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Thank you for this article, it's good to not feel so alone all the time. I have one person I can talk to, other that that, I just don't talk about the things that I feel are important. On the net I feel like I'm part of a community, but in real life I work alone on all this. I appreciate knowing that others are out there.
"My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane". How true is that?
I feel exactly the same way! My husband thinks I'm crazy, at work I'm an alarmist, my sister feels the same way I do, but refuses to take steps to prepare. I am trying to prepare first for my family of four, secondly for an extended family of about 24 and then thirdly for anyone left over, but doing it alone is hard! Your article caught my feelings up perfectly!
I feel lucky, growing up with older, depression-era parents, then being part of the 'hippie', self-sufficient, collective movement in the 1970s.
I learned to make-do, a lot.
Also, having studied Chinese Medicine, I now have 10,000 years of periodic disasters and survival knowledge to back me up.
Remember, we are the progeny of those pioneers, explorers and survivors from the last disaster.
We are genetically programmed to make it through.
Hurrah!! For the holders of knowledge and the preppers.
"A worsening global economy fueled by excess government spending, undeserved entitlements, and a dearth of decent, well-paying jobs"
Regarding excess gov't spending…hope you realize that most of the gov't spending includes the Pentagon and our various Wars, as well as the interest on our nation's debt (Treasuries).
By 'undeserved entitlements…hope you are referring to the massive gov't subsidies given to Corporations. Many major multi-national corporations pay nothing in the way of taxes.
However, if you are talking about SS and Medicare, working people paid into those programs. It's not as if the gov't didn't get payroll taxes for these programs. And Food Stamps, I know there are a few who scam the system, but I am in no way going to see people hungry.
Of late, I have noticed people walking around who look as if they are starving…they are so very thin and their clothes are barely hanging on to the frames of their bodies.
Decent middle-class jobs: again look to the Corporate world and see how the CEOs have decided to move millions of jobs off-shore.
Last, look at what has been done since the Financial Collapse of 2008….Nothing. All of those banksters who caused the mess are still there, but now it's actually worse. The Commercial banks have bought the Investment banks…no more Glass Steagall! We're doomed.
And as far as I'm concerned the 'hippies' were right. They lived in community that was self-sustaining. What is wrong with that?
My grandfather wouldn't even discuss The Great Depression with me….it was that horrible. But my grandmother never turned a 'hobo' away. She gave them a seat at the table with everyone else.
Everyone needs to take a walk on 'the poor side of town' and see what it's like. Visit a Domestic Violence Center and count your blessings. The budgets for anything to do w/ women, children, and the elderly are ALWAYS the first to be cut. Why? They have the weakest voices.
I hope these Truths don't distort your selfish outlook. Just remember, but for the Grace of God go I. In the blink of an eye, your island could be washed away. Then what? Take a cruise?
P.S. There is nothing one can do to shake people out of Denial.
The knowledge that is truly necessary is the knowledge required to be self sufficient. One could then detach, and stop supporting the uber parasites who caused most of this. Without hosts the parasites will die, so if enough folks detach, or actively work toward it, the parasites will have to drop the deception to feed, or do some usefull work!! Then everyone will know, and there will be no need to teach.
While it is good to have stored goods and emergency preps, what is really necessary is a sustainable lifestyle that requires only local imputs and alows one to detach from the system. There would then be little need to worry about what "they" are doing, or about what happens when your storage is depleted.
What does it mean to detach? Here is a 12 step program. Under the current system, almost no one can take all the steps, some will not want to, and others by luck and/or foresight will be there already. Some will disagree, or not mind supporting their oppressors. Some may suggest further steps, and they are welcome to. However, I believe there is value in obtaining what freedom is possible now.
1. Stop watching their media, it is not called programming for nothing! Or, monitor it just enough to compile a list of advertizers to boycott. Withdrawal was difficult for me, as i was a "news junkie"; but now, after a media fast, the lies are so obvious it is painfull. The "attitude adjustments" in other programming and movies are much more insidious, few can catch them all. A free mind does not need subconcious or subliminal programming.
2. If you have a choice, don't work for them. Work for yourself if possible, otherwise, avoid government at all levels; and corporations with government ties or contracts. This includes Big Ag, Big Banks, "defence" Big Finance, Big Pharma and corporations they control. It also includes professions that require major interaction with those mentioned.
3. Live debt free. If you have debt, pay it off if possible. If you are bankrupt, face up to it and get it over. Whatever your situation, debt enslaves you to the system, being free and detached requires carrying little or no debt.
4. If you receive government money, (pension, disability, SS, SNAP, whatever), try to develop other resources until you can live without it.
5. Don't loan to or borrow from them, or let them "manage" your money; keep your money out of banks if possible, or in small local banks or credit unions if not. Otherwise they win and you lose.
6. Buy local if possible. When buying local, favor those who produce and hire local.
7. Avoid transfer "taxes" and fees on plastic. Transaction fees paid by merchants are free money for the banks and cause everything to cost more. Pay cash when possible.
8. Produce your own food, and/or purchase locally grown and raised food. Consider local hunting or fishing if it produces real returns (this is rare) and you have the necessary skills. If none of these is possible, consider moving to where they are possible.
9. Produce your own heat. If you live where winter heating is necessary, find a way to provide that without outside inputs. Locally purchased local firewood being the major exception. If building, consider designing for passive solar.
10. Produce your own power/energy if you can afford to. In most places even the most efficient and appropriate home energy system will cost more than it pays back based on current utility costs, especially if not grid tied. The exception is a good micro hydro site. But if you can afford it, you are buying peace of mind and will not have to worry about grid failure. Having a whatever home power you can afford fosters independence. If you can't afford it, consider methods used before electricity was common. For example, home canning some of your produce (maybe on an outside wood stove?) instead of freezing it.
11. Income taxes. Obviously, if you can provide for all your needs without "income" you don't need to pay income tax. Considering the required money to pay other taxes though, this is almost impossible for most property owners. Ideas anyone??
12. Property taxes: Unless you happen to be a minister living on a church farm, there are few ways of avoiding property taxes. (If you rent, you are paying them to your landlord) There are attempts in some states to abolish property taxes, but no success so far.
Well said, Gaye. At some level we must trust our instincts and our intuition that have allowed most of us to survive and thrive up til now. I am winning converts in my family and social circles by remaining calm and being proven right time after time by the events and shams unfolding around us. Sensible people recognize all is not right. We will always have cognitive dissonance to deal with in some members of society, but common sense will prevail for more and more. Hopefully, enough people will get it before it's too late. I'm glad you are helping people get to that place with your sites!
It's been said: "I would rather stand outside, in the pouring rain, holding up the shabbiest TRUTH than walk in opulence carrying The Best Dressed Lie." Your burden of truth may be heavy; but your strength and courage to carry it ranks right up there with Generals of The U. S. Army.
Well done. You have an eloquent and succint way of addressing the problems ahead. It is depressing being the loner, but it is worth doing considering what lies ahead. Who knows, the child you save might be your future savior. Blessings!
