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The advancement of warfare from mid Sixteenth Century to the end of the Napoleonic Period.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Dutch Army 1793 Part III: UNIFORMS
Below details of the Dutch troops.
All coats were knee length with the waistcoat visible (i. e. the upside down V-shaped lapels), all except hussars and grenadiers wore bicornes with red-white tassels and short slack white plumes with black tips, cockades were orange. The grenadier bearskin looks very much like the Napeolonic Austrian one, but without a front plate and with a real bag, which hangs over the right edge (with the tassel approx. next to the ear) in the facing colour with white piping and (wavey) line through the middle. A similar hat (maybe a bit less tall) was worn by the lijfcompagnie of the Garde Dragonders (bag red and tassel and piping white). Some foreign regiments did have a front plate (Walen, Saksen-Gotha). Hair dress was as other armies: tail (possibly tucked away under the hat) with either horizontal curles or the vertical curl in front of the ear (pattes de chien).
INFANTRY Regiment 11 was split up and divided between other units in 1793. Not all of those mentioned below were "in the field". Except for the Hollandse Gardes, Oranje-Friesland and Oranje-Gelderland, the Dutch grenadiers were taken from their parent units and made into 9 new grenadier battalions. Those grenadiers that stayed with their unit formed 1/7th of its strength. The regiments were battalion sized. Dark blue coats, white waistcoat, trousers and belts. Gaiters were white in summer and black in winter. Some units had laced button holes. Regimental facing colours (plus "LB" if they had laced button holes) were: BLACK: 16. CRIMSON: 22. GREEN, LB: 3. LIGHT BLUE, LB: 24. ORANGE: 14. ORANGE, LB: 6. RED: 2, 5 and 18; 3rd Swiss; Baden and Saksen-Gotha. RED, LB: Hollandse Gardes, Oranje-Friesland, Oranje-Gelderland, Oranje-Stad en Lande, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Oranje-Nassau; 8, 15 and 17. RED, no lapels (but red piping): 4th Swiss. RED, LB, no lapels (but red piping): 4, 9, 12 and 20; Zwitserse Gardes
(Swiss Guards) and 1st, 2nd and 5th Swiss. WHITE: 1; regiment Walen and battalion Garde-Walen (Walloons). YELLOW: 7, 10, 13, 19, 21 and 23; 1st and 2nd regiment and 5th bat. Waldeck.
CAVALRY The Lijfregement Oranje Friesland orginally consisted of 2 squadrons Oranje Friesland and 2 squadrons Oranje Karabinier, so after the re-organisation this regiment had 1 squadron left of both. Like the other regiments, the Gardes te Paard were also reduced to 2 squadrons. The Gardes te Paard had dark blue coats, others white; trousers, waistcoat, gloves and belts pale yellow. Cross-belts: the one over the left shoulder was much wider than the other. Shoulder straps same colour as coat. Buttons white metal. Boots were knee high. Regimental colours were: BLACK: Hessen-Philipstal (turnback red). DARK BLUE: Oranje Friesland (dark blue waistcoat; no lapels, but all edges of coat, including belts and bags, black-white chequered). GREEN: Van Tuyll (turnback red). LIGHT BLUE: Oranje Karabinier. PINK: Hoeufft (laced buttonholes and vertical lace bands on cuffs). RED: Bentinck; Van der Duijn; Gardes te Paard (with white piping on collar, cuffs and lapels).
DRAGOONS: Coats dark blue; trousers, waistcoat, gloves and belts pale yellow,
(except for the Hessen-Kassel dragoons, who had white trousers, waistcoat and belts). Cross-belts: the one over the left shoulder was much wider than the other. Shoulder straps same colour as coat. Buttons white metal. Boots were knee high. Regimental colours were: PINK: Hessen-Kassel. RED: Van Bijlandt (Walloons); Garde Dragonders (lapels not red but dark blue with white laced button holes, vertical lace bands on cuffs; separate lijfcompagnie had grenadier hats).
HUSSARS These had the traditional hussar clothing (mirliton, pelisse, dolman, boots). The white plume was tall and had a black top. Officers wore a bicorne. Van Heeckeren: black pelisse with white fur, braiding and buttons, black dolman with light blue collar and cuffs, white braiding, piping and buttons. Light blue trousers with white piping. Mirliton black with blue flamme, white cords. Belts and gloves pale yellow. Timmerman: blue pelisse with black fur and yellow braiding and buttons. Red dolman with blue collar and cuffs and yellow braiding, piping and buttons. Red trousers with yellow piping. Mirliton black with red flamme, yellow cords. Belts and gloves pale yellow.
ARTILLERY HORSE: dark blue coat with red collar, cuffs and turn backs. Lapels also dark blue, but with red piping. White epaulettes with red shoulder straps with white piping. Dark blue waistcoat with red piping. Trousers pale yellow. Buttons yellow metal. Knee high cavalry boots. FOOT: dark blue coat with red collar, cuffs and turn backs. Lapels also dark blue, but with red piping. Dark blue shoulder straps. Dark blue waistcoat with red piping. Trousers dark blue. Buttons yellow metal. Gaiters as infantry (summer white, winter black).
OTHERS Infantry drummers and fifers: as unit, but with wings, cords and posibly horizontal lace bands on sleeves. Cavalry buglers and kettledrummers: as unit, but with wings and heavily laced false sleeves tucked in at the waist (Gardes te Paard had an extra red stripe running along it). Engineers: light blue coat with black facings (but red turnbacks), light blue waistcoat and trousers, buttons white metal, belts black, gaiters as infantry. Officers: orange sash; possibly white piping; buttons and cords etc. silver or gold (when their men had white or yellow resp.); silver or gold tassels and epaulettes; no laced button holes except for the Gardes who had extensive silver lace and piping. Of course no cross belts or guns, but probably a fashionable walking stick to go with their sabre. Infantry officers would probably wear some kind of fashionable boot like the high, turned back type (so the brown leather inside becomes visible). High officers and generals in general: dark blue coats without lapels, closed at or just above the waist; cords, lace, epaulettes etc. gold; trousers, waistcoat white; knee high cavalry boots.
When Holland was taken over the troops retired into Hanover with the British troops and entered British army Detailed information can be found in Émigré and Foreign troops in British service (I) 1793 - 1802 From the Osprey men at arms series (328) ISB 1 85532 766 X
Autichamp : French Émigré white cockade raised in Holland 1794 only 189 men Uniform: Red coatee , sky blue collar , cuffs and turnbacks white piping Black brown hat with bearskin crest red turban ,white cockade
Beon: raised in Dutch service 1793 six companies of chasseurs , 2 companies of hussars fusiliers skyblue coat ,orange collar ,cuffs and lapels black halfgaiters hat with white plume chasseurs the same but facing edged yellow round hat with brim turned up hussars skyblue dolman pelisse and breeches black fur trim on pilesse
Bethisy French émigré , white cockade 104 men only
Brogile French émigré white cockade raised in Holland in1794 red coatee , purple collar , cuffs and turnbacks Blackround hat with bearskin crest red turban white plume black half gaiters 230 men
Castries French émigré white cockade 350 men raised in Holland 1794 in 1797 751 men uniform as above but purple=green white trousers
Damas raised in Dutch service 1793 660 men in two hussar companies to foot chasseurs and 4 fusilier company's Hussars ; skyblue dolman and breeches ,black collar and cuffs ash-grey pillesse
Dutch emigrant artillery raised in Hanover 1795 200 man strong
Dutch emigrant brigade 4000 man strong , 4 batallions of line and 2 light batallions blue British style coatee red collar and cuffs white turnbacks grey breeches black bicorne hat ( 1801 stove pipe shako) light batallions green coatee black collar and cuffs
Loewenstein chasseurs raised in Germany for Dutch service 1794 two battalions of 600 man each blue grey coatee ,round ha one site turned up with a green plume collar cuffs facing and turnback are darkgreen
Luninck light regiment raised for Dutch service in 1794 green coatee collar cuffs and lapels red turnbacks round hat with brim turned up
Mortemart French émigré white cockade raised in Holland in 1794 400 men when they retreated in to Hanover Red coatee black collar cuffs and turnbacks black round hat with bearskin crest red turban and white plume
Pflaffenhoven raise in Germany for Dutch service 1200 infantry and 800 hussars
Wittegenstein infantry regiment raised in Dutch pay 900men
These units were raised for the Dutch and went in to British pay Many many others were raised for the British and fought in Holland as well Like 2 regiments of Rohan's Hussars .Slam-Kirschburg hussars ,infantry and artillery The Uhlans Britanique many Swiss French and German units
1) Foot artillery and pioneers etc. never wore the white gaiters in the field. SO for waraming puropes they always wear black gaiters.
