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To Win Election 2016: Ride the Black Swan!
To Win Election 2016: Ride the Black Swan!
REAL Hope and BIG Change
As numerous October surprises unfold on the eve of Election Day 2016, we conservatives can set aside the feelings of futility and helplessness we sometimes felt as we watched the progressive takeover of our nation that has been grinding slowly since the 1960's.
There IS now great hope and opportunity for the restoration of the Judeo-Christian values on which our nation was founded, and which have brought us to the prosperity that we have worked for and enjoyed until recently, for over 200 years.
We now have the opportunity for a very rapid reversal of the moral slide in this election, provided we ride the Black Swan.
And what IS the Black Swan, and how do we ride it?
We actually hold power WAY beyond the sum of our cumulative votes, if only we would realize it and use it.
So let's get to the background and clarify what this means.
CNBC, Trump and the Black Swan
CNBC recently referred to the recent FBI/Comey/Weiner/Hillary e-mail developments a a "black swan development."
For those unfamiliar with the term, "black swans" refer to a serious political theory which holds that some most significant events in human history are not the result of careful human planning by professional politicians or by democratic elections, but are steered instead by completely unpredictable, seemingly almost random events which can alter the course of history very dramatically.
So CNBC appears to view the most recent Hillary email scandal as potentially game-changing, and certainly not proceeding according to plan.
Are Black Swans Good or Bad?
Are They Truly Uncontrollable?
This is where I like to interject the observation that Black Swans, both in nature and in political theory, are NOT necessarily considered negative, evil or dark. Black Swan analogy was introduced simply because the Black Swan is so rare that at one point in history it was thought not to exist. The Black Swan represents a very rare and very unpredictable event, which can be either good or bad, but which defies all odds and probabilities.
In my world view, which is based on a strong Faith in a very good, very brilliant, very invested and very accessible God, Black Swan events represent the influence of the ever-present war between Good and Evil, between God and Satan, on human events.
And what only those with very strong faith realize, is that the tides if this war are seriously affected by the moral standards we humans adopt and the prayers that we pray as the people of God.
Yes, WE can control the Black Swans, albeit indirectly and only God willing. But we fight back evil with courage, hard work, and most importantly, PRAYER.
Media and God and Probability
The media has recently begun acknowledging the existence of God, although intermittently, and recently The Daily Mirror even acknowledged that Britain's Brexit appeared to be affected by an "Act of God." Now, CNBC seems ready to acknowledge at least the role of rare and unpredictable Black Swan events in elections, and to suggest the possibility that Hillary Clinton's election may be threatened by such Black Swan events.
So let us summarize briefly why the recent Hillary email developments seem to defy all odds, then move on to the question of how we can contribute to the course of American history in ways that make us feel less powerless.
- * Numerous Black Swans have been arriving during this election season, including Donald Trump himself, who was a big surprise to everyone.
- * But most recently, Hillary's clandestine private email server was hacked, and her traitorous global pay-for-play game was exposed on Wikileaks.
- * Hillary was sufficiently powerful to get President Obama to influence the head of the FBI Comey, and the Attorney General of the United States Lynch, to gloss over Hillary's negligence and the multiple felonies she had committed.
- * The only way the head of the FBI could squirm out of the bind he was in, torn between serving Justice and answering to Congress, yet obeying directions from President Obama and Attorney General Lynch, was by promising Congress that he will reopen the case and inform them if any additional information surfaces regarding the case.
- Note that the only alternative to this promise of Comey's would have been to refuse to promise to reopen the investigation if additional evidence surfaced.
- Next, what are the chances that a sexually disordered man happens to be married to Hillary's closest aide, and that aide uses her home computer for backups?
- Also the chance that that man sells out his wife and barters his computer for clemency when he is caught sexting with 15 year old girls?
- Back to the backups- what is the chance that an accidental backup occurs, if you believe yesterday's news, as Huma Abedin apparently claimed. She accidentally backed up 650,000 emails while trying to back up her contact list. (?!)
- Alternatively, they may have been purposeful backups. When you're dealing with Mr. & Mrs. 54 body-count Clinton, even if you are a close associate, it might be wise to keep some insurance backed up at home. After all, the Clinton empire resembles very closely the TV series House of Cards.
- And so, the FBI becomes aware of hundreds of thousands of emails, in all probability including the 30,000 or so that Hillary scrubbed from her server before turning information over to the FBI in March. The FBI must reopen the investigation.
- And now the FBI director MUST inform Congress, or face future prosecution himself for participation in what now called by some the Clinton Cartel and it's traitorous global agenda. How fortuitous is it that Congress demanded a promise from Comey that locked Comey in?
- Most recently, Hillary demands that the details be disclosed. Of course. So that the case against her could be compromised and important evidence would have to be excluded from future trials. Hillary is always looking for fools. It's worked for her well in the past.
The Probability
If we took the trouble to calculate the odds of each of the above events happening, and to determine the probability of all of them happening in a series, you would probably find that the probability is so low that it's comparable to the probability of a meteor hitting the earth this afternoon.
And that is the definition of Black Swan events.
Events that were not planned by politicians or other groups of people, events that defy all odds, and events that have transformative power over human history.
An example of such an event is the Christianization of Europe by the Emperor Constantine, who, it may comfort us conservatives to know today, as we conservatives chew our fingernails over Mr. Trump, it may comfort us to know that the Emperor Constantine was not particularly saintly at the time. Yet he ended the era in which Christians were fed to lions, an option that Hillary Clinton might even find attractive today, if the recently found emails of her staff ridiculing Catholics and attempts to infiltrate and change the Catholic religion from the inside are any indication of Hillary's views.
It is not surprising to people of Faith that God often uses human individuals who are not close to or "inside" the Church for His purposes. This is where I start chuckling, and admire immensely the sense of humor God so obviously has.
We have to recognize a good black swan when we see one.
We have to welcome and ride the numerous Black Swans that are arriving.
We do NOT say no to the lifelines God is sending.
