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Turns out, it's the dates on food expiration labels that are bad. A lack of regulation of food labels is a major factor leading to 40% of all food going to waste in the U.S., a new study finds.
Over 90% of Americans may be prematurely tossing food because they misinterpret expiration dates, according to the study by Harvard Law School's Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental action group. Phrases like "sell by," "use by," and "best before" are poorly regulated and often misinterpreted, the report found: "It is time for a well-intended but wildly ineffective food date labeling system to get a makeover."
Faulty expiration-date rules are confusing at best, says Dana Gunders, a NRDC staff scientist with the food and agriculture program. "Sell by" dates are actually for stores to know how much shelf life products have they are not meant for consumers or to indicate the food is bad. "Best before" and "use by" dates are for consumers, but they are manufacturers' estimates as to when food has reached its peak.
Wasted food is a big problem in the U.S. An estimated $900 million worth of expired food is removed from the supply chain every year, the report found. And although not all of this is due to confusion over food expiration labels, Gunders says a casual survey of grocery store workers found that even employees are not always trained to distinguish between different kinds of expiration dates. (The National Grocers Association, the national trade association representing the retail and wholesale grocers, was not immediately available for comment.)
All the wasted food adds up: As much as 40% of food goes uneaten in the U.S., according to estimates from the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. Americans are, in other words, throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion in wasted food every year, a separate analysis by the NRDC found. In fact, one study estimates, just 15% of all this wasted food would be enough to feed more than 25 million Americans every year. And one in six Americans currently lacks a secure supply of food, Gunders says.
Grocery bills are the biggest household expense. The average American family of four spends $632 to $1,252 per month on grocery bills, according to a recent Department of Agriculture "Cost of Food" survey. But there are ways to keep track of wasted food. Composting, for example, forces people to actually see how much food they're throwing away and how much money they're wasting, says Andrew Shakman, president of LeanPath, a Portland-based company that tracks food waste in industrial kitchens. LeanPath helped cut food waste at the University of California, Berkeley, campus by 43%. A miscommunication among food service workers also leads to fresh prepared food like sandwiches and salads being dumped before they should be. "I've seen that," Shakman says.
Some 160 billion pounds of wasted food also clogs up landfills, according to the Harvard Law School and NRDC study. Earlier this year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a plan to require residents to separate their food waste for collection. Organic waste in New York City — which could otherwise be recycled for fertilizer or natural gas — currently accounts for 1.2 million tons or 35% of landfills, and a pilot program on Staten Island achieved a participation rate of 43%, according to the mayor's office. Last year, Vermont introduced a bill to require residents to recycle their food waste by 2020 — and 33% of the organic waste in that state already gets composted.
Aside from the environmental advantages, composting may also be a boon for pocketbooks. Throwing out separate bags filled only with uneaten food could work as a big wake-up call for consumers, experts say. "We have a tendency to overbuy and overcook," says Phil Lempert, CEO of grocery information site SupermarketGuru.com. "Awareness of how much food you're wasting does help people buy properly. As prices go up, people also become more aware." And consumers today have every reason to be more judicious in the grocery store. The price of food purchased for consumption at home is expected to rise 2.5% to 3.5% in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
There are, of course, easier ways to cut one's supermarket bill than composting. Consumers can waste less food by bringing a calculator to the store, making a note of when food goes bad, cooking only what they need and eating their leftovers, experts say. iPhone apps like Green Egg Shopper ($3.99) and Food Storage & Shelf Life ($1.99) can help keep track of perishables. But better education and clearer food expiration labels would go a long way to reducing food waste. "It's widely understood that food labels are a point of confusion," Shakman says. "It's a big problem."

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The beloved funnyman shot to fame in classic series Mork & Mindy, which ran in the U.S. from 1978 until 1982 and earned the star a Golden Globe award.
Williams has since made several cameo appearances in TV shows, but is close to taking on a longtime leading role in The Crazy Ones, which he is working on with writer David E. Kelley.
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Whether you've read the novel or not, you know the spine-tingling story: A perfectly normal man in a remote old house starts hearing voices, slips into insanity, and kills his family.
"The Shining"? You're off by 200 years. It's America's first novel, "Wieland," written by Charles Brockden Brown in 1798.
Of course Stephen King, with 300 million copies of his books in print, sells better than his Revolutionary forefather, now relegated to the footnotes of American literary history. But the reigning master of horror is still battling the forces of snobbery. Wednesday, as he receives the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he's also at the center of a debate over what, exactly, is "literature."
