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Guaranteed that you've heard of ceramides if you're a huge fan of skin care ingredients. I'm going to tell you everything that I know about them and why they've become all the rage in the skin care industry over the past few months. Honestly, I'd go as far as saying that this is one of the hottest or most talked about ingredients on the market today. It's what most would consider a new or so-called buzz ingredient. This word will certainly be one of the many buzz words that you hear us talking about for years to come. I'm going to do my best to explain what it is that these do and why.
What Are Ceramides?
After doing extensive research on the ingredient, we quickly became familiar with almost everything there is to know about them. For starters, ceramides are basically natural lipids that your skin produces. They are crucial components of your epidermis.
One thing you need to understand is that having depleted ceramide levels can hurt your skin. As previously stated, ceramides can be naturally found in your skin. It can often help your skin retain it's moisture when your levels are normal or high. However, when they are low, it's much more difficult to retain moisture.
They can also help keep your healthy cells together which often results in smoother and healthier looking skin.
As we get older aging becomes inevitable and with that often comes a drop in ceramide levels. For example, some people have had their levels drop by more than 40% after hitting the age of 30. What also happens is that your cholesterol levels within your epidermis layers begin to decline as well. That's more reason to replenish them with ceramides.
The good news is that there are products out there that contain them and they actually work. In fact, adding them to your routine can help rejuvenate and restore your skin's barrier. You may unknowingly already be using a product that contains ceramides. If you are and you want to incorporate a new ceramide based product into the mix, then go right ahead. The beauty about this product is that you can't really overuse them like you do with products containing retinol and prescription-strength creams.
Best practice is to begin using products with ceramides as early as possible. Don't wait until you're 30 or even worse, 60 years old or you'll be sorry.
Ceramide and Issues
If you're having issues with eczema or psoriasis, then you might want to look into getting your ceramide levels checked. It's been proven that people suffering from eczema often have fewer ceramides in the stratum corneum also known as the upper layer of the epidermis.
If your plan is to go for a moisturizer containing ceramide, then you need what to look for. Be on the lookout for products that contain free fatty acids, ceramides, and cholesterols. You need the proper ratio of each ingredient to get the most benefit out of the product. What I failed to mention was that there are many different types of ceramides in your stratum corneum and they are categorized by ceramide 1 through 9. Read the product packages carefully to identify what they contain specifically.
Fun Facts
Here are some simple, yet fun facts that you might want to know before using a product containing this ingredient.
The first thing you'll want to understand is that your skin happens to lose is smoothness and most of its moisture due to losing ceramide molecules.
Loss of these molecules makes the permeable to moisture, which isn't a good thing. That typically leaves your skin rough and very dry which can ultimately lead to more wrinkles.
Did you know that ceramide can be replaced through supplementing and it wasn't until recently that this was the case? It's the honest to god truth! Aren't you happy that supplementing is possible today? I bet you are and so are we!
How To Find Products
Finding products that contain this ingredient is rather simple. All you need to do is open up an Internet browser on your mobile phone or computer and type in the words, "skin care products containing ceramides." Chances are, you'll come up with a laundry list of products that contain this ingredient.
I won't leave you hanging with no options like that. If you want, take a close look at the Ceramidin Cream by Dr. Jart. This cream costs $21.00 and it can be purchased at Sephora. The product itself provides moisture in a time-released manner.
If you have used any products that contain ceramide, then please let us know what your experience was like. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the ingredient and specific skin care products that you've used.


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July , 2006
As Baghdad burns, it seems George Bush's secret experiment in Middle Eastern nation-building has foundered to the brink of collapse. However, the deepening war between Sunnis and Shiites is not even the worst of the coming bad news in Iraq. Where the greater danger lies, though, also presents a narrow window of opportunity. Like so much in the Middle East, it involves a sectarian rivalry that has lasted for hundreds of years.
The Ottoman Empire ruled the Middle East and beyond for 500 years, including modern day Iraq. The last vestige of the empire has been incorporated within the boundaries of modern Turkey, the large Kurdish region constituting southeastern Turkey that borders northern Iraq.
If one believes Turkey has a fixation on dominating the small island of Cypress in the Mediterranean, they should also know an even greater fixation attaches to stopping its Kurds from breaking away from Turkey to form an independent nation. A violent Kurdish insurgency has raged in Turkey for more than a generation.
With the example of independence in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq and the opportunity of a safe haven for Turkish insurgents, Turkey is quite embattled from the consequences of Mr. Bush's war. Dozens of Turkish soldiers have died in recent weeks in attacks linked to "terrorist" safe havens in Iraq.
| The Turkish government is seriously
considering an invasion of northern Iraq to quell their Kurdish rebels
who are taking advantage of the chaos in Iraq.
The invasion could begin anytime. It could be of limited
scope or it could seek to occupy a large part of northern Iraq
If Iran, with its own rebellious Kurdish region, had the example of a Turkish invasion before it, the ayatollahs are likely to reach the same conclusions as the Turks. They know present American might is already stretched to its limit and America itself is bitterly divided at home.
In the event of an invasion of northern Iraq from either Turkey or Iran the U.S. military forces in the region will be hard-pressed to help the overmatched Iraqi Kurds. If we do nothing the Kurdish region of Iraq will be occupied indefinitely by one or two foreign armies. Whatever the outcome is on the ground, the newest bloodbath will be daunting. Turkey will be forever lost as a NATO ally and could well itself become a hotbed of anti-Western terrorism. If the United States is forced to leave Iraq in utter defeat, our only true friends in the region, the Kurds, will face murderous tyranny once again for generations.
For the moment anyway, an alternative scenario is still within the grasp of the United States; the very scenario a wiser, more humble American strategy would have pursued in the first place when trying to dramatically change reality in a totalitarian, fragmented part of the world.
If it was announced tomorrow that U.S. air and ground forces now stationed in Iraq will be moved to the northern region, the threat of invasion from Turkey or Iran would all but disappear. Kurdistan would shortly thereafter declare its independence as a nation. The U.S. Army could then take a defensive posture along secured borders against known enemy armies: the kind of things the American army is intended for and, oh, so very good at. The people of Kurdistan would remain united, effective and brave in their life or death enterprise alongside their great friend, America.
Only then would we possibly have a people in the Middle East, the new Kurdistan, ready for the long transition to the modern world. This time, the effort in nation-building must be quite serious and well understood by the American public. Yes, the Kurds actually will welcome our troops as liberators (quite rightly), but America would also have to devote all of the resources across the board needed to help Kurdistan grow to respect and defend their newly won sovereignty and constitutional freedom. Rebel cross-border provocations against Turkey or Iran must be ended while pursuing peaceful relations with all of Kurdistan's neighbors.
The rest of the former Iraq would have to be defended against. The terrible fate of the people in central and southern Iraq will forever disgrace America's ill-conceived invasion. Hopefully, at some point, a rational order of sorts will develop in Arab Iraq thereby allowing the U.S. to begin to help Sunnis and Shiites as well as Kurds.
It would, of course, be quite a fierce brand of U.S. leadership to have chartered a course after the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan of going on to divide Kurdish Iraq from Saddam's evil empire and trying to create a modern state in the region. But a case for a new Kurdistan protected and nurtured by America is easily made from most foreign policy viewpoints if the invitation to come with our army and our help is being offered by unified, freedom loving Kurds.
That would have been the gamble in threatening times a great leader might have risked with American lives and treasure for a grand purpose. It has now become America's only plausible path left for Iraq since our President has already staked America's prestige and the course of history to some level of success in his failing war.
ALLEN vs. WEBB
The Virginia Senate race is a match-up between a make-believe cowboy and a novelist wearing combat boots. Beyond their unusual footwear, there are real differences between these candidates, even on the issues of the day.