And we have to keep praying for more Black Swans, or they will stop arriving.
We all have to VOTE
* We MUST go to the polls.
* WE HAVE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP, who officially supports the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian principles on which it was based. Who has defended Christianity and the unborn publicly more than once.
* We have to vote Republican down the line– THIS election is not about parties, but about choosing a system of ethics. Judeo-Christian ethics, or the Dictator-of-the-Day ethics that progressives represent?
If you don't want Hillary and Abortion set up as our new Gods, you have to vote for Trump.
We all have to PRAY
* Pray for the Election
* Pray for the re-Christianization of the United States
* PRAY FOR TRUMP, that his "conversion" to conservative principles and his pledge to protect Christianity and unborn children in the United States is sustained and supported by action on his part.
I got an important reminder from a friend, Nancy Bartlett, President of Republican Women of Dane County: prayers of thanksgiving and praise are always due to our very awesome God, before, during and after all our crises.
Even if Donald Trump and the ethical Republican Platform don't win this election, this 2016 election has already brought the most important issues to the forefront of discussion- the dismemberment of unborn babies and protection of the religious freedom of Christians. Being able to talk about these things publicly and in political circles is an important first step. And Donald Trump is responsible for this change. Praise be to God! How mysterious are His ways.
See How to Pray the Rosary PDF
See Also: A Woman Speaks Up –on Trump


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Researchers say the analysis was intended to more precisely gauge the ecological consequences of climate change. Studies have already estimated that species such as butterflies are creeping toward the poles at a rate of six kilometers per decade as temperatures rise. Some species, however, may not be able to keep pace with future changes potentially leading to new regional ecosystems as novel climate patterns emerge, possibly leading to extinctions if some climates disappear entirely.
To evaluate the range of possible outcomes, ecologists John Williams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Stephen Jackson of the University of Wyoming, along with U.W. Madison climatologist John Kutzbach compared global climate projections published last month by the fourth IPCC with current regional climates, looking specifically at average summer and winter temperatures and precipitation. They considered scenarios of either unchecked greenhouse gas emissions or a global reduction in the rate of emissions growth.
They found that the business-as-usual scenario comes with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area. An additional 10 to 48 percent of land would see its climate zones disappear, replaced by patterns of temperature and precipitation now occurring elsewhere, such as rain forest becoming savanna or evergreen forest becoming deciduous. In the reduced-emissions scenario, the group reports that the two kinds of change would each take hold over 4 to 20 percent of land.
In the case of unchecked emissions, "we are going to be seeing climates that certainly are completely outside the range of modern human experience," Jackson says. According to the analysis, new climates would be most dramatic in the rain forests of the Amazon and Indonesia, but would extend as far toward the poles as the American southeast.
Climate disappearance would occur in tropical mountains and near the poles, including regions such as the Andes, the African highlands, Indonesia and the Philippines, parts of the Himalayas and near the Arctic. With nowhere to go, species in these regions might become extinct, the group notes in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Jackson says that prior studies have concentrated on ecological changes closer to the poles, but the tropical changes might be more dramatic. "If [the climate of] Memphis moves to Chicago, we have a Memphis there to say what Chicago will look like," he says. "For an area where we don't have a modern analogue, there's really nothing to look at to say, this is what the environment will look like."

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This file provides autoconf support for those applications that want to embed python. It supports all pythons >= 2.2 which is the first official release containing distutils. Version 2.2 of python was released December 21, 2001. Since it actually executes the python, cross platform configuration will probably not work. Also, most of the platforms supported are consistent until you look into Mac OS X. The python included with it is installed as a framework which is a very different environment to set up the normal tools such as gcc and libtool to deal with. Therefore, once we establish which python that we are going to use, we use its distutils to actually compile and link our modules or applications.
At this time, it does NOT support linking with Python statically. It does support dynamic linking.
This set of macros help define $PYTHON, $PYTHON_USE, $PYTHON_CSPEC and $PYTHON_LSPEC. $PYTHON defines the full executable path for the Python being linked to and is used within these macros to determine if that has been specified or found. These macros do execute this python version so it must be present on the system at configure time.
$PYTHON_USE is an automake variable that defines whether Python support should be included or not in your application. $PYTHON_CSPEC is a variable that supplies additional CFLAGS for the compilation of the application/shared library. $PYTHON_LSPEC is a variable that supplies additional LDFLAGS for linking the application/shared library.
The following is an example of how to set up for python usage within your application in your configure.in:
AX_PYTHON_DEFAULT( ) AX_PYTHON_ENABLE( ) # Optional AX_PYTHON_WITH( ) # Optional AX_PYTHON_PATH( ) # or AX_PYTHON_INSIST( ) # if $PYTHON is not defined, then the following do nothing. AX_PYTHON_VERSION_ENSURE( [2.2] ) AX_PYTHON_CSPEC AX_PYTHON_LSPEC
The AX_PYTHON_DEFAULT sets the $PYTHON_USE to false. Thereby, excluding it if it was optional.
The AX_PYTHON_ENABLE looks for the optional configure parameters of –enable-python/–disable-python and establishes the $PYTHON and $PYTHON_USE variables accordingly.
The AX_PYTHON_WITH looks for the optional configure parameters of –with-python/–without-python and establishes the $PYTHON and $PYTHON_USE variables accordingly.
The AX_PYTHON_PATH looks for python assuming that none has been previously found or defined and issues an error if it does not find it. If it does find it, it establishes the $PYTHON and $PYTHON_USE variables accordingly. AX_PYTHON_INSIST could be used here instead if you want to insist that Python support be included using the –enable-python or –with-python checks previously done.
The AX_PYTHON_VERSION_ENSURE issues an error if the Python previously found is not of version 2.2 or greater.