Oh, and I can see why you and Ure have been friends for so long. You are both really good writers.
A wise woman answered my complaint once, with these words,
"A pioneer is always alone."
I think being able to stand alone with your own truth is a good survival skill.
You know, my son tried to enlighten me after 9/11. I wasn't hearing it, I wasn't having it. I was in denial.
Its been probably 3 years ago, that my eyes popped open. Its such a sad day when it finally happens, you cry, you curse and shake your head. There are days I wish they were still closed, just because the burden of truth is so heavy, and most of the people around me still have their eyes closed to it. My husband has finally realized the truth, but occasionally he will say something to me that is very media driven, but I remember that period of awakening. When it just goes against every fiber of your being to believe our own govt. does things/allows things to happen that directly effect its own citizens.
There is not a day that goes by that I am not thinking about this. There are those in my family that think I am crazy for storing food, and other items. They laugh at my BOB. I just tell them that I pray to God, I will never ever have to use it, but it gives me a small measure of peace to know its there in case of a problem. Same with my stock of food and "other" things. I am a 50 year old woman with serious back problems, I don't want to bug out. But if it comes to it, I am ready and will do it. There are bears here, and I will soon have my can of bear mace. (Please God dont let me bug out while the bears are hungry!)
I'm not completely depressed about this like I was at the beginning of this journey, you can only wallow in that muck for so long, then you realize you need to take action. Get prepared, even if all you buy in a week of preparing is some batteries. Just doing that gives me a measure of peace. I dipped jute in paraffin yesterday, and felt better about my BOB!
Its a lonely journey, compounded by the fact that you try to alert others to the way things are, only to have them scoff at you. I feel a responsibility to tell others that they should prep, even if the only thing that happens is weather related, thinking maybe they could relate to that, not bringing Chem-trails into the conversation!
I am an "Extremist" a "Doomsday Prepper" a "Conspiracy Theorist" the list goes on and on…at first it was hurtful. Now I just don't care, call me what you will. I am not completely ready, and probably never will be, but always working at it in some way. So I prep. I know a few things that are certain truths to me. I don't want to die from starvation. I don't want to die from dehydration, or dysentery having no clean water supply. If my time comes, I will go happily to Heaven. But, if its not my time, and the SHTF I don't need to suffer.
**As a side note…I wrote this but had to leave the house for a while, hadn't posted yet. I got back on the PC to see an old friend of mine on FB has started seeing whats going on around her, she re-posted a video I had posted last week. Guess I wont delete that account just yet (I had been considering it). Maybe another person has been yanked out of her sleep!
Just one thing I will like to share. I believe that people who are seeking truth and knowledge is not burdensome for anyone but the 1%. In fact, preparedness as a way of life is enlightening and keeps one focused on doing good things and in turn lessens anxiety, stress.
I have been 'early' for the past four years waiting for the wheels to fall off the bus. I have been laughed at more than once, and have moved my cash out of the market losing the great returns of the last few years. I sometimes feel that I might be wrong, as everyone else seems to think that everything, well not everything is just fine, even if there are some problems.
I seem to have looked at this deeper than most of them, and feel that prepping is the correct thing to do, even if nothing goes wrong in the immediate future. Keeping up the act is getting harder, but my preps are also getting better, so I really do not have much room to complain.
I have seen a lot of articles on this particular topic lately and I am glad to read them as I have been feeling particularly burdened with this knowledge lately. I teach gov/econ and it is hard trying to wake people up. Everyday I carefully tread water to wake up the youth without pissing off someone above me too much as to get fired. It's hard to tell how much of this stuff sinks in but I think the younger people are really waking up to this.
A student sent me this email last week about her interesting encounter with her bank and it was a sign of hope for me that the truth is exploding, even amongst the average person. Maybe you all will like this too. The video she refers to is "Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets of Money Part 4" which I showed to all my econ kids within the past week. My AP MacroEcon student gave me permission to share her experience:
"Hi Mrs.Y,
I just got out of a meeting with my bank agent because I had deposited about $300 in my checking account and for some reason it didn't show up on my account anymore. Also, it showed that a second account was opened in my name so I figured my account had been compromised and I made an appointment to find out what was going on. I made sure I read over all of my mail from Bank of America to make sure I wasn't the one making the mistake.
So I went to the bank and I explained what was going on and that I wanted my money back and they tried to come up with some BULL that my dad had opened it. I got my dad on the phone (who was pissed at this point) saying that he didn't open it. The bank agent apologized saying "oh no sorry ma'am I believe something that you bought from a store was possibly compromised and that's why your account has been frozen." (Yet I haven't used my account for anything in months) so he starts pulling a bunch of crap and I finally just say "I know how the bank system works…"
I went on explaining to him how the video said it worked and his eyes got wide and he asked me how I old I was and I told him 18. He started smiling and giggling saying that he was at work, but if he were anywhere else he would have laughed his ass off in amazement. So he immediately returned my money (+ the money from the past month of paychecks) and cancelled that second account and gave me a new temporary card.
New found respect for my (super limited) Econ knowledge. I just wanted to share my experience with you! Have a nice day!"
It doesn't help us any, that some people who talk-the-talk ARE whacky. I encountered this lady when responding to a classified ad…she knew what was going on in this country….but she was telling people not to pay their credit card bills- and would spam people with crazy emails from rumor-mongers…. Or the guy I encountered in a store once, who'd go on and on about the Masons and the Bilderbergers et al, as if they controlled everything that ever happens in your life every minute of every day. My point: There do seem to be a lot of paranoid types and unstable people out there who "sound like us"; and not to mention that the gooberment is putting out a lot of false info disguised as alternate media- so that those who can not discern often don't know what is true and what's not….
Add to that, that the majority of our society is brainwashed in government schools, to hold a worldview which renders them perpetual children who go through their lives as slaves- and that brainwashing is bolstered for the rest of their lives through the media- and it is evident that we live in a time when lies are the norm, and those who merely use reason and logic, and who use their eyes to see; and speak the simple truth, are seen as radicals.
I just stopped caring. I rather watch the world burn then to bother with the sheep.
Just as well; we can not un-do the brainwashing of the massive system of media and public schools- except to those who already have a clue/see the cracks.
This verse from the Bible comes to mind:
Ezekiel 14:20 "Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.". (Times are so treacherous that even the most righteous men who ever lived would not even be able to influence those of their own households and families. How much the less, strangers?)
Your premise that "we" are an educated populace is wrong. The US population is woefully ignorant (especially of history), practically illiterate,yet believe they are educated because they have been told they are. They are gullible, trust "experts" and authorities, and follow what "most people believe" when they are cued by TV hair-dos quoting "polls". I feel your burden and have found that most folks are asleep…until the "authorities" step on THEIR toes, then they start to get a glimmer. Hey, who am I to judge? I was them, until I realized that "my" local school was actually nothing more than a brainwashing facility for CHILDREN and a tool for local "business leaders" to fleece property owners. Once I started researching school reform (impossible, and a diversionary tactic) I couldn't go back to being clueless.To every time, there is a season…..
