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Q: What is the difference between managed and unmanaged code?
- Managed Code
Managed code is code that is written to target the services of the managed runtime execution environment (like Common Language Runtime in .NET Framework). The managed code is always executed by a managed runtime execution environment rather than the operating system directly. Managed refers to a method of exchanging information between the program and the runtime environment. Because the execution of code is governed by the runtime environment, the environment can guarantee what the code is going to do and provide the necessary security checks before executing any piece of code. Because of the same reason the managed code also gets different services from the runtime environment like Garbage Collection, type checking, exception handling, bounds checking, etc. This way managed code does not have to worry about memory allocations, type safety, etc. Applications written in Java, C#, VB.NET, etc target a runtime environment which manages the execution and the code written using these types of languages is known as Managed Code. Managed code is always compiled into an Intermediate Language (MSIL in case of .NET Framework). The compiler used by .NET framework to compile managed code compiles it into Intermediate Language and generates the necessary metadata, symbolic information that describes all of the entry points and the constructs exposed in the Intermediate Language (e.g., methods, properties) and their characteristics. The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Standard describes how the information is to be encoded, and programming languages that target the runtime emit the correct encoding.
In .NET Framework Managed Code runs within the .Net Frameworks CLR and benefits from the services provided by the CLR. When we compile the managed code, the code gets compiled to an intermediate language (MSIL) and an executable is created. When a user runs the executable the Just In Time Compiler of CLR compiles the intermediate language into native code specific to the underlying architecture. Since this translation happens by the managed execution environment (CLR), the managed execution environment can make guarantees about what the code is going to do, because it can actually reason about it. It can insert traps and sort of protection around, if it's running in a sandboxed environment, it can insert all the appropriate garbage collection hooks, exception handling, type safety, array bounce, index checking and so forth.
Managed code also provides platform independence. As the managed code is first compiled to intermediate language, the CLRs JIT Compiler takes care of compiling this intermediate language into the architecture specific instructions.
- Unmanaged Code
Code that is directly executed by the Operating System is known as un-managed code. Typically applications written in VB 6.0, C++, C, etc are all examples of unmanaged code. Unmanaged code typically targets the processor architecture and is always dependent on the computer architecture. Unmanaged code is always compiled to target a specific architecture and will only run on the intended platform. This means that if you want to run the same code on different architecture then you will have to recompile the code using that particular architecture. Unmanaged code is always compiled to the native code which is architecture specific. When we compile unmanaged code it gets compiled into a binary X86 image. And this image always depends on the platform on which the code was compiled and cannot be executed on the other platforms that are different that the one on which the code was compiled. Unmanaged code does not get any services from the managed execution environment.
In unmanaged code the memory allocation, type safety, security, etc needs to be taken care of by the developer. This makes unmanaged code prone to memory leaks like buffer overruns and pointer overrides and so forth.
Unmanaged executable files are basically a binary image, x86 code, loaded into memory. The program counter gets put there and thats the last the Operating System knows. There are protections in place around memory management and port I/O and so forth, but the system doesnt actually know what the application is doing.


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Beginning in 1979 with oil-trading ventures in Latin America and Africa, Citizens has used revenues from commercial enterprises to channel millions of dollars into charitable programs in the U.S. and abroad. Whether heating the homes of the elderly and the poor, lowering the cost of prescription drugs for millions of Americans, or starting solar heating projects in Jamaica and Venezuela, Citizens has created social ventures as innovative as the businesses that finance them.
Citizens Energy Corporation, formed in response to the oil-price shocks of the 1970s, signed its first crude oil contract with Venezuela in November 1979. Joseph P. Kennedy II arranged refining deals, signed storage agreements with major terminal operators and contracted with hundreds of retail dealers to deliver heating oil to needy Massachusetts families at 40 percent below market rates. By the end of its first 18 months of operations, Citizens Energy had acquired and delivered more than 13 million gallons of heating oil to elderly and poor families in Massachusetts. In addition, Massachusetts itself purchased discounted heating oil from Citizens Energy, using state and federal energy assistance funds to expand the number of households served. Over the next decades, Citizens entered into purchasing agreements with other petroleum-producing nations, including Ecuador, Nigeria and Angola, and used the profits to dramatically reduce the cost of home heating oil for the poor and elderly.
Charitable Reinvestment
Starting with that first oil contract in 1979, Citizens Energy Corporation began charitable programs to provide free or discounted home heating oil to low-income families that would eventually serve over 2 million people across the U.S. Profits were also used to create innovative social programs in countries where we were doing business. Citizens installed solar hot water heating systems in maternity hospitals in Venezuela and Jamaica, started bio-mass projects in Costa Rica, and helped jump-start the creation of Angola's first private university, the Catholic University of Angola.
Supported by over $500 million in donated oil from CITGO Petroleum Corporation over the course of a decade, Citizens began running a national heating assistance program in 2005. Eventually reaching families in 25 states and the District of Columbia, the Oil Heat Program became known as JOE-4-OIL—the phone number that low-income families called every winter to request heating assistance. Eligible recipients under the program received a one-time delivery of 100 gallons of home heating oil. As part of the JOE-4-OIL program supported with the CITGO funding, Citizens Energy also sought to serve families in need who lived in multi-family housing, homeless shelters, and on Native American reservations.
Through the Citizens Energy Building Program, 22 million gallons of home heating oil reached 230,000 low-income apartments across over 1,700 different buildings in the New York area, securing a rent-reduction for tenants. Many participating buildings were tenant-owned co-operatives. The program also provided $18 million towards energy conservation and weatherization projects that reduced waste, lowered costs, and improved energy efficiency. Citizens Energy began making fuel grants in 2007 to tribes from Maine to Alaska through the Tribal Heating Assistance Program. With 28% of all Native American households living below the poverty line, many of the poorest communities in the United States received part of the $20 million home heating grants delivered through the program. The program grew to serve over 30,000 households in 272 tribal communities.
To reach homeless families and individuals, Citizens Energy used donated CITGO oil to warm over 300 shelters in 11 states, expanding our existing Shelter Winter Assistance Program that began in the 1980s. The program also helped finance upgrades that would save $1 million on annual energy bills at shelters, allowing them to stretch limited resources to serve even more homeless families and individuals.
Learn more about our Citizens Energy Shelter Winter Assistance Program.
Businesses interested in partnering with Citizens Energy on oil ventures should contact:
Pete Smith at email@example.com
Read more about What We Do.
With the nation facing alarming increases in natural gas prices in the early 1980s, Citizens Energy Corporation began exploring opportunities to enter into the natural gas market. Citizens Energy believed that the same business model used in its Oil Heat Program – the use of for-profit opportunities to drive down the price of heating oil – could be applied to the natural gas industry.
Our Experience
Partial de-regulation of the gas industry in the early 1980's offered Citizens Energy with a window of opportunity into a previously exclusive market. In an effort to topple long-standing monopolies over access to the distribution system, Citizens Energy mounted a landmark federal regulatory challenge, attempting to reduce the price of natural gas by allowing more competitors to enter into the market, which would benefit consumers and the national economy.
