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Lots to tell. LOTS to tell....Where to begin.
OK separation anxiety. Ive always had a few issues with this. Firstly, i was very attached to my mum for many years and didn't want her leaving me for any length of time. But i FORCED myself to work through that with an hour here and there. Determined not to rely on other people to keep me calm and also because i didn't want to be a huge burden on her. Then she went to America for a 5 week holiday and I was absolutely fine. So i cracked it. Since then I have obviously left the family home and although i wouldn't like her travelling to the other side of the world, the anxiety has gone.
And now theres Nathan. When I know he is going out for the day with someone, I look forward to the break, but i also feel a sense of dread, because i KNOW that when he leaves I'm going to feel uncomfortable. As usual it is a control thing. If he goes out and i panic and want him home, how quickly can the person he is with return him? What if that person doesn't have a car but is having to take a bus or 2? That will take ages and by then ill be ready for the nut house. Even worse is when he goes out with his gran who has no phone. So not only can i not get him back, but i have absolutely no idea where he is.
The rational side of my head tells me to chill out. Nathan needs his days out, i need the break. Most times when he leaves I'm a little uptight, but it soon passes and i actually start to relax and enjoy my time off. For a while I actually looked forward to his days out, knowing he was being entertained and i could do... well nothing! Ah bliss.
But as the winter crept in, and my mood darkened along with the early nights, that familiar anxiety crept back.
A few months ago my mum decided she would take Nathan out for the day and as soon as she mentioned it, i was uneasy. I told myself i would not give into this. Is not fair on Nathan and i NEEDED some 'me' time. So the morning of the 'day out' arrived and i got up bright and early and got everything organised. Breakfast, check. Bath, check, Bag prepared, check. Nathan looking handsome. check check check. Mum arrived and took Nathan away and i immediately felt the anxiety grow. 'Ok Lynn, chill out! This is going to pass, Nathan will have a great day and you will enjoy yours too'. Rapid heart beat, urgent need for the bathroom (you know what I'm talking about), sitting in the cool bathroom the anxiety wasn't subsiding like it usually would. 'Ok Lynn stay strong, this will pass'. Rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, turning stomach, dizziness. 'Can i cope with this for another 5 hours'? No.... NO NO NO NO
The anxiety turned to full blown panic and i gave in. No way could i ride that roller coaster for another 5 hours. usually i look for distraction and so i thought of people i might be able to visit, or who could come to me and keep me sane, but on this particular day i knew no body was available. And so i done the one thing i promised myself i would never do. I called my mum,
'Have you got on the bus yet'? As soon as she said No i was throwing on any clothes i could find and i was out the door and in the car shaking like a mad woman. Within minutes i had reached the bus stop and highly ashamed I got Nathan into the car in front of a crowd of people, no doubt wondering what was going on. My mum was understanding but her friend looked less than impressed. I could tell she thought i was being completely selfish, but at that point i couldn't care less. I just wanted Nathan with me and the panic to stop. And it did.
Back home i got back into a state of calm and tried to provide Nathan with a fun filled entertaining day. He was none the wiser to what had actually gone on but inside i was wracked with guilt. I still don't think i would have coped that day had i let him go. it would have been very unpleasant, but i only caused myself major anxiety in the future.
I had never given in like that before and now i wondered how i was going to manage the next time someone wanted a day out with Nathan. For Nathan and for myself, we need those days apart. There was no way i could just bring and end to them. That's so unfair on him. but as people started to mention taking him a trip here or there i was pretty terrified. I didn't want him to go, but i knew avoiding it was going to cause bigger problems.
It became such an issue that i decided to contact my coach Rashelle, who Ive mentioned before. Luckily she had a free space available and decided to try some reiki on me. Rashelle visited my house and we discussed the situation. After a lengthy chat we got down to work. With any therapy Ive always been asked to give my anxiety a number from 1-10, before and after the treatment. And yes, after the reiki my anxiety had significantly dropped. I felt totally relaxed, calm and enjoyed it thoroughly. However, pretty much as soon as Rashelle left, i knew i still didn't feel good about it.
So Nathans gran, without the mobile phone, decided she wanted to take him for a day out. She would be over on the Tuesday morning and they would be gone all day. Time for a pep talk!
'Ok Lynn, you are going to face up to this and you are NOT going to avoid it. Avoidance is THE worse way to handle this! You will let it all go ahead and you will be fine. Should you panic, then too bad!! Go into your bedroom and roll around the bed, climb the walls or howl at the moon i don't care, your doing it'!!
Full of determination, i got up on the Tuesday morning and very quickly changed my mind. Nah i wasn't really liking the idea of what was to come. I needed a plan. I needed a way to get out of this happening. And so i decided that when Anne arrived Id be very apologetic and explain that my dad has Nathans pram in his car and unfortunately had decided to go out somewhere without letting me know. Oh dear id be so so very sorry. id offer tea and cake and id suggest she spend some time with Nathan locally. That would work!
Anne arrived and i explained our predicament. I was so sorry, but since it was a horrible rainy day, and since Nathan would refuse to walk everywhere for 4-5 hours, it would be crazy to take him out. 'Not a problem Lynn, not ideal but I'm sure we will manage'. Uh oh, i didn't see this coming! Since Anne had travelled a reasonable distance and my excuse hadn't worked, i felt i couldn't argue. So i was going to have to power through. When i asked where they were going she simply replied, 'ah not sure'. OK so shes got no mobile phone, she doesn't know where shes going. She will take at least 2 buses to wherever she decides to go, but in that whole time i will have NO way of contacting her.
Anne and Nathan left hand in hand and although i was happy for him i was terrified for me. There was nothing else for it but full on distraction. In the following 5 hours i was like a fiend. I cleaned my house, and i mean CLEANED. Every nook and cranny got scrubbed and bleached. Still with too much time to spare i painted. I painted FOUR rooms!! Still i had time to spare so i cleaned cupboards, threw out rubbish, put things up the loft. I hung shelves!! and when i still had an hour left i got in my car and paid my cousin a visit. When i look back i can laugh. I was absolutely exhausted by the time Nathan came home and definitely didn't have a day off. But it was a productive day, i didn't panic, and i felt i had fought a few demons. Since then hes been on a few more days out and i haven't felt half as bad as i did on the day i panicked.
Why was that day so different to the others? I'm again wondering if hormones can play a part in feeling higher anxiety levels.
Then it was Nathans Christening.
Everyday without fail, i take my medication at 1.30. Always have! yeh i know i am probably being over cautious but its just the way I am. My phone has an alarm to remind me of the time so i will never possibly forget. So, I'm running around like crazy making food when i realised it was time to take my tablet. Got the packet of pills out, noticed there was only one pill in the packet, took it, and got on with my cooking. My alarm went a few minutes later 'ok i can put that off since i have taken my tablet'. Everyone fed, lots of happy customers, i mean family. 'Thanks for coming and goodbye'
Phew, feet up and relax. Clearing away the mess i noticed the packet of pills winking at me on the table, And yes, there was ONE tablet still in it. OK, i either miscounted the first time OR i haven't taken it at all.
Now usually that thought would send me into total panic. Having never missed one id be worried about what to expect. The rational Lynn would say 'nothing is going to happen. You've missed one pill! No big drama here. You've been on them for that long that you'll still have plenty in your system. You'd need to miss them for days before you'd feel a thing'. The worrier in me was a bit more concerned with what to do now. My medication specifically says on the leaflet that should you miss one, then just leave it. Don't take anything and just continue at the correct time on the day you remember. So i was surprisingly very calm and very rational. I decided i would just carry on with my day and id take them at 1.30 on the Monday.
About an hour later i felt really weird. Dizzy. Disconnected, Anxious. Well that's all i needed to feel to be honest. It was all i needed to send my brain into overdrive! And so i panicked. and i panicked. and i panicked. For the first time in about 4 years i needed to call my mum for help. I needed her to come and get Nathan while i got myself back into a state of calm. Luckily although the panic was awful, i was completely handling it. I knew it was rising and falling. I knew i was going to be OK, and i just had to ride it out. Now i know people might say it was all in my head, or that i brought it on myself with over thinking, but i stick to the fact that i DID NOT FEEL RIGHT. Even the anxiety was different. very bizarre. I ended up calling an emergency number for advice. Eventually i got to speak to a doctor who told me that missing one pill couldn't have caused those symptoms. He told me i could take a tablet now, or even just half a one, then take my normal dose tomorrow. I took a half straight away, and whether it was psychological or not, it worked. I felt myself relax and the rest of the night was normal. BUT the reason i mention it is the following day i began my period and I'm definitely noticing my anxiety changing at this time of the month. I always have done, but its MORE noticeable than ever. I'm keeping a close eye on it now anyway and if it happens again then ill definitely be mentioning it to my doctor.... i still don't know if i missed a tablet or not lol .
The jewellery business if going quite well. Word is spreading and Ive had enough sales to keep me going and keep me pursuing it. Especially with Christmas coming i could use the extra pocket money. Id be grateful to anyone who could 'like' us on facebook or just spread the word. It was very difficult at first to find a balance between seeing to Nathan and starting the business online but now that Cherish is up and running its not been so hard.
Sometimes i write a blog and get a sense of achievement, that Ive written a good piece... well I'm not getting that tonight. It seems a bit messy and rushed, but i was aware of the weeks and weeks since my last post so i really just wanted to get something published asap. I have been super busy with the things Ive mentioned, plus weve both had flu and a horrible winter vomitting bug and now of course the lead up to Nathans birthday and Christmas, but its slowly coming together. I hope you guys are all good and well. I will try and not leave such a long gap between posts next time and ill be back before Christmas to tell you about a job, a psychic and a new man! Byeee x


