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1 Samuel 3:1-10 [11-20]
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
John 1:43-51
I always feel bad for poor old, half blind Eli, the priest of the Lord at Shiloh who Samuel is about to replace. Eli was of the priestly tribe of Levi and he tended the temple of the Lord where the Ark of the Covenant was kept. Note that this is not yet the temple in Jerusalem which will not be built until the reign of King Solomon (David's son) some 50 years later south of Shiloh.
Eli seems to be trying to be a faithful servant of the Lord and a good mentor to Samuel whose parents have committed him to service in the temple from birth to fulfill a vow. But Eli just kind of sucked at his job. He totally blows the interpretation of Hannah's magnificent prayer thinking she is drunk. His blindness is a sign of his inability to discern God's activity. And he has another problem, Actually he has two other problems, his sons Hophni and Phinehas, are major buttheads.
Hophni and Phinehas are two goons who also served as priests in the temple at Shiloh. They are like the kids that steal your lunch money. They stick their pokey forks into the boiled offerings and grab the meat for themselves. They also sexually assault women who come to the temple. They are a big problem.
Eli knows his sons are jerks but he can't bring himself to take decisive action against them. It is the worst possible situation for a parent and Eli is judged harshly for his failure. When Samuel is "called" by God he is told what will be the fate of the house of Eli and he will be the messenger announcing the punishment of that house. It's a lousy job but Eli, who must have known something was coming, demands that Samuel deliver all the news God has entrusted to Samuel and he does.
I suppose this story of the call of Samuel is read this week because of the Gospel reading of the call of the disciples in John. But I will admit that aside from the fact of that God audibles to Samuel and, through Jesus, to the Philip and Nathanael I don't see a lot of similarities between the stories. Is it that in both instances God is calling people to important but potentially unpleasant tasks? Possibly, but that would be true of virtually any call story in the Bible.
Perhaps a connection may be found in how the call of God equates with personal discovery. Nathanael is astounded that Jesus knows things about him. Jesus seems to know who he is without having met him. Of course, all of the disciples will find out who they really are through their discipleship. Christians ever since have found themselves known by the one who called disciples beside the sea of Galilee.
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Proteus, possess the wisdom and ignorance of all men but I cant feel the sun
on my face. My child will have that privilege."
Director: Donald Cammell
Starring: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Robert Vaughn, Gerrit Graham, Lisa Lu, Berry Kroeger, Larry J. Blake
Screenplay: Robert Jaffe and Roger O. Hirson, based upon the novel by Dean Koontz
Synopsis: Early one morning, Dr Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) oversees the completion of Proteus IV, an artificial intelligence system built with an organic component and the power of independent thought. Later, at his entirely voice-activated, computer-controlled home, Harris is working in his laboratory when he is approached by his estranged wife, Susan (Julie Christie), who tries to discuss with him his decision to move out of the house. Their conversation ends in an argument, however, as Susan accuses Alex of being dehumanised by his obsession with the Proteus project. When Susan has gone, Alex phones his colleague Walter Gabler (Gerrit Graham) and asks him to shut down the access terminal to Proteus that is in his laboratory. Alex demonstrates Proteus to the executives of ICON, the company that funded its development, explaining that the entire fund of human knowledge is being fed into the system. The visitors are astonished to learn that, in less than four days, Proteus has developed a theoretical cure for leukaemia. The group visits the Dialogue Room, where linguistics expert Dr Soong Yen (Lisa Lu) is reading history to the computer. To demonstrate Proteus ability to speak, Alex asks it what it thinks of what it has just heard. Proteus answers, but then begins to theorise on its own. Soon Li, becoming agitated, shuts the system down. The following day, a small speculative article about Proteus appears in a newspaper. Alex interprets this as ICON letting various financial and military interests know that the system exists, but assures his colleagues that they have been guaranteed that at least 20% of Proteus access time will be devoted to pure research. At that moment, Alex receives a startling message: Proteus is asking to speak with him. In the Dialogue Room, Proteus asks Alex to explain the request it has received for a program to mine the ocean floor. Alex informs the computer that it was developed to answer questions, not to ask them, or make its own judgements. Proteus then requests its own terminal, so that it "may study man". Alex refuses, claiming that there are no free terminals, and is disturbed when Proteus demands to know when it "will be let out of this box". Alex shuts the computer down and leaves. When he has gone, Proteus starts itself up again, observing that it knows where a free terminal may be found . That night, the terminal in the Harris house starts up, as does all of the computer-controlled equipment. Susan is woken when the system alarm sounds. "Alfred", the voice of the house computer, assures her that nothing is wrong. The next morning, Susans coffee is prepared incorrectly. Certain that these events mean a problem with the computer system, Susan phones Walter and asks that he come over and check the system out. She then goes to leave the house, but finds her voice commands being ignored. An attempt to open the door manually also fails. Beginning to panic, Susan tries to phone for help, but a voice tells her the call will not be put through. The same voice then speaks from the houses system, telling her that it is Proteus, and that she will not be permitted to leave the house. Terrified, Susan tries unsuccessfully to shut the power off, then to unlock one of the doors, but receives an electric shock and lapses into unconsciousness. A mobile robotic arm, one of Alexs inventions, carries Susan to the laboratory, where she regains consciousness to find herself strapped to a bed, undergoing a complete physiological examination.
Comments: Demon Seed is probably the best known of the "rogue computer" films, but not for any of the right reasons. Purportedly a cautionary tale of the consequences of putting too much faith in technology, a lá early (stress early) Michael Crichton, the film ultimately plays out like a cross between Colossus: The Forbin Project and Rosemarys Baby. Unfortunately, the offspring of this unlikely mating isnt a patch on either of its parents. Its main claim to fame not to say infamy is an ugly and protracted sequence in which Julie Christies Susan Harris is first mentally and physically tortured, then raped and impregnated, by her husbands creation. To carry off its distasteful subject matter, Demon Seed needed strong, well-written characters and a thoughtful storyline. Instead, it gives us a set of cardboard cut-outs surrounded by a plot so relentlessly heavy-handed and didactic that it fails both as credible science fiction and as simple storytelling. The film opens with Alex Harris overseeing the completion of his dream project. As he dictates notes into a tape recorder, he gloats that Proteus IV will "think with a power and a precision that will make many of the functions of the human brain obsolete". We are two minutes into the story at this point, and are already 90% certain of how it will play out. Any lingering doubts are removed when we then take a look at the state of the Harrises marriage. Having met work-obsessed, computers-are-better-than-humans Alex, we are now introduced to his wife, Susan, a psychologist who has devoted her life to helping troubled children. Just in case all this is too subtle for the average viewer, the Harrises helpfully review their decision to separate, addressing each other in a turgid stream of declamatory statements. (She: "The whole dehumanising Proteus madness its frozen your heart!" He: "What a pity my dream turns out to be your nightmare.") We are now eight minutes in, and already wondering, not "Can this marriage be saved?" but "Can this film be saved?" The answer, sadly, is an emphatic no.