2) Marine inf. regiments (yellow facings) had red musket belts and red collars.
3) The elite companies of the ordinary dragoon regiments may also have worn the bearskin, just as the Lijfcompagnie Garde Dragonders.
4) The company Gardes du Corpse (cavalry) had 2 uniforms: red coat with light blue facings, no lapels and gold laced buttons holes and for field service blue coat with red facings, no lapels, yellow piping, buttons and turn backs. However, they could never appear on the field with other cavalry. Toursers, gloves and belts pale yellow.
5) Cavalry regiments Bentinck and Oranje Friesland had yellow buttons instead of white.
6) Bentinck had white cuff flaps with red piping.
7) Epaulette in facing colour on right shoulder for part of: Van Thuyll, Bentinck, Van der Duijn, Hessen-Kassel (white epaulette) and (all of) Gardes Dragonders.
8) Some sources say cavalry plumes were all-white instead of white with black tip. Hussar troopers had an all-black plume.
9) Horse furniture: saddle brown leather, belts black leather with white metal buckles and diamond shaped white metal plate on chest belt. Pistol holsters and half-shabraque slantwise to the rear. Most had upside-down L in rear corner of the shabraque to form a small square with the edge band. Base colour + edges: Hessen-Philipstal: red + white. Oranje Friesland: light blue + yellow; small square is separated from shabraque edge. Van Tuyll: yellow + white. Oranje Karabinier: yellow + white. Hoeufft: yellow + white. Bentinck: red + green. Van der Duijn: red + yellow; the upside-down L's point is "pulled" upwards. Gardes te Paard: red + white-red-white band, no upside-down L. Hessen-Kassel: red + white. Van Bijlandt: red + white-red-white band, no upside-down L. Gardes Dragonders: red + white. Gardes du Corps: blue + yellow-blue-yellow band, no upside-down L.
10)Hussars: Part III described the Van Heeckeren uniform of 1794. But in 1793 it was: light blue pelisse with white fur, braiding and buttons, light blue dolman with orange collar and cuffs, white braiding, piping and buttons. Pale yellow trousers. Mirliton black with black, white (officer: gold) edged flamme, white cords. Belts and gloves pale yellow. For Timmerman some sources mention a slightly different uniform from the one in part III, the differences being: red pelisse with white fur, blue trousers, orange flamme. It's also possible that only the officers wore the pelisse. Both had the typical hussar shabraque with rounded front corner and long pointed rear corner, with a shark-toothed edge. The colours are for cloth - tooth edge - tooth - outer cloth edge: Timmerman red - white - blue - white; Van Heeckeren 1793 light blue - white - black - white; Van Heeckeren 1794 black - white - light blue - white. All had a black sabre-tache with thick yellow edge and yellow lion in the middle.
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The concluding part of ITV1's disaster drama Flood leaked a million viewers last night, Monday May 5, from its debut on Sunday but still won the closely fought 9pm slot.
The drama about London being submerged under water, which starred Robert Carlyle and David Suchet, attracted 6.2 million viewers and a 28% share between 9pm and 11pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.
The first part of Flood pulled in 7.2 million over two hours on Sunday.
A new episode of BBC1's drama Waking the Dead came a close second, gaining 6.1 million viewers and a 25% share in the 9pm hour.
BBC2's live coverage of the concluding session of the World Snooker Championship attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers and a 14% share over the hour from 8pm, peaking at 4.2 million for the 15 minutes from 8.30pm as Ronnie O'Sullivan sealed an easy victory over Allister Carter. Earlier coverage between 2.30pm and 6pm drew 1.6 million viewers and a 15% share.
Channel 4's Grand Designs Live scored 2 million viewers and an 8% share in the 9pm hour, with a further 119,000 watching an hour later on Channel 4 +1.
Channel Five's repeat of Paul Merton in China gained 800,000 viewers and a 3% share in the same slot.
Coronation Street proved the top rating soap, with 9.9 million viewers and a 40% share tuning in for the second of its two Monday episodes at 8.30pm.
BBC1's live coverage of the women's FA Cup final attracted an average of 1.4 million viewers and a 17% share between 12.40pm and 3.10pm.
A repeat of the first series of hit comedy Gavin and Stacey on BBC3 was the highest rated non-sports multichannel programme, with 723,000 viewers and a multichannel share of 3.3% at 9.30pm.
The first instalment of the comedy attracted 541,000 viewers and a 2.5% share at 9pm.
Sky Sports 1's live coverage of Chelsea's away win at Newcastle, which kept the team's hopes of winning the Premier League alive, pulled in an average of 1.2 million viewers and an 11% share between 3.30pm and 6.30pm, peaking at 1.8 million for the 15 minutes from 5.30pm.
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I am so greedy for posts where people share their thoughts on sewing, creativity, and blogging. SunnyGal Studio's Random Threads are always interesting and Kristy at Lower Your Presser Foot had a great post recently that had me all, "OMG ME TOO!!" And did you see the Me Made May infographic over at Scared Stitchless? Gold! Yet, when it comes to me, I'm like, "Dude, Self, nobody wants to read that shit. Stick to the finished garments!"
But Me Made May and the recent chatter about whether sewing blogging is dying have got me all stirred up. I have to dive (er, insert myself awkwardly) into the conversation!
First, let's chat about Instagram versus blogging. It's a thing. I have to admit, even though I'm a short-timer in the world of sewing blogs, it makes me bristle a bit. (I mean, if blogs are dying, how will I ever become internet famous? Who will peel my grapes for me?) The consensus I've read from other blog writers reflects my own thoughts: that kind of sucks, but really, I do this for myself. If I never had another reader, I would probably still blog, because it serves as a record and a reflective space for me.
Also, I think there's a certain population that is just really comfortable writing and reading, and I suspect that people in that community will continue to find each other, even as some people fade out and new voices show up. And to be real, I don't think anyone is making a killing in sponsorships. Less than a handful that I suspect, at least. That leaves a bunch of intrinsically motivated people — in other words, people who probably aren't going anywhere, but will probably be around on both a blog and on Instagram.
The real change seems to be a drop in engagement, in blog comments specifically. I totally get that. I mean, I'm stoked off one or two comments and consider that a rousing success. Is it that we all prefer to click a heart or a like button to show our appreciation? If so, I don't think that's a problem. My guess is that folks read blogs and scroll their Insta feeds and check out Snapchat, which means that our time for non-IRL stuff is being split in ways it wasn't before.
I know I have good intentions about commenting on posts I read, but never get around to it. Seriously, I can't tell you the number of times I've read a post, marked it "unread" so that I would remember to go back and comment because I loved their garment or wanted to contribute to an interesting conversation and then NEVER EVER WENT BACK because dinner/laundry/actual sewing/etc.
If blogs posts all had simple "like" features like Instagram, I'm guessing they'd be getting a lot of love that way.
TL; DR: Sewing blogging is dead. Long live sewing blogging.
Now, about Me Made May: what a rollercoaster! I'd never participated in the social media aspect before. I did not expect it to be so draining to take a damn selfie and post it every day. About halfway through, I was so over it (as, I'm sure, were nearly all my non-sewing friends). Still, there's something about posting pics that made me value my garments and see them with fresh eyes. (And some garments I realized that need to move on and out of my closet! #byefelicia)
And checking out the #MMMay16 tag! Dude! So many people out there sewing! I pretty much wasn't able to stay on top of that hashtag, and it was another area of my life where I started to feel like it was adding stress and eating time in a way I wasn't totally comfortable with. It was definitely my least productive month in terms of actual sewing in over a year — by far! But how can you not get out there and see what folks are making and support them? I definitely think I'm not cut out to be a super-active Instagrammer, and I'm a bit relieved to find that out.
That said, I really did love seeing how diverse the community is, and found some great new peeps to follow. I also found out that indie patterns rule on Instagram. If you didn't know otherwise, you would think that Butterick and McCall's were some obscure, hard-to-find brands based on their representation. That definitely makes me an outlier, since I use Big 4 patterns almost exclusively. I'm waiting for one of the Big 4 to become cool in a Pabst Blue Ribbon kind of way, and then I will get to out-hipster everyone and be like, "I was sewing Simplicity before they were cool."
