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What a smooth plan to kill all enemies across the globe. The dramatic fall of the crude prices killed the Russian Economy and massive sell trigger and massive campaign of a slowdown based economy of China lead to crash of the Chinese economy. These two economies were conspirating against US economy to squeeze its neck. But US is the king of the global economy and it acted judiciously on the same. The biggest benefit of the collapse of Russian and Chinese economy would be US. China have been a home ground for US manufacturing which resulted flight of investments and jobs form US to China. Now with the slowdown of the Chinese economy those investments will be reduced as markets are drying up and hence flight of capital will be in US economy. In all these game plans income inequalities are just widening up for the common people across the globe. It might not be US 100% but to some other countries where US economic think tanks don't have any immediate threat form that economy. In a recent survey it has been well found that US corporate are struggling to do business and also getting hammered due to intense legal actions of Chinese corporate governance.
In between I find that US economy have to increase its interest rates so that money flowing from these emerging and Asian countries needs to parked within the economy and hence US treasuries are going to be the best place to store. Devaluation of currency is going to be great threat and moreover if someone look over the world map hardly any economy will be providing healthy returns over its investments as compared to US treasuries. Further this is the best way to unwind the capital back to home (US). The biggest threat to US economy is the bonds which are being held by the Chinese government. Recently China has sold $106 billion of US treasuries hence increase in rates of interest would save them from massive sell of treasures. Beijing, of course, is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury debt, estimated at close to $1.5 trillion. Part of that is held in custodial accounts in Europe. So, if the regime were to suddenly start dumping that debt, the effect could be cataclysmic for the U.S. economy. With the U.S. government already $17 trillion in debt — not to mention an estimated $100 trillion to $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities — more than a few experts have pointed out that the current situation is not sustainable. Hence hike interest rates and let the devil of massive collapse sleep. The world economy will be okay with the shorter jitters but not with a catastrophic collapse.
Chinese stock market correction and its shift from export driven to an internal driven consumption market are two different perspectives. A overvalued market correction was justified but to stop the outflow of capital was an error from the Chinese government. The stock market crash and the media hype followed with a strong verdict of slowdown of Chinese economy seem to be a cold plan. Don't forget that even a 6.5% GDP growth for china would be high as compared to US and European economy who are struggling hard to get growth. Then why we are all crying since market always follow the herd community and this time the community name is US growth is strong. US might not be in sustainable economic growth journey but to safeguard its debt it needs treasuries to return more hence rate hike theory seems okay.

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It is no secret that marriages are under attack in our world. This is not surprising since marriage is a visible picture of Christ and His Church, what better place for the forces of hell to aim their fiery darts. In response to this our church tries to have at least 2 marriage conferences per year (with hopes of having more). As such I have been tasked with using several resources and putting together a curriculum for the conference.
Our very first session is What is Marriage? In this session we attempt to come together on a theology of marriage. We begin by defining marriage. As far as I am aware this definition is original with me. I would like to share it and then expound on it a bit—hopefully for your benefit.
Marriage is a binding covenant created by God between one man and one woman for our holiness, for our joy, as a picture of the gospel to spread the glory of God.
If I pick this definition apart I can come up with seven individual statements (and these are used as teaching points for the first session).
- A Binding Covenant. Covenant's are a big deal to God. Breaking covenants is a big deal to God. To see how big of a deal covenants are consider Genesis 15. The Lord walks through a host of animals that are ripped asunder and essentially says, "If I break my covenant let what is done to these animals be done to me". Covenants are a big deal.
- Created by God. If humans created marriage then we could make the rules. But marriage is a binding covenant that is created by God, as such He makes the rules. God created your marriage, so away with this silly talk of having "married the wrong person".
- Between one man and one woman. The two shall become one. This means breaking away from parents, past relationships, future relationships, and any other lovers. This also goes against any arguments for homosexuality rightly being called marriage.
- For our holiness. Marriage is one of the means that God has ordained to sanctify us. God is not satisfied with us merely having a "good" marriage. God wants to use our marriage to conform us more and more into the image of Christ. God has a rescue plan for your marriage. His goal is not simply to rescue your marriage. His goal is to use your marriage to rescue you.
- For our joy. Our joy increases when we, in holiness, fight for the joy of another. Marriage can be extremely joyful. Just read Song of Solomon. Furthermore, if marriage increases holiness it will also increase our joy in God.
- As a picture of the gospel. Your marriage reflects Christ and His church. It was created by God to be a visible picture for everyone to see the love between Christ and His Bride.
