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Body Bayashi is a body music choreography developed during the San Francisco International Orff Level Course 2013 in Hidden Valley Music Seminar. The music was from a traditional taiko drumming patterns. Performers sing and dance the patterns representing two instruments simultaneously.
The project of Body Bayashi all began with two patterns from the old Tokyo festival music repertoire. These patterns can be heard in the "Mikoshi Bayashi" or "Shichome" from Edo Bayashi repertoire. When learning taiko, students often have to learn how to say the patterns (kuchishoga) before actually playing them on the drums. Yeeman first learned these Edo Bayashi patterns from Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble in Honolulu. The concept of "dancing" one instrument part while singing another part simultaneously was originally a fun and experimental project initiated by Evie Ladin, a versatile and creative singer/composer/clogger/body music performers. Yeeman then adapted the concept and developed Body Bayashi with her fellow classmates in the San Francisco International Orff Level courses in 2013.
Here is a video of the debut of Body Bayashi from the "Untalented Show" in 2013 San Francisco International Orff Level Course.
Body Bayashi at San Francisco International Orff from Yeeman Mui on Vimeo.
Performers of Body Bayashi: Anya Rome (Oakland), Estevao Marques Ferreira Rocha (São Paulo), Ezo Sunal (Istanbul), Galen Roger (San Francisco), Tea Ylikoski (Helsinki), Yeeman Mui (Hong Kong/Honolulu)
Yeeman has continued to develop Body Bayashi and also has been giving workshops of the piece introducing an alternate approach for practicing taiko rhythms.
Workshop from NATC 2017 San Diego
Here is another video of Body Bayashi by a 4th grade class at Punahou School (Honolulu)
Links of Body Music groups:
Evie Ladin's MoToR/dance – an all-female percussive moving choir of body musician based in Oakland, California.
Barbatuques – body music group based in São Paulo, Brazil
Evie Ladin and Keith Terry – Body music duet
Estêvão Marques y Marina Pittier
Grupo Triii – a youtube music channel for children (São Paulo, Brazil)


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A Whirling Dervish is not just a character in a Bugs Bunny Cartoon
Part Two – Turkey
Continuing the journey from Jordan to Turkey with Olive Baptista, Specialty Tour, Luxury Trains & Cruise Consultant at UNIGLOBE Geo Travel in Nanaimo and intrepid traveler and adventurer. Olive shares her adventures on a recent trip to Jordan and Turkey
From Jordan we took a flight to Istanbul for a surprise hook-up with another of my tour groups at at a popular restaurant called "Hamde" where we enjoyed a delicious Turkish meal.
Our tour in Turkey was filled with very interesting tours each day. The town of Goreme near Cappadocia was unique with the wide landscape of the rock formations. The landscape was quite spectacular and the best views are from balloons that go up early in the morning. There is also an underground cave city which is open for tourists to visit.
Some of the large rock caves have been taken over by hotel developments and are now used as luxury hotels. The Yunak Eveleri is one of these cave hotels.
In Cappadocia we took in a performance by the famous Whirling Dervishes.
The visit to Ephesus was the highlight of this tour. I had been there on a previous tour but it is always an amazing place to visit. Having my ipad with me and a new camera I was able to get some great shots of the library and the amphitheatre. A large family of cats has made Ephesus their home and they posed for pictures on some of the ruins.
Istanbul is a vibrant city which offers some great places to explore. We spent 5 nights and did some major walking each day. Our visit to the famous Grand Bazaar was great fun with the bargains to be made. It offers a wide variety of local arts and crafts, carpets, leather clothing and jewelry. After hours of haggling we wound up with three carpets to be shipped home and many small ceramics, scarves and hand bags. We finally decided to leave and meander through the back allies to the famous spice Bazaar. Many of the group purchased some exotic spices to take home.
Some other highlights were a visit the famous Hagia Sophia a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for Byzantine and for Ottoman Empires, the famous and beautiful Blue Mosque built from 1609-1616 and still being used as a mosque and visit to Kumkapi the famous fish quarter – an adventurous walk through streets and alleys . The end of the walk lead us to a plaza with several restaurants around a large fountain serving a variety of fish meals.
I was sad to come to the end of the trip. The memories of the muezzins morning call to prayer , the food and the walks through the streets made for a wonderful holiday. I do hope to visit Istanbul again maybe as a stopover on another trip in that zone. Perhaps you'd like to join me on one of my tours? Contact me at:
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More than 70 giant freshwater stingrays—some of them nearly as large as cars—have been found dead in Thailand's Mae Klong River over the past few weeks, according to National Geographic explorer Zeb Hogan, who is currently in the country studying the fish.
The die-off is alarming because so few of the river giants remain. Giant freshwater rays are listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and scientists say they need to learn more about their populations and biology.
Thai officials are currently studying the dead rays with the goal of figuring out what killed them. They have reported that the river is slightly more acidic than typical around where the dead rays were found, though it's unclear if that is related yet.
During filming of Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin in 2015, the crew measured a record-setting giant freshwater stingray in Thailand's Mae Klong River. This week, many of these animals have been found dead.
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With its NetSocket Virtual Network software suite thecompany is presenting tools that give businesses the ability to move towardSDNs without ripping out their current traditional networks. NVN can centralizeorchestration and management of both virtual and physical networkinfrastructure, allowing current infrastructure to remain in place whilevirtual infrastructure is added.
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I am insisting that if we women truly want equal partners in the home, then we can't ask our husbands to be "equal" on our terms. They get equal say, even if we disagree. And indeed, if we can discover the joys and satisfactions of professional success, why shouldn't men be able to enjoy the rewards and satisfactions of parenting and homemaking? For years, mothers have gotten that special rush when a child reaches for his mommy and says no one else will do; do we really think a father doesn't get the same wonderful sense of being needed and valued when a child insists on his daddy?
via The Immense Value of Giving Men More Control of Household Tasks – Anne-Marie Slaughter – The Atlantic.
This article focused on a now widely discredited New York Magazine story on feminists giving up on work to enjoy the bliss of being a housewife. I won't get into that, but the story led to some nice articles surrounding it, with this included. Things have definitely changed just since I started this blog three years ago. Men get included in the conversation, even if near the bottom and still not totally in the mainstream.
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Start passenger standalone on server restart or on service failure
We've had this problem with our own servers and rails apps running on Passenger standalone and turns out there are a lot of you experiencing the same problems from time to time. This short tutorial will help you solve the following problems:
- How can I keep Passenger Standalone up even after a server restart?
- How do I run health checks on Passenger Standalone?
- How do I automatically restart and spawn a rails app if it crashes under Passenger Standalone?