And to wind down, what did I actually learn about my handmade wardrobe by only wearing me-mades for a month? I learned how much I appreciate some of my RTW garments, to be honest! By the second week, I was wishing for my super-comfy stretch jeans and my flannel and my favorite blazer! Basically, I learned the opposite of what I expected: that there isn't some great virtue in handmade, and that my best bet for having a satisfying wardrobe is by not placing weird, arbitrary rules around things.
It's easy to get caught up in the romance of sewing: "I'm a craftsman and a creative!" "Everything I made is a custom one-of-a-kind masterpiece!" "I'm not a mindless consumer! I'm practically saving the world!" Okay; all exaggerations. No one actually thinks these things. But there is an ethos that can seep into the whole sewing experience that can make things… unbalanced. Me Made May encouraged me to take things to an extreme in one direction, and it was super useful in seeing whether my life was better, more stylish, more creative, more ANYTHING by going 100% handmade. From my perspective, that answer was a hard no, and now I can relax a little knowing that.
So, having destroyed the goodwill of my limited readership by blathering, I'll sign off. If you have any thoughts you'd like to add, please share in the comments — I always read and respond. On the other hand, if your dinner needs to get in the oven or you need an extra 90 seconds just to breathe, by all means go for it. I promise I'll still be around whether you comment or not.


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Concept: Iron deficiency
Should asymptomatic young men with iron deficiency anemia necessarily undergo endoscopy?
- The Korean journal of internal medicine
- Published over 1 year ago
- Discuss
There has been no evidence for the necessity of endoscopy in asymptomatic young men with iron deficiency anemia (IDA). To determine whether endoscopy should be recommended in asymptomatic young men with IDA, we compared the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) lesions between young men (< 50 years) with IDA and those without IDA.
Oral versus intravenous iron replacement therapy distinctly alters the gut microbiota and metabolome in patients with IBD
Iron deficiency is a common complication in patients with IBD and oral iron therapy is suggested to exacerbate IBD symptoms. We performed an open-labelled clinical trial to compare the effects of per oral (PO) versus intravenous (IV) iron replacement therapy (IRT).
Differences in activation of mouse hepcidin by dietary iron and parenterally administered iron dextran: compartmentalization is critical for iron sensing
- Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany)
- Published over 6 years ago
- Discuss
The iron regulatory hormone hepcidin responds to both oral and parenteral iron. Here, we hypothesized that the diverse iron trafficking routes may affect the dynamics and kinetics of the hepcidin activation pathway. To address this, C57BL/6 mice were administered an iron-enriched diet or injected i.p. with iron dextran and analyzed over time. After 1 week of dietary loading with carbonyl iron, mice exhibited significant increases in serum iron and transferrin saturation, as well as in hepatic iron, Smad1/5/8 phosphorylation and bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP6), and hepcidin mRNAs. Nevertheless, hepcidin expression reached a plateau afterward, possibly due to upregulation of inhibitory Smad7, Id1, and matriptase-2 mRNAs, while hepatic and splenic iron continued to accumulate over 9 weeks. One day following parenteral administration of iron dextran, mice manifested elevated serum and hepatic iron levels and Smad1/5/8 phosphorylation, but no increases in transferrin saturation or BMP6 mRNA. Surprisingly, hepcidin failed to appropriately respond to acute overload with iron dextran, and a delayed (after 5-7 days) hepcidin upregulation correlated with increased transferrin saturation, partial relocation of iron from macrophages to hepatocytes, and induction of BMP6 mRNA. Our data suggest that the physiological hepcidin response is saturable and are consistent with the idea that hepcidin senses exclusively iron compartmentalized within circulating transferrin and/or hepatocytes.
Hepcidin-induced endocytosis of ferroportin is dependent on ferroportin ubiquitination.
- Cell metabolism
- Published almost 7 years ago
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Ferroportin exports iron into plasma from absorptive enterocytes, erythrophagocytosing macrophages, and hepatic stores. The hormone hepcidin controls cellular iron export and plasma iron concentrations by binding to ferroportin and causing its internalization and degradation. We explored the mechanism of hepcidin-induced endocytosis of ferroportin, the key molecular event in systemic iron homeostasis. Hepcidin binding caused rapid ubiquitination of ferroportin in cell lines overexpressing ferroportin and in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages. No hepcidin-dependent ubiquitination was observed in C326S ferroportin mutant which does not bind hepcidin. Substitutions of lysines between residues 229 and 269 in the third cytoplasmic loop of ferroportin prevented hepcidin-dependent ubiquitination and endocytosis of ferroportin, and promoted cellular iron export even in the presence of hepcidin. The human ferroportin mutation K240E, previously associated with clinical iron overload, caused hepcidin resistance in vitro by interfering with ferroportin ubiquitination. Our study demonstrates that ubiquitination is the functionally relevant signal for hepcidin-induced ferroportin endocytosis.
Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Iron Therapy for Functional Iron Deficiency Anemia in Hemodialysis Patients: A Meta-Analysis
- American journal of nephrology
- Published about 5 years ago
- Discuss
Background: Studies on benefits of intravenous iron therapy among hemodialysis patients with functional iron deficiency anemia have shown conflicting results. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of intravenous iron in this subset of patients. Methods: We searched MEDLINE (through December 2012), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and ClinicalTrials.gov for single-arm studies and randomized controlled trials (RCT) that examined the effect of intravenous iron for functional iron deficiency anemia in hemodialysis patients on anemia parameters and markers of oxidative stress and inflammation. Studies of absolute iron deficiency were excluded. Random-effect model meta-analyses were used to compute changes in outcomes of interest. Results: We identified 34 studies (2,658 patients), representing 24 single-arm studies, and 10 parallel-arm RCT. In the analyses of the study arms, intravenous iron therapy resulted in a significant increase in hemoglobin, serum ferritin, transferrin saturation rate, serum iron, reticulocyte hemoglobin content as well as a significant decrease in the percentage of hypochromic erythrocytes and erythropoietin dose. There were significant increases in plasma malonyldialdehyde level and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, and a decrease in neutrophil respiratory burst. The analyses of the RCT revealed less robust net changes in these parameters, and there was no increased risk of adverse events including infections, cardiac events and mortality. Conclusions: Intravenous iron therapy for functional iron deficiency anemia in hemodialysis patients improves anemia parameters but exerts some effects on markers of oxidative stress that are of unclear clinical significance. The long-term safety and efficacy of this treatment strategy requires further study. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel.
Association of Iron Deficiency Anemia With Hearing Loss in US Adults
- JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery
- Published over 2 years ago
- Discuss
Hearing loss in the US adult population is linked to hospitalization, poorer self-reported health, hypertension, diabetes, and tobacco use. Because iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common and easily correctable condition, further understanding of the association between IDA and all types of hearing loss in a population of US adults may help to open new possibilities for early identification and appropriate treatment.
Iron and the female athlete: a review of dietary treatment methods for improving iron status and exercise performance
- Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
- Published over 3 years ago
- Discuss
Iron is a functional component of oxygen transport and energy production in humans and therefore is a critically important micronutrient for sport and exercise performance. Athletes, particularly female athletes participating in endurance sport, are at increased risk of compromised iron status due to heightened iron losses through menstruation and exercise-induced mechanisms associated with endurance activity. Conventionally oral iron supplementation is used in prevention or/and treatment of iron deficiency. However, this approach has been criticised because of the side effects and increased risk of iron toxicity associated with the use of supplements. Thus, more recently there has been a growing interest in using dietary modification rather than the use of supplements to improve iron status of athletes. Dietary iron treatment methods include the prescription of an iron-rich diet, or/and haem iron-based diet, dietary advice counselling and inclusion of novel iron-rich products into the daily diet. Although studies using dietary modification are still scarce, current literature suggests that dietary iron interventions can assist in maintaining iron status in female athletes, especially during intensive training and competition. Future research should focus on the most efficient method(s) of dietary modification for improvement of iron status and whether these approaches can have a favourable impact on sports and exercise performance.
Pre-Altitude Serum Ferritin Levels and Daily Oral Iron Supplement Dose Mediate Iron Parameter and Hemoglobin Mass Responses to Altitude Exposure
To investigate the influence of daily oral iron supplementation on changes in hemoglobin mass (Hbmass) and iron parameters after 2-4 weeks of moderate altitude exposure.
