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What substance is in turmeric and curry powder that so many doctors are touting as a possible memory enhancer focused on perhaps helping to prevent Alzheimer's disease? It's curcumin. But is raw turmeric root (the plant itself) rather than the powder more effective, and in what dose is it ideal and not excess? Those are questions for which consumers want answers and the information where to find those answers. you may wish to check out the website, How to Grow Turmeric | Backyard Gardening Blog.
Should you take a dash of black pepper and a dash of turmeric in a beverage or in food before going on a stroll or doing any type of exercise for the energy benefits? Black pepper helps your body absorb turmeric. See the article, 10 of the Most Powerful Herbs & Spices | food4mythoughts.com. And check out Dr. Weil's article, Curcumin or Turmeric?
Who's studying cucurmin, an ingredient from turmeric, a spice to see what health benefits it may have, especially in relation to see whether cucurmin and/or turmeric has any type of prevention ability on Alzheimer's or other dementia types? There have been studies at UCLA. You may wish to check out the UC Davis article on cucurmin, found in turmeric, RSC Article Template (Version 3.0)[PDF].
You can buy turmeric in many supermarkets, natural food stores, and ethnic groceries including in larger packages. Also, you can buy turmeric at any of the ethnic Indian grocery stores in various areas of the USA. Also, you can order cucurmin, the ingredient in turmeric being studied, from most health food stores or online for example, from the Life Extension Foundation. Check out the October, 2007 article by Life Extension Foundation's magazine titled, Novel Turmeric Compound Delivers Much More Curcumin to the Blood.
The University of California, Davis studies the effects turmeric or the ingredient found in turmeric, curcumin, has on protecting the brain from too much damage by accumulating amounts of copper and iron, which may or may not be linked to developing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Check out the site, UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Can turmeric help prevent Alzheimer's disease by cutting amyloid plaque in your brain?
On the Dr. Oz show, a guest physician explained how cucurmin, an ingredient in turmeric and curry might work to reverse amyloid plaque in the brain which may lead to Alzheimer's. Also see the article, Turmeric and Curcumin Show Major Health Benefits .
The main point is that turmeric and curry powder were suggested by Dr. Oz and his physician guest in a rerun shown in Sacramento Dish Network TV channel 58 on how to lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease as one more spice in the fight to prevent Alzheimers.
Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric, a spice in the ginger family used in cooking and for medical purposes. The Dr. Oz show today also revealed that some students on a curry/turmeric ethnic diet similar to what's eaten as a staple in India performed better on memory tests than students not eating a diet emphasizing curry and turmeric-spiced foods.
Turmeric is used by doctors and healthcare providers in Asian cultures. Curcumin is an ingredient in turmeric that sometimes is taken as a supplment because it's thought to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiviral properties. In India, for example, you can buy band-aids coated with turmeric, where it also is used as a topical disinfectant as well as a spice put in food.
If you take other foods, drugs, or supplements that are considered blood thinners (like fish oil) or a daily aspirin, be aware that curcumin can raise the risk of uncontrolled bleeding if taken with aspirin, blood thinners (heparin), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen or naproxen, and anti-platelet medicines.
According to a Tufts University, Boston, MA study funded by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture and released to the media on May 18, 2009, curcumin, the major polyphenol found in turmeric, appears to reduce weight gain in mice and suppress the growth of fat tissue in mice and cell models. Can it also stop humans from gaining weight?
Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) studied mice fed high fat diets supplemented with curcumin and cell cultures incubated with curcumin. Asma Ejaz, a graduate student who worked on this project also received a scholarship grant from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. You can read the study, Ejaz A, Wu, D, Kwan P, and Meydani M. Journal of Nutrition. May 2009; 139 (5): 1042-1048. "Curcumin Inhibits Adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Angiogenesis and Obesity in C57/BL Mice. 919-925."
Turmeric and an ingredient in it, curcumin has been studied in the past in relation to preventing Alzheimer's disease. Now this new study focuses on preventing weight gain. According to a May 18th 2009 Tufts University press release, "Weight gain is the result of the growth and expansion of fat tissue, which cannot happen unless new blood vessels form, a process known as angiogenesis." said senior author Mohsen Meydani, DVM, PhD, director of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA. "Based on our data, curcumin appears to suppress angiogenic activity in the fat tissue of mice fed high fat diets." Meydani continued, "It is important to note, we don't know whether these results can be replicated in humans because, to our knowledge, no studies have been done."
Turmeric is known for providing flavor to curry. One of its components is curcumin, a type of phytochemical known as a polyphenol. Research findings suggest that phytochemicals, which are the chemicals found in plants, appear to help prevent disease. As the bioactive component of turmeric, curcumin is readily absorbed for use by the body.
Meydani and colleagues studied mice fed high fat diets for 12 weeks. The high fat diet of one group was supplemented with 500 mg of curcumin/ kg diet; the other group consumed no curcumin. Both groups ate the same amount of food, indicating curcumin did not affect appetite, but mice fed the curcumin supplemented diet did not gain as much weight as mice that were not fed curcumin.
"Curcumin appeared to be responsible for total lower body fat in the group that received supplementation," said Meydani, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. "In those mice, we observed a suppression of microvessel density in fat tissue, a sign of less blood vessel growth and thus less expansion of fat. We also found lower blood cholesterol levels and fat in the liver of those mice. In general, angiogenesis and an accumulation of lipids in fat cells contribute to fat tissue growth."
Writing in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition, the authors note similar results in cell cultures. Additionally, curcumin appeared to interfere with expression of two genes, which contributed to angiogenesis progression in both cell and rodent models.
"Again, based on this data, we have no way of telling whether curcumin could prevent fat tissue growth in humans." Meydani said. "The mechanism or mechanisms by which curcumin appears to affect fat tissue must be investigated in a randomized, clinical trial involving humans."
Ejaz A, Wu, D, Kwan P, and Meydani M. Journal of Nutrition. May 2009; 139 (5): 1042-1048. "Curcumin Inhibits Adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Angiogenesis and Obesity in C57/BL Mice. 919-925."
Turmeric and Alzheimer's Prevention Research
What about turmeric or curcumin for preventing Alzheimer's if you're not able to fight the environmental pollution where you have to live? Curcumin is an ingredient naturally found in turmeric.
According to a different study, published in August 2009 in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, and reported in a Lee Swanson Research Update titled, "Vitamin D-Curcumin Combo Offers Brain Health Potential," A combination of vitamin D3 and curcumin, from turmeric, may boost the immune system and help it clear the protein plaques linked to Alzheimer's, notes the August 2009 Journal of Alzheimer's Disease study.
The Lee Swanson Research Update reported that the data, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, may lead to new approaches in preventing Alzheimer's by using vitamin D3 alone or in combination with natural or synthetic curcumin to boost the immune system in protecting the brain against beta-amyloid. Curcumin is found in and/or extracted from turmeric.
In the curcumin study, there's hope for prevention of Alzheimer's from turmeric and/or cucurmin, an extract from turmeric. "We hope that vitamin D3 and curcumin, both naturally occurring nutrients, may offer new preventive and treatment possibilities for Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Milan Fiala from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Monocyte cells, which transform into macrophages and in turn boost the immune system, were isolated from blood samples taken from nine Alzheimer's patients, one patient with mild cognitive impairment and three healthy control subjects.
The macrophages were then incubated with beta-amyloid, vitamin D3 and natural or synthetic curcumin. The naturally occurring curcumin was found to be poorly absorbed, making it less effective than the synthetic curcuminoids, said the researchers. "We think some of the novel synthetic compounds will get around the shortcomings of curcumin and improve the therapeutic efficacy," said John Cashman of the Human BioMolecular Research Institute.
The curcuminoids were found to enhance binding of beta-amyloid to macrophages, and that vitamin D could strongly stimulate the uptake and absorption of beta-amyloid in macrophages in most of the patients.
Previous research by the same scientists found that there are two types of Alzheimer's patients: Type I patients, who respond positively to curcuminoids, and Type II patients, who do not. This depends on the genes MGAT III and TLR-3 that are associated with the immune system's ability to better ingest beta-amyloid, the researchers said.
"Since vitamin D and curcumin work differently with the immune system, we may find that a combination of the two or each used alone may be more effective—depending on the individual patient," said Fiala.
The UCLA researchers stressed that the research is still in its early stages and that no doses of either compound can be recommended at this point. They noted that larger vitamin D and curcumin studies with more patients are planned. Read the study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 17(3):703-717.
