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Some potentially good news for us vegan men. A new study by Dr. Dean Ornish suggests that a low fat vegetarian diet coupled with exercise and stress management techniques, like yoga, actually shuts down prostate cancer triggering genes and stimulates cancer preventing genes. What is the science behind it, and how does it all work? I have no idea. You can link to the news story I saw here and here, and to the study itself here. If Ornish's findings are correct, this means good things for exercising, yoga-doing, plant-eating men like myself.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Cancer and the Diet
11 comments:
- Toni said...
Thanks. I just shared this news with my 'willing to eat anything you cook' but 'not willing to be vegetarian' husband (yet, lol).
- June 23, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- Sharon R said...
Thanks for sharing the article; I thought it was intesting! And two of my favorites were key to the article; I'm not sure if I like vegetables/fruits or yoga more! I'm trying to get my husband to do yoga, but he is resisting..
BTW, those crates of fruits and vegetables sure look good.
- June 23, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Sharon R,
A truly male-friendly yoga culture has yet to emerge in North America, I think. Roots does have a line of yoga clothes for men, and Yoga Journal does feature male models, but overall I think yoga is still seen as a female domain. Some of this is self imposed, too. Men focus on power and strength, not flexibility and openness, so they are afraid to try a yoga class because they are too self conscious. I started a yoga practice years ago after a back injury that had me laid up in bed with excruciating pain. I started with the Rodney Yee DVDs, which are excellent and great for men, I think. Bryan Kest also has some good stuff. I have actually never stepped foot into a yoga studio because of grad school induced poverty, but I enjoy my home practice.
- June 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Nasreen said...
Can you now post the secret to getting husbands to eat veggies (mine will only suffer down peas and corn)!
- June 23, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Ha! Boy, if I knew the secret to getting people to eat veggies (husbands and kids alike) I would sleep each night on a large pile of money.
- June 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Lisa said...
For a related read, check out The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell. He talks about his(huge) study, and the science behind it, and referenced Dr. Ornish, too. The upshot is whole-food, plant based diet can prevent many of the "diseases of affluence" that plague western society. Sure, there are criticisms, but there will be with anything of that nature.
My 68-year old father read it, and became vegan overnight (I was so proud)
- June 23, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- carrie said...
I didn't think you could get any better vegan dad...but yoga?? I'm a yoga instructor, and I love to have men in my classes, they really change the energy of the room, it's great.
- June 23, 2008 at 11:07 PM
- Daniel S. Matthews said...
I have been trying in without luck to get the Australian government to recognize that vegetarians are lower risk group in terms of health problems, and that they should allow health insurance companies to offer vegetarians lower premiums (as it is the case in Holland). We recently had a change of government but is has made no difference, they are just as dismissive as the last lot. The irony is that the health minister just asked in the media for help to solve the problem with obesity, which is also solved by a vegetarian diet.
- June 24, 2008 at 12:54 AM
- Mark said...
Even more importantly, Drs. Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn have shown through 20 years of peer-reviewed research that a LOW fat (e.g., no added oil/fat) vegan diet can not only reverse heart disease, it can effectively prevent it (by preventing the plaque formation).
I LOVE Vegan Dad's recipes, but do think some of the frying and added oil isn't optimal.
Check out:
..and the interview I did with Essy:
But, again, there's some stupendous creativity on Vegan Dad's blog and I just can't imagine how he finds the time.
I think you've enough material already to go a publisher of vegan cookbooks, get an advance, and go pro.
Best regards and wishes, Mark
- June 24, 2008 at 4:33 PM
- Mom said...
Not to mention the benefits for weight, heart and blood pressure and overall energy level from increasing vegetables in your diet.
Also, the cookbook would simplify my life... my recipe box is stuffed!
- June 25, 2008 at 5:42 AM
- Vegan Next Door said...
Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman is an excellent book, for those who haven't already read it. It discusses all of the various disease-reversing benefits of a healthy vegan diet.
- June 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM

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I know of this command:
find /path/to/mountpoint -inum <inode number>
but it is a very slow search, I feel like there has to be a faster way to do this. Does anybody know a faster method?
For an ext4 filesystem, you can use
The answer is not immediate, but seem to be better than
Somewhere in the machine, there is a list of all INODEs.
This problem is analogous to a phone book. It is a list of names, and the phone numbers might be used by more than one person. If you want to look up by number, to see who shares that number, it's going to take a long time to unless somebody creates a reverse-lookup phone book.
Better to create a reverser-lookup database, organized like the reverse-lookup phone book.
This problem can be solved with two scripts (I'm not much of a programmer... you'd probably laugh at that code I write).
SCRIPT1: Create the reverse-lookup table. Do a "find" on all files, and make a two column table of INODE,FILENAME. Sort and combine into an array, the FILENAMES which share the same INODE number.
(you could build a binary tree, and make access to your new list screaming fast).
SCRIPT2: Searches your new reverse-list, and pulls out the array of FILENAMES.
The only real drawback, is that you can't do this in real-time. INODES always change, and if you need up-to-the-minute information, you'll have to re-generate your table.
You could look at the fsdb command, found on most Unices, and available somewhere for Linux I am sure. This is a powerful command allowing you to to access the in-core inode structure of files, so be careful. The syntax is also very terse.
While fsdb won't actually let you discover the filename of the inode, it does allow you to directly access the inode when you specify it, in essence "porting" you to the file itself (or at least it's data block pointers) so it's quicker in that respect than the find ;-).


