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Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: No LinkDecember 31st, 2009 | Sources: J. National Cancer Institute, MedPageToday
Subjects: Public health
In the 15 years since cell phones first appeared on the scene, they have spread with astonishing speed and revolutionized communications on a global scale. But right around the time the Motorola Flip-phone was the rage, reports surfaced that cell phone use might be associated with brain cancer.
Since then, the majority of research on the subject has refuted this claim, as has the most recent publication on the matter by Isabelle Deltour of the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen, and her colleagues.
Deltour's group looked at registry data from 4 Scandinavian countries between 1974 an 2003, a period encompassing the birth and growth of the technology.
They found that the incidence of the 2 major forms of brain cancer either remained stable, decreased, or continued the same slow rise that had been observed in the pre-cell phone era.
These findings are "consistent with mobile phone use having no observable effect on brain tumor incidence in this period," they wrote in the Dec. 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The registry contained 59,984 glioma and meningioma cases had been diagnosed in people between the ages of 20 and 79 during the study period.
The incidence of glioma increased in men by 0.5% annually and in women by 0.2% annually during the study.
The incidence of meningioma increased 0.8% per year in men, on average. In women, the incidence of meningioma rose by 2.9% per year from 1974 to 1987 (when cell phones began hitting the market), then dropped by 2.1% per year between 1987 and 1991, and then began rising again at a rate of 3.8%.
Most of that recent increase in meningioma incidence occurred in women who were at least 60 years old when they were diagnosed–an age group not likely to have been heavy cell-phone users back then.
The scientists could not exclude the possibility that very heavy cell-phone use could pose risks, or that a positive association may be present for very rare brain tumors.


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by Zinia Mitra
The Woman
I waited for the poem to come to me
in my hometown, in my house
where once stood a banyan tree
that had sheltered my forefathers
and now my memory.
I wait in my decrepit house
in my dreams big and bright
and in the house came so many deaths
paper wrapped tuberoses
make shift bamboo beds.
Only I am left untouched
dressed in white
for the ritual
and the poem.
Ganga calls me.
In the daytime when I stand on the terrace
I can hear her.
Sometimes in between the rituals
if I miss a mantra
or hold my breath the wrong way.
Ganga calls me.
During the night between my drumbeat pangs
I can hear her call my name,
her voice lapping the whiteness of my saree.
Ganga called them all
one by one.
I pour oil into the earthen lamp
immerse the wick.
It is easier to talk to the goddess in the dark.
They all did.
I had entered the temple by mistake
where my father-in-law
was offering oblations.
He took me up as an oblation.
That is how I know.
The Wind
Here the gentle breeze
ever so often gets stronger.
It blows in from the past
carrying loud unstylized yelling of the dead.
Skeletons crossing the Mahananda Bridge
make a rattling noise as they move
and the winged sun overhead that casts no shadows
burns them alive.
Strong winds blow from time to time
across my charred days, bare nights, superfluous hours.
It blows through my empty dreams
and all earthly fulfillment.
Like it carries cotton flowers, young dreams and ash
it carries me over to you.
It blows through my bones.
and yet makes no music.
The Cloud
We can halt only at the haltstations.
Whenever you and I go out for a walk it rains.
A jumble of half formed- thoughts beyond
the hanging bridge
look for shelter.
There is a coffee shop close by
frequented by travelers like you
who travelled the world never in the realms of gold
but always carrying the heaviness of lead
witnessed hunger and riot and death
for reasons such as food habits and god
both of which you never understand.
Food is that which fills a hungry stomach
and gods never drink blood you say.
You never understand the world's ways, of gods
who sit at road corners vermillion – smeared, of gods
who lurk in the fear and the dark desires of men
asking money for blessings and sometimes sacrifices.
God is like the river, you say
and drink deep into my eyes.
God is fulfillment, you say,
and food is that which fills an empty stomach.
I look at the trees rejoicing the rain
every leaf turning greener
the earth soaking in every drop
quivers like a delicate maiden.
I cross the bridge with you and walk into
the coffee shop. The clouds
of my mind rain into the river.

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Wine Blogging Wednesday 52 Announced – Value Reds from Chile
I am happy to announce and proud to be the host of the 52nd installment of Wine Blogging Wednesday. If you are new to Wine Blogging Wednesday and don't know what it's about, it's one day each month when wine bloggers from around the world all write about a common theme. Lenn Thompson at Lenndevours started it all back in 2004 and it's still going strong.
And our theme for December 2008 is Value Reds from Chile! The rules are any red wine from Chile for $20 or less. If you can find a really good one for closer to $10, better yet.
As anyone who has visited this site knows, I love a great deal. Don't we all? Well… Chile is a region that I've become more and more interested in for great wines at reasonable prices.
Back in the early 1990's I had my first experience with Chilean wine and it was a horrible experience. I swore off all Chilean wine for years. But late last year I started trying Chilean wine again and I was amazed with what I found.
Since the early 90's Chile has been undergoing a wine revival. Improvements in winemaking practices and knowledge have both grown significantly in the past 15 years and it's showing in the quality of their wines. This first drew wide public attention in 2004 at a now famous blind tasting in Berlin where 36 highly regarded European wine journalists, writers and buyers gave top honors to two Chilean wines: Viñedo Chadwick 2000 and Seña 2001. Now while you won't find these two wines on the bargain shelf, they do represent the improvements in quality coming from Chile in general.
Chile is sometimes referred to as a viticultural paradise. I've heard some people refer to Colchagua Valley as the next Napa Valley due to the geography. In reality, there is quite a bit of diversity in Chile's wine making regions. The Pacific coastline runs the length of the country. Coastal hills lead into the Central Valley and the Andes boarder the east side of the valley, creating a variety of conditions.
The various climates, geography and governmental distinctions result in several regional designations. Most wines that you're likely to find will be from Aconcagua, Cachapoal, Casablanca, Colchagua, Curicó, Maipo and Maule. But you'll get extra points if you bring a wine to this event from one of the lesser known regions such as Bío Bío, Elqui, Itata, Limarí, Malleco or San Antonio.
Many of the red wines from Chile are big and bold! Some argue that they are too big, but that is changing and we're seeing more variety and experimentation with wine styles in recent years. Most of what you'll find in the value wine category will be Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenere and Syrah. You may also find some Pinot Noir and Malbec. Other red varieties are being produced, but mostly on an experimental basis.
The Details
If you want to participate, just pick your Chilean red wine to review and write it up on Wednesday, December 10. Then send an e-mail with a link to your review to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you don't have a blog but want to participate why not start a blog? It's free and easy to get started at http://wordpress.com or http://www.blogger.com.
More Info
If you want to do your homework on Chilean wine, here are a few resources.
