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The specific ads were for a Hoodia patch. What the hell is that?!?! you ask. It's some kind of weight loss thing, extracted from the AMAZING!!! rare South African cactus Hoodia Gordonii...suppresses your appetite!!! Curbs your cravings!!! "A magic plant with a miracle ingredient!"!!!
No doubt, the theory behind these photos is that overweight female person sees these photos and says to herself, "Wow! It worked for them! Lookit how nice and slender they are (and tanned, too!)...I must try it, so that I can look like them!" For OmegaMom, it doesn't work that way. I look at these pics and my immediate response is..."It didn't work for them! Even those skinny minnies have to use this patch! I ain't gonna touch it with a 10-foot pole!" OmegaMom just bopped onto Bally Fitness's website, expecting to be able to grab a few more photos and make gratuitous commentary about advertising for the fitness industry being the same way. Typically, fitness industry advertising features tanned and toned bodies that make OmegaMom want to grit her teeth because it makes it seem that if you go into their facilities, you will be surrounded by these toned fitness automatons. Not my preferred method of exercising, I can tell you; it makes me feel inadequate just looking at those photos. Imagine my surprise when the Bally Fitness website did not feature the typical dark background with oiled toned body highlighted (with no head). It seems that Bally has Heard The Call of The Masses! Their current theme seems to be cribbed direct from Dove--ordinary folk trying to tone up. The tagline is "Meet Your Potential", with pics of everyday people, and a further tag of "They have goals--just like you. And now they're achieving them." I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you! What's happened to the advertising industry that they're allowing such appeal-to-the-ordinary-folk themes slip past the cracks?! Don't they know that the slick skinny toned body is The Way To Go?? Now I can't complain about how the ads for Bally make me more morose, because if the slick skinny toned body people have to go to Bally to stay that way, there's no hope for lazy schlubs like me. Now I have "Meet Your Potential". How the heck can I complain about that?? Damn them. They've ruined the whole flow of my post. I wonder if I can sue?
Quick note: Seems that Ji-In moved her blog for other reasons than the hordes of grumpy adoptive parents. However, I still feel the onslaught of self-justification and put-downs that she was receiving had something to do with it.
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At 4/01/2006 04:22:00 AM, Miss Cellania said…
At this point I'm willing to try just about anything to get rid of this 10 pound quit-smoking bellyroll I recently produced. But the nicotine patches burned holes in my skin, so what would a diet aid do, seeing as its probably some kind of speed? And I certainly don't want to mix diet drugs with the Zyban.
But wearing a medicine patch of any kind is now tre chic!
At 4/01/2006 07:55:00 AM, Kate said…
Miss C., I hate to say this, but when I quit smoking the last time, I went from 130 lbs to 165. It took me a year on WeightWatchers to drop the weight (then I started smoking again, sigh, don't *you* do that!). Anyway, try Weightwatchers, it does work, and these days there are really good recipes...


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My favourite teacher out of the whole school always the one to back me up when i was in trouble in DC very caring teacher able to have a laugh aswell, ah ah ah :P, never ever forget this teacher ..
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She was the best maths teacher i evr had so much so that she inspired me to teach maths myself and i still use all her methods.
best teacher ever.......explains to perfection...
she is the best teacher she never gives notes or late slips n shes my class teacher n she loves me she like a nana 2 me i love her .... Emma xx i love her like a nana haha =L
you really need to listen in her class and you will understand everything! Shes the teacher that i respect the most! SHE IS BRILLIANT! You dont mess in her class-she will be so nice to you!
she is a brilliant teacher. ill never forget the formulas she teaches me i swear!!
omg best teacher i have ever had... nd by god do you get to know your maths with her.... iv had her since 2nd yr
i thought i was gonna get her as a teacher in 2nd year but she's teaches pass not honours wish me luck that ill have her in the future(if she stays she is supposed to be leaving)
Nw girls that's just dwn right bold haha!,1of her famous sayings!1 of the most scariest teachers i've ever had but1of the best i must say,she's a teacher you just have2respect,i'll never4get my maths!
Excellent teacher but didn like me at all..she drills those formuals into ppls heads
One of the best teachers i ever had.she taught me maths 4 five yrs.scariest most respected teacher i ever had.got a b in jc and an a in my lcert.hadnt a clue bout maths b4 her.i went on to become a ma
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This was one of the best teachers at the school. She taught me maths for 5 years and undoubtedly one of the biggest influences in my life at the time. Thank you!
Great teacher, great person. was class teacher in 2nd year and we always had a laugh. miss her
shes lovely out of the classroom but in it......make sure u dont annoy her. wit her ur guarunteed an honour
absolutely brilliant! the best teacher i ever had. lovely woman and very friendly. love her to bits!
scary as hell. u knew your stuff in her class because you were scared not to but thats what makes her so good. had loads of respect for that woman and still do
Excellent teacher. Makes things very easy to understand and her notes are very helpful.
agree with the whole scary part but i am 24 now and can still say she was easily the best teacher I ever had got the A1 in the LC maths thanks ms jones
the most amazing teacher I ever had, did LC economics in 91 and she inspired me, huge personal interest. loved her
she must be a good teacher to put up with the likes of a certain person in 501 and goes by the initials of VOB
Miss Jones was such a fantastic Economics teacher. You could tell that she truly cared. Nearly 10 years on and I can still quote the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns off verba
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I improved so much in my maths skills with her. I can't believe I did honours LC maths... I mean, I was a dunce in primary school!!
