough vigor and durability and with the brawniness of an escort its easy to reach the desired destiny and it may involve too many obstacles and one must be focused and have a bulls eye view on the target and should have Blinkers (horse tack) on the move to the envisioned target.
I have a fixed target of earnings in a month and do constantly achieve my targeted Income and that may involve liasoning with repeated clients and new clients and I enjoy meeting new people on every day.
My mission in life as an escort in Bangalore is not merely to survive, but to blossom and add thrill to my career as an escort and I had to do so with some devotion and excitement and spark in my life and little bit of some humor, and some style.
The road to success as an escort in Bangalore is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it was possible to achieve my dream.
We as escorts in Bangalore can each define aspiration and enthusiasm to be as an escort or a companion for our clients and the goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the conventional and habitual people where satisfaction is the priority and what hold us back as an successful escort in Bangalore, is our personal passion, dedication and devotion to our work as an escort.
The common saying is slavery had been wiped out of Indian civilization after the british era and its not true and it still exists in the name of prostitution.
To the kind hearted samaritans and moralist prostitution doesn't matter and it is an matter of debate when it is done out side the sacred wed lock and we consider marriage as bonded labour and it is just sleeping with only your best enemy instead of many ! !
And no man is good as he is seen and we have proofs of that ! !
In Escorting experience is considered taboo and unlike in other areas where an experienced persons value goes up it is vice versa in the escorting business and with experience and years we weather down and our value goes down and we are like actress who have to make more when the time is ripe.
We ensure we harvest our best in the little possible time and we clearly understand that we are not saleable objects down the years. and that's why a little steep in the prizes .
We all escorts are not uneducated vigilant women and not all prostitutes are uneducated and a scar in the society and probably an escorts woman's womb can be a matter of discussion when it is been hired for a purpose ! !
Prostitution exists today because of the man's lustful needs and the way women are still potrayed as suxual objects and no man is been victimized in this society for seeking a women and a women who seeks money for her sexual services is named as
An Escort
Call Girl
Immoral lady
A Man who seeks a women is called as just a client and so generous is this society in glorying a mans generosity in this particular crime committed for centuries.
With the growing trends in the changing world Gigolo is fast becoming a trend in men and being a Gigolo had become more a career trend in most men.
Men of good qualification had opted to be a gigolo and trading his services with a Nymphomaniac Women is considered no taboo by this society and when we women volunteer our services to the Satyriasis (also satyromaniacs
) and for this act of a women we are considered as dirt in the society ! !
The business of Escorting is considered criminal when criminal are handling the women and bonding the women with force and slavery.
The usage of slavery and bondage with Women by Mafia gangs on women is considered slavery and is punishable by law.
"We escorts in Bangalore consider our profession as divine and if the desire and intention of love is getting into bed we consider ourselves as the most auspicious and heavenly lovers in this world."
"We escorts in Bangalore are not crying out for help and assistance , but we as Independent escorts are sharing our experience and thoughts in this web site and hoping that readers will get to know on our inside world.
We understand and do not intend to be in this business out of passion and love to have a different man in our beds every day and will perfectly love to lead a normal life style.
Feminists Movements never dare confront us for a direct debate or dialogue and all they do is strike the Prostitution mafia gangs and ensure they get media attention on the same and we Independent escorts are levelled on our own grounds of Morality.
We Independent escorts neither confess or legitimate our career options nor do we purpose to fight against this society which always had been portraying the women as sex objects and in all levelled play grounds we are paid less when compared to the male gender and we keep hearing stories about women discrimination in all parts of the corporate world.
In the beginning of my confessions i revealed that being rebellious and bad did help me in the beginning stage and the more we started to understand the power of visualization and affirmations as an Independent escort and we started to steer our own life and its destiny depends upon our own ability and capability.
Escorting supplements and compliments all the dumb old gossips about women's sexuality and we as a team worked hard to shatter broke the Image of Prostitutes portrayed as just mobile masturbation aids,We love to be as a sensual women and as some body who can teach a man the art of love and "The act of engaging an escort is a spontaneous spark decision by a man and is more a instinct and judgmental mental activity of a man and when the love delivers the expectations we stand apart in the business of escorting"
We stay on guard and we stand as collaterals to the innocent women and safeguard them from the mighty satyriasis and lustful men in the society and our role never in this history of man kind had been recognized.
We roll on our life as each day passes with a air of fulfillment we live our life as escorts.


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Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, identified three stages of development: oral, genital and anal. But he never had to endure a boyfriend changing lanes without indicating just because "it's his birthday". Like gender reassignment therapy, just because you can do it doesn't mean you must. But whether you're an introverted deadbeat or an extroverted rebel, there's always that one thing that gets your heart thumping.
There's nothing like a spot of public singing to bring out the inner diva or cause your throat to contract while you break out in a cold sweat. Karaoke is rocket fuel to drunks and divas but kryptonite to anyone with a smidge of social unease or an over-tweaked sense of shame. A friend of this office, an otherwise respectable editor-turned-event-director, became a minor sensation in Japan for her filmed, YouTube-uploaded performance of Led Zeppelin's Immigration Song, so dreams of international stardom are not impossible, however random and remote. And of course, karaoke is now the mainstay of television entertainment, glamourised and amplified in shows such as the X-Factor and The Voice. For the rest of us there's the shower.
It's your birthday, as if you didn't have enough to worry about. The time of year to measure yourself, your successes, your so-called life. Did you achieve the dreams of the year past? Are you on your way? Of all the days in the year this is the most personal, and for half of us it's the day we want to hide away, enveloped in a cocoon of self-indulgence. And then, surprise party! Some well-meaning friend fills a space with well-meaning well-wishers. Or your boyfriend proposes. Or hey, I just got us a dog. All guaranteed to put a smile on the face of anyone on the same page, but that's not you, not today, not with this person or these people. But, y'know, thanks for caring.
To be or not to be? Getting over the nerves of the first time with someone is stressful enough without knowing what territory is off limits. Could it be the build-up and hype or the fear of the unknown that turns people off? Will she like it? Does he want it? Probably the questions running through the heads of any "anal virgins". Depending on one's point of view this may be the exception to the "try everything at least once" rule. Then again...you only live once right? And if you're the instigator, for heaven's sake have the bloody lube ready.
