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Gaza Mind-Body Training in the News
Dear Friends,
Check out the great AP story by Karin Laub about our Gaza training–
At the Washington Post (you may have to close an ad first to read it)
Or at Google News
It's an great take on how our mind-body skills training is an unconventional fit, but an immense help, to people within the Palestinian culture. (Great picture of me shaking & dancing up front, too (!!!))
We're in Israel now—flying back to the States soon. More soon.
All the best,
Healing in Israel
March 2, 2009
I'm returning to the Middle East after 9 months away, in the wake of the War in Gaza and the ongoing shelling of the south of Israel by Hamas. Read about our mission here.
Our team is in Israel for 4 days: Amy, who runs our program of clinical supervision for our Israeli and Palestinian faculty. Dan and Lee-Ann, who coordinate both programs on the US side and Afrim and Jusuf, psychiatrists from Kosovo, whom I first met when they we're refugees in Macedonia during the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo. Amy and I have worked together for 10 years. Afrim and Jusuf are like brothers. It seems that Dan and I have been everywhere together, and Lee-Ann, our newest member, has done a fabulous job with logistics for the trip.
We hit the ground running, heading to Sderot, which has been shelled from Gaza for 8 years, as soon as we wake up on the first morning after our arrival. Naftali, our Israel program director, (we've trained some 300 health and mental health professionals in Israel over the last 5 years), is doing the driving, and will be introducing us to colleagues who are dealing with the ongoing trauma in Israel's south.
First stop: the SCIENCE AND RELIGIOUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a meeting with the principal, Dina Chouri as well as Miri Asoulin, a teacher who has come through part of our training program and heads up the "Havens of Calm" program. "Havens of Calm" is a room apart from the school with bean bag chairs, crayons, games, a place for kids to come express their feelings and simply hang out when they need to. Miri is exactly the kind of teacher you wish your children had-or wish you might have had yourself. She has the kind of smile that erases all the doubts you have about your own worthiness, that makes you feel that everything you do is not just alright, but really really interesting.
Over the last 7 years, while shells fell in and around Sderot, perhaps 60 percent of the kids used the "Havens of Calm" room. During the recent war, and in its aftermath, everyone does."
"For a long time," Miri tells us, "the children have been nervous and angry; they have trouble sleeping and are wetting their beds. Now, from the time the war began, there are new symptoms. Now the children tend to find scapegoats. One class had an election for what classmate they wanted to most to be dead. They cannot fight against the rockets, so the anger has to go somewhere," she says.
"In the beginning," a psychologist who consults with the school, added, "the children were crying and anxious. Now, sometimes, they go into a total freeze when the red alert (the signal that a Qassam rocket is about to fall). One eight year old girl's body was like a stone. She couldn't move her hands or feet for four hours."
Miri and a number of the other teachers and counselors in this and other Sderot schools find the techniques they learned from The Center for Mind-Body Medicine to be enormously helpful for themselves-for they too work, and often live, amidst the falling rockets-and for the kids. She shows us pictures that the children have done of huge rockets falling on their town and of Gaza burning.
The children seem more hopeful, but their parents are not. In Sderot, and in nearby Shaar Ha Negev, we hear voices of distress and disillusionment. "The people felt strong during the war," one psychologist tells us. "They thought the rocket attacks from Gaza would be over. But now the war is finished, and still we have Qassams almost every day. What was the point?"
More to come.
We Must Consider CAM for Depression
Dear Readers,
Despite a hectic schedule this January, I'm hoping to keep my blog up-to-date with the exciting events in my practice and at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM).
A quick look at my schedule/to-do list:
I've just finished leading (along with Kathie Swift, MS, RD, LDN, my co-director) The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's professional training program in nutrition, Food as Medicine, in San Francisco.
We're also moving forward with our exciting work with the US Military training health and mental health professionals who are working with active-duty military as well as in the Veterans Administration to use mind-body techniques with vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe depression, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury. Over 100 of these professionals came to the first phase of our professional training program in mind-body medicine in Minnesota in October 2008. Here's some data on the difference our training made to them. Most of them are returning for our advanced training–where we teach them how to lead the same kind of mind-body skills groups in which they participated in the first training—this weekend, from January 31-February 4th, once again in Minneapolis.
We're also moving ahead with a research study funded by the Department of Defense on the use of our model with traumatized veterans and their families.
Last but not least, 30 of us–health professionals, policy makers, and just plain folks–gathered together in my home to develop a report to make recommendations for a National Health Plan to the Daschle/Obama Health and Human Services Administration. We're continuing to explore ways for CMBM to be involved in creating a top-down support for truly universal and integrative health care for all Americans.
