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The Slack/390 Linux Project
General Info
Get Slack/390
Install Help
Other Sites
64-bit Slack/390x Available for Testing!
It's been a long time coming, and way over due, and not really ready yet, but here it is for testing. The installer and post-install configuration scripts still need quite a bit of work. But, if anyone is interested in testing, please do so. The files can be found in the 64-bit -current section at
the usual place
. Please report any problems to s390support at slackware.com. Thanks!
Download directories rebuilt
Ibiblio had a hardware problem with the storage array that holds all the Linux distributions. I had to rebuild the download directories from the systems where I do my development work. Everything should be back to the way it was. If you see any problems, please let me know.
64-bit Slack/390 Coming!
I'm getting close to finishing the 64-bit version of Slack/390. It will be equivalent to the Slackware 11.0 for Intel platform. The main tasks I have left are updating the installer, and adding functionality to it so that it will configure the network interface prior to the first reboot.
If anyone is interested in being an alpha/beta tester, please let me know.
Removing Older Versions
At the request of the Ibiblio staff, I'm removing several of the older versions from the download server. They were getting a little tight on space, and asked that only the current version and at most two older versions be kept. So, I've deleted the 8.0, 8.1, and 9.1 directories. That leaves the 9.1, 10.0, and -current versions still available.
If anyone is
interested in getting a copy of any of those, please let me know. I did make a backup of the directories before deleting them.
DVDs for Slack/390 are now available
Thanks to the generosity of John McKown of the Linux-390 mailing list, we are now able to offer DVDs of Slack/390 for people that want them. A nominal charge of $5.00 is involved to cover our expenses. If you're interested, please send an email to info at slack390.org, and we'll work with you to make the necessary arrangements.
Commercial support for Slack/390 is now available
Sine Nomine Associates
has announced that they will begin to provide
commercial support
for Slack/390. Additionally, they state that they will be "adding Slack/390 CDs to our media creation service in the near future."
Of course we find this very gratifying, as it increases the number of choices people have in the Linux/390 community.
Slack/390 10.0 is released!
The newest release of Slack/390, version 10.0, is ready to go. Thanks to everyone who downloaded and tested it, and reported any problems.
Highlights of the release include the Linux 2.4.29 kernel, with Linux 2.6.7 as an alternate choice in /testing, glibc 2.3.2, gcc 3.3.4, and apache 1.3.33. For a complete list of changes since Slack/390 9.1, check out the Slack/390 10.0
Read the official
announcement here
Note that because this release was delayed quite a bit after the Intel 10.0 version, there are a significant number of updated packages in /patches. Most of these are security fix updates, so if you install any of them from the main /slackware branch, please update them with the corresponding version in /patches.
As Pat says, Have fun! :-)
Mark Post
Slack/390 is ready for testing!
Welcome to the Slack/390 Project
Slack/390 is the official port of Slackware® Linux to the IBM mainframe platform.
Like all other versions of Linux for the mainframe, it can be run
in a Logical Partition (LPAR),
or on z/VM.
It is intended to be a maintained, Free/Libre,
free (no charge) Linux/390 distribution. It is distributed under the
GNU Public License
(GPL), so you are entitled to use it, modify it, or redistribute it in any way you see fit. (There is one big
to this.) If you modify it, you are not entitled to call it either Slackware or Slack/390, but that is about the only restriction. See the link to the Slackware trademark statement at the bottom of this page.
I try as much as possible to follow what Patrick Volkerding does with the Intel distribution. There are some obvious exceptions, but I do try to keep them to a minimum.
Currently there is no 64-bit version, since there is no 64-bit version of Slackware for Intel.
The one exception
that does not have some sort of Open Source license is the IBM JDK. The license they include in the tarball says that it may only be redistributed under the terms of the license, but then it doesn't say what those terms are. I asked for clarification, but never received any. Since IBM doesn't charge for the download, and we're not charging for anything either, we decided to make it available as part of the platform. Of course, if we do hear differently, it will be withdrawn.
Slackware® is a
registered trademark
of Slackware Linux, Inc.


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University Mourns Loss of Fr. William Donnelly, S.J.
Deborah Lohse
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 26, 2012 --- The Santa Clara University community is mourning the loss of a longtime business-school faculty member and former Jesuit Community rector and academic vice president, William F. Donnelly, S.J.
"The Santa Clara Jesuit Community will mourn mightily the sudden, though peaceful, death of our brother Bill," said Michael Zampelli, S.J., the Rector of the Santa Clara Jesuit Community.
"Not only will we miss his entertaining, sardonic wit, but we will also miss the very many ways that he represented us and our Jesuit vocation to the larger world—in his dedicated teaching of Economics, in his faithful ministry to alumni and benefactors (especially the Catala Club), and in his consistent efforts to console those who mourn," he added. "Bill's passing leaves a hole in our lives; we pray that God will fill that hole with increasing gratitude for having had Bill in our lives."
To honor the life of Father William Donnelly, there will be services in the Mission Church on Monday, November 5. All are invited to attend the services, which will be followed by a reception in the de Saisset Museum.
Visitation and Vigil Service:
3:00-6:00 p.m., Monday, November 5, 2012
Mission Church, Santa Clara University
Vigil Service will begin at 5:30 p.m. to conclude the visitation hours.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 7:30 p.m., Monday, November 5, at Mission Church, Santa Clara University.
Born in 1928, Fr. Donnelly had been a member of the economics faculty since 1969, where he taught courses in international economics, international trade and finance, and principles of economics. His recent research concerned exports of American motion pictures, international trade, and offshore financial centers.
A 1949 graduate of the Santa Clara University with a degree in business, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1951, and held teaching posts at Loyola Marymount as well as Santa Clara University. He earned his doctorate in economics from New York University, and held master's degrees in economics and theology.
He held several administrative posts at the University and with the Society of Jesus, serving as a member of the Santa Clara University Board of Regents and the Board of Trustees, and was Academic Vice President from 1973 to 1978. He also served on the Board of Trustees for Loyola Marymount University, and consulted for the Vice Provincial for Education, in the California Province of the Society of Jesus.
