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On December 2, 2014, William Trubridge, then 34, floated into the competition zone above Dean's Blue Hole, a purpling cove off rustic Long Island, Bahamas, prepared to dive to 102 meters without fins to break a world record.
With a foam noodle supporting his neck and another beneath his knees, his wife, Brittany, towed him into position while one of three judges decked out in bright yellow rash guards clipped him onto a rope that disappeared into the deep darkness below. The rope was there to measure depth, but it was also a lifeline. If Trubridge were to lose consciousness at a depth the safety divers couldn't reach, officials could pull him back to the surface before it was too late. Trubridge didn't anticipate such an emergency. Dean's Blue Hole was his home court, after all, and Long Island was his home. He'd been training for that moment, in that hole, for months. Then again, nobody had ever tried to swim to 102 meters on one breath without fins.
Splayed like a twisted egg noodle between the frothing Atlantic Ocean and the placid Caribbean Sea, Long Island's stubby limestone hills and plains are blanketed in thick tropical scrub rustling with wild boar and feral cats and fringed with exquisite white-sand beaches. It also has some history. Long Island was the third stop on Christopher Columbus's signature voyage. Yet despite the fact that competitive events had been held for half a century, Dean's wasn't even on the free-diving map until Trubridge established the first of his 15 world records there in 2007.
Trubridge was raised on a sailboat. He and his brother Sam would entertain themselves by diving for shells in whichever Polynesian port his parents happened to dock in, until high school and university in New Zealand intervened. Never a competitive athlete, he seemed destined for a life of the mind when he got a gig as a genetic engineer in a top Auckland laboratory, but the sterility bored him, so he ditched his lab coat, grabbed a backpack and went traveling. He landed in London, where he worked in a hotel and rented a flat with a good friend who had just returned from Thailand. He regaled Trubridge with stories of free divers he saw seemingly defy human physiology and dive far deeper than scuba divers off Ko Tao.
Trubridge was intrigued. He researched online and learned that free diving wasn't just about underwater exploration but was also a competitive sport. During depth competitions, he learned, athletes compete in three main disciplines: constant weight (in which divers dolphin-kick to depth wearing a monofin); free immersion (in which athletes pull themselves along a line to depth, then back to the surface, without fins); and, most difficult of all, constant no fins (in which competitors dive using a modified breaststroke, without fins).
Trubridge flashed to those early days underwater, shut off the computer and began to practice dry breath holds on his bed. But he knew he'd need to get back to the tropics to see if he had what it took to be a competitive free diver. He quit his job and traveled to the Bay Islands in Honduras, where he spent weeks lengthening his breath hold and diving deep. Next, he drifted to Sardinia to train with Italian free-diving legend Umberto Pelizzari. Trubridge began to compete, but a lack of accessible dive sites with consistent conditions hampered his performance. Then, in 2005, he found Dean's Blue Hole.
An underwater cavern flipped vertically to a depth of 202 meters, it's sheltered by 15-meter limestone bluffs and is just three steps from a spectacular white-sand beach. Conditions are hard to beat. Within a few years, so was Trubridge. The first time he broke a world record, the free-diving community took notice and began to travel to Long Island to train and compete alongside him. Most of the divers arrive in the Bahamas just before the Vertical Blue competition, the Wimbledon of free diving, an event Trubridge owns and typically dominates. His stirring performances at Dean's Blue Hole, with records and medals on the line, are the main reason Trubridge is considered the best free diver alive.
Yet, by the time he clipped onto the line last December, his position at the top was tenuous. Vertical Blue 2014 drew national record holders from 19 countries. Among them was Alexey Molchanov, then 27, a Russian swim prodigy turned free diver who was already the deepest man in the sport. In September 2013 he dived to 128 meters, covering a distance greater than the height of an 80-story building and breaking his own world record in constant weight. Trubridge still owned the free-immersion world record at 121 meters and the constant-no-fins record at 101 meters, swimming a distance greater than two football fields, without fins. Yet Molchanov beat Trubridge for an overall competition title for the first time last May at the Caribbean Cup and went on to lead the Russian men to team gold at the world championships. By the time Molchanov arrived on Long Island, he looked like the best man in the field.
Friendly rivals, the two couldn't have more different personalities. Trubridge, six feet tall and rail thin, favors yoga and a mostly vegetarian diet over weight training. He's also an introvert, spending his downtime at his Long Island home with Brittany—a bikini model and yoga instructor—or studying his dive profiles, seldom socializing with other athletes. The ripped, five-foot-11, 180-pound Molchanov is a weight-lifting evangelist with the bulging legs of a sprint cyclist. He's also a social animal. After his dives at Vertical Blue he'd often flirt with cute free divers and lead group ocean swims. The Russian and Eastern European divers playfully call themselves the Eastern Bloc, and Molchanov, who lives in Moscow, is their leader. Trubridge is an island.
Competitive free diving is by no means a large universe, but it is growing, with new centers opening up wherever deep water is accessible. Rank-and-file athletes are similar to triathletes. They are extremely fit but not very young. Most are self-funded. The majority are over 30, and some are over 40. Among them are professional landscapers, electricians, software developers, architects, marine biologists and medical doctors. Michael Board, the best diver out of England, is a former Royal Marine who once patrolled the notorious and deadly Baghdad airport road as a highly paid military contractor during the Iraq war. He used that cash to open a flourishing free-dive center in Indonesia, which he runs with his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, a Kiwi national record holder and internationally known yoga instructor. Estrella Navarro Holm is a former Miss Baja California and a current national record holder in Mexico. Lena Jovanovic was an anti-Milosevic activist in Serbia who had to flee the country during the Bosnian war and now sells real estate in Orange County, California. Tomoka Fukuda was an Okinawan hairstylist who earned fame as an elite free diver in her native Japan. Jonathan Sunnex, another New Zealander and the head safety diver with a personal best of 105 meters, once earned six figures as an electrician in Australian mines before he was 25 years old, but ditched the dust to compete and teach free diving full-time.
All of them are addicted to a sport that is both an athletic quest to push the limits of the body and mind beyond what anyone thought possible, and a spiritual experience. When they overcome their fears, ignore their urge to breathe and surrender to the sea down deep, they become a speck of pure consciousness in a vast dark abyss. Time slows, and the deeper they fall, the tighter the sea seems to squeeze until they feel a merge, a total loss of self. But they like their numbers too, and each time athletes hit a new depth, they feel a new charge, a new pride. When they go to bed that night, they revel in accomplishment, and when they wake the next morning, they set a new goal, a new depth, a new number—one they have a hard time letting go of until it's in their rearview. That's true for beginners, and it's especially true for competitors gunning for records.
Accompanied by safety divers, Alexey Molchanov ascends Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
Free diving is universal. Anybody who has ever kicked to the bottom of a pool or reef has done it, and it has served humanity for millennia. In the fourth century, Roman free divers helped erect and destroy wartime underwater barricades. The Ama, a culture of Japanese women, have made sailors swoon while free diving for oysters and pearls for more than 2,000 years, and lobstermen and spear fishermen have hunted the waters of Europe, Africa, Polynesia and Indonesia for centuries.
Competitive free diving got its start in 1949 when an Italian airman, Raimondo Bucher, dived to 30 meters to win a 50,000 lira bet. Doctors at the time predicted his certain doom, but Bucher pulled it off, launching a never-ending race to become the deepest man in the world.