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DOVER, Del. – Wesley College's tenth-ranked football team scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to defeat No. 22 Huntingdon College, 38-28, on Saturday afternoon at Scott D. Miller Stadium. With the Homecoming victory, the Wolverines improve to 4-1 on the season, giving the Hawks (3-1) their first loss of the season.
Steve Koudossou, who went over 100 career catches during the game, caught a pair of touchdown passes from Joe Callahan in the final period, and finished the day with six catches for 70 yards. Following Koudossou's first touchdown grab and a successful two-point conversion pass to Matt Bundy, which cut Huntingdon's lead to just a field goal with 14:50 left in the game, Zane Campbell picked off his second pass in the endzone.
Callahan then led the Wolverines on a nine-play, 80 yard drive that took just over a minute, giving Wesley a 32-28 lead it would not surrender. Key during the drive were three completions to three different receivers, followed by a 17 yard run by Callahan on a third-and-12 to get the ball to the Wolverine 40-yard line. Callahan then hit Jeremiah Howe for 21 yards before finding Koudossou for a 39-yard touchdown.
Huntingdon was able to advance the ball into Wesley territory on its very next drive, but after Sosthene Kapepula denied the Hawks on third-and-one at the 33-yard line, Brenton Barnes stuffed Austin Bennett to force a turnover on downs.
Rick Jackson received the call on all three plays for Wesley after the Wolverines got the ball back. Following a run for 16 and eight yards, Jackson then scampered for a 44-yard touchdown run with 6:32 left in the game to seal the victory.
The matchup of ranked South Region foes was a tale of two halves as Wesley led after the first quarter, 3-0, on a 25-yard field goal by Jon Storck. Huntingdon took its first lead of the game midway through the second period on a 65-yard touchdown by Taylor Belsterling but Bundy hauled in a 25-yard pass from Callahan with 1:59 left in the half, giving Wesley a 10-7 lead.
Huntingdon was driving as the first half was coming to a close but Kapepula's interception stopped the bleeding, allowing the Wolverines to go into halftime with a three-point advantage.
A pair of 1-yard touchdown runs by Taylor Hughes and Bennett midway through the third quarter helped the Hawks take the lead once again, 21-10, with 7:18 left in the period. The 11 point deficit was definitely familiar to Wesley, as it also trailed by a similar margin at one point last year to the same Huntingdon team in Montgomery.
On the Wolverines ensuing drive, Callahan found a wide open Kyle George down the seam, and George broke a couple tackles en route to a 60-yard touchdown, cutting the deficit to just four points with 5:14 left. Wesley then forced a punt, but after turning the ball over, Huntingdon's Zach Camp caught a six-yard pass for a score, putting the Hawks back on top, 28-17 with just over a minute left in the third.
Similar to the final score, Wesley held a narrow advantage in total offense (515 to 472 yards) and time of possession (30:04 to 29:56). The Wolverines also rushed for 181 yards compared to 111 for Huntingdon, who threw for 361 yards with Wesley going for 334.
Callahan went for over 300 yards passing for the second time in his career, completing 22-of-39 attempts for 334 yards and four touchdowns. Bundy was his most frequent target with seven catches for 85 yards while Howe finished with six receptions for 97 yards.
Jackson had a career day on the ground, rushing for 127 yards on just 13 carries while Callahan finished with 45 rushing yards on four attempts.
Ryne Taylor and Hughes split snaps under center for Huntingdon as they have all season with Taylor throwing for 217 yards on 15-of-29 passing. Hughes was more accurate (10-of-16) for 144 yards. Tyler Robinson and Belsterling combined for 12 catches which amounted to 290 yards.
Kapepula led the Wesley defense with 12 tackles, along with a sack, 3.5 tackles for loss, an interception and two passes defended. Besides his two interceptions, Campbell finished with nine tackles and a TFL while Dominique "Duke" Herald and Luke Maginnis were credited with eight tackles apiece.
The Wolverines are back home on Saturday, October 12, when they host Virginia-Lynchburg in a 1 pm start. Fans are also encouraged to bring canned foods to the game as part of Wesley's Annual Food Drive to benefit the Food Bank of Delaware.

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Staples goes splat but Target is on the markAugust 15, 2012: 2:13 PM ET
Investors are discerning shoppers when it comes to retail stocks.
The clear winners appear to be big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Target, while specialty outlets such as office supply chain Staples are bringing up the rear.
Shares of Target (TGT) rose to a new 52-week high Wednesday after it reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings and raised its forecast for full-year profits. The stock has gained 26% so far this year, outperforming Wal-Mart's (WMT) 24% rally.
Also on Wednesday, Staples (SPLS) reported disappointing earnings and lowered its profit outlook for the year. Staples stock fell 16%, dragging down shares of rivals OfficeMax (OMX) and Office Depot (ODP).>
Then, there are old-school retailers like J.C. Penney and Sears. Both are attempting to remake their images for the digital age. Investors seem more confident that Sears will be able to pull off the turnaround.
Related: Wal-Mart and others vs. Google in mobile pay war
Shares of J.C. Penney (JCP) are down nearly 32% so far this year as investors worry about the new pricing strategy put into place by CEO Ron Johnson, the former head of Apple's (AAPL) retail unit . Meanwhile, Sears (SHLD) stock has soared this year as the 126 year-old retailer has closed hundreds of stores and announced plans to spin-off certain brands.
Overall, U.S. retail sales rose for the first time in four months in July, edging up 0.8%, according to government data released earlier this week. But economists say the American consumer remains cautious given the lackluster job market and the uneven recovery in home prices.
But a wary consumer seems to be a boon for the big-box stores, which sell everything under the sun and have enormous pricing power.
Related: J.C. Penney CEO impresses despite loss
Target said its results were driven by sales of groceries and a promotion that encourages consumers to use discount credit cards.
On the other hand, there's Michael Kors (KORS). The luxury lifestyle brand founded by the Project Runway judge of the same name recently reported better-than-expected results and signaled that it expects profits to continue rising this year.
So while consumers are apparently still looking for bargains when it comes to food, some are willing to splurge on fabulous accessories.


