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Real Madrid Kit, Football Shirts, Shorts and Socks
Welcome to the Real Madrid Shirts and Jerseys shop at Soccer Box. Here you will find a fantastic selection of official football tops, training kits and other Real Madrid accessories and merchandise. You can kit out the whole family in team shirts, to support one of the best teams in the Spanish La Liga, and indeed the whole world.
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What's in the Real Madrid Shop at Soccer Box?
Explore our Real Madrid shop to get access to authentic football jerseys, shorts, socks, training gear and football merchandise. Depending on your personal style, you can choose from a home, away or third jersey. With an embroidered Adidas logo, the Real Madrid kit is perfect for the current Champions League season. Soccer Box also delivers speedy and reliable shipping worldwide.
The kids kits start at age one-year and come as a complete set with the football top, shorts and socks for one low price. The Madrid shirts starts at age 7 up to adults XXXL, you can also shop for the shorts and socks separately to complete the full kit in youth and adult sizes. The training kits are available in a range of styles with merchandise to fit both child and adult sizes.
Manufacturer of the Real Madrid Kit
Adidas is the manufacturer of the Real Madrid football kit. The famous Adidas 3-stripe logo has adorned the shirt and merchandise since 1998. In 2012 the club renewed its deal for a further 8 years ensuring Adidas would be in partnership with the club until at least 2020. This is one of the biggest deals agreed at £31m per year. The deal does not only include the manufacture of the match day football jerseys but all team merchandise including training kits, leisure products and accessories. You can get all your official Adidas team gear, jerseys and merchandise at our online shop.
Real Madrid soccer jerseys are the best selling team for Adidas by a long way. Official statistics reveal that around 1.4 million of the team's jerseys are sold each year. The club has a massive fan base both in Spain and worldwide. Of all the tops sold the white shirt is the most popular. The Real Madrid home kit are iconic of the club and can be ordered at the Soccer Box shop while supplies last. If your size of football shirt is sold out, consider ordering the away kit or third strip as a fantastic alternative choice. Can't decide simply order all three!
Long List of Trohpies and Honours
Real Madrid has an impeccable record in the Spanish League, the Real Madrid football shirts and football outfits for Real Madrid have been seen in La Liga every season, and have never been relegated to the 2nd tier. The club has won an immense number of trophies both in domestic and European competition. A list of the clubs major triumphs can be found below:
- La Liga - 33 wins
- Copa del Rey - Champions 19 times
- UEFA Champions League - 13 trophies
- UEFA Super Cup - 4 wins
- FIFA Club World Cup - Champions twice
Winning so many trophies has ensured that the club have gained a reputation for success. The merchandise is proudly worn by many millions of fans worldwide, join the throng and order your kit in our well-stock Real Madrid shop, where you will only find official merchandise, at great prices. And, if you're looking for a bargain our Real Madrid special offers store could be just the place for you.
Browse through all the latest Real Madrid merchandise and place your order today. For junior and adult supporters we are sure to have the perfect jersey or piece of team kit for you. We are supplied by Adidas guaranteeing that you are purchasing official products. We strive to keep prices competitive, our checkout is secure, and we offer fast worldwide shipping options. Don't delay and place your order today.


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I absolutely LOVED this book! It was fun to read and packed with adventure! You never know what will happen next so you're always on the edge of your seat. For example, when Uncle Nimrod goes missing you are just dieing to find out what happened. Around every corner there's surprises and big events making it IMPOSSIBLE to put down! My favorite part is when the kids finally meet Ilblis. This book is a great fantasy book!
I recommend this book to any fantasy lover in 4th through 6th grade.


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Dear Lord, please forgive us, YOUR church…
#1 – For praying small prayers. We read in the Scriptures where YOU sent FIRE from heaven, you healed sick people, you brought the dead back to life, you put interstate highways through the Red Sea, you slayed giants, you enabled people to walk through fire, you spoke and the world EXPLODED in creation and you said we would do greater things in John 14:12…yet we refuse to pray and ask for BIG things because we believe that somehow Your reputation is on the line. May we pray BIG PRAYERS!
#2 – For allowing Disney to out dream us! They have a mouse, we have Your Holy Spirit and yet we have seemed to drift towards the normal, boring and predictable. You said in Ephesians 3:20 that you are able to do WAY more than we could ask or imagine…and maybe you are, maybe the best we can imagine is a few people in a room talking about things that the rest of the world does not care about. However, I refuse to believe that a company without YOUR Spirit should be able to trump YOUR church who does have YOUR Spirit when it comes to big dreams. We should have THE BEST artists in the world…may we recapture that!
#3 – For allowing Apple to out innovate us! You are the Author of creation…YOU! And since Your Word is clear that we are created in YOUR image then it is so clear that YOUR church should be leading the way when it comes to innovation and creativity. You are FAR from dull and boring…your church should be as well! May we STOP doing poor work and then blaming it on Your Holy Spirit.
#4 – For allowing a rising stock market to celebrate more than we do. For some reason in church world it is ok to celebrate when our 401k's increase in value, but it is NOT ok to talk about/celebrate when people repent of their sins and trust Christ as their Savior, despite what YOU said about the angels celebrating in Luke 15. For some reason we don't like to celebrate when a church sees people turn their lives over to you. We don't like to celebrate it when another church grows. The truth is we want great things to happen in OUR church…but not in someone else's.
#5 – For allowing credit card companies to out market us! We all know the phrase "what's in your wallet" because they market their product so darn well; however, all too often we seem to be content sitting back and "trusting You" when in actuality You have entrusted and empowered us to go and reach the world with the Gospel…that takes "marketing!" We have the greatest message on the planet…may You continue to reveal the best methods in regards to how to get it out there more and more.
#6 – For allowing MTV to reach a generation that we've seemed to forget! Forgive us for the fact that in many of our churches there is more money in the cemetery fund than there is the youth and children's budget. Forgive us when we neglect to see that the age group that is under 18 is the ripest mission field in America…and so instead of investing heavily in them we force them to sell doughnuts, have car washes and make hot dogs to do the things the church should be making a priority in the first place.
#7 – For allowing missionaries to use culture on foreign fields to reach the community in which they are in…but when that same approach is done in America we call it compromise! We tell missionaries to not criticize the culture in which they live but rather to learn it, understand it, and then leverage it to introduce the Gospel. We think that is the best way to do it "over there," yet when that approach is used here we become angry and accuse churches of "watering things down" (AS IF YOUR Gospel could EVER be watered down) and/or compromised. May we not stick our heads in the sand but rather admit where we are and use the world that people live in as a tool and resource to introduce them to Jesus.