There are a number of fixes for the above issues, but there isn't a simple one to fix all in one. Or at least I haven't come across any of them. One fix for the first problem was placing a script in /etc/init so that passenger would start when the server is rebooted. This however didn't fix the other two issues as it would only start Passenger when the entire server would start, meaning Passenger wouldn't be started if for example the server ran out of memory, something crashed the rails apps etc.
The best fix I could think of was creating a script that checks whether Passenger standalone is running every minute and if it isn't, then start it. This fix would work for all scenarios: server reboot, application crash. Moreover, as the script would run as a cronjob every minute, it would also perform a health check on all running apps. Here's the code for the script.
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#!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/lsof -i :13007 > /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP1}test if [ ! -s /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP1}test ]; then # passenger down date . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" rvm use 1.9.2 cd /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP1}/ passenger start -a 127.0.0.1 -p 13007 -d -e production --user {USER} fi /usr/sbin/lsof -i :13008 > /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP2}test if [ ! -s /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP2}test ]; then # passenger down date . "/usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm" rvm use 1.9.2 cd /home/{USER}/rails_apps/{APP2}/ passenger start -a 127.0.0.1 -p 13008 -d -e production --user {USER} fi
The above example is for a server running two apps on Passenger Standalone behind apache on ports 13007 and 13008. Replace {USER} , {APP1}, {APP2} with your own configuration. Once you've written your file, save it to /home/{USER}/rails_apps/health_check.sh and then add a cronjob to run it every minute, 5 minutes or whenever you want.
The code above checks whether there are any processes listening on the ports defined for each app. If there is a single process, the output will be written to a file which will have a file size greater than 0. If there are no processes listening on that port, the file size will be 0. The next step is to check the file size. If it is 0, our app is not running and we can start it. Simple as that. And it works for reboots, crashes, integrity and health checks and more.
If you're wondering what's with the date command, here's the answer. In my cronjob I've set the output of the command to /home/{USER}/rails_apps/health_check.log. If any app is started (meaning it was down for some reason) I will have the info and the timestamp in the log. I can then look throughout the apache / nginx / rails logs at that specific timestamp and identify the problem that caused the app to crash, if there were any bugs.
Published on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 at 5:00 pm in code, tutorials.
Avin Tokade says:
August 9th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Good Post… There is small mistake you accidentally written wrong port number (12008) for second App.
I have some query.
What should be path for app1 ? My application located at /var/www/apps/railsapp1
I got following error while executing script
ip_health.sh: line 3: /var/www/apps/railsapp1: Is a directory
Bogdan Pop says:
August 9th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Hi Avin, thanks for pointing out the typo on the port number. I've slightly modified the script because when I added the {app1} etc vars I missed that the check files would get the same name as the app directory itself.
Everything should work fine now.
Avin Tokade says:
August 10th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Thank you Bogdan.
I tried your new script work like a charm.
Sometime rails application has directory with name 'test'. So It is giving error. like
ip_health.sh: line 3: /var/www/apps/railsapp/test: Is a directory
So I just changed 'test' to 'health'
Thanks again for your help..
This is proper and smart script for my requirement.
Bogdan Pop says:
August 11th, 2011 at 10:17 am
You're welcome!


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It wasn't all that long ago when I was given the opportunity to have a look at the HAF 922 from Cooler Master. When the box arrived at the door, my better half was taken by the looks and her words to me were "is that case for me?". I chuckled at first, as she looked like a kid at Christmas when she asked, so I went online to see what the case was all about. After a bit of research I found the chassis did seem to offer some nice options and had great airflow incorporated already. As I reviewed the chassis, I found a few more plusses about the chassis, but the things that stick in my head are that the door's alignment was off when trying to close them, and the lack of interior "blackness". Had those issues been addressed, I think Cooler Master would have hit the nail on the head.
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This time Cooler Master has sent the Storm Sniper Black Edition chassis for us to have a look at. My first impressions are that the Sniper is an expanded take on the main HAF 922 chassis, as you will see as the review progresses. They do however separate the two both visually and with the options available between the two. Things like looks and portability are things that all gamers look for, especially if going to LAN events is your cup of tea. Let's get down to the facts and see just how well the scope is dialed in on the Sniper Black Edition chassis.
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Knowing about Truck loads service of Spain
Freight is included in almost all aircraft. Mostly freight transporter has four special cargo aircraft. In addition, there are 'combos', aircraft with passengers in the front and in the back of the load. In the ordinary passenger aircraft, freight is usually also included. There is space in the belly of the aircraft where the luggage of the passengers is loaded. Cargo transports nearly one and a half million tons of cargo every year. Transporting company responsible for around 540,000 tons. Cargo, together with partner airlines, transports goods to around 350 destinations around the world.
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Approximately 1,400 people work at the cargo department at Spain. They are usually experts who know certain products through and through and know which packaging and treatment they need in the air. They work together in specialized teams that take care of animals, fresh vegetables or colossal machines for example.
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If you haven't heard about the benefits of adding probiotics to your diet, you may have been under a rock for years. Probiotics may not be the fountain of youth, but they can definitely boost your health and help you look and feel younger.
Probiotics are the positive bacteria found in your body that help prevent – and treat illnesses. When you have a healthy digestive tract, your immune system benefits enormously and you tend to have a healthier glow and feel younger than you are.
Physicians often prescribe probiotics to help with digestive problems such as GERD or indigestion and you can get them in supplements or foods such as yogurt and even chocolate.
Probiotics keep you young and healthy by several methods. You lose much of the beneficial bacteria in your body by just living life – and lose even more when you take antibiotics and don't practice eating a good and healthy diet plan.
The main benefit to probiotics to your body is that they move food through your digestive system efficiently and rapidly. They're capable of assisting you if you have a condition such as IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), eczema and urinary or vaginal problems.
Mainly, probiotics can help to keep your "good" and "harmful" bacteria in check and working as it should to keep you healthy and your body functioning properly. Two kinds of probiotics exist – Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium.
Lactobacillus is the one most people consume from fermented foods and yogurt. These probiotics can be very advantageous to those who are intolerant of lactose – found in milk.
Bifidobacterium can be found in many dairy products and will ease issues associated with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and other stomach and digestive tract problems. Make sure you check with your doctor about dosage.
Scientific evidence shows that you can prevent illnesses and even treat some of them by ingesting food and supplements which contain a certain type of live bacteria. Fermented foods such as sauerkraut and yogurt contain these beneficial microorganisms from which you can gain a ton of benefits.
