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Migraine is a type of recurring headache. It involves nerves and brain chemicals. Other sensations, such as auras, may come before a migraine headache.
There are 2 types of migraines:
- Occurring with an aura—formerly called a classic migraine
- Occurring without an aura—formerly called a common migraine
Migraine may happen several times a week or once every couple of years. They can be so severe that they interfere with the ability to work and carry on normal activities.
While the precise cause is not known, many potential triggers have been identified. Common triggers include:
- Environmental triggers, such as odors and bright lights
- Dietary triggers, such as alcohol
- Certain medications
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Stress
- Physiologic changes, such as menstruation and puberty
- Weather changes
A trigger sets the process in motion. It is possible that the nervous system reacts to the trigger by conducting electrical activity. This spreads across the brain. It leads to the release of brain chemicals, which help regulate pain.
Migraines occur in phases that may include:
A warning may come before a migraine. In the hours or days before the headache, symptoms may include:
- Changes in mood, behavior, and/or activity level
- Fatigue
- Yawning
- Food craving or decreased appetite
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Sensitivity to light
The most common aura is visual. The aura lasts about 15-30 minutes. It may produce the following sensations:
- Flashing lights, spots, or zig zag lines
- Temporary, partial loss of vision
- Speech difficulties
- Weakness in an arm or leg
- Numbness or tingling in the face and hands
- Confusion
- Lightheadedness
- Speech disturbances
It is important to seek medical attention to make sure the symptoms are not due to a more serious cause. This can include stroke or seizure .
Migraine pain starts within an hour of the aura ending. Symptoms include:
A headache (usually on one side but may involve both sides) that often feels:
- Moderate or severe in intensity
- Throbbing or pulsating
- More severe with bright light, loud sound, or movement
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Lightheadedness
Post-Headache Period
Migraines usually last from 4-72 hours. They often go away with sleep. After the headache, you may experience:
- Trouble concentrating
- Fatigue
- Sore muscles
- Irritability
- Mood changes
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. You may also be given a neurological exam.
Your body fluids may be tested. This can be done with blood tests.
Images may be taken of your body structures. This can be done with:
- CT scan
- MRI scan
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Migraine therapy aims to:
- Prevent headaches
- Reduce headache severity and frequency
- Restore your ability to function
- Improve quality of life
Treatment options include:
Pain medications are often needed to ease or stop the pain. Over-the-counter pain pills may ease mild symptoms.
Some pain relievers have caffeine as an ingredient, since it may help improve pain relief. If yours does not, talk to your doctor about taking a caffeine supplement with your pain reliever.
Warning: Regular use of some over-the-counter medications may cause a rebound headache.
Some prescription medications act directly to stop the cause of the migraine headache. These include drugs that:
- Quiet nerve pathways
- Reduce inflammation
- Bind receptors for serotonin, a brain chemical
These drugs can be taken by mouth. They may act more quickly in forms that dissolve in the mouth, are inhaled through the nose, or injected. They are more likely to be helpful if taken as soon as possible at the start of a migraine. Your doctor can help you choose the medication best for you.
Medications that can help stop a migraine once it has begun include:
- Triptans
- Steroids
- Acetaminophen
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)
- Medications for nausea
- Ergots
- Combination medication that contains caffeine
Other drugs can help prevent migraines for people with frequent migraines. Preventive drugs are taken every day. Classes of preventive medications include:
- Beta-blockers
- Calcium channel blockers
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Anticonvulsants
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin-II receptor blockers (ARBs)
Therapy may also be used to reduce the length and frequency of migraine headaches. It may be used with or without medication and may include cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, or relaxation methods.
Botulinum Toxin Injections
Botulinum toxin injections may be used as a way to prevent migraines and to reduce the duration and intensity of the headaches in people who have headaches often.
In some people, migraines are triggered when a nerve in the head is stimulated. With this type of surgery, the nerve trigger point is located in the head and is deactivated. This surgery may reduce the number of migraines or completely eliminate them in sufferers who do not respond to conventional treatments. Most migraines are not treated with surgery.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation surgery may also be used in patients with migraine with aura who have not responded to other treatments.
Self-Care During the Migraine
- Apply cold compresses to painful areas of your head.
- Lie in a dark, quiet room.
- Try to fall asleep.
Lifestyle Changes
- Keep a diary. It will help identify what triggers your migraines and what helps relieve them.
- Learn stress management and relaxation techniques.
- Consider talking with a counselor to learn new coping skills and relaxation techniques.
- The Benefits of Regular Exercise , which may help with depressive and other symptoms.
- If you are a smoker, talk to your doctor about ways to quit . Smoking may worsen a migraine.
- Avoid foods that trigger migraines.
- Eat regular meals.
- Maintain your regular sleep pattern even during the weekend or on vacation.
Methods for preventing migraine include:
- Avoiding those things that trigger the headache
Following your doctor's recommendations—The doctor may consider using medications to prevent headaches such as:
- Antidepressant
- Antiseizure
- Medications that lower blood pressure
Healthy lifestyle habits that may help prevent migraines include:
- Maintain regular sleep patterns.
- Learn stress management techniques.
- Do not skip meals.
- Avoid alcohol.
- Exercise regularly. Consider yoga as one type of activity.
- Ask your doctor if acupuncture is right for you. It may help you to have more headache-free days, as well as lessen the intensity of headaches when they do occur.
Therapy that may decrease migraine or migraine pain include:
Mind-body therapies such as:
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Guided imagery—may improve pain coping
- Massage therapy
Foods are not proven to trigger migraine. But consider keeping a diary of migraine and diet to identify foods that may trigger migraines for you. Foods suspected to trigger migraine include:
- Nuts and peanut butter
- Beans
- Aged or cured meats
- Aged cheese
- Processed or canned meat
- Caffeine—intake or withdrawal
- Canned soup
- Buttermilk or sour cream
- Meat tenderizer
- Brewer's yeast
- Avocados
- Onions
- Pickles
- Red plums
- Sauerkraut
- Snow peas
- Soy sauce
- Anything with MSG (monosodium glutamate), tyramine, or nitrates
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
Edits to original content made by Denver Health.