Forgive us Lord…may we RISE UP and be YOUR Church, the ONE YOU have called, equipped and enabled us to become! When we are focused on You, talking about You, pointing others to You and doing exactly what You say to do…then…
- Your power is undeniable!
- Your people are unstoppable!
- Your presence is unexplainable! And…
- Our potential is unimaginable!
May we be YOUR Church!


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Dancers from the Bollywood Vibes dance company wowed an Iffley audience with demonstrations of the traditional Indian dance styles of Bhangra, Kathak and Bollywood.
The event at Iffley's Tree Hotel raised £950 for The John Watson School in Wheatley and featured dance workshops and a buffet.
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Toyota Park is going to be as international as Epcot Center in May. Following on the heals of the recent announcement of the Sister Cities International Cup, the Chicago Fire announced on Wednesday that they will host Italian giants AC Milan on Sunday, May 30.
The match will be the second between the two clubs. Milan won the first meeting, defeating the Fire 3-1 at Soldier Field in 2005.
"As one of the world's most storied clubs, A.C. Milan will guarantee an exciting, passionate match for fans of the Fire and the world's game in their own backyard at Toyota Park," Fire President Dave Greeley said in a release. "It allows us to showcase Chicago as the world-class city it is and our supporters as the best in MLS."
Milan, seven-time European champions, currently sit in third place in Italy's Serie A, trailing AS Roma and cross-town rivals Inter. Club officials said they are committed to fielding all of their star players who are not participating in World Cup duties, meaning such global stars as Ronaldinho, Clarence Seedorf, and Filippo Inzaghi could be in the Rossoneri side.
The Milan friendly comes just over a week after the end of the inaugural Chicago Sister Cities International Cup, a four-team tournament that will see European clubs Paris Saint-Germain, Legia Warsaw and Red Star Belgrade play a knockout tournament in Bridgeview.


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Shortly after I became a Christian, I was baptized in our small Reformed Presbyterian church and invited to join as a member. I remember the membership form I was asked to sign. It covered basic doctrinal positions of the church, and one stood out to me: it said that I believed that signs and wonders had ceased after the time of the apostles. I spoke to my dad about this, in part because I was uncertain I could agree with this statement. He told me he had had a similar reaction when he joined the church. He said he crossed that one out! I did the same. Although I was not raised in a church tradition that exposed me to charismatic gifts, I was not certain I could say that they did not exist, and it seemed odd to support a doctrinal position on what the Holy Spirit might choose to do in a person's life.
There are likely varying degrees of familiarity with this topic among those who read this blog. It is interesting to be a part of a church that more overtly teaches and affirms the existence of miracles. (Of course, the very fact that a person is a Christian is an affirmation of the miraculous, so it is interesting to even have this as a separate point of discussion when you think about it…) In any case, in that context people would be invited to receive prayer for healing at the altar rail during or after services, and there would be an expectation that miracles would occur. In church settings like I am describing, I would say several people would admit to witnessing in their own lives (or in the lives of others they know personally) a miracle. But these experiences have not been part of my church culture, and it has been a process for me to recognize that church "culture" can quickly shape doctrinal positions, fuel skepticism (or faith and belief), and the way this is shaped can lead to very different conclusions about what is happening in a given service.
The title of this post is from Chapter 5 of Tim Stafford's new book, Miracles: A Journalist Looks at Modern-Day Experiences of God's Power. The semi-believing doubter is the skeptic who "doesn't believe science excludes God," and may believe in the miraculous in theory, "but in a practical sense, he or she lives as though miracles don't exist" (p. 69). This is the state of many Christians in the U.S. today, including the author from time to time. Yet this makes Tim Stafford an ideal choice to write this book. He is a trusted journalist who has been with Christianity Today for years. He asks many of the questions most of us who are skeptical would ask, and he is honest about the scrutiny we would give to claims of the miraculous.
Stafford reviews accounts of the miraculous in Scripture, starting with the Old Testament and then through the New Testament. He reminds the reader that for the vast majority of that history, there were no or few records of miraculous events. The same appears to be true in Christian history since the time of the apostles. Yet there is also evidence that miracles did occur–in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and at times throughout Christian history. Of course, having recently celebrated Easter, Christians base their whole faith in the resurrection of Jesus, so once that is taken as true (and there is significant evidence to support that claim), then other miracles certainly seem possible, if uncommon. Stafford then brings the reader up to the contemporary Pentecostal movement that began with the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 and continues today throughout the world.
I appreciated Stafford's comment on scientists who dismiss the miraculous out of hand because they believe if someone is rational, that person cannot possibly consider the miraculous:
Oddly enough, it's not a scientific point of view. Science would seek to investigate. This position maintains that no investigation is necessary… This is a philosophical position–just the sort of philosophical a priori assumption that scientists say they abhor. (p. 166)
I have found a similar bias in psychology. Training in the behavioral sciences can quickly become a worldview, a lens through which all of "reality" is reduced to what we can measure as psychologists. When it becomes a worldview, people who adhere to it can find explanations for most everything, even those things beyond its reach.
Stafford offers several helpful conclusions for Christians to consider–twenty, to be exact. He concludes that miracles do happen, that they are rare, and that they do not point to themselves or the person who does them but to the Kingdom of God. Healing is more common, and only rarely does healing surprise us such that we think of it as a miracle. In some circles, people will "pass along miracle stories uncritically, so many of them don't hold up to scrutiny. But that doesn't mean that none are true" (p. 200). That last one is a good reminder for those who are more skeptical.
This was a quick read. It is well-written and thoughtful. Again, Stafford is not pushing the miraculous as a card-carrying Pentecostal; nor is he a cessationist. There is a real balance in how he approaches the topic, and I think many Christians today will find this book to be a great source of encouragement as they consider how God may be at work in the world and in their own lives.
It was helpful to me personally to read a book from an author who has a similar cultural background as my own (and accompanying doubts and questions). I've read many book from authors who are already "there" as charismatics, and those books use language and constructs that I find difficult to use in my own everyday way of thinking about faith. But I want to take seriously the possibility of the miraculous, and Stafford finds a place for miracles in a culture polarized between skeptics on the one hand and charlatans on the other.