Once that these macros have be run, we can use PYTHON_USE within the makefile.am file to conditionally add the Python support such as:
Makefile.am example showing optional inclusion of directories:
if PYTHON_USE plugins = plugins src = src else plugins = src = endif
SUBDIRS = . $(plugins) $(src)
Makefile.am example showing optional shared library build:
if PYTHON_USE lib_LTLIBRARIES = libElemList.la libElemList_la_SOURCES = libElemList.c libElemList_la_CFLAGS = @PYTHON_CSPEC@ libElemList_la_LDFLAGS = @PYTHON_LSPEC@ endif
Makefile.am example showing optional program build:
if PYTHON_USE bin_PROGRAMS = runFunc runFunc_SOURCES = runFunc.c runFunc_CFLAGS = @PYTHON_CSPEC@ runFunc_LDFLAGS = @PYTHON_LSPEC@ endif
The above compiles the modules only if PYTHON_USE was specified as true. Also, the else portion of the if was optional.
Download the latest version of ax_python_embed.m4 or browse the macro's revision history.
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Celebrate your love of sewing with this stack of colorful fabric, fabric tape measure, and tomato pin cushion applique mini quilt pattern. Sew Necessary pattern uses fusible applique a little bit of embroidery and a whole-lotta cute to create this little do-able quilty themed wall hanging.
This do-it-yourself quilted wall hanging comes with optional thread and needle wall hanger. This easy to make any season quilt appliqué project will bring your love of quilting to any room in your home.
So, what's included?
What's special about our instructions? Everything is explained, and nothing is assumed.Your packet includes binding directions, as well as hand-embroidery stitch diagrams with notes to answer all your questions. We also include non-reversed pattern sheets without labeling or text for folks with personal cutting machines.
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Skill Level:Easy. This quilt appliqué pattern is perfect for those who know quilting basics. Just a small amount of hand embroidery and embellishing required.
What you'll need: Fabric of your choice, batting, basting spray, fusible webbing, thread
We recommend: Warm & Natural Cotton Batting, 505 Spray and Fix Temporary Fabric Adhesive, Heat 'n Bond Fusible Web, and Valdani Thread.
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Every order ships in 1 to 2 days. We know how excited you are to get your pattern in your shop, and find it irritating when companies make you wait! In the event we are out of stock, we will notify you the soonest approximate ship date.
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Our customer service will knock your socks off! If you have any questions, comments, or special requests, you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com cherry on top: We will never discontinue any of our patters, so you can always be sure that you can always buy the one you love, whether that's for yourself, or for a quilting buddy.


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Workers' Compensation for You and Your Employees
Protect Your Employees with a Worker's Compensation Plan
McKinneyOlson Insurance understands the value of good employees. We know that your day-to-day operations depend on their hard work, expertise, and dedication, and if you supply them with quality benefits and plans, they can work with the peace of mind that they are properly protected.
But should an accident happen, having the right workers' compensation plan from McKinneyOlson Insurance can allow your business to ensure payments and cover expenses if an employee is injured from a work-related accident. Injuries can range from car accidents and back injuries to equipment malfunctions and, in some unfortunate cases, death.
Workers' compensation can cover financial obligations such as:
- An injured employee's medical expenses/treatment
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Placement of copper objects in intensive care unit (ICU) hospital rooms reduced the number of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) in patients by more than half, according to a new study published in the May issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, in a special topic issue focused on the role of the environment in infection prevention.
In the United States, HAIs result in 100,000 deaths annually and add an estimated $45 billion to healthcare costs. HAIs often contaminate items within hospital rooms, allowing bacteria to transfer from patient to patient. Common microbes include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). While several strategies have been developed to decrease HAIs, few have been clinically proven to reduce the spread of these infections. The researchers tested the capability of copper surfaces to reduce environmental contamination of these germs and thereby decrease HAIs in patients. Copper surfaces have an inherent ability to continuously kill environmental microbes on these surfaces.
The study was performed from July 12, 2010 to June 14, 2011 at three medical centers including the Medical University of South Carolina, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Patients who were admitted to the ICU of these hospitals were randomly assigned to receive care in a traditional patient room or in a room where items such as bed rails, tables, IV poles, and nurses call buttons were made solely from copper-based metals. Both traditional patient rooms and rooms with copper surfaces at each institution were cleaned using the same practices.
The proportion of patients who developed HAI and/or colonization with MRSA or VRE was significantly lower among patients in rooms with copper surfaces (7.1 percent) compared with patients in traditional rooms (12.3 percent). The proportion of patients developing HAI was significantly lower among those assigned to copper rooms (3.4 percent) compared with those in traditional rooms (8.1 percent).
Patients who suffer HAIs often stay in the hospital longer, incur greater costs, and unfortunately suffer a greater likelihood of dying while hospitalized, says Cassandra D. Salgado, MD, associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina and lead author of the study. Our study found that placement of items with copper surfaces into ICU rooms as an additional measure to routine infection control practices could reduce the risk of HAI as well as colonization with multidrug resistant microbes.
Previous attempts to reduce HAIs have required healthcare worker engagement or use of systems such as ultraviolet light, which may be limited because of regrowth of organisms after the intervention. In contrast, copper alloy surfaces offer a passive way to reduce burden, without staff intervention or involvement with outside providers.
This study was funded through a contract from the U.S. Army Materiel Command, U.S. Department of Defense. One researcher is currently employed by the Copper Development Association (CDA). CDA assisted in the development and fabrication of the copper objects for this study.
Reference: Cassandra D. Salgado, Kent A. Sepkowitz, Joseph F. John, J. Robert Cantey, Hubert H. Attaway, Katherine D. Freeman, Peter A. Sharpe, Harold T. Michels, Michael G. Schmidt. Copper Surfaces Reduce the Rate of Healthcare-Acquired Infections in the Intensive Care Unit. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 34:5 (May 2013).


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The Aquarium's "Noon Year's Eve" celebration offers bonus activities for families with younger children who want to celebrate the end of 2017 together, but not at the stroke of midnight.
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., a disc jockey will provide the beat, as well as the countdown to 12 o'clock; 12 o'clock noon, that is. Also on hand will be three strolling entertainers: "bubble-ologist" Kim Winslow, magician Greg Dubin, and family comedy and juggling by Peter Straus.