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Many over the counter products, vitamins and supplements claim to help improve your health, but the best strategies for boosting your immune system involve a number of simple strategies anyone can follow through with. Some of the best success strategies to boost your immune system are:
+Eating a healthy diet
+Losing weight if you are carrying extra pounds
+Exercising regularly
+Getting more sleep
+Decreasing your-stress levels
+Making time for yourself
+Being sociable with friends and family
+Quitting smoking
+Avoiding taking too many antibiotics
+Cutting down on your alcohol consumption
Let?s look at each of these success strategies in turn.
We are what we eat, so a healthy diet can go a long way to preserving our health. Eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables offers a range of nutrients and antioxidants as well, powerful disease-fighting molecules found in certain foods such a berries, legumes and apples. Eating a rainbow every day will help you achieve a balanced diet, and the fiber and water in these foods will also help you feel fuller for longer, which in turn can help with weight loss.
If you are carrying extra weight, turn to more natural foods to help slim down. Don?t rely on supplements or packaged diet foods, but rather, fresh fruits and vegetables, lean protein, and smaller portions.
Regular exercise can also help you achieve your weight loss goals, and boost your immunity too. Exercise improves digestion and helps eliminate toxins from the body. It also stimulates circulation, including not only the blood but the lymphatic system, which helps the body ward off illness.
Getting more sleep can help boost the immune system, especially if it is high-quality, deep, restorative sleep. If you?re feeling stressed, it can be difficult to fall asleep and/or stay asleep. Stress reduction strategies such as meditation can help lower your stress levels and improve your quality of sleep.
You can also decrease your stress by making more time for yourself to do some of the things you enjoy. This can include hobbies, time at the gym getting more exercise, or going for long walks. It should also include making time for the relationships that are important to you by spending quality time with friends and family. Loneliness and feelings of isolation can make you feel run down; surrounding yourself with positive people can help boost your immune system.
By now we all know about the negative effects of smoking on the body, especially the immune system. It scorches away the cilia, the little hairs that line the nostrils and nasal passages, for example, making it far easier for germs to get into your body.
Many people turn to a range of pills in an attempt to boost their health, and when used correctly, they may be beneficial. The flipside is that excessive use can cause harm. In particular, antibiotics can damage your immune system as they kill off both helpful and harmful bacteria. They do not help against colds and flu, so do not ask for a prescription from your doctor in the hope you will get better faster.
If you do have to take an antibiotic, take it EXACTLY as prescribed. Once you have finished the full course of treatment, try to get your system back in balance by consuming probiotics such as yogurt, cheese, miso or sauerkraut.
Finally, if you consume a lot of alcohol, especially in an attempt to reduce stress, try cutting down. Alcohol has many negative effects on the body, suppressing the immune system on the one hand and increasing inflammation on the other.
Adopt these simple success strategies to boost your immune system and see what a difference they can make to your health.
If you are overweight or obese, you are not alone. But what you might not know is just how bad being overweight is for the immune system. The first reason is that the fat we hate on our belly, butt and thighs is not just ugly flab. Scientists believe that excess fat in the body also releases a range of potentially toxic substances which can leave you open to illness, or even trigger it.
The second main reason being overweight is bad is that toxic substances and chemicals we consume can also be stored in fatty tissue, making it doubly dangerous. These toxins might even accumulate over time, causing serious damage to the body.
A third reason is that body fat damages our metabolism, slowing it down, thus making it even harder for you to lose weight. Exercising to build muscle will reduce your overall percentage of body fat, and thus the number of toxins in your body as you increase your metabolism.
Lean muscle burns the calories you consume much more efficiently, leading to weight loss and healthy weight maintenance once you reach your weight loss goal. Yoga, tai chi, light weights, and resistance bands can all help you build lean muscle without looking like a body builder.
Another important reason why being overweight is so dangerous is that it is now being described as a persistent low level of chronic inflammation in the body. Therefore, doing all you can to get down to a normal, healthy weight and reducing the wear and tear on the body from inflammation can do a great deal to improve your overall health.
Watching what you eat can help cut calories, but did you know it can also reduce inflammation and add disease-fighting antioxidants to your diet? Eating a rainbow everyday of fresh fruits and vegetables can help you lose weight even as you eat a more nutritious and balanced diet.
Anti-inflammatory foods include salmon, broccoli, olive oil and peppers. Antioxidants are powerful disease-fighting agents found in red kidney bean, blueberries, apples and more.
Fruits and vegetables should be the cornerstones of any attempt to lose weight healthily. The water content and fiber will help you feel full for longer. They are also so tasty that adding these foods to your eating lifestyle will usually mean you will be more likely to steer clear of foods that are bad for you, such as red meat and highly-processed sugary sweets made with white sugar and white flour.
Exercise is key to reducing blood pressure and inflammation, decreasing stress, and elevating mood. Therefore, when used in combination with a healthy diet, you should soon see the benefits of weight loss for your appearance, mood and immune system.
A new study has just revealed a startling hidden connection between the brain and the immune system. Researchers always assumed that there was no lymph system in the brain. Now they have discovered lymphatic pathways hidden deep inside the brain that can help explain how the brain works with the immune system, which in turn protects the brain,
The lymph system is a network of lymph nodes, ducts, vessels and organs which move lymph from the tissues into the bloodstream. Lymph is a whitish fluid made up of lymphocytes, the cells that attack bacteria in the body, and fluid from the intestines, called chyle (pronounced KYLE), which contains proteins and fats that also help ward off diseases.
The most obvious manifestation of your lymph system is when you get swollen glands in your neck when you become sick with a cold or the flu. They swell up as they gather the resources to fight infection. Lymph nodes also filter harmful cells such as bacteria and cancer cells to stop the spread of disease.
Scientists knew that the brain helped control the immune system, but were not sure how the brain was protected by the immune system until now. The discovery is key because it opens the gateway to a new understanding of inflammation in the brain and body as a whole. It might also reveal the reasons for neurodegenerative disorders such as autism, multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer?s, and other such diseases, offering new hope in the quest to combat illness and the effects of aging on the brain.
Neurological diseases like MS and Alzheimer?s have long been linked to changes in immune system function. Alzheimer?s, for example, is linked with a large build-up of proteins in the brain called amyloid plaques. Mood disorders have also been linked to autoimmune disorders of the digestive tract such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn?s disease and inflammatory bowel syndrome (IBS).
It wasn?t always clear how such connections occurred, but now both a gut-brain connection and a pathway from your immune system into your brain have been uncovered. Chyle from the intestines as part of the lymph system therefore has a direct connection to the brain. This means that any imbalance in the intestines has the potential to negatively impact the brain.
