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THURSDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-delirium drug
rivastigmine (brand name Exelon) does not appear to control
delirium in critically ill hospital patients, new Dutch research
When given to critically ill patients, it may even be linked to
a more severe type of delirium, a longer intensive care stay and
increased mortality, the new study suggests.
The findings could influence treatment protocols for the most
severely ill Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease patients for whom
Exelon is a standard treatment.
In a news release, the Dutch team, led by Dr. Maarten M J van
Eijk and Dr. Arjen J.C. Slooter of the University Medical Centre in
Utrecht, concludes that "since (the) findings of our study show
that rivastigmine does not decrease duration of delirium and might
increase mortality in critically ill patients, we do not recommend
treatment of delirium with rivastigmine for patients in intensive
The authors present their analysis in the Nov. 5 online edition
The Lancet.
Exelon is used to treat delirium among Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's patients at various stages of disease and overall
In particular, Exelon, which belongs to a class of drugs called
cholinesterase inhibitors, is a common treatment for patients
hospitalized in intensive care units, where the frequency of
delirium runs as high as 80 percent, the authors note.
Their findings stem from work with a little more than 100 Dutch
patients, aged 18 and up, who were being cared for in intensive
care units and were diagnosed with delirium.
Patients were given either twice daily doses of Exelon (at
between 1.5 mg and 6 mg a dose) or a sugar pill, in addition to
routine care.
The authors found that the average length of delirium was three
days among those not taking Exelon and five days among those
getting the drug. In addition, the rate of death among the Exelon
group was higher than in the non-Exelon group, although the
difference was not deemed statistically significant.
The findings nevertheless raised sufficient concern that the
research team halted the investigation mid-stream, before inclusion
of another 350 or so patients slated for study participation.
Greg M. Cole, a neuroscientist with the Greater Los Angeles VA
Healthcare System and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease
Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, David
Geffen School of Medicine, said the finding raises a host of
"There may be a lot of factors that could be affecting drug performance here," he noted. "You would want to know what it is specifically about these critically ill people that poses a problem. It is perhaps exposure to anesthesia while hospitalized, or is it a question of acute spiking infections or inflammation among a particularly frail and elderly group? The circumstances need to be carefully defined before we can be really sure what's at issue.
"But I would say that the study also has relevance to an audience that is even broader than just those who might be treated by this particular drug," Cole added. "Because the message here is that even for drugs that are widely used, it isn't usually one size fits all."
Even if a larger pool of people can be treated successfully with
this medication, it's important to know if it won't work with a
particular population, especially a group such as Alzheimer's
patients, he said.
More information
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Supercut - E3 2012 Sony Conference (in a Nutshell)
Supercut - E3 2012 Sony Conference (in a Nutshell)
(Source: swordweedonline)
Supercut - E3 2012 Ubisoft Conference (in a Nutshell)
(Source: revengeance)
Can I just take a moment to explain why I love Nintendo, both at E3 and in general? I mean, no - the E3 conference may have started at a high note but it kind of ended on a whimper by the end.
But you know what? I don't care.
Look at these three men. They are the three geniuses behind the company. A man who treats a plush toy with love and laughter in front of millions of viewers. A man genuinely shocked and amazed when his face is transformed as part of a game. A man caught contemplating the significance of bananas in the middle of a serious presentation.
Every other company comes onto the stages trying to be as professional as possible. They see their customers, their players, as mature adults and want to keep up the face of being so as well, producing prerecorded videos of obviously overexcited actors…. - but in the process, while they talk about how excited they are about something, there's nothing. Nothing there is genuine.
Nintendo doesn't care. Nintendo goofs off. Nintendo carries ridiculous props onstage and laughs at themselves. Their excitement isn't just stated, it's shown. They are there, having fun, and because of that you know that they genuinely love their games. The things they are selling you are things they love themselves.
They are complete dorks at heart. They still love fun and aren't afraid to show it in front of millions of people.
And that is why I love Nintendo and will always back them - we share that love of fun.
I know it's pretty late to comment, but this is a glorious post and a glorious comment.
With an incredible amount of truth. While there's merit in being professional, nothing sells entertainment like letting your audience know that yes, you genuinely love your product and want to share it with the world.
(Source: venticlaus)
Pikmin 3 (Wii U)
What if it's some huge cryptic clue on a new Donkey Kong? That would be interesting.
For some reason this is all I could think of after reading this.
Follow Wired's live blog of the Nintendo E3 conference here! We <3 Miyamoto.
(Source: Wired)
(Source: berardbro)
(Source: hitmeupman)
Reggie takes his true form
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How to package Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
- Download the offline JRE installer from one of the following locations: - jre-6u#-windows-i586-s.exe
- Run the installer and but don't begin installation.
- Whilst the installer is still open, navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Sun\Java\jre1.6.0_# and copy the contents of this folder to a safe location.
The contents must include Data1.cab and jre1.6.0_#.msi
The contents of Data1.cab must include:
- core.zip
- patchjre.exe
- regutils.dll
- zipper.exe
- core.zip
- Test the installer by ammending and running the following command, the /qb will perform a quit install (no questions!)
msiexec /i c:\<dir>\jre1.6.0_#.msi /qb
- If the installation is successful (i.e. if "Java (TM) 6 Update #" shows up in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel) you can then assign it via a Group Policy Object (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816102).
Note: Make sure you move the Data1.cab and jre1.6.0_#.msi to a share/location that all your workstations have access to and create the Group Policy Object to point to the jre1.6.0_#.msi in that share/location.
Version Compatibility:
Disable Java Autoupdate:
Error 1311. Source file not found: Data1.cab:
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so that the conversation will remain readable.