In 1966 the great Italian free diver Enzo Maiorca extended the record to 62 meters, only to have it eclipsed by an old U.S. Navy submariner named Bob Croft, who dived to 64 meters. Frenchman Jacques Mayol, next on the scene, introduced yoga concepts to the sport. Mayol and Maiorca traded the record back and forth through the early 1980s, their friendship and rivalry inspiring Luc Besson's film The Big Blue.
Those were all no-limits dives, with athletes using weighted sleds to carry them down and balloons, which they'd inflate underwater, to bring them back to the surface. It wasn't until 1978, when Stefano Makula, another Italian, swam to 50 meters with fins, that self-propulsive free-diving competitions were recorded. Italians dominated that category as well, until 1987, when Cuban Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras dived to 67 meters. No-limits free diving was still king, however, and Ferreras became the deepest man in the world in 1989 when he took a sled down to 112 meters in his native Cuba.
In 2002 Ferreras trained his wife, Audrey Mestre, for an attempt to break the no-limits record with a dive to 171 meters. She'd helped him train for years, and he often pushed her to compete, but Mestre's attempt was underfunded. Safety protocols weren't tight enough, and when the balloon that was supposed to bring her back to the surface failed to inflate, Mestre was doomed. She was underwater for more than eight and a half minutes and never revived. Some accused her champion husband of foul play, and her story is reportedly set to become a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.
In 2012, after two high-profile near-fatal accidents, the Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée, known as AIDA International, stopped sanctioning no-limits attempts. The quest was deemed too hazardous and was by then considered more a personal feat and less an athletic achievement than other competitive free-diving disciplines, which everyone assumed were completely safe. That's why it was so shocking when Nicholas Mevoli, the first American to swim to 100 meters, died at Vertical Blue on November 17, 2013 while attempting to break an American constant-no-fins record with a dive to 72 meters. His was the first death in international competition, and it shook the sport.
A Nassau autopsy determined that alveolar blood vessels had hemorrhaged, filling Mevoli's lungs with blood and plasma. Meanwhile, a still unreleased follow-up autopsy, conducted at East Carolina University and led by American free diver Kerry Hollowell, will show that Mevoli had pervasive scar tissue in his alveoli (the lungs' air sacs). Hollowell also found a preponderance of repair cells called macrophages, which proves some of Mevoli's injuries were recent. The most recent wound was determined to have occurred on the Friday before his last dive, when he surfaced with blood dripping from his mouth.
I happened to be there the day he died, reporting on Vertical Blue for The New York Times. After a year of investigating Mevoli's life and death for a forthcoming book, I've learned that for almost two years he had been diving despite repeated lung injuries. Over and over he would tear the walls of his alveoli, an injury known as lung squeeze, and cough blood. Sometimes he would take days off; frequently he would not. He was not alone. Many athletes have done deep dives within days of a squeeze. The best dive in Molchanov's career, when he broke his own constant-weight world record by swimming to 128 meters at the 2013 world championships, occurred just six days after the worst squeeze he's ever had.
AIDA judges and event doctors have improved their screening processes since Mevoli's death and become more vigilant in detecting lung injury. Still, prior to Trubridge's record attempt at Vertical Blue in 2014, a few divers who passed an oxygen-saturation test designed to detect lung squeezes had hidden their symptoms and were cleared to dive.
Mevoli's death should have been a wake-up call to athletes conditioned to push their limits, but for some it only raised the stakes. They weren't just competing against one another or themselves any longer. They were looking to cheat death too. And that only added to the buzz.
"At the surface you have to accept that you might die," said Samo Jeranko, a Slovenian record holder and one of the deepest men in the world, after his 107-meter dive. "You must have no fear."
When he arrived on Long Island in mid-November, Molchanov was entering his prime. "I won't try to win," he told me playfully. "I will win." Meanwhile, Trubridge's pre-competition training had been hit-and-miss. A week before the event he enjoyed a clean dive to 100 meters. A few days later he blacked out on the surface after attempting 93 meters.
Nobody knew what to expect on December 2 when Trubridge's dive would be televised live to millions in his native New Zealand, thanks to their national beer brand Steinlager, his main sponsor. The company paid him six figures to shoot a riveting commercial and make the whole country proud.
After the successful completion of his dive Molchanov receives a white tag.
For nearly six minutes Trubridge lay on his back, face up, and appeared to be in a deep trance. He was working to lower his heart rate, which would help conserve oxygen. Behind him a Steinlager banner hung from the bluffs. Seventy athletes and fans, including Molchanov, surrounded the competition zone. With 20 seconds to go, Trubridge built toward peak inhalation, filling his belly and then his chest with air before funneling it into the subclavian air pockets beneath his shoulder blades. Next he began to pack his lungs by slurping air, using his tongue as a piston to stuff each mouthful down. Forty packs later, he flipped and slipped below.
Within three elegant strokes he had passed a rugged reef on sloping sand that dropped off at the edge of the hole, rimmed with limestone cliffs at 10 meters. He was now at neutral buoyancy. After three more strokes and another 10-meter drop there was a second set of cliffs, and the walls receded. Now the blue hole was dark as a moonless night and about twice as wide as the cove appeared from the surface. Negatively buoyant, Trubridge stopped swimming and became as streamlined as possible. He closed his eyes and let gravity do the rest. It was time to go deep.
When free divers gush about their sport, most describe the sink phase. Free fall. During free fall some athletes confront their deepest fears as they travel about one meter per second. Others experience lucid dreams, but when they reach their target depth, dream time is over and they must swim against that negative buoyancy, which is like fighting through a swift current. With each stroke they get closer to the light, and when they reach 10 meters they are once again positively buoyant. The hard part is over. Fresh air, fresh life is just seconds away.
As Trubridge's descent intensified and the increased atmospheric pressure compressed his lungs, the blood vessels in his arms and legs constricted, shunting blood to his core. The blood vessels in his heart and brain dilated, flooding them with oxygen, and his spleen contracted, distributing a fresh supply of red blood cells and increasing his available oxygen. By the second minute, his pulse had dropped to less than half his resting heart rate on land. Put it all together and you have the mammalian dive reflex, a term coined by scientists who documented a similar response in dolphins and seals. All humans have the capacity to trigger the dive reflex, but athletes like Trubridge have learned to maximize it for peak oxygen efficiency, which allows them to swim deeper and stay down longer than any humans have before.
Although Trubridge had been underwater for two minutes, his body didn't register an oxygen shortage as he approached 102 meters, because with each additional atmosphere of pressure, which occurs every 10 meters, the partial pressure of oxygen increases. His system held less oxygen than when he began, but the percentage of oxygen in his blood was more than adequate to sustain consciousness. As he began to swim back against the pressure, however, a buildup of carbon dioxide signaled to his brain's respiratory-reflex center that something wasn't right. His intercostal muscles responded with violent contractions—every 10 seconds another gut punch—while lactic acid lit his legs on fire. He rose higher with each stroke, but that meant a continuous drop in partial pressure of oxygen. Hypoxia clouded his brain.
At 35 meters, two safety divers—who were also free divers—were waiting to escort him to the surface. As he approached 10 meters the mammalian dive reflex had already flipped; the blood was leaving his brain and core and was headed to his extremities. Starved of oxygen, his lips had turned blue, but that halo of turquoise light was getting closer by the second. His record, and a fresh breath, was still within reach.