- Wikipedia on Chilean Wine
- Harvest reports, history and more at Wines of Chile
- Chilean wine regions on ChileDiscover
- New York Sun article on Chilean Wine
- Food and Wine Magazine on Chile's Wine Visionaries


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The Coastal Empire Kingfish Classic, held last weekend at the Fort McAllister Marina, has been dubbed a success by organizers and officials. Dozens of fishermen and thousands of supporters and community members turned out Saturday for the tournament, which was sponsored jointly by the Fort McAllister Sport Fishing Club and the Offshore Outlaws Fishing Club and was sanctioned by the Southern Kingfish Association, the world's largest saltwater tournament trail.
The Kingfish Classic was the first SKA tournament held in the Richmond Hill area and is one of five currently in Georgia. Tournament committee member Ross Butler said the weekend, which featured a competition, family-fun events and live musical entertainment, was "fantastic" overall.
"I was very proud of the community, and I think we honestly blew everyone away," Butler said. "The venue, the atmosphere and the community support were all just terrific. The causeway was packed. We had shuttles bringing people that were packed. It was all very impressive. At 9 p.m. Saturday night, we still had over 1,000 people there."
Butler said 81 boats competed in the tournament, which was about what he was projecting.
"That was our goal, to get around 75 to 80," he said. "We had the largest tournament in Georgia this year, and hopefully we can expand it and maybe reach 100 next year."
"No Mercy" was the winner in the Open Class, which is for boats competing in water 23 feet or deeper, with "E-C Easy Rider" and "Nauti-Gale" following that. "Max Effort" took home first place in the Small Boat Division, which is for boats competing in water less than 23 feet deep.


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Today we're chatting with Lorne Brown, Dr. TCM, author of the new acupuncture practice management book, Missing the Point: Why Acupuncturists Fail and What They Need to Know to Succeed. Lorne has been in practice for 16 years and runs the Acubalance Fertility Center in Vancouver, British Columbia (West Coast Canada, for everyone who is getting out their maps) where he has six associate acupuncturists. (Yes you read that right: six.) He's also the founder of Pro D Seminars and Medigogy.com, two huge continuing education websites for acupuncturists worldwide.
So let me do some over-sharing with you. I read this book during a heat spell earlier this summer, in my 100-degree apartment, in my underwear. You guys, is this too much information? I've been reading a lot lately that bloggers should let their audience get to know them, share their real life with them. Well, in my real life, my upstairs apartment was 1000 degrees and sticky, and my cat insisted on sitting on my lap (why?! ?). Yet despite the heat-wave discomfort of my home, I sat in one place and read this book cover-to-cover. I could. not. stop. reading!
Plus I don't usually like to write in my books; I like to keep them crisp and unmarked. But I couldn't help myself with this one. I ended up underlining and taking notes on every other page. In hot pink ink, no less.
I'm excited to interview Lorne this week because I enjoyed reading Missing the Point THAT much. It combines practical, actionable advice for consistently boosting patient numbers with a supportive (and a tiny bit tough-love) manifesto for long-term success.
I feel like Lorne's approach to marketing and overall practice success is reasonable and completely do-able. I appreciate that he's honest and doesn't sugar coat the truth. Lorne offers good advice, not "marketing secrets" or "quick fixes." I like that he emphasizes that running a practice is hard work. Moving towards success is the result of consistently effort over time. I couldn't agree more.
Before we get started, can buy your copy of Lorne's book here on Amazon:
Missing the Point: Why Acupuncturists Fail… and What They Need to Know to Succeed
So for all of these reasons, I'm happy to share this discussion with Lorne with you. Let's get to it!
Hi Lorne! Welcome. You had a previous career as an accountant. What spurred your transition from accounting to acupuncture?
Like many who now practice acupuncture I had health issues and it was Chinese herbs and acupuncture that restored my health. Nothing else had worked so TCM peaked my interest and I started to study it for personal interest only. I felt inspired and left my career as a controller for the Ocean Spray Cranberry Growers and went back to school to complete my Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine at ICTCM in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
You have a thriving practice with six associate acupuncturists. That's pretty amazing. Was your original plan to build a practice this large, or was its growth organic?
It was organic growth. I had a relatively busy practice from the start in 2000 and by 2004 when I needed associates to service my wait list as working more hours was not an option. I added my first two associates in 2004 and have an amazing team of six associates and three admin staff. I am looking to add two more associates to our team to help with the patient demand and to staff our clinic expansion plus the new satellite clinic we want to open by the end of 2017. If you are a registered acupuncturist in Canada please look me up 🙂
To what do you attribute your success at Acubalance?
I think the key is I am aware I am running a business. Most successful practitioners I have met pay attention to both their clinical skills and business skills. Here are the top 5 reasons I think I have been successful:
- I am aware I am running a business (people pay us to help them heal)
- I have a niche, a specialty, treating infertility and women during pregnancy.
- We create value for our patients AND we communicate that value well to our patients.
- Hiring the right culture fit for Acubalance. My team is made up of amazing people.
- All Acubalance staff and practitioners continually invest in themselves. I share with them to make more money they need to become more valuable to our patients and Acubalance. We do regular continuing education since we have easy access to Pro D Seminars and Medigogy and the Integrative Fertility Symposium. Now we are all enrolled in Sharon Weizenmbaum's Two Year Graduate Mentorship Program on top of what we are already doing. So we easily do 10 times the minimum 25 hours a year required in continuing education.
What made you decide to write your book, Missing the Point?
The world needs more prosperous acupuncturists. Most of the people I have met practicing TCM have big hearts and good intentions and we share similar values. Unfortunately, many of them are struggling financially and as a result take on part time jobs or leave the profession all together to pursue a different career. I wanted to share my knowledge and experience as a chartered professional accountant (CPA) and as successful TCM practitioner how others can succeed as well in their practices and do it with integrity.
The impetus really came when a practitioner told me they could not afford a $75 course on Pro D on how to attract new patients because they spent $200 on a Yellow Pages ad. It was not so much him saying he cannot afford the $75 but really my perception of his underlying attitude and beliefs preventing him to make good decisions to lead to succeed. The chapter on "Focus on Return on Investment (ROI)" is for him and all those whoever have whispered the words "it is too expensive" or "I cannot afford it" when it comes to investing in themselves to grow personally and professionally.
I love that one of the first things you emphasized earlier and in Missing the Point is that as acupuncturists, we need to embrace the fact that we are business owners. Otherwise we're setting ourselves up for failure. I think this is a tiny bit of tough love for some people, but I couldn't agree more. Why is this so important?
Like it or not, acupuncturists are small business owners and many small businesses fail. Add to the mix that medical professionals in general are in denial about being in business only adds to their risk of failing. Acupuncturists fail because they neglect the business aspect of their practice.
The reward of healing our patients comes as a result of building a successful practice. This same interdependency exists in the foundation of our medicine: Yin and Yang. We need both clinical skills and business skills to bring forth success. When you choose to be a practitioner of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture you are choosing to run a business. Yin and Yang are interdependent; one cannot exist without the other and when they separate there is death. Focusing only on clinical skills and not tending also to the running of your business will lead to demise of your practice.
