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For the past few years I've attempted to accomplish a yearly bucket list with limited success. But that doesn't mean I'm giving up. In fact, striving to finish my list has been too much fun to quit.
I'm making another list which will start in just a few days when I turn 31. I don't mind getting older but my brain still remembers being 10 as if it was yesterday. Honestly, I don't think I've matured much since then!
In no particular order here is my list which is subject to change (especially if I find the first two lists I wrote and subsequently lost)
Here are 31 public goals that somehow include 31. I know I'm such a nerd!
I'm not sure if that's a bit too much. But some of them overlap like writing challenges {StoryADay} and 31 short stories. What do you think too ambitious? Eh, I'm going to go for it!
Yay! This is going to be a big year for me travel wise. I'm going on my first cruise. You've been warned now that I'll be blabbing an awful lot about it! The most difficult out of this bunch is 31 days of introspection. I haven't decided how I'm going to do it but it WON'T be in one month alone.
Yikes! 100 push ups a day!
I'll be adding a page to track all my goals
Plus, I'll be posting about my attempts and hopefully successes this year! Sorry about the picture I'm not very happy with it and will probably be changing it later but for now you get the idea!


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Not a durability question, but more of a sound-quality one. If I have a buffer in my guitar, does it really matter whether I'm using Hosa cable with molded plugs or Mogami cable with Neutriks? There really shouldn't be any signal loss with the low impedance signal, no? I've been following the "cables are like tires" philosophy (they aren't pretty but you need good ones), and I have a good durable cable for guitar>amp, but now I've got the OBEL and some pedals, with more to come in the future. Does cable quality matter for patches and short runs with a buffered signal? I don't mind spending money on good cables if they're necessary, but I don't want to waste it. Opinions?
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For over 20 years we have been taught that if we didn't stop eating fat it, would make us fat. We listened to the advice of all the nutritionists, doctors and the media. We followed low-fat diets they recommended, but they left us overweight and scratching our heads wondering what happened. As Americans continue to focus on eating low-fat foods, obesity, diabetes and high-cholesterol has skyrocketed. This has caused many people to rethink the idea of low-fat dieting, including the nutritionists and doctors that originally supported it.
The truth…low-fat diets don't work.
Here are five reasons why…
- Eating Fat Does Not Make You Fat.
The body does not store the fat we consume in our diet as body fat. "Healthy fats" (Unsaturated fats) promote weight loss, help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Unsaturated fats include polyunsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fatty acids help lower blood cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels. One type of polyunsaturated fat is Omega-3 fatty acids, they are found in fatty fish, flaxseed and walnuts. Monounsaturated fats are found in olives, avocados, nuts, seeds and olive, canola and peanut oils.
- Eliminating Fat = Increased Hunger.
Fat provides flavor to food and helps us feel full. Fat helps satisfy our appetite and keeps us from eating to much or too often. This is because fats take longer to digest than carbs or proteins. People also tend to eat a larger portions of a low-fat foods because they believe they are better for them.
- Consuming Less Fat = Consuming More Carbohydrates.
If the amount of fat in a product is reduced, the proportion of carbohydrate or protein is increased. Carbohydrates are converted into glucose in the bloodstream. Simple carbohydrates require little digestion and convert into glucose quickly. Excess glucose in the blood causes the release of insulin which tells the body not to burn body fat and stores the glucose as fat.
- Reducing Fat = Increased Sugar and Salt.
Many low-fat processed foods have sugar and/or salt added to improve taste. Sugar has more harmful health effects than fat. Sugar drives fat storage, makes the brain think it is hungry, causes the release of insulin and contributes to insulin resistance and abdominal fat. Salt increases our risk for High Blood Pressure, Osteoporosis, Kidney Disease, Kidney Stones, Stroke, Dehydration, Edema, Asthma, Duodenal, Gastric Ulcers, Stomach Cancer, Electrolyte and Hormonal Imbalance.
- Reducing Fat = Increased Processing.
The fat content of fat-free and low-fat foods is removed by additional processing, altering, formulating, reformulating, added chemicals and fat replacers. Carbohydrate-based fat replacers include Cellulose, Dextrins, Fiber, Gums, Inulin, Maltodextrins, Polydextrose, Starch and Modified Food Starch. Protein-based fat replacers include Microparticulated Protein and Modified Whey Protein Concentrate. Fat-based fat replacers include Emulsifiers, Salatrim and Olestra. Scientists are now able to chemically alter fatty acids, some of which pass through the body virtually unabsorbed.
What does work?
A balanced diet rich in vegetables, fruits, complex carbohydrates, proteins and healthy fats is ideal. Eating fresh, organic, local, whole foods, while reducing processed foods, practicing portion control and exercising is also key to living a healthful life.
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I have recently been struggling with a bout of back pain. Whether it is from carrying around my toddler for the past 2.5 years on my hips or the wear and tear of moving and sitting in a way that has misaligned my lumbar spine, my introduction into chronic pain has not been pleasant. But then again, it's pain and what pain is truly pleasant on the physical level?
One positive note that has come out my ongoing back problems is that now I am so aware of how I move myself. Whether it's simply standing waiting for the water in my tea kettle to boil, picking up my daughter from her nap or just sitting at the computer, my awareness of how I use my body has increased exponentially. And for that, I'm grateful to this injury.
As a yoga practitioner and instructor, I'm very aware of how our movements affect us and how over the years, our conditioned ways of moving create misalignments in the body. I have always known this on an intellectual level and now, I am experiencing it first-hand. However long it takes for me to rehabilitate my back, I do know that because of this injury, my posture and my minute-to-minute movements have markedly improved. And my prowess as both a yoga practitioner and teacher have also markedly improved.
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3 Things We Think Married Couples Must Know
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In no particular order, here are three issues we look forward to blogging more about in 2012! Of course, when we talk about sex, it is in the context of marriage between one man and one woman.
1. Orgasm isn't less important than intimacy. God made orgasm the physiological high-point of sex when he created the sexual response cycle to build to that end. We don't need to diminish its importance to exalt the importance of emotional/relational/spiritual closeness. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
Perhaps the better message is that we should learn one another's bodies so that lovemaking is an exercise in service resulting in pleasure with climax as a natural end. If a spouse decides they don't need to orgasm on a particular occasion, fine. It's not compulsory…except for when desired! I Cor. 7:2-5
2. Having more sex doesn't make us want to have more sex. Having more good sex helps us want more sex. Know one is anxious to re-experience a bad or even mediocre meal. If the sex is lack-luster, poor or painful, why would we want more?
Also, exercise, a balanced diet, having a strong marital relationship and healthy bodies help us to have a healthy libido.
3. Porn is NEVER a benign stimulant to our sex life. Porn disrupts the plan of God for the sacredness of sex in our married lives. Porn is commercialized denigration of womanhood as well as an inaccurate portrayal of manhood. And porn is a way of experiencing sex without intimacy. The images and offerings of porn are a contradiction to intimacy.
Intimacy is an intense focus on and into our mate. Porn requires we an outer focus. Those who take seriously the 'one flesh' principle of Genesis 2:24 can never be dismissive of the importance of intimacy during sexual relations.
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There is a universal fellowship of nitpickers and always has been.
More than a century ago, the iconoclastic American writer Ambrose Bierce gave the world Write It Right (1909) and The Devil's Dictionary (1911). George Orwell published his classic essay Politics and the English Language in 1946. In the 1970s and '80s, former NBC news anchor Edwin Newman and New York literary and drama critic John Simon each wrote best-sellers deploring our nation's declining language skills. The New York Times Magazine ran William Safire's curmudgeonly "On Language" column from 1979 until his death in 2009.
There are any number of grammar sticklers online. GrammarGirl.com is a popular site with young people; baby boomers might enjoy bbhq.com/brushup.htm.
There are also countless reference books, starting with the American Heritage dictionary, with its Usage Panel of distinguished scholars. No pedant's library is complete without The Elements of Style by Strunk and White and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler (I recommend the 1965 second edition; I'm told the 1996 third edition has made some questionable compromises).
Serious authors and journalists are never much farther from the Chicago Manual of Style or the Associated Press Stylebook than a clergyman is from his bible.
These books present a united front against ignorance, but reading them, one notices their authors don't march in lockstep—like politicians, there are conservative and liberal word nerds, and they can differ widely over what's acceptable.
Consider this sentence: It's different for men than for women. "Since the 18th century," says the American Heritage dictionary, "language critics have singled out different than as incorrect."
Although hairsplitters from both sides of the aisle endorse different from, "It's different for men from for women" obviously doesn't work. And "It's different for men from the way it is for women" is wordy and stiff. So language liberals would tend to accept different for men than for women in cases like this. The conservatives wouldn't budge. They'd most likely insist on rewriting the sentence—something like "Men and women differ" neatly sidesteps this whole puddle of mud.
It came as a surprise that some of my reference books didn't condemn different than outright. Fowler's venerated Dictionary of Modern English Usage notes that "different than is sometimes preferred by good writers to the cumbersome different from that which etc." To which Wilson Follett's Modern American Usage responds, "To condone different than because it is sometimes awkward to follow different with [from] is defeatism." "The idea that there is anything wrong with different than is a superstition," declares Roy H. Copperud in A Dictionary of Usage and Style. Theodore M. Bernstein, in The Careful Writer, fires back that if you accept different than, you are a "structural linguist permissivist." Ouch, that can't be good.
I still use these books a lot. Collectively, they've helped me become the stuffed shirt I am today.
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Just a small point (but an important one) from a fellow stickler: The Holy Bible should always be referred to as the Bible, capitalised. So this sentence from today's post: Serious authors and journalists are never much farther from the Chicago Manual of Style or the Associated Press Stylebook than a clergyman is from his bible.
needs a capital for "Bible."
The exception to this rule is when, for example, you're saying, "The Chicago Manual of Style is the modern bible for spelling and grammar rules." In this case, "bible" is an adjective rather than the proper noun referring to the sacred scriptures of Christians.
This is a great reference guide. I have a few of these books but it's good to know which ones to consider adding to my collection.