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Huzur opened his Friday Sermon today by citing verses 33 to 38 of Surah Al Zumar (Chapter 39) [ (39:33) ]. He explained that in these verses Allah has mentioned two types of unjust people; those who lie against Allah by false proclamation of being from Him and those who reject the truth sent by God through His prophets.
Huzur said this subject is also cited in the Quran in Surah Ankabut (29:69). The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said a slanderer is always ineffective. Allah states that He cuts off and disgraces one who slanders regarding Him therefore how could one who has belief in this invent lies concerning God. In worldly matters the smallest of misdemeanours is punished how can then one who associates falsehood to God be spared? It is written in Gods books that a liar and a slanderer shall be destroyed.
The fact that the Holy Quran has cited this in different places is a testimony that it is a fundamental principle that a person who forges a lie against Allah will be punished by God as well as one who rejects the truth and is disobedient to a true prophet of God. Allah commands that when His prophets come with clear signs, people should observe those signs and accept them. Indeed prophethood is accompanied by brilliant Divine signs which enhance with each passing day, therefore, Huzur said those who reject prophethood should come to their senses.
Huzur said the accusation of falsehood were levied against the earlier prophets of God, indeed against the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and today are alleged against the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). In the verses of Surah Al Zumar preceding the ones cited above Allah declares the teaching of the Quran as manifestly clear and comprehensive, therefore leaving no doubt in what is the truth and what must be followed. Allah states that rejection of this will not escape punishment. The aforementioned verses affirm that one who is commissioned by Allah should be accepted and those who accept him will be prosperous and granted righteousness.
The subject is reiterated in verse 62 of Surah Ta Ha (20:62) and verse 18 of Surah Yunus (10:18) and makes it clear yet again that it is these are the two types of people who cannot escape Divine punishment.
Huzur said this is food for thought those who do not accept the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). Allah has granted the Muslims a most comprehensive Book the safeguard of which He has taken upon Himself, which is present today in its original, unaltered text. Allah has made it extremely clear in the Quran that it is not a collection of fables and has warned to take heed from the earlier people. Indeed there will be false claimants from God but they will not be successful and this will manifest in failure of dissemination of their teaching. One who comes from God has a spiritual objective, either bringing in a new religious law (Shariah) or reviving the old teaching so that those who are lost may be brought closer to God. These are the basic points of reference of those who come from God.
In this age the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) is - God forbid - accused of being false. One can clearly observe that he has made no change to the [Islamic] Shariah. It is evident from his writings that there is not the slightest alteration about Salat or any other pillar of Islam or any variation from the authentic Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). The fact is that he has presented the beauty of Islam in an enhanced manner and without doubt his advent took place in accordance with the prophecies of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him).
Huzur remarked, is the Community of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) on the increase, or is it standing still or is it diminishing? Indeed groups upon groups of people are joining it, where as there is dissension and sectarian conflict among those Muslims who accuse and calumniate us. They have introduced harmful innovations in religion. Huzur said for example in the Indian sub-continent offerings are made at tombs and wishes and desires are sought from Pirs, some of whom do not even observe the Salat. Was this practice observed in the times of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him)?
Huzur said Bahaullah was a claimant to a prophetic fulfilment. The soundness of this is clear from the fact that his claim does not have Divine support and succour. There was no clear manifest sign from him, in fact he cancelled the Islamic Shariah about which Allah has decreed that it shall continue till the end of time. At one time Bahaullah had quite a good following. However, his popularity was nothing compared to the Quranic Shariah. Now his following is sparse and the Holy Quran, which is being maligned through a calculated conspiracy, continues to propagate. The Ahmadiyya Community is making headway in propagating its teachings. Success is not to accumulate worldly wealth or a large following, rather, true success is the propagation of Allahs teachings. This is what supports and corroborates the veracity of the claim of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). Those who continually demean the Ahmadis should have some sense and make their decision based on the standards established by God.
Huzur said one who is commissioned by God is truthful in the message he brings and indeed in his word. The message he brings is from Allah and is laden with Divine support and corroboration. In the cited verses of Surah Al Zumar (39:34-35) Allah states that those who abide by taqwa (righteousness) will have whatever they desire from God. They shall have inner peace and contentment. It does not mean that they would always wish for and have finite things of this world. By mentioning taqwa at the outset in the verse it has been made clear that these people seek Allahs pleasure alone. The next verse (39:36) further unfolds that because of these people accepting one who is from Allah, because of righteousness and because of doing good works Allah shall remove the bad consequences of their human frailties. Mistakes and sins are requited in equal measure but piety is rewarded ten-fold by Allah. The reward of good works makes sin distant.
Huzur said finding inner peace and developing in piety after accepting one who is sent by God is also a sign and benchmark of the truthfulness of the person. In this age the Ahmadis are a testament of this as indeed are the newcomers joining the Community. The verse 39:37 further reassures in the declaration that Allah is sufficient for His servant no matter how many accusations are levied by the slanderers. Here Allah has made it very clear to those who reject and accuse Allahs people that they cannot harm them in any way and that Allah helps them every step of the way.
Huzur said we witness that to this day opponents make extremely cheap attacks on the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) but they cannot damage Islam. A large number of Muslims endeavour to implement the Shariah in its original form. Huzur said this is a proof that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was from God and his Shariah is alive and shall stay alive and human attempts were not able to damage it before and will not be able to damage it now or in the future. In this age Allah sent a true and ardent devotee of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) to refute the enemy with a renewed vigour and dynamism. If only the Muslims would understand this.
Huzur said it should be clear that in verse 39:37 where Allah states that He is sufficient for His servant the use of the word abd (servant) connotes the true servants of Allah who are perfectly obedient to Him, who proclaim to be helpers of Allah (AnsarUllah), who worship Him, who glorify Him, who have a great sense of honour for Him and who love Him most dearly. The finest and most excellent model of this was the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) to whom Allah demonstrated His attribute of being sufficient to an astounding degree at various times of His life. Allah states that only he is guided whom Allah grants guidance. Huzur said one should turn to Allah for guidance, for enhancement of belief and to stay firm once one is guided. Those who are guided demonstrate themselves as true servants of God and fully realise that therein lies their salvation and are fully cognisant that true triumph is only with Islam and Allah avenges those who are hostile. Allahs retribution is in the form of punishment. In order to demonstrate the truthfulness of those who are from Allah He not only proves their veracity He also saves them from all the attacks of the opponents. The beloved of Allah and those who believe in them are included in So enter thou among My chosen servants (89:30). Indeed the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was the biggest recipient of this grace. Because of him Allah also became sufficient for the slaves/servants of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). From among his slaves/servants the most excellent one is the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) to whom Allah revealed the Quranic verse of Is not Allah sufficient for His servant? (39:37) many times. The first time it was revealed to him was just before his fathers passing away and was a demonstration of Allahs love. Allah indeed made the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) free from all kind of financial concerns and a whole world was fed by his hand, indeed is still being fed by his hand. This revelation was repeated many times and saved the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) from the attacks and conspiracies of the enemy and Allah indeed proved sufficient for him just as He had been sufficient for his master the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him).