Just as you learned skills to be a practitioner, there are skills necessary for building and managing your business successfully.
It is important because if you only focus on your clinical skills and neglect your business skills then your Yin and Yang will be out of relationship and your practice will struggle or fail.
Why do you think there's so much resistance to this concept (acupuncturists accepting their role as business owners), and what do you think it will take to address this on a large scale (i.e., in North America)?
It is a cultural mindset in the world of academia and medicine. There is this guilt to be paid directly by our end consumer. Professors are happy to accept grants and a school salary but not money directly from students. Doctors have no guilt billing insurance but we have some issues asking patients to pay. So it is an underlying belief in the fabric of our culture.
To address this on a large scale it will take a change in our attitude and belief about money plus a few TCM pioneers to lead the way for the rest of to make the change. It starts with accepting the fact that you are in business and that you need to be able to afford to keep your clinic doors open in order to treat your community. And as we each succeed and experience more financial abundance in our lives I hope the successful acupuncturists will give back to their communities through charities and donating their time and services too.
I am on a mission to help my colleagues succeed because the world needs more prosperous acupuncturists.
Learning to "own" our role as entrepreneurs is a big leap for many of us. What's your advice for changing how we see ourselves so that they can actually embrace the business side of our chosen profession?
It is simple, you are a small business owner. To succeed you need to adopt the attitudes and philosophies of successful entrepreneurs. Here is an excerpt from my book, Missing the Point:
Many TCM practitioners operate under the myth that to have a thriving practice, you must be a scholar and a clinically skilled master of Chinese medicine. But your clinical skills have little bearing on how busy you are or how much you can charge for your services. Why? Because patients cannot tell the difference between a good acupuncture/herbal prescription from a poor one.
That's an important point, and one that most practitioners are in denial about, so I'm going to say it again: Patients cannot tell the difference between a good acupuncture/herbal prescription and a bad one. Your patients are not experts in Chinese medicine, so they cannot judge your treatments. Though the quality of the work might affect retention and word of mouth, your patients choose their acupuncture practitioner based on a variety of emotional, financial, and interpersonal factors that are often independent of any clinical factors. So if you want to help as many people as possible and receive fair payment for your valuable work, you have to know how to connect with patients on emotional, financial, and interpersonal levels.
Many TCM practitioners find it challenging to meld the identities of "businessperson" and "health-care provider." Some have a mental block to financial success—perceiving money as the root of all evil—while others lack the work ethic required to succeed. But hopefully once you acknowledge that you are the CEO, marketing manager, accountant, healer, counselor, and janitor of your business, your perception will change.
Practitioners who reject their role as business owners experience meager earnings and endless amounts of frustration, whereas if you do accept that your roles as businessperson and healer are mutually dependent (just like the laws of yin and yang), then you can create a future where the sky is the limit.
You control your destiny and the success of your acupuncture practice. And one day, instead of wondering where it all went wrong, you'll marvel at all the people you've been able to help and who have happily paid you for the improved quality of life you helped them create.
It is important to me that my message is communicated clearly and properly. I want you to be BOTH a skilled practitioner and a skilled business person. I am not suggesting being a sleazy practitioner and taking advantage of the public. I want you to succeed with integrity. This requires investing in the skills needed how to run a business as well as the skills to treat effectively and safely.
In your book you talk about gratitude and lack of entitlement as important components of practice success. Why are these so crucial?
Where the mind goes the Qi follows, what you focus on becomes your reality. So practicing gratitude daily is very important in order to re-wire and train your brain to perceive the world from an optimistic perspective. You will be amazed how you will now see opportunities that you missed before that can lead you on the path to success.
Entrepreneurs depend entirely on their own abilities for economic security and expect opportunity in life after having created value for others. This is the attitude necessary to achieve your dreams. You already know how important attitude is. It affects your thinking, your actions, and the way you are perceived by others. Sadly, an entire generation in North America has grown up with an attitude that they deserve privilege and benefits without putting in the effort to earn them. At some point, the American dream mutated, and the Land of Opportunity became the Land of Entitlement.
Remember the Janet Jackson song "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" That's what this syndrome reminds me of. If you have this entitlement attitude—you believe that the world owes you something, that people should act a certain way toward you, or that some association or governing body is supposed to help you out—then there's unfortunately very little I can do for you. This attitude is the antithesis to the entrepreneurial spirit and certain to keep you from being successful.
The entrepreneur's attitude is to be paid or provided with opportunities after they are confident that his customer is receiving value and benefit in return. I practice gratitude daily as an exercise to help me create and maintain the right attitudes. These attitudes and beliefs become the filters in I see and perceive the world so it is imperative I protect and influence the wiring of my brain so I can experience more joy and success.
I've always been a big proponent of marketing efforts that add up over time, and I feel like the outlook in your book is similar. You state that success is the result of "sustained effort, even when it feels fruitless" and I agree. I've never believed that there is a real marketing "secret" or "shortcut" that will suddenly make us all rich. It's repeated effort, over and over, that makes a business great over time. How long did it take you realize this? How have you seen it play out in your own business efforts?
Marketing can be very expensive. I learned from a business coach in 2005 to always have a call to action in your marketing and especially if you are spending money on ad. it is a process that requires repetition and takes time so do not spend all your budget on one big marketing campaign.
Marketing serves three purposes. One is to let people know you exist. Second is to communicate how you can be of value to them (why should they care you exist). And third is a call to action that invites them to get to know you. It could be to attend a lecture you are offering, watch a video you have created, attend acupuncture happy hour at your clinic or a fair, or to download something of benefit to them from your website. (For example, we offer the Acubalance fertility diet and recipes eBook free online if you submit your email.)
I think occasionally the concept of "sustained effort, even when it feels fruitless" is hard for people to embrace; because you can build a practice consistently for years before feeling like you've "made it." This is normal, but hard to accept sometimes. Do you have advice for staying motivated when a practitioner feels in a rut? Like they're not where they want to be yet, and it feels like it's taking a long time to get there?
I fall into these ruts still today. I want to manage your readers' expectations and let them know you will never be immune to these ruts where you feel frustrated, have self-doubt and lose your confidence. But it is possible to avoid falling into these ruts as often and more importantly how to get out of them quickly. I really like Dan Sullivan from Strategic Coach's description of the Rut which he calls the GAP and which share in my book.
Strategic coach Dan Sullivan has written Learning How to Avoid the Gap, which uses the following analogy: Imagine you're sailing across the ocean. Ahead in the distance you see a horizon—which is just an illusion where it appears that the sky meets the ocean. The horizon signifies our long-term goal(s). For patients, it signifies the magical end to their problems: no back pain, no headaches, normal blood pressure, an end to sleepless nights, a baby, whatever it may be. For us as TCM practitioners, it might be a full practice, or an abundance of income that affords us the luxury and comfort of freedom to do whatever we want, or the ability to take well-deserved holidays or pay for our kids' college education.