- To spread the glory of God. The purpose of God for humanity is to enjoy His grace and extend His glory. Marriage is no different. He uses marriages to rip out of our heart sin and unbelief. He uses marriage to further our joy. But he also uses marriage to create children, and to raise and nurture children in godly homes.
Your marriage has purpose. It has meaning. Don't give up on your marriage. Don't stop fighting for your marriage. Know that God is fighting for your marriage as well. Have hope in him and keep holding on.
Enjoy your marriage. God is using it to display His greatness. Rejoice that the Lord is using the union of two sinners to display His incomparable greatness and Trinitarian love. Marriage is sweet. Savor it. Taste and see that the Lord is good.


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Spanish Word for dilution
English Word: dilution
Spanish Word: rarefaccion, disolución
Now you know how to say dilution in Spanish. :-)
Spanish Word: rarefaccion, disolución
Now you know how to say dilution in Spanish. :-)
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Halloween Cupcakes
7 comments :
- Sunflowers With Smiles said...
These are adorable. I love the ruby slipper idea also.
- October 31, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Jane@Cottage at the Crossroads said...
Your cupcakes will be a huge hit in the classroom! I saw that idea on Pinterest and I thought it was so cute, too!
- October 31, 2011 at 10:03 AM
- Kelly said...
Oh my goodness I just adore those witch cookies!!! The idea of making them look like they're from The Wizard of Oz is even cuter. I wish I could make treats like that to take to my son's school, but they have a rule that things have to be store bought now. Yuck! It's for sanitary reasons and a need to show the ingredients for food allergies. Boy times sure have changed, haven't they? Your cupcakes turned out so cute.
- October 31, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Jacqueline said...
They turned out so cute! Yes, yes, yes, I am in love with Pinterest! Wish I had time to make everything I see!
- October 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Unknown said...
So cute and clever!
Gail - October 31, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Ramblings of a Southern Girl ~ Rhonda G said...
How cute!!! I love the idea of using them for a Wizard Of Oz party, too! :)
- November 2, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Michele Smith said...
These are adorable! I love pinterest too!! Wish I spend more time making things instead of drooling!
- November 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM


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King James Version
2Samuel 3
1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
18 Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.


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I am totally new to groupwise.
I am trying to install a GW 2012 test system.
I tried this several times on Windows 2008 R2 and Linux on VMWare ESXi, without any success.
I searched the internet and this forum for any info but I am stuck.
I can install eDirectory, Novell Client and ConsoleOne
I tried many different settings in eDirectory setup (i.e.):
Tree Name: TESTING
Server: WIN-GW2012-NDS\novell\.com
Admin Name: admin
Admin Context: novell.\com
Password: novell
After installation of the Novell client I cannot login to the client or ConsoleOne.
I tried different values, but I get: Server not found, Tree not found or wrong context.
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Dear reader, you might enjoy my article in the October issue of Elle Decor. It's about the Cecil Beaton exhibition which is coming to the Museum of the City of New York this month, and its accompanying book from Rizzoli. I'm looking forward to seeing this show which opens on October 25. I've said here before on the blog that a big memory from my childhood was being taken for my seventh birthday to see My Fair Lady in a huge old movie theater in Philadelphia. I was completely entranced by the film, and the Cecil Beaton-designed Edwardian costumes and sets were a major part of the appeal (besides of course the Lerner and Lowe music and Audrey Hepburn herself). Yes, it was the beginning of beautiful things. So I'm happy to have the chance now to pay tribute to Cecil Beaton.
Pick up an issue of the magazine – it's the big fashion issue filled with delicious interiors including fashion designer Andrew Gn's sumptuous apartment in Paris which is something out of Proust. Editor in Chief Michael Boodro and his editors are doing a wonderful job – enjoy!


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All this and class too!
Dear Rachelle and Ashley-
If I was going to be a fake lesbian I'd totally choose you ladies.
You're hot, wear awesome clothes, and you're doing photo calls next to DIAMOND necklaces looking like extras from Mad Men (best show ever, just sayin). Now that's what I call classy. You two seem like real gals gals AND girls who can be real with the boys too. And if you can do that, you are girls after my own heart.
Rachelle, I am in love with your hair… two hairdo's ago I had your hair color and I kick myself every day for going darker. Being a redhead is my true calling in life, and you are a beacon in all this bleach blond playboy hair nonsense in California.
Ashley, I heard that after you did this photo event you were spotted out with a friend getting pizza in jeans and tshirts. I think we're meant to be BFF's ladies. FYI
Ok can we all take a moment and look at THE SHOES. And the POCKET on the dress?!
Moment over.
Carry on ladies, CARRY ON!