One nibble and you're nobbled, used to run the tagline for a popular brand of biscuits. So it is with tattoos, where one visit to an ink merchant starts a lifetime of personal skin branding. For the clean of skin, tattooing is some strange and exotic route to personal expression. And one that ages you. Got a Celtic knot? Probably born in the 1970s. Got a Disney character? Probably born in the 1980s. And so it goes. If your dream is to be a waitress in New York and LA, then fully-loaded sleeves are your passport to a lifetime hustling for tips. Every tat has a story. But not every story deserves a tat. Just sayin'.
The Beach
Not the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio but any beach, anytime, anywhere. Nothing is more beautiful than the clear blue ocean glittering with sunlight, the sand submitting into a perfect bed for your body, the sun beating down on your all-but-naked skin. Wait, what? Oh yes, the beach is about strolling around naked for all the world to see, a bit like that nightmare you had every night from age 12. Your body, out there, for skeevy pervs with visible erections and camera phones. And jeez you wish you'd put in some more effort beforehand: towels and sarongs and cover-ups, sunscreen, water, snacks, books, headphones, parasol and about a million sit-ups. When was there time to get organised? If you're not an exhibitionist, ignore that at some point the sea will tip you over and make you look like a dork, and go for the vit D and the fish.
Insurance is a form of gambling. Investing in an "up-and-coming" neighbourhood is a form of gambling. Smoking is gambling. But pitting your credit card against a digital roulette wheel, or digital pack of cards, is palpably moronic – the win's so obviously stacked against you. You're not playing, you're being played, doofus. And if you think it's cool then how come professional gamblers are such a bunch of creeps? For some, gambling is a high like no other, and ultimately we have to respect anything that makes you feel alive. Though swimming with sharks is infinitely more respectable.
Vaping is like smoking without the dangerous fumes. You keep the nicotine addiction but skip the perilous tar and cancer-inducing chemicals. At least that's the sell. The main point against vaping is that you look like a fucking idiot. The idea of being able to wander around getting high on liquid marijuana without anyone knowing is obviously a genius innovation. And if that's your ambition in life, go for it son. But meanwhile you are sucking on a miniature lightsabre like a gay Jedi and exhaling mild clouds like a pathetic dragon.
Do "all the single ladies" bow down? Or is the world growing tired of Destiny's all-grown-up Child? For years it seems like the pop sensation who needs only one name, like a Brazilian footballer or Jesus, has been placed on a platform of royalty. Just to put it into perspective, the last time The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went to an American basketball game they made headlines but not for the reason you'd think. The morning headlines read, "When Will and Kate met Beyoncé and Jay-Z." Indeed, courtside was filled with royals that evening, both political and cultural. In the world of entertainment, God save Queen B.
A bunch of self-righteous, ignorant, hypocritical, wasteful, childish bullies and assholes. Jeez, Americans think they're tops. "We invented Friends and the nuclear bomb, the world belongs to us now." Invented being a fat fuck more like. Invented meat swollen with hormones and sucking the goodness out of every sweet thing on the planet and turning it into a consumer good. Americans have great teeth and make great TV; you love their electronic goods and have seen all their films; you say "like" every fifth word just "like" your "like" Californian idols. But new Star Wars movies and new Apple electronics can't erase the fact they have adopted a President whose name and actions are a euphemism for number twos. Culturally, American stock is at an all-time-low.


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The Book Chook's Top Children's Picture Books Reviewed 2014
by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com
Here is a Listly list of my top picks for children's picture books I reviewed in 2014. I hope this will give you some guidance in choosing outstanding children's picture books for your children/students. In my opinion, children's picture books can be read and appreciated at any age. We're never too young or old to enjoy a great picture book! Some of the books on my list were published in Australia; some not. One thing I guarantee: they are all great choices to share with kids.
I hope you'll seek these books out in stores, and at your local and school libraries. While you're there, ask a librarian for more recommendations. I've deliberately kept this list short, for ease of reading, but that means it scarcely scratches the surface of wonderful children's picture books.
Happy Reading! If you're looking for books to buy as gifts, take a look at Top Book Gifts for Kids, 2014. For suggestions on toys, apps AND books, check out Last Minute Children's Gift Ideas - Toys, Apps and Books, 2014.


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Field Trip Friday is a weekly trip around the field of YA with stops at the most helpful, interesting or otherwise entertaining news.
Someone asked me the other day why the Field Trip Friday posts show up on Thursday. The answer is time zones. Mine's US Central. What's yours?
This Week In Writing
- How do you know when it's good enough? Author Lilith Saintcrow answers: "I Never Know."
- The Intern has a list of "The Ten Best Things You Can Do For Your Manuscript."
- "Action does not automatically equal compelling and interesting." Advice and debate about story openings, from Jane Friedman at There Are No Rules.
- Author Maggie Stiefvater says "Be a writer. But be something else too."
- Author Cory Jackson has been hosting a blog series called "How Writers Do It." Eight writers, including yours truly and lovely Leila Austin, address writing-related questions from our own points of view as well as that of a well-known writing guide. It's been fascinating-- we've covered the definition of art, getting in the zone and developing characters so far. Check it out and win the writing guide of your choice!
This Week In Reading
This Week In Getting Published
- Author Tahareh "I am mysterious and have no last name" has an OBSCENELY IMPORTANT MEMO about agents for you.
- Agent Nathan Bransford (*insert reverential chorus*) has some query advice: Specificity = good. He also has an idiot proof "how to format your query" post.
- The gatekeeper suggests a strategy for querying to maximize your chances.
- Rachelle Gardner (*bring back reverential chorus*) is critiquing queries on Wednesdays and sometimes Thursdays for the next few weeks.
- Elana Roth suggests that authors who receive an offer of representation should notify all agents they've queried, whether they've heard back from them or not. Lots of interesting conversation on Twitter ensued.
- Should you send a thank you for a rejection? Agent Jessica Faust says maybe.
- The Rejectionist has "5 Traits to Bag A
BoyfriendAgent"-- query advice Cosmo style.
- Agent Jenny Bent posted a list of rookie mistakes.