But as you're sailing across the ocean, the horizon never seems to get closer. Every morning as you return on deck from your sleeping quarters and look out at the horizon, it will appear every bit as far away as it did the day before. If you focus only on the horizon and do not regularly check behind you to see how far you have traveled from land, then it's easy to get depressed and frustrated and to lose your confidence because it appears you are not making any progress. But that's because you are only focusing on the horizon, what you have yet to achieve.
This is The GAP.
It is very important to set goals if you want to be successful, but you also need to regularly stop to measure your progress and appreciate your milestones along the way. Just like the horizon, your goals can keep eluding you as you change them or you choose bigger goals. It is human nature to constantly strive to be better. Just like the horizon, we can never truly reach our full potential, so it is important to avoid the gap by regularly looking back and acknowledging how far you have come since you started.
I have found two approaches that prevent me from regularly falling into THE GAP and that also allows me to come out of it quickly too. I still fall into a GAP but I can come out it within minutes or a few hours instead of remaining in it for several months or years. The two activities I apply are mindfulness and practicing gratitude. Practicing gratitude is about measuring the progress you have made from where you were yesterday or a few months ago to where you are today. You are experiencing a RUT because you are comparing yourself today to where you want to be (the horizon) instead of where you have come from. I practice gratitude daily and if I feel like I am in a rut I intentionally look backwards and measure my progress.
The second approach is mindfulness. I give myself permission to be in the moment and enjoy the activity I am doing. Everything slows down as if there is no future or goal. I experience pleasure out of just doing the activity without any attachment to the outcome. I have not mastered this skill but the few seconds I am able to be just in the moment brings me pleasure from just doing the activity for the joy of doing it and takes me out of the Rut/GAP.
In Chapter 10, you emphasize that "free has no value" and you don't advocate giving treatments away. There's always considerable debate on the topic of discounts or free treatments as a marketing tool. Why do you think that giving your services away for free is a bad marketing angle?
Free or deep discounting can devalue your services. Patients are often not as invested in their health outcome if they are not paying. The only way we can appreciate a value is by its cost to us. If it doesn't cost much we probably wouldn't call it valuable. There is something that transforms us when we have to pay for something. It makes something of us when we pay for it versus free. I prefer to not compete on price otherwise I will end up having to keep lowering my fees and working harder. There is a time and place for discounts and freebies but it is beyond the scope of our interview but I do cover it in lectures. My message is "free has no value" so it may not be the best way to attract patients value your services and are willing to pay you for them.
I also enjoy that you really encourage acupuncturists to think outside the box, that "part of innovation is to overcome the objections of others." Basically, that if we have a great idea for the way we run our business and we feel confident that it will work out, we shouldn't write it off just because others say, "That's not how it's done." How has this manifested in your practice, or in Pro D Seminars?
I have a long list of successful endeavors that would never have manifested if I had listened to the naysayers.
It started with me leaving a secure and well-paying job as a controller back when I was pursuing my CPA career. My family and friends thought I was throwing my financial freedom and future away. Today, I make as a good or better living as my accounting colleagues who I used to work with but I am having way more fun. My future has turned out well and thankfully I did not listen to those who were discouraging me to pursuer Chinese medicine as a career.
I continue to follow my heart and dreams which also means ignoring the doubters. Here are some more examples.
Pro D Seminars
I was told in 2007 for online continuing education (Pro D Seminars) would fail because not enough people would want to give up attending live webinars to watch on their computers. I believed for didactic learning that online learning can be superior because you can go back to the recording and watch it over again and choose to learn to in-person because you can choose to study in smaller chunks of time instead of 8 hours straight. Pro D is one of the pioneers of online learning for Chinese medicine and now there are many online CEU providers. I am having so much fun moderating classes and I am personally benefiting clinically by having access to all this incredible online content and to the speakers who offer the courses.
The Integrative Fertility Symposium
I hosted The Integrative Fertility Symposium (IFS), a destination conference for acupuncturists, especially Americans, held in Vancouver BC in 2015 and 2016. I was told it would fail because it was too specialized, Americans will not travel, and in-person TCM conferences in general are struggling because practitioners are choosing online courses. The IFS sold out 8 weeks in advance in 2015 and 2016 and now we are planning to hold it again in 2017 and 2018.
Acubalance Wellness Centre
I began my practice in 2000. By 2002 I started to specialize in treating infertility at my Acubalance clinic. I was told by many of my peers I would starve to death as there were not enough patients to fill a practice dedicated to such a niche. I understood where they were coming from. Back in 2002 infertility patients seeking acupuncture was rare. And infertility did not even have its own chapter in our TCM gynecology text books and instead was listed as a miscellaneous disease. My practice was so full with a waiting list by 2004 that I chose to only see reproductive health related patients and I hired two associates that year as well to help with my wait list and demand by fertility and pregnancy patients wanting to have acupuncture.
My advice is if you are passionate about something then go for it and ignore the nay sayers and surround yourself with people who support your ideas.
If you are passionate about Chinese medicine and you change your thinking as you discuss in your book, what else is necessary to be successful?
Two thoughts come to mind (no pun intended).
Taking action. The right thinking is not enough to be successful. Thinking and attitude must be followed with action to be successful. I do not believe you can achieve your goals with only wishful thinking.
And secondly is to create value.
If you are passionate about practicing Chinese medicine but no one is willing to pay you for your services, then it is really just a hobby and not an actual career. So many practitioners struggle to pay their bills. Many need to take on part time jobs to support themselves financially or have to let go of practicing Chinese and choose a different career path.
The public has to perceive there is value in what you are offering. They are not concerned about how many years you went to school or how much school debt you have accumulated. They are only concerned if you are the solution to their health issue. You must be able to communicate to them that you have the ability to help them, supported by past successes, for them to perceive enough value, that the treatments are worth the investment
"Profit is the applause you get for taking care of your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people." ~ One-minute manager by Ken Blanchard
If you could give us just one piece of advice that we can put into practice today to improve our success, what would it be?
Change your thinking. Your daily actions are the habits that will lead you to success or failure. But your actions are always congruent with your philosophies and beliefs so it starts with the right thinking. See a clinical hypnotherapist, practice gratitude daily, read motivational books and hire good coaches to find out the attitudes of successful entrepreneurs.
You refer to marketing as "mindshare," which is a pretty spectacular way of putting it. You emphasize that marketing is simply letting the people who need you, know that you exist. I feel like this makes marketing seem more like simply sharing what you do, instead of being pushy or salesy. Why is this so important for acupuncturists to keep in mind?
Your goal is first to become valuable to the market you want to serve. This requires continually investment in yourself and your practice so you become more valuable. And marketing is your vehicle to communicate this value. Do not try to sell them. It is a dance. You are developing a relationship. Solid relationships are based on trust and mutual respect. So do not try to close the deal in your marketing. You are using marketing to let the public know that you exist and that you have something of value to them. Remember the call to action. Make sure to provide them with an easy way to get to know you better through a call to action like attending a lecture, or to download an article you wrote.