New Year's Eve also is the final day to experience "Flurry Zone! An Indoor Snow Experience." No matter the weather outside, The Maritime Aquarium is guaranteeing a snowy forecast inside the popular family attraction, thanks to a special snow machine that is producing an hourly flurry each day in December.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every hour, on the hour, snow falls from the ceiling of Newman's Own Hall (where the seals are). Each squall lasts for about five minutes, but – magically – shoveling is not required.
The "Noon Year's Eve" entertainment, and "Flurry Zone! An Indoor Snow Experience," are free with Aquarium admission.
Get details about all of The Maritime Aquarium's events, exhibits and IMAX movies, including "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," at www.maritimeaquarium.org.
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MUHAS Online application 2021/2022: The eagerly awaited moment, the MUHAS admission 2021/2022 season has come, this is one of the most essential times of the year to students who wish to pursue undergraduate studies at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS).
It is this time of the year that determines student's future and hence students are advised to avoid making mistakes during this time. To make things clear, TCU has prepared the 2021/2022 admission guidebook as a tool to guide students on admission process, if you haven't read the TCU admission guidebook yet check this link here to familiarize yourself with the Undergraduate Admission Guidebook for 2021/2022 Academic Year.
The MUHAS Online Application System – MUHAS Online Admission system 2021/2022
As a result of an increased number of students applying to the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, student's admission process has become more complex with interested learners applying from different geographical locations, applying for a myriad combination of subjects. In this situation is fast becoming increasingly difficult to handle such a large volume of student's admission in the traditional methods. This has resulted to an increasing need for using technology and adapting to an online admission management system.
Therefore, the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) is the among of the educational institution in Tanzania that have been adapting the use of Online admission system to process students' applications. The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences MUHAS Online Admission System; a web-enabled software designed to manage MUHAS admission related operations (MUHAS Online applications). Using this system; Students can simply apply for the courses they are interested online.
In this post you will learn in details about : how to create an MUHAS online admission account, how to login on to your MUHAS admission login account and make online application at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, how to pay MUHAS online application fees, you will also be able to understand all the important requirements for successful admission at MUHAS.
Important things to consider before applying online at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS).
Consider the following things for a smooth and error-free MUHAS Online application 2021/2022:
- Make sure you have read the TCU Guidebook 2021/2022 carefully: you can check this link for more details about the TCU admission guidebook 2021/2022.
- Familiarize yourself with the MUHAS admission requirements: Before making an application, make sure you have read and understood the MUHAS admission requirements, follow this link to find out more details about MUHAS admission requirements.
- Make a full list programs/courses you are going to apply for at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS).
- Make sure you have a valid and working email address that you will use later while registering your MUHAS online application account through MUHAS Online Application system.
- Make sure you have a valid phone number, as it will be used for all important notification in the future (Notification about your Selection status and verification code will be sent to this number)
- Prepare your MUHAS online application fee: Before starting the application, process make sure you have 10000 TZS Application fee on your mobile money.
How to apply for various Undergraduate programs via MUHAS Online Application 2021/2022 – MUHAS Online Application System
Here we have all the instructions on how to apply for bachelor degree programs at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences via the MUHAS online application system.
NOTE: To make your application easier, you are advised to use supported web browsers such as;
- Google Chrome.
- Mozilla Firefox.
- Microsoft Edge.
Instructions on how to apply for various programmes at MUHAS through MUHAS – Online Application System (OAS) – https://saris2.muhas.ac.tz/OAS/index.php/login/
- Step #1: Visit the MUHAS website and click on the online application link for undergraduate students or postgraduate applicants,
- Step #2: Registration; after clicking the link on step one above, it will direct you to MUHAS online application system, form where you should fill in all the required information, If you are First-time applicant then you need to get registered first, First-time applicants are applicants that have not used the MUHAS online application system before and have no accounts to enable them to log in to the system using their username and passwords. The information needed during registration stage includes your name, O-Level number, email, password, type of programme you are applying, and your qualification mode.
- Step #3: Login to MUHAS online application and provide your basic information. It includes things like your sex, marital status, date of birth, among others. Existing applicants are applicants who have completed Registration in this system before and were able to create accounts to enable them to log in to the system using their username and password. These applicants can log in to the system anytime
- Step #4: Application fee payments: When logged in applicant will be able to make application fee payment and complete the application.
- Step #5: The Online application, online application and course selection feature will only be visible for filling once application fee is paid.
- Step #6: Submit your completed application: In order to successfully complete the application; applicant is required to complete all steps from Home to Submit your application.


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Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for Fibromyalgia
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) affects an estimated two percent of the population. It is diagnosed when there is a history of widespread pain in all four quadrants of the body for a minimum duration of three months, and pain when pressure is applied to at least 11 of 18 designated tender points on the body. In addition to musculoskeletal pain, patients with fibromyalgia can suffer fatigue, sleep disturbance, memory loss, mood swings, and digestive problems.
On its own fibromyalgia does not result in any physical damage to the body or its tissues and there are no laboratory tests which can confirm this diagnosis. Symptoms often begin after a physical or emotional trauma, but in many cases there appears to be no triggering event. Women are more prone to develop the disorder than are men, and the risk of fibromyalgia increases with age.
Research shows that up to 90 percent of people with fibromyalgia have turned to complementary or alternative medicine to manage their symptoms. Acupuncture, in particular, has become a popular treatment choice and has been shown to be an effective treatment for FMS.
An Oriental Medicine Perspective
Oriental medicine does not recognize fibromyalgia as one particular disease pattern. Instead, it aims to treat the symptoms unique to each individual depending on their constitution, emotional state, the intensity and location of their pain, digestive health, sleeping patterns and an array of other signs and symptoms. In Oriental medicine, fibromyalgia pain is seen as a disruption of the flow of Qi within the body and is usually associated with disharmonies of the Liver, Spleen, Kidney and Heart systems.