Allah commanded the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) to state Say, If you love Allah, follow me: then will Allah love you and forgive your faults
(3:32). Huzur said the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) set the most excellent standard in following him and it was due to his perfect obedience to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) that Allah loved the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and revealed Quranic verses to him and always disgraced his enemy.
Huzur said to this day the opponents do not accept the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) and try to achieve their objectives. This did not come to pass before nor shall it ever. Indeed, we witness proofs of his truthfulness each day. These are demonstration of Allah being sufficient at every time and they enhance our faith. Each Ahmadi should reflect on this and try and develop in belief, not simply give it cursory attention. In true compliance of the true and ardent devotee of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) we will be included in those for whom Allah becomes sufficient.
The opponents may try and make all their effort, Allah is sufficient now as He was before and InshaAllah will be in the future. The religious leaders and the educated classes of Pakistan continue to try and damage us. A while ago a court case was registered against an Ahmadi in Pakistan with a charge that he had torn up a poster that had been put up by a maulwi. There is no truth in this. We display patience and fortitude even when verbally abused, this is what the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) has taught us. We have never attempted retaliation. Allah alone seizes those who harass the Community of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace). The court case was taken all the way to the high court where a judge passed an astonishingly excessive verdict. Huzur said if this judge considers the maulwis of today holy, then we have nothing to say. These people serve those in power; such is the judiciary of Pakistan for some time now. We have no hope from them we only turn to Allah, He alone is sufficient.
Addressing the people of Pakistan Huzur said they should have some sense and not invite Allahs wrath the signs of which are on the horizon. The only way out of this is to beg forgiveness of Allah. Our hearts are brimful of a surging sea of love for the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) which the others could never even come close. Huzur called on the masses of Pakistan and told them not to follow the so-called religious leaders but to come in the refuge of Allah.
Huzur said these religious leaders continue to incite people against us and this results in martyrdoms. These terrible acts are in accordance to the law of the country where today no law is working.
Next Huzur gave the news of the martyrdom of Saeed Ahmad sahib in Sindh Pakistan who was shot dead as he entered his house. Huzur said he was a sincere and simple person who was ever busy in serving others. He was a hard working, hospitable, patient and forbearing person who had no enemy. He leaves behind two daughters and two sons. May Allah elevate his status in Paradise.
Huzur also gave the news of the death of Rana Muhammad Jan Advocate, who had served as the Ameer of Bhawalnagar, Pakistan. He served the Community for more than forty years and was a most sincere and pious person with strong connection with Khilafat. Huzur said he used to come regularly to the UK Jalsa but could not for the past two years and would write anxiously to Huzur about this. Huzur prayed that may Allah make his offspring follow in their fathers footsteps. Huzur said he would lead the funeral prayers in absentia of both the deceased.
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Innisfree Rose Marbling Blushers look gorgeous and come in three shades – I am missing the white one (it was out of stock). Instead I bought 01 Pink Rose, 02 Peach Rose:
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...eat mostly vegetables, grains, legumes, and nuts, and limit red meat consumption to just one serving per week...
... there's a clear message for wealthier countries where meat consumption is high: We will need to cut way back, as much as 90 percent...
...producing beef uses 20 times the land and emits 20 times the emissions as producing beans, per gram of protein. By one estimate, if people in the U.S. switched from beef to beans, this alone could get the U.S. more than halfway to the greenhouse gas reductions goals set during the Obama administration.
"Many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries by food production..."...
...processed meats — such as bacon, hot dogs and deli meats — are linked to a higher risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes...
KaiserJeep wrote: It makes me happy to eat bacon, sausages, deli meats, red meats, poultry, seafood, etc. etc. I am managing the Type 2 diabetes via exercise and by limiting calorie intake. Also with no less than four oral T2 diabetes drugs.
dohboi wrote:"Following a vegan diet may help prevent or control type 2 diabetes"
https://www.everydayhealth.com/type-2-d ... -diabetes/
"How I Reversed My Diabetes and Stopped All Medications With a Plant-Based Diet"
https://www.forksoverknives.com/how-i-r ... s.336htuIM
"eating a vegan diet could help prevent diabetes"
https://www.ontrackdiabetes.com/type-2- ... lood-sugar
"The only prospective study measuring rates of diabetes in vegans, the Adventist Health Study 2, found them to have a 60% less chance of developing the disease "
dohboi wrote:It's 100% possible to eat a low-carb diet as a vegan
Cog wrote: obesity in itself is one of the largest factors in type 2 diabetes development.
Ibon wrote:Cog wrote: obesity in itself is one of the largest factors in type 2 diabetes development.
All of the rural agrarian farm workers in my neighborhood burn through thousands of calories a day doing their work. My wife, daughter and I do the same but to a much less degree. Nobody here is obese.
I chuckle to myself often over the American obsession with food and which diet makes you fat. All of this obsession while sitting in front of digital devices or driving their cars. It seems like everyone forgets the number one reason for obesity in the US.
Nobody moves anymore.
Yonnipun wrote:dohboi wrote:It's 100% possible to eat a low-carb diet as a vegan
Low carb diet for type 1 diabetic is following:
6 grams for breakfast
12 grams for dinner
12 for supper.
For comparison - one slice of bread is about 15 grams of carb.
careinke wrote:Yonnipun wrote:dohboi wrote:It's 100% possible to eat a low-carb diet as a vegan
Low carb diet for type 1 diabetic is following:
6 grams for breakfast
12 grams for dinner
12 for supper.
For comparison - one slice of bread is about 15 grams of carb.
Is it possible for a type 1 diabetic to contract type 2 Diabetes?Curious minds want to know..