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On Thursday, June 25, the State Bar of California will present Intellectual Property in Entertainment and Media.
This daylong seminar will be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, 9641 Sunset Blvd. in Beverly Hills, starting at 9 a.m.and concluding at 4:30 p.m.
Five topics will be presented in a panel format, and a networking luncheon is scheduled. Topics to be explored include Issues with Digital Advertising and Marketing, Protection and Theft of Ideas, Right of Publicity Issues on the Internet, The Evolving World of Music Licensing in the Digital World, and Meeting IP Needs of Entertainment Clients in a Cost-Effective Manner.
Among the panelists are Jordan McCollum, vice president and counsel, Walt Disney Internet Group; Adam Hime, senior counsel of IP & Litigation, MTV Networks; Cydney A. Tune, counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Georgann Grunebach, vice president of Intellectual Property, Fox Entertainment Group; and Jeff Brabec, vice president of Business Affairs, Chrysalis Music Group.
For information about available credits and fees, see CLE Events at The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
To make a reservation, call (415) 538-2508 or go to www.calbar.ca.gov.


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Crime issues are city responsibility
Updated 10:22 pm, Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Homelessness is a community problem. Effectively addressing it requires the utilization of a broad range of community resources. That's the transformational mission under way at Haven for Hope.
The work at Haven for Hope, however, has impacted residents of the West Side neighborhood where it is located. Express-News staff writer Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje reported that 911 calls within a half-mile radius of the center showed a 5-percent increase after the first year Haven opened in April 2010, and a 41-percent increase during the second year.
This development does not cast doubt on the importance of the work being admirably done at Haven for Hope. Rather the situation highlights the need for the city to take responsility for addressing issues stemming from a community decision.
Earlier this month, neighbors who live near Haven for Hope had an opportunity to air their grievances. At a meeting organized by District 5 City Councilman David Medina, residents told city officials and Haven staff about their encounters with drugs, prostitution and other criminal activity — and about their frustration at the failure to address their concerns.
"These are serious quality of life issues," Police Chief William McManus told the group. The meeting produced positive results. Medina said he intends to hold follow-up meetings to keep solutions on track. He should.
The worthy effort to transform lives and reduce the homeless population in downtown San Antonio has great value to the city. And it is the community's responsibility to ensure that the residents in the area around Haven for Hope maintain the quality of life that existed before the $100 million campus was located in their neighborhood.