Since symptoms of fibromyalgia vary greatly from one person to another, a wide array of traditional and alternative treatments have been shown to be the most effective way of treating this difficult syndrome. Therefore, if 10 people are treated with Oriental medicine for fibromyalgia, each of these 10 people will receive a unique, customized treatment with different acupuncture points, different herbs and different lifestyle and dietary recommendations.
A treatment program may include a combination of psychological or behavioral therapies, medications, exercise, acupuncture, herbal medicine and bodywork.
Read more about acupuncture and Oriental medicine for fibromyalgia!
Contact us today and schedule a consultation to see how acupuncture and Oriental medicine can assist you and help you to live a long, healthy life!
Find Fibromyalgia Symptom Relief
Although fibromyalgia is a disorder that can be disabling for many due to chronic widespread pain and fatigue there are some things you can do to alleviate the symptoms and improve your overall quality of life.
Learn and Practice Stress Reduction Techniques
Chronic stress can lead to fatigue, depression, a weakened immune system, and a host of serious physical and psychological ailments. When under stress your muscles contract and tense affecting nerves, blood vessels, organs, skin and bones. Chronically tense muscles can result in a variety of musculoskeletal conditions and disorders including muscle spasms and pain.
While it isn't always possible to remove the external forces causing stress the ability to effectively deal with stress is a choice. Take time for yourself and cultivate the energy you need to handle your stress more effectively.
Eat a Well Balanced Diet
Managing your diet may seem time-consuming but the benefits it offers make it worthwhile. Many fibromyalgia sufferers find relief through a properly managed diet.
While even basic movements may be painful, exercise helps restore strength and endurance. Tai Chi, Qi Gong or Yoga are great for easy stretches, careful strengthening, deep breathing, along with relaxation techniques.
Gentle stretching will clear tension that builds when muscles tighten, and will improve overall circulation. Be sure to check with your doctor before starting any exercise program.
The practice of meditation is a proven stress reducer that helps the body create a sense of calm and a continuing sense of well being.
While 15 minutes daily is recommended, even 5 or 10 minutes can have a powerful effect on your day.
Get Restorative Sleep
Try to get at least 8 hours of restorative sleep. Maintain a routine sleep schedule and make your bedroom a sanctuary from every day stress.
Practicing good sleep hygiene will give your body an opportunity to get stronger and heal.
About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Get Relief from Repetitive Stress Injuries with Acupuncture
Repetitive stress injuries (RSI) are the most common job-related injuries and are responsible for the highest number of days lost among all work related injuries. One of the most well-known types of repetitive stress injury, carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) accounts for over two million visits to physicians' offices and approximately 465,000 carpal tunnel release operations each year, making it the most frequent surgery of the hand and wrist.
Symptoms of repetitive stress injuries include tightness, stiffness, pain, tingling, numbness, coldness and loss of strength in the arm. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a repetitive stress injury that refers to the inflammation of a specific ligament that puts pressure on the median nerve.
Acupuncture is extremely effective for treating repetitive stress injuries including carpal tunnel syndrome; eliminating the need for surgery or the use of anti-inflammatory drugs or corticosteroids. In fact, one of the most common reasons that people get acupuncture is for repetitive stress injuries. Recent studies even suggest that acupuncture may be more effective than corticosteroids when it comes to treating CTS.
What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway in the wrist made up of ligaments and bones. The median nerve and the tendons that connect the fingers to the muscles of the forearm pass through this tightly-spaced tunnel.
Carpal tunnel syndrome, also known as median nerve entrapment, occurs when swelling or irritation of the tendons in the carpal tunnel results in pressure on the median nerve causing pain in the palm side of the wrist and pain and tingling in the fingers. The median nerve controls sensations to the palm side of the thumb and fingers, as well as impulses to some small muscles in the hand that allow the fingers and thumb to move.
Symptoms usually start gradually, with frequent burning, tingling, or numbness in the palm of the hand and the fingers, especially the index, middle and ring fingers. Pain can sometimes travel up the arm and affect the shoulder. The symptoms often first appear during the night. As symptoms worsen, people might feel pain, weakness or numbness in the hand and wrist, radiating up the arm during the day. Decreased grip strength may make it difficult to form a fist, grasp small objects or perform other manual tasks. If not properly treated, CTS can cause irreversible nerve damage and permanent deterioration of muscle tissue.
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William Cohen
|Bill Cohen
|20th United States Secretary of Defense
|In office
January 24, 1997 – January 20, 2001
|Bill Clinton
|John Hamre
Rudy de Leon
|Preceded by
|William Perry
|Succeeded by
|Donald Rumsfeld
|Chairperson of the Senate Aging Committee
|In office
January 4, 1995 – January 3, 1997
|Preceded by
|David Pryor
|Succeeded by
|Chuck Grassley
|Chairperson of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee
|In office
January 5, 1981 – January 3, 1983
|Preceded by
|John Melcher
|Succeeded by
|Mark Andrews
|United States Senator
from Maine
|In office
January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1997
|Preceded by
|Bill Hathaway
|Succeeded by
|Susan Collins
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 2nd district
|In office
January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1979
|Preceded by
|Bill Hathaway
|Succeeded by
|Olympia Snowe
|Personal details
|William Sebastian Cohen
August 28, 1940
Bangor, Maine, U.S.
|Political party
|Diana Dunn (Divorced 1987)
Janet Langhart (1996–present)
|Alma mater
|Bowdoin College
Boston University
|Unitarian Universalism[1]
William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
- 1 Early life and education
- 2 Legal, academic, and early political career
- 3 House of Representatives and Senate
- 4 Secretary of Defense
- 5 Recent years
- 6 Personal life
- 7 Recent publications
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Early life and education
Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine. His mother, Clara (née Hartley), was of Protestant Irish ancestry, and his father, Reuben Cohen, was a Russian Jewish immigrant; the two owned the Bangor Rye Bread Co.[2][3]
After graduating from Bangor High School in 1958, Cohen attended Bowdoin College, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin in 1962. While a student at Bowdoin, Cohen was initiated as a brother of the Kappa chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity.[4]
While in high school and college, Cohen was a basketball player and was named to the Maine all-state high school and college basketball team, and at Bowdoin was inducted into the New England All-Star Hall of Fame. Cohen attended law school at the Boston University School of Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree cum laude in 1965.