Is it true that research is beginning to show that an ingredient, a phytochemical, in turmeric called curcumin, actually reverses, slows, or even helps to prevent early stage Alzheimer's disease? Is the reported low rate of Alzheimers and some other dementia types in India due to the daily of addition of a small amount of turmeric and curry spices in the average diet?
On the other hand, At the International Alzheimer's Research Conference in Chicago, one topic that would have made a good debate might have been: could it be that the major drug companies that are actually doing Alzheimer's research in India or anywhere else are in competition with the businesses that sell spices to consumers?
For example, could it possibly be that the major drug manufacturers in India will investigate and then come to the conclusion that turmeric couldn't possibly be that good, that perhaps the element in turmeric, curcurmin isn't stopping Alzheimers. Because if the drug companies in any country admit openly that curcurmin, an ingredient in turmeric is doing any good to prevent Alzheimer's then maybe people won't be grabbing up the drugs.
The drug companies may laugh at the 'hype' about turmeric. They want to sell commercial drugs to make money. You have to follow the money to get information, or at least their point of view. And then look in the opposite corner and compare the preventive medicine's research with extracts and foods. Look at the results of investigations of both sides. Are the researchers from the major drug companies investigating turmeric or their own commercial drugs or both at the same time?
These are just a few questions to ponder as research continues in various countries. Do you believe the articles based on research in magazines such as Life Extension, or the marketing material from either side? Is the research validated? Double-blind? Who funded the research and why? Read the article, "Novel Turmeric Compound Delivers Much More Curcumin to the Blood," by Dale Kiefer, Life Extension magazine, October 2007.
Scientific researchers around the world are investigating applications for curcumin that include fighting cancer, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and reversing the pathological processes underlying Alzheimer's disease, among other conditions. If turmeric is 'hype,' why are so many scientists researching its health benefits for so long?
Drug companies will say India or some other country has a lower reported incidence of Alzheimers. But the key word is 'reported.' Drug manufacturers have to make sure people buy their drugs in India or in any country where there's a lower 'reported' rate of Alzheimer's than in the USA or Europe.
Manufacturers of drugs and their scientists might say that doctors are resisting the decision to make a 'formal' diagnosis of Alzheimers just because in India it has a strong social stigma. That's the explanation you might get if you ask the commercial drug researchers....that physicians are willing to report less incidence because of social stigma.
As a Westerner, you don't know whether physicians in that country or any other nation will under report dementia because it's a social stigma. You might not know the customs. Who can you believe? Drug companies? Or Western researchers where there's no social stigma because of the higher rate of Alzheimer's in the West? Maybe it's the spice that helps and maybe not.
Maybe it's the meat that causes dementia or maybe not. The theories can drive you to confusion. So you follow your gut that says follow the money.
You'll have to turn to Western scientists specializing in prevention, scientists that don't work for major drug companies making drugs. What are those researchers studying? Regarding Alzheimer's, ask whether they are testing curcurmin, extracted from turmeric to find out whether or not it reverses Alzheimers in its early stages or even prevents Alzheimers or other dementia.
You're going to have to look at the incidence of Alzheimer's in countries where it's not a social stigma and where the people are largely vegetarians, even vegans taking supplements and using turmeric or any similar ingredient. On the other end of the investigation are physicians that are looking for evidence that Alzheimer's is caused by eating meat. Here are some examples in a variety of books. What do you think or theorize? Is there a food cure?
Curcumin is extracted from turmeric. Ask what's the reason why turmeric and curry powder containing turmeric are both anti-microbial and also a reverser of brain plaque? What does the research actually show now? Or is it all about marketing curcumin? What's the latest news?
To start your research in order to validate claims of turmeric, begin with the article, Alzheimer's Disease: Of Emerging Importance. Look at the article's Alzheimer's chart. Researchers started with looking at the reported low incidence of Alzheimer's in India.
The World Health Organization sampled curried vegetarian dishes. Was it the curry, the turmeric, or the fact that not as many people in in India dine on red meat? In the villages, the World Health Organization study found under one percent incidient of Alzheimers in people over age 65. What actually is in the turmeric that is the main ingredient of curry powder? Is it curcurmin alone or the whole food, turmeric, or turmeric mixed with other spices that all work together?
It's the phytochemical, curcumin. In the USA, curcumin is sold in capsules in health food stores and online and touted in Life Extension Magazine articles. But in India, where doctors report that the Alzheimer's rate of 4.4 times less than the rate in the burger-chomping USA, people in those Indian villages ate a small amount of turmeric in their curried foods. They didn't extract the curcumin. However, it's the curcumin that's being researched.
Your next step would be to go to the UCLA-Veteran's Affairs study. That research reiterated that curcumin has low toxicity and shows promise in "for the prevention of Alzheimer's." Curcumin also is being studied for its anti-cancer potential. Check out the article, Dr Oz: Curcumin Prevents Pancreatic Cancer & More Solutions.
Don't gulp all that turmeric yet. A teaspoon in a pot of stew is fine. But if you add a tablespoon to your food daily, soon your liver will start pouring out a lot more bile, maybe too much bile and stress for your liver. The whites of your eyes may start to turn yellow.
This would confuse your doctor who may think that maybe you have Wilson's disease (a copper build-up problem) that turns the whites of eyes yellow. Your dentist will tell you the roof of your mouth, your palate is yellow, and advise you to see a doctor and have your liver tested. So stick with a small amount of turmeric in your diet unless you are supervised medically and your liver bile tested.
Should you take curcumin capsules? That's up to you and your physician or naturopath based on how the curcumin is affecting your liver bile and any other aspect of your health. Sure, in India, turmeric, a main ingredient of which is curcumin, has been used for six thousand years.
It's an anti-inflammatory. In India today, turmeric is used as a paste to put on the skin to clear up chicken pox sores and other rashes. Turmeric is anti-microbial. Even hospital floors in India and Sri Lanka often are washed with turmeric and water to sanitize them.
In Ayurvedic medicine of India, turmeric is given to cure inflammation in the body. So your next source of research might be to look at more news of the UCLA-Veteran's Affairs study. Also see the article at News-Medical Net.
So who's going to start a clinical trial? And is the clinical trial, if started going to work with healthy volunteers again or target people over age 65 with a variety of issues?
Scientists really need to find out what safe doses of curcumin or turmeric are required. Turmeric is a spice people put in food and not a drug. So can a spice in food turn back or prevent Alzheimer's and any other dementias? Which ones? Your next stepping stone of validation is to look at the research published in the Dec 7, 2004 online edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Specifically, curcumin, found in turmeric inhibits the formation of protein fragments better than most drugs being tested at that time as Alzheimer's treatments. There's something about the curcumin, its low molecular weight and polar structure. The cucurmin crashes through your blood-brain barrier and binds to the beta amyloids that form the plaque of Alzheimer's. When the cucurmin binds to the beta amyloids, those amyloids aren't able to move on and out to worsen Alzheimer's.
Your next step might be to look at a 2001 study in the Journal of Neuroscience, 2001; 21:8370-8377. Then look at a similar study in Neurobiology of Aging, 2001; 22:993-1005. We know turmeric is an antioxidant and anti-inflammataory. And the inflamed brain of an Alzheimer's patient results in oxidation.
Want more validation? Look at the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) information on their clinical trials of curcumin.
What people want is a safe prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's and similar-type dementias using a spice or food rather than a drug with more serious side effects that only presently postpones rather than reverses. And in your own reading or research as a consumer, follow the money.
Who's funding these studies? The Siegel Life Foundation, Veterans Affairs, Alzheimer's Association, UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and private donors funded the that specific cucurmin research. Next, read the October, 2007 article by Life Extension Foundation's magazine titled, Novel Turmeric Compound Delivers Much More Curcumin to the Blood.
Other noteworthy resources nutritionists may consider telling consumers about include the books, Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease by MD Murray Waldman and Marjorie Lamb (Hardcover - Jun 30, 2005) or Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease by Colm A. Kelleher (Hardcover - Oct 19, 2004). Also see: Food for Thought: The Debate over Eating Meat (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) by Steve F. Sapontzis (Paperback - May 2004).


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Ima write a little more about me in case someone actually reads this. It could become my documentation of stuff about my life. I could print it up when I'm 109 and give it to my Great Great Grands.
I like to sew. I like to garden. I like to ride in my truck. I like to hike.
I don't like to cook. So I don't. Well rarely. I don't like to talk on the phone. I don't like that I'm so far from my Saster.
I love Bacon and my dog Bess.