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Excellent Maths teacher. Definitely the best and most helpful.
She was one of the scariest teachers I have ever had but definately the best. University was much easier because of her and I can never thank her enough.
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A new research report estimates that the healthcare industry will reach $370 billion in online transactions by 2004.
Compared with travel, finance, and even the steel industry, healthcare e-commerce is a late bloomer, says the report from Forrester Research. But the Web will become the foundation for a new healthcare industry infrastructure that supports complex, multi-party transactions between and among consumers, providers, insurers and medical suppliers.
With 32 percent of online consumers already shopping for health products on the Web, online health sales show no signs of slowing. Forrester expects 8 percent of all retail health sales --$22 billion dollars -- will move to the Internet by 2004.
Prescription drugs will dominate the category with $15 billion in online sales as Web pharmacies, insurance carriers, and doctors address reimbursement and liability issues.
So where are all those other billions of dollars? They are in the in business-to-business healthcare trade to the tune of $348 billion, the report says. About 17 percent of the industry total will move online by 2004, driven by the need to control costs, improve information flow and gain transaction efficiency.
New intermediaries will arise to simplify the procurement of everything from drugs to capital equipment, capturing $124 billion in revenues in the process. Meanwhile, insurance companies and HMOs will turn to the Internet to improve claims efficiency, bringing $224 billion in claims onto the Net by 2004.
"Consumers and businesses alike are being driven to the Internet by concerns about escalating healthcare costs," said Elizabeth W. Boehm, associate analyst in Healthcare Online Research at Forrester. "Although most business activities are stovepiped today, Forrester expects that the Internet will topple communication boundaries between consumers, providers, insurers, and health product distribution chains."


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NI Texel Club members travelled to the Ulster Farmers Mart for their Club Show and Sale in Enniskillen recently.
Judge for the evening was Philip Hammond, Tullylagan Texels, Cookstown. Breeders received steady trade and thanks go to Mark Crawford, TopFlock (Farmcare) for their sponsorship.
The sale of rams commenced with the sale of the Philip Hammond's first prize shearling ram and Reserve Champion from Leona Young's Redford pen. A Kilrail House Universal out of a homebred ewe by Ballymarlow Super Star, he sold for £357. David Hutchinson, Round Island Texels, Newtownbutler saw his third placed entry, a Drumderg UK son out of a Millcomb Powerhouse daughter change hands for £273.
In the money for a ram lamb was Ernest Hogg, Bunnahesco Texels, Lisbellaw, for a Crailloch Viking son out of a Kelso Platinium daughter. Standing fourth in Mr Hammond's line-up he sold to Adrian Liggett for £546, making top price of the night. Also selling to Mr Liggett for £420 was A&J Young's Kilrail House exhibit. An Oberstown Usain Bolt son out of a homebred ewe by Turin Marvel, he claimed Mr Hammond's first place rosette in the Ram Lamb Class and Overall TopFlock Champion.
The second place ram lamb exhibit, a Douganhill McFly son out of a homebred Llangwm Rocky daughter from Mr T.N. Reid, Beechvale Texels, Omagh changed hands for £336. Drumderg Willy John, another Oberstown Usain Bolt son from Alistair Breen's Drumderg Texel's pen, Enniskillen took the third place rosette and later realised £357 to D Williamson.
Sale of shearling rams averaging £283.50 and ram lambs averaging £262.
Show results sponsored by Mark Crawford, TopFlock (Farmcare) Products
Overall champion: A&J Young, Kilrail House
Reserve Champion: Leona Young, Redford
Shearling ram class: 1st, Leona Young, Redford; 2nd, A&J Young, Kilrail House; 3rd, David Hutchinson, Round Island
Ram lamb class: 1st, A&J Young Kilrail House; 2nd, TN Reid, Beechvale; 3rd, Alistair Breen, Drumderg.
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Ram lambs: S Ferris, 270gns; NT Reid, 260gns; A Breen, 240gns
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I awoke to foggy and overcast weather conditions. The day before I was assured by Someone that the fog would clear by 10 or 11, it did not clear the entire day. The clouds parted to sunshine several times to show me the coast and ocean. The pacific coast highway itself is incredible and literally took my breath away a few time riding the narrow road near the cliffs. Riding this beautiful road I found myself smiling uncontrollably at times.
Strange vegetation that washed to shore
As the day went on the traffic got terrible making it difficult to sight see so it was time to head northeast into the furnace. I stumbled across a bike rally in Holister, was fun too see.
I survived the heat and made it to Don and Merle's place where I was treated like royalty. It was so great to see them again!
I installed the abs sensor that was broke when I last rode in March.
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Here are the challenges of gardening with a kittie in tow. Everywhere I go, he follows me ... here he is checking out the melons.
Here is my first casualty of the season. This is, or was, my Goldena courgette ... I planted it in the covered bed where dratted slugs and snails have been munching away quite happily.
Another casualty of the covered bed is my beetroot seedlings ... out of sight, out of mind :(
My two courgettes that are in the outside bed are faring well, no munching yet !!
Here is my first broadie ... very exciting !!
I've still not managed to get any pea sticks yet for my pea bed ... they will need netting too very soon otherwise the pigeon buffet will be well and truely open ...