Fr. Donnelly's students are expected to be offered a chance to remember Fr. Donnelly on Monday morning during their regular class period, with reflections and conversation with members of Campus Ministry, CAPS (Counseling and Psychology Services), and the business school leadership.
"Fr. Donnelly was a talented teacher and scholar who dedicated his life to his students and to the University community," said SCU Leavey School of Business Dean Drew Starbird. "He was well known for his humor, collegiality, and commitment to the University's mission. He will be deeply missed by everyone in the Business School."
Memorial donations may be sent to the Jesuit Community for the Jesuit Scholarship Fund or for the Catala Club.
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MACON, Ga. - The Georgia College men's cross country team may have a lot of new faces for the 2012 season, but they're quickly showing they have plenty of talent.
Junior Philip Laskey (Marietta, Ga.) put up the top scoring finish for the second week in a row finishing 16th overall with a time of 27:50 in the 8K race.
Freshman Paul McNeil (Dunwoody, Ga.) finished 25th overall out of 142 runners with a time of 28:28. Fellow freshman James Ryden (Atlanta) finished 28th, only12 seconds behind McNeil, with a time of 28:40. Completing the middle pack, Tucker Forbes (Lilburn, Ga.) finished just two spots and four seconds behind Ryden, taking 30th place with a time of 28:44.
Michael Valerio (Evans, Ga.) finished almost 30 places better than the Fordham Fiasco, coming with a time of 29:53 and 55th overall.
The Bobcats will be back in action Saturday, Sept. 29 when they travel to Minneapolis, Minn. for the Roy Griak Invitational.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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First Lady Ann Scott plans cookbook with historic Florida theme
The first lady of Florida has come up with a tasty new offering in time for the holidays: a cookbook with a historic Florida theme.
Ann Scott, the wife of Gov. Rick Scott, says the cookbook will be a collection of favorite recipes of former first ladies of Florida who have lived in the Governor's Mansion, along with photos and biographies of each of them, from Mary Call Collins to Carole Crist.
"The idea could not have come at a better time, since 2013 marks Florida's 500th anniversary. Viva Florida is the perfect theme," Mrs. Scott said Thursday in announcing a few details of the project at a meeting of the Governor's Mansion Commission.
The seven-member commission maintains the grounds, furnishings and historical elements of the official state residence, located at 700 North Adams Street in Tallahassee, north of the state Capitol.
Viva Florida 500 is the official name of the state's year-long observance of the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon's discovery of the state.
The cookbook's title will be La Florida, in honor of the quincentenary celebration. It will feature a foreword by former mansion chef Art Smith.
The mansion, which welcomes thousands of visitors annually, is renowned for food with Florida touches: shrimp and grouper, Apalachicola oysters, oranges and grapefruit.
The Scotts' own taste in food is described by the state chef as "high-styled plating," said state chef Justin Timineri, who has cooked for the past four governors. His culinary skills are revered by the Scotts, who at official dinners praise the 38-year-old chef's mastery in the kitchen.
"Gov. Scott and Mrs. Scott definitely have great tastes as well," Timineri said in an interview with Florida Trend magazine. "Their taste is more high-styled plating, restaurant-styled plating, rather than family style."
The governor's office was unable to provide details about when the cookbook would be available to the public or how much it would cost.
Two former Florida first ladies also published cookbooks.
Mrs. Collins, the wife of Gov. Leroy Collins (governor from 1955-1961), published the 200-page My Favorite Recipes in 1956, which includes recipes of another time: french-fried shrimp, pickled shrimp, scalloped oysters and other Southern favorites.
Donna Lou Harper Askew, wife of Gov. Reubin Askew, followed with another cookbook, Recipes from Florida Governor's Mansion, in the 1970s, with recipes for cool summer salad and Florida spoon bread.
Copies of neither are at the Governor's Mansion, but they are on file at the state archives.


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As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.
Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15 passengers travels the same route. Like us, they were blacks and whites sitting together on buses, then a violation of segregation laws. Climpson, 48, says he hasn't heard of the protests, but he's intrigued. As Interstate 20 passes by, he turns to his smartphone to check Wikipedia.
In 1961, Charles Person was 18 and the youngest of the Freedom Riders, who were traveling on two buses to New Orleans from Washington, D.C. The Georgia native still remembers crossing into Alabama that Mother's Day. "There was tension. It was kind of eerie."
Person expected to be harassed and roughed up as the group tested compliance with federal integration laws, but he didn't imagine much worse. "This was broad daylight," he says.
Later that day, members of the Ku Klux Klan would set fire to one bus and beat riders on the other with pipes, chains and bats. Over the next week, the world would watch as the Kennedy administration struggled to protect the protesters.
The racial violence shocked — and changed — America.
Today you can retrace the Freedom Rides easily by car or bus. The Alabama cities on the route are marking the anniversary with murals, exhibits and a new museum. It's a leisurely tour of the Deep South, where you'll find gracious hosts, good food and stark reminders of a not-so-distant past.
Climpson, who is bound for Jackson, Miss., to start a new truck-driving job, can't believe what he's reading on his phone.
"Anniston, Ala.?" he asks, pointing to the screen. "I thought that was a quiet town."
Half a century ago, when the Greyhound bus carrying some of the Freedom Riders pulled into Anniston, in the foothills of the Appalachians, a crowd awaited. Klan members pummeled the vehicle and slashed its tires. It limped away 20 minutes later, and a convoy of cars followed. Six miles later, the bus stopped with a flat.
Bernard Emerson still lives on a hill overlooking the spot, which now bears a historic marker. Someone had tossed burning rags through a smashed bus window. "The smoke was getting pretty thick," he recalls. "One lady was coming out of the window. She got her foot caught, and she was kind of hanging there."