My husband has tried to kill me ...umm...twice, I think. It's life with a Engineer people...was nothing personal. He loves me....really.
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Supreme Court takes up lethal injection case
Associated Press - January 7, 2008 7:04 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case challenging the way lethal injections are administered to condemned inmates.
The two Kentucky death row inmates whose challenge is before the court are not asking to be spared execution or death by injection. Their argument, basically, is that there are ways to get the job done relatively pain-free.
The court's decision could determine how convicted killers are executed in Florida, which has similar lethal injection procedures to the state of Kentucky.
The men claim that lethal injection as practiced in Kentucky amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Their lawyers say other states routinely botch executions by using poorly trained people, complex procedures and even dim lighting that makes it hard for the executioner to see what he is doing.
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#DarkTower Overtakes #Dunkirk / Box Office Report: 8/4/2017 – 8/6/2017
On this first weekend of August The Dark Tower is the New #1 Movie with an estimated $19,500,000 beating the previous #1 and now #2 Dunkirk with an estimated $17,600,000. Dropping from the 2nd spot to the 3rd spot will be The Emoji Movie with an estimated $12,350,000. Rounding out the Top 5 in the 4th Spot will be Girls Trip $11,418,700. Halle Barry will finish in somewhat disappointing 5th spot with Kidnap an estimated $10,210,000.
Box Office Winners:
New Next Week:
Box Office Winners:
1. The Dark Tower $19,500,000
2. Dunkirk $17,600,000
3. The Emoji Movie $12,350,000
4. Girls Trip $11,418,700
5. Kidnap $10,210,000
All totals are estimates and will be updated Monday.
New Next Week:
1. Annabelle: Creation
2. The Glass Castle
3. The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature


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"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there." Pierre Elliott Trudeau
An apocalypse in ink, soap and 35mm film, shot in high definition video.
3 minutes, Canada, 2012
HD video
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I'm 13
I was born and raised in an area on another planet
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Book Review: Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins @ladyhawkins
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Okay... so the ending made me wanna through the book. I hate when there is a series and they middle child you with this second book full of awesome then cliff-hang the end and make you wait a year. Maggie did it with Linger, SMeyer did it with New Moon, and I am sure there are hundreds of authors and authors to be that are all planning or have planned these "OMG - The End" moments.
I dislike them.
I like stand alone books, even in a series. For me, the waiting thing doesn't make me want to read even more then I rush out and buy the book a year from now, nope, it makes me lose interest and then when it does come out, I can't remember what I read a year before. I have too many TBR books to read so rereading isn't always a possibility or a desire.
So no, not a fan of the ending.
Other than that last page though. YAY!!!!!!!!
I adore Sophie. She's funny, smart, sarcastic, and playful. I love that about her. She's gotten a rough lot, but also, she's gotten some kickass stuff too!
Then there's Cal and Jenna and they are the best seconds. I love them both.
And then there's Archer. I won't say anymore, but wow.
We meet Sophie's dad in this book and it's actually a great story twist. We go to London with Soph and her two sidekicks and the book moves so quickly. Lots of action and fun.
Rachel really knows how to write to keep you interested.
I can't say much more or I'll ruin the great "Holy Dark Magic" moments including that ending. If you haven't read Demonglass, go on and get it :)
Maybe just wait six months or so. Then you won't be as cranky as me :D
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2/15 Heard in the Waiting Room
- Just in case you missed it, April's new one-shot 'Hope' was posted last night
- The Serial Drama girls want to buy Patrick a clue!
- Kimberly McCullough is in the 'Cause a Scene: Go Red' commercial about heart disease
Special thanks to the Scrubbies relaying this information…here are the Spoilers and Speculations for the day:
Expected GH Scrubs airdates
week of 2/11 - T, Th
week of 2/18
none at the time of this post
:: Pretty Reliable::
AIG: none at the time of this post
EMI: none at the time of this post
Chat Up:
Is Chat Up around or has she been around since last week?
Depends on what you want
Reactions to the latest batch of ratings please.
And is Guza on the scene?
1. Really not good at all. I spoke earlier about needing a trend upwards heading into sweeps and then sustaining it - this is exactly what needed not to happen
2. He's back
Are these sweep's outines from Guza?
What do you think they are attributing the lack of ratings to? (I have my ideas)
I won't be answering questions for today after this - just popped in to see how things were.
1. Guza's outlines are in play but there have been changes made along the way.
2. There was a belief that they had worked out some of the viewership issues with the move to a more balanced canvas but choppier writing in the last few weeks is having an impact. The return of Sarah Brown is below expectations.
3. As for who is safe and who isn't - the plan for moving the show forward from a business perspective (ie - the non-creative side) has been laid out clearly for Frons and his team. Now they have to enact it. (source)
TTYL: none at the time of this post
:: Could be Complete
Daytime Dish Anon:
none at the time of this post
Soap Dish Anon:
Lies and deception, guilt and regret.
These are the facts. The entire show is not the quad (source)
Alexis will be having some scenes at the hospital coming up.
She has scenes coming up with Robin, Patrick, Nikolas, Ian, Jerry, Kate, Sonny and Diane. (source)
Ian is anything but harmless and people who don't believe that and think he isn't going to be pulling some strings.. I'm preparing them now.
Long List Scoopster.
I forget to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day. I'm going on a bit of a vacation.
So I won't be around for a bit.
Good night. (source)
While I was gone it appears there has been a big deal made out of Sam's comment to Dr Devlin, about Jason some day meeting his match. Seems some have taken this as an anvil..
Those people would be right, it was an anvil. But they have headed in the wrong direction. The anvil wasn't about Claudia it was about Dr Devlin. Pretty soon you will see that Dr Devlin is scarier than AZ, Helena and Stavros put together. Why ? because not only is he completely sane but he is also completely evil.
Jason and Sonny will heed Jerry's warning. Dr Devlin isn't scared or warned off by any threat because he doesn't care about anyone or anything. He won't be easy to beat because he has no weakness. His only interest or pleasure is winning. (source)
Is he using Sam?
No. With Sam he is keeping up the appearance of the flirty brilliant playboy Dr. That is how he competes with Patrick and "wins". Sam is a none player in the mob business because she isn't with Jason anymore. His questioning of Sam seemed harmless, but he's scoping the lay of the land with the mob.
Re: Ian
I do like the way the actor plays him with such attitude. Any idea how long he will be around and who he will be targeting? Is he going to try and romance anyone--like Leyla?
He will interact with Leyla and Robin. He won't romance Leyla as such, she may feel as if she is being romanced. But it could be said he will "use" her to get up Patrick's nose. Patrick will start to remember that it wasn't as much fun as he thought being around Dr Devlin.
Is there a reason getting to Patrick is important to him? You mentioned "winning" as being his only concern. What does he consider "winning"? Why is Port Charles his new field of play?
Winning against Patrick has always been about medicine. Which is why he's changed his field of medicine. Notice there has been a couple of scenes where he has discussed changing fields, talked to Patrick about working on a similar case to Nikolas. Dr Devlin has suggested a different possibly more risky course of treatment. Usually that is Patricks domain.
His back story as far as what brought him to PC. That I don't know. I could spec on that but I don't want to, I'll wait to get some real information.
I'm going to ask this for Scrubbie, who has concerns:
Is there any chance Robin is having twins?
Is that the spec ? No I haven't heard that.
Twins make me think that one of them will be HIV poz.
That certainly sounds like Guza's MO. But honestly I think the higher ups believe that is too risky a storyline and they won't go down that path. Which is why I haven't heard a hint of that from my source.
Insider, anything on Carly and Jax? Is the plan for the baby to live?
I have heard that it is. Robin and Carly's pregnancies will play out in parallel
Do you have anything else on Robin?
What's coming up for her? Any romance? Any health issues?
I've only heard that the every day stuff like morning sickness etc. But because she is HIV+ everyone will take that kind of stuff more serious. I have heard the Carly and Robin's pregnancies will parallel each other. They will use it for some comedic relief. Which sounded weird to me but the scenario given to me was Robin gets morning sickness, Carly gets all day sickness stuff like that.
What's Carly diagnosed with on Feb 26th?
I don't know I'll ask. My information was that they would play up the morning sicknes/nausea angle for both Robin anc Carly. But it could be something more so I'll check.
Any news on what the next bit is for Patrick? The "bring him to his knees" stuff doesn't quite seem to be happening (or am I missing it)?