When I landed at Dean's Blue Hole in 2013, I didn't set out to become a free diver, but the sport gripped me: the way the athletes meticulously prepared for more than an hour for their three to four minutes underwater; the way they moved with rhythm, elegance and daring; the suspense at the surface while everyone waited, wondering what was happening to the divers below, and the deep peace the divers felt after they rose up clean. You could see that buzz in their eyes. It looked a lot like bliss. I was there for the sport's darkest moment, and for an entire free-dive season afterward I watched dozens of athletes black out or come up spitting blood, and still I needed to know what it felt like to keep diving when every impulse I had told me to come up. I wanted that buzz, so I sought out arguably the best free-diving instructor on earth. "This is not some spa vacation. This is gonna be action-packed." Kirk Krack, 46, the boyishly handsome owner and lead instructor of Performance Freediving International, stood at the front of the room. "We're here for performance," he said, "to get you your best depth."
It was day one of PFI's four-day intermediate free-diving course in Kona, Hawaii, and I could already see why Krack is so esteemed. He has trained everyone from Navy SEALs (including members of SEAL Team 6) to Red Bull–sponsored big-wave surfers Mark Healey and John John Florence to magician David Blaine (whom he helped through an oxygen-assisted breath hold of more than 17 minutes) and even Tiger Woods. They all come to him, a kid from the Saskatchewan prairie, because he has coached dozens of athletes—including his wife, Mandy—to 23 world and hundreds of national records.
Once a tech diving instructor and scuba-shop owner in the Cayman Islands, he loves teaching new blood so much that he'd flown to Hawaii's Big Island direct from a film set in London, where he'd been acting as a technical advisor, to lecture 13 newbies in a cramped scuba-shop classroom in a mini mall. "You're all gonna have a little hill to climb, a little hump to get over," he said, "but by the end you'll be doing things you never thought possible."
Halfway to a record, Sofia Gomez Uribe grabs a tag from the bottom plate.
I nodded, well acquainted with my mental mountain. An avid open-ocean swimmer, I thought the sport would be easy for me. I'd spent the previous November on Long Island, picking up bits and pieces from athletes who'd dive with me to make me feel comfortable. I didn't. At first I couldn't equalize. Then the pressure below 10 meters would become so intense, I'd bolt for the surface. I felt the pain but not the fun. After several attempts I managed to get to 19 meters and back. Afterward free-diving photographer Daan Verhoeven swam over and said, "That's some of the least-relaxed free diving I've ever seen." Not a compliment.
Relaxation is the key to efficient free diving because relaxed muscles use five times less oxygen than tense ones. Which is why at the end of day one, Krack guided the class through a relaxing breath exercise as we lined the edge of the pool behind Jack's Diving Locker. He reminded us to breathe from the belly and exhale for 10 seconds. Longer exhales lower the heart rate. Soon we were holding our breath, facedown in the pool, for one minute, then two, then three and four. We were practicing a free-diving discipline known as static apnea. One of the sport's three pool disciplines, it's also an effective training tool. Krack told us that those who could hold their breath for three minutes in static could hold their breath half that long while swimming. If diving to depth takes one meter per second, that means a three-minute static translates to a 45-meter dive.
One AIDA judge describes static this way: "It's like putting your balls in a drawer and slamming it shut over and over again." On my last attempt, I made it to three minutes 20 seconds but came up after one drawer slam. As my breathing normalized, I looked around and watched as several of my classmates fought their own nature. Some trembled and shuddered as the drawer kept slamming and the urge to breathe became overwhelming. It did not look fun. The best student got to five minutes 45 seconds before gasping for air and nearly blacking out. By then I'd seen dozens of athletes black out at competitions and get revived moments later, and that wasn't an experience I was looking for. I wasn't in Kona to push my limits that hard, I told myself. I just wanted to go a bit deeper and feel comfortable enough underwater that when I surfaced I'd have that buzz I'd seen in the gaze of so many athletes. Also, if you're writing a book about free diving, you probably shouldn't suck at it.
The Kona coast does not suck. Dry and rugged, it's blessed with coffee plantations, lava flows, horse ranches and a checkerboard coastline of white- and black-sand beaches. In the winter, humpbacks breed and breach offshore, their haunting song audible underwater, and on clear days you can see Maui floating in the distance. Free divers love it because there's deep water a short swim from the beach at Honaunau, a slender cerulean bay framed by two lava headlands. Divers call it Two Step, for its rocky entryway to the blue. South of the bay is Pu'uhonua O Honaunau, both a national historic site and a sacred spot for native Hawaiians, with a collection of traditional temples among the palms.
Krack and his team of instructors set up their rig of four lines dangling with weighted bottom plates. We started with free-immersion dives and then moved into kick cycles. Counting kicks helps divers track their depth. With extra-long free-dive fins offering more thrust than the scuba variety, it should take roughly six strong kick cycles to get to 10 meters and then six softer kick cycles to get to 20 meters.
My frustration bloomed immediately. I had trouble equalizing below 12 meters and had that familiar urge to breathe again, which felt like claustrophobia. Meanwhile, the rest of my group—Keoki, a Honolulu surfboard shaper turned investment advisor; and Drew and Joe, two pot farmers from Santa Cruz—hit every plate. On day two Krack saw a hitch in my approach. I was tucking my chin too much while breathing up at the surface and sucking water into my snorkel, which made it impossible to relax and get the deepest breath possible before I started to dive. On my free-immersion rope descents, I was moving too fast. He demonstrated a slow-motion pull technique that would lengthen the dive but require less energy. His demonstration was so slow it looked like torture waiting to happen. To make matters worse, the wind was strong and the swell rough. As I was tossed in the tides, my brain-speak was on full blast, broadcasting all manner of excuses.
The weather gods want you to fail.
Your wet suit is too tight. You drink too much beer.
You have the lung capacity of a pygmy chimpanzee.
Krack calls that noise self-talk. On the first day he said, "If I could unplug your brain, you'd hold your breath for six minutes and dive to 60 meters. That's your physiological capacity." What gets in the way is stress—some of it real, some of it imagined. He meant that if I let it, the rollicking sea, my neurotic mind and the effort to assimilate new techniques into fluid habits would cause my heart rate to rise, my muscles to tense and my brain to confirm that yes, I suck at free diving.
After failing to reach the plate on the first four dives of the second day, all free-immersion dives, I'd had enough. For months I'd been stopping short. It was time to kill the devil on my shoulder and push through discomfort. This time, I decided to make five more pulls after the point of discomfort. On my third pull, I glimpsed the 15-meter mark on the line and decided to press on. Soon I hit 20 meters, a depth I'd long aspired to. Krack hovered beside me as I looked down at a shimmering white-sand bottom. My urge to breathe was gone. I wanted to keep going down, not up. I hung on the line for 20 seconds, enjoying every bit of it. Later that day, I kicked down to 23 meters and back without the faintest struggle.
The next morning was our final open-water session. For the first time as an aspiring free diver I approached the water relaxed and confident. My goal in the course was to hit 30 meters, or 100 feet, and I was ready. Ten warm-up dives later I'd have my opportunity. I prepared by breathing up slowly and calmly while watching Keoki kick down. A strong surfer, he'd been a star throughout class, but this time he surfaced hypoxic and blacked out. He came around right away thanks to Drew, who employed the safety techniques we'd learned like a seasoned pro, but it was still alarming. One hundred feet sounds deep to a layman, but it was nothing compared with the depths I'd seen divers hit in competition. In fact, I hadn't known it was possible to black out at that depth, especially with fins.