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(Toledo, OH) Goaltender Hannu Toivonen made a season high 48 saves but Toledo fell to the Fort Wayne Komets 4-2 Sunday night at the Huntington Center. Toledo has an overall record of 18-37-3-1 and is 9-20-0-0 at home.
Toledo's Ryley Grantham would score his first goal of the season at 8:45 of the first period to tie the game at one. The Komets sent 21 shots on goal in the first period to Toledo's 17.
"Hannu Toivonen was everything for us tonight," said Head Coach Dan Watson. "He gave us the opportunity to come away with a win but we just couldn't find that third goal."
A power play to start the second period allowed the Komets to regain the lead 2-1 when Brandon Marino beat Toivonen with a wrist shot. The score would stay the same until 9:06 of the third period when Jesse Messier one-timed a Max Shalunov pass into the net. The second goal of the year for Messier tied the score at two.
Komets forward Mike Embach tipped a loose puck past Toivonen with 1:13 left in the third period put Fort Wayne up for good. Former Walleye forward Aaron Clarke added an empty net goal.


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Welterweight contender Jon Fitch will return to action at UFC 82: Pride of a Champion, which takes place on March 1st at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
The news comes from a report by The Fight Network.
While an opponent for Fitch has not yet been revealed, rumors have been circulating that the American Kickboxing Academy product may be taking on former PRIDE veteran Akihiro Gono.
Fitch is undefeated thus far inside the confines of the UFC, racking up seven straight victories. His last win was a unanimous decision over Diego Sanchez at UFC 76.
Update 3:37 PM: MMA Mania is reporting that Fitch has signed a bout agreement to fight Akihiro Gono at the event. They are also reporting that Fitch has signed a three-fight contract extension with the UFC as well.
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Why a small hotel in the middle of nowhere is the best place in Iceland to see the Northern Lights.
On a mission to bring you the world's best hidden gems
I'm Maxine and thanks for checking out My Hidden Gems. My blog is a personal quest to uncover hidden gems from across the globe and what it is that makes them so unique. Whether it's an off-the-beaten track hotel in the middle of nowhere, the best place in Amsterdam to have brunch or the latest gadget I've suddenly realised I can't live without. Some might be brand spanking new, others favourite old haunts I've rediscovered. Either way the aim is to give you the lowdown and share my fab finds with you.
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If you're looking for a stay out of the ordinary the boutique Maastricht monastery hotel, the Kruisherenhotel, is simply heavenly.
Montenegro isn't known as a culinary destination, which ma kes Montenegro's best restaurant, Catovica Mlini, even more of a hidden gem.
Head to the uber glamorous Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich. This hidden gem is the ultimate baby friendly getaway.
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Baur au Lac, a baby friendly Zurich hidden gem
Head to the glamorous Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich for the ultimate baby friendly getaway
Last year I wanted to celebrate a very special birthday (a lady never reveals her age) somewhere fabulously luxurious, which is how we ended up at the Baur au Lac, a Zurich hidden gem. A family-run hotel established in 1844, the Baur au Lac, a Zurich hidden gem exudes glamour. Overlooking the Alps and Lake Zurich, and in close proximity to Zurich old town and the Bahnhofstrasse you couldn't ask for a better location. It's easy to see why it's a firm favourite with A-list royalty and celebrities past and present (star guests have included Michael Jackson, Elton John, Barbara Streisand, Daniel Craig and Morgan Freelman). Wagner premiered his Lord of the Valkeries here and it's also said that it was in the lobby of the Baur au Lac that the Nobel Peace Prize was conceived.
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One of my all time favourite London hidden gems was the now sadly defunct Gospel brunch. So when I was invited to check out another themed brunch, this time based around hip hop, I jumped at the chance. And it didn't disappoint. Held weekly, in different secret London locations, this pop-up brunch is seriously fun.


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We have all been waiting eagerly for this day to happen: the opening of Umami Burger's flagship location, called Umamicatessen, at 9th and Broadway–in the midst of some of the most exciting urban redevelopment in LA history. According to an email sent out by BringingBackBroadway, the soft opening for the new restaurant is set for March 3 (that's next Saturday) with an official ribbon-cutting grand opening not long after.
With 6 other locations in LA, Umami Burger has become one of the most popular "burger lounges" in the city. Many see the flagship location, Umamicatessen in Downtown LA, as the next level of Umami Burger and another affirmative sign that not only supports Downtown LA's urban revitalization, but also Broadway's future as the next hottest destination on the West Coast as it continues to attract new investments and dollars.
This intersection of Broadway and 9th Street is finally gaining the critical mass it needs to make a regional impact that will likely become a huge magnet for more development to follow. Basically, becoming catalytic by virtue of synergy. Within a stone's throw of the new Umamicatessen includes: the new Ace Hotel under development, Sparkle Factory, Two Boots, and Pattern Bar.


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Design and fit-out the Emirates private hospitality suite to communicate the brand values to VIP guests through the creation of an elegant retreat experience that was both innovative and promoting a premium lifestyle.
As well as a reflection of the Emirates award-winning brand, the set up within the hospitality suite needed to be flexible from week to week, to host reception-style service as well as a more formal dining experience.
Inspired by the colours of nature, the combination of textures and sophistication uplifted the brand in a non-corporate way, while the Emirates global reach installation produced a conversation-worthy experience.