Here are my squashes & spare courgettes. I've left the courgettes outside, I hope it isn't too cold for them. The squashes are now in the greenhouse during the night and out during the day. I picked 12 snails off the squash plant pots when I took them out of the greenhouse :( They went for a flying lesson :)
I planted out the cauliflowers yesterday. I hope they are not too small. I've heard that the bigger the space between them, the more time they spend growing foliage, so I've planted them quite tightly - there are 5 across the bed. I've got three varieties in total: All Year Round, Purple Violet Cauliflower:
and Romanesco Cauliflower
The nectarines are developing nicely ... these are just bigger than a thumb nail at the moment. There are quite a lot developing on the tree ... not sure if I'm supposed to remove some or not. Vic is back soon, so for now I'll just keep watering them. The trees look really healthy
Here is a miniature bunches of grapes developing on one of the vines. They are so small, its inconceivable to believe they'll develop into huge bunches dripping with grapes by the end of the season.
This spider was in Vic's greenhouse. It was just about to wrap a wasp up in its silk, until I intervened. I don't think it was very happy about its lost meal.
The salad greenhouse is progressing nicely, here is a selection of the salads:
I think this might be my first cucumber casualty ... I've been very careful not to get water on its neck, but its leaves have flopped and it is definitely looking droopy ... I don't usually have much luck with them, so I'm surprised that I still have 5, well maybe 4 now ... we'll see.
My french beans look lovely ... I'm having to resist the temptation to plant them out ... I know its too early and they are still too small. My neighbour planted his out yesterday - they are already 1-2 feet high !
I've still got space for three tomatoes ... but no tomatoes yet haha. My mum & dad have some for me and my next door neighbour said he is growing on his side shoots for me, so hopefully I'll be able to fill the space soon.
Here are the Strawberries in the raised bed .. lots of flowers !
The damson blossom disappeared during last weeks heavy rain & wind - I wonder whether it had chance to set during its brief appearance. The pear is just holding on, but the apple trees are still in full bloom. The apples are in a slightly more sheltered spot or are on dwarf stock. Last year most of the fruit was left to fall to the ground and rotted ... I will have to encourage Vic to do something with them this year, they were too good to waste last year.
This is the Brambly apple, it's the biggest tree on the plot. I love looking up into its branches dripping with pink against the blue sky
The allotment was buzzing with bees today, so nice to have them back
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Grrr slugs & snails !!
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No sign of nectarnes or peaches having set fruit on our trees but maiybe a lone apricot. Maybe we should invent a new Olympic sport - mollusc wangingReplyDelete
I don't seem to be able to comment on your latest post - have you disabled comments?ReplyDelete
Just to say if you don't pick mushrooms then all the growing strength does go into producing one giant mushroom. If you pick them as they grow to button mushrooms size more should emerge
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This was years ago 2010 Slip .Fish were stocked in the spring that year .
that is awesome!... what is the stocking effort on this lake.... fall?
real nice brownie John ! and thru ice !!
Hate the taste of trout but that's one pretty trout next to that spinnin reel!
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One of the most exciting things about the new Hasbro Indiana Jones toy line is that it includes not one but (count 'em) three mail away exclusives! Readers of the Preserve will doubtless remember the rabid excitement with which we confronted the 'Rescue Doc' promotion from the ongoing GI Joe 25th Anniversary line. In spite of fears that the figure claiming process was far too complex and unreliable in this age of instant digital gratification, and that the actual mailing of small stickers to a mysterious PO Box, and waiting a number of months for a promised product, would never work out, it of course did. Getting the GI Joe mailer, emblazoned with the logo boldly on a white industrial package was excitement hard to describe.
Now, as if some unforeseen authority has let loose the gates of 1980s style product mail aways, Hasbro continues their theme. Bolstered I am sure by the success of their Doc campaign, they promise us all three fantastic pieces that you need only trade some pack-in stickers, a nominal check, and several tense anticipatory months of your life to receive. Most people are no doubt aware of this promotion already, even if you have not yet entered the wonderful world of 2008 Indy products, but I feel it is topical today as the check is in the proverbial mail. The Preserve finally got its act together enough to harvest six 'artifact' stickers from 3 3/4" figure crates, and send away for the 'Mystery Figure' that Hasbro is still compelled to try to keep under wraps visually until May 22nd. Of course, these items will be sent to kids and collectors far after we've all seen the 'Crystal Skeleton on Throne' in the theaters, but that will make it no less cool.
Being as we are, tremendous fans of the Ark of the Covenant, it is the mail-away exclusive from the 12" figures that really gets our interest going, which is a 12" scale model of the Ark itself, and it looks to be really fantastic. Here is the picture of what we assume is that very Ark, as taken in Hasbro's Indiana Jones display room at Toy Fair, 2008.
Hopefully the mass-produced version will retain that shimmering glory, and will arrive with the expediency of which we can only dream! Of course, it would help if we'd get that mail-away form in the mail too - soon!
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Lose Weight, Look Great, Live Forever
Okay Im not sure on the live forever part, but I havent died since starting it so is holding up so far.
The basic premise behind intermittent fasting (IF) is that your body isnt designed to operate optimally and be as healthy as possible by being constantly in a fed state. By fasting you let your body go into a different hormonal state that is useful for things like burning fat as fuel, fighting inflammation, preventing disease and other equally kick ass stuff.
I wont pretend that I can explain this stuff better than some of the guys generating the most buzz around the internet. If you want the quick, concise and in-your-face version then you want Martin Berkhan at LeanGains. He gets into some complex jargon, but gives the straight forward recommendations of what you can do. Here is the cliff notes version:
Dont eat for 16 hours, then eat for 8
Eat two or three meals during that time
Get enough calories during those meals (that means you get to eat normal sized meals, not 5 or 6 kid-sized meals)
Resistance training is a must. HIT is the method of choice.