Vegetarian diets in general have been related to lower diabetes risk...
dohboi wrote:From wiki:Vegetarian diets in general have been related to lower diabetes risk...
I do not know of many diabetics who developed the illness around the time I did, in 1946, who are still alive. I know of none who do not suffer from active complications. The reality is, had I not taken charge of my diabetes, it's very unlikely that I'd be alive and active today. Many myths surround diet and diabetes, and much of what is still considered by the average physician to be sensible nutritional advice for diabetics can, over the long run, be fatal.
I know, because conventional "wisdom" about diabetes almost killed me.
I developed diabetes in 1946 at the age of twelve, and for more than two decades I was an "ordinary" diabetic, dutifully following doctor's orders and leading the most normal life I could, given the limitations of my disease.
Over the years, the complications from my diabetes became worse and worse, and like many diabetics in similar circumstances, I faced a very early death. I was still alive, but the quality of my life wasn't particularly good. I have what is known as type 1, or insulin-dependent, diabetes, which usually begins in childhood (it's also called juvenileonset diabetes). Type 1 diabetics must take daily insulin injections just
to stay alive.
Back in the 1940s, which were very much still the "dark ages" of diabetes treatment, I had to sterilize my needles and glass syringes by boiling them every day, and sharpen my needles with an abrasive stone. I used a test tube and an alcohol lamp (flame) to test my urine for sugar. Many of the tools the diabetic can take for granted today were scarcely dreamed of back then — there was no such thing as a rapid, finger-stick blood sugar–measuring device, nor disposable insulin syringes. Still, even today, parents of type 1 diabetics have to live with the same fear my parents lived with—that something could go disastrously wrong and they could try to wake up their child and discover him comatose, or worse. For any parent of a type 1 diabetic, this has been a real and constant possibility.
Because of my chronically elevated blood sugar levels, and the inability to control them, my growth was stunted, as it is for many juvenile-onset diabetics even to this day.
Back then, the medical community had just learned about the relationship between high blood cholesterol and vascular (blood vessel and heart) disease. It was then widely believed that the cause of high blood cholesterol was consumption of large amounts of fat. Since many diabetics, even children, have high cholesterol levels, physicians were beginning to assume that the vascular complications of diabetes—heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, et cetera—were caused by the fat that diabetics were eating. As a result, I was put on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (45 percent of calories were to be carbohydrates) before such diets were advocated by the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association. Because carbohydrate raises blood sugar, I had to compensate with very large doses of insulin, which I injected with a 10 cc "horse" syringe. These injections were slow and painful, and eventually they destroyed all the fatty tissue under the skin of my thighs. In spite of the low-fat diet, my blood cholesterol became very high. I developed visible signs of this state—fatty growths on my eyelids and gray deposits around the iris of each eye.
During my twenties and thirties, the prime of life for most people, many of my body's systems began to deteriorate. I had excruciatingly painful kidney stones, a stone in a salivary duct, "frozen" shoulders, a progressive deformity of my feet with impaired sensation, and more. I would point these out to my diabetologist (who was then president of the American Diabetes Association), but I was inevitably told, "Don't worry, it has nothing to do with your diabetes. You're doing fine." But I wasn't doing fine. I now know that most of these problems are commonplace among those whose diabetes is poorly controlled, but then I was forced to accept my condition as "normal."
By this time I was married. I had gone to college and trained as an engineer. I had small children, and even though I was not much more than a kid myself, I felt like an old man. I had lost the hair on the lower parts of my legs, a sign that I had developed peripheral vascular disease—a complication of diabetes that can eventually lead to amputation.
During a routine exercise stress test, I was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, which is a replacement of muscle tissue in the heart with fibrous (scar) tissue—a common cause of heart failure and death among those with type 1 diabetes.
Even though I was "doing fine," I suffered a host of other complications. My vision deteriorated: I suffered night blindness, microaneurysms (ballooning of the blood vessels in my eyes), macular edema (swelling of the central portion of my retinas), and early cataracts. Just lying in bed caused pain in my thighs, due to a common but rarely diagnosed and barely pronounceable diabetic complication called iliotibial band/tensor fascialata syndrome. Putting on a T-shirt was agonizing because of my frozen shoulders.
I had begun testing my urine for protein and found substantial amounts of it, a sign, I had read, of advanced kidney disease. In those days—the middle and late 1960s—the life expectancy of a type 1 diabetic with proteinuria was five years. Back in engineering school, a classmate had told me how his nondiabetic sister had died of kidney disease. Before her death she had ballooned with retained water, and after I discovered my own proteinuria, I began to have nightmares of blowing up like a balloon.
By 1967 I had these and other diabetic complications and clearly appeared chronically ill and prematurely aged. I had three small children, the oldest only six years old, and with good reason was certain I wouldn't live to see them grown.
At my father's suggestion, I started working out daily at a local gym. He thought that if I were to engage in vigorous exercise, I might feel better. Perhaps exercise would help my body help itself. I did feel slightly less depressed about my condition—at least I felt I was doing something—but I couldn't build muscles or get much stronger.
After two years of pumping iron, I remained a 115-pound weakling, no matter how strenuously I worked out. It was at about this time, in 1969, that my wife, a physician, pointed out to me that I had spent much of my life going into, experiencing, or recovering from hypoglycemia, which is a state of excessively low blood sugar. It was usually accompanied by fatigue and headaches, and was caused by the unpredictable action of the large doses of insulin I was taking to cover my high-carbohydrate diet. During such episodes, I became confused and unruly and snapped at people. These frequent hypoglycemic episodes had taken their toll upon my parents, and were taking their toll upon my wife and children. The strain on my family was clearly becoming untenable.
Suddenly, in October of 1969,my life turned around.
I had been the research director of a company that made equipment for hospital laboratories, but recently I had taken a new job as an officer of a housewares corporation. I was still receiving trade journals from my old field, and one day I opened the latest issue of a publication called Lab World. I came upon an advertisement for a new device to help hospital emergency rooms distinguish between unconscious diabetics and unconscious drunks during the night, when laboratories were closed. Knowing that an unconscious person was a diabetic and not drunk could easily help hospital personnel save his life. What I stumbled upon was an ad for a blood sugar meter that would give a reading in 1 minute, using a single drop of blood.
Since I'd been experiencing many blood sugars that were too low, and since the tests I had been performing on my urine were wholly inadequate (sugar that shows up in the urine is already on its way out of the bloodstream), I figured that if I knew what my blood sugars were, perhaps I could catch and correct my hypoglycemic episodes before they made me disoriented and irrational.