Java 6 u31 seems to require only the below for the update to be turned off:
So: just create a transform, make sure above properties are in there and set correctly, and you should be allright. If we look for running processes we see jusched.exe is not running after we installed the package using our transform.
The MST I deployed with 6u31 has: AUTOUPDATECHECK = 0, JAVAUPDATE = 0, JU = 0. After applying the package, I don't see JUSCHED or any other service, suggesting autoupdate is running.
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Each one pound tin makes a dozen six-ounce cups of cocoa when heated with water. A great gift--especially when paired with Mrs. Fields® cookies.
**Due to our dough mixing process, all of our products may have come in contact with nut oils.
- Shipment includes four tins.
- Each tin weighs one pound.
- Each tin makes one dozen six-ounce cups of cocoa.
- Heat with water.
8 customer reviews have been submitted for the Four Tins of Cocoa.
Overall Rating:(4.6 of 5)
coca(11/17/2011)I bought some a few years back and have not been able to find it. It was the best hot chocolate I have ever had and would like to get more. I am sure that I am not alone.
Best Ever Hot Cocoa(11/12/2011)Please Bring it back!!! This is by far the best hot cocoa I have ever tasted...
PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!(01/08/2011)This is the worlds best hot cocoa... Please bring it back!!!
miss the hot cocoa(12/19/2010)I loved this cocoa and waited for it every year! So sad it's no longer made!
best ever(11/01/2009)This coca is the best ever, I highly recomend it!
Please Bring it Back!!(01/15/2012)I also agree this is the best hot chocolate I have ever had. Please bring it back or make the recipe available.
Please return the hot cocoa(12/16/2011)This is the best cocoa ever. I dream of having a sip of it again. However, I haven't seen it for over two years at the store I purchased it at. Would you give us the recipe, so we could make our own version.
A Blue Christmas(12/09/2010)I am very disappointed that your hot cocoa is not available. It is a tradition that my son looks forward to every year. We use the tins throughout the year and this year we have enough for Christmas morning...but there won't be another set of tins under the tree.
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By Emma ThelwellMSN NZ Money
Qantas has announced a $1.5 billion cost-cutting plan, leaving thousands of workers fearing for their jobs, after reporting an 87 percent drop in profits.
The group said the outbreak of swine flu alone wiped $45 million from its annual profits, with a further $37 million blow from the introduction of the new A380 and a loss of $130 million off the back of industrial strikes.
Qantas which employs 35,000 people globally, said it will not pay out its final dividend to shareholders, after unveiling profits of $117 million for the full year.
One-off events aside, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said there has never been a more volatile and challenging time for the industry.
With passenger demand crippled by the global economic downturn, Mr Joyce said Qantas was lucky to turn a profit at all. Sales for the year to the end of June fell 6.9 per cent to $14.55 billion.
"The diversity of the Qantas Group's operations had contributed to it being one of the few airline operators worldwide to produce a full-year profit, despite the impact of the global economic downturn," he said.
The International Air Transport Association had previously forecast US$9 billion in losses for global aviation.
Mr Joyce said that in the six months to the end of June, the airline was dogged by price wars both at home and abroad, as its' competitors battle to dominate the skies.
Despite the softening market, the group plans to add more than 160 new aircraft to its fleet over the next 10 years, in order to enter new markets.
It also plans to invest further in Jetstar in the coming months, after the budget brand secured itself as the largest carrier between Japan and Australia.
While Mr Joyce said there are "signs of improvement", passenger numbers remain volatile and fuel costs look set to rise.
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In the company's annual results Mr Joyce added: "Q Future will focus on Qantas' operations and improving efficiencies across a range of areas, including sales and distribution, fuel conservation, aircraft utilisation and schedule, and procurement."
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Editor's note: This is Furman Bisher's final column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read more:
–Past columns. His last one is below. Read his first one including his moving tribute to his late son and several others.
–Photos of his career. Even one where he's playing football.
–Video: Bisher reflects on his very first column for the paper
It was April 15, income tax day, in 1950 that this all began. Usually, such a run as this rarely ever carries on this long. Perhaps my act has worn thin. Perhaps I have over-stayed my time. But to an old warrior such as I, it isn't easy finding an appropriate ending place.
My mind wanders back to the Falcons' first flirtation with glory. They led the Dallas Cowboys into the shadows of a Sunday afternoon in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 60,222 fans in a state of exhilaration, a division championship a breath away when the defense broke down. It was over and a city was left heartbroken.
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State of New York Ontario County ss: I do hereby certify, that James Fletcher, a black man about six feet high twenty five years of age, was born in the town of Westspringfield, county of Hamphire, & State of Massachusetts, of free parents and that said James hath made & exhibited to me sufficient proof in writing of his being a free person & I do therefore certify that he is a free man. & I do further certify that said James is now a resident of the town of Canandaigua & that said proof was exhibited before me at the same place. Witness my hand this twenty fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred & telve, one of the Judges of the court of common pleas, in and for said county.
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Colorful and creamy Cilantro-Yogurt Chutney aids in curbing the heat in spicy dishes like Curry-Spiced Shrimp.
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Don't look now; the American Le Mans Series just may have found its newest team – and energy source – to the 2010 grid. According to an ALMS press release, Delorean and its world-famous and time-travelling DMC-12 have been given the 'go-signal' by league officials to compete in the 2010 American Le Mans Series.
While the car is noticeably more powerful and technologically-advanced than any car the ALMS has ever had competing in its league, Delorean officials have said that while the rules don't explicitly dictate that the DMC-12 is in violation of any rules, the new team shall nevertheless withhold the use of its many unique features, including the time-travelling aspect that, if used, would let DeLorean finish the 12 Hours of Sebring in about 1.2 seconds.