George Allen has hitched his star to George Bush's foreign and domestic agenda since both men came to Washington after the 2000 election. On the subject of Iraq, Allen offers little more than slogans with the implication being the Senator would simply continue to back the Bush Iraq policy in every way. As a leading member of the most profligate borrow and spend Congress in the history of the Republic, Allen sees the economy as best served by accelerating the bankrupting of the nation's finances with trillions more in new federal debt and spending.
James Webb, a Republican turned Democrat just in time to run for high office, hardly seems a distinguished Southern Senator. He is naïve in sometimes not knowing when the bare truth is not acceptable or when one needs to go for the opponent's jugular. As a candidate he has been given low marks from the media since he seems an amateur in the viper pit of Washington, D.C. and a is bit of a bore on the stump. Only the foot-in-mouth redneck syndrome that has afflicted George Allen the last two months has kept this un-politician in the race.
But unlike most Democrats, Webb, a highly decorated combat Marine, does offer a more sophisticated foreign policy than the Texan cowboy has pursued in the White House. Webb rejects a long-term American presence in Iraq and would make that plain to every nation in the Middle East. He advocates multilateral solutions for Iraq, including regional negotiations with Iran and Syria. Webb had the sense to strongly oppose the Iraq adventure before it was launched.
If America is to begin to regain its good name in the community of nations changes in policies and faces in Washington are quite necessary. Virginia can help that process along by sending Jim Webb to the Senate.
(Note: The Tidewater Libertarian Party formally endorsed the write-in candidacy of Libertarian James Lark of Charlottesville in the Virginia Senate race. The views expressed in this article are those of the author.)
The 2004 mayor's race in Virginia Beach was more than a surprisingly close re-election scare for Meyera Oberndorf. The fact the Beach's mayor for life squeaked by for a last hurrah is not the important story.
The voters of Virginia Beach had before them a very rare opportunity in modern American politics. The choice between the policies of the major candidates could not be more stark or more consequential. It was the choice between allowing people to have substantially greater freedom and control of their lives or ceding ever more authority over our lives to City Hall. It was nothing like the usual choice between a Democrat and a Republican like candidate.
On one side, Mayor Meyera has set the record for city spending over and over again. In twenty-six years in public office, the mayor has voted for every tax increase that has come before the city council. Her $400m venture to replace a half-booked, paid-for convention center is certainly the record-setting private sector boondoggle for the city. Below that standard are the $80m parking garage the public can hardly use, the $50m to $90m performing arts theatre to duplicate other venues nearby, the $50m soccer stadium that is empty and not useful for much, the $5m Days Inn hotel episode, and, the hugest number of all, an explosion of government school spending way beyond the wage increases earned by the peasantry of the city.
Then, there was the alternative: the campaign of Robert Dean.
Here was a candidate who trusted the citizens to spend their own money more wisely than he or anyone else in local government is likely to do. He is not pushing one or two groups' agenda for everyone else to pay for. Indeed, he is promising to kick the loafers off the government payroll permanently: corporate and otherwise.
More fundamentally, here is a man who believes the greater Pursuit of Happiness always lies in private enterprise and greater individual freedom: a man who believes there are no special categories of Americans: only Americans: who believes the fewer the laws, the fewer the restrictions the better.
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has a philosophy and a political party that defines all of these unusual
qualities in a modern candidate for public office.
That is what distinguished the Dean campaign as but a single
event in a larger political movement, especially here in Hampton Roads.
The next local libertarian campaign will not be a six-week wonder. It will raise at least as much money from freedom loving citizens as the opposing special interests will ever pony up for Republicrats. Count on it. The Tidewater Libertarian Party is here to stay.
Thank you Robert Dean.
Since the time civilization began (and at all times before), there has been a very strong societal bias against homosexuality. Set aside the moral blandishments and religious incantations. Even put aside the absurdity of the entire homosexual enterprise from a Darwinian perspective.
The question to ask is how can the wrong parts ever work together in a compelling way?
One might think that the longest and most fundamental of societal prescriptions would have good staying power. Here in our 21st Century, the American people are not lawfully allowed to gamble, to pay for sex, to smoke a joint or to make a substantial political contribution even in privacy of one's own home. Who is to say that homosexual sodomy should all of a sudden trump all of these more natural human desires?
It turns out the Supreme Court of the United States is the body who has made the decision on this pecking order for the entire nation.
In the Supreme Court case, Mr. John Lawrence and Mr. Tyrone Garner had been caught in the act of anal sex when Houston police entered Lawrence's apartment based on a citizen report that a gun had been fired in the building. The commission of homosexual acts of this kind has been a crime in Texas since before it joined the Union. Nonetheless, the high court found that Lawrence and Garner were fully within their rights to get it on in that way so long as they were not doing so in public.
Will this case be a precedent for other blows to the authority of big government? Could this be the beginning of true liberation in every Americans' personal life? Leonard v. Texas (2003).
Not so fast. Our Supreme Court is very conservative and, you might say, Republican.
This court is not about to abolish the powers of government at all levels to regulate those behaviors that only affect you. Telling people how to conduct their private life is a huge, huge part of the conservative agenda.
But also rest assured this decision on the meaning of the Constitution has not one iota to do with establishing special "gay rights". There is little more repulsive to conservatives than the idea of special treatment for homosexuals.
Unfortunately, from a legal point of view, this political circumstance ruled out the only somewhat logical basis under present law for the decision. That is that homosexuals are being unlawfully discriminated against in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by state laws that ban gay sex only.
The road taken by the Supreme Court to decide the case appeared, for now, to be the libertarian position: that the conduct involved was peaceful and private, not affecting others and was therefore not the proper subject of a criminal statute. If only that could be truly the vision of our Supreme Court! But it was, thank god for gays, an excellent momentary compromise for the opposing factions within the court.
The court believes it has hedged the law sufficiently by saying the right to privacy has special application only in one's home.
This legal distinction is contradicted by the other unwritten privacy right the Court has found in the Constitution: a woman's right to contraception and abortion: all done outside the home. The distinction made is obviously a very small thumb in a dike that is already being swamped with litigation citing Leonard v. Texas.
That is because there is simply no logical difference to be made between the freedom to commit homosexual sodomy and a host of other still supposedly criminal acts.
In the wake of Leonard v. Texas, whether the case is a pothead in his closet, a gambler playing on his home computer, a john getting his fix at home, or home-schoolers with very odd ideas, there has arisen a new, largely undefined constitutional right for courts to rule upon.
So what is our Supreme Court to do when all of these issues arrive on its docket? Shall they expand freedom in one's personal life way, way beyond the doctrines of the religious right and law-enforcement interests as Leonard seems to require? Or shall the court try to place an ill-fitting plug into the overflowing dam?
Cynics, like this publication, place the odds at ten to one against the exercise of significantly greater overall freedom despite the ruling in Leonard. Our Supreme Court remains very much statist in its heart with little prospect of change anytime soon.
|In the end, Leonard v. Texas will prove to be the product of about-to-retire Justices reaching for a historical ruling. That will be an unsurprising observation.
|Not in Public Yet
The odd progeny of Leonard, though, will prove the present high court does not have a philosophy to see the principle of greater individual freedom through to its realization. That will prove to be a resounding blow to our Constitution.
Leonard shall have a more noble purpose, too. The decision will become more and more the basis for wonderful, dry humor.
1. What effect have years of wearing those black gowns had on our Supreme Court Justices?
2. If anything goes at home, how about a Presidential bisexual bordello in the White House? Rights are rights.
3. What does the Pursuit of Happiness entail? Only abortion and gay sex so far.
In the same way modern collectivism restricts freedom in America, it also corrupts our political language. The damage done to the English language is already considerable. Many of the most important words in the political lexicon have been distorted beyond recognition.
For example:
Liberal – Here is possibly the most flexible word in
the history of language.