Wishing we could share closets,
PS I TOLD you we'd get to some Twi-girl loving!
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New Generation Drug Cartel Appeals to Locals by Castrating Pedophiles
Indonesia has apparently begun a trend that's quickly flying out of control, as now there are even more people targeting child molesters and castrating them, the biggest difference here being that at least the Indonesian government is using a painless, chemical means. The 'New Generation' Cartel has decided that in order to curry favor with the locals they needed to start doing a bit more community outreach; initially they accomplished this by severing the hands of thieves targeting the locals and their businesses, but here lately they've upped their game with a bit of physical castration – and regardless of how you feel about the topic the way they do it is not pretty.
There's no noble intention behind these vicious attacks, there's really no other reason at all than to bolster their reputation as Guardians of the People. These actions actively help ward off any other cartels looking to move in to their territory as they have gained the trust of the locals, effectively giving them all a free pass for as long as they maintain it.
It's not as though they're simply kidnapping these guys and cutting off their berries from the start, why would they ever stop there? Instead they've begun kidnapping these guys and forcing them to do all the odd, menial jobs they don't want to do. Whoever complains or isn't satisfactory enough in their performance is then castrated as a warning to the rest, giving them all ample motivation to do… well, anything. If you have testicles or you've ever considered what it would be like to have them, this would be like removing an entire section of self. Some reports even indicate the members force the guys to eat one of their removed testicles!
Arguably these aren't the types of people whose "self" is really worth saving, but in the end we need to remember the lessons we've learned throughout history. This is wrong, and there are much better ways to go about dealing with pedophiles and there are many people in Jalisco who agree with that sentiment, though there are those that aren't as well. Some view it as a blessing since their children are safer, which is a fairly good argument, but the cost is high. Human. Rights. I suppose this is just the year we throw those out the window once again based on everything this crap-fest of a year has shown us.
Source: yepsee.com
New Generation Drug Cartel Appeals to Locals by Castrating Pedophiles
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Primary Psychiatry: Pharma's New Mule
And then, on the other hand, there is Primary Psychiatry.
The September issue of Primary Psychiatry is the encapsulation of the worst of the worst of what might be called "greed journalism." Rather than serving as a medical journal, Primary Psychiatry has become a mule for various sponsoring pharmaceutical companies, heaving promotional CME programs into our offices. An almost exquisite example of journal as marketing vehicle, the September issue is the very Mona Lisa of CME corruption.
It arrived in my office "polybagged" with three industry-funded educational activities. Polybagging entails wrapping the journal in plastic wrap and throwing in stuff that drug companies want you to see. The September issue contains:
1. A DVD funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb, coyly entitled, Akathisia: Problem of History and Concern of Today. BMS markets Abilify, widely acknowledged as the atypical most likely to cause akathisia—an inconvenient truth for BMS, because this drives down Abilify's market share. Thus, BMS paid i3CME (you remember them--the producers of the great Lindsey DeVane fiasco) to find speakers who would play down this liability, and they got exactly what they paid for in these Three CME-usketeers: Prakash Masand, Naveed Iqbal, and Tim Lambert. Abilfy's association with akathisia is conveniently not mentioned by any of these key opinion leaders. Instead, we hear that Risperidal, Zyprexa, Clozapine, and even Seroquel (!) can cause it. If you can stomach watching this biased presentation, you'll quickly discover that its promotional message is: (1) Akathisia is more common with first generation antipsychotics; (2) There's no real difference between the atypicals; (3) It's often caused by SSRIs rather than atypicals; (4) Don't worry, prescribe Abilify.
2. The second prize is a newsletter called "Wake up!", produced by Steven Stahl and funded by Cephalon. An 8-page advertisement for Provigil, it contains articles written by a Who's Who panel of industry-funded psychiatrists, including Wallace Mendelson, famous for his ghost-written trazodone-bashing article in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (2005;66:469-476; see my New York Times op-ed on his work for Sepracor here). For those who don't know, Stephen Stahl, founder of the company Neuroscience Education Institute, is one of the more industry-conflicted psychiatrists in the profession, right up there with Charles Nemeroff. The "wake up!" newsletter oozes Cephalon and Provigil, with exhortations to diagnose more people with "excessive sleepiness" and to treat them with Provigil and other meds. Cephalon pays Stahl tens of thousands to say good things about Provigil, and then pays Primary Psychiatry even more to mule the newsletter to 60,000 physicians.
3. Finally, the actual journal is covered with an overwrap advertisement for an Eli Lilly-sponsored educational event on bipolar disorder. No, I didn't spend any more of my precious time enduring that telesession. I'm assuming it will argue that patients with bipolar disorder are at a higher risk for diabetes regardless of which medication they use, so don't worry about slamming them with Zyprexa.
