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Press Release August 30, 2010
MONTGOMERY, AL- Alabama Army National Guard Warrant Officer Mickey Dickerson continues to outshine the competition. A recent graduate from Signal Systems Support Technician Warrant Officer Basic Course, Dickerson set the standards for all to meet, being named the distinguished honor graduate for her class.
She was also named the Distinguished Honor Graduate and Leadership Award recipient for her Warrant Officer Candidate School. Other achievements and awards include the German Army Troop Duty Proficiency Badge (Gold), the Commandant's Award for Physical Fitness, one Meritorious Serve Medal, six Army Commendation Medals and six Army Achievement Medals.
According to the state chief warrant officer, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Thomas Gilbert, Dickerson personifies what the warrant officer corps is all about. "Her accomplishments are of no surprise," said Gilbert. "She was an outstanding noncommissioned officer who was an expert in her field and was highly recommended to continue her career as a warrant officer."
Dickerson said the driving force behind her success was simple tenacity and the will to succeed. "I believe that nothing is worth doing if you are not going to give the most of yourself," remarked Dickerson about her military accomplishments. "Anything less than that is just selling yourself short."
Dickerson said she made the decision to become a warrant officer while serving in Iraq. "I received a WO1 rank (insignia) from a warrant officer that I worked with," reminisced Dickerson. "I carried that rank with me from then on." With the encouragement of her leaders in the 31st Chemical Brigade, Dickerson accepted the challenge and enrolled in Warrant Officer Candidate School.
The rewards of becoming a warrant officer far outweighed the challenges for Dickerson. "Warrant officers are, by definition, technical experts, combat leaders, trainers and advisors. I see the warrant officer as a person who is trusted by the officer corps to make technical recommendations to accomplish the mission and successfully meet the commander's intent.
They can also be excellent mentors and trainers for enlisted personnel." Dickerson said the experience has provided her with a new focus and a new level of excitement for her military career.
Dickerson's passion and dedication drive her to succeed in her civilian life as well. To date she is two classes from completing her bachelor's in information systems with hopes of acquiring a masters in business administration within the next four years.
"She exemplifies excellence in all that she does as attested by her accomplishments," said Gilbert. "She always meets challenges positively and head on."
Dickerson has many influencers in her life. "I have nine nieces and nephews who are very important to me. I work hard to set the example for them and others. I want them to believe that anything is possible if you just work hard and give it your best."
But her strongest influencers have been her parents. "They are the reason I originally joined the military. They encouraged me to take this path to have options for education and training," said Dickerson. "They have always been supportive of my career, my successes and my failures."
According to Gilbert, Dickerson is, without question, a Soldier with unlimited potential. "She is a great ambassador for the Alabama National Guard and the warrant officer corps," said Gilbert.


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8 Nov 2012 6:02 AM #1
special store with an "hasmany" association
i am wondering about the following behaviour.
I have a model : "GroupModel" and a Model "DateModel" and a group could have many dates, and the data was received from ajax / json proxies.
So i have in the "GroupModel" the following association:
hasMany: { model: 'efa.model.fa2.DateModel', name: 'dates', autoLoad: true, reader: { type: 'json', root: 'data', successProperty: 'success', messageProperty: 'message' } }
so this doesnt work:
var groupDateStore = groupRecord.dates(); groupDateStore.load();
But when i call this:
var groupDateStore = groupRecord.dates(); groupDateStore.load(function(records, operation, success) { groupDateStore.add(records); });
Thanks and best regards,
Thomas Mang
10 Nov 2012 6:26 AM #2
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That tells me that the hasMany is not setup to correctly read where the associated data is coming from.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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10 Nov 2012 9:53 AM #3
Both models works without problems - only the association doesnt work as exspected...
Do you have an idea, what is missing in detail?
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A true lady-like look for that special occasion! Crafted from polished sterling silver, this necklace features various round bead cut 6-9mm multi color kunzite beads in strung settings. The necklace comes in your choice of 18''L or 36"L x 5/16"W and is completed with am easy to use magnetic closure. A truly inspiring look that others are sure to admire.
Please note: Necklace length may vary up to 1" due to different size beads. - Gemstone beads may vary in color, size, and/or pattern. Please allow for these natural variations
Part of the Gem Treasures® Collection. Made in China. All weights pertaining to diamond weights are minimum weights. Additionally, please note that many gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty. Click here for important information about gemstone enhancements and special care requirements.
Sterling silver, also called fine silver, is a beautifully lustrous cool-toned precious metal favored in fine jewelry among other products. The most reflective of all metals (excluding mercury), sterling silver looks stunning by itself and brings out the best hues in an array of colorful gemstones.
Sterling silver can be polished to a higher sheen than platinum. In fact, Ag, the chemical symbol for silver, comes from a word that means "white and shining." The surface of silver can boast that shiny, polished appearance, or can be brushed, satin, matte, sandblasted, antiqued or oxidized (chemically blackened).
In order to be called sterling silver, a metal must be made up of a minimum of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% alloy (meaning other metals), including but not limited to copper and nickel. The alloy is added to pure silver to make the metal more durable, tougher and harder. Sterling silver is designated a fineness of "925." Pieces with sterling silver may be marked "sterling."
Finishes on Sterling Silver
Finishing, or plating, is a common treatment with sterling silver. Popular types of plating are rhodium plating, gold plating and anti-tarnish plating. Plating is used to extend the life and sheen of the jewelry. After sizing or buffing a piece of jewelry with a machine, it must be re-plated to restore the finish.
Caring for Sterling Silver
Sterling silver becomes tarnished as the result of a natural chemical process that occurs when sterling silver is exposed to chemicals in the air, rubber, wool and latex. Humidity also plays a role in accelerating tarnishing. It's easy to keep your sterling silver sparkling, though, by taking a few steps to prevent tarnish and other wear and tear.
Kunzite is a rare and expensive semi-precious gemstone that is most famous for its delicately pale, lilac pink color. It is known for its strong pleochroism, meaning it shows lighter and more intense coloring when viewed at different angles. For this reason, the pastel gem is always cut to show the deepest pink color through the top of the gem; the deeper the pink, the more valuable the stone. Because kunzite shows its best color in larger sizes, small sizes tend to be very pale. It needs a certain amount of mass to bring out its color, so stones should weigh at least 10.00ct to be really in the pink. The largest faceted kunzite is an 880.00ct stone that is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
Kunzite is often called the "evening stone" because it should be protected from strong sunlight. Direct sunlight and heat can fade the gem's color over time. It is an especially fragile stone due to its crystalline structure. In fact, kunzite's perfect cleavage and splintery fracture make it one of the most difficult gems to cut. It is a relatively hard gemstone, however, with a hardness rating on the Mohs Scale of 6.0-7.0.
First significantly found in Pala, California in 1902, kunzite is named as a tribute to George F. Kunz. He was the legendary gemologist and chief gem buyer for Tiffany & Co at the turn of the century, and was a pioneer of the science now known as gemology. Kunz wrote The Curious Lore of Precious Stones and searched the world for old stories and legends about gems while seeking new varieties and new deposits. Today, most kunzite is mined in Brazil, Afghanistan and Madagascar, and generally found in larger sizes of 10.00ct or more.