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I've been up to my eyeballs getting ready for Planet Comicon in KC, and something I'm introducing this year is MLP (My Little Pony) Inspired Pegasus Wings. This great video tutorial by Anonymous Woodsprite Cosplay Accessories got me started (though I used this awesome video tutorial as more of a jumping off point to my own version). The video tutorial is fantastic and takes you step-by-step through making your own pair of pegasus pony wings, starting with what materials to use and how to make your own pattern. There's even a bonus section at the end on making a matching pair of pony ears. So, get your MLP cosplay on and make some awesome MLP Inspired Pegasus Wings of your own!
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Philly Dawg was in Vermont last week helping friends deal with the aftermath of serious flooding that swamped villages throughout the southern section of the state. As journalists we like to say that we get answers to our questions, but sometimes - despite our best efforts - there are more questions than there is time to track down answers.
Here are a few that haunted me during my Vermont vacation:
Why has there been no movement on the new Delaware County animal shelter?
The clock is ticking again for stray animals in Delaware County and there has been no news on a proposed shelter to house animals turned away by the newly reconstituted Delaware SPCA. Just before its July 1 deadline, ending its century-old commitment to stray animals in an effort to become a "no kill" shelter, the DelCo SPCA agreed to give the county six months to come with an alternative. A piece of publicly-owned land was identified but so far, no construction has occured and there is no word on who will run it.
Who is going to take over stray dog and cat pickup in Philadelphia when the Pennsylvania SPCA ends its experiment with animal control at the end of the year?
We are talking about tens of thousands of free-range cats and dogs. It's a tall order for anyone, let alone a cash-strapped city with a never-ending problem of hoarding, dog fighting and general animal neglect.
Who is policing cruelty among large scale pet breeders and bad rescues in this state?
The PSPCA has conducted no large raids outside of Philadelphia since it sought to file charges against a group of Amish and Mennonite dog breeders from Lancaster County who sold sick dogs at an Ohio auction. Under Lancaster County district attorney Craig Stedman efforts to file cruelty charges failed, but a civil rights lawsuit by the breeders involved against the PSPCA and Main Line Animal Rescue is being allowed to proceed.
Is the Pennsylvania Bureau (now office) of Dog Law Enforcement quietly shrinking its dog warden staff?
Under Gov. Rendell at least four more wardens were added to crack down on long running abuses in commercial kennels. Now we understand that a number of vacant positions are going unfilled and that the remaining wardens are being asked to cover more counties. We still await answers to repeated queries to the Department of Agriculture.
Who is investigating Pennsylvania's underground puppy mills?
We know that the number of licensed kennels has dropped significantly since the dog law went into effect in 2009, but what are the chances that these formerly licensed - and once lucrative - kennels are now operating illegally? Under Pennsylvania law dog wardens can no longer access those properties without cause and animal cruelty officers can only enter the properties with a warrant.
Should Amish children have to pass a driver's test before taking pony carts on highways?
A deadly crash in Indiana has people asking that question. But similar crashes have occurred in recent months in Pennsylvania, raising the issue of putting children and their ponies in harm's way. We are talking about children under ten who steer their tiny carts onto narrow roads in Lancaster County with deadly results. While the image may seem romantic, the consequences are not.
Why don't district attorneys (specifically Berks County's John Adams and Bucks County's David Heckler) prosecute individuals violating the free speech rights of peaceful protestors?
There have been numerous incidents - all documented on video - of assaults against individuals protesting live pigeon shoots. The incidents have escalated from name calling, gun in the chest, struck with the buckle end of a leash and most recently a moving vehicle. By all accounts, the protestors have been exercising their free speech rights legally, standing quietly on public rights of way.
Why can't Pennsylvania pass legislation ending 24/7 dog chaining and the use of gas chambers to kill unwanted shelter dogs and cats?
States and municipalities across the South have halted these practices. Enough said.
Why has the state's Dog Law Advisory Board not met since Sept. 2010?
Gov. Rendell dismissed the DLAB in 2006 for being ineffective and reappointed a new board. But nine months into his administration, there has been no meeting since Corbett took office. DLAB members were advised a meeting would be held in September, but so far none has been scheduled. It's not that there are no animal welfare issues out there for discussion. For starters, consider some of the questions we've raised above, like the sheltering crisis and chaining and gas chamber legislation.


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The bitter wind rolls across the flowing meadow as I stand there alone. The sun, high in the dark sky, glows behind heavy clouds.
I have not seen the sunlight. Not since they took him.
My Tommy.
It had been over a year now, since I've seen the sun. Its bright golden rays just a memory now concealed deep in my mind.
The two donations I have given since then seem to make no difference. Nor the time I have left till my third.
A week.
A week is all I have left. But it does not matter. Why not just do it today? I often times ask myself.
I have no one left. Everything that has ever mattered to me has been taken away; me, powerless to stop it. What else do I have to live for?
Some say I am crazy, as I stand out here staring into the horizon wishing for something better. But what else am I to do?
I do not belong here anymore.
I walk down the side barbed wire fence, my shoes crackling in the hard gravel.
What would I be without you?
There's no place for me without you
Never let me go
The soft bittersweet song echoes in my mind. I will never be able to let him go. I tell myself.
He is a part of me. And that will never change. I smile, thinking of the short yet wonderful times we had together.
His warm touch, his soft and gentle voice, his deep brown eyes that could make my heart flutter every time I looked at him, all so preciously engraved in my dying memory.
Something not far off in the distance caught my eye as I looked up. Two people were standing by the fence, laughing and embracing each other in a loving way.
I stopped, staring at them, amazed at how I had not seen them as I was walking down. The boy turned and looked at me.
The trees and clouds melted away as the time all around me slowed. I stared at him.
No. It can't be.
I felt tears rush to my misty eyes.
It was him. It was really him.
His hair was like it was before, long and brushed to the side, and his eyes had that warm familiar kindness glowing inside of them. I stepped toward him my heart burning with happiness.
The girl turned her vision toward me.
It was like looking directly in the mirror as I stared at the woman in front of me. Her golden brown eyes stared directly into mine, an eerie connection instantly made between us.
My mind fired as the realization of what was happening sunk in. I looked once more at Tommy.
His eyes the exact color of chocolate brown. I didn't want to leave. Not with him here.
"Who are—"
The girl began to ask.
I turned and ran the opposite direction feeling tears instantly flood my eyes.
The other Tommy yelled from behind me his voice water to a wound.
I ran harder pushing my exhausted legs to run faster. I pressed my frozen hand over my mouth, holding back the choking sobs climbing up my throat.
Finally, I staggered up to my old car my breaths short and shallow. Sitting on the hard ground, I let the concealed sobs escape, tears flowing down my cheeks.
I huddled in a tight ball rocking slowly back and forth as I breathed into my frozen hands.
It wasn't him. But it was at the same time.
I didn't know what to think except for what I had just seen.
The one I had loved so much gone and just like that…standing there, right in front of me as if nothing ever changed.
As if he had never-
I breathed in deep, trying to calm my frazzled mind.
"Tommy…" I pleaded out to the sky.
The dark clouds whispered softly as they floated calmly through the air.
I squeezed my eyes shut wanting it to end, all of it. This place, my donations, the horrible sense of knowing that I'll never be able to see Tommy again I wanted it all gone, like so many lives they have freely taken.
I slowly opened my eyes.
Nothing had changed.