In other news, a recent op-ed of mine was published in the Clinical Psychiatry News, entitled "We Must Consider CAM for Depression." You can read this succinct argument for wider use of integrative therapies, versus drug-centric treatment, here (you will have to create an account on this website to access it if you don't already subscribe to CPN, though–sorry.) I was also published in the New York Times science section, writing about a friend and colleague of mine in Gaza going through the terrible bombings there. Read that one here.
Let me know your thoughts about what we're doing, how we're doing it, and how we're bringing it out into the world! I'll be in touch too.
The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First by Mark Hyman, MD Review by James S. Gordon, MD
The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
by Mark Hyman, MD, Scribner's: New York: 2009
Review by James S. Gordon, MD
I just finished The UltraMind Solution, a wonderful, ground breaking book that gives new and eminently practical insight into the causes and treatment of mood, behavior, and cognitive disorders. It's a book I recommend to all of you without reservation.
The UltraMind Solution is by Mark Hyman, MD, a highly skilled, integrated Family physician who is a Center for Mind-Body Medicine Board Member, and a core faculty person in our Food As Medicine training. In The UltraMind Solution, Mark suggests that the most effective and, indeed, scientific way to address the epidemic of psychiatric disorders (affecting 1.1 billion people worldwide) is not with psychotropic drugs that treat postulated alterations in neurotransmitters, but with nutritional therapies that address the underlying biological imbalances that ultimately may disturb neurotransmitter functioning.
The UltraMind Solution is based on the principles of "functional medicine," a systems approach to chronic disease and to the physical and emotional problems that beset our population. It is a road map for both patients and practitioners, a clear, thoughtful, guide to the ways the body can become imbalanced, and to the simple, natural methods-largely food and supplements-that can be used to restore the imbalances in the entire body, and most particularly, the brain. It's a book that significantly deepened my own understanding of biological factors in depression. I believe, as well, it will enhance the information on biology that I present in my book Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression.
In a series of clear, well documented chapters, Mark discusses the "7 keys" to his program, and the ways that readers can use them. These keys include optimal nutrition, hormone balancing, decreasing inflammation, improving digestion, enhancing detoxification, increasing energy metabolism, and calming the mind. In The UltraMind Solution, Mark includes more than 400 well-chosen scientific references and dozens of case studies, together with diagnostic questionnaires. He offers as well clear steps that readers can take to use this information to help and heal themselves. You can learn more about The UltraMind Solution by going to the following website: http://www.ultramindhealth.com/cmbm.
Mark is also presenting a six part webinar series for clinicians on applications of functional medicine to brain and mood disorders. In particular, he will discuss diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to ADD/ADHD, autism, dementia, and depression. Access to these webinars is complimentary for practitioners who obtain a copy of The UltraMind Solution by going to the website below.
PTSD on Wall Street and Main Street
"You don't have to go to Gaza to treat posttraumatic stress disorder," my friend said. "Just come to New York."
It's not that the mental and emotional state of the US population is indistinguishable from that of Gaza's Palestinians — many of whom have lived with eight years of war and civil strife — thousands of lives lost and homes destroyed, and unemployment reaching 40-50 — some say 70-80– percent. Indeed, even those of us hit hardest three weeks into the worst of this unraveling financial crisis, are still technically experiencing only an "acute stress disorder." But there are signs that each day, this growing financial crisis is traumatizing us more and more. Add to that our costly, life-claiming Middle East war, and we — like the Palenstinians in Gaza — may also be on our way to significant levels of population-wide traumatic stress.
Posttraumatic stress disorder, which by definition lasts longer than several weeks, is characterized by three sets of symptoms: "Hyperarousal," an agitated state in which the heart may race, concentration and sleep are disturbed, startle responses are exaggerated and anger easily triggered; "Re-experiencing" the original trauma — in nightmares, intense and disturbing memories, and flashbacks; and "Avoidance" of trauma-related thoughts and feelings, coupled often with a sense of detachment and estrangement, emotional numbness and an apprehension about a bleak future.
All these are in abundant supply in those closest to the crisis — the ones who have lost jobs and pensions, older people who see their retirement savings melting away, and people of all ages who cannot keep up payment on their homes. Many who are, or were, working on Wall Street are sleeping fitfully, jiggling their knees uncontrollably in meetings, drinking and eating too much, losing their appetites, and popping antacids and tranquilizers. One broker friend is awake far into the night, worrying about her elderly clients' inability to live on their diminished incomes and whether or not she will be able to pay her own child's tuition. Others, like one 30-year Lehman Brothers veteran who is married to a colleague, have receded into states of frozen denial; acting as if somehow everything were still as it was. He dresses as meticulously as he always did and sits for hours at a computer which no longer registers his trades.