A novel inflammatory pathway mediating rapid hepcidin-independent hypoferremia
Regulation of iron metabolism and innate immunity are tightly interlinked. The acute phase response to infection and inflammation induces alterations in iron homeostasis that reduce iron supplies to pathogens. The iron-hormone hepcidin is activated by such stimuli causing degradation of the iron exporter ferroportin and reduced iron release from macrophages, suggesting that hepcidin is the crucial effector of inflammatory hypoferremia. Here we report the discovery of an acute inflammatory condition that is mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR6 and which induces hypoferremia in mice injected with TLR ligands. Stimulation of TLR2/TLR6 triggers profound decreases in ferroportin mRNA and protein expression in bone marrow-derived macrophages, liver and spleen of mice without changing hepcidin expression. Furthermore, C326S ferroportin mutant mice with a disrupted hepcidin/ferroportin regulatory circuitry respond to injection of the TLR2/6 ligands FSL1 or PAM3CSK4 by ferroportin down regulation and a reduction of serum iron levels. Our findings challenge the prevailing role of hepcidin in hypoferremia and suggest that rapid hepcidin-independent ferroportin down regulation in the major sites of iron recycling may represent a first line response to restrict iron access for numerous pathogens.
Association between menarche and iron deficiency in non-anemic young women
The prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) among non-pregnant, reproductive-age US women significantly exceeds rates among males. In clinical practice ID screening relies on hemoglobin, a late-stage indicator of ID. As a single, low-cost laboratory test to diagnose ID before anemia develops is lacking, the study objective was to improve ID screening by identifying risk factors among non-anemic, iron-deficient reproductive age women.


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Here are a couple of shots of Julianna and Blake. Stay tuned….
By Tara
Here are a couple of shots of Julianna and Blake. Stay tuned….
By Tara
My first shoot with this family was back in June to honour the 1st birthday of their daughter Ella. At the time they told me they were expecting their second child and we tentatively booked a session for November-ish. Well I finally got to meet little Ethan when we did a photo session in a warm house on a very wintery day. It is such a privilege to witness families as they grow and change. Enjoy the photos and don't forget the slide show at the end.
This photo was an "oops" but I still love how it turned out.
I love how Ella had her hand on Ethan – just letting him know that Big Sister was there.
By Tara
I was first introduced to Totally Rad Actions about 18 months ago and I'm a huge fan. They have become a staple in my editing process. When I heard that Doug Boutwell had come out with a new set of textures, I had to have them. They just up the "cool factor" of a photo. Check them out.
This Crystalniqua Delicious at 72%
Ginger Savannah at 40%
Foxy Laurinda at 33%
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Meet Shea Brown. This shoot was a special treat for me as I've collaborated with Shea on a number of projects. She is a super-talented make-up artist and she works out of Hue Hair Salon in Okotoks. The last time we worked together she mentioned that she would love to do her own wedding photos over again. Ding, ding, ding. Next thing you know we were doing a very-post-wedding shoot for Shea and her husband Allan. Many thanks to Tara Watts, owner of Hue Hair Salon for working her usual magic on Shea's hair and for allowing us to shoot in her gorgeous salon. Take note of the lovely bouquet and boutonnière that fit into our winter wonderland theme so perfectly. These were provided by Wanda of Wildflowers at Kensington. She has the most beautiful shop on 10th Street NW in Calgary so be sure to stop in the next time you're strolling through Kensington.
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Last night we went to the Chantal Kreviazuk concert at the Jubilee Auditorium. Can you say goosebumps? Chantal was breathtaking as always. If you've never heard her live, I highly recommend it.
I was also introduced to a new group (new to me that is) called Dala. I was so blown away by their voices. Check them out.
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Although no longer "essential" to her, she said, he remained "very dear. " Cage had a revelation for Xenia too. At the time he met her he was living with Don Sample. " His relationship with Don Sample had become "promiscuous," he added, both of them getting involved with other people. At some time during their stay in New York, Cage reportedly had a brief affair with the rising young architect Philip Johnson, who had organized an influential show of international architecture at the city's Museum of Modern Art.
Cage composed some of his first percussion music when he and Xenia went to live in Santa Monica, probably late in 1937. They survived on only fifty dollars a month, he recalled, money he earned scrounging odd jobs and doing research for lawyers. The couple moved into a large house run by a bookbinder named Hazel Dreis, an artist at her trade whose covering materials included python. Cage and Xenia both learned to bind books—Xenia most actively, though he enjoyed designing the covers. The shop also supplied performers and instruments for his new percussion pieces.
Henry Cowell had composed a piece decades earlier in which he hit the keyboard with his whole forearm. Cage climaxed Construction in Metal by slamming it with a board that covered all the keys, and had a female performer, probably Xenia, smash a lime rickey bottle into a tin wash boiler half filled with broken glass. Cage capped his creations as a composer at Cornish by inventing a new musical instrument—the prepared piano. Surviving accounts of its birth and development differ. According to the dancer/teacher Bonnie Bird, the concept came to Cage around March 1939 by accident.


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Anyways, after doing this often enough, we finally caved...
Some said get a new Galaxy or android device. But when it came down to it, I don't want to carry around an iPad, I want a phone. when it came down to it. I wanted something I was familiar with, something that would change over easy.
It's out of contract and unlocked. This way, we figure, we will have a phone when we travel south or elsewhere that we can easily load up with another data carrier.
Hubby and I are both iPhone peoples and his whole family has iPhones. It's only logical.
We are also brand snobs.
It's supposed to arrive before Valentines day! hope it comes sooner than later.
I also ordered a shock resistance case! It should be in good hands now, but I really want an iphone wallet case


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This study aims to compare the safety and health of the swimming pools in Kerman with international standards. This is a survey type study; it is applied in terms of the objectives and is conducted through fieldwork. The population of this study was all 20 swimming pools in Kerman. A researcher-made tool was used for data collection (pool Safety and health checklist). To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency and frequency percentage and charts) and inferential statistics (one-sample T test and chi-square) were used. The results showed that there are significant differences between components of facilities safety, equipment safety, and hygiene in swimming pools in Kerman with international standards. In such situations, managers should strive to promote and improve swimming pools safety.
Today, sport is an integral part of human life and physical education specialists insist on its impact on physical and mental health (Health and safety Pools guidelines, 2006). A variety of sports require facilities and tools. Developments and advancement in technology and sports equipment have taken place worldwide (Josephie, 1993). Along with population growth and expanding of cities, the need for sport facilities and equipment has been increased (Mehraein, 2002). Environmental health in the swimming pool space is one of the critical issues, wherein cleanness and pure are of utmost importance and health care professionals in their annual report demonstrate prevalence of digestive diseases, parasites and fungi such as diarrhea, typhoid, typhoid fever, eczema, ringworm and eye and ear infections through the unsanitary pools (Rashidpur, 1994). On one hand, to reduce injuries, accidents and lifeguard in swimming pools, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of coaches, savior lifeguard and users. Thus, this article while reviewing the history and establishment of swimming pools in the world, discusses literature regarding the safety and health status in the swimming pools inside and outside the country (Salimie, 2012).