Since the lymph system affects every part of the body, including the brain, it is important to do all you can to boost your immune system. The mind-body connection is now better understood and demonstrates that you are what you eat. It also shows how your mood can affect your immune system, and vice versa. Take care of your immune system, and it will take care of you, and your brain, to combat the effects of aging.
If your immune system is weakened, you'll end up coming down with colds and other viruses more often than someone with a healthy immune system will. You'll also be more apt to end up with certain inflammatory conditions.
Most people don't think about their immune system too often, but just like any portion of your body, it can benefit from a health boost. There are some things that you can do right now that can give your immune system a boost and you'll enjoy better health and give your system strength to fight off whatever comes.
It might surprise you to learn that one of the things that you can do to boost your immune system is to eat foods that contain gelatine. This ingredient can be found in numerous food products such as jelly.
So the next time that you get a craving for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, go ahead and give in and you'll be helping your immune system. This ingredient is actually a protein that contains alanine and serine, which are amino acids.
Both of these amino acids are vital for keeping your immune system working the way that it should. If you don't like to eat jelly, then you can make some soup and get the same benefits of the gelatine.
You can either boil some beef bones yourself or you can buy broth that's already made at the store and use that as your soup base. The acids in the bones can do so much for your immune system.
They can help it make sure that the collagen in your skin stays healthy so that your skin looks softer and retains that youthful glow. The collagen in the bones that are boiled work to replenish your cells so that you can maintain a healthy cell supply.
Not only is gelatine imperative for cell supply, but it's also used to keep your cartilage healthy. When you get plenty of gelatine in your diet, you can find relief from certain conditions that affect your muscles and joints.
If you eat a diet that's rich in gelatine, you'll help your immune system to be able to keep your heart healthy. In fact, studies have shown that having foods that contain gelatine can lower your risk of heart related problems such as heart attacks.
Eating gelatine can also give your immune system a boost in the area of improving your sleep. If you have trouble with insomnia or you're a restless sleeper, try having a snack that's loaded with gelatine.
When your immune system isn't working right, it can make it harder for you to get fit because it can cause your metabolism to slow down. If you want to get rid of some pounds, make sure that you eat foods that contain gelatine such as broth and it will help boost your immune system to make sure your metabolism is working the way that it should.
Gelatine also works to aid your immune system with your digestive process. When you have a healthy level of stomach acid, not only can you absorb the vitamins and minerals you need from foods, but it also works to keep stomach upset and digestive related illness at bay.
You might have noticed that some people tend to catch whatever bug is going around while others almost never get sick. If you've ever wondered about that, the answer could be found in the alkaline level in the body.
When your alkaline level is out of whack, it can make getting sicker a lot easier because your immune system isn't able to handle the onslaught of germs and bacteria.
While it's true that there is no foolproof way to make sure that you never get sick, you can give your immune system a boost so that you don't get sick every time something is going around.
Your body has a pH level. When that level is off, your body will play host to a variety of germs and even some diseases. Eating or not eating certain foods can cause that level to change and when that happens, your body makes a better home for illnesses to be able to thrive.
You don't want to throw out the welcome mat for germs to be able to make you sick. Your daily eating habits can contribute to an out of balance pH level. So can not getting the right amount of sleep or being under too much stress physically or emotionally.
When your body is in the condition to make it easier for illnesses to flourish, you have to change its condition – and you do that by choosing foods that alter your acidic levels.
One of the ways that you can do this is to eat vegetables that are known to boost alkaline. You'll find these in foods such as cucumbers, leafy greens and avocados.
When you're battling an illness, you need to make sure that about 80 percent of the foods that you eat are alkaline based. Load up on foods like almonds, potatoes and spinach.
There are beverages that can help give you the alkaline that you need, too. One of these is green tea. If you drink a couple of cups of green tea every day, you can restore the proper alkaline balance to your body to boost your immune system.
It doesn't just have to be green tea, though. If you're someone who loves to drink water, you can add alkaline to your diet simply by making sure that your water contains lemons. The alkaline from the lemons is absorbed quickly into your body and will help to restore the balance that you need.
You can't see microbes. These single cell organisms are so small that if they lived on a dot made on a sheet of paper, there would be millions of them. Some people believe that microbes are disease or illness based organisms.
They think that microbes are the culprits behind the cold or other illnesses that they catch. But that's not the case. Microbes are not an enemy of your immune system.
Quite the contrary, in fact. You need these little guys to keep your immune system healthy. Without them, you would have trouble with your stomach, your intestines, your colon and more.
Every person in the world carries microbes. You have them on your skin and you have them inside your body. Each of these microbes will contain things like germs that do make you ill, but they also contain things that help keep you healthy by working with your immune system.
The place where microbes live together in one large collection is called a microbiome. For people, that microbiome would be found in the body. Your body either makes it easy for microbes to flourish or it doesn't.
Plus, depending on how you treat your body, the microbe environment will determine whether you end up benefiting from the microbes or you end up sick. A lack of healthy microbes have been linked to health troubles like emotional struggles such as depression or physical struggles such as allergies.
These organisms can contribute to weight gain, leading to obesity, which in turn leads to more health problems. What you want to do is to make sure that you have the healthy microbes that benefit your body and boost your immune system.
You can do this by deciding that you're going to eat a healthy diet. The microbes feed on the foods that you eat. They simply can't survive without it. For example, if you're someone who exists on mainly junk food and the amount of fiber you get is too minimal to be of any use, then you won't get the benefit of the microbes.
You want to have a growth of microbes that can boost your health and cut your chances of getting sick. To get that, you have to make it easy for the microbes. Microbes can be found in your digestive system and these organisms can be instrumental in whether you're overweight or not.
They can also affect the production of your good cholesterol. The amount of microbes you can work to boost your immune system and they work to help you process things your body needs.
They can create vitamins and they work to fight off inflammatory health problems. You have so many microbes in your body right now, you wouldn't be able to count them and you get more of them every single day.
While you go about your daily routine, these guys are working in your intestines to digest your food, fight illness, keep your stomach safe from bacteria and promote good health.
These organisms are responsible for curbing your desire to eat, in keeping your brain function healthy and for stabilizing your moods. One of the foods that can help microbes flourish in your body is yogurt.
When you eat yogurt with live, active cultures, you feed the microbes and enable them to do the job of helping your immune system so that it can work protecting your body.
It's true that when most people think of charcoal, they think of it belonging in a grill and heating it up when it's time to have a cookout. But activated charcoal has a lot of health benefits for you including the ability to boost your immune system.
The difference between regular charcoal and activated charcoal is that the activated one can be used as a health benefit. It's made when it's heated and then it becomes porous.