Modern folklore says that kunzite promotes emotional support and balance by helping to keep the mind and emotions in sync. It is believed that the gem aids in giving confidence and connection to a higher self. Many believe it reduces depression, mood swings and stress, while easing tension of tight muscles in the neck and shoulders. It is also suggested that kunzite increases the ability to open the heart to love and trust. In fact, the gem is considered a major gemstone of love, good for improving self-love, unconditional love of others and communication in loving relationships. Also known as a communication stone, kunzite is believed to help people better understand and interact with others.


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Wellington firefighters put out a bridge fire Saturday night, and are looking for whoever may have set the fire.
At about 10:30 Saturday night, the fire dept received a report of a brush fire in the area of Maple and Ash along the railroad tracks.
Upon arrival they found a railroad bridge constructed of wood fully involved in fire. Access to the bridge was difficult due to brush and terrain around the bridge. The bridge which was not being used by the railroad due to deterioration suffered significant damage. Firefighters remained on scene throughout the night and returned several times the next day to extinguish hot spots in the bridge due to the high winds and creosote that covered the bridge.
The fire is considered to be intentionally set. If anyone has information concerning this fire please call the fire department at 620 326-7443.
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I've read that the singular values of a matrix are equal to the $$\sigma=\sqrt{\lambda_{K}}$$ where $\lambda$ are the eigenvalue but I'm assuming this only applies to square matrices. How could I determine the eigenvalues of a non-square matrix. Pardon my ignorance.
Eigenvalues aren't defined for rectangular matrices, but the singular values are closely related: The right and left singular values for rectangular matrix M are the eigenvalues of M'M and MM'.
The standard definition of an eigenvalue of $A$ is a number $\lambda$ so that for some vector $v$, $Av=\lambda v$. If you've got an $m$ by $n$ matrix, $v$ must be a vector of length $m$, and then $Av$ must be a vector of length $n$. Thus if $m\not= n$, there is no way for $\lambda v$ to be equal to $Av$, since the two vectors are of different dimensions.
As leshik suggests in the comments, we need to use an alternative definition if we want to look at the "eigenvalues" of a rectangular matrix. An analog is to find a unit vector $\hat{u}$ so that $Mv=\sigma u$ and $M^*u = \sigma v$. Then $u$ and $v$ are the left- and right-singular vectors for the value $\sigma$ (the analogs to an eigenvector of a square matrix).


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Issue Date:
February, 2011
The March issue of Environment & Climate News leads with a report on Pinellas County, Florida's recently filed lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over water nutrient runoff restrictions EPA intends to impose.
Also in this issue:
- A nonprofit conservation group and a Native American cultural group have sued the federal government claiming officials illegally rushed approval of a major solar power project in California's Mojave Desert.
- Renewable electricity mandates are causing electricity prices to rise and killing jobs in the states that have enacted them, reports a new study from the Institute for Energy Research.
- After months of wrangling between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, EPA has approved ADEM's proposed rules for managing stormwater.
- Although smart meters make pricing more accurate and could lead to beneficial efficiencies in electricity usage, activists oppose them because of fears about health risks that already have been disproven. Marin County, California has voted to ban the meters.
- A bipartisan group of 32 House lawmakers is calling on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to forego issuing any new restrictions on hydraulic fracturing in natural gas production until the Environmental Protection Agency completes its analysis of the technique.
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Chagrin Valley All Products
66 reviews
90% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$
Not tested on animals
on 11/4/2014 7:23:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Very Dry, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I love the shampoo bars from this company!
I have waist length, thick, somewhat wavy hair that is dry (without the help of this and leKair cholesterol plus conditioner!). I wash about twice a week, and for those times that I do wash my hair, I use the cafe Marino shampoo bar. The result is soft, healthy, voluminous hair!
but please DO NOT use this every day, it is too drying for that. If you need to wash your hair more often, the butter bar conditioner shampoo bar is a great option.
As for the body and face soaps. I have very dry skin, and these bar soaps did not help for my skin. I have tried the butter bar body soap, cucumber lime complexion soap, oatmeal and honey soap, neem and tea tree soap, and the calendula soap.. all were too drying for my skin. But I can imagine the cucumber lime yogurt completion soap being amazing for oily skin!
on 10/23/2014 10:27:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Would I repurchase? Maybe.
Over the years I have used quite a few of their products, from their soaps, to their shampoo bars, to their body butters.
Hair: Despite a lot of effort and time, I was never a person who could get shampoo bars to work for my hair. It's too bad, because I really like the idea. But the bars, both these and Lush, left coatings and didn't create a good canvas for my thick conditioners, (which are non negotiable).
Skin: I love the Chagrin Valley soaps. If I had bunches of expendable money I would certainly use them quite often. I love scents, the lather is good, and I found them not to be as drying as my standby castile liquid soap. The small batch manufacturing and down home feel of the company are also plusses. Ultimately they are too expensive for me, and there are much cheaper comparable alternatives that are easily gettable. As a treat, sure. But not as a regular thing.
I have used their whipped body butters also, and although they work quite well and smell amazing, they are very expensive for the minute quantity that you get. Making your own whipped butter is less expensive..
Overall a great company and great products, but too overpriced for what you get. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend these products.
HINTS: buy them in advance and let the bars cure. Keep them dry between uses and they should last a bit longer. For the poo bars, break of small sections, put in a container, add a little hot water. After a short time you'll have something much easier, (and gentler), to apply to your hair.
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on 9/19/2014 7:06:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
These are a love, as are all the shampoo bars I have tried. Honestly, I do not see much difference between one and any another of the different brands, all are so gentle on the hair. I do love the environmental green concept, and not having to deal with plastic bottles. Switching to these from liquid shampoo is a matter of figuring out what works for you and experimentation. They last a very long time, much longer than bottled shampoo, probably because it is hard to use too much of these. They don't lather that much, which is fine with me. The samples will last eons and are inexpensive , so these are very safe to try if you are not sure. I do not do ACV rinse as I do not see the need/ benefit. Probably not for folks with oily hair. We were indoctrinated to shampoo daily back in the old days but healthy hair is frequently a matter of less shampooing. I was previously using non SLS liquid shampoo but these are even better-and less expensive.
on 8/12/2014 4:26:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Cons: I didn't have an adjustment period to the shampoo bars, but to me they're similar to cleansing conditioners in that you HAVE to really lather up and get ALL of your hair sudsy before THOROUGHLY rinsing. When I get lazy I always get this patch in the back of my head that's flat and sticky because I didn't really wash it well. I had the exact same problem when I was using cleansing conditioners a few years back, so if you're looking towards a super quick lather-and-go you're out of luck.
Pros: The delivery time is quick-to-standard, I've never had to wait more than a week. The packaging is economical--just brown paper wrapping for each soap, which I can recycle. Also, when I DID get lazy, as noted above, I washed my hair with regular shampoo and conditioner a few times. The third time, I noticed my scalp was super, SUPER dry, and my hair felt rough. Although I hadn't seen a noticeable difference in my hair without CV shampoo bars, my scalp and hair were actually in much worse condition once I went off the bars. This is a pro because I saw for myself that the CV bars were healing my scalp and hair!