The "Pharmatorial" content doesn't end with the plastic goody bag. Inside the journal, synergizing nicely with a three-page ad for Lilly's Cymbalta, is an entire section on pain in psychiatry, including an article on "Psychopharmacology of Chronic Pain." The author, Michael R. Clark of Johns Hopkins, is listed as having "no affiliation with or financial interest in any organization that may pose a conflict of interest." This fib can be checked out by going to Google and typing in "Michael Clark, M.D. and disclosures." The first page of results shows that Dr. Clark has been the course director of two CME conferences on pain management this year, supported by educational grants from Lilly, King Pharmaceuticals, and Cephalon.
It isn't easy being a mule. But the money helps.
5 comments:
I walked out of psychiatry over 2 1/2 years ago. I suffer from bipolar disorder type one and have for several years. I have no desire to return to a psychiatrist anytime soon
- October 11, 2007 at 3:50 AM
- CL Psych said...
Great post! If you have the time, it would be helpful if you could scan some of these commercial pieces and post them online. As more people see these shameful promotions, more disrepute will be cast upon those who participate in the process.
- October 11, 2007 at 8:44 AM
I'm an aspiring psych nurse...your posts are truly eye-opening.
- October 14, 2007 at 12:57 AM
I am a psychiatrist who has been in practice for 25 years. I must admit that early on in my career, I naively accepted free meals, assorted gifts, and money for lecturing. As time has passed, I have grown increasingly disgusted by our profession's involvement with big pharma and I no longer accept ANYTHING or meet with any pharmaceutical reps. I now believe that any involvement of this kind is totally incompatible with truly being a physician dedicated to one's patients. Of course, the larger problem may be the very nature of our health care "system" (which is actually a commercial for-profit industry instead of an organized system of care), since it tends to favor such profiteering at the cost of true patient care.
I'm glad that people such as yourself have the guts to speak out on this! Keep it up!
Gary Seltman, MD
Goshen, IN - July 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- The Neurocritic said...
Not that I know anything at all about Primary Psychiatry, but they did publish Recent Regulatory Changes in Antidepressant Labels: Implications of Activation (Stimulation) for Clinical Practice by Peter R. Breggin, MD. I was trying to determine the impact factor (or reputation) for this journal, because they published a case report on long-term ketamine infusion for depression, which I found alarming.
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HOW CAN YOU, IN a week or less, get dramatic relief from all the symptoms you thought you had to live with the rest of your life?
I'll get to that in just a minute….
Last week, I showed you how addressing the toxins that make us sick and fat can help create long-term health, vitality, and weight loss.
Today, I'm going to tell you about the second hidden culprit that's linked to everything from obesity to all the chronic diseases of aging. And I'll give you the key to solving this problem — and unlocking good health.
Over the years, I've helped patient after patient achieve good health and automatic weight loss. But what I've asked patients to do is so simple that anyone can do it — and get the same great results.
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In this week's blog, I'm going to tell you about something you've heard me talk about before. But it's so important that I want to emphasize it again and show you how it's a hidden cause of poor health.
I'm talking about inflammation.
You're probably familiar with the pain, swelling, redness, and heat that classically signify inflammation. It's something just about every one out there has experienced.
Inflammation is part of the body's natural defense system.
Consuming a low-allergy diet for just 1 week will help you eliminate the excess swelling and fluid that accumulates in your tissues from food-induced chronic inflammation.
When your body senses foreign invaders, a specific cascade of events is set off in which your white blood cells and some special chemicals called cytokines mobilize to protect you.
This normal type of inflammation is a good thing. It helps your body protect and heal itself. However, when your immune system shifts out of balance, inflammation can run rampant — causing a chronic, smoldering fire inside your body that contributes to disease and weight gain.
The causes of this type of inflammation are all around you. The sugar you eat, high doses of the wrong oils and fats in your diet, hidden food allergens, lack of exercise, chronic stress, and hidden infections all trigger a raging, unseen inflammation deep in your cells and tissues.
And this inflammation leads to every one of the major chronic diseases of aging — heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. It's also by far the major contributor to obesity. Being fat is being inflamed — period!
It's simple.
If you don't address inflammation by eliminating hidden food allergens or sensitivities and by eating an anti-inflammatory diet, you will never succeed at effective and permanent weight loss. Hidden sensitivities and allergies to food you eat every day are making you sick and fat.
When most people think of food allergies, they usually imagine someone eating a peanut and ending up in the emergency room with a swollen tongue, hives, and not being able to breathe. That's what is called an immediate allergy (also known as an IgE hypersensitivity reaction). This is very serious but not common.