THAT is one of the best and most observant comments I have read in YEARS!
It seems that the more formal education one has, the more naive they are; and the more they just trust "the system" and are incapable of rading between the lines/seeing what is going on before their own eyes.
I know/have known a few Ph.D's. One, consistently loses money in the stock market, because he listens to the media and his broker, and buys when the market is at a peak! Another, bless her soul, with 4 degrees, in her late 40's, is just now "waking up" and realizes that she wasted her life, as she no longer cares to work ion the politically-correct environment in which she is forced to if she wants to keep persuing a career in her chosen field- and now she is in massive debt for all the degrees; as well as having dedicated half of her life to acquiring them and working in that field. She's basically starting out all over again, as she is about to turn 50- from where she shoulkd have been as a teenager- only now she has the added burden of a huge debt.
Kids today can barely even write cursive script anymore; and forget about doing any math without a calculator or computer! (People see me doing math in my head when I use my checkbook in a store, and look at me like I'm some kind of genius :D)
I was one of the lucky ones: In the late 70's, I saw what was going on…and dropped out of high-school. That was when my education began! My only regret is that I wasted so many earlier years sitting in those classrooms; listening to a bunch of socialist garbage being espoused by some 23 year-old liberal dingbat who didn't know her own butt from a hole in the ground, preach some gobblety-gook to 13 year-olds as if it were true, because she read it in a book and was being paid to preach it.
Bravo for a refreshingly true comment!
I know the doubt and intraspection of becoming aware. It is truly settling and uplifting to know that others share my vision and I am not crazy. That was the hardest part for me. I am the only one that sees this, I must be crazy. So I re-evaluated and re-investigated and tried to fit the facts (as I knew them) in to a different scenario, but the results were the same. After I awokened I stated to meet others that shared my vision. I shared my vision with those around me and mostly recieved the same response that everyone else has recieved. BUT one person I work with woke up and another I learned was already awake. That impact was huge. I AM NOT CRAZY, I am doing the right thing for my family though thye remain asleep. It has been difficult and I have had to be creative. I did not build a water resavoir, I built a fish pond. We did not learn to live with less, we went on a long term hiking trip. We did not grow a garden to become more food independent we are saving money and getting good exercise. Just last week, my father woke up, I wish I could figure out what I said… Thank you and everyone else who posts, it is good to know that I am not alone and that I am not crazy.
The rush of finding a like-minded person in this world is like finding a long-lost family member. To know you can speak your mind and discuss deep, intense issues with a new person is the best feeling, its like a drug for me.
I just signed up for an educator training at the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. I wonder if I will find any like-minded people there? Hahaha, well I want them to know that there are a few educators out there waking people up to the scam.
Always the people who are aware of the most seem the unhappiest, but that doesn't have to be that way. Too many people follow and walk this earth blind to what is really going on in our daily lives. the comforting feeling is that at least i'm aware of those issues…


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I hope you're right about it, if he's 100% into it, there's no reason why he shouldn't win.
I've watched most of UFC/GSP fights this week, specially the loss against serra, the GSP then is no comparaison to today's GSP for sure. Nonetheless I still think that dealing with this latent "hype" for the superfight while training for another, lesser fight has to be a distraction of some sort, at this level of notoriety, we really don't know how much private life these guys still have.
I for one really like GSP as both a fighter and a person, I guess these are the types of fighters that I like, fairly humble yet aware of their worth (i.e. realistic), hard working, smart, and class acts all the way.
But as much as I like watching GSP, I still believe a fight vs Silva will be no walk in the park and putting together a gameplan to counter the spider should be the result of a weeks long brainstorming.
What is exciting about this bout is that it's some sort of "natural talent vs intelligence/hard work" like "Jimmy hendrix (silva) vs Joe satriani (GSP)"
They both put on great shows at some exceptions (the Kos fight, which seemed to me more like a public humiliation ala "look I hit you with the exact same move for 25 minutes and there's nothing you can do about it", or the Maia fight for silva, or at least the last 3 rounds where silva were obviously kinda "bored")
but truly, Silva starts with a HUGE advantage, Weight, size, reach and stand up technique (GSP is good there too but I don't see him nearly as good as silva which, basically, is an alien)
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it'll all come down to how and if silva can stop GSP's takedowns, and he has the tools to do it, and probably catch GSP on the way in
but with GSP, everything is possible and maybe we'll see him standing against silva, he certainly is a very high level striker himself, but really I don't see how GSP could win this other than rashaading a decision maybe, IF he can get andy down (yet if he can't, nobody can, the Sonnen fight is somewhat irrelevant as silva was then hurt)
And this is what is exciting about this fight, GSP clearly comes in as the underdog, and he's very good at surprising people (i.e. standing against KOS for 5 rounds) pulling out techniques out of his hat, so who knows what he could set up preparing against the spider?
I suspect the post fight discussion to be at least as heated as the current ones, because there would be tons of excuses for the loser
if Silva loses
- GSP played "safe"
- Silva's too old
if GSP loses
- silva was too big
- not his natural weightclass
blah blah blah
But I'm not seeing GSP winning this one by being safe, the longer you hang with the spider, the more likely you are to get caught by some flying kick/punch/elbow of some sort.
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Happy Daddy Day!
Peek wishes all the father's out there a wonderful father's day this weekend! We loved all the photos that were submitted in our Father's Day contest on Facebook. We selected this great photo which we thought represented such a great memory of being at the beach with dad's and the innocent fun that can be had! A special congratulations to Shawn A for the entry, and take a look at the winning photo below:
Your Soccer "Cheat Sheet"
You may have noticed a little bit of soccer-mania in the air. Yep, it's the World Cup, running from June 12 – July 11. Four years ago, it was played in Germany; this time, the site is South Africa, and it's already proving to be full of surprises and heartbreaks.
In case you need a little primer, here are some fun facts you might need to know:
Flopping and Diving: Watch these players carefully. Soccer players can throw tantrums too, and at the slightest bump can fall to the ground so it looks like they were hit a lot harder (is this a familiar bedtime sight for you too?). Why do they do this? Sometimes, it's to get the refs to call a foul on another player; sometimes it's just to run out the clock a bit, so the other team has less time to score. It's annoying, and it's also funny. And it's a big part of futbol.
Red Cards: You've surely noticed that players get "carded" when they foul. They generally get a yellow card as their first warning; too many of those, and a player can get a red card – and get kicked out of the game. Parenting note: you will start telling your kids they will get a red card if they don't get to the table in 3…2…1…
Vuvuzelas: You've surely noticed that annoying buzzing sound playing constantly in the background of every game? Those are vuvuzelas, plastic horns about a yard long that South African fans love, but many others loathe. There's talk of banning them, but for now, they're an omnipresent reminder of the unique location of this year's games.