The lifetime achievement award has gone to the likes of John Updike, Philip Roth, and Eudora Welty, and the announcement that King was next in line drew roars of protest and fears of an imploding Western canon from literary critic Harold Bloom and a host of others who deride King's work as "penny dreadfuls" - and dismiss the horror genre as pure pulp. For literary lions and fervent fans, such tirades probe the line between highbrow and lowbrow - and raise some eyebrows, too.
"These lines between popular and elite have always been very fluid in American culture," says Dana Heller, an English professor and director of the Humanities Institute at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. "A lot of that [fluidity] has to do with how we understand the term 'popular' itself. It could be base and vulgar, the lowest common denominator. But there's also a definition of popular that arises with democratic movements - that what people at large like must be good."
King has been compared to Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare - and derided by Mr. Bloom as "an immensely inadequate writer." Like Charles Dickens, King's published his work in serial form to great commercial success. Critics quibble over which parallel is best: J.K. Rowling, John Milton, Dean Koontz, Danielle Steel, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
But those comparisons, cautions Alan Cheuse, book commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered," go only so far: "The material is not central to the culture in the way that Dickens's material was. Dickens was writing about the very serious core of British society - life in the big city, distinctions of life among the various social classes - and King's material is really much more peripheral. He's telling ghost stories, basically."
King's real gift, says Mr. Cheuse, is his broad appeal. "Even Shakespeare's most serious plays had sections that appealed to groundlings - the lowest audience - and King manages to bring in those serious readers and the lowest common denominator."
King himself has made sure to defy categorization. He writes of blood and gore and cyborgs, a rabid St. Bernard hurling himself against a broken-down Ford Pinto, and dead pets who return to seek revenge. Yet he quotes the Greek poet and essayist George Seferis. He includes Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice Cream" in his vampire novel "Salem's Lot." He wrote a novella imitating Jorge Luis Borges. And he's written "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile."
To some, that straddling of popular and elite literary worlds, and of the human and uncanny, is his greatest gift. "It speaks to something very profound going on in our culture, and the way we understand our own humanness," says Professor Heller. "As our sense of being human changes in a high-tech global environment, our literature is going to have to be attuned to those changes as well. And literature once associated with machines or with the nonhuman is going to seem more humanized and take on more value."
Jim Farrelly - along with dozens of students from his "Stephen King on Film" and occult-literature classes at Ohio's University of Dayton - doesn't hesitate to see King as a cultural emissary. "Some people at the university think I'm crazy when I compare something of Stephen King's to Shakespeare," he says. "But it's a wonder to see how his texts stand up to scrutiny." One student linked evil and fury in King's "The Shining" to Shakespeare's "Othello." There's fodder for Milton fans, too: "You get mentions of 'Paradise Lost,' the fallen angels, the temptations of Jesus, the temptations of Adam and Eve, the resentment and jealousy that leads angels to challenge God."
Mr. Farrelly is used to the criticism that his curriculum is "The Mary Poppins solution" - a spoonful of sugar to help literature go down. But he insists King has a place in the canon - or at least in the classroom. "What Faulkner did for his community in the South, Stephen King is doing for his community in Maine and New England. You get a feel for the origins of the American country."
Indeed, King's website has a map of Maine charting the small-town settings - an online version of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. And there's another parallel, points out Cecelia Tichi, a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.: Faulkner, too, was derided in his time, dismissed as "degenerate, a sexual pervert, an alcoholic, thought to be worse than Poe." Then he won the Nobel Prize.
And the King-Faulkner pair is in good company: Mark Twain, too, was derided as "a children's writer," Professor Tichi says. "He was popular - and then despised. No polite, educated, middle-class family would have his books in their home." "Crossover problems" have plagued novelist Joyce Carol Oates as well. "If you look at her career, you see much the same thing - hostility, suspicion, 'who does she think she is, aspiring to be one of 'us,' a literary elite?' " says Tichi.
King is not the first sci-fi king or commercial figure to wear the literary laurels. The National Book Foundation award went to Ray Bradbury in 2000. The year before, Oprah Winfrey won it for her quest to popularize the novel. But King's nomination has touched a literary nerve - mostly, say experts, because of genre, productivity, and his wild success.
To many, science fiction simply isn't viable literature - no matter the cultural import or literary ancestry. Tony Ruggiero, a science-fiction and horror writer and King fan in Suffolk, Va., knows that bias well: "Someone will walk up to the table [at a book signing] and say, 'Oh, you're a writer; what do you write?' Either word - science fiction or horror - and you see the eyebrows raise. You've got to work twice as hard because there's a stigma attached."