But there is a different type of reaction to foods that is much less dramatic and deadly — but still very troublesome. It is called a delayed allergy (or IgG delayed hypersensitivity reaction). This reaction is much more common and creates a lot of suffering for millions of people. It's mostly ignored by conventional medicine, yet it plays a HUGE role in many chronic illnesses and weight problems.
This type of delayed allergic reaction can cause symptoms anywhere from a few hours to a few days after ingestion. It also causes a wide range of problems like weight gain, fluid retention, fatigue, brain fog, irritable bowel syndrome, mood problems, headaches, sinus and nasal congestion, joint pains, acne, eczema, and more.
If you hear someone say dismissively, "Oh, you just lost water weight," they're right (at first), because eating foods you are allergic to causes inflammation, which leads to swelling and fluid retention.
Getting rid of this fluid by reducing inflammation is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing. It is what will allow your body to start the healing process so you can achieve permanent weight loss and optimal health.
Consuming a low-allergy diet for just 1 week will help you eliminate the excess swelling and fluid that accumulates in your tissues from food-induced chronic inflammation. Despite criticisms you may have heard about losing ONLY water weight, this is essential for you body to begin to heal and detoxify. And the side effect is that you lose significant weight — quickly and safely.
Let me explain a little more.
In my practice, treating food allergies and improving nutrition in general is the single most powerful tool I have to treat, reverse, and even cure hundreds of diseases that conventional medicine fails at miserably.
These include allergies, arthritis, autoimmune diseases, fatigue, sinus problems, hormonal disorders, obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol, digestive diseases like irritable bowel syndrome, reflux, and colitis, and even mood disorders like depression and anxiety — just to name a few.
You see, we are seeing an epidemic of inflammatory diseases. In fact nearly every modern disease — everything from autoimmune diseases, heart disease, and cancer to obesity, diabetes, and dementia — is caused by inflammation!
These chronic diseases affect 125 million Americans. That means in the average family of three, at least one person has a chronic disease caused by inflammation. In my practice, helping people treat food allergies and food sensitivities is one of the most helpful things I do.
So what have I found after years of testing people for IgG allergies and teaching them how to use elimination diets to help recover from their chronic symptoms and illnesses?
While everyone is different, there are some foods that irritate the immune system more than others. They are gluten (wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt, kamut), dairy (milk, cheese, butter, yogurt), corn, eggs, soy, nuts, nightshades (tomatoes, bell peppers1, potatoes, eggplant), citrus, and yeast (baker's yeast, brewer's yeast, and fermented products).
These foods can also cause acute allergic reactions. But those are rare, generally affecting less than 1 percent of the population. When they occur they are serious, permanent, and need to be treated seriously.
But for more than 50 percent of us, there are some foods that just don't agree with us and prevent vibrant, good health.
How Do You Know If You Are Allergic or Sensitive to Foods?
There are two ways to find out if you are reacting to foods.
One is a blood test for IgG antibodies to foods. This is useful and can pinpoint trouble areas, but it is not 100 percent accurate.
The second is a simple and well-accepted treatment called elimination/ provocation.
This means you get rid of the top trouble foods for 1 to 4 weeks, then reintroduce them one at a time and see what happens. Eliminating foods that cause allergic reactions or sensitivities is the basis for the remarkable results people have — like losing weight, feeling better, and getting rid of chronic symptoms — when they follow the detox phase of UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss.
This program is based on a simple elimination diet: getting rid of gluten, dairy, eggs, and yeast products.
What happens?
Very quickly — in a week or less — people notice dramatic relief from all the symptoms they thought they had to live with the rest of their lives!
Why Do You Become Sensitive or Allergic to Foods?
Simply put, your diet, the way you live, and the medications you take are to blame.
These things injure your gut.
They change the bacteria and damage the gut's lining, which is the critical barrier that keeps your immune system from having to deal with all the garbage, toxins, and allergens inside your intestinal tract. This damage is called a leaky gut.
And so the food particles "leak" across the damaged barrier and your immune system (60 percent of which is right under that lining) starts to attack these partially digested food particles. That's when you develop IgG food intolerances or allergies.
Let me recap.
When your gut is leaky, partially digested foods get exposed to your immune system, which then creates an abnormal response to something pretty normal — food. That creates weight gain and so many chronic health problems.
Finding and Fixing Delayed Food Allergies and Sensitivities
Just because you have a food allergy or intolerance doesn't mean you have to suffer with it. In fact, there's a lot you can do to deal with the problem, rebalance your system, and eliminate chronic symptoms.