- I don't think a week goes by without me linking Elana Johnson or Suzette Saxton, and this week I'm linking them both: "Write Your Query In *gasp* First Person! (and then change it back.)"
- An #askagent session went on last night-- you can read it here.
This Week In Contests
The contest is over but this post at The Rejectionist has officially pushed his/her blog to the very top of my favorites list with no chance of ever being toppled, EVER. Excellent! Game on!
This Week in Fabulous Other Stuff
- In an epic fail, I neglected to mention that one of our own, the fabulous Lee Bross, signed with fabulous new agent Mandy Hubbard a few weeks ago!
- Another one of our own, the fabulous Michelle Schusterman, signed this week with fabulous agent Sarah Davies!
- Also newly agented: The fabulous Vee Roth, who signed with the fabulous Joanna Stampfel-Volpe-- who also reps the fabulous Kody Keplinger, who revealed the cover of her ARC this week!
- Happy birthday to our fabulous Kristin Briana Otts, who officially graduates from "teen contributor" to "contributor"-- which means she gets... um... exactly the same dose of daily YA Highway crazy she's getting now. :)
And finally...
Via the fabulous Kathleen Ortiz: "How Twilight Should Have Ended"
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If it has no value...
Why manipulate the price of it??
"Merrill Lynch Caught Criminally Manipulating Precious Metals Market "Thousands Of Times" Over 6 Years "
"Remember when it was pure tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory to accuse one or more banks of aggressively, compulsively and systematically manipulating the precious metals - i.e., gold and silver - market? We do, after all we made the claim over and over, while demonstrating clearly just how said manipulation was taking place, often in real time.
Well, it's always good to be proven correct, even if it is years after the fact.
On Tuesday after the close, the CFTC announced that Merrill Lynch Commodities (MLCI), a global commodities trading business, agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the governments investigation into a multi-year scheme by MLCI precious metals traders to mislead the market for precious metals futures contracts traded on the COMEX (Commodity Exchange Inc.). The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Departments Criminal Division and Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBIs New York Field Office. In other words, if the Merrill Lynch Commodities group was an individual, he would have gotten ye olde perp walk.
As MLCI itself admitted, beginning in 2008 and continuing through 2014, precious metals traders employed by MLCI schemed to deceive other market participants by injecting materially false and misleading information into the precious metals futures market. "
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Game must be back on as gold has gone up a bit...
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Just take a look at the paper gold and silver market, all legal. They sell PM's that do not exist at 200 to 600 x's depending on who you choose to believe. They even have the corrected value on the US debt clock! No one gives a rats ass.
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...or alternately Silver prices are still being held down by JPMorgan - which you must know is happening.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if during periods of mass arrests people had simply not sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, ham- mers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. . . . The Organs [police] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers . . . and notwithstanding all of Stalins thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." - A. Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
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And me who thought this was about those beings who are self-castrating.
All I'm really asking for here is a knife that will not jam and a unicorn that doesn't need sharpening. Will_Power
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Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political activist and author. She was a leader of the Communist Party in the United States but is no longer a member. She has done research in the areas of feminism and critical theory.
In 1967 she joined the Black Panther Party.
In 1969 she was fired from her job at UCLA for being a member of the Communist Party.
In 1970 she was put in prison by FBI agents for the first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping of Judge Harold Haley. In 1971 she appeared at the Marin County Superior Court and said, "I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California." She was released from jail in 1972. Ronald Reagan said that she should never be allowed to teach at a California university. The English rock band The Rolling Stones recorded a song called "Sweet Black Angel" that was on their 1972 album Exile on Main St. and dedicated to Davis.
She gave a speech in 1997 called "The Prison Industrial Complex". In it she said 'prisons are becoming an integral part of the US economy. She said that the fear of young people of color was being exploited to create a fast-growing industry, the prison-industrial complex (PIC). She created a group called Critical Resistance in the same year. They are against prisons. Davis is a prison abolitionist. She does not want to make prisons better. She wants there to be no prisons or police. More recently she has argued that the US prison system is more like a new form of slavery than a criminal justice system.
Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She was married to Hilton Braithwaite in the 1980s.[1]
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- ↑ "Angela Davis Now". LA Times. March 8, 1989. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
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- "Angela Davis, Sweetheart of the Far Left, Finds Her Mr. Right" People, 21 July 1980.


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17 Chinese cities have benefitted from a program launched by the Emory Global Health Institute – China Tobacco Control Partnership (GHI-CTP) to to curb tobacco use.
Since an initial 2009 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tobacco-Free Cities Program has resulted in the adoption of smoke-free policies and significant social norm change in 17 cities across China. These cities include Anshan, Changchun, Hangzhou, Kelamayi and Qingdao.
In Hangzhou, the Four Seasons, Santai, and Sheraton hotel chains are now smoke-free, while in Kelamayi, policies for smoke-free public places, workplaces and government agencies have been implemented.
"These cities have created smoke-free hospitals, workplaces, schools, government buildings and more. In addition to these targeted achievements, three cities have legislated total bans on smoking in public places, and we expect three more to adopt smoke-free public places policies this year," says Prof. Jeffrey Koplan, Emory University vice president for global health.
Education and media campaigns on Weibo, print, radio and television have also been elements crucial to the program's success in changing social norms.
"Our goal is to decrease tobacco-related disease and death by changing the social norms around tobacco use," says Pamela Redmon, GHI-CTP executive director. "In addition to the smoke-free policies, we have created specific programs targeting pregnant women and families, community programs, smoke-free weddings, and cessation competitions using an innovative 'Text2Quit' platform."


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Hard time- need supportSending you hugs n prayers! You're very strong and can handle this! This too shall pass and eventually get easier! I suffer from PTSD and bipolar and I know how much I depend on my husband for his support . I know I push him daily but I love him dearly and couldn't make it without him so realize how much you mean to your husband even if you don't hear it daily from him! I'm going on 5.5 yrs post gastric bypass and I'm still losing weight actually I'm too thin now! But I think it's from my bipolar issues and depression! Hang in there!