After Columbia Pipeline, one of the nation's largest pipeline owners, was charged with practices that resulted in over-billing of end-users, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) threatened to revoke Columbia's license. The head of Columbia proposed opening its pipeline to Citizens Energy as part of its settlement. FERC approved the proposal and Citizens Energy entered the natural gas industry full force through its subsidiary, Citizens Gas Supply Corporation.
Citizens Gas Supply soon became involved in the construction of new gathering facilities, designed to bring free-market gas into the interstate pipeline. By the end of 1986, Citizens had access to a total combined throughput of 18 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. Within one year of its founding, Citizens Gas Supply was one of the nation's largest independent movers of natural gas, buying and selling an average of 270 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, while distributing more than $160 million worth of gas per day throughout 17 states.
Ultimately, Citizens Gas Supply managed to enter into agreements with 38 pipeline operators throughout the United States, making it possible for the company to purchase and transport natural gas from and to nearly every domestic geographic market. In addition to its trading activities, Citizens Gas Supply made significant investments in gathering systems, strategic pipeline interconnects, storage facilities, firm transportation, and downstream facilities.
Many of these activities were pursued through joint ventures with established industry leaders, including National Fuel Gas Company and the Victoria Gas Company. In 1993, Citizens Gas Supply Corporation was sold to Western Gas Resources in Denver, Colorado, along with other natural gas-related assets of the company.
Since entering the natural gas market in the 1980's, Citizens Energy operated a Natural Gas Assistance Program to provide fuel to low-income families in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. This program expanded to serve Massachusetts in 2007 when Citizens Energy began a partnership with Distrigas. Operating for over 30 years, the Natural Gas Assistance Program provided more than $20 million in assistance to over 150,000 families.
Businesses interested in partnering with Citizens Energy on natural gas ventures should contact:
Pete Smith at email@example.com
Read more about What We Do and our Current Initiatives in Natural Gas.
In 1985, Citizens Energy began its electricity industry operations by buying power from utilities with surplus generating capacity, reselling the excess power to other utilities, and using the profits to help low-income families pay their electricity bills. This initial experience ultimately led Citizens to win a landmark federal decision that foreshadowed the deregulation of the electricity industry and the formation of an independent Citizens Energy electric power marketing company.
Our Experience
In the early 1980s, Citizens Energy partnered with the Utah Municipal Power Agency to make surplus generating capacity available to third-party buyers in the Southwest. Citizens then used the profits to benefit low-income households served by the utility. Within two years, the Citizens was buying and selling more than 3.2 million kilowatt hours of electricity and delivering assistance to needy customers of three California and Utah utilities.
Building on this experience, Citizens Energy formed the nation's first independent electric power marketer in 1988 – Citizens Power & Light Corporation. This company's mission was to acquire, exchange, and market electric power under contracts extending from several months to several decades.
Before launching its electricity operations, Citizens Energy won a landmark decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that foreshadowed the eventual deregulation of the electricity industry. FERC approved Citizens' innovative petition to allow Citizens to buy and sell inter-utility electricity without restrictive rate regulation. This pioneering decision enabled Citizens Power & Light to close more than 30 major power sale contracts within a few years, becoming the nationally recognized leader in the field of electricity power marketing.
Citizens Power & Light's customers ranged from major electric utilities throughout North America to the fast-growing independent power development industry. Citizens Power & Light increased the timeliness and cost-effectiveness of selling power in the hugely fragmented electricity market by providing services to reduce risks, lower generating costs, and adding value. Among these services, Citizens developed and implemented effective demand-side management programs, which have since become increasing common strategies for electricity users to reduce their energy use and save money.
In 1995, Citizens Power & Light formed a partnership with Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and was renamed Citizens Lehman Power LP. Citizens Energy eventually sold its interest in the partnership.
Businesses interested in partnering with Citizens Energy on electricity ventures should contact:
Pete Smith at email@example.com
Read more about What We Do and our Current Initiatives in Electricity.
Citizens Conservation Corporation was created in 1981 to augment Citizens Energy's fuel assistance programs. Recognizing that the least expensive form of energy is the energy saved through conservation and efficiency, Citizens Energy saw that its subsidized home heating oil often was wasted in poorly weatherized apartments with inefficient heating systems. By providing design, engineering, and construction management services, Citizens Conservation reduced energy waste in tens of thousands of housing units and made rental housing more livable and affordable.
Federal and state-funded weatherization programs existed at the time to provide conservation services to the poor, but Citizens Energy tried another approach. By appealing to the business concerns of building owners, Citizens sought to provide conservation and efficiency savings based on the performance of the improvements, rather than as a giveaway. Citizens Conservations' strategy – to invest against projected savings – led to the company helping to reduce energy demand in thousands of housing units throughout the country.
Unlike most other energy service companies, which focused on retrofitting single-family homes or commercial and industrial facilities, Citizens Conservation concentrated on the most challenging segment of the energy conservation market – multi-family rental housing for low- and moderate-income residents. Citizens Conservation worked with building owners, real estate management companies, and utilities to provide a maximum level of investment to improve the building's energy efficiency, generating long-term energy and building maintenance cost savings.
Citizens Conservation conducted rigorous building-specific energy audits and then created state-of-the-art engineering designs and financing arrangements to implement the recommended building improvements. Citizens Conservation also managed the construction process and provided educational programs for building managers and residents. In this manner, Citizens documented average energy savings for heating and hot water that reached 40 percent, with some energy reductions as high as 75 percent. Tens of thousands of apartments received Citizens Conservation retrofits, reducing energy demand and delivering millions of dollars in energy savings to taxpayers and residents.
In 1983, Citizens Energy formed a related company, Citizens Heat and Power Company, to provide similar energy conservation and efficiency services at major industrial and commercial properties. That company built a client portfolio of 170 separate buildings in four states, including hospitals, nursing homes, school departments, and municipal, county, and state government office buildings.
Citizens Heat and Power was sold to a major utility in 1986, while Citizens Conservation Corporation was sold in 1995 to Eastern Utility Corporation.
Businesses interested in partnering with Citizens Energy on conservation projects should contact:
Pete Smith at email@example.com
Citizens Energy's first steps in the renewable energy sector took place in the early 1980s, when its electricity trading division began wheeling wind power from the Pacific Northwest into California. Committed to clean, renewable power to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on foreign fuel sources, Citizens Energy launched Citizens Wind in 2003 and Citizens Solar in 2010. We conduct our development activities in a socially responsible manner, with particular focus on environmental sensitivity and respect for the local communities in which we operate. Citizens Solar and Citizens Wind are unique in the renewable energy industry: Our profits support charitable programs to cover the energy needs of low-income households.