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Joe Cirulli will receive the Club Industry Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Club Industry Conference and Exposition Oct. 10-12 in Las Vegas, Club Industry magazine announced.
Cirulli is the founder and CEO of Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers, Gainesville, FL, which consists of two coed facilities and a 2,400-square-foot facility for women. In 1978, Cirulli opened the first club with three employees in a 1,500-square-foot space above a bank. Today, the main facility is 65,000 square feet, and the company has more than 400 employees and 28,000 members.
"Joe Cirulli is one of the biggest success stories in our industry," says Pamela Kufahl, editor-in-chief of Club Industry. "And despite becoming successful in this industry, he continues to hold true to his mission of helping to make his community of Gainesville one of the healthiest cities in America. He has not felt the need to franchise his concept and expand beyond his community, but he welcomes club operators from other communities into his club to share his expertise with them. That desire to serve his community and to serve the fitness industry makes him the perfect choice for our award this year."
In 2003, Gainesville received the Gold Well City USA Award from the Wellness Councils of America. The impetus to try for this award came from Cirulli and his staff. In 2000, the group decided it wanted to make Gainesville the healthiest community in America, so it teamed with Shands HealthCare and the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce to encourage businesses in the community to join the effort. Twenty-one businesses representing 55,000 employees (60 percent of Gainesville's working population) eventually joined the effort.
In 2004 and 2005, Gainesville Health and Fitness was named the Business of the Year by the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Cirulli was featured in the August 2008 cover story "The Believer" in Inc. magazine. The story chronicled how Cirulli turned a list of 10 things he wanted to do in life into reality.
Cirulli will become the 10th recipient of the Club Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous winners include Joe Gold (2004), Jack LaLanne (2009), Curt Beusman (2010) and Red Lerille (2011).
Cirulli will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and will share with the crowd some of what he has learned in the fitness business.
"Joe is a great speaker with an inspiring story," Kufahl says. "His presentation will be one of the highlights of the show."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 82 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a remote secretarial service based in Melbourne, Australia. The work we do varies from answering calls on behalf of companies, monitoring emails, word processing, transcription of audio recordings to book keeping and financial services. The business is located centrally in the city. A lot of competitors run their businesses from their homes, a big part of our business is our location and this is what differentiates us. We are small business that is expanding quickly and we need an image that represents our professionalism.
Small and medium business and sole proprietors. Our clients include Doctors, Stockbrokers, Lawyers, Government departments and other small businesses.
Current website at http://www.melbsecretarial.com.au, and while this project is only to redesign the logo the website will be next on our agenda. We find the current logo dated and are looking for a refresh.
Our only requirements are that the name and the colours remain the same.
Colours; Pantone 282U and Pantone 110U.
Needs to be used on stationary and website and we require the original artwork once completed.
We don't want the city skyline to be included as part of the logo as there are many businesses doing this already (and it's what our current logo is).
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Halladay goes on DL with shoulder woes
Phillies right-hander, who revealed problems after last start, to see specialist Tuesday
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Phillies will hope for the best, but must prepare for the worst with Roy Halladay.
He will visit Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Tuesday in Los Angeles, where he expects to learn more about his injured right shoulder. ElAttrache works in the office of noted orthopedist Lewis Yocum and is a physican for the Dodgers. The Phillies placed Halladay on the 15-day disabled list Monday with what they called inflammation, but nobody knows exactly what it is.
"I couldn't speculate," said Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., asked if thought he will see Halladay pitch again this season. "I wish I knew. Hopefully it's something minor and not something major."
In the meantime, the Phillies must find a replacement for Halladay in the rotation. Amaro said the Phillies are looking externally and internally for the long term, but indicated they will promote somebody from Triple-A Lehigh Valley for Friday's start against the D-backs in Phoenix. The top candidates are left-hander Adam Morgan and right-hander Tyler Cloyd.
Amaro said Double-A Reading left-hander Jesse Biddle, who is the organization's top prospect, is not a candidate.
Phillies left-hander John Lannan is on the disabled list with an injured left knee. Amaro said Lannan's timetable to return has not changed, meaning late May at the very earliest.
"He's still a ways away," Amaro said. "He's not a guy that can replace Doc right now, so we'll have to look for other alternatives as we spoke about."
Amaro said he got summoned from the GM's box at Citizens Bank Park to the trainer's room during Sunday's debacle, when Halladay allowed nine runs in 2 1/3 innings against the Marlins. Halladay said he first experienced soreness in his shoulder following his April 24 start against the Pirates, but said nothing until Sunday because he thought it was minor and he could pitch through it.
"He hadn't been able to get over it," Amaro said. "He didn't think that much of it. It was different than anything he had experienced."
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel was asked about Halladay not being upfront about the soreness in his shoulder. He defended Halladay.
"I've been around the game a long time," he said. "I never liked to tell anyone I couldn't play. If you asked me if I could play, I would have never told you I couldn't. You know? I don't want to get into that. I played with a broken arm, I played with a whole lot of things. I got hit in the face and my lip was over my eye and I missed one day. I would never tell you I couldn't play. So, yeah, I could understand that. He felt he could go out there and still pitch. He wasn't thinking about not pitching bad or something like that; he wanted to try.
"Roy is an upstanding guy, a straight guy. Hey, there should be more guys like that. You say, 'Well he's hurt, he's hurt.' But evidently he didn't feel that way, he felt like he could play. Nowadays guys, they get out of the game real easy. That means he has some integrity, that the game means something to him, that he wanted to see if he could help us. It wasn't like he was trying to hurt us. Knowing him like I do, he thought he could pitch."
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Twitter Tromps on Spammers
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Twitter last week reported success with its BotMaker spam-prevention system.
Because Twitter operates in real time, BotMaker is designed to work fast to eliminate spammers. Its main goals are to bar spam accounts from being created, to reduce the time they spend on Twitter if they do show up, and to reduce Twitter's reaction time in responding to spammer workarounds that bypass its protection systems.
Since launching BotMaker about six months ago, Twitter has seen a 40 percent reduction in its spam tracker, the company said. That reduction was thanks in part to its ability to catch spam in the "write" path -- that is, before it's published.