There are significant differences between safety installations component with the criterion score in pools of Kerman and based on descriptive findings, the average in this component was calculated (36.95), which was lower than the score criteria and standard level. The results of this study are consistent with previous results by Rezai (2014), Salimie et al., (2013), Blackman and Kennedy (2009), Sadeghie (2012) and Mashayekhie (2017), but are inconsistent with the results of studies by Nyamng (2005), Mirbolooki Aisec (2016). In connection with the results of the study and the contradiction between the results of some studies, it appears that the difference in sociological factors could be considered as influencing factors in the study. In fact, the difference in these components led to the management differences and subsequently in the department style differences. In addition, given the importance of low productivity in government agencies, attention to the rule of law, employee engagement, organizational climate, motivation factors, etc will affect the amount of task-oriented and organizational efforts, consequently, differences in organizations in various studies have produced some mixed results and caused a conflict in the research results. Generally in the explanation of the result of the study, it could be stated that in both private and public organizations, modern facility purchasing is dependent on many factors such as infrastructures, financial resources, human resources, and competitive culture of the site. All these mentioned- above factors together lead to an appropriate equipment in sports complex both in quantity and quality dimensions. In addition to these factors, sport complex management should take steps to improve equipment quality and creates knowledge to maintain and update its procedures as well as modify its behavior experience in site's facility equipment in order to adapt itself with the new changes in daily maintenance techniques. The results showed that there is significant difference between equipment safety components and standard score in pools of Kerman and based on the descriptive findings, the component's average was calculated (33.76), which was lower than the standard score. The results of the study are consistent with previous results by Salimi et al., (2014), Rezaei (2014), Mashayekhie (2010) and Blackman and Kennedy (2009), Sadeghie (2012) and Kmanly (2014), but are in contradiction with the results by Mirbolookie Aisec (2016). In this connection, and in explaining the results, it should be said that international standards in the field of scientific equipment are updated and variable that requires extensive study. Whereas in public swimming pools (especially in public pools), a scientific look to the issue has been completely forgotten. On the other hand, in addition to standard equipment purchasing, the maintenance of this equipment is of great importance. Equipment maintenance is improved with the help of existing technologies and it seems that this issue has been ignored in the pools. In this respect, it should be noted that the skills learned and created by employees in the field of equipment are forgotten and disappeared over time. Therefore, storage, organization and retrieving knowledge necessary to maintain the equipment as well as pay attention to the memory of the old staff will be important and have beneficial results. Thus, buying updated equipment is not itself adequate and some mechanisms are needed to store them. Furthermore, it seems that attention to the standard equipment buying is an important thing that has been neglected in the studied pools led to differences in general quality of the sites built with international standards especially in equipment section. The results showed that there is significant difference between the components of health status and the criterion score in pools of Kerman, and based on the descriptive findings, the average of the component was calculated (31.05), which was lower than the standard score. The results of the study are consistent with results of the study by Salimi et al., (2013), Rezaei (2014), Sadeghie (2012) and Mashayekhie (2016) but are in contradiction with the results of study by Hossein Zadeh (2014) and Mirbolookie Aisec (2015), Jonathan and Cavalli (2015). According to the results of the study, it is recommended to the managers of these pools to take action to resolve deficiencies by providing guidance and facilities maps as well as more attention to the participation of specialists in the design and development of sites. They also suggest that the importance of safety equipment to improve the quality level of the complex should be initially explained for the staff. Also, investments in daily health of pools, creating certain indicators to remove unsanitary cases, and the establishment of factors to assess health status are critical actions for mitigation and resolving deficiencies.
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Last month, Snyders of Hanover had made an offer to purchase Utz Quality Foods for an undisclosed sum. The deal look like it would get the green light from regulators. But alas, the deal went sour(dough) and in yet another absurd move by our government, the deal was wound down due to fears of FTC antitrust inquiries. Apparently, you can have too many pretzels:
Deal Journal: This afternoon, the small, family-owned pretzel company, Synders of Hanover, Penn., said it was scuttling its plans to acquire crosstown snack food maker Utz Quality Foods Inc. because it didn't want to bare the cost of an escalating inquiry in into the deal by the Federal Trade Commission. According to Utz, the FTC had made a second request for information about its business. "We knew that participating in another FTC request would put a strain on our company and ultimately distract us from what we are here to do every day, which is to provide high-quality snacks to our customers and serve our community," said Utz chief executive Michael Rice in a statement.
Seriously, this is just too absurd for words.
For one thing: It's pretzels.
For another thing: How are pretzels a distinct market? Does the FTC really not think that pretzel makers don't also compete with potato chip makers, nacho chip makers, frito makers, and pretty much everything snack food?
And for one more thing: We're sure that they would win if they fought the FTC, so it's depressing that they're just too small to put up a fight.
Again, as we said, ridiculous.


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In this episode, I am excited to have Karen Gifford on to discuss co-writing our book, The Anxious Lawyer, her wellness routine, and life after law. Karen Gifford is COO of Ripple Labs, global leader on distributed financial technology. Previously, she worked in the financial industry, first as an attorney in the private sector and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she was Counsel and Officer in the Litigation and Enforcement Group. Alongside her legal and consulting career, Karen began meditating in a yoga tradition more than fifteen years ago, initially as a means of coping with the stress of her legal practice. Her executive coaching work incorporates meditation and mindfulness practices, placing a strong focus on the importance of inner skills such as detachment and resilience for effective leadership. She also teaches meditation, with an emphasis on bringing the insights of meditation into everyday life. Karen is active in the start-up world as a founder, investor and advisor. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Vassar College.
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- Karen tells us on her writing process with The Anxious Lawyer, her thoughts on the end result, and how living at a meditation ashram helped her find her inner quiet, which helped formulate the thoughts for the book.
- How the internalization of the job that can lead to feeling burnt out and stuck in your career, and the importance of a wellness practice to create space and distance to stay motivated and vigilant.
- The impact that distance and awareness can have on self-reflection, both personally and professionally.
- Life after law: Finding joy in your work, always remaining sensitive to where you stand instinctually, and always looking for the obvious answer when it comes to making a transition in your career.
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Karen Gifford: [00:00:03] Joy doesn't have to express itself with puppies and rainbows and flowers, it can also express itself in a great argument or a beautifully presented witness.
Intro: [00:00:18] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho.
Jeena Cho: [00:00:44] This is The Resilient Lawyer podcast, meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and agents of change. The Resilient Lawyer is inspired by those in the legal profession living with authenticity and courage. This podcast is about ordinary people making an extraordinary difference. This is episode number 37, I am your host Jeena Cho. Hi everyone. It's been forever since I recorded my last podcast, but I've been very busy with the launch of "The Anxious Lawyer" book and I have in studio with me Karen Gifford, my co-author.
Karen Gifford: [00:01:18] Hi Jeena, it's so great to be talking about our book together.
Jeena Cho: [00:01:24] I know, it's been such a long journey, it feels like.
Karen Gifford: [00:01:27] It sure has, it sure has. And it's just an amazing feeling to be not coming to the end of it. I don't think this is the end. But getting to the end of the work, of reading the book, creating the audio recording, going out into the world and talking about the book, that sort of thing.
Jeena Cho: [00:01:49] Yeah. So how does it feel to you?
Karen Gifford: [00:01:52] Well you know, when I first started practicing law one of the partners I worked for said about going to court, he said there's the argument you were going to make, there's the argument you actually made, and then there's the argument you would have made.
Jeena Cho: [00:02:07] Yeah.
Karen Gifford: [00:02:07] And I was thinking about that with the book, and I was thinking you know I do feel a little bit like I go back and read the book and I think, oh I should have said this, or I should have said that. But all in all I'm happy with it. I don't have a big feeling like it should have been very different from how it ended up being. We were talking earlier and discussing the fact that doing the audio recording has brought us back into closer relation with the content of the book. And as I read it, I really enjoy reading it. I like what we said, and I appreciate the insights that you have in the book, and I'm happy that I remembered to say some of the things that I wanted to say. So it's good, I'm feeling pretty happy.
Jeena Cho: [00:02:56] What was the writing process like for you?
Karen Gifford: [00:03:01] Well, the writing process really had two big parts to it for me. So when we first started out writing, I got into a nice rhythm where I was getting up early and writing for three hours every day. And that was pretty wonderful, I get really sweet memories of doing that. Then maybe six months into that, I had a big interruption there was a big crisis at my office, and you and I had talked about that and I just completely got pulled away from writing. And that's pretty stressful because the work situation was quite stressful, and I also felt like I was neglecting this thing I cared about a lot. And that was rough. And then getting back into writing again, I actually felt like a relief after that, when I finally had time again. It was just nice to be doing something that I liked and cared about and was sweet, instead of dealing with a lot of crazy work crisis issues.
Jeena Cho: [00:04:09] Yeah. Is the writing itself sort of peaceful? Did you feel like the content sort of flowed out or was it is a struggle to try to find the words? What was that process like?
Karen Gifford: [00:04:22] A lot of it really flowed. I think early on, you and I spent a bunch of time laying out the chapters and talking about the things that we wanted to cover, and also talking about how we wanted to frame what we were doing. And I think that was the important work, and it was really useful. I had never really had a chance to talk about meditation practice with another lawyer in so much depth as what you and I did. We had so many meetings over coffee, meals and stuff, and talking about not only our experience of starting to meditate while practicing law, but also the reactions of our colleagues. And who was excited by it, who was really like weirded out by it, why we thought that might be the case.