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FOLLANSBEE - The award-winning coach of the West Liberty University men's basketball team and two honorees at the Follansbee Community Days dinner Wednesday spoke about how growing up in a small town positively influenced them while three Follansbee mayors reflected on the growth and impact of the festival, which is in its 20th year.
The annual dinner has served both to honor current and former Follansbee residents for public service and success in various fields and to help kick off the festival, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Follansbee Park parking lot.
Serving as guest speaker was Jim Crutchfield, whose success in leading the WLU Hilltoppers to four consecutive West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships has led to his being named National Division II Coach of the Year twice and the West Virginia Sports Writers Association's Coach of the Year three times.
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COMMUNITY DAYS DINNER — Follansbee natives Geno Iafrate and Dana Cuomo Merenda were recognized at the Follansbee Community Days Dinner for their success in the entertainment industry, while West Liberty University basketball coach Jim Crutchfield reflected on how his childhood in a small town impacted him. On hand for the dinner were, from left, front, Iafrate's son, Christian; Iafrate, Crutchfield, Merenda and her husband, Ross; and back, former Follansbee mayor Rudy Cipriani, Mayor David Velegol Jr. and former mayor Tony Paesano, who each reflected on Community Days' 20-year history. -- Warren Scott
Crutchfield said growing up in Clarksburg, his family and many others had no more than one car, one television set and no air conditioning in their home.
"Everybody was pretty much in the same boat," he said.
But he added he doesn't consider such conditions a bad thing. The lack of air conditioning, for example, led him and other youth to seek activity outside, whether it be playing ball or swimming at the local pool, Crutchfield said.
Having one car meant families rode to places together, while having one television meant families watched together, he recalled.
"It brought families together," Crutchfield said.
He said as he drove into Follansbee, he was impressed by the line of U.S. flags hanging over Main Street. He encouraged city officials and residents to preserve such small but significant signs of community spirit.
This year's Community Days honorees - actress Dana Cuomo Merenda and gaming industry leader Gino Iafrate - spoke of the positive influences in Follansbee that helped form them.
Merenda said she and her husband Ross, also a Follansbee native, always will value the emphasis their families and neighbors placed on education, integrity, kindness and respect for others, a strong work ethic and most importantly, a belief in and love of God.
She said as a youth, her many positive role models included her parents, Frank and Sharon, an attorney and teacher; aunt, Shirlie Jean Cuomo, also a teacher; teachers Jenny K. Stucin and Paul "Bud" Billiard and then Brooke High School principal Tony Paesano.
Merenda's brother, Jason, noted following graduation from Brooke High School in 1992, his sister went on to earn a law degree at West Virginia University and practiced law for a time before pursuing an acting career in California and New York City.
She has had guest roles in several primetime television series, including "Desperate Housewives," "CSI: New York," "CSI: Miami," "Everybody Loves Raymond" "Days of Our Lives" and as recently as Wednesday, "Royal Pains," as well as co-starring in "Wake Up, It's Tuesday," a web-based series she co-created; and "Bad Dates," a 90-minute one-woman play presented at Portland, Maine's Good Theater.
Recently she was named spokeswoman for Dannon's line of Light and Fit Greek yogurt. She also has taught acting to youth in California and New York.
Iafrate also named several role models, including Billiard who, as his former Brooke football coach, introduced him; St. Anthony School football coach Vince Fadse, peewee football coach Frank "Blackie" Sissini, Little League baseball coach Kenny Drake; his parents, Geno "Bimbo" and Doris; and Community Days co-chair Nina Meca, whom he called his "second mom."
He said he considers those individuals as great leaders because they were "people I didn't want to disappoint."
Iafrate said while managing The Flamingo casino in Las Vegas, he encountered a bellhop named Vincent with "arms like Popeye's" and an attitude that reminded him of home.
Like his father, a steelworker for 37 years, Vincent had a passion for his job and helping others, he explained.
As a teen, Iafrate worked as a disc jockey and operated a vending machine business and after graduating from Brooke and West Virginia University, owned and operated Follansbee's Bulldog Pub for a time before working in gaming and hospitality management for more than 15 years.
In that time he has been senior vice president and general manager of Harrah's Entertainment's northwest Louisiana operations; played a leading role in the merger of Harrah's with rival gaming giant Caesar's Palace; and the reconstruction of The Grand Casino in Biloxi, Miss. following Hurricane Katrina.
Iafrate currently is an executive consultant for Pinnacle Entertainment of Lake Charles, Fla., for which he has overseen casinos that have received awards for services ranging from entertainment to buffets and golf courses.
Those attending the dinner also heard from former mayors Rudy Cipriani and Tony Paesano.
Cipriani noted the festival's concept was suggested by him and others as a way to promote the city's heritage and provide fundraising opportunities for school, church and civic groups.
He said by drawing new visitors to the city, the festival also has helped to expose its businesses to potential clientele.
Cipriani said the Kickoff in the Park, with free food and swimming, has been a popular feature from the start, and was joined by other events. He encouraged the Community Days committee to be open to new ideas, allowing it to grow further.
Paesano said the festival also has brought family and friends together and has been a success through the hard work of its volunteer committee and, he believes, through God's blessing. He said the theme for this year's Community Days Parade is "Celebrating 20 Years of Blessing."
Larry Rea, the city's fire chief for many years, will serve as marshal for the parade, which will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday on Main Street.
(Scott can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Should you go solo top to farm, or go bot and constantly be on your toes because you will have to keep your lane buddy safe? If you go bot, you won't farm at all because your lane buddy has to farm up good to be effective, but on the other hand you won't get any money except from assists, which, depending on aggressiveness, may not occur often. So how should you play these support champs?
Each support champion plays a different role (e.g Teemo would play differently than Sona, Soraka would play differently than Fiddlesticks). If you're looking at a specific support, perhaps you should ask "How do you play Sona as support effectively?".
In general, if you're claiming the role of support your biggest responsibility is do cater to the whims of the range AD you will roll with bottom lane. Often times when I play support I'll ask the range AD which he/she would prefer (Some like having the auras and diversity Sona can provide, while some like the extra control Janna can offer, and others like the extra mana from Soraka).
Regardless of the support champion you end up with there are a few important jobs you have:
Playing support will take some getting used to, but they can be fun. Don't expect to be the highest level on your team, don't expect to have a full set of items quickly, don't expect to be rich. Unless your character can handle it, you shouldn't be near the front of team fights.
This is only some basic tips, and I'm sure I'm missing some, but it will get you going.
Here is a really excellent guide that covers almost all the aspects of supporting.
Intermediate/Advanced Support Guide
The guide covers:
What Makes a Good Support?
Set Up for Success: Runes & Masteries
The Usual Suspects
Items and You
Who to Watch and Why
Other Resources
Excerpts from the guide:
Summoner Spells
Early game: You want to be in the lane with your carry, and let them farm. Keep them alive, protect them and don't steal their farming. Help them harass but let them take the kills. You should be putting your skillpoints into the spells that bes aid your carry. For example, as Janna I always max the shield first for the protection and the AD bonus. You should be warding consitently during this begginging lane phase.
Mid game: You should still be warding and supporting your team, never wander alone and always keep your teammates safety in mind. Keep an eye on the map and call MIAs and start building some of your base items. You want to build survivability that will benefit not just you but your team. Aeigis, Frozen Heart and other aura items are great support items. Always be using your CV(which you should have) to scout the enemy positions. Keep an eye on your carry and go with them to perform ganks.
Late game: You should be focusing on being there for your team as a whole, whatever they need in those teamfights you deliver. If you find your carry is getting focused then make sure to use your interupts and shields to keep them alive, if the carry is ok then defend and heal the tank if he is taking a lot of damage. build your build around what you are needed for, sometimes if your team is very sustainable you can even afford to beef up some of your damage! (not likely). Continue to ward river, Baron, their jungle. Late game CV will make or break the game. Learn how to use your skills to get an advantage in those teamfights, support characters can be very disruptive and effective.
Random tips: Gold generating items such as heart of gold and philosophers stone are great on support characters. You will be surviving on assists and have to buy a lot of wards. It wouldn't hurt to put some points into the gold generating mastery. Remember when building to keep your team in mind. Don't just build AP and think that will make your heals more effiecient thus making you a good carry. You also want to have good unique items with good auras.
Basically a support player needs to forsee tragedy before it happens. A well placed Wish from Soraka can make or break a teamfight as can a well place monsoon?(jannas ult). By giving your carry or tank that extra sustainability with that kill they thought they scored could break the whole team. A monsoon can save teammates or place the enemy carry in a bad place.
Support should always and always remain bot with the AD. You want to keep the AD safe and let him farm well to carry late game.
You are a support, meaning you dont need gold or anything. Just get assist.
Get Heart of gold and philostone, that is your main source of income and assist. Support should not farm over AD.
Support means you are supporting your partner and keep him alive. You play support by constantly warding and constantly try to save your AD carry or other champ in team fights. There are many different support champ but your main role is to keep your AD carry safe and let him farm.
Support champions often work best when paired with another champion. Their abilities typically focus on buffing allies and debuffing enemies. With the current meta, it's very common to see a ranged ad carry bottom with a support (though many other options exist).
In order to maximize the effectiveness of a support, it's important to look for skills that synergize with your lane partner. Taric and Vayne have a great stun combo, Graves and Soraka have amazing poke/sustain, and Alistar + Blitzcran have undeniable crowd control.
It's very typical for a support to give most (or even all) of the creep score to their partner, because the carry is very item-dependent. In this situation, it's best for a support to buy GP/10 items like a philosopher's stone, heart of gold, etc.
Finally, a support's most important job is map awareness. Via wards, clairvoyance, and roaming, it's important for a support to always be aware of what's happening on the map. This compounds with supports that have global ults, like Shen or Soraka.


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Refering to a question previously asked Jacobian matrix of the Rodrigues' formula (exponential map). It was suggested in one of the answer to only calculate simpler Jacobian $\left.\frac{\partial}{\partial \mathbf p}\exp(\hat{\mathbf p})\right|_{\mathbf p=\mathbf 0}$ with $\exp(\hat{\mathbf p})$ being identity.
Similar idea is suggested in a technical report on Minimization on the Lie Group SO(3) and Related Manifolds .
Using Gauss-Newton based strategy, it was suggested to solve for $\delta$:
$$ \mathtt J^\top\mathtt J \delta = -\mathtt J^\top f(\mathtt R^{(m)})$$
Final update rule: $$ \mathtt R^{(m+1)}= \exp(\hat\delta)\cdot \mathtt R^{(m)}.$$
Since, Gauss-Newton stems from the Taylor series approximation. To optimize an objective function $\mathcal O(\mathtt R^{(m)})$: $$\mathcal O(\mathtt R^{(m+1)}) \approx \mathcal O(\mathtt R^{(m)}) + \mathbb g^\top\delta + \delta^\top \mathtt H \delta$$
The gradient $\mathbb g$ and Hessian $\mathtt H$ are calculated at the point corresponding to $\mathtt R^{(m)}$ which is initially $\mathbf p = \mathbf 0$.
My question: As soon as we update $\mathtt R^{(m)}$, it no longer corresponds to $\mathbf p = \mathbf 0$. So, we should calculate gradient and Hessian at different $\mathbf p$ i.e. $\mathbf p^{(m+1)} = \delta + \mathbf p^{(m)}$. Can someone explain the idea behind only using the gradient and Hessian at $\mathbf p = \mathbf 0$? (This was suggested in the technical report above and the question referred.)


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I'm at the proverbial izakaya and my friend tells me one is more polite. I think theyre the same. Who's right? When can I use one or the other?
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すみません is the correct pronunciation, so on that count I suppose it would be considered more polite by a very small margin. But just like in English, people can be lazy with pronunciation, which is why you'll sometimes hear すいません. You also might run across すんません and すんまへん, but from what I've read these are more Kansai-isms than anything else. When in doubt, stick with the standard pronunciation, but in all cases the difference is in pronunciation only (the meaning stays the same).
If you compare these two phrases, すみません is more formal than すいません, and therefore probably more polite.
すみません is literally the polite form of the negation of すむ (済む). 済む means to be finished or completed.
すみません, whose literal meaning would be "It will not be finished," means apology probably because the speaker admits that what he/she did requires some follow-up action.
すいません (suimasen) is the result of dropping the consonant "m" in すみません (sumimasen) and is less formal than すみません.