It hasn't come yet. Be patient. Robin and Patrick fans have a had a tough time. But this baby storyline will play out well.
when will this start to play out onscreen? Is there any sort of time frame on this?
To be honest I rarely ask "when" just "if" something is going to happen. But I was told soon so I would say by the end of March they will be bonding over the baby. There is no plans at the moment for Robin to tell Patrick he's the daddy, but it is obvious that they are still in love and the idea of a pregnant Robin isn't pushing Patrick away only closer.
Do you have any idea at all if Patrick might know for sure by say May sweeps, that he's the baby daddy?
Will this just continue to drag out and will he know sooner rather than later?
I don't know for sure. But you don't have to be an insider to figure out that reveal will happen during a sweeps period. (source)
I did not drop the one line scoops but I did say Guza is not leaving. The contract they are working on is not short term.
I believe you!! Really!! Can you please give us something on scrubs, please!!
Neither of Robin's children will be HIV+. (source)


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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
People seldom live up to their baby pictures.
The other night I told my kid, 'Someday you'll have children of your own.' He said, 'So will you.'
When I was a kid my parents moved alot - but I always found them.
I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by, and I said, 'Are you Louise?' She said, 'Are you Rodney?' I said, 'Yeah.' She said, 'I'm not Louise.'
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My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.
A hooker told me, 'Not on the first date.'
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There are moments in your life when things go on in a very strange way but behind all this God is actually teachings you something, shedding light on those dark questions you're asking yourself.
It started few days ago, at a time when I was totally lost and confused and I asked myself "Am I a mad person ? Never in my life I felt so confused, I cannot complete even the simpliest task…" and the self analysis went on and on. I then went on internet and boom, in some way and I don't really know how, I came across an article which was describing the list techniques used by a manipulative person. The article mainly focused on men as being manipulators but I believe women can manipulate too.
So, everything became clear. A manipulator is someone who eventually ends being violent but in my case it did not happen. What was striking was the fact that some of the techniques listed on that article I could recognize them in my ex husband : blurred communication, changing what I really said and saying that I actually said what I did not say, blaming me for his faults, making me understand that he was the best one for me and that he knew what was good for me, making sure that I felt guilty for everything…
Then, I read many other articles on controlling husbands but I still wondered wether my ex was really one as he was not a violent person. Meanwhile I was becaming someone else, I felt like I was losing my mind while being by his side. There were days I no longer knew how to think by myself. It is unbelievable how such persons can keep you under control and I had read that some women took years to realize what was really happening.
Back to the title of the present article, it is that of a movie The Girl on the Train by Tate Taylor. It is a movie I watched while not having read the synopis, I was actually attracted by the sad face of the woman leaning her face against the window of the train. So you can't imagine how astonished I was when I came to realize that it was about a woman discovering that her ex husband had been manipulating her and that he managed to make her believe in things she never did by forcing her to drink.
Why am I writing this post ? I don't know about other women but from the day I had met my ex husband I never really found my place. There was always that man who told me what to do, how to behave and even HOW I SHOULD FEEL. If I needed some alone time I could not because it was my duty to look after our son. My mother always asked why I did not let our child with her for few days so I could rejuvenate. The answer is simple, my son's father would not want it this way. As a consequence, even though I left him, I feel disgust for marriage, I see my pregnancy and experience as a mother like a disaster. I still can't believe that in this world there are people who won't mind using all the means they want so that you become what they want you to be. I dislike men who act like this and I cannot comprehend why most of you want to possess women as if we were just some objects. Damn it, we are human beings with dreams and goals, we can think , we can make choice and decide by ourselves – but some of you just come in our life with a distorted reality to keep us under control. Why ? All this for purely nurturing your ego and making you feel powerful.
On a good note, like Rachel in The Girl on the Train, I'm looking forward and I stop to look back because I know what I am worthy of and what is good for me or not.


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"No Amount of Diet"
Friday, January 11, 2008
A friend has once shared to me that no amount of dieting has really helped her lose weight. She came to a point where she would really deprive herself of food, just to be able to go down to her ideal weight. The latest I heard, she had totally given up dieting but not her dream of going back to what she was like before she gave birth. I am going to recommend that she talk to a lap band physician. She might consider having lap band surgery, the only weight-loss surgery which is completely reversible and adjustable.


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Sunday, December 28, 2014
Benjamin Franklin at the Convention Concerning Jewish immigration.
"There is a great danger for the United States of America. This great danger is the Jew. Gentlemen, in every land the Jews have settled, they have depressed the moral level and lowered the degree of commercial honesty. They have re- mained a-part and un-assimilated; oppressed, they at- tempt to strangle the nation financially, as in the case of Portugal and Spain. For more than seventeen hundred years they have la- mented their sorrowful fate — namely, that they have been driven out of their mother land; but. gentlemen, if the civilized world today should give them back Palestine and their property, they would immediately find pressing reason for not returning there. Why? . . . Because they are vampires and vampires cannot live on other vampires — they cannot live among themselves. They must live among Christians and others who do not belong to their race. If they are not expelled from the United States by the Constitution within less than one hundred years, they will stream into this country in such numbers that they will rule and destroy us and change our form of Govern- ment for which we Americans shed our blood and sacri- ficed our life, property and personal freedom. If the Jews are not excluded within two hundred years, our children will be working in the fields to feed Jews while they remain in counting houses, gleefully rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews forever, your children and your children's children will curse you in their graves. Their ideas are not those of Americans, even when they lived among us for ten genera- tions. The leopard cannot change his spots. The Jews are a danger to this land and if they are allowed to enter, they will imperil our institutions. They should be ex- cluded by the Constitution." The original of this copy is in the Franklin Institute. Philadelphia, Pa.
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Marc Faber says he sees signs China's economy may be poised for a collapse and it could possibly happen within nine months to a year.
In a television interview with Bloomberg, Faber said this:
"The market is telling you that something is not quite right. The Chinese economy is going to slow down regardless. It is more likely that we will even have a crash sometime in the next nine to 12 months."
When the credit crisis exploded and American consumers stopped spending, China did the usual thing governments and central banks do, they attempted to stimulate their economy by spending billions on domestic property development and construction projects, which may account for about 60 percent of the Chinese domestic product at this time.
In the interview Faber also said the mining companies in Australia, which supply a large portion of raw materials to China, are acting "heavy," meaning they may be feeling exterior pressures of slowing demand.
It also looks like China has no intention of changing their policies either, as Finance Minister Xie Xuren said China will continue their expansion until the recovery takes hold.
One step the Chinese government has taken is to forbid taking out a mortgage on a third home while also raising interest rates on mortgages and increasing the requirements on down payments.
Estimates are that could cause the value of properties to fall by up to 20 percent in the second half of 2010 in hopes of cutting down are investing in risky real estate deals.
Faber says these measures could push investors toward the Chinese stock market, but since that's fully valued at this time, they could choose gold as their investment of choice, and who knows where that would bring the price gold to in light of the European sovereign debt crisis, which is only beginning to unfold.
Either way, if Faber is correct at the high end of his projection, the economy of China will slow, and what happens to the prices of commodities at that time when so many companies and countries have been relying upon to bring them out of the recession?
Couple all of this with the EU sovereign debt debacle and it's hard to figure how the financial press can endlessly repeat the mantra that we're in an economic recovery.


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Okay, so I am embarking on a new challenge. And I am asking all my readers (declared readers and anonymous readers) to do the same, especially those of you who like I, am a committed Facebook Junkie. Yes, there I said it, I am a FB junkie. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem right?
My challenge, for the next three days is this: Whenever you feel the urge to update your Facebook status, you do something else instead. For example, if you're a writer, you write down a great metaphorical sentence, the title to a book, a funny character name, anything simple. If you're an artist go add color to that painting you're working on, finish beading that necklace whatever, just do that thing INSTEAD of updating your FB status. Now, the tricky part, or maybe the fun part about it is that whatever you go and do has to take as little or as much time as it would for you to update your status. (But if it spurs to keep working, then hey who am I to stop you?) Now, if AFTER you've done that other thing you STILL feel the urge to post, then go right on ahead, but maybe, just maybe you won't anymore.
So, for the next three days I will blog daily to let you know the "little" things I've been able to accomplish by resisting/redirecting the urge to FaceBook.
So far I have done the following:
1. Read my father's revisions for my children's book
2. Come up with two titles for two more children's books I want to write.
3. Outlined another children's book I am going to work on this afternoon.
ALL this by simply redirecting my urge to facebook ONE time this morning after my walk. BUT, I must say that I did still FaceBook after completing these tasks, but that's okay because I accomplished more than I would have if I were not challenging myself.