And the symptoms are also present with more or less intensity in many of the rest of us who feel the financial foundations crumbling under our feet. I have been hearing from retirees who are waking up in the middle of the night, panicked, to pore over diminished budgets, then fall asleep worrying that their fixed incomes will no longer permit them to live in the houses they saved a lifetime to buy. A colleague out West tells me her psychiatric inpatient service is overflowing with people whose loss of homes and jobs has undermined their precarious emotional, as well as economic, security. Meanwhile, anxious and depressed people, unable to afford gas for the long trip to the outpatient clinic, call in for more prescriptions for tranquilizers, antidepressants, and sleeping pills. And children may be just as deeply affected as their parents; according to The Washington Post, a recent national survey of 500 teenagers found that already, "70% fear 'an immediate negative impact' on the security of their families."
Former senator Phil Gramm's infamously dismissive comment declaring the US in the midst of a "mental recession" is likely to turn out to be true in a way he never intended. Financial irresponsibility and lack of oversight are indeed creating the conditions for "mental" disturbance. The associated loss of confidence and hope further threatens the trust upon which credit and the financial markets depend.
Even when trauma is reliably over, the feelings of being overwhelmed and stuck persist. Five years after the war in Kosovo, we found that 44% of all high school seniors in the Suhareka region still had symptoms of PTSD. And when stress is ongoing, its symptoms and the accompanying depression are continually reinforced. Some Americans will never recover financially or emotionally from the loss of jobs and homes and savings. Others will be long unemployed, and their misfortune and lack of income — and the emotional distress both bring — will affect businesses in their communities as well as in their own families and friends. Meanwhile, vast numbers, perhaps our entire population, will likely feel the uncertainty and vulnerability that the ongoing and deepening financial crisis is provoking — feelings that still bedevil so many who lived through the Great Depression. One recent landmark study on the influence of genetics and "life stress" showed that of all possible causes, financial setbacks were most likely to contribute to depression.
In Gaza and Israel — where the consequences and threats of terrorist bombings are ever-present — and in Kosovo and New Orleans, my colleagues and I have helped tens of thousands of fearful and vulnerable people in the midst of chaos. We teach them meditation, deep breathing and movement techniques, mental images, and exercise. Learning these techniques, they find places of calm and control within themselves, discover solutions to problems that had seemed unsolvable, and raise their depleted physical and emotional energy. Acting to help themselves, they find antidotes to the helplessness and hopelessness that are the hallmarks of depression and traumatic stress. Learning together they discover mutual support and a renewed sense of community.
In Gaza, in the most vulnerable parts of Israel, and in New Orleans, there is another factor that makes people's stress and depression — and, yes, their anger as well — so much worse. This is the sense of being dismissed and neglected by the larger world on which they had once depended.
These feelings of neglect, deception, and disrespect are only increasing as the financial crisis deepens here and expands overseas. They must be addressed. The various bailouts are initial investments in confidence as well as credit, the first signs of a public assumption of responsibility. But they are only a down payment on the far more comprehensive measures that must follow, and should only be the first step in the government's effort to regain the trust that is necessary to real recovery.
As a country, we must honestly admit to and address the causes of our crisis — greed, arrogance, and indifference. Then we must begin to pay honest, ongoing attention to the concerns of a population that feels betrayed, vulnerable, and abandoned. These steps will promote stress reduction as well as provide fiscal reassurance. Meanwhile, we have to learn, quite literally, to breathe deeply, to relax in the midst of fear and uncertainty, to trust that we, like the Israelis and Palestinians and New Orleanians, can grow and change through adversity. We cannot avoid the fear and the stress in the world in these troubled times. We can however, learn to live more peacefully with them.
Republished with permission from The Huffington Post
First published October 23, 2008, 10:52 AM EST at


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In some religions, the devil is a bad spirit that tries to create problems for people. Some people also use the words "the Devil" or "Satan" for the most powerful devil. The word "devil" comes from the Greek word "diabolos" which means "someone who tells lies to hurt you". ("Diabolos" is translated to the English word "slanderer.") The Christian New Testament uses "diabolos" as a title for Satan, and so "The Devil" became another name for Satan in English.
In the Old Testament, there is the serpent and the shaitan, who may be two different characters. "Shaitan" in Hebrew means "adversary", an enemy or opponent. Shaitan is also the word used for the devil in the Koran, who often appears as an animal and tries to get people to do the wrong thing.[1]
In the Christian religion the Devil was originally an angel in heaven called Lucifer. But he wanted to be the ruler of heaven and so he revolted against God. After a hard fight he was defeated and thrown out of heaven. Some other angels who helped him were also thrown out.[2]
After the Devil was thrown out of heaven, he started doing bad things on the earth. He wants people to worship him instead of God. Sometimes he tries to trick people by giving them false promises.[3]
The other angels who were thrown out of heaven became evil spirits called demons. They obey the Devil and help him do evil things.