The word "liberal" morphed during Depression-era America into meaning the agents of political and economic change: the New Deal, The Great Society. Unfortunately, the change being imposed was based on exactly the opposite philosophy from what Liberalism had always meant. Suddenly, being liberal meant being in favor of a nearly all-powerful government instead of opposed to it.
|Liberal Tyrant
|Already occupying both ends of a political spectrum spanning freedom to oppression, the word "liberal" is also
supposed to lie somewhere in the middle between Fascism and Communism on the modern political scale. On that spectrum, the "Liberals" lie very close to the "Moderates" and the "Conservatives" all occupying the middling area known as "social democracy".
So, "Liberals" go well beyond simply taking both sides of an issue. Yes Rush Limbaugh, they are, in fact, everywhere.
Conservative – Here is another term that means
something quite different now than it used to mean.
Yet, America's conservatives are the new agents of change. They want to change everything. They want to abolish the 1960s and the 1970s along with abortion. They want to be the incarnation of Archangel imposing the death penalty more frequently, the anvil of justice finally for evil drug users, the Bible's revenge on homosexuals, the saviors of Social Security and Medicare, the teachers of Christian creationism and the all-time world champions of Big Money for Big Business from Big Government.
Yet, about the only changes modern "Conservatives" seem to have accomplished is shifting the tax burden downward and setting spending and borrowing records at all levels of government. This result is, of course, the exact opposite of what most "conservative" rhetoric proposes.
|If the "Liberals" cannot be pinned down, then the "Conservatives" can be relied to effect changes often in exactly the opposite way from what they promise to do. The Bible-Belt should be pleased conservatives have not taken any action on their social issues.
|Revolutionary Conservative
War – The word War has a specific legal meaning:
that is: a full-fledged military conflict between two sovereign States.
Under our Constitution, the Congress is the sole body empowered to
declare War, but has not done so since World War II despite conducting several
real Wars around the world.
This is not just poor diction. Some of these so-called wars are invoking the War powers of the Commander-in-Chief as permanent in nature: a true threat to the Republic's freedom.
The Second Amendment – Nary a right-wing true believer does not always invoke the Second Amendment as the repository of Americans' individual right to bear arms. Yet, any informed person on this issue knows the repository is quite empty. Rightly or wrongly, the Second Amendment freedoms have always solely been applied to members of the National Guard (" …a well-regulated Militia..."). The Second Amendment has never been the basis for invalidating gun legislation and never will be if past legal precedent is to mean anything. There are presently no effective limits on the power of the Congress and the state legislatures to ban weapons. Yet, it is easier for craven office-holders to rage over a nonexistent Constitutional protection than it is to pass legislation that would give Americans the guaranty of the right to keep and bear arms. Too bad the public soaks up this ruse with gusto.
Strict Constructionism -
Though not a phrase that is a proper part of the English language or
even a law school curriculum, this empty idea is supposed to revolutionize the
So, when freedom makes its comeback, we need to salvage our language, too.
|Printed here is a story from The Economist magazine of London about the towering challenges independent business-people in Russia face thirteen years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. It provides Americans with evidence that the struggle for greater economic freedom here at home pales in comparison to the tyranny and chaos that characterizes much of the rest of the world.
|"When Aleksei Panteliushin turned up at Plutos, his sausage factory in northern Moscow, one frosty morning last February, he found a gang of robust young men guarding the entrance as blacksmiths replaced the glass door with a steel one and reinforced the bars on the windows. He called the police. They went in, stayed for ten minutes-and left again. He called the internal security agency, the FSB. The same thing happened. He called his lawyer, who tried to go in and was told that if he persisted, they would "rip his head off". When Mr. Panteliushin at last gained entry, together with a senior police officer, three of the goons introduced themselves as "Stanislav", "Alexander" and "Sergei". They said they were Pluto's new owners, and flourished a document from the justice ministry to prove it.
Shortly afterwards, they invited Mr. Panteliushin to a meeting and offered to buy his share in the company at well below market value. They had already got his employees to sell them their shares far too cheaply, on pain of being fired. Mr. Panteliushin declined. Instead he wrote a statement, collected supporting signatures from some 40 employees, and-with the thugs openly tailing his car-filed the case with every law-enforcement agency he could think of.
He was told that the authorities did not get involved in "ownership disputes". When he took his woes to his local tax officials, who at least were friendly, thanks to his annual Christmas gifts of sausages, they shrugged and showed him a sheaf of 15 or 20 similar complaints in the same district. A journalist recommended the Economic Security Commission of the Moscow Mayor's office, where an official listened to the tale. The next day Mr Panteliushin got a call from a non-governmental organization called "Protection of Shareholders Rights". This turned out to consist of a pair of affable young men with no address on their business cards, which said they knew of those concerned and offered to "mediate".
They were also kind enough to explain how the business had been appropriated. In November, a fictious shareholder meeting had been called. It appointed a new factory director, who "sold" the factory to another firm, which sold it on again, re-registering the ownership each time. This morass of paperwork would
|make any legal challenge enormously complex. (It did not help
that Mr. Panteliushin had kept his shareholder
register in the company safe, allowing the bandits to destroy the evidence.)
Not that the "takeover" itself had been a snip: what with bribes, hire of thugs, share buy-outs and lawyers' fees; it had cost some $300,000. The new owners, the mediators said, were now offering to sell the factory back for $6m; several times what Mr. Panteliushin says its worth…
Owners may fight back if they have powerful connections. When Ilim Pulp, Russia's largest forestry company, in 2002 faced a takeover by Basic Element, a big aluminum and industrial conglomerate, Mr Putin reportedly intervened. For those a little lower down the food chain, calling in a barrage of tax and health inspections may incline the new owners to negotiate. Small fry, however, are powerless. Mr. Panteliushin says various law-enforcement officials quoted him between $200,000 and $500,000 to get involved, but with no guarantee of success, because his opponents might pay more.
Even if he could muster the paperwork and the nerve needed to go to court, the outcome again would probably depend on who had the bigger bank balance. In the overnight train to the city of Penza, a young lawyer had relaxed enough after three toasts to explain why he joined the profession: "In business disputes we sometimes have to be intermediaries. I go to a judge and say, "I really need to win this case." He says, let's say, 100,000 roubles. I go to my client and tell him 130,000." He shrugs and raises his glass again.
Mr. Panteliushin broke a rule that he mistakenly thought had been abolished: that businesses need a krysha, or "roof"-a protector. "We used to have a krysha-some local bandits, like everyone did. Gradually the bandits went to jail, and we came under the wing of the authorities. That turned out to be a big mistake."
Everything hinges on Mr. Putin's administrative reform. The best way to cut official corruption is to reduce both the number of officials and the number of laws and regulations they can twist.
And Mr. Panteliushin? His only recourse has been to get his story told. After a local newspaper picked it up, the police started taking an interest again, and he learned that other companies that had been approached about buying his factory were backing off. At the time of writing, he and the bandits were waiting it out. Increasingly desperate to sell, they were phoning him for advice on making sausages, and offering to hire him back to run the business."
American businessmen usually do not face the state-imposed barriers to success of the kind Mr. Panteliushin has to contend with. On Independence Day we all need to resolve that our nation's freedoms will not be allowed to regress to that sad state of affairs.

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Wake Up Refreshed
Introduction to Wake Up Refreshed
Sikhism is a spiritual lifestyle which involves waking up between the hours of 3am and 7am to do meditation and singing the glorious praises of God. As a result there are many techniques Sikhs use to wake up early and wake up refreshed.