You devote several chapters to marketing – why it's important, how to think about it, and different kinds of marketing that are out there with advice for each type. What kind of marketing do you feel has worked best for you in building Acubalance?
Lectures have been the best way to reach our audience for Acubalance. We spend money on print ads to market the lectures.
Any other tips or wisdom you'd like to share?
The world needs more prosperous acupuncturists. Please nourish both the Yin (clinical skills) and Yang (business skills) of your practice. We have some excellent business courses on www.medigogy.com that are free to watch and download handouts by Dan Clements, Kirsten Karchmer, Nicole Lang and many more.
Thank you, Lorne!
I hope everyone is inspired to check out Lorne's book so you can dive even deeper into his philosophy and advice. I know I'm looking forward to reading it several times more, because so much was covered and it has a positive emphasis that makes me feel like I can take over the world.
You can buy Lorne's book here on Amazon:
Missing the Point: Why Acupuncturists Fail… and What They Need to Know to Succeed
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What does diabetic ketoacidosis mean?
Definitions for diabetic ketoacidosis
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Diabetic ketoacidosis
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially life-threatening complication in patients with diabetes mellitus. It happens predominantly in those with type 1 diabetes, but it can occur in those with type 2 diabetes under certain circumstances. DKA results from a shortage of insulin; in response the body switches to burning fatty acids and producing acidic ketone bodies that cause most of the symptoms and complications. DKA may be the first symptom of previously undiagnosed diabetes, but it may also occur in people known to have diabetes as a result of a variety of causes, such as intercurrent illness or poor compliance with insulin therapy. Vomiting, dehydration, deep gasping breathing, confusion and occasionally coma are typical symptoms. DKA is diagnosed with blood and urine tests; it is distinguished from other, rarer forms of ketoacidosis by the presence of high blood sugar levels. Treatment involves intravenous fluids to correct dehydration, insulin to suppress the production of ketone bodies, treatment for any underlying causes such as infections, and close observation to prevent and identify complications. DKA is a medical emergency, and without treatment it can lead to death. DKA was first described in 1886; until the introduction of insulin therapy in the 1920s it was almost universally fatal. It now carries a mortality of less than 1% with adequate and timely treatment.
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Diabetic Ketoacidosis
A life-threatening complication of diabetes mellitus, primarily of TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS with severe INSULIN deficiency and extreme HYPERGLYCEMIA. It is characterized by excessive LIPOLYSIS, oxidation of FATTY ACIDS, production of KETONE BODIES, a sweet smell to the breath (KETOSIS;) DEHYDRATION; and depressed consciousness leading to COMA.
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It takes a nation to protect the nation
A seen in my last comment the islamists where rioting for their own nation, Pakistan. Yes they got what they wanted, but that did not stop them rioting or causing mischief in the land
On 27 January 2003, a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded near the busy Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai, India. The bomb killed one person and injured 28. The blast occurred when Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of Indiaat the time, was to visit the city.
At 21:45 hrs on 13 March 2003 a bomb exploded as a train pulled into Mulund railway station. The bomb was placed in the first class ladies compartment and killed 10 people and injured 70.[ Among the ten killed were four women who were in the first class compartment and six men who were in the adjoining second class compartment. Two of the four women were police constables.
"He said, 'Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.'"
"Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace."
At 21:15 hrs on 28 July 2003 a bomb placed under a seat of a B.E.S.T. bus exploded on the busy Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg in Ghatkopar. The bomb was placed in the rear of the bus and killed 4 people and injured 32. A man who was riding a motorcycle behind the bus and a woman who was in a rikshaw travelling near the bus were among those killed. An eyewitness claims that the woman was thrown at least 10 feet away from the rikshaw and died on the spot.
Mumbai,Monday, August 25, 2003: Two car bombs exploded in the crowded areas of the metropolis in quick succession today killing 45 people and injuring over 150, in the first such incident after the March 1993 serial blasts which had claimed 257 lives.
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"I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."
"Soon We shall strike terror into the hearts of the Infidels, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority: their abode will be in the Fire!"
"Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah."
"Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you."
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The Greatest Murder Machine in History
By Mike Konrad
When one thinks of mass murder, Hitler comes to mind. If not Hitler, then Tojo, Stalin, or Mao. Credit is given to the 20th-century totalitarians as the worst species of tyranny to have ever arisen. However, the alarming truth is that Islam has killed more than any of these, and may surpass all of them combined in numbers and cruelty.
The enormity of the slaughters of the "religion of peace" are so far beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. When one looks beyond our myopic focus, Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind, bar none.
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. -- Will Durant, as quoted on Daniel Pipes site.
Conservative estimates place the number at 80 million dead Indians.
According to some calculations, the Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate). -- Koenrad Elst as quoted on Daniel Pipes site
80 Million?! The conquistadors' crimes pale into insignificance at that number. No wonder Hitler admired Islam as a fighting religion. He stood in awe of Islam, whose butchery even he did not surpass.
Over 110 Million Blacks were killed by Islam.
... a minumum of 28 Million African were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since, at least, 80 percent of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave market, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 Millions. When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 Million people. -- John Allembillah Azumah, author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
Add just those two numbers alone together, and Islam has surpassed the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism. However, it does not end there. Add the millions who died at the hand of Muslims in the Sudan in our lifetime.
Much of Islamic slavery was sexual in nature, with a preference for women. Those men who were captured were castrated. The mulatto children of the women were often killed, which explains why Islam was not demographically shifted towards the black race, unlike slaves in the West, who bore children to breed a mestizo class. Add in those dead children; and we arrive at well over 200 million.
Remember that in the 7th century, North Africa was almost totally Christian. What happened to them?
By the year 750, a hundred years after the conquest of Jerusalem, at least 50 percent of the world's Christians found themselves under Muslim hegemony… Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region [of Northwest Africa], no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity.-- "Christianity Face to Face with Islam," CERC
What happened to those Christian millions? Some converted. The rest? Lost to history.
We know that over 1 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary Pirates. How many died is anybody's guess.
...for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000 - BBC
In the Middle Ages…
…many slaves were passed through Armenia and were castrated there to fill the Muslim demand for eunuchs. -- Slavery in Early Medieval Europe.
The same practice ran through Islamic Spain. North Europeans captured from raids up to Iceland, or purchased, were butchered in the castratoriums of Iberia. Many died from the operations that ran for centuries.
The number of dead from the Muslim conquest of the Balkans and Southern Italy is unknown, but again the numbers add up, surely into the millions over the centuries. Don't forget the 1.5 million Armenian Christians killed by the Turks during WWI. We do know that over five centuries, vast numbers of Christian boys were kidnapped to become Islamic Janissary mercenaries for the Turks. Add those in, too.
Muslims prized blonde women for their harems; and so enslaved Slavic women were purchased in the bazaars of the Crimean Caliphate. In Muslim Spain, an annual tribute of 100 Visigothic [blonde] women was required from Spain's Cantabrian coast.