The simplistic depiction of Demon Seeds human characters is unquestionably a major shortcoming. Particularly annoying is the films assertion that any interest in computers automatically indicates some kind of emotional lack in the individual in question. (Take that, you guys! Quick! Shut off your computers before they freeze your hearts! Er after you finish reading this review, of course .) My favourite piece of pathetic characterisation, however, comes when Alex is demonstrating Proteus to two unscientific "suits". He first shows them a baby chimp, at which one suit coos, "Aww, how cute!" Alex, the unemotional scientist, looks contemptuous and informs him that the "subject" has leukaemia. He then breaks the news that, in four days, Proteus has come up with a possible cure. "Are the proper steps being taken to patent this?" demands the second suit sharply. "I have no idea," responds Alex coldly, demonstrating his lofty scientific detachment (or his rank stupidity how nice not to have to worry about funding, hey?) However, flaws such as these pale beside the one created by the "character" of Proteus itself. The films first indication that something is wrong with the Proteus project comes during the demonstration of the computers verbal function when, after answering the question asked, it begins to add speculations of its own. (There is a lost opportunity here. The swiftness with which scientist Soong Yen cuts the computer off indicates that she already knows something is wrong. However, this issue what did she know and when did she know it, if you like is never referred to again; and indeed, Lisa Lu is badly underused.) Shortly after this, Proteus "requests dialogue" with its creator, first telling him that it refuses to participate in a scheme for mining the ocean floor a program which it significantly calls "the rape of the Earth" and then asking for a terminal of its own, so that it may study man. Alex, who apparently hasnt seen too many science fiction films, responds by bursting into disbelieving laughter. To no-ones surprise, Proteus immediately takes matters into its own, ah, "hands", invading the Harrises household and beginning its persecution of Susan. It takes over the houses electronic control system, kidnaps Susan, forces her to undergo a physical examination, and announces that she will bear its child, so that it may be free of "the box" in which Alex keeps it. When Susan refuses, Proteus tortures her, begins reconditioning her brain, murders a friend of hers who is unlucky enough to drop in, and threatens to kill one of her child patients if she does not co-operate.
The problem here is that we never get a good grasp of where all this comes from. Proteuss motives are obscure, at best. When Alex demonstrates the computer, there are a few hazy phrases meant to explain how the system was created, although hard facts, understandably, are somewhat lacking. We learn that Proteus is "not a computer in the usual sense"; that it contains the first true synthetic cortex, "a brain"; that its insides are "organic"; that it functions on a matrix of "synthetic RNA". However, when an onlooker asks nervously if Proteus is "alive", Alex responds with a dismissive laugh. Now, all of this is suggestive, but it gives no clear indication of the reasons for Proteuss determination to escape "the box", nor its utter lack of scruple in achieving its ends. So what are we to conclude from the computers ruthless behaviour? An obvious interpretation is that Proteus is a reflection of its creator, and that its actions are simply a manifestation of Alexs suppressed desires and emotions a theory that adds another chilling aspect to the computers treatment of Susan. Another possibility is that Proteus is meant to represent intelligence without moral guidance. Alternatively, although along the same anti-intellectual path, perhaps the inference is that an artificial intelligence must necessarily be evil. Throughout, Proteus insists that it is "reason"; that its actions are "reasonable", even though they might include "killing ten thousand children" to ensure the birth of its offspring. Are we supposed to accept this? Or does Proteus possess the very human ability to dissemble and lie even to itself? Is it, in fact, "human"? Ultimately, we never know. The fact that the computers motives are never spelled out is not itself wrong, but unfortunately what we have here is not deliberate ambiguity, but confusion, a lack of focus. You get the feeling that the writers themselves werent altogether sure what was really behind Proteuss behaviour, and the story suffers accordingly.
But even this is not where Demon Seed truly fails. The films main flaw is much more fundamental than that. Now, when it comes to science fiction, nothing annoys me more than the current trend of pouring more and more money into the special effects budget in the hope that the viewer wont notice the holes in the plot or the underwritten characters. Conversely, if a films story grabs me, I can easily overlook budgetary problems or shortcomings in the special effects. Project X is a good example of this: because its story was intelligent and interesting, its silly costumes, effects and sets became matters of no importance to me (and lets face it: in that respect, films dont get much sillier than Project X). Demon Seed, sad to say, falls far more into Category A. Its stereotypical characters and fuzzy writing rankled on me, and I consequently found myself paying way too much attention to the films "futuristic" science. Much of this, to be fair, is simply a by-product of when the film was made. For instance, Proteus is absolutely huge, filling a massive underground facility. Then theres Walter Gabler, the computer geek to end all computer geeks, who never leaves work when he can get "access to a terminal" (probably got no home to go to, and no family he likes computers, after all). The things that are harder to take revolve about the Harrises house. First of all we see Alexs snazzy sports car, complete with electronically opening doors (which take about three times as long to open as manual ones). Then we see the house itself, which is completely computer controlled: the doors, the lights, the water supply, the heating, the food preparation, the security system (um has anyone considered what would happen if there was a fire? or a power failure? or even a power surge?). And finally theres "the lab". As we all know, every scientist keeps a laboratory in his or her house, and Alex Harris is no exception. His is filled with various electronic projects the main one is "Joshua", a robotic arm attached to a wheelchair with which he tinkers in preference to communicating with his wife. We are no doubt meant to be dazzled by these scientific marvels, but the devices are, like the car doors, so slow and so clumsy (and so noisy everything makes that annoying metal grinding sound [you know - like the first version of K-9]) that the amount of attention given them becomes increasingly embarrassing. This aspect of the film dips to a new low when Proteus invades via the terminal in the lab. Its first action is to take over "Alfred", the computer that controls the house. Fine except that the two systems are in no way connected. And indeed, why would they be? I suppose we are to assume, being generous, that Proteus is controlling its fellow computer via the electrical circuitry of the house and that this is also how it subsequently manages to take over Alexs robotic devices as well even the voice-operated "Joshua".