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Madigan: Phusion agrees to ban alcoholic energy drinks
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[March 26, 2014]
CHICAGO — On Tuesday, Attorney
General Lisa Madigan announced an agreement with Phusion Projects
LLC to ban the production and sale of its caffeinated alcoholic
beverages nationwide, including the popular Four Loko alcoholic
energy drink.
"Phusion used marketing and sales tactics that glorified alcohol
use and promoted binge drinking," Madigan said. "This agreement is a
significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to reduce access to
dangerous caffeinated alcoholic beverages, especially to underage
Under the agreement, which 19 other attorneys general and the
city of San Francisco joined, Phusion will not manufacture
caffeinated alcoholic beverages and will also reform how it markets
and promotes its non-caffeinated flavored malt beverages, including
Four Loko. Additionally, Phusion must not:
Promote binge
drinking, drinking while driving, consuming an alcoholic
beverage by means of a rapid ingestion technique or device, or
underage drinking.
Promote to
consumers, wholesalers, distributors or marketers the mixing of
its flavored malt beverages with products containing caffeine.
Sell, offer for
sale, distribute or promote alcoholic products to underage
Hire underage
individuals, or actors under the age of 25, to promote alcohol
Hire models or
actors who are under the age of 25 or who appear to be under the
age of 21 for its promotional materials.
Promote flavored
malt beverages on school or college property, except at retail
establishments licensed to sell alcoholic products.
Use names,
initials, logos or mascots of any school, college, university,
student organization, sorority or fraternity in Phusion's
promotional materials for its alcohol products.
Distribute, sell, provide or promote
merchandise bearing the brand name or logo of flavored malt
beverages to underage individuals.
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Phusion will also police its websites and social media accounts
for posts that depict or describe consumption of its caffeinated
alcohol beverages, mixing of its flavored malt beverages with
products containing caffeine, or alcohol abuse. It will also inform
its distributors and retailers that its flavored malt beverages
contain alcohol and will advise retailers to display its flavored
malt beverages separate and apart from nonalcoholic products.
The agreement announced last week is the attorney general's
latest effort to protect young people from harmful products. In
2008, Madigan, the attorneys general of 12 other states and the San
Francisco city attorney initiated investigations of the two leading
manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks at that time, MillerCoors
Brewing and Anheuser-Busch Inc, which resulted in halting their
production of these types of beverages.
In 2007, Madigan urged the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade
Bureau to increase its efforts to prevent dangerous, misleading
claims by alcoholic energy drink manufacturers. Similarly, Madigan
joined other attorneys general that same year in urging
Anheuser-Busch to change its advertising of another alcoholic energy
drink, Spykes, and the company pulled the drink from store shelves.
The "Assurance of Voluntary Compliance and Voluntary
Discontinuance" agreement was entered with Madigan, the states and
the city of San Francisco with Phusion Projects LLC and its officers
Jaisen Freeman, Christopher Hunter and Jeffrey Wright. Joining
Madigan in the agreement with Phusion were attorneys general from
the following states: Arizona, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New
Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and Washington.
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text: I have some Hard Maple drying in my basement. According to the little moisture meter I just got, it says it's at 13% + or - 2% accuracy. Is this ready to be cut down into blocks, sealed and dryed out fully?? I just picked up a 14" 4 speed Harbor Freight bandsaw today...for $288 brand new and I need to get the riser kit and blades and stuff.


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HERSHEY, Pa. -- A property leased by the University Libraries for the past five years in Ferguson Township will soon belong to Penn State.
Today (March 15), the Penn State Board of Trustees approved the $3,648,000 acquisition of 3110 Research Drive in Cato Park from State College-based developer Torron Group L.P.
The appraisal of the property was "considerably higher" than $3.6 million, according to Daniel W. Sieminski, associate vice president for finance and business. The University's lease agreement was to last until December 2017.
"By purchasing now, the University will save almost five years in lease costs estimated in excess of $2 million," he said.
The property includes a 30,215-square-foot warehouse and 44 parking spaces. Built in 1973, the building is "very well maintained," according to Sieminski, but he said it would likely need a new roofing system in the short term.
Leased by University Libraries since November 2007, the warehouse has been used for book storage and retrieval, and will continue to be used for that purpose, according to Sieminski.
The acquisition is contingent upon the property being deemed acceptable by University representatives and the Office of Physical Plant. If deemed acceptable, the property's purchase is expected to be finalized in the near future.


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1 ¾ cups (14 oz or 395 gms) sugar
Splash of apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combine the egg whites, sugar and vinegar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Using your (clean, washed) hand, reach in the bowl and stir the three together, making sure the sugar is moistened evenly by the egg whites and they make a homogeneous liquid.
Over a saucepan of simmering water, warm the egg white mixture. Use one hand to stir the mixture continuously, feeling for grains of sugar in the egg whites. As the liquid heats up, the sugar will slowly dissolve and the egg whites will thicken. This step is complete when you don't feel any more sugar crystals in the liquid and it is uniformly warm, nearly hot.
Remove the mixing bowl from the saucepan and return it to the stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Whisk until you reach soft peaks. In the last 10 seconds of mixing, add the vanilla to the meringue and mix thoroughly.
When you're ready to plate the dessert, spoon the meringue onto a plate (or use a piping bag) and use a blowtorch to broil.


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AS THE summer's sales come to an end, analysts have offered a mixed outlook for retail investment with signs that institutions and super funds have turned towards shopping centres, pursuing high yields, but Australia's continuing "retail revolution" means the long-term outlook remains unclear.
A report released by consultancy firm Urbis shows shopping centres have outperformed all other property sectors in the past five years, and will continue to draw significant institutional and superannuation fund investment.
Urbis national director for valuations and property advisory Matthew Cleary said Australia's largest shopping centres had returned 6.9 per cent per annum over the past five years, with results for the past three years even stronger at 9.6 per cent.
Mr Cleary said low growth and low inflation meant investors were now searching for strong yields, and retail centres appealed because of their limited supply, stable returns, consistent income streams and low vacancy rates.
Urbis' optimism is at odds with BIS Shrapnel's 10-year retail property forecast (2012-22), released last July, which suggested commercial property investors would shift from retail property to high-performing office and industrial developments because an oversupply of retail space occurring concurrently with increased online and/or overseas shopping meant Australia's retail heyday was over.
CBRE's national director of retail investments, Steve Lerche, said the outlook was unsettled.
"Investors will pay a premium for A-grade stock," he said, "but secondary stock is going to find it much, much tougher."
Lower interest rates meant some investors were looking to the retail sector for stronger yields but they were choosing property carefully.
Mr Lerche said Australian retailing had been relatively stagnant for 20 years or so and cheaper overseas travel (and the shopping it allowed), and increased online shopping, meant Australian shopping centres no longer had a captive audience and would need to innovate and mature.
Subregional shopping centres – those with 10,000-30,000 square metres and one discount department store and a supermarket – could do well, he said.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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I'm not someone who runs to the doctor without a darn good reason.
I don't know if it's cowboy stoicism, frugality, fear, stubbornness or the distance to the doctor, but I usually just stay put and tough it out. It's not a recommended attitude given the importance of preventive care, I know.
However, I do practice on-ranch preventive care, old-fashioned remedies outside the realm of medical miracles and prescribed panaceas.
I get a lot of exercise, some in the regular course of the day on a not-so-automated ranch and some where I actually pick up my weary bones and force myself to move around for fun and the health of it.
They say riding horse is good exercise. The rider doesn't get as much of a workout as the horse but it tones up the muscles that keep you from falling off, and it's good for the head — most times.
I was recently riding horse to get the kids outside for some fresh winter air. I was pulling them on a "sled" — the hood of an old pickup, actually — behind the horse and going at a good lope.
It was good, clean fun until we suddenly discovered a three foot deep bull hole underneath the snow. By "we" I mean the horse and me. Bull holes under the snow don't bother sledders.
It was quite a wreck when we discovered the hole, hindquarters over teakettle, or pick another anatomical expression, as the saying goes.
The horse went down, plowed snow with his nose and began to roll sideways. In similar top-heavy fashion, I got free of the stirrups (a good thing) and with a strong gravitational pull my head went through the snow and made firm, sudden contact with frozen Mother Earth (a not so good thing).
As the snow fog settled, three little voices piped up.
"Are you okay Dad?"
"Um, groan, yeah, I think so."
The horse stood there and didn't run home. I mounted back up, we did a little more sledding and called it a day.
The next day, I realized I couldn't turn my head anymore. And that's a handy thing to be able to do when you want to see something besides what's straight ahead. Sleep was a bit tortured, and waking up felt worse, not better.
After 42 years of chiropractor-free living, I decided to give one a call and we worked in an appointment with another trip I had to make anyway. The X-rays looked good. Maybe ranch life wasn't so hard on me. He said some of the worst X-rays he sees are from people who sit at a desk all day, every day.
He did some other tests. I thought he was talking about the ear tag numbers of cows — C2, T5, L4 — but I guess it had something to with little bones in my back and neck.
Then he put me down face first, I took a deep breath, and just when I was getting comfortable, KA POW! CRACK! UFF DA!
I kind of knew it was coming, but, still, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. I laughed. That's usually the one I pick.
He did that little trick a few more times and then hooked me up to some kind of converted electrical fencer to work on the muscles around my neck.
If lightning takes out our electric fencer on the ranch, I'm going to see if I can borrow his.
They sent me off with an appointment card to come back again in a couple days. They always do, don't they? But here's the end of the story: I can turn my head again, I feel pretty good and I'm ready for the next wreck.
Would it have gotten better on its own? I don't know. But I learned something, I feel better and I was able to write a column about it. I'd call it two successful visits to the chiropractor. I suppose next time it'll take three appointments, though.