Hi Avaitor, I'd love to come to your pool/lake party! Just let me know the date and time Etc. I live near Bryan TX so you are just right down the road on Hwy 105! I'm so excited for you getting your revision. I have lost a lot of weight and actually got down to 112 from 267 lbs but I looked unhealthy and sick and keept throwing up everything, but now my weight is 125 lbs and I feel so much better! God Bless You! Savonna
Drastic Weight Loss -What can I do
texasgirl replied to LadyV's topic in 2 Years Post-Op (GB)I can relate to everything you said and how you feel, because I am experiencing the same siuation. I am 5'5" and weight 114 lbs - look very skinny, unhealthy, and boney. I have been trying to gain weight by increasing amount that I eat, etc however I just end up losing 5 lbs or more. Surgeon said 140 is my goal weight, but now I am being told to add 20 lbs. Having problems accepting how i look so thin now and all the comments from people abou how I look bad "are you sick?' etc. Its hard for me to go back to eating junk food cause I got obsese eating like that. I just am having hard time trying to make myself gain weight unhealthy eating habits cause I am afraid I will just keep gaining weight and gaining and gaining. then I feel guilty. I have went from a size 24/26 to 4/3. big difference. If you have any advise please share with me. Good luck you are in my prayers and thoughts. Savonna
shot down again but not giving up..
texasgirl replied to marcus's topic in Personal StoriesOMG you really have been put thru the wringer with all the presurgery requirements, but I admire your determination and strength to keep trying and not giving up! I am bipolar but I had no problems getting approved they never said it was a issue and my shrink did my psych-evaluation so I guess I was just lucky. I remember when I had to do sleep study - I found out I had sleep apnea and was issued a machine but it did not prolong my surgery . I had my gastric bypass 11/30/09 and have lost over 160 lbs in the first year. It helped my self esteem and confidence! Where do you live in Texas? Good luck and I here to help support you also. I has to take my psych meds in liquid form and tablets that dissolved and some I just had to swallow so you can do this. Be sure to let your pharmacist know about your surgery so they can suggest meds that are available in liquid form etc. Have a great day Marcus. You can do this !
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texasgirl replied to mtfirewife's topic in Buddies and MentorsYou are doing great and have already lost over 125 lbs. Try to stay positive and focus on yourself, instead of what other people say or think you should be doing if they are negative. You will get lots of support here. I hady surgery Nov 2009 @ 276 lbs and now weight 115 lbs but I am getting remarks from family that I have lost too much weight and look too bony, skinny, and unhealthy. Hang in there...it does get better.
texasgirl replied to FutureFitGirly's topic in Emotional SupportYou have taken the first step by addressing that you have a problem with Norco and you are doing the next right thing by going to a 12 step program and asking others for support. I have been on pain meds for years due to physical problems with my neck and back- discs , surgeries etc. I have done everything possible to live w pain but it is too intense and without my meds I am inable to do normal things like get dressed, personal hygiene etc I see a pain management doctor. I t have like maybe I was becoming addicted to the pain pills but I only take as prescribed and I have stopped using them, however I was in so much pain I could barely walk. I was recently in a car wreck and broke my back in 2 places! Just what I did not need more pain.... I often decrease my meds when the pain is not too bad. I have been to AÁ in the past and it really helped me. I formed new friendships with sober people and learned to have fun w/o drinking etc. There's alot of hard personal work that's also has to be done. I have lost over 150 lbs since my surgery in 11/2009 but now I feel too thin and look unhealthy. Don't know what to do. If you ever need someone to talk to I am always here. Good luck - You can do this , it may take some time but just keep trying!
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Severe pain in sacrum while laying down
texasgirl posted a topic in Post-op Gastric BypassHello everyone. It's been a long time since I have posted. I have been having severe pain in my sacrum area since May 2010. I thought it was coming from my tailbone. Its worse when I am laying down. Also the seams in my pants etc also make pain worse. I know I have seen other post's from members who also have been experience this problem. As well. I have seen my pcp Dr. Had xrays MRI. Etc but no fracture or teams has happened to cause this constant pain. Its so bad that I wake up from the pain. I am having injection but no relief. I finally went to a spine specialist who thinksy problems are from my Si joint. Not to be confuse with your s1 disc area. I have to have a injection in the si joint and then if I can. Feel at least 75% improvement n relief of the pain two days after the injection then he can confirm that it is my si joint causing my pain Of course surgery is recommended to relieve and fix problem. Will have to fuse the joint. I have spot on April 24 for injection. Does anyone have any similar problem and if so what have you been able to treatment for relief of pain. I know there were several members who were suffering from tailbone pain bit I can't find the old posts. I am having problems with new format. I know its my own stupidity but I can't navigate this new website at all. I always thought my pain was from my tailbone also but have been told n informed that it's actually my Sacrum causing all the unbearable pain. Please share any information that you have about this. I am desparate and pain is unbearable even with strong meds. Thanks for listening. Savonna. Current. Weight 128 lbs.
Getting irritated!
texasgirl replied to jessica_white's topic in Pre-op Gastric BypassI know excactly what you are going thru. When I was at your stage I was so irrated with the surgeons office and I was actually having to do hee job to make sure that I got everything done in a timely matter. It was ridiculous. Then she kept telling me she had submitted to my insurance which was a big lie. Oh course when I called to talk to her about things she was always off that day cause she worked a "flexible schedule". So I had finally had enough and called to complain to doctor and office manager. Then I was told that she was dr.'s daughter so that went nowhere. However, it did get her attetion to finally get my paperwork together so that she could get me scheduled and would not have to deal with me anymore! So hang in there. I know I was obsessed with getting all the pre-op things completed and it was constaining on my mind and I guess the ladies in office could care less since they do this everyday year-round, etc. or that is how I felt about it. Time will fly by. It been over 1yr post-op and I am below goal and its all better now! Actually me and dr. daughter get along great now and have every since I had surgery. But it took alot of patience and understanding on part to just have a civi conversation w/her when she was the one assigned to my case and scheduling all tests, submitting insurance etc. Hope this helps or at least you get a laugh. It will get better...be patient...you'll be on the road to recovery and beginning your new journey before you know it!