There's also one very cool thing to note about our team. Most other national teams look pretty homogeneous – all the same. The US team reflects the diversity of our population – our players' families have come from all over to create a "multi-culti" team. Jose Torres' parents are Mexican, and though he grew up here, he usually plays in Mexico; Stewart Holden was born in Scotland and moved here as a kid; the powerful Oguchi Onyewu's parents are from Nigeria, while Jozy Altador's are from Haiti; Clint Dempsey grew up in Texas, but played against Mexican kids in his trailer park. The coach is Bob Bradley, and his son, Michael Bradley, is one of the best players on the team.
One more bit of drama: When Ghana plays Germany on June 23 (check out the coolest full schedule ever, here), it'll really be brother-against-brother: Jerome and Kevin Boateng are brothers whose mom is German and whose dad is from Ghana. They each made a different team — and will play against each other. Ask the kids: What would that be like?
Of course, you'll want to shop our collection of limited-edition World Cup tees. Regardless of who you're rooting for, they're a fun way to celebrate "the beautiful game."
Peek Celebrates the World Cup with Limited Edition Tees!
So what's all the fuss about? Why do we care so much about the World Cup?
The World Cup is the most popular sporting event in the world. It has taken place every 4 years since 1930 (except for 1942 and 1946 due to the world war)and lasts an entire month. This year it will have over a billion worldwide viewers. Countries from every corner of the globe send teams with the hopes of winning the $31 million prize and the coveted trophy (surprisingly not a cup).The World Cup is organized and run by FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association)which is based in Zurich, Switzerland. The tournament currently has 32 teams that are vying for the title.
World Cup Fun Facts:
- 18 tournaments have been held since 1930.
- 7 different countries have won the tournament: Brazil, Italy, England, Germany, Uruguay, Argentina and France
- Brazil had the most titles with 5 tournament wins and are the only team to have competed in all 18 tournaments
- Italy won the 2006 World Cup and are the current champions
- Peek is celebrating this global event with a series of vintage-inspired tees for boys and baby.
England Tee
England won the world cup in 1966 (get it; there's a 66 on the back). England was the host of the tournament that year and they beat West Germany to get their one (and only) World Cup win. They were the first host team to win since Italy in 1934. We celebrate their achievement with a shirt in the team's famous red color, with a jersey-style graphic on the back that represents the year they won.
Italia Tee
Italy is the current reigning champion of the World Cup tournament after winning in 2006. They have won 4 (1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006) titles and have hosted twice, in 1934 and 1990. We celebrate their achievements with our shirt representing their win in 1982.
Brazil Tee
Brazil has the most tournament wins with 5 titles. They are the only team that has participated in all 18 tournaments and are always a popular team, if not the most popular. They are hosting the 2014 tournament. We celebrate their 1970 title with this tee that reads World Champions on the front.
The Boys of Summer
Maybe summer is so magical because it comes in ready-made episodes. The rest of the year plods along, week by week, but when summer rolls around you find yourself suddenly jumping from one year to the next. "That was the summer I learned to ride a bike." "That was the summer I learned to water ski." "That was the summer when the annoying little tomboy up the hill turned into… Miranda." Summer means growing up, piece by piece, in all its bittersweet glory.
Peek clothes are designed with memories in mind. When one of our tees makes you isntantly wistful, we get happy. That's why we use retro typeface and graphics inspired by our own memories. Then you put them on your kids, and they create their own memories, and the cycle continues. Captured on a carousel of time!
Peek tees, shirts and shorts go together in myriad combinations to create an array of effortless summer looks. Here are some of our favorites – bet you can use your own memories as a jumping-off point for outfits of your own.
Water is such a summertime staple. Whether it's found at the beach, the lake, the pond, or the sprinklers out back – that wet stuff is the only way to cool off on a hot day. Did you learn to paddle a canoe at camp? Did you screw up your courage to water-ski at your grandpa's summer place? Did your dad let you stay up after dark and create a "thunderstorm" in the driveway by running the hose up to the terrace above? Did you get to fill a super-soaker and blast each other backwards while your mom fretted that you'd somehow put an eye out? Catch a wave, wherever it is… or explore our other tees (baseball! soccer! funny stuff!) and see what dormant memories they awaken in you.
When summer rolls around, "dressing up" becomes less about pinchy shoes and more about… anything that's fancier than a tee. Especially in California, where casualwear rules all year 'round, a family picnic or after-church barbecue means comfort while he runs around after his newfound friends. This is the shirt for firefly hunting, for funny faces in family photos, for walking to the ice cream store all by himself (he doesn't have to know you're watching from the upstairs window) with a dollar clutched in one hand and his little cousin's hand in the other.
Pants begone! But while we've got fond memories of cutoff shorts, our moms just remember the frustration of them ripping in the wrong place, trailing strings, and looking way worse than they felt. Oh, the fights over those precious cutoffs! Never fear – Peek has thought of it all, including "cutoff" shorts with a raw edge that's reinforced (to save your sanity) even as it's cute, comfortable and casual for maximum knee-exposure.
Summer Days, Drifting Away… But Oh!
What is it about summer memories? There's something so nostalgic to remember those warm summer nights, the humidity, the playing, and let's not forget the endless summer sunlight.
Here at Peek, we're all about harnessing those feelings, bottling them, and infusing all our summer clothes with their heady brew. We want our kids to have the same cherished summer memories, plus a few of their own. It's for them that we make sure every item we sell is easy to wear, easy to clean, sturdily constructed and just plain gorgeous. To kids, an outfit like a Matta skirt with a matching tee, paired with sneakers and maybe some warm leggings for the evening chill, say "Wear me, and have fun." To parents, they say "Don't worry. The pictures will be great, and you can throw the clothes in the wash (and the kids in the bath)." Win-win!
Here are some of the memories cherished by Peek staffers:
- Lying on top of the Ford Fairlane, watching the pale streaks of a meteor shower gently slashing the sky.
- My mom waking us up so we could go watch the Northern Lights over a lake in Maine.
- Dad telling me to see if I could run across the yard and jump over the sprinkler before he turned it on. (Man, he was quick!)
- Carrying a precious dollar down to the park to buy a sno-cone and savoring the last, slushy, syrupy bit in the tip.
- The delicious terror of hearing the ghostly story of the Hackettstown Hacker as we huddled in sleeping bags around a campfire in the woods
- Wild thunderstorms that could turn a sunny day into the darkest night in a matter of minutes.
- Forcing myself to go barefoot on asphalt until my feet got callused and tough enough for me to go barefoot any ol' time.
- Begging to go to the concession stand at the baseball stadium—but Mom always packed tuna sandwiches anyway.
- Playing "alphabet" and "out-of-state license plates" during endless road trips.
- The smell of calamine lotion, and the way it made your skin feel rough to the touch.
- Asking the Italian Ice guy to put as many flavors as possible into that one scoop.
- Two words: Watermelon seeds.
- Watching my red balloon float solemnly away when I let go of it before getting in the car.