I looked back down to try to relax as my heart thumped. The plate seemed to disappear in the hazy blue, and my self-talk cranked back up, but this time I shifted the conversation and visualized success, just as Krack had taught us. I had my technique down, I told myself, and I'd been tapping that plate all damn day. I counted off my five purging breaths to reduce my carbon dioxide levels, took a peak inhalation, duck-dived and kicked down.
After my second kick cycle I stopped moving altogether. The seconds ticked on, but time stretched out as I enjoyed my entry-level 10-meter free fall. I hit the plate, turned and dolphin-kicked to the surface. At the 10-meter line I stopped kicking hard and simply floated up. It felt good to take my time. At the surface a deep calm suffused my brain.
Many of Krack's students have told him he changed their lives by proving to them they can do more than they'd ever imagined. By pushing to go deeper, past my own discomfort, I'd uncovered my most subversive limiting factor of all: my negative self-talk. I indulge it far too often, and not just in the water. Too frequently my autopilot bleats out messages explaining why I can't, which gets in the way of believing that yes, I fucking can.
My goals were to not suck at free diving and to feel that post-dive buzz. I'd achieved both, but I gained much more. As a kid, I'd dreamed of floating through outer space; when I became an avid scuba and tech diver, I experienced the next best thing by exploring another world right here on planet Earth. Now I'd ditched the gear entirely, yet I was still capable of floating through space, because I'd learned to conquer the final frontier: not the ocean—nobody can conquer nature—but that infinite sea of mystery, ability and doubt that lies within.
Perhaps that's why athletes such as Trubridge and Molchanov, as well as recreational free divers everywhere, feel the pull to go deep and then deeper still. On each successful dive they learn more about themselves. It strips away limitations, inspires confidence that they can do and be more. Of course, at the competitive level that drive can become an obsession, which can be extremely dangerous. Fatal, even.
Trubridge didn't get his world record. He blacked out just below the surface, but the safety divers brought him up and he came around quickly. He left the beach that day despondent, but he had two more dives to go and needed to hit both to get on the podium.
A win seemed out of the question the next day as Molchanov prepared for his no-fins dive to 95 meters. "I expected him to get it," said Trubridge. When he didn't, Trubridge saw an opening and won the competition with back-to-back dives of 120 meters in free immersion and 117 meters in constant weight. A lesser competitor might have been consumed with doubt after a high-profile failure and perhaps hedged a bit on depth, considering he'd just blacked out. The buzz within the free-dive community suggested that diving again so soon might be dangerous and that he was setting the wrong example. Trubridge didn't listen. For better or worse, he believed, and thanks to a clutch performance, he was still on top.
"It was a little topsy-turvy," Trubridge said as we sipped icy Steinlagers on the white sand, staring out to the blue hole. "But it does feel really good to have finished this way." His smile was wide, but I could tell he was distracted. His engineering brain was already probing for areas of improvement, considering what it would take to go just a bit deeper.


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Monday: November 16, 2009
- Green Mountain Coffee decides to up and acquire Timothy's Coffees.
For those who don't know, Green Mountain Coffee are the geniuses behind the Keurig K-cup design for quick (and painless) single-cup coffee brewing. This is a smart move since Timothy's always had a more interesting flavor set anyway (as evidenced by the thumbnail over on the left).


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Dear Carolyn: I found out a few weeks ago that I am pregnant at 42. I have one child, almost 8, who is a joy.
Dear Carolyn: I found out a few weeks ago that I am pregnant at 42. I have one child, almost 8, who is a joy.
My husband has made it clear that he doesn�t want this baby because it wasn�t planned and he doesn�t want to work forever. I think it is a miracle after undergoing fertility treatments for four years and finally giving up two years ago.
I don�t want to be selfish, but I want this baby. But then I wonder: Is it selfish to be so old with a young child and to go against what my husband wants? Friends who know of my struggle are excited. My husband has told no one. I cry a lot of nights.
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Dear 42 and Pregnant: He wants his wife to abort a child she has ached for six years to conceive?
And you�re worried you�re selfish?
Does this originate in you � the state of mind that doesn�t even entertain that it�s equally selfish of him to �go against� what you want? Does it originate in him? In your dynamic together?
I dwell in the gray areas of childbearing, out of respect for the fact that no one can know � or dictate � what is right for each prospective parent and child.
But this is a yearned-for child who is already on the way � courtesy of parents who, two years ago, used fertility treatments. You got �so old� since then?
There are, certainly, practical considerations. An obvious and painful one is your 8-year-old, who stands to lose a (presumably) stable, intact home to this standoff. There�s also a chance that your baby will have special needs � especially given the higher risks associated with the gently phrased �advanced� maternal (and paternal) age � and that has to factor into any responsible calculations about having this child as a single mom.
None of these considerations comes into play, though, until you wrestle with the baseline question you need to answer: Is there any reason to terminate this pregnancy that you consider legitimate?
Forget all the specifics of your bind and answer that question on its own merits, as if it were a hypothetical. Sleep on it, cry on it, even talk to trusted advisers: friends, clergy members, your obstetrician, a mental-health professional.
This is, I think, the only way you can live with yourself after making your decision � whatever it is.
Write to Carolyn Hax � whose column appears Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays � at tellme@wash post.com.


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Al Jazeera English has been widely commended for its indepth coverage of the events in Egypt, through multiple modalities: print, photography, video, live streaming.
A documentary Al Jazeera prepared in 2008 on Mubarak and Egypt has been rebroadcast on a number of North American educational or news programs. I was able to view it on the CBC's Passionate Eye, a program that airs international documentaries of high quality on a number of contemporary topics. Unfortunately, while the CBC is generous with its videos, the quality of its player is poor. Fortunately, Al Jazeera English has uploaded the video to Youtube, as embedded below.
The documentary was done more to explain recent events in 2008 but is a good overview of Mubarak's rise to power, and of the reasons for progressive discontent with him. The main thesis is that when negative economics met negative politics a tipping point was reached. However, in describing a protest by judges against Mubarak's interference in judicial process, the documentary also made clearer to me more of what the current protesters mean by Mubarak's robbing professionals of their dignity to perform their roles. Further, it traces the rise of Gamal Mubarak and how that also has become a tipping point.
I recommend the 48 minute video as an excellent backgrounder to today's events, and Mubarak's strategies. It may seem somewhat soft on Mubarak while being clear on his abuses of power, but if one takes the sum of who is saying what against him, it is at once a damning portrait of an "elected" military dictator, and an explanation of why he does have supporters, including among farmers.
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I hope every little thing is all right with you too already and I thank you for stopping by my little spot on the Wild Wild Web! I did snatch a little bit of extra time to squeak out just one extra card this week for Tuesday Morning Sketches #391. The image I used is Sweet Carrot Bunny by our sponsor Sami Stamps. The first one I used alcohol markers on Copics, ShinHan, and Prismacolors. The second one I used my Close to My Heart water colors. The sentiment is from this month's CTMH Stamp of the Month again.