Never the type to back down from an intimidating newcomer, the existing teams of the ALMS are all gearing up for Delorean's first race of the year, with the date still pending validation.
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The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón added another world-renowned manufacturer – and yet another energy source! – to its grid Thursday. Delorean and its DMC-12 model have been given special waivers to compete in the world's leading sports car championship.
To no one's great surprise, the rear-engined beast will be powered by the revolutionary Mr. Fusion system which the yet-to-be-named team will feed with non-recyclable materials collected from the pressrooms throughout the weekend. Popular items include cheeseburgers, leftover gummy bears, sunblock and corrupted compact flash cars; the latter will be donated by angry photographers!
Among other components, Mr. Fusion will power the Delorean's Flux Capacitor. The device is the first (and perhaps still best) example of automotive drivetrain innovation – which will be completely at home with the Global Leader of Green Racing.
This has presented some challenges, though. The IMSA technical staff has been hard at work making sure the Delorean does not enjoy special advantages, such as time travel that would allow it to complete 12 Hours at Sebring in roughly 1.2 seconds. As a result – and as a balance to its tremendous economical advantage – IMSA will fit the DMC-12 with a 1955mm restrictor to keep speeds below 88 mph. It will run in the newly created GTCC – Grand Touring Challenge Classic – class. It will run alongside another new class – Le Mans Prototype Challenge Classic – giving the Series six (count 'em…SIX!) races within a race.
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a road car into a race car, why not do it with some style?" we overheard from one source close to the project. For some reason, he reminded us a bit of Christopher Lloyd…
Existing teams already are prepping for the challenge. In particular, Corvette Racing never backs down from a challenge.
"We welcome new additions to the Series!" quipped Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan, whose cars run on cellulosic E85. "In keep with our mindset of focus of concentration in the MICHELIN GREEN X Challenge, fusion power will be a welcomed entry. Clearly we'll have to go back and do more homework!"


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Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam tells WLOX News the people believed to be responsible for last Thursday's robbery at the Keesler Federal Credit Union in Diamondhead have been arrested. His department will be releasing their names shortly.
Investigators were looking for two people, a man and a woman, after reviewing surveillance video from the credit union. The two allegedly made it out of the building with about $3,000 last Thursday before escaping in a dark gray Ford Focus.
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He rarely grabs the headlines and nor does he seek to, but there is no doubt that Tony Hibbert has again been one of Everton's unsung heroes this season.
The unflustered defender is enjoying some of the best form of his career and it has come during the course of a campaign where competition at right back has been fierce.
Hibbert has made that position his own for the most part and only injury forced him out of the team for much of January. Of late, the 31-year-old has been in and out of the side, but he displayed all of his battling qualities in the recent Merseyside derby defeat to Liverpool.
In a match all Evertonians will want to forget, Hibbert rejoined Everton's back four (having been a substitute against Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park in the previous fixture) and performed impressively – regularly halting the progress of the Reds' danger men from the flanks.
It is testament to Hibbert's skill as a defender that David Moyes still considers him as important to his team now, as he was back in March 2002. The defender is the only survivor from Moyes' first team selection as Everton manager against Fulham and he has been consistently in and around the team throughout the Scot's tenure at Goodison.
Hibbert, who himself celebrated 10 years as an Everton player in March 2011, epitomises the determination and spirit of Moyes' teams.
Having made over 250 appearances for the club and represented the Blues on more occasions in Europe than any other player, Hibbert deserves great credit for his contribution to the Everton cause. He has always been a player who can be relied upon.
From his debut as a 20-year-old at Upton Park against West Ham United (where he won his team a crucial first half penalty) to his presence in Everton's remarkable run to fourth place in 2005, Hibbert has experienced all of the twists and turns over the course of the past 11 years.
Throughout good times and bad, 'Hibbo' has fought for the Blue shirt at every corner. He might not be known for his contribution in the final third, but he has always been a useful attacking outlet for the Blues and he has the ability to cross with conviction from the right. This has been evident on more than one occasion this season. However, it is Hibbert's combative qualities which earn him most plaudits.
His outstanding defensive display at the heart of Everton's backline against Manchester City, in particular, stands out. The Blues, who were injury-stricken, dug in and outfought the league leaders. And for many that night, Hibbert was the Toffees stand-out performer.
It is Hibbert's application to do his job in the right way on the pitch that has always endeared him to Evertonians. The defender is a Blue through and through and most Everton supporters can relate to him.
Now, as we enter the business end of Everton's season (where there is still a lot to play for), Hibbert remains a key figure in Moyes' spirited side. While
Club captain Phil Neville and Seamus Coleman, among others, provide welcome competition at right back, Hibbert's ability to get on with his job and do his best when called upon make him the ultimate professional, who any manager would want at their club.
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Saina Nehwal's Perfect Start
Saina Nehwal delivered a dominating performance to cruise into the second round of the Yonex Sunrise India Open 2013 in New Delhi. The world No. 2 took 33 minutes to dispatch her unseeded Indonesian opponent Belaetrix Manupati 21-12, 21-15 in the opening round of the women's singles competition. Her opponent in the next round is Yui Hashimoto of Japan. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)


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On November 19th, 35-year-old Jacqueline Wilson of Ozark, and a juvenile were arrested on charges of child abuse.
The crime was discovered when a phone SD card was found laying on the ground and turned over to law enforcement. The card contained video of a teenager physically abusing a child who appeared to be between two and three years old.