When the charcoal becomes porous, it then has the ability to be able to absorb things in the body. Normally, you would find this type of charcoal used in an emergency situation, such as someone took too much medication and they're given the charcoal.
The charcoal then absorbs and binds to whatever medication was taken. But now, because of its health benefits, activated charcoal can be found in a variety of juices.
You'll find that these juices with the activated charcoal can do wonders for the body – such as helping you to cleanse, getting rid of a hangover or boosting the immune system.
You can buy these at the grocery store next to single servings of vitamin or healthy vegetable drinks or you can make it yourself at home by mixing charcoal powder with other ingredients such as lemon juice
When you drink the activated charcoal drinks, it works to help the body get rid of toxins that can impede your immune system. It can be useful for helping restore your digestive system to good health by absorbing what has the potential to make you sick.
The charcoal binds to unhealthy matter and removes it. Now you do need to make sure that you don't use activated charcoal at the same time that you have to take medications.
Make sure you don't take it for a few hours after you take your medicine because the charcoal will bind to the medication and render it useless. Activated charcoal can relieve stomach upset, get rid of painful gas, lower cholesterol and more.
When you use it to get rid of the things in your body that make you sick, it enables your immune system to work better.
If you've ever been on the receiving end of a bee sting, you know how much they hurt. But if you think that bees are only good for pollinating flowers and giving people a painful sting, that would be incorrect.
Bee venom is a powerful, natural way that you can boost your immune system. It's so powerful that it can alleviate symptoms associated with autoimmune diseases.
It can also be used to fight back against cancer and degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. People who have arthritis can benefit from the use of bee venom, too.
If you take part in getting treated with bee venom, you'll notice that you're not getting sick as often. That's because your immune system is keeping you healthier.
The way that you get treated with bee venom means that you allow yourself to be stung, but it's done under supervision and it can be used to treat a myriad of conditions while boosting your immune system.
There is bee venom available that you can take orally or through injections that can give you the benefits that you seek. When you get stung by a bee, it hurts. Everyone knows that.
What happens next is that you will develop an inflammation. And the body reacts to this bee sting by sending out hordes of inflammation fighting hormones. The body does this as a way to stop the inflammation.
You benefit because your body never does anything in small measures. It wants to make sure that the inflammation is taken care of so you end up with a whole lot of hormones.
After these hormones deal with the inflammation the bee sting triggered, then they turn to whatever else is going on in your body and they treat it, too. This means that if you deal with health issues such as rheumatoid arthritis, you'll benefit from the use of bee venom and find relief from the painful symptoms.
When you have inflammatory conditions, your body tries to fight back with an immune response, but what that does is it can aggravate the area such as with arthritis and contribute to the pain and swelling.
Bee venom can soothe the immune response so that you get the benefits of your immune system trying to heal the area without the painful reaction to the inflammation.
Science is continually discovering ways to boost your immune system. Keep an eye out for news of what works and what doesn't in keeping you healthy, and see if any of these new discoveries help you keep a strong immune system intact.
Your immune system works hard to keep you healthy. You already know that there are things that can cause your immune system to have to difficulty working well.
But it might surprise you to know that there are five common issues that can really wreak havoc on how well your body can function in keeping illness and disease at bay.
Loneliness is one of the more common reasons that your immune system can become depleted, but most people don't realize it's a contributing factor. When it comes to this, most people think of loneliness as not having someone to socialize with.
But loneliness can mean that you feel sad or isolated. It can also mean that you feel like you don't have a single person that you can truly connect with and it can make you feel anxious.
What happens then is people tend to withdraw and become even more isolated, which in turn makes the loneliness an ongoing situation. When you experience loneliness, it can prevent your immune system from working the way that it should.
As a result, you can end up getting sick more often or battling diseases that can strike at any time. Your body has both a sympathetic and a parasympathetic nervous system and loneliness can cause your body to stop creating protection for you that you would normally have.
You won't be able to fight off viruses or other illnesses as well – if at all. The anxiety that you experience due to the loneliness can make you feel unsafe, which leads to more worry and more loneliness.
When you experience loneliness, your nervous system works to kick the infection fighting cells into high gear. It's part of the body's survival instinct. This is okay if it's not something that happens often or long term, so you won't experience any issues.
However, when you battle loneliness on a continual basis, then what happens is these infection fighting cells are linked to the development of inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's Disease or diabetes.
Fortunately, loneliness is something that you have the power to change. One of the triggers for loneliness is social isolation. This isn't something that happens only to the elderly.
You can experience it at any age. But since it's a contributing factor to chronic health issues, you'll want to deal with it – and there are several ways that you can do that and boost your immune system.
Stop social isolation by getting involved in something. Join an organization that puts you around people on a regular basis. When you're busy, you'll see that loneliness isn't as big of an issue if at all in your life.
Become a volunteer. There are so many places that could use your help. Hospitals need volunteers, food programs are always looking for people to help them, and schools need tutors to help students.
You can volunteer with community programs, for blood drives, for fundraisers, with homebuilding organizations, with pet rescue programs. The list of places where you can volunteer is quite extensive.
As a result of volunteering, not only will you find that the loneliness is gone, but that you'll feel better about yourself. Being needed is the perfect salve for feeling unwanted or neglected.
Stress is something that everyone's going to encounter. It means that you've experienced feelings of worry, anger, anxiety or tension because of something you're dealing with.
Most people tend to think stress is something everyone has to endure. While it's true that stress is a part of life, it does have the potential to deplete your immune system and can make you sick and even chronically ill if you don't learn how to get it under control.
Stress affects your immune system because it can cause your body to overproduce cortisol. This overproduction of cortisol has been linked to conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure and a compromised immune system because your body can't withstand the onslaught of high cortisol levels.
When the cortisol levels remain high in your body, your immune system can't keep up the defense, which in turn allows you to become sick with viruses and inflammatory health problems.
Some doctors believe that stress has a direct link to an autoimmune diagnosis. When you're not under stress, the job of cortisol is to keep inflammation at bay. But when you are stressed, because there's so much cortisol, your body becomes accustomed to it and doesn't react.
Because your immune system still tried to fight, what it does in its weakened state is to produce inflammatory responses. What happens then is your body starts to create antibodies against its own organs or cells.
As a result, you can end up developing something like arthritis or a number of other autoimmune conditions. When your immune system is depleted by stress and it turns on itself, you can develop conditions that if left untreated, can lead to an early death.
If antibodies are created that destroy the thyroid, the adrenal cells or other parts of the body, this can happen over time and you can't survive without your thyroid or your adrenal glands.