So Please, readers of my blog, I urge to take the challenge with me. It's only for three days, see how it goes and don't be afraid to share with me and with others what you've been able to accomplish!
Be Still. Be Well.


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[No one, I know, will read all of this. That's not the point. I have to write it. You may, however, find this excursion into the bizarre entertaining.]
The room always fills with white noise. Out of the white noise evolves a ringing (I discovered a name for the sound when I heard Yvonne Loriod herself play the Ondes Martenot as her husband Olivier Messaien conducted his Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine at the Boston Symphony sometime around 1980) on B-flat three octaves above middle C. The ringing lasts for some seconds and explodes into an overlay of more white noise, and whatever is happening in the "real" world close at hand withdraws into a distance which is immediate and almost palpable, yet appears far away and very small—as if it were visible only by looking through the wrong end of binoculars—not an "out-of-body" experience, but a moving of the body into a different "time-space continuum" than the mind occupies.
In 1981 I talked to a psychiatrist and casually mentioned the Ondes Martenot sound and the retreat of palpable reality, and he knew of the work of Dr. Norman Geschwind, who solidified the research into Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and of Dr. S~~, a specialist in TLE. Whether or not my own binocular view of the world is a "fit" for the diagnosis, when one has the opportunity, one goes to see Dr. S~~, who diagnoses TLE. Can one be sure? I have no oozing sore, no irregular heartbeat, no broken limb, no physical manifestation of disease, but only these oddities which, for all I know, everyone experiences as "reality." And how am I sure when asked questions about the oddities that I observe in my own mind if my answers are correct? The answers have no collaboration. Trying to answer the specific questions about the amorphous makes me crazy. MRIs show nothing. EEGs show nothing. Nothing shows nothing. Yet I look backward through binoculars constantly. And I hear white noise and the Ondes Martenot. The doctors are fascinated by the fact that it's always that high B-flat, and that I know what pitch it is.
Academic literature is replete with articles about TLE and "religious experience." Whether or not one believes in God is irrelevant. What I want to know is how anyone who does not have TLE can possibly understand the religious experience of those who do. (The neuroscience is remarkably advanced, and, as far as this layman can tell, makes sense. Certain areas of the brain do religious work and certain areas do other kinds of work. I would not hazard a guess what it all means.)
What most people mean by "religious experience" is a mystical run-in with a saint or the Holy Grail—an icon from the religious tradition one knows. What one sees, hears, smells, or tastes when one is hearing white noise interrupted by an Ondes Martenot, is, as far as I have ever been able to discover, completely inexplicable to anyone else. So my "religious experiences" do not involve saints or stigmata or crosses or a talking Buddha or any of the other enchanting visions TLEptics report. My seeing the Virgin Mary in a vision would be a priori bizarre because I have little attachment to her as a religious icon.
The universe of images associated with religion was vastly missing from my formative years. Baptist. We didn't even have a cross in our church. Popish. The religious image that might come to me in a "vision" would be a tank full of water. I love religious iconography now, but that's not what my poor befuddled brain would come up with to tell Dr. A~~ about if I had a vision.
"Humans are dualists; they act as if (and usually believe that) a person has both a physical body and another part—a soul, spirit, or 'essence' that defines that person. The body, an animate object, gets tagged by our intuitive biology as something that eats, sleeps, walks, has sex, and dies. However, because the psychological part is not visible and does not have an obvious physical substance, it is subject to different inferences; 'it dies' is not one of them. Humans have an intuitive belief that one's body and one's essence are separate." **
This is fascinating to any TLEptic. "…a person has a physical body and another part—a soul, spirit, or 'essence' that defines that person." If that's true, it's no wonder TLEptics (this one at any rate) have trouble living in the "real" world. To us, the soul, spirit, or essence is obvious. The physical body is the problem. Does everyone feel this dissociation, but no one wants to admit it?
Michael Saunders Gazzaniga continues, "Because the mental separation happens automatically, it is easy to think that either the body or the essence can exist separately, hence the concepts of a zombie, the body without the mind, or the soul, spirit without the body. Humans, unsurprisingly, have been even more creative, inventing other essences such as ghosts, angels, demons, the devil, and gods or God. . . being a dualist and conceiving of such entities as spirits or God are uniquely human qualities."
So if persons with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy have these "religious experiences," then, by default, they (we) are the most thoroughly human of all primates. (This may also apply to other quirks of the brain that my doctors believe, on the basis of my inability to describe what I feel, see, and hear, is TLE. Or it may all be the result of what several psychiatrists are convinced is my Bipolar Disorder).
Immanuel Kant wrote in 1783, "How is it that in this space, here, we can make judgments that we know with apodictic certainty will be valid in space, there?" *** What a clever fellow he was—writing before the science of Astrobiology. In this space, here, I make judgments that will be valid in space (and time, and any other dimension we discover). Timothy Hubbard agrees. "Kant's analysis suggested to him that the laws of space are known to the mind because those laws are actually of the mind, and so knowledge of space reflects an a priori knowledge (i.e., a knowledge prior to experience and thus possibly innate to the organism). Such an a priori knowledge could be construed to be a part of human nature."
In this space, here, in my Temporal Lobe (or wherever it is happening) I can make judgments that I know with necessarily demonstrable certainty will be valid there. Don't call the paramedics or my doctors. I'm not claiming to be speaking to or for "ghosts, angels, demons, the devil, and gods or God." I have a special relationship with my Temporal Lobe (or some mysterious part of my brain) that most folks don't with theirs. If I do begin to have "religious experiences," someone better pay attention. The Holy Grail won't appear to me, or Our Virgin of Somewhere Else or even a Baptist prayer meeting. I will know the essence of reality. Starting with the Big Bang.
** Gazzaniga, Michael Saunders. "Humans: The Party Animal." Daedalus. 138.3 (Summer 2009): 21(14).
***Kant, Immanuel. Prolegomenon to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). Quoted in ****
****Hubbard, Timothy L. "The inner meaning of outer space: human nature and the celestial realm." Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana 26.1 (Jan 2008): 52(14).


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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last night (Wednesday), 15 August 2007, met with Nicholas Burns, the US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, who arrived in Israel to sign a Memorandum of Understanding regarding $30 billion in US aid to Israel over the next ten years.
Prime Minister Olmert requested that the Undersecretary of State convey his appreciation and thanks to US President George Bush and to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their efforts to bring about the understandings, reached between President Bush and himself during his last US visit.
Prime Minister Olmert noted that the aid agreement with the US is a significant component for Israel and proves once again the profundity of the relationship between the two countries and the commitment of the US to Israel's security and to ensuring its qualitative edge.


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Another weekend is upon us already!
Here's your homework in more detail:
1. PCM p65 is a lovely page of word problems. Yes, I know you hate them, but it's like medicine, it's GOOD for you.
2. Do the planning stage of the Lunar Theme Park Advertisement. That means:
a) If you want to do a leaflet, plan out how it will be set out on a three-fold publisher leaflet. If you have Publisher at home you can make a start on it.
b) If you are doing a RADIO commercial, you need to write down (in your blue book) exactly what you are going to say, the script in other words. We will record your voice reading it/saying it, and play it back as if it's on the radio.
c) If you want to make a TV commercial, you need to write your script the same as for RADIO, but you will have to learn it off by heart. I will video you performing your commercial, and we will play it to the class.
REMEMBER, this is another example of PERSUASIVE text. Your advertisement needs to persuade people to come to your theme park. You also need to say who you are, how much it costs to go there, opening times and describe some of the major attractions. You have all seen commercials on TV, where people are trying to make people buy stuff. Be as PERSUASIVE as you can. Why should people go to YOUR theme park?
Good luck.
Do not forget to READ and finish your Log activity too.
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Bruce's message
Where do Villa turn now?
Defeat against Ipswich surely ended their slim hopes of sneaking into the play-offs.
They were rapidly fading anyway with the top-six showing little sign of slowing up in their quest for promotion.
But with defeat to the Tractor Boys went Villa's unbeaten home record, and inevitably a large chunk of their pride.
Players' challenge
Steve Bruce called his players in for a Sunday session to erase the pain of Saturday's defeat to Ipswich.
Villa were back at Bodymoor Heath working on ways to improve ahead of Tuesday's clash with Barnsley as Bruce refused to be too downbeat after the weekend setback.
The unbeaten record at Villa Park is now a distant memory but Bruce insists it won't play on the players' minds.