The video depicted the teenager shoving the child, physically picking up and throwing down the child, striking the child several times with a belt and chocking the child.
While the abuse was occurring, Wilson was seen in the video observing the incident. She then appears to walk away without stopping the abuse.
Initially, the identity of the people in the video was not known, but after an investigation by the Dale County Sheriff's Office and the Dale County Department of Human Resources, all parties were identified and proper action taken.
Wilson was taken to the Dale County Jail and held, pending her appearance before a judge on November 20th.
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by Laura Boyette and Teodora Mihaylova
How effective is the current global development agenda? What needs to be done differently going forward? How can we set goals that are more attainable and sustainable?
In 2000, at the dawn of a new millennium, the United Nations laid out an ambitious global development agenda known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seeks to resolve some of the most pressing international challenges of our time: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, improving maternal health, reducing child mortality and promoting environmental sustainability, among others. Happily, the world has made some exciting progress toward achieving these goals.
The MDGs will expire on December 31, 2015 and a new set of principles will replace them. In order to face these new challenges, the United Nations once again created a panel to debate the needs that face our world post-2015. In May of 2013, the panel released their report.
At a recent talk at Georgetown University, Chair of the Center for American Progress John Podesta argued that five fundamental shifts have taken place since the inception of the current standards in 2000.
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Another block of my blog.. by myself that is.. Meh, did anyone notice lol..
So yep Bagels! :) I used to be very prejusticed about them, 'cause my aunt living in Chicago was the first one offered me bagels, and they were yucky. lol, not that it's her fault or something, they were prepackaged ones.
But a couple of days ago, at Tribeca which is known for bagels, I tried a Honey, Cream Cheese, Walnut bagel which was quite yummy and very prettyly shaped too! So I said to myself; ''Wait, is it something good, better than I can make myself?'' The answer to that question was simple, but I didn't know till I tried my own this morning.. OMG! They are so, so yummy! They smell marvellous too, I just bought a Dutch Butter yesterday-yes, you heard that right not Becel Formum, and used it in them.. And a little with cream cheese&honey, a little bit with Moova's Gouda, more honey and walnuts, they're so so good!
And today.. I'm feeling extraordinarly good, well I woulld feel better with a full limit credit card, but y'know :P And I will have it about 10 days later again, mom's payday, and then will be broke for another 30 days for I like to spend it all in a day, Idk, you may think I'm crazy or weird but.. trust me it's fun! But well, it's also fun to me, making a big pot of Linden, posting on my blog, starving through the day 'cause I ate too much sweets at breakfast time and ought not to eat lunch, but dinner might be ok, making cute lttle origami things, peeking about lots and lots of food blogs to decide, tonights dinner and some kind of light dessert, making a buble bath with blueberry smelling bubbles, having my ''work table sheet'' between the walls of the bathtub and reading a good book(oh by the way The Little Stranger, I'm about to finish it, book review coming up today), and drinking champagne while.. No, I'm not being sarcastic, just I'm coming to acceptance what my life will be like without school, and not work yet even..
Anyway.. I should walk Karamel, it looks sunny, but very slippery also.. That means,no heels-What?! I like them, alright? ah well and it also means I get to buy rice flour-wait, shit! where are those tons coin liras sitting on the table, if I find them I mean, I can make Dutch Crunch Bread, a pot of Winter Veggie Soup with some Bacon and ofc Gouda.. :) well let me see to it now..
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Craig has really been pressing Boomer for more alone time, which struck Jerry Recco as being a little odd. Boomer picked up on it as well and warned Craigie that he better pump the brakes a bit before things get weird.
B&C Morning Show: Boomer & Carton's Couples Massage
To pay tribute to Boomer and the fact that he is turning 50 this Sunday, Craig has been showering the Blonde Bomber with gifts all week. Today the duo will share a nice couples massage, courtesy of Craig, and Boomer isn't sure what he has gotten himself into.


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Weird Ad of the Day: Big Shake Tournage (Video)LOL, OMG, Pop Culture, WTF — By Dave on 2012/06/13 9:03 AM
This Haitian commercial for Big Shake milk will make you scratch your head…or laugh…or maybe even both?
Big Shake Tournage from Muska Group on Vimeo.
In case that looked familiar to you, the video was inspired by this old Thai commercial:
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Big Shake Ecole from Muska Group on Vimeo.
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BLOOMINGTON, IN (WHBL) - The Wisconsin men's basketball team lost for the first time this season, 75-72 Tuesday night at Indiana. Yogi Ferrell scored 25 points for the Hoosiers, as they ended a 12-game losing streak to the Badgers which dated back to January of 2007. Third-ranked Wisconsin fell to 16-1, leaving Arizona, Syracuse, and Wichita State as the only unbeaten Division-One teams in the country. The game was tied at 65 when Ferrell scored five straight points. Wisconsin got to within one in the final minute on a Frank Kaminsky lay-up. Ferrell made a pair of throws, which gave Indiana a three-point edge with 18-point-one seconds left. The Badgers blew a chance to send the game to overtime when Traevon Jackson and Ben Brust missed three pointers in the final seconds. Jackson led Wisconsin with a career-high 21 points, and Brust had 13. Coach Bo Ryan said his Badgers seemed to worry about getting fouls due to the way the game was being called. Indiana made 7 of 10 free throws, while the Badgers only went to the line four times and made one. Indiana scored 52 of its 75 points in the paint, with a 31-26 rebounding edge. The Hoosiers improved to 2-2 in the Big Ten and 12-5 overall. The Badgers are now 3-1 in league play. They'll host Michigan on Saturday.