Citizens Solar
Founded in 2010, Citizens Solar has become one of the largest solar developers in the state of Massachusetts. As of 2013, Citizens Solar completed the construction of a $50 million portfolio of nine distributed solar projects totaling over 18 megawatts.
Citizens Solar works with a diverse array of government and private sector entities to develop solar sites, allowing our partners save on electricity costs while contributing clean and green energy to the grid.
With sites ranging from a converted landfill to an heirloom potato farm, Citizens Solar is experienced in a wide range of partnerships. Private businesses and landowners who lease their land to Citizens Solar can expect years of revenue produced by local sources of clean renewable energy.
Businesses that are interested in partnering with Citizens Solar should contact:
Brian Morrissey at email@example.com
Citizens Wind
The first project in Citizens Wind's portfolio was a 34.5-megawatt (MW) facility in Munnsville, N. Y., that went online in 2007. We also co-developed a 198-MW project on Wolfe Island, Ontario, that began construction in July 2008 and entered commercial operation a year later. Citizens Wind has expertise in all aspects of the wind development process from site identification to procurement and construction. Citizens Wind is developing an additional 200 megawatts of wind.
Businesses that are interested in partnering with Citizens Wind should contact:
Pete Smith at email@example.com
Citizens Medical
Citizens Medical began working with the pharmaceutical industry in 1985, coordinating the donation of relief supplies to Ethiopia during a widespread famine. Soon after, Citizens Medical established a joint venture with Medco Containment Services Inc., the world's largest mail order pharmacy and leader in cost-containment programs, for prescription drugs.
Citizens Medical negotiated price discounts for large employee and union groups, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, NYNEX, and the National Association of Letter Carriers, with manufacturers and pharmacies. The company offered integrated mail service, prescription card and drug reimbursement programs, and tailored each prescription benefit plan to meet its client's budget. Citizens Medical also offered professional services that focused on the customer's direct needs, including a 24-hour toll free number for participants, specially trained customer service pharmacists to answer questions regarding medications, drug education materials to help familiarize patients with their medications, and various counseling programs to support the elderly.
Citizens Medical's customers received an average savings of over 40% on drug delivery. In its second year Citizens Medical reached a 20% increase in the company's market size from the previous year, with 1.2 million people eligible for its service.
By 1988 Citizens-Medco had become the largest broker of mail service prescriptions in the United States, with annual sales of $90 million. In 1993, Medco was taken over by Merck Co., a pharmaceutical manufacturer, and since 1999, Citizens Energy has continued to help market Merck-Medco's prescription services.
The Citizens Medical model paved the way for a new industry of pharmacy benefit managers to negotiate discounts for buying groups from drug manufacturers and pharmacies.
Citizens Health
In 2001, Citizens Health was launched as a discount pharmaceutical program for the uninsured. The company negotiated with drug companies and pharmacies to give its customers the same discounts received by families with insurance. Benefits included discounts for medications purchased at over 1,000 pharmacies or by mail order.
Citizens Health subsequently began to provide discounts on not only prescription drugs, but on a wide array of such medical services as vision, dental, hospital and doctor visits. The principle remained constant - to provide uninsured senior citizens and working families with the same level of discounts available to those with insurance.
The expansion of Medicare drug coverage to senior citizens and the broadening of access to health insurance through state and federal programs resulted in Citizens Health winding down operations after close to 10 years of providing the uninsured with more affordable health care.


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Q: Do most teams have only one bonafide lead-off hitter? Seems like whenever Pierre slumps we have no one else to step in to give him a couple days off.
A: You are correct Chuck. Pierre is the only one. Ozzie said he put together some mock lineups in the event Viciedo came up and on the days Pierre sat, he went with Alexei in the leadoff spot. Not idea but the next best option.
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Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and the awesome 10 Billion Apps promo, sadly, reached its final day. I wish it could go on forever and become a regular thing, at least with one app a day - how about it, Google?
Today, we have 8 new apps/games and 4 repeats. Here they are:
- Camera Zoom FX
- Shine Runner
- Puffle Launch
- Talking Ben The Dog
- Heavy Gunner 3D
- TileStorm HD
- HyperJump
- Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom
- Sentinel 3 - repeat from day 4
- Apparatus - repeat from day 5
- Star Chart - repeat from day 2
- Color and Draw for Kids phone ed - repeat from day 1
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Celeste Cartier is an actress who appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Her costume was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1] Janice Van Kirk and Helen Valencia also wore her uniform as evidenced by additional name tags within the costume.
Cartier had supporting roles in the Alice episode Pay the Fifty Dollars (1976, with Vic Tayback) and in the comedy Oh, God! (1977, with Teri Garr, Paul Sorvino, Jeff Corey, and David Ogden Stiers).
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Diem Brown Blogs: The Slippery Slope of Depression
The two-time cancer survivor admits that she went to a dark place after getting hate messages from fans of The Challenge
After successfully battling ovarian cancer for the second time and sharing her journey on PEOPLE.com, Diem Brown is back to blogging. This time around, she will not only share updates on her own life, but about competing on her new show, MTV's The Challenge: Rivals II.
I do not throw around the word "depression" lightly. That's why you'll never hear me say any phrases like, "Ugh, I would kill myself if …" I've seen too much and have counseled too many people who really struggle, to be so flippant about suicide or depression.
I have been depressed once before in my life – it was during my first bout of ovarian cancer. I was six months into treatment and got a call telling me that they had to extend and alter my chemo because it wasn't working.
Rewarding Experience
I felt like someone had pulled open a trapdoor beneath me and I fell into a hopeless dark cancer abyss. I could feel my spirit collapsing as it whispered, "Just give up. It's over six months of chemo and your cancer cell numbers are higher than when you started!" But I was able to overcome my depression with help, and from that day forward I acknowledge that you have to fight for happiness when life's hardships are thrown your way.
I got the call to do Rivals 2, while undergoing chemo during my second cancer battle, and I remember being so excited that they called me. I was so happy to remove my mind from Hospital Bed Land and instead envision my "reward."
I was confident my stubborn will could handle the physical nature of the challenges but mentally and emotionally I was nervous, as The Challenge would start filming just two weeks after I finished chemo.
Chemo in itself can produce intense mood swings but adding on menopause, starting new steroids to keep my cancer cells stable, and injecting hormones to keep my uterus from becoming toxic seemed like the worst possible combination of hurdles to try and adjust to while competing on a challenge show.
My Challenge Family
I communicated my concerns to the production company and I was told to "not worry" and that they "have me" and "love me," and that they were so proud of me for being so open with my health journey and struggles. I have done these shows for eight years with the same production company; the same sweet people who wrote to me and checked up on me during both my fights with cancer.
I felt safe with them. I felt like I was with my "challenge family." I felt that I could show an audience what recovery and dealing with menopause looks like, so that those watching and going through it might not feel so alone. I felt I had a purpose to go on this show that was bigger than my reservations about coping with my side effects on national TV.