- The awful terror of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride!
- Shadows in the pool making my legs look striped, like a blue zebra.
- My team winning Color Wars, and everyone jumping up and down and cheering.
- A square, homemade birthday cake with a red "7" drawn on the top in red gel.
- Performing "Grease" for the grownups.
What are your fave summer memories? Share your favorite summer memory at our Summer Memory Content for a chance to win $100! And, be sure to enjoy the first delicate hints of summer breezes!


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A debilitating, mosquito-borne virus called chikungunya has made its way to North Carolina, health officials say. It's the state's first reported case of the virus.
The patient was likely infected in the Caribbean, according to the Forsyth County Department of Public Health. Chikungunya is primarily found in Africa, East Asia and the Caribbean islands, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been watching the virus,+ for fear that it could take hold in the United States -- much like West Nile did more than a decade ago.
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Only one result from the Iowa Democratic caucuses will surprise me tonight: a big win for Hillary.
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Looking forward to meeting the members of the Ventura County Genealogical Society next Saturday when I present Think Like an Archivist: Finding Hidden Genealogical Materials in Libraries and Archives. This presentation is about finding and using primary sources effectively and is suitable for genealogists at all levels of experience.
WHEN: Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 1pm-4pm
FREE monthly meeting, guests always welcome
WHERE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3501 Loma Vista Rd (at Mills Rd.) Ventura, California
The Ventura County Genealogical Society is a California-registered Non-Profit organization dedicated to the promotion of genealogy and public education. Visit their Web site is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cavcgs. VCGS also maintains a reference library, which is located within the Camarillo Library at 4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo, California.


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Datalogic Mobile, a global leader in rugged mobile computing announces the appointment of Gary Glaser as VP of Sales and Marketing for the Americas.
Glaser comes to Datalogic Mobile with over 20 years of global sales-management experience. For the last five years he served as director of sales for Latin America at Datalogic Scanning. His extensive experience in the AIDC industry, connections with resellers throughout the Americas, and language skills are key components necessary to this position.
He believes it is important to build strong internal teams and develop lasting channel relationships.
"We are fueling our growth on both continents," said Francesco Montanari, VP and GM of Datalogic Mobile. "Gary has the knowledge and personal market experience to boost Datalogic Mobile growth in the Americas."


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Religion and psychology have much in common, but this is where they part: Religion seeks to convince you how to live. Psychology seeks to help you live more autonomously. I do not see how this gap can be bridged, although in my couples therapy I use an almost religious model in that the more one understands and honors one's partners needs, it frees the partner from anxiety and he or she can therefore more easily meet the other's needs.
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My background and training includes Biblical training through Grace Ministries as well as being Board Certified as a Professional Christian Counselor. Because of my own personal losses and past hurtful experiences, I experienced shame and guilt and doubted my own worth and value. God led me through my own experience of brokenness and surrender in order to find healing and freedom in who I am in Jesus Christ. As a result, my passion is to help others find their identity in Him and the freedom that comes from living out of God's grace.
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Dior Ultimate Rendez-Vous Wallet
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Perfection in patent leather! Not only does the Dior Ultimate Rendez-Vous Wallet come with two interior open pockets and a roomy middle zipper compartment, but the fashion house has also packaged all this organization into a wallet that comes with a detachable chain strap. Now you don't have to worry about holding your wallet in your hands during those outings when you don't want to tote around a huge purse. Just snap on the detachable chain, sling it over your shoulder, and go! No more worrying about transferring credit cards and cash into a clutch that can't hold a regular-sized wallet. Dior gives you the best of both worlds! Available at Saks Fifth Avenue for $560.posted: June 11th, 2010
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Imagine a website that publishes such useful information that about a million people have been willing to pay a $25 monthly access fee.
No, it's not The New York Times — which only has about 100,000 paid digital users — it's Lynda.com, a video tutorial site that has quietly grown into an online empire without taking a dime or $41 million in venture capital.
Lynda.com features high-end how-to content, with more than 1,000 courses including tutorials on the Ruby on Rails programming language, search engine optimization, basic business software like Excel, and digital photography.
Its popularity should encourage those who think the web simply makes us dumber and more distracted, according to the site's founder and namesake Lynda Weinman.
"There's this new culture of learning online, where learning is happening outside the classroom, but it's still learning," Weinman said. "It's all self-motivated learners who are willing to even pay, and not doing it for a grade, and doing it for the knowledge. There is something pure about that."
"I don't know that anyone would have thought that people would want information like they do today," Weinman said. "You didn't realize people had this sort of innate curiosity and that they would go wild on the net. There's something optimistic about that."
Lynda.com gets 45 million unique visitors a year, and the majority of individual subscribers stick around for one to three years — some watching only a few videos a year — others hundreds, the company said. The company employs 200 people full-time and VCs keep offering her money, but Weinman says the company is happy with its natural growth and word-of-mouth marketing.
The videos aren't splashy — they are mostly screenshot videos with experts speaking over them. But the production quality is high, the instructors go slowly and courses are organized into bits — so you can jump in and out, depending on what you are trying to learn.
Lynda.com is the opposite of content factories such as eHow and Demand Media, which concentrate on making as much content as possible for as little as possible and then trying to get to the top of Google search results.
Instead, Lynda.com focuses on creating quality content. A course on learning Advanced Photoshop techniques stretches over nine hours, is broken into 15 chapters and around 60 subchapters, and come with "exercise files" that are the exact ones used by the course instructor.
And the company is able to recruit industry experts — in no small part because the teachers are paid an ongoing revenue stream based on the number of times their videos are watched.
Companies and universities also buy subscriptions in bulk so that employees and students can use the service to improve their skills and augment their class work.
The company started its academic-license offering after a teacher asked if she could use the videos to help teach her students.
And while the idea of using online videos to teach real-world classes initially worried some instructors, others found that the videos freed them up from having to belabor the basics, allowing them to do more mentoring and individual critiques, Weinman said.
Weinman describes the site's success as a succession of fortuitous accidents.
She first won web popularity in the mid-'90s, when she was a faculty member at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and looking for a textbook about web design. Weinman couldn't find one, and so, as a self-taught geek, she published her own, Designing Web Graphics, which came out in early 1996. The book quickly became the bible for web design, and she put out several more titles.
Readers began turning to her site Lynda.com for more information — though she says the site was never intended to be a business.
She was soon in high demand as a speaker and consultant, but that same year, she and her illustrator husband Bruce Heavin yearned for a rural, slow-paced life and so moved from Pasadena for the rural peace of Ojai, California, a city of about 8,000 people in Ventura County. It was there that Lynda and and Heavin decided to see if people would come to them for web design classes. Their first class included a student from Austria, and the model proved successful enough that the duo recruited other teachers to teach classes.
But then in 2001, the tech bubble burst, taking with it the jobs of tens of thousands of web monkeys and the travel budgets of big web companies. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which exacerbated the crash and turned many off from flying.