There are ways that you can stop stress from depleting your immune system. Make sure that you eat healthy and exercise. Exercising releases feel good chemicals that fight stress and the effects of stress.
Meditate, use deep breathing techniques, or get involved with yoga. Spend time doing things that relax you – such as a hobby. Spend time with a pet. One of the health benefits of having a pet is reduced stress.
Plus, having a pet can lower your blood pressure, which is a by-product of stress. If you can't own one, you might be able to volunteer at a shelter working with animals.
Because high blood sugar can go undetected in the body, a lot of people aren't even aware that they have an issue with higher than normal readings. But high blood sugar can quickly deplete your immune system and there's a reason behind this.
When your blood sugar is high, it causes a reaction within the body. Everyone has molecules and when your body is healthy with normal blood sugar, your molecules don't impact your immune system.
But high blood sugar causes a reaction in the molecules that prods them to fight against your immune system. These culprits are caused by high glucose levels and they can leave your body wide open to virus infections, bacterial infections, chronic health conditions and even premature death.
When your blood sugar is high, it impedes your immune system to the point that it doesn't have enough strength. If you get cut when your blood sugar is normal, you'll notice the healing process takes place over a matter of days.
But with high blood sugar, this process can take weeks and even months for a simple cut to heal. The high blood sugar causes damage to occur in your organs because it damages cells.
Some of these cells are present within your immune system and damaged cells just can't keep you healthy. Normally, your immune system sends cells to fight infections.
But if the cells themselves are damaged, the infections win that battle. High blood sugar levels cause the cells of your immune system to become ineffective against invading infections and you'll find yourself in a constant struggle to get healthy.
When you have high glucose levels, infections are boosted by the glucose. For example, you normally have certain types of bacteria in the mouth and in the intestinal tract.
But when the blood sugar levels are too high, it causes these bacteria go grow rapidly, become abundant and overtake an area. There are ways that you can combat high blood sugar to keep your immune system healthy.
You have to eat a balanced diet that's low in carbs. Having too many carbs can keep your sugar levels elevated, especially if they're simple carbs. Maintain a regular exercise regimen.
When you exercise, it helps your body be less resistant to insulin, which helps control your blood sugar levels. If you have trouble with high blood sugar and you can't control it through diet and exercise, then you need to get on medications that can keep the glucose from building up in your bloodstream and harming your immune system.
When it comes to watching out for the immune system and making sure that it stays healthy, most people don't think of how medications can hurt it. There are many different health conditions that doctors will prescribe steroids for during the course of treatment.
They're used to treat things such as asthma, reactions to things like poison ivy or other skin irritants, autoimmune or inflammatory conditions. Some medications like steroids that are known to deplete the immune system won't have an effect if you don't use it long term.
This is one of the reasons that steroids are meant for use for a short period of time only. If you have to be on a medication like steroids for months, then it will deplete your immune system and leave you at risk for infections and illnesses.
This is because steroids work by suppressing the immune system. This effectively leaves you without any line of defense. How much of the medication that you have to take matters, too.
Smaller doses of medications aren't as hard on your immune system as higher doses are, which means that your risk will be smaller. This is true whether the dosage that you take is in oral or cream form.
Drugs that are used to treat GERD can also cause your immune system to be depleted. This is because these medications work to keep your body from producing stomach acid, which elevates your chances of getting sick.
Your immune system uses stomach acid in the fight against illness. When the stomach acid can't be produced, it leaves you open to sickness. If you have high cholesterol and you take medications to lower it, this can also affect your immune system.
Obviously, there are certain medical conditions that are going to require treatment. But if you're faced with taking a medication that can disrupt your immune system, you'll want to make a different choice.
You can ask the doctor if there's a different medication that won't affect your immune system. If you have any health conditions currently that already weaken your system, it's important to do this.
You can also ask for a lower dosage or for a shorter use time. If there is no medication that you can take without hurting your immune system and you're going to need long term use, you can see if there's a natural remedy.
If you've ever dealt with insomnia, you know how annoying it can be. But you might not know that when you struggle to get the right amount of sleep, it can have an unpleasant effect on your immune system.
Without sleep, your immune system becomes weaker and unable to fight off infections and illness the way that it used to. There are immediate responses in your body when you lose sleep.
Just like when you get physically sick and you see a rise in your white blood cell count, you have the exact same reaction in your body when you don't get enough sleep.
You'll end up feeling sick and run down as a result because your cells are affected. When you lose sleep, your body starts producing more cortisol, which is the stress hormone.
With the rise in the stress hormone, you'll experience anxiety, troubles with your digestive system, greater risk of heart related diseases, high blood pressure, greater risk of developing diabetes, and a higher risk for chronic diseases.
Because insomnia can have such devastating effects on your health, you'll want to take steps to remedy the condition as soon as possible. Stay away from anything that stimulates your brain right before you go to sleep.
This would be things like being on a computer, or watching television. Use window darkening curtains if you have any light shining into your bedroom and if possible, make sure that you don't have any light on in your home where you can see it.
If you do happen to wake up in the middle of the night, don't check a clock. If you know how much time you have left to sleep before you have to get up, this can make you feel stressed and pressured to get back to sleep, which only makes the insomnia worse.
Don't let your bedroom get too warm. This can contribute to insomnia. Your body temperature goes down at night as part of a sleep cycle and when you keep it cooler in your room, it helps you sleep.
Have your melatonin level checked and if you're low on this, raising it can help you get to sleep. Look for natural remedies too that are known to help. This would be things like warm milk or natural herbs.
Knowing what habits and environmental hazards can take a toll on your immune system is the first step in getting healthy. Take each one and tweak your lifestyle to see if you can improve on your immune system.
The stronger it gets, the harder it is for anything to compromise it, and you'll stay healthier and happier for longer periods of time!


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Time to sweat with a not-so-scary Halloween warrior workout, designed for high intensity total body workout. Halloween allows us to be creative, silly, scary, and have some fun dressing up. Whether you have an itty bitty mermaid costume, or are covered up in mummy wraps, this workout will knock out some endorphins and calories just in time for that extra candy consumption.
All you need is a mat for this body-weight only workout routine. Repeat the entire sequence 2 -3 times for maximum effectiveness.
Jumping Jack-o-Lanterns: Jumping jacks for 60 seconds. Starting with your arms by your side, and feet together, jump your legs apart while throwing your arms out into a "Y" shape. Slap them back together and repeat.
Spooky Squats: Jump squats for 45 seconds. Start in a normal squat position, making sure your knees don't go past your toes; jump into the air, straightening your legs and arms, then softly land back into a squat.