I marveled over the instrument. It had a 4-inch galvanometer with a jeweled bearing, weighed 3 pounds, and cost $650. I tried to order one, but the manufacturer wouldn't sell it to patients, only to doctors and hospitals.
Fortunately, my wife, as I've said, was a physician, so I ordered one in her name. I started to measure my blood sugar about 5 times each day, and soon saw that the levels were on a roller coaster. Engineers are accustomed to solving problems mathematically, but you have to have information to work with. You have to know the mechanics of a problem in order to solve it, and now, for the first time, I was gaining insight into the mechanics and mathematics of my disease. What I learned from my frequent testing was that my own blood sugars swung from lows of under 40 mg/dl to highs of over 400 mg/dl about twice daily. A normal blood sugar level is about 85 mg/dl.* Small wonder I was subject to such vast mood swings.
Although most medical journals and textbooks throughout the world measure blood glucose in mmol/l (millimoles per liter), most physicians, laboratories, and blood glucose meters in the United States measure blood glucose in mg/dl.
In an effort to level my blood sugars, I began to adjust my insulin regimen, and went from one injection a day to two. I made some experimental modifications to my diet, cutting down on the carbohydrates to permit me to take less insulin. The very high and low blood sugar levels became less frequent, but few were normal.
Three years after I started measuring my blood sugar levels, my diabetic complications were still progressing, and I was still a 115-pound weakling. My sense of gaining insight into the long-term complications of my diabetes had diminished, and so I ordered a computer search of the scientific literature to see if exercise could prevent diabetic complications. In those days, computer searches were not the simple, almost instant searches they are today. In 1972 you made your request to the local medical library, which mailed it to Washington, D.C., where it was processed. It took about two weeks for my $75 printout to arrive.
There were quite a few entries of interest, and I ordered copies of the original articles. For the most part these were from esoteric journals and dealt with animal experiments. The information I had hoped to find didn't exist. I didn't find a single article pertaining to the prevention of diabetic complications by exercise.
What I did find was that such complications had repeatedly been prevented, and even reversed, in animals.Not through exercise, but by normalizing blood sugars! To me, this was a total surprise. All of diabetes treatment was heavily focused in other directions, such as lowfat diets, preventing severe hypoglycemia, and preventing a potentially fatal extreme high blood sugar condition called ketoacidosis. Thus it had not occurred to me that keeping blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible for as much of the time as possible would make a difference.
Excited by my discovery, I showed these reports to my physician, who was not impressed. "Animals aren't humans," he said, "and besides, it's impossible to normalize human blood sugars." Since I had been trained as an engineer, not as a physician, I knew nothing of such impossibilities, and since I was desperate, I had no choice but to pretend I was an animal.
I spent the next year checking my blood sugars 5–8 times each day.
Every few days, I'd make a small, experimental change in my diet or insulin regimen to see what the effect would be on my blood sugar. If a change brought an improvement, I'd retain it. If it made blood sugars worse, I'd discard it. I discovered that 1 gram of carbohydrate raised my blood sugar by 5 mg/dl, and ½ unit of the old beef/pork insulin lowered it by 15 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter). Blood glucose values in this book are as a rule given in mg/dl. If you should need to translate from one to the other, 1 mmol/l = 18 mg/dl.
Within a year, I had refined my insulin and diet regimen to the point that I had essentially normal blood sugars around the clock. After years of chronic fatigue and debilitating complications, almost overnight I was no longer continually tired or "washed out." People commented that my gray complexion was gone. After years of skyhigh readings, my serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels had now not only dropped, but were at the low end of the normal ranges.
I started to gain weight, and at last I was able to build muscle as readily as nondiabetics. My insulin requirements dropped to about one-third of what they had been a year earlier. With the subsequent development of human insulin, my dosage dropped to less than onesixth of the original. The painful, slow-healing lumps the injections of large doses of insulin left under my skin disappeared. The fatty growths on my eyelids from high cholesterol vanished. My digestive problems (chronic burning in my chest and belching after meals) and the proteinuria that had so worried me eventually vanished. Today,my results from even the most sensitive kidney function tests are all normal.
The cystoid macular edema that I thought as recently as twelve years ago was irreversible has finally reversed. My deformed feet, the calcified walls of arteries in my legs, and the loss of hair on my lower legs are not reversible and still remain.
I had the new sensation of being the boss of my own metabolic state, and began to feel the same sense of accomplishment and reward I had in engineering when I solved a difficult problem. I had taught myself how to make my blood sugars whatever I wanted them to be and was no longer on the roller coaster. Things were finally under my control.
Back in 1973, I felt quite exhilarated with my success, and I felt that I was on to something big. Since getting the results of my computer search, I had been a subscriber to all of the English-language diabetes journals, and none of them had mentioned the need for normalizing blood sugars in humans.
In fact, every few months I'd read another article saying that blood sugar normalization wasn't even remotely possible. How was it that I, an engineer, had figured out how to do what was impossible for medical professionals? I was deeply grateful for the fortuitous combination of events that had turned my life, my health, and my family around and put me on the right path. At the very least, I felt, I was obliged to share my new found knowledge with others. Millions of "ordinary" diabetics were no doubt suffering needlessly, as I had. I was sure that all physicians treating diabetes would be thrilled to learn how to prevent and possibly reverse the grave complications of this disease.
I hoped that if I could tell the world about the techniques I had stumbled upon, physicians would adopt them for their patients. So I wrote an article detailing my discoveries. I sent a copy to Charles Suther, who was then in charge of marketing diabetes products for Ames Division of Miles Laboratories, the company that made my blood glucose meter. He gave me the only encouragement I received in this new venture, and arranged for one of his company's medical writers to edit the article for me.
I submitted it and its revisions to many medical journals over a period of years—a period during which I was continually improving in health, and continually proving to myself and my family, if to no one else, that my methods were correct. The rejection letters I received are testimony that people tend to ignore the obvious if it conflicts with the orthodoxy of their early training. Typical rejection letters read in part: "Studies are not unanimous in demonstrating a need for 'fine control'" (the New England Journal of Medicine), or "How many patients would use the electric device for measurement of glucose, insulin, urine, etc.?" (Journal of the American Medical Association). As a matter of fact, since 1980, when these "electric devices" finally were made available to patients, the worldwide market for blood glucose self monitoring supplies has come to exceed $4 billion annually. Look at the array of blood glucose meters in any pharmacy and you can get an idea of just how many patients use, and will use, the "electric device."