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3 Plainview grads are AP Scholars
Published 6:00 pm, Friday, November 14, 2008
Three Plainview High School graduates of the Class of 2008 have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program exams.
Samantha Branch qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and a grade of 3 or higher in five or more of those exams.
She is the daughter of Tim and Renee Branch and is attending West Texas A&M University.
Sara Khaleeq and Alexander Turkowski qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher.
Khaleeq is the daughter of Babrak and Barbara Khaleeq and is attending the University of Texas at Austin.
Turkowski is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Walter and Dr. Vickie Turkowski and is attending the University of Kansas.


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Peter Jackson Talks 'Temeraire' Adaptation
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With 2009 being a very busy year for Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson (directing The Lovely Bones, developing The Hobbit, overseeing Tintin and District 9), it's hard to believe the man has had any time to sleep, much less think about MORE projects. But apparently that's exactly what's he's doing, with an adaptation of the fantasy book series Temeraire on his mind.
Ain't It Cool News got a chance to interview Jackson while he's doing the rounds promoting The Lovely Bones, and one of the things he talked about was his planned adaptation of Naomi Novik's book series, Temeraire. We haven't covered this before now, so if you only read Screen Rant for your news (and we'd be flattered if you did :) ) then this will be completely new to you.
Firstly, here's a little overview of the Temeraire series: It's described as a cross between a fantasy tale and one of alternate history – "a reimagining of the epic events of the Napoleonic Wars with an air force — an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators." Reading up on it there's different classes of dragons, from heavyweight (which are gargantuan, weighing up to 50 tons) to lightweight (which perform such functions as delivering important mail…).
Jackson actually acquired the rights to the series back in 2006 (five books are out currently, with nine being planned in total), and since then he's been slowly developing ideas for it, although obviously he's had other things on his plate. What might surprise you is that Jackson actually has the small screen in mind for Temeraire, as opposed to giving it the full big-screen cinematic treatment. I can guess that he originally planned to turn it into a full feature film, but things change and he now sees a miniseries as the best way to adapt it:
"I can't see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To me the stories, having read the first ones, already work as this continuing, on-going saga, so I'm thinking "Is there a marketplace out there yet for a large budget mini-series?"
"I guess you'd think of things like HBO and you'd think of Band of Brothers and that sort of thing, but it'd be different than that. The market's changing so much, TV networks are changing, so I'm thinking is there actually a market out there that'd give us the budget to do this properly and allow us to shoot this as a 6, 7 or 8 part series where we have freedom, we have great production values and are able to tackle it as the epic saga that it deserves."
"I just can't see doing one expensive movie and if that's successful you get to do another one, but if the second one isn't quite as good maybe there'll never be a third one… I just don't see that fitting with the property at all."
Jackson keeps repeating to AICN that there have been official no plans put in place for the Temeraire adaptation, so at this point this is just what Jackson would like to see happen (he may change his mind back to cinema at some point). Having said that, he revealed that he's had Weta Workshop do a lot of designs for the dragons and so forth, probably just give him an idea of what this series could look like if adapted. Jackson says that once the busy year of 2009 is over, he'll have a chance to develop other things, which presumably includes Temeraire (or else he wouldn't be talking about it at this point).
Temeraire artwork (Credit: Sandara.net)
Not having read the books, I must say the overall idea for Temeraire sounds fantastic. I especially dig the different classes of dragons that perform different actions and functions (the "delivering mail" made me chuckle). It's interesting Jackson wants to develop it as a miniseries as opposed to a film, as from the outside looking in it seems prime for the big-screen. However, someone who has read the books may know that it's more suited for a 7 or 8 part miniseries, to better flesh out the story instead of cramming it into one film – or if successful, a franchise – over a number of years.
Do you like the sound of Temeraire? Anyone out there read the books? Do you think it would be better suited as a feature film or as a miniseries?
We'll keep you posted on when and how (on TV or in theaters) we'll see Temeraire.
Sources: AICN (thanks to Empire) and Sandara.net (for the artwork)
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Taije Silverman
Taije Silverman's poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. The recipient of the 2005-2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she lives and teaches in Philadelphia.
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Nice. Hellingon Rush
Authors: sharknice and gorillanice
The Nice. Hellingon Rush is a 2 versus 2 strategy designed to get an army of hellions and speedlings as fast as possible. Enabling shared controls allows the Zerg to build an extractor for the Terran which makes it possible to get Hellions more than 30 seconds faster than doing it alone.
Build Order
The zerg sends out his first zerglings and scouts out what the best place to attack is. At 4:00 2 hellions finish for the terran and meet up with the zerglings to attack. Rally the reinforcements to the enemy base, 4 hellions and 10 speedlings will be out at 4:45. The zerglings are fairly expendable while the hellions are not. Use the zerglings as meat shields and the hellions as the damage dealers.
Protoss are usually a good target. The typical hallway well-off that is completed with a zealot is easy to take down with the hellions and zerglings. Even sentries will have a hard time force fielding due to the extremely early timing of the attack. The protoss will generally have very few units, you can go straight for the probes then move on to the next base.
Zerg are also an easy target for this build. Attack with the zerglings and use them as a meat shield while the hellions do the real damage from behind and from the sides, maximizing the splash damage. You can easily take on spine crawlers and queens while having the zerglings attack with the hellions. The enemies cannot use their drones to attack because the hellions will roast them so fast. It only takes 3 shots from a hellion to kill a drone and probe and 4 shots to kill an SCV.
Terran are the hardest targets because they can wall off the easiest, but they are still very vulnerable. Attack the weakest point with zerglings and have the hellions roasting from behind. Hellions can hit any marines shooting the zerglings. Any SCVs that attempt to repair will be roasted by splash damage.
On maps where you are farther away from your teammate the terran can squeeze a few more SCVs out while waiting for the zerg to send an extractor. You can get 3 more SCVs and and orbital command out slowing the hellion timing about 30 seconds. This is a huge economic boost because you are barely cutting SCV production. This makes it easy to transition to banshees, blue flames, or tanks.
This build works best on maps without shared bases. It works best on maps with large or multiple ramps that make it harder to wall off. We typically do not use this build on shared base maps unless it is against a protoss zerg combination.
Multiple zerg opponents are the biggest counter to this build. A sub 10 pool zergling rush can arrive before the factory finishes, the terran will have nothing and when the enemy zerglings arrive.
Protoss on a small ramp map can infinite force field the ramp. Also a complete wall in with cannons done correctly can stop this rush.
Terran bunkers behind the wall, especially with marauders work well to stop this.
3 versus 3 and 4 versus 4
The Nice. Hellingon rush also works well in 3 versus 3 and 4 versus 4 games. Another zerg producing speedlings can help a lot. A protoss teammate doing a fast as possible dark templar rush compliments it very well, especially using the pylon overlord vision trick. Follow ups from teammates with basic tier 1 armies work pretty well too.
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Sep 12, 2013 2:05 pm
Kendall Schmidt from Big Time Rush doesn't mess around when it comes to breakfast. What did he eat for his first meal of the day today? Was it cereal? Was it eggs? No! Kendall cooked himself pancakes!
What kind of pancakes do you think Kendall made? Tell us in the comments if you prefer chocolate chip or blueberry pancakes!