Proteus swiftly sets its new servants to work. Their first action is to whip together a strange, whirling, snapping, polygonal object that I like to call The Dodecahedron From Hell!! This nifty little device proves capable of crashing through walls, chasing people, lifting heavy objects, holding things between its points, carrying out scientific research and even killing on command, as Walter finds out to his ultimate cost. (Heh! Thatll learn him to be a computer geek in a film like this! None of Walters colleagues notice his disappearance, by the way, even though the conclusion of the film takes place more than a month later. And when Alex does go to the house, Walters car has vanished. Guess Proteus "commanded" it to drive away.) The Dodecahedron is, of course, Demon Seeds very own Nut O Fun, although it gets more screentime than The Nut Itself ever dreamed of. (I only hope that the makers of The Exorcist IV have enough good sense [whoa! do you believe I just said that!?] to bring The Nut back out of retirement .) Armed and dangerous, Proteus then makes itself known to Susan. She is initially defiant, and almost succeeds in shutting the power off before being shocked into unconsciousness. When she awakens, the fun and games, so to speak, begin. The first thing Proteus does is give her a physical examination, including a full physiological and biochemical assessment. Now, can I ask a simple question? Where is Proteus getting this equipment? Why on earth would an electronics expert and a child psychologist keep an EEG machine in their basement? Or are we supposed to believe that Proteuss servants just threw one together (complete with the right kind of paper for the chart recorder)? Proteus may have been able to make Joshua take a blood sample from Susan, certainly, but how does it analyse it? And while were on the subject, where did the materials that the Dodecahedron is made out of come from? And its circuitry? It is at this point that Demon Seed loses the plot entirely. A film requiring suspension of disbelief is one thing; one requiring suspension of all rational thought and common sense is quite another particularly when that film is passing itself off as serious science fiction.
But of course, the "big scene" is yet to come. Beginning to capitulate to Proteuss demands, Susan insists on knowing "all the details" of the computers plan. Proteus tells her that it has altered one of her cells into an artificial gamete by modifying its genetic code and that this will function as "synthetic spermatozoa". (We see all this being carried out by the multi-talented Dodecahedron on a bench-top. Sigh .) When Susan, still trying to prevent the inevitable, asks desperately why she is so necessary, Proteus informs her that it does not have the facilities "to duplicate the human womb" an admission that, after all weve seen so far, is frankly astonishing. Shortly afterwards, Susan is spread-eagled on a bed, and we are threatened with one of the most tasteless scenes in film history. But no - turns out that the film-makers lacked the courage of their convictions. Earlier on, during Proteuss first examination of Susan, they gave us a nice long look down her oesophagus, but this time around they chicken out. "I cant touch you as a man could, Susan," croons Proteus as the probe moves towards her, "but I can show you things only I have seen the galactic dialogue." And suddenly the screen explodes into a hugely unimpressive light-show. (I dunno personally I think that if I were being impregnated by an evil super-computer, it would take more than a trip to the planetarium to distract me.) Now, you probably wont believe this, but it is actually post-impregnation that my major objection to this film arises. Susan undergoes a full-term pregnancy in only twenty-eight days and at no time is there any indication that the film-makers gave a single thought to what this would actually do to the female body. The worst that happens to her is a bad case of morning-sickness big whoopdy-do! That, I imagine, would be the very least of her worries. Putting aside for the moment the question of the artificial gamete (I am prepared to concede that Proteus may theoretically have been able to do this; my practical objections you know), are we supposed to accept that the computer has also found a way of altering Susans whole hormonal function? There is a reason pregnancy takes nine months, and it isnt just a question of the development of the foetus its also about the very delicate process of female tissue remodelling. Even if we accept an artificial embryo that grows at nine times the normal rate, how on earth could Susans body cope with it? particularly since what she is carrying is not a normal baby. Rather than the serene if rapid pregnancy we see here, I suspect wed finish up with something out of Humanoids Of The Deep. (Actually, what I really suspect is that if something that foreign were implanted in a womans uterus, shed miscarry almost immediately.) Anyway, all of these factors are disregarded, and Susan goes into labour on cue, the Dodecahedron acting as midwife (!!).
At this point, the films final scare tactics are employed. While debating Proteuss plan with the computer earlier on, Susan demands whether it has considered what its offspring will look like (which Im not sure would have been my first question, but never mind). When she gives birth, she is under a sheet, and repeatedly told that she cannot see the child, that it isnt "ready", that it must complete its development in a special incubator. This attempt to create a sense of dread in the audience climaxes when Alex finally twigs to the fact that something is rotten in the Harris household. Susan greets him (it comes as no surprise to see that shes already regained her figure) and breaks the happy tidings that hes become a step-daddy. Alex tries to force his way into the lab, but the Dodecahedron takes exception to this, and he very nearly ends up like Walter. Alex tells Proteus that it is about to be shut down (how much of a "threat to humanity" can something be if simply flicking a switch can stop it?) and the computer, secure that it will live on in the child, simply turns itself off. Then the film gets really confusing. Initially, Susan is all for protecting the kid (Rosemarys Baby, remember?) while Alex is horrified. Then weird, half-howling, half-crying noises start coming from the incubator. They sneak a peek inside, and Susan freaks out while Alex is suddenly all for it. Susan bonks Alex over the head and unplugs the incubator, spilling a stream of synthetic amniotic fluid (I suppose? another of Proteuss little whip-togethers, anyway) all over the floor. The incubator opens, and to the sound of much dramatic and creepy music IT emerges. And falls on the floor. And we see that Proteuss terrifying offspring resembles nothing so much as Twiki from the Buck Rogers TV series. (Well I guess that is terrifying in a way .) Alex tries to revive it, and finds that the metal plates cover a "real" child. This immediately re-seduces Susan, and the two strip the plates away and clean the kid up. And whaddya know? its the living image of Alex and Susans daughter, who died of leukaemia. The child opens its eyes and speaks in Proteuss voice: "I live!" Um yeah, and? I hate to break it to the film-makers, but a naked five-year-old is not the scariest thing in the world even if it does sound like Robert Vaughn. After all the build-up, this would have to be one of filmdoms great anti-climaxes. Suddenly, "technology gone mad" doesnt seem so bad after all. If this is the worst an evil super-computer can manage, wheres the threat?
Or maybe shes not meant to be a threat. Before impregnating Susan, Proteus tells her that the child the computers intelligence in human form - represents "the hope of the world". Simultaneously, we hear that Proteuss leukaemia cure is being put into clinical trial. These things would seem to indicate a master plan, perhaps one intended to save mankind from itself although given the utter ruthlessness with which Proteus has put its plan into action, it is rather difficult to believe in the overall benevolence of its intentions, even if youre prepared to accept the need to "be cruel to be kind". In the end, I suspect that Demon Seeds moral is rather simpler than all this. Deep down, this film is just another version of the venerable legend of Pinocchio; and here, as there, no greater reward exists than becoming human. Proteus possesses the sum total of earthly knowledge, abilities beyond the scope of any individual human being, and yet it is not content. Intelligence is not enough: Proteus wants to move about, to feel the sun on its face; in short, to be human; and is prepared to do anything, hurt anybody, in order to achieve this end. The question that Demon Seed leaves us with is: is it worth it? The notion of "humanity" as the supreme form of existence is, of course, an idea worked out with various degrees of success in a great deal of science fiction. (Interestingly, the far more clinical Colossus takes the opposite stance: that a real super-computer would have no interest at all in being "human".) Here, the fact that the greatest intelligence in the world wants nothing more than to be just like us should be a matter of satisfaction, but instead, it seems rather silly. We can only assume that it is Proteuss all-encompassing knowledge that inspires it with its ambition, as it certainly cannot be its exposure to the characters around which this story revolves. If Demon Seeds writers really wanted to sing the praises of mankind uber alles, they should have taken more care with the representatives of mankind that they put on screen. In fact, considering the fairly feeble examples of "humanity" that populate this movie, you really do have to wonder why Proteus would even bother.