Calorie deficit must be made with diet, not aerobic activity which is not sustainable in the long run
If you want a more scientific and in-depth approach then you can check out Brad Pilons Eat Stop Eat. He goes into numerous studies to prove his point, and as a former industry insider with a Masters degree, he really knows his stuff. His approach can be summed up quickly
Eat like regular during the week, but take 1-2 24 hour breaks from eating.
Spread the fast out over two days (ie. Stop eating after lunch on Tuesday and start with lunch on Wednesday)
Resistance training is a must.
You can pretty much keep your regular diet and the deficit is made with the fasts
Macro-nutrients arent as important as total calories consumed.
So hows this whole thing been working out for me?
Im one of those guys who HAD to have breakfast each morning or I wanted to bite the head off of my first clients head before the session was out. It was serious panic time if I didnt eat within a half hour of waking.
Wheres My Breakfast?!
The first time I tried skipping breakfast and my morning snack and not eating until lunch time (finish dinner around 8PM so 16 hours after puts me at 12PM!) I thought I might die. I was certain I knew what starvation felt like and any time I squatted down and stood up I was light headed. I was a wreck. This sucked. But Ill be damned if those pics that Martin had up werent sick. I wanted that 5% bodyfat look dammit! I had to rough it out, couldnt quit now.
Vascular Lats? Sign Me Up!
I quickly acclimated to the morning fast and even started to get some satisfaction from having that empty feeling throughout the morning, but found one problem. I typically workout around 11AM and HIT or low rep strength training was about all I could do. Any sort of HIIT training made me turn as white as casper and pretty much faint. Just couldnt handle it.
Now both guys say that cardio isnt needed for fat loss and I agree, but I was doing my conditioning work to increase my conditioning for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Boxing, I needed it! The only solutions I found was to cut the intensity, do them earlier in the day or put them off until after I had eaten something. Getting to the end of the fasting period and trying intense activity is a big no go.
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So how a out Brad Pilons 24 hour fasts? Ill be honest that I never quite got a full 24. Im not sure if it was boredom, anxiety or what. I know it wasnt hunger though, that goes away really fast and isnt a problem. Going from 16 to 24 is a pretty big jump and I got to 22 a couple of times and pussed out oh well. At least Brad says you get most of the benefit after 16 hours. Overall doing this is great for days when you arent terribly active and can keep busy. For some this may be a typical day at work for me it was Sundays at home.
So to cut to the chase, lets talk results: how has this worked for fat loss?
It has worked as any calorie restriction should slow and steady. The main benefits I found with IF is that its incredibly easy to follow. it really has streamlined my hectic early mornings and simplified the selection of foods. Just dont eat, then eat normal foods with plenty of protein and low amounts of timed carbs. Martin gets into some supplementation and I do take some amino acids as he recommends if I workout during the fast to prevent catabolism.
My diet was good, but not pristine and I know that to get really cut up it has to be much more regimented, but to be a valid experiment I had to make the fasting be the variable not fast and completely clean up my diet.
Will I continue this? Possibly. Definitely for the the next couple of weeks while I get ready for a vacation then afterward I am going to give Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet a try. He is quite insistent that 30g of protein within 30 minutes of waking will raise resting metabolic rate up to 20% and accelerate fat loss Ill have to test that out.
Either way this has opened my eyes that there is life beyond 5-6 meals per day. Your metabolism doesnt crash, your energy doesnt disappear (you actually feel more awake and alert), your strength doesnt vanish (but like all fat loss diets, dont expect any PRs while doing it) and even if I go back to eating in the morning I will likely use 24 hour fasting once in a while.
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By far, my favorite and most used cookbook is Claudia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food – an Odyssey from Samarkand to New York. Since Roden's book is, essentially, a Jewish diaspora culinary survey, the book serves as a veritable tour of world cuisine, or at least wherever the trade winds took Jewish merchants and frequent expulsions took Jewish refugees. Eastern Europe is given its respective space of course, but the most dog-eared battered pages in my copy are in North Africa and Asia, especially Morocco, Iran, Iraq and India (the dishes my dinner party guests may have already tired of are Fesenjan/Duck or Chicken with Pomegranate and Walnut Sauce, Kofta Mishmisheya /Lamb Meatballs in Apricot Sauce and Moroccan Mezze). Interspersed throughout the book, between different regions and courses, are short histories — personal anecdotes and more general histories — of the various local Jewry, such as a quick rundown of the three different Jewish communities of India (the Cochinis, Bene Israel and Baghdadis) and the once vibrant community of the Greek Jewish population of Salonika, that make the book equally interesting as a colorful and engaging ethnographic guide as it is a cookbook. The Sephardi World half of the book is subtitled "Many Styles of Sephardi Cooking, with Echoes from Ancient Baghdad, Medieval Spain and the Ottoman World." It more than lives up to the expectations that title inspires and includes recipes for savory pies from Salonika, soups from Yemen and various salads, rice and meat dishes from Iran, Italy, Morocco and Georgia. The shopping for the ingredients alone is worth investing in these dishes (especially if you have Sahadi's nearby, Sahadi's itself merits buying this book so you can actually feel like you are finally taking advantage of everything Sahadi's has to offer).