And while King's commercial success has been manna for the publishing world, it garners resentment, too.
King "could write a laundry list and people would buy it," says George Beahm, a Williamsburg, Va., author who's written eight books on King.
That mass appeal, says Cheuse, the NPR critic, is a legacy in itself. Nobody sees the award as putting King in the leagues of Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, and other recipients, he says. "It's just that he's been a major factor in drawing people in to read the fiction.... The way to use him is as a kind of Judas goat to lead people into the reading of something more serious."
But if King is a Judas goat, he has an eager herd of millions. And a gaggle of defenders, too. Tichi, for one, has no use for the cabal of King detractors who anoint themselves the "real" literati: "To say that somehow his readers aren't the best readers or the real readers - for [the 'literary' writers] to say that only they and their readers matter or should be listened to - is just lunacy."


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It's time for the 2019 award nominations!
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Lifetime Achievement Awards in Fire Ecology and Management
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- Biswell Award: Awarded to individuals who primarily work in ecosystems found in western United States or in similar ecosystems internationally. This award is named after Harold Biswell, longtime faculty member at the University of California-Berkeley.
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Any active member of AFE or SAFE can submit a nomination for an AFE Award.
Nominations for 2019 awards are due August 15, 2019; awards will be presented at the 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in Tucson, AZ this November.
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All registered graduate students in good academic standing in a field related to wildland fire science, ecology, or management in the U.S. are eligible to apply for grants. Depending on costs and the number of applicants, grants may fund all or a portion of estimated travel expenses including transportation, lodging, registration fees, and presentation preparation costs, where applicable. Funds cannot be used for food and incidentals, student stipends, direct research costs, or faculty research/administration costs. Grants will be paid as reimbursements for submitted receipts.
Grants are limited and competitively awarded, and can only be awarded to current graduate students in the U.S. who are presenting the results of their fire-related research. This grant is for students without other Joint Fire Science Program support.
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The New York MTA (Metropolitan Transport Authority) has released an app that will allow users to access up to the minute information on when a subway train will arrive at their chosen station. The app which is called Subway Time will initially cover seven stations with more to come in the future.
MTA Subway Time gives you real-time train arrival information for selected routes of the New York City subway system. Knowing exactly when your train will arrive will reduce the time you spend waiting on the subway platform, and let you know of any service delays or reroutes before you pay your fare.
The seven lines that the app will provide up to the minute information for are Lines 1 through to 6 and the the 42nd Street shuttle. The service hasn't come cheap either; according to the Wall Street Journal, new signalling technology and sensing equipment has cost the MTA a staggering $228 million to install over the last eleven years. Further additions to the lines covered by the app will roll out soon with the L line and No 7 line set to be added by 2016.
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The data that feeds the official MTA app will also be made available to third party developers to incorporate into their apps too. This is a good move as the MTA's Subway Time app could do with a bit of polish and user interface redesign. It certainly isn't the most elegant app or that user friendly either. Also strangely enough it hasn't been optimized for the iPhone 5's larger screen either.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Subject: DOG MEAT
I just read the rules for Iron Girl and I have to run 2 miles in 24 minutes. For you speedy types, this is a breeze. For a poky old girl who runs a 13 minute mile....umm. I be in big trouble.
My Response to Mamacat:
Just means you can't walk. Think turnover. You can do it. You just did a triathlon in a cold rain. What can't you do??? Here's some homework if you have time before Sunday. Go to a track and do two warm-up laps, then do 8 laps all at 2:55 or less. You need to run each 400 lap in 3 minutes to make it a 12-minute mile. If you can make that easily bump the laps to 2:50 or 2:45. Give yourself a minute to recover between each lap. Go!
Mamacat's Reply:
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011
Subject: RE: DOG MEAT
My first lap was 3 minutes. And trust me when I say they didn't get faster. Interestingly, I had to walk more in the first few laps but was able to keep going without a break in the later laps. But they were s-l-o-w. Husband insists that it was a longer track than 1/4 mile but I wouldn't know the difference. I am not worried about going the distance but do worry about the speed. I'll try again tomorrow and Saturday too - even if it's rest day. I'll just have to make it happen.
My Response (and in my head I'm thinking how sweet it was for her husband to say that the track was long):
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011
Subject: RE: DOG MEAT
You are not factoring in the race atmosphere, which absolutely increases speed without you even realizing it. All that's required of you Sunday is to do your best.