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Scheduling sex is the thing everyone tells you to do after you have kids, careers, and busy lives as a married couple. But no one really ever says how incredibly, disgustingly, and horrifyingly unsexy that is. If it works for you, then awesome, but for me, the idea of scheduling sex would make it as appealing as a dentist appointment.
The Huffington Post addressed this issue this week. They quote Dr. Eli Coleman, a professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who agrees that while scheduling and prioritizing sex can keep the excitement alive, feeling pressured to perform despite one's mood is a massive buzz kill.
I am with him. There is simply nothing erotic about punching "sex" into your day planner. Call me crazy, but it's true.
The fact is, if you have to pencil sex into your calendar, then the spontaneity and spur of the moment-ness that makes sex so delicious disappears. For me, that is a deal-breaker.
I am the kind of woman who can't even eat dinner unless I was expressly in the mood for that dish, so there is no way I could have sex unless I was seriously feeling it, too. Penciling it in to my day book just would never work. Sure, we could get there. We could kiss and touch and maybe get in the "mood," but it just kills what I love about sex, so for me, it would never work.
That said, any couple has to make sex a priority. We may not pencil it in, but we do start to get worried if we aren't getting busy at least two or three times a week on our own. If it falls too low, one or both of us usually brings it up and we have to get back on it.
But in our hectic lives, scheduling sex wouldn't always be practical, either. We never really know when we will be free. I work a lot of nights, he works days, and we both take care of the kids in our down time, and they are anything but predictable.
If we tried to schedule sex, one of us would be constantly disappointed or, worse, falling asleep by the time it happened. By not scheduling it, we keep some spontaneity and surprise and we also get plenty in when we do get it.
I will never be a sex scheduler. No matter how crazy things get.
Do you schedule sex?
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When we were TTC and on Clomid, while also working different shifts, we had no choice but to schedule sex, and fit it in whenever we could when the Dr. would give me the green light. It's a big deal at first but after many unsuccessful months, doing it on command sucked most of the fun out of sex. But if you are in a situation like that, you have to either have sex when you are told, or you defeat the purpose of the fertility treatments! Scheduling sex isn't anyone's first choice, but sometimes it's a must.
We did family planning so it was sort of scheduled...sort of. Now that I am back on the pill it doesn't matter.
Just do it. No schedule, but no big romantic campaign or mood-ometer reading either. You inevitably get into it, and keeps the connection.
Schedule or not...if I'm not in the mood it ain't happening. Honestly, I wish I could have more sex, but with my demanding five month old, I just feel like I have nothing left to give by the end of the day.
We have to plan times, but if somthing comes up, we just don't do it. early shift the next day, bad cold, kids having night terrors, they all mess with it. Sometimes we have a less than awesome quicky, just so we have done it. Some less than awesome sex is better than no sex around here.
Eh...we sort of schedule it sometimes. Like we know what days work best for us. Like last week we were having breakfast and I told him that my normal 'girls night' was not happening for whatever reason and hes like "oh, so sex tonight." lol.


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"What does it mean to be crazy? To have a disorder of the mind. But "disorder" can only exist if there is some kind of pre determined "order" set in place. And who decides on order relative to the human mind? Human society. Sane and insane is a judgment based on perspective. And according to many other perspectives within this universe, it is human society that is rampant with disorder. So there is no reason to think of yourself as insane; if the very mindset of the society that determines whether you are sane or insane… is in and of itself insane!"
-Teal Scott-
-freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility
-mental calm, serenity
-freedom from dispute or dissension between individuals or groups (now we're getting loser to race)
by: Miriam Mogilevsky
A few days ago I came across the story of Junior Seau, an NFL linebacker who committed suicide on May 2 (2012). He shot himself in the chest and was found in his home by his girlfriend. Although little is known of Seau's mental health leading up to his death, he had apparently suffered from insomnia for the last seven years of his life.
Sportswriter Chris McCosky wrote a beautiful column in the Detroit News about Seau's death and continuing ignorance about depression and suicide. In the column, McCosky shares his own experiences with depression and suicidal thoughts and laments how difficult it is to explain them to people. He notes, as I've noted before, that one common reaction that non-depressed people have is to wonder what the hell we have to be so sad about. He writes, "It's almost impossible to talk about it to regular people (bosses, spouses, friends). They can't fathom how somebody in good physical health, with a good job, with kids who love them, who seems relatively normal on the outside, can be terminally unhappy."
The unbearable frequency at which McCosky and I and probably everyone else who tries to talk about depression get this response could be a testament to the fact the most visible symptom of depression is usually sadness. So that's the one people latch on to: "What do you have to be so sad about?" "Cheer up!" "You have to decide to be happy!"
Because of the sheer obviousness of our sadness, we're often forced to try to use it to describe depression. We say that we're just extremely sad, or unhealthily sad, or adifferent kind of sad. It's sadness that never goes away like sadness is supposed to. It's sadness that's out of proportion to the troubles that we face in our lives. It's sadness that we can't stop thinking about. For those of us with bipolar or cyclothymic disorder, it's sadness that comes and goes much too quickly.
The truth is that sadness actually has very little to do with depression, except that it is one of its many possible symptoms.
Based on the diagnostic criteria for depression, you don't even need to be chronically sad to be considered "depressed." Anhedonia, which means losing the ability to feel pleasure from things that you used to enjoy, could be present instead. Under the formal DSM-IV definition, you must have at least five of nine possible symptoms to have major depression–and one of the five must be either depressed mood or anhedonia–and only one of those symptoms involves sadness. (If you so some very basic math, you will notice that this means that two people, both of whom officially have major depression, might only have one symptom in common. Weird, huh?)