Trying to cover several routes simultaneously, I joined the major lay diabetes organizations, in the hope of moving up through the ranks, where I could get to know physicians and researchers specializing in the disease. This met with mediocre success. I attended conventions, worked on committees, and became acquainted with many prominent diabetologists. In this country, I met only three physicians who were willing to offer their patients the opportunity to put these new methods to the test.
Meanwhile, Charlie Suther was traveling around the country to university research centers with copies of my unpublished article, which by now had been typeset and privately printed at my expense.
The rejection by physicians specializing in diabetes of the concept of blood sugar self-monitoring, even though essential to blood sugar control, was so intense, however, that the management of his company had to turn down the idea of making meters available to patients until many years later. His company and others could clearly have profited from the sale of blood glucose meters and test strips. However, the backlash from the medical establishment prevented it on a number of counts. It was unthinkable that patients be allowed to "doctor" themselves.
They knew nothing of medicine—and if they could, how would doctors earn a living? In those days, patients visited their doctors once a month to "get a blood sugar." If they could do it at home for 25 cents (in those days), why pay a physician? But almost no one believed there was any value to normal blood sugars anyway. In some respects, blood glucose self-monitoring still remains a serious threat to the incomes of many physicians who specialize in the treatment of the symptoms of diabetes and not the disease. Drop into your neighborhood ophthalmologist's office and you will find the waiting room three-quarters filled with diabetics, many of whom are waiting for expensive fluorescein angiography or laser treatment.
With Suther's backing in the form of free supplies, by 1977 I was able to get the first of two university-sponsored studies started in the New York City area. These both succeeded in reversing early complications in diabetic patients. As a result of our successes, the two universities separately sponsored the world's first two symposia on blood glucose self-monitoring. By this time I was being invited to speak at international diabetes conferences, but rarely at meetings in the United States. Curiously, more physicians outside the United States seemed interested in controlling blood sugar than did their American colleagues. Some of the earliest converts to blood glucose self-monitoring
were from Israel and England.
By 1978, perhaps as a result of Charlie Suther's efforts, a few additional American investigators were trying our regimen or variations of it. Finally, in 1980, manufacturers began to release blood glucose meters for use by patients.
This "progress" was entirely too slow for my liking. I knew that while the medical establishment was dallying there were diabetics dying whose lives could have been saved. I knew also that there were millions of diabetics whose quality of life could be vastly improved. So in 1977 I decided to give up my job and become a physician—I couldn't beat 'em, so I had to join 'em. This way, with an M.D. after my name, my writings might be published, and I could pass on what I had learned about controlling blood sugar.
After a year of premed courses and another year of waiting, I entered the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1979. I was forty-five years old. During my first year of medical school I wrote my first book, Diabetes: The Glucograf Method for Normalizing Blood Sugar, enumerating the full details of my treatment for type 1, or insulin-dependent, diabetes.
In 1983 I finally opened my own medical practice near my home in Mamaroneck, New York. By that time, I had well outlived the life expectancy of an "ordinary" type 1 diabetic. Now, by sharing my simple observations, I was convinced I was in a position to help both type 1 and type 2 diabetics who still had the best years of their lives ahead of them. I could help others take control of their diabetes as I had mine, and live long, healthy, fruitful lives.
The goal of this book is to share the techniques and treatments I have taught my patients and used on myself, including the very latest developments. If you or a loved one suffers from diabetes, I hope this book will give you the tools to turn your life around as I did mine.
A low-carbohydrate diet gives slightly better control of glucose metabolism than a low-fat diet in type 2 diabetes.[12][34]
A 2018 report on type 2 diabetes by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) found that a low-carbohydrate diet may not be as good as a Mediterranean diet at improving glycemic control, and that although having a healthy body weight is important, "there is no single ratio of carbohydrate, proteins, and fat intake that is optimal for every person with type 2 diabetes"
Low-carbohydrate dieting is associated with increased mortality...
...adverse effects could include "constipation, headache, halitosis, muscle cramp and general weakness.[5]
Ketosis induced by a low-carbohydrate has led to reported cases of ketoacidosis, a life-threatening condition.[1][41] This has led to the suggestion that ketoacidosis should be considered a potential hazard of low-carbohydrate dieting.[5]
In a comprehensive systematic review of 2018, Churuangsuk and colleagues reported that other case reports give rise to concerns of other potential risks of low-carbohydrate dieting including hyperosmolar coma, Wernicke's encephalopathy, optic neuropathy from thiamine deficiency, acute coronary syndrome and anxiety disorder.[5]
Significantly restricting the proportion of carbohydrate in diet risks causing malnutrition, and can make it difficult to get enough dietary fiber to stay healthy.
...Parts of the mainstream medical community have denounced low-carbohydrate diets as being dangerous to health, such as the AHA in 2001[62] and the American Kidney Fund in 2002
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Tzu-hsing gave a faint smile. "One and all," he remarked, "entertain the same idea. Hence it is that his mother doats upon him like upon a precious jewel. On
the day of his first birthday, Mr. Cheng readily entertained a wish to put the bent of his inclinations to the test, and placed before the child all kinds of things, without
number, for him to grasp from. Contrary to every expectation, he scorned every other object, and, stretching forth his hand, he simply took hold of rouge, powder and a few hair-pins, with which he began to play. Mr. Cheng experienced at once
displeasure, as he maintained that this youth would, by and bye, grow up into a sybarite, devoted to wine and women, and for this reason it is, that he soon began to feel not much attachment for him. But his grandmother is the one who, in spite
of everything, prizes him like the breath of her own life. The very mention of what happened is even strange! He is now grown up to be seven or eight years old,
and, although exceptionally wilful, in intelligence and precocity, however, not one in a hundred could come up to him! And as for the utterances of this child, they are no less remarkable. The bones and flesh of woman, he argues, are made of
water, while those of man of mud. 'Women to my eyes are pure and pleasing,' he says, 'while at the sight of man, I readily feel how corrupt, foul and repelling they
are!' Now tell me, are not these words ridiculous? There can be no doubt whatever that he will by and bye turn out to be a licentious roué."