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011
Subject: RE: DOG MEAT
We eventually figured out that the cut-off was 26 minutes, not the 24-minutes she originally thought. She made the cut-off time and finished with a grand Mamacat-signature smile. Here we are after the finish:
Beyond Mamacat's personal goals, she has experienced the benefits of the last secret in Hot (Sweaty) Mamas, "Act Like Others Are Watching Because They Are." What started as a solo journey has ended with her whole family being more active, including "date" bike rides with her husband and "family night" at the running track. Her son wants to join the local tri store's triathlon team next spring and together they've set their next goal: to run a 5K at the end of October. Mamacat set out to be mentored, but now she has become the mentor.
I think that new role became crystal clear for her at her second triathlon, which was full of obstacles for her; namely, recovering from a root canal that put a crimp in her training, frigid water and a rainy, cool day. Here's what she said about that race, which includes a great suggestion she got from a fellow Hot (Sweaty) Mama:
When the kids saw me coming through the trail head in the woods, they started calling my name as they waited at the top of the hill. "Come on mom, you can make it, we'll finish with you!" When I got to the top of the hill and rounded the corner to the last few hundred feet, my wee ones were there and running with me and we crossed the finish line together. It was awesome.
A day or so later I started beating myself up for not going faster or doing a better job in the race. I confessed this to a mom at Moms on the Run and she, after admonishing me for such behavior, gave me a nice little piece of advice. "Write a letter to each of your children. Tell them how you ran your first real triathlon when you were sick and it was cold and rainy. Even though there were times you wanted to give up, you didn't. You kept going and kept trying and you finished it. Doesn't matter how fast, it matters that you didn't give up. Write this letter to them now while it's fresh in your mind. Let them open it later in life when they need to remember all the reasons why they should "try" or "do the best they can do" or why they "shouldn't give up." It'll be quite a gift for them and a beautiful lesson. "Love it!
Whether because impressionable people are watching or your actions to mentor are intentional, paying it forward is part of living a fit lifestyle.
When Iron Girl sent me their post-race email, they included this quote, which I think sums up Mamacat's event, as well as her quest to become a Hot (Sweaty) Mama. We should all aspire to do this definition of success:
Success is a peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Dedicating Merit
I have just returned from a weekend fundraiser for Tibetan earthquake victims slightly sleep deprived and my face warm from spending most of the last 2 days outside. We were treated to teachings by 8 generous Tibetan teachers, tasty meals of dahl and soups prepared by the Tibetan community and a local Sangha.
We were an eclectic gathering of tie dyed 10 yr olds, roly poly babies, many heads of flowing grey locks (both genders) and willowy teenaged girls with fashionably wrapped scarves. We sat meditation under an outdoor canopy at 6 in the morning as the sun rose and the chant master intoned his deep, throaty song. We ate oatmeal in the sunshine and buttered our toast with slippery questions about how to fit issues of the environment, investing and politics into a Dharma framework.
And as the ceremony opened on Saturday I dedicated the merit of the weekend to my mother who died a year ago today. I became acquainted with the concept of "dedicating merit" in the Zen Sangha I belonged to. My understanding of "merit" is undoubtedly incomplete but I will take a stab at explaining it. Perhaps you have something to add?
The idea stems from the fact that certain actions "accumulate merit"; things such as acts of kindness and compassion, sitting meditation, giving alms to monks. Many positive actions, large and small are considered to accumulate merit and often merit from meditation sessions is dedicated to all sentient beings. I can remember at Sangha, people often requested the merit of a meditation evening be dedicated to a sick or dying friend, someone undergoing surgery or someone suffering in some way. We even had a merit board where you could tack up a little dedication for a loved one or friend.
There is a wonderful generous sense in dedicating merit. And it's not one of those things that when you give it away, you have lost it. I think merit increases in volume, like an expanding, rising loaf of bread, as it is shared with those in need.
So it seemed auspicious to be in the presence of numerous lamas and a gathering of dedicated Dharma practitioners on the first anniversary of my mother's death, a meaningful way to remember her. It was through my involvement with the Dharma that I finally found a way to make peace with my mother, with the encouragement of my teacher to never give up on her. Through my mother's willingness to meet both me and the Dharma at a deep level I think she made some great discoveries about her life in her last year on earth. And the two of us learned to do a dance that allowed her to die in peace with me holding her hand. Yetta Leslie 1915-2009. If you feel so inclined, you can read the post I wrote the day after she died here.