Now to what I've tried! Which I'm sure is what you really want to know ;)
Neem & Tea Tree Soap: MAN does the neem smell strong in this. It doesn't seem to do much for my skin tbh, but it also doesn't make me breakout which is a plus. My acne is endocrine-related, though. But I can wash with this at night and wake up with no NEW acne in the morning, so it must be working even a little. It can burn sometimes if I use in the shower (on my face), probably because my skin is oversensitive from the steam. It rinses clean off my chest, back and shoulders, where I use it preventatively.
Carrot & Honey Complexion: This makes my skin SO soft. I use it when I have dry irritated skin from acne medication, or when I just want a simple clean wash because I'm too tired, lol. Really mild and very moisturizing.
Rhassoul Yogurt: This is pretty drying for my skin, but works well as a mask on super oily areas. It burns and stings sometimes though...and I don't consider my skin sensitive.
Tomato Grapeseed: Okay, look. if you are an artist, YOU NEED THIS SOAP. This stuff removes ANYTHING. Charcoal, oil pigments, you name it, AND it leaves your skin soft. No more scrubbing! No more alcohol! No more Ultramarine Blue under your nails for three days! It goes without saying this removes makeup easily and well. Amazing stuff.
Nettle Shampoo Bar: This was great for my dandruff and SD-prone oily scalp. Now my hair and scalp are drier due to spironolactone, and the nettle bar dries my hair out *cry*
Ayurvedic Shampoo Bar: Amazing for my hair! It actually made my hair stronger and shinier. After I ran out of my sample, my hair fallout increased a bit again and my hair didn't hold its natural wave quite as well, sadly. It also took a bit of work for me to lather it up.
So there you go. IDK about customer service, but the products aren't bad. The samples are decently priced, and if you cut them up in sections they'll last AGES. I bought all mine in March and still have them all except the Ayurvedic, and all were samples save the Nettle.
Oh, and the shampoo bars I've tried were only somewhat color-safe. My rinse-water is still blue (thanks to Directions' Ebony) but my hair color isn't too badly affected. Still, I prefer to use the shampoo bars on my scalp when my hair is colored, and a cleansing conditioner on the length of my hair.
on 4/13/2014 11:24:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Dark, Warm
Hair: Black, Kinky, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have 4c natural hair, and I did not like the stripped and stringy feeling that the Babassu Marshmallow and Neem & Tea Tree shampoo bars gave to my hair. I combed through when the soap was in and after rinsing, and it felt as if my hair was weak and was going to break. I did use the ACV rinse afterward, which recovered a good feeling, but I would rather not feel that I was stripping my hair and then recovering it with the ACV rinse. I would heavily recommend the Terressentials shampoo for 4c natural hair.
on 4/10/2014 5:04:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
I came across Chagrin Valley on my quest to find products to help my Rosacea. My skin is super sensitive to everything. I started using their coconut milk shampoo bar as an all in one for hair, face, and body. It's been great for my hair and body but to harsh on my face. For some reason if I was my face with it my skin started to sting really bad then would severally dry out. Even with use of their wonderful moisturizers. I use their Seabuckthorne and Tamanu oil face oil , coconut delight body balm, Tamanu oil salve. They are all great to help calm my skin when irritated. I also use the Olive and Babassu Oil soap which is nice on my hair and skin especially for winter. But sadly that too made my face burn and sting. So I ordered the Seabuckthorn and Tea Tree complexion bar and I've used it once. Usually my skin will burn pretty much immediately when I start to wash it. This one didn't but only time will tell. I have a few other samples I ordered from them and will give each a week of use to see what I can and can't use on my face. The coconut milk shampoo bar is great on my hair now that hot weather is setting in. I didn't have much of a transition period for my hair since I had already been using all natural products before switching to shampoo bars. I will say that they are great in soft water which we have. If you have hard water an ACV rinse is usually needed to cut that waxy feeling out of your hair. If I travel I won't use them on my hair because I can't use ACV that often due to irritation to my face. I hope the Seabuckthorn and Tea tree bar is a winner for me as I HATE trying to find something, anything to not irritate my face. One With Nature dead sea salt soap is all about I can use currently with no problems and is a great soap as well.
on 4/8/2014 12:30:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Last year, I was recommended to try CV through a beauty community on LiveJournal. I had been looking for a shampoo for excess sebum/seborrheic dermatitis and they have a shampoo bar so I figured why not.
I ended up purchasing 3 products - Apples & Spice soap, Tea Tree & Neem shampoo bar, and Whipped Vanilla Bean body butter.
I live in Canada and the shipping is ridiculously expensive ($15) so I got the products sent to a US relative's for $6.
I tried all three products when I received them and have to say, I would never purchase from CV again.
The shampoo bar smelled alright (very medicinal) but left my hair feeling incredibly greasy. I already have an oily scalp but this just worsened it. It did nothing for my hair or my excess sebum.
The soap was alright. It lathered well but smelled nothing like apples. I was disappointed with this product because all I could smell was spice.
The body butter was horrible. It smelled okay (I adore vanilla and this product had barely any scent). The container was half full of product (considering it was $8 for a tiny jar, that was disappointing that there was barely any product in the jar) and the product was yellow, not white as I had seen with tons of pictures I had looked at. It also wasn't fluffy at all. The main reason I will never purchase from CV again is because I had a severe allergic reaction to the body butter. The next day, my legs looked like I had been bitten by fleas and I just shrugged it off until it kept spreading to my arms and my face. My face had gotten the worst of it. For someone who has been blessed with very good skin, I had no idea what was going on. People kept asking me what was wrong with my face because they knew I had great skin. I couldn't cover it up since I don't wear foundation. I had visited the doctor's and they thought it was chicken pox until finally someone figured out it was an allergic reaction. I decided to try the body butter on my legs again and low and behold, the next day, they were broken out, even worse than before.
I contacted CV about this (my review was removed from Facebook by them) and received a pretty swift response.
Unfortunately, the response is another reason I would never buy from the company again.
I received a generic apology and was told I could try buying another body butter and seeing what happens. For $8 for the product and then $6 for shipping, I will pass on that.
I was told it was most likely the shea because virgin shea can cause reactions in people. I use shea in a lot of products and none have ever given me problems before.
I know people like this company but for me, it just isn't worth the hassles. I would have loved to receive a refund or even store credit, but none was offered. I had to toss the body butter because it was unusable for me and I haven't even touched the other two products since.
I am disappointed with how the company just doesn't seem to allow people to say anything negative about them. The reviews on their website are all but positive and I am sure I am not the only person who has had problems with their products.
Also, my face is still recovering from the body butter. I had very smooth skin before but now, I have random bumps all over it.
on 2/9/2014 11:59:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Red, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
I've been testing several Chagrin Valley products for a few weeks now and I guess it's time to write a review. My skin seems to react better to natural soaps than commercial, detergent-based soaps. They always seems to clear up my mild acne, but after prolonged use, my skin becomes very dry and sore. I believe that most soaps are too alkaline for daily use. I was using Sibu Sea Buckthorn Face & Body bar which is LOVELY, but dries my skin horribly. I noticed that CV also had a Seabuckthorn bar, so I ordered that one along with a few other samples to test. I also ordered a small size of the Seabuckthorn Tamanu Facial Oil and asked to receive a small sample of the Whipped Squalane Face & Eye Mousse to test out, but received a note instead that stated they couldn't make samples, that Face & Eye Mousse was one of their bestsellers and that I should just try it. Ummmm.....Okay. How difficult is it to put a tiny sample into a tiny pot or even a baggie? Feels like a blow-off to me.