Reinvigorating Anti-Spamming Efforts
BotMaker already has made a noticeable dent in the amount of spammers on Twitter, said Thomas Bibby Varghese, CEO and founder of eBizUniverse.
"Spam was a known problem in the early days of Twitter," he told the E-Commerce Times, "but lately they have really cracked down on spam. Automated providers out there who were providing auto tweeting and auto responses have been targeted, and those companies literally went out of business. So Twitter's attempts were pretty effective."
That's partly because of the level of sophistication found with BotMaker, said Jim Tobin, president of Ignite Social Media. Twitter seems to know which types of accounts to target and how to get rid of them without disrupting the rest of the site.
"Not all bots are bad," Tobin told the E-Commerce Times. "Some are set up to tweet specific weather events, for example -- but what Twitter is doing here seems to be much more nuanced and sophisticated. It also seems like one of the inputs is reports of spam to certain accounts, so as long as users block and/or report spam accounts, Twitter has a good shot at shutting them down quickly."
Ongoing Efforts
Twitter's efforts at getting rid of clutter won't just make life a little easier for ardent Twitter users -- they will help the company's bottom line, said Rick Ramos, founder of Rick Ramos Consulting.
"Taking care of this problem is important for them from both a PR standpoint and in the development of a better advertising product," he told the E-Commerce Times. "As they make it harder for spammers to operate, there will be less wasted advertising spend that will make both advertisers and investors happier."
While Twitter has seen success with BotMaker, it doesn't regard it as a permanent solution. The company aims to build on the principles behind BotMaker to make Twitter as spam-free as possible.
That's the right attitude for this type of issue, said Varghese. "This is a great answer to the problem, but as with everything, this is not a set-it-and-forget-it solution. They will have to constantly tweak their spam protection, as spammers try to crack Twitter's spam protection systems."


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The Block
I'd love to be a published author, but I never seem to finish any of my stories. I write about 20-60 pages and then just kinda let the story die, and it is not for lack of trying…I really would love to finish a story, but I feel my life gets in the way. Where do you get the energy, drive, and determination to write a full length novel?
I avoid handing out writing advice on this site, because it's hard to do without sounding like the world's biggest blowhard. But I get this question so often that I'm going to blow anyway. (Forgive me.)
Disclaimer: I don't think there's any advice that's going to work for all writers. Everyone does this thing differently; you need to find what works for you. Don't devoutly follow any rule about writing… except this one. And the one about always relocating a few copies of my book to the front displays any time you're in a bookstore. Yeah. Just those two.
I guess the first thing to realize if you're stuck a few chapters into a novel is that this happens a lot. It doesn't mean you're untalented or undisciplined or not cut out to be a writer. I started a novel in high school that I thought was brilliant in Chapter 1, okay by Chapter 4, and after that didn't want to think about. It died a slow, lingering death on my hard drive, but because I knew it was there, waiting for me, I didn't want to write at all. It was a couple more years before I resolved to leave it behind and start something new: that one clicked for me in a way the other never had, and I finished it.
So the important thing is not to let this one problem derail you from writing. Maybe you can fix this story and maybe you can't; either way, you have to keep writing.
I think there are three reasons you can lose enthusiasm for a novel. Let's start with the ugly one: it was a weak idea to begin with. Maybe your premise isn't well-suited to a novel; maybe it's better as a short story or screenplay. Maybe it needs another key idea or two to fill out the concept. Or maybe you just thought this was going to be better than it turned out. In any of these cases, it often won't help to blindly forge ahead and hope everything gets better. So let the novel sit for a while. Start writing something else. It doesn't matter what. You might end up coming back to this novel with new ideas and a ton of motivation, but if you don't, let it be because you've moved on to something better.
The second possibility is that your story has good fundamentals but you took a wrong turn. This can happen any time, but is more unsettling at the start because you have less confidence. A trick I use when suddenly I go from powering along to a dead halt is to delete the last sentence. Even if I think there's nothing wrong with it: backspace backspace backspace. For some reason, this almost always immediately presents me with an idea for a new way forward. Sometimes I have to delete a paragraph or two, or (very rarely) even a whole chapter. I don't know why the physical act of cutting part of the story away helps—I should be smart enough to work this out by just thinking about it, shouldn't I? But apparently I'm not, and it does.
(I don't plan my novels out in advance. If you do, this technique is less likely to help you. I hate planning novels; I think they're much more fun to write when they evolve on their own. I tried planning a novel once and it was dull, dull, dull. (No, it wasn't one of my published ones. Shut up, you.))
The third possibility is you're being too hard on yourself. For a lot of writers, getting critical too early—and "too early" here probably means "before you've finished the first draft", or at least 30,000 words—is a quick and effective way to kill your motivation. I'm lucky on this score, because I am blessed with a kind of split author personality: I have the writer guy and the editor. The writer guy is totally deluded about his own ability: he thinks everything he writes is breathtakingly brilliant. Which is very handy, because when I think I'm working on God's gift to the 21st Century, it's easy to stay motivated. But unless I snap out of that at some point, all I have is a first draft, and that's not nearly good enough. This is when my editor personality comes in. He thinks everything I write is the purest horse crap. He can't believe that I would consider inflicting such a grotesque parody of literature on live human beings. So he makes me rewrite, and rewrite, and rewrite.
Getting those roles mixed up is a disaster. You don't want a dose of cold, hard reality while you're writing. No, no: delusion is your friend. Embrace the delusion. Save the critical analysis for later.
Okay. Enough blowing. Hope this helps someone.


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You're Looking In The Wrong Place
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Best check out the Sun cycles dude.
Then buy lots of long johns 'cause it's getting cold again.
Read 'em & weep all you Warmongers.
- bigcitylib said...
A big kiss if you can explain what you're looking at, anon.
more proof of Global Warming.
Nishika Patel
Thursday, February 14, 2008
As Hong Kong shivers through its second-longest cold spell since 1885, scientists point to global warming to explain the abnormal cold weather phenomenon worldwide.
Unusually cold weather is gripping a number of countries, including China and Canada.
"We are seeing extremely unusual weather across the world," said polar researcher Rebecca Lee Lok-sze. "This is due to human activities and our style of living. Carbon dioxide emissions are heavy, which is changing the weather rapidly. We could see colder winters and hotter summers in the future in Hong Kong."