What I didn't take into account was that I had no clue what menopause felt like until I was there, and then adding residual chemo, steroids and hormone shots was a combo that I wasn't ready to handle. Your body has to adjust to medications and anyone who has experienced an imbalance in their hormone levels will tell you, you feel like your body has turned against you. Even my girlfriends joke about how certain birth control brands make them feel like they mood swing from 0 to 60 at the drop of a hat.
On this challenge my mood swings and emotions would come out of nowhere and I would sit crying with Emily, Paula and Camila, venting to them that I wanted to stop taking all the "stupid" medications. I hated not feeling like myself.
Breaking Down
I approached Production and told them I made a mistake coming back this soon and that I thought I should go home. Production was very sweet and comforting in letting me know that I was doing a great thing and that people watching would understand if I am a little different and a little off this season. Sadly, that was not the case.
My breakdown episode, in which they referenced my "true colors," was awful for me to watch. I was hurt by the edited commentary of "Diem's crazy" and "Diem's come undone" and "Diem's lost it." Scene after scene, comment after comment portrayed me as having a meltdown.
The reality of my "true colors" was that I had more drugs going through my body than most people can imagine and I was struggling to adjust. I was struggling to be strong because I knew that these side effects would be temporary, yet on TV they would appear to be permanent. I made my mistakes and I own up to them all, I just wish they had aired one conversation that gave insight into my side of the situation, so that it made sense why I was acting so differently on this challenge.
I went into this show feeling nervous, but willing to open myself up to judgment as long as it could serve a purpose of awareness of what menopause and cancer recovery entails. I know The Challenge isn't a PBS series, but I thought the people in production really had my best interests at heart, and that I could completely trust them the same way I put my trust in my family and my doctors. Even after owning up to my own mistakes during the challenge, it's my fault that I forgot that they are a business, and businesses for the most part, don't have the ability feel, or, realize about the damage they can do to people.
TV's Crazy Reality
I think it's easy for producers to forget we are not "characters" and when reality TV tries to lead viewers to an opinion of right or wrong, good or bad, we are the ones that suffer the brunt of the audience's social media reactions.
After last week's episode aired, my "character" was transformed and I was showered with an onslaught of online hate. I even got a text with a screen shot of my address from someone (who somehow accessed my personal information) about how he or she was going to kill me in graphic detail. Instantly I felt the trapdoor open beneath me and the dark clouds surround my spirit.
I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't believe how that kind of judgment of my character and strangers wanting me to die affected me. For the first time since my depression in 2006 I felt my spirit saying, "Give up." I just wanted to go to sleep and make all the hate go away.
I started searching for an old bottle of prescription sleeping pills and tried to calculate how many I could take to help me get to sleep the fastest. I never once thought I was suicidal, but in a flash I realized my solution "to escape" could lead to the same result.
No Escape
I quickly slapped myself and started trying to get my mind right. I stopped reading the hateful comments and made myself realize that the sweet tweets far outnumbered the destructive ones. I started Googling inspirational, motivating quotes and sayings. I realized that "escaping" in any form is not fixing the problem, it is just delaying the moment when you have to deal with the real issue.
I can't defend why hate from strangers affected me enough to drag me into that dark hole. It was eye-opening for me and it was the first time I could understand how people can get that low from social media hate.
Although I am confused by decisions the production company made with this season, given our prior talks, I can focus on all the good The Challenge has given me from 2005 until now. I appreciate the support and the voice I was given to showcase my story and bring awareness to young adult cancer.
I may be hurt, but I do not hold any grudges. I just learned a couple of important life lessons. I am making my health my top priority as I have fought so hard to be here. That said, I have realized that competing in The Challenge series isn't for me anymore, so I am officially ending my "challenge career" with the conclusion of Rivals 2.
Head Held High
I will leave this series smiling over all the amazing memories it has given me. I will cherish the production team who let a girl that hid that she had cancer from casting directors be able to compete back in 2005 when she revealed her secret. Thank you for letting me share my journey to 2013 – because of these experiences I have found my calling as an advocate for patients.
PS. For those struggling with dark clouds over their spirits, please search #ItGetsBetter on Google or Instagram – they have some great quotes and images that will help lift you up! Reach out to friends, family or a professional. If today feels lonely and dark have faith that there is light around the corner and it does get better. Try to avoid whatever is the source that's bringing you down and know that by overcoming this cloud you are becoming even stronger than before, baby!
And call this free hotline to be connected to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7: 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
I'm excited to move on from the pain that last week created and give all my focus to my passion for patient advocacy. I can't wait to share some exciting news with y'all next Thursday. I promise it's really COOL!!
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EVERETT — When 911 comes calling in south Snohomish County this year, paramedic Shane Cooper won't be heading out to help.
The veteran firefighter is going to try a different approach to saving lives — a strategy that seems as simple and commonsense as it is cutting-edge.
Essentially, he'll be trying to prevent the emergency medical calls from happening in the first place.
Cooper will make home visits to some of the most frequent 911 callers in the sprawling Snohomish County Fire District 1. The difference is that he'll see those people before there's an emergency, when adrenaline isn't running high and seconds don't count.
Instead of a crisis, there will be a conversation.
Cooper is set to become the proverbial fence at the top of the cliff rather than the ambulance at the bottom, a rarity in his traditionally reaction-driven line of work.
The concept of a roving community-based paramedic is being used in Australia, Europe and Canada with success, Fire District 1 Capt. Shaughn Maxwell said.
"For us, the alternatives have been leave them at home or take them to the hospital," Maxwell said. "Now, we have a third alternative — let's really solve their problem."
Take elderly patients who are prone to falls. Nationwide, every 17 seconds on average, someone over the age of 65 falls and needs to go to the hospital. During a three-hour period in Edmonds alone last week, five elderly people experienced falls resulting in 911 calls. With an increasing aging U.S. population, 911 calls for falls are expected to become more frequent.
Part of Cooper's job will be to inspect homes and look for solutions, such as making arrangements to get rails installed or carving a clear path through a living room or down a hallway.
He'll work with asthma patients, looking inside the home for potential triggers to their breathing problems. He'll spend time with people living with diabetes and others who are medically vulnerable. Often, he'll try to connect patients with services in their communities.
Maxwell believes Cooper could be the first community paramedic based at a fire department in the state.
"They have tried it with hospitals, but a fire department has never gone to this level with a paramedic," he said. "On some level, we are breaking new ground."
Fire District 1 serves roughly 200,000 people and gets about 20,000 emergency calls a year. A few dozen people generated more than 400 of those calls, the district's analysis found.
"If we can focus on the 50 people and concentrate on their needs, all citizens will benefit," Maxwell said.
The time Cooper spends helping frequent callers is expected to free up paramedics for other calls. Fire district officials hope that will result in reduced response times.
Cooper's list of stops also will include recent fall patients, people who have called 911 more than once in a 24-hour period and referrals from other paramedics and firefighters who have been inside homes and have seen a need.