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Those seeking more intense Zen training for a period of a year or more are encouraged to apply to practice in residence at City Center. The City Center community is home to approximately 45 to 65 residents, both lay and ordained. All residents are expected to participate in the daily zazen schedule (including sesshins), attend classes, and have contact with a practice leader. Some residents work for Zen Center, some work outside, some stay for many years, and some become residents for only one practice period.
New City Center residents usually begin with a practice period with the City Center sangha, joining as a "practice period resident." Once the new practitioner has gained some experience with the community and found their presence in work and sangha practice, it is possible to apply for longer-term residency. Those with Zen practice experience at a Zen Center affiliated sangha are also encouraged to apply. Longer-term stays in the building are decided through deep intention, consultation with a practice leader, and an interview with the City Center Director.
For residential practice there are very nice single and shared accommodations in the City Center building, as well as single rooms in two beautifully restored Victorian flats at 366-368 Page Street. To get more information or apply for a residential practice period, please call the City Center front office at our toll free number 888.743.9362 or our local number 415.475.9362 or email City Center.


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Depositing & Rejects
Not all products are fit to be sold. Products can be rejected by sight for reasons such as an irregularity or deformity, or they may fail a safety test such as metal detection.
It is then necessary to remove the products from the production line. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this including a retracting tail which allows the rejected product to drop onto another conveyor or into a bin to be taken away or diverters, pushers, or gates to manipulate the product route.
Sometimes, product needs to be placed onto another conveyor or a tray in precise rows or columns. A retract conveyor can be equipped with sensors to ensure the product is placed exactly where it needs to be on whether it's in a box, or on another conveyor.


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CORVALLIS, Ore. - A large study of family child care providers shows that while nutrition standards are often met, most children ages 2 to 5 are not getting enough physical activity and are exposed to the television for most of the day.
A study of about 300 home-based child care providers by Oregon State University's Stewart Trost, an internationally-recognized expert on childhood obesity issues, sheds light on both positive and negative aspects of family daycare providers. The findings are published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Trost, who directs the obesity prevention research core at the new Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children at Oregon State, said a big concern was television exposure in such a young age group. The providers surveyed were caring for young children up to age 5, and two-thirds of providers said they had the TV on most of the day. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than two hours of television per day for children between the ages of 2 and 5, and discourages any television viewing for children younger than 2.
In addition, while many providers (78 percent) reported offering more than an hour of time for active play daily, 41 percent said children sat for extended parts of the day. Also of concern to the researchers: A majority (63 percent) restricted active play or exercise as punishment for kids.
"Would you withhold fruits and vegetables for kids who misbehave and negatively affect their health?" Trost said. "All the research shows that restricting physical activity makes children more, not less, likely to misbehave. So it's not even an effective means of punishment."
Trost said the most eye-opening result of the study was that less than half of the providers had received any training in physical activity. Trost's past research has shown that children in family daycare get an average of only seven minutes of physical activity per hour. Group this with the 114 percent rise in childhood obesity in the last 30 years, and Trost said it is time to act on this crisis facing American children.
He said providers did "pretty well" in supporting healthy eating habits. Very few reported serving fried foods or high-fat foods, and a low percentage of providers served sweets or chips as snacks.
One area of nutritional concern was the use of whole milk and an over-reliance on fruit juice. More than 50 percent of providers reported serving juice every day, and less than 14 percent served low-fat milk regularly.
"There is a misconception that whole milk is what should be served to youngsters," Trost said. "Low-fat or skim milk has just as much vitamins, and is much healthier. And fruit juice, even 100 percent juice, is mainly sugar and is not what we recommend."
Trost said weaning American children off juice is not an easy task, and child care providers are probably doing what they think is best for kids.
"Juice boxes are part of the culture, and it is hard to break those habits and the heavy influence of marketing, on both parents and child care providers," he said.
Trost and colleagues at OSU Extension Service, in response, have begun a four-year intervention study called the Healthy Home Child Care Project with family daycare providers in a five-county area from Portland to Eugene. The largest intervention of its kind, this $1.2 million project is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It will collect data on what Oregon family care providers are doing, as well as seek to improve nutritional and physical activity standards through Extension-based training.
"We've got an epidemic that affects the future of our children, and we need to act," Trost said. "We need to put the research into the hands of the people caring for our youth and start getting results."
Stewart Trost, 541-737-5931
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Moonlit Pursuit/Dawn Dash (TCG)(Redirected from Moonlit Pursuit (TCG))
Moonlit Pursuit/Dawn Dash (Japanese: 月光の追跡, 夜明けの疾走) is the collective name given to the fourth Japanese expansion of cards of the Diamond & Pearl era of the Trading Card Game. The set is split into two subsets, Moonlit Pursuit and Dawn Dash.
In order to cover two different aspects of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the fourth Japanese expansion of the DP Series was split into two subsets. The first, Moonlit Pursuit, is based on the legendary Pokémon Cresselia and its rivalry with Darkrai, with the name referencing the fact that Cresselia is a roaming Pokémon. The second, Dawn Dash, is based on Leafeon and Glaceon, the two new evolutions of Eevee. The five previous Eeveelutions were also included in the two subsets.
With the expansion split in two, 130 of its 143 cards were also split between the two subsets. 65 cards were available only in Moonlit Pursuit and another 65 were available only in Dawn Dash. Thirteen cards, including Eevee (which was required for its evolutions spread across the two subsets) and the basic Energy cards, could be obtained in either of the subsets.
The cards released in the expansion have spanned a total of three English-language expansions. This was for several reasons: the five-and-a-half month gap between the release of this and Shining Darkness, the previous expansion; the removal of cards from that expansion that were related to the tenth Pokémon movie; and the fact that, at the time of its release, Darkrai had not been officially announced in English-language territories.
The first cards from the expansion were released in Secret Wonders: these were Weavile, Gardevoir, Gardevoir LV.X and Honchkrow LV.X. Roselia, Roserade, Magmar, Magmortar, Electabuzz and Electivire from the expansion's half deck were also moved into the expansion. After that, almost all cards from Moonlit Pursuit, as well as several cards from Dawn Dash, were released as Great Encounters, based on Cresselia and Darkrai, as well as the tenth Pokémon movie, The Rise of Darkrai. Finally, the remaining cards from both subsets, along with cards from the Entry Pack '08 and some DP-P Promotional cards, were released in Majestic Dawn.
- The expansion retires the long-standing Mysterious Fossil, which had been in circulation since 1999. In Moonlit Pursuit, the new Helix Fossil card is available for evolution into Omanyte, as are Dome Fossil and Old Amber in Dawn Dash for evolution into Kabuto and Aerodactyl respectively. With this change, all Fossil Pokémon now have their own Trainer card from which to evolve.
- This expansion features the first new Special Energy cards of the DP Series: Call Energy, Health Energy and Recover Energy.
- The contents of the Magmortar vs Electivire Deck Kit spanned the same three English expansions as the two subsets; however, some reprints with alternate artwork were also released in POP Series 7.
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|This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.