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looking for relatives
I am living in Israel, and I am the son of Hersh Gottfried, who was born in Gora -Kalvaria, Poland, in 1914 son of Abrham Gottfried who was a blacksmith in Gora Kalvaria.
Unfortunately I do not have any additional details on my father's family. He has passed away 3 years ago and I am his only son. He emigrated to Israel in 1936, before the 2nd world war, and during the war he lost contact with his family and never heard anything more untill his death. All these years he always persumed that he was the only one who remained alive from his all family (I think he had two sisters and one brother).
If any of you know anything that could help me either locate any remaining family members or knowa anything about the fate of the Gottfried family from Gora-Kalvaria, I'll be obliged.
Dan Gottfried
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One of my favorite snarky gossip sites, Gawker, recently ran a post about Spanx. They had two of their writers (one female, one male) attend a showcase of the brand's Fall 2013 line, and offer up their thoughts. The lady writer compared Spanx to a" Thundershirt for your thunder thighs", going on to tongue-in-cheekly point out that "Spanx combine the appearance of a slightly trimmer body with the effort of lying on the couch eating bon-bons". Sure she was being very Gawker-y (read: 90% sarcastic) with her observations, but the overall opinion was that Spanx were cool. The man writer , however, had another point of view, insisting that Spanx are inherently deceitful, anti-feminist, and send the message" 'I am painfully insecure about my body, but please, by all means, f** me.' "
Oh lordie.
While I know this review was done mostly in jest, I can't help but be reminded of the Spanx-related rage that boiled up inside of me years ago when I was the managing editor of SheFinds. I wrote this piece in response to a NY Observer writer's tirade on how Spanx are dumb, and de-sexualize women, and should be banished. He's a man.
I said it then and I will say it now. I believe Spanx benefit women who want to look more seamless (literally) in clothes that are often unforgiving. Spanx won't make you lose 10 pounds instantly and we know that. But they will smooth out our silhouettes nicely, get rid of panty lines, and even band-aid the occasional muffin top. Yes, the shapewear line has gone a bit overboard with swimwear and lingerie. We don't need to be lycra happy all the time with every facet of our wardrobes. However, when us gals do want a little help, Spanx are there for us if we so choose. I get my panties in a bunch whenever someone–male or female–passes judgement on why women choose to wear what they do. I know PLENTY of super confident, kickass women who wear Spanx. And none of them are insecure about their bodies. Plus, I agree with Caity Weaver that the compression does make me feel a little like I'm being hugged all day. I secretly love it. Until I have to use the bathroom, but that's a whole other conversation.
What do you think about Spanx? Do you wear them? What purpose do they serve for you? Share your Spanx sentiments!


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The Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC at http://www.paimmigrant.org) is presenting two training sessions for those who assist the immigrant community in obtaining access to health care.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Partners for Families
321 East Main Street
Co-sponsored by the Montgomery County Latino Collaborative and HIP's Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities
Cost: $40 for non PICC members, $35 for PICC members that are current on dues.
Still time to register! Register online today at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9PJZ2SZ, or go to PICC's website at http://www.paimmigrant.org/events/training-are-you-eligible-obtaining-health-care-immigrants-upper-darby to download a registration form to send to training coordinator Susan Kim by mail, fax or e-mail. If you do not e-mail or fax your form today, make sure to contact training coordinator Susan Kim (215-832-3482 or firstname.lastname@example.com) to reserve your space.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
3535 Market Street, 16th floor, Room F
Cost: $40 for non PICC members, $35 for PICC members that are current on dues.
Registration open until Friday, January 29, 2010. Register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XSMC3NB, or go to PICC's website at http://www.paimmigrant.org/events/health-care-training-philadelphia-february-2 to download a registration form and send it to training coordinator Susan Kim by mail, fax or e-mail.
More information on the Trainings
Are You Eligible? Obtaining Health Care for Immigrants
Training for Providers, Advocates, Community Leaders
These trainings are open to health care providers, advocates, social workers, case managers, community educators, school staff, and others who assist the immigrant community access needed health care services.
The skill based and participatory training will focus on how to identify and determine eligibility for health care services available to the immigrant community. Topics covered will include:
Immigration status in determining eligibility for services
Eligibility rules for major health programs including Medical Assistance, Emergency Medical Assistance and CHIP
Addressing barriers to care
Effectively advocating for your clients
Questions about the trainings? Contact Susan Kim at 215-832-3482 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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For those of you in the Cleveland area, there are several baseball-related events taking place in the near future that may be of interest.
On Saturday, September 24, the Baseball Heritage Museum in downtown Cleveland will have an open house and book signing with a number of authors (myself included) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Try to stop by if you can, particularly if you're heading downtown for the game that evening. Here's a full listing of the authors and events.
The one local vintage base ball club, the Cleveland Blues, will be hosting a golf outing fundraiser at Bob 'O Links Golf Course in Avon, Ohio on Saturday, October 1. For more information, be sure to check out their web site.
I believe I've mentioned that I'm the local chapter president for SABR (Society for American Baseball Research). We're having our annual fall meeting at the Brooklyn Public Library on Ridge Road in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a break for lunch. I hope to have the full schedule finalized soon, but there will be a mix of presentations and discussion about the Indians' season, plus a book raffle and a trivia contest. You don't have to be a member to join us; it's a $2 admission fee, but that gets you free pop and candy. You also don't have to come for the entire day; feel free to stop in for just part of the meeting. I'll make sure to share the final schedule so you can see if there's a topic that interests you.
And last but not least, you may be interested in this article from Chris Jaffe at The Hardball Times on 17-year-old Bob Feller fanning 17 people 75 years ago. Make sure to check it out!