[00:05:14] Once we had talked all that through and talked about the way we wanted to present meditation to lawyers, so that maybe they wouldn't have to face some of the barriers that we faced when we got started, the writing itself I guess came pretty naturally.
Jeena Cho: [00:05:32] Yeah, well I guess for the listeners that don't know you, might be helpful to give them a little bit of a background, just in terms of like what you've done throughout your career and the work that you're doing now. I think you talk your career transition in the book, but I don't know that too many people actually know what you do now.
Karen Gifford: [00:05:55] I practiced law in the private sector, I practiced at a law firm for a while when I first graduated from law school. And then I was at the New York Fed for quite some time, for eight years doing civil litigation on behalf of the Fed and also civil enforcement actions, bringing of enforcement actions. Which is pretty similar to what the SEC does. It's bringing enforcement actions either against individuals or entities who've broken the banking-related laws in one way or another.
[00:06:31] So I did that for quite some time and then left and ended up doing regulatory consulting after moving from the East Coast to the West Coast, and worked for a boutique consulting firm doing that for quite a bit of time. And after the financial crisis I just really got burnt out doing that. I felt like some of the changes I was hoping to see in the financial industry were just really taking a long time.
[00:07:05] Especially, you do a consulting project and then you leave so you don't know what happened, you come back maybe to the same company or a similar type of company, and you see the exact same issue again. And it gets discouraging. So I left consulting, maybe like five years ago now. Since then have just been doing some investing in a small way, in the FinTech industry. And also advising, spent about two years working on the management team of FinTech company, getting their compliance program set up, also helped recruit a general counsel, kind of help to get the control side organized. So I wrapped that up maybe a little over a year ago now. And so I'm now just doing advisory work and working on the book, which has been terrific.
Jeena Cho: [00:08:08] OK so when you talk about FinTech, what does that mean?
Karen Gifford: [00:08:11] What does FinTech mean? You know that's a great question also, because it means a lot of different things to different people. So you could say PayPal is a FinTech company, because it offers financial services using technology. And really everyone uses technology, even if you're using an abacus that's technology. But delivering financial services through electronic means is really what is meant by FinTech. And I got attracted to working in FinTech because I saw a lot of really entrenched problems in the financial industry.
[00:08:51] In the case of Ripple, the company where I was working, around payments and how payments are executed, the way banks do it today is really slow. It's got a lot of operational problems, it's expensive. It makes it hard to serve the people who are poorly served by the banking community. And a technology like the one that Ripple has really represents a major improvement, a major step forward, particularly in being able to do kind of small value, high volume payments. Which is what we need if we're going to serve the billion people who aren't in the formal banking system today.
Jeena Cho: [00:09:44] So there's a billion people that don't have access to checking, savings account and what we typically consider as access to financial services?
Karen Gifford: [00:09:51] Up until last year, people were saying there were 2 billion people who were capable of having a bank account, who are adults with a financial life who didn't have one. And I think there have been some pretty big strides, particularly in India, about getting people into the formal financial sector. So it's not 2 billion any more, but it's more than a billion.
Jeena Cho: [00:10:14] Obviously in the book you talk about how you sort of started your mindfulness practice. But I feel like there's parts of your story that didn't make it into the book, like you lived in a yoga ashram for some period of time. Like how did that come about?
Karen Gifford: [00:10:29] How did all of that come about? Spending time at the meditation ashram came about really through my husband, who this particular retreat center, they wanted to change their business model around a whole lot. Which sounds like a funny thing to say about a meditation retreat. And I think it was funny for them, but they had been very big and had thousands of people coming to stay there every year. And what they were finding was it had gotten bigger than they wanted it to be, and just having it be quiet and a place where people can come and be contemplative and really build their meditation practice had started to be threatened by the size of the center itself.
[00:11:20] So they were trying to downsize, not because they were having problems but because they had kind of drifted away from what they felt their core mission was. So my husband has an MBA, so he went to help with that. And it was outside the city, we were living in New York City at the time. So I really had a chance to go, I mean I did do some work in the communications department but I wasn't really.. compared to having a full-bore litigation practice, it was a chance for me to really step back a little bit. And it was terrific. It was terrific.
[00:12:02] And also while we were there, even though we're both doing some work and we had kids who were in school so there's a lot of ferrying children back and forth and the normal responsibilities of parenting, we also did get to follow the ashram's schedule, which involved daily meditation practice twice a day, a lot of quiet. There was one TV set in the whole place, you know people talked about whether we would turn the TV on or not, mostly not. There weren't a lot of magazines. It was really a very, very, quiet place intentionally so, and that was terrific. That was terrific. One thing that I experienced when I was there, and I know you're going on an extended retreat coming up next year so we'll have to compare notes.
[00:13:00] But one of the things I experienced, was when you do the same thing every day, when you are on the same schedule every day, day after day, and you're not getting a lot of outside stimulus and the kind of stimulus of every day, the internet, television, movies and even newsprint media that way. After a while, your mind gets really quiet. And in a way that I had never experienced, maybe as a kid but certainly not as an adult. And it was lovely. It was a very, very sweet experience.
Jeena Cho: [00:13:41] You say your mind becomes quiet. What does that mean, what does that feel like?
Karen Gifford: [00:13:46] So, if you notice how your mind is most of the time.. most of the time, even though you and I are talking right now, both of us I'm sure I know, if I pay attention I can see this. My mind is going, I'm thinking about what we will say next, what time I have to get home, how much studio time do we have. All of these thoughts are just kind of in the background, it's not like they're taking up my attention particularly but I know they're there. And they're just kind of buzzing you know, all the stuff that's been in the news in the past few days with the election.
[00:14:26] There's just this whirl of thoughts in the background, and I always thought that was just the environment of a mind. And it is, it's fine. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's great and lovely to experience a mind where your thoughts are whirling less. And there's just more space between each thought, kind of like when we closed the doors of the recording studio and we were both noticing how lovely and quiet it was in this room, it's kind of like that.
Jeena Cho: [00:15:00] Yeah, yeah. And I always feel like these types of experiences are really difficult to try to explain in words to someone that hasn't had it. It's like trying to explain how does meditation change your mind or how does meditation feel in your own mind. It's hard to describe it in words.
Karen Gifford: [00:15:22] It's true, it's true. Because it's just like any felt experience, right? One of the things, an analogy that I have is the taste of ice cream, right? You can describe it as much as you want, with as many words as you want, but until somebody picks up the spoon and tastes ice cream they don't totally know what you mean. And the experience of having your mind get very quiet is a very particular experience, and you can ironically use words to describe it. But it's in the experiencing that it really becomes clear.
Jeena Cho: [00:16:04] So you've obviously gone through a lot of career transitions, and big career transitions really. And I think you and I have had conversations about this, but how do you think your meditation practice helped you through those pretty big transitions, or life transitions?
Karen Gifford: [00:16:24] Oh I would definitely say it helped me, probably the biggest change that I made in terms of how it felt was to stop practicing law from practicing law. I was very, very identified with being a lawyer.
Jeena Cho: [00:16:39] As most of us are, yeah.
Karen Gifford: [00:16:42] Yeah, I don't know what it is about practicing law, probably practicing medicine is similar. It takes up so much of your day and also your mental space, your energy, and it's such a peculiar stance towards the world, right? That after a while you just start to identify so deeply with like, I am a lawyer, I fight for my clients. The whole framework just gets internalized, and for me to step away from that was really difficult, way more so than I thought. You think on a day when you're frustrated, you've had a fight with your opposing counsel, that's it I'm never doing this again. But then to actually stop doing it, you're not just giving up that fight with your opposing council you're giving up a whole you worldview really.
[00:17:42] So I was surprised by that, I wasn't thinking about the fact that that would feel so big. And my meditation practice I think gave me spaciousness around it, and let me see that being a lawyer is an idea. It's not real, it's not a room that you literally move into. It's just something, it's a room you've made in your mind. And you can walk out of it and you're still all the qualities that you think of yourself as having, you still have those qualities. I think also another thing I went through is thinking, okay I'm never going to work again. I think a lot of litigators go through that, because we're jacks of all trade. We don't really know anything deeply. I used to say I only know something if somebody's been fighting about it.
Jeena Cho: [00:18:38] Which is so true, yeah.