Anniston, a town of 23,000, has only recently acknowledged the incident, commissioning murals and detailed exhibit signs at its former bus stations, two blocks from the current stop. I took a layover for a few hours to look around and eventually found my way to a converted Woolworth's, now a restaurant called Classic on Noble. Its Sunday brunch recalls a Southern country club buffet: more than 100 offerings, including fried green tomatoes, grits, shrimp salad, beef tenderloin and a dessert counter with 26 pies, cobblers and cakes. The after-church crowd is predominately white, but a few black guests feast too.
"We're a nice town," the hostess tells me. "We have a dark past, but we've overcome it."
When the second bus reached Anniston in 1961, a pair of Klansmen boarded and beat the riders, causing permanent brain damage to one. The Klansmen warned them that worse awaited 60 miles down the road in Birmingham.
"They taunted us all the way," Person says. Still, the wounded protesters stuck to their plan; when they arrived, they headed to the white waiting room in the Trailways bus station.
"The walls were surrounded by a group of men," Person recalls. "As we got toward the center, they started coming toward us."
Person, who had been trained to practice Gandhian nonviolence, was immediately set upon. "Everyone had a chance to punch me," he says. His head was bashed with a pipe. Then a news photographer snapped a picture, distracting Person's attackers. "I just walked out of my jacket," he recalls. "I did not run. I was still under control."
He stepped outside and boarded a city bus. The first Freedom Rides had ended, and Person had escaped with his life.
Birmingham's Trailways station is gone, replaced by a Wells Fargo bank branch and a historic marker. It's one of many civil rights sites in the state's largest city. Visitors also come for the city's music scene, which has produced a handful of "American Idol" finalists, and its restaurants, which regularly garner James Beard Foundation Award nominations.
Buses today arrive a few blocks from the city's designated Civil Rights District. In Kelly Ingram Park, statues of snarling police dogs and water cannons recall the city's violent struggles. The routes of protest marches are now walking tours, marked by signs throughout downtown.
At the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, exhibits and newsreels bring the Freedom Riders' story to life. There's also the cell where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter From Birmingham Jail," outlining his rationale for nonviolent protest. A museum window overlooks the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four girls attending Sunday school died in a 1963 bomb blast. It too is open for tours.
After the Mother's Day violence, a group of students in Nashville vowed to continue the Freedom Rides. "I didn't have any kind of fear," recalls Catherine Burks-Brooks, then a senior at Tennessee State University. "We felt it should go on."
The protesters headed 200 miles south to Birmingham and were immediately jailed. After midnight, they were packed into a funeral home limousine for what they were told would be a trip home. The Birmingham native found herself sitting next to Eugene "Bull" Connor, the city's notorious public safety commissioner. She chatted on the ride, at one point offering to make him breakfast when they got home.
Instead, he dumped the students in a small town on the Tennessee line in the middle of the night.
Burks-Brooks would not let Connor have the last word.
"Back then, we watched a lot of cowboy movies," she recalls. "I told him I would meet him back in Birmingham by high noon." It was 3 p.m. when she and her classmates returned by car to the city, taking back roads so they wouldn't be stopped again.
After rendezvousing with other Freedom Riders, the group of by-now 22 students made its way to the Greyhound bus station, where an overnight standoff followed. Klan members dressed in robes patrolled the station, but this time police kept order. Still, no driver would take the students' bus to the next stop, the state capital of Montgomery. After hours of negotiation, it was agreed that Alabama state troopers would ensure the protesters' safety.
As the bus left Birmingham, it was surrounded by a convoy of police cars. A helicopter followed.
"I was feeling secure. I dozed off," Burks-Brooks says.
On another morning this spring, I find myself in the same bus station to make the same trip. That's where I meet accountant Julius Parker, 31, who tells me that he's heard of the Freedom Rides; his grandparents marched in the '60s. But the Alabama native says the story baffles him. "To know the risk and go through with it anyway?" he asks. "I could not think with the last thought in my mind that I could do that."
The two-hour ride to Montgomery passes quickly today, and like the riders half a century ago, I am lulled to sleep.
"Everything was quiet," Burks-Brooks says. "It was almost like in a dream, rolling into Montgomery and not seeing anyone."
When the bus reached the station, the riders stepped out onto the pavement.
"All of a sudden, these people appeared," she says. "It looked like thousands. One thing that just stands out in my mind was to see those white women, some with babies in their arms, screaming at us."
Men smashed soda crates across riders' heads and tried to push a jagged pipe into one protester's ear. That's when the head of the Alabama state police, who had vowed to protect the riders, arrived. Furious that Montgomery's police had betrayed him, he pulled out a gun and fired two shots in the air. The crowd drifted away.
Montgomery, like Birmingham, has developed civil rights sites for visitors. The former Greyhound station will open as a museum and welcome center in May. A few blocks away, the Rosa Parks Museum honors another famous bus rider.
Visitors can also tour the First Baptist Church where riders donned robes and hid in the choir balcony during a protest rally. Outside, several thousand whites gathered and threatened to burn down the building, by then packed with more than 1,000 African Americans.
"I don't think anyone knew what was going to happen," says Pastor E. Baxter Morris, who often shows visitors around the 144-year-old sanctuary.
One former Montgomery resident, King, spent much of the evening in the pastor's study on a long series of phone calls with then-U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy. King was pressing for protection, which eventually led Alabama's governor to reluctantly mobilize the National Guard.
Over the next few days, the students remained hidden in the home of a prominent black pharmacist. Although they were fighting for equality, the female riders washed and ironed everyone's clothes. Vera McGill Harris, the pharmacist's wife, now 88, remembers the group as well-mannered. "They knew how to behave themselves," she says. "There was not any hanky-panky."
Although the Harris house isn't open to the public, it's designated by a historic marker. You'll find it three houses down from another Montgomery tourist attraction, the parsonage where King and his family once lived.
The modest home, decorated as it was in the '50s, was bombed with King's wife and infant daughter inside. In the kitchen, visitors find a table where, years before the rides, King questioned his resolve.