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- AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM
May I place your mother's name on our altar? She'll be in good company with Daido Loori, Robert Aitken, and a dear friend's daughter. I've always thought of sending merit like throwing a kiss. Well wishes for a lovely journey sent from the heart. Thank you for this beautiful post. I'm always humbled to learn about experiences people have gone through just before our paths crossed.ReplyDelete
My mother is in a longterm care home living with dementia. Through the Dharma I learned as you did to make peace with who she was, see her for who she is now, and never give up. We are blessed with good teachers. :-)
That would be truly amazing if you would place her name on your altar! I thank you for this amazing offering. Yes, my mother was one of my great teachers!!ReplyDelete
And I know she stayed around as long as she did, to come to the wonderful understanding that she had in the last year of her life as we got more honest with each other. She said "I always knew why I was, the way I am (difficult to express love and appreciation, hard outer shell, very reactive) but I didn't see the effect it had on others." Is that not an amazing realization for someone who is 94 and not practicing the Dharma in any formal way? An excellent lesson on not giving up on anyone!
Carole, I just nominated you for the Blogisattva Awards . . .ReplyDelete
It sounds like "dedicating of merit" is like an offering, a selfless gifting - indeed "generous" as you mentioned. And what a event in which to honor your mother. It also feels like you've been gifted with peace by gifting your mother - giving without concern for benefit, and yet the benefits is the peace. BeautifulReplyDelete
Thanks Marguerite! What a generous & kind gesture. I am honoured. I will have to check them out.ReplyDelete
MeANderi - It is an offering- I liked Genju's description: "it's like throwing a kiss". Interesting how the retreat event just happened to coincide with the date of my mother's death?!
Interesting post and thoughts about merits. Your story about your mother's passing was beautifully written and hit very close to home with me tonight.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2010 at 7:18 PM
I just had the chance to read your post about your mother's passing. It is so wonderful that you had that quality of time with her. It occurred to me as I was reading that we must have been blessed by someone's dedication of merit to have been able to transform our mothers' suffering so that it didn't continue in us. It was like that for me with my father's passing. with Mum it's been a difficult road bearing witness to the suffering as she is taken by dementia. But one day, after her regular Sunday outing for lunch, she took my hand and said, "You're such a good friend." It's more than I could have asked for.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Carole!
I went immediately over to read your post of last year and am so moved by the presence and eloquence, the clarity and compassion of all that you convey immediately following your mother's death.ReplyDelete
I am always touched and enriched learning 'every day dharma' from you and thank you for the many ways in which you remain constant and connected to your practice as you selflessly allow us to travel along with you.
An honor.
Eva - Nice to see you here! Yes merit is a wonderful way to offer something, without knowing exactly what.ReplyDelete
Genju - What a lovely thing for your mother to say and somehow there is a deep sincerity when it comes from that dementia place of "not knowing" And yes as you express, it felt like a very big gift to be able to make peace in that rocky relationship. After that we could just sit together quietly and be happy.
Merci33 - Good to see you back! Looking forward to hearing about your "changes" and process. Thanks for the kind words. It is strange and people found it hard to believe that I felt so peaceful following my mother's death but that was the true felt sense! A great blessing.
My mother's name is Carole, too. A strange relationship I have with mine, to be sure, but thanks to the Dharma, much improved. How wonderful that you made peace with yours before she left this plane.ReplyDelete
I remember your post from one year ago. This post is just as beautiful and deep as the one a year ago.ReplyDelete
I think alot of us are at this same crossroad with our parents.


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For most women, the approximately four decade time span during which they menstruate each month, the experience is if perhaps a bit of a nuisance a relatively uneventful feature of the reproductive years. Mild cramps or pre-menstrual syndrome symptoms are fairly common, but these are usually short in duration, easily treated, and not debilitating. Some women, however, experience the challenge of menorrhagia, the medical term for heavy or prolonged bleeding during their periods. For individuals in this group, the monthly menstrual cycle is much more than a nuisance.
Some women wont even leave home on heavy flow days because theyre soaking through their protection, said Cortez gynecologist Daniel Bohle, MD. If a woman is missing work, feeling the need to always be near a bathroom, unable to participate in exercise or social activities, or otherwise burdened by heavy bleeding, she should consider seeing her doctor to investigate treatment options.
A normal menstrual cycle lasts from a few to three to five days. According to Bohle, if a womans period routinely lasts more than six days, it may be cause for concern. Interestingly, blood loss during a menstrual cycle is quite small only 2 to 3 tablespoons on average. Menses is usually a lot of fluid but not a lot of actual blood, said Bohle. Losing six or more tablespoons of blood on a monthly basis can become problematic. A woman can end up with anemia if heavy bleeding is a regular occurrence, said Bohle.