Legal, academic, and early political career
After graduating from law school, Cohen earned partnership in a Bangor law firm. He became an assistant county attorney for Penobscot County (1968–1970). In 1968 he became an instructor at Husson College in Bangor, and later was an instructor in business administration at the University of Maine (1968–1972).
Cohen served as the vice president of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association (1970–1972) and as a member of the Bangor School Board (1971–1972). He became a fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 1972, and in 1975 was named as one of the U.S. Jaycee's "ten outstanding young men".
Cohen was elected to the Bangor City Council (1969–1972) and served as Bangor Mayor in 1971-72.
House of Representatives and Senate
In the 1972 election, Cohen won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Maine's 2nd congressional district, succeeding Democrat William Hathaway, who was elected to the US Senate. Cohen defeated Democratic State Senator Elmer H. Violette of Van Buren.
During his first term in Congress, Cohen became deeply involved in the Watergate investigation. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he was one of the first Republicans to break with his party, and voted for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. During this time, Time magazine named him one of "America's 200 Future Leaders".
After three terms in the House, Cohen was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978, defeating incumbent William Hathaway in his first bid for reelection. Cohen was reelected in 1984 and 1990, serving a total of 18 years in the Senate (1979–1997). In 1990 he defeated Democrat Neil Rolde.
In 1994 Cohen investigated the federal government's process for acquiring information technology, and his report, Computer Chaos: Billions Wasted Buying Federal Computer Systems, generated much discussion. He chose not to run for another Senate term in 1996; Susan Collins, who had worked for Cohen, was elected to succeed him. (former Maine senator, Olympia Snowe, had also worked for Cohen while he was in the House of Representatives.)
While in the Senate, Cohen served on both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Governmental Affairs Committee (1979–1997) and was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee 1983–1991 and again 1995–1997. He also participated in the drafting of several notable laws related to defense matters, including the Competition in Contracting Act (1984), the Montgomery G.I. Bill Act (1984), the Goldwater-Nichols Act (1986), the Intelligence Oversight Reform Act (1991), the Federal Acquisition Reform Act (1996), and the Information Technology Management Reform Act, also known as the Clinger-Cohen Act (1996).
Secretary of Defense
Cohen was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the position of Secretary of Defense during Clinton's second term, from 1997 to 2001, an instance of a cabinet appointment that crossed party lines.
As Secretary of Defense Cohen played a large role in directing the United States military actions in Iraq and Kosovo, including the dismissal of Wesley Clark from his post as the NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Both Operation Desert Fox in Iraq and Operation Allied Force in Kosovo were launched just months after al-Qaeda carried out the United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998.
Nomination and confirmation
On December 5, 1996, President Clinton announced his selection of Cohen as secretary of defense. Cohen, a Republican about to retire from the United States Senate, was the "right person," Clinton said, to build on the achievements of William Perry, "to secure the bipartisan support America's armed forces must have and clearly deserve." In responding to his nomination, Cohen said that during his congressional career he had supported a nonpartisan national security policy and commended the president for appointing a Republican to his cabinet.
During his confirmation hearings, Cohen said he thought on occasion he might differ with Clinton on specific national security issues. He implicitly criticized the Clinton administration for lacking a clear strategy for leaving Bosnia and stated that he thought U.S. troops should definitely be out by mid-1998. He also asserted that he would resist further budget cuts, retain the two regional conflicts strategy, and support spending increases for advanced weapons, even if it necessitated further cuts in military personnel. Cohen questioned whether savings from base closings and acquisition reform could provide enough money for procurement of new weapons and equipment that the Joint Chiefs of Staff thought necessary in the next few years. He supported the expansion of NATO and looked on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as the most serious problem the United States faced.
After confirmation by a unanimous Senate vote, Cohen was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of Defense on January 24, 1997. He then settled into a schedule much fuller than he had followed in the Senate. Routinely he arrived at the Pentagon before 7 a.m., received an intelligence briefing, and then met with the Deputy Secretary of Defense (John Hamre 1997-2000, Rudy de Leon 2000-01) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Gen. Hugh Shelton). The rest of the day he devoted to policy and budget briefings, visits with foreign and other dignitaries, and to what he termed "ABC" meetings at the White House with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger as well as President Bill Clinton. He also traveled abroad several times during his first months in office.
Defense budget
One of Cohen's first major duties was to present to Congress the Fiscal Year 1998 Defense budget, which had been prepared under Secretary Perry. Cohen requested a budget of $250.7 billion, which represented 3 percent of the nation's estimated gross domestic product for FY 1998. Cohen stressed three top budget priorities: people (recruiting and retaining skilled people through regular military pay raises, new construction or modernization of barracks, and programs for child care, family support, morale, welfare, and recreation), readiness (support for force readiness, training, exercises, maintenance, supplies, and other essential needs), and modernization (development and upgrading of weapon and supporting systems to guarantee the combat superiority of U.S. forces). This meant increasing the funds available for procurement of new systems, with the target set at $60 billion by FY2001.
When he presented the FY1998 budget, Cohen noted that he would involve himself with the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which would focus on the challenges to U.S. security and the nation's military needs over the next decade or more. When the QDR became public in May 1997, it did not fundamentally alter the budget, structure, and doctrine of the military. Many defense experts thought it gave insufficient attention to new forms of warfare, such as terrorist attacks, electronic sabotage, and the use of chemical and biological agents. Cohen stated that the Pentagon would retain the "two regional wars" scenario adopted after the end of the Cold War. He decided to scale back purchases of jet fighters, including the Air Force's F-22 Raptor and the Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, as well as Navy surface ships. The review included cutting another 61,700 active duty service members — 15,000 in the Army, 26,900 in the Air Force, 18,000 in the Navy, and 1,800 in the Marine Corps, as well as 54,000 reserve forces, mainly in the Army National Guard, and some 80,000 civilians department-wide. Cohen also recommended two more rounds of base closings in 1999 and 2001. The Pentagon hoped to save $15 billion annually over the next few years to make possible the purchase of new equipment and weapon systems without a substantial budget increase above the current level of $250 billion.
