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Atrial FibrillationAtrial Fibrillation - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
What is atrial fibrillation?
Normally, the heart pumps in a well-timed fashion. The two upper chambers (atria) contract first followed by the two lower chambers (ventricles). This coordinated pumping is powered by the heart's own electrical system and efficiently pumps blood out to the body and back. In atrial fibrillation (AF), a type of arrhythmia, the electrical signals fire rapidly and chaotically. This causes the atria to quiver instead of contracting normally. Many of the signals also reach the ventricles, causing them to contract irregularly too. This results in a fast and irregular heart rhythm. Over time, this can weaken the heart and lead to heart failure. Plus, when the atria do not contract effectively, the blood may pool in the heart. This increases the risk that a blood clot may form and travel to the brain causing a stroke. People with AF are 5 to 7 times more likely to have a stroke than people who do not have AF.
AF is more common in people who are over 65 and is seen more often in men than women.
What are the symptoms of atrial fibrillation?
You may not have symptoms with AF. But, when ventricles are not able to pump enough blood out to the lungs and body, it can cause these symptoms:
Heart palpitations or fluttering in the chest
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Dizziness and faintness
Some people with AF have intermittent episodes (intermittent or paroxysmal AF). Others have chronic or persistent AF.
What causes atrial fibrillation?
AF can develop when someone who has underlying heart disease, such as heart valve disease, heart attack, or heart failure. High blood pressure, thyroid problems, excess alcohol use, sleep apnea, and certain lung diseases can also cause AF.
How is atrial fibrillation treated?
Some people with atrial fibrillation will return to normal rhythm without treatment. They will "convert" on their own back to normal rhythm. Treatment decisions depend in part on whether symptoms are bothersome and how long your heart has been in AF. For most people, treatment of AF involves attempts to restore (reset) the heart back to its normal rhythm (rhythm control) or to control the heart rate (rate control). Sometimes surgery or a procedure called catheter ablation is used. In addition, a person with AF is given medications to prevent blood clots to reduce the risk of stroke.
Rhythm control
Rhythm control is an attempt to reset the heart back to its normal rhythm. It can be done with medications or electrical shock.
Anti-arrhythmic medications, such as sodium channel blockers or potassium channel blockers, slow the heart's ability to send electrical signals.
Electrical cardioversion involves sending an electrical shock through paddles placed on the chest. Usually doctors will want you to take blood thinners for a period of time before electrical cardioversion to reduce the risk of a stroke from a dislodged blood clot.
Rate control
Medications to help control the heart rate include
Beta blockers, such as atenolol or metoprolol. These drugs slow the heart rate.
Calcium channel blockers, such as diltiazem or verapamil. These drugs slow the heart rate.
Digoxin. This drug slows the electrical currents between the upper and lower chambers.
Catheter ablation
In this procedure, a catheter is guided through a blood vessel to the heart. Here energy is sent through the catheter to destroy small areas of heart tissue responsible for the arrhythmia. It may be an option when medications are not working.
Maze procedure
This is a surgical procedure in which areas of the heart are cut to create a "maze" of scar tissue that prevents the erratic electrical signals from passing through the heart.
Treatment to prevent blood clots
People with AF will be prescribed blood thinners to reduce the risk for stroke. This may include aspirin, clopidogrel, warfarin, dabigatran, or rivaroxaban. Your doctor will have a detailed discussion with you about which blood-thinning medications are most appropriate for you.


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The already nasty presidential race got even nastier as Donald Trump's crass comments about forcing himself on women dominated the start of the second presidential debate Sunday night.
The release of the 11-year-old "Access Hollywood" video in which Trump describes himself sexually assaulting women was the first topic addressed as CNN's Anderson Cooper, one of the moderators, repeatedly pressed him on whether he had indeed kissed and groped women without their consent.
"This is locker room talk," Trump said. "I'm not proud of it. I apologized to my family. I apologized to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud it but this is locker room talk."
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He tried to turn the conversation to the beheadings and other barbaric behavior of ISIS and the control of the U.S. borders, but finally said, "No, I have not."
Despite his denials, two women have publicly accused him of touching them — kissing and groping without consent.
His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, took the opportunity to attack Trump's lewd remarks and to argue that he is not fit for the office.