Hello from Central Texas
texasgirl replied to Wanda76513's topic in Introduce YourselfWelcome to TT. This is a great site to learn and share our WLS EXPERIENCES. Time flies by and before you know it, you will be at your goal weight. I'm over 1 yr.old and reached goal and then some. Everyone is very supportive. Remember to follow doctors diet, eat more protein, walk, and sip water and the pounds will start dropping off. You will be amazed! I'm in CTX too - near College Station.
Hi, I noticed that our date of surgery weights and our goal weights are about the same. Was wondering how long it took you to get to where you are now. Did/do you exercise? What foods have you completely stayed away from? Do you know how many calories you get in? Thanks so much for any help you can give me. You've just done so well and it's an inspiration to me. I am so scared of never making it to goal.
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texasgirl replied to rwalker24's topic in Buddies and MentorsIt was normal for me. My weight would go up & down on a daily basis sometimes. You just had surgery recently, so your body is still adjusting. Are you still on Liquid only Phase or did you just switch to soft foods? Maybe that is why. As long as you are following your doctors orders exactly then I would not worry about it. REMEMBER, get your Protein and daily Water requirements in. I know this can be difficult, or at least it was for me. Exercise...walk. It helped me alot and then the pounds just started coming off. I used to get stalls that would last a week or so about once a month. However, I am a few months over 1 yr. out and have lost over 150 lbs., so it will happen, but everyone loses differently. I remember getting on scales and I would see my weight flucuate about 3-5 lbs. from a.m. to p.m.and I would get so disappointed until I stopped weighting myself so much and so often. Just follow your doctors orders & diet, get in plenty of protein & water (sip,sip,sip) and let your new tool start working and watch the pounds drop. Remember to seek medical advise if you have or feel you are having any complications...call your surgeon's office and let them know whats happening . You will be fine and feel better. Congratulations on your new journey and life.
9 years post surgery
texasgirl replied to coachstacey's topic in Introduce YourselfYou have a fantastic idea. I know I would personaly work w/trainer that had eperience about WLS. I live in Texas, so I'm too far away...damn it.haha. I would start a trend about what you do and see how many people are interested. You could also present you idea to other personal trainers. Once they see the growing demand for your services, I bet they would be willing to gain experience about WLS and WLS patients being future clients. Also you present your idea to some of the reality tv shows that are focusing on overweight people and WLS patients. I know there are at least 2 shows that were looking for interested WLS particpates for their show and they were going to have personal trainers for the couples to help lose weight. He posted on this forum with his contact info. Also I had a lady producer contact me via email looking for WLS people for upcoming show. She said she got my email from this forum also. If you are interested in her contact info, let me know and I will go back thru my emails and forward you the info. Good luck, you will be helping alot of people once you get this idea/venture up and running. There is plenty of demand for service and I bet it will also be profitable.Let me know if you need any assistance or help. I'm at home all day and would love to volunteer my time to help you if needed! GO FOR IT! Savonna
Need support - non WLS related
texasgirl replied to Highlandlass's topic in Emotional SupportYou and your son and family are in my prayers and thoughts. Heres to his positive and quick recovery. I have had 2 neck surgeries so I know how nervous and stressed you can get, but I have had great results with the last one and the pain has been relieved 80 %. Stay positive and God Bless all of you.
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texasgirl replied to Tiffa718's topic in Introduce YourselfWelcome to TT and congrats on getting back on track! Stay positive and don't give up. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight and you WILL see changes soon enough. I know I would try the 5 day pt like you are doing and I would probably go back to a liquid diet I was on pre-surgery to help shed some pds. and get my stomach back on track too. Exercise or walk daily and watch your calories and type of foods etc. You know the drill. I'm here anytime you need to talk or just want someone to listen. Thats what makes this forum so special. Everyone is very supportive and share their experiences, strenghts, and hopes . Hang in there. It gets better and YOU CAN DO THIS. LOL.Savonna


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Ending a relationship, especially long-term relationships, is never easy. In this article, we are going to drill down a few tools to help you discern whether your relationship is about to be over or you're still committed to working it out.
If your sex life starts to get off and you're not aligned.
Sex just becomes boring or even resentful. If you're just resisting it totally or if you're not having sex at all. Some couples go months and years without having sex and this is really detrimental to their relationship and to their connection to feeling loved and to loving each other. If that's the case in your sex life, it's a good indication that other things are off, but there's a psychological or emotional disconnect. Maybe there's resentment that's being held. So it's really important for you to keep an open dialogue and communicate about why your sex life is off, what's that symbolizing and what that means for you.
If you start picking fights.
If you start picking fights with each other, often times this can be a shadow of the feminine. We start to pick fights with our lovers because we want them to do the dirty work and we're not ready to own up to the emotional courage and stability that it's going to take to work through whatever the issues are. So we try to get our partners to break up with us first.
But you don't have to do that. If you are picking fights and it's just beginning to downward spiral into a really frustrating confrontational atmosphere at home or when you're together, again, use it as a symbol and ask 'Why? What's really going?' Dig underneath and begin to work more consciously in a healthy pattern of communication instead of passive aggressive way. Moreover, you have to really address the core issues at hand.
When your body is giving you signals.
Listen to your body because it never lies. Notice how you feel around this person. Are you feeling open and expanded? Are you feeling like you're flourishing or are you feeling constricted, restricted? Is there a tension and a tightness that's building up? Is it difficult for you to sleep at night? Are you having anxiety? What are the thoughts that are coming up when you can't go to sleep? Pay attention when your body is talking to you before your head or when your heart is ready to hear the message. Take notes or journal about it if you need to but really tune-in to what you're feeling.
Why Seeking Professional Help Is Necessary
Because so much of the time relationships break down from unconscious patterns that we're triggering our old traumas, our old wounds from our childhood and our family of origin. We learn how to relate each other especially in romantic relationship based on our parental role models. All of those patterns are brought up in our romantic relationships. Talking to a professional therapist is the best way to discuss these things and get a room for reconciliation.
If you have a partner who's willing to work and willing to show up and look at their baggage and own their part of it, there's a lot of room to work and to heal. But if one or both of you are just not willing to show up, this could be painful and not easy, thus might be an indication that it's time to transition and move on.