Perhaps it's a testimony to the movement King helped inspire that 50 years later, Climpson is astounded when he discovers how his bus trip to Mississippi is retracing history.
"I can't think that it happened," he says, still reading about the rides. "You would never believe people would do people like that."


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The emotions that filled Symphony Hall were as in-your-face as Gary Payton, as persistent as Jerry Tarkanian, as touching as the words of Elvin Hayes, as dignified as the memory of Roger Brown and with as much flair for the dramatic as Oscar Schmidt.
By the time the 12 new members of the Hall of Fame gathered on stage Sunday afternoon for the traditional group shot to conclude the enshrinement festivities, something was clearly different. Every year is unique, of course — Reggie Miller tugging at hearts, the sideshow that is Dennis Rodman, the sparkle of the Dream Team reuniting for a group induction. Not like this, though.
This meant something unlike any other time in recent years.
Tarkanian is fighting serious health issues. His family said they specifically noticed an improvement after the coach, best known for his work at UNLV, got word in the spring he would be inducted. As the ceremony approached, and he fought back after a scare, it seemed to be another boost. Once "Tark" got here, after all the years of refusing to be worn down by the NCAA, after previously coming off the Hall ballot from a lack of support, he got an embrace that was one of the warmest moments of the last several enshrinements.
His wife read a note from Jerry in a taped acceptance speech and the 83-year-old Tarkanian added a few sentences on his own in a weak voice: "I have loved the game of basketball since my earliest memories. Basketball has been good to me. I've been able to be comrades with some fine individuals in the coaching profession. Sure we can be firey and competitive, even argumentative, but we all loved the game. That special game of basketball. Deep down, we'll … understand the other. Thank you for your friendship. Finally, thank you, Hall of Fame, for giving me a special honor. It means so much to me, to our players, fans, coaches and staff. We are part of you. That makes us very happy and very proud."
The standing ovation started before the house lights were all the way up. He came on stage with a walker, next to his presenters, Bill Walton and Pete Carril. And when Tark turned to face the audience, the cheers got even louder.
Guy V. Lewis is having difficult days, too. The 91-year-old former University of Houston coach was unable to speak, leaving it to Hayes, sitting next to Lewis, to deliver an eloquent taped tribute to his former coach. When Lewis was brought on stage in a wheelchair and moved in front of three of his Cougars — Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler and the Big E — the crowd responded with loud applause in tribute.
When North Carolina women's coach Sylvia Hatchell got her turn, she noted how Pat Summitt was supposed to be one of her presenters, only to have to decline when the former coaching legend of the Tennessee Lady Vols, forced into retirement by early-onset dementia, was unable to make the trip. Hatchell asked the audience to send Summitt needed support with a round of applause that could come through the television. Done.
Brown's family got to see the former Pacers star inducted posthumously as a deserving salute after he had been banned by the NBA as a college freshman and spent years playing AAU ball before joining the fledgling ABA. This day was a vindication.
Schmidt was here about 4 ½ months after a second surgery to remove a brain tumor. Ever the showman, he stepped to the podium, closed his eyes and stood in silence for about 14 seconds before speaking. Having already described how he was so overwhelmed to get news of his election while driving that he had to pull over, having already called the weekend the highlight of his career, the former Brazilian scoring sensation delivered a speech of humor — an appreciation for his presenter, Larry Bird, and ultimately choking up and getting watery eyes when speaking to his wife in the audience.
Payton walked the red carpet upon arrival with close friends Jason Kidd and Brian Shaw — and John Stockton was one of his presenters — so there needed to be a pickup game for the ages going on somewhere after the ceremony. The acceptance speech that eventually followed was exactly what Payton promised, with a little from his alter-ego "The Glove," the trash-talking point guard playing with a chip on his shoulder, and the mature older man he wanted to show off to make the ceremony mean something more than enshrinement.
The Glove: "As players, we dream of this moment, but we don't expect to be standing here. But I really, really liked my chances of being here. It's amazing. This is really happening for me."
Mature older man: "Few things meant as much to me as my ability to play this game. I bared my soul on the court. I played hard because I wanted to win every time. And sometimes I didn't come off so pretty. I said things I know I can't repeat. Plus, I don't want the guys in the booth to say I can't say it. So it's good. Listen, I really didn't mean any harm, at least not bodily. I'm sure there are some coaches, teammates, opponents, referees and probably management out there who might feel otherwise, though. It was all for my crazy love for the game and my lack of maturity to be able to express my passion any other way. I don't regret the way I went about it and I'm a strong man today as a result. But I can't help but think I could have given more to the game that have so much to me. My career is complete. Gary Payton is evolving. But GP is in the Hall of Fame. Thank you."


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PirateGuy wrote:See. I revived your dead pirate threads. Still I get no respect. I have to be the only person to ever get chastised by a mod in pirate discussion.
Bring on the Rolf Harris.
No actually you are the third. The other two are identified at the top of the forum in the 'Hall of Heckle', where their dead corpses are still being jibed by pirates new and old. Yes, we have refrained from entering you into the HoH - although if the others twist my arm...hmmmm...we'll see.
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That question has to come up now! A junior girl running times like what she just ran!
She's good for sub 9:40 2 miles, if not sub 9:35 by the time outdoors comes around.
Hmm yes t94bell, there are several state 3200m championships in Wyo that have been won in 9:40's , however what you are forgetting is that these times are ran in Casper, Wyo at altitude. Mary Cain did have an awesome run , but the race was at or near sea level. Mary would be at ,maybe 10 flat if she were to run 3200m right now in Wyo., and those 9:4x.xx state champ times in Wyo would likely be low 9:30's at sea level.
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State championships? Hardly any. Maybe a slow state race in Wyoming.
She would win exactly zero. Most boys state races are tactical, and most of those guys would just sit and kick after letting little Mary do all the pacework. She'd be lucky not to end up in last place.
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That question has to come up now! A junior girl running times like what she just ran!