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Musician Sachin Patwardhan to host a masterclass on the Spanish veena
A masterclass in Mumbai tells you more about a hybrid electric guitar that plays Indian classical notes
It's an interesting energy between sight and sound as you watch a video featuring musician Sachin Patwardhan on YouTube. While he strums an instrument that looks like a guitar, Indian classical notes of Raga Hansadhwani emanate from its strings. That's because the instrument is a Spanish veena, a modified form of the electric guitar conceptualised by Patwardhan, originally a Sarod player and disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. This Thursday, the artiste will introduce Mumbai's music enthusiasts to the instrument, courtesy a masterclass at The True School of Music.
Sachin Patwardhan with Spanish veena
"The veena is a unique classical instrument, but the term is also used to denote an Indian modification to a western guitar. The instrument, for all practical purposes, is a guitar but classified as a veena in India. For instance, the Mohan veena," shares the artiste, referring to the modified slide guitar developed by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
Amit Tare
Meanwhile, Patwardhan derived the term Spanish veena from the six-stringed Spanish classical guitar that was modified into a veena. "The instrument plays a range of Indian classical music from aalap, jod and jhalas to gamak, meends and murkis. A standard tuned electric guitar is not conducive to incorporate the whole range," he informs.
For the masterclass, Patwardhan has also collaborated with another musician, Amit Tare, who specialises in acoustic Folk Rock and Western styles of music. "He follows the Spanish format of playing the guitar, while I will be playing Indian Classical music on a Spanish veena.
So, the collaboration will focus on two different soundscapes brought together by a common Spanish thread," he adds.
On: January 21, 7 pm
At: The True School of Music, 107, Sun Mills Compound, Lower Parel.
Call: 66243200
To register, Log on to: www.trueschool.in
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Vatican hosting meeting to plan World Youth Day
March 22, 2012
The Pontifical Council for the Laity is organizing a meeting to discuss the experiences of World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations and to plan for the next WYD in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013. The meeting will bring together youth-ministry workers from 98 different countries to speak about the most recent international observance in Madrid last year and to help organize next year's event. After meeting outside Rome on March 29- April 1, the participants will gather in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, April 1, to join with Pope Benedict XVI in celebrating the 27th World Youth Day in the Rome diocese.
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I ask this in all honesty--what good has World Youth Day done? It seems to me more like a Catholic Woodstock where the faith is not really presented in any real substantial sense. I wonder what the Popes of the early 20th century would have thought of something like WYD... Honestly the leadership in the Church ought to return to what our Fathers in the Faith did because it worked. All this novelty is winning few converts and making the Church a laughingstock.


text: The subject of interest is that individuals and small businesses have a security uncertainty about how the public cloud manage their information.The objective is to close the knowledge gap of what, why, how, where and who is responsible for the cloud security uncertainty.Thefirst research criteria is to explain the public cloud security dilemma in its architecture and infrastructure; then, explain why and where the public cloud has security problem; and third, use trust and the original prospect theory to understandwhy individuals and small businesses use the PC. The latter is the research innovation which provide new knowledge on user's perception. The resultsare important as it was foundthe public cloud is a business model that monetizes its user's data, and the perceived security uncertainty is a confidentiality problem.The literature review on cloud monetization is scarce, the current trend of cloud providers is to breach users' confidentiality to monetize their data. This researchclears the public cloud security uncertainty perceived by individuals and small businesses. It also provides new insights on how to predictconsumer's behavior in decisions with different levels of risk, and provides a detailed description of where is the security uncertainty of the public cloud.