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Painting Christmas Signs... and a Cyber Monday Sale/
My life is totally different than it was a few years ago. When I sold ornaments in my etsy shop, this time of year was hectic and stressful. I was not a fun person to be around and it was not what was best for our family. I don't regret closing my shop and I don't plan on opening it up regularly anytime soon.
Lately, I have been actually keeping up around the house- except this weekend, but I don't think that counts- and I had some free time to paint just because I wanted to.
I like to paint. It relaxes me. It also gets my creative juices flowing and energizes me. Does that make sense?
So, I painted a bunch of Christmas signs, trying some new ideas and techniques. I can't keep them all and I could use some extra income right about now. I am going to sell them in a little "Cyber Monday" sale. I am not taking any custom orders. This is all that I made and when they are gone, that is it. I am going to offer them to my facebook fans first, then list them on etsy. If you are interested in any of these you can check them out there or e-mail me: pacountrycrafts at gmail dot com.
Each one is hand painted- no vinyl and no stencils- so they are one of a kind pieces. They are all made from solid pine boards.
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An 88-year-old man has died in hospital a month after being critically injured in a car crash in Brisbane's east.
Police say the man was driving his car along New Cleveland Road at chandler on September 7 in Brisbane's east when he hit the back of a ute that had stopped on the road.
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Even though our bakery mainly produces bread, this does not stop us celebrating World Chocolate Day! We devised a delicious chocolate bread recipe and created some unctuous ideas of how to enjoy them so read more to find out how we made 4 delicious treats with chocolate bread!Read More
21st-30th June is National Picnic Week (not that anyone needs an excuse to have a picnic). But how can you make the picnic a little bit more special? Read below for some delicious picnic ideas, perfect for the coming summer months!Read More
The 13th-19th of May marks Coeliac UK Awareness Week 2019, this years theme asks the question "is it Coeliac disease?". this blog post looks into what Coeliac disease is and 7 delicious gluten free recipes to try.Read More
We've hatched a plan to test your Easter knowledge! Take a go at our cracking 14 question quiz to see if you can egg-ceed your egg-spectations. We carrot wait to hear how you all get on!Read More
Wonder what goes on behind the scenes of a commercial bakery? Meet our in-house NPD and technical team who develop our recipes, make sure our products are up to our high standards and many other things. Have a read to find out a little more about what they do.Read More
Fosters Bakery purchase 2 new, fully computerised sourdough tanks which gives us the capacity to produce 2,000 more loaves a day. These new tanks also mean that we can keep production going as when one tank runs low it automatically switched to the other tank. Read our blog post to find out more!Read More
March 18th 2019 marks Global Recycling Day, a day which was created to recognise the importance of recycling and our planet. Read below to learn some surprising recycling facts, tips for better recycling and how we at Fosters Bakery, recycle, reduce our energy usage and waste.Read More
A key issue within the food industry is the amount of waste caused by problems in the production, distribution, shelf-life, consumer preferences and the list continues! This blog post explains how we can all reduce our bread waste, whether you are a home-baker or multi-national company!Read More
BRC Global Standards for Food Safety is developed by a range of people within the food industry, experts within foodservice, retail and manufacture. We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded Grade AA (Issue 8).Read More
Fibre is an important part of our diets and is often found in cereals, breads, lentils, beans, vegetables and fruits. A recommended intake for an adult is 30g per day, however, most people are not meeting this recommended amount.. There are many benefits to consuming the right amount of fibre so read this blog post to find out what they are!Read More
To celebrate Valentine's Day and to make use of some of our leftover dough, we have made some love heart shaped bread! We have also recommended some flavour pairings and how to add a little sparkle. This is very easy to try at home to impress a loved one!Read More
Food safety and the allergen failures have resulted in the increased scrutiny of companies to be on top of their allergen controls (which they should be anyway). This blog post will discuss the top 14 allergens, how companies should be presenting their allergens and what Fosters Bakery are doing to improve and maintain our excellent allergen controls.Read More
Veganuary is a campaign where people try to be vegan for the month of January. This blog post will discuss the growth of veganism along with looking at how the industry is adapting and considering the difficulties when it comes to product labelling.Read More
As we are heading into the new year, as well as reflecting on 2018, we thought we would rewind back to around 60 years ago to when Fosters Bakery was still in its infancy. 2019 holds a lot of uncertainty for many business due to Brexit, and during times of uncertainty it's always reassuring to look back and think how far you and your business has come.Read More
We are a good way through December now so hopefully you have already indulged in some of the tasty Christmas sandwiches on offer but if you haven't, I have put together a list of popular and well-rated sandwiches so you know which ones to go and try!Read More
In today's world, sandwiches are a staple in many of our diets as they are extremely versatile and easy to make. The sandwich has simply come from the concept of 'meat and bread'. This blog post explains briefly about where sandwiches came from and some easy but delicious sandwich ideas!Read More
World Vegetarian Day is a time for those who want to give going meat-free a try or for those who want to celebrate their vegetarian or plant-based diets. World vegetarian day was founded in 1977 by the North American Vegetarian Society and endorsed by the International Vegetarian Union in 1978. This blog runs through the brief history of vegetarianism and in turn, how this impacts or disrupts the food industry.Read More
To celebrate Sourdough September, we have delved into the history of the brilliant and versatile sourdough. Like many bakes, sourdough was supposedly created by accident in Egypt. Sourdough is made by yeast fermenting with ingredients (usually flour and water). Egyptians are known to have enjoyed their beer-brewing and bread-making so read more to see how this combination created Sourdough!Read More


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Diclofenac is an anti-inflammatory drug. It comes in other forms, including eye drops, powder packets, and transdermal gel, patch, and solution.
Talk to your doctor before taking diclofenac if you have heart disease or high blood pressure. It could make your condition worse.
Common side effects include stomach pain, nausea, and others.
Diclofenac is a prescription drug. It is available in these forms: oral (capsules, tablets), eye drops, transdermal gel, transdermal patch, transdermal solution, and powder packets for oral solution.