Next week, I'm going to explain how to identify food allergies and give you the tools you need to begin to heal your gut and repair your digestive and immune systems.
When you do these things, you'll be more resilient and able to tolerate a wider range of foods. The plan is designed to get you started on the road to finding and healing this common obstacle to health and weight loss.
Just think about giving yourself the gift of a weeklong vacation for your body and soul. You might be surprised by what's on the other side. You'll be following the same simple program that I use with my own patients to eliminate food allergies.
In my next blog, I'll give you more details of this 1-week plan to detoxify and cool off inflammation.
I think you'll find that the results are remarkable.
But I don't want you to just believe what I am saying — I want you to prove it to yourself!
Now I'd like to hear from you…
Have you noticed how certain foods affect your health and weight?
What have you done to identify and eliminate these foods?
When you eliminate problematic foods from your diet, how does your body respond?
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What it is
Diffraction in general is the bending of waves around an obstacle. In photography the light waves are bent around the edges of the aperture, causing f.e. the well known star like pattern around the sun if shot stopped down. Since diffraction affects any point of the image (not only very bright sources) it reduces general sharpness and limits effective resolution. Diffraction blurs any point to a pattern called "w:Airy disk".
Diffraction is one of four lens based factors limiting the image sharpness. Second is aberration (f.e. chromatic aberration) which is determined by lens build quality. Third is de-focus or Depth of Field. Fourth is motion blur due to lens shake.
Diffraction depends only on the physical aperture size. Hence it's effect is generally larger the smaller the used sensor is due to the larger magnification of the image. That's the reason why compact cameras can't (or shouldn't) be stopped down further than f/5.6. As a rule of thumb the limit for APS-C sized sensors is f/8 to f/11 and for full frame ones f/16 to f/22, however, modern high resolution sensor can show diffraction at even lower f-numbers if zoomed in.
You can balance Depth of Field against diffraction. An approach is the sharpest aperture. See link at the bottom.
The maximum obtainable resolution is limited by diffraction according to the Rayleigh criterion. We can safely assume the equivalent of one pixel distance as the minimum resolvable distance required by the Rayleigh criterion. Since this criterion defines the angular resolution it can be directly used for zoomable panoramas neglecting sensor sizes etc. By simply dividing the panorama Field of View (FoV) by the angular resolution we get the maximum possible pixel resolution.
For an average value we take the wavelength of light λ = 550nm = 5.5*10-4mm which is in the middle of the spectrum and a color where our eyes are most sensitive. The resulting formula is:
D is the physical diameter of the lens' entrance pupil, which is the focal length in mm divided by the f-number. The following table shows the maximum angular resolution in pixels/degree which is obtainable by a given focal length (vertical) and f-number (horizontal) without regard to currently available sensors for an ideal lens without aberrations:
2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22 32 44 50 464 325 232 163 118 81 59 41 30 100 929 650 464 325 236 163 118 81 59 200 1,858 1,300 929 650 473 325 236 163 118 400 3,715 2,601 1,858 1,300 946 650 473 325 236 800 7,430 5,201 3,715 2,601 1,891 1,300 946 650 473 1200 11,145 7,802 5,573 3,901 2,837 1,950 1,418 975 709
Some usage examples
- You want to shoot a gigapixel panorama of 175° width with a 800mm lens at f/11. You get 175*1,891 = 330,925 pixel maximum horizontal resolution.
- You will use an APS-C format sensor in portrait orientation for this panorama. A 800mm lens has a FoV of 1.1° in that case, which at f/11 gives 2080 pixels or app. 6 megapixels. Applying the 70% rule to compensate for bayer interpolation blur indicates that 12 megapixels per image are enough.
Wide angle
Although the above formula is applicable to wide angle and fisheye lenses as well it is harder to give correct values. Most DSLR wide angle and fisheye lenses change the entrance pupil diameter depending from the angle of incidence. This is intended and serves as a mechanism to compensate for natural vignetting.
However, diffraction is an issue for those lenses, too. For a comparison of two widely used fisheyes see link at the bottom.
Unfortunately most lenses are diffraction limited at small apertures only. Since most lens aberrations get better the further you stop down, it might be that shooting wide open gives you worse results than fully stopped down. Hence the real sharpest aperture of a particular lens must be determined by experiment.
Other factors (lens shake, atmospheric scintillation, sensor noise, haze etc.) reduce resolution and sharpness even further, hence the above values will seldom be reached.
External links
- wikipedia on Diffraction
- wikipedia on Angular resolution
- Ken Rockwell's page on Selecting the Sharpest Aperture
- Ken Rockwell's page with a sharpness comparison of the Zenitar 16mm and Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye lenses at different aperture.