Opinion divided
Aston Villa fans have had their say on the article that writer Steve Wollaston composed in the aftermath to the Ipswich defeat.
Villa's fan-base appear to have mixed opinions on how much pressure boss Steve Bruce should be under - some have slammed the tactics as the claret and blues await their first win of 2017.
Others have suggested that time is needed, especially with the influx of Bruce's very own signings in January.
Tony Xia's admission
Tony Xia has admitted the job at Aston Villa is "harder than expected".
Villa were thought to be one of the front-runners for promotion at the start of the season, and despite a decent run under Steve Bruce initially, they've not been able to maintain it.
It's left their promotion hopes for this season in tatters.


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I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee...Psalm 9:verses 1 and 2a
Saturday, January 03, 2009
This is not a very good picture of the vintage vase my daughter gave me for Christmas, but I am pressing it into service anyway. It has a 'frog' that lifts off the top like a cover. It is so nice for making its own flower arrangement...I'm quite taken with it.
The other picture of the plate stand is a 'favorite find' I found it at our school yard sale. It was only $2.00. You can tell its been around a while but I love it.One of the birds was missing, but my daughter 'scootched' the remaining birds together and you can see it is getting constant use. I think this plate holder is charming! What's one of your favorite gifts this year? Do you have a favorite yard sale item from 2008? Just typing 2008 I get the feeling for sure it really is gone. Its great though that the Lord gives us a brand new day each and every morning. I always liked the quote from Anne of Green Gables....a new day, with no mistakes in it....(yet)grin.
Well, tomorrow is time to go to worship the Lord. My Bible is laying open here and my eyes go to these two verses..."He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth; for the LORD hath spoken it.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isaiah 25:verses 8 and 9.
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- Lea of Farmhouse Blessings said...
Your vase is lovely! And I love your Anne quote. I've been watching Anne of Green Gables while I work around the house. It always leaves me feeling happy and hopeful! And that quote is exactly how I view each day.
My favorite gift this season was time ... my husband has been caring for our youngest so I can catch up on projects and do a little quilting. That has been sooo nice!
Rejoicing with you,
- Saija said...
i love to see something that was once discarded and sold for little - redeemed by someone like you, who then cherishes it and gives it a place of honour ...
just like Jesus did with us ... we were discarded - but He came, so that we too could call God our Father, and be brought up to a place of honour ...
isn't that a mystery ...
but i'm so thankful for my salvation!
and thank you so much for praying for my sister, dear Maggie Ann ... may the Lord bless you ...
Your vintage vase and plate stand are very charming and both are items I would love, too.
We don't exchange Christmas gifts with adults in our family. My mother broke the rules, though, and gave me a box of miniature chocolate hedgehogs. So that was my favourite gift, of course ;)
The Anne quote is one of my daughter's favourites.
Thank you for "being there" for me today. You are such a dear.
- Marie said...
So happy I found you again, Maggie Ann. Our computer up and died a couple of months ago, and I COULD NOT remember the name of your blog (or many others). Suddenly it occurred to me today while I was doing the dishes :). Anyway it was fun catching up on your posts, just thought I'd say so.
- Marie said...
Oh I meant to say, I have a Shelfari, too, I'll have to send you a friend request.
- bennie and patsy said...
Lovely and the little birds look real in the picture. Blessing's to you and a hug.
- The Dutchess said...
Wishing you a wonderful New Year...
Love the little birdies..
- Cora from Hidden Riches said...
I really loved the pictures of your things!!!! The little birds look so perfect on the handle!!!! Love it! The vase is perfect, too!!!!
- CONNIE'S THOUGHTS FROM THE HEART said...
That is such a nice vase. I am so glad that you had such a nice Christmas.
My favorite gift was all my children (5) being home at the same time for Christmas. All their families were also here except for one of our daughter in laws and our oldest granddaughter and her family. It was such a great time with all 32 of us stuffed into our very modest 3 bedroom home. People that I loved filled ever corner. Thank you for asking about my favorite gift this season. connie
- sparrow's song said...
Wow, I'm so loving that frog aspect of your new vase. I found a small round frog that was in a box my husband brought up from the basement. Your vase is absolutely wonderful. What a beautiful gift.
Sweet birds! What a find.
I don't have any fav yard sale item so I'll choose from the basement box. We enjoyed unwrapping several items brought back from Japan in 1995. It also contained my son's baby dishes, Noah's Ark print, that my mother gave him over 21 years ago.
Wishing you a blessed New Year.
- Lea of Farmhouse Blessings said...
Yes, I love all the Anne of Green Gables movies and have read the books. I have not even heard of the Avonlea series but just googled them and know I will enjoy those as well. Thanks for opening up a whole new Anne venue for me.
I found one little Anne of Green Gables song for my blog. Have you heard it? I wish they had more!
- Mrs. Mac said...
That vase is very beautiful and unique. A treasure to hold beauty from the garden. I'm trying to think if I got any good deals at garage sales this past year, hummm? I got a few cute parlor type tables at a good price from my favorite vintage store (called 'My Favorite Things' :) That's as close as I can remember to a good find. I couldn't see the second picture ... my pc is slow today. Have a blessed week.
- Mrs. Mac said...
I came back to see if I could view the plate stand. Yes, indeed, today it's downloading on my pc. It was worth the second trip over here. The birds on top seem to want a nice apple pie sitting on the top rack perhaps? :) You always find good stuff at yard sales.


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The cinematic relationship between South Korea and China is flourishing, as evidenced by a series of Korean-Chinese co-productions including "20, Once Again!," a Chinese-language remake of Korean smash hit "Miss Granny" (pictured) that has become a Sino B.O. hit.
As the film industry reaches saturation point at home, Korean talent has been exploring additional room for growth, most notably in China where the box office hit $4.76 billion in 2014 and became the world's second-largest film market last year. Since China's own production infrastructure is unable to keep up with the fast-growing demands of local filmmakers and audience, China has approached South Korea and started bringing in talent and intellectual properties.
The two countries collaborated first in 2001 on "Musa the Warrior" and "Failan," for which acting talent and locations were shared. But since 2013, a dramatic shift has taken place in the form of Korean-Chinese co-productions, with South Korea-initiated productions starring Chinese talent finding box office success in China, such as "A Wedding Invitation."
Co-produced by CJ Entertainment and four Chinese companies, "A Wedding Invitation" is based on 2001 Korean film "Last Present" and grossed $30.6 million at the Chinese box office. Initiated by CJ's Beijing office, "Wedding Invitation" was directed in Chinese by "Last Present" director Oh Gi-hwan; it's considered one of the earliest co-productions that has been specifically produced for the China market and has pioneered the melodrama genre in China. "Mr. Go," a 2013 CGI-heavy big-budget Korean film with Chinese elements and investment, took the partnership to another level with Korean-Chinese collaboration on co-development and co-investment, hiring technicians and setting up joint ventures that co-handled the entire filmmaking and distribution duties.
One important motivation for South Korea to pursue such full-scale collaboration is that co-productions are considered local productions in China and exempt from the country's revenue-sharing quota slots. These slots are mostly filled with Hollywood movies, largely shutting out other countries from the most profitable part of China's theatrical market.
Still, while a growing number of Korean films have been styled and structured as co-prods by Korean companies seeking a piece of the vast Chinese market, and some are also incorporating popular Chinese ethnic K-pop talent, such films with minor involvement of China have rarely been acknowledged as co-prods.
Even if the road still seems bumpy, as the co-production treaty signed last year by China's State Administration of Film Radio and Television and Korea's ministry of culture focuses more on allowing Korean-made films to avoid China's import quota system, the strong demand for more Korean-Chinese co-productions is more than a trend, with both countries' cultural and financial motivations clear-cut.
While dozens of joint projects are being developed and produced, a handful of co-productions are set for upcoming release. These include Korean director Chang Yoon-hyun's horror thriller, "The Peaceful Island," with a Chinese cast; "My New Sassy Girl," a sequel to Korean hit "My Sassy Girl," starring Chinese K-pop star Victoria Song; and "The Witness," a Chinese-language remake of Korean thriller "Blind."
Latest examples of the advanced, substantial collaboration include Huace & New, the Beijing-based joint venture co-launched by South Korea's New and China's Huace. The deal is a further step in their relationship that started last year where Huace paid $52 million for a 15% stake in New, with which New listed its shares on the Korean stock market.
"The company is a 50-50 joint venture," says Kim Woo-taek, New CEO. "On principle, we will be co-investing and co-producing in all Huace & New titles."