The Early Morning Hours
The time between 3am and 7am of the day is called the ambrosial hour or 'Amrit Vela' and it is special because the power of meditation is greatly magnified during this time. The Sikh Holy Scripture, Shri Guru Granth Sahib (Guru Granth Sahib) says:
"In the Amrit Vaylaa, the ambrosial hours before dawn, chant the True Name, and contemplate His Glorious Greatness." (Guru Granth Sahib, p.2)
As our spiritual practice improves and enhances our experience of God consciousness we remain connected to truth 24 hours a day:
"Twenty-four hours a day, meditate on God. Constantly sing the Glories of the Lord of the Universe. " (Guru Granth Sahib, p.44)
"Meditate on the Lord, with every breath and morsel of food" (Guru Granth Sahib, p.82)
"While standing and sitting, while sleeping and while awake, meditate on the Lord, all your life." (Guru Granth Sahib, p.101)
We should start our spiritual practice as soon as possible and ideally while we are still young because it is a difficult yet rewarding journey:
"As long as there is youth and health, meditate on the Naam, the Name of God." (Guru Granth Sahib, p.82)
There is no doubt that waking up between 3am and 7am is a difficult task and our mind (ego) will always give us an excuse to not get out of bed. The Guru Granth Sahib also says that anytime at which we meditate on God is a very blessed time:
"Blessed is that moment, and blessed is that time, when my tongue chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Haree." (Guru Granth Sahib, p.191)
Benefits of Waking Up Early
There is a saying in the west which says, "early to bed, early to rise keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise".
Oversleeping is a big waste of time, and be can cause of tiredness and grogginess. For example, oversleeping just 60 minutes a day equals 365 hours a year, which is equivalent of nine 40-hour weeks. That's a lot of time! So find out how much is your optimum sleeping hours and stick to it which could be from 5 to 8 hours of sleep.
Wake Up Techniques
This section looks at a few techniques which you can try and use to wake up refreshed and wake up early to enjoy the amazing feeling of meditation when most people and nature is still asleep.
Set Some Alarm Clocks
For someone who is very disciplined one or two alarm clocks is usually enough to wake them up at 3am. However the ego in most people will put the "snooze" button on these clocks to good effect thereby rendering them useless!
Another version of this technique is where you record your own voice telling you to wake up. This does work for some people.
Finally you can try to put a loud alarm in the opposite corner of your bedroom or even in a different bedroom, so that when the alarm goes off you will physically have to get out of bed to turn it off!
Play Some Music
A slight variation on the alarm clock is to play a Sikh hymn or Gurbani tape to start playing at 3am. It could be devotional music called Kirtan or anything else that you like. Kirtan is especially good to allow you to wake up gracefully and sweetly, being kind to your mind and your body. Ultimately, just make sure it gets you out of bed and it not too soothing or too abrupt.
Do Some Selfless Service (Seva)
This technique involves jumping out of bed as soon as the alarm goes off and going down stairs or to another room to do some cleaning or ironing or some other house chore for about 15 minutes while your brain is becoming active. You could even go round the house and light some incense sticks to help stimulate a spiritual and refreshing atmosphere.
Have a Cold Shower—Hydrotherapy
This technique involves jumping out of bed and straight into a cold shower. Put cold water on your head and watch the sleep vanish! Very refreshing for your mind and body and proven to give you vitality and good health.
Drinking Lemon and Water
Try putting a slice of lemon and a glass of water next to your alarm. When you get out of bed to close your alarm, suck on the lemon and drink some water. This wakes up the digestive system and is extremely refreshing.
Cognitive Behavioural Change Exercise
The thing that makes waking up early a difficult task is the self battling with the mind. So a good method would allow the subconscious mind to take over. This can be done in the same way you learned any other repeatable skill. You practice until it becomes routine. Eventually your subconscious will take over and run the script on autopilot.
This is going to sound strange, but it works. Practice getting up as soon as your alarm goes off. That's right – practice. But don't do it in the morning. Do it during the day when you're wide awake. Go to your bedroom, and set the room conditions to match your desired wake-up time as best you can. Darken the room, or practice in the evening just after sunset so it's already dark.
If you sleep in pajamas, put on your pajamas. If you brush your teeth before bed, then brush your teeth. If you take off your glasses or contacts when you sleep, then take those off too.
Set your alarm for a few minutes ahead. Lie down in bed just like you would if you were sleeping, and close your eyes. Get into your favourite sleep position. Imagine it's early in the morning a few minutes before your desired wake-up time. Pretend you're actually asleep. Visualize a dream location, or just zone out as best you can.
Now when your alarm goes off, turn it off as fast as you can. Then take a deep breath to fully inflate your lungs, and stretch your limbs out in all directions for a couple seconds, like you're stretching during a yawn. Then sit up, plant your feet on the floor, and stand up. Smile a big smile. Then proceed to do the very next action you'd like to do upon waking such as going for a shower.
Now shake yourself off, restore the pre-waking conditions, return to bed, reset your alarm, and repeat. Do this over and over and over until it becomes so automatic that you run through the whole ritual without thinking about it. If you have to subvocalize any of the steps (i.e. if you hear a mental voice coaching you on what to do), you're not there yet.
Do one or two sets of this per day at different times, and perhaps 3-10 reps each time. Yes, it will take some time to do this, but that time is nothing compared to how much time you'll save in the long run. A few hours of practice today can add hundreds of hours each year and create huge jumps in your spiritual practice.
With enough practice you will condition a new physiological response to the sound of your alarm. When your alarm goes off, you'll get up automatically without even thinking about it. The more you run the pattern, the stronger it will become. Eventually it will be uncomfortable not to get up when your alarm goes off.
Kundalini Yoga Wake up Set
Kundalini Yoga has a useful wake up routine which is outlined below:
1. Take a couple of deep breaths and fill all your lungs while you are still lying in bed
2. Touch the palms of your hands together and touch the soles of your feet together and rub them fast. Continue deep breathing for about 1 minute
3. Keeping your legs straight, lift them up to about 45 degrees and do the breath of fire (fast breathing into your belly). Continue for a couple of minutes
4. Finally bring your knees to your chest and roll on your back until you are sitting up
These are just some of the good wake up techniques available. They can be combined however you like to get the desired effect.


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The Green Economy Coalition and Overseas Development Institute released reports on transitioning to a green economy.
PwC and Corporate Citizenship each studied how businesses are engaging with the SDGs.
Bond published a paper on 'Leave No One Behind'.
This week's brief explores recent efforts in shifting towards a more sustainable economy, and the fora and actors that can facilitate such a transition. Other knowledge contributions reviewed here include an analysis of the G20's priorities for 2018, and assessments of how well businesses and developed actors are responding to the 2030 Agenda and SDGs.
The Green Economy Coalition – a network of over 50 NGOs, businesses and international organizations, of which IISD is a member – recently published its annual Green Economy Barometer. The report is sub-titled, 'The Transition Just Stepped Up a Gear,' and it features statistics from 2017 that shed light on the challenges and opportunities facing green markets. Barriers to a sustainable economic shift include rising nationalism, distrust of governments and lack of major change in financial systems despite increasing investment in the green economy. However, the report identifies high points as well, including the mainstreaming of green solutions in the market (i.e. trajectory of electric vehicle sales) and the continued acceleration of a global clean energy transition.
ODI proposes indicators to measure progress towards green economies, including in G20 countries.
In a paper titled, 'Financing the Transition from Brown to Green,' the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) explores ways to shift from carbon-intensive models of development to green economies. The authors conduct an analysis of the current finance landscape, and propose indicators to measure progress at country level, noting specifically that they can be applied to G20 countries. The nine recommended indicators span three spaces: financial policies and regulations, fiscal policy levers, and public finance. Similar to the Green Economy Barometer's findings, ODI's analysis highlights an uptick in green finance, but warns that a faster shift is needed, particularly away from fossil fuels. ODI cites prior analyses finding that G20 countries provided upwards of US$230 billion in fossil fuel subsidies in 2014, in addition to US$72 billion annual investment in fossil fuel energy.
On the G20 itself, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America's Nancy Alexander reviewed the Argentinian presidency's priorities. Alexander summarizes the priorities according to the official Finance and Sherpa Tracks, with a detailed analysis of the G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG). The IWG is largely contained within the Finance Track, and focuses primarily on "expanding infrastructure as an asset class for investment." At the end of the year, Argentina will convene the G20 Leaders Summit from 30 November-1 December 2018, in addition to dozens of meetings planned for the year.