Once, while flipping through the book with my mother, I came across a story about the author's great-grandfather who was the chief rabbi of Aleppo in Syria. Already naturally inflated with ancestral pride (I was raised to believe Vilna Jews are inherently very special — hard even for me to tell whether I am being serious or not when I invoke it; it may have started as a way to tease my dad who has no roots in Vilna, where my mother is from, but if I am honest, maybe, sometimes, in private moments, I think Vilna Jews are a little superior), I asked my mother "Do we have any chief rabbis in our family?" My mother replied: "No, I think we're about 10th generation atheist."
Spiritual thirst is a totally alien instinct to me and most of my extended family. It is not something we have ever spent any thought or energy on. It is a non-issue. We did grow up with an insatiable curiosity about just about everything else though – history, politics, food, sports, art, music. Not that spirituality and engagement with the world are mutually exclusive, but the terrestrial world always seems to provide enough material for us to get lost in.
Growing up in Israel, especially with roots in a kibbutz, there was a very clear, loudly articulated and socially acceptable demarcation between the secular and the religious, often with much mutual disdain and incomprehension. And Israel being a Jewish country, "doing" Jewish things did not entail actually believing in their spiritual underpinnings. I carried this over when I moved here, and assumed that those who were modern, educated and sophisticated were surely also atheists who were religious only in their habits and practices of going to Church, observing holidays and following those precepts that helped them and made them good people. I did not – not for a second – think people actually believed. Especially not in the miracles. Living for many years in a heavily Irish Catholic neighborhood, I quickly learned about all the magical "stuff" but always assumed that like Moses drawing water from a rock and an angel moving Abraham's hand before he could kill Isaac, these were absorbed as myths with larger messages. Not so. Or at least not for a lot of great, sophisticated people I respected and admired. I learned the hard way that the Immaculate Conception and the Resurrection are very serious, non-metaphorical, business indeed. It was not merely about following the teachings of Christ. And of course, after my limited exposure to religious Jews in Israel whom I dogmatically distrusted, I also met religious Jews who had first rate minds and intellects and are leaders in their professional fields (the amazing and accomplished Twerski family comes to mind – Professor Aaron Twerski, a legal scholar, is maybe the top products liability expert in the country).
After a few years of absorbing this realization – that a faithful mind could also be a truly modern sophisticated one – I became transfixed by it. Rather than wrestling with agnosticism, I have developed a deep hunger for understanding this and am always eager to hear it discussed by those whom I respect or at least have thought about their faith with the intellectual rigor they have applied to other parts of their lives. Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens recently had a famous public spar about it in Toronto, though that was more about the evils and virtues of organized religion, which is a lot less interesting. But still, an opportunity to hear someone who has excelled at Britian's top institutions (and you know, was a popular Prime Minister, until he wasn't) discuss faith. But still, it left me unsatisfied, the rationality of faith itself wasn't dissected quite enough. My own personal attempts at engagement have mostly failed, as when a boy once asked me on a date, after learning I was an atheist, "But aren't you worried about Judgment Day?" — yeah that wasn't heading anywhere especially edifying.
At last, I have finally come across a truly gratifying conversation about the subject in a play called Freud's Last Session, at the Marjorie S. Dean Little Theatre at the West Side YMCA. In this fun, hypothetical , pseudo-historical jaunt that takes place on one of the most memorably ominous days in modern history – Sept. 3, 1939 – in Freud's study in London, where he had taken refuge rather briefly before succumbing to cancer, playwright Mark St. Germain imagines what a meeting between CS Lewis and Freud would have been like*, and their inevitable conversation about their respective "faiths" – Freud's sardonic declarations explaining why God does not exist, and CS Lewis' earnest, charming incantations of why he does – you very nearly want to believe him. I could have sat there for a few more hours listening to those two actors and that script. With the atrocities of Hitler about to be unleashed as the backdrop, the clear existence of evil and total absence of an interventionist God set the tone, and CS Lewis admits to wrestling with that very notion.
And yet when Lewis talks to Freud about that craving that all humans seem to be born with for seeking some type of God or power higher than themselves, even I, who have never had that craving, had to admit that Lewis was actually using logic pretty successfully to make his non-logical point, since it appears that most humans do (of course I believe it's because the as-yet-unexplainable-by-science leads some to this, but still, it is pretty prevalent!).
Psychoanalysis was of course also at play, with the two literally and figuratively taking turns on the couch. Both had fathers whose religious fervor affected them very obviously and directly, with Freud musing that Lewis sought God as the father he never had (or at least one he could love) and with Freud clearly wanting to eschew the faith of a religious father who cowed and submitted to the anti-Semitism around him rather than stand up for himself – in the play Freud muses that he didn't know whom he hated more, the man who had told his father to get off the sidewalk because he was a dirty Jew, or his father for doing so.
Another reason to see this play is the venue. One of the reasons I am pretty sure I won't ever leave New York permanently is because there is always more of it. The theatre is in the West Side YMCA, one of the most beautiful buildings I think I've come across in this city in many many years, and it had somehow eluded me until last week. Need I say more?
*From the Playbill – "In his book The Question of God, Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. writes, 'Did Freud and Lewis ever meet? The possibility is tantalizing. After Freud immigrated to England…(a) young Oxford professor visited Freud during this time but has not been identified. Might it have been Lewis?' – His speculation sparked this play."