"I think it's clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is because we've seen this throughout the campaign," she said. "We have seen him insult women, we've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to 10, we've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter."
Trump has not only insulted women, but also African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, immigrants, Hispanics and others, she said.
Relations between the two candidates are so bitter that they did not shake hands before the town-hall style debate, which also was moderated by ABC News' Martha Raddatz. They did shake hands at the end.
The tape has prompted a growing list of Republican party leaders to withdraw support for their nominee and left Trump defiantly rejecting calls to leave the race.
Trump tried to turn attention to Bill Clinton's infidelities instead, tweeting Sunday about Juanita Broaddrick's accusation that the former president had raped her. The nursing-home operator later signed an affidavit saying there was no assault, then recanted the affidavit. Bill Clinton denied the allegation when she first made it and he was never charged.
And immediately before the debate, Trump appeared on Facebook Live with Broaddrick and two other women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey. The accused rapist of the fourth woman in the group, Kathy Shelton, was represented by Hillary Clinton.
"Mr. Trump may have said some bad words, but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me and I don't think there's any comparison," Broaddrick said.
The women were in the audience with the Trump family during the debate, when Trump again said that Bill Clinton's behavior was worse than his words.
"Bill Clinton was abusive to women," he said. "Hillary Clinton attacked those same women."
Trump was already struggling with women, suburban women in particular, who were appalled by his stream of insults. He called Rosie O'Donnell a "big, fat pig," attacked Miss Universe Alicia Machado, for gaining weight after she won the contest and said of his former Republican primary rival Carly Fiorina: "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?"
But for many it was the "Access Hollywood" tape that proved a tipping point. An uproar erupted Friday when The Washington Post and then NBC News published the 2005 recording in which Trump is heard demeaning women.
"I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them, it's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he tells Billy Bush, then an Access Hollywood anchor and now on the Today show. "Grab them by the p----. You can do anything."
NBC News obtained the tape from Access Hollywood, which is owned and distributed by NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News and MSNBC.
Trump, who was newly married to Melania Trump, is heard talking about pursuing a married woman, saying, "I moved on her actually, she was down in Palm Beach and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try to f--- her, she was married ... and I moved on her very heavily."
Trump responded with a statement in which he apologized if anyone was offended and a video in which he said he was wrong and again apologized. Both times he referred to Bill Clinton's affairs and in the video threatened, "Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims."


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● Mother of Demons, September 1997
● Slow Train to Arcturus, October 2008 with Dave Freer
● Mountain Magic, January 2006, an anthology including a new short novel,- "Diamonds Are Forever", with Ryk Spoor; a reissue of Old Nathan, by David Drake; and a reissue of Henry Kuttner's four "Hogben" stories.
● The Gods of Sagittarius, May 2017, with Mike Resnick
● The Alexander Inheritance, July 2017, with Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
● Iron Angels, September 2017, with Alistair Kimble
● Council of Fire, November 2019, with Walter H. Hunt
THE ASSITI SHARDS (which includes the 1632 Series)
● 1632, February 2000
● 1633, August 2002, with David Weber
● 1634: The Galileo Affair, April 2004, with Andrew Dennis
● 1634: The Ram Rebellion, May 2006, with Virginia DeMarce and others
● 1634: The Baltic War, May 2007, with David Weber
● 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, October 2007, with Virginia DeMarce
● 1635: A Parcel of Rogues, January 2016, with Andrew Dennis
● 1635: The Cannon Law, October 2006, with Andrew Dennis
● 1635: The Dreeson Incident, December 2008, with Virginia DeMarce
● 1635: The Eastern Front, October 2010
● 1635:The Papal Stakes, August 2013
● 1636: The Saxon Uprising, April 2011
● 1636: The Kremlin Games, June 2012, with Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
● 1636: The Devil's Opera, October 2013, with David Carrico
● 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, June 2014, with Charles Gannon
● 1636: The Viennese Waltz, November 2014, with Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huf
● 1636: The Cardinal Virtues, July 2015, with Walter H. Hunt
● 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught, January, 2017
●1636: Mission to the Mughals, April 2017, with Griffin Barber
●1636: The Vatican Sanction, December 2017, with Charles E. Gannon
●1637: The Volga Rules, February 2018, with Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
● 1637: The Polish Maelstrom, April 2019
● 1636: The China Venture, September 2019
● Ring of Fire, an anthology of stories set in the 1632 universe, January 2004
● Ring of Fire II, an anthology of stories set in the 1632 universe, January 2008
● Ring of Fire III, an anthology of stories set in the 1632 universe, July 2011
● Ring of Fire IV, an anthology of stories set in the 1632 universe, May 2016
● Grantville Gazette. There are so far eight volumes of the Gazette in paper editions. There are also 87 volumes in electronic edition. These are stories set in the 1632 series universe.