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These are a vegan take on pork buns. I really don't associate yeast dough with Chinese cooking, and given my love of all things leavened, I thought it would be fun to try. If you aren't a big fan of tempeh, some shaved seitan. crumbled tofu, or pulsed chickpeas would work as well (I think--I did not try all these variations, but I don't see why they would not work).
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Chinese Tempeh Buns
These are a vegan take on pork buns. I really don't associate yeast dough with Chinese cooking, and given my love of all things leavened, I thought it would be fun to try. If you aren't a big fan of tempeh, some shaved seitan. crumbled tofu, or pulsed chickpeas would work as well (I think--I did not try all these variations, but I don't see why they would not work).
22 comments:
- shelby said...
These are awesome! I love how the dough looks so smooth and flawless. I will be making these next time I crave chinese =)
- January 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM
- DJ Karma said...
I've been wanting to find a good recipe for these (I'm Taiwanese American)... we also steam them too. Can't wait to try!
- January 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Vegetation said...
These sound and look fantastic!
- January 4, 2009 at 1:30 AM
- DJ said...
These look very tempting - the things you attempt in your kitchen are always so inventive!
- January 4, 2009 at 4:44 AM
- Sharon R said...
I love cooking Chinese food & these look oh so luscious.
Congrats to you & Vegan Mom on your good news. I guess you're thinking pink this time!!
- January 4, 2009 at 7:02 AM
- Chaos Mom said...
oh! thankyouthankyouthankyou!! i have missed pork buns soo much! i will definately be giving these ones a try! yummy, i can practically taste them already!
- January 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Kelly said...
MMmmm. These look delicious. I wonder if you steam these if they will be like the tasty little buns you get for dim sum. I absolutely love those even though half the time I have no idea what the filling is.
- January 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Susan G said...
Congrats on the new baby!
I have baguette pans, but have only used them once. They are perforated with very small holes and the dough stuck and was impossible to clean (even though it is a non-stick pan)! Do you have any advice to fix this?
- January 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Lovliebutterfly said...
Oooh nice! I love chinese buns and like to steam them as well! Yum!
- January 4, 2009 at 8:04 PM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
Last time I tried making a similar dish I used my steamer with little success. I am going to try your baking method this week! Thanks
- January 4, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Jheremy said...
Ooooh, I saw the meat versions of these (mian bao) all over China when I was an ESL teacher there. I am excited to try these!
- January 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- rosie said...
these would be great steamed. i make a version with a sweetened dough and adzuki bean paste inside for breakfast.
- January 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Blue Heron Zen Buddhist Centre said...
A few of us will be celebrating Tet (Vietnamese New Year) at the end of this month, with a vegan potluck. I'll be making these. Thanks.
- January 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
These look awesome but I can't find Vegan Oyster sauce. Where do you get it?
- January 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I find it in the Asian section of the grocery store. You could substitute another kind of Asian vegetarian sauce.
- January 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Susan G,
I wasn't sure whether or not to bake the baguettes in the forms or not. I have the same forms you do--non-stick metal with holes. I like to bake my baguettes straight in a baking stone, so I just used to forms for letting the dough rise. It was a bit tricky getting the dough out, but not impossible. I think next time I will place a floured linen towel in the forms, or maybe dust the forms with flour, and then bake on the stone as per usual.
- January 8, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Dawne said...
Wow! I am a 2nd generation Asian American and recently have started cooking vegan at home and I can't wait to try these! Thanks!
- January 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Beatrice said...
I used to eat veg "pork dumplings" at the Kingdom of Vegetarian restaurant in Philadelphia. Denver doesn't have a veggie dim sum place (that I know of), so I've been having to do without - but I'm excited to know that I can make my own!
Nice blog.
- January 17, 2009 at 6:56 PM
- jumbleberryjam said...
These are truly brilliant! Made them today and had to stop myself from eating more than 2 at a time (mine were large ... 8 buns rather than 12). Thanks so much!
- January 29, 2009 at 11:24 PM
- Ashley said...
These were very yummy! My husband and I loved these but my 2 1/2 year old only ate the bun part, but the next day when we reheated the leftover buns she ate the whole thing. I'll have to try the chickpeas with her.
I couldn't find any vegan oyster sauce. I could only find garlic hoisin sauce and I didn't use the mushrooms since they were pricey and since hubby doesn't like them that much anyways I just left them out but he definelty wants me to make them again!
- February 17, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Kate said...
OMG these look AWESOME. I used to LOVE pork buns, and so far have not found an adequate veg replacement for them. Shall have to try this.
- March 10, 2010 at 10:09 PM
- Sondra said...
Ever since becoming a vegan last year, I've often turned to your blog for recipes and recipes ideas (being that your recipes are some of the only vegan recipes that can: satisfy my meat loving, omni hubby, feed my entire family ), and be made on a semi regular basis without breaking the bank.
As a rule, I don't comment on food blogs (As a stay at home, vegan, cook everything from scratch, over ambitious mother, I barely have time to scratch down the recipes before a flurry of activity overwhelms me.) But for this recipe I had pause for a moment to express my gratitude.
My 18 month old twin girls have their eyeteeth coming in, which as a dad yourself, you probably remember sucks.
Suddenly all food (except for bananas, toast, and cereal) is cause for tears and attempted dives from highchairs. Every meal I work so hard on ends up either on the floor and as leftovers in the fridge(that wastefully, never get eaten). The last 3 nights have been super bad, with my daughters absolutely refusing to eat anything, and then becoming overwhelmingly upset out of hunger. The frustration has had me in tears on several occasions, and has created a bit of a rift in the relationship with my daughters.
Today I tried this recipe, not wanting to pick of the remains of rice, quinoa, bulgur, couscous, or whatever else ended up the floor. At least buns would end up in fewer pieces...
NOTHING hit the floor.
My teething, picky twins polished off 3 each! As a result, they were well behaved for the rest of the night, and we were even able to do a craft together with NO tantrums.
Sorry if it sounds like gushing, but I'm not kidding when I say that this recipe SAVED my families unity, and my sanity.
So thank you, thank you!
(On a related note I want to make up a bunch of these and freeze them- how well do you think they'd freeze? and what suggestions could you use for substitutes (or fillers) for the mushrooms? Dried shiitakes cost 40$ a pound at my co-op, and as I would like to make this a new family staple recipe.)
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How well does Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) support the processors of Intel's architecture Sandy Bridge and their Intel HD Graphics? Are there any problems with running 11.04 on Sandy Bridge?
Out of the box, Natty does have issues with the Sandy Bridge architecture as discussed here on Phoronix.
In summary, performance is not great - as compared against Windows 7. In terms of general Natty support - no real issues are reported.
Fedora 15 is using the latest Mesa development code. If you use this together with the latest kernel, Phoronix are reporting that Sandy Bridge (and similar recent variants) are on a par - or even exceed Windows 7.
Thus, if you want to experiment - try installing the latest Kernel from here together with the latest bleeding edge drivers from this PPA.
Otherwise, stick with the standard Natty - things will get better in 11.10.
I have a
Acer Aspire 7750Gn, Core i5-Sandybridge 2410m 2,3 GHz, 4GB, 120Gb SSD + 500GB HD, Ati 6650 1024MB, DVD-RW, 17,3 TFT, USB 3.0.
and not a single problem with Ubuntu.
Hibernate/suspend work. USB 3.0 works. And the SSD is a true monster. Display works flawlessly (with the recommended driver).
Even the overclocking/turbo boost works after fiddling with some software See also Is Turbo Boost Working?
Kernel 2.6.38 and higher work flawlessly for me.
According to Phoronix support is still lacking in stock version of 11.04 but apparently can be achieved by upgrading to newest kernel, mesa and intel drivers. Atleast Phoronix has run some interesting tests successfully.
I had the same problems with 11.10. Config: i3 2100T in shutte eXPC H67 8GB 60GB SSD after installation resolution on VGA only 1024 or 800/xxx.
Over HDMI or DVI On-chip GPU not named but it worked anyway also tt high res.. After all available updates even GPU named in system information and everything works like it should be.