She's good for sub 9:40 2 miles, if not sub 9:35 by the time outdoors comes around.
NO...so that would mean winners are running in the 8:20s...
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Still slow times for state championships. If you run low 9:30s at the Washington state meet you're getting lapped.
You do know there's a difference between running to win and running to set records, right?
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I think the lapping reference was for an indoor (200m / lap) event.
Regardless, she could certainly win many county / section level boys races but I don't have the patience to research how many Boys state meets she could win.
To add some value, Here are the Wyoming outdoor Class records for Boys 3200m:
Boys 3200 Meter Run 1A 9:52.81 1997 Norman Vigil - Little Snake River
Boys 3200 Meter Run 2A 9:38.85 5/20/2010 Caleb HerManyHorses - Wyoming Indian
Boys 3200 Meter Run 3A 9:41.44 1995 Call Holbrook - Star Valley
Boys 3200 Meter Run 4A 9:25.70 5/20/2010 Garrett Zans - Rock Springs
Uh Pierce Murphy was a Hawaii State Champ and is now a varsity member of CU's nationally rated cross country team. She wouldn't have been able to hang with him.
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She would win the boys 3K in Hawaii, and be in the mix for the boys 1500 for sure


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Abdominal muscles, abs, book, diet, Dave Zinczenko.
"The Abs Diet" is a book written by Dave Zinczenko, the current Editor-in-Chief of "Mens Health magazine." Although the ultimate goal of the Abs Diet® is to help individuals define their abdominal muscles, Zinczenko encourages individuals to adopt eating patterns and a lifestyle that are conducive to achieving physical fitness. Exercises focusing on the abdominal muscles are combined with eating patterns to assist adherents in losing weight.
While the title of Zinczenko's book implies that adherents will develop all of the abdominal muscles in suggested exercises, the focus is actually on developing the rectus abdominis muscles. The development of these muscles is a key component of the exercises, including abdominal muscle crunches, in this diet. This muscle group runs in four equidistant parallel lines on both sides of the anterior abdomen.
As the editor of "Men's Health" magazine, Zinczeno has been able to attract considerable attention for his eating plan. The diet's eating and exercise plan is based on the American popular culture conception that defined abdominal muscles may render a male more sexually attractive.
"The Abs Diet" is written to appeal to health and appearance-conscious young and middle-aged men.
The Abs Diet® encourages people to eat a balanced diet as recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), rather than eliminating commonly accepted principles of nutrition to lose weight. However, no higher quality studies have been conducted on the efficacy of the Abs Diet® to help the patient achieve a state of physical fitness or to lose weight.
The goal of the Abs Diet® is to achieve lifelong weight loss. However, the immediate focus of the diet is to increase the physical prominence of the rectus abdominis muscles.
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Many of the "power foods" are high in fiber. Daily intake of 3 grams of soluble fiber from oats or 7 grams of soluble fiber from psyllium has been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels. A diet high in soluble fiber may reduce total serum cholesterol and LDL ("bad cholesterol") by as much as 15%. By forming a gel, water soluble fibers may stay in the stomach longer and help slow food absorption. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorized food companies to use a health claim for soluble fiber from both psyllium and oats. For example, the new claim for psyllium states, "Soluble fiber from foods with psyllium husk, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease."
There is extensive scientific evidence suggesting that regular exercise offers major health benefits. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the failure to exercise regularly is a significant precursor to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Exercising on a regular basis is one of the most inexpensive and easiest measures a person can take in order to reduce their risk and/or delay the onset of serious illnesses. In general, the type and intensity of exercise performed is not necessarily as important as simply completing the exercise. However, the increased prominence of abdominal muscles is apparently a desired result of specific exercises in the Abs Diet® .
A 2006 article in "The American Journal of Nursing" reviewed a series of popular weigh loss and diet strategies. The article found that controlling portion size was a crucial element of diet success. Further, the article stressed the importance of the patient's dedication to behavioral change necessary to sustain long-term changes in exercise and eating routine.
A 2007 article in the "Mayo Clinic Proceedings" stated that treatment of obesity requires the physician and patient to tackle diet, physical activity, and behavioral issues. In some cases, medication and surgical treatments not discussed in the Abs Diet® may be warranted.
A 2007 article in "The Journal of Nutrition" found that an increase in energy use by exercise and a decrease in caloric intake (through an eating routine such as the one described in "The Abs Diet") improves the body's glucose tolerance and insulin action. Such changes in the body metabolism may stave off obesity and pre-diabetes.
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Abs Diet at Men's Health Magazine. .
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Baker B. Weight loss and diet plans. Am J Nurs. 2006 Jun;106(6):52-9; quiz 60.
Thompson WG, Cook DA, Clark MM, et al. Treatment of obesity. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007 Jan;82(1):93-101; quiz 101-2.
Weiss EP, Holloszy JO. Improvements in body composition, glucose tolerance, and insulin action induced by increasing energy expenditure or decreasing energy intake. J Nutr. 2007 Apr;137(4):1087-90.
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"The Abs Diet" advocates consuming 12 "power foods," which are thought to promote weight loss, build muscle, regulate blood pressure, strengthen bone, prevent heart disease, improve immune functioning, and fight cancer. Followers of this diet build meals and snacks around these foods. This diet recommends that two or three of these foods be incorporated into every major meal, and at least one of them be incorporated into every snack. These "power foods" include nuts, beans and legumes, green vegetables, low fat dairy products, oatmeal, eggs, lean meats, peanut butter, olive oil, whole wheat grains and cereals, whey powder, and berries.
"The Abs Diet" book and website includes recipes as well as healthier alternatives to popular American snack foods. For instance, almonds baked at low temperature with canola oil may be substituted for microwave popcorn.
This diet suggest that readers eat three meals and three snacks a day to "provide the body with continuous energy."
Like most recent diets, the Abs Diet® does not advocate counting calories. Rather, adherents are encouraged to practice portion control and eat the "power foods."