- A very extensive article about resolution limits on Luminous Landscape containing many valuable links.


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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Martin Kaymer stopped thinking, started swinging and played his way into the record book Thursday in The Players Championship.
Kaymer missed only two fairways. He putted for birdie on all but one hole. And the former PGA champion finished with four straight birdies to become only the fourth player to shoot 9-under 63 on the Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass, giving him a two-shot lead over Russell Henley.
Kaymer took advantage of a perfect day for scoring -- warm weather, hardly any wind and soft greens.
There were 28 rounds in the 60s, which made the score by Adam Scott look even worse. With another chance -- his best one yet -- to get to No. 1 in the world for the first time, Scott finished with a pair of double bogeys from shots in the water and signed for a 77. It was his highest opening round at The Players since his first trip in 2002.
Kaymer was flawless, hitting whatever shot he felt he needed. His final blow was a hybrid that ran through the ninth green and into a bunker, leaving a simple up-and-down for birdie. He had a 29 on the back, the first player in the 32-year history at Sawgrass to break 30 on either nine.
Roberto Castro also opened with a 63 last year. The only others with 63 were Greg Norman in the first round in 1994, and Fred Couples in the third round in 1992.
"It's just a nice bonus," Kaymer said. "It's only the first round of a long, long tournament. It's nice to make some history. No one shot 29 on that golf course before."
Kaymer would not have seemed like a good candidate.
He has not won since the HSBC Champions in Shanghai at the end of 2011. He hasn't had a top 10 all year. But the 29-year-old German has felt his swing start to come together in recent weeks. His name has been featured on leaderboards more and more.
And he had a simple explanation.
"I stopped thinking," Kaymer said, a former world No. 1. "I thought a lot the last two years about swing changes ... that every shot I made I reflect on it, what I did wrong, what I did right."
A few weeks before the Masters, he spent time with longtime swing coach Gunter Kessler in Phoenix, and then they had another good session in Germany.
"And then it just clicked a little bit," he said. "I thought, OK, I know I can hit pretty much every shot when I needed to hit it.' If it's a draw, if it's a fade, low or high, I know that I can do it. It's just a matter of getting the confidence on the golf course and then letting it happen and really doing it."
Henley, who won the Honda Classic in a four-way playoff in March, made birdie on half of his holes to atone for one big mistake. He hooked a tee shot into the water on No. 7 and compounded that with a three-putt for double bogey. But he answered with six birdies on the back nine for a 65.
"I knew I was playing well and felt really comfortable on the greens," Henley said. "But it was one of those back nines where you get to 18 and I just realized that I had a putt for 7 under. So that was pretty cool."
Bae Sang-Moon had a 66.
The group at 67 included Sergio Garcia, who spent last year in a war or words with Tiger Woods that lasted right up until the Spaniard hit three balls into the water on the two closing holes and Woods walked away with the win. Garcia looked sharp, happy and was confident in his game.
And he had loads of company. Lee Westwood, 20-year-old Jordan Spieth and U.S. Open champion Justin Rose also were at 67. The group at 68 included Ernie Els and Dustin Johnson. There were 67 rounds under par, and the scoring average of 71.99 was the eighth-lowest for an opening round at The Players Championship.
But it wasn't easy for everyone.
Rory McIlroy made three bogeys over his last seven holes and tumbled to a 70. That was nearly as bad as Phil Mickelson. Coming off a 76 in the final round at Quail Hollow last week, he started his round by missing a 3-foot par putt and shot 75.
Of the four players with a mathematical chance to reach No. 1, only Masters champion Bubba Watson broke 70. He had a 69, while Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar each had a 71. Only four players had a worse score than Scott.
Kaymer reached No. 1 three years ago, and then sought to change his swing because he could only hit a fade. He prefers to play by feel, not by mechanics. A swing change left him little choice but to think too much. Now, he can only hope it's as simple as see the shot and hit the ball.


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Tanzania boasts some of the world's most famous natural attractions, most of which are enshrined in its famous national parks. The country is undoubtedly a premier wildlife safari destination, and the Serengeti alone would be enough to skyrocket its reputation for game viewing. The majestic Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, is also a huge draw card for ambitious hikers.
Almost a quarter of Tanzania is protected within a park or reserve and, of these, most tourists visit the top three in the north: the plains of the Serengeti, famous for the annual migration of about two million wildebeest; the adjacent Ngorongoro Conservation Area, home to the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater; and Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, which encompasses Africa's highest mountain. Other attractions, including the massive Selous Game Reserve in the south, can be difficult or expensive to get to, and are less visited as a result, but they are still very worthwhile.