I used (my goodness) I think 15+ year old circle cutter set from Creative Memories to cut the circle and avoid the bunny ears - I just love that tool! The floral paper is from Dear Lizzy and the rest is all Close to My heart. Oh yes, I added the Close to My Heart Shimmer Pen on the carrot greens and the inside of the bunny ears.
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Topic: Today's EUR/USD and EUR/CAD Buy Signal
Today in forex trading the EUR was strong on all pairs, this drove the EUR/USD and EUR/CAD much higher.
The trading signals and chart movement for these pairs is shown below in the attached images. For a complete assessment of the EUR pairs go to the Forexearlywarning Blog. These live signals and trading plans for 28 pairs are available from Forexearlywarning.com.


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Good Listening in 2016
By Tim on December 30, 2016
Since I devoted most of the year to promoting my new book, Bad Singer, perhaps I could be forgiven for thinking I spent more time talking about music than actually listening to it. But it only felt that way. In fact, when I look back, I listened to a lot of great music this year. […]
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A Bad Singer Playlist "Writing about music," Martin Mull quipped, "is like dancing about architecture." Part of the problem, of course, is that the reader wants to hear what the writer is going on about. And, inevitably, I refer to many, many songs in Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We […]
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My favourite music of 2013
By Tim on December 30, 2013
My favourite albums of 2013 • The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Courtney Barnett Ever listen to NPR's All Songs Considered podcast? It's a great way to discover new music. Exhibit A is this album from an Australian singer-songwriter • The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Flight, the […]
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Google to challenge Amazon Kindle
Some book publishers worry that Amazon (AMZN) will dominate the e-book market the way that Apple (AAPL) controls the music download business. When one company has a huge market share in content distribution it can often set pricing, hurting content company margins.
Google (GOOG) means to challenge Amazon in the digital book business and publishers assume that they will benefit. The Google e-book program will apparently let content providers to set their own prices.According toThe New York Times, "Google signaled its intent to introduce a program that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct to consumers through Google." The book content will probably be downloaded onto PCs and other devices and can be stored to be read later.
The Google program has two advantages over Amazon's. The first is that the Google search function may make it easier for consumers to locate content. The second is that the content from Google is not tethered to one device, while Amazon's downloadable books are only for use on its Kindle reader, which has a distribution base far smaller than PC and portable electronic devices do.
The Kindle and its book download business were supposed to be "the next big thing" for Amazon's earnings. If competition begins to move into the market with any force, the Kindle could still be a bust.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 24/7 Wall St.


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The upcoming UFC on FOX 10 event has lost a scheduled prelim bout, as both Pascal Krauss and Adam Khaliev were removed by officials.
Set for January 25 from the United Center in Chicago, the event features a headline act between Benson Henderson and Josh Thomson. The Krauss-Khaliev fight was set for the prelims.
Krauss (11-2) has split his four UFC bouts, while Khaliev (6-0) was to make his debut. No exact reason was given for each fighter pulling out.


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My graph work is coming along, slowly but steadily.
I've got Graph, Vertex, Edge, List, and Node types involved. Node is essentially done - completely coded but I might end up adding more to it (I hope not!). List is planned for the most part, just need to finalize on that, and then implementing it is almost entirely boilerplate kind of code. After List is implemented, I can write Vertex and Edge, which should each be pretty fast. They'll almost entirely be just the basic stuff (get/set, copy, create, destroy, equivalence, tostring) and maybe 1-2 specific operations. Then there'll be the graph itself, which also should be easy enough to do.
The hard part will come in designing and implementing the operations for the graph, I think. And also for extending the base types. I'm going to make queue/stack extensions to the list, a set of tree operations as a special-case on the graph, and also common things like minimum spanning tree, shortest path, a*, that kind of stuff. So for now it's just whenever I've got a spare hour or so and I have my Eee with me, I tap away at it.
I'm also drawing a lot, my skill has noticeably improved just since the beginning of the summer. I'm reading a design/typography book that's setting everything out in very clear, obvious terms, which is exactly what I need. Once I have these basic elements committed to memory, I'll do worlds better with higher concepts.
One last thing, I've also *started* a project called "world of blogging", which I may or may not work more on. The notion is: how to get involved in the blogosphere. I feel I'm the perfect candidate to write on the topic, as I'm hardly inolved in the actual blogging community at all. I will write what I do as I do it, to gain the best understanding, and become involved as I go. It's a twofold experience of getting myself involved and writing about something. Exciting. My first foray was into Music blogging because I _really_ wanted to be exposed to more new and cool music. My first google search, (for "music blog", I believe) turned up hypem.com, a music-blog aggregator, which collects and streams music it finds on popular blogs. I figured it would be a good looking but ultimately shallow and useless tool in my endeavour, and I was wrong! It has been an invaluable resource and given me more than I could possibly need.
I had taken some screenshots and written about a thousand words when I went away for a short while and... windows update rebooted my computer. I had foolishly worked in Notepad and not saved a damn thing, so I didn't exactly rush back into working on the project. It has since languished -- but may see revival soon.
Join me in the forever and ever endeavour!
Just wanted to say "forever and ever endeavour". When I thought of that, I immediately googled it. I'm actually happy other people have thought of it too, more than sad I'm not the first to come up with it. That's all for now - good night!
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Our Happy Gums Clay Toothpaste is infused with zeolite, seabuckthorn, clove, peppermint, cinnamon, oregano, rose, thyme linalool, and tea tree oils to create a healthy oral ecology, vibrant gums and silky smooth teeth.
The Ethics of Unadorned Essentials
If you have enjoyed the sweet aroma of the rose, the invigorating scent of peppermint, or the verdancy of coriander, then you know essential oils.
Essential oils are a liquid concentrate of the unadorned aromatic molecules of a plant. These oils have the distinctive aroma and flavor of the plant of origin. This nourishing liquid enthusiastically absorbs through the membrane of our skin to bless mood, mind, and body. Sincere, generous, and immeasurable plant life!
All Libations' botanicals are authentic and pure and distilled only from the named plant matter. We call our essential oils Hi-Fi oils due to the distillers' faithful and accurate adherence to the master plant. All of our Hi-Fi oils are distilled from either wild crafted or organically grown plants. Our wild crafted plant matter is collected from the plants' natural habitat in lieu of a farm. We avoid offering botanicals from rare or threatened species of plants growing in the wild to discourage their disruption and disappearance. Our organic oils originate from plants cultivated without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, or herbicides.
To amplify the potency of the aromatic essence in the plant being distilled, our harvesters gather the part of the plant needed for the oil at the ideal time of day for each plant. An ancient and artful distillation method further ensures that the maximum amount of compounds and trace elements are captured in every drop. Most of our oils are distilled with nothing more than pure water.
Our 'absolute' oils are a unique type of extraction used required by a few plants that that need a solvent to liberate the aromatic molecules from the plant's cellulose. The solvent is cleanly removed after distillation.
Singles, Carriers and DIY Advice
Some people prefer to blend their own botanicals, and we offer single note essences and carrier oils to empower creative mixing. We are happy to offer good-mixing tips and encourage wise experimentation. Most of our Libation bottles and lids can easily be washed and reused to contain your own creations before they are recycled.
Better than Good: Libations' Manufacturing Quality Assurance
The FDA maintains a quality assurance recommendations check-list for the food, drug, and cosmetics industries called the Good Manufacturing Practice. The GMP check-list includes guidance on all areas of business: record keeping and controls, manufacturing facility suitability, equipment appropriateness, personnel and training, processing standards, laboratory hygiene, the storage and handling of products and ingredients, and customer service administration. Participation in the GMP is voluntary, and Living Libations adheres to its industry recommendations and our quality control exceeds the recommendations.