Excessive consumption of alcohol is not encouraged because it increases caloric intake and may inhibit the body's ability to burn fat.
The reader is encouraged to eat whatever they want for one meal a week as a reward for abiding by the diet plan.
The Abs Diet® website and book series directs its readers to engage in strength training, cardiovascular exercise, and abdominal muscle exercises nearly every day of the week. The exercises are done in a circuit format, where the reader exercises continuously through a series of different movements.
The Abs Diet® book series and webpage is aimed at individual readers. However, people who choose the Abs Diet may pay a fee to participate in the online community. A newsletter is also available through the "Men's Health" magazine webpage.
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Health and Human Services. The OCSE is charged with the oversight of all child support programs, conducting reviews and audits of state, territory, and tribal programs. States are required to submit plans for the implementation of their child support enforcement programs, which are subject to review and approval by OCSE. The OCSE also provides states and tribes with policy recommendations, training, and technical assistance. The federal government reimburses approximately two-thirds of the state Child Support Office costs.


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The Red Sox Nation, Betrayed By CHARLES McGRATH - Article Courtesy of: New York Times SUCH is the gloomy, guilt-ridden New England conscience that within hours after a report that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz had tested positive for steroid use in 2003, Red Sox fans were already feeling miserable again. By 6 on Friday morning, the lines at the sports radio station WEEI, Boston's equivalent of New York's WFAN, were jammed with breast-beating callers, phoning in to say that the Sox … [Read more...]
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The AJ Buildings Library (AJBL), a digital archive of more than 1,000 projects, is now available to all AJ subscribers as part of their subscription
More from: What to get an architect for Christmas
Described as 'seriously impressive and dangerously addictive' by Urbed's Jonathan Brown, the Library showcases important British architecture dating back to 1900. It includes essential projects featured in the magazine over the last 20 years and will continue to grow.
Piers Taylor, partner at Mitchell Taylor Workshop, said: 'It's a great resource and so well formatted, it's amazing no one else has thought of it.
'To be able to search by building typology, architect, material, genre, detail, roof or wall element is fantastic, and exactly how we need information made available.
'I've no doubt it will become the precedent library for architects and students alike.'
John McRae of ORMS added: 'We used it for researching a new science building for a school, looking at the adjacency of rooms and their sizes. It's usually so difficult to find the plans and sections all together. But this is a great source of information.'
Christine Murray, editor of the AJ said, 'We wanted to give our readers more. Access to the AJ Buildings Library is a historical first, and the most compelling addition to an AJ subscription we could think of, with huge benefits for students and architects alike.'
'We developed the AJBL as a tool for researching building precedents, but it is useful through all RIBA work stages, from feasibility studies to detailed design'
Existing subscribers can log in to the AJ Buildings Library to get unlimited access to this searchable archive of project data with more than 20,000 drawings and images.
For help accessing the AJ Buildings Library, contact customer services on 020 7728 4651 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
The AJ's Building Library will prove to be a fantastic resource, not just for the profession, but for anyone interested in architecture. It will only get better as more projects are uploaded. So I urge all to engage with it.
Simon Allford, Director, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
'Already it's amazing as I've found plans on Birmingham library that I haven't been able to find. It's a really useful resource for students.'
Sarah Louise Gibbons, Sixth Year Student, University of Newcastle
'The Architect's Journal Buildings Library is a great resource of information. It allows people the time to browse the finer details of a range of inspiring architectural projects created by some amazing architects.'
Nicholas Kirk, Owner, Amenity Space
'It is wonderful to be able to show architects the Buildings Library, which will help the profession work more efficiently and provide access to never-seen-before material.'
Christine Murray, Editor, Architects' Journal
'It's an incredibly well thought out and easy to use visual and technical resource for architects. It is great being able to download images and technical details as well as being able to see who has been involved in each project, which contract was used and what the costs were. Invaluable!'
Neil Dusheiko, Owner, Neil Dusheiko Architects
'It's the kind of thing that might get used five or six times a day. We regularly send people to the RIBA library to get information on old projects ease of access would have real value.'
Graham Morrison, partner at Allies and Morrison
AJ Buildings Library now open to all AJ subscribers
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Christine - I stumbled on this yesterday when looking at the Stirling Prize shortlisting challenge. An excellent resource well done.
Thanks Simon. We're hoping it brings the tradition of building an architectural library with the AJ into the 21st century. Several architecture schools and large practices have subscribed to site-wide IP access to the AJBL, but I'm so pleased that now students, sole practitioners and small practices can benefit from this resource too.
Invaluable resource for students - the perfect research tool for both design and theory based projects. The fact it now comes with the AJ subscription makes subscribing to the AJ as essential as tracing paper to students.
A most valuable resource for everyone, not only architects. Researching and discovering new projects/ideas has never been easier.
Christine - I stumbled on this yesterday when looking at the Stirling Prize shortlisting challenge. An excellent resource well done.
What a wonderful resource, for architects, students and the curious alike! A brilliant cross section of merit worthy projects, illustrated with superb images and drawings. Immensely pleasurable to browse, as well as practical. Thank you.
Absolutely love the library. However, and i hate to be Peter Pedant, but Castleford Bridge by McDowell and Benedetti has ended up in a place called Wakeford and not where it should be - in Wakefield.
Eddy,
Thanks for pointing this out - the address how now been changed. The AJ buildings Library is a continually updated resource, if you notice any inaccuracies or have any suggestions for projects that need to be included please email me on firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thanks,
Tom Ravenscroft (AJ Buildings Library Editor)
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Opinion: The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving in the right direction
EDITOR'S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations.
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - The Trump administration is not wasting time cleaning up the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The VA has been plagued a by a wide range of problems. Veterans actually died because they had to endure unconscionable waiting times to get care, according to a VA Office of the Inspector General report from 2015.
It is about time that the VA hold itself and its employees responsible.
In a key move toward transparency and accountability, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin announced that as of last week a public list of "accountability actions" is now available online and will be updated weekly.