For decades, 100 virgins per year were required by the Muslim rulers of Spain from the conquered population. The tribute was only stopped when the Spaniards began fighting back -- Jihad: Islam's 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation
Add in the death toll from the Reconquista and the numbers climb higher.
Research has shown that the Dark Ages were not caused by the Goths, who eventually assimilated and Christianized:
…the real destroyers of classical civilization were the Muslims. It was the Arab Invasions... which broke the unity of the Mediterranean world and turned the Middle Sea -- previously one of the world's most important trading highways -- into a battleground. It was only after the appearance of Islam... that the cities of the West, which depended upon the Mediterranean trade for their survival, began to die. -- Islam Caused the Dark Ages
Add in those unknown millions who died as a consequence.
How many know the horrors of the conquest of Malaysia? The Buddhists of Thailand and Malaysia were slaughtered en masse.
When attacked and massacred by the Muslims, the Buddhists initially did not make any attempt to escape from their murderers. They accepted death with an air of fatalism and destiny. And hence they are not around today to tell their story. – History of Jihad.org
We may never know the numbers of dead.
After Muslims came to power in the early 15th century, animist hill peoples eventually disappeared due to their enslavement and 'incorporation' into the Muslim population of Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java via raids, tribute and purchase, especially of children. Java was the largest exporter of slaves around 1500. -- Islam Monitor
In the same manner, Islam arrived in the Philippines. Only the appearance of the Spanish stopped a total collapse, and confined Islam to the southern islands.
The coming of the Spanish saved the Philippines from Islam, except for the Southern tip where the population had been converted to Islam.-- History of Jihad.org
Again, the number of dead is unknown; but add them to the total.
The animist Filipinos were eager to ally with the Spanish against Islam. In fact, much of Southeast Asia welcomed the Spanish and Portuguese as preferable to Islam.
...from the 17th century successive Thai kings allied themselves with the seafaring Western powers – the Portuguese and the Dutch and succeeded in staving off the threat of Islam from the Muslim Malays and their Arab overlords.-- History of Jihad.org
A few galleons and muskets were not enough to conquer Asia. Islam had made the Europeans initially appear as liberators; and to a certain extent they were. Who were the real imperialists?
Even today...
...Malaysian Jihadis are plotting to transform multi-ethnic Malaysia into an Islamic Caliphate, and fomenting trouble in Southern Thailand.-- History of Jihad.org
Add this all up. The African victims. The Indian victims. The European victims. Add in the Armenian genocide. Then add in the lesser known, but no doubt quite large number of victims of Eastern Asia. Add in the jihad committed by Muslims against China, which was invaded in 651 AD. Add in the Crimean Khanate predations on the Slavs, especially their women.
Though the numbers are not clear, what is obvious is that Islam is the greatest murder machine in history bar none, possibly exceeding 250 million dead. Possibly one-third to one-half or more of all those killed by war or slavery in history can be traced to Islam; and this is just a cursory examination.
Now consider the over 125 Million women today who have been genitally mutilated for Islamic honor's sake. In spite of what apologists tell you, the practice is almost totally confined to Islamic areas.
New information from Iraqi Kurdistan raises the possibility that the problem is more prevalent in the Middle East than previously believed and that FGM is far more tied to religion than many Western academics and activists admit. – "Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?" ME Quarterly
Once thought concentrated in Africa, FGM has now been discovered to be common wherever Islam is found.
There are indications that FGM might be a phenomenon of epidemic proportions in the Arab Middle East. Hosken, for instance, notes that traditionally all women in the Persian Gulf region were mutilated. Arab governments refuse to address the problem. -- "Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?" ME Quarterly
Remember that this has gone on for 1400 years; and was imposed on a population that had been formerly Christian or pagan.
FGM is practiced on large scale in Islamic Indonesia; and is increasing.
...far from scaling down, the problem of FGM in Indonesia has escalated sharply. The mass ceremonies in Bandung have grown bigger and more popular every year. -- Guardian
The horrified British author of that Guardian article is still deluded that Islam does not support FGM, when in fact it is now settled that FGM is a core Islamic practice. Islamic women have been brainwashed to support their own abuse.
Abu Sahlieh further cited Muhammad as saying, "Circumcision is a sunna (tradition) for the men and makruma (honorable deed) for the women." -- "Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?" ME Quarterly
What other tyranny does this? Not even the Nazis mutilated their own women!
Unlike the 20th-century totalitarians whose killing fury consumed themselves, reducing their longevity, Islam paces itself. In the end, though slower, Islam has killed and tortured far more than any other creed, religious or secular. Unlike secular tyranny, Islam, by virtue of its polygamy and sexual predations, reproduces itself and increases.
Other tyrannies are furious infections, which burn hot, but are soon overcome. Islam is a slow terminal cancer, which metastasizes, and takes over. It never retreats. Its methods are more insidious, often imperceptible at first, driven by demographics. Like cancer, excision may be the only cure.
So whenever you read about this or that Israeli outrage -- and there may be truth to the complaint -- place the news in context. Look whom the Israelis are fighting against. Islam is like nothing else in history.
Mike Konrad is the pen name of an American who is not Jewish, Latin, or Arab. He runs a website, http://latinarabia.com, where he discusses the subculture of Arabs in Latin America. He wishes his Spanish were better.
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Double-Down: Raccoon and Hound
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 by Nick
As a kid, I loved 1981's The Fox and the Hound (tearful tale that it is). I have to say though, The Raccoon and the Hound might make one helluva sequel:
I wonder what percentage of raccoons in captivity are named "Bandit". Probably at least as many as there are dogs named "Scout". Also, is the videographer wearing any pants? What the hell kind of house is this?
Next, we have these tender warriors who really made me chuckle:
Who knew this was such a thing? These might be the most adorable playfighting pets I've ever seen. Here's to our urban critters and domesticated wolves living in faux-ferocious harmony.


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Two brothers, one from South Boston, run in memory of their sister
Two brothers, one from South Boston, will make sure their sister is not forgotten, as they take part in the 12th Annual Boston Athletic Association Half Marathon.
Dylan Taylor, 26, of South Boston and his 29-year-old brother Nate, will run for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to raise money for the group in memory of their sister Hannah.
The young woman, who was originally from Connecticut, lost a seven-year battle to cancer in March at the age 32.
"I valued that I was here when she was in treatment so I could be here for her. I was able to spend as much time with her as possible," Dylan said in a statement. "She was incredibly focused on the future and finding a cure. A few weeks prior to her death in response to me asking her if there was anything I could do in the future, she said, 'Stop this disease.' I will do anything I can to fulfill that promise."
Dylan said he remembers sleeping on his sister's couch when he first moved to the city and how she always persevered even when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2005.
"It was shocking to all of us," Dylan said. "It threw our family – she was a healthy girl. She was 26."