The causes and treatments for heavy menstrual bleeding vary depending on a womans age. Its not unusual for teenagers to have irregular periods during the first year or two that they menstruate, said Bohle. Because ovulation during this phase is unpredictable, younger women may experience heavy bleeding on occasion. These patients sometimes dont want to go to the doctor because theyre concerned about getting a pelvic examination, said Bohle. This type of exam is often not necessary, however, as the causes for heavy flow and cramping can be diagnosed based on the patients oral history. One treatment that is often helpful in young women is a low-dose birth control pill which regulates the cycle. Heavy bleeding during the teen years is rarely indicative of a serious problem and reassurance is frequently the only treatment that is needed.
Heavy menstrual bleeding in women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s may have a number of different causes. Endometrial polyps and fibroids can cause heavy flow, said Bohle. An examination and biopsy performed in the doctors office can usually provide a diagnosis in these cases. An ultrasound may be recommended to determine if a woman has an abnormally thick uterine lining or polyps. Other causes for heavy bleeding and irregular cycles can include a benign pituitary tumor or an underactive thyroid, according to Bohle.
During the reproductive years we can treat heavy bleeding with hormone therapy, said Bohle. This might be accomplished with birth control pills or a hormone-releasing IUD, assuming a women is not trying to become pregnant.
As recently as a couple of decades ago, hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and sometimes the ovaries) was routinely recommended for women with abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding. But with newer treatment options that are now available, hysterectomy rates have declined dramatically. A procedure called ablation has become the preferred method for treating heavy bleeding in women who do not respond to other medical treatments. Ablation has been around for more than 20 years in a variety of forms and is intended to intentionally vaporize the lining of the uterus. Following an ablation procedure, about 60 to 70 percent of women cease having menstrual periods altogether. The remainder have periods that are less difficult, both physically and socially.
Endometrial ablation is a same-day procedure. I usually do them on Fridays and women are back at work on Monday, said Bohle. Some gynecologists perform this operation in their offices, but Bohle said both he and patients usually prefer the comfort of the hospital setting. The procedure takes only a few minutes, but because the cervix must be dilated in order to perform it, patients are placed under light anesthesia so that they do not experience pain. Complications associated with the procedure are rare. Bohle uses the NovaSure instrument which is one of the newer ablation technologies because it is both effective and has built-in measuring and safety features that reduce the possibility of the uterine wall being punctured during the procedure. Infections associated with ablation are very rare because all patients get a dose of IV antibiotics as they are undergoing the procedure.
Hysterectomy is still necessary for some women who have heavy or prolonged periods, said Bohle. Adenomyosis, a condition in which the endometrium grows deep into the muscle of the uterine cavity, may not respond to ablation, he said.
Whatever the cause of heavy menstrual bleeding, women should know that if the problem interferes with their ability to go about their normal routine, that safe and effective treatment options are available which can make their monthly cycles manageable once again.
Southwest Health Notes is a public service feature provided by Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado. The information provided herein is not intended as patient-specific medical advice or as a substitute for consultation with your personal healthcare provider.


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FRIDAY, April 8, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A lack of leptin contributes to the absence of menstrual periods in women with extremely low levels of body fat, but treatment with a synthetic form of the hormone may restore both the menstrual cycle and fertility, a new study indicates.
Extremely low levels of body fat can occur in women who are unusually active, such as runners and dancers, and in those with eating disorders. These women are prone to the absence of periods (known to doctors as hypothalamic amenorrhea, or HA), which can lead to infertility and osteoporosis.
Previous research found that women with HA have chronically low serum leptin levels. This new study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to offer definitive proof that a lack of leptin contributes to HA.
The randomized, double-blind study included 20 women, ages 18 to 35, with HA. Many of them were runners. Over 36 weeks, the women received daily injections of either a synthetic form of leptin called metreleptin or a placebo, without the participants or the researchers being aware who was receiving the real or sham therapy.
Within one month of starting treatment, the women who received the metreleptin showed significantly increased levels of leptin.
"Seven of 10 women began to menstruate and four of the seven were found to be ovulating," senior author Dr. Christos Mantzoros, director of the Human Nutrition Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a BIDMC news release.
"Compared with women who received the placebo, the women who received the metreleptin therapy were also found to have an improved hormonal profile and exhibited higher levels of biomarkers indicating new bone formation," he added.