● Time Spike, May 2008, with Marilyn Kosmatka. (This novel is part of the Assiti Shards setting but is only indirectly connected to the 1632 series.)
● The Philosophical Strangler, May 2001
● Forward the Mage, March 2002, with Richard Roach
● A Desperate & Despicable Dwarf, (forthcoming, no date yet)
● Sword on Canvas, (forthcoming, no date yet), with Richard Roach
● The Thumbs of Eternity, (forthcoming, no date yet)
● An Oblique Approach, March 1998, with David Drake
● In the Heart of Darkness, August 1998, with David Drake
● Destiny's Shield, July 1999, with David Drake
● Fortune's Stroke, June 2000, with David Drake
● The Tide of Victory, July 2001, with David Drake
● The Dance of Time, February 2006, with David Drake
● "The Islands," novella set in the Belisarius series, in Warmasters, an anthology, May 2002, with David Drake and David Weber
☼ The Belisarius series was reissued in an omnibus trilogy, with two novels in each volume:
● Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn, September 2008
● Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide, March 2009
● Belisarius III: The Flames of Sunset, August 2009
☼ 'THE GENERAL' Follow-on series:
● The Tyrant, April 2002, with David Drake. This is the direct sequel to The Reformer, by David Drake and S.M. Stirling
● The Course of Empire, September 2003, with K.D. Wentworth
● The Crucible of Empire, March 2010, with K.D. Wentworth
● The Span of Empire, September 2016, with David Carrico
● Boundary, March 2006, with Ryk Spoor
● Threshold, June 2010, with Ryk Spoor
● Portal May 2013 and, with Ryk Spoor
● Castaway Planet. February, 2015, with Ryk Spoor
● Castaway Odyssey, October 2016, with Ryk E. Spoor
● The Shadow of the Lion, March 2002, with Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer
● This Rough Magic, November 2003, with Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer
● Much Fall of Blood, May 2010, with Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer
● Burdens of the Dead, June 2013, with Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer
● All the Plagues of Hell. (December 2018), with Dave Freer
● The Great Doom's Image, (forthcoming, no date yet), with Mercedes Lackey
NOTE: There is also a solo novel by Dave Freer in this series, A Mankind Witch, which was published in July 2005. In terms of the chronology of the series, it comes between Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic.
(sequels to James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres)
● The Wizard of Karres, August 2004, with Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer
● The Sorceress of Karres, January 2010, with Dave Freer
● Rats, Bats & Vats, September 2000, with Dave Freer
● The Rats, The Bats & The Ugly, September 2004, with Dave Freer
▪ "Genie Out of the Bottle," with Dave Freer. This is a novella which appeared in Cosmic Tales II: Adventures in Far Futures (edited by T.K.F. Weisskopf). It's the prequel to the two novels in the series.
● Pyramid Scheme, October 2001, with Dave Freer
● Pyramid Power, August 2007, with Dave Freer
● The Rivers of War, 2005. This was retitled 1812: The Rivers of War for the paperback edition.
● 1824: The Arkansas War, 2006
NOTE: A third novel in the series is under contract, but no publication date is yet known.