The bible says that God will punish the Devil and his demons by throwing them into a Lake of Fire that burns in Hell. This will happen in the future.
Artists draw pictures of the Devil that show him as ugly and evil. But nobody knows what he really looks like. Usually he is a spirit that nobody can see, but he can make himself look like a real person in order to trick people. Many modern depictions of the devil portray him as a red human-like being with horns and a pointed tail, carrying a red pitchfork.
Not all religions believe in the devil. For example, Buddhists do not believe in the devil. Many satanists believe in the devil or Satan only as a metaphor, not an actual being or person.
- ↑ "shaitan". The Free Dictionary. http://www.tfd.com/shaitan. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
- ↑ "Devil". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_devil. Retrieved 17 February 2010.
- ↑ "The Devil". Gospel Mysteries. http://www.gospel-mysteries.net/devil-satan.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010.


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Panel endorses active monitoring and delay of treatment for low-risk prostate cancer
Brief Description
For men diagnosed with localized, low-risk prostate cancer, a strategy of close monitoring and delayed treatment may be a better option than immediate surgery or radiation therapy.
Balintfy: An independent panel convened by the NIH has concluded that patients with low-risk prostate cancer should be offered the option of active surveillance, meaning observation with intent to cure.
Ganz: We feel confident that in the very low-risk patients that this is a reasonable thing to offer men when they are being told that they have this diagnosis
Balintfy: Dr. Patricia A. Ganz is the panel chairperson, and director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California in Los Angeles. She explains that more men are being identified as having very low-risk, slow-growing prostate cancer who may not choose surgery or radiation at the time of their diagnosis, but want to be followed.
Ganz: And if at some time their disease pattern changes, they would like to then go ahead with active treatment at that time.
Balintfy: However, approximately 90 percent of patients receive immediate treatment, such as surgery or radiation therapy. For many of these patients, treatment has serious short- and long-term side effects, such as diminished sexual function and loss of urinary control. And the immediate treatments in these cases do not have clear benefits, such as improved survival. Dr. Ganz says that by reviewing current scientific data, the panel learned about this substantial part of the prostate cancer population.
Ganz: Men may be getting treatments that are not necessarily going to change their life course and their survival and lead to significant morbidities such as sexual and urinary problems that are very common after surgery or bowel and urinary and sexual problems that can occur with radiation, and that men will have problems with this as a result even though the cancer may not have ever caused them troubles. So that by taking an approach that delays or perhaps never requires that kind of intervention, they may be spared that.
Balintfy: Prostate cancer is common in men in the United States. Estimates for 2011 are that approximately 240,000 men will be newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and 33,000 will die of the disease. More than half of these cancers are confined to the prostate, not aggressive at diagnosis, and unlikely to become life-threatening. But Dr. Ganz points out that a big challenge is the word 'cancer' itself.
Ganz: If you are told you have cancer and the part of the body that's involved can be removed or treated effectively with some local treatment, you want to have it taken care of immediately. In fact, you would have liked to have had it done yesterday. And to get patients and doctors to think about delaying and not doing something as potentially "the best" or an equivalent strategy is hard to accept.
Balintfy: Yet, Dr. Ganz feels because of the opportunity to identify very low-risk patients, the option should be presented.
Ganz: We can feel confident about having a delay in therapy or no therapy at all that may emerge because the natural history of the cancer will declare itself to be either one that progresses or stays quiet.
Balintfy: Dr. Ganz also points out that there is need for more research.
Ganz: It's a true missed opportunity if the many thousands of men and literally over 200,000 men per year who are diagnosed with this disease do not in some way participate in research or have the opportunity to participate in research so we can learn more about who needs more intensive or less intensive treatment.
Balintfy: For more information on the panel's findings, visit the website consensus.nih.gov. And for more information on prostate cancer research and treatments, visit www.cancer.gov. This is Joe Balintfy, at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.
About This Audio Report
Date: 12/15/2011
Reporter: Joe Balintfy
Sound Bite: Dr. Patricia A. Ganz
Topic: prostate, prostate cancer, cancer, active surveillance, observation, low-risk, cancer treatment, surgery, radiation, therapy
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We offer a great range of children's craft kits designed specifically for kids group craft sessions and parties.


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Virtualization for small business: Where's the pay-off?
Too big, too expensive, too painful – or just fine?
SaaS data loss: The problem you didn't know you had
Webcast Does Virtualization pay off for small business?
Small and medium-sized businesses are virtualizing their servers, but at a much slower rate than larger enterprises. Some are put off by the high licensing costs, some can't spare the time to do it, some don't know how to.