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This animated drawing is a recorded motion path of drum sticks in process of performing rhythmic composition. Motion trajectory was captured by Vicon MX system, raw CSV files were translated into visual language in C4D. - odaibe
This animated drawing is a recorded motion path of drum sticks in process of performing rhythmic composition. Motion trajectory was captured by Vicon MX system, raw CSV files were translated into visual language in C4D. - odaibe
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhard) are artist explorers of the natural world, they build installations and moving image with animation and sound drawn from their encounters with prestigious scientific institution such as NASA's Space Science Laboratories and the Smithsonian Archive as well as journeys to alien places like the Galapagos Islands and Ecuadorian volcanoes.
Two new works drawn from their other worldly travels, Worlds in the Making and Inferno Observatory are now showing at FACT in Liverpool, UK, Peter Merrington talked to the artists about their work.
Video animation inventor Steve Rutt passed away May 20th. In addition to his work in video art, Rutt is known for creating the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer in 1972 with Bill Etra.
As a tribute, Felix Turner created the Rutt-Etra-Izer emulator:
Rutt-Etra-Izer is a WebGL emulation of the classic Rutt-Etra video synthesizer. This demo replicates the Z-displacement, scanned-line look of the original, but does not attempt to replicate it's full feature set.
The demo allows you to drag and drop your own images, manipulate them and save the output. Images are generated by scanning the pixels of the input image from top to bottom, with scan-line separated by the 'Line Separation' amount. For each line generated, the z-position of the vertices is dependent on the brightness of the pixels.
(manipulated image is from Ryan Trecartin's Ready)
More on Duh-Real and Computers Club. Interview with DIS. Petra Cortright's 2007 interview with Katheleen Daniel for Rhizome.
In 1999, British TV series The Dope Show profiled experimental animator Mary Ellen Bute (1906—1983.) Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker (who has since collaborated with Martin Scorsese on dozens of films) is interviewed. Also look for a young "Ronnie Walken," who appeared in one of her live-action films before changing his name to Christopher.
Originally founded in 1979 by Richard Fielding, Andrew Wright and Tom Ellard, Severed Heads was an electronic group based in Sydney. They used synthesizers, tape loops, and an array of electronics to yield a distinctive sound, one which could most easily be described as industrial music, which later developed into abstract pop. While the lineup changed over the years, Tom Ellard has been the main continuing force in the group, up until his announcement of its end in 2008. In 1983, Severed Heads began integrating live video in their performances, which became a mainstay in their work. This post collects videos of the group, the majority of which date from the early 1980s, and many of which document their use of video synthesizers. For more information about everything Severed Heads, check Ellard's official site.
The artist Kota Ezawa meticulously transforms found footage from television, cinema, and art history into simplified two dimensional vector-based animations. In City of Nature, a video commission for Madison Square Art currently installed in Madison Square Park, Ezawa appropriates and deconstructs excerpts from popular films including Jaws, Fitzcarraldo, Deliverance, and Brokeback Mountain. Removing all human presence, Ezawa concentrates on nature as the work's subject, and its relationship with our visual representation of it. Decontextualized and stripped of any narrative content, the film clips are recognizable, yet untraceable, emphasizing the pervasive and subconscious influence of popular visual media on our collective unconscious. The installation of the four screens in the center of the park's natural but constructed environment further accentuates the dichotomy of real and artificial landscapes.


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sophiedennis that's Feb 16th, the one in March is in the afternoon, details here
sophiedennis that's Feb 16th, the one in March is in the afternoon, details here
@sophiedennis it's at St Mary's Church, Totnes, 11:00 till 12:00 noon, tickets £5 on the door. It'd be great to see you (and @andycayenne?) there! #buzz #music
Playing Bach pieces with Robin Andrews of #buzz for our upcoming gigs (16th February and 3rd March). Some of his pieces work surprisingly well on the gurdy, against a drone!
Several #buzz gigs upcoming in the next couple of months! The first is on the , St. Mary's Church, Totnes @ 11:00 - , £5 on the door. The second is in early March in Kingskerswell, I'll keep you posted for details! Or email me at email@example.com to join the Buzz mailing list (we will never spam you).
Checked in to St. Mary's Church, Totnes for a #buzz rehearsal. Lots of nice tunes in our upcoming gig!
Checked into the Steam Packet Inn for the session/#buzz rehearsal
Robin Andrews, the other half of #buzz, has got himself an #indieweb domain with wordpress on! Looking forward to helping him set up #POSSE, and exchanging pingbacks :)
The audio from the #buzz concert last December is up on soundcloud!
My favourite is the shortest — Parson's Farewell:
Checked into the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes for the neo folk session
In the evening () I'm off to a neo-folk session at the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes, with Robin from #buzz and some other musicians. Come along if you're interested in playing trad/new trad/new medieval tunes!
Just getting the latest #buzz rehearsal started! We're practising for our next gig at St. Mary's church
Thanks to everyone who came, btw. Felt like a welcoming, responsive audience and really made the atmosphere great! #buzz
The #buzz concert videos are up on YouTube!
Current status: mangling a 4GB iPad 2 (!!) video of our first #buzz concert into little YouTube snippets
The concert was a success! Videos coming soon. Not too bad a turnout for our first gig.
Checked in to St Mary's church, Totnes for our Buzz gig today
Rosa das Rosas, an excerpt from the Buzz rehearsal today. If you like it, come along to our concert on the 8th!
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So there's this guy that's so in love with a girl that he can't even imagine her naked. She makes him sick when she's around; forces him to throw slurring drunken tantrums, perform circus stunts to get her attention and fuck his friends around. Anyway, one night he nods off and dreams one of those picture-perfect reveries where they're both asleep in his bed – tangled together like two lengths of string.
When he wakes up, he feels like Christmas – like everything he dreamt last night actually happened – and so the next time he sees her, he comes up from behind and plants a pillow-kiss on her collarbone. Of course, then she turns around, thumps him in the face and runs off. And that is the end of the subject.
"I was just pretending"
Rosie Thomas is a fantasist; a doe-eyed romantic in pigtails and pink ribbons, who rambles through dream and reality as if she can't tell the difference. As though they're the same thing. Though the lingering, love-bitten lullabies that make up this record sing of real-life relationships, the longing and hope she fills them with make you wonder whether she's living them, or just imagining.
But if that's the case, then make-believe's never sounded so beautiful. 'Only With Laughter Can You Win' is Rosie's second album, and while her debut 'When We Were Small' was a pleasant, plain-jane strumathon, here the wallpaper-acoustics are replaced with humming harmonics, empty-concert-hall atmospherics and sparse, one-note piano playing.
It all creates an uncluttered canvas, allowing Rosie's coy, cotton-soft, weeping whisper of a voice to do her songs justice. And what songs! Iron & Wine's Sam Beam adds his bluesy whispers to the lovely folksy lament of 'Red Rover;' 'I Play Music' is full of "this is who I am" vindication; 'One More Day' is a dew-eyed mourning of missed opportunities; and 'All My Life' meanders into a mesmeric true-love confession.
There are countless criticisms to be made about this album, but I won't be making them. Sure, you could say that her songs are just Christmas-card sentiment, swathed in syrupy arrangements, but this ignores the bravery of such heart-sleeve explicit lyrics, and the courage of not retreating into the kind of oblique emotioneering practiced by the likes of Beth Orton.
What we're left with is music that's made not by some studenty intellect, half-baked fashionista or style-mag subscriber, but a human. A human being who hurts and laughs and longs, talks in clichés and cries at crap movies. A human being who loves, cries and lies; who runs out when reality gets too tough, into some postcard-pretty world of her own; who is capable of producing such a fragile musical love-heart, full of warmth, hope, naivety and denial.
This is Rosie Thomas. Now close your eyes and just pretend.
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Before reading this, you may as well play the game. It's only ten seconds long. But, I recommend that you do it late at night, and all by yourself. OK, here's the link.
Blue helvetica typeface displayed on a black background. You click, and a timer appears on screen, counting off ten seconds.
In the end, like you always said, it's just the two of you together. You have ten seconds, but there's so much you want to do: kiss her, hold her, take her hand, tell her.
This is game designer Anna Anthropy's queers in love at the end of the world (2013), a work made using the Twine interactive storytelling platform that is as much video game as it is hypertext fiction. In keeping with hypertext tradition, one navigates the work by clicking on highlighted words to choose among narrative threads, playing out one of several imagined end-of-the-world interactions as quickly as possible, from biting to fucking to handholding, before time runs out.


text: An unknown portrait of Lola Montez as a young woman. Private Collection Print June 13, 2016 Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields Clare Wright, La Trobe University The early goldrush was a topsy-turvy time for rebellious women, such as the globetrotting dancer Lola Montez. An exhibition showcasing goldfields jewellery spotlights this era when penniless immigrants could dress like queens.