● The Demons of Paris, April 2019, with Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
● The Demons of Constantinople (forthcoming)
▪ "From the Highlands"(short novel), in More than Honor #3: Changer of Worlds, March 2001, with David Weber
▪ "Fanatic," (novella) in The Service of the Sword, the fourth Harrington anthology, April 2003, compiled by David Weber
● Crown of Slaves, September 2003, with David Weber
● Torch of Freedom, November 2009, with David Weber
● Cauldron of Ghosts, April 2014, with David Weber
▪ "Entropy and the Strangler," (short story), in Writers of the Future Volume IX, edited by Dave Wolverton, September 1993
▪ "The Thief and the Roller Derby Queen," (short story), in The Chick is in the Mail, edited by Ester Friesner, October 2000
▪ "Carthago Delenda Est," (novella), in Foreign Legions, edited by David Drake, June 2001
▪ "The Truth About the Gotterdammerung," (short story), in Turn the Other Chick, edited by Ester Friesner, November 2004
▪ "Red Fiddler," with Dave Freer (short story), in Bedlam's Edge, edited by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill, 2005
▪ "A Soldier's Complaint," (short story), in This is My Funniest 2, edited by Mike Resnick, 2007
▪ "Crawlspace," with Dave Freer (novelette), in Jim Baen's Universe, edited by Eric Flint, April 2007
▪ "The Realm of Words," (novelette), in Jim Baen's Universe, edited by Eric Flint, June 2007
▪ "The Witch's Murder," with Dave Freer (novelette), in The Dragon Done It, edited by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick, March 2008
▪ "Pirates of the Suara Sea," with Dave Freer (short story), in Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, 2008
▪ "Conspiracies: A Very Condensed 937-Page Novel," with Mike Resnick (short story), in Sideways in Crime, edited by Lou Anders, June 2008
▪ "The Flood Was Fixed," (short story), in Something Magic This Way Comes, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Sarah Hoyt, 2008
▪ "Operation Xibalba," (novelette), in Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds, edited by Greg Bear and Gardner Dozois, April 2014
▪ "In the Matter of Savinkov" (novella) in The Aethers of Mars, May 2014
▪ "Sanctuary" (short novel) in By Tooth and Claw, edited by Bill Fawcett, April 2015.
▪ "A Flat Affect" (short story) in Onward, Drake!, edited by Mark L. Van Name, October 2015
▪ "Up on the Roof" (novella) in Black Tide Rising, edited by John Ringo and Gary Poole, June 2016
● Worlds, February 2009
● Worlds II, August 2018
● The World Turned Upside Down, January 2005, with David Drake and Jim Baen.
● The Best of Jim Baen's Universe, July 2007
● The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II, with Mike Resnick, July 2008
● The Dragon Done It, with Mike Resnick, March 2008
☼ CHRISTOPHER ANVIL: (complete works in eight volumes)
● Pandora's Legions, February 2002
● Interstellar Patrol, April 2003
● Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity, March 2005
● The Trouble With Aliens, August 2006
● The Trouble With Humans, August 2007
● War Games, December 2008
● Rx For Chaos, February 2009
● The Power of Illusion, October 2010
● Lord Darcy, July 2002
● The Cold Equations and Other Stories, April 2003
● Retief, January 2002
● Odyssey, March 2002
● Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side, May 2002
● A Plague of Demons & Other stories, February 2003
● Future Imperfect, May 2003
● Legions of Space, October 2004
● Imperium, May 2005
● The Long Twilight & Other Stories, February 2007
● Earthblood & Other Stories, January 2008
● The Universe Twister, October 2008
● Med Ship: The Complete Stories, August 2002, with Guy Gordon
● Planets of Adventure, October 2003, with Guy Gordon
● A Logic Named Joe & Other Stories, June 2005, with Guy Gordon
☼ HOWARD L. MYERS (complete works in two volumes)
● The Creatures of Man, May 2003, with Guy Gordon
● A Sense of Infinity, July 2009, with Guy Gordon
☼ JAMES H. SCHMITZ (complete works in seven volumes)
● Telzey Amberdon, April 2000, with Guy Gordon
● TnT: Telzey & Trigger Together, July 2000, with Guy Gordon
● Trigger & Friends, January 2001, with Guy Gordon
● The Hub: Dangerous Territory, April 2001, with Guy Gordon
● Agent of Vega & Other Stories, November 2001, with Guy Gordon
● The Eternal Frontier, September 2002
● The Witches of Karres, July 2004
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The Candida Diet: Can You Really Starve Away This Annoying Infection?
The microbiome is definitely having a moment. It seems like everyone is popping a probiotic and chugging kombucha to foster their "gut bugs," the trillions of different bacteria and fungi living in the GI tract. But did you know the gut isn't the only home of these friendly critters? The skin, nose, mouth, and vagina each have their own microbiome as well. And just like in the gut, an imbalance of these "bugs" can wreak havoc on your health.