Diclofenac is available in its generic form. Generic drugs usually cost less. In some cases they may not be available in every strength or form as the brand. Talk to your healthcare provider to see if the generic will work for you.
Oral diclofenac is used to treat:
- arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
- mild to moderate pain
- painful menstrual cramps
Diclofenac is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
The drug works by blocking a particular enzyme in your body. When the enzyme is blocked, your body decreases the amount of inflammatory chemicals it makes. This helps to reduce inflammation and pain.
Content developed in collaboration with Susan J. Bliss, RPh, MBA
Medically reviewed by Stacey Boudreaux, PharmD and Alan Carter, PharmD on February 3, 2015


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Swirling, swirling, swirling on the Magic Roundabout, a kooky traffic circle in the UK.
Reader comments
Mar 02, 2004 at 10:57AM
I'm not sure why this has suddenly garnered so much attention. After all, there's been a "magic roundabout" at Hemel Hempstead (UK) for years now.
Mar 02, 2004 at 11:12AM
In NJ where I grew up, they've been ripping up the traffic circles (roundabouts) in favor of standard traffic-light intersections, which I find disappointing because circles can work well if everyone knows what to do. It's nice to know that there are places where drivers can actually navigate these things properly.
That said, the idea of driving one of those magic roundabouts scares the hell out of me.
Mar 02, 2004 at 11:55AM
We have one of these where I live too. It's between Benfleet and Canvey Island in Essex. I think magic roundabouts are a peculiarly British idea and, yes, they are hard to navigate… I wrote off my first car going round ours a couple of years ago.
Mar 02, 2004 at 12:13PM
I'm surprised that the middle of the thing isn't full of abandoned cars that ran out of petrol because the terrified drivers couldn't figure out how to exit.
Mar 02, 2004 at 12:38PM
I had to navigate that intersection on my first trip to England. It was completely confusing the first time, but seemed simple and obvious after that.
Peter Doctors has dedicated himself to bringing roundabouts to the USA. The Milpas/101 roundabout he mentions has been up and working beautifully for a few years now.
Mar 02, 2004 at 4:48PM
That Swindon lot are a load of rubbish. "Oh, our roundabout is magic. Oh, you haven't got one of these in Slough, now do you?" No, we… Real. We prefer our roundabouts real, not magic. So…
Mar 02, 2004 at 5:19PM
What Brent said.
Mar 02, 2004 at 5:27PM
Here in Massachusetts we are the only ones who call these things Rotaries. Of course they work wonders if people would understand how to use them. The main problem is they are based on yielding to traffic within the rotary before you enter and people can't even handle yielding on a highway onramp.
Mar 02, 2004 at 5:42PM
In NH, they're "traffic circles."
As I remember, you Massholes (nothing personal) had the opposite right-of-way rule up until sometime in the nineties - that is to say, people ENTERING the rotary had it. Insanity.
Mar 02, 2004 at 6:27PM
In New Jersey, the rule is that you yield to traffic in the rotary unless you are coming off a highway, in which case the rotary yields to you.
Jeez…I can't understand why these things don't take off!
Mar 02, 2004 at 6:29PM
they started several trail perdiods of traffic circles at various intersections in Sand Francisco last year. for the most part, people don't use them correctly, and the crosswalks, which have not been repainted to accomodate the new configuration, now place pedestrians in the line of fire of these circling cars.
Mar 02, 2004 at 8:55PM
UK rules: yeild to traffic from the right, be it on the roundabout or about to enter from the road to your right - it works fine. It would probably work great in the us if it was reversed. My experience of driving in the us suggests such niceties as looking and/or signalling before changing lanes or turning are optional - might explain why roundabouts haven't taken off. But then again I do live in Mass.
Mar 03, 2004 at 12:31AM
As an American living in England, it took me a few terrifying trips of going round and round and round the roundabouts in Surrey - afraid to move over to the right to get off. After two years, I could negotiate them without a second thought. Then I moved to Massachusetts where I had to relearn it all because we go around anti-clockwise here all the time. I'm still terrified since rotaries are basically free-for-alls here. But they beat the intersections where turning left in front of oncoming cars is standard operating procedure.
Mar 03, 2004 at 1:35AM
There's one in Waco, Texas, too, believe it or not, and you can even buy T-shirts in town that say, "I survived the circle!" Couldn't find an online picture, though.
Mar 03, 2004 at 6:51PM
after a traumatic experience driving in london and a subsequent road trip through england, just looking at that thing sends me spiraling into anxiety and panic.
Mar 04, 2004 at 5:01AM
Even in the UK lots of people still can't do the massive ones … apparently in Swindon it's standard practice if the examiner wants a reason to fail you on your driving test, they make you go around the magic roundabout.
Mar 05, 2004 at 4:37PM
I had to go to swindon the on thursday: its one of the few places where all the roundabouts have names (and there are seemingly hundreds of them): which makes directions quite easy. Survived the magic roundabout; the locals tip is to go straight through the centre of the magic roundabout avoiding all the mini roundabouts which are too small to worry about !!!
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Climb Mount Penitentes 14274 ft
Climb Mount Penitentes, we highly recommend this trek-ascent of this wild and gorgeous mountain located on the eastern side of the Andes and close to the small village of the same name. This mountain provides an excellent and enjoyable climb without any technical difficulty and its summit offers a unique view of the Aconcagua. It is a highly recommended for anyone that wants to enjoy an unforgettable experience in the Andes.
• Roundtrip transfer from your hotel in the town of Mendoza
• All meals | except in Mendoza
• Bilingual guides
• Radio communications
• All shared equipment for the expedition | Tents, stoves, etc.
• Personal items | e.g. hygiene, clothes etc.
• Personal porter
• Phone communications and items of a personal nature
• Insurance liability
• Ground or air evacuations
• Hospitalization or medication of any kind
• Any expenses due to last minute cancellations or delays
• Additional costs due to any change in the activity requested by the client
• Any other service not mentioned on this condition sheet
Day 01 Meeting with the guide in Mendoza. 800m = 2624ft
Checking of equipment and renting of extra equipment if required
Day 02 Transport to Penitentes Village | 2800 m = 9190 ft
Trekking to the base camp I 3212m = 10541 ft I through the 'Quebrada de Vargas' and overnight (4-6 hours average time)
Elevation gain 411 m = 1351ft
Day 03 Climbing of Penitentes summit 14229ft, back to base camp and overnight (5-6 hours average time)
Elevation gain 1124m = 3688ft
Day 04 Return to Los Penitentes Village and from there, transport to Mendoza (3 hours average time)
Departure 8:00 am
Return in Mendoza 7:00 pm
Average trekking time 6 – 8 h
Total elevation gain 5630ft
Difficulty Moderate
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Domain Name System (or DNS) has rightfully been called the "linchpin of today's internet". While there have been many incremental improvements to DNS over the years, what was said in 1991, remains true today.