So, on my first order, I received the Carrot & Honey Complexion Soap, the Seabuckthorn & Tea Tree Soap, the Neem & Tea Tree Body & Hair Shampoo Bar and the small oil. I live 2 1/2 HOURS away from where they make the products and it took 6 days to receive. It took them 4 days to process and send my order and 2 days for USPS to deliver. I could have driven there and paid a bit more for gas.
I used the Neem & Tea Tree bar for the first couple of weeks. I used it on my hair, face & body. For hair, it just wasn't good. It gave me HORRID dandruff or perhaps it was just that I couldn't get all the soap out. It seemed like I had to rinse for AGES to get all of it out. I tried it by itself, with conditioner and with a vinegar rinse. Unfortunately, I got the same blah results each time. I also started using the Seabuckthorn Tamanu Facial Oil, which I absolutely HATED. First, it stunk horribly and was bright orange (which I already suspected), but my skin became SO irritated with this. It took a few days to calm down after only a couple days of use. My skin felt congested and sore. So strange. =(
The next week, I tried the Carrot & Honey Complexion Bar. I don't think I made it through the entire week with this one. It just didn't feel like it cleaned well enough, yet it made my skin dry and peely. This is around the time I received my second Chagrin Valley order. I had heard good things about their cream deodorant and I also really wanted to try the Face & Eye Mousse.
Next was the Seabuckthorn & Tea Tree Soap. I like this one the most. It's less drying than the Sibu bar I was using, but it was still drying and made my skin look red and a bit irritated. I think it may have been from the tea tree oil. I read somewhere on a natural product forum that people also used the regular soaps as shampoo, so I tried this one as a shampoo as well. It made my hair greasy and limp. The day I washed my hair, I visited my mom and she asked if my hair was greasy or wet. *Face-palm* I also started sampling the Face & Eye Mousse at this time. It says on the website that it's a light, silky cream that penetrates quickly and absorbs deeply. Well, I found it to be extremely heavy and it NEVER seems to absorb. It just sits on top of my skin like vaseline would. It doesn't irritate my skin, which is a big plus, but it doesn't seem to help with dryness at all. When I use it, my skin feels absolutely parched (from the soap), but greasy on the surface. Not a winning combo. =( On the other hand, the Coconut Silk Cream Summer Rain deodorant I ordered was nice. It smells lovely and works most of the day. I HATE applying it with my fingers, but I can live with it.
Since this category is about Chagrin Valley in general and not just certain products, I wanted to mention that I think their sampling policy is seriously lacking. They charge almost $3.00 for a small soap sample and then almost $6.00 for shipping. They don't include samples with your order (that's part of the fun when ordering online!) and they don't seem to go "the extra mile" to make customers happy. On the "Specials" section of their website, they sometimes offer "scrap sacks" which are one pound bags of soap slivers, soap chunks, cracked bars and odd size end pieces. To me, this seems like the perfect opportunity to include little samples with orders so that customers could try and maybe find a new favorite soap! I'm just saying, it would be nice. Small things like that encourage repeat purchases.
EDIT 2/15/14: Been using the cream deodorant for several days now and my armpits are SO ITCHY and a bit rashy. I guess I must be sensitive to the high amount of baking soda.=( I notice that they do offer a version without it, so I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever purchase from them again. Considering the products I've tried so far, it's not likely.
on 11/24/2013 3:02:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Red, Curly, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I started looking into Chagrin Valley because I wanted a natural color-safe shampoo. I ordered samples of the Butter Bar Conditioner, Auburn Henna, and Herb Garden shampoo bars and I rotate between them. I then follow with either Aveda Madder Root Conditioner or the conditioner that comes with my hair color. I only wash once a week and it stays feeling really clean for about 5 days. The way my hair feels after rinsing is pretty awful... waxy and uncombable, but after conditioning it feels amazing and then my hair dries is great curls instead of weird frizz lol. Chagrin Valley does also recommend ACV rinses, which is like conditioner. I am really happy with these shampoo bars but I can't imagine using them without conditioner.
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I hear people talk about 'building their photography portfolio.' What is a photography portfolio, and when would I use it?
A portfolio is a collection of your very best photographs. There are typically two modes for presenting a portfolio, namely online and prints. The use for them will depend on what you are wanting to use the portfolio, but let me give a few key pointers.
Just to help hone in a few more points, I have 2 portfolios, one of landscape/wildlife, and a second of portraits, to which I am including links. I welcome any feedback as well on the portfolios, email me at email@example.com. Portrait, Desert Photos
Fine-art photographers typically create a 'portfolio' on some thematic ground or other--in this context, the photographs in it might in some ways play a part in the whole rather than being the very best the photographer has taken. This is sort of like a writer approaches a book--a meditation of sorts on some 'topic' that unifies the images. I use quotes on 'topic' to indicate that sometimes the unifying principle of the portfolio isn't always immediately or literally apparent... i.e. some 'fine arts' portfolios may be more literal such as, for example, 'the children of war' or 'the cascade mountains' or whatever, but sometimes it might be much, much harder to actually put into words what unifies the body of work into a 'portfolio' and as such, it might not have a descriptive name (or, alternatively, a name that is somewhat obtuse or vague).
To me, these 'portfolios' where you see, say, 10 photographs and you can feel that they go together, but you can't easily articulate why, are the most interesting. Photography is, um, a visual art, and as such, follows a logic that sometimes parallels the way verbal logic operates, but sometimes rolls on another level that would be reductive and inaccurate to verbalize--it has a different sort of logic. A portfolio as a somehow related set of images amplifies this concept: something in the unconsious tries to connect the dots and draw significance by marrying the photos together. Sometimes this juxdisposition can lead to interesting conclusions greater than the sum of the parts. In short, the portfolio can be an extension of photographic 'reasoning'.
Another reason to make a portfolio is that it signals to the world that you are 'a serious photographer that serious people should seriously take seriously' (and buy at a high price 'cos, you know, it's serious) . By putting your work in an archival clamshell box you are telling the world you are a serious artist. It's just a sleight of hand that we all sorta fall for. For whatever reason, taking a photograph and putting a mat on it not only makes it look better, but it makes it more legitimate. It's sort of like publishing in journals if you are an academic. It's just something that shows you belong to a specific crowd of special seers, etc. Very much worth the price, nudge nuge. Pro film/video types have 'reels'. still-folks have 'portfolios'.
If we look back at the old masters (say Steglitz for arguments sake), it isn't that often when we even think in terms of 'portfolio'. now maybe image abc was part of a portfolio back in the day and maybe it wasn't. Who cares? On the other hand, I really like the 'portfolio' approach--it tells a story, it makes me think about the work taken as a whole, etc, on the other, it's just a silly (and stuffy) convention. However, having said that, Robert Frank's The Americans is an example of a portfolio that stands the test of time as a unified whole. I don't think of Frank's work in terms of individual photographs. I think of the portfolio.