This is exactly what is happening if you have "candida overgrowth." One of your body's microbiomes is out of balance due to excess candida. This can lead to rashes, fatigue, bloat, and more.
So, what can you do to keep candida in check and restore balance? One natural treatment option to try is changing up your diet. Microorganisms eat what you eat, so you can encourage their proliferation or stifle their growth depending on what you feed them.
Intrigued? Read on to learn all about candida overgrowth and what the science says about using diet to starve away this annoying infection.
But first, what is candida?
Candida is a type or genus of yeast that is naturally present throughout the human body but is primarily located in the mouth, throat, gut, and vagina. Candida albicans and Candida auris are the two most well-known strains. Candidiasis, the imbalance or overgrowth of candida yeast, can lead to fungal infections and health problems. For example, candidiasis in the mouth is referred to as thrush, whereas candidiasis in the vagina is commonly known as a yeast infection.
Risk factors for candida overgrowth include those with weakened immune systems such as adults in the ICU or infants in the NICU; those taking specific medications like antibiotics, corticosteroids, birth control, or anticancer drugs; and those with excessive moisture on susceptible areas of skin such as the fold under the breasts, the groin, diaper area, or hands that are constantly in gloves. Also, people with diabetes, those eating a diet high in simple carbohydrates and refined sugars and low in fiber, and anyone under chronic stress may alter the balance of their healthy gut flora, which may predispose them to candida overgrowth.
Signs and symptoms of candida overgrowth.
Think you might have candida overgrowth? Here's what to watch out for:
- Fatigue and exhaustion: Untreated and chronic candida overgrowth in the GI tract may be a primary risk factor for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
- Tongue/mouth (thrush): white patchy areas on the tongue and inside the mouth. Redness and inflammation is commonly seen under the white patches. Corners of the mouth may also be cracked.
- Digestive symptoms and disease: Esophagitis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and Crohn's disease: inflammation of the esophagus that may make swallowing and eating difficult and painful and may imitate symptoms of chest pain or heartburn. Symptoms of IBD and Crohn's often involve chronic diarrhea, bloating, gas, pain, and unintentional weight loss.
- Skin (cutaneous candidiasis): patches of red, moist, and often oozing skin, sometimes mistaken for severe eczema.
- Vagina (vaginal yeast infections): redness, itching, or pain that is present with intercourse and/or urination and may result in thickened curdled discharge.
- Internal (deep/invasive candidiasis): a serious infection that can affect internal organs such as the heart, kidneys, brain, or bones and is most commonly seen in hospitalized or immune-compromised patients. Symptoms such as unexplained fever and even multiple organ failure may occur.
What is a candida diet?
The idea behind a candida diet is to limit or completely exclude foods that may promote candida growth. Restricting certain foods also helps limit the growth of other unhealthy bacteria, not just yeast, which may help restore the balance of whole body flora.
Here is a list of foods that are commonly discouraged when trying to manage candida overgrowth.
Foods to limit or avoid:
- Added sugar: Sucrose, the combination of glucose and fructose in sweetened foods, has been found to increase risk of candida overgrowth in the oral cavity. Watch out for it in sweetened drinks, yogurt, desserts, baked goods, and more.
- Refined and white carbohydrates: Glucose, the main carbohydrate found in white-flour-based goods like pasta, pastries, and baked goods; white rice; and bread has been linked with a higher risk of candida adhesion to skin cells. In fact, a 2013 study found recent carbohydrate intake was associated with more candida growth in the GI tract. But some research has questioned the link between carbohydrates candida growth. One such study that did not show carbohydrates increased candida growth was done in healthy subjects, though, not those already experiencing symptoms or those already diagnosed.
- Dairy: Galactose is a simple sugar found in dairy products that has been identified as a promoter of candida adhesion to human cells. Lactose-containing dairy products are the main source of galactose.
- Alcohol: Fermentation, the process by which popular alcoholic beverages are created, is discouraged on the candida diet. This is because these products contain yeasts. One study found alcohol negatively affects gut flora, intestinal permeability, and inflammation. However, another study showed that alcohol intake did not affect the growth of candida in the mouth.
- Gluten: While the gluten protein found in wheat, rye, and barley has been shown to worsen intestinal barrier function and increase intestinal inflammation, it hasn't specifically been studied for the purpose of treating candida overgrowth.