If you're in one of these categories, join us on November 11 at 10am PST for our virtualization for SMBs webcast.
Joining us for this one-hour live interactive broadcast will be our analyst friend Dan Olds, from Gabriel Consulting, and a couple of old pros from IBM and VMware. The Register Tim Phillips hosts the event, and he wil handle your questions and keep the presenters focused.
Think of the webcast as free consulting. And at the end of the event, we hope you'll have some tangible solutions to some of your challenges.
If you can't make it on the day, don't worry. If you register today we'll email you when the recorded version is available for your viewing pleasure.
Small Business virtualization isn't looking for High Availability or any marketing fluff out of VMs. They're looking to pack the usual compliment of 5 to 7 servers into 1 or 2 boxes and put them in a room that doesn't need special cooling requirements. Cramming all the features of a PDC, BDC, File Server, Mail Server, Sharepoint (or otherwise) server, <insert misc server(s) here> into one or two Windows Server installs is a Bad Idea (tm). Hence the need for virtualization in a SMB environment. None of these systems will tax a Core2-based crap SMB server, let alone real server hardware. Purchasing a single (or perhaps two) more-than-capable servers and consolidating it all down will give the environment reduced power and cost, not to mention the bonus of modularity for individual server reboots (as needed), however at the moderate concern of single-point-of-failure (see "perhaps two servers"). Is there server sprawl? Perhaps. Just not physically.


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Hey Heritage? Can we make a deal? I'll back a cut to Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the same percentage that you back a cut to the military industrial complex. Alternatively, can we agree to limit increases in military spending over the current sequestration amounts to the amount of money we spend on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
I care a whole lot more about the military budget cuts. We spend way too much on our military—and the idea that we can't reduce military spending even after a war ends is absurd. Comparing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting budget with the military budget as if the two are even remotely close to each other is a pretty good sign that neither Heritage nor Romney is serious about the deficit reduction talk.
Considering THF's phrasing, it's tough to answer this one. The reality is that I care a lot about cuts to the guy on the right - because we should be cutting the military budget by 50-55%. Think that's too drastic? It's about what we were spending in 2002 even accounting for inflation. I care about making those cuts very deeply and think we should probably strive for a Defense budget cut of 66%.
But I also care about cuts to the bird on the left, because budget cuts to education and information programming are just about the worst cuts you could ever make. It's laughable that we're even entertaining the thought of cutting social services while still having to argue against a "mandatory" 5-7% yearly increase in defense spending, but I guess when facts are antithetical to the existence of your political party, you attack facts wherever you can.
Source: theheritagefoundation
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Beautiful Oceanview 2 bedroom Townhouse/Condo
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Bedrooms: | 2 |
Bathrooms: | 2.5 |
Sleeps | 8 |
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Type: | Townhouse |
Description of the Miami Beach vacation townhouse rental
This is unlike any other vacation rental anywhere on Miami Beach. Our townhouse is directly on the beach with ocean view. Very spacious 2 story townhouse/condo. You can see the beautiful crystal clear, turquoise, warm waters which flow from the Caribbean, right from your living room!!! The American Riviera awaits you. The water ranges from 78 to 90 degrees all year round. Watch the waves crashing down from the unit continuously. All of our townhouses come fully equipped with a full kitchen set, complete set of linens, pillows, towels, etc.
This is perfect for a large family or friends accommodating up to 8, or a getaway for two. You'll think the sunrise from your condo townhouse was borrowed from a postcard. Spa packages are available with the townhouse rental. Guests will receive a unlimited half-price all day spa entrance to the world famous Spa in Miami Beach, which is located in the lower lobby.
We hope you stay with us.