If your area of expertise is photojournalism, you need a portfolio too, but the requirements are a bit different. You'll want your best photographs, just like others have mentioned, however you'll 'submit' them in the form of what are called 'tearsheets.' This is literally when you tear your picture (and often the article) out and put it in a portfolio binder of some sort. The goal is a little different with a photojournalistic portfolio, you're looking for a job instead of trying to get hired for a contract, but the principle is similar.


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Every day is seems as though we hear more and more about Nintendo's investor call last week
After learning that the company is exploring the promotion of its games on mobile, its intentions to get further into software related to health and well-being, a move to begin licensing out its characters to partners that make sense, and a platform of some description to marry both home and handheld gaming, we also learned that Nintendo is open to the possibility of a merger with another company, or even an outright acquisition.
Whether or not this line of talk was simply to please and placate investors, telling them what they want to hear so their confidence will return, it is an interesting prospect.
While an outright acquisition by another company (many have suggested Apple or Disney buy Nintendo) would be difficult as Nintendo still has over $8 billion in the bank, debt free, a merger would be more acceptable to Nintendo and its proud heritage… but the question is, who?
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BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's largest oil and gas company,
state-run YPF, said Wednesday that it has contained a major
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YPF said it suspended operations at its La Plata refinery after a fire broke out
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Once upon a time I did a little science at Uni. I'd now be really curious to understand a bit more behind the amazing difference between a freshly brewed beer and one that's matured on yeast for some time. Anyone found any interesting articles, links or know a bit themselves?
Amateur and scientific interest in beermaking is increasing, but it is a much younger subject than that of winemaking. I would direct you to research done on wine maturation for an answer to your question. Keep in mind though, that strong scientific research will likely be limited. Any huge breakthroughs discovered by a company's internal lab would probably be kept as a trade secret.
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As for stronger research, there are a few references in those articles, as well as external links; such resources may point you to others. Additionally, a Google Scholar search for wine maturation shows some good initial results. A similar search for beer maturation looks really scientific.
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Daniel Reis didn't waste a whole lot of time Wednesday night.
On the mound, Reis made quick work of the American Division Orioles, and at the plate he connected for a three-run home run on the first pitch he saw, leading the National Division Dodgers to an 11-0, four-inning victory in the Little League Baseball City Championships at North Park.
The Dodgers (1-0) will host the Federal Division Tigers (0-1) on Friday at Dumont Field at 5:30 p.m.
"Daniel is a very good, all-around player," said Dodgers manager Charlie Fox, whose team boasted a 20-4 record coming into the city championship. "He's a true athlete. He pitches, catches. He works very hard. He brings his lunch pail every day and he has a flair for the dramatic."
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5 Survival Stories Too Miraculous to Be Real
Eventually, Death will claim every one of us (we intend to begin every article with this reminder from now on). But that doesn't mean we have to go down easily. That's why we here at Cracked like to take time every once in a while to salute those who looked Death in the eye and made it back down and apologize. These are the unkillable badasses who did things like ...
#5. Flying a Damaged Fighter Plane While Standing on the Wing
World War I was a magical time when humans enjoyed their newfound miracle of flight by using it to try to clumsily murder each other. Dogfighting would never again be this insane -- planes were rickety things made of fabric and wood, and killing the enemy usually meant flying so close to his contraption that you could just as easily stab him with a sword. So you had to be a particular kind of crazy to even attempt that job, and Kiwi WWI fighter ace Keith Logan "Grid" Caldwell should probably be their patron saint, based on this one story alone.
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"You know what you could use, Death? A nice back rub."
Caldwell was part of the famed No. 60 Squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps (which later became the Royal Air Force). He became such an expert pilot that he was promoted and given his own squadron, No. 74 Tiger Squadron. Even though he was a commander, he still insisted that he fly to the front lines, because he knew it was his destiny to soar through the air and brazenly dare Death to take him.
During one mission, Caldwell managed to crash his plane into another in mid-air (it was destined to happen, really). This damaged his aircraft's wing bad enough that it went into a death spiral, meaning Caldwell was doomed to a dizzy plummet into the ground followed by a very fiery death. But Caldwell, being insane, took a moment to determine that he just needed to change the center of gravity -- that is, add some weight to the side with the damaged wing, to balance things out. So, while the plane was still spinning, he somehow climbed out onto the motherfucking wing, reaching into the cockpit and piloting the aircraft from there. It looked something like this:
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"Who am I kidding, I damaged the plane just so I could try this."
It worked, too. Sort of. It stabilized the aircraft long enough that he was able to guide the plane back over friendly territory. Landing the thing from the wing was out of the question (come on, that would be beyond crazy), so Caldwell tried to find a good spot in the battle-scarred landscape to try to not die a spectacular death.
He flew it down close to the ground and, according to witnesses, freaking jumped from the plane like some kind of Cirque du Soleil acrobat, doing a couple of somersaults while his plane cartwheeled end over end until it disintegrated in a fiery explosion nearby. At which point Caldwell stood up, dusted himself off, and asked the astonished infantry men where the phone was, and if they could spare some tea.
#4. Being Left for Dead on Mt. Everest, and Walking Away
Honestly, climbing Mt. Everest doesn't seem to mean what it used to (let's put it this way: You have to wait in line for the summit). But make no mistake: There's a reason why the area near the top is strewn with 150 or so frozen, mummified dead bodies. Which brings us to Mr. Beck Weathers.
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Raised to be a meteorologist but destined for adventure.
Weathers, a 49-year-old Texan pathologist armed with a midlife crisis, had a goal of climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents. In the spring of 1996, he was about to make the final push toward the peak of Everest, but at 28,000 feet, he started losing his vision. Why? Well, some time prior to the climb Weathers had surgery to correct his vision, and found out that came with an odd side effect: When exposed to the high altitude, his altered corneas rendered him half-blind (we assume the brochure they give you at the doctor's office has something in the fine print about not attempting to conquer Everest during the recovery period).
The guide decided to leave Weathers behind and continue the climb with the rest of their group, but promised to come back for him on the way down. So as the other climbers douchebaggedly waved passed him, Weather patiently waited hours for the guide to return, during which time other passing climbers offered to help him down, but he refused. Did we mention he was in the area called the "Death Zone"? So-named because it's that part littered with corpses of other, equally stubborn climbers?
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Deceptively located between the Happy Trail and the Fun Zone.
That's when the blizzard started.
The wind picked up -- and note, these are conditions on Everest that routinely drop the wind chill to 90 degrees below zero. We'd ask you to imagine how cold that is, but it's physically impossible for you to imagine that. You have no context for that sensation whatsoever. This is when Weathers finally decided to climb down. But it was too late -- on the way back to camp, he got bogged down in the storm. By the time help arrived, they found Weathers was beyond salvation, standing against the wind with his right arm exposed and frozen solid. He was deranged with hypothermia and hypoxia (i.e., lack of oxygen). In other words, he was dead, and some parts of his body just hadn't gotten the news yet.
The other climbers decided that nothing could be done, and left Weathers behind with another casualty -- a Japanese woman named Yasuko Namba. The next day when doctors came back to examine them, both had slipped into hypothermic comas. They chipped the ice off of Weathers' face, examined him, and decided that he was to become just one more body for the Death Zone. They left him there, relayed the news to the families, and the mourning began.
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"He gave me things to eat, then poop. Then he picked up my poop. I loved him dearly."