Some proponents of the candida diet also recommend limiting/excluding root and starchy vegetables, legumes, caffeine, mushrooms, and high-mercury fish in addition to the list above to treat candida overgrowth. There is little to no evidence to suggest that limiting these additional foods will improve candidiasis.
Foods to choose:
Embarking on a restrictive diet can feel overwhelming. Here are some foods you can still enjoy if you are trying a candida diet:
- Nonstarchy vegetables, including all colors of vegetables. Just skip starchy vegetables like peas, potatoes, corn, beets, and winter squash.
- Low-glycemic fruits like citrus and berries.
- Healthy fats including avocado, nuts and seeds that are low in mold (think almonds, sunflower seeds, coconut, and flax), olive oil, and coconut oil. Coconut oil, in particular, has been shown to limit candida growth in the GI tract, more than beef fat or soybean oil.
- Healthy fats including avocado, nuts and seeds that are low in mold (think almonds, sunflower seeds, coconut, and flax), olive oil, and coconut oil. Coconut oil, in particular, has been shown to limit candida growth in the GI tract, more than beef fat or soybean oil.
- High-quality animal proteins like meat, seafood, fish, poultry, and eggs.
- Gluten-free whole grains like millet, quinoa, oat, amaranth, and buckwheat.
- Herbs and spices.
- Sugar alcohols including erythritol, xylitol, and stevia are all OK.
- Low-lactose dairy, like hard cheese, yogurt, and kefir.
Should you try a candida diet?
While there are no published studies on the combination of diet recommendations that comprise the whole candida diet, there is evidence that suggests that some components of the diet may reduce candida growth and improve symptoms.
The candida diet can be an overall healthy diet due to the exclusion of added sugars, processed foods, and alcohol. However, a lack of balance and proper planning may result in decreased intake of fiber, complex carbohydrates, and overall nutrition, especially if followed long term.
Symptoms of candida overgrowth in the GI tract may be similar to SIBO or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. SIBO occurs when bacteria doesn't remain in the colon but rather travels up to the small intestine causing many painful symptoms. SIBO may require more aggressive treatment than the candida diet for proper management and resolution. Be sure to talk to your doctor if you are experiencing symptoms of SIBO or candida overgrowth.
If you have an eating disorder or suffer from unintentional weight loss or malabsorptive conditions, do not try the candida diet without consent from your doctor.
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Guest Interview – Kirsty Ferry
Today I have as my guest fellow Choc Lit author Kirsty Ferry, whose latest book The Girl in the Photograph (the third book in her Rossetti Mysteries series) has just been published as an ebook, while the second book in the series, The Girl in the Painting is now out in paperback. I've had the privilege of reading an advance copy of this novel and I can highly recommend it – it's a wonderful time slip story!
Here's a Q & A with Kirsty to tell us a bit more about it:-
The books in this trilogy all feature Pre-Raphaelite or Victorian artists – what first drew them to your attention and have you studied them at uni (you are very knowledgeable about Victorian art)? – I think the thing that drew me to them initially was when I read about Dante Gabriel Rossetti digging up Lizzie Siddal's body and raiding her coffin to retrieve a book of poems he'd buried with her. I started researching a little bit more just out of morbid curiosity really, and the more I found out, the more fascinated I became. I wrote a short story called The Other Ophelia which was a YA ghost story where a young lad was recreating the famous Millais Ophelia painting and the ghost of Rossetti didn't like it. What actually happened in real life, is that Lizzie lay freezing in a bath of cold water while Millais painted her, and she became very ill – and the public turned her into a sort of Gothic, idealised, Victorian 'celebrity'. Beyond all that you have this overriding, quite dangerous, obsessive passion between her and Rossetti. I filed the short story away for a few years, then pulled it out again when I decided to write The Girl in the Painting. I'd read some of Rossetti's poems by then, and was struck by Sudden Light, which is all about soulmates. Some Veil Did Fall was based on that poem, The Girl in the Painting was inspired by Lizzie and The Girl in the Photograph by Pre-Raphaelite photography – another art form that took the world by storm. I studied a little bit of art history during my degree but would love to take it further. Everything else was gleaned by good old-fashioned research and reading. You should see the pile of books I acquired!