"I see this as an early health-care warning system," Maxwell said.
To Maxwell, the community paramedic program has the same life-saving potential as sprinklers and smoke alarms.
Fire District 1 is making arrangements to work with a university and emergency medical services department out of Hamilton, Canada, which also has a community paramedic program. The goal of the research is to help other fire departments replicate what works, Maxwell said.
As for Cooper, he said he is looking forward to going into homes and sitting down for some chats. He'll be equipped if medical emergencies arise.
"For the most part, my office is going to be rolling in my rig," he said.
Cooper drives an SUV well stocked with medical supplies. It will allow him, for instance, to reach patients in icy conditions and in power outages when ventilators could fail or oxygen tanks run empty.
Even before he makes his first home visit, which could happen as early as Monday, Cooper feels somewhat overwhelmed. Word of mouth has created a long list of requests.
At the same time, volunteer and social service agencies look to Cooper as a new avenue to reach people in need.
"I've got business cards coming out of my ears," Cooper said. "They don't see what we see. They only see the people when they come in for help."
To get the paramedic house call program off the ground, Fire District 1 received grant money from the Verdant Health Commission, an offshoot of the Lynnwood-based Snohomish County Public Hospital District No. 2. The commission is providing $144,426 a year over two years.
Jennifer Piplic, a Verdant spokeswoman, said the commission wanted to support the initiative because of its innovation, emphasis on prevention and goal of hooking up people with the help they need.
"This program appealed to us on a number of levels," she said.
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Back-to-school season means dusting off the lunchboxes and stocking up on brown paper bags. It's lunch-making time.
For many kids, that means a daily dose of PB&J with a side of sliced apples. But sandwiches get boring — both for kids and for lunch-packing parents. One way to get out of the sandwich rut? Go ethnic.
Ethnic flavors have been commonplace in American cooking for years.
Salsa outsold ketchup for the first time back in 1991; in 2008, U.S. salsa sales totaled $931 million, compared to $621 million for ketchup. Sushi spots and kebab huts pepper nearly every neighborhood from the city to the suburbs. Toddlers gobble up sushi rolls like they're french fries.
With easy access to so many cuisines, today's schoolchildren boast sophisticated palates — and they're easily bored. Baltimore mom Rebecca Klein says Seth, her second-grader, asks for new and different lunch options. "The lunches I pack are sometimes pretty boring," she says. "But Seth asks for variety. He wants to try new things."
Kids aren't the only ones who get bored with standard school lunches. Packing the same lunch, day in and day out, is a drag for parents, too. According to Klein, "I have fun cooking dinner, so why shouldn't packing lunches be just as enjoyable?"
Though the standard American lunchbox still holds a sandwich, ethnic foods are cropping up in cafeterias around the region.
When she taught at Padonia International School in Cockeysville, teacher Katie Berman says, "Students brought sushi, noodles, spring rolls, and curry. They brought the food their families eat on a regular basis."
School systems are incorporating ethnic flavors into school lunches, as well. According to Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association, "Ethnic foods are a good way for schools to switch up their menus, getting children interested in trying new things."
Another bonus, according to Pratt-Heavner, is that ethnic foods are often full of whole grains and legumes, making compliance with new school lunch nutrition standards easier.
Exciting as they are, internationally inspired lunches pose some challenges.
Though many insulated lunchboxes and thermoses are available, it's best to avoid foods that may spoil without refrigeration or that taste best when piping hot.
Dulaney High School graduate Nakiya Vasi Schurman ate Indian food at home frequently but didn't carry it to school for lunch very often. "I may have taken leftovers for lunch in high school, since we finally got a microwave in our cafeteria. I just remember eating a lot of sandwiches."
Logistics aren't the only barrier for some kids. Some ethnic foods have strong or unfamiliar smells that may draw questioning looks or comments from classmates.
Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello remembers elementary school classmates making fun of her for her Indian lunches. "After begging for 'normal' lunches," she says, "I started taking PB&J and tomato-and-cheese sandwiches."
Incorporating new foods into a well-worn lunch-packing routine takes some extra planning, but the deviation from the routine can be fun.
With the kids involved, adding a new twist to lunches turns into a family activity. Once a week, choose a new cuisine to spotlight. Research the country and cuisine, picking a recipe that will work for lunches. Encourage kids to help prepare the food — even young children can perform easy tasks, like sprinkling cheese.
International lunches don't have to be time-consuming, either. Elmer Rodriguez, whose family owns the El Salvadoran and Mexican restaurant El Paraiso in Reisterstown, recommends flautas for their simplicity. "They're so easy to make," he says. "And everyone loves them."
Even quicker: Plenty of prepared ethnic foods are available at the grocery store. Go Mediterranean with snack-size packages of hummus, with pita triangles or carrots for dipping, or serving-size containers of Greek yogurt with fruit.
Kids who love Mexican food will enjoy premade quesadillas, available at most grocery stores — especially when they're packed with a snack-size container of spicy salsa. Warm them up before school, then wrap them in foil to keep the temperature up.
Supermarket sushi rolls — often prepared at Japanese restaurants and delivered to stores each morning — are a healthful, interesting and very easy lunch alternative.
Or add Indian flair to the lunchbox with carry-out dishes that work at room temperature, like Neopol Savory Smokery's curried summer rice salad.
Whether it's a small tin of salsa or a full-fledged Indian meal, one thing is certain: Ethnic flavors make that brown bag lunch a whole lot more fun.
The Rodriguez family cooks casual but complicated El Salvadoran and Mexican food at their Reisterstown restaurant, El Paraiso. They recommend this simple, but flavorful, dish for school lunches.
Makes: 4 servings of 2 flautas each
8 corn tortillas
11/2 cups of shredded chicken (from a store-bought rotisserie chicken)
3/4 cup queso fresco or cotija cheese, crumbled
2 tablespoons canola oil
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Toss the shredded chicken with the crumbled cheese until evenly mixed.
Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil. In a medium saute pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Fry the tortillas in the oil, one at a time, for 2-3 seconds per side. When done, place each tortilla on the foil-lined baking sheet, making two rows of four.
Evenly divide the chicken and cheese mixture between the tortillas, placing the mixture in a vertical line down the center of each tortilla.
Roll the tortillas tightly, placing them seam-down on the sheet. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the flautas are crispy and a golden brown color.
Let cool before packing for lunch. Send with salsa or guacamole for dipping.
Lamb and potato dolma
These easy-to-eat roll-ups, developed by Whole Foods, are fun. Plus, they're full of flavor and nutrients — especially when paired with Greek yogurt for dipping.