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The Republican Party of Texas has put forth a platform rife with conservative atrocities, and there is no shortage of animus-driven anti-gay planks. It affirms that "the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society" and demands that "homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable 'alternative' lifestyle." The platform strongly opposes not only marriage equality, but also the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would "coerce religion business owners and employees to violate their beliefs and principles by affirming what they consider to be sinful and sexually immoral behavior." Here is a sampling of the various anti-gay provisions:
HOMOSEXUALITY: We affirm that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country's founders, and shared by the majority of Texans. Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle, in public policy, nor should "family" be redefined to include homosexual "couples." We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin. Additionally, we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction or belief in traditional values.
EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT (ENDA): We oppose this act through which the federal government would coerce religious business owners and employees to violate their own beliefs and principles by affirming what they consider to be sinful and sexually immoral behavior.
FAMILY AND DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: We support the definition of marriage as a God-ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman, which is the foundational unit of a healthy society, and we oppose the assault on marriage by judicial activists.
It's worth noting that the choice to emphasize "natural man" and "natural woman" is likely an attack on transgender people. In Texas, court decisions have created a patchwork of inconsistent laws, such that in some counties people who are trans can marry people of the opposite gender, but in others they can only marry people of the same gender (because the state only recognizes the sex identifier on their birth certificate). Last year, Texas Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to advance a bill that would have prevented the state from recognizing trans people's identities when it comes to the right to marry. Clearly, "natural man" and "natural women" reflect this lingering anti-trans bias.
Last year, the Williams Institute used data from the U.S. Census to estimate that Texas has 46,401 same-sex households, and 20 percent of them — over 9,000 couples — are raising children. According to the state's GOP, none of them are "families" and none of them deserve any protection under the law.


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University trials 'panic lights' to boost student safety
The University of Illinois is currently trialling exterior lights with integrated emergency response buttons in a bid to boost the safety of its students on campus.
The University of Illinois is currently trialling exterior lights with integrated emergency response buttons in a bid to boost the safety of its students on campus.
A classroom at a comprehensive school in Germany has become the first in the world to connect to the internet using visible light.
Facility managers at a major university are trialling Internet-connected lights in a bid to better allocate rooms and buildings and control both heating and lighting.
From lecture halls to halls of residence, the lighting of a university campus poses a string of individual challenges. These can be made even more difficult when you are working at a university that is going through a massive refurbishment programme. We caught up with Steve Holtom, electrical services manager at Oxford Brookes University, to find out the best ways to manage the demands of campus lighting.
The French government has moved to outlaw Wi-Fi in nurseries, schools and childcare centres that cater for children under six. The move is offering inspiration to the creators of Li-Fi, a system that uses light to provide internet access.
Tunable-white LED lighting systems are the next must-have for human-centric lighting, but what does 'tunable-white' mean in practice?
A Norwegian comprehensive school has developed a lighting scheme that aims to help pupils perform better during the school day and relax at night.
In preperation for Lux's Lighting Fixture Design conference next week, which will consider the best ways to translate human-centric and circadian science into marketable products, we list four projects which have taken the capabilties of human centric and deployed them.
Wheatley Park School in Oxforshire, which sits on the site of Holton Park Girls' Grammar School, where UK Prime Minister Theresa May, then Theresa Brasier, sat her GCEs, has just received an LED re-fit.
It is well know that May is very proud of her grammar school roots. In fact, she famously said, in one of her first appearances at Prime Minister's Questions that it was her school that 'got her where she is today.'
Human-centric lighting represents a new way of using light in our lives, but it is understandable that there is some skepticism over its use and its effectiveness. But do we know enough about the technology to be using it in schools? We talk to Doctor Katharina Wulff of Oxford University, who will be debating the issue with Dan Lister of Arup.
University estates do not tend to grow according to an over-arching masterplan; they evolve organically and controlling energy in these ever-changing educational spaces is very important.
The first wave of so-called human-centric lighting installations are being installed in schools. But is the science strong enough to justify the mass deployment of mood-altering lighting, or are we merely experimenting on a generation? This year's LuxLive intends to find out.
An experimental human centric lighting scheme has been installed at Lindeborgskolan school in Malmo, Sweden, aimed at improving pupil's grades and exam results.
The system replaced a fluorescent lighting scheme, a change which pupils claim has improved their concentration, making them feel more alert throughout the school day.
In the first of our profiles of projects that are nominated for this year's Lux Awards, we take a look at Sheffield University's Diamond. The building offers a unique home for the Faculty of Engineering and lighting designers at Arup were tasked with creating a lighting scheme that not only suited the structure's individual appearance, but one that also straddled the building's many practical requirements.
Human-centric lighting represents a new way of using light in our lives, but there is some skepticism over its use and its effectiveness. Do we know enough about the technology, for example, to be using it in schools? Is there enough evidence to say that human centric lighting improves productivity at work? Can HCL help to maintain a smooth circadian rhythm at home?
In a 'Clash of the Lighting Titans' Lux's applications editor John Bullock (a HCL cheerleader) and our technical editor Alan Tulla (a sympathetic skeptic) sit down to compare and contrast their human centric lighting opinions.
Lighting professionals: What you see may upset you. Ray Molony counts down Lighting Spy's Top 40 worst crimes, blunders and screw-ups.


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Clean graffiti
Step 1: Make a template out of cardboard with the slogan you want to write.
Instead of writing it with a spray can, you will paint detergent on to a dirty wall, so that the grime is removed to reveal your message (clean writing on a dirty wall).
Step 2: Mix some detergent with water.
Step 3: Place your stencil against the wall.
Step 4: Paint your message using the detergent solution. No damage. No permission needed. This could even be seen as socially responsible, as if the owner of the wall wants to remove the "offending message', all he or she needs to do is to clean the whole of the wall (for the benefit of everybody).
Idea taken from the book "Guerrilla Advertising" by Gavin Lucas and Michael Dorrian, which is subtitled "Unconventional Brand Communication". The book is published by Laurence King, www.laurenceking.co.uk. Other great ideas in the book include:
Paint lines and messages (in chalk or water soluble paint) so as not to cause permanent damage. Use this technique to designate a smoking area outside your office with the woirds "Designated Smoking Area" or with an anti-smoking message (such as "Smoke here if you must"). Furnish it with an ashtray. Note that the England ban on smoking in public places such as restaurants and bars comes into effect in July 2007.