So, what did we learn from this list?
Since January 20th - when President Donald Trump took office - the VA has fired 526 employees.
Secretary Shulkin says these are steps toward the VA taking its problems head on and not hiding them from the public.
"We are not hiding our problems, but we are exposing them and making sure that everyone knows where our problems are and where we can begin to fix them," Shulkin said in a recent interview.
This latest release of information comes almost one month after President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act.
The law gives the VA Secretary more power to remove, demote and suspend employees for wrongful actions and unsatisfactory performance. It also protects whistleblowers from retaliation when they come forward.
The president made veterans issues a focal point of his campaign and his administration is now delivering on those campaign promises.
We have to honor our veterans. We owe them proper treatment. Both the structure and substance of care of our veterans have to improve dramatically. The VA is unquestionably taking steps in the right direction.
The bottom line is as long as Secretary Shulkin and his department continue down this road, the VA will regain the trust of the American people and our veterans will receive the care they duly deserve.


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Chemistry Teams Spend Summer On Anti-Cancer Research
SOCORRO, N.M. August 4, 2009 – Two teams of chemistry professors and students are spending the summer hard at work looking for novel new anti-cancer agents.
Chemistry professor Dr. Ingo Janser, along with three Tech graduate students and two visiting undergraduate students, is synthesizing derivatives of a natural product in an effort to find an effective, well-tolerated anti-cancer agent.
|Cynthia Tilley, an undergraduate chemistry major from UT-El Paso, works in Dr. Ingo Janser's lab at New Mexico Tech. She is among a handful of students working on anti-cancer research through the REU program. Photo by Thomas Guengerich
Chemistry professor Dr. Wim Steelant is overseeing two visiting undergraduate students who are testing the effects of a native Southwest plant on cancer cells.
Steelant's project focuses on extracting chemical compounds from yerba mansa, a diaphoretic and immune-activating herb used in traditional North American medicine for colds, flu, infections and digestive problems.
Janser's research focuses on ethacrynic acid, a naturally occurring compound that is used to treat high blood pressure and swelling caused by diseases like congestive heart failure, liver failure and kidney failure. Janser's research aims to find a derivative of ethacrynic acid that is highly active as an anti-cancer agent and well tolerated by patients at the same time.
Both summer projects are part of ongoing research that each professor is conducting. For the summer, both professors are participating in the Research Experience for Undergraduate program, or REU, which is a National Science Foundation funded project. New Mexico Tech is one of several hundred host institutions for REU summer programs.
The two chemistry projects are among seven REU projects ongoing at New Mexico Tech through August 1.
Janser is mentoring Elizabeth Vogel, a chemistry student at New Mexico Tech, and Cynthia Tilley, a chemistry student at the University of Texas-El Paso.
Janser's teaching project is equally focused on teaching chemistry lab processes and techniques and on making headway in the search for more active, less toxic cancer drugs.
"This is a learning technique," he said. "The students are dealing with various chemicals in different reactions. They are learning a variety of different lab techniques like extraction, distillation and flash column chromatography. Hopefully we'll get a drug that can help patients with cancer."
Vogel and Tilley are mastering a three-step synthesis process. Tilley, who aims to go to graduate school after finishing at UTEP, said she had limited lab experience before coming to the REU at Tech.
|Seth Ferrey and Katie Kaminsky test a series of natural compounds as anti-cancer drugs in Dr. Wim Steelunt's lab at New Mexico Tech. Tilley is from University of Minnesota-Morris. Kaminsky is from Asbury College. Photo by Thomas Guengerich
"This is more in depth than anything I've done," Vogel said. "I'll never forget how to do this."
Step 1 is a nucleophilic substitution reaction, meaning the students are replacing one group of the starting material with another group.
In this step, students are learning to use a reflux condenser and to monitor a reaction by thin layer chromatography, or TLC. Although the basic process is covered in most introductory Organic Chemistry classes, Vogel and Tilley each said they learned the theory, but are now getting very familiar with the laboratory process.
Step 2 is a so-called Friedel-Crafts Acylation, which again involves using a reflux condenser and monitoring the reaction by TLC. The students learn how to deal with moisture and air-sensitive compounds.
Step 3 is an aldol condensation, where the students learn to deal with toxic compounds. In this reaction, the compound is added very slowly to a formaldehyde solution and the solution is stirred vigorously. If done correctly, the product will be an unsaturated carbonyl compound, which is supposed to be the active part of the molecule.
The main goal of Janser's research is to synthesize a large library of several derivatives of ethacrynic acid. Once the team synthesizes a number of compounds, they will test their effectiveness on human cancer cells in Steelant's lab. By testing these compounds, he hopes to find highly active anti-cancer agents that have low toxicity.
Steelant has been working for four years on extracting chemical compounds from native Southwest plants.
Biochemistry students Seth Ferrey of the University of Minnesota-Morris and Catherine Kaminski of Asbury College in Kentucky are working on a multi-step process to find the compounds of yerba mansa that are active against cancer.
The plant is divided into four parts – roots, stems, leaves and flowers. They then made extracts from the four parts in three different solutions – water, ethanol and ethyl acetate. Each of the solutions draws out different compounds from the plant – making 12 different extracts/conditions. Each solution is then filtered, and made into a powder, by freeze-drying.
Each of the 12 extracts is then tested for medicinal effectiveness against three types of human cancer cells – for 36 different combinations.
"It's pretty laborious, but it's what needs to be done for this project," Steelant said.
Ferrey and Kaminski have spent long hours in the lab since starting their project. While some of their tasks have been repetitive, their project is far from simple.
They started by determining/testing the toxicity of each of these extracts on the different cancer cell.
"We're basically determining what extracts are toxic and at what concentration," Ferrey said. "When we know these values we can continue with other experiments, like growth assays. It's a big process and we're just scratching the surface."
Ferrey and Kaminski conducted experiments to assess the effect of these extracts on cancer cell growth and even went further in determining how this may have been established.