Makes: 6-8 servings
1 pound ground lamb
1 yellow onion, chopped
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/2 cup dried currants
1 tablespoon chopped oregano
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 large red potato (about 3/4 pound), peeled and chopped
2 bunches chard, thick stems trimmed
Brown lamb in a large skillet over medium-high heat until cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat and carefully tip the skillet to pour off all but about 1 tablespoon of the fat that has accumulated in the pan. Return to heat, add onion and salt and cook until onions are soft and golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes more. Lower heat to medium and stir in currants, oregano, garlic, potatoes and 3 tablespoons water. Cover and cook until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes more. Remove from heat and mash potato into lamb mixture with a fork. Set aside.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Working in batches, add chard leaves a few at a time, stirring gently until wilted and just tender, about 30 seconds. Carefully transfer to a paper-towel-lined baking sheet and pat dry. Spoon some of the lamb mixture into the center of each chard leaf and roll up snugly, tucking in the ends. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.
Courtesy of Whole Foods Market Mid-Atlantic
California rolls
Rolling sushi at home sounds daunting, but it doesn't have to be. This recipe is simple, straightforward, and lunchbox-friendly.
Makes: 4 servings
4 sheets toasted nori sea vegetable (seaweed, available at specialty stores and many grocery stores), cut into 5-by-8-inch pieces
3/4 cup cooked jasmine rice
1/8 cup wasabi mixed with enough water to make a paste (optional)
1/2 cup crab meat, cooked and chilled
1/2 cup shredded cucumber
4 slices avocado
4 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds
Place one nori sheet on a flat surface with shiny side down and coarse side up. Place rice 1/2 inch from the bottom, 2 inches from the top, 1/2 inch thick and completely covering nori from side to side.
If using, spread some wasabi paste across the center of rice, from side to side. Spread crab, cucumber and sesame seeds across wasabi.
Fold bottom of nori toward the center, just so the ingredients are covered. Roll. Seal the roll by placing 4 grains of rice along the top edge of the nori and press together.
Slice roll into 4 pieces.
Adapted from recipe by Whole Foods Market Mid-Atlantic
Get packing
There's more to international cuisines than just great flavor. Get creative with ethnic-inspired packaging, too.
In India, office workers eat lunches packed in stackable containers called tiffin tins. The lunches are packed at home but delivered to offices by couriers called dabba wallas, who use a complex but highly effective system of organization to get the tins to their destinations. Happy Tiffin (www.happytiffin.com) sells tiffin tins in a wide variety of sizes and colors.
Japanese bento boxes are rectangular boxes in which meals are elegantly, and tightly, organized. Bento boxes traditionally contain rice, fish or meat and pickled or cooked vegetables. However, some parents use the boxes to creatively pack traditional American lunches, like sandwiches and fruit. Check out Wendy Copley's blog (www.wendolonia.com) for inspiration.
Just Bento (www.justbento.com) carries a large selection of bento boxes.
Back-to-school season means dusting off the lunchboxes and stocking up on brown paper bags. It's lunch-making time.


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"We are excited to build a relationship with them since we are playing for the same goal right now, which is gold in London," said Bethany Zummo (Dublin, Calif.), a member of the U.S. Women's National Sitting Team. "It is great to watch the men's team and see this level of play from all the international teams."
Both U.S. teams have qualified for the 2012 Olympic/Paralympic Games and are down to their last few weeks of preparation before taking the next step in winning the gold medal for Team USA.
"It's exciting because it's joining together the USA Volleyball family," said Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.), a member of the U.S. Women's Sitting Team. "We are here to support the men's teams who have our same volleyball roots and competitive urgency to be the best."
The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team is going to the Olympic Games to defend their 2008 gold medal, while the U.S. Women's Sitting Team will look to finish their cycle with a first-ever Paralympic gold-medal finish after capturing silver in 2008 and bronze in 2004. Both teams have been working tirelessly on and off the court to improve their game and increase the awareness of the sport in the United States.
"It is important that we support each other," U.S. Women's Sitting Team player Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.) said. "It is an amazing feeling to know that our standing teams support us and recognize us. We can all relate to the need and want to grow the game of volleyball as a whole."
With such hectic schedules and training centers half a country apart, the teams unfortunately do not get the chance to interact as much as they would like to.
"More than anything it is awesome for us to meet the team face to face," said Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), a member of the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team. "We are never in the same place at the same time and our home bases are far from each other with us in Anaheim, Calif., and them in Oklahoma City. They arrive in London after we go home so this weekend gives us a unique opportunity to show our mutual support for each other as we both attempt to play for the same country, play for the same people and support the same sport."
The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team continues to lead Pool C of the FIVB World League. The squad defeated Korea on June 29 and will face France on June 30 and Italy on July 1. Both matches start at 7:30 p.m. CT. If Team USA outplays France, the Americans will secure a spot in the FIVB Final Round in Bulgaria to be held July 4-8.
"I'm highly impressed and inspired watching these guys," said Michelle Gerlosky (Lake Wales, Fla. ), a member of the U.S. Women's Sitting Team. "It was great to watch them win last night's match in three and it honestly just gets me pumped up for London."
There are 27 days before the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony and 59 before the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. Though the teams will not be able to support the other in person at the Games, their well wishes have been communicated and the common goal of bringing home the gold across all disciplines is understood without any reservations.
For more information about the FIVB World league Tournament, click here.
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(Los Angeles, Calif. - September 26, 2009) Nothing can stop the heroic young Siegfried: With his mighty sword he slays the dragon Fafner, claims the coveted golden ring, defeats the great god Wotan in battle, and, risking all, walks through fire to awaken the beautiful sleeping warrior-goddess, Brünnhilde, with a kiss.
If you're tuning in late: Los Angeles Opera mounted the first two operas of Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring) last season. This season, they will do just four more performances of this Siegfried production, followed by the concluding opera, Götterdämmerung in five performances in April. Then, they will perform all four in two cycles in June. The cost of putting on the Ring Cycle has been estimated at $32 million, and the city of Los Angeles is planning a festival to coincide with the June performances.
Although considered one of the most accomplished composers of nineteenth-century Europe, Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite. Local anti-defamation groups have already tried without success to get the city-sponsored festival canceled. At the very least, the controversy will remain in the headlines and will be debated in private and public forums until the end of the current opera season, and perhaps beyond.
Georja: Music director James Conlon and director-designer Achim Freyer's production of Wagner's Siegfried is a beautiful and magical presentation. It is filled with wonderful artistic feats for the audience to take in and admire at every turn, and I would like to mention many of them here.
That said, attending Wagner's nearly five-hour-long opus is like running a marathon when you are used to a 5K race. The highs of the activity are there waiting for you: whether it be the joy and exhilaration of the runner's high or of musical and artistic appreciation. There are respites or intermissions along the way to replenish yourself with water and nourishment. You see and hear fascinating sights as you go, whether you are exploring new neighborhoods on your run, or taking in Freyer's fascinating, larger-than-life, mythological-yet-cartoonish characters. And you make opinions about them as they appear.
You start to feel a vague sense of community with the hundreds of others who have undertaken the journey with you and yet are complete strangers, each having a simultaneous but private experience. At the end of both feats, you are drained and need to recover. In the case of the marathon, you have an exhausted response in your whole body from cardio and muscular exertion. After sitting for five hours in the same spot at the opera, you have stiffness and perhaps feel as though you have an enlarged behind.