But Weathers, having won some chess game with the Grim Reaper, woke up from his coma, finding himself buried in snow. He stood, and began to walk toward the high camp. Nearly blind, covered in snow, right hand frozen solid, his face pitch black with frostbite, he trudged on. He somehow reached the camp, presumably making the climbers think they were being assaulted by one of those ice zombies from Game of Thrones. A few days later, he was airlifted and taken to Kathmandu.
He lost his right arm from the elbow down and lost his nose as well, which were apparently the only parts of his body that weren't made of adamantium. He went on to become a motivational speaker, hopefully delivering 10-second speeches that consisted of nothing but "Don't fucking climb mountains, kids."
#3. Swimming Out of a Burning, Submerged Submarine
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We mentioned above how serving in a WWI-era fighter plane automatically meant you probably had a death wish. But everything that was true about early fighter pilots has to go double for anyone serving in a 1940s-era submarine. Primitive technology, in a cold, dark, hostile environment, with shit for safety features to save you ... well, let's put it this way: If you served on a German U-boat during WW2 you had a 70 percent chance of dying. No shit. Every time the hatch closed on one of those smelly death traps, you had to feel like you were never going to see the sun again.
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A single fart could breach the hull five times over.
That brings us to John Capes, a stoker on the British sub HMS Perseus, which in December 1941 was on its way to Egypt. While contemplating just why he chose to serve in what was essentially a submerged metal coffin, Capes was thrown from his bed by a huge explosion. Water quickly started to flood the engine compartment.
Are you picturing it? It's dark. You're in a massive creaking metal tube under the ocean. You're half asleep, and now choking down water. How does your brain not just ... freeze up? Forever?
Frantic, Capes determined that he was the only one in his section that was A) conscious and B) not horribly mangled by the blast. As the icy water rose, he headed for the escape hatch, pulling, pushing, and manhandling the crew members he thought could make it to the surface. He fitted himself and his disabled comrades with escape gear and ran into his first problem: The escape hatch was bolted down ... from the outside. We really can't reiterate enough that back then, safety features were considered the devil's work.
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Luckily for Capes, the blast from the underwater mine that had crippled the sub had also damaged the bolts, so with great effort he was able to force the hatch open. Pushing the other wounded, unconscious survivors out the hatch, he sucked in one last gasp of noxious air, took a shot of rum from his Blitz Bottle, and pushed his way out into the cold darkness of the ocean.
He was still 170 feet under water.
Frantically kicking in the direction he hoped was up, his lungs screaming for air, he swam until he finally burst through the surface. Capes wasn't safe yet, though. In the rough seas he found no one else had made it to the surface with him, but there was a dim island in the distance. He swam with what little energy he had to the island, where he was discovered by friendly Greeks passed out on the beach. And then everything was fine!
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"Fuck you, sarcastic Internet article writer."
Oh, wait, no. Not at all. That was occupied territory, and so Capes was immediately a fugitive. At great risk to themselves, the Greeks hid Capes from the Axis occupiers for a freaking year and a half before a rescue operation could be mounted. Rescuers were finally able to get him back to Allied territory by hiding Capes on a fishing boat, then by trekking hundreds of miles through hostile Turkey.
His story was so incredible that the Navy -- and just about everyone else -- refused to believe him. A mistake in the Navy logs didn't show him as being assigned to the HMS Perseus, and literally no one had ever survived that kind of accident, at that depth. His story always had an asterisk next to it until the details were confirmed by divers to the site of the wreck in 1997 -- 12 years after his death. The scene matched Capes' description, right down to the bottle of rum that he had left near the open escape hatch.
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Tonight's recipe idea comes from Jen, one of my bakery customers (thanks, Jen!). It is so easy and such a great idea I can't believe I haven't seen it before. I also wish I had thought of it myself. Ha! The dough is adapted from Isa's pizza dough in Vegan With a Vengeance, which she is letting me post here (thanks, Isa!). It tastes even better if you make it the day before and let it rest in the fridge overnight.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Pizza Rolls
Tonight's recipe idea comes from Jen, one of my bakery customers (thanks, Jen!). It is so easy and such a great idea I can't believe I haven't seen it before. I also wish I had thought of it myself. Ha! The dough is adapted from Isa's pizza dough in Vegan With a Vengeance, which she is letting me post here (thanks, Isa!). It tastes even better if you make it the day before and let it rest in the fridge overnight.
18 comments:
- shelby said...
Make me some?? ;)
- December 5, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Gina said...
Ooooh, intriguing!! Sounds delicious :)
- December 5, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- kmouse said...
Oh my gosh what I great idea! My husband might love this, he's a pizza fanatic.
- December 6, 2008 at 12:05 AM
- yasmin said...
Sounds like a fun way to play with pizza. I want to try this.
- December 6, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Erin said...
oh my God that looks awesome. I will surely be making this. thanks for yet another wonderful post!!
- December 6, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- Kelly said...
Looks delicious and very comforting.
- December 6, 2008 at 1:36 PM
- Ruby Red Vegan said...
Wow, this is genius! Not to mention that this is probably infinitely more tasty than the stupid processed pizza bites in the frozen aisle.
- December 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- T said...
Oooh, great idea! Bet these would be good with some soy-ricotta. I would probably stuff mine with mushrooms and olives though. Thanks for the recipe!
- December 6, 2008 at 6:58 PM
- carrie said...
Awesome idea, and they look incredible!! I'll ave to try these soon.
- December 6, 2008 at 10:29 PM
- Alexis said...
Must try these! They sound super-yummy.
- December 7, 2008 at 11:05 PM
- Karina said...
Thanks for yet another delicious recipe, Vegan Dad! I made these last night, and they turned out really well. I added some Italian spices to the dough, which I made with part spelt and part white flour. I filled 'em with mushrooms, green pepper, green and regular onion, and roasted garlic. Tasty! I'll definitely be making these again, especially as party food.
- December 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
That sounds really, really, good.
- December 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Chris said...
Very tasty thanks. Just finished making these, I also added some italian spices/garlic to the sauce and dough.
- December 11, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- candace said...
OMG Vegan Dad your blog is our hero! We just discovered it last week and this pizza roll recipe is amazing.
Since I have been vegan (almost 2 years) I have hated pizza because it just doesn't taste right without cheese but I have seen the light with these pizza rolls and plan to make them weekly!
One thing we did differently is to dice all of the pizza toppings so they could be evenly distributed, it worked beautifully.
BTW all of your recipes look amazing!
- December 18, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Stephanie said...
I made these for Christmas Eve! They were awesome (we're not vegan so I must admit that I added a bit of mozarella). they also have black olives and spinach. mmmmm
- December 24, 2008 at 11:59 PM
- hellseyduster said...
Wow, this is such a good idea! I made these the other night with Trader Joe's premade pizza dough balls (I think they're vegan). Making it this way not only maximizes the pizza (compared to slices- lasted longer, ??) but also the yummy chewy melted burned bits that are my favorite part.
One thing, I would recommend placing a small circle of dough on the bottom of each or using parchment paper or something 'cos the tomato sauce and vegan cheese did a number on my muffin tin (even oiling the pan, they got stuck and it was hard to clean).
- May 19, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Brendan Long said...
I used this recipe to make loaves instead of small rolls. My bread turned out pretty biscuity, but I added more oil than you said to and it turned out pretty good.