International relations and situations
As he settled into office, Cohen faced the question of the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which he supported, and its relationship to Russia. At a summit meeting between President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland, in March 1997, Yeltsin acknowledged the inevitability of broader NATO membership. Two months later he agreed, after negotiations with NATO officials, to sign an accord providing for a new permanent council, to include Russia, the NATO secretary general, and a representative of the other NATO nations, to function as a forum in which Russia could air a wide range of security issues that concerned that country. Formal signing of this agreement would pave the way for a July 1997 invitation from NATO to several nations, probably including Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, to join the organization.
The proposed U.S. missile defense system received attention at the Helsinki summit, where Clinton and Yeltsin agreed to an interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty allowing the United States to proceed with a limited missile defense system currently under development. Specifically, Clinton and Yeltsin agreed to distinguish between a national missile defense system, aimed against strategic weapons, not allowed by the ABMT, and a theater missile defense system to guard against shorter range missile attacks. Some critics thought that any agreement of this kind would place undesirable limits on the development of both theater and strategic missile defenses. The Helsinki meeting also saw progress in arms control negotiations between the United States and Russia, a matter high on Cohen's agenda. Yeltsin and Clinton agreed on the need for early Russian ratification of the Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) and negotiation of START III to make further significant cuts in the strategic nuclear arsenals of both nations.
The continuation, at least until mid-1998, of the existing peacekeeping mission involving U.S. forces in Bosnia and the possibility that other such missions would arise worried Cohen, who earlier had expressed reservations about such operations. Humanitarian efforts that did not involve peacekeeping, such as in Rwanda in the recent past, also seemed likely. Other persistent national security problems, including tension with Iraq in the Persian Gulf area, Libya in North Africa, and North Korea in East Asia, could flare up again, as could the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In preparing future budgets, the challenge would be to find the right mix between money for operation and maintenance accounts on the one hand and modernization procurement funds on the other, while facing the prospect of a flat DoD budget of about $250 billion annually for the next decade or so. A relatively new problem that could affect the DoD budget was vertical integration in the defense industry. It occurred on a large scale in the 1990s as mergers of major defense contractors created a few huge dominant companies, particularly in the aerospace industry. They were called vertical because they incorporated most of the elements of the production process, including parts and subcomponents. Cohen and other Pentagon leaders began to worry that vertical integration could reduce competition and in the long run increase the costs of what the Department of Defense had to buy.
Social issues
Finally, Cohen had to address social issues that engaged the widest public interest. These issues included the status and treatment of lesbians and gays in the military, the role of women in combat as well as in other jobs in the services, racism, and sexual harassment.
Recent years
After leaving the Pentagon in 2001, Cohen founded The Cohen Group, a business consulting and lobbyist firm, with three Pentagon officials, Bob Tyrer, Jim Bodner and H. K. Park. Cohen was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution on March 7, 2002, in New York City.
On January 5, 2006, he participated in a meeting at the White House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with Bush administration officials.
Cohen has written several books, including mysteries, poetry, and (with George Mitchell) an analysis of the Iran-contra affair. He is a Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council. The Washington Post ran an article entitled "From Public Life to Private Business" about Cohen's abrupt transition to the business of Washington lobbying within "weeks of leaving office."[5] It discussed the affairs of the Cohen Group in greater detail and while alleging no specific impropriety, took a generally negative view of the former Senator and Secretary of Defense.
On August 21, 2006, Cohen's novel, Dragon Fire, was released. The plot revolves around a secretary of defense who contends with a potential nuclear threat from a foreign country. He is also set to release a memoir with his wife, author Janet Langhart, entitled Love in Black and White. It is a memoir about race, religion, and the love Langhart and Cohen share over similar life circumstances and backgrounds.[6] On August 22, 2006, Cohen appeared on The Daily Show to promote his novel.[7]
On August 25, 2006, Cohen was interviewed by Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends First, primarily to promote his new novel, but towards the end of the broadcast he said: "I think there should be a commitment to universal service. I think that only a few people are really committed to this war against terrorism.... We ought to have a real call to national service to commit ourselves to some form of public service...to put us on a war footing mentality."
On January 3, 2007, Cohen appeared on CNN to support John Shalikashvili's op-ed in support of ending the policy known as 'Don't ask, don't tell' saying, "The vast majority of service members are personally comfortable working and interacting with gays and lesbians, and there is only so long that Congress can ignore the evidence".[8]
Cohen and Madeleine Albright are co-chairing a new "Genocide Prevention Task Force".[9] Their appointment was criticized by Harut Sassounian[10] and by the Armenian National Committee of America.[11]
He also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America.
Personal life
Cohen filed for divorce from his first wife, Diana Dunn, on February 15, 1987.