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Egypt sentences 11 people to up to 88 years
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday convicted and sentenced 11 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president to up to 88 years in prison on charges that include violating a protest law and assaulting police.
The case comes amid a sweeping crackdown by Egypt's military-backed government against the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities have killed hundreds of Islamists and arrested some 16,000 others since the army removed President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader, from office last July.
Five of the 11 people sentenced Saturday by the court in the southern city of Minya were tried in absentia. The charges against all of the defendants were linked to demonstrations in the town of Samallout to protest the violent dispersal by security forces of two weeks-long pro-Morsi sit-ins that killed hundreds and wounded thousands.
The presiding judge Saturday was the same one who issued death sentences against nearly 530 suspected Islamists in a mass trial in March. The ruling stunned rights groups and drew condemnation from abroad.
In Cairo, meanwhile, hundreds of secular-minded activists and protesters rallied in front of the presidential palace Saturday, demanding the interim president abolish a disputed protest law used extensively in recent months to jail and prosecute activists, including leading figures of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The law issued in November bans all political gatherings and protests without prior permission from police. Violators are punished with heavy fines or jail time. Rights groups have sharply criticized the law, calling it draconian.
While marching toward the palace Saturday, some of the protesters chanted "Freedom" and "Abolish the law, get them out of prison."
Others carried pictures of jailed activists. A few in the crowd tore down posters of former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who is now the front-runner in next month's presidential elections.
El-Sissi became hugely popular among a large sector of Egyptians after he led Morsi's removal from power.
However, harsh measures adopted by the military-backed government since then, including the jailing of several prominent activists, have opened a rift with a small segment of the secular-minded opposition.


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Welcome to the Tor Bridge Partnership
The Tor Bridge Partnership
comprises four schools: Tor Bridge High, Tor Bridge Primary, Plym Bridge Nursery School and Children's Centre and Cann Bridge School are located on one campus at Estover in north-east Plymouth, built as a Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project between 2009 and 2012.
We are an extremely ambitious team; the design and operational purpose of Tor Bridge is to give learners of all ages in all four schools access to all of the facilities on site. Our motto is: stronger together, creating better futures.
The Tor Bridge Partnership (TBP) is a committee comprised of the Chairs, Vice Chairs and Heads from the governing bodies of the four schools. It meets four times a year to discuss the partnership strategic improvement plan in the three areas of Education, Community and Sites and Business. Each school has its own expert governor committee typically comprising 5 or more full governors and a number of associates who provide specific advice and information. Committees meet approximately six times a year.
The Leadership Team (Bridgehead) comprises the leaders of the four partnership schools who work together collaboratively to further the aims of the partnership. They are: Michael Loveman, Headteacher of Cann Bridge School, Nicky Walters, Acting Headteacher of Plym Bridge Nursery School, Faye Anderson, Acting Headteacher of Tor Bridge Primary and Graham Roser, Headteacher of Tor Bridge High.
The prime aims of the partnership are:
To raise the aspiration in learners in order to achieve a better life outcome.
To ensure that all learners have access to, and use the opportunities of quality learning provision personalised to their needs.
To promote and strengthen links, tiers and relationships with the local, regional and national community in order to improve aspiration, endorse education as providing life improvement opportunities and deliver support into the community through the use of skills and physical resources.
maximize the opportunities for income generation of the partnership.
To identify and explore appropriate income generation opportunities to benefit the partnership schools.
Mrs Beryl Badger, Chair of Partnership Governors
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Welcome to the Borough of Chambersburg!
As a full service municipality, Chambersburg supplies a wide variety of services to its citizens and businesses; more services than any other municipality in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Typical town functions include:
A highway department (over 58 miles of local streets)
A land use & community development department (including planning, zoning, property maintenance code enforcement, residential rental inspections, and economic development)
A local Police Department
A combination paid & volunteer Emergency Service Department (including fire fighting, basic life saving EMS service and commercial fire code inspections)
A Recreation Department (including acres of parkland, a downtown Recreation Center, and the development of a new regional family aquatics center)
A municipal parking, traffic, and street lights utility
A residential and commercial trash utility
A Main Street downtown revitalization effort, and
An Elm Street neighborhood preservation program
Chambersburg's theme is "a clean, green, safe, and healthy community."
Chambersburg also is the home to more municipal utilities than any other municipality in Pennsylvania. Chambersburg is one of 35 Boroughs in Pennsylvania to operate a municipal non-profit electric utility. Chambersburg is the largest municipal electric utility in the State, twice as large as the second largest, Ephrata, Lancaster County, and the only one to operate generation stations. Chambersburg is one of two municipalities in Pennsylvania to operate a natural gas utility. The other is Philadelphia, which does not operate an electric utility. Nationally, Chambersburg is one of 2,000 communities to have its own electric system and one of 800 communities to have a natural gas system but one of only about 50 to operate both. Chambersburg also manages a regional water system and a regional sanitary sewer system; not through an independent Authority or an intermunicipal board, but under Council control directly. Chambersburg also operates a new storm sewer utility; one of the first storm sewer utilities to form under the new Federal mandate to regulate stormwater.
Situated as the County Seat of Franklin County, Chambersburg is a large and diverse community. Sometimes dealing with city issues, Chambersburg Borough still maintains a small-town quality of life.
Local laws, rates, policies, etc., are decided by the elected Chambersburg Town Council. Chambersburg currently has 20,691 residents (2016).
Jeffrey M. Stonehill, Borough Manager & Director of Utilities