Yü-ts'un, whose countenance suddenly assumed a stern air, promptly interrupted the conversation. "It doesn't quite follow," he suggested. "You people don't, I
regret to say, understand the destiny of this child. The fact is that even the old Hanlin scholar Mr. Cheng was erroneously looked upon as a loose rake and
dissolute debauchee! But unless a person, through much study of books and knowledge of letters,
so increases (in lore) as to attain the talent of discerning the nature of things,
and the vigour of mind to fathom the Taoist
reason as well as to comprehend the first principle,
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Driving through Northern Virginia this morning I couldn't shake this white Chevy Express work van. Every stoplight. Every stop sign. There it was. And then I realized why the universe wanted me to see it.
When I think about plumbing I think about liquid (and some solids and gels) moving through a system, so Peed is an apt-yet-gross name. Also, their slogan "YOU NEED PEED" is kind of catchy but disturbing. Make sure to go to their website to read the Peed Creed.


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Lying With StrangersAudiobook CD - 2007
Peyton Shields had always wanted to be a doctor, and now, thanks to her relentless drive, stellar academic credentials, and a mountain of debt to Harvard Medical School, she's a first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital. The hours are impossibly long but it's the life she wants, complete with a husband who's an up-and-coming young lawyer.
But a late-night drive home in a heavy snowstorm changes everything. A car coming straight at her drives her off the road and into a frozen pond. Peyton knows she'd be dead if a stranger hadn't pulled her from the wreckage before vanishing into the darkness. In an instant her wonderful life has turned dark. No one believes her claims that the "accident" was deliberate-not even her husband. Without explanation, he has become distant and bitter, calling her paranoid and accusing her of having an affair with a former lover.
Yet the terror has only begun, for a series of strange, increasingly dangerous events begin to plague Peyton, moving her closer to a faceless and very deadly enemy who seems to know her every move.
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The Helaina is the ideal retreat if you are looking for modern, stylish, high-quality bed and breakfast accommodation with stunning sea views. Relax in our newly refurbished rooms (late winter 2018) and enjoy the historic Scarborough Castle, the sands of the North Bay and miles of beautiful coastline.
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, the daughter of an American journalist, San Francisco-based photographer National Geographic photographer Catherine Karnow seems destined to have travel and photo-journalism at the center of her life. She studied photography in high school, and graduated Brown University with honors degrees in Comparative Literature and Semiotics. After a brief career as a filmmaker – her film Brooklyn Bridge premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984 – she turned her attention to photography full time in 1986.
Catherine has covered Australian Aborigines; Bombay film stars; victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Russian "Old Believers" in Alaska; Greenwich, Connecticut high society; and an Albanian farm family. In 1994, she was the only non-Vietnamese photo-journalist to accompany General Giap on his historic first return to the forest encampment in the northern Vietnam highlands from which he plotted the battle of Dien Bien Phu. She also gained unprecedented access to Prince Charles for her 2006 National Geographic feature, "Not Your Typical Radical."
Her work appears in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, French & German GEO and other international publications. She has also participated in several Day in the Life series, Passage to Vietnam, and Women in the Material World. Catherine Karnow is known for her vibrant, emotional and sensitive style of photographing people.
Catherine has been teaching photography since 1995; and has taught at Maine Photo Workshops; Santa Fe Photo Workshops; and many others. For National Geographic, she currently teaches Weekend Workshops in San Francisco, at Miraval in Tucson; and the National Geographic Traveler Seminar in cities all over the US. She also gives private workshops and teaching seminars all over the world, for a myriad of private, corporate and editorial clients.
In Catherine's words, "I have been in a love affair with photography from day one, back in high school. Everything I know about photography has been from my own personal experience. I live and breathe photography. It is a beautiful way to see the world and connect with people. Discovering how much I love to teach is an extension of that joy. It is my job as a teacher to help my students express what is inside them, to help them express the beauty they see and feel.
- "With Catherine Karnow, there is that special "something more" which she is able to capture in those short moments which she has with her subjects. She struck a chord with me in how she captures not just the images, but people in her photos. Clearly, she tries to relate to her subjects even if it is for just a few short moments. She steps outside herself and puts herself in their shoes. Not everyone can do that. As she spoke of how she tries to get photos of people, the uncertainty of their reactions ... I too have been there in my travels and my photography. Catherine truly has a gift. I was feeling down about photography and considering giving it up. Now I am wanting to pick up my camera again. And I have done so! I think her perspective is also extremely important for people to hear and learn about."
- It was an absolute privilege meeting Catherine. [She is] an artist of the highest order. [She has] inspired me beyond words.
- If I were to describe [Catherine] in two words, I would say that [she is] a "Spiritual Photographer." And I don't mean that in a religious way. I mean that in a universal way. [Her] intuitive nature, warmth, kindness and respect for [her] subjects and the impact [her] images have on the viewer go beyond art and beyond being an assignment. [Her] work is infused with love and depth. [Her] work is a reflection of [her] soul and it transforms those who come in contact with [her]."
- I learned more about photography and the essence of capturing a photographic narrative in three days of listening and watching [Catherine] than I had over my 4 years of college. I also gained a new perspective on not only viewing the world through the lens of travel photography and photo journalism, but the ability to see the emotional connections of human interaction that makes each and every photograph speak to the audience. It has been an experience of a lifetime for me.
- "...last weekend at Miraval... my learning curve was straight up, so I feel like the world of photography will now open up to me."
- " the comraderie...was wonderful; it didnt feel competitive at all, it felt like we all supported each other..."
- "I connected with my camera again. Now I can go off and continue to take pictures...[Catherine was] so kind and caring and gentle and there was no pressure at all.."
- I was very impressed by the energy and time that [Catherine] put into the workshop in San Francisco, and [her] delight in sharing [her] experience of photography ... that enthusiasm was evident throughout the time we spent with [her.]"
- "During my one month private workshop traveling throughout Southeast Asia with Catherine, she really opened up the world of photography to me. I think she is extremely creative and terrific as a coach and as a person. I made huge strides and she gave me a wonderful sense of confidence. It was a truly a transformative month."


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The Real Fyre See Thru G45 Triple T Burner is an advanced system that creates dancing flames, maximum glowing effects and provides radiant heat into the room. See thru gas logs will have a special burner that causes the flame to come from the front, back, and middle of the logs. The logs and grate are also the same width in both front and back. With this cutting edge G45 burner, you will enjoy a more realistic looking fireplace and more glowing embers.