On February 14, 1996, Cohen and Janet Langhart[12] were married. Langhart is a former model, Boston television personality, and BET correspondent. Janet Langhart was known as the "First Lady of the Pentagon" during Cohen's tenure as Secretary.[13]
Cohen served as Best Man in then-Senate Naval Liaison John McCain's second wedding (Gary Hart was a groomsman). McCain later became his Senate colleague.[14]
According to the New York Times, Cohen was considered a loner in Congress.[15]
Attack at Holocaust Museum
On the afternoon of June 10, 2009, Cohen was present at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, waiting for his wife Janet Langhart, for the world premiere of her one-act play, Anne and Emmett. The play imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till.[16] While Cohen waited, an elderly man with a long gun attacked the facility, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by the other guards. Cohen and Langhart were not injured, and appeared on CNN that afternoon to tell what they had seen and respond to the shooter's racist beliefs. The man was identified as James W. von Brunn, 88, of Annapolis, a longtime "hard-core" supremacist whose Internet writings contain extensive, poisonous ravings against Jews and African Americans.[17] Langhart's play had been promoted in The Washington Post the week before, and was being presented in honor of the eightieth anniversary of Anne Frank's birth.[18]
Recent publications
- July 7, 2009, On Common Ground Forbes magazine
- June 8, 2009, Smart Power is Soft Power Politico
- June 3, 2009, Nuclear cooperation with U.A.E. in our interest The Hill
- May 28, 2009, Obama's chance to cement ties with India The Financial Times
- May 28, 2009, No time to cut missile defense The Washington Times
- April 23, 2009, The World Depends on U.S.-China Cooperation The Wall Street Journal
- September 30, 2008, The India Deal that Merits Forbes magazine
- December 30, 2007, Changing Our Direction www.nationalinterest.org
- August 12, 2007, What is This Man Thinking? The Washington Post
- February 5, 2007, Perfect Partners Asian Wall Street Journal
- July 17, 2007, Commentary: North Korea's declaration of independence CNN.com
See also
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External links
- Official biography via the Department of Defense
- William Cohen at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Thursday October 2009 Audio interview about government terrorism, individual liberty and foreign war policies. University of Illinois in-depth radio programs on Focus 580
- Computer Chaos: Billions Wasted Buying Federal Computer Systems. Investigative report of Senator William S. Cohen.
- William Cohen to Co-Chair Genocide Prevention Task Force
- Biography from the William S. Cohen Archive, University of Maine Fogler Library
- Voting record maintained by the Washington Post
- Genocide Deniers Set Course for Genocide Prevention
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|Succeeded by
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|Party political offices
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(Class 1)
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|Succeeded by
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Served alongside: Ed Muskie, George Mitchell, Olympia Snowe
|Succeeded by
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|Preceded by
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Chapter 54
Psalm 54
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[b] of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding among us?"
1 Save me, O God, by your name;
vindicate me by your might.
2 Hear my prayer, O God;
listen to the words of my mouth.
3 Arrogant foes are attacking me;
ruthless people are trying to kill me—
people without regard for God.[c]
4 Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
5 Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
in your faithfulness destroy them.
6 I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I will praise your name, Lord, for it is good.
7 You have delivered me from all my troubles,
and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.


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Early Bird: Pre-Thanksgiving Turkey
All done with the my near-freebie turkey. Thankfully, it is now a much more manageable size with the meat removed and the carcass simmering away in my stock pot. Thats right, there will be a soup post in the near future. Going to turn my birdie buddy into my favorite Greek soup tomorrow if time allows.
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2 teaspoons chopped fresh sage
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 clove garlic minced
Cream the mixture together and set aside. Now comes the fun part, where you get really familiar with your dinner. Starting from the neck cavity, slip your hand in between the breast and the skin of your turkey, separating any connective tissue. Get all the way to the other end of the breast making a pocket for all that yummy butter. Repeat on the other breast. Now, take about half the butter and slather it all over both breasts under the skin, using the pockets you've made. Take the rest of the butter and thoroughly rub it over the outside of the bird and inside the cavity. This part is a bit icky, I know. I didn't want to spend my morning elbow deep in a cold turkey, but some things just have to be done. Besides, if the girl who passed out twice in highschool biology can do it, so can you.
I then take 8-10 whole fresh sage leaves and slip them under the skin, arranging them best I can to look pleasing once the turkey is baked. They are hard to see now, but once the turkey is cooked the skin will be crispy, golden and near transparent. The leaves will then show, making a pretty, edible mosaic under the skin. Once that is finished I sprinkle the bird with more kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, stuff some of my remaining fresh sage and parsley into the cavity and it is ready to hit the oven.
Cook at 325°F for however long necessary for the weight of your bird. Check occasionally to see how it is browning, tent with foil towards the end of the cooking if the breast is darkening too quickly. Once the thickest part of the thigh hits 165°F your turkey is ready. Allow the bird to sit for about 20 minutes before carving so the juices can saturate the meat.
The end result should be a moist, flavorful bird with very crispy skin.
Labels: Dinner, Poultry, Recipe, Thanksgiving
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Wow, that sounds delicious. I love the idea of the butter spread. (found you from Tastespotting)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Want, I know what I'm going to make for hogmanay dinner now, thanks!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe. I followed exactly as you posted, and not only did the turkey come out beautiful, but it was moist and delicious. Everyone loved it!ReplyDelete
ohmigoodness I saw picture number five and immediately thought "who in the heck stole that turkey with coal/dirt on their hands?" ...and then promptly realized they were bay leaves carefully placed under the skin. oh boy.ReplyDelete
Just found this...ReplyDelete
...I'm actually having to force myself away from your blog to go to bed now.
I'll blame you when my boss find me soring gently into my keyboard tomorrow.
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iFixit's teardown of the new new iPod touch has revealed a few interesting bits of dormant hardware that could eventually get switched on by the powers that be at Apple. This includes support for 802.11n and FM transmission.
According to their findings, the Broadcom BCM4329 chip does have support for 802.11n—a feature absent even in the iPhone 3GS. Needless to say, if you have an N router and are tired of slumming with a/b/g, this would be a big deal. The chip also supports FM transmission, meaning that software support down the line could allow users to stream music directly to car stereos without any extra hardware—although that possibility seems pretty remote. (The chip's Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and an FM receiver could be a Nike+ thing).
Supporting earlier rumors about the last minute omission of a camera in the touch, the guys at iFixit noted that Apple seemed to leave enough space for a camera at the top of the device—a 6mm x 6mm x 3mm space between the Broadcom chip and the wireless antenna that just might be able to hold the small camera now found in the nano. Of course, empty space doesn't mean that the camera can actually be integrated, or help you if have your heart set on the 3rd generation touch, but you can keep your fingers crossed that Apple will switch on the other features via a software update down the line. [ifixit]