So, even if your particular depression does include sadness, it'll only be one of many other symptoms. The others might be much more painful and salient for you than the sadness is. Some people can't sleep, others gain weight, some think constantly about death, others can't concentrate or remember anything. Many lose interest in sex, or food, or both. Almost everyone, it seems, experiences a crushing fatigue in which your limbs feel like stone and no amount of sleep ever helps. Then there are headaches, stomachaches, and so on.
So, depression doesn't necessarily mean sadness to us. (And a gentle reminder to non-depressed folks: being sad doesn't mean you're "depressed," either.)
Depression is not sadness; it's an illness that often, though not always, involves sadness. No amount of happy things will make a depressed person spontaneously recover, and, usually, no amount of sad things will make a well-adjusted person with good mental health suddenly develop depression. (Grief, of course, is another matter.) And sadness, on its own, does not cause suicide.
We need to start talking about mood disorders as disorders, not as emotional states. McCosky writes:
Junior Seau wasn't sad when he pointed that gun to his chest. He wasn't being a coward. He wasn't being selfish. He was sick. I wasn't sad when I thought about swerving into on-coming traffic on Pontiac Trail some 20 years ago. I was sick.
Junior Seau one month prior to his death
What he's saying is that people don't kill themselves because they're sad. They kill themselves because they have an illness.
There is a tendency, I think, to assume that people are depressed because they are sad. A better way to look at it is that people are sad because they are depressed. That's why, even if we could "turn that frown upside down!" and "just look on the sunny side!" for your benefit, it would do absolutely no good. The depression would still be there, but in a different form.
Junior Seau did not leave a suicide note, so only God knows what he was thinking when he died. I would guess, though, that he was thinking about much more than just being sad.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so Happy Mental Health Awareness Month to you!
I intend to explore the impact of race on mental health, both individual and collective, in a few posts this month. And, of course, how biracial factors into it. Or, more accurately, how it factors into biracial. All I know right now is that it does.
May the force be with me.
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David M. French Dies at 86
Ever wonder who tended to the injuries of demonstrators brutalized during the civil rights protests of the 1960s? David M. French, a former Howard University professor of pediatric surgery and one of the first African-American board certified surgeons, coordinated many of those first aid efforts, as just one piece of a long career that merged medicine and public service. He died March 31 at the age of 86.
David M. French (Ellsworth Davis/Washington Post)
After witnessing firsthand the lack of quality health care available to blacks in the South at civil rights protests (he once converted his family van into an ambulance to lead a medical unit overseeing the care of Mississippi activists demonstrating against racism), French became committed to improving the health of underserved people and began to focus on preventative and community medicine.
French founded Boston University's department of community health in 1969. He also established a network of community health centers in Boston before moving to Ivory Coast in the 1970s. There, he led an effort to train nurses and improve public health in 20 countries across the continent.
French returned to the United States in the mid-1980s and retired to Barboursville, Va. But his work didn't end then. He went on to serve as medical director of Helen Keller International, a New York-based nonprofit organization that runs public health programs in developing countries. More recently, he served as medical officer for the nonprofit service and development African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Read more at The Washington Post.
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Pema Chödrön and Dzigar Kongtrül: Let's Be Honest
A discussion led by Elizabeth Namgyel
…Dzigar Kongtrül: Self-importance is having too much attachment to one's own well-being and freedom from suffering, without having the same kind of care and concern for others' well-being and freedom from suffering. When we have a great deal of self-importance, we will never be able to enjoy whatever we possess that we have gathered through our hard work, wit, and cunning. It will always bring a sense of dissatisfaction. We will never feel quite ready to enjoy it, because we carry the burden of being attached to it. However, if we apply to others the same sense of loving and caring that we have in cherishing ourselves, we reduce the self-importance.
When self-importance is reduced, a door opens to your positive qualities. As you continue to reduce the self-importance, the positive qualities take deeper root in your mindstream and your heart. At that point, you have real discipline and you begin to sustain yourself with your innate positive qualities, rather than the drive to become important. The ability to love, to care, to be concerned, to be compassionate—these were all there from the beginning. Previously, they were guided by self-centeredness; now they are guided by the needs of others.
This innate love is a powerful force that is now being led by a completely noble, incredibly dignified leader. Before, this powerful force, an army with the richness of a whole kingdom behind it and the loyalty of the subjects, was being led by a crooked king, and that crookedness created a state of confusion that spread everywhere. When that crooked leader is replaced by a noble leader, with a genuine sense of dignity, everyone in the kingdom can reap the benefit of the positive qualities that are the basic nature of the kingdom in the first place.
Pema Chödrön: Is the leader self-reflection?
Dzigar Kongtrül: The noble leader is altruistic mind, and the crooked leader is self-centeredness. Self-reflection is what discriminates between the qualities of self-centeredness of the bad leader and the altruistic mind of the good leader.
Pema Chödrön: It is interesting to consider the nature of the self-centeredness that seems to be prevalent in the West. I don't think the term "self-cherishing," for example, is all that helpful here, because the ego twist in the West isn't that we love ourselves too much. Rather, we tend to have a negative preoccupation with ourselves. We might go shopping, not so much to feather our own nest, but to try to overcome some very bad feeling we have toward ourselves. Rather than cherishing ourselves, we hate ourselves. So, loving- kindness toward oneself needs to be developed as the basis before you can spread it to other people.
Dzigar Kongtrül: The loving-kindness is directed to your mind, not to the self. When you redirect the love and compassion from the self-centered approach, which has never produced good results anyway, to the altruistic approach, you find you have positive feelings in great abundance. Even though these are extended outwardly to others, they don't leave your mind and end up somewhere else. They fill your mind and sustain it.