Huace & New also announced the first three projects that have been developed for two separate films for two different countries from the beginning. The Korean version of high-concept romantic comedy "The Beauty Inside" has been completed, while the Chinese one is still in pre-production.


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You all are aware that *I* have issues. Manic/Depressive. On medication. And STILL I have issues. With trust. With feeling unworthy of everything--even the air I breathe. But I come by it honestly. Honestly.
My Parental Units (the real ones) have mental issues. Addiction issues. Personality issues. So do my siblings. I love my sister with a passion that borders on insane. And although she has never (that I know of) been on medication--she has been depressed (maybe is right now). My brother has even deeper issues. For one, he resides in Mississippi. If that alone won't qualify you for Nut Status, I dunno what will...
We had a hard life. This isn't for sympathy. Or even empathy. But if you want to send money to help with my rent issue, let me know (HAHA).
Our childhoods included alcoholism, spousal abuse, borderline child abuse, child molestation (parents were aware of it but never did anything about it) and your regular ole vanilla brand of crappy care. So, when *I* feel like the worst mother on planet Earth (and that is daily)--I know, it could be worse. But that is no consolation.
When I was diagnosed as a nutter, I was partially relieved. AHHHH, a NAME for this feeling I've had all my life. The mood swings. The lower than low depression. And then I was also partially...even MORE depressed. I'm crazy. I'll likely be on meds FOREVER. FOREVER reminded every night by 3 pills. And every morning by 4. And God forbid I should forget 2 days in a row. This isn't like birth control where you double up and take precautions. Oh, no... Do this and you have a frrrrreak out.
You may cry uncontrollably if your 3 year old says "You're FIRED!!" because you didn't fill his sippy cup quick enough. You may slam on your breaks just to get your screaming kids attention as they scream/slap/pinch one another in the backseat. You may eat a bag of Wavy Lays or drink a 5th of whiskey and Coke. Smoke a pack of cigs and eat half a box of Raisin Bran. You may scream at the screaming birds to STOP SCREAMING!!! Then...then cry.
And this is my normal life. And some days, I can handle it. And then, there are days like today. Where I feel a nervous breakdown coming on.
It's casual Friday.
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So jet lag won again and I was awake until 04:30 with an alarm set for 09:00. Needless to say, I feel [and look] like an extra on The Walking Dead:
I'm trying to keep myself awake so I'm going to give this a go. Apologies in advance for the apathy that may appear throughout.
After making it through rain, cancelled transport, a bag left on a train [with all of our holiday money in it] and a transfer that failed to arrive, we finally reached our first destination: The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. Lets just say all the woes of the past twenty four hours quickly disintegrated as we looked out from the balcony of our massively upgraded room. [Believe me, whilst It might become tedious after the fiftieth time you've mentioned it, it is absolutely worth telling everyone that you are on Honeymoon – their suites are larger than our flat].
I've not edited these photos as I want to give a realistic view of what this place looks like
[I am so so tired I didn't have the energy to do it].
I also thought I had more photos of the insanely large room we had but as I wasn't planning on blogging I only took the below:
The pool area is large, very comfortable, has views of either the golf course or the hotel and sits against a soundtrack of early noughties pop music [who the hell knows why?].
We were constantly given cold bottles of water and little treats: who knew you NEEDED iced watermelon pops on hot days?
FYI the poolside Nachos are large. Very very large [look at the hand to bowl ratio].
Their main restaurant Highball & Harvest serves Breakfast [and what a breakfast: doughnuts as big as your head, an egg station, a full Southern-style buffet or à la carte], lunch and dinner. Dinner is GREAT.
Not your typical all-American food, this is good quality, flavourful, 'dainty' ingredients with brilliant service.
All guests have access to the adjacent JW Marriott Orlando Hotel and its restaurants [and water-park-esque lazy river] which is probably a good thing to take advantage of considering there is only one other restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton, Norman's, which is more on the fine-dining side of the spectrum. We did neither and actually went to International drive on three out of the four nights we were there.
Where else can you sky-dive, eat yourself into a stupor and go to a gig all in one night?
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes offers luxury, great service from all staff and a pocket of tranquility in a usually busy part of Orlando. It is highly accessible from almost everywhere [around 20 minutes from the airport and Walt Disney World, 15 minutes to Universal Studios and 10 minutes to International Drive] and is definitely one of the best hotels I have stayed in.
That's all I have the energy to write today but I'll be back with more HM antics from twenty minutes down the road very soon.
[P.s. I will eventually get used to WordPress' editing features but at the minute it's arguing with my brain and my face is just staring into the laptop.]


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1. Composition
- The composition of the food that feed the compost bin must be balanced, heterogenous and diversified, in term of structure and composition. Some nutriment can be harful for the worms or the whole composting system. Food and water must be used to influence five over the six main variables : C/N ratio, pH, moist, air.
- Carbon materials are often "dry" nutriments, and include cardboard, paper, plan leaves. Nitrogen materials are often "wet" nutriment, and include vegetables and fruits.
2. Disposition
- Ideally, material to be placed in the compost bin must be alternated depending on their composition. We alternate the layers of nitrogen material with carbon material. Some soil or sand can be mixed with the waste, and a thick layer can be used to cover the food and protect it from insects.
- Worms doesn't directly eat the organic waste, but the mildew that grow on decaying organic material. The worms need to wait few days for the food need few days to be ready. Cutting the food into pieces helps that process. Don't feed the worms too much. When the food quantity is too large for the worms population, mildew can invade the space and make it less comfortable for the worms to live.
3. Harmful food
- Few organic materials are dangerous or toxic for the worms when deposited in large quantity. Worms food must not include nutriments:
- 1. Containing animal fat or vegetal oil, e.g meat, milk, eggs, oil.
- 2. Containing large proportion of salt, e.g. chips.
- 3. Too acides ou too basic, in large quantity, that would unbalance the pH du système, e.g. lemon, ashes.
- 4. Chemical products harmful for worms, plants or humans. e.g. detergent, heavy metal inks.
- Following, you can find a list of the waste to compost or to avoid. Other similar lists can be found on Internet[[#_ftn1|[1]]].


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The Human Genome.
The fool has said in his heart that there is no God: Know this first that there will come in the last days, scoffers, walking after there own lust. For this they are willingly ignorant that by the Word of God the heavens were created and the earth stood out of the water and in the water. (See 2nd Peter 3 verse 1 thru 7.) Indeed, the marvelous design of all living things, reveals that there is an Intelligent Designer, that is far beyond the understanding of the collective intelligent of all humans, let alone the unbelieving fool. This human body is far more intricate in its design, than even the geneticist originally believed. Human understanding of the genetics of mankind is growing within a consensus of scientific opinions, but is stubbornly out of touch, as evidenced, in man's contrived teachings on the unknown inflation of a single cell into the contrived evolutionary origin of man. It's remarkable that the intelligence of a single cell, outstrips the intelligence of mankind, who are all individually made up of trillions of intelligent cells. The writings of the one who resides in this human body of trillions of intelligent cells, in his ignorance of all things, relies on the observations of others that each, also reside in the trillions of intelligent cells that make, up their body of indisputable evidence that declares: God in the beginning, created all things.
The evidence of all things have not changed much since I was in school 50 years ago. I had a physiology and embryology teacher, Dr Johnson, who at the time was working on his PhD in Physiology. This bright man said the following words of truth to his class that stands today: "We don't know why it works the way that it does, but we sure are happy that it works, and works well the way that it does". Although man can create new words to define the expansion of his acquired knowledge, nevertheless man can not create the essence of life out of his knowledge. I hope we are able to create a right understanding of the most important things, and that in the end, God, the Creator of all things is rightly glorified.
The Prophet Daniel saw many things that would bring great trouble in the end times, but was commanded by the Spirit of God to close and seal up the words of the book, until knowledge would increase. (See Daniel 12 verse 4.)
The following is an observation primer in the genetics of man only, and does not go beyond my basic understandings, but stays within the necessary scope of these writings that are intended to magnify the Infinite Creator of the universe. To begin our simple foray into man's acquired knowledge of observable genetics, we start with the macromolecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which is made up of four base chemical structures that are called nucleotides. The names of the four nucleotides are adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine, which all consist of essential carbon rings. These four nucleotide bases are chemically bound with hydrogen atoms and always in pairs of
('A' = adenine linked with two hydrogen atoms to 'T' = thymine),
and ('C' = cytosine' linked with three hydrogen atoms to 'G' = guanine ).