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Many of our activities are carried out by student teams with assistance from the EC professional staff. Our projects are where the action is at the EC. Staff teams meet every week to check-in and coordinate their work. If you want to find out a specific project, you can e-mail the team leader or come to a team meeting.
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This morning I participated in a panel discussing the topic of big data privacy at the San Francisco ISACA Fall Conference. The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) is a professional association of individuals interested in information systems audit, control and security, with over 50,000 members in 141 countries. Other representatives on the panel were from eBay, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and CipherCloud.
Researching this topic and today's discussion raised some interesting questions about the intersection of personal privacy and big data in this new age where it is becoming technically and economically viable to store and analyze enormous data volumes, such as every click on a website and every commerce transaction. All this big data, from both internal systems as well as externally sourced enrichment data can now be streamed into giant "data lakes" using open source based big data management platforms such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases. Using visual big data development tools and end-user visualization technology such as Pentaho makes it easier and easier for organizations to ingest, prepare and analyze this data resulting in previously unattainable insights that can be used to optimize revenue streams and reduce costs.
However, how can we ensure this "big data" is protected and never used in ways that intrude on individual privacy? Mature and integrated big data analytics platforms such as Pentaho can enforce data access controls as well as audit data usage, but today there is no industry standard for tagging how specific data elements may be used on a permanent basis. This has the potential to leading to risks down the road that data collected with individual personal consent may ultimately be used for purposes beyond the scope of the original consent policy. Is it time for government and industry standards bodies to tackle this issue with new technical standards that enforce data usage and aging policies on an ongoing basis? I have in mind something like an "XBRL" for data privacy, a standard taxonomy and semantics that enforces data usage policies regardless of source and platform.
Let me know what you think. Leave a comment below or @ian_fyfe
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How do I combine two or more classes into one Bb Learn class?
Classes sharing a Bb Learn shell must be "rolled up" prior to the start date of the classes and prior to content being copied into the combined section. Rolling up classes after the official Start Date can result in lost content. Please contact your department's scheduler to arrange for the combination of sections and courses in Bb Learn. There are three ways to create combined sections:
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I'm trying to create a custom "open with" dialog that allows the user to open a file with a not-yet-installed application. In Ubuntu, is it possible to obtain a list of programs that can be used to open a file? I need to find a list of downloadable programs (instead of installed programs) that can open a file, from the command line.
PackageKit allows you to search for applications by mime-type. Sadly, the Ubuntu devs haven't put much effort into integrating PackageKit with Ubuntu by default, but it still works surprisingly well.
First, make sure you've installed the graphical toolkit for PackageKit, gnome-packagekit-tools .
Then, run
My guess is you would need to compile the information yourself. You would need to compile the file types and associations with programs in the package manager. A lengthy task, but I'd be happy to help. Sounds like a worth while project. We could even open source the task and get others to help. You can go to my site and send me an email from the contact form.
Other then that known file types are stored internally in most linux distros to a smaller degree. Here is a question that addresses that Where are file associations stored?


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New York, NY-The Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, opens for the summer 2008 season on May 22 with the permanent installation of nine fluorescent light works by Dan Flavin and the special exhibition, Imi Knoebel: Knife Cuts Part 1. The Dan Flavin Art Institute features works created and installed by Flavin especially for the space and has been supported and maintained by Dia Art Foundation since 1983. It is located on Corwith Avenue, off Main Street. Hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12pm to 6pm, and admission is free. The summer 2008 season runs through October 12, 2008.
The Dan Flavin Art Institute occupies the former First Baptist Church in Bridgehampton, where Flavin worked for many years. Originally built as a firehouse in 1908, the building operated as a church from 1924 to the mid-1970s. In 1979, Dia purchased the building to use as a gallery for Flavin. Renovated under his direction with the assistance of Dia's James Schaeufele and architect Richard Gluckman, the building retains traces of its former uses: a newel post in the entrance hall is painted red in remembrance of the building's years as a firehouse, and the original church doors have been moved to the entrance of a small exhibition space on the second floor. This room contains memorabilia, including a neon cross, collected from and about the church. In 1983, Flavin permanently installed nine works in fluorescent light in the second floor of the space. The earliest work, red out of a corner (to Annina), dates from 1963, when he decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes. Flavin conceived of the sculptures and the architecture as a single, unified installation. By manipulating the formal, phenomenal, and referential characteristics of light, the installation asks viewers to consider a series of contrasts—between colors, intensities of light, structure and formlessness, the obvious and the mysterious, and the serious and the humorous.
Imi Knoebel: Knife Cuts Part 1 is the latest in a series of temporary exhibitions at the Dan Flavin Art Institute that has included works by Louise Bourgeois (1989), Andy Warhol (1987 and 1992), Fred Sandback (2004–2006), and John Chamberlain (2007). First shown in 1977 at Heiner Friedrich Galerie in Cologne, Imi Knoebel's Untitled (1977) consists of collages made from paper cutouts vibrantly colored in oils and acrylics. The exhibition will present a selection of some 35 of the 80 parts that comprise the work.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was born in 1933 in New York City, where he later studied art history at the New School for Social Research (1956) and Columbia University (1957–59). His first solo show was at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1961. Flavin made his first work with electric light that same year, and he began using commercial fluorescent bulbs in 1963. Major exhibitions of Flavin's work include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1967), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1969), the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1989), and the retrospective organized by Dia in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 2004–2005. In 1983, Dia opened the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, a permanent exhibition designed by the artist in a converted firehouse and open to the public each summer. In 1992 Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He died in 1996, leaving designs for a light installation for Milan's Chiesa Rossa that was realized posthumously with Dia's support.
Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. He was a student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1964 to 1971. His first exhibition, "IMI + IMI," with Imi Giese, a fellow student of Beuys, was held in Copenhagen, in 1968. Knoebel has since exhibited his works in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and at Sonsbeek '71. In 1987 Knoebel oversaw an installation of his own work, as well as that of Beuys and Blinky Palermo, for the inaugural exhibitions at Dia's galleries on West Twenty-second Street in New York City. A retrospective of his work traveled, in 1996–97, throughout Europe, including such venues as Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia. He will have a major retrospective in summer 2009 at the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His monumental cycle, 24 Colors–for Blinky (1977) is currently on view at Dia:Beacon. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Dia Art Foundation
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects. Dia presents public programs and its permanent collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. In the fall of 2007 Dia initiated a partnership with The Hispanic Society of America, where Dia presents commissions and projects by contemporary artists within the Society's galleries while seeking a permanent home for these initiatives in New York City. Additionally, Dia Art Foundation maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and in Bridgehampton on Long Island. For additional public information, visit www.diaart.org.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Freshman Denzel Ingram's game-high 16 points led three 49ers in double-figures as Charlotte (3-0) defeated Lamar (0-3), 70-49 in Halton Arena. The 49ers have improved to 3-0 for the ninth time in school history and the first time since the 1995-96 season.
"It was a team effort," Charlotte coach Alan Major said. "Everybody played hard and everybody who contributed to the win. I am excited for Denzel Ingram. I was pleased the we scored 40 points in the paint tonight as well."
Lamar felt Ingram's wrath on every piece of the court as he shot 75 percent (6-for-8) from the field, drained three 3-pointers, and recorded a game-high four steals. Ingram came off the bench and finished with three assists.
Junior DeMario Mayfield made the most of his debut as he recorded his 20th career double-figure scoring game with 12 points off the bench. Sophomore Terrence Williams also added 10 points for the Niners, notching his second double-figure game of the season.
Charlotte's balanced scoring attack also included Willie Clayton and Chris Braswell with nine points each, and Darion Clark with eight. Clayton and Clark led the Niners on the glass with seven boards each.
Charlotte finished the game with a 40-26 advantage on points in the paint. Charlotte's defense forced Lamar into 22 turnovers which led to 25 49ers points off turnovers. Charlotte's bench behind the scoring of Ingram, Mayfield and Braswell finished with a 43-13 advantage in bench points.
The Cardinals opened the second half with six straight points to cut Charlotte's lead to 39-26 with 19:22 left in the game. It was the closest that Lamar got in reach of the 49ers. Charlotte called a timeout to regroup and scored 14 consecutive points to take a 46-26 lead at the 15:15 mark.
The 49ers took its largest lead of the game, 68-39 with 5:24 left in the game.
After trailing 6-2 in the first half with 17:49 remaining, the Niners used multiple runs to take a 39-22 lead at halftime. Charlotte used a 6-0 run and took a 10-8 advantage, its first lead of the game at the 15:07 mark off a fastbreak layup from Clayton. The game stayed in Charlotte's favor as it sparked a commanding 19-4 run to cap a 29-12 lead after Mayfield scored inside with 6:55 left.
The Cardinals answered with a 6-0 run of their own to slice the Niners' lead to 29-18 with just under five minutes in the first half.
The 49ers stayed hot on all sides of the ball and took a 38-18 advantage with 1:51 remaining, following a 3-pointer from Ingram.
Lamar placed two players in double figures. Rhon Mitchell recorded a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Amos Wilson also finished with 10 points each.
Charlotte will take its first road trip of the season on Nov. 22 -24 for the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. The Niners' first game in the tournament will be against Texas State, Thursday, November 22.