Area Information
Availability Calendar
- 1 King Bed
- 2 Twin Beds
- 5 Sofa Beds
- Air Conditioning
- High Speed Internet
- Pet Friendly
- Sauna
- Beach Chairs
- Linens Provided
- Private Pool
- View (Ocean)
- Full Kitchen
- Parking Included
- Alarm Clock
- Dishwasher
- Oven
- TV (Antenna)
- Ceiling Fan
- Hair Dryer
- Refrigerator (Full)
- TV (Cable/Satellite)
- Coffee Maker
- Iron
- Stove
- Toaster
- DVD Player
- Microwave
- Beach
(onsite) - Jet Skiing
(<1 mile) - Grocery Store
(2 miles) - Parasailing
(5 miles) - Gym/Fitness Center
(onsite) - Live Entertainment
(<1 mile) - Fishing
(5 miles) - Sailing
(5 miles) - Ocean
(onsite) - Restaurant
(<1 mile) - Golf
(5 miles) - Snorkeling
(5 miles) - Pool
(onsite) - Shopping Area
(<1 mile) - Movie Theater
(5 miles) - Zoo
(10 miles) - Boating
(<1 mile) - Water Skiing
(<1 mile)
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Reviews for this vacation townhouse rental in Miami Beach, Florida
luis calvo
Tarija, Bolivia
awsome vacations
August 8, 2012
The apartmente was great, the beach even better, exelente size, really close access to the beach, and the attendants at the building were fantastic. also a good thing was the price of the parking, very affordable , overall a really good experience
Lasse Luomanen
Castle Beach Pavillion 7
April 13, 2012
First of all I want to thank you that the quality was great towards the price. If you go to a huge city like that, one just needs a clean apartment to sleep in and to eat food in. The first impression was great: pavillion was clean enough when we received it, we got instructions well enough about the nearest shops and pool, ac worked well and so on. During the holiday we didn't really hear any noise inside nor outside. With their presence, security kept people calm and nice mannered. That is pretty much the only positive thing I've got to say about the security. With a job like that, one should be nice and warm towards paying customers. If the tourist asks about something: dont be rude. The overall area was nice and tidy. It's full of tourists and hotels. It's easy to get a cab to South Beach or a bus to north etc. As a European tourist I find it pretty hard that one has to call about 10 times and send an email to be able to get a contact to the guy with the keys. This happened when we came and when we left. This pavillion we were at wasn't that bad at all. Ok, the water in the shower was either hot or cold at sometimes. The flushing mechanism didn't really work in the toilet upstairs. But we had a really great view to the ocean, we had plenty of space and the accessories in the kitchen worked well enough. The kiosk and trip arranging office downstairs are a big plus too.
Carol Ann Downs
Castle Beach Club P3
January 21, 2012
This Pavilion is absolutely gorgeous. Nice views and lulling ocean waves. The building is still undergoing renovation and what has been redone looks great. We were the first to stay at this unit. The dishwasher electric did not work so we had to use an ext cord. The electrical outlets needed to be checked and secured. Other than that very clean, nice furnishings would rent again. Bliss Vacation rentals were very accomodating and the staff warm and attentive.
Håkan Odén
Ljungby, Sweden
5445 Collins Ave
January 12, 2012
The hole family of 7 pepole really enjoyed the staying. Appartment is close to a quite calm part of the Miami Beach. Nice beach with clear water. Also a good pool included. I can recommed this a low/medium budget alternative for the big family.
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After receiving my WS micarta yesturday (what a thing), i was quite shocked about the size of it (its big). Being quite short, my hands are small, but the knife still seems perfect apart from...how are you supposed to wear one of these round your neck?
Baldric style would seem better. So, does anyone own a neck sheath that they would want to sell for about £25? I dont want to buy on for £45 to find that dont use it!
Obviously to fit a woodlore WS Micarta.


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5 bedroom detached house to rent Calbourne, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16
A beautiful five bedroom detached family house situated in a private cul-de-sac within walking distance of Haywards Heath mainline train station and town centre.
£2,250 pcm
5 bedroom detached house to rent Heyworth Ride, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16
A spacious five bedroom, three reception room detached house with off road parking and double garage, situated overlooking a green in the popular village of Bolnore.
£1,995 pcm
4 bedroom semi-detached house to rent Oathall Road, Haywards Heath
Four bedroom semi detached family home ideally located within easy access to the mainline station and town centre.
£1,895 pcm
3 bedroom barn conversion to rent Butlers Green Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex
This very individual spacious barn conversion offers many character features with very flexible living accommodation and is situated in a quiet tucked away position yet within easy reach of the main line station and town centre. The property benefits from a good size reception hall, cloak room,...
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4 bedroom house to rent Haywards Road, Haywards Heath
**VIEWING STRONGLY RECOMMENDED**Spacious and contemporary 'mock' Victorian semi detached 4 double bed family house in a central location in Haywards Heath. Property comprises of entrance hall, modern kitchen with integrated oven and dishwasher, spacious enough for table and chairs. Downstairs mo...
Marketed by Leaders - First in Letting, Haywards Heath.Telephone: 01444 700009 Local call rate
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4 bedroom town house to rent Barncroft Drive, Lindfield
*** FREE TENANT REFERENCING ON THIS PROPERTY*** Knights Estate Agents are pleased to offer for rent this brand new four bedroom townhouse located in a superb development of 120 homes close to Lindfield's ancient tree-lined High Street, village common and pond.
£1,750 pcm
4 bedroom house to rent Barncroft Drive, The Limes, Lindfield
Beautifully presented, ex show home in the popular Limes development in sought after Lindfield. This modern town house consists of hallway with cloak room. Attractive fully fitted designer kitchen . Spacious light extended lounge/diner with wood effect flooring and French doors to landscaped pati...