Karen Gifford: [00:18:39] Right? And I thought, well who wants a regulatory lawyer? I'll never find a job doing what I was doing, and that turned out to just totally be my own trip. It was actually pretty easy to find work, and I didn't even know that regulatory consulting was a thing. But it's actually a pretty big thing that happened during the time I was practicing law. So it wasn't just my thing, my meditation practice made me open to trying something and realizing the difference between not knowing what was going to happen and disaster happening, right?
Jeena Cho: [00:19:31] Right, your mind thinks, oh my god I'm never going to work again, I'm going to become homeless. But that's not the reality of the situation, yeah. So when you decided you were going to leave law, was it a particular moment or was it a transition, or was it a set of experiences where you were like, okay I think I need to leave. And then a year later, you finally made that decision. How did that process come about? Because I feel like this is something that I talk to a lot of lawyers about. They sort of know that being a lawyer is no longer the right career for them, but they don't know what's after that so then there's that fear of what am I going to do, what's my livelihood going to be? And I guess I'm curious about that decision-making process. Or maybe it's a felt experience, I don't know.
Karen Gifford: [00:20:23] It certainly was a felt experience, for sure. And for me, it was something that unfolded over some time. So, part of it was trying to reconcile legal practice with parenting. So I was doing litigation, so there were always all these deadlines and I had done this big trial and promised my family that I was going to have time for them after the trial was over. Well, no sooner did I come back from doing the trial than six weeks later I was at this pre-trial conference that was meant, I thought was a scheduling conference. So we were going to be talking about something that was going to happen in a year, and my opposing counsel gets up and is like, "We want this to go right now!" And I was like, whatever. And the judge is like, okay fine, you're on for in two months. And I just watched my whole life, all my plans for hanging out with my kids and everything, go up in smoke. So that was big, that was a big part of it.
[00:21:38] And then, I tried working part time and I didn't really like being a part time lawyer for a lot of different reasons. So that was that was going on, and then also I think this is a big thing that happens with lawyers, we just get to a point where we've done what we've come to do in practicing law. I had done a couple of big trials and some smaller ones, and I'd written a lot. I'd written a lot of briefs, I'd written position papers, written speeches for different Fed officials, and it just felt like it was of a piece, like I wasn't going to make it more complete than it was.
Jeena Cho: [00:22:30] Yeah, yeah that makes sense. Yeah. And I think just that knowing requires a lot of awareness you know, almost like a day-to-day or week-by-week. So many of us just end up in this habitual pattern, where we just get up and do the thing that we're supposed to do. And all of a sudden years go by, and then we wake up one morning like wait. We don't really pause to assess our life and actually have those kinds of reflections. I mean for me, that's where sort of the day-to-day, having that moment of quiet has been super helpful because it's not like I get up one morning and think, I think I'm going to quit practicing law today. But you're actually making a little bit of space to have those thoughts about, oh well you know like what you said, now I feel like the work that I came here to do feels more complete than it did a year ago or two years ago.
Karen Gifford: [00:23:26] That is such a good point, that is such a good point. I certainly have that tendency to just get caught up in the day-to-day, and not step back and sort of look at what am I doing. That's probably one of the biggest changes that meditation has brought in my life, and it has so many implications. Certainly for career, and also for relationships. In terms of seeing my own nonsense, you know? They pay me to fight, right, so like I'm a righty person so I'd always want to be right with my spouse or my kids.
[00:24:07] And stepping back from that and going, wait a minute. Just look at this from the other person's perspective. I wasn't that capable of doing that years ago, and I feel really happy that it's not my first instinct, but it does it does come up. That, oh this other person might have a point of view here.
Jeena Cho: [00:24:32] Yeah. Something I've been thinking more about is, obviously we both practiced litigation, this idea of knowing joy in the work that you do on a day-to-day basis. And whether that's possible when you're a litigator, especially in the context of the litigation system; the way it exists now, or has sort of been very traditionally. I find so many lawyers, like I talk about happiness and joy because you know, why else are we on this planet? I don't mean it in a trite sense, right? I don't mean it like, I get to have a bowl of ice cream so therefore I'm happy. But more of that deeper sense of feeling like the work that you're doing is meaningful, and finding joy in that. And I'm curious, when you're doing litigation do you feel like you had a joyful life? Is there a way you can have both?
Karen Gifford: [00:25:39] I like to think that. I do see a lot that isn't consonant with that, in the way that litigation is practiced today. There's a lot of just you know, things get personal really quickly unfortunately. And kind of the level of professionalism has declined unfortunately. So that's a problem, that's hard you know. I don't want to say that you can just joy your way through that.
Jeena Cho: [00:26:19] It's not like a, fake it til you feel it kind of thing.
Karen Gifford: [00:26:21] No, and there is a real joy in expressing who you are. And sometimes who you are is a great litigator, right? Joy doesn't have to express itself with puppies and rainbows and flowers. It can also express itself in a great argument or you know, a beautifully presented witness. I've certainly had those moments where I felt that way, and interestingly I think those moments when you really do feel very deeply joyous or contented or happy with how things go in a work setting, they're not the ones where you're saying the nasty thing or scoring a cheap point. They're the ones where you feel like not only are you making your self shine, but you're making the whole system shine. Like if you think about those really big moments in your career, everyone felt uplifted.
Jeena Cho: [00:27:33] Regardless of who won or lost, yeah. And I've also had experiences where the client didn't get the outcome that he or she wanted, but felt deeply cared for throughout the case. And somehow they didn't feel more.. You know I think a lot of times when you come out of the litigation system you can feel more broken than when you went in, I think that's the majority of the case. But if you can sort of help your clients through.
Karen Gifford: [00:28:03] Oh absolutely. And I can't imagine that for you in a bankruptcy practice, that must have been a huge challenge. Because it's just such a rough time that people are going through. And you've spoken so eloquently about the really heartbreaking sides to a bankruptcy; it's not just a money thing. I think making people feel that the system at least cared about them is a huge step forward.
Jeena Cho: [00:28:41] Do you ever miss practicing law?
Karen Gifford: [00:28:46] You know, not enough to go back to it. I really loved it when I was doing it, but when I think about practicing law I have that feeling that I was saying before, like I really did with it what I wanted to do. I don't feel like oh, if only I had X, Y, or Z. But it was great, it was great when I was doing it.
Jeena Cho: [00:29:15] So for the listeners out there that are considering some sort of transition, either staying in law or out of law. Any particular advice that you might want to offer them?
Karen Gifford: [00:29:33] Well, when I was thinking about these changes and they did feel momentous to me, one thing that I told myself was I'm going to make a decision, and it's going to be obvious. The answer is going to be obvious. And I just stuck to that. And you know, there are pluses and minuses in everything you do. And looking back, I think maybe I stuck to practicing law like six months or a year longer than maybe I probably should have. On the other hand, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it was obvious by the time I made that decision, and that worked for me. And so if that's how you're feeling, you're really unsure and you're not comfortable with that, I think you can have the confidence to know that your instincts are going to take you in the right place. And that you can get to a place where you're absolutely comfortable with whatever decision you make, whether it's to stay with the practice, leave, go part-time; whatever variation makes sense for you, your own instincts are going to guide you well.
Jeena Cho: [00:30:46] I love that. So the name of this podcast is called The Resilient Lawyer. What does it mean to be a resilient lawyer to you?
Karen Gifford: [00:30:55] Oh, that's such an interesting thing to reflect on. I think the practice of law has a lot of challenges. And really, if we take the practice seriously, those challenges can really implicate our core values, implicate what kind of people we want to be, and being resilient in the face of those challenges to me means engaging with them fully, and also staying anchored in our core values and our commitment to ourselves, as well as to all that we want to accomplish.
Jeena Cho: [00:31:36] Beautiful, I love that answer. Karen thank you so much for joining me.
Karen Gifford: [00:31:42] Thank you Jeena for having me. It's just such a huge pleasure.
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Emsmith;34681 wrote: just a heads up on the bitters and bone broth, i guess my taste buds are still adjusting… i find these 2 very hard to get down. i tried the bone broth but simmered for 3 days (too long in my opinion) the house smelled so bad my husband wouldn't go near the kitchen. the bitters are terribly hard to get down and maybe i haven't used it often enough but haven't noticed much benefit.
Thanks! I just ordered them yesterday, so now I am a little nervous. From what I read, it's just a few drops on the back of tongue?