So Lynda tried something that at the time was largely unheard of. In February, she put 20 classes online and charged a subscription fee of $25 a month. At the time, online video wasn't common — YouTube's founders were still working at PayPal and few people had broadband connections.
But people subscribed. Lynda added more courses. A few more subscribed. But it was no instant success.
"For the first couple of years, the site did not catch on," Weinman said. "We were still selling videos on CD-ROM and writing books. It was not until 2004 to '05 that it started to take off and really catch on."
"If we had not moved to Ojai, we would not have launched the online video site," Weinman said. "Because we moved there, we had to be more resourceful."
Lynda.com isn't alone in offering online educational videos. Many colleges now put their courses on YouTube Education and the free Khan Academy has become an underground sensation. Meanwhile, colleges ranging from for-profits to community colleges are putting more courses online.
But Lynda.com continues to grow — despite lacking even basic features for asking questions of instructors or fellow subscribers.
And Weinman has no plans to offer accreditation — which she thinks would take away from its current ethos of learning for the sake of learning.
Instead, the company's most recent expansion has been into "documentaries," up to 43 at last count. The documentaries are hour-long looks at the lives and careers and methods of "creative inspirations" — such as photojournalist Natalie Fobes and Ze Frank, the online comedy artist.
"Someone sent me an e-mail recently saying he heard Howard Stern on air saying he discovered Lynda.com and how cool he thought it was," Weinman said. "They asked, 'Doesn't that make you excited?' I also got an e-mail that same day from a woman who said she had been earning $35,000 last year, and after using Lynda.com she is now making over $100,000 a year."
"I got more excited about that — not to put down Howard Stern," Weinman said.
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Hopes of a white Christmas are fading fast with rain and wind set to batter the UK throughout the festive period.
Most areas are expected to experience a brief respite from the deluge today before the wet weather sets in tomorrow.
Met Office forecaster Helen Roberts said: "It is looking very unsettled right through.
"We have got weather warnings out over the weekend and into Christmas Eve.
"Christmas Day will remain unsettled, but at the moment it is looking like showers rather than persistent rain."
She said some of the rain could turn into snow in the Scottish mountains, but stressed there would be no white Christmas to speak of otherwise.
The forecast means more bad news for those who had to be evacuated from their homes yesterday due to flooding.
Villagers in Wallington, Hampshire, had to flee their properties after cracks appeared in a flood wall.
Elsewhere, several drivers were rescued from vehicles and trains were cancelled across the country.
With the heavy rainfall predicted to continue, the Environment Agency has issued 279 flood alerts and 68 flood warnings.
For many Britons, the solution is to head abroad for the holidays.
Nearly four million people will be seeking winter sun in destinations such as the Canary Islands, Tunisia, Cuba and Mexico.
Heathrow is expecting its busiest day of the festive period today (Fri) with 123,000 passengers leaving from the west London airport.
It will handle a further 114,000 departures on Sunday and 88,000 on Christmas Eve.
From tomorrow until January 3, a total of 700,000 will be leaving from Gatwick airport, 320,000 from Manchester, 300,000 from Stansted, 125,000 from Luton, 116,000 from Birmingham and 75,000 from Glasgow.
Many hundreds of thousands will also travel across the English Channel by ferry or through the Channel Tunnel, with 160,000 whizzing off on high-speed trains run by Eurostar.
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PANTHERS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3: Mike Santorelli had two goals to lead Florida to its fourth straight win overall and hand host Toronto a fifth consecutive loss.
Florida jumped out to an early 2-0 lead courtesy of goals from Marcel Goc and Santorelli. The Maple Leafs were never able to recover.
Goc capitalized on Luke Schenn's turnover 13 seconds into the contest to give the Panthers the early advantage.
Santorelli fired a shot past James Reimer just over two minutes later on just the second attempt on goal for the Panthers. He added another marker in the second period to put Florida up 3-1.
Defenseman Jason Garrison and Stephen Weiss tallied in the third period to boost Florida's lead to 5-2.
Phil Kessel notched his 32nd goal of the campaign in the second period for his 15th point of the month. Nikolai Kulemin and Joffrey Lupul also tallied for Toronto.
The Maple Leafs fell behind 2-0 for the fifth straight game.
Jose Theodore made 28 saves to earn his 17th win of the season.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Ron Wilson coached his 1,400th game, tying Pat Quinn for fourth in all-time. ... Toronto's last five-game skid was an 0-6-2 stretch from Oct. 28-Nov. 13, 2010. ... The Panthers are 11-2-2 against Canadian opponents this season. ... Florida has earned points in 14 of its last 17 games versus the Maple Leafs.


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text: Las Vegas, Sin City. Not only will the All-Star game be played there this weekend, but also all of the NBA General Managers are having their yearly meeting. Who's ear is Joe in this weekend? Did he have a quiet dinner with Jerry Weiss or Mitch Kupchak? Maybe Joe met with Danny Ainge after a nice tennis match (They both love tennis) to discuss a trade. Probably no contact with Rod Thorn (too much hostility there). I read somewhere that during allstar weekend, the majority of NBA trades are brokered but not consumated until after. If this is true, then Joe D is definitely bending someone's ear this weekend.


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Re: Re: Unevaluated a[[1]]*a[[2]]
Thanks, that is a very simple way.
But suppose I want to extend that NonCommutativeMultiply operator (**) to
others operations: +, -, / . Does anybody have a clue how to do this ?
Suppose I have the expression for the roots of the quadratic equation: -
b[[a]]^2 + Sqrt[delta]/2*a[[j]]
How can I see at once all the numeric values unevaluated on that expression.
In short words, I have lenghtly expressions(with sums,subtraction,divisions
and multiplications and powers) and I want to check each numeric value of
each term in the original unevaluated formula.
I was thinking in a operator or function to solve all this issue.
Any help is very welcome,
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From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg65187] [mg65174] Re: Unevaluated a[[1]]*a[[2]]
> Hi,
> and why nor use an operation that does not
> evaluate a*b
> i.e.
> a = {0.1245, 0.543};
> a[[1]] ** a[[2]]
> Regards
> Jens
> "Alexandre Costa" <amscosta at uem.br> schrieb im
> Newsbeitrag news:dvasti$c7q$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> | Dear Group,
> | Suppose I have a = {0.1245, 0.543};
> | I want to check the values of the product:
> | a[[1]]*a[[2]]. So I just want to see the product
> unevaluated as output:
> | 0.1245*0.543.
> | Thanks,
> | Alex
> |
> |


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And he's doing it when the Bulldogs need him most.
Swann's most impressive outing thus far came against Ole Miss in November, when he recovered two fumbles and helped shut down the Rebels' passing attack. But the week before, in Jacksonville, Swann's name echoed through television sets and into living rooms across the country.
The Atlanta native was a major factor in Georgia's tilt with then-No. 2 Florida, helping secure the 17-9 victory over the hated Gators.