Greenpeace echoed the view, saying mainland scientists had also concluded that the extreme cold weather in China was triggered by climate change. "This does not only cause an increase in global warming but also causes extreme weather patterns," said campaigner Edward Chan.
Hong Kong yesterday recorded its second- longest cold spell - 21 days. The longest cold period - when temperatures fall below 12 degrees Celsius - lasted 27 days in 1968. This record is expected to remain intact as the thermometer is forecast to register a low of 13 degrees by Sunday.
Hong Kong has also experienced more than 456 hours of cold weather this winter - more than double the 205-hour record in January 2004.
"Meanwhile, a not entirely useless article from the Western Standard on how regulation can stifle green innovation"
I love it when Lib weapons of mass destruction such as apathy come back to bite them in the ass.
Cry me a river about fair use and filesharing, "Jordan" and "Meagan", I'll gladly pay for content if it means cutting you off from the torpor-inducing Hollywood\Top40 crap that brainwashes you. That goes for you gentrified genital flopping boomers too.
My Expressvu contract is up March 28, Woohoo!
- Ti-Guy said...
I guess I'd have to the read the thing at The Western Standard to figure out of what the hell William G. Biff is on about.
"Opportunity bandwidth"...What a silly expression. Even if it's well-intentioned, it's just the kind of language that stuns investors into handing over their savings for any ponzi scheme that comes along.
Stuck on Stupid. Hard to see the light when all you can see around you is your lower intestine.
Of all the GHG, why was CO2 the primary focus? Why not water vapour? What were historical water vapour levels? How do you develop them from historical records?
Why are tree growth rings used as temperature proxies? Aren't those trees only from selected areas in the Northern hemisphere? Why was temperature deemed to be the only factor in tree ring growth, and not CO2 levels, water vapour levels, sunlight levels, soil condition, disease, vegetation density, etc. Can you tell maximum or minimum temperature from a tree growth ring?
Why were direct atmospheric CO2 measurements rejected in favour of proxy data? How accurately do ice cores preserve atmospheric CO2 concentrations? How are those ice cores dated?
The number of unanswered questions is staggering. The questions that are as yet unknown are even greater. This is for historical interpretation. For climate prediction, our understanding of global climate dynamics is entirely inadequate, as are the models which attempt to replicate and predict future patterns.
And yet, you warmongers are so certain of it, that you would commit trillions of dollars to it. Well, I'm not convinced about your correlation. Further, I'm not convinced that preventing it is feasible. Further, I'm not convinced that your doom and gloom predictions will be detrimental; they may be positive. Even your worst predictions are better fought in the future with adaptation than prevention, which may prove impossible.
In short, you're simply stooges for a money-sucking socialist plot.
Anonymous @ 11:23: you said:
Of all the GHG, why was CO2 the primary focus? Why not water vapour?
CO2 is important since we are the source of all the recent rise. In addition CO2 has a very long residency time in the atmosphere (measured in hundreds of years). Water vapour (while it is a more important GHG than CO2) is a fairly transient atmospheric component with a residency time measured in days.
Why are tree growth rings used as temperature proxies?
Trees provide a good indication of climate based on a response to many things. The trick is to find trees where, for the most part, things are stable. Consider that the average life of a tree is about 100 years or less and we want tree rings that go back 2000 years or more. No one ever said tree rings were easy.
Why were direct atmospheric CO2 measurements rejected in favour of proxy data? How accurately do ice cores preserve atmospheric CO2 concentrations? How are those ice cores dated?
Do you have a reference for this statement. I really hope it is from Jaworowski's work.
And yet, you warmongers are so certain of it, that you would commit trillions of dollars to it.
I am not certain of your prediction that adhering to some emission limit would cause harm to our economy. I have never seen an economic analysis that takes a real look at the cost benefit analysis or does not just exclude benefits from the equation.
In short, you're simply stooges for a money-sucking socialist plot.
Yes, I can see how that would logically follow! /sarcasm On the other hand, you seem to have opinions that you can't support and make assertions that you can't backup. May I suggest that you could probably develop a better argument if you could suppress your obvious emotional entanglement with the issue.
John Cross
So, which of you has done what on your own account to 'save the planet'? Have you bought a $30,000 hybrid and sent your used car worth $15,000 to the shredder so that nobody else could use it to destroy the planet? Have you downsized and superinsulated your house? Have you set up solar panels for electricity and hot water? Have you stopped driving - period?
Like I thought - none of you have done a thing. All talk, no action. The definition of 'liberal'.
- Unknown said...
I'm really starting to pity anony. As pathetic as his post asking and answering his own question is, I'll respond.
Nonny, if you hadn't noticed, many people do drive hybrids, never mind all those that choose to use transit, or bikes and don't own cars at all.
I know many people who make conscious decisions about what and how much they consume. You may find it inconceivable, but that's probably because you're an dimwitted, immoral cretin.
Lenny, very, very few. And that's their own choice, isn't it. What you want in your totalitarian little world is to MAKE everybody do as you SAY. Show me the receipts for all the carbon credits you purchased in order to take that winter vacation, or to offset the fact that your stereo had to be transported from Taiwan, or your fruit from Mexico. Give me a break. And you think the pathetic little actions of a tiny portion of the planet is going to save the planet from imminent doom? Whatever. There's no point in arguing with you ecotards as you have no grounding in science. How many papers in climate science has Fruity published? Or Al Gore?
"Trees provide a good indication of climate based on a response to many things. The trick is to find trees where, for the most part, things are stable. Consider that the average life of a tree is about 100 years or less and we want tree rings that go back 2000 years or more. No one ever said tree rings were easy."
As weak as your responses are, I'll just look at one of them for brevity. You've said nothing, except 'tree rings are hard'. What are the factors affecting tree ring growth? CO2 levels, soil condition, local fertilization rates, impacts of other transitory vegetation, water availability, heat levels, insect stress, disease stress, foraging animal stress, elevation, sunlight, winds, temperature, etc. BUT somebody decided that ONLY temperature would be the most important factor in tree ring growth, for all trees, over all the locations sampled. But yet those locations sampled are not global, only regional. Yet you use them as if they were a 'global thermometer'. It's this kind of weak evidence which throws so much doubt into it. The science isn't settled; it's in it's infancy.