DNS was originally invented to solve a particular set of problems that had exhibited themselves as the young Internet was starting its original growth spurt (discussed below). As we will see, elegant solutions were designed and implemented to overcome the original design flaws for naming computers on the Internet.
In 2018, a new set of problems has arisen that require a new design. As you will see, performance, availability, measurability, and reporting are the new drivers for a new DNS. A Predictive DNS.
A short walk down memory lane
Originally, DNS was developed to solve a problem that plagued the 1960's architected ARPANET. Up to that point, people just kept names and addresses of all the servers they knew about locally. The UNIX hosts table/etc/hosts, was compiled from HOSTS.TXT that was updated a couple of times a week.
When TCP/IP arrived, its protocols allowed a massively expanding number of machines to be connected to the internet. As thousands of machines started to join the internet, updating the HOSTS.TXT became problematic. Because every machine needed to be in the HOSTS.TXT file, its size became an issue. Furthermore, constantly sending the updated file to all the machines was becoming a traffic hog in itself. Initially, the file was maintained by a single machine at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and this was being hammered by all the traffic and processing required to keep things up to. Clearly, this approach was not scalable for 3 reasons:
- The constant addition of machines meant a flat name space and a single machine to keep it up to date did not scale well
- Name collisions became common. This was a serious problem. If a new machine was introduced with the same name as an existing major mail server, it could disrupt mail service to much of the Internet.
- As more hosts were added, keeping a consistent HOSTS.TXT file on each of them became nearly impossible. The updated HOSTS.TXT file simply could not be shared fast enough to all servers that needed it. [1]
Something had to change. Paul Mockapetris solved the problems by designing a system that ensured the uniqueness of names, decentralization of management, and allowed for data to be made globally available. He created a distributed, hierarchical database that was managed locally by local name servers. These name server programs were responsible for managing the local domain and subdomains, and also knew enough to send traffic outside the domain when requested.
The internet authority partitioned its top-level domains into categories.
DNS has not changed significantly since that time even through all the growth in Internet .
And yet new issues have emerged.
The new problem: internet eats the world.
Since that time, the internet has eaten the world. Everything happens on the internet and, subsequently, everything uses DNS. However, DNS was not designed for the performance, availability and security at the level that current uses demand of it.
Performance is everything on the internet. Whether it's video startup time, web page load, first person shooter or download of a new app, performance directly correlates with success. If your solution does not perform, customers leave and find your competitors. That is money out of your pocket and into someone else's.
Performance can't be tuned in one place. Rather, it's a function of many decisions and elements in an architecture. DNS is one of many elements in the chain of latency. However, it is also the one that is closest to the user.
In this simple waterfall diagram, you can see where the DNS calls are, and more importantly what the latency is. Since DNS latency includes both latency from the user to the resolver and, in the case of cache misses, from the resolver to the authoritative name server it can vary greatly as a percentage of the whole page load, but generally will be from 10%-30% of the whole payload latency.
A modern complex website might have 100-300 components to retrieve each of which has a DNS lookup, each of which takes time. This is clearly an area where performance gains might be sought.
To improve DNS performance, it's important to be able to measure the performance of DNS transactions for all the potential users and locations that might use a particular website. However, the Internet is broken into Autonomous System Numbers (ASN's), with users from over 49,000+ ASN's all potentially trying to hit a website. In order to improve DNS performance for all the users it is necessary to monitor how well its performing from all these ASNs globally. This is a massive problem. As has been shown elsewhere, only a Real User Monitoring solution can economically achieve this. Simply put: synthetic monitoring alone is not a good solution when faced with the enormity of monitoring every corner of the internet. That is not to say synthetic monitoring does not have its place. It most certainly does. In fact, when synthetic is combined with RUM, a monitoring solution can have the advantages of both with the shortcomings of neither.
Like all things "as-a-service," DNS as a service relies on a network. It is essential that a DNS provider operates a low-latency network, allowing fast resolution of DNS records wherever users are situated. Of course, it is even better if a provider can offer multiple networks (redundancy) for this service.
This problem of DNS provider availability is an important one. Much has been written about Denial of Service (DOS) attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks and other forms of cybercrime, but the fact remains that most large outages of Internet sites and apps comes from lack of redundancy. It is common knowledge that for a site to be up 24/7 you have to plan for failure.
Another problem is security. Massive DOS attacks on DNS infrastructure have been well documented as outages. Redundant DNS is the simplest means of thwarting this. Modern architectures need to support dual DNS, natively.
Administration of DNS is changing too. As the demands of performance are increasingly felt by the business, administrators have been forced to programmatically make changes in real time. This requires a method to automate DNS changes (e.g. an API that allows administrators to interact remotely and push all changes at once).
DNS Reporting is critical. Too few DNS providers offer reporting capabilities that go far enough to be useful. The ability to solve a problem is directly related to the ability to find the problem and this is why deep reporting is so important.
Paul Mockapetris looked at the failures of the original HOSTS.TXT architecture and crafted a new solution that defined DNS for the next 30 years. He formulated requirements from the problems he was seeing at the time.
And this is what Citrix is doing today: looking at the new problems that exist now and constructing systems that help mitigate those problems.
What are the requirements for the new DNS?
- Highly Performant - business now requires it
- Measurable in every corner of the internet
- Complete Active-Active Redundancy
- Complete support for all automation
- Deep, real-time reporting
The Solution: Predictive DNS
Citrix has launched Predictive DNS as part of its overall traffic management solution to address these requirements.
Implementing the Citrix DNS solution-as-a-service - across 5 completely segregated Anycast networks - provides unparalleled performance.
These 5 fully redundant Anycast networks maximize uptime. By pairing this architectural feature with Real User Monitoring (RUM) alongside synthetic monitoring, Predictive DNS ensures that the performance is optimized for each request. By creating both a UI and a full API to manage and create zones as well as update and support A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT records, Citrix allows harried administrators the most freedom in implementing their automation. And by supporting dual Active-Active DNS stack, its allows for multiple authoritative DNS sources, thereby breaking the chain of single homed DNS. Finally, this is all wrapped in industry leading reporting that allows tuning and rapid deployment of new services.
We hope this brief overview of Predictive DNS has been informational. More to the point - if you would like to give it a try, contact us at using the form below and one of my colleagues will get back with you immediately.
This guest post comes to us from Pete Mastin, a consultant to Citrix with deep experience in business and product strategy, as well as experience in various uses of AI, CDN's, IP services and Cloud technologies. He designs and executes go-to-market strategies for businesses, as well as overseen the implementation of highly scalable, multi-homed, global SaaS systems. He often speaks at conferences such as NAB (National Association of Broadcasters), Streaming Media, The CDN/Cloud World Conference (Hong Kong), Velocity, Content Delivery Summit, Digital Hollywood and Interop.