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A couple of minutes ago I got a message on the Whatsapp group my band and I have. The message said "Guys, we will continue playing after not playing for a while".
Since I am working in a different city, I noticed a reaction within myself; "Do they plan to leave me aside or something?".
I asked "Really? new members?". And I was told that a guy that I know will be playing the bass in the band.
A backchat that I had was "Does X think he owns the band that he can make adjustments without first asking the whole band?". Then I went "But, I am living in a different city. If the guys want to play, they should do it. I wonder who the new singer will be".
I also noticed that I felt 'excluded', kind of Making things Personal. I even thought that they didn't want to play with me and that now is the perfect moment to start a 'new band' without me. Then, all the self-judgments projection "I don't sing well, if I am in a different city I am an obstacle for them right now".
I remember that our last gig was in last April and after that, we had the chance to play in other places, but the band was kind of asleep; with no real motivation if you will.
I have now just asked in the Whatsapp group "I have a doubt; am I being considered within this 'new process' for the band or should I assume that I am out because I am in a different city?"
One of the guys said "Yes, you are considered. We are still playing". So I explained my current situation; I told the guys that I will be working here until December, then come back, and after that don't know yet whether I will continue working here or not, but that I've liked the city so far and that everything will depend on how things unfold in the months to come.
I realize now, that I was assuming that I was out of the band and that created the whole reaction within myself, where I felt excluded, without realizing that I myself was excluding myself by going into my mind and charging that emotional experience with more thoughts and backchats.
So, what I had to do was just ask straight forward and clarify my doubts instead of remaining within my mind and going into a Quantum Spiralling where I lose control; meaning, going more and more into the mind alternate reality.
I remember that I have always been the type of person that don't ask questions, the person that remains in this misconception of the word 'reserved', the person that keeps the doubts and then during the walk clarifies them. But I realize that it's up to me to change that self-definition. Plus, it does not support me at all. What it does support me is to bring my self-awareness back here as my physical body and start participating within this physical reality that allows me to create and be the creator of my own life expression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to take it personally when X said that the band will start playing shows again after being out of track, because I immediately thought that I was being left out and that the message was an attempt to let me know that they were kicking me out of the band.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into an emotional experience where after the thought "Do they plan to leave me aside or something?", I felt excluded, without realizing that I was myself contributing to that experience, because I was suddenly shifted into my mind through thoughts, projections and the activation of many characters that were an obstacle for me to see with physical eyes.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to while being shifted into my mind, go into mind scenarios where through my imagination, I was Blaming the guys for doing me such 'evil' thing to me, where I realize my self-victimization character was activated, that's why I started blaming within my mind instead of taking self-responsibility for what was going on through stopping myself and breathing in order to 'wake up' from that mind state.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to while being in the self-victimization character use phrases such as "I bought a cool guitar, an awesome amp and this is how they will pay me?. They are not placing themselves in my shoes", without realizing that in that moment I was taking for granted that what I thought was completely and absolutely accurate.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that what I think is real, without realizing that all that emerged within my mind in that moment was personalities, projections, backchats, self-judgments, misinterpretations, etc, where I unconsciously forgot where is me among all those mind systems.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to approach this event as "This is also my band", where I noticed myself referring to the band as though it was something that I possess, that I own, that it's mine - and thus, I reacted with Jealousy for them being able to continue playing while I am miles away in a different city without being able to play as them.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to think, believe and perceive that X is evil within themselves and that they enjoyed not being clear about the message in the Whatsapp group at first in order to deliberately make me go into the emotional experience, without realizing that it's impossible for any external factor to affect my inner experiences, because I am the one who accepts and allows self to whether go into the mind or bring myself back here to this physical reality.
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to be blinded by emotional reactions and all the patterns that activate within myself when feeling 'rejected', where I am not able to bring myself back here and instead, assume that what my mind is telling me is real, without realizing that what goes on within my mind is mere programming where I have learned how to feel or how to react when certain events take place in my life.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that my reaction to the word 'excluded' automatically activates a pattern of going into self-victimization, self-pity, blaming and jealousy, without realizing that I can stop the pattern through immediately taking a deep in breath and an out breath in order to release myself from the energetic experience and become grounded and thus, being able to assist and support myself when communicating with other individuals.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have perpetuated the misconception of the word 'reserved' where instead of being reserved in a supportive way, I have lived it as a synonym of keeping thoughts, emotions, feelings, doubts and questions to myself instead of assessing them within myself first and then speak them up in order to understand each other, in order for everyone involved within the conversation to be on the same page.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have lived the word 'reserved' as a synonym of the word 'excluded', because instead of assisting and supporting myself while being in an energetic experience, I am shifted into the mind system and I myself exclude myself, without realizing that if I do not assess myself and then speak up, everyone else might think that everything is fine, therefore, I might actually end up being excluded, but that being created by myself.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to when feeling excluded go into blaming instead of taking self-responsibility through acknowledging that I am creating my own experience and that everyone else is not to blame, because of course they can become more effective within communication in case I have doubts, but in order to contribute, I have to first assess myself and thus, being able to provide a feedback that can assist and support everyone involved within the conversation as well.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to experience fear and self-judgment when I have a doubt and I want to ask, because I think and believe that people will think that my question is stupid, without seeing, realizing and understanding that "asKING is the King of all QUESTions in the Quest that is Life".
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not question, because it is easier to remain ignorant instead of becoming aware and taking self-responsibility.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have preferred to remain in doubt as energetic experiences instead of taking self-responsibility for what I am creating within my mind from internal conversations to living words without awareness as a detrimental outcome for me and everyone, which I could have changed if I had stopped my mind before going into the perpetuation of patterns.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that my 'stupid questions' can become very supportive for me and for others, because we can realize how to become more effective in the way we express ourselves when we communicate; for instance, in becoming more specific.
Self-Corrective Statements
When and as I see myself feeling excluded, I stop and breathe. I realize that there is a pattern existing within myself where I take things personally and then, I end up feeding my mind with thoughts, backchats, feelings, emotions, projections, self-victimization, self-pity, and blaming, therefore, the one who is responsible for the emotional experience is me and not them.
I commit myself to stop and breathe when I feel excluded in order to bring myself back here and see reality through physical eyes instead of the mind's eye and thus, be able to contribute with solutions instead of embodying the word 'reserved' in a way that does not support me, nor everyone else.
When and as I see myself going into "This is also mine. I own it" when feeling excluded, I stop and breathe. I realize that such statements are being created by me through the mind after accepting and allowing myself to feel 'diminished' through how I perceive reality through my thoughts by believing what I think, without realizing that my thoughts are programmed/conditioned and in no way will be accurate in terms of supporting life as the physical as what's best for all, therefore, if I am to use such phrases it's because I am trying to compensate the inferiority that was previously activated within myself in an attempt to be switched to the other side of the polarity equation (superiority).
I commit myself to stop and breathe when I want to go "This is mine. I own it too" so as to become more aware of myself and assess the way I am expressing myself, so I can transform that experience into something of support for everyone; starting with myself first through taking self-responsibility for my own mind consciousness system.
When and as I see myself embodying the word 'reserved' as this individual who does not say a word, who pretends everything's fine when it's actually not, I stop and breathe. I realize that this embodiment does not support me to become the best version of me, because the only thing I end up creating is a 'wrong' perception, which starts from myself first towards my external world, and then, simultaneously through the way everyone involved will perceive themselves and me within the conversation.
I commit myself to explore the word 'reserved' in order to define it, re-define it, and then, live it in a way that supports me as well as everyone else that is part of the conversation when it comes to communication within groups.
When and as I see myself going into an emotional experience when I am in a conversation and I have doubts/questions, I stop and breathe. I realize that what I am doing is perpetuating a pattern that was created within myself since I was in school, where I feared asking questions, because I thought "It does not matter if I ask, because I won't understand either" or "My question is not important, they will be able to do it without me anyways" or "I will figure it out later", where besides going into self-judgment, I went into procrastination by thinking and believing that my answers will someday magically be answered, instead of immediately taking self-responsibility and becoming self-directive in real time, stand up and ask.
I commit myself to stop and breathe when I start going into an emotional experience when having doubts/questions within communication, so as to assess the myself/the situation and then, assist and support myself through releasing all the energy through breathing, and once being clear within myself, just ask, while at the same time making sure I am expressing myself in specificity and being as clear as possible.


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