Add to the five hours at the theater the time you may get stuck in unexpected downtown L.A. traffic for a matinee performance (many of them are scheduled to start in the afternoon, due to the length). There are the perpetual street repairs and local festivals blocking you at every turn, and by the time you get home, you feel you have definitely committed a chunk of time from your adult life. The next day you are still a bit stiff and tired.
Is it worth it? In this Siegfried production, it is definitely Conlon the conductor and the musicians who were on the front lines and performing in marathon fashion. They do not stop except at the two intermissions and did not hit one false note. It is so beautiful, and after awhile it is so relaxing that it is easy to be lulled into closing your eyes. But that is not acceptable, for you might miss a plot point on the supertitles or miss something from one of the fantastical ultra-creative characters.
The characters are surrealistically weird and wonderful. If you're going to be weird, it's probably best to go all the way. Siegfried is played by John Treleaven with sublime, emotional tenor tones. Some of his lines are so moving, especially when he is asking Mime, Graham Clark, about his mother, who died giving birth to him. And yet to look at him, he has cartoonish Lisa Simpson hair, what looks like furry animal-skin pajama-bottoms, and bright-blue, well-defined chest muscles. The gnomes (the Nibelungs) Mime and Alberich, Oleg Bryjak, have watermelon heads which they could remove at will, and tiny legs. Mime is the comic relief of the two, who gestures and dances along, wearing bright-yellow gloves, which from mid-orchestra look like rubber kitchen gloves.
Erda the earth mother, played by Jill Grove, rises from under the floorboards like a huge balloon. She is all blimped up, and her hair looks like Rip Van Winkle with an Afro. The dragon Fafner, wonderfully portrayed by Eric Halfvarson, has a resonating boom and tranforms from a small thing to a large head, and then finally the whole stage floor opens up to be his mouth. There are mannequin-looking humans walking ever so slowly across the stage almost all the time, and neon florescent lights on stage, which are often moving around. There is also writing on the scrim right before our eyes as a big spiral is drawn by an invisible artist.
And in the third act, in the long-awaited love scene between Siegfried and Brunnhilde, Linda Watson, the hero is frightened by his awesome bride. He can easily slay a dragon and overcome rings of fire, but when he reaches her he is overcome with fear. It takes them about an hour to finish their back-and-forth melodies of love and commitment. And at the end we still don't get to see a kiss.
Go to see Siegfried. It is something you don't want to miss. Bring a protein drink and a pillow, and drink lots of coffee. It's a terrific experience--if only it could have been presented in two separate performances.
Gerald: I agree that all the performances in this production are exceptionally strong. I remember we first saw John Treleaven as the tenor lead in LA Opera's presentation of Tristan und Isolde in 2008. We both thought then he was a strong and captivating performer.
And speaking of past reviews, I recall commenting about Achim Freyer's depiction of Alberich in our review of Das Rheingold last year. I was disturbed and upset that the character is rendered as a caricature of the Jewish banker. This is an image not so much of Wagner's time as it was during the Nazi era. The Third Reich, which venerated Wagner, concocted a conspiracy story about Jewish financiers causing a disastrous hyperinflation during the preceding Weimar Republic.
Alberich reappears in this Siegfried looking just the same as he did in Das Rheingold--with cutaway coat and top hat, and puffing on an oversized cigar. I really wondered about this ugly choice, because I thought Freyer's design concepts were otherwise innovative and brilliant. But I've now decided that his depiction of Alberich is both honest and courageous. That is, I believe it would be a mistake to render Alberich in some some sanitized, anachronistic, politically correct way. Freyer's image of him is true, not literally to the images that were current when Wagner lived, but to the composer's mindset, in a historical image we can recognize.
Similarly, I don't think we should--now or ever--shy away from "outing" Wagner as the vile hater he was, just as we should not diminish our respect for his musical achievements and influence on the grounds of his disgusting political beliefs.
On a mythological level, this opera is the high point of the humans in the Ring story. By taking possession of the ring, Siegfried the mortal assures the ascendancy of the human race. Wotan--mightiest of the gods, the Wanderer in this story, played by Vitalij Kowaljow--has predicted the waning of his powers. He will now slip into obscurity as humans take charge of their destiny.
As to the extraordinary length of Siegfried, I have some speculations about that. Remember that Wagner's vision for the Ring Cycle was as a festival that would take place on consecutive days. And he eventually built an opera house at Bayreuth, where this cycle is still mounted every seven years (the last one was in 2006). Remember also that this was the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Bayreuth is nowhere near any of the large German cities, located as it is near the Czech border in the southeast end of the country. For anyone coming from Berlin or Vienna, attending would have involved a journey by train or horse-drawn carriage. I believe, in staging this opera at such heroic length, Wagner was giving his rich tourists their money's worth.
When you think about The Ring as a tourist attraction, you begin to understand that it may still work for this purpose next June, when Los Angeles civic leaders and local merchants are no doubt hoping for an influx of well-heeled, free-spending Wagner fans from all over the world.
But contemporary audiences live their lives at a faster pace. Unless you're a Ring aficionado (and there are lots of you), five hours is too much. (If you like opera but are on the fence about Wagner, at least take in Die Walküre.) If Richard Wagner were alive today and pitching this project to a major Hollywood studio, the executive would advise, "Rick, you've got a helluva concept here. Your stuff is kinda extreme, but we like edgy material. So...
"...find a way to cut two hours, and you gotta deal."
Georja Umano is an actress/comedienne and animal advocate.
Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels.
Photos by: Monika Rittershaus
LA Opera's Siegfried
Saturday September 26, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Sunday October 4, 2009 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday October 7, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Sunday October 11, 2009 2:00 p.m.
Saturday October 17, 2009 5:30 p.m.
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What is Rectal Prolapse?
Let's start by giving you an overview of rectal prolapse, so you know exactly what I'm talking about. Although, further down, I am also going to talk about rectocele – so if that's your condition, then stay with me.
Rectal or colon prolapse occurs when the tissue that lines the rectum falls down into or sticks out of the anal opening. Rectal prolapse can start off protruding only during bowel movements; then it may protrude during sneezes or other abdominal contractions; then progress to protruding during activities like walking, and eventually reach chronic protrusion, where the rectum fails to retract at all.
Rectal prolapse can result from the following conditions:
• Constipation
• Cystic fibrosis, MS, paralysis
• Malnutrition and malabsorption (celiac disease as an example)
• Pinworms (enterobiasis)
• Prior injury to the anus or pelvic area
• Whipworm infection (trichuriasis)
• Anal intercourse – especially if long-term or aggressive
• Childbirth
If your rectum has prolapsed, you will likely see a pink or reddish-colored mass of tissue sticking out from the opening of the anus, especially after a bowel movement. The lining of the rectal tissue may be visible, and may bleed slightly.