Here are two campaigning examples:
• A cut out streetwalker is strapped to a lamp post. After a week of rain, dirt and being defaced, this message is added above the girl: "No woman should be left out on the streets". The Women's Information Safe House (WISH), in Vancouver.
• Two hands attached to the underside of a street drain, suggesting an imprisoned person trying to climb out, with the following message tattooed on to the index fingers: "WRONG" "FAITH" to highlight the plight of people who are locked up simply because of their relisious beliefs. Amensty International, in Frankfurt.
About Guerrilla Advertising: The advertising industry is in a state of flux. In an age where we can choose what media we consume the traditional channels of TV, press and poster are no longer always the most appropriate for a brand to reach its target audience. As a result, global brands are opting to implement ever more inventive and original schemes to get their products talked about. Microsoft covered Manhattan in butterfly stickers, Volkswagen made a Polo out of ice and parked it on a London street, and Adidas suspended two footballers high above the streets of Tokyo for a death-defying kickabout. This book shows the best international examples of the varied and inventive tactics that are being used today by big-name brands, non-profit organizations and individuals to promote themselves, their ideas and their products. Over 70 international campaigns are featured grouped according to their approach: Stunts, Street Propaganda, Sneaky Tactics, Site-specific campaigns and Multi-fronted attacks.


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Wednesday 6, January 2016
Episode 26 - Chelsea Piner of Traffic Jam and Snug
Episode 26 - Chelsea Piner of Traffic Jam and Snug
Happy New Years everybody! I didn't realize this until Facebook told me, but its been a year since Ep. 1 was released. It took some time for the podcast to figure out what it was going to be, now after having a number of brewers and people involved in the craft beer industry on the podcast I can't wait to see who I will talk to in the year 2016.
To start the year off right I sit down with Chelsea Piner, the new head brewer at the first Micro brewery in Detroit, Traffic Jam and Snug. Chelsea has a great beer background, starting off as a bar tender at Detroit Beer Company then moving out to San Diego to work with one of my favorite breweries, Stone Brewing. Now she is back in Detroit and she is bringing fresh ideas to the Traffic Jam. It was great talking with her, she is so knowledgeable about beer, she is a Cicerone Certified beer server work on her level 2 certification and just an awesome person. I can't wait to see what she does at Traffic Jam. After this interview tried the first Sour at the Traffic Jam and it was delicious! Head on down to Midtown Detroit and check out Traffic Jam and Snug and taste some of Chelsea's beers on tap.
As always you can join the conversation on my website BillsBeerReport.com or my facebook page, Facebook.com/BillsBeerReport. If Twitter and Instagram are more your speed check me out @BillsBeerReport. I am proud to be apart of the Tangent Bound Network. You can find this and every episode of Slurred Words on iTunes, SoundCloud, and Stitcher Radio. If you like what you hear, let me and everyone else know about it by rating and reviewing the episode on iTunes or your listening App of choice.
Big thanks to Son Step for the wicked theme music.
Now I would like to call this session to order by raising a glass to Chelsea and Traffic Jam and Snug, "To Slurred Speech and the Stories we Preach".


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SHIN NEKKETSU KOHA KUNIO-KUN / Technos / SNES
People forget that
was actually the first of the Nekketsu / Kunio games, because it was so different artistically and tonally. The chubby litte chibi sprites, high school sports themes, bouncy music and BARFing wouldn't come in until the series hit the NES with River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball. It started out as a more standard arcade beat-em-up with larger and more realistic sprites. And the US release added to the confusion by skinning it with a grittier,
Technos didn't bother bringing any more of this branch of the series over to Western shores, nor did it ever get another arcade release, but it did get two direct follow-ups on the Super Famicom. This one is the second of those, so you could think of it as Renegade 3 if you like. It's actually the most direct spiritual follow-up though, as it excises the River City Ransom-like statistics and non-linear areas of the previous Super Fami game. The linear brawling and darker overall tone put this more in line with the original arcade release.
An opening cinematic shows us Riki and Kunio apparently running down some salaryman in a crosswalk. However, like the beginning of Ninja Gaiden 3, it turns out it's evil dopplegangers at work. The real Riki and Kunio get picked up and thrown in jail, however. You'll have to bust out, then spend the game in a linear series of fairly typical brawler levels gradually tracking down the mastermind.
This also ended up being the last beat-em-up created by the original Technos before they were shuttered (and reformed as Million), so it's weird that the engine just feels like a more primitive version of
Super Double Dragon
. Instead of the fun move where you block and catch an opponent's swing, you just kinda turtle and bounce backwards when hit, making blocking strategically useless in most situations. There are also less moves overall. There are more nifty sequences involving the environment, but they don't really help what is a slow-paced and repetitive grind most of the time.
As you progress through the levels, you'll gradually pick up Riki and Kunio's girlfriends as playable characters, giving you a team of four you can swap in at will a la
Double Dragon 3
. If any one of them has their health fully depleted, however, it's game over. The girls are marginally useful as the game has some serious sexism going on with them; as soon as they are swapped in it seems to trigger the enemies and send them into Ultimate Gamergate Mode, where they get more aggro and interrupt your attacks much more easily and frequently. The girls also can't do the "ground and pound" move that makes it easy to polish off a goomba once he's knocked down, forcing them to knock each enemy down several times to bump them off.
Challenge is created by enemies just sorta randomly interrupting your attacks; it never feels like there's much cohesive strategy or rhythm to the fighting. The main dynamic is simply preserving your team's health to the end of each segment (since there are no health restore items save for a weirdly gratuitous roller coaster ride in the amusement park level), made tougher by the fact that the enemies can simply take priority over any of the girls' attacks at any time and swat them away at will.
Boss battles require you to suss out a specific strategy, but it's never a very complicated one and usually just involves exploiting the bosses dash or special attack. For example, the first really tough boss you face is the guy at the end of the amusement park, who punishes you with an instant and super-powerful spin kick whenever you get close. The answer to him turns out to be jump-kicking when he's running to knock him over, then stomping on him. Another tough boss later in the game is an oversized woman who seems to auto-counter any attack you throw at her with beefy damage; the only answer is waiting for her to dash, dodging then sneaking a few hits in while she's stunned. Basically, the "strategy" is just spamming one particular attack at one particular time, usually while they're running at you.