I'm particularly fond of Millais' paintings, but also like other Victorian artists, especially Lord Leighton. Who is your favourite? – I love the Pre-Raphaelites of course, but some of Rossetti's work is quite wild and slapdash when you compare it with the perfection of Millais! I am also a huge fan of the Impressionists and could stare at Degas' ballerina pictures for hours. And John Singer Sargent did some fabulous work – but he was a little later, and more of an Edwardian artist, I suppose.
If you could own one painting from that era which one would you choose? (Not sure I could choose one as there are so many amazing ones!) – Ohhhh – what a choice! Can I just own the Tate Gallery? If pushed I'd have to say Millais Ophelia was up there, naturally, or I might have to expand the timeline slightly and go for Edward Robert Hughes Midsummer Eve, which is a gorgeous piece of 'fairy art' from about 1908. That's actually a really tough question! But do you know, Landseer's Dignity and Impudence would be wonderful – Google it. It's two dogs in a kennel and the little one is so cheeky!
This novel also deals with photography – did you have to do a lot of research about this? Have you tried it yourself? – I love old photographs and again did plenty of reading about the Pre-Raphaelite side of it, and especially about Julia Margaret Cameron for The Girl in the Photograph. Lorelei was a perfect heroine to team up with my Edwardian photographer – all she ever wanted to do was have a photograph taken of her. It's something we take for granted nowadays.
I also visited Lacock Abbey, which was the home of Henry Fox Talbot, an innovative Victorian photographer, and I saw the window which exists in the first photographic negative. At Lacock there were some astonishing statistics of the amount of pictures we take now to the amount they took then – it's very thought-provoking. I had a lovely camera when I was in my early twenties. Then my Dad dismantled it for some reason and I was left with a working light-meter and nothing else. He kindly held the meter up and demonstrated how it still worked, but that was no use to me at all! I've tinkered with things like Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro and have taken some really nice photographs unexpectedly; but again it's something I'd like to pursue further. Maybe one day!
Do you have any old photos you can share with us? – When I was researching photographic plates I fell in love with something on eBay from America – these original Edwardian glass photo plates. I have no idea who the people are, but had to buy them. I took them to work and one of the technicians scanned them into a machine for me and the pictures you see here are the result.
I've also got this lovely little one of my Grandma. I think it was a school photo, and it's tiny as you can see by the pencil I put next to it – I suspect she was just cut out of a group shot. She was born in 1909, so it's quite an old one. The original is all cracked and damaged, so I scanned it in and spent hours cleaning it up with Paint Shop Pro. Then I printed out a new copy for me and one for my mum. It really is one of my most precious possessions.
Many thanks, Kirsty! I love the old photos and photo plates, amazing what you can find on eBay. Happy publication for The Girl in the Photograph!
Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the ghostly tale 'Enchantment'. Her timeslip novel, Some Veil Did Fall, a paranormal romance set in Whitby, was published by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014. This was followed by another Choc Lit timeslip, The Girl in the Painting in February 2016 and now The Girl in the Photograph (March 2017). The experience of signing 'Some Veil Did Fall' in a quirky bookshop in the midst of Goth Weekend in Whitby, dressed as a recently undead person, was one of the highlights of her writing career so far! Kirsty's day-job involves sharing a Georgian building with an eclectic collection of ghosts – which can sometimes prove rather interesting.
You can find out more about Kirsty and her work at www.rosethornpress.co.uk – catch her on her Facebook Author Page or follow her on Twitter @kirsty_ferry.
What if the past was trying to teach you a lesson?
Staying alone in the shadow of an abandoned manor house in Yorkshire would be madness to some, but art enthusiast Lissy de Luca can't wait. Lissy has her reasons for seeking isolation, and she wants to study the Staithes Group – an artists' commune active at the turn of the twentieth century.
Lissy is fascinated by the imposing Sea Scarr Hall – but the deeper she delves, the stranger things get. A lonely figure patrols the cove at night, whilst a hidden painting leads to a chilling realisation. And then there's the photograph of the girl; so beautiful she could be a mermaid … and so familiar.
As Lissy further immerses herself, she comes to an eerie conclusion: The occupants of Sea Scarr Hall are long gone, but they have a message for her – and they're going to make sure she gets it.