Also, you don't understand the difference between a cost to an economy and an economic benefit, which generates wealth. Forcing people to spend money on fighting global warming is a COST.
- Unknown said...
Your dishonesty is breathtaking.
What you want in your little totalitarian world is the force to consequences of your actions on me. You want the rest of the world to pay for your lifestyle, but I'm guessing your quasi-socialist ideals don't extend much beyond that.
"And you think the pathetic little actions of a tiny portion of the planet is going to save the planet from imminent doom? "
That's funny, I don't recall saying that, let alone believing it. Would you like to tell me what dimwitted logic led you to that conclusion?
I certainly don't think that my friends and I alone will "save the world", but I do believe in the concept of personal responsibility, something that's likely alien to an immoral cretin. I don't dump paint in the ocean either, but that doesn't lead me to believe that I've prevented the ocean from being polluted.
I'll happily provide you with any reciepts you want. Just provide your name and address. I assume you're weren't lying when you asked for reciepts, were you?
Anonymous @ 5:06: Yes, tree tings are hard to analyze and all the things that you mention are important. But that is what makes the science interesting. A couple of quick comments and then was can expand on the areas you wish to pursue (and I notice you ignored my other comments).
First, while there are many factors controlling growth there is generally one limiting one. In areas if low water, it is water stress. If you are interested in temperatures you generally choose trees near the tree-line since these are most sensitive to temperature. In addition, there are many different measurements that can be taken in a tree-ring. Experience has shown that maximum latewood density corresponds best with summer temperature.
In regards to regional vs global, I have never come across anyone saying data from a tree represents the globe. Instead the usual methodology is to use several trees from appropriate stands in several locations to create a network.
Next up regional curve standardization.


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Norway's Magnus Carlsen, dubbed the "Justin Bieber of chess", has won the Chess World Championship, playing a patient game and driving defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India to make self-destructive mistakes.
Carlsen, 22, whose boyish good looks have earned him lucrative sponsorships, a modelling contract and coverage on tabloid front pages showing him poolside, defeated Anand in ten games in Chennai, India, scoring three victories and seven draws.
Carlsen, the current world number one, won three games and drew seven to achieve the victory mark of 6.5 in the FIDE World Chess Championships contest in the Indian city of Chennai.
Indian player Anand, who at the age of 43 is 21 years older than his rival, lost the title he has held since 2007 despite a last-gasp fight in a 130-move game on Friday that lasted four hours and 45 minutes.
With Carlsen having sealed the championship match, the last two games scheduled on Sunday and Monday have been cancelled.
Both players signed the chess board before heading to a joint press conference where Anand said he had "blundered" again in the final game and said sorry to his fans.
"As for the match in general it's clear that he dominated," Anand said.
"At the start of the match I thought my chances depended on my ability to last long games without making a lot of mistakes.
"This year I've had a lot of problems with mistakes creeping into my play."
The victory nets Carlsen $1.46 million, while Anand will take home $976,000.
Carlsen, described by chess great Garry Kasparov as a once-in-a-generation talent, earlier achieved the highest rating in the history of the game, beating Kasparov's 1999 record.
Carlsen missed by a few weeks becoming the youngest world champion, a record set by his one-time coach Kasparov in 1985.
The last Westerner to hold the world champion title was American legend Bobby Fischer who relinquished it in 1975.
A grandmaster since he was 13 and a fashion model in his spare time, Carlsen has drawn unusually big crowds and non-stop television coverage in his native Norway.
Norwegian broadcaster NRK said that more than 600,000 people or more than 1 out of 10 tuned in to its daytime broadcasts of the games, while tabloid VG said its online coverage generated 600,000 page views per game.
Carlsen made it to the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
He also won the Chess Oscars, awarded by Russian chess magazine '64' to the world's best player, for four consecutive years from 2009 to 2012.


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PlayStation 3 racing sim Gran Turismo 5 continues to evolve with the promised "Spec 2" update, Sony and developer Polyphony Digital announced today, giving virtual drivers more to see and do as the game approaches its first birthday.
Gran Turismo 5's "Spec 2" update adds interiors for all cars in the game, albeit of varying quality. The update also includes the 2011 season versions of the 11 NASCAR race cars, "greatly reduced load times when loading races," and the ability to save mid-race during some of GT5's lengthier races.
There's more, including an expanded Photo Mode, and a new budget friendly priced for Gran Turimso 5 (now $US39.99 USD), all of which is laid out in greater detail at the official PlayStation blog.
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Bonnie is the award-wining author of more than 25 books including QuickBooks: The Missing Manual (now Intuit's Official Guide to QuickBooks), Project: The Missing Manual, and Online Investing Hacks. She has also published her first comedic crime novel, Fresh Squeezed. She writes a monthly column called "WebWatch" for Better Investing magazine and is a regular contributor to www.interest.com. As a consultant, she manages projects for clients and wins accolades for her ability to herd cats.
When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains, cycles, walks her dogs, takes aerial dance classes, and cooks gourmet meals. You can learn more at Bonnie's website, www.bonniebiafore.com.
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Wonder how to work catwalk cool into your own closet? Here's how to translate the trends for real life.
If you worry about hat hair, it's time to get over it, because when you start the day in single digits, temperature-wise, that head of yours really needs to be covered. But, trust us here, your style needn't suffer. The good old beanie, it turns out, was super trendy on the fall designer runways: in basic neutrals at BCBG; dressed up with a pompom and veil at Kate Spade; soft and slouchy at Rebecca Minkoff; extra tall at M. Patmos; and oversized and texturized at Donna Karan.
Whether you have a basketful of beanies already in your closet, or could afford to add a few to your cold weather cache, now is the time to wear the sporty style – whether you're headed to the office, a fancy restaurant or your favorite ski resort. Of course, you can't go wrong with a simple plain cap in black, camel, white or gray, but here are nine beanies with flair we take our hats off to. Beanies? Brilliant.