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The stories on this page are between gay couples and include loving discipline. This is a group effort by some of the members of Dizzy's Discipline Den. We started the series December 2014. All TLR characters are original creations. Any similarity to other stories/characters or people living or deceased is coincidental. No money is made from this blog. All Stories on this Blog are Copyright - 2012-2018
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Chronic Illness
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- AnonymousJune 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM
Dear Dizzy and Zillah,ReplyDelete
Thank you very much for your Seminar series, which I finally had the chance to read without being interrupted. I've been sitting here trying to figure out which was my favorite but they're all so good.
I did especially love Chronic Illness because of the care and thoroughness that went into the research before the actual seminar was held, and the fact that everyone was involved in helping to make it just right.
I like the fact that the seminars are a group thing, instead of just someone standing up and speaking nonstop, maybe stopping on occasion to answer a question and continuing on. I really like the fact that he's trying not only to educate people but to bring them together as well.
Really great stories and I hope you'll write more soon.
Thank you so much, Pippin. This piece took Zillah and I long time to write, but I had so much fun writing it! I loved how much Quint (who is one of my all time favorite Tops!) helped Saul! I feel strongly that the seminars are shared sessions, not just one person lecturing. Each relationship is different so all ideas and input is very much valued! Hopefully the actual seminar on Chronic Illnesses will be written!Delete
Thanks, Pippin! Dizzy wrote almost all of the Seminar series, I just joined the fun for this one. I love how her seminars work, too. :DReplyDelete
I've read all of the "Seminar Series" and like the other commenter, I like how they are ran-not by one person giving a lecture, but by collaboration. I would like read the seminar of Chronic Illness and the Tantrum Throwing 101! I'd also like to read Saul contacting Theo and Quint to tell them how the day went for him.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to more
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2017 at 4:23 PM
Somehow I have missed this lovely story. I like the cross-over of the two worlds-Zillah's and Dizzy's. I've only recently discovered Zillah's stories-Quint is perfect for Saul to go to for help.ReplyDelete


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An under educated man is a gun with no safety, loaded with opinion but not enough fact to protect others from unwarranted discharge…Spaz listening to JUST enough NPR to have a vague idea of the political climate of the world, and then wanting to voice half-cooked objections and solutions to it all is kinda like that.
According to African proverb, "When elephants fight, the grass suffers." And no one expects the elephants to care much about the grass. I liken the current stalemate of our American government to an orgiastic pissing contest, during which the American public has been subjected to an R. Kelly sexual experience.
If I could renew my passport I'd go take a shower…in Switzerland. Of course, if they don't increase the debt ceiling soon I won't be able to buy soap. If my representatives had run on a more honest platform ("You remind me of my jeep, America") would they have been elected at all?
And for the half-cooked solution? Man-up. Someone in Washington needs to grow a pair, a pair so striking that his strut becomes a limp and when he hobbles up to the table he is no longer afraid to lose. He can embrace the confidence of his giant pair and remember that he, through and through, is big enough to concede; to give up a few yards on his side in order to propel an entire nation forward again.
Feel free to disregard the rambling exposition on a random personal proverb of a Spaz. After all, a Spaz by any other name is still grass to elephants at war.


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The law reduces battery of a relative to a civil offence instead of a criminal one in first instances, when the victim suffered no serious harm.
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I'm with OtherBill: well said. Do we have some code for this? Can we just get it checked in already? We've got enough +1 votes for the new feature, and I haven't seen any vetoes on the implementation of the feature, so let's just do the code... Cheers, -g On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:32:22AM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote: >... > I'm getting the feeling that you don't understand what people are > saying. Most OSes I know have the notion of a (configurable) temporary > directory. For the purpose of brevity, I'll only mention two families: > On Unix, you have the standard $TMPDIR,/var/tmp,/tmp search sequence. On > Windows, it's %TEMP%,%TMP%,%SystemRoot%\TEMP. Windows also has a > GetTempPath() function, that returns a user- or app-specific temporary > directory name. On Unix, _all_ three locations can be tailored for your > application, either by setting the environment variable, or by locking > the app into a chroot jail and mounting /tmp or /var/tmp appropriately. > On Windows the path can be set per-program. > > What we'd like to see in APR is not something above and beyond what the > underlying OS already provides; only a portable interface to those > facilities. There's a very strong argument in favour of putting this > into APR -- we can make sure that our implementation behaves correctly > on each target OS, which is something you can't expect of homegrown > solutions, as you've been saying yourself. > > If you're worried about apps not behaving nicely -- why, if APR doesn't > provide the APIs, people will just go ahead and use the non-portable OS > functions, or worse, think up their own. From a sysadmin's point of > view, there will be absolutely _no_ difference; bad programmers will > behave antisocially whether or not APR provides the portability layer. > > The ony one who loses not having this feature in APR is the responsible > programmer who would _like_ to use a portable API, but can't. Now that > ain't nice. > > -- > Brane Cibej <firstname.lastname@example.com> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/ -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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As an antidote to the rather rainy summer, enjoy our display of flower and landscape paintings by Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982). Morris partied with Ernest Hemingway and Peggy Guggenheim in Paris in the 1920s and was a 'bright young thing' on the social scene in London. At his show at Tooth's in February 1930, the press noted that he was all 'the rage' with his 'unusual range of subject….freshness, originality and innocence of outlook'. By the summer of that year he had broken with Tooth's and never had a regular London dealer for the rest of his career. Another journalist breathlessly reported that Morris had shaken 'the dust of London from his shoes and the glacial chink of the cocktail-shaker from his ears, and [gone] to live in the country'. With his partner Arthur Lett-Haines (always known as Lett), Morris ensconced himself at Pound Farm, Higham in Suffolk, and later at Benton End, Hadleigh, where he painted, taught art, and created two magical gardens. He became renowned as a plantsman, a breeder of irises and poppies, but was also the teacher of Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling.