Marketed by Leaders - First in Letting, Haywards Heath.Telephone: 01444 700009 Local call rate
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3 bedroom semi-detached house to rent Meadow Lane, Lindfield, West Sussex
A charming three/four bedroom semi detached house in a sought after location in Lindfield within walking distance of the Common and the picturesque High Street. The property has a delightful rear garden while to the front is ample off road parking. The property is offered furnished or unfurnishe...
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3 bedroom semi-detached house to rent Gable Cottages, Cuckfield Road, Staplefield, West Sussex
This deceptively spacious semi-detached family house is situated in a semi-rural position yet within a short driving distance of Haywards Heath train station and the A23 link to Gatwick and Brighton. The property has the added benefit of two reception rooms, a shower room and family bathroom and...
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3 bedroom detached house to rent Pickers Green, Lindfield, West Sussex
This charming detached home is within close proximity to the picturesque High Street, local shops, highly regarded schools and Haywards Heath mainline railway station. This unfurnished house comprises entrance hall, cloakroom, large living room, dining room with doors on to patio, kitchen breakfa...


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Chicago ranks 66 out of 67 in mail delivery efficency. When you mail something it should only takes two days but it may take three or more. The Postal Service have hired 500 new mail carriers and did an overhaul on the sorting machines to help resolve the issue. The new strategy has only seen little increase. The Postal Service mentions that they have new routes in place and 2 large carrier units were sold and many of the carriers were moved out the loop station. The Postal Service also states they are focused on reducing expenses and faster service.
Source: Chicago Sun Times (Tina Sfondeles)


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Director of Leadership Development and Training, United States Army
Angel Garcia has been recognized in his roles as an international Toastmaster, student affairs administrator, leadership studies professor, and currently as an officer in the United States Army. Holding the rank of Captain, he is stationed at the U.S. Pentagon and is responsible for researching and implementing leadership curriculum used to develop all future soldiers entering all branches of the Armed Forces.
His background includes work in leadership development, effective communication, brand enhancement, personality theory, emotional intelligence, and leadership technology. The South Florida 2010 Board of Commissioners awarded him with Miami's 30 most influential leaders under 30. His blend of comedy, storytelling, and powerful lessons leave audiences wanting to immediately take over the world!
National Center for Student Leadership Fall 2013 Conference, New Orleans
Keynote Presentations
Success v2.0: Upgrade Your Personal Operating System
Professional Workshops
Work Smarter Not Harder
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The Ultimate Leadership Toolkit: What You Can't Lead Without!
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After having taken a short break from footwear in order to photograph Borgata DC's 2013 S/S Look book, I'm returning with a small look at a new pair of Nike Flyknit Trainers that I have received.
These trainers come in the infamous white/black colorway that have recently re-released on Nike.com
Plenty of sizes are still available in these, the heel collar has been updated with the new padding which the original release lacked. It'll add an extra layer of comfort for most Flyknit wearers.
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Installing JPEGTRAN on a Mac or Unix/Linux
JPEGtran is cool because it lets you optimize JPEG images losslessly by:
- Stripping meta data (meta is sometimes bulky and useless for web display)
- Optimizing Huffman tables or
- Convert a JPEG to progressive encoding
From my experience 1 is more important than 2 or 3 and 3 gives better results than 2 for images over 10K
I never had to install jpegtran before because all unix/linux machines I've touched already have it. And on windows you just copy a binary somewhere in your path.
Well, I got this MacBook now and it doesn't have jpegtran so had to figure it out myself. Here's how you can do it, worked for me on Mac OS should work on any unix/linux too.
BTW, jpegtran is part of a package of few tools known as libjpeg, so you'll be installing a few programs not only jpegtran.
- Get the source code from here. It's the file called
. Using cURL you can download like:
curl http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz > /tmp/libjpeg.tar.gz
- Uncompres the package, e.g.
tar -xzvf /tmp/libjpeg.tar.gz
- go to the directory that contains the uncompressed code, e.g.
cd /tmp/jpeg-6b
sudo make install
You can test your shiny new set of tools like this and get some help information about the various options:
> jpegtran -h > cjpeg -h > djpeg -h > rdjpgcom -h > wrjpgcom -h
You also test by optimizing my book cover from Amazon like:
curl http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ckBp3bBUL._SL500_AA240_.jpg > oojs.jpg jpegtran -copy none -progressive oojs.jpg > oojs-opt.jpg
This gives you 10% smaller file with not a pixel of quality loss. Not bad, eh, for a minute of work, or less.
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The Vibration Sensors Business Group in California and its two manufacturing facilities in China and France now offer factory calibration and test services for Piezoresistive, Variable Capacitance, Piezoelectric and Integrated Electronics Piezoelectric accelerometers.