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Sweet and silly: It's hard to feel down about a gray-skied day when you're wearing a bright blue beanie with squirrels on it. Or a pretty white hat covered in dainty black bows. Or a fun message number with "Show" on one side and "Tell" on the other. Life's too short to be so serious all the time, don't you think?
Coal Heidi beanie, $24.50, amazon.com; Kate Spade bow beanie, $52.80, Nordstrom.com; BCBG Generation Show/Tell beanie, $16.80, Nordstrom.com.
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MAYBE IT'S THE PENCIL LEAD: The Larimer County clerk's office discovered that a ballot weighed at one post office required 61 cents postage, while the same ballot weighed at another needed a 44-cent stamp, The Coloradoan reports. Ballots will be delivered even with insufficient postage, but Al DeSarro, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service in Denver, said the correct price is 61 cents and urged all voters to put that amount of postage on the ballot before mailing.
THE READING WAS DONE ON PERSONAL TIME: In the wake of his comments that evidence supports the view that global warming is a hoax, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck tells The Coloradoan: "As Weld County DA, I haven't done a whole lot of research on this area, and I will." Later in the same article, Bob Moore unearths the following quote, from a radio interview Buck gave in 2009: "I've read a lot of literature on that issue. I also have read and talked to experts that say climate change is not man made."
PLEDGE-TO-ELIMINATE-IT DRIVE: Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn's legislation to cut funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting after fiscal year 2012 gets some national notoriety today in the wake of the Juan Williams firing, as The Associated Press reports.
JUST REMEMBER TO MAIL IT: Facebook friends can sneak a peak at how you're voting in November's mid-term election through a voyeuristic voters guide called "MyBallot" developed by New Era Colorado, a civic engagement group with a youthful edge, reports The Camera.
THE COLORADO MODEL: A coordinated assortment of outside progressive groups have poured more than $6 million into winning key legislative seats across the state, swamping the spending on races that typically cost candidates a fraction of the sums being spent on their behalf, The Colorado Statesman reports.


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Pretty Links Pro
Pretty Links Pro is a significant upgrade that adds many tools and redirection types that will allow you to create pretty links automatically, cloak links, replace keywords thoughout your blog with pretty links, categorize & tag your pretty links and much more. You can learn more about Pretty Links Pro here:
Pretty Links
Pretty Links enables you to shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Links tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Links is a killer plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.
Link Examples
This is a link setup using Pretty Links that redirects to the Pretty Links Homepage where you can find more info about this Plugin:
Here's a named pretty link (I used the slug 'aweber') that does a 307 redirect to my affiliate link for aweber.com:
Here's a link that Pretty Links generated a random slug for (similar to what bit.ly or tinyurl would do):
- Gives you the ability to create clean, simple URLs on your website that redirect to any other URL (allows for 301, 302, and 307 redirects only)
- Generates random 3-4 character slugs for your URL or allows you to name a custom slug for your URL
- Tracks the Number of Clicks per link
- Tracks the Number of Unique Clicks per link
- Provides a reporting interface where you can see a configurable chart of clicks per day. This report can be filtered by the specific link clicked, date range, and/or unique clicks.
- View click details including ip address, remote host, browser (including browser version), operating system, and referring site
- Download hit details in CSV format
- Intuitive Javascript / AJAX Admin User Interface
- Pass custom parameters to your scripts through pretty link and still have full tracking ability
- Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
- Enables you to send your pretty links via Email directly from your WordPress admin
- Select Temporary (302 or 307) or Permanent (301) redirection for your pretty links
- Cookie based system for tracking visitor activity across clicks
- Create nofollow/noindex links
- Turn tracking on / off on each link
- Pretty Links Bookmarklet
Upload 'pretty-link.zip' to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
Activar el plugin a través del menú 'Plugins' en WordPress
Make sure you have changed your permalink Common Settings in Settings -> Permalinks away from «Default» to something else. I prefer using custom and then «/%year%/%month%/%postname%/» for the simplest possible URL slugs with the best performance.
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- Disable «enter» key on the Target URL field
- Add copy to clipboard to the add/edit link page
- Fix the incorrect message being display when updating a link
- Redirect to the links list page after creating or updating a link
- Add the ability to sort by Clicks to the links list table
- Fix description conflict with the WP Product Review plugin
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- Add Target column to links list table
- Disable auto-saving on links
- Fix links having Draft status on creation
- Fix not being able to Create/Edit links until saving options
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- Add slug and url as searchable fields in the links list
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- Fix failed category/cpt migrations
- Re-designed Admin UI especially the Admin Links UI including links listing, adding new links and editing links
- Added an Insert Pretty Link button for Gutenberg Paragraph Blocks
- Security fixes and hardening
- Fixed Slug is not Available Error
- Removed Pretty Links Groups (lite users will still be able to access legacy groups on the links listing page but pro users & lite users who upgrade to pro will have their groups migrated to become link categories)
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- More security hardening
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- Fixed duplicate social buttons
- Fixed warning of «invalid argument supplied to foreach»
- Changed clipboard library
- Fixed an issue with non-countable strings for PHP 7.2
- Fixed issue with large indexes utf8mb4 innodb
- Fixed issue with ampersands in Keywords
- Fixed issue with keywords being replaced
- Fixed issue with '+' sign not allowed in slugs
- Fixed self-closing tags for keyword replacement
- Fixed Arabic (UTF-8) characters
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- Fixed content-type header
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- PRO Enhanced WooCommerce keyword replacements
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- PRO Fixed link expiration dates being 1 day off
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- Rebranded from Pretty Link to Pretty Links
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- Fixed bug breaking TinyMCE
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- Fixed URL validation
- Fixed split test reporting
- Fixed a regular expression warning
- Use PHP's url validation in utils
- Enhanced database performance
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- Tools have been better separated out into it's own admin page
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1/2 pack or 2 bundles of sweet potato vermicelli
4 cloves garlic( peel and chopped)
3 eggs
10 shrimp (clean and deviened)
250 gm tenderloin pork(sliced)
5-6 leaves chinese cabbages ( wash and cut 1 inch)
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp chicken boullion powder 1 tbsp sesame oil
100 ml water
3 tbsp cooking oil
For Garnishing:
2 red long pepper( sliced)
1 stalk cilantro(wash and cut)
1 stalk scallion (wash and cut 2 inch lenght
1:Cook Sweet Potato Vermicelli in a large pan of rapidly boiling water for 1 minutes .Don't overcooked the vermicelli .Drain well, set aside.