In the private sector, PwC asks whether businesses are 'grasping the full potential of the SDGs' in a study titled, 'SDG Reporting Challenge 2017.' The report finds that although nearly two-thirds of companies mention the SDGs in their reporting, far fewer are meaningfully engaging with the Goals. Co-author Louise Scott says the time is now for "businesses to stop paying lip service to SDGs and convert stakeholder and board aspiration into corporate action." In this case, corporate action is primarily climate action, with nearly four out of five companies indicating that they prioritize SDG 13, followed closely by SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) at three-quarters of companies, across nearly all industries. The analysis also finds a disconnect between businesses' and citizens' priorities. For example, while over two-thirds of citizens surveyed rank SDG 2 (zero hunger) as being of high importance, less than a quarter of businesses did the same.
The PwC report comes closely on the heels of a paper by Corporate Citizenship, released in December 2017. Titled, 'Accelerating Corporate Leadership on the Global Goals,' the paper finds – similarly to PwC's – that actions beyond mapping current initiatives against the SDGs have stalled. However, Corporate Citizenship's analysis differs from PwC's in that they see SDG 4 (quality education) as being prioritized by companies, noting particularly that SDG 13 (climate action) did not even feature in the top three, as it did last year.
Those seeking further information on business engagement and the SDGs can view an earlier report from 2017 here. The report, supported by PwC in partnership with GRI and UN Global Compact, looks at all 169 SDG targets individually, and lists specific business actions that support their attainment. Additionally, Corporate Citizenship led a webinar with the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) to "benchmark companies on the SDGs," and staff from BrownFlynn authored an article on GreenBiz titled, 'Unleashing Action on the Sustainable Development Goals,' to help business leaders prioritize, act, learn and report on the SDGs.
On disclosures and reporting against the SDGs, researchers from the University of Queensland and Think Impact examined the top 20 Australian Securities Exchange companies (ASX 20) by market capitalization. The lead author writes in a summary blog on The Conversation that companies have yet to meaningfully disclose how progress against the Goals is measured, and that there is a distinction between making commitments and demonstrating progress. The report itself reviews the ASX 20 companies based on their commitment to, structuring for, action towards and measurement of the SDGs using 13 criteria, and offers a framework for improving businesses' reporting of performance on the SDGs. The report also makes reference to and builds on the SDG Compass, which was updated in November 2017.
The development community is still considering the best ways to realize the 2030 Agenda's commitment to leave no one behind. The civil society network Bond published a report on the subject, reviewing how development actors have responded to this clarion call. Authored by Kate Munro, the document identifies three steps to leaving no one behind: 1) identify who exactly is being left behind in the current development paradigm; 2) understand why they are left behind; and 3) take action against the exclusion of these people. The paper examines European government approaches as well as those of multilateral organizations, and recommends that: 1) donor-supported programs such as national dialogues and awareness-building activities should be followed up with concrete action plans; 2) programme data should be disaggregated; and 3) root causes of exclusion should be studied, understood and addressed, via policies and practices spanning aid, trade, climate, arms and information sharing.
Looking ahead to the 2018 session of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) to be held this July, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) published an analysis of 43 countries' Voluntary National Reviews (VNR). The report titled, 'VNR Reporting Needs Evaluation: A call for global guidance and national action,' was released as part of a larger series on evaluation with EVALSDGS and UNDP. It recommends revising current VNR guidelines to outline best practices on evaluation measures, and that countries develop national policies through engagement with Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPE).
Additional issues of the SDG Knowledge Weekly can be found here.


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|Posted by Lynn Tincher on August 9, 2017 at 10:00 AM
My Brugada Syndrome Beginning
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on August 8, 2017 at 11:45 AM
It was early in the 1990s, when I was about twenty-three, I noticed as I walked up the small hill between my house and my in-law's that I had chest pain with a fluttering feeling. I tried to pass it off thinking it was just my imagination. I was too young. As the evening wore on, the fluttering worsened. With my husband's insistence, I went to the hospital. By the time I arrived, the fluttering had stopped, and everything seemed normal, so they sent me home. "It's probably anxiety," they said.
Weeks went by where the flutter would happen on and off. Sometimes it would take my breath away; causing me to suck in my breath like the wind had been knocked out of me. The best I could describe it was that it felt like a butterfly in my chest or it felt like when I was pregnant, and my children would roll over. I finally gave in and went to my family doctor in Corbin, Kentucky. He recommended that I go to a Cardiologist. His recommendation was to wear a halter monitor home for a few days. I did. The results were unbelievable. It picked up the flutter I thought I was my imagination, and that my heart rate would surge to around 275 beats a minute at three in the morning when I was sound asleep. The doctor told me that would have awakened an elephant, yet I had no memory of anything happening. Something was wrong. Test after test, echocardiogram after echocardiogram, and doctor after doctor told me that everything seemed structurally perfect. I was diagnosed with arrhythmia. After some deliberation, it was decided that my heart was not receiving the correct electrical impulses. I was then put on Lopressor and Lenoxin. One was to slow my heart down and the other to regulate the blood pressure. Well, I had issues with that. My blood pressure bottomed out. There was talk about possibly having surgery where they would burn nerves to fix the incorrect electrical impulses, but they could not determine where it was coming from. I was eventually weaned from both medications since they did not affect the flutter. I gave up, and for a few years, nothing else happened. At least not that I could feel. I thought I was okay.
Eventually, I moved from Corbin and back to the Louisville area. For a long time, I had no other issues. A few years ago, while in the hospital for her asthma, my mother had the same symptoms. The doctor's told her it was most likely a side effect of the medications she was on for her breathing. They decided that her heart had damage, so they put her on two heart medications. What medications, I'm not sure.
The next time she was in the hospital, the same thing happened, so they put her on different heart medications. Finally, the doctor on call in both incidents had just come back from a seminar on Brugada Syndrome and noticed a pattern in her EKG. His name is Dr. Michael Springer and he decided to take her on as a patient.
Not long after that, I was back in the hospital. I went to Baptist East with the same symptoms. They ran tests, and I did a stress test. All their heart specialists said that everything looked fine. I asked them about Brugada and that my mother was being tested for it. No one had even heard of it and I was dismissed as okay because my stress test was fine. They admitted to seeing a different pattern in my EKG but because it didn???t get worse during the test and they felt I was okay. They felt that the difference in the EKG was just something specific to my heart. I told them about Brugada and how they needed to find out all they could about the disease. However, my mother's genetic screening was not in yet.
I was having my physical with my family doctor. Dr. Siraj Siddiqi was the physician for my entire family. He looked at my EKG and came back in to tell me that the pattern in it was the same as my mothers. He was concerned and thought I needed to talk with Dr. Michael Springer. Mom's genetic screening had still not come back yet, so I was unsure if I had anything to worry about. The tests from my previous hospital stays had convinced me that nothing was wrong. I was in denial and refused to go see Dr. Springer. Appointment after appointment with Dr. Siddiqi, he asked me if I had gone. My reply was always, "No, I'm not having problems anymore." Full denial? Absolutely.
Two years later, Mom had enough visits and tests with Dr. Springer that it was decided that Mom most likely had Brugada Syndrome. Not long after, Mom had surgery to have a defibrillator installed. Shortly after that, her genetic screening came back positive for Brugada Syndrome.
A few months passed, and I was on a trip to Indianapolis for GenCon. After an exhausting day, I had another flutter attack just before I went to bed. This one was severe enough that my heart felt like it stopped for a few seconds regularly. My husband listened to my chest and said that he could hear the same thing I was describing. It sounded like it would pause beating after two normal beats.