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Essential Rules of Parenting: Raising Teenagers Successfully
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Don't Look Under the Mattress
Teenagers are up to things you don't want to know about. Of course, you do know about them really, which is why you're worried. If you were entirely ignorant, you'd be much happier.
Look, take it from me, your daughter has gone further than you'd like with her boyfriend. Your son uses porn magazines. They've both tried at least a drag of a cigarette by now. And they've almost certainly been offered drugs, but they won't have any evidence of it hanging around in their room, so there's no point looking. Happy? Good. Now you don't need to look under the mattress or read their secret diary.
You're not going to find anything that thousands of parents before you haven't found. In fact, you're probably not going to find anything that your own parents didn't find. And what are you going to do about it -- confront them? I think not. You'll severely damage your relationship, and they'll just keep them under the floorboards instead.
Maybe you should think back to the things you did as a teenager that you didn't want your parents to know about. Maybe you do things nowadays that you'd rather not tell your parents. See? Your kids are just being perfectly normal teenagers. And if you don't make a big deal out of all those perfectly normal teenagery things they're up to, they're much more likely to come and tell you if anything gets out of hand or is a real problem for them. And that's the important point. If you act like all that stuff under the mattress is normal, they'll feel they can talk to you without fear of an irrational response.
More on: Teen Behavior and Discipline
From The Rules of Parenting Copyright © 2008, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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How can anyone resist animal friends? This adorable ceramic bowl is decorated with kid's favorite animals all around and even inside the bowl. Perfect size for kid's small portion and no worry for chemicals from plastic bowls.
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Center for Reproductive Rights' attorneys will lead a discussion of their multi-pronged work on reproductive rights advocacy and litigation in the U.S. and abroad. CCR's wide ranging work includes efforts to hold the U.S. accountable to its human rights treaty obligations, with a focus on improving access to reproductive healthcare, particularly for immigrant women; litigating reproductive rights before regional human rights bodies and U.N. committees; and litigating in U.S. courts to preserve access to reproductive health care in Mississippi. The panel of CRR's Katrina Anderson, Lara Rabiee and Katy Mayall will be moderated by Professor Carol Sanger. Lunch will be served. Presented by Social Justice Initiatives.
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Kids and Money: I'm Blunt, He's Not
"Katie is richer than me, isn't she?" My 6-year-old son Paul asked the question in a near-whisper while we were visiting my best friend—whose name happens to be the same as mine.
We had spent Thanksgiving with my aunt, uncle and cousins in Philadelphia, and were spending the rest of our vacation with Katie and her family in their brownstone in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Paul is at the age where he wants answers to some of life's mysteries—he's already asked us how babies are made and what happens when you die.
Nonetheless, I was taken aback by his blunt net-worth query. The value of Katie's house is apparent to anyone familiar with per-square-foot real-estate values near Manhattan, but how could a child have so quickly perceived the differences in our two families' economic realities? I hated to think that Paul's relationship with my closest friend and her family could be colored by jealousy or a sense of division between us.
Another reason for my hesitation was the fact that my husband and I differ in our approach to talking to the kids about money. Alejandro thinks I am overly direct with such young kids. I will frequently tell them the exact price of something and say it's "too expensive" and that we "can't afford it." When our 4-year-old expressed anger over my work schedule, I set him on my knee and explained that Mommy and Papi both have to work so we can afford our house, cars and food. Alejandro looked on, appalled.
My husband never brings up money. If the boys ask for a PlayStation or a new bike or a trip to England to watch Liverpool play, Alejandro usually just tells them they'll get it soon. If they complain about his work, he promises them he'll take a day off. Money, I feel he is teaching them, is no object.
For all parents, finding the right balance between "too much information" and a "data shutout" is challenging. For us, we're up against our own biographies as we try to hit the sweet spot.
I grew up with upper-middle-class parents who never discussed money with me. It was probably a combination of my own stupidity and the information vacuum in which I was raised, but I never considered earning power when choosing a career, and I didn't have a credit score or even basic knowledge of economics until I was well into my 30s.
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Alejandro, on the other hand, grew up in a household where money was the consuming focus. From the youngest age, he knew what his parents earned, owed and paid in rent. His intimate knowledge of their financial situation—which was frequently dire—shaped his youth, propelling him to drop out of college and work to help support them.
"I definitely don't want that for my kids," Alejandro has told me time and again.
I want to respect Alejandro's desire for a household free from the oppressive idea that life all boils down to dollars and cents. But I also want to raise children more savvy and realistic than I was.
To work out a joint approach, Alejandro and I have agreed to focus on some long-term goals for the boys. We decided that by the time they turn 18, we want them to have a basic grasp of financial issues—to know what jobs pay which kind of salaries, and what lifestyles different incomes can buy. We want them to understand the principle of compound interest and what it means for both debts and investments, and to understand what stocks and bonds are. We also want them to know what we will pay for and what they will be responsible for themselves.
To that end, we have already shown the kids websites devoted to the stock market, and we talk to them about what companies are and what different people do for a living. We also attempt to bend a little and try on each other's strategies. Alejandro has started telling them that we can't get certain things—that iPad they wanted for Hanukkah, for example—because they "cost too much."
To answer Paul's question about our friends, I fought my instinct to simply explain that yes, they have more money than we do and that's life, kid. Instead, I tried Alejandro's more touchy-feely approach.
"In this world, Paul, you're going to find that there are always people who have more and who have less than you. We are very fortunate that we have everything we need and a lot of things that we want. It's important for us to love our friends for who they are, not for what they have," I said.
"She is richer!" Paul said triumphantly, seeming to have read between the lines.
"That may be true, Paul," I said noncommittally.
"She has 18 bucks and I only have five!" he proclaimed. I had forgotten that at the Thanksgiving table in Philadelphia, my cousin—also named Kady—had won a jackpot of $18 in a family game and that Paul got a $5 consolation prize.
"Eighteen is more than five," said Paul, whose financial education is off to a fine start.
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FireBubble was a business that I started in 2007 which offered graphic design services but with a focus on logo design. Since 2007 I have advanced considerably with my web coding skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP to the point that I would now consider myself a web designer rather than a graphic designer.
This has lead to a re-brand of FireBubble under a new name (DigitalPod) which reflects more of a web focused business. I will still offer logo and stationery design services but I will also be offering responsive websites as a main focus of the business rather than just focusing on graphic design projects which I had done in the past.
My service will pretty much remain unaffected for all of my clients as you can still contact me using the same tel number and you will also be able to reach me over the next year using the old firebubble email address.
All hosting remains unaffected with no changes other than your next invoice will be from DigitalPod rather than FireBubble.
If you had a logo designed by FireBubble in the past and need the files due to misplacing them, please feel free to contact me and I will provide the files and support in the same way as I have done previously.
I would like to personally thank everybody that supported FireBubble from clients to associates and I look forward to the many plans I have for DigitalPod in 2014 and beyond.
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Kristen L. Pope is education and weekend reporter at KTXS.
She comes to Abilene from New York City where she reported for several broadcast TV stations and online media outlets.
Prior to moving to NYC, Kristen studies Broadcast Journalism at the Scripps-Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University in Hampton, Virgina. She graduated with her Bachelors of Arts.
Kristen is passionate about social issues and sharing others stories. Originally from the midwest, Kristen's thrilled about reporting in Abilene! In her spare time, Kristen loves to travel, sing and serve her community.


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What does it mean:
Halt das Schicksal auf, gib mir was einst war mein.
This seems to be from a poem or the like, probably from a fairy tale. It is hard to understand if you don't know the context. It's easy to translate, though: "Halt das Schicksal auf" translates literally to "stop fate". "Gib mir was einst war mein" means "Give me what I once owned". It's difficult to relate these two half sentences without knowing what is referred to with "what I once owned" or what kind of fate is to be expected.
After watching this (provided by the author of the question in a comment) I'm rather sure that "give me what once was mine" refers to youth ("give me my youth back"), and then also "stop fate" makes sense (getting old being fate).
Oh, this is the healing incantation from the new Disney's story "Tangled", largerly based upon the brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Rapunzel".
The original incantation is:
The German translation of this song is:
So, the
The idea behind is that the healing incantation kept the old witch young, so to say stopping the inevitable process of aging ("the Destiny").
P.S.: After having written the answer I have noticed that the author of the question already provided the link to the original, so my suggestion was correct.