Natural Treatment for Rectal Prolapse
Treating the underlying causes of rectal prolapse usually cures the problem. In otherwise healthy elderly patients who have repeated rectal prolapse, surgery is sometimes used to repair physical problems that make prolapse more likely to occur. Surgery is also often recommended for treating rectocele (outpouching of the rectum into the vagina).
However, the surgery can result in scar tissue and adhesions, which can narrow the rectal canal (anal stenosis) and interfere with the rectal and pelvic muscles relaxing during a bowel movement. These two problems can then cause difficulty having a bowel movement, or result in hemorrhoids or rectal or anal fissures (tears) from repeated straining.
If this has already happened to you, I have effective natural treatment protocols for all of these conditions. Just click on the symptom in the list below to look them up:
• Anal Stenosis and Anal or Rectal Stricture
• Hemorrhoids
• Anal or Rectal Fissures
To treat the underlying conditions that cause or continue rectal prolapse, we need to address a number of possible factors:
1. Painful Rectal Area
Following colon prolapse, you may experience pain in the muscles surrounding the rectum – the levator ani muscles. Applying a hot castor oil pack to these muscles can help to relax and soothe them. If you feel your muscles from your sitz bones (the "sitting bones" you can feel at the bottom of your bum when you sit on a bicycle or hard seat), working up both sides of your buttocks and across just under your sacrum (the flat, slightly rounded pad of bone at the base of your spine) – you are feeling the levator ani muscles – this is where you need to apply the castor oil.
The simplest way to do this is to apply cold-pressed castor oil with your fingers in a horseshoe shape from the base of your right sitz bone, up to your tailbone, across your sacrum and then down to the bottom of your left sitz bone.
Once you have massaged in the castor oil, apply heat. If you have an electric heater, turn it on and kneel in front of it in the "hemorrhoid position'" – down on your knees and elbows with your head down and your bum in the air – so the heat can warm the rectal muscles. Ideally, apply the heat for 20 to 30 minutes, but even 10 minutes will help.
2. Straining To Defecate or Improper Defecation Position
The western practice of sitting on the toilet prevents the rectum from straightening out and opening – making us much more prone to bowel prolapse, constipation, hemorrhoids and fissures! Squatting on the toilet is best, or using a squatting platform like the Squatty Potty, that fits around your toilet.
At the least, put your feet on a child's stepping stool when sitting on the toilet, to raise your knees higher than your hips. In addition to the video below, watch my videos on Constipation Pooping Positions and Self-Administered Colonic Massage.
Constipation can play a major role in rectal prolapse and ongoing aggravation. Straining or hard stools can tear your rectum (causing rectal fissures) and strain your pelvic muscles. If you suffer from chronic constipation, then I strongly advise you to get my book, Listen To Your Colon: The Complete Natural Healing Guide For Constipation, as you need a comprehensive constipation treatment that addresses all of the variables.
But if your constipation is only mild, or occasional, then this natural constipation treatment protocol may be enough to treat it successfully:
• An easy constipation remedy is to take 250 mg of magnesium citrate and 100 mg of potassium citrate together after a good breakfast, lunch or dinner. These two minerals act as a muscle relaxant for the anal sphincter muscle to facilitate easier bowel movements, while simultaneously stimulating your intestinal peristalsis (wave-length muscle contractions) to produce a bowel movement.
• Also take 7 to 10 billion CFU (colony forming units) of Natren brand probiotics per day to begin the process of normalizing your bowel flora (1 capsule of Healthy Trinity per day).
• You also need to use a stool softener/bulking agent, like pysllium, flax, chia, or MetaCleanse once or twice a day to keep your stool soft and reduce stress and pressure on the rectum. I used to recommend MetaCleanse but the manufacturer has stopped producing it so, in its place, you can use 1 tbsp. sprouted flax and chia powder (available locally and online at various sites; you may have to purchase the two powders separately) along with 1/2 tsp. bentonite clay. NOTE: You cannot use these remedies if you are on an exclusively elemental diet – only if you are combining Absorb Plus with regular foods.
• Remember to drink 8 to 10 glasses of filtered or spring water per day.
3. Weakened, Stretched or Traumatized Pelvic Muscles and Rectocele
If you apply gentle pressure to the muscles closest to the area where your rectum protrudes when you're having a bowel movement, you may be able to hold the rectum inside and avoid it coming out with the stool.
Also, childbirth or prolonged constipation with hard straining can result in a condition known as Rectocele – where the walls between the vagina and rectum are thinned and/or stretched out. So in that case, your rectum can outpouch into your vagina, thus preventing the straight passage of stool. This video will give you some great techniques to use with either of these conditions:
Squatting on the toilet, or using a squatting platform like the Squatty Potty, is the ideal way to easily reach your perineum (the area between the rectum and vagina in women, and between the rectum and scrotum in men) and the rectal muscles (levator ani) located on either side of your rectum and around in a horseshoe shape up to your coccyx (the end of your tailbone).
NOTE: Do not squat directly on the toilet unless you have a very solid, porcelain toilet that you know can support your body weight. Check with your toilet manufacturer for it's weight bearing capacity to be sure.
Keep a box of surgical gloves (available at any pharmacy) in your bathroom so that you can get intimate with your rectal muscles and perineum without worrying about getting poo on your hands.
Bodywork Therapy
The anorectal canal is girdled by muscles and ligaments, with the pudendal nerve running throughout these muscles. Following surgery, childbirth, or any kind of trauma or continual strain, you can develop muscle, tendon or ligament strains in corresponding tissues or organs. This strain and weakening of the muscles and ligaments can lead to rectal prolapse.
The other thing that will greatly help you to heal the underlying cause of your prolapse is bodywork therapy from a practitioner who is specifically trained to work with this area. Be sure to tell them you suffer from rectal prolapse and ask them to specifically look at the levator ani muscles, sacrum, coccyx and pudendal nerve.
You will likely get the best results from an osteopathic doctor or physical therapist that is trained in myofascial release techniques. Look for chiropractors, osteopaths or physical therapists (called physiotherapists in Canada) trained in A.R.T. (Active Release Technique) or in John F. Barnes myofascial release and myofascial unwinding techniques.
• Apply cold-pressed castor oil and heat
• Take 250 mg of magnesium citrate and 100 mg of potassium citrate together
• Take 7 to 10 billion CFU of Natren brand probiotics
• Use a stool softener like pysllium, flax, chia, or the flax/chia seed powder + bentonite combo
• Drink 8 to 10 glasses of filtered or spring water per day
• Toilet squatting or using a squatting stool instead of the normal way of sitting on the toilet
• Apply pressure to the area surrounding your rectum during a bowel movement
• Self administer a colonic massage
• See a bodywork therapist
Fill in the form below and I will send you my free ebook, Jini's Healing Guide For Rectal Prolapse, with in-depth instructions for all these natural remedies for rectal prolapse:


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