On the very first drive of the game his sack of Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel forced a fumble that was quickly recovered by Jarvis Jones. Three plays later Georgia took a lead it wouldn't relinquish following a ten-yard touchdown run by Todd Gurley. In the third quarter, Swann forced another Driskel turnover in Florida territory – this time an interception that set up Marshall Morgan for a comfortable 29-yard field goal.
Swann was responsible for a ten-point swing that afternoon, but remained humble when questioned about his performance.
"I was just in the right position to make plays," Swann said of his outing versus the Gators. "You don't really deserve an opportunity; people have to give you one."
But SEC opposition hasn't been alone in dishing up opportunities for the young cornerback. Richt and his staff have been instrumental in Swann's success as well.
"The coaches really believe in me, which gives me the confidence to go out and just play," Swann said. "I was given a chance the whole season, and I've made the best of it. My playmaking ability is what got me in the position I'm in now."
That ability stems from his days at Grady High School in downtown Atlanta, where Swann thrived on all sides of the ball for coach Ronnie Millen's Grey Knights. Though primarily utilized as a cornerback, Swann also wreaked havoc on opposing secondaries as a wide receiver. In fact, some of his Bulldog teammates believed that was the position he would wind up playing in Athens.
"I didn't even think he was going to play defense," said linebacker Amarlo Herrera, who also grew up in Atlanta and knew Swann before teaming up in Athens. "I really thought he was going to play wide receiver because he played offense so well in high school. I always thought he was a better offensive player than defensive."
Swann's versatility wasn't confined to just skill positions though. He started at quarterback for Grady during the final five games of his sophomore year and likely would have remained there if Millen weren't facing a depleted receiving core heading into the 2009 season.
But, perhaps surprisingly, is not even Swann's favorite sport.
Swann's passion for athletics began on the baseball diamond when he was just four years old and playing catch with his father, Marlon. The two developed an inseparable bond throughout Swann's upbringing with Marlon coaching each one of Swann's teams until he was 16.
"It was the greatest experience of my life," Marlon Swann said. "He was my little right hand man. I'm sad that it's over, but they all have to grow up at some point. You lead them and coach them until it's time to go."
That point came in 2007 when Swann was on the brink of high school. The family lived on the southwest side of Atlanta, which put Swann in the thick of not only the Therrell High district, but an unfavorable predicament as well. Swann believed that "Therell wasn't really at the top," both athletically and academically, so he and his parents underwent an extensive transfer request process to allow Swann to play at Grady.
The family began planning the transfer as early as Swann's seventh grade year. Along with his wife, Mona (Swann's mother), Marlon conducted vast research to find the best fit within reasonable proximity to their home. He said the entire operation mirrored the one his family would undergo four years later when Swann was courted by a bulk of collegiate programs.
"We went through the process like it was a recruiting situation," Marlon Swann said. "Grady was the clear-cut favorite. We visited the weight room, met with the coaches and what not. Then we all sat down and came up with a way to make it work."
Once at Grady, Swann became a four-sport athlete for the Grey Knights, competing in baseball, basketball, football and track. His all-around athletic versatility garnered national attention from some of the top collegiate programs, including Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee among others.
It was Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide, however, who had the early leg up on the recruiting competition. Swann said that he bonded well with former Alabama linebacker coach James Willis at the time, but when Willis took the defensive coordinator position at Texas Tech, Swann's mind wavered.
And that's when Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart stepped in. Smart knew that Swann was a multifaceted prize and didn't want to lose his interest of suiting up in crimson.
"Kirby started contacting me more and visiting me more than any other coach," Swann said. "During the recruiting process, that's who I thought I was going to play for –– until I met coach (Todd) Grantham."
Georgia's defensive coordinator made a sound impact on the Swann family, noting that his NFL experience could prove highly beneficial if their son joined the Bulldogs.
"It speaks volumes for a guy who is making millions on one level to come down and coach kids," Marlon Swann, Damian's father, said. "I think Damian really appreciated that he had made the move from the pro level to college."
Grantham –– and Richt for that matter –– also welcomed Swann's aspirations of becoming a dual-sport athlete, something other schools weren't too thrilled about.
"I knew (baseball) was something important to him," Richt said. "We were willing to work with him on that."
Swann came to Athens with full intentions of playing both, but one thing stood in his way –– himself. Swann's rapid climb up the defensive depth chart has him poised to become the No. 1 corner for the Bulldogs over the next two years. Managing that, along with grades, a social life and baseball is something he believes will be extremely difficult.
"I still think about it sometimes, but I've kind of let it go," Swann said of his favorite sport. "I haven't played baseball since I got to Georgia, and it's not a sport where you can go out and just do it. You have to get back into baseball shape."
"It'll take a lot just to start back playing baseball, so I don't really think I'll be going back down that route."
Marlon and the Swann family were saddened by the reality of Damian's circumstances, but he said he's already seen his resolve mold Damian into a stronger person.
"It was probably the hardest decision he's ever had to make," Marlon said. "He just turned 20, so he hasn't had to make many big decisions like that. It's a lot for someone that age."
Swann hasn't completely shut the door on stepping into the batter's box, but to cope with it for now, he is embracing his role on the football team. He will face a tall task next year when he becomes the lone veteran of what will be a young secondary. The entire 2012 starting unit, Swann notwithstanding –– Branden Smith, Sanders Commings, Bacarri Rambo and Shawn Williams –– played their final collegiate game in the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day.
Swann and his teammates and coaches, however, aren't worried about how he will handle the challenge. After all, he's been a leader his whole life. Throughout peewee ball under Marlon's tutelage and in all of his days at Grady, Swann was a captain on every team he played for with the lone exception of his freshman year.
"Leadership is naturally in his body," Marlon said. "He's going to do a hell of a job filling in next year. I've got all the confidence in the world in him."
Some teammates say that Swann has already started filling that role at Georgia – attributing his hard work for his breakout performance in just two short seasons.
"He's a leader now as a sophomore," Commings said. "Right now, in this secondary full of seniors, he's kind of leading by example and doing everything the right way. He studies hard and works hard in the weight room –– that's why he's able to come in and produce at a young age."


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HATE THIS DEVICE....check out the reviews on Amazon.com, they are a lot more "real world". It's got a 2/5 star review and about 16/18 of the written reviews express the same frustrations with its horrible WIFI connection issues. It constantly drops out, and needs to be reconnected via USB, drivers reloaded etc. Most people throw this device away after a short while it seems....me included >:(
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Thirty to 60 percent of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are malnourished, and this affects ventilatory muscle function and prognosis for survival adversely. We studied the effect of growth hormone (GH) in malnourished patients with COPD (n = 7, mean FEV1 of 1.1 +/- 0.2 L, 45 +/- 7 percent of predicted values; less than 90 percent of ideal body weight). The subjects received a balanced diet of 35 kcal/kg with 1 g of protein/kg for 1 week (pre-GH). During the following three weeks, they received the same diet plus subcutaneous injections of recombinant methionyl human GH (0.05 mg/kg daily). The subjects had no significant weight gain during the week of diet alone (0.07 +/- 0.11 kg, p = NS) but they had substantial weight gain during the first week of GH treatment (1.37 +/- 0.23 kg, p less than 0.01). Nitrogen balance also improved during GH treatment (+1.6 +/- 0.7 g/day on diet alone vs +3.8 +/- 0.5 g/day on diet plus GH, p less than 0.02). Maximal inspiratory pressure improved by 27 +/- 8 percent after GH treatment (p less than 0.02). No significant adverse effects occurred. Further study of the potential usefulness of GH in COPD utilizing a placebo-controlled trial is warranted.