The three flowerpieces span Morris's career. Wild flowers, 1923 is a riot of Mediterranean blooms painted while he was travelling in Italy and Spain with Lett, their rich impasto and fierce spontaneity reflecting his habit of striking out across the canvas without any underdrawing. Summer flowers in a landscape dates from 1927. In a 1928 interview in Design and Art, Morris stated: 'I am inclined to believe that selection from natural forms is the expression of our national genius….Neither has anyone exactly copied nature for nature cannot be copied. From natural objects, I obtain line for line's sake, colour for colour's sake, form for form's sake'. This painting comes from the collection of David Bowie – who had a very keen eye for Modern British painting – acquired by him in 1993.
In Iris, Welsh poppies, aquilegia and cornflowers, painted in 1966, Morris pays homage to his passion for iris breeding and his pride in his Welsh heritage (he came from a long line of Welsh industrialists and was the 9th Morris Baronet). The handling is more smooth and the colours cooler than in the 1920s paintings: each flower has a perfectly developed shape and 'personality' of its own.
Landscape with farm buildings, also from David Bowie's collection, dates from 1930, when Morris had just arrived at Pound Farm. Morris delights in the gently rolling, rich farmland of south Suffolk, with the trees just tinged with autumn colours. The direct, vigorous brushwork reflects a painter who was an intriguing mix of the innocent and the sophisticated, and a man who was a countryman at heart.


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I believe autism is in some cases a "special intelligence" as people in the autistic spectrum can be focused, detailed, highly intelligent and creative, a major attribute to society and community.
However it is devastating to those parents who find their child has significant symptoms consisting of language delay, poor social and interaction skills, delay in toilet training, diarrhoea or constipation, food sensitivities, self restriction of diet, tummy aches, hyperactivity, lethargy, poor concentration, eczema, self harm, repetitive behaviour and the list goes on.
"1 % of our children in the UK, are diagnosed to have Autism and related Spectrum disorder " Ref; Lancet 2006; 368; pg 210-15
It is a complex disorder which does not a have a completely clear and consistent explanation to it's nature or cause.
So what can we do? Scientific research is looking for an answer but it's a slow process. However the following nutritional and biomedical protocols have been found scientifically and/or clinically to contribute to helping the biochemical in balances that seem to appear consistently in that group of people and help alleviate some of the symptoms, sometimes changing the person significantly, such as;
I advise on protocols that can nutritionally be put together but individually depending on the person, testing and symptoms.
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A Wake to Rest, An End with New Beginnings
Written by In Other Words Staff
Dearly beloved In Other Words Communities,
There is no softening this announcement. After 25 years, In Other Words is closing at the end of June 2018. The current members of IOW do not come to this decision lightly. We are grieving. We invite all of you who have found even a moment of clarity, love, determination, and joy to spend some time with our reasons for closing In Other Words.
Some reasons for the closure are increased expenses and the lack of funds, volunteers, and board members. This is a cycle of In Other Words as an organization, and also the cycle of community spaces in capitalism. IOW periodically discusses closing because of a lack of money and people. This isn't sustainable, especially emotionally, for the people who come here and work to provide this space as a resource to Portland Feminist communities. Even if funds poured in, and masses of people showed up in response to this announcement, we would not continue our tenure here.
We cannot continue because we know reform does not work. The current volunteers and board members stepped into and took over a space that was founded on white, cis feminism (read: white supremacy). It's really difficult, actually, impossible, for us to disentangle from that foundational ideology. Volunteers and board members tried to reform and re-envision the organization, and have found it unattainable to do, especially with so little resources. We have experienced this as a very real reminder that reform doesn't work. Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Capitalism cannot be reformed and ever serve the people. Abolition is the goal.
We are then very excited and grateful that Critical Resistance Portland is working to keep the space on Killingsworth open as a community center. Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.
CR is actively looking for partner organizations who wish to participate in keeping this vital community resource available. Interested organizations can email them here: email@example.com
To all of the people who have organized here, attended events, read a life-changing book in our library, gave their time, money, energy, knowledge, skills, and love to this space – we thank you. We invite you to share your stories, feelings, and memories of In Other Words.
We invite you to participate one last time. Please, join us in the closing process, to be a part of the transition of the end of one story and the beginning of another. If you would like to help with time and energy in physical or logistic closing work, you can email us at: email@example.com or call 503-232-6003 between 1 and 5pm Friday through Sunday. If you cannot physically join us in closing and you would like to help, we still need funding to help us make it through this closing process. You can donate here: tinyurl.com/donate2IOW


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Mynewsdesk Wins Webby Award For Give A Beep Campaign
Press Release • May 25, 2017 13:54 +08
Mynewsdesk and Hövding's 2016 campaign "Give A Beep" won Best in Best Social Community Building and Engagement 2017 at The Webby Awards on 25th April 2017.
The Webby Awards honour the best of the internet, awarding the most innovative and inspirational digital campaigns.
Mynewsdesk - the digital communications and PR solution providers - challenged a customer to reach 100 million people through effective storytelling. After hundreds of applications, Hövding was the chosen customer for the campaign.
Mynewsdesk and Hövding took home the prize for the campaign "Give a Beep" in which they reinvented the classic bicycle bell. For the purpose of the campaign, the digital bell was used to instantly email the Mayor of London whenever cyclists saw any near or actual accidents on London's roads, while showing the exact location on an interactive map.