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I seem to recall reading somewhere that
fontenc should be loaded either before or after the packages loading fonts, but I cannot remember which. I don't see differences between loading it before and after. Was what I read incorrect, or is there a preferred package loading order and why?
I seem to recall reading somewhere that
fntguide is my standard go-to reference for these kinds of questions. Here's the entirety of what it has to say about the matter:
In other words, there are no (non-pathological) dependencies in the load order that affect the final output. Compilation efficiency, however, might be less in one direction than the other. I used to load fonts then
It used to be a bad idea to have
before any other font packages because it could trigger LaTeX to attempt to load T1 versions of the Computer Modern font; nowadays I believe this isn't a problem because the EC fonts are installed by default (even though you probably don't want to use them with Latin Modern now in existence).
Just to be on the safe side, however, probably best to still follow this practice of first loading your font package and only then switching the encoding.


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There's something very powerful about seeing six of tons of elephant ivory ground to rubble in a rock crusher, says Gloria Dickie.
She saw such an event last month. The crush was an effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to draw attention to the $10 billion illegal wildlife trade industry and send a message of intolerance to poachers and traffickers.
Dickie and fellow student Caitlin Rockett, both CU-Boulder master's students in journalism and mass communication, produced a short documentary about the internationally covered event.
Their adviser, Michael Kodas, associate director of CU-Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ), recruited the pair for the project, which was not for course credit. He contributed photography and helped get the video published in OnEarth, a magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"Michael and CEJ director Tom Yulsman have a longstanding relationship with OnEarth and other reputable media outlets," said Rockett. "I think this opens the door for them to say to these organizations, 'We've got some hard-working students who can produce high-quality work in a timely manner and learn a great deal along the way. Give them a chance and they won't disappoint.' I don't think we did."
The ivory crush took place at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a national repository for contraband materials including ivory poached in Africa and smuggled into the U.S. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal is located near Denver.
The CU-Boulder team put many hours into the project over the span of weeks and carried out every aspect -- from research to editing -- while honing their reporting skills.
"I had not realized how many elephants were killed each year for their ivory -- tens of thousands," said Rockett. "I learned that an elephant can't reproduce until it's around 25 years old, so ivory poaching is outpacing their reproduction cycle exponentially."
The group chose a video package as the vehicle for telling the story because of the poignancy the medium can elicit.
"Using video to tell a story can definitely reveal an emotional side that print media sometimes can't achieve, like we see with some of the clips we used," said Dickie.
While the video captures the message of the ivory crush for all to see, the skill-building experience for the student team may prove to be unforgettable.
"Being able to do these types of assignments is exactly why I decided to move to Boulder from Ontario, Canada," said Dickie. It was a very memorable story to cover and one of international importance. I think it's great that students are afforded the opportunity to cover stories like this through the CEJ."
Photo: Caitlin Rockett (right) examines a carved elephant tusk while Gloria Dickie looks on. (Michael Kodas)


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With the engines off a space ship is cruising at a velocity of 230m.s It fires a rocket straight ahead at the enememy vessel. The mass of the rocket is 1300kg and the mas of the ship (not including the rocket) is $4\times10^6$kg. The firing of the spaceship brings the spaceship to a halt. What is the velocity of the rocket.
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First, the system has momentum:
mass of rocket * velocity of rocket + mass of ship * velocity of ship
After firing, the momentum is:
mass of rocket * velocity of rocket + mass of ship * velocity of ship
but you have to sort out which velocities go where and when ;)


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today.
On oil-related issues, the Cabinet said that market fundamentals do not justify the current increase in oil prices.
It has directed the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to call for a meeting soon to bring together representatives of oil producing and consuming nations and companies operating in oil production, exports and sales to look into the rise in prices, its cause, and how to deal with it objectively.
As a major producing country, Saudi Arabia realizes that there is sufficient supply and increasing commercial inventory, the Cabinet said. Moreover, the Kingdom has increased production this month and informed all customers that it stands ready to provide additional supplies as needed.
The Cabinet noted that the Kingdom coordinates with Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) countries and major producers to ensure adequate supply, and seeks to address unjustified increases in oil prices that may affect the global economy.
On other foreign policy matters, the Cabinet was briefed on King Abdullah's meetings this past week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, as well as Crown Prince Sultan's recently concluded visit to Spain.
The Cabinet reiterated Saudi Arabia's support for the Palestinians in their struggle to establish an independent state and emphasized the importance of unity.
It also welcomed the International Islamic Dialogue Conference held in Makkah this past week in response to King Abdullah's call for interfaith dialogue.


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I like to keep a latish schedule, sleeping often around 2-3 AM, I'm often eating odds and ends late at night. If someone eats Meals A, B & C of certain calorie content, and then timeshifts his schedule so that he's eating the same meals later at night, and closer to when he's about to sleep, will he gain "excess" weight? If so, why?
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What matters more than the time on the clock when you eat is the content and frequency. Consider the following facts about the pancreatic function:
The most common time when we have more than six hours between meals is when we sleep. If we get the suggested 8 hours of sleep, and we eat carbs right before bed, you'll only have had 2 hours of glucogon production. To improve your body's performance, you may want to delay breakfast.
If you have several small meals 3 hours apart, and all contain some form of carb, your body will be producing insulin the majority of the day. Remember, it's designed to have cycles of insulin and glucogon production.
If you have those same small meals 3 hours apart, but only two contain carbs (breakfast and dinner), your body will switch over to producing glucogon in the middle of the day as well.
One of the reasons that many diets suggest no meals within 4 hours of bed time is that two hours after you sleep your body is starting to burn fat. That gives at least 6 hours of fat burning at night, and more if you eat an hour or more after you get up.
In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't matter when you eat. What matters is what you eat and how much of it. If you take in more calories than you spend, you gain weight. If you take in fewer, you loose weight.
With this said, you need to find a method that is sustainable for you. Most diets fail because people can't sustain the effort. So it's critical to find the method (to limit calories) which is the least difficult for you to follow.
It's likely that some people find it harder to exercise moderation at night, especially in a fatigued state. Therefore they might find themselves overeating at 10pm when they would have eaten smaller amounts earlier in the day. It's also possible that the kind of food you go to at night be more conducive to a high caloric load (e.g., "snacks", highly palatable fat and/or sweet foods, nuts, etc).
For those people it might be beneficial to simply not eat to much at night. Others will do better on a low carb or low fat diet (either of which can result in lower calories intake), or by a strategy of having multiple small meals each day, or fasting, etc, etc.
The hormonal changes induced by the type of food you eat or your timing might have an impact for some people some of the time at the margin, but the research is very spotty on that. In the best of cases, they only matter for small refinements, but not for an everyday approach to loosing weight. In short, they might be relevant to elite athletes trying to "make weight", and training on the bleeding edge.
The only way to gain weight is eating more calories. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is.
It doesn't matter what time you eat your meals. So long as you don't exceed your body's recommended calorie intake per day, you won't gain weight.
Not getting enough sleep before midnight or limited sleep in general can lower the metabolism and also lead to increased urge for snacking to increase energy and stamina During the day due to fatigue. Suggested reading material: Counsel on diets and foods by Ellen G. White.
Of course it does!
If you eat late at night, and then sleep, your body does not use up the energy taken in. So your body converts it into fat. (how much fats are produced depends on how much carbs you ate). So make sure you eat your heavy meals during the day - not at the end of it!
But of course this depends on other factors (what is explained above is for normal people). Some people have a high metabolism so they don't save up lots of fat.
In my opinion, it is just better to stay away from eating at night.
My claim: Night eating by itself does result in more weight gain than daytime eating. Night eating often means you eat something additional, more than you need, which can result in weight gain.
Study 1. Night eating and weight change in middle-aged men and women. Pubmed
Study 2. The night-eating syndrome and obesity. Pubmed
He can gain excess because of insulin. And of course the way insulin works has been exploited by bodybuilders seeking to increase muscle mass. So where one wishing to reduce their weight may want to eat their last meal several hours prior to entering REM sleep, a bodybuilder may actually consume two pre-retirment meals (setting an alarm clock four hours in to a rest period to get another protein window)
If you burn 2000 calories a day and eat 2000 calories a day, 1500 of which you eat before bed, your body composition will remain constant. There's no fooling thermodynamics.
Your body has to convert calories to something it can use, whether that be glucose or fat.
If calories are converted to glucose, your body is going to burn it off (or it goes to the toilet).
When calories are stored as fat, it takes longer for your body to access that energy because it now has to convert stored fat to glucose. This makes a person feel tired.
Eating before bed is going to result in more calories being stored as fat because the body does not need that energy while in shutdown mode.
If your body burns 2000 calories a day and you eat 2000 calories a day, eating shortly before bed will result in you feeling more sluggish during the day.
If you take in 2000 calories a day now and you made it a point to take in that fuel early enough for your body to process more of it into glucose, you are likely to burn more than 2000 calories.
If I eat at 6 PM and go to bed at 9 PM, that should be equivalent to you eating at 10 PM and going to bed at 1 AM.