Twisted- Troll Mountain Climbers: Mountain climbers for 45 seconds. Begin in a high plank position on your hands, keeping your body in a straight line. Bring your right knee in, across your body to touch your left elbow; jump back while switching to the opposite leg, bringing your left knee to right elbow.
Mummy Sit Ups: AKA starfish sit ups for 60 seconds. Lie on your back, reaching legs straight and arms above your head into a star formation; use lower abs to lift your neck and shoulders off the ground to sit up, wrapping your arms around your legs into your chest.
Creepy Crawlers: Hi to Lo planks for 45 seconds. Start on your hands in hi plank, then lower right forearm to the ground, followed by left into low plank; push back up into high plank beginning with your right arm followed by left. Repeat on left side to alternate.
Spider Thrusts: Reverse plank tricep twists for 45 seconds. Begin in reverse plank or crab walk pose, bend your arms at your elbows for a tricep dip, then thrust your hips up while reaching your right hand towards your left foot; repeat dip and reach left hand across body to right foot, then repeat.


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Ghaffar Mughal
This will be Ghaffar's second trip to Russia as a researcher and the first to Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population where he will be sharing his expertise in international migration and remittances with his Russian colleagues and conduct further research on Russian immigration policy, and, the consequences of migration for Russia as well as the sending countries.
Ghaffar received Bachelor of Arts (Honors) and MA Degrees in English from University of Karachi before switching to economics. He has a master's degree in Applied Economics (University of Karachi), and a master and Ph.D. in Economics/Political Economy and Public Policy from University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1999). As a Ph.D. candidate, he taught Comparative Economic Systems and other subjects at University of Southern California. He has extensive experience of teaching in the FSU and the U.S.: (KIMEP)/Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (1998-2000), Hanover College (2001), EERC Master's Program in Economics in Kiev (2001-2002), Santa Clara University (2004-2005), California State University (2005), and South and East European University, Macedonia (2005-2006). His teaching portfolio consists of Econometrics, International Economics, International Finance, Public Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Development Economics, Transition Economics, Research Methodology, and Political Economy and Social Thought in Western Culture. He has trained junior faculty in economics and business under a USAID sponsored project in all Central Asian republics (2003) and in Macedonia (2005).
His geographical areas of interest include the entire world of emerging and developing economies, particularly, Central and South Asia and the Caucasus. The functional areas of research interest include the political economy of migration, remittances and development. The UNDP/IOM sponsored report on Remittances and Living Standards in Tajikistan is his most recent accomplishment. He knows Farsi/Tajiki, Russian, and Urdu/Hindi (mother tongue). He has a strong interdisciplinary background and highly knowledgeable of the history, culture, religion, and economy of the South and Central Asian region and has given talks at universities on the subject of Muslim Revivalist Movements.
On a personal note, Ghaffar enjoys the leisurely activities of watching movies, playing chess, and attending performances of contemporary dance, opera, and Russian plays.


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Specific Aim 1, process optimization, will improve viral titer and purification yield to increase capacity and lower the cost of goods.
Specific Aim 2, process characterization, will define the commercial manufacturing process based on knowledge gained through development and scale-up activities Specific Aim 3, Process Validation and Production of 200L Consistency Lots, will demonstrate that the process is capable of reproducible commercial manufacture and will meet the manufacturing requirements for initial licensure.
Specific Aim 4, Process Scale up (200L to 2000L), will increase the process scale from 200L to 2000L to meet global demand for the vaccine.
Specific Aim 5, Process Validation and Production of 2000L Consistency Lots, will provide assurance that the commercial manufacturing process performs as expected. In total, these studies will produce a commercial scale manufacturing process that will support the licensure of MVA85A. If licensed, MVA85A would be the first TB vaccine approved for use in over 90 years.
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading killer among infectious diseases globally after HIV and is caused by a NIAID category C priority pathogen. The limited efficacy of the only available licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), against pulmonary TB and the increase in multi-drug and extensively-drug resistant TB demonstrate the need for improved control measures for TB. The MVA85A TB vaccine has the promise to address this global unmet need to prevent TB disease and hence control the spread of TB.
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DVDs..... OBSESSION..... DVDs..... OBSESSION...... NOPE, I CAN'T HEAR THE DIFFERENCE
So Aiden and I met up in town the other day and did some window shopping. And, you know, ducked into Empire Toys, because, well, you know. And, you know, they had the 1st series of Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law.......
So we've been laughing our asses off every evening since.
2nd season is released in October....
And The Venture Brothers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force is on DVD too....
And it's my birthday in a few weeks.
And Christmas is coming up.
Lyn, you reading this?
September 19th today. Talk like a Pirate day.
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How the Single Market blocks socialist policies
Pete Watson, Nottingham Socialist Party
The European Single Market is a major barrier to any incoming socialist or anti-austerity government.
The capitalist establishment across Europe is wedded to privatisation and austerity. And it can rely on Single Market treaties and EU law to impede nationalisation and state investment while ramping up privatisation.
The 2009 Lisbon Treaty is the legal framework that applies to all Single Market member states.
Article 120 of the treaty requires member states to "act in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition" - compulsory Thatcherite economics.
Articles 107-9 bar member states from government aid "which distorts or threatens to distort competition." This is designed to block substantial public investment.
Labour proposed a £35 billion subsidy to save 4,000 jobs at Port Talbot and prevent the death of domestic steel making. But this would distort competition, and so could breach the treaty.
While socialists would promote nationalisation rather than subsidy, a Corbyn-led government would fall foul of EU law if it wished to prevent sudden closures and redundancies through state support.
The unelected European Commission ordered the Belgian government to claw back €211 million in subsidies given to (unsuccessfully) prevent the collapse of steel group Duferco. The Commission declared the aid "illegal."
Articles 101-6 of the Lisbon Treaty require that "services of general economic interest or having the character of a revenue-producing monopoly" be subject to competition.
This is designed to severely limit nationalisation, and compliance generally requires breaking up and selling off what publicly owned industries are left.
It's the right of the market to rule. Large-scale nationalisation in banking, utilities or public transport, and many major national investment programmes, would breach the treaty.
Some argue that Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto does not pledge full-scale nationalisation, but partial nationalisation, which EU judges might decide does not fall foul of the treaty. Still, full-scale nationalisation is what is needed.
But in any case, competition rules mean that even if, for example, the rail industry was only part-nationalised - leaving many of the profiteers in place - it would have to be open to "free competition." Investing in better infrastructure, more staff and cheaper fares on the state routes would undermine private companies' competitiveness and so breach the treaty.
'EU directives' - laws written by the European Commission and rubber-stamped by the almost powerless European Parliament - also apply to Single Market members.