The two brothers however won't be alone this Sunday as they run the half-marathon. They will be joined by family members and friends.
"It was something we knew would bring my family together, and that's something my sister valued," Nate, a Connecticut residents said in a statement. "Our parents will come up for the race and after, we'll all get together and share stories. We thought it'd be a good way to honor her."
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Stem cell therapy research gets $15.7m boost
New York State Stem Cell Science Program (NYSTEM) to translate their innovative approach to expand and manipulate hematopoietic stem cells to cure acquired and inherited blood disorders.A consortium of scientists and transplant clinicians from the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Center for Cell Engineering at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has been awarded a $15.7 million, four-year research grant from the
For many patients with such blood diseases, including sickle cell disease, the only hope for curing them requires transplanting normal blood stem cells. However, in many instances, suitable normal blood stem cells cannot be found or there are insufficient numbers of cells for transplantation. The consortium seeks to address this critical need with an innovative system to expand stem cells outside the body using specialized blood vessel cells — known as a vascular niche — to support and nurture the stem cells as they do inside the body.
The consortium will conduct two clinical trials using this platform to expand hematopoietic stem cells. The first trial uses the vascular niche to expand umbilical cord blood stem cells for transplantation in patients with blood cancers that cannot be cured by chemotherapy or available donors. The second trial aims to correct the genetic abnormality in blood stem cells from patients with sickle cell anemia and then return these cells to the patients to supply healthy, functioning stem cells. If successful, the techniques may provide safer, more broadly available stem cell transplants to many thousands of patients affected by blood disorders.
"This innovative approach marries Weill Cornell Medical College's stem cell expansion capabilities with Memorial Sloan Kettering's robust cell engineering and gene-transfer techniques," said Principal Investigator Shahin Rafii, M.D., director of Ansary Stem Cell Institute and a professor of medicine, genetic medicine and reproductive medicine at Weill Cornell.
"We are indebted to our NYSTEM partners for their support, because this award offers the opportunity for new curative therapies for patients with blood malignancies and sickle cell disease," said co-Principal Investigator Joseph Scandura, M.D., who is a hematopoietic stem cell physician-scientist and scientific director of the Richard T. Silver, M.D. Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Center at Weill Cornell. Dr. Scandura is also an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell.
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin that distorts the size and shape of red blood cells, causing them to clump together and stick to blood vessel walls, cutting off blood and oxygen supply to vital organs. Despite the need, there are no FDA-approved techniques to expand blood-forming stem cells to cure this disease, and any patients who do not receive transplants of normal blood stem cells, either because genetically matched stem cells are not available or because transplanting the cells from another person, risks life-threatening complications.
"The expansion of blood-forming stem cells is a critical advance for the successful implementation of a number of genetic therapies based on gene addition or gene correction," said Principal Investigator Dr. Michel Sadelain at MSK, a leader in T cell and stem cell engineering. "Our combined expertise in stem cell expansion and globin gene therapy for thalassemia is a strong foundation for developing a potentially curative therapy for sickle cell disease," he said, referring to a blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormal hemoglobin.
Consortium scientists expect that the vascular niche platform will generate large numbers of patients' own blood-forming stem cells, enabling a genetic modification of their stem cells and avoiding the risks of transplanting cells from another person. These two trials will require manufacturing of clinical grade human blood vessel, or endothelial cells, for intravenous infusion for "first in man" clinical trials.
The NYSTEM consortium grant supports a collaborative effort led by Principal Investigators Drs. Rafii and Scandura at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell and Drs. Sadelain and Isabelle Rivière at MSK. The group, led by Drs. Rafii and Scandura, is joined by co-investigators Drs. Jason Butler, Todd Evans and Koji Shido at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute to complete comprehensive pre-clinical studies in accordance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines. The team led by Drs. Sadelain and Rivière brings significant expertise with stem-cell engineering and clinical translation of innovative cell therapies. Drs. Juliet Barker, Sergio Giralt and Farid Boulad will lead the phase I clinical trials at MSK that are expected to start within the next two to three years.


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Mobile Industry News for the Week of April 24, 2017
Starting this summer, the European Union will allow for free international roaming. Citizens will be able to travel throughout the EU and "roam at home" without extra roaming charges. AT&T also announced changes this week in the form of "5G Evolution," a new service that operates on a faster LTE-U network and will help satisfy high data consuming customers as they wait for 5G deployment. The stories on our minds are below.
EU Will "Roam at Home" — This week, the European Council put legalities into place that limit how much operators can charge each other. This is the final step in eliminating roaming charges for the European Union, which has been a long time coming and will officially go into effect on June 15, according to TechCrunch. The "roam at home" policy will allow Europeans on holiday to browse the internet as if in their home country. Due to concern from telecom companies about "permanent roamers," the European Commission will allow operators to detect users that are abusing the policy for four months. While this regulatory policy means new pricing models for EU carriers, it is a big step towards eliminating bill shock and bringing convenient services to carrier customers in Europe.
AT&T Rhymes With 5G — AT&T announced "5G Evolution" this week, a new service for AT&T customers with a Galaxy S8 or S8+ smartphone. Business Insider reports that availability will initially be limited to Austin, Texas, but the carrier is planning for 20 cities by the end of the year. While the service will be faster, the name is rather misleading because it won't actually run on 5G (rather on LTE-U). Nevertheless, this faster and more efficient network will tie over the growing data demand among consumers as 5G capabilities still develop.
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Boullier: Useful clutch of points squandered
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21 July 2014 – Eric Boullier believes McLaren lost out on scoring a "useful clutch of points" in the German Grand Prix.
Jenson Button and team-mate Kevin Magnussen did score for the team, but only took eighth and ninth respectively, much to Boullier's dismay given Williams, Ferrari and Force India – McLaren key rivals in the Constructors' – all took home more.
"We've worked hard to get ourselves into a situation where we can score good points regularly, so it was disappointing," said Boullier, McLaren's Racing Director.
"This should have been a race when we scored a useful clutch of World Championship points; instead, we go home having lost ground to all our key rivals, which is extremely frustrating."
Despite the result, Boullier was pleased with the way his two drivers performed during the race.
"Kevin's Turn 1 incident at the start was very unfortunate; he'd made a great getaway [from P4 on the grid], and was pushing to stay close to Valtteri Bottas. Felipe Massa was on the outside and probably didn't see Kevin, who was on the inside line, and had nowhere to go. Kevin was quite blameless in the accident, so it's even more annoying that it destroyed his chances of finishing in the top four," Boullier continued.
"However, I think Kevin deserves commending for the level-headed drive he posted thereafter; with the promise of a good result lost, and having been relegated to the very back, it would have been very easy to lose focus, but Kevin drove with great maturity.
"Two points is scant reward, but he worked hard for them."
Boullier also said Button had driven well, despite tyre issues at the end and the collision with Lewis Hamilton.
"He showed tremendous fighting spirit even when the odds were somewhat stacked against him," Boullier added.