The complete image is available at Wikimedia Commons.
These two paired nucleotide structures are chemically bonded to two sugar (ribose) phosphate backbone strands that run in opposite directions to each other. The sequential pattern of the nucleotides in each separate strand of DNA, produces what we call genes.
Image courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institution
From the very beginning of life, all creative cellular functions in the organism are through the chemical instructions that are emitted from the multitude of genes within the DNA blueprint of life. By definition: "A gene is the fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity. It is an ordered sequence of nucleotides located in a particular position (locus) on a particular chromosome that encodes a specific functional product, i.e., a protein or RNA molecule".
The size of a specific gene is variable depending on the number of base pairs it takes to begin the chemistry, called a promoter, and the end of production, called a terminator. That specific gene when stimulated with its language will produce one or more sequences of Messenger RNA (mRNA) that will see to the making of proteins that will eventuate into a trait. The beginning promoter to the ending terminator, designates the gene, and would be known as the 'locus' of the gene. The genes encoded instructions are for the production of the building blocks of hundreds of thousands of unique proteins with their chemical functions, which make for the individual living structures of the various life forms on planet earth. The DNA blueprint of the individual human, with its parental mutations, remains essentially the same in every cell of the individual's body. However, during the last 10 years the geneticist have discovered that the genes are controlled and set in motion by their Epigenomes. Gene mutations that are known to cause a disease, may have an epigenome that is capable of turning off the gene's mutant abnormalities. We will look at the genius of the Epigenome in a moment.
A Model of a double stranded DNA helix molecule.
Not every cell in the human body contains DNA, although every cell in its beginning development had a nucleus that contained DNA and its instructions. In the maturation process of some of the cells, they lose their nucleus with its DNA. Mature red blood cells loose their nucleus with its DNA, so that in design they are able to carry more oxygen, and with its reduction in size it can transverse the micro-circulation through the capillaries and venules. Also there are the keratinized cells, such as in the surface skin, hair, and nails. These are dead cells, having lost their nucleus with its life force of DNA. The rest of the trillions of cells in the human body have 23 double stranded pairs of chromosomes in their nucleus' that make up the double stranded helix of human DNA. So then the normal total number of chromosomes in humans is 46.
As we continue with our primer you should become a little more diverse in your appreciation for the miracle of life, and then continuing into the next chapter you can discover the intelligent Epigenome that conducts the business of the DNA. The gold links will help you to see the miracle of life as it begins in the cellular genesis within the developing gonads of human offspring that eventuates with spermatogenesis in the male, and oogenesis in the female. Both spermatogenesis and oogenesis are processes in the multiplication, growth and maturation production of gametes. Understandably, the gametes are reproductive cells that in the male are a multitude of mature sperm, and in the female a single mature ovum.
Interphase speaks of a time of cell preparation with growth and then chromosome reproduction that will proceed with stages of mitotic or meiotic cell divisions. In gamete production, the cell preparation of growth enlargement and replication of chromosomes will lead to both of the mitotic phases and then the meiotic phase.
Mitosis speaks of a miraculous process of cell division, where the one parent cell becomes two cells. In Interphase, the nucleus of the enlarged parent cell replicates its self, so that the number of chromosomes is doubled, and then in mitosis divides into an identical daughter nuclei, containing the same number of chromosomes as the original parent nucleus. There are now two identical cells; and so the miraculous process of mitotic division would continue as determined by the original source of life. In humans the normal chromosome count is made up of two sets of 23 chromosomes, with one set of 23 from dad and the other set of 23 from mom, totaling 46 chromosomes
Meiosis speaks of a miraculous process of cell division that will produce the gametes of the species, that is the sperm and ovum of the reproduction of life. In this process of human meiosis, the one parent cell with its 46 chromosomes (diploid) undergoes a exchange of genetic information that will give birth to absolutely unique daughter cells with half or 23 chromosomes (haploid) of the original parent cell nucleus.
Meiosis has two stages Meiosis I and Meiosis II with four phases in each stage with identical names: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase, and for your memory PMATx2. Also the phases in mitosis are given the same name cell cycles.
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In contrast to the ongoing cycle of the male gamete production in spermatogenesis, the female in oogenesis, will produce all of her oocytes (immature eggs) within the follicular tissues of the developing ovaries prior to her birth. After her birth no more oocytes will be produced in her ovaries. During the the fifth week of gestation there are as many as 600,000 immature oocytes produced, and by the 6th week, as many as 7,000,000 oocytes are replicated. The immature oocytes are conceived within follicular tissues (primordial follicles) that support the oocytes by surrounding the oocyte with squamous cells, called granulosa cell. The developing follicles enclose the immature oocytes, but are separate in function from the oocyte, but nevertheless in pregnancy are linked to them.
At birth, the two ovaries of the female child have in suspension perhaps a million immature eggs (oocytes), with the prior multitude of oocytes having atrophied into none functioning cell structures. When puberty first begins the female will ovulate her first egg, and then in the course of her monthly cycles, there is the possibility of 500 more mature eggs being released, until her child bearing potential ends with the exhaustion of the eggs resulting in menopause. Each month the ovaries take turns in releasing an egg. The single egg, is more properly called an ovum, and has 23 reconstituted haploid chromosomes of the mother's DNA.
Recap synopsis from the Wikipedia ### The primary role of the follicle is oocyte support. From birth, the ovaries of the human female contain a number of immature, primordial follicles. These follicles each contain a similarly immature primary oocyte. After puberty and commencing with the first menstruation, a clutch of follicles begins folliculogenesis, entering a growth pattern that will end in death or in ovulation (the process where the oocyte leaves the follicle).
Kimball's Biology Pages © John W. Kimball,
With human coitus, the respective gametes will infuse with each other to become a new miracle of life. In this miraculous event of natural human conception, there are no less than one hundred million to four hundred million individual spermatogonia or the seeds of man, with each one, male or female, racing to unite with a solitary ovum of the woman to become a solitary person. With the fertilization of the ovum with the sperm, the start of new life would have received half of the chromosomes from the mother's egg or ovum, which has 22 unpaired chromosomes, called autosomes, and 1 unpaired X female sex chromosome. The other half of the chromosomes are from the father's sperm cell, which also has 22 unpaired chromosomes and 1 unpaired sex chromosome, either a male X sperm or female Y sperm.
The sex of a child, is always determined by the father's sperm, because for the mother's egg always carries within it only the female gender pattern of the female X sex chromosome. The father's individual sperm has within its packet, either one female X sex chromosome, producing a female child XX, or the individual sperm has one male Y sex chromosome, producing a male child XY.
So then the sperm with the female X sex chromosome from the father, plus the female X sex chromosome from the ovum of the mother, produces the XX female child's combined DNA, containing a natural total of 46 chromosomes. While the sperm with the male Y chromosome from the father, plus the female X chromosome from the ovum of the mother, produces the XY male child's DNA, containing a natural total of 46 chromosomes. With the crossing over of genetic alleles in the production of the gametes of the parents, the uniqueness of the child to be born, is astronomical. The uniqueness is in the order of (86)2 or 64 trillion possibilities.
To proceed to the next chapter please click on Abortion: The Murder of the infant in the Womb.
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So what is Slow Builder and how did it come about?
If you haven't downloaded Slow Builder yet, you can go ahead and check it out now. Follow the huge link button below. It's a simple builder with an interconnecting twist too. But our approach was slightly different, you don't truly 'build' anything, just select and go. We wanted to craft a different experience and Slow Builder is the result. Best of all, the game has grown and improved based on what our players have told us they want.
What do you
have to do?
Unlike most traditional builders, Slow Builder isn't focused around design and buildings. We have a bigger vision for it, so to build up your float and design your town, you'll simply need to collect the buildings that float through the air. Redesign the town, move the buildings to specific locations, or remove the ones you don't want completely. But the point is, don't build it from the ground up, just select which ones to add!
Citizens are a constant source of enjoyment too. Watch them talk, zoom in to get a closer look, see what activities they get up to and enjoy watching your town grow and come to life.
What are you
trying to achieve?
You'll need to build your town into a bustling and busy float. Diversify the amount of buildings you have and try to collect the special buildings that appear. All these things will become more valuable as further updates are rolled out.
The most valuable buildings are transport and travel buildings going forward. They will be used for your citizens to move about freely along your own float and also for them to travel to friends floats, and new floats you populate. Most of the valuable buildings appear after an ad, so be sure to keep supporting us by watching them.