For instance, the 1991 First Railway Directive requires that member states "guarantee that railway undertakings are afforded a status of independent operators behaving in a commercial manner and adapting to market needs."
Any one nationalised rail company would come up against this. Increasing numbers of private rail companies operate even in France, a country incorrectly given by some as a model of public ownership within the Single Market.
Large-scale nationalisation would breach the Lisbon Treaty. Small-scale nationalisation would have to comply with competition laws which make it ineffective, or breach the Lisbon Treaty. Big state subsidies to save or create jobs would breach the Lisbon Treaty.
There are some exceptions. And there are some cases which can be ambiguous.
But both are decided in the European Court of Justice by wealthy judges, drawn mainly from the ruling classes, "in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition." Unsurprisingly they have a record of deciding that ultimately private profit trumps workers' interests.
So any anti-austerity or socialist government would face a choice. Stay in the Single Market and capitulate on its policies - like Syriza in Greece - a catastrophe for the working class. Or defy EU and Single Market diktats and implement policies in the interests of the working class.
That's why we must oppose Britain's membership.
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In a recent Regional event (0-750, but I rather doubt that mattered), having encountered the same opponents berating each partner's bids for the second straight session, I called the director. And the director told them not to come back. (We were in the last round, and they were allowed to complete it.)
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Jeans have long ago become a central piece in our wardrobe. As with any clothing item that becomes one of the main focus points of our outfit, the way we choose jeans will dramatically influence the final outcome, having a huge part in creating the overall impressions we make.
The first step that must be taken when selecting any clothing item is to make sure that you keep in mind the what works for your body type and what doesn't. This will help you determine what are the best choices that will flatter your body and what choices you should make to hide the features you are not so proud of. As you begin to understand how certain cuttings or styles affect how your body looks you can begin to customize your search adapting your knowledge to your own needs.
Knowing what to avoid can instantly make your choices better because you are able to direct your attention instantly from what you doesn't fit you and save time. For slender short women, some jeans styles are instant no-nos because they immediately shorten a petite figure by creating too much contrast. Among the worst offenders are boot cut jeans or bell bottom jeans as these won't do any favors to your silhouette.
Cuffed jeans are another style that should be avoided as it visually shorten your frame. The details of the jeans should also be carefully considered. Just like with the jeans styles everything should be proportionate. Avoid details like large rear pockets or large stitches on baggy jeans as these will visually cut the length.
Now that you know what are the styles that should be avoided, it's time to concentrate on choosing the best jeans style for short frames. The most important thing to remember is that the main focus should be to find nice fitting jeans. Skinny jeans work great for slender women as they emphasize the silhouette being fashionable and stylish.Although short women with small hips can look good in low rise jeans, mid rise jeans are seen as more universally flattering. When it comes to the style of the cut, most short women view straight cut jeans as a good choice due to the fact that it helps create a vertical line throughout the body maximizing the overall length.
If adding curves is desired, short women can opt for tapered jeans which can help create a hourglass body shape in the case of triangle or rectangle body shapes, which are among the most common body shapes among short women. The fabric of the jeans should also be kept in mind when shopping for jeans. It's good to keep in mind that 100% cotton jeans might shrink when washed in hot water and that a blending of spandex and cotton can help you get a better stretch, lifting the bottom part of the body, which is another thing that can help you get better proportions.
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We attended an information session, and by the end of it, were committed to starting the adoption process locally. Why not us? We were two men who had been together for 11+ years at that point in a stable, loving relationship. Most of our free time was spent with our respective families and close friends. We knew that we wanted children and had considered private adoption and surrogacy to start our family. Then, we realized how many kids in the foster care system in Massachusetts there were who needed opportunity, love, and their own forever home.
The first adoption party was at Jordan's Furniture and was overwhelming. We were dumb-founded and slow to grasp what we had to do. We started gently … talked mostly to the people we knew, approached a few social workers, and spoke with several children. It was so sad to see the older children feeling deflated by the experience and without hope for their adoption.
In reflecting on the party, we quickly understood that we had to be our own advocates and become active in finding our kids. The adoption staff have daunting challenges – with kids, emergencies, placements, etc., and they have limited time and resources. You need to meet as many people as you can and have your own family flyer describing who you are and how you want to build your family. You need to talk to every kid and social worker and placement professional at the parties. You need to sell yourself!
At a second adoption party, I met all of the staff that I could, and then …
two kids walked in with their foster moms: the protective, 4-year old, older brother was holding his 3-year old brother's hand, keeping him safe, and guiding him towards the horses. The younger boy had an independent swagger and was wearing adult red sunglasses that were bigger than his head. I immediately knew that these were our kids. We had planned on a baby – everyone does – but these two toddlers who were siblings immediately made the most sense to complete our family. They weren't who we had envisioned joining us, but they were exactly who we needed, and we believe that they needed us.
This time, our approach and action plan was different. I found their placement counselor and gave him our information and talked to him about getting and reviewing our home study. I got the name of the boys' social worker and her contact information. I talked with the foster moms who were very friendly and positive. I didn't understand how difficult this day was for them as I plowed ahead with my questions about the children. I got in the car and sent the boys' picture and profile to my partner and told him that I had found our boys. We got on the MARE website that day and asked that our home study be forwarded to the DCF team. We quickly contacted our social worker, their social worker, the DCF placement worker, and our advocates at MARE.
Within a few weeks, we had a meeting set up and we heard how difficult the boys' start in life was in much detail. We then met our sons that day at a park along with their foster parents. We didn't know how rare this opportunity to meet was. We had a long, friendly visit and learned all about the boys and their history in foster care. Upon leaving, we knew that they would become our family. We also understood the pain and anguish that their placement would cause their foster family of 18 months. The foster moms loved the boys and had been tremendous advocates for them and their successful placement. It was an easy decision for us to build a relationship with the foster parents, so they will always be involved with our sons and be able to watch them grow.
We have been together for 9 months as a family and are awaiting the call from the court for the date to finalize the adoptions. It has been the most amazing, challenging, beautiful experience of our lives. There was a short honeymoon period when the brothers seemed like angels from heaven. Then, we experienced every challenge that we heard about in MAPP and could have imagined – as we all learned to love, like, live with, and trust one another. Every limit that could be tested was tested – hundreds of times! There were a few occasions that were so difficult that we thought that we just weren't equipped to proceed with the adoptions. Then, these issues would vanish instantly when we saw the kids do something together that was so goofy or loving or sweet that your heart just melted.
We love our sons. Our families love them. We cannot imagine our lives without them. and it seems like they have always been with us. They are just…. awesome!
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