Living Libations' Legitimate Labeling
We practice legitimate labeling, and we put the ingredients list right on the front of the bottle as an invitation to be read. We make each formula with care and attention, and we want Libations lovers to easily find and understand what is in each product.
Free from artificial and synthetic colors, preservatives, fragrances, and petrochemicals, every component of a Libation is an active ingredient. We preserve purity, space, and resources by offering full potency products without fillers or diluters. Our essential oils and supercritical extracts are highly concentrated, and with some of our botanicals, a whole plant is required to create a single drop of oil.
As a family and as the creators of Libations, we are totally gluten free. All Libations are gluten-free. Oat straw (Avena sativa) is also known as milky oats. Our certified gluten-free oat straw is an herbal infusion of the green, unripe stem or straw of the oat plant, and the seeds, which are the cereal grain, are not included in the infusion.
Our Libations creations are as raw as possible. All of our fatty oils are cold pressed and completely unheated. There is no such thing as a raw essential oil because they are produced by steam distilling plant matter. Libations' oils are produced using a long and slow distillation at the lowest temperature possible.
Discern What's Real
All essential oils are not equal. Due diligence is needed if you want only really pure and authentic botanical oils. Many distributers and marketers use terms such as "Grade A," "therapeutic grade," and "aroma-therapeutic grade" to describe their oils. Yet, these are words without meaning. No organization, association, or commission monitors the purity or quality of essential oils, and there is no universal essential oil grading system in place. Be aware.
Each essential oil has specific components that make it distinctive and authentic, and there are published standards defining these profiles. Various countries, including the US, have published pharmacopoeias that outline exacting chemical and physical standards for hundreds of botanical oils. There is also a universal standard for most botanicals maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO).
The ISO and the pharmacopoeias are not regulating bodies or purity-police. No one holds distillers or distributers to the published standards or monitors for quality. It is very important to know your source.
Global Responsibility is a popular marketing trend and for this we are deeply grateful. Living Libations' rigorous standard of purity honors the health and preservation of forests, lakes and rivers, farms, the people who cultivate and distill for us, our families, our neighbors, and our clients.
For over 20 years we have nurtured personal relationships with artisan distillers and family farmers around the globe so that we may secure authentic oils and extracts that are purely and fairly produced. Many of the highest quality plants and flowers used in plant oils are indigenous to the developing world, and the people native to those regions learned from their families the ancient craft of distillation. We can track the source of our oils from the plant growing in the field to the oil arriving on our doorway. It is our pleasure to observe fair trade practices so that our skilled farmers, harvesters, and distillers are safe and earn a fair wage for their labor and goods.
Essential oil yields vary from year to year depending on weather patterns, plant growth and health, and even political stability in some regions. As with wine, some years are just better than others. All of these factors influence the availability and the price of the botanicals we use.
Animal Attraction
Almost all Libations are vegan. There are a few products that include ethically harvested and produced beeswax: the lip glosses and balms, the perfume balms, Maidenfern Blushing Balm, and Jai Baby Balm. Sundew Transdermal Vitamin D Crème contains vitamin D from lanolin, which occurs naturally on the wool of woolly animals, such as sheep.
Animal Testing is and always has been a non-issue for Libations creations. Botanical oils have blessed and benefited humans for all of recorded history, and this is copious proof of their safety and effectiveness.
Our Living Ethic of Nature, Beauty, and Being
Beauty is everyone's birthright as a blessing of nature. It is the effervescent insignia of the divinity in our souls. Beauty endures with time. It cannot be pursued, purchased, or put on. Tending to Beauty is simple; step into it and liberate it from vogue inclinations, marketing madness, and artificial facades.
Every Libations creation presents itself to reignite one's being. Our creations kaleidoscope nature's essence from a web wider than wonder and invite the cosmic intelligence of botanicals into an outpouring of delight.
Our Libations proclaim, "Let light pour through the door of every parched and perked pore. Engage with the pure plant poetry that sparks your cellular effervescence."
Revivified, our cells dance diamonds on a sunlit lake.
Attentive awareness grew our creations, mixed with a dash of play! Libations is here to enchant: to enhance the ambiance, to flora the aura, and to mist, bathe, infuse, diffuse, amuse, and shower sweet-selves with blessings bestowed from rhythms of nature. Nature knows divine.
Self-Dentistry in 8 Steps
Your healthiest mouth ever is just a few steps away! With Livings Libations' Successful Self-Dentistry program, you'll wake up ready to kiss the day.
With our comprehensive line of oral care products, creating the smile of your dreams has never been easier. Each component of the Successful Self-Dentistry line has been hand-selected for its naturally potent power to promote an optimum oral environment. Whether used individually or as part of our 8-step program, each product offers targeted care for your gums, tongue and pearly whites!
Our potent and versatile Yogi Tooth Serum and Healthy Gum Drops are a great place to begin your journey toward a healthier smile, and provide the foundation for a comprehensive oral care program.
Adding our new Ozonated Healthy Gum Gel and Tooth-Truth-Pastes to your regimen will incorporate the added benefits of ozone, which balances the ecology of gums and tissue in the mouth. Just apply a thin layer of gel to the gums as the final step in your ritual, and rest easy knowing that all-mighty ozone is guarding your mouth from damaging bacterial invaders while you slumber peacefully.
Step One: The Salt Rinse
• Create a salt water solution to keep in your bathroom (16oz of spring water to 1oz of salt in a mason jar)
• Add a drop of Yogi Tooth Serum or Healthy Gum Drops to a shot-glass full of salt water. Swirl the solution before brushing, spit.
Step Two: Scrape the Tongue
• Holding ends of tongue scraper, gently scrape the tongue from back to front 2-3 times. Rinse the scraper off each time.
Step Three: Brush the Gums
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Once you get your spending under control, the next step in your life after filing for bankruptcy is to create and stay within a budget. Seems obvious, but many of us just aren't budgeting our money.
Living within a budget doesn't mean you have to live an existence of never getting what you want. In fact, you may not be getting what you really want because you're spending money on items you don't really need or that don't make you happy.
So a budget can actually help you get the things you want by keeping you focused on where your money is going. Don't think of a budget as a way to deny yourself things; think of it as a way to empower yourself to make intelligent financial decisions
Make the most our your bankruptcy filing. Create a budget and stick to it.
Creating a budget and living within it are obviously two different things. Creating a budget is relatively easy to do; the hard part is sticking to it. You can use several methods, however, to keep yourself within your budget.
The most important thing to do is to keep reminding yourself why you're doing this.
Remind yourself that you established a budget to break habits that got you into financial trouble in the first place and that your goal is to free up money that you can use to buy necessities or to save for the things that make you truly happy.
The next thing you need to do is keep a close watch on your spending. Many people think they've done all the work they need when they set up the budget and then they forget about following it.
You may well be tempted to forget this five dollar expense here and that ten dollar one there. But all these small amounts add up, causing you to fall short on your monthly budget and to overextend yourself on any credit cards you may still have, thereby landing back in the hot water you're trying to get out of.
You should also think about adjusting your budget if necessary. Be realistic. If you're finding that you simply cannot live without certain expenses, then consider reducing your expenses in other areas. Your specific budget need not be fixed in stone; but your determination to live within it should be.