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17 Jan 2013 8:23 AM #1
reversing the affect of a 'fade' animation
I have a component I need to perform the folloing on:
1. fade (animation)
2. show (no animation)
3. fade again (animation)
4. show again (no animation)
looking at the sencha source code it seemed like opacity is the style I should change for the 'no animation' part so I did the following:
Ext.Anim.run(Ext.getCmp('id').element, 'fade', { out: true, autoClear: false }); Ext.getCmp('id').setStyle('opacity:1;'); Ext.Anim.run(Ext.getCmp('id').element, 'fade', { out: true, autoClear: false }); Ext.getCmp('id').setStyle('opacity:1;');
the first setStyle('opacity:1;'); worked like a charm but the last one simply does not work and the element stays with opacity 0...
am I doing something wrong here? I have tried multiple ways of achieving what I described but could not do it.
your help is appreciated
18 Jan 2013 5:21 AM #2
I'm sorry but it's not clear what you are trying to accomplish.
If you simply want to show / hide a component using the fade animation you can set its
showAnimation: 'fadeIn', hideAnimation: 'fadeOut'Sencha Inc
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19 Jan 2013 11:36 PM #3
thanks for the tip.however, show and hide are not an option as they affect the layout (and rearrange my page's components).
I still don't understand why my example does not work. here is the full code - very very simple code.
you can paste it into new sencha fiddle (http://new.senchafiddle.com) or see the result here http://api.senchafiddle.com/v3/full/BFtgb/ ). as you will see, the last (4th) function will not make the container reappear and I don't understand why.
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled : true }); Ext.application({ name : ('SF' || 'SenchaFiddle'), launch : function() { Ext.create('Ext.Container', { fullscreen : true, height:200, width:200, style:'background: green;', id: 'foo', html : 'simple container' }); Ext.Function.defer(function(){ Ext.Anim.run(Ext.getCmp('foo').element, 'fade', { out: true, autoClear: false }); },2000); Ext.Function.defer(function(){ Ext.getCmp('foo').setStyle('opacity:1;'); },4000); Ext.Function.defer(function(){ Ext.Anim.run(Ext.getCmp('foo').element, 'fade', { out: true, autoClear: false }); },6000); Ext.Function.defer(function(){ Ext.getCmp('foo').setStyle('opacity:1;'); },8000); } });
28 Jan 2013 2:06 AM #4
guys I am still unable to solve this simple issue.
can anyone help?
28 Jan 2013 8:53 AM #5
found a solution.
Ext.getCmp('foo').element.setStyle('opacity', '1');
instead of:
why is the difference?