When I got back to Louisville, I finally went to see my mother's heart doctor. Dr. Springer tried to assure me I was fine and I had nothing to worry about. He sent me home with a heart monitor I had to wear for a month. I had to fight with the insurance company to get to use it. Blue Cross and Blue Shield explained it as an exploratory thing that I had no true need for it. But the company that manufactures and monitors the system (LifeWatch) worked with me and fought on my behalf. I only had to pay $200.00. I am forever grateful for them! The analysis confirmed that I was having several bouts of irregular heartbeats, both tachycardia and arrhythmia. Dr. Springer then ran a procainamide infusion test to see if my heart would behave with a Brugada pattern. He explained this was due to a sodium channel in the heart and not the electrical impulses. The procainamide infusion would show a certain pattern in my EKG if Brugada Syndrome was the culprit.
Terrified, I went to Jewish Hospital. I was scared to death at the thoughts of being injected with a solution that could affect my heart. Many thoughts of my heart going into arrhythmia it could not recover from went through my head. The only reason, and I mean the only reason, I went through with it was because of my kids. I knew this was genetic. I knew it was possible that they had it. While going through this might not help me, it may help my kids, grandkids and so on.
While the nurses at Jewish Hospital Rudd Heart and Lung Center in Louisville were great, they knew little about this study or Brugada Syndrome. That toyed with my nerves. They assured me that Dr. Springer did and that I would be in great hands. And I was. The test was easy. The only problem I remember was that at one point, barely into the test, I felt hot and like I would pass out. I told them it was probably nerves. Since they all laughed at that, I felt better. They watched me like a hawk and took care of my every step of the way.
In the end, Dr. Springer said that he had good news and bad news. The good news was that I now finally knew what was wrong with me. The bad news was that my heart behaved exactly that way a heart would with Brugada Syndrome. Within minutes, my husband walked in. The nurses were still removing the wires I was connected to. I looked up at Eric and said, "It's not good." Dr. Springer, who was standing at my bedside, patted my hand and told Eric about the results.
My first doctor's appointment after the procainamide test still came as a shock. All I could think of was how my mom was tested, studied, poked and prodded to find out what was wrong. The first conversation I had with Dr. Springer after my first test threw me for a loop.
Between my test and my next appointment, Dr. Springer had gone to a conference with the top specialists regarding Brugada Syndrome. He had presented my case to them. After debating the results and my genetic connection, it was a consensus to offer me the only solution available; to install a defibrillator. My initial reaction was total shock. How could I, after only one test, be facing surgery? However, he left the decision up to me. I told him I needed time to think about it.
Eric was shocked that I even had to think about it. I had been doing research all along about Brugada. I found that the mean age of death is 41, and I was already 42. Again, I thought of my children. Even though, by this time they were grown, it hit me. I wanted to see my grandchildren. I did not want miss out on the big changes in their lives as adults. I already knew that by deciding to finally go see Dr. Springer, that I had decided to have the surgery. I already knew that was the only option. The next day, I called and scheduled surgery.
Even more terrified than ever, I went back to Jewish Rudd Heart and Lung Center for the procedure. They were awesome, and several commented on how young I was to be having this procedure. Still, most were unfamiliar with Brugada, and I had to explain the reasons surgery was needed. They took good care of me and reassured me that everything would be fine.
They put me in twilight sleep. The anesthesiologist warned me ahead of time I would not be completely under. This way, they would not have to intubate me. She said recovery would be easier. She also told me there were horror about patients waking up during surgery but assured me I would remember nothing.
However, I do barely remember feeling them push the leads through the veins. I do not remember the several times I told them how painful it was (thank goodness). The anesthesiologist told me I had done that several times. My first real, clear memory was coming out from under. I remember someone telling me that Dr. Springer was there. I remember that the first words out of my mouth were, "My kids are being tested right now. You may be contacted." I remember Dr. Springer patting my arm and telling me they were just fine. Back to sleep I went.
However, I had substantial pain when I woke up in recovery. Afterward, they explained that the surgery was harder the younger you are. They make a pocket in the muscle to house the defibrillator and the younger you are, and the better muscle tone you have, it is more painful. I was sore for about two weeks. Now, I barely notice it.
My kids were tested. My daughter wore a halter monitor home and my son had an EKG. Both were tested by Brugada specialists. So far, both tested negative.
What am I up to these days?
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on February 9, 2013 at 9:55 AM
What am I up to, you ask? What am I NOT up to may be the easier question to ask.
First, I've been writing like a fiend, from novels, to screenplays, to short scripts for trailers. I've also been writing proposals, synpsis, and well, blog posts and answering interview questions...you get it.
Second, I've been in on photo sessions and filmings for the book trailers coming soon.
Finally, still working and trying to squeeze in family where I can.
Enough of my fun rant. Stay tuned. I hope to have more fun announcements to come.
New Left in the Dark Cover!
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on February 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM
Here is the new cover for Left in the Dark! Thanks John at Dark Pallet Productions, B. E. Calvert, and Michaela Ousley for all of your hard work to make this one gorgeous!
Brand new Afterthoughts cover!
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on February 4, 2013 at 8:40 AM
Here is the cover for Afterthoughts! Thanks John at Dark Pallette Productions and Aaron Terry for helping make this happen! Afterthoughts will be re-released on February 22nd. Pre-order now on this site!
Cover reveal for Buried Deep
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on January 30, 2013 at 8:20 AM
In honor or Mardi Gras and the fact that Buried Deep is set in New Orleans, we have scheduled the cool new cover reveal for February 12, 2013! Thanks John and Dark Pallet for the wonderful artwork!
Buried Deep - Sneak Peak
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on December 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Athanase was a tall, bony wisp of a man. His true age was undetectable yet he looked worn and experienced. As he sat in silence at the table in the center of the room, he laid his battered tarot cards scrupulously in a spread before him. Nicholas, a shorter, slightly well built boy just shy of twenty looked on with eyes wide in wonderment as sweat seeped down his temples. His hands shook. He had no business being there. He knew that full well, yet the yearning for answers kept him glued to the chair. The need for them boiled in his stomach.
Check out the full sneak peak of the first chapter of Buried Deep, Book Three in the Mind Bending Series, and watch for the book in May 2013!
Exciting stuff
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on October 17, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Okay, so writing on Buried Deep and The Winberie Journals had to take a back seat for a little while. As well as writing for Louisville.com and Examiner. Health and family comes first. Now that I have several things settled, I can get back on track. I *have* been writing on another project that I can't wait to announce. I can give a bit of a hint. Afterthoughts is being re-written and expanded. Left in the Dark will be doing the same. Then out comes the long anticipated Buried Deep! All as a result of the other "project". Life has been a bit nuts lately but I'm determined! Thanks to everyone for hanging with me all this time. You are all wonderful!
And it starts...(Finally)
|Posted by Lynn Tincher on July 11, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Now that I've had this site for four years, I've decided to use the blog feature! I know...I'm slow. Anyway, here it goes.
What have I been up to? Writing? Not really. I've focused on the company I started in 2009. After publishing others for a while, my health began to suffer so I had to give it up. So, I'll ask again. Writing? It's coming! I'll be finishing up Buried Deep, working on the Winberie Journals, and I plan to get back to writing for Examiner.com. I also just landed a job writing for Louisville.com too. I can't wait to get started!
I plan on working on this site more as thing progress. Stay tuned and THANKS for following me!


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Men and the myths of mid-life accomplishment
This is an edited version of an early form of an essay I'm currently working on tackling men about to or entering their forties, and the social expectations and myths about male achievement. Part of this project involves a photo essay, but more on that later. I'd appreciate any feedback you have to share.
As I start the quickening slide toward 40, I can't help but look at the images and expectations of men in their forties all around me and wonder how my own life looks nothing like this picturebook story. This has sparked a lot of reflection and even doubt on my part in figuring out what it is I should have accomplished, if anything, by the time I reach my mid-life.