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I am hearing more and more that people don't know what's in their data, what to ask of their data, especially "how do I get at what I do know I'm looking for?" Here's a story:
Sitting at Whole Foods over a casual lunch with a friend whom we'll call Ted. He logged into an account where he could view details of his business. I copied the data in the web browser, pasted it into Excel and created a pivot table. He gasped!
In 90 seconds Ted had clear and unexpected evidence that a product line was doing far better than he thought. He was ready to call the person in charge of the region to find out what they were doing right.
His company provided the data but it was buried in a few canned reports and a big ugly wall of data. Ted thought the business intelligence was terrible because it doesn't give useful reports like "product line month-over-month sales." But all the information was in there. It just wasn't on a silver platter.
Actually, he had something better than clean reports. He had a glorious data dump:
That big ugly wall of raw information. Transaction after transaction with details of the products, product lines, regions, managers, discount codes, customers, transaction dates, refunds, etc.
Many many people are like Ted. They are good at a skill (baking, customer service, website development, graphic design, teaching, sales, etc.). They work their way up and eventually they're leading people, and overwhelmed with data on spreadsheets that they don't understand. I've seen the consequences, and you probably have, too.
Inabilities to extract reality from data causes people to quit their jobs, file lawsuits, anticipate drama where there is none, miss rare opportunities, and run a business on SWAGs (scientific wild-ass guesses).
The information is in the data dump. The challenge is in getting at it.
Why do I stress "get at" the data? Often, the analysis isn't hard. For small businesses and departments within large companies, we don't need a convo about "big data" or standard deviations. We don't always require fancy calculations. We just need some addition, subtraction multiplication and division to answer:
How are sales trending?
How is our productivity?
They're either going up, down or remaining flat. Period.
For many of us "analysis" doesn't need to get any more sophisticated than that. That's all Ted needed and it opened a door to new possibilities and a new focus. To hell with the canned reports! This was a situation where an ability to work with the raw data was far more valuable because we could dig out any slice of reality that we wanted:
- Manager performance.
- Region performance.
- Product, by region, by quarter.
- Comparison of manager performance by product line.
- Is there a product that's returned more than the others?
- Are there any trends in refunds?
- Are the discount codes being used?
It's all there in the data dump and accessible with Excel features like pivot tables, pivot charts, slicers and data models.
- Learn to work with data dumps. Maybe even prefer data dumps over canned reports.
- Data Management must become part of our vocabulary. We're all data managers. Even if we just want to keep up with our friends' birth-dates. That's not a memorization issue, that's a data management issue.
- Make deliberate effort to learn the business intelligence tools that are available. For most of us, Excel is perfectly fine.
- Some managers don't need to handle data at this level. It's not a smart use of their time. They need a reliable data-person in their back pocket: someone trained to dig, probe, pick and get at it.
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The number of farms in Indiana is decreasing, according to a census on agriculture released last week by the United States Department of Agriculture.
There are 2,200 fewer farms in Indiana than there were seven years ago.
Larry Lazarz operates a vegetable farm in Putnam County. He says the report reflects the changing nature of agriculture in the state.
"A large amount of losses are not due to the farms being shut down," Lazarz said. "It's the fact that the farms change hands and likely go to a larger farmer or a corporation."
The amount of farmland has also decreased, according to the census. Indiana Farm Bureau spokesperson Andy Dietrick, says the four percent decline may not be simply a question of consolidation, but one of conservation.
"50,000 acres may sound like a lot, but that's the kind of acreage that can go into conservation practices, which is set aside and not tillable land," Dietrick said. "It also indicates that there are some farmland losses due to development."
There are currently to 59,000 farms in Indiana.


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A We have labored over the science of policosanol, much of which has come out of Castro's Cuba. Following a negative report in an "important" medical journal a few years ago, policosanol research has significantly slowed. So we now wonder whether it ever fully achieved statin-like effects. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of recipients who swear by its ability to reduce the negatives of cholesterol and heart-unhealthy effects.
But a very recent study done at the University of Kentucky and published in Lipids, renowned for high-quality peer-reviewed papers, has demonstrated that policosanol promotes the phosphorylation of AMP-kinase and HMG-CoA reductase in hepatoma cells and in mouse liver after intragastric administration.1 This finding provides a possible means by which policosanol might lower blood cholesterol levels. When the researchers suppressed several fatty acid enzymes, the phosphorylation of AMP-kinase and HMG-CoA reductase by policosanol was prevented. This indicates that metabolism of these very long chain alcohols to activated fatty acids is necessary for the suppression of cholesterol synthesis, presumably by increasing cellular AMP levels.
To answer your question, we know of no research, from any country, suggesting that policosanol use can conflict with diabetes.


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Why does Steinbeck write about migrant farmers?"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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The writing of the migrant farmers held a great deal of allure to Steinbeck because their predicament was so opposite of what American identity was comprised. When one thinks of American Identity, the immediate connotations that enter one's mind are the notion of economic success, roots in a home, the development of a happy family, and a general sense of contentment in one's setting and the world in which one is enveloped. However, in writing about the migrant worker in the 1930s, this state of reality is entirely contrasted with the predicament that faced the migrant farmer. Struggling for work, they moved from place to place without a clear sense of home in an almost rootless existence driven to find work and a means of subsistence. As America grows into greater awareness of self, Steinbeck's writing of the migrant farmer helped to drive home the idea that the concept of "America" has to encompass more voices, more experiences, and the narratives that might run counter to what individuals might consider the positive and upside of "American Identity." Steinbeck's writing of the migrant worker is an absolute reminder that for all of the successes of America, the plight of the migrant worker or farmer is one that has to be acknowledged and validated as a part of "America."
A prevalent theme with John Steinbeck is the alienation of people during the Great Depression. A socialist, Steinbeck promulgated his message of the brotherhood of man as the answer to this disenfranchisement and alienation that people suffered in the desperate 1930s when families were separated and men were forced to migrate to areas where they could find work. Steinbeck's great novel, "The Grapes of Wrath," which he wrote one year after "Of Mice and Men," has the same theme of the brotherhood of man as his novella. With his writings and activism, Steinbeck hoped to bring attention to the plight of the Oakies in "Grapes of Wrath" and the migrant workers in general , a group in "Of Mice and Men." These lonely, desperate men were ones with whom Steinbeck had worked and with whom he sympathized.
Steinbeck worked throughout his summers in the early 20s as a farmhand and rancher in the Salinas Valley area. Although the 20s preceded the 30s Depression era that he wrote about, chances are, he well understood the plight of young men working for a period of time to just make a few bucks while there were bucks to be made despite the purpose.
He actually attended Salinas High School, so he well knew the area. As his writing career was taking off and his worldview was taking shape, the Depression hit. Obviously his writing demonstrates sensitivity to the Depression. Born in 1902, he was in his 30s then. This time period for most is a securing of identity and understanding of the world around us.
There is a national society devoted to maintaining his legend. Check out steinbeck.org
Migrant farmers of the time, the Depression-era 1930's were the perfect examples of people falling through the cracks of society. Those who had no job security, moved from place to place in search of temporary work, and came from all segments of society - the elderly, the mentally challenged, the poor, the uneducated - all are represented in the story so the reader can get a good look at what all of society was experiencing during that time. In other words, he wrote about migrant farmers because they were representative of America.
Steinbeck also wrote what he knew, since he grew up and lived in agricultural California.
Steinbeck writes about people like this because he was writing during the Great Depression. During the Depression there were a lot of people who were wandering around, looking for work. Many of them came to California, like George and Lennie did and like the characters in "The Grapes of Wrath" do.
Because Steinbeck was from that area of California (the Central Valley where this novella is set), he saw quite a few of these people and felt sympathy for their plight. He felt that they were people whose lives had been devastated by the economic system of that time. That is why he wrote about them.