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Despite being exhausted from the responsibilities of new motherhood, you lie awake at night worrying about your baby's health and your ability to mother him or her. During the day, you are constantly anxious about harm befalling your baby. You can barely think clearly enough to decide what to have for lunch, and the idea of making any kind of important decision about how to deal with issues that come up for your baby is more than you can stand. You realize that you must be suffering from postpartum depression.
Nearly every book on pregnancy and childbirth warns new mothers of the possibility of postpartum depression (PPD). In order to be diagnosed with PPD, you must suffer from depression, or lack interest in life, for most of the day, every day, for two weeks or more following the birth of a child. An estimated one new mother in ten experiences PPD. The level of depression may be constant, or it may be mild on some days and severe on others.
A diagnosis of PPD is not made unless at least four of the following symptoms are present:
Postpartum depression is often confused with a milder, more fleeting, and more common form of depression known as the "baby blues." From half to three-quarters of all new moms get the blues in the first few days after giving birth. They may burst into tears for no apparent reason or be restless, irritable, and impatient (not so uncalled-for if you are dealing with a crying newborn and stitches in your most sensitive areas). This usually goes away on its own and is often attributed to the psychological letdown after the emotional high of giving birth. However, in many instances, the baby blues or a mild form of depression called dysthymia can be prolonged for months or even years postpartum if nutrient reserves are not replenished.
About one in every thousand women experiences postpartum psychosis, complete with hallucinations, delusions, severe insomnia, agitation, and bizarre behaviors. Rarely, women suffer from postpartum anxiety/panic disorder, which shows up as intense fear, rapid breathing and heart rate, hot or cold flashes, trembling, dizziness, and even chest pain. Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can also occur, although it too is rare. It is more likely to occur in women who have had OCD in the past.
A study of more than 35,000 women showed a sevenfold increase in the likelihood of being hospitalized with a psychiatric illness during the first three months postpartum. Of the approximately 11.4 million women who give birth each year in the United States, it is thought that about 40 percent have to work their way through some sort of mood disorder after giving birth.
Psychiatrists make distinctions among numerous forms of depression. Unipolar or major depression is a very serious form of depression, as is bipolar disorder, which is characterized by severe mood swings. We do not at all suggest that those with these more serious forms of depression depend solely on the nutrients suggested. It is absolutely essential a person with a serious form of depression be under the care of a competent psychiatrist. We do look forward to the day that many more physicians will be educated in the use of the nutritional precursors to the brain neurotransmitters to help support such people nutritionally in addition to using pharmaceutical antidepressants.
Dysthymia, the more mild form of depression mentioned above, affects tens of millions of people, most of them women. Many of those who suffer from dysthymia can be helped by using nutraceuticals (nutrients taken in therapeutic dosages), either alone or as an adjunct to antidepressant drugs. The key here is to know that antidepressant drugs actually deplete the nutritional precursors the brain needs to make its own neurotransmitters and to find a physician experienced in the use of both nutritional and pharmaceutical protocols.
What causes postpartum depression?
Women who have been depressed in the past are more likely to end up with PPD, and women who have had PPD with previous pregnancies have a 70 percent chance of having it again. Those with marital problems, abusive spouses, substance abuse problems, or a lack of social support are more likely to have PPD. Many experts feel that these factors are enough to explain the PPD phenomenon.
Other researchers believe that there is a biological mechanism at work. Fluctuations in hormones, including thyroid hormone, cortisol, prolactin, progesterone, and estrogen, can strongly influence a woman's emotional state. There is nothing like the transition from late-term pregnancy to new motherhood to toss one's hormones into complete disarray. Changes in brain levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine also take place soon after a woman gives birth, and these changes are thought to be very important contributors to PPD as well. Deficiencies of the amino acids, vitamins, and minerals that form these neurotransmitters can severely limit the ability of the brain and nervous system to make them.
The scientific consensus is that PPD is multifactorial, which means that all of the above variables hormonal, psychological, and neurochemical come into play. We believe that all of these factors share one important and commonly overlooked characteristic: The balance of each of these systems relies upon proper nutrition. If the nutritional building blocks that the body needs to make hormones, neurotransmitters, and other mood-altering body chemicals are not present in adequate amounts, mood and physical health can both be compromised.
Medical treatment for postpartum depression
As is the case with depression unrelated to pregnancy, mood-altering drugs and psychotherapy are conventional medicine's treatments of choice for PPD. While talking to a trusted friend or psychotherapist is often helpful, the usefulness of the drugs most often prescribed for women with PPD has not yet been proven. Most physicians treat PPD with various psychiatric drugs that, in effect, trick the brain into thinking it has more neurotransmitters than it actually does specifically, that levels of one or both of two very important brain neurotransmitters, serotonin and norepinephrine, have been increased. Serotonin and norepinephrine are fundamental to a healthy body because they carry nerve signals and messages throughout the brain and the rest of the nervous system. They have a profound effect on mood and self-esteem, as well as on many other important functions within the body. A deficiency of these neurotransmitters can lead to depression, anxiety, insomnia, anger, obesity, and a host of other serious ailments.
In the vast majority of cases of PPD, the real cause of low levels of serotonin or norepinephrine in the brain is a deficiency of the nutritional precursors that the body needs to make these neurotransmitters. Interestingly, not only do the psychiatric drugs most commonly prescribed for PPD not increase serotonin and neroepinephrine levels, but they actually cause the body's reserves of the nutritional precursors needed to produce them to be used up more rapidly, worsening the state of nutritional deficiency. This is probably why it is so difficult for so many people to go off these drugs. It is not unusual for doctors to hear that a person had a very good initial experience with one of these drugs but that, as time passed, the good feelings wore off and higher doses and/or different medications were needed.
The most common class of drugs physicians prescribe for PPD is known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, the best-known of which is fluoxetine (Prozac). Other medications in this category include citalopram (Celexa), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft). These agents act by keeping serotonin in the brain's synapses (the spaces between nerve cells) for a longer period of time. They also pull serotonin out of the "serotonin stores" in the brain cells and pull it into the synapses. However, as we learn so tragically from time to time when we hear of mothers on medication for PPD who harm or even kill their children, these drugs don't always work. In fact, they fail to work over the long term at least one-third of the time. SSRIs speed up the rate at which serotonin is used up in the brain. If you drive a car at a high rate of speed, it uses up more gas and you have to fill up the tank more often. Similarly, if you speed up the rate at which the brain uses up serotonin by taking SSRIs you will need to replace the nutritional precursors more rapidly.
Why are so many people apparently suffering the effects of low serotonin levels? There are a number of reasons. Serotonin and a group of neurotransmitters called the catecholamines adrenaline (epinephrine), noradrenaline (norepinephrine), and dopamine which are predominantly made by the adrenal glands, work together and need to be in balance within the nervous system. As the general level of stress with which we live has gone up, our adrenal glands have been induced to make more catecholamines. The brain then is faced with the need to make more serotonin to maintain a proper balance. It is estimated that the level of stress most of us face on a daily basis is 100 times higher than that faced by our grandparents. The world keeps getting more complicated, and our nervous systems keep trying to adapt. We have reached a point at which many people's brains are having trouble making enough serotonin to match the levels of adrenal catecholamines required to cope with life.
There are a number of other factors that make it more difficult for our brains to produce enough serotonin. The brain needs a steady supply of the amino acid tryptophan and vitamin B6 to make serotonin. Proteins in foods contain a very small percentage of tryptophan as compared with other amino acids. Only about 3 percent of the tryptophan in food is actually converted into serotonin in the brain. This is partly due to the fact that about 95 percent of the serotonin in the body is needed and used in the intestinal tract. Further, to reach the brain, tryptophan must be ferried across the blood-brain barrier (a protective mechanism in the brain that keeps certain substances from easily entering the inner sanctum of the brain) by means of a carrier protein. Tryptophan has to compete with other amino acids for these carrier proteins, and this limits the amount of tryptophan that can enter the brain at any given time. Further, the adrenal hormone cortisol, which is produced in response to stress, converts tryptophan into a chemical called kynurenine, which cannot be converted into serotonin. If you drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, eat chocolate, take diet pills, or just have a lot of stress in your life and what mother doesn't? your body will produce too much cortisol, increasing the amount of tryptophan that is converted to kynurenine and limiting the amount available to produce serotonin.
To make matters even a bit more difficult, the production of serotonin does not take place in a single step, but is a complicated biochemical process, and each of the steps along the way requires specific nutrients. Your body must have enough iron and vitamin B3 (niacin) to convert tryptophan into a compound known as 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan (5-HTP) and enough other B vitamins plus the mineral magnesium to convert vitamin B6 to pyridoxal-5-phosphate (P5P), the form necessary for serotonin production. Without enough 5-HTP and P5P available in the brain, serotonin cannot be made at adequate levels. Doctors cannot simply give their patients serotonin orally or intravenously because serotonin is fat soluble and does not pass through the blood-brain barrier. The only way that the brain can get serotonin is to make it from the specific nutritional precursors available to it at the time. (Fortunately, 5-HTP and P5P are available in supplement form.)
All of these factors can lead to an individual having an inadequate supply of serotonin for optimal health, and in turn may explain the startling statistic that an estimated one in ten Americans and one in four women! is now on SSRI drugs.
The safety of SSRIs for the babies of nursing mothers also has not been proven. Some studies have linked the maternal use of Prozac to colic in nursing infants. A baby with colic can push the most even-tempered mother over the edge. For this reason alone, giving such a drug to a mom with PPD doesn't seem like the best way to support her recovery. Further, Prozac and similar drugs pass into a nursing mother's milk and, thus, into her baby's body. While studies have shown that little or no drug circulates in a baby's bloodstream, others that have looked at the concentrations of the drug in babies' brain tissue have found much higher levels. Nothing is known about the possible harm this can do to a newborn.
Some mothers choose to take the drugs and not to nurse. This deprives their babies of the most perfect food they can be given, and deprives both mother and child of the important bonding that comes with breastfeeding. Mothers with PPD who miss out on the bonding experience of breastfeeding may end up feeling even more distant from their babies. Most of the mothers we have consulted with who chose to take SSRIs over breastfeeding would have chosen to nurse if they had felt there was any other way to heal PPD. Unfortunately, mainstream medicine routinely tells new mothers with PPD that these drugs are the only way out.
The dangers of SSRIs go beyond their dangers to the baby. One potential side effect of these drugs is a feeling of numbness, of separateness from others. Feeling numb does tend to blunt depression, but it may do so at the expense of a new mother's feelings of intimacy with her baby and her partner at this crucial time. The most common side effects of SSRIs include nausea, sleepiness, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, headaches, trembling, indigestion, abdominal pain, and nervousness. SSRI drugs also seem to lift normal inhibitions against violence and suicide in some people. Prozac has been linked with violence toward others, suicide, and self-mutilation, and thus may even play a part in enabling an overwrought woman to commit one of the worst crimes imaginable causing serious harm to her child. Many experts, including Harvard University psychiatrist and author Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., and Peter R. Breggin, M.D., psychiatrist, author, and director of the nonprofit International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP), warn that SSRIs are overprescribed and that their dangers are drastically underplayed.
Dr. Glenmullen's most recent book, Prozac Backlash (Simon & Schuster, 2000), warns that SSRIs can cause symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease including facial and body tics and muscle spasms that may persist even after the drug is discontinued in at least 10 percent of those who use them. This finding implies that SSRIs may create dangerously low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in some people. Moreover, the long-term effects of Prozac and similar drugs are not known, but some studies indicate that permanent brain damage could occur because the constant artificial elevation of the neurotransmitter serotonin eventually burns out the serotonin receptor sites in the brain and makes them unable to respond.
The manufacturer of Prozac insists that no link between the drug and suicide has been proven. Interestingly, however, they will be marketing a newer version of the antidepressant, which, according to published reports, they will advertise as less likely to cause suicide and violent behavior in those who use it raising the question of why they would use this issue as a selling point. The "new Prozac," R-fluoxetine, is set to hit the market just as the patent for the current version, which has had sales in excess of $2 billion a year, runs out. Incidentally, Sarafem, an antidepressant that is being marketed heavily for a form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), is chemically identical to Prozac with a different, female consumer-savvy name.
Serotonin does seem to play a role in depression, and that is why SSRIs can provide relief. Keep in mind, however, that no one has shown that a chemical imbalance in this case, low serotonin levels is the sole cause of depression. Boosting serotonin will improve most people's moods, but this symptomatic relief at best because the nutritional precursors the brain needs to produce its own serotonin remain depleted unless deliberately replenished. As Dr. Breggin says in his book Talking Back to Prozac (St. Martin's Press, 1994), depression is not caused by a Prozac deficiency any more than a headache is caused by an aspirin deficiency.
Fortunately for those who wish to avoid SSRIs, there are ways to elevate serotonin levels naturally with foods and supplements. We believe that taking SSRIs can make things worse for many women who suffer from PPD, and we do not recommend using them, especially over the long term, unless you have one of the more serious forms of depression. If you do need them for the short term, you should enlist your doctor's assistance to help you wean yourself off them as soon as possible. Never stop using SSRIs abruptly, however, as this can cause serious withdrawal symptoms. Taper off gradually with the guidance of a knowledgeable physician, preferably one who is experienced in prescribing increasing amounts of the nutritional precursors you need as you wean off the drugs.
Many women suffer from a kind of depression that results not at all from low brain serotonin levels but from low levels of another brain neurotransmitter, norepinephrine. Increasing serotonin levels with drugs does not help this kind of depression. On the contrary, it often makes people even more tired and depressed. Women with low serotonin levels tend to have a great deal of anxiety, while women with low norepinephrine levels feel like they fell into a deep, dark hole and just cannot muster the energy to get out of it, or elicit more than one positive thought in a row. People with low norepinephrine levels are often dramatically helped by restoring normal thyroid and adrenal gland function. The amino acid tyrosine, along with P5P, copper, iron, and vitamin C, is necessary to make norepinephrine. Tyrosine, along with the mineral iodine, is also the main nutritional precursor for all the thyroid hormones.
As you will discover, we believe that the vast majority of cases of PPD can be prevented and/or treated very successfully without resorting to drugs that may harm you and your baby. The natural strategies presented can help to restore serotonin levels and replenish key nutrients and other biochemicals that are likely to be depleted as a result of bringing a child into the world. We will see how a woman's nutritional status is affected by pregnancy and birth, how this can determine her overall state of health, and, most important, what she can do to regain a state of balance and well-being.
From A Natural Guide to Pregnancy and Postpartum Health by Dean Raffelock, Robert Rountree, and Virginia Hopkins with Melissa Block. Copyright © 2002 by Dr. Dean Raffelock. Used by arrangement with Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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