If your thirties are meant to be the age of tribulation in your life, then your forties, the received social wisdom suggests, are meant to be the moment you 'arrive' – where you reap the hard work of your sowing, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. For men, this is supposed to mean the well-paid job and career advancement, a lovely wife, a house and mortgage, a great car (maybe two), private school kids, annual holidays, great clothes and a whole lot of grown-up's toys that your job affords you.
Of course that assumes that you've been able to survive the tumult of a busy life – if your marriage has braved any threat of separation or divorce, you didn't stuff things up by having an affair with your colleague over those late nights you were 'finishing' that all-important, promotion-guranteeing project, your kids haven't forgotten who you are because you've spent all your time at work or at golf, and you haven't stuffed your knees, or back, at the gym fighting off the specter of your father's heart disease and those greasy steak sandwiches you rammed down your gullet over those hurried lunch breaks.
And there you have it, the two great clichés of mid-life masculinity. On the one hand, you so reek of accomplishment and success that you're the new pin-up for a Johnny Walker advertisement – no, not Red Label, that's for Mr 30-something-no kids, but Black label, the sign of good taste, maturity, success, refinement and the credit card bill to match. On the other hand, you are sifting through the wreckage wondering how your life ended up like that other great cliché of mid-life masculinity – the Raymond Carver story, with a nameless man and woman yelling at each other one night over a half-packed suitcase, you can cut the dread and resentment with a knife, and the man has no idea how he got there.
But it is no secret that life rarely, if ever, follows the path that social expectations and stereotypes dictate. Most men closely approaching forty or chipping tentative toeholds into that new age of middle-life, are in fact wedging ourselves somewhere in between the myths and expectations of our society.
Looking around me at the men who are my age or in their early forties, I know that the story of accomplishment for men in their forties is a highly embellished one, and that, if anything, the paths of our lives are far more torturous, twisted and unpredictable than we are asked to believe.
For some of us, the road into our forties is a lot less smooth than we are led to believe, or achieve, with various unexpected changes in career, often with resulting loss in income or sacrifices in financial security, where we make job and careers choices out of personal satisfaction or necessity.
Sometimes, the reasons behind some of our choices are clear, deliberate, albeit unconventional. Other times, they are partially thought out combinations of gut instinct, sheer desperation and that certainty that if you'd kept going the way you were, you'd lose your health, or your marriage, and never see your kids growing up. And no amount of career accomplishment is worth that.


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The plot is silly...Hedwig is a quasi transexual that is frustrated and jealous over another girlie boy, Johnny Gnosis, that stole Hedwig's material. While Gnosis plays arenas, Hedwig plays Denny's style eateries. His band energetically belts out tunes while people eat sandwiches and peruse teh salar bar.
Each song narrarates the Hedwig story... he was born a manin East Berlin, an American GI marries him, persuades him to get a sex-change operation, and then brings him to this country, his romance and breakup with Johnny Gnosis and their inevitable rock and roll showdown.
The plot is ridiculous with many holes. This is not supposed to be "The Godfather"! This money is most compareable to Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What is great about the movie is the music and the visual depiction of the spirit and excitement of rock music. The soundtrack has 14 songs and 8 of them are gems. 4 of those songs are awesome tunes. These songs would be radio friendly even if they did not come from a movie.It is the music that drives this film.
Conservatives and people that have no affinity for glam rock should not watch this movie. There would be nothing in it for them.
However, if you are an "artsy fartsy" movie goer taht is into David Bowie, Loe Reed, New York Dolls, etc then you have found teh ROcky Horror Picture show for the new millineum.
The movie has strong gay overtones but you do not have to be gay to enjoy the film (i am not). It is rated R for homosexual kissing and naked buttocks.
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Adobe updates Shockwave for 5 critical vulnerabilities
From the 'Shocking Updates' files:
Adobe Shockwave users, it's time to update.
Adobe has issued an updated version of its Shockwave Player to address 5 critical vulnerabilities. The flaws affect Adobe Shockwave Player
188.8.131.521 and prior versions. The new version is numbered 220.127.116.112.
"The vulnerabilities could allow an
attacker, who successfully exploits the vulnerabilities, to run
malicious code on the affected system," Adobe stated in its advisory.
Arbitrary code execution is also the potential end result for two of the other flaws fixed by Adobe in this new Shockwave update. There is an invalid index issue that could also lead to code execution vulnerabilities. As well there is an invalid string length vulnerability
that has now been addressed.
A potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector is fixed in the Shockwave Player 184.108.40.2062 release thanks to a fix for a boundary condition issue.
The Shockwave Player 18.104.22.1682 is the third security update for the Adobe product this year.
In June, Adobe issued the 126.96.36.1990 update fixing a critical zero day flaw. That update was followed in July with the 220.127.116.111 update which was related to Microsoft's Active Template Library (ATL) fixes made at the same time.


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Today is May Day and I received an email from Elizabeth Warren today that stated:
May Day is more than just a celebration of spring. It's also International Workers' Day – a chance to think about how we can make sure that hard work turns into fair pay and a fair opportunity for a decent life.
The economy has been humming along nicely for people who are already at the top. But for more than a generation now, things haven't gone so great for most workers. Wages are flat. Pensions are gone. Unions have been gutted. Health care and child care costs have exploded. – Elizabeth Warren
This is far too relevant for many Montanans that can't even afford to live in the towns they work in. I spent all of my childhood in Bozeman and graduated from Bozeman high and went to college and worked in Missoula for a decade. These towns have changed so rapidly and so dangerously for the working person that they don't even resemble the towns I knew of my youth. Bozeman has an affordable housing crisis and Missoula is next up.
This report details some of these challenges.
In that vein a 3rd newspaper that is owned by the mega-corporation Lee Enterprises has voted to unionize. The Southern Illinoisan joins the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming and the Missoula Independent here in Montana.
On this May Day, we stand with all workers, including those fighting for stable jobs and strong journalism @MslaIndyUnion, @sinewsguild, @UMediaGuild, @DenverGuild, @CTGuild, @latguild and the rest of our brothers and sisters in @news_guild #SolidarityForever
— Casper News Guild (@caspernewsguild) May 1, 2018
From a press release by the unionizing workers:
Newsroom staff members at the award-winning Southern Illinoisan today formally announced their intention to form a union dedicated to preserving quality journalism amid cutbacks and mounting financial pressures in the newspaper industry.
The employees filed documents with the National Labor Relations Board stating their desire to be represented by theUnited Media Guild, which is affiliated with The NewsGuild-CWA. The filing will trigger an NLRB-run election sometime in the next several weeks.
"The Southern Illinoisan has provided a voice for the region for over 100 years, but I'm deeply concerned with the direction of the newspaper…"
Today, our group filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board, seeking to unionize the newsroom workers of The Southern Illinoisan: https://t.co/VCAIlLSkxu
— Southern Illinois News Guild (@sinewsguild) April 27, 2018
The Southern Illinoisan is a Lee Corporation run newspaper
The press release continues:
The staff of The Southern would join workers at the Casper (Wyoming) Star-Tribune and The Missoula (Montana)Independent — two other Lee papers where successful newsroom organizing campaigns have taken place in recent months. This organizing drive continues a wave of union organizing in newsrooms across the United States, including the Los Angeles Times and the recently announced drive at the Chicago Tribune.
A mission statement drafted by supporters of the unionizing effort says Southern Illinoisan employees "need a more formal voice in the workplace" to counteract a corporate mentality that leads to "decisions based solely on the bottom line."
"Negotiating a good contract will help us continue to be a watchdog for the region and produce the quality journalism Southern Illinois demands from us," Hefferman said.
The organizing effort began after an unannounced mass layoff further destabilized the newsroom in late January.
"We believe those losses went beyond the obvious human impact," said Greg Keller, a copy editor with The Southern since 2014. "We believe cuts to local journalism run counter to our mission statement of being a force for positive change in the communities we serve."