Not only did Give A Beep reach over 100 million people, but traffic to Hövding's newsroom also increased by 279% during the campaign and the response from cyclists around the globe has been enormous.
"One of Mynewsdesk's core values is to release the full power of stories to inspire and spark positive change - and Give a Beep has done just that. The 100 Million Reach Challenge is the most daring campaign we've ever done" says Sofia Juhlin, Head of Global Marketing Communications & Brand at Mynewsdesk.
Despite Hövding having relatively limited resources, the campaign demonstrates that the key to successful communication is to tell stories in the right way, to the right people and at the right time.
"What Give A Beep has proved is that with a competent digital PR and comms solution, such as Mynewsdesk, creativity and purpose-driven storytelling, there's nothing stopping companies from reaching a wider audience, developing meaningful relationships and creating both societal and business benefits" added Jonathan Bean, Chief Marketing Officer at Mynewsdesk.
The campaign has since been requested by several cities and is now being used by London's Roads Administration to build a more responsive relationship with the city's cyclists and address the hazardous spots in the capital.
The Webby Award recognises Mynewsdesk's innovative and creative approach to a social community building and engagement campaign.
Give A Beep, created together with Edelman Deportivo, has now picked up 9 awards globally, celebrating achievements in marketing, innovation, digital and PR in New York, London and Stockholm.
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A Lesson in Lace
Allow yourselves to get comfortable, boys and girls; it's time for a little history lesson. With a bit of science thrown in for good measure.
Let's begin:
When you buy a piece of lingerie from Agent Provocateur, you are not just buying the sexiest lingerie on earth, you are also buying into 120 years of heritage. The knicker buffs amongst you will cry out in protest that no, the first Agent Provocateur boutique opened its doors in London's Soho in 1994 – and you'd be right. But what you may not know is that Agent Provocateur works with only the finest artisans in the world in putting together our tiny little whisps of finery, and amongst these is Sophie Hallette, a 120 year old French lace house where the majority of our fine Leavers lace is custom made.
You don't get much better provenance than that.
Eugene Hallette founded La Maison Hallette in 1887 in Caudry in Northern France. It was a sleepy town that began to boom in the mid 19th century thanks to a thriving industry in lacemaking (of 170 lace makers based in the town, Hallette was the third largest). Hallette's business passed through generations of the family until it was bought by the entrepreneur Etienne Lescroart, who grew the business so much that news of its superior quality travelled beyond Paris, through London, and all the way to Hollywood where it reached the attention of one Miss Marilyn Monroe.
Are you keeping up?
In 1953, the platinum blonde bombshell poured her famous curves into a shimmering bustier dress made entirely of Sophie Hallette ivory lace. It was an instant icon. So successful was the lace that the House of Hallette preserved the exact pattern and guess where you can find it today? On your very own cleavage if you are one of the bombshells who scooped up the Denver set this season.
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The curves of the female body multiplied by the lines of a piece of Hallette lace is equal and opposite to the force of gravity when a member of the opposite sex perceives it.
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I hope you've enjoyed your lesson today, boys and girls. Your homework: try the experiment out for yourselves at home. I'll look forward to hearing the results.


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It may be a little obvious that I haven't been reading this whole month. But, as always, there's a reason. I hate to explain why I haven't been reading because it just sounds like another excuse, but this time it's actually a good reason.
So this is why: I started volunteering on Tuesday and Thursday mornings with Open Books, a bookstore and non-profit literacy organization here in Chicago. My boss was wonderful and allowed me to come in late on those two days, as long as I still put in my eight hours. I go from my apartment to the school, and from the school to work. With all the travel time, I'm putting in more than the 40 hours I normally do. And of course, less free time means less reading. But I've got to say, it's pretty worth it.
I'm working with a group of awesome eighth-graders in Open Book's ReadThenWrite program. The book we're reading is Sandra Cisneros's "The House on Mango Street." How perfect, right?! I get to help these kids read and learn from one of my favorite author's best known work. I'll probably post something more detailed about my experience later in February. So far we've been reading and we just got to writing last week. It's so much fun, in a completely nerdy but important way.
I've als been working on a website for women of color with some amazingly talented ladies, so my time has definitely been taken up by things other than reading. And while I regret not having had the time to read as much as I would've liked this month, I can at least say that I've been sharing my love of reading with the students. I know for sure they think I'm nerdy for loving books and writing, but I can tell it's starting to rub off on them a little bit and I couldn't ask for more!


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|Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome
|Anterior Spinal Artery Dissection | Dissection, Anterior Spinal Artery | Syndrome, Anterior Spinal Artery
|Ischemia or infarction of the spinal cord in the distribution of the anterior spinal artery, which supplies the ventral two-thirds of the spinal cord. This condition is usually associated with ATHEROSCLEROSIS of the aorta and may result from dissection of an AORTIC ANEURYSM or rarely dissection of the anterior spinal artery. Clinical features include weakness and loss of pain and temperature sensation below the level of injury, with relative sparing of position and vibratory sensation. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1249-50)
|Cardiovascular disease | Nervous system disease
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|Diseases ← Nervous System Diseases ← Central Nervous System Diseases ← Spinal Cord Diseases ← Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases ← Spinal Cord Ischemia ← Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome
|Diseases ← Cardiovascular Diseases ← Vascular Diseases ← Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases ← Spinal Cord Ischemia ← Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome