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Blood pressure is a measurement of the force against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through your body. Hypertension is another term used to describe high blood pressure.
Blood pressure readings are given as two numbers. The top number is called the systolic blood pressure. The bottom number is called the diastolic blood pressure. For example, 120 over 80 (written as 120/80 mmHg).
One or both of these numbers can be too high.
If you have heart or kidney problems, or you had a stroke, your doctor may want your blood pressure to be even lower than that of people who do not have these conditions.
Hypertension; HBP
Many factors can affect blood pressure, including:
You are more likely to be told your blood pressure is too high as you get older. This is because your blood vessels become stiffer as you age. When that happens, your blood pressure goes up. High blood pressure increases your chance of having a stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney disease, or early death.
You have a higher risk of high blood pressure if:
Most of the time, no cause of high blood pressure is found. This is called essential hypertension.
High blood pressure that is caused by another medical condition or medicine you are taking is called secondary hypertension. Secondary hypertension may be due to:
Most of the time, there are no symptoms. For most patients, high blood pressure is found when they visit their doctors or have it checked elsewhere.
Because there are no symptoms, people can develop heart disease and kidney problems without knowing they have high blood pressure.
Malignant hypertension is a dangerous form of very high blood pressure. Symptoms include:
Your doctor will measure your blood pressure many times before diagnosing you with high blood pressure. It is normal for your blood pressure to be different based on the time of day.
Blood pressure readings taken at home may be a better measure of your current blood pressure than those taken at your doctor's office.
Your doctor will do a physical exam to look for signs of heart disease, damage to the eyes, and other changes in your body.
Tests may also be done to look for:
The goal of treatment is to reduce your blood pressure so that you have a lower risk of complications. You and your doctor should set a blood pressure goal for you.
If you have pre-hypertension, your doctor will recommend lifestyle changes to bring your blood pressure down to a normal range. Medicines are rarely used for pre-hypertension.
You can do many things to help control your blood pressure at home, including:
Your doctor can help you find programs for losing weight, stopping smoking, and exercising.
You can also get a referral from your doctor to a dietitian, who can help you plan a diet that is healthy for you.
The most commonly used blood pressure targets for treating high blood pressure are:
But you and your doctor must weigh the side effects of medicines used to lower blood pressure with the benefits of lowering your risk for heart disease, stroke, and other related problems.
There are many different medicines to treat high blood pressure.
Most of the time, high blood pressure can be controlled with medicine and lifestyle changes.
When blood pressure is not well-controlled, you are at risk for:
If you have high blood pressure, you will have regular checkups with your doctor.
Even if you have not been diagnosed with high blood pressure, it is important to have your blood pressure checked during your regular check-up, especially if someone in your family has or had high blood pressure.
Call your doctor right away if home monitoring shows that your blood pressure is still high.
Most people can prevent high blood pressure from occurring by following lifestyle changes designed to bring blood pressure down.
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It's actually been up (okay, on and off) for the past few days now, but now that they've posted in the blog, it's official.
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They are cutting off orders when the daily capacity is met now, so order early!
(It's not 100% complete still - a work in progress I'm saying, but at least it's on the work side of things. ^_^
They got totally overwhelmed two months ago and had to close it.)
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I don't know whether to be excited because A Distinct Possibility can finally be mine again, or annoyed because they want $18 for it.
@samstag: Indeed. I'm a bit disappointed at the pricing. It means that I will only use it when I miss an awesome design or ruin a favorite shirt (rather than actually shopping there as a clothing store). I get the feeling that's the intent though. It's on-demanding printing. It almost certainly costs more to make 'em this way.
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The Internet is full of useful places that can help you find a job, sell your stuff or locate the exact instances of nudity within a movie, among other basic necessities. But when they say you can get anything on the Internet, they do mean anything. Including services seemingly aimed exclusively toward people with crippling personality disorders.
That's why, for a price, you can ...
#5. Have a Creepy Image of Your Face Stamped on Everything
Can't think of a good present for a friend or family member? Are you also a self-obsessed narcissist who can't stand the fact that people might go a full minute without thinking of you? Well, why not give them a horrifyingly detailed copy of your face? They can even wear it as a mask. Maybe you can make your partner wear it while you have sex.
"For Halloween this year I dressed as a maniac who buys a mask of his own face."
For only $4,000, Real-f will create an exact vinyl replica of your face, copying everything from the pores in your skin to the blood in your eye. For a couple thousand more, you can get a full head, which is somehow even less practical and more creepy. And yes, they offer discounts if you buy more than one of each, like for example if you want to force multiple prostitutes to wear them or want to recreate a nightmare.
Can you spot the real one? Hint: She's wearing a white shirt.
If there's a market for this sort of thing, we can't be that far from full-body robot dupli-- oh shit, they're already doing that, aren't they? Kokoro, the same company that made that terrifying android that stalks hospital patients we once told you about, held a promotion allowing two people to order their own fully functional robot doppelganger for $225,000. The company's top roboticist, Hiroshi Ishiguro, has already made one for himself.
They are now happily married under Japanese law.
Apparently the promotion went well, because in 2011 a Danish professor commissioned one of these from the same guys. And it is extremely creepy. We can't tell if the following video shows the robotic clone being tested or the professor himself twitching from happiness after learning his order went through.
If the price tag on all of these is too prohibitive, you can always go the cheap route with Pillowmob. They'll print a high-res image of your face on a pillow, which you can then gift to anyone you might want to creep the fuck out.
Rape face optional.
That's not a Photoshop, by the way -- that's what the actual product looks like (only with your face instead of that hobo's). Pillowmob prints their pillows at an impressive 180 dots per inch, because the devoted egomaniac won't settle for anything less than complete realism. Don't think Pillowmobs are intended for narcissists only, though: since nothing stops you from sending them someone else's picture, it is also a useful tool for stalkers ...
The pillow is stuffed with his discarded toenail clippings.
... and even animal lovers.
What we're saying is you can put your cock on there.
#4. Pretend You Have a Love Life
We've all met at least one guy with a "long distance girlfriend" so obviously fabricated that it makes a Zooey Deschanel character seem plausible. He might even show you a letter she wrote him using a perfect imitation of his handwriting or a photo that makes her look like a catalog model (mainly because of the perfume ad on the other side). If the guy is especially delusional he might even believe his own crap, increasing the total number of people who are convinced to one.
However, we live in an age when compensatory narcissists no longer have to maintain their own web of lies: they can now pay someone to stay on top of that shit. The website Imaginary Girlfriends allows you to choose from a catalog of "real" pretend girlfriends -- and for only $45, she'll send you scented love letters, emails and pictures and even leave you phone messages that you can "accidentally" play on speaker for everyone to hear.
"Sorry, babe, you can play with my huge dick later. It's Dungeons & Dragons night."
Some of them are also willing to send you special gifts like "a pair of [her] lace panties that you can proudly show your friends," which is only two percent less pathetic than going down to a lingerie store and buying them yourself, like you had to do in high school.
Or buying used ones off eBay.
The fake relationships last two months, at which point the fake girlfriend will send you a heartbreaking letter begging you not to break up with her, the "Renew your subscription" method National Geographic wishes it had thought of. During those two months you will have all the benefits of having a girlfriend with only one catch: You will not actually have a girlfriend. In fact we're pretty sure that using this site disqualifies you from dating anyone, ever.
The site warns you that "There will be no actual real life meetings or relationship between you and your Imaginary Girlfriend" and that "Anyone who has difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy should NOT use this service."
Because delusional people are always the best at telling if they're delusional.
If you like the idea but can't afford the price, there are cheaper options: FakeGirlfriend.co is a free service that lets you add a fake number to your phone under a name of your choosing. You can then send a text message to that number any time and receive a sweet "girlfriend-esque" reply when your friends are around -- if you're lucky, the sender might even be a girl.
But most likely a child in an Indian warehouse.
#3. Create Your Own Fake Career
So what services or technology are there for the manipulative narcissist? Oh, sure, people have been lying about their lives and what they do for a living since time began. But you would always run the risk of getting caught when, say, your new employer calls the Fortune 500 company you used to manage and finds out it's actually a Pizza Hut. That's where CareerExcuse.com comes in -- they are the shady friend who waits by the phone and pretends to be someone else for you.
"That's right, he was head of the Stanford Boning Team. Your clitoris is in good hands."
CareerExcuse.com allows you to use any of their already-established virtual companies as a job reference, "virtual" being a euphemism for "bullshit." If you sign up for their premium service, you can even create a name for the false company (like, say, "Boner Factory") and they'll provide a website, real street address, toll-free number and live phone receptionist -- it's like the plot of a wacky slacker comedy where Jack Black and his friends must convince his boss that he really did work at Boner Factory.
"Unfortunately our merger with them ended when they collapsed and had to pull out."
They'll also write you a fake letter of recommendation, because if you're using their service there's a high possibility that you don't know how to write or read. So basically, this means you can claim to have worked anywhere, at any time and for any amount of money and you will always have someone to back up your story.
"Sorry for the confusion, President Obama, but we had to check."
Because employers value consistency, and because the best way to succeed at a job that you got through lying is naturally by lying some more, the same website also offers a "Funeral Vacation" service in which they'll "act as a Funeral Home and have [their] operators standing by to verify any inquirer's [sic] to your fake deceased." The site states that they will then reroute any flowers received to a real funeral home because, you know, that's the ethical thing to do.
And by "a real funeral home" they mean the one from Six Feet Under, apparently.
But does this really work? According to CNN, CareerExcuse.com has flown under the radar of a lot of companies, but they also warn that "eventually, all liars get found out." Oh, sure, eventually. But for now, we're making that sweet brain surgeon money with nothing more than one year of community college!


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You do not have to be afraid of people who engage in SM. SM players are doctors, lawyers, teachers, construction workers, fire fighters, secretaries and everything else you can imagine.
In her 1983 book Erotic Power, sociologist Gini Scott examined the dynamics of the heterosexual SM subculture.
She stated: "Unlike the psychiatrists and psychologists who deal primarily with psychologically troubled individuals who are also interested in D&S [Dominance and Submission], I did not find them to be psychologically troubled or socially inept; rather, a spirit of good humor and fun prevailed, and the participants appeared to be mostly attractive, quite ordinary-looking people who had ordinary relationships outside the D&S scene... A vast variety of people with a diverse range of erotic interests participate in sadomasochiSM. Their backgrounds, activities and attitudes are quite unlike the social stereotype that depicts sadomasochiSM as a form of violence, mischief, or mayhem perpetrated by the psychologically unstable who seek to hurt others or to be hurt themselves... At the core of the community are mostly sensible, rational respectable, otherwise quite ordinary people. Thus, quite unlike its public image, the community is a warm, close and supportive one."
Gini Scott (1983). Erotic Power, Citadel Press: pg. x.
Any website that has content containing "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" should be forewarned that prosecution is possible. Additionally, Federal sentencing guidelines state that any obscenity- related punishment should be "enhanced for sadomasochistic material."
Forty people and businesses have been convicted of obscenity since 2001, and 20 additional indictments are pending according to Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. There were only four obscenity prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration.
Though adult content is, in theory, protected by the First Amendment, only a jury can determine if a work is obscene or not under the subjective set of standards that vary from one community to the next established in the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Miller v. California.
Text is not inherently more protected than images when it comes to obscenity charges. The erotic fiction website Red Rose Stories is facing obscenity charges after federal agents raided the owner's home on October 3rd, taking computer equipment and diskettes that contained all of their files and site information.
The Department of Justice is clearly hoping that websites will self-censor or remove their content entirely. Midori, a fetish model and SM educator who teaches classes on bondage, has removed her website, BeautyBound.com, citing fear of obscenity prosecution. The owner of three SM websites, known as GrandPa DeSade, removed his websites from the Internet. SuicideGirls.com also announced they are self-censoring their materials over concerns about a possible obscenity crackdown.
Recent prosecutions of obscenity on websites include: A former police officer in Lakeland, Florida, was arrested on October 7th on over 300 obscenity-related charges for the sexual content posted on his website. The same day, webmaster Chris Wilson, owner of amateur website NowThatsFuckedUp.com, was raided on charges of obscenity by a local Sheriff's office.
"I think it's crucial for us to stand up for consensual sadomasochism and other alternative sexual practices," says Barbara Nitke, fetish photographer. "This is a battle worth fighting, and I hope everyone who can will just censor out the most provocative material from their websites, but keep them up. I also appeal to the lawyers in our community to help us find ways to keep people's websites up."
Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) have proactively challenged federal obscenity laws as applied to the Internet, arguing that obscenity laws based on "local community standards" are too vague and their existence burdens protected speech, resulting in self-censorship due to the fear of prosecution. A district court three-judge panel in New York ruled that while Nitke and the NCSF members were at risk, more proof was needed that obscenity laws cause otherwise protected speech to be restrained through acts of self-censorship. The case is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
"The effect of silencing alternative lifestyle speech was exactly why we brought the lawsuit," says attorney John Wirenius, lead counsel for NCSF. "The self- censorship we are seeing underscores the importance of supporting our ongoing obscenity challenge."
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Dear Ms. Vicki,
I'm at a troublesome part in my life. Yes, I got married at an early age -- well, really I was forced into it.
My best friend and I were dating, and we ended up having our first child. Then he enlisted and was told due to current laws in that state we either A) had to get married or B) adopt his own child for her to be covered.
At that time, we were still rocky and I never wanted to get married. I was eventually guilted into it. Now all I feel is regret.
A year ago, I reconnected with an old friend. Needless to say, I ended up developing feelings for him. I just don't know what to do in my current situation. I've gone through hell and back for this other guy. He has broken my heart and lied to me, yet I still love him.
My husband has no clue. I care for my spouse, but I don't feel for him what I do for this other guy! I don't know what to do. My husband and I are actually better when we're not around each other. He's been deployed twice and during deployments everything's fine, but when he's home we fight ALL the time!
I don't want to be like my parents and end up unhappy for the rest of my life but then I'm scared that if I leave, things will fall through with the other guy and no man will want someone who has two kids already. PLEASE HELP!!!
Dear Anonymous,
So you were forced to get married when you were younger. You already have two children. You get along better with your husband when he is deployed. You are not in love with your husband you are in love with someone else who has already taken you to hell and back. ... Whew!
And you wonder if you will be better off with the other guy? I don't think so. From the details you gave me in your letter, you know the grass isn't greener on the other side.
I understand you don't want to be like your parents and be unhappy for the rest of your life, but it sounds like you are jumping from the frying pan into the fire. On a global level, you are like millions of people who regret some decisions they have made and wish they could go back and change them. Me too.
Only we can't change the past. We have to learn from our mistakes because "life happens."
Now I will be the first one to admit that I have been in the pits before, but I'm also the type of person who will ponder my ways so I won't make the same mistake again.
You sound like the type of person who beats themselves up when they make mistakes. You have to know if you do this, you will continue to dig yourself deeper into the pit. As you get deeper, it affects your judgment and reasoning. You will become impulsive and make more decisions that are not good for you. It will affect your self-esteem and self-worth and soon you will wonder if you even deserve a good loving relationship.
You do deserve a good loving relationship. But it sounds like you need to work on "you" first. Don't jump into another relationship now.
Lastly, something tells me that you may have other hurts or fears that you did not mention in your letter. I would really recommend counseling either way. Counseling will provide support for you and also help you examine your situation more clearly and strategize how to change it. I wish you the best.
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It's the season for pumpkins and I was wondering if there is a way to tell if a pumpkin was going to taste good enough to cook with. I guess this is a similar situation as with a watermelon - you can't really cut it open to check if it will taste good.
Many of the varieties of pumpkin sold in US stores in the fall are decorative -- they're grown for their appearance and size, not for cooking with.
Ask for 'sugar pumpkins' or 'pie pumpkins' at your grocery store, farm stand, or farmer's market, and you should be able to find them -- they tend to be smaller, more squat than round (although, some farmers markets might have other varieties of "pie" pumpkins).
If you can't find them -- I'd go with acorn squash, instead of using one of the decorative pumpkins.
I think you're right that they're similar to a watermelon in that there's truly no definitive way to tell if they're ripe and good to cook with. There are a few signs you can look for though.
Good luck!
An all-the-way orange pumpkin is a good indicator of ripeness, although with some brands of pumpkin the pumpkin can be ripe before being orange. Things to really look for are:
If you are harvesting the pumpkin yourself, disinfecting the skin on picking will kill any bacteria that might cause rot. This is usually done with a 10% bleach solution. Curing a pumpkin for 10 days at 80 degrees F or so in a dark place will extend the shelf life as well.
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I am putting a new hard drive in an old computer and I want to know the best file system to use for installing Ubuntu 13. I am going to install from a USB drive and I have "ISO to USB" software; the choices are FAT, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS.
Ubuntu has got ext4 even if you boot it from USB drive. The software will only write the existing iso to your USB, you don't need to set up fs beforehand, it will be fat if that was the question.
It doesn't matter which FS you use when putting the iso on the USB drive, the best advice would be to follow the instructions on the ubuntu download page. (sorry, can't link, blame stack exchange)
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Batu Cermin, or Mirror Rock, is actually a tunnel or cave in a dark stone hills of Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. Sunshine comes in through a hole in the tunnel and then bounces on the stone walls that again reflect small lights to other areas inside the cave like a mirror. That's why this site is called mirror rock.
The cave is located east of Labuan Bajo harbor some four kilometers from the town's center. The cave has forests surrounding it where you can find long-tailed monkeys and wild boar. Travel agencies sell tour packages to Batu Cermin as part of a city tour program from Labuan Bajo.
Labuan Bajo has many hotels for backpackers. It also has expensive and luxurious hotels. At present, the Hotel Bintang Flores, (0385-42000/ www.bintangflores.com) located by Pede beach, is the best and most luxurious hotel in Labuan Bajo. This four-star hotel has a restaurant, bar, swimming pool, dive shop, and Internet facility. Its rate is in US dollars.
Make sure that you bring along anti-mosquito lotions and anti-malaria medicines, since Labuan Bajo is a malaria endemic area. Bring along also sunblock lotions, a hat, and sunglasses, as it can be very hot here during the dry season. You can buy these at the supermarket in town or from your hotel shop.
You can take a rented car or travel by car from the Labuan Bajo airport to any place on the Flores mainland. The rate depends on your negotiation but currently it is about Rp500,000 per day. Hotels can help you find a rented car.
For your mobility within the city, bemo's (traditional public transportation) and motor taxis are available, but they only operate until 9.0 pm.. If you want to visit the nearby islands, such as to Komodo or Rinca, rented motorboats and speed boats are available at the port.
Every day, there are two to three flights from Bali to Labuan Bajo by Transnusa, IAT (Indonesia Air Transport), and Merpati. In addition, there is a twice a week flight from Kupang. Inter-island motorboats from Sape in West Nusa Tenggara are also available everyday (when the weather permits), and the Pelni ship from Bali and Lombok makes a stop over here every two weeks.


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12 Oct 2011 1:41 AM #1
Migration from 1.1?
guess it's obvious and will be there at some point but is there any initial migration from 1 to 2 docs lying around?
i'd be happy with scraps of paper ;-)
12 Oct 2011 5:48 AM #2
Some brief notes now and more formal notes later would be very useful.
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quick linksCURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS ISSUES NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS COLUMNISTS BROWSE EDITORIAL TOPICS WEBINARS
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Distal Style Treatment of Neurogenic Pain
Treat locally or distally? This question has frequented my thoughts for the treatment of pain throughout my acupuncture career. Each style has strengths and weaknesses, thus the versatile practitioner would do well to forgo dogmatic adherence to any one style in deference to the needs of the individual patient.
How to Reach Your World With the Chiropractic Message
My latest effort to share chiropractic occurred in mid-May while I was sitting at an introductory parent information night for high schoolers. The IT instructor informed us that each student would be receiving a computer for all their studies.
Romantic Love
Sleepless nights, anxiety, mood swings, euphoric energy bursts, obsessive thinking, and a strange feeling in his chest. That is what Matt was experiencing when he first entered my practice. Rather than being concerned, he was loving every minute of it.
Building Bridges with Discipline
As practitioners of traditional Chinese herbal medicine, our role is to educate patients and medical practitioners about the various safety aspects of our medicine. Medical doctors that embrace Chinese medicine want to collaborate and include Chinese herbal medicine in more aspects of clinical care to support their patients.
Billing One-on-One, Direct Patient Contact
This is often misunderstood and leads to trepidation when documenting and subsequently billing timed services.
Keeping Malpractice Allegations at Bay
It has been suggested that in the litigious environment in which we live, the practice of chiropractic should be defensive and practitioners should constantly be watching their backs. An element of defensive practice is a good idea.
Streamline Your Front Desk
Your front office can be your greatest source of efficiency or it can be a constant bottleneck. Increasing the productivity of this area, while not sacrificing the quality of patient interaction, can be a little tricky. However, with some focused effort and intention, your front desk can keep your practice running smoothly.
A Whole-Body Approach to Chronic Tension Headaches
Nearly every day in our practices, we see patients with chronic headaches that have not responded to traditional treatment. They present in our offices with a feeble hope that "maybe" a chiropractor can help.
Understanding Levels of Evidence
The concept of levels of evidence is a cornerstone of research literacy and a great starting point for understanding basic principles of how research works.
News in Brief
NYCC Aggregates Degree Programs in New School; Palmer Chancellor Receives Education Award From ICA; Oklahaven Announces "Have a Heart" Winners.
With Low-Back Pain, Sometimes Little Things Matter
Typical treatments for low back pain involve large muscles like the quadratus lumborum, iliopsoas, and piriformis. However, there are situations when a very small muscle, the multifidus, can play a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of low back muscular or spinal injury.
In This Current Age of Anxiety
Anxiety, also referred to angst or hysteria, goes by many names. One, popularized by the sagacious Zhang Zhong Jing, who many practitioners of Chinese Medicine may be familiar with, is known as Restless Zang/Fu disorder.
Adrenal Problems
One of the most common trends to see in clinical medical practice and public health is the cycles of health "buzzwords." These come and go depending upon the current cultural zeitgeist. One year, "parasites" are causing all the issues, and the next year it's "candida."
Parker University Embraces New Era
Change is in the air at Parker University, which recently announced the selection of both a new president and a new consultant for its seminar program.
Finger (Pad) Pointing: Repetitive-Use Injury Waiting to Happen
"My wrist and hand hurt. I spend all day working on computers and then I come home and spend more time on a computer, usually playing video games."
Holistic Skin Care and Modern Technology
Anti-aging is a concept that we hear in reference to skin rejuvenation and growing older on a daily basis. Aging begins as soon as we are born; therefore "pro-aging" is embracing all stages of life gracefully, with vitality, wisdom, joy, and gratitude as the goal.
Transforming Las Vegas
On a warm spring day in Las Vegas, Sonia Kim, clinic front desk staff, is busy preparing for a full day of intern shifts at Wongu Health Center. She greets patients, makes sure documents are properly signed, and lets the interns know that their patients have arrived.
Constructing Our Reality, Part 2
My last article discussed perception and its relationship to the primary channels. Before we get to the channels most commonly used to treat sensory disturbances, the small intestine and triple heater, we should first talk about the bladder channel.
Low Fat vs. Low Carb & the Power of Protein
A science-based website recently posted a nice summary of 23 randomized, controlled trials from peer-reviewed journals pitting low-carb diets against low-fat diets.
A Different Way of Looking at It
The way you and your chiropractic colleagues access information has changed over the past decade. According to a recent survey conducted by Dynamic Chiropractic, almost half (48 percent) of DCs read online articles on their personal computer or laptop daily.
Discovery: Finding Insights and Each Other in Different Disciplines
Recently I've been thinking about all sorts of things which are hidden from our daily direct experience. That general category is what links nearly everything that catches my attention and then demands some kind of investigation.
The Need for Standards
ISO-TC-249: You may look at these letters and numbers and wonder what they are and what they might mean. They turn into: International Standards Organization- Technical Committee – 249. There is a global organization called The International Organization for Standardization.
Hip Flexor Contractures & LBP in Above-the-Knee Amputations
Patients with above-the-knee amputations (AK or AKA) are particularly prone to developing hip flexor contractures. Not to be confused with muscle tightness, contractures are a permanent shortening of tissues which cause deformity or distortion.
Billing Timed Services
Q: I do not always use physical medicine services but in my state I do have a scope of practice that allows me to provide many of these services. I am trying to understand what "direct one-on-one patient contact" means in relation to physical medicine services.
Living Well: Lessons From Our Oldest Old
Aging is a significant public health problem, important to chiropractors in practice and important to DCs who teach students training to become chiropractors.
Prostate Cancer Risk
A large study published in January 2016 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that men who are vegans had a 35% lower risk of developing prostate cancer compared to non-vegan men. The study followed more than 26,346 men who are part of the Adventists Health Study-2.
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In general, what do you think the term bodywork means to your average patient/client?
How has the current economic/political climate affected massage school enrollment?
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In MySQL table definitions is there a different between
INT(5) and
SMALLINT(5)? Or do they both represent the same size?
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No, they don't represent the same size that is allocated for the field type.
An int can be between -2147483648 and 2147483647 signed, or 0 and 4294967295 unsigned.
A smallint is between -32768 and 32767 signed, or 0 and 65535 unsigned.
The (5) represents the display width of the field. From the manual, it states:
The display width, from what I can tell, can be used to left-pad numbers that are less than the defined width. So 00322, instead of 322. TBH, I've never used it.
But it doesn't affect the storage size of the column. An int will take up more space than a smallint.


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P.S.: I heard that 「生」 (せい) in the word 先生 can be pronounced either as [sei] or as [see]. If it is so, is there any semantic difference between these variants?
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Short answer: The allowed pronunciations depends somewhat on the word origin.
When a word affords both ええ and えい pronunciations, えい is more formal.
Japanese phonologists stipulate a 3way classification of possible vowel sequences:
The intrinsically long vowels, /VR/, and the corresponding identical vowel sequences, /VV/, are the same phonetically, [V:], it is only theorized that the underlying phonemic forms are different.The unit of prosody in Japanese is the mora, and these 3 vowel sequence classes have the following mora types:
In other words, the 3 types of vowel sequences have equal prosodic weight, namely 2 mora.
These are the 3 classes of vowel sequences, but there is still the complication of word boundaries that must be accounted for. For example, the words 歯医者 and 敗者 both phonetically [haiɕa] but the constituent morphemes differ: 歯医者 = [ha]+[i]+[ɕa] whereas 敗者 = [hai]+[ɕa]. So you can see that with 歯医者 there is a morpheme boundary breaking the /ai/ sequence. Or in other words, we have a /V1V2/ sequence, but it is not contained within a single morpheme. There is more to say about this, but since your question is about vowel sequences within morphemes, I'll stick to that, just note that in the general case, you have to consider the possibility of morpheme boundaries breaking vowel sequences in the speech stream.
It is an etymological artefact that Yamato words (the native stratum of the lexicon) such as エイ <えい> 'stingray', 鰈<かれい>, and 姪<めい>, contain only the intrinsically long vowel /eR/ and never the sequence /ei/ at the phonemic level (as listed above the 10 possible disctinct vowel sequences for the Yamato words include only /ai, oi, ui, ie, ae, oe, ue, io, ao, uo/ but not /ei/ ). All the other strata, however, tolerate /ei/ vowel sequences. It may be worth it to reiterate this kind of unexpected last point: even though phonetic forms for Yamato words can in general be [eː] or [ei], the underlying phonemic representation is always /eR/, the long vowel and not /ei/. /ei/ is absent from the Yamato words. For most Yamato words then, /eR/ can then realize as either [ei] or [eː], but for a small subset this is not true and only [eː] is acceptable. For example, the Yamato word お姉さん /oneRsaN/ with necessarily underlying intrinsic long vowel /eR/ is always pronunced as [oneːsaɴ] with the long [eː], and never with [ei].
The kana orthography does not in general consistently represent /eR/ between the Yamato and Sino-Japanese words. For example, for Yamato お姉さん with transcription <ねえ> the pronunciation matches the kana, but for Sino-Japanese 先生 there are two pronunciations [eː] and [ei] with only one kana form <せんせい>. Also like the Sino-Japanese 先生, the Yamato word 姪 has kana <めい> but either pronunciation [eː] or [ei].
The difference, as pointed out by user1205935, is that [ei] is more frequently observed than [eː] in formal conservative registers, in addition to one form or the other being more prominent in certain dialects ([ei] is more comman than [eː] in Tokyo Japanese but such relative frequencies do not hold for some dialects in the Kyushyu area.)
The せい of 先生 is a good example of 長音{ちょうおん} (a long vowel). While it is written as せい , in reality it is pronounced as セー with a エー sound (not a エイ sound).
Other examples include:
Another example of a 長音 that is pronounced differently to the way it is written is the う in お父{とう}さん which is pronounced オトーサン with an オー sound instead of a オウ.
There is no semantic difference. The pronunciation varies with local dialects, and with the level of politeness.
As for politeness, [sei] is a pronunciation sometimes used by people to emphasise formality (e.g. in conjunction with 敬語), but this is nowhere near a necessity. I would say that [see] is the common pronunciation. Try sticking in an almost silent [i] when you are almost stopping your voice at the end of a long [see] and you'll sound practically native ;)
EDIT: In response to some of the comments, a related phenomenon is the (slight) pronunciation of the otherwise silent [u], like in です [desu] (rather than the usual [des]) in formal situations (e.g. in conjunction with the use of 敬語).


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A taste of life on a Marysville family farm
Dan Bates / The Herald
Linda Campbell brings up a jar of homemade pickles from the cellar just outside the old farmhouse where she and her husband, John, live. She said the early-1900s cellar is "highly coveted by me. I love that cellar."
The little farm, at 11121 51st Ave. in north Marysville, at one time reached nearly 80 acres. Today, it's just 15.
John and Linda Campbell own it, and work it. John's father bought the first 40 acres in 1920 and built it up over the years. The soil there is rich.
Without using pesticides, the Campbells grow great sweet corn, Hubbard and butternut squash, green beans, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, Swiss chard, carrots and more. They grow thousands of colorful flowers, which they sell for large events or at $2 for a bouquet.
Their little stand sits at the farm entrance, just north of the high school roundabout in Marysville.
While they talked and did their work, I listened and took some photographs of John and Linda, but I think their own words better reflect the difficulties and joys of farming today.
Here's a slice of what the Campbells had to say.
Dan Bates / The Herald
John and Linda Campbell look at some of their dahlias after Linda received a large order for a wedding.
John: "The chicken business during the depression was good. In the '30s, before I was born, my dad raised chickens here, and owned part of a chicken hatchery in Everett. In 1933, business was so good my dad went to Seattle and bought a brand new car right in the middle of the Depression. People couldn't believe it. They'd say, 'A chicken farmer? Right in the middle of the Depression? Buying a brand new car?' I still have that car, and I'm trying to restore it. A '33 Dodge."
The Bicentennial
John: "I was born on the Fourth of July in 1937, so I am patriotic. In 1976, out here in the middle, I planted red, white and blue petunias of an American flag. I got an award from the Grange for it. From then on, we've been doing what you see here."
Coming home
Linda: "Of all his brothers, (John) is the one who decided that he would play farmer.
"He told me, once, when he was up in Alaska, 'I was, at this point, deciding what else I was going to do with my life.' Then his dad called him and said, 'We've got 12 acres; you want come down?' And he came down, not knowing what in the world he was going to do with it.
"A friend at the extension service told him about Twin Cities Foods needing corn growers. So he and his dad turned all the fields, even his dad's fields, into corn, and John was growing other stuff on the side. When Twin Cities dropped the corn order, he went into produce big time.
"People found him up here at the barn. This is where we sold (produce) out of, and the rest is history."
Dan Bates / The Herald
John Campbell picks sweet corn and loads one wheelbarrow at a time throughout the day. "People always want to know when the corn was picked," John says. "If they see me coming in from the field with it, they don't have to ask."
John: "When my father passed away at 96, the government said we owed $300,000 inheritance tax. We had to sell everything north and east of here to settle with the federal government, so all that's left is 15 acres. We still have the old house and some of the buildings."
Lasting sentiments
John: "I've got this problem not wanting to let go of where I was born and raised.
"I guess it's my problem of holding on … People say, 'Why don't you get rid of that old chicken house?' My dad built that with his bare hands, with a hand saw and a hammer, no power tools, back in the '30s, you know. And so, I've been trying to get a new roof on that and save things."
15 acres and what do you get?
John: "It's more difficult all the time. Of course when you came in here, you couldn't miss my signs. We've got a major fight with the local government and I don't know how its going to turn out. They're forcing us out of here, because, you know, if there were houses here, it would return a lot more tax dollars. And they have billed us for the rain tax. Sometimes I talk too much."
Dan Bates / The Herald
John and Linda Campbell operate a "direct market," which, John explains, is a produce stand that sells items grown only by the owner of that business. "We sell what we grow. We don't buy anything from anybody else."
Linda: "I love the harvest time. I love this little farm. And I love what John does with this little farm. His work is everywhere you look on the farm. We do eat our farm food. We love it. The kids grew up on it."
Staying put
John: "I don't want to sell. I've got this thing about saving the old family farm. I tell some people, 'Some days I feel like I'm out of here. I'm not going to put up with this anymore.' But when you ask me straight out -- am I going to stay here? I'm afraid I'm here for good."
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BELLAIRE — Village police were dispatched Sunday evening to the Francis Wallace apartments for reports of a subject firing off a shotgun in the area of 700 41st St. at approximately 9:11 p.m....
This is why we need more police officers and a raise for the officers. Council needs to wake up and smell the coffee...and if you think the sheriff's dept will respond, you will probably wait for an hour or longer. These officers put their lives on the line and probably are carrying less than adequate fire power. If you can hire other people and pay a village administrator, you can give the police a raise. It would probably be an incredible morale booster to the department.
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Safety Beyond Facebook: 12 Social Media Apps Every Parent Should Know About
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Vine is Twitter's mobile app that allows users to shoot and share short loops of video (6 seconds or less). It's rated 17+, but children and teens are still downloading it. As with any multimedia app, the content on Vine runs the gamut from naughty to nice. "With the most basic creative searching, kids can find nudity, sex, drug use, offensive language, hardcore sexuality, and more," Common Sense Media says in its review of the app. "While there are plenty of cute, fun videos, even adults might be shocked at some of the things they find."
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The 5 Most Absurd Video Games Starring Rock Stars
Being a famous musician comes with a lot of perks. Throngs of adoring fans enamored with your every move. More sex and drugs than one person should ever have access to. And, apparently, the means to get completely idiotic video games commissioned in your name.
#5. Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Yes, in the mid-80s Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who you may not even remember as the band who scored a massive hit with the song "Relax," had a video game that was playable on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computer.
And yes, you're right: the game is all kinds of gay. Not "gay" in the "teenager insult" sense. No, this game is gay in the sense that a dude who likes other dudes is, literally, gay. That appears to be the entire point. You have to admit, it's a theme rarely explored in games of the era.
The objective of the game is to reach the Pleasuredome. As an aside, let me ask: Do you want to go to the Pleasuredome? Regardless of sexual orientation, I'm seriously asking, do you want to go to the Pleasuredome? I bet you don't. Why? Because "Pleasuredome" is the kind of name that you know is just some sort of set up. It's too good to be true.
Imagine hitting the town with your friends and one of them says, "Hey, we should head to the Pleasuredome." And you're all, "What is that?" And your friend replies, "Duh, it's a dome." And everyone laughs because it seems like a stupid question. But it's not a stupid question, is it? What kind of pleasure will you find at this dome? Who will be providing the pleasure?
Where's the dome?
All valid questions. Like the old saying goes, "One man's pleasure is another man's butt plug/ball gag combo inserted by a midget in a spiked leather mask while ferocious house music pulsates in the background."
Anyway, not just anyone can get to the Pleasuredome in this game. No, you have to build up your attributes. Specifically, your sex, love, war and religion attributes. How do you build them up? By getting pleasure units from Frankie, you naughty minx!
Once each attribute is built to 99 percent strength, you're considered a real person and thus worthy of entering the Pleasuredome. Why not build the attributes up to 100 percent, you ask? Yeah, so do I.
And in case you're wondering, yes, those four symbols in the corner of that picture do represent the four attributes and yes, of course, one of them is jizz. Does that make you uneasy?
Well Frankie says, "Relax!" If anything is going to make you uneasy, let it be the fact that along the way to the Pleasuredome, you have to complete several mini-games, one of which is called Sea of Holes.
#4. Revolution X
Revolution X was a light gun arcade game produced by Midway in 1994. It was later ported to several home consoles including SNES. The objective of the game was a dubious one to say the least: Save the members of mid-90s era Aerosmith from the clutches of a corrupt alliance of government forces referred to as the New Order Nation (or NON).
This premise strikes me as ridiculous for a few reasons. First of all, unless this kidnapping is in some way going to prevent them from recording the Rocks album back in the 1970s, I really couldn't care less. What's the worst that would have happened if Aerosmith got snatched from us in 1994? Celine Dion records "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" instead? Who cares?
Also, the reason the NON has targeted Aerosmith is because they've declared war on the youth culture. So they kidnap fucking Aerosmith? In 1994? Wouldn't they have been better served by ordering Courtney Love to kill Kurt Cobain?
Wayne's World counts as "youth culture" right?
But wait, it gets better! In order to complete the game, you have to rescue all five members of the band, who are hidden throughout various parts of the game. How do you rescue them? Why, you shoot them when they sprout wings, naturally! Wait, a game that requires me to shoot the members of Aerosmith in order to defeat it? I take back everything I said. Sign me up.
#3. Journey
Imagine encountering this at your local arcade back in 1983 and, upon seeing the futuristic artwork on the side of the cabinet and that ambiguous yet enthralling title you find yourself thinking, Yes, must play. Now imagine putting your quarter in and finding out the game is literally about Journey, the band.
Not a cosmic journey to battle space aliens. Not a mythical journey to slay dragons. Just a journey to help see to it that the band Journey lives to spend another day rocking "Wheel in the Sky" on stage.
To make matters worse, they're, like, in there. In the game. So instead of it just being some vanity label where the "band" is actually represented by whatever multi-colored pixel blocks were supposed to be people back in 1983, you get this:
What are your thoughts on how you spent your 25 cents now? Because you've just spent it helping Steve Perry navigate his way through what appears to be an army of just barely attacking hand exercisers. Do they intend to annihilate the assuredly robust moose knuckle he's likely rocking in those pixilated jeans? If so, I'm on their side, I hope the bad guys win.
On a related and ridiculously awesome side note, the space age technology that allowed the game developers to use actual black and white photos of the band within the game was originally intended to be used to take pictures of game players whenever they achieved a high score. But that idea was abandoned after players flashed the camera during testing. Journey fans, such a rowdy bunch.
Will you climb aboard his starship?
And speaking of Journey fans, if you want to see way more pictures of one of these Journey games in pristine condition, this fan has one. Would it surprise you to know he also has a Camaro? Would it surprise you even more to know that he has a webpage dedicated to that Camaro and that if you go there, a midi version of "The Final Countdown" by Europe plays in the background? Yep, none of that surprised me either.


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Searching for Alternatives
Federal policy requires that scientists conduct a search for alternatives for any procedure that causes more than momentary pain or distress. The use of the term "alternatives" in animal research has a unique meaning making it an inappropriate term to include as a keyword in literature searches.
Much information on useful alternatives can be found in databases and sources which appear quite distinct from those where the goals of the experiment would be found. Some useful sources include:
For help with your literature search or additional databases contact the Animal Welfare Information Center at (301) 504-6212 or firstname.lastname@example.com. It is to the advantage of any scientist to consult the library information specialist for assistance in conducting the alternatives search.


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nigg·er·dom - noun - 1) the condition, niggerness, or state of being of a nigger 2) extreme niggerness; niggerossity
He has dedicated his life to the seeking of niggerdom, niggleation and to the understanding of the great nigger in the sky.
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From Chappelle's Show. Of or relating to actions of African Americans. Definitely not practiced by Clayton Bigsby.
Sir! I assure you I am not involved in any niggerdom!
by inane February 28, 2005
Any doing that is sterotypically done by black/african amercian culture. Referring to something as being "black" style.
I am sick of all this niggerdom.
Thats too much niggerdom for me.
Thats too much niggerdom for me.
by Kirk S. March 28, 2005
The nigger nirvana that every blacky hopes to experience upon death following a life of niggering, pimping, and shine. Niggerdom is filled with disease-free white women, watermelons, and cars that a nigger could never acquire legally.
"Only once I have stolen ferarris, raped the purest white women, and pimped out every ho in this city, can I hope to experience true niggerdom."
"Niggerdom awaits the real street nigger with the S on his chest"
"Niggerdom awaits the real street nigger with the S on his chest"
by Rossy Da Bossy June 14, 2008
Of or pretaining to a nigger, or a nigger's thoughts.
adj. That is a niggerdom philosophy.
by youresoblackjohn November 22, 2006
Niggerdom- "To be in any way, shape, or form" be like a black man. As seen in Clayton Bigsby by Dave Chapel
"Sir! I am in no way, shape, or form involved in any niggerdom!"
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To be involved with or have any part of niggified activities.
To be publicly wiggin or actin a playa hense involving oneself in niggerdom.
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ohhhhh that explains it
was gonna say, if i ended up going out still under the assumption that it was goal difference, i would get very annoyed
ohhhhh that explains it
was gonna say, if i ended up going out still under the assumption that it was goal difference, i would get very annoyed
oh that sucks....
Guess who's not taking pens again
bosnia and herzegovina...just won the world cup!
I want to know what team-talk did that:
How the hell did they get Manny Panther to score is what I want to know. Couldn't score for toffee when I had him at Carrick rangers.
This scoreline is just pilfering the urine, I really can't comprehend how we lost this one. Defensively, both teams were all at sea but what a weird game.
Goal+assist in the same game from my keeper. It was only a friendy though.
Poor Michele Fava. He only lasted a week as manager.
(Both Gianni Di Piazza and Michele Fava are former players and I was checking how they were doing.)
sorry but where is the funny thing?
I'm guessing Megahed as in Mega Head
i guessed the same but since he is a real life footballer, it wouldn't make it a joke...
yeah, but the majority of players posted on this are all real players, if you just look up "Nirvana" theres loads in this thread
I just don't think that a funny name of a real player has any positionin a funny screenshots of fm.
In this way, even Hulk would be a reason for a funny ss but he is not
this made me laugh...
I just had to share this one with the world
I was thinking, "oh no not another draw where I've dominated. Penalty?Penalty!!!!! Ducking (well it rhymes with ducking) brill. Faeces, the goalie's just pulled off the save of the season. Another penalty? He'll miss this one after seeing the last one put away. Goal!!!!!!"
Btw the taker is my LB and second best in the squad (good too) I was resting my regular.
Ahh, the lure of the Premier League. Bayern, 3rd in the Bundesliga, 2nd in their CL group; Wolves, 20th in the EPL.
These are all great..wish i still had shot of me losing 31-0 in a friendly
got this, after he returned from loan, where he was first team player...
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Some chinese regen i found early, signed him for my youth team
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I think I can safely safe, that battle is probably not a good idea
Some brilliant screenshots here.
Unfortunately I don't have any 'funny' ones.
also the last screenshot was ruben de la red not gago like you'd said, more understandable why he'd move for money as he wasnt good enough really for top clubs until he retired irl.
Came across...
Club Brugge
Zulte Waregem are all my feeder teams so it may be time for FIFA, UEFA and the english and Belgium fa to do something
Indeed Drakoon! Hope I haven't come across as needy or clingy though
My GK got top goal scorer award.. all goals on pens XD
Some of these are great.
This made me chuckle a little.
Well I'm gutted, Man City equalised on in the last 10 mins to gain a draw at Stoke and bring an end to one of the closest title races I have experinced in an FM/CM game. But the main reason I posted was the mighty Watford! 36 losses and shipped a massive 107 goals! They didn't get a point until February and when on a 2 game streak getting thier only 4 points of the season!
Chelsea obviously invested in the medical world, as they are now making money from blood....
Hahahaha it certainly made me chuckle.
Favoured personnel is probably Eric Cantona
I think he comes from the wrong country
At work so cant do a screenshot, but if you go to Australia's national team and look at stadium info it has:
80,000 capacity stadium (79,999 seated and 1 standing)
I feel sorry for the person who gets to the game to find out they are the only person who has to stand!
Oh, how the mighty have fallen
Seeing is believing!
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firstly .
Patrick Vieira announced his pending retirement .
next thing .
my coach compiled a report on Vieira's future .
So he broke the season record in October, after 13 games. Not too shabby I guess.
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This made me laugh...
This was at the end of the 2012/2012 campaign. As a Rangers fan I had to laugh... and laugh... and laugh some more
Then I laughed!
How unfortunate for this regen...
What on earth were Mr and Mrs Head thinking?
I had a player called Gordon Dick and because I didn't want to refer to him as Dick I nicknamed him Gordo .
Portsmouth moved to the Black Void Arena?
this occasionally happens . T_T
Portsmouth had to sell their pitch.
first team coach immediately jumped to manager ? wow .
Heading . Rofl .
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I ordered the Mom's Day Fruit Tower for $29.95 (free shipping) back in May 2011. It was magnificent.
This offer, not so much. While I'm sure the fruit will be packaged well, there is not much value in this offer for what we would be paying..
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The Protestant Bible has 66 books. Should we read apocryphal books (e.g. 1&2 Maccabees and Gospel of Thomas)?
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You don't need to (as in should), but you can if you want to. Don't allow them any special authority if they're not in your Bible; use common sense. Apocryphal books and other writings of the time might be interesting in many ways, e.g. historically.
There's an important distinction to be made between 1&2 Maccabees and the Gospel of Thomas. This distinction also tells you a lot about how useful a certain book would probably be to read.
Old Testament apocrypha / Deuterocanonical books
1&2 Maccabees aren't included in the Protestant Old Testament, but Roman Catholics and most Orthodox Christians consider them canonical. They weren't in the Hebrew Bible, thus they're called deuterocanonical as opposed to protocanonical. As Raphink points out in his answer, these books were written later than the protocanonical books and thus couldn't be included in the Hebrew Bible.
Protestants consider deuterocanonical books Old Testament apocrypha, i.e. books that don't have divine authority but are relevant with regard to pre-New Testament history. Martin Luther said about them:
Useful and good to read -- but not divinely inspired, according to Protestants.
New Testament apocrypha
There's a very broad consensus between Christians of different denominations on what books are included in New Testament. In fact, there's practically no disagreement here. Luther was probably the most vocal questioner of the authority of James, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation, but even he didn't exclude them from canon. Neither does any major denomination nowadays consider any extra books to be part of New Testament.
The Gospel of Thomas is one of the better known writings belonging to New Testament apocrypha. It might also be one of the more interesting ones. However, keep in mind that no one notable considers it part of the Bible. Neither is there any church-father, reformer, founder of a major denomination or such saying that it's "useful and good to read".
There are many other books considered New Testament apocrypha. I'll say from personal experience that not all of them are worth reading.
Old Testament apocrypha are considered part of the Bible by some and "useful and good to read" by some.
New Testament apocrypha are considered neither.
Treat them as you would any other work by an author who claims to be Christian. Weigh what is said carefully against scripture and evaluate it for what value it has.
Knowing why it was rejected (was it heretical or known to be falsified or simply not surely inspired) might help in such an evaluation.
Personally I have found the extra-biblical works quite interesting in their own right. Quite like the writings of the early church fathers, which are really very informative.
As has been said already, you can read (and it can be interesting) the apocrypha. Just don't consider them as authoritative.
I'd like to complete the other answers by stating a difference between the Old Testament apocrypha and the New Testament apocrypha.
The Old Testament apocrypha, such as the Maccabees, are not included in the Jewish Canon (and thus not in the Protestant Bibles either) mostly because they were too recent (or even not written yet, depending on when you consider the Jewish Canon was fixed) to be included.
For that reason, Old Testament apocrypha is very interesting historically since it tells you about what happened between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. For example, it explains about the origin of Hanukkah, a day that was already celebrated at the time of Jesus. You can think of Old Testament apocrypha as an interesting part of history.
On the other hand, most of the New Testament apocrypha are books that were considered non interesting, not God-breathed or even heretic by the early Christian church.
You're more likely to find ungodly ideas or twisted scriptures in New Testament apocrypha (such as the Gospel of Thomas or of the Women) than in Old Testament apocrypha. You can think of New Testament apocrypha as alternative accounts of Jesus' life and possibly heretic theology.
The current Jewish canon did not arise until after the time of Christ. The Old Testament apocrypha were in the Greek translation of the Bible known as the Septuagint, which is older than any existing version of the Bible except for books found relatively recently among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The standard Hebrew version of the Bible that exists is much newer than the Greek version. The early church, like most Jews at the time, accepted the extra books as scripture, and so should Protestants.In fact, the Septuagint was the version of the Old Testament that was read by New Testament authors. Rejecting the books written in Greek is just a current Protestant tradition.


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Given a matrix $A$ over a field $F$, does there always exist a matrix $B$ such that $AB = BA$? (except the trivial case and the polynomial ring?)
A square matrix $A$ over a field $F$ commutes with every $F$-linear combination of non-negative powers of $A$. That is, for every $a_0,\dots,a_n\in F$,
This includes as special cases the identity and zero matrices of the same dimensions as $A$ and of course $A$ itself.
Added: As was noted in the comments, this amounts to saying that $A$ commutes with $p(A)$ for every polynomial over $F$. As was also noted, there are matrices that commute only with these. A simple example is the matrix $$A=\pmatrix{1&1\\0&1}:$$ it's easily verified that the matrices that commute with $A$ are precisely those of the form $$\pmatrix{a&b\\0&a}=bA+(a-b)I=bA^1+(a-b)A^0\;.$$ At the other extreme, a scalar multiple of an identity matrix commutes with all matrices of the same size.
This doesn't want to be a complete answer, but just a hint to understand the problem a bit better.
Note that the commutativity $AB=BA$ is equivalent (when $B$ is invertible) to $A=BAB^{-1}$.
On the other hand conjugate matrices represent the same endomorphism of the underlying vector space with respect to different basis. Thus $A=BAB^{-1}$ means that the endomorphism corresponding to $A$ has the same matrix representation when the base changed by $B$.
How could that be possible?
If $A$ is diagonalizable, i.e. the vector space admits a basis of eigenvectors, with distinct eigenvalues, the only way that we can modify the basis and leave $A$ as matrix representing the endomorphism is to the effect of replacing the eigenvectors with some multiples. This corresponds to the situation where the only matrices commuting with $A$ are the linear combinations of its powers.
On the other hand, if there is an eigenspace $E_\lambda$ of dimension $\geq2$ we can replace any choice of basis of $E_\lambda$ with any other, and the matrix representing the endomorphism will be left the same. Thus we should expect more matrices commuting with $A$ in this case.
Hope this helps understanding the problem.
Given a square $n$ by $n$ matrix $A$ over a field $k,$ it is always true that $A$ commutes with any $p(A),$ where $p(x)$ is a polynomial with coefficients in $k.$ Note that in the polynomial we take the constant $p_0$ to refer to $p_0 I$ here, where $I$ is the identity matrix. Also, by Cayley-Hamilton, any such polynomial may be rewritten as one of degree no larger than $(n-1),$ and this applies also to power series such as $e^A,$ although in this case it is better to find $e^A$ first and then figure out how to write it as a finite polynomial.
THEOREM: The following are equivalent:
(I) $A$ commutes only with matrices $B = p(A)$ for some $p(x) \in k[x]$
(II) The minimal polynomial and characteristic polynomial of $A$ coincide; note that, if we enlarge the field to more than the field containing the matrix entries, neither the characteristic nor the minimal polynomial change. Nice proofs for the minimal polynomial at Can a matrix in $\mathbb{R}$ have a minimal polynomial that has coefficients in $\mathbb{C}$?
(III) $A$ is similar to a companion matrix.
(IV) if necessary, taking a field extension so that the characteristic polynomial factors completely, each characteristic value occurs in only one Jordan block.
(V) $A$ has a cyclic vector, that is some $v$ such that $ \{ v,Av,A^2v, \ldots, A^{n-1}v \} $ is a basis for the vector space.
See GAILLARD MINIMAL SIMILAR COMPANION
The equivalence of (II) and (III) is Corollary 9.43 on page 674 of ROTMAN
Theorem: If $A$ has a cyclic vector, that is some $v$ such that $$ \{ v,Av,A^2v, \ldots, A^{n-1}v \} $$ is a basis for the vector space, then $A$ commutes only with matrices $B = p(A)$ for some $p(x) \in k[x].$
Nice short proof by Gerry at Complex matrix that commutes with another complex matrix.
This is actually if and only if, see Statement and Proof
Note that, as in the complex numbers, if the field $k$ is algebraically closed we may then ask about the Jordan Normal Form of $A.$ In this case, the condition is that each eigenvalue belong to only a single Jordan block. This includes the easiest case, when all eigenvalues are distinct, as then the Jordan form is just a diagonal matrix with a bunch of different numbers on the diagonal, no repeats.
For example, let $$ A \; = \; \left( \begin{array}{ccc} \lambda & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & \lambda & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & \lambda \end{array} \right). $$
Next, with $r \neq s,$ take $$ B \; = \; \left( \begin{array}{ccc} r & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & s & t \\ 0 & 0 & s \end{array} \right). $$
We do get
$$ AB \; = \; BA \; = \; \left( \begin{array}{ccc} \lambda r & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & \lambda s & \lambda t + s \\ 0 & 0 & \lambda s \end{array} \right). $$ However, since $r \neq s,$ we know that $B$ cannot be written as a polynomial in $A.$
A side note, Computing the dimension of a vector space of matrices that commute with a given matrix B, answer by Pedro. The matrices that commute only with polynomials in themselves are an extreme case, dimension of that vector space of matrices is just $n.$ The other extreme is the identity matrix, commutes with everything, dimension $n^2.$ For some in-between matrix, what is the dimension of the vector space of matrices with which it commutes?
Let $A$ be a $n\times n$ matrix over a field $\mathbb{F}$. Let $C_A = \{B\in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{F}) \mid AB=BA\}$. Then the minimal dimension of $C_A$ over $\mathbb{F}$ is $n$, and this is obtained precisely when the minimal polynomial and characteristic polynomial of $A$ coincide.
The idea of proof is interpreting $C_A$ as an $\mathbb{F}[x]$-endomorphism algebra of the $\mathbb{F}[x]$-module $M^A$. (Here $M^A$ is the $\mathbb{F}[x]$-module structure of $\mathbb{F}^n$). Use the Rational Canonical Form-Primary decomposition. We have the following formula for $\textrm{dim}_{\mathbb{F}} C_A$. $$\textrm{dim}_{\mathbb{F}} C_A=\textrm{dim}_{\mathbb{F}}\textrm{ End}_{\mathbb{F}[x]}M^A=\sum_p(\deg p)\sum_{i,j} \min\{\lambda_{p,i}, \lambda_{p,j}\}, $$ where the first sum is over all irreducible polynomials $p$ that divides the characteristic polynomial of $A$, and the indices $i, j$ of second double sum is from the partition $\lambda_p=\sum_i \lambda_{p,i}$ that indicates the powers of $p$ in $p$-primary part of $M^A$.
Thus, if minimal polynomial does not coincide with characteristic polynomial, then the dimension of $C_A$ is greater than $n$.
Another example is the adjoint of $A$: $$ A \operatorname{adj}(A)= \operatorname{adj}(A) A = \det(A)I $$ (but for invertible matrices it is equal to the scalar $\det(A)$ multipliying the inverse of $A$, so is trivial that commutes. with $A$).


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The Greater Louisville Women's Council of Realtors hosted its second annual fashion show at Wildwood Country Club with the theme, "Everything's Coming Up Roses."
Louisville fashionista Chris Fulkerson produced the fashion show.
The Voice-Tribune's Angie Fenton emceed the event, which featured a silent auction, lunch and a style show with looks provided by Dillard's. Proceeds benefitted Family Scholar House.
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What: U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today announced that he will visit Wellington as part of his Kansas Listening Tour on Tuesday, Aug. 5.
Area residents are encouraged to attend and share feedback with Sen. Moran on the critical issues facing Kansas and the nation. The issues Sen. Moran focuses on and the work he does in Washington, D.C., are largely based on the conversations he has with Kansans during these town hall meetings.
Throughout his time in Congress, Sen. Moran has made it a priority to stay connected to the people he represents despite a distance of more than 1,000 miles between Capitol Hill and Kansas. Since his election to the U.S. Senate, Sen. Moran has held a town hall in each of Kansas' 105 counties. Then-Congressman Moran traveled to each of the 69 counties during his annual "Big First Listening Tour."
When: Tuesday, Aug. 5
2-3 p.m.
Where: Wellington Public Library
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In "The Tempest," Prospero conjures a mighty storm to shipwreck his enemies on his remote island domain. But as he plots revenge on those who wronged him years before, he ponders his actions and at the last moment turns to forgiveness.
"The rarer action is in virtue rather than vengeance," Prospero says, renouncing his schemes for payback.
As a way to spread this message of forgiveness, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) captured the spirit of "The Tempest" and took it on the road this spring to over 40 Colorado schools.
During the program, four professional actors -- using Japanese bunraku-style puppets to represent Prospero and his spirit servant Ariel -- perform an abbreviated version of the play. The actors then lead the students in small-group exercises exploring alternatives to violence based on the latest CSPV research.
"This is really about how to relate to other people and deal with conflict in your life. This performance and the workshops that follow focus on the importance of reconciliation and forgiveness as a tool for ending the cycle of violence," says CSF Literary Manager Amanda Giguere, who co-created the program with Timothy Orr, interim producing artistic director.
The play emphasizes that there is always a choice between continuing the "cycles of revenge" and choosing not to retaliate, says Beverly Kingston, director of the center. She notes that 33 percent of American high school students had been in at least one physical fight in the preceding 12 months, according to the 2011 federal youth risk behavior survey.
"You can see that in every one of those fights, someone had to make a decision to retaliate for some reason," Kingston says. "Violence really begins with a decision and we all have a choice how we respond to difficult circumstances in our lives. That's the message of this play."
The production of "The Tempest" is the second collaboration between the two CU-Boulder organizations. CSF's "Twelfth Night" anti-bullying tour went on the road in 2011 and has been seen by more than 22,000 Colorado schoolchildren. That inaugural program examined the problem of bullying through the character Malvolio.
The innovative anti-violence school programs have been featured prominently in print, online and on television media across Colorado and nationally.


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