The synthetic leptin used in the study, which was funded in part by the National Institutes of Digestive and Kidney Diseases, was provided by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has more about amenorrhea.


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You can't not be in a gang in Chicago
It rose to 80 degrees in Chicago on Saturday, the warmest day of the year so far, and a spasm of gunfire quickly followed.
Over 36 hours, at least 36 people were shot.
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The Chicago Sun-Times noted that "shootings each weekend for the last four weeks have risen steadily: 17, 19, 25" and now had set a record in the 30s.
Beyond the shock of the sheer numbers involved, the individual stories were heart-wrenching.
Jasmine Martinez, 24, "was shot twice in the head early Sunday while driving on the West Side," the Sun-Times reported. "She was clinging to life at Stroger Hospital on Sunday, but doctors told her mother, Myrna Flores, that her daughter was brain dead and there was not much hope."
"How are we going to tell her kids?" her mother said. "She has a son who is 1 and a daughter who is 9."
I am living near the University of Chicago on the city's South Side this spring and if you thought the weekend shootings would dominate conversation on Monday, you would be wrong.
Many people now scan such stories to see if the shootings took place near where they live and if they do not, well, life moves on. For some.
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The university and surrounding area are patrolled by a vast, armed private security force as well as the Chicago Police Department. There is a university cop standing on my street corner most nights.
It costs more than $65,000 per year for a student to attend the University of Chicago, and parents, quite reasonably, expect their kids to come out of the experience not only intellectually enriched but alive.
The city does not have a private army, but it does have considerable resources devoted to the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Justice Project, a nonprofit research organization, says "that as of 2010, the City of Chicago has more police officers per 100,000 residents than any of the top four largest cities in the country."
The study also notes, however, that though homicides have dropped significantly in each of the four largest cities from 1995 to 2010, "Chicago had the highest rate at the beginning of the time period and sadly, despite the significant drop in homicides, Chicago maintains a homicide rate greater than the other cities."
Almost all criminal justice statistics are controversial and open to interpretation. The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents patrol officers in Chicago, has argued for years that the city needs more police officers to fight crime.
In the meantime, after the bloodiest weekend of the year, the Chicago Police Department issued a statement that in part blamed gun laws for the violence.
"While Chicago continues to see reductions in crime and violence, there's obviously much more work to be done and we continue to be challenged by lax state and federal gun laws," the statement said.
Bernard E. Harcourt, the Julius Kreeger professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago, who is also currently the Stephen and Barbara Friedman visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School, senses that a "disruption of the old gang structure" may be responsible for the current surge in violence in Chicago.
The Chicago Police Department, he says, has been successful in arresting gang leaders but this has had a "destabilizing" effect on gang structures at the street level. Old gang leaders are in prison and new ones are battling for power.
Another trend may also be contributing to the violence: Chicago has closed more than 50 schools and "younger people now have to walk through blocks that are not on their turf," Harcourt said.
There may be more than 600 gangs in Chicago, some controlling territory limited to a single block. "Young kids no longer have a choice about entering gangs," Harcourt said. "They are automatically affiliated by living on a block."
Harcourt believes there is some indication that Chicago is in a transitional period with regard to gangs. The police have done a good job, he says, in getting rid of drug rings, but that has produced an unintended consequence: chaos within the gangs and paroxysms of violence.
"Youths these days cannot not be in a gang," he said. "And that immediately produces more micro-level conflicts."
Myrna Flores, whose 24-year-old daughter lies brain dead, asks a question of the gangs: "If you want to kill each other, why don't you all go into a corral and do it and leave us alone?"
If only it were that simple.
Roger Simon is POLITICO's chief political columnist.


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The acorn shape is true to nature and doesn't turn it into a caricature and is rather a true representation of this little nut. I usually don't the Tiger's Eye stone, but the grain of the stone is a perfect imitation of wood and the clashing colours of light gold and brown is my favourite variation. The great thing about Nick Von K and his mob is that there's room to choose the pieces you want and have a personalised order; these acorn necklaces shown here are in obsidian (black), pounamu (green), rose quartz (pink) and tigers eye (brown). If you have a personal preference or have something else in mind, you also have the choice of citrine, amethyst, adventurine, sodalite, clear quartz, smokey quartz, amazonite, crysoprase, red tigers eye and blue tigers eye, to name a few.