If you haven't tried all of these techniques, what are you waiting for?
Many of these techniques are easy ways to free up some cash, which will allow you to live more easily within your budget. You probably will think of many more ways to save money on necessities and the other items you regularly purchase once you start getting in the habit of living this way.
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When a supernatural war reaches her farm, Hallie fights to defend her land while struggling with familial estrangement.
The elder sibling always inherits Roadstead Farm, so despite a surprising will left by her late father stating that Hallie and her older sister, Marthe, each own half, Hallie lives with the constant fear that she'll be kicked out. Recent times are especially upsetting. Although the local men marched to war against the Wicked God Southward and returned victorious, they came home wounded and damaged. It turns out the peculiar war isn't finished after all: Twisted Things—the Wicked God's hybrid animal-monsters that scorch and smoke against anything they touch, even air—fall out of the sky to land on Roadstead Farm. Bobet tenderly braids together an enigmatic hired man, a neighbor family sharing the warmth that Hallie and Marthe have lost with each other, and an agricultural setting that at first appears fictional but emerges as a post-apocalyptic North America in which cities fell and machines "went dark." The story's deep and sobering core is about family, blame, misunderstanding, and the nature of home. Despite the clear possibility of utter destruction, the pace of Hallie's narration is unhurried and reflective rather than speedy or suspenseful. A marriage between two men is organic and unremarked-upon. Only an overabundance of poetic but lofty metaphors and similes hampers the flow and the believability of Hallie's voice.
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The Conservation Law Foundation has filed its third lawsuit in as many years against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over Cape Cod's wastewater management plans.
The Conservation Law Foundation has filed its third lawsuit in as many years against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over Cape Cod's wastewater management plans.
The suit filed last week revisits the same arguments that were part of a previous lawsuit dismissed in August by U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf because he said the environmental organization had failed to demonstrate standing.
The group believes it had met the standards of jurisdiction in the first suit but has redoubled its efforts to do so and addressed the concerns Wolf raised, said Christopher Kilian, director of the CLF's clean water and healthy forests program.
The original lawsuit, which was filed in 2010 by CLF and the Buzzards Bay Coalition, focused on how the EPA categorizes sources of nutrient pollution in Cape waters, specifically the nitrogen in wastewater flowing from individual septic systems. Septic systems are considered the region's largest controllable source of excess nitrogen, which is blamed for algae blooms, fish die-offs and other water quality problems on the Cape.
The two nonprofit environmental groups argued that septic systems should be classified as "point source," meaning the pollution comes from a distinct location such as a pipe and falls under EPA regulations.
The agency disagrees, arguing the systems are "nonpoint source," which means they are a more diffuse source of pollution, and therefore fall under state, not federal, jurisdiction.
The EPA has declined repeatedly to discuss the case, including on Monday, citing a policy of not commenting on ongoing litigation.
Although Wolf dismissed the claims in the first lawsuit based on concerns over whether the groups had standing and dismissed three out of four claims in a second lawsuit filed in 2011 over whether the EPA must approve a regional wastewater management plan for the Cape the judge's reasoning for allowing the final claim to stand is critical to CLF's entire argument, Kilian said.
In a memorandum filed with his August decision, Wolf found that the EPA is obligated to determine whether the regional plan – which has not been updated since it was originally written in 1978 – is adequate as part of its review of a revolving loan fund program that directs millions of dollars to projects in the state.
The EPA has asked that the case related to this final claim be put on hold while the Cape Cod Commission works on an update of the regional plan, known as a Section 208 plan under the federal Clean Water Act, the remedy the agency argues CLF is seeking.
"Our complaint doesn't rely on plan update as a requirement on count four," Kilian said about the remaining claim.
Instead, CLF is requesting a corrective action letter under the state revolving loan fund program and that the EPA must participate and add value to the Section 208 update, he said.
The Buzzards Bay Coalition withdrew as a plaintiff from the remaining claim in September.
In addition to the argument in the new lawsuit that the EPA had harmed CLF members because the agency had approved total maximum daily loads for nitrogen in Cape bays and ponds that don't conform with the Clean Water Act and continue to allow the degradation of water quality on the Cape, CLF attorneys reiterated the claim that the approvals are arbitrary and capricious because they ignore the impacts of climate change on water quality standards.
The organization quotes a 2002 paper co-authored by EPA scientist James Titus to help drive home its point.
"Climate change will likely influence the vulnerability of estuaries to eutrophication in several ways, including changes in the mixing characteristics caused by alterations in freshwater runoff, and changes in temperature, sea level, and exchange with the coastal ocean," according to the paper.


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Living on pump therapy
Well it has been awhile but I am finally back to check out all my DC friends. Sorry I have been away. I an doing very well on my new pump therapy. It is a little scary sometimes when something goes wrong and my sugars can get high very quickly. But overall my A1c is looking much better and I am feeling better too! It does take awhile to get used to the pump, but I think it is well worth it.
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I am using the omnipod, it is taking some getting used to. overall I am having a great experiance. It is a little scary when things go wrong but overall I am doing much better. Last A1c was my best ever and the doc said he didn't want it to go much lower.
I am so happy to hear you are enjoying the insulin pump. It has been a god sent gift to me as well. I have no regrets with my the decision I made. Keep up the good work you are doing.
Hi Preacher, I am pleased that you like your pump and are having success with it. It took me almost 3 months to get my pumping going smoothly. There was so much tweaking to do to avoid the highs and lows I experienced at the beginning. Making small changes instead of bigger ones worked best for me. Much of the success made with diabetes management is accomplished by taking small steps, instead of proceeding full speed ahead. Let us know if you have any questions.
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In the latest round of new year's forecasts, a noticeably absent topic from more general predictions for the packaging industry was the requirement for companies to comply with conflict minerals legislation.
This is of course hardly surprising as no EU legislation currently exists on conflict minerals – the legal obligation for companies to audit their supply chains to ensure they aren't using the disputed minerals. In the US, the 'conflict minerals' the law applies to are defined as tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold (or 'three ts and a g' as they're known in the industry). The legislation places an obligation on publicly traded corporations to report if the metals in their products are smelted from minerals mined within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or adjoining countries.
It's important to note that in the US the conflict minerals law doesn't directly apply to packaging but refers to the manufacturers of the packaging machinery and equipment associated with producing it – for example, the laptops and design computers used.
It's likely that the EU will soon produce its own version of the 2013 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to ensure that EU companies don't subsidise war or forced labour via their supply chain.
Whilst the EU is yet to reveal detailed plans to emulate US legislation, it's under pressure from various political and environmental interest groups to grow some teeth on this issue – especially from manufacturers in the supply chains of American public corporations. This follows concern that the EU is at risk of becoming a trading hub for conflict minerals. Recent figures released by the European Commission estimate the EU was responsible for almost 25% of global trade in imports of tin, tantalum and tungsten in 2013 – the trading of which has helped to fund conflicts that have killed tens of thousands of people. This figure included the import of more than 100 million laptops into the EU – all of which contain these minerals.