The word 'safari' has its origins in Tanzania, with the Kiswahili word meaning 'journey'. There are unlimited safari options available from the many tour operators plying their trade in the region. It is possible to arrange both luxury and budget itineraries and generally Tanzanian wildlife safaris are extremely highly rated.
A journey by vehicle, foot, horseback, or hot air balloon into prime game-viewing country is an experience not to be missed. The attractive town of Arusha is the main gateway to the parks and reserves in the north, and is the best place from which to arrange a safari.
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March 2008 - Continually revved up insulin production, the kind that results from overeating and obesity, slowly dulls the body's response to insulin. As a result, blood sugar levels start to creep up, setting the stage for diabetes-associated complications such as blindness, stroke and renal failure. To make matters even worse, chronically elevated blood sugar concentrations exacerbate insulin resistance.
The vicious circle gets rolling, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered, when out-of-control blood sugar levels disable the molecular switch that normally shuts off sugar production in the liver in response to rising levels of insulin.
Their findings, published in the March 7 issue of Science suggest that appropriate inhibitors of the enzymatic pathway that blocks the "sugar-off"-switch might be useful in lowering glucose levels in diabetic individuals and reducing long-term complications associated with the disease.
"The islet cells in the pancreas can compensate with increased insulin production only for so long when confronted with chronic obesity and inactivity," says Marc Montminy, Ph.D., a professor in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, who led the study. "As a result glucose levels start to rise causing a host of problems."
Just like a flex-fuel vehicle that can run on either gasoline or ethanol, the human body can switch between different types of fuel: During the day the body mostly burns glucose, and during the night or prolonged fasting, it burns primarily fat. But neither flex-fuel engines nor human brains can run on ethanol or fat alone - a little bit of gasoline or glucose needs to be thrown into the mix to keep either one of them humming.
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Three years ago, Montminy discovered a "fasting switch" called CRTC2 (formerly known as TORC2) that flips on glucose production in the liver when blood glucose levels run low during the night. After a meal, the hormone insulin normally shuts down CRTC2 ensuring that blood sugar levels don't rise too high.
In many patients with type II diabetes, however, CRTC2 no longer responds to rising insulin levels and as a result the liver acts like a sugar factory on overtime, churning out glucose throughout the day, even when blood sugar levels are high. The Salk researchers were interested in the molecular mechanism that leads to the breakdown of the normally tightly regulated feedback loop.
Mice whose livers light up - courtesy of the luciferase gene, which produces the glow in fireflies - as soon as CRTC2 is turned on, led post-doctoral fellow and first author Renaud Dentin, Ph.D., onto the trail of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway. Activation of the pathway promotes the addition of sugar molecules to proteins, a process also known as O-glycosylation. "It had been known that increases in the concentration of circulating glucose activate the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway," says Dentin. "But we had no idea that the resulting O-glycosylation would lock CRTC2 in the 'on'-position."
Normally, the rise in insulin after a meal activates a liver enzyme called SIK2. The enzyme chemically tags CRTC2 with a phosphate group, marooning the protein outside the cell's nucleus. Unable to reach the genes involved in gluconeogenesis, CRTC2 is powerless to turn them on and glucose production in the liver ceases.
In the presence of excessive glucose levels, however, the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway is activated and blocks crucial phosporylation sites on CRTC2 by adding sugar molecules instead. CRTC2 can no longer be phosphorylated in response to rising insulin levels and is now free to slip into the nucleus and keep the gluconeogenic program going.
Shutting down the O-glycosylation pathway should then get the body's own glucose production under control, the researchers reasoned. Just as predicted, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity markedly improved in insulin resistant diabetic mice and mice fed a high fat diet - who both suffered from hyperglycemia - when Dentin and his colleagues decreased the activity of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in the liver of these animals.
"What I really would like to do is to use the glowing mice to screen for drugs that decrease gluconeogenesis," says Montminy. "Imagine hyperglycemic mice whose livers light up because CRTC2 is on all the time. When you feed them a drug that inhibits O-glycosylation the light dims and you know you have compound that's effective in living animals and you know how it works."
Researchers who also contributed to the study include research assistant Susan Hedrick, in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at the Salk Institute, Jianxin Xie, Ph.D., at Cell Signaling Technology in Danvers, Massachusetts, and professor John Yates III, Ph.D., at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
This work was supported by NIH grant RO1 GM037828, by the Clayton Medical Research Foundation, Inc., and by the Kiekhefer Foundation.
Source: Salk Institute
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