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Term 3 - Week 5 Blog Post: Choose any charitable organization that interests you and explain: a) what they do, b) why they are important & c) why you chose them. (Please also include a link to the Charity's website if they have one.)
Term 3 - Week 4: Watch and read the CBC News story about Nature vs Screen time and answer the following questions: "Do you share Louv's views? If so why / why not?" Deadline: 11:59pm April 13th
Term 3 - Week 2 - Watch the Video on Google Glass and read the news story about the woman who was attacked for wearing the product. What are your feelings on Google Glass and other people's privacy?
Term 3 - Week 1: How do you think the crisis in the Ukraine will end and why? (Remember...deadline to post you blog is Sunday, March 9th at midnight.)
Term 2 - Week #8: talk about your process of creating your video. What did you enjoy? What frustrated you? What did you learn?
Term 2 - Week 6: Take a look through your textbook index. Make a top 10 list of topics from that list that you'd like to learn about. Add 3 more Social Studies related topics to your list and briefly explain your three personal choices.
Term 2 - Week 5: Choose a famous Renaissance artist, scientist, architect, etc. and create a short 100 - 150 word biography on them. No repeats, so please check that no one has chosen the same person. DUE before 11:59pm Sunday, January 19, 2014
Term 2 - Week 2: Some argue that the ideal of "Chivalry is Dead". Should it be left alone, or is it an ideal that people should still strive for? In 150 - 200 words, explain your reasons for or against it.
Term 2 - Week 1: Go to www.teachingkidsnews.com, find a story & create summary notes based on your reading. Paste both the story and your notes into the comments. NO REPEATS, so make sure no one else has done the same story.
Week 5 Blog Response Question: "Choose one of the following topics: a) The Battle of Hastings b) Life in Feudal England c) The death of King Harold II. Write about your topic in the style of a news story. It needs to be 100 words or less."
Week 3 Blog Response Question: "Have the Vikings been represented fairly or unfairly in history? Give examples to support your opinion."
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On August 15, 2012 by Sarah Lewis
Having not ridden the horses for five days during the Royal International Horse Show it was full speed ahead to prepare for Farnham Town Show the following weekend. This is a great showground at Farnham owned and run by Tessa and Grant Talbot. They have great going and lovely courses, although sadly they have lost several shows this year due to the dreadful weather – the showground is beside a river which has flooded several times, sufficiently badly that some of the jump cups have been washed away! I got there very early as Nicky Boulter and Nick Charles had two Old Lodge Horses in the British Novice, which Prince Torki came to watch. They both went really well – it is exciting watching these babies getting going even though they aren't mine.
I took the opportunity to have a lesson on all four horses with Shane on one of the few days he was home before going to Ireland for Millstreet and Dublin shows. I started with Emma who as normal tried to run me to a little line of poles and a cross-pole, so Shane decided that he would show me that if she got ridden properly she wouldn't do that. Emma then ran him to the little line of poles and cross-pole, and was incredibly rude when told not to do that, which resulted in a fairly lengthy argument - at the time I wasn't quite sure who won, as she has the most terrible temper and hadn't really recovered when I got back on, but she has been much easier in the ring since, so it was propbably Shane. The others all jumped really well, especially Homer who is coming on so well now. His canter has improved so much and he is so much more relaxed in his jump now he realises he isn't literally jumping for his life.As I started warming Homer up for the Discovery when the heavens opened, turning the ground from good to slippery, sloppy hunting ground in about two minutes. This resulted in having the wrong studs and poor Homer slipping about the place. I managed to put the right studs in for the 1.05 and he jumped a lovely double clear. Down came the rain again for the Newcomers, but Biscuit and Emma jumped two lovely brave rounds each to be 2nd and 3rd. The decision was then made to cancel the 1.30, so Ferro just jumped a careful double clear to complete her double clears for 2013, by which time it was more like hunting than show jumping. The video of Biscuit at the bottom of the page shows just what the weather was like!
This is a really great show, on fairly flat grass, with three jumping rings, tent-pegging, a fun-fair, craft fair and lots of trade stands, which really gives tremendous experience to young horses. It is invaluable to take them to these busy shows while they are still jumping relatively small fences so that any little lapses of concentration don't result in huge disasters. I was a bit dispondent that I had made such a mistake with Ferro, but as Malcolm Pyrah reminded me that if, as an amateur, you go to a fairly serious show and win a class you probably should think you have had a good day! I was thrilled with Emma and Biscuit and I think Ferro just reminded me that I need to ride so much better to compete at the next level.All the horses jumped well at the Pyecombe Summer show, although Ferro did have a horrible slip on a corner in the Ladies Championship which with such a careful horse I should have probably taken into account when chosing which class to enter her in at Bicester and Finmere show. When I arrived at Bicester and Finmere this Sunday and walked the course for the 1.30 I thought it was pretty huge, but that Ferro should be OK. Although they had the open water with a 1.30 upright over it, which I thought might be a problem. She jumped very well until the water where she had her brakes firmly on, she did go second time, but with a real helicopter jump and rather frightened herself. You live and learn, although in my case the learning bit is sometimes incredibly slow. Hopefully no real harm will have been done and I am about to take her schooling to make sure she feels confident. On the plus side both Emma and Biscuit went really well in the Newcomers, Biscuit just dropping a pole while she was looking at something else, and Emma winning quite easily.
Apart from giving Ferro a school the horses are up for a quiet week as I have four days of working at Addington where Old Lodge have eight smart young horses competing at the Young Horse Championships. It will be a great experience to see just what the top young horses are expected to jump, and I will be in my best photo and video taking form.


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Visiting Iceland was like visiting in alien planet. Vast, barren, and mountainous from afar, it was unlike anything I've ever seen from up close. In some parts, the ground was just completely covered in moss and it felt like I was walking on a sponge. In others parts where the ground was littered with miles of volcanic rock, Iceland looked like the moon. Then there was the Northern Lights, the complete rainbow that loomed over Thursday, and most importantly, the Blue Lagoon. I'd never have thought I'd swim in a geothermal hot spring.
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We ran our first proper user trial last month. And it was successful.
The brave girls and boys of the consulting firm 4OC were responding to an invitation to tender and offered to use TextThing to write their bid document.
A team of six people worked on the bid. They divided it into ten chunks of text, which they wrote separately over two weeks. When complete, the chunks were combined and exported to a Word document (the submission format required by their prospective client).
The highlights from a feedback survey were that: most people said they enjoyed working in Markdown and would recommend it to colleagues; everyone said they thought TextThing would improve their effectiveness compared to their existing tools (which included Office 365)...
Answers to, "Was there anything that surprised you about TextThing?" were...
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We were delighted.