For me, my Nick Von K journey and fascination began with the carved lines of this panther necklace in black water buffalo horn after having written about the Givenchy Fall/ Winter collection of 2011 which heavily featured the jungle cat in their designs of clothing as well as accessories. The fangs, large strong nose as well as flattened ears mounted on a silver base connected to 75cm of Sterling silver chain almost became mine.
I was delighted after my second day of university to find an enchanting email from the lovely chief of Nick Von K, Nick Klarwill thanking me about my little articles and gave me a run down of the maerials used for the powerful crved necklaces:They carve everything from stone to wood, including the mammoth tusk which is dug up in northern Canada and Siberia - but some carvers are definitely better than others!"
"I get everything produced in Bali where I handpick and sit down with the best local carvers I can find to do each specific design - as I see they have an affinity with my style and the idea Im trying to get across.
"I get everything produced in Bali where I handpick and sit down with the best local carvers I can find to do each specific design - as I see they have an affinity with my style and the idea Im trying to get across.
Also, the black eagle head necklace and panther head necklace aren't made of onyx as one may assume.
"I should point out tho that the panther head (and eagle head) pendants are handcarved from black water buffalo horn, not onyx, which makes them actually quite light in weight."
Once in a blue moon I will find myself longing for days in old in which I could play with Doll's houses and run my fingers over there furniture in miniature. It appears however, that I am growing up and spent the last day of 2011 cleaning all the dust and junk from under my bed as well as the dusty walls. In the past two days I have added four garbage bags to the wheelie bin and am now incapacitated to clean anymore till collection day, two days away. I would love to properly decorate my room like an adult and add maybe a vanity or a french upholstered chair. Which leads me to admire the poise of this elegant and elongated cat sitting on a carved chair with detail in filigree accentuated by an oxidised touch. The two chair legs at the front in the shape of cats caught my eye and this is possibly my favourite from the Jungle of Eden collection. Your cat comes in a choice of either pounamu or turquoise, I may opt for turquoise myself.
As well as mammals and birds, there are aquatic creatures such as the octopus involved in a few of Nick Von K's collections and even this sweet little grasshopper ring. I never had a great affinity for bugs and I can't say they ever struck a chord of fear within my heart, (arachnids are not included) but I do like the mount of this sculpted beauty on the ring and the way at clings to the base. The carved detail on it's back as well as legs has a very exotic and Mexican appeal to it. It's a great statement ring for those who like to create gossip about themselves or who just enjoy the unique and unusual.
I love the paralysing stare of the Eagle, it seems so intense and yet it's just a mere carved object. The attention to detail involved for their pieces is fantastic, the carved end of the beak as well as the etched out feathers surrounding the neck of the bird is something else. Some jewellers wouldn't bother and would rather smooth it out but Nick Von K is willing to go that extra mile and use some of
the best black water buffalo horn and organic animal horns and tusks, strings them on Sterling Silver chains and gives you something to be proud to wear.
the best black water buffalo horn and organic animal horns and tusks, strings them on Sterling Silver chains and gives you something to be proud to wear.
This carved orb features two polar bears grappling together in an embrace and is another piece I was considering getting myself as a belated Christmas treat but something struck me as odd when I read the description:
Hand carved mammoth ivory on 75cm stg silver chain
It reminds me of my sweet high school chum and best friend, Clare nicknamed the polar bear. I am probably more drawn to the design for her sake but that doesn't mean I don't love the design. I do believe that this is a special person out there, the one, that will make you feel whole like you never have felt before and that they complete you. When you find them, a great bond and unity is created and to me this is what these two hugging polar bears represents.
The last of the three snake head charms pictured above is made of rose quartz but the detail of scales is emphasised with gold inlay for a little extra glamor among such a poisonous and deadly symbol. I'm actually most captivated by the slit like eyes of the middle and smaller snake head in turquoise- it's paralyzing as well as slightly soaked in malice and the shade of turquoise is absolutely stunning in contrast to the silver mount and rectangular linked chain. The quality of the turquoise stone and without being riddled by lines of impurity it really allows the lines and detail of the scales as well as the sculptural snout and temple of the snake shine through- something that's so important when trying to market really gorgeous and unique jeweller. I can imagine it being modelled on an Indian snake charmers family heirloom- were it not for the fact it did originate from the creative mind of Nick Von K designer Nick Klarwill.


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Martyr Attius of Perge in Pamphylia
The Martyrs Attius, Leontius, Alexander, Cindeus, Mnesithius, Cyriacus, Mineon, Catanus and Eucleus lived in the Pamphylian city of Perge during the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284-305). All of them were baptized in childhood. Saint Mineon was a carpenter, and the rest were farmers.