The actual brawling action isn't bad, though, just nothing particularly inspired. It's a fair challenge and would be a decent enough game if that was all there was to it. Unfortunately, Technos also saw fit to pepper in these Road Rash-like motorcycle levels here and there, which are unbearably sloppy and obnoxious. Kicking the enemies off their bikes without colliding is very finicky, any non-kick contact does chip damage to you but not them, allowing them to land even one kick does huge damage to you, and you can't switch characters during these sequences. Take three kicks or glance against a wall and you have to start the whole sequence over again.
The aesthetic is an odd mix of super-detailed backgrounds with great use of color, and constant generic body-swapped sprites given slightly different heads. Basically, great effort on the backdrops but seriously low effort on the characters. I guess the soundtrack is decent enough, though it's only been a day since I last played it and I can't remember anything from it at all other than that it used that distinctive heavy SNES string sample that Zelda 3 was so fond of.
The "murder mystery" approach is also an odd choice that doesn't play out entirely well. While the Kunio series has a ton of recurring characters, it doesn't exactly have deep lore or ongoing plotlines. Between that and the fact that these are inherently silly games where you know the stakes will never be more dire than someone getting beat up, it just doesn't make for any sort of compelling page-turning "whodunit" factor. Instead, it jams up a traditional beat-em-up with long dialogue sequences that aren't either interesting or funny, and that have to be repeated if you fail a segment and aren't using save states.
I think what they were going for here is a more technically precise beat-em-up meets absorbing murder mystery manga, but they didn't really get either element to come off all that well. It's a fairly solid brawler and would have otherwise merited 3*, but those needless crazy-making Road Rash levels are so bad an entire point needs to be taken off for them.
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Short answer: Er, not a lot really. I mean that footballers earn a lot of money, drive big cars and are thus pursued by hordes of gold-digging women is hardly the stuff of revelation.
Nevertheless BBC3 and its presenter, Amal Fashanu – daughter of ex-Wimbledon and England footballer John Fashanu were on a mission – but to do what exactly? Discredit, yes. But who exactly? I'm not sure the programme makers even knew themselves.
Fashanu's father had left her mother for another woman in the distant past - an event which the presenter claimed had traumatised her throughout her life. From what I could gather she seemed to be laying the blame for this cataclysmic event entirely at the door of football. So, football was in the dock.
It was a pretty shaky premise. I mean it's not as if marriages don't break up in the real world, outside of football do they? That her father might have simply fallen out of love with one woman and in love with another seemingly never occurred to the presenter.
Marriage breakdowns happen in all walks of life and for a myriad of reasons – at least I think they do.
It was a curiously confused narrative which ran something along the following lines: Footballers are male; footballers are rich; Money makes men attractive; Women are attracted to money. If anything this documentary exposed much more about the female psyche than it did the male, albeit inadvertently.
In Bolton, Fashanu caught up with a kiss and tell girl who'd had a fling with a famous footballer. Now the lady in question would, I'm sure, have been the first to admit that intellectual heavyweight she ain't, but she sure spoke a whole lot of sense.
Her contention that WAGs are motivated by pecuniary interests and this explains their willingness to forgive n' forget the sexual transgressions of their husbands had more than a grain of truth in it. "They wouldn't take him back if he was a window cleaner," added the lady in non-nonsense Lancastrian tones that clearly shocked her BBC inquisitor.
Fashanu was indeed shaken to her core. She listened in disbelief, for here, for once, was a female not playing the role of victim. Was the woman mad? Well, she was northern. She was also white and she was working class – might that explain it..?
In her quest to denounce football and the men who play the game Fash next visited a female team. There's a huge difference between men and women's football not least the fact that the women's game is apparently 'pure.' Sigh. Thought it might be.
Okay, they certainly get paid a great deal less than their male counterparts but that's because people flock to watch the men's game in huge numbers. They don't flock to watch the women's game. Facts. Groan! They really can be a pain sometimes.
Nevertheless, the programme dearly wanted to cast somebody – anybody – as a victim, as a member of an oppressed minority. But who? And for what reasons? Sexism? Why not? After all, as a badge of oppression sexism has proved itself to be nothing if not a flexible panacea. Whoa! Not so fast.
One of those damned facts reared its ugly head to stop that particular argument developing past the stage of an embryo. It was the women themselves – one of them married to an Arsenal player – who readily confessed that it's women who chase the players and are all too willing to make themselves sexually available. Damn!
One thing we did learn however was that the richer the footballer, the more women in tow. 'Prostitutes' was the precise term used by the kiss and teller. Thank heavens it was a woman who had made that comment.
Oh dear. The sexist angle well and truly exploded. Where next?
Racism? No go. A significant proportion of professional footballers are black. Damn! Just who could this programme seek to label as oppressors? Football used to be the bastion of the white, male, working classes, but alas no more. If only…
You could almost feel the pressure as this programme desperately searched for a scapegoat. Any scapegoat. Remember that according to the BBC, the world is divided into (white, male) oppressors and (ethnic & female) victims. Oops. It wasn't even half-time and poor Fashanu looked to be running out of steam.
And so it went on. Harry Redknapp, a former player with Tooting FC or somewhere, a shifty looking FA official, an ex-pro living it up in Spain all came and went, but none of them could provide Fash with the evidence she was looking for.
Indeed, even the women interviewed – including that wife of the Arsenal player - all concurred with the fact that young footballers are targeted by a ceaseless number of women brazenly offering themselves up sexually, in return for riches.
The documentary ended with Miss Fashanu returning to Madrid to visit her mother – a lady who, we were informed – had never remarried. Her horrible husband had, however. remarried twice! Boo! Hiss! Men – rotten devils aren't they?
One hour later and this programme was thankfully out of its agony and over.
I'm not sure if the final impression was quite what the programme had intended, but I was left with the distinct feeling that women are a pretty mercenary bunch and that a professional footballer is a about one million times more likely to get laid than a window cleaner.