2: Prepare wok at high heat,add 1 tbsp oil and fry eggs until become scramble egg,dish out,set aside. Then add in the remaining oil with chopped garlic,add in tenderloin pork and shrimp,fry for 1-2 minutes.
3:Combine water,chicken bouillon powder,soy sauce,oyster sauce,thick soy sauce and sweet potato vermicelli . Stir-fry all the ingredients for another 5 minutes or until the sauce absorb into the vermicelli and almost dry.Then add in Chinese cabbages and scrambles eggs.Mix well.
4:Check the seasoning,drizzling sesame oil and dish out.Sprinkle some garnish and serve hot or warm immediately.
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"Ever since I picked up K. Eric Drexler's visionary book on nanotechnology, 'Engines of Creation,' back in 1991, I have anticipated this next stage of scientific and materials technology development. The ramifications are far reaching as nearly every product and medical procedure we use will be affected.
Superlight body armor, high-efficiency solar and fuel cells, highly effective cancer treatments: the list of applications is endless, and the impact on our lives — both individually and collectively — is very potent.
"I think that while most people understand that DCCCD is a valuable and cost-effective educational experience, they may overlook the networking opportunities that are available. The three best jobs I have ever had (including my current one) I got directly because of my involvement in community college.
"Also, I have met great friends and people who have had an incalculable impact on my life. Even if you don't know what you want, it pays to take at least one course a semester just to keep yourself in the environment. You will find information and leads that you won't get anywhere else.
"I earned an associate degree in Electronic Telecommunications at Eastfield College and took Intro to Nanotechnology at Richland College. The skills and knowledge I learned are completely applicable to my job, and it is exciting to have my hands directly on the tools and instrumentation that are forging ahead into new territory. My professors have been very supportive and share their valuable life experience with the students — they are not just 'book-smart.' Also, they have been very willing to take the time to explain difficult concepts.
"The Nanotechnology program at Richland is worth looking at for those interested in a high-tech science field with great promise in the 21st century. I don't see this career choice going away or being subject to downturns in the economy. There are too many profitable products waiting to be developed and not enough skilled and educated people to do it. To quote William Gibson, 'The future is already here — it just isn't evenly distributed.'"
Joel-Anthony Gray earned an associate degree in Electronic Telecommunications at Eastfield College and took Nanotechnology classes at Richland College. He is about to finish a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. In his current position as a nanotechnology applications specialist for Zyvex Inc., he helps to develop new nanotechnology products, probing semiconductor devices for failure analysis at the nano-level.


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Quan's 'wrong note' on lock-picking class
In her State of the City speech Wednesday night, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan mentioned that violent crime was not the city's only problem - and she is correct. Burglaries of cars, homes and businesses skyrocketed from 8,797 in 2011 to 12,549 in 2012.
That's an average of 34 burglaries a day - or one every 42 minutes.
So, Oakland resident Noah Garber was plumb flabbergasted when he saw what Quan's weekly newsletter was advertising this weekend: a class on how to pick locks.
"For reasons that cannot be explained, and defy logic, there is a class this weekend on lock picking," Garber wrote in an e-mail. "Given the uncontrollable crime in Oakland, we are beyond ourselves that Oakland can advertise an event on lock-picking. It's akin to teaching a class on making IEDs in Iraq."
The link from Quan's newsletter takes readers to the details of the "Introduction to Lockpicking" class: "Have you always wanted to know how to pick a lock? In many cases, opening a lock without a key is easier than you think!" The class costs $40 and is open to ages 10 to 101.
Students are told to bring their lock-picking tools - and that if they don't have any, they can buy some from the teacher to take with them when they leave. The online brochure shows photos of a person picking a dead bolt and a table full of different kinds of locks - including a few handcuffs.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan was not pleased.
"I'm in shock that people would provide a class to teach people a skill to violate the law," Jordan said. "It's unconscionable."
Lock-pick instructor Michael Fitzhugh is a member of TOOOL (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers), a Dutch outfit that teaches and holds national and international lock-picking events annually. In their world, lock picking is done for sport and bragging rights. But, he says, it's also a useful tool if you lock yourself out of your home.
Jordan has a more conventional solution to that problem: "Call a locksmith!"
Fitzhugh, who has no need for a locksmith, said that on only one occasion has he had to dismiss a student whose reasons for taking the class sounded a bit suspicious.
"I once asked someone to leave because he was asking about how to pick a door lock for a particular kind of lock," Fitzhugh said. "He was an activist who wanted to learn how to break into foreclosed and abandoned homes. I told him we're not a political group and don't support breaking and entering."
It is unlikely that the 20 people who signed up for the Saturday class in Oakland are taking it to enhance their professional skills, but it's hard to envision lock picking as something that qualifies as a quiet family-night activity.
"We're out to teach people a hobby skill they can enjoy at home or without a group," Fitzhugh said.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never been so bored at home, or with friends, that I considered picking a front-door lock to pass the time.
And considering the variety of offerings at the weekend workshop, which include the fundamentals of drawing, making ice cream and using Adobe photo shop, lock picking doesn't fit.
Ironically, the same newsletter advises Oakland residents to fight back against burglaries by locking their doors.
By midday Wednesday, Quan issued a statement apologizing for what she described as an oversight in the newsletter, which is sent via e-mail to thousands of subscribers.
"I've heard from people who are upset about the lock-picking-class item. I understand their reaction, and I apologize. The class is part of a do-it-yourself, garage-science sort of event, and those are popular in our creative community, but it strikes the wrong note when we're doing everything we can to bring down crime," Quan said.
In Oakland, people are justifiably jumpy about crime, and when the mayor "strikes the wrong note," everybody in town winces.