Apparently "Vegan Rella" brand fake cheese is pretty good in this (I had never used it before), and I used your sausage recipe to make crumbled sausage.
I like your recipes because they're simple enough I can change them and know what's going on.
- August 26, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Rachel said...
This is actually pretty common in the middle east as a "bureika" made with puff pastry dough. It is especially good with olives in it (if you like olives)!
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#6. A To-Do List in the Operating Room Cuts Deaths in Half
If you're a patient preparing for surgery, it probably wouldn't put you at ease to see the surgeon flip open a to-do list before you go under the gas ("Oh, I cut the patient open, then pull out the liver!"). Surgeons are, after all, some of the smartest and most capable people in the world, with a decade of medical school under their belts. They shouldn't need goddamned Post-it notes to know what they're doing. Yet studies have shown that using a simple checklist during surgery can dramatically decrease the chances of something going wrong.
And we're not just talking about med students who can't tell a scalpel from the plastic knife they got with their Wendy's baked potato. Researchers did a massive study spanning eight hospitals in different countries. Some of the facilities were state of the art, while others may have left the least drunk doctor in charge of the defibrillator. In all cases, using a checklist cut the death rate of all surgeries in half, while complications dropped by more than a third.
Another study looking at data from 103 different hospitals showed that a simple checklist gave them a 66 percent decrease in the number of potentially fatal catheter infections, while yet another checklist has been shown to increase the number of preventive health measures physicians take. That's all it took -- a little piece of paper to remind them the right way to do it.
"I was gonna pour lemon juice onto his kidneys, but then I checked the list."
Still, medical professionals don't like to use them -- they tend to find them patronizing and just plain annoying. Yet others point out that airline pilots (another group of highly trained, proud professionals) have been obsessing over checklists for decades and not bitching about it. So if one highly complex, life-or-death task benefits from poring over a checklist, then why not apply it to the guys tinkering around inside your body?
What we're saying is that you should take things into your own hands and just get a surgery task checklist tattooed on your chest.
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You probably know, thanks to many '90s-era PSAs about AIDS, that one way the disease spreads is due to people sharing heroin needles. It makes sense -- you're letting a virus from a sick person's bloodstream cling to a needle, then inserting it into your own veins. There probably isn't a more efficient way to intentionally infect someone, whether with HIV or anything else.
Yet people still do it, and the various resulting infections kill millions. The World Health Organization estimates that an astonishing 1.3 million people die each year due to the reuse of contaminated syringes, and the total health costs are estimated at around $100 billion. That probably wins the prize for the biggest problem with the most obvious solution nobody has thought of before now:
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Well, only once as a syringe. With a little work, you could turn that thing into a crack pipe.
So, Marc Koska developed a syringe good for one use and one use only. He made a simple modification to traditional syringe design that causes a ring to fall into the barrel of the syringe after it's used, preventing it from retracting again. Then it explodes.
Well, actually, it just snaps if you try to use it again. The point is, the modification is so simple that it adds nothing to the cost of producing syringes.
Which means more money for hookers. Uh ... medicinal hookers.
The most obvious issue is that you're going to need to make lots, lots more syringes, but for every dollar you lose, you gain 10 -- Tanzania, the first country to switch to these syringes exclusively, estimates that it will cost them $7 million more in syringe manufacture, but save them $70 million in health care costs.
Oh, and there are all of those people who would otherwise have freaking died.
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Living in a retirement home isn't as fun as it sounds. Who are we kidding? It's about exactly as fun as it sounds.
As such, socially conscious researchers have always made a point of trying to figure out how to make life a little less horrible for those slogging through their autumn years. And, you know, to hopefully do it in a way that doesn't boil down to "Buy them high-priced whores every month." Fortunately, there is one simple, dirt-cheap method: Give them a houseplant, and make them take care of it.
"This is my granddaughter, Jocelyn."
That's it. In research conducted back in 1976, scientists gave 91 retirement home residents their own houseplants to take care of, probably at least the third shittiest gift any of them had received that week. Half of the residents were told to care for the damn thing themselves, while for the other half, the plant was taken care of by the nursing staff. When they followed up, they found that the mortality rate for those who looked after their own plant was 50 percent lower, and those residents were in better health overall.
So, what's the deal here? Well, the researchers hypothesize that it has something to do with "locus of control," or more simply, whether or not you feel as though you have some control over events in the world. You've seen this at work -- how much more satisfying is it to build or create something with your name on it versus just grinding out your day in a cubicle, counting the seconds until lunch rolls around?
Feeling as though you personally make a difference in your world vastly improves your mindset. Hell, it's the only reason most people get out of bed in the morning.
"If I die, who will watch my plant not die?"
The science backs us up; this mentality is actually the best predictor of quality of life among nursing home residents, the one place where control is so scarce that just feeding a plant makes all the difference.
Obviously, though, you want to make sure it's a hardy plant, because if it dies, its carer can wind up feeling more depressed. For the best results, we would suggest plastic.
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Fa-jin, according to the Wikipedia article, means "to discharge power explosively". If there is only one way to do this, what is it? If there is more than one way, what are the two or three main ways of doing this?
@Wudang tried to explain it from the point of view of a taijiquan practitioner, but in my mind, he mostly just glossed over the description of fajing and of how to get it working.
The term fajin is composed of two words fa, which means "to send out, to issue" and jin is a word used for strength (quite interestingly, one of the pinyin translations I found through Google also mentioned that it meant "crystal", which curiously enough, is fitting in the context).
This means that literal meaning of fajin could be translated "to send out strength" or to "issue strength". And that, quite simply, is exactly what fajin is.
There are probably many methods of issuing strength, mostly these are dependent on the system of MA you are learning. Some of the systems (including taijiquan) generate power for the fajin from the feet, other systems use other methods, that I am not qualified to discuss.
In taijiquan, there is a classic text that describes very clearly how to fajin. Loosely translated (and from my memory rather than a strict citation), it says something like this:
This means essentially, that the act of "releasing the strength" involves your whole body, which must move as one unit, working for a common goal.
There in this verse there is a set of instructions:
1 – The delivery vehicle does not necessarily have to be a hand.
It is very likely that when you try this yourself, there is nothing springy or explosive about the body mechanics. The springiness is something that comes form relaxed (as in not tense or rigid) mind and body. To get to the point where the strength flows freely through your body and is being released from your extremities, takes a whole lot of practice and there is no known shortcut there that would help anyone get there faster...
Edit: When I say that strength flows through the body, I mean quite literally that the strength (a physical force), that was generated in your feet and directed through the waist flows freely through the body and exits through the hand that delivers it (or a foot if you are kicking).
It is definitely not Qi, I am talking about (although effectiveness of fajin may be greatly augmented by use of qi)
I can see how this explanation may sound quite mystical on the surface, but really, this is just a set of physical actions that together form a desired result. Anyone can learn to do this and in fact, many martial artists (including western arts) do that even if they do not call it fajin.
In the context of taijiquan it means power released suddenly from a correctly positioned body in the correct state of relaxation (song). The problem is that each of these steps above has to be explained. I'd rather point you at a blog post by Mike Sigman on fa jing as there are back-references there to other material. A common first step once you have developed good posture and stance is to train in "bounce jing" where you drive your rear heel into the ground and "bounce" the force back out to your hand without tensing up.