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Private Sponge actor passes away
It is with great sadness that I report that Colin Bean passed away on Saturday 20 June 2009. Colin played Private Sponge throughout the whole of nine years Dad's Army was produced and was a keen supporter of the Dad's Army Appreciation Society for many years. An ever-present section leader in the Walmington-on-Sea platoon, Private Sponge was seen in the second rank in most parade scenes. As time moved on, he was given several speaking parts and a little character development. Colin's career was varied, but he will be best remembered for the part he played in Dad's Army.
In later years, Colin regaled audiences with stories about his time filming Dad's Army in the popular 'An Audience with Colin Bean' events, some of which were filmed and can be seen on YouTube.
The story is reported in Wigan Today and can be read here.
Rest in peace Colin, you will be most affectionately remembered.
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Sunday, 1 May 2016
"We Are Zombies Rewriting Our Mental History," Darwinian Researchers Say
Joel Kontinen
For Darwinists, free will is a hot potato that obviously should be avoided at all costs.
This also applies to consciousness that happens to be "a ghostly thing" in a naturalistic world. Evolution can't explain it.
And so we are treated to a Darwinian just so story.
A new version features humans as zombies. Adam Bear and Paul Bloom conducted a series of experiments at Yale University. Volunteers looked at white circles and had to guess which one would turn red.
The test subjects managed to predict the right circle more often than if they had done so by mere chance, giving them a feeling of being in control.
However, the researchers "placed different delays between the white circles' appearance and one of the circles turning red, ranging from 50 milliseconds to one second. Participants' reported accuracy was highest – surpassing 30 per cent – when the delays were shortest."
The researchers suggest that it "is possible that we perceive the order of events correctly – one circle changes colour before we have actually made our prediction – but then we subconsciously swap the sequence in our memories so the prediction seems to come first. Such a switcheroo could be motivated by a desire to feel in control of our lives."
The results prompted Bear to suggest, "We are essentially zombie agents most of the time under the illusion that we're always aware of why we're doing what we're doing."
It might do us good to remember what Mark Twain famously wrote: "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Hutson, Matthew. 2016. We are zombies rewriting our mental history to feel in control. New Scientist (15 April).
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Symptoms and treatment of narcolepsy
Caused by neurons in the brain producing low levels of hypocretin (a protein found in spinal fluid), narcolepsy is a sleep disorder in which a person experiences excessive and uncontrollable sleeping throughout the day. These "sleep attacks" last for approximately 15 minutes and can occur while driving, having a conversation or while participating in non-physically stimulating activities.
The most common symptoms exhibited by a person with this disorder include sleep paralysis (in which the patient experiences temporary paralysis before and after sleep), muscle weakness or cataplexy (brought on by physical expressions of emotions such as laughter), and hallucinations that occur at the brink of sleep or upon awakening.
About 50 percent of patients diagnosed with the disorder detected symptoms of narcolepsy between age 15 and 30, though there are a few cases in which the disorder was detected as early as age 10.
Neurologists at neurology clinics perform sleep studies such as polysomnograms and a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) to diagnose the disorder. The MSLT measures the time it takes a patient to fall asleep during one of the daytime sleep attacks. Other tests that help detect narcolepsy include electrocardiograms (which measure the electrical activity of the heart), electroencephalograms (which measure electrical activity in the brain) and in some instances, a blood test, since some studies indicate that narcolepsy could be genetic.
Though there is no known cure or prevention method for narcolepsy, there are a few ways to control the symptoms of the disorder. These measures include:
- Scheduled naps that regulate sleep and reduce the number of daily sleep attacks.
- Eating light meals before important events or activities. Drowsiness is usually brought on by consumption of heavy meals, which is when a sleep attack is likely to occur.
Patients diagnosed with narcolepsy may experience social and academic difficulties. In most cases, patients are restricted from driving and operating machinery.
Neurologists most commonly prescribe stimulant medications such as Dexedrine and Dextrostat, and some antidepressants like Ritalin and Provigil to reduce the feeling of weakness.
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"Fred and Pat were awesome neighbors. We would often find golf balls in our yard from Fred's walks! In fact we have two big buckets of them still. We...Read More »
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"Uncle Fred has always been there in my life. I think he and Aunt Patsy went on their first date the year I was born. He was always so gentle and kind...Read More »
2 of 23 | Posted by: Doug and Tina Strong - Auburn, GA
"As neighbors and friends, we enjoyed our relationship with Fred and Pat for many years. We will miss seeing Fred in his daily walks. Dennis and...Read More »
3 of 23 | Posted by: A friend
"RIP Fred...you will be missed, you were a very kind man...god speed & Blessings to the whole family...
4 of 23 | Posted by: Barry & Sharon Sherman - MI
"Uncle Fred was the kindest, gentlest man I knew. He was amazing with babies. They just knew he was the best! Love you and miss you. We are all so...Read More »
5 of 23 | Posted by: Terry Garrison - Battle creek, MI
"I worked with Fred for many years at GM he was a real good person to work with we had some good times .Are prayers are with they family rest in peace...Read More »
6 of 23 | Posted by: Bill&Linda Hinga - Climax, MI
"Wanda and I will miss Fred's upbeat presence. He always had time for everybody. Our sympathy to the familyDennis & Wanda Hinklin
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"Kathy/Cindy.....I've always been grateful, to your Dad, for the way that he was receptive since my arrival in '90 @ G.L. We've had some very light...Read More »
8 of 23 | Posted by: Greg Nikitas - Delton, MI
"We miss seeing Fred taking his daily walks around the neighborhood. He was loved by everyone who knew him as he stopped to chat with neighbors as...Read More »
9 of 23 | Posted by: Ronda Furrow - Kalamazoo
"For Mom and Dad , May this light shine for the greatest power of all...LOVE....together again !We love you both and will miss you everyday!
10 of 23 | Posted by: Patrick ,Dani and Scarlette Murray - MI
"We want to extend our sympathy to Fred's family. We will surely miss him. We have many fond memories of times spent with Fred and Pat in Panama City...Read More »
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"Prayers and sympathy for your loss. Uncle Fred will be greatly missed. Such a cheerful and kind man.
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"So sorry to hear of Fred's passing. We will also miss him. We enjoyed seeing him in Florida. Condolences to family.
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"So sorry to hear of Fred's passing. We enjoyed being with him also in Florida. We will miss him very much. Condolences to family.
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Fredrick Lee Murray of Kalamazoo, MI
Fred, age 72, died Friday, November 18, 2016.
Fred was born on November 24, 1943 in Battle Creek, MI, to Mike and Mary (Day) Murray. He worked for thirty two years at General Motors in Kalamazoo. He was known to many as a kind and gentle man. He loved to watch his children and grandchildren's sporting events, along with Michigan sports teams and he loved to fish.
He is leaving a legacy of caring for others, especially his wife of 51 years, Patricia "Patsy," who preceded him in death in 2014. He is survived by his four children, Dennis Murray (Denise), Patrick Murray (Dani), Cindy Murray (Carla), and Kathy Sherman (Tim), along with several grandchildren and great grandchildren and his companion for the past two years, Becky Haywood. His generosity will be remembered by all who met him.
His daughter, Cindy, will officiate his Memorial Service on Sunday, December 11th at Noon at Farley Estes Dowdle Funeral Home & Cremation Care, Richland Chapel, 9170 East D Avenue (M-89). A meal will follow the service at the Richland Area Community Center, 9400 East CD Avenue. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to the Alzheimer's Association, Michigan Great Lakes Chapter, 350 E. Michigan Avenue #20, Kalamazoo, MI 49007.