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Twitter's Michael Sippey at D: Dive Into Mobile
Michael Sippey, Twitter's VP of Product, talked to Peter Kafka at D: Dive Into Mobile about search, complexity and the Boston Marathon bombings.
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The title of this blog is "Application Security Street Fighting". It is based on an idea I am pursuing for a while now. The goal is to come up with a set of simple and reproducible techniques to secure applications. Personally, I favor coding in unstructured languages like Perl and PHP for all the wrong reasons: It is fast and I am able to focus on the result. For example the first version of DShield.org was created over a Thanksgiving weekend. It worked "great", crashed hard on the first Slashdotting and set the server I build for cheap on fire during the Code Red outbreak. But it survived! (The fire destroyed some of the insulation on the power supply, but amazingly the server kept on running for another two weeks until I was able to replace it. The best $400 home made server I ever had).
However, you will not find much of the original code in the DShield site of today. I probably replaced it 3 or 4 times just that first year. Each time, I learned a bit more about PHP. On the other hand, the site would probably not exist if I had done it "right" the first time. Coding slow kills momentum and opportunity.
Now how do we code fast and safe? Most developers associate secure coding with slow coding. I think there are a few misconceptions when it comes to secure coding, and I would like to address some of them in this and future blog posts. In this post, let me focus on user input validation, one of my favorite topics.
How do I validate input securely using php? For deep and complex questions like that, there is only one answer: Google it! . The first link that came back for me was a page on Techrepublic, "Secure your Web Applications by validating user input with PHP". The solution presented on this page gets some things right: It uses a PEAR library, "Validation". Less code to write, less bugs to fix! At least the way I code, reusing code works always in my favor. But let's look at the rest of the code:
// check name field
if (!$validate->string($name, array("min_length" => 1))) {
$errors[] = "Error in NAME field";
Now you may want to argue the use of the "extract" command, but well, this is not the point here. The problem is that you need to first pull the user submitted data out of the super global array like "$_POST", then you need to validate it. And you need to do this every single time. I can tell you, it gets boring quickly. Before too long, you will miss a spot. If you clean a kitchen floor, "missing a spot" means having a happy dog help you fix the problem later. If you miss a spot in your PHP script, you got a vulnerability! That's right: As a developer, you have to get it right every single time.
Personally, I find user input validation one of the more boring parts when coding. I would rather make sure my business logic is soundly implemented. So let me talk about a different approach I got to like lately:
- Start out by pulling all the user submitted data into an object.
- The only way for you to get to the user data is to call an "extraction" function, which will also validate the data.
For example a bit of pseudo code:
$oUserData=new UserData($_POST);
And this is what the class approximately would look like (pseudo code)
class UserData {
protected $aData;
function __construct($aSource) {
/* pull data out of source and assign to $aData */
/* and clear out $aSource */
function getName($sLabel) {
if ( is_name($this->aData[$sLabel]) ) {
return $this->aData[$sLabel];
return false;
Cool. So now we got a very simple mechanism to extract validated user data. As a developer, I need to write the validation functions only once. The constructor for the class should also clear out the initial unvalidated userdata to avoid accidents down the line.
I will expand on this idea in future posts. Again: The idea is to write secure code without getting lost in endless and boring input validation exercises. That's what I consider "application security street fighting". It's not pretty, its not fancy. But it works. We need to find simple and repeatable techniques that work every time.


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The Sixers on Friday officially signed veteran point guard Royal Ivey to a one-year veteran minimum deal ($1.23 million).
The Sixers apparently don't really place a high value on backing up point guard Jrue Holiday because they have confidence in Evan Turner to play on the ball offensively for stretches during the season. Sixers coach Doug Collins' offense also allows for Andre Iguodala to dominate the ball at times.
Whether this is sound philosophy or not is questionable. However, the hope is that if Holiday does suffer an injury that keeps him sidelined for a significant amount of time, Ivey will be able to step in and give the team competent play at the point.
Ivey, 30, an eight-year vet, spent the last two seasons in Oklahoma City. During his career, Ivey has started 109 games and averaged 3.4 points and 1.1 assists per game. This is his second stint with the Sixers, who signed him in 2008 as a free agent and later traded him along with Primoz Brezec and a second round pick to Milwaukee in exchange for Francisco Elson and Jodie Meeks on February 18, 2010.