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So the other night I had just went to see a movie and soon afterwards ran into some other folks from my high school years. We started talking about what everyone was doing when one of my friends chimed in that he was writing a thesis about New Urbanism. We started talking about all these issues surrounding this topic: gentrification, neighborhood schools, the need for anchors in the community and how Charlotte, NC has approached the issues surrounding new urbanism.
Later we talked about how the Tiny House Movement fits into this notion of urbanism. My friend noted that when he reads this site, he gets the notion of building the Tiny House in the woods, away from it all. It's true, I tend to focus on this, which I am at odds with. The fact is to truly maximize sustainability in the highly populated world we live in today, we must come together and live in a more dense area. I know that to truly usher in my way of living, one that is green and ecofriendly, one that is sustainable, one that focuses on local, one that focuses on community I must live in an area that is more densely packed. The issues of course is how do you live in close proximity to others, while still having room to roam, to connect with nature and ensure a high quality of life.
Today's urban centers are as my favorite author/speaker James Kunstler "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world, you can call it a technosis externality clusterfuck and it's a tremendous problem for us, the outstanding problem is that there are places no one cares about". And that's the rub, the urban manifestation is a place that no one cares about, that pushes out the poor, the minorities or if that isn't possible, we turn to the phenomenon of "white flight". We talked about how we need to create places that are local, have your anchors (schools, stores, grocery, churches, living, office space and a non-salient parking plan for double the intended capacity), how these need to be with in walking distance to each other, but where you can go to other centers via mass transit that people actually want to ride. Preferably we want a place where cars aren't allowed in the main pedestrian areas, so long as you have lots of parking underground that allows the area to be permeable.
As we discussed all these huge issues I realized that this was a really extraordinary event happening, I was in awe! Each person standing in that circle, talking about these huge issues, these progressive issues, these ideas that I feel will change the world in an impactful way, we were from such wildly different backgrounds. I am the only self described "eco friendly" person, the others were not a polar opposite, but represented many different sects of society. I was astonished, not that I think of them as stupid, but that they don't have a logical reason to know this much about new urbanism and surrounding issues. That essentially regular people had their finger on the pulse of such progressive and important issues was amazing.
It gave me a glimmer of hope that this dialogue that we were having about new urbanism, environmental issues, sustainability and community/local focus might be happening as a whole with people my age, that this generation, which has been sometimes labeled as useless, might be growing to inspire a new age of responsible and progressive thinking.
Now before I get too excited I took a step back to really look at the group and who we were. I am seeking a PhD, working for Americorp and running a Tiny House blog, my other friend is a researcher at Duke University, the next girl is a social psychologist pursing her masters at Columbia, finally my friend who is a politician/going to Davidson College, who lost while running for a major office in Charlotte by only 3% at the age of 22 with no money. These are admittedly not normal people. But I hope that this dialogue is happening outside of these circles. That my generation is talking about these issues with their friends, so that when we start taking hold as the baby boomers slip into retirement, that we can usher in a new age of socially and environmentally responsible corporatism in all areas of our lives.


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Getting started in pony club
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You have a child who is 'horse crazy' and you want to find out how Pony Club can help you.
Most clubs require members to have their own horse – owned, leased or borrowed, as Pony Club is not like a Riding School that has its own mounts available. However a small number of clubs do run what is called a 'Riders Without Horses' or 'Non Owners' program, which is set up to accommodate young riders who do not have their own horses. They do not always get to ride; sometimes the focus is on horse care and spending time with other kids who like horses.
As the club usually has to find suitable horses for new beginners and be able to take care of them it is not a program that is easy to start. They are also usually limited in the number of RWH members they can take – there can be a waiting list. The PCAV component of fees is available here which includes insurance; club fees are on top of that, and vary from club to club.
You will also need to buy the club uniform, including jodphurs, helmet and suitable riding boots.
Most Pony clubs meet monthly; only a very few meet fortnightly. You can go to a Riding School which would be another way of getting them involved with horses as a start. It is usually a lot cheaper and easier on your free time to start this way -find out if the horse bug is a passing phase or a longer lasting interest. If you are in the inner city the Collingwood Childrens Farm also does some work with kids and horses.
To search for clubs that have a RWH program in your area Go to the heading Zones-Clubs to find the club contact details, including links to their own websites (when they have them). There are not many of them.
If you have a mount available then you should get in touch with your nearest pony club(s). The contact details for all of our clubs are available on our website under the heading Zones-Clubs. The 'all clubs' list brings them up sorted by the zones they belong to. This is a good guide to location, there is also a map under this heading on the website which will show you what clubs are in your area.
If you click on the club name you will bring up the contacts, the address and also some information about the club. What day rallies are held, uniform requirements, what programs are run. The best person to get in touch with is the Secretary. Bear in mind that sometimes the information on these pages is not totally up to date, although every effort is made to work towards this.
Fees vary widely between clubs, you should contact the individual club for more details.
PCAV does not have a minimum age for Riders, however some clubs do have a minimum age in their club's rules. It is entirely up to a Club's Committee to decide whether they can accomodate Pre-School Children at their club- every Club is different.


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Changing the Image and Name for Your Get Found Facebook App
It's important to brand your business as much as possible using images, colors, logos and fonts that represent your business. Use the following information to update the menu button on your Facebook Business page to further strengthen your online brand:
To Change the Image and Name for Your Get Found Facebook App
- To update the image that displays for your Get Found menu/list, go to your business's Facebook page (where the app has been installed).
- When you hover over the apps installed on your page you will see a small pencil appear in the upper right corner of the app you are mousing over.
- Click on the pencil and then click Edit Settings.
- The next screen that displays will let you change both the image and the name that appears on the app.


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Connecting with People is a range of training packages delivered by 4 Mental Health Ltd for a range of sectors, including healthcare, social care, statutory bodies and communities.Our modular training includes bite-size suicide awareness and response courses and we have also developed resources and training for young people, professionals and the wider community.
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Connecting with People is training in suicide and self harm mitigation that has been informed by evidence-based principles. It aims to increase empathy, reduce stigma and enhance participants' ability to compassionately respond to someone who has suicidal thoughts or following self harm.
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We have developed a range of compassionate public education resources with our collaborators for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. To download these resources, please visit our publications page here.
If you need to talk, you can call Samaritans at any time of day or night.