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You can trust fashion designers to remind us winter's not far away.
It seems that as soon as we're back to work from the summer holidays, it's time to start buying a new wardrobe for the colder days ahead.
Pants are back for this autumn and winter. Not jeans and sweatpants, but tailored, classy pants that work as well in the boardroom as they do on a night out.
Patterns are still everywhere - there's lots of brocade about which can look amazing teamed with a monochrome peplum top. It might be a step too far for most of us, but even leather pants are popping up on the legs of the world's most fashionable. There is still a bit of colour blocking going on but if you are opting for a bright pair of pants, keep everything else simple. Both the cut and the rest of your outfit will need to be relatively neutral to let the colour be the star.
If you're wearing cigarette pants, match them with your highest heels. The longer your pants, the higher your heels should be.
Lots of women are scared of wearing pants, and tailored ones in particular, for fear that they will draw attention to their hips and bum. But there are ways to look amazing in pants, no matter what your size. Here are a few tips to find the perfect pair for your body shape.
If you're a pear shape, you might be used to reaching for bootleg pants.
However, flares will have a similar balancing effect and are more fashionable. Straight pants are a good option if you like the skinny look but aren't brave enough to go all the way. Stay clear of really intricate patterns.
Heels will help give you height and a wide-leg will balance out an ample chest or heavy midriff. Detail around the hips and thighs will also elongate your body.
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Simmaron Research likes to get people talking. At the FDA Workshop earlier this year, they booked a room, invited patients and physicians and then held a physicians round-table with some of the field's top doctors.
Part II of a three-part series focuses on Dr. Peterson of Sierra Internal Medicine /Simmaron Research Institute, Dr. Klimas – the director of the Center for Neuroimmune Studies at Nova Southeastern University, and Dr. Enlander, the Director of the Mt. Sinai ME/CFS Research Center talking about chronic fatigue syndrome treatment.
Dr. Peterson – Simmaron Research Institute
Dr. Peterson started off the treatment section with some hopeful news. Powerful new immune drugs such as immune modulators and cytokine blockers), he said, that have been and are being developed, can have dramatic effects in the right patients.
(Rituximab is an example of a new approach that paid off. The first of its class of drugs (monoclonal antibodies), Rituximab (Rituxan) opened up a new arena of drug development. Similarly, Ampligen and other Toll-like receptor affecting drugs offer new approaches to immune modulation. Drug repurposing efforts that are finding new uses for old drugs present some intriguing possibilities. An abortifacent, mifepristone, for instance, boosts natural killer cell functioning.
Breakthroughs in other fields are providing other opportunities. Studies documenting the role natural killer (NK) cells and the innate immune system play in preventing cancer have piqued drug developers interest enough the several NK cell boosting drugs are in development.
A Treatment Philosophy
Some ME/CFS patients, believe it or not, are relatively easy to treat. Patients with easily characterized viral infections have a clear treatment protocol waiting for them. If a parvovirus infection is found, for instance, it can be easily treated. Dr. Peterson has found that the 'wait and see' approach so often prescribed by doctors with ME/CFS in hopes that the patient will just get better is a mistake. He's found that, in his group of patients, treating aggressively early is more effective.
(This brings to mind the story of someone I know whose doctor used a less strong antiviral (Valtrex) for a significant period of time only to switch to a stronger but potentially more toxic antiviral (Valcyte) after his patient deteriorated significantly. The patient then experienced a dramatic and lasting recovery.)
We'll see that fighting pathogens in ME/CFS is not a cut-and-dried, one-size-fits-all process, and that physicians differ somewhat in their approach. In more complicated cases, for instance, Dr. Peterson is experimenting with combining immune and anti-viral treatments, and thus far is getting some encouraging results.
Dr. Peterson's use of the antiviral Cidofovir (typically used to fight eye infections caused by cytomegalovirus in AIDS patients) demonstrates how differently even this small group of physicians sometimes approaches infections.
Cidofovir (Vistide)
"Cidofovir is not a panacea for this disease, but I think it demonstrates clearly how we should be subsetting and treating the treatable people," Dr. Peterson.
Dr. Peterson uses Cidofovir regularly in patients with documented HHV6 and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections. (Since he employs more spinal taps than the other doctors at the Roundtable, he probably also finds more HHV6/CMV infections.)
Gunnar Gottschalk, Dr. Peterson's research assistant, gave an overview of the Vistide results seen in Dr. Peterson's practice. Vistide is an expensive drug with potentially serious side effects that requires a rather complex infusion process. Most patients need to relocate to the Reno/Lake Tahoe area to get at least 12 infusions. Once they start the infusions they need to get three blood tests a week. Vistide is difficult to administer, and its no surprise that most ME/CFS docs are not using it.
Gunnar reported, however, that a retrospective analysis indicated that 70% of ME/CFS patients with HHV6/CMV infections achieved a positive response. He highlighted three patients: two achieved substantial gains in VO2 max and their viral titers dropped to zero, and all three returned to work after being disabled.
The retrospective analysis indicated significant drops in viral titers, increases in VO2 max (but not to normal) in full responders, and increased NK cell functioning in the group as a whole. Of the full responders Gunnar estimated two-thirds were able to maintain their health and one-third had to restart the treatment after 6-8 months.
When asked to compare Valcyte's side effects with Vistides, Gunnar said that his experience was that people appeared to have a harder time on Valcyte than Vistide.
Then there's CMX001, the lipid-based analogue of Cidofovir produced by Chimerix that appears to be both more potent and better tolerated and which is beginning phase III (final) trials.
Simmaron believes it has patients that will fit Chimerix's criteria and is trying to get them into the trials. (Chimerix, by the way, generated $118 million dollars in gross proceeds when it went public a couple of months ago. Chimerix projects Phase III trials for CMX001 treatment of CMV infections in stem cell transplant patients will be finished in 2015. Since the drug is on fast-track status, the FDA will rule on it more quickly than usual once the data is in). Exactly what Vistide is doing (besides knocking down the virus) is unclear.
On the immune end, it's possible Vistide is relieving pathogen-associated NK cell dysfunction (although Dr. Peterson thinks more than that is going on) but it's unclear why the VO2 max readings in his patients go up. Gunnar did allude to the fact that some deconditioning probably was present in these very disabled patients, but Dr. Peterson thinks cytokine induced mitochondrial dysfunction may be occurring.
HHV6 and Chromosomal Integration
The tricky problem of HHV6 chromosomal integration should be noted. People who have HHV6 integrated into their chromosomes will always, whether the virus is active or not, test positive for HHV6 via PCR. Retrospective studies are never proof of a drug's effectiveness; you need a placebo-controlled, double-blinded study for that. But retrospective studies do provide the pilot data that could support a trial. (I was told that Dr. Peterson's Paris presentation generated a lot of interest.) This retrospective study is an instance of a doctor combing through and analyzing their past data, and hopefully we'll see more of it in the future.
Graded Exercise and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
"I wish graded exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy worked,"said Dr. Peterson. After mentioning the CDC toolkit (which emphasizes CBT and GET and does not suggest ANY laboratory testing be done) Dr. Peterson said he wished CBT/GET worked, and then said it might be helpful for patients who've gotten well enough, but that even if it was, it's simply not available. For all the talk on CBT and GET, Dr. Peterson knew of no trained practitioners in the US, except for one associated with Dr. Klimas' clinic.
Dr. Nancy Klimas – Director of the Center for Neuroimmune Studies at Nova Southeastern University
"I'm a splitter not a lumper. I try very hard to find …intervention points," Dr. Klimas
An Autonomic Nervous System Focus
Earlier this year Dr. Klimas reported that gene expression tests done during and after exercise suggested that the autonomic nervous system 'tanks' first in ME/CFS during exercises, and then drags down the immune system with it. Her research suggests autonomic nervous system problems trigger an 'inflammatory cascade' which then causes much of the post-exertional malaise that occurs in this disorder.It was no surprise, then, to hear her say that she spends a great deal of time early on with her patients trying to get that 'volatile' autonomic nervous system under control. (This is an example of translational medicine; i.e., translating research results (gene expression findings) into practical applications in the clinic.) This ANS-immune cascade problem, by the way, appears to be independent of pathogen or antibody results; it's a core issue present in many patients.
Pathogens and Immune Modulation
With regard to pathogens, Dr. Klimas said most of her patients with high antiviral loads/antibodies will be on antivirals, but generally more gentle ones such as Famvir (famciclovir). She noted, though, that a danger lurks when less-strong drugs inadequately control the virus: it can then 'break free' and develop resistance not just to that drug but to others in its class. A virus that develops resistance to Famvir, for instance, will probably also be resistant to Valcyte. Dr. Klimas then made a plug for controlled clinical trials of Vistide in ME/CFS.
"We don't really know how to distinguish which group is autoimmune and which group has chronic viral activation"
One has the feeling that the only thing keeping Dr. Klimas, an immunologist, from tinkering more with the immune system in her patients was lack of sufficient data. Referring to the weird immune ying/yang often seen in ME/CFS (some parts of the immune system being over-activated and some parts under-activated), she said she'd love to be able to knock down the immune activation present and build up immune cell functioning, but that building up cell functioning in a patient whose immune system is already overcharged could trigger an autoimmune response. Since no autoantibodies have been associated with ME/CFS, it's difficult to tell if an autoimmune response is already present.
Some indirect tests can help; high CD4/CD8 ratios, for instance, are suggestive of autoimmunity, and high CD8 levels suggest a pathogen is present. If her flow cytometry tests show high CD4/CD8 ratios, she's 'very nervous' about doing anything to bump up the immune system.
Immunovir (Isoprinosine)
Dr. Klimashas seen an 85% response rate to Immunovir biologically, and it can generally double up NK cell functioning. She obtains pharmaceutical grade Immunovir from Canada Newport Pharmaceuticals and a similar and cheaper over-the-counter preparation called Inosine is available in the US. Anecdotally she doesn't think she's getting as good a response from Inosine. Equilibriant – includes mushroom extracts that enhanced NK function in Chinese studies. Got lots of stuff in there.
Monoclonal Antibodies
A group of patients with extraordinary immune readings; i.e., TNF-a levels hundreds of times above normal, are prime targets for monoclonal antibody drugs (such as Etanercept) that target specific immune factors. In these patients, Dr. Klimas usually brings in a rheumatologist to get the drug.
Expect more news on this in the future, as a great number of monoclonal antibodies coming out of cancer research should be hitting the market, some of which may be able to assist NK functioning. Dr. Klimas said there's "Some pretty cool stuff in the pipeline".
"I want to make a plug for Low Dose Naltrexone" Dr. Klimas
Low Dose Naltrexone
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), not Lyrica or Cymbalta, is Dr. Klimas' first line treatment for fibromyalgia-type pain. A recent study found that it reduced FM pain by roughly 60% without the toxicity of Lyrica and Cymbalta. She called the science behind LDN (which is not produced in a low-dose form by drug companies but is readily available at compounding pharmacies) 'riveting'. That's pretty strong endorsement of an 'underground drug' that is getting more and more attention despite its Achilles heel of not being marketed in low-dose form by Big Pharma.
- More on the Low Dose Naltrexone Fibromyalgia Study
- More on Low Dose Naltrexone, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
- More on Dr. Klimas and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
Dr. Enlander – Mt Sinai ME/CFS Research Center
Dr. Peterson asked about GcMAF. Dr. Klimas said she hasn't used it, but Dr. Enlander's been using it for two years–first by injection and now mostly in his own yogurt mixture. Dr. Cheney probably may have started the GcMAF saga in ME/CFS first with a trip to Italy several years. A yogurt mix was available, but when one of Dr. Enlander's patients tried to make it the cost was $3,000. In the end, Dr. Enlander's bacteriologists at Mt. Sinai produced the mixture (MAF878) (and at a cost of $120!). Dr. Enlander does believe the injections are probably more effective, but he's gotten good results for both.
- Dr. Enlander on Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Recent research
Next Up: the Future! Dr. Peterson started off with hope, and in the next section we take a look at the future for ME/CFS physicians, what their three organizations are pursuing, and what they're looking forward to in the future.