"Jin" means a trained force, somewhat like a force vector. "Fa" is to attack. In a more practical sense, fajin is a pronounced force that involves the whole body shaking and adding to the power. On a more titillating level, fa jin implies that the body relaxes to produce this burst of force. And it's true. So look for a way to store force and then release it by relaxing. It's an interesting way to approach the puzzle and if you understand it, it will answer a lot of other questions about the evolution of the internal arts and the body mechanics developed over centuries.
發 and 勁 Transliterated
Fa-jin is two characters:
In the context of martial arts, a fair translation of fa-jin would be "emitting force" or something similar.
There be no magic here
Fa-jin is just a Chinese term for explosiveness. This is equivalent to how we say a wrestler might have an explosive power double, or a kickboxer has a powerful round kick, or a boxer has heavy hands. There's nothing special, specific, or mystical about fa-jin. It's just hitting or throwing someone hard and fast.
There are as many ways to employ fa-jin as there are techniques to hit hard with, and the details are fractal. One can go infinitely deep with explaining how to execute a particular technique explosively, but when you recognize the term "fa-jin" as simply referring to the concept of hitting powerfully, giving examples specific to fa-jin becomes obviously fruitless. If you are hitting hard and efficiently, that's fa-jin.
For instance, boxers hit hard (employ fa-jin) by engaging the glutes, twisting the hips, and keeping the trunk rigid to transmit force to the arms, which are as loose and relaxed as possible as they extend. This should sound familiar to hard-sparring exponents of karate, muay Thai, taiji, and so on.
I am familiar with the term fa-jin used in contrast with the term jun chi (sp?). These are two different ways that force can be applied to a target.
From a physics point of view, this means fa-jin is maximizing the instantaneous force and applying force over a short time to make a very sharp impulse. Jun chi is a more constant force applied over time.
In this usage, there is no assumption about how the force is generated.


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By natural, I mean as a result of births and deaths, rather than emmigration and immigration. I can find data for the total population size (e.g. here) but not for natural population moves and I gather migration was an important shaper of demography in this period.
I've found these numbers for the total population counts at the beginning and end of this period.
Now we need to factor in immigration and emigration to get the natural population change. This is very difficult because few records were kept until the turn of the nineteenth century.
If an equal percentage migrated from Scotland and England, and the population in England at this time was 4 million, it stands to reason about 1.5 to 2.5 thousand Scots migrated. The article goes on to say that:
This makes it difficult to conclude if all or none of the Scots returned. Another source states about emigration in the eighteenth and nineteenth century:
This was counteracted to a slight degree by immigration from Ireland.
The immigrant Catholic Irish and the Protestant Scots did not get along well. For generations, the majority of Scots would not marry the Irish. They remained socially distinct. At times, the relations between the two ethnicities were even violent. Catholics were condemned from the protestant pulpit and newspapers commonly attacked the Irish. However, this did not seriously phase the Irish, who were quite willing to work for cheaper wages than then Scots. Many English also emigrated to Scotland; in certain areas, the English-born were more numerous than the Irish-born.
In the mid-1840s, the European Potato Failure struck Northern Europe. Many Scots emigrated to other countries permanently.
Others sources give higher numbers:
Colonization was also a major reason to emigrate. This is just one example of emigration trends:
During the Highland and the Lowland clearances, an unknown number (probably tens of thousands) of Scots migrated to England and other parts of the UK for work. This was mostly brought about by the Agricultural Revolution.
Evidently, emigration was a major problem for Scotland. As accurate records were not kept until the nineteenth century, the number of immigrations and emigrations are only speculations. Adding up the numbers, the natural growth was probably close to six or seven million. However, because of emigration, the total population only increased by about 3.6 million.


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GETTING CHECKED — Sonny Solomon of Steubenville gets his blood pressure checked Saturday by Sharon McConnell of the Veterans Administration Healthcare System in Pittsburgh during the 19th annual Veterans Health Fair in the commons area of Steubenville High School. More than 400 area veterans were able to get screenings for oral cancer, vision, dental, blood sugar and blood-pressure testing and flu shots, in addition to being provided information on other services available to veterans.
"The health fair is beneficial because early detection leads to a cure," Mascio said.
"All the veterans believe it is a good thing. They are all appreciative of the Veterans Administration staff coming and providing the free health screenings," Mascio said.
Veterans also were able to learn about the services available in the region, including the Ohio Veterans Homes.
Sonny Solomon of Steubenville, an Army veteran, said he regularly takes advantage of the Veterans Health Fair.
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John Vasich of Mingo Junction, said he thinks the Veterans Health Fair is great, and is a supplement to checkups he gets from his family doctor. He said he comes every year to get a flu shot.
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Craig Spinner of Mingo Junction, an Air Force veteran who served from 1975 to 1981, said he believes the health fair is an excellent service to veterans.
Spinner relocated back to the area about two years ago. He said the Veterans Administration Hospital in Pittsburgh is the top-rated veterans hospital in the country. He said he has gone to the facility for services.
The health fair gives him a chance to get a checkup and also spend time with other veterans.
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The local veterans health fair has been in operation since 1994, and more than 8,560 veterans have taken advantage of the free health screenings, according to the Jefferson County Veterans Service Commission.


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Carmi natives Homer and Lela Meriwether died early Sunday morning when a car went out of control and crashed through their home in Evansville, Ind. The driver of the vehicle, 24-year-old Thomas Hodgson of Newburgh, Ind., also died in the crash.
According to WFIW Radio, Hodgson was eastbound on Riverside Drive around 2:45 Sunday morning, missed a curve, crashed into a guardrail, went airborne and slammed into the Meriwether's South Norman Avenue home.
The vehicle went completely through Meriwether's brick home and came to rest in their back yard. The Vanderburgh County Coroner told relatives that the Meriwethers died instantly in the crash. Both were in bed at the time of the crash.
Homer Meriwether, 75, worked for Cummins Diesel in Evansville as a mechanic, serviceman and later as a salesman. He retired as a sales representative for Cummins in 2002.
His wife, Lela (Templeton) Meriwether, 74, is also a native of Carmi. She was a housewife and a sales representative for Home Interior products.
They have two children. Rick Meriwether, who lives in Georgia, is the couple's only surviving son. Jeff Meriwether of Evansville died earlier this year of lung cancer, relatives said.
Locally, Homer Meriwether is survived by a brother Jim Meriwether of Fairfield. Lela is survived by a brother, Roscoe Templeton, of Carmi.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Vanderburgh County Coroner Annie Groves says the cause and manner of death will be released following autopsies.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -On July 2nd, Governor Brownback will launch Governor Brownback will launch the largest reorganization of state agencies in the history of Kansas, called Executive Re-Organization Order Number 41.
Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, M.D., Aging Secretary Shawn Sullivan, SRS Secretary Phyllis Gilmore and KDHE Secretary Bob Moser, M.D. will be on hand to join the Governor with an official ribbon cutting event on the south side of the state house.
Under the ERO the Department on Aging will become the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services allowing there to be a one stop shop for long care services.
The Social and Rehabilitation Services will become the Department for Children and Families allowing the agency to further strengthen it's target focus on children and family services but also continue to administer adult protective services.


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