Pema Chödrön: Shantideva talks about all the ways that we are willing to hurt ourselves, including suicide. He says, if you're willing to hurt yourself that much, it's no wonder you're willing to hurt other people. It seems to me the verses in the Bodhicaryavatara that discuss this issue are key for the West, because we're much more into self-degradation than what you call self-cherishing.
Dzigar Kongtrül: The use of language in this case is interesting. When we say self-degradation, it sounds like we don't have much self-importance. But in reality if one were not holding tightly to the self, there would be no reason to feel such aversion to it.
Pema Chödrön: Yes, I see self-degradation as one of the main ways that self-importance manifests in the West. You are still "full of yourself," but you are full of yourself as a negative thing.
Dzigar Kongtrül: We come to believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with us. But if you really study, if you really practice, you will find that there's nothing fundamentally wrong. So you need to commit to a course of study and practice, and until you do that, whether one is in the West or anywhere else, there is going to be the feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with you. When you wish to be happy and free from suffering, and yet your mind is not supporting you, it's very easy to resort to thinking that there's something fundamentally wrong with you.
Yes, I believe they were… Disturbing.
Teen With Asperger's Arrested: Were Callers Racial Profiling?
by Ken Reibel
Reginald Latson loves to walk.
"He'll walk five or 10 miles, it's nothing to him. Sometimes he walks five miles just to grab a bite to eat at Chili's," says his mother, Lisa, who lives in Stafford, Virginia. "Walking is his release."
Neli, as his family calls him, is 18 and has Asperger's, a mild form of autism. Three Mondays ago, he rose early and left home without telling his mother. "When I entered his room at 6:30 am and didn't see him, I assumed he had gone for another walk," she says. It was a school day.
Four hours later Stafford County authorities had ordered a lock down for eight schools, and Neli was in police custody, facing one count of malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer, one count of assault and battery of a law enforcement officer, and one count of knowingly disarming a police officer in performance of his official duties. The cascade of missteps that led to the arrest suggest a combination of public racial profiling and the over reaction of law enforcement officers who are unfamiliar with autistic behavior.
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After Neli left home early that morning he walked two miles to Porter Library on Parkway Blvd. "He goes there frequently. There's a teen room there, and he enjoys it," says Lisa. The library was closed, so he sat under a tree, in the grass, at the front of the building. The parking lot at Park Ridge Elementary, about 400 feet to the west, was filling up.
According to officials reports, someone at the school called police at about 8:38 am to report a suspicious person sitting outside the library, "possibly in possession of a gun." A bulletin went out with Neli's description, and officials, concerned that a gunman was on the loose, ordered a school lockdown and set up a search perimeter.
When police arrived at the library, Neli was gone. Unaware of the report, and impatient for the library to open, he began walking in the direction of the high school. A forested green belt of trees some 500 feet-wide with a well-worn path separates the school from nearby homes. At about 9 am, a "school resources officer" who is also a Stafford County Sheriff deputy approached Neli. That's when accounts begin to diverge.
Lisa said her son complied with a search, which failed to find a weapon. Police say Neli "attacked and assaulted the deputy for no apparent reason."
Neli told his mother that the school officer threatened him, and that Neli said "You're harassing me. You're not allowed to do that. I know my rights," then turned and walked away. According to Neli, the officer grabbed him from behind and choked him. Police reports say a scuffle ensued, during which the officer pepper sprayed Neli. The police version, which you can read here, says Neli then took the spray from the officer and turned it on him.
According to Lisa, Neli said he took the spray and ran into the woods. The deputy, Thomas Calverley, reportedly suffered a cut to the head and a broken ankle, and underwent surgery.
By this time sheriff deputies were combing the area with search dogs, and at least one TV news crew offered a breathless live report of the manhunt. Neli somehow eluded the dragnet for another 45 minutes before being spotted and arrested in the high school parking lot, shortly before 10 am.
No gun was found "and subsequent investigation has indicated that that a gun was not actually seen by the reporting parties," according to the official report.
Lisa learned of the arrest at 10:30 am, when she called the police to report that her son was missing. "I was told that he was in custody and was currently being questioned but I was not told why," she said. "They wouldn't tell me anything, and wouldn't allow me to visit him. I told the police that Neli has autism, but they didn't seem to care."
For the next 11 days, Neli was held without bail, and in isolation at the Rappahannock Regional Jail. Police allowed Neli's school counselor to visit, and she relayed messages and information to Lisa, who was allowed only one visit. "He wasn't able to speak or communicate with me. He appeared to be in a catatonic state," Lisa says.
She is understandably frustrated and angry.
"The actions that were taken by the police that day were excessive in the least and grossly mishandled," she wrote on a website started to counter inaccurate local media reports. "Someone says 'I see a suspicious black male' and he 'could' have a gun, while all my son was doing was sitting in the grass at the library. And you shut down six schools and go out on a manhunt for this dangerous black man who was sitting in the grass. Anyone can read between the lines and see that this just doesn't add up."
Neli is from a military family, and during his 18 years has lived in Florida, Germany, Oklahoma and Georgia. Seven years ago his family moved to Stafford, a sprawling bedroom community about an hour south of Washington, DC. The family struggled to find appropriate school placement, finally settling on a private school. "The public high school was crowded, with about 30 kids to a class. Neli wasn't getting the attention he needed, and his self esteem was slipping." But he had never been in serious trouble. Never like this.
Lisa heeded the warning signs. A month earlier, she asked Neli how he would feel about wearing a medical alert bracelet that identified him as a person with Asperger's. "He said that he didn't have a problem with that, but I didn't follow up. I'm just kicking myself for that," she said.