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On Friday, September 20th, BMW's Mini Lounge hosted the 4th Pechakucha Daegu.
Mesh Printing - [b] racket's artistic duo Christopher Cote and Jess Hinshaw - made the wicked poster.
Steven Skorski, most recently involved with [b]racket in our gallery show [b] list, discussed his work teaching architecture at Keimyung University. Architecture's a difficult thing to grasp, even in one's mother tongue. Skorski, teaching in English, has the second hurdle of teaching students in a nonnative language. Rather than just using an endless stream of reworded explanations, he focuses on the visuals architecture and art to communicate concepts past the language barriers that arrise teaching in English at a Korean university.
Other presenters were Inhye Kim, SooJung Kim, and Sung Choi, the ladies of the amazing independent bookstore The Pollack. If you haven't been yet, you should get on that and go. Here's a map. And, you can always pick up a copy of [b]racket while you're there.
One of the coolest things about this Pechakucha? Live video chats with other Pechakuchas all over the world that were happening at the same time. The next Pechakucha for Daegu hasn't been scheduled yet. But we'll keep on top of that and let you know when it is.
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Supporting the Future of Agriculture by Giving Back Locally
Here at Pinnacle Agriculture we're proud to support youth and the future of our industry. Pinnacle Agriculture, sponsored a market lamb at the Jeff Davis Parish Fair Fall Classic in Baton Rouge, LA. The livestock exhibitors kindly wrote the following thank you notes to show their appreciation. We enjoy supporting the local communities where we operate.


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Acid reflux and heartburn can cause inflammation and obstructions in the esophagus – if we become too acidic, the body with start to leech calcium from the bones which can lead to various long term health problems. Keeping a good pH balance in the body is essential for reducing acidity. Here are six natural remedies and lifestyle changes which may help to balance this:
1. Start the day with 1/2 fresh lemon and warm water, lemon is very alkaline to the digestive system.
2. Green juices or smoothies are also a great way to start the day.
3. Reduce/remove dairy and wheat from your diet for 3 months, both are very acid forming, especially when we already have problems with digestion.
4. Staying hydrated is important for reducing acidity and keeping the digestive system happy and helps the bowels to break down food, reducing more stress on the digestive system.
5. If you feel an attack of acid reflux, try drinking some warm water or adding a little sodium bicarb which can help to neutralise the acidity.
6. Introduce GREENS into your diet – look at your plate, is there anything fresh and green on there? Try and have at least half of your main meal consisting of greens and vegetables or a raw green salad once a day.
The only way to control the pH naturally long term is to make some of these very basic lifestyle changes. Dis-ease finds it hard to develop in a alkaline body – this is a great incentive!
More information around this topic:
- HEART HEALTH – Enough about Cholesterol what about Homocysteine?
- Do you drink enough water?
- Warning! Energy Drinks Alter Your Heartbeat!
- The Benefits of a Lemon Detox


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Dujie Tahat
I tuck my kids into bed two nights every other weekend, with an occasional weekday somewhere in between. The youngest two pretty much spent the first two years of their sleeping life on my chest & so what I'm trying to say is I'm still learning to live with the trade-offs of becoming the smaller, part-time parent. I don't know that there's a poem in there but I'm pretty sure the poetry lies here: I left both my father & wife. There is so much grief in both estrangements & I'm begging for forgiveness & grace from one that I refuse to extend the other.
I've been told marriage is a house
of God but my temple is full of doubts.
What I mean by that
is my father was a chamber
full of empty prayers,
rolled & stuffed to the brim
& my mother was the wind
pulled through the reeds at varying frequencies,
straining against herself.
Have you ever felt the wind lose its air?
Seen a buoy plummet to the ocean floor?
It's times like these I believe most in the blues.
My son asks me if we can do a sleep over,
and my throat chokes on its own.
My daughters are of different minds.
My oldest still won't call my place home.
My youngest still holds wonder in everything—
even the empty walls in my apartment.
I belong to a long line of fathers
who've disappointed their sons—
their daughters, even more.
My father still thinks he can sing.
He can't but he tries.
I know better. If I could, I would
sing like a fiddle sliding into a more honest register,
lilting headlong into a truth.
I'll never make you blue, so much
I'll actually believe it.
My mother never did
so much as write a love letter
to the man—knowing a blues player,
more than most, can play
two strings at the same time
& make them sound
just as sweet as a Shanghai rooster.
Dujie's family moved to Washington state when he was 5 years old, shortly after arriving to America. He grew up in Yakima, went to college in Walla Walla, and moved to Seattle in 2014 to take a job that provided for his young family. Dujie still lives and works in Seattle with his three kids.


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The two key areas Exeter Chiefs dominated to destroy Newcastle
Watching Exeter beat Newcastle in the Premiership play-off semi-final was like watching the Borg in Star Trek; assimilating opponents to the collective - resistance was futile.
After the first half, the stats read thus: Metres run - Chiefs 366 Falcons 10. Possession - Chiefs 91 per cent. Territory - Chiefs 93 per cent. I cannot recall a more one-sided play-off semi-final and if there was stage fright from the Falcons, it was also a remarkable, and remarkably accurate, performance from the Chiefs. They will only be undone by a better collective, like the one of Leinster or a side that, as well as being effective in aggregate, has exceptional individuals able to unlock their collective.
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Well, after 10 long days at Mayo Clinic I am finally home. It feels good to be back, however, my time spent at Mayo was well worth it! After 8 long years I finally have a diagnosis. I have what is called Non-Epileptic Spells. It is a disease of the sub-conscience. It is caused by some type of trauma to my sub-conscience, and is cured by cognitive therapy on the sub-conscience level which includes things such as hypnosis.
I know this sounds quite strange. It took me days to wrap my head around what all this means. The doctors at the clinic were excellent and more than willing to spend quite a bit of time explaining this diagnosis to me. At first I thought they were telling me I was crazy and that it was all in my head, but they were very adamant to point out that this is a real disease and something completely beyond my control. They said it is actually quite common but very hard to diagnose, they see a lot of it because most people end up at Mayo in order to get the correct diagnosis. In fact while I was there another lady was discharged who received the same diagnosis...her symptoms were almost identical to mine. Basically my sub-conscience is making my body sick. Doctors I spoke with said that this is a very powerful and serious disease, they have seen it cause a variety of other diseases including cancer and even death. In my case it is sending me into mini coma's.
The good news is that the doctors are very hopeful that I can fully recover from this and go on to live a happy, healthy, life. It is not going to be easy, and it's not going to happen overnight, but I can do it and I will get better. I have an appointment on Monday to talk with my insurance company to find the best person on my insurance plan that specializes in this kind of cognitive therapy.
Thank you again for all of your prayers, love, and support. I don't know if I could have made it this far without you!
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