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Small wonder the history of every people bestows a unique importance to blood. It probably marked a significant event in its history when Beijing this week abolished setting quotas for organisations in the city in favour of a voluntary approach, which is believed by many to be the safest way to obtain blood. In the UK 8,000 donations a day are needed and, while stocks are adequate, there is a constant need to keep the momentum up, especially as donations drop off when holidays such as Easter approach. Innovative methods such as "bloodmobiles" being dispatched to business areas and text message reminders are being used to make it easier to donate. It is a reassuring feature of Britain that despite unprecedented globalisation and commercialisation, it hardly enters anyone's mind to even think about charging for blood.
Few things are as unambiguously good as giving blood to help other people. In this country there is a long history of donating blood freely, a practice that is almost a defining characteristic of Britishness, even though there are 38 other countries where all blood is collected from voluntary unpaid donors. In 1971 Professor Richard Titmuss wrote a book, The Gift Relationship, in which he argued that giving blood was not only nobler than selling it but economically more efficient. Blood, he said, was a bond that linked all men and women in the world so intimately that "every difference of colour, religious belief and cultural heritage is insignificant beside it".


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My first sight of Antonia Campbell-Hughes is a shock. I'm used to the 30-year-old actress as an intense, waiflike presence in arthouse films such as The Other Side of Sleep, and as Jack Dee's brilliantly deadpan daughter in Lead Balloon. We've met to talk about Storage 24, an undemanding British horror about an alien in a Battersea storage warehouse, in which she plays writer/star Noel Clark's ex-girlfriend. She says it was nice to do an ensemble piece and an action film, and we agree that Clark is a great self-starter who sees a low budget as a creative challenge. But I find it hard to muster the usual questions.
Because oh goodness — today Campbell-Hughes's soulfully beautiful face sits atop a shockingly thin frame, her hoodie hanging off coathanger shoulders. Campbell-Hughes got this way for her role in the film 3096, as Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl kidnapped aged 10 and abused for eight years in a basement dungeon by Wolfgang Priklopil. The film's title is taken from Kampusch's book, and refers to the length in days of her captivity. It has taken the actress to some very dark places.
"The one thing that I have been adamant about is that I am playing a character in a script," she says carefully. "It's not a biopic or a case study. But playing someone real, you feel you have to give a bit more. There was an understanding from the beginning that I would suffer as much as she did." Priklopil starved Natasha, and used the same techniques that interrogators use to break soldiers: "Constant tirades of screaming, they shave their heads, keep them naked. Parts of my head have been shaved. I've been naked for the last two months, pretty much."
Her drastic weight loss "happened very easily. I am working 24/7, and I sort of replicated the way [Natascha] ate — not very much, not very often." Campbell-Hughes acknowledges that the Bale/Fassbender school of method starvation is an unhealthy trait in the industry — indeed, she recalls being weirded out by an actor boyfriend who dieted for every role. Her health has been carefully monitored for 3096, she insists, and besides, it's only part of what she is suffering for her art.
For the film, a set of Priklopil's house and the five-metre-square dungeon were built to the exact original scale "to keep the sense of claustrophobia. I can't stand up in it, and it has led to a lot of damage." She lists cuts, bruises, a torn Achilles tendon, a broken toe, a fractured rib.
The film contains scenes of intercourse. "I don't consider it rape," says Campbell-Hughes. "At the time Natascha didn't look at it that way. Afterwards, she could look back and say, I see it is wrong for these reasons: my freedom was taken from me, which is effectively rape. But I have to think as she did at the time."
It is difficult territory, all of it. The film is shooting in Munich, partly because the story remains so contentious in Austria. Kampusch refused to define the nature of her physical relationship with Priklopil: she wept on hearing he had killed himself after her escape, and is reported to have bought the house where he held her, but denies suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Priklopil himself supposedly admitted raping Kampusch to a friend shortly before his suicide, but prosecutors have re-opened the case in the belief he may not — as Kampusch claims — have acted alone. As Campbell-Hughes says, people want Kampusch to play the part of a straightforward victim, but she won't. And if Kampusch is telling the truth, the only relationship she had for eight years was with Priklopil, "and he is gone".
Campbell-Hughes tends to immerse herself in roles, and it's not hard to see why. She was born in Northern Ireland, the only child of an Irish mother and a much older English father, who worked for the US chemical company Dupont in Germany, Switzerland and America. "A bit of a misfit," she spent the ages of 11 to 15 "living on my own in a house in the middle of a forest outside Frankfurt, fantasising and playing, which I suppose I'm still doing now".
A brief brush with fashion design led to modelling, which led on to acting. Her big break came when she got Lead Balloon in 2006. "Comedy people are nice," she says. "They don't believe in things being a struggle and a pain. You don't have to cut yourself open, which you do in other areas of the acting world."
She was named one of Screen International's stars of tomorrow in 2011 and awarded the Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival in February, but success has come at a price. She has been single and living out of a suitcase since breaking up with Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell, and has only just bought her first flat, in Pimlico.
"The past three years I was kind of married to the job and now it's time for personal needs," she says. "There are things that lead to being a healthy human — friends, family, a house — and all those need to come first for me now." When the film is finished, she adds, "I want to go and sit on a beach, eat tacos and get pedicures." God, I hope she does.
Storage 24 is out on Friday. 3096 is due for release later this year.
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The NFL has pretty strict rules on drug use for players. First, those substances considered illegal by the league, including steroids, are 100 percent off limits. Period.
Although the NFL does have rehab programs, fines, suspensions and worse await some violators.
Testing includes marijuana. Pre-employement, pre-season, and in some cases random drug testing can be conducted by the NFL to keep its gridiron brawlers in check. But even alcohol can be prohibited if a player has shown that he can't handle his booze.
So why was NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently talking about the possibility of letting players use cannabis?
Plain and simple, the reason is pain. It's a serious concern in a bone-crushing game.
Goodell recognizes the increasing legitimacy of cannabis as pain medication, and he doesn't seem to be willing to stand in the way of getting it to players who might need it in the future.
Here's what he told ESPN recently:
I don't know what's going to develop as far as the next opportunity for medicine to evolve and to help either deal with pain or help deal with injuries, but we will continue to support the evolution of medicine.
If only the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were so enlightened. We look forward to the day when taking a hit has new meaning for the guys on the line of scrimmage.