Lisa, who works as a defense contractor, had also asked for a two month leave of absence to spend more time with Neli. That Monday was her first day off work. Her husband, Neli's stepfather, retired from the Army and is currently stationed in Iraq as a military contractor.
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As Neli's time in isolation dragged on, police interrogators found him non-responsive and disturbed, and a judge ordered the young man transferred to a state mental institution for 30-days of treatment and evaluation. If the case is not resolved by then, he will end up back in jail.
The hospital is a two-and-a-half hour trip from Stafford, which Lisa says she has made four times. Horrified, she watched her son's mental state worsen with each visit. "He is locked away and doesn't understand why," says Lisa. "He's been through an ordeal."
That ordeal has also changed Lisa, and the way she thinks about race, the police, and her community. She suspects Neli's arrest was in part racially motivated, but it is not a charge she makes lightly.
"I used to donate money to the police benevolent society. I never imagined something like this could happen," she says.
"I don't think in terms of 'watch out for those kinds of people' or 'you need to be scared,'" she says. "I grew up in south Florida. That's a melting pot of cultures. I know there are good people and bad of every race." Her life in the military, she says, has brought her friends "of every racial background."
Has the ordeal changed her views on race and racism?
"It has," she said, her voice trailing off. "It most definitely has."
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Cross posted at AutismNewsBeat.com
…to the "race doesn't matter" mantra. It seems to be relevant when physical health is the issue. Actually, mental health as well, but that's a different story. Anywho, I'm happy to read of this research and find it interesting that supremacists are happy to hear of it too.
Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — New research out of UCSF shows that tracking a patient's genetic ancestry can improve the diagnosis of asthma and other lung diseases. The results could have broader implications for other diseases that also rely on standard benchmarks such as race, gender and age.
Doctor's office visits are the norm for 9-year-old Shamatay Hayes. She was diagnosed with asthma at age 2, something she and her mom have struggled to keep under control.
"It is challenging," her mother says.
At San Francisco General Hospital and at asthma clinic across the country, Shamatay's lung function is tracked using standard benchmarks such as age, gender and race. But, researchers say there is now a better way.
"So, what we can now do with modern techniques is estimate what a person's ancestry is or what their heritage is using a series of genetic markers," says UCSF researcher Dr. Melinda Aldrich.
The genetic markers more accurately determine lung function rather than a patient's self-identification as simply white, black or Hispanic.
"With increasing African ancestry, we saw a decrement in lung function," says UCSF associate professor Dr. Esteban Burchar.
Burchard is director of UCSF's Center for Genes, Environment and Health, and senior author of a paper just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"We said forget what you think you are, what people think you are, and we looked at your genetic ancestry. We were able to reclassify patients more accurately than just using self-identified criteria," explains.
That is increasingly important because race is used to establish normal reference values for everything from diagnosing disease to establishing disability payments. For instance, a mixed-race firefighter who suffers smoke inhalation might not meet the standards for disability of what is considered normal lung function since that is based on just three racial categories right now.
"What we showed is when you use these race-based standards, you could have as much as a 10 percent error rate depending upon what your true ancestry," Burchard says.
Burchard believes this research brings us closer to truly-personalized medicine, but he is also aware of the potential controversy.
"We've had people contact us who were supremacists that said you know what you're doing is validating what we believe," he says.
But, the research actually tells a different story.
"Most of us, all of us in fact, are racially mixed," he says. "We have a very rich heritage and what we're doing is acknowledging that mixture and incorporating it into our clinical assessments."
Scientists believe their results on lung function are just the beginning.
Aldrich says, "Wherever potentially we use race now for making medical decisions, it may have an impact with other diseases."
This would ultimately make medicine more effective for everyone. The genetic tests used by researchers at UCSF cost about $10 per patient. Scientists see it as a small price to pay for a more accurate assessment of disease, which could lead to more effective treatments for patients.
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(I find the logo to be a bit creepy–maybe it's the dolls and the sunrise in the background?)
Sarah Dopp, the person behind the cool site Genderfork, has a new project in the works.
It's called a "Genderplayful Marketplace" and the idea is to have a site, similar to etsy, where people can come together and sell clothing to one another. Sarah wants folks to have a space to trade and create clothing for gender variant folks, for bodies of all sizes and gender expressions. Sarah has already raised over $5000 from the online community toward this project, which shows just how wanted this kind of space is.
Genderplayful is a plan for an online clothing marketplace that celebrates diversity in gender presentation and body types. This is for anyone who can't easily find what they're looking for in a typical clothing store, with special support for androgynous, unisex, butch, dapper, femme, gender-bending, gender-transgressive, and gender-fanflippingtastic clothing solutions for all kinds of bodies.
Genderplayful cares about custom solutions, and the marketplace will host a lively community that finds and creates those solutions together. Vendors will include indie designers, crafters, clothing makers, tailors, and people selling things from their closets and local thrift stores. Community members will pool notes on what they're excited about, and vendors will take cues from buyers on what to create more of. The goal is to create a culture-rich gorgeous Internet bazaar for the playful, the exquisite, and the just trying to get dressed in the morning.
I'm personally psyched to see what comes of this project. As someone who is genderqueer and has a ton of trouble finding clothing that fits my body and my gender, I can't wait to see what Sarah and the folks behind the project come up with.
Clothing plays a huge role in gender presentation, self-esteem, how we feel about ourselves and how we are read. Shopping in stores, especially for gender variant and trans folks, can be unsafe. A lot of use already use the internet to find the clothing that we need. This sounds like it could be a great resource.
More info about the marketplace is here.