By Thomas Guengerich


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When energy levels run low, we generally feel lousy and our quality of life often suffers. Although there are some cases due to illness where low energy cannot be improved, most of the time it can be helped once the cause is determined. For example, it is not uncommon for unhealthy food choices, obesity, or poor sleeping habits to be the cause of frequent fatigue or low energy.
Rule Out Illness and Hormonal Imbalances
When someone is ill they usually complain of fatigue and low energy, so it is wise to see a health care professional when extreme feelings of tiredness cannot be easily explained. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are complex conditions that leave people feeling exhausted most of the time. Many have a difficult time obtaining a proper diagnosis and treatment, so you may have to shop around for a knowledgeable practitioner that can help. In addition to other illnesses, hormonal imbalances can cause fatigue and can sometimes be difficult to diagnose.
Fatigue is a common symptom of hypothyroidism which occurs when the thyroid doesnt produce enough hormones. The thyroid gland sits at the base of your neck and is responsible for regulating metabolism. In addition to fatigue, other symptoms of hypothyroidism include weight gain, sensitivity to cold and muscle weakness. Women are at a higher risk than men for developing this condition and the risk increases with age. Your physician can order a blood test to determine if hypothyroidism is the cause of fatigue. Make sure your healthcare professional is using the most recent lab standards. In 2002 the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists narrowed the TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) reference range to .3-3.0. If your last test was normal and measured between 3.1 to 5.0, you would now be considered to be in the hypothyroid range.
Take care of your adrenals. Many people are going through life with burned out adrenals thanks to chronic, long term stress. They are no longer able to produce enough hormone to keep up with the demands of daily life. People can be in various stages of adrenal imbalance, so it is important to work with someone who has experience in this area for proper diagnosis and treatment. For more information you can read, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled? By Richard Shames, MD and Karilee Shames, PhD, RN. In it they discuss the importance of balancing thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones for optimal well-being.
A common cause of low energy is poor eating habits. If we dont provide our body with the fuel it needs at the right time, it wont run properly. Skipping meals and relying on sugary snacks and caffeine to get you through the day gives you a false sense of energy. Eventually you will crash once your blood sugar comes back down and the caffeine wears off.
You can prevent the crash by eating 3 small meals with 2-3 snacks a day. Eating every 3-4 hours helps regulate blood sugar levels and is better for maintaining energy. Each meal and snack should include some protein, complex carbohydrates, and a little healthy fat. Many people dont eat enough protein at breakfast, instead relying on refined carbs to get them through the morningwhich wont. An egg on whole grain toast, ground nuts mixed in yogurt or high fiber cereal, or a smoothie boosted with extra whey protein, these will get you past 10 a.m. better than any bagel or bowl of low fiber, low protein flakey corn cereal. An example of an energy-boosting mid afternoon snack is a handful of almonds and a piece of fruit. The almonds provide protein and healthy fat while the fruit provides fiber-rich carbohydrates. Some other ideas include a hard-boiled egg, hummus and baby carrots, a protein bar, or fruit and cheese.
Being deficient in certain vitamins and minerals can lead to fatigue. Two very common deficiencies include vitamin B12 and iron which can lead to different types of anemia. Vitamin B12 is found only in foods from animal sources such as meat, eggs, and dairy. Vegans who follow a strict-animal free diet are at risk and must make sure they get their B12 from fortified foods or supplements.
Hydrochloric acid in the stomach releases B12 from protein, so those with low stomach acid are at risk for B12 deficiency. As we age we naturally produce less stomach acid, but millions of younger Americans are on acid blocking medications for heartburn. If you have been on long term antacid therapy, you may want to have your vitamin B12 levels checked. Dietary supplements are available, but B12 shots may be necessary in certain cases that dont respond to supplementation.
Iron deficiency anemia leads to a reduced production of hemoglobin- a substance that carries oxygen to your bodys cells via your blood. This leaves people often feeling tired, weak and sometimes pale. Causes include inadequate dietary intake, internal bleeding, or the inability to absorb it due to a disease like celiac disease or crohns.
Dehydration can make you feel tired so drink plenty of water. Limit regular sodas and juices as they can spike blood sugar levels and cause you to later crash. Try not to drink more than one to two caffeinated beverages a day.
D-Ribose is a sugar but it is different than common dietary sugars, such as glucose or fructose and will not raise blood sugar levels. It is an integral part of the biochemical pathway that leads to ATP production. ATP is the energy currency used by the bodys cells. When the body is slow to produce ATP due to certain conditions, supplementing with D-ribose can help meet ATP energy needs. A study published in the Nov 2006 issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found supplementing with 5 grams D-Ribose 3 times/day (Corvalen®) for about 1 month lead to significant improvements in energy, sleep, pain, and well being. The patients felt an average increase in energy of 45%.
Uncover Hidden Allergies and Sensitivities
Hidden food or environmental allergies can be a cause of fatigue. Common dietary offenders include wheat and dairy. Molds, dust mites and household chemicals are common environmental allergens. A physician can order special antibody tests that measure your immune response to these potential allergens. Eliminating the offending foods from the diet and avoiding contact with environmental allergens may help restore energy levels.
Get Moving
Exercise is a great way to boost both physical and mental energy levels. If your desk job leaves you feeling sluggish an hour after lunch, take a few minutes to walk the halls or stretch at your desk. For long term energy improvement, regular exercise is key. Not only will your energy go up, but weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides will likely go down to further improve your health.
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, MD has written the book From Fatigued to Fantastic! It is a great resource for anyone feeling fatigue and discusses in detail many of these issues.
Manage Stress
Excess stress can take a toll on your body, interrupt sleep and zap energy. Although we cant avoid stress in our life, it is important to learn how to handle it. Find what works for you. Some popular stress-reducing methods include meditation, exercise, yoga, painting, walking outside, laughing with a friend and aromatherapy. Try one or include a few into your daily routine to help you manage stress.
By Megan Witt, RD LD