"His was a very aggressive strategy, which, as the race wore on, we began to appreciate wasn't going to succeed and despite some great defending, Jenson was ultimately powerless to stop other drivers from leapfrogging him as his tyres faded away."
Asked about the Hungarian Grand Prix now, which follows straight on, Boullier replied: "We'll be doing our best to score some good points before the onset of the summer break."


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Aw man. So it won't get me stoned? Sorry man. Sativa Valley Cbd Tincture Dose let's put it this way: The medical marijuana bill that
recently passed the Florida House would allow patients with cancer and conditions that high cannabidiol weed strains result in chronic seizures or severe muscle spasms to use marijuana pills oils or vapors that contain 0.
We can do it people cannabis is the ALL Healing Plant. I thank God for putting it on this earth. P.
Nevertheless among Cannabis compounds cannabidiol (CBD) which lacks any unwanted psychotropic effect may represent a very promising agent with the highest prospect for therapeutic use. PMID: 19228180 Supplemental Content?Technical advance Open Access A protocol for the delivery of cannabidiol (CBD) and combined CBD and co2 hash oil extractor ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) by vaporisation Received: 19May2014 Accepted: 30September2014 Published: 16October2014 Abstract Background Significant interest has emerged in the therapeutic and interactive effects of different cannabinoids. Cannabidiol (CBD) has been shown to have anxiolytic and antipsychotic effects with high doses administered orally. We report a series of studies conducted to determine the vaporisation efficiency of Sativa Valley Cbd Tincture Dose high doses of CBD alone and in combination with ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to achieve faster onset effects in experimental and clinical trials and emulate smoked cannabis.
I mean it helps cancer patients and they are very delicate. Why can't it do the same for us.From what I understand it isn't hard on the liver at all. It's non toxic to the body.
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Donate Life California Starts 2016 with New President
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2016 – Monica Johnson has been elected to a two-year term as President of the Board of Directors of Donate Life California, which administers the nation's largest registry of organ, eye and tissue donors.
Donate Life California was established in 2004 to oversee a computer database on which people register their decision to be organ, eye and tissue donors. Since then, more than 12.8 million people have added their names on the registry as potential donors; 95 percent have done so through the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and have a pink "DONOR" dot on their driver license or ID card.
Johnson has served on the Donate Life California board since 2011. She is the Executive Director of Sierra Donor Services, the nonprofit organ, eye and tissue donor recovery agency serving nearly four million people in Northern California and Nevada.
"It's my honor and privilege to serve California as the President of the Board for Donate Life California," said Johnson. "The California state donor registry continues to be the largest registry in the country at nearly 13 million and we'll continue to pursue efforts to increase the numbers on the registry. Nearly 20 percent of the national organ transplant waiting list resides in California and we have an obligation and the opportunity to help save and heal the lives of thousands who wait. With the generosity of the diverse communities we serve, we can make this a reality."
Sierra Donor Services and three other federally-designated nonprofits in the state, Donor Network West, Lifesharing and OneLegacy, support families giving the gift of life as well as provide public education about donation. The Donate Life California board includes representatives from each of the four organizations.
Johnson has been in the organ donation and transplantation field for nearly 25 years. Before becoming Executive Director of Sierra Donor Services, she held leadership positions at Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank in Portland, Oregon and LifeCenter Northwest in Bellevue, Washington. Johnson is a registered nurse and holds an MS in Management from Antioch University in Seattle, WA and earned her BS in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Linfield College in McMinnville, OR.
Californians can register to be donors by checking "YES!" at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or by signing up at www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org.
Fast Facts from Donate Life California:
- One in five on the national organ transplant waiting list (121,675) lives in California.
- More than 29,000 people in the U.S. begin new lives each year thanks to organ transplants (about 81 transplants every day).
- 22 people die each day because the life-saving organ they needed did not become available in time.
About Donate Life California:
Donate Life California is the nonprofit, state-authorized organ, eye and tissue donor registry. Individuals can add their name to the registry by checking "YES!" every time they renew/apply for their driver license or ID card at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). This ensures their desire to donate life will be carried out. A pink "DONOR" dot is added to their driver license or ID as a symbol of their decision. Individuals can also sign up online at www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org or www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org. As a public service, the registry ensures all personal information is kept confidential and stored in a secure database, accessible only to authorized organ and tissue recovery personnel at the time of an actual donation opportunity. The registry is administered by Donate Life California and California's four nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organizations (OPOs): Donor Network West, Lifesharing, OneLegacy and Sierra Donor Services.
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KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival promises an eclectic mix of movies that showcase stories of struggle, trauma and happiness of the LGBT community across the world
Three years ago, when filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan conceived KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film festival, his intention was to give a platform to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to reach out to the world, showcase their best feature films, short films and documentaries and initiate them into mainstream society. Over a period of time, KASHISH has managed to make its mark as an important event in Mumbai's cultural calendar attracting people from the LGBT community and movie aficionados alike.
This week, the festival, which celebrates its fourth year, will screen 132 films from across 40 countries including Iran, Serbia, Slovakia, Pakistan and Morocco. The five-day event's theme is Towards Change and China will be the country in focus with more than 12 of its films to be showcased.
Festival director, Rangayan, says, "We chose Towards Change as the theme as the LGBT landscape is transforming rapidly in all countries. While in India youngsters are coming out of the closet and pride marches are being held, that is not the case in other nations such as Iran and Pakistan. Even developed countries like America and England have a long way to go before members of the community are treated with equal dignity. It's not easy to be gay or a transgender. Through cinema, we want to show the real state of the community across the globe."
A panel comprising filmmakers, writers, healthcare professionals and members from the LGBT community selected the movies for screening from over 300 entries. Rangayan says, "The criteria for selecting the films were the movies' topicality, sensitive portrayal of the community and how well produced the films were. We also sensed a change in the audience's needs. Earlier they wanted to see romantic comedies. But now they crave to see quality films that provide a cinematic experience."
He explains that he was prompted to choose China as the country in focus after he realised the wide variety of movies that were being made in the country despite lack of support and recognition from the government. Rangayan says, "In 2011, I attended the Beijing Queer Film Festival as a guest.
The government clamped down the screenings but the organisers managed to conduct the event in a secret location. Young Chinese filmmakers are breaking grounds consistently. In fact, two Chinese films — Mamma Rainbow that features the mothers of eight LGBT children narrating their experiences and Speechless, which was shot underground — are much-watch movies at the festival."
While Rangayan is happy with the movies lineup at KASHISH, he admits that organising the event is replete with challenges. "Though we have been funded by banks and other financial institutions, very few companies are willing to walk the extra mile to support us. In the future, we want to reach out to prominent brands. Also, we need to have more support from celebrated actors and filmmakers as that will help us broaden our reach," he signs off.
When: May 22-26, 10 am onwards
Where: Cinemax Versova, Andheri West and Alliance Française de Bombay, Marine Lines
Call: 67268888, 22035993


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