We offer NIST (US), DKD (Germany), COFRAC (France) traceable calibration services on sensitivity at 100 Hz (102 or 120 Hz in Europe). Sensitivity reference for frequencies other than 100/102/120 Hz are available upon request.
Users of Measurement Specialties accelerometers can expect a one-week turnaround for full frequency response tests from 10 Hz through resonance and for transverse cross-axis sensitivity testing.
For accelerometers not manufactured by Measurement Specialties, calibration may take longer depending on availability of test fixtures and the manufacturer's specifications. Environmental testing over temperature, centrifuge testing and shock calibration are also offered on a case-by-case basis.
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Thornapple Apartments
Apartment, 95 units 3252 Thornway Drive, Columbus OH 43231
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- 288
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- $429 - $429
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Come Live With Us! You'll Love It!
If you are looking for a peaceful community nestled amid lush landscaping, THORNAPPLE APARTMENTS is the place for you. If convenience is what you seek, opportunities for shopping, dining, entertainment and employment abound at the exclusive Easton Towne Centre - just a mile away! Public schools within Westerville district and a selection of parochial schools are close by. Several universities including The Ohio State, DeVry and Columbus State offer cultural as well as educational opportunities. The Post Office, libraries, banks, car care centers, grocers, doctors' offices, St. Ann's Hospital and a host of other services are within easy driving distance. Nestled in a quiet oasis of metro Columbus, THORNAPPLE APARTMENTS is the lovely, convenient and comfortable choice in apartment living and the perfect place to call home. WE FEATURE: * Private entrances; no stairs to climb * No one living above or below * Fenced, private patios * Clean & quiet * Efficient heating and cooling system * Lots of closet and storage space * Built in bookcase * Large lighted attic - more storage! * Resident Flower Program; Flowers, Flowers Flowers! * Plenty of parking in our private lot * Pet friendly * Friendly and professional on-site managers CALL TO HEAR ABOUT OUR MOVE-IN SPECIALS! Come see us for your personal tour! We would love to make you a part of our WONDERFUL community!
Thornapple Apartments 95 units
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text: When you see documentaries like The Flaming Lips 'Fearless Freaks' it's not hard to see that the first step to any success is belief. Belief in yourself. Just watching all the band members, friends, family speak about the band. Not one comment 'oh, this will never fly' or 'this won't work'. They believed in what they were doing. Even the anniversary of Lego has the same back story (animation story about the company is here). In both cases, it was a lot of hard work, determination that made them a success (and a lot of hardship) but they became the success that we see today. When people see what you can accomplish, THEY will start to believe in you. In the 'Fearless Freaks' documentary, Wayne Coyne said he knew he could try anything when he saw the belief in himself from the fans. But, it starts with one.


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Challenge 14: What I Wore on a Good Day with The Pen Pals
Hey all!
First off, I just want to say a big THANKS to The Pen Pals again for approaching us with the idea to collaborate. It's always great to network with other illustrators, and we had a lot of fun with this!
My process for this piece was much different than my usual method. I actually did sketches every day, during one of the most fantastic weeks I've had in a long time. South By Southwest was providing tons of entertainment (and free shows, which I was able to see 5 of!), my best friend was in town doing interviews, the weather was lovely, and I was able to enjoy Austin probably more than I ever have. Usually I don't sketch much, but I felt that the week needed to be documented in as many ways as possible. This also gave me options to choose from for my final piece. Check out the sketches on my tumblr!
I went with this day because of the patterning and color of my romper, but also because it was arguably the best day of the best week ever. I suppose I'm sentimental about it!


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Features and Amenities
- Brand New
- Cats
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- Doorman
- Elevator
- Fitness Center
- Laundry in Building
- No Fee
Stunning brand new two bedrooms for rent starting from $2150!
All apartments feature floor-to-ceiling glass with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline.
-Strip hardwood floors
-Loft-style kitchen with breakfast bar
-Dark stone countertops
-White laquered cabinets
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-Air conditioning
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-Full time doorman
-Elegant lobby
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-Complimentary Fitness Center
-Long Island City waterfront
-4 minute walk to subway
-One stop to Grand Central Terminal
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The apartment is a 2 Bedroom unit offered at a monthly price of $3,325. The apartment location is generally known as Queens. This is a luxury doorman / elevator building. The building also boasts a fitness center to help residents stay in great shape. Both cats and dogs are allowed, but as always, double check with the manager about any specific pet concerns you may have. For your convenience, there are shared laundry machines in the building. This is a No Fee apartment, meaning the manager or agent should not ask you for a broker fee (there may still be deposits and other move-in fees paid to the landlord). We have 4 photos of this particular unit, building, and surrounding areas.