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- NEW: 23 -27 November 2020: 1er. Congreso Nacional de Secado Solar y Cocción Solar de Alimentos - Online presentation from the UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Spanish. Contacto: email@example.com
- December 2020: SWC50 – The Century of Solar - In 1970 solar research pioneers met at the first International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Conference in Melbourne Australia. ISES is commemorating this Conference with a special 50th Anniversary Conference and Display, called the Solar World Congress at 50 (SWC50). The face-to-face conference, originally scheduled for 2-4 December 2020, will be replaced by a series of eight virtual conferences over the course of the month in December 2020. It will include the same panel sessions that were planned for the in-person planned event. More information...
- See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in El Salvador
News and recent revelopments
- April 21-23 2010: International Workshop about Safe Water and Hygiene Habits for the Home to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador. The event is sponsored by La Fundación SODIS. See here for workshop announcement and course description (both in Spanish). See SODIS for more information describing the solar disinfection technique.
- April 2007: Solar Household Energy, Inc.'s partners in El Salvador are currently implementing solar cooking pilot projects that their communities have embraced. More than 100 HotPots have been distributed in the past five months! The majority of women use them for cooking on a daily basis, helping to offset the time and money costs of foraging or paying for wood. Solar Household Energy continues to raise funds for this project with the goal of offering more families the opportunity to own a HotPot. Your donation will directly benefit participants and their families. For details about the program please go to http://www.she-inc.org/art.php?id=62. If you would like to make a donation please go to http://www.she-inc.org/contribute.php. (*Please specify that the donation is for the El Salvador program.)
- January 2007: Participants in the El Salvador HotPot program launch in November were amazed at how easy it was to use the HotPot to prepare chicken, vegetables, rice, and plantains. A solar cooking calendar log will be used to document their activities with the HotPot. Details about the launch are available here.
- November 2006: A group led by Herbert Aguilar and Dr. Antonio Gonzalez is developing a workshop for building and teaching about solar cookers. They plan to begin with solar box cookers targeted for lower income families, but hope to add parabolic-type solar cookers to be sold to families of higher incomes. The new workshop is located at kilometer 6 on the Carretera Planes de Renderos, with activities initially set for Saturday mornings. Contact: Herbert Aguilar
- November 2006: SHE's Latin America Programs Director, Camille McCarthy, traveled to El Salvador to conduct pilot project solar cooking training sessions with Feed the Children and Asociación Comunitaria Unida por el Agua y la Agricultura. During a two week period, SHE, FTC, and ACUA conducted seven trainings where 100 women learned how to use the HotPot. Presently, the women's groups are participating in the follow-up program. The NGO program coordinators conduct group meetings every two weeks where the women can share their HotPot solar cooking experiences.
The history of solar cooking in El Salvador
This nation is another of those in which solar cooking activity is based on the model known as PROCESSO, developed in Central American countries with the assistance of American Bill Lankford. The project was started in the southern part of El Salvador, in an area where refugees who had been living in Nicaragua during a period of civil strife, were housed after repatriation. Women, who are, of course, the cooks, were taught how to build wooden box cookers and to use them. Cookers were built by teams of women, continuing until one had been built for each member of the group. Later, each of the new solar oven owners assisted in teaching others how to make and build ovens for themselves. The method of technology transfer has proven to be effective though time consuming and therefore costly. (COSENI Case Study, 1996).
More recently, a number of students from a San Salvador high school built a variety of solar cookers, a parabolic, a box booker and a solar panel device, as a science project. The cookers generated considerable enthusiasm and the students next conducted demonstrations in poor neighborhoods.
Several other organizations participated in solar cooking demonstrations and promotions in the early 1990s, communicating with SCI on their work, but nothing is currently known about outcomes or activities in the new century.
- Main article: History of solar cooking
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Climate and culture
In El Salvador, approximately 65% of the population uses wood to cook, and the practice contributes significantly to deforestation and negative health impacts for women and children including respiratory infections and burns. Furthermore, firewood collection imposes significant time burdens and cooking gas purchase causes extreme financial hardships.
El Salvador is the most densely populated country in Central America with approximately 6.6 million inhabitants. Although it is not as densely populated, Guatemala has a larger population of 12.4 million. Both countries are growing fast: each has a fertility rate of 3.58 to 4.5 children per woman and a corresponding average growth rate of 2% to 2.6% per year. Approximately 75% of the population relies on burning wood to cook which causes enormous strain on the environment, the economy and on individual health. And it is against the law to cut down a tree.
El Salvador has suffered 92% loss of its forest cover and currently experiences a deforestation rate of 4.1% per year. In Guatemala, forest cover loss is around 66% with a 2% annual deforestation rate. The heavy use of fuel wood for cooking contributes significantly to ongoing deforestation. As the forests disappear, the lives of the people who depend on wood for cooking fuel become more difficult.
For instance, women and girls are responsible for procuring fuel wood and they must travel farther from home as wood becomes more scarce. This task demands 9 to 20 hours per week and minimizes opportunities to attend school and participate in income-generating activities. In other areas, it is no longer feasible to gather wood. Families in these areas can spend up to 25% of their income to purchase fuel wood.
In addition to the negative environmental and economic impact of fuel wood dependence, women and children suffer from health problems caused by cooking inside small, enclosed kitchens that often lack windows or other ventilation. Women and children inhale toxic smoke for hours a day, the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes a day, according to the WHO.
In order to save the trees, reforestation efforts are necessary. But El Salvador can supplement its income by producing Stevia if this agriculture is concurrent with reforestation.
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The entities listed below are either based in El Salvador, or have established solar cooking projects there:
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