The fault doesn't fall on local management, organizers of the unionizing effort said. These decisions have been imposed on the newspaper by distant decision-makers with little direct connection to Southern Illinois, organizers said.
Happy #mayday!
— Missoula NewsGuild (@MslaIndyUnion) May 1, 2018


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9 score-draws and 6 no score draws - not bad, but we are looking for 12-15 score draws to get in the money. We
caught 4/9 score draws and 4/6 no-score draws in our 24 selections, so not bad on overall predictions. In addition
to my usual favourite plan, I tacked on a small extra cover plan which caught 17 points.
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B.Tech. Mechanical (Production Engineering) Colleges in Kerala
list of engineering colleges in kerala offering B Tech Mechanical Stream Production Engineering
Amal Jyothi is one of the few Engineering Colleges in Kerala offering B Tech Mechanical(Production Engineering). Since less number of Mechanical Production Engineers passing out from Kerala is very much limited students have a bright future
Mechanical(Production) Engineering Colleges in Kerala affiliated to Kerala University
Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering,Thiruvananthapuram
Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering located at Pappanamcode,Thiruvananthapuram offers B Tech Mechanical Stream Production Engineering. Various labs in this department are Metrology lab, Metallurgy and Material science lab, Computer integrated manufacturing lab. B.tech Mechanical (Production) in this college is run by Mechanical Engineering Department which also offers Mechanical Stream Automobile Engineering, Mechanical Engineering degree courses. The department also offers M Tech degree programme in Machine Design .
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
SCT College of Engineering,
Tel: 0471-2490572, 2492497
Fax: 0471-2493920
Web: www.sctce.ac.in
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Too much stress is bad for your health—but so is too little. Stress is a perfectly natural reaction that prepares you for action. It's the old "fight or flight" principle, and it worked to keep our ancestors alive back when they lived in caves. In a stressful situation, cortisol and adrenaline are released into our bloodstreams, raising our normal blood pressure.
The trouble is that this works much better when you're being chased by a saber-toothed tiger than it does when you're working on an annual report and dealing with time management stress. Stress hormones were designed to be quickly flushed out of our systems by action—either "fight" or "flight." We often don't get that release with modern day stressors. The hormones linger in our blood, pushing up our normal blood pressure.
Techniques that Lower Blood Pressure and Stress
To reduce stress, try the following techniques:
- Deep breathing
- Effective goal-setting
- Exercise
- Hobbies
- Meditation
- Progressive relaxation
- Time management.
Management of Stress
Researchers have known for years that continuous stress can raise normal blood pressure levels. However, stress that causes higher-than-normal blood pressure for one person may have no effect on another person.
We react individually to stressors, and because of this, stress management techniques have to be tailored to the individual. Not every strategy works for everyone. While deep breathing and progressive relaxation may lower one person's blood pressure, another person may find those stress management techniques actually increase stress.
Examine Your Stressors
The first step toward reducing stress and lowering your blood pressure is identifying what you, personally, deem stressful. Make a list of the stressors in your life, and consider your options. You can fight stress in two ways–by learning general stress-reducing techniques, or by removing the stressor. Perhaps learning deep breathing techniques are all you need to reduce work stress–or perhaps it's time to consider a less-stressful job, particularly if work-related stress is affecting your health.
Preventing stress from affecting your normal blood pressure can be as easy as taking up a hobby you enjoy. Physical activity works stress hormones out of the bloodstream, thereby lowering blood pressure.
Small Steps to Stress Reduction
Stress reduction need not always involve deep breathing or New Age mysticism.
Try some of these simple ideas to get your stress under control:
- Congratulating yourself on what you did right today
- Gardening
- Going for a walk
- Listening to quiet music
- Spending time with your pets
- Taking the time to plan your day
- Watching a sunset or sunrise.
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A very attractive bright pink colour. Aromas of strawberries, ripe raspberries, and cherries pair with a smooth, well-rounded palate that offers up pleasing volume and a long, persistent finish. The grapes were harvested at optimum ripeness, crushed, destemmed and deposited into the tanks, where they underwent a 24-hour pre-fermentation maceration. Each tank was bled 5-10% once the desired colour was obtained. The must was centrifuged, and the clean juice fermented without oxygen at 12°-15°C (54°-59°F). Fermentation of some lots was halted to maintain the fruit aromas along with a small percentage of residual sugar. The wine was stabilized, filtered, and bottled as quickly as possible. 85% Shiraz, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon.
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We're accepting your submissions until November 1st.
What we're looking for
Fantasy (dark, epic, urban, and anything in between), science fiction, thrillers, and suspense. If you're asking yourself where horror is on the list, well, we've been getting a lot of horror lately. We want to give other genres a chance this time. If you have something horror related that can fit on one of the other categories, we won't turn it down.
Submissions can be funny, sad, dark, scary, whatever.
We will accept novellas 20,000 – 39,999 words.
We will accept novels 40,000 – 130,000 words.
We will consider short story collections, but our preference is for complete novels and novellas.
We will consider books that were previously published, either by you or another publisher.
We will consider a series starter or a trilogy starter.
What we don't want
Torture of animals or children.
Erotica, BDSM, or hardcore violence/gore (i.e. splatterpunk).
Caveats to the above:
– Some sex (non-graphic) and violence is alright by us, but it should not be taken to the extreme or be intended to glorify a character inflicting pain and suffering on another person.
– If there is rape, abuse, or incest in your manuscript, we won't exclude your manuscript from consideration, but we ask that the incident in question is somehow a formative past experience for the character or makes sense in the course of the narrative.
– Flashbacks in which rape, abuse, or incest are described in detail may be acceptable, as long as the scene does not glorify the character's suffering or the act itself.
– Scenes in which a current rape, abuse, or act of incest are described in detail should also follow the above criteria.
What we want when you submit your work
Send us up to the first 5,000 words of your manuscript as an email attachment. It can span a couple chapters. Just do us a favor and stop your submission at a logical place, not in the middle of a sentence.
We only accept .doc and .docx formats.
The submission MUST be in standard manuscript form (see this page if you're unclear as to what this means: https://www.shunn.net/format/novel.html).
Your submission email MUST include the following (we recommend copying and pasting this list into your email):
– Your legal name
– Your pen name (if applicable)
– The title of your submission
– The genre of your submission
– Approximate word count of the full manuscript (not your submission)
– A synopsis of the book (all of it, not leaving out the ending) between 400 and 500 words
– Are there scenes that may trouble some readers (depictions of abuse, rape, incest, acts of terrorism, etc.)? Let us know whether they are included in the submission or if they occur later in the full manuscript.
– Are you submitting a series or trilogy starter? Tell us if you've written the other books yet and where you see the series going.
– Are you submitting a work that was previously published (includes indie published/self-published)? Please tell us whether you published the book yourself or it was published by another publisher (the rights must have reverted back to you prior to your submitting the work to us), and why you are now seeking to have it published by us.
What you should know BEFORE you submit your work to us
If your submission does not include all of the information we requested above, it is not properly formatted, is riddled with grammatical or spelling errors, or it falls well outside the genre parameters we set, we will discard your submission. No exceptions without prior written permission from us.
We are a very small publisher still, so we are not able to offer advances at this time.
We will offer you a fair and competitive royalty percentage on every sale of your book. We don't do different royalties for ebook versus print, etc. You will get one royalty percentage, regardless of the format your book is sold in.
All contracts will be for print, electronic, and audio publishing rights.
All contracts will include editing, formatting, covers, marketing, etc. done by us. A book's success is helped by the enthusiasm of its author, but don't think you're going to be promoting it alone. We'll be right there with you.
Where to send your submission
Send us an email with the subject line "Open Call for Manuscripts – Fall 2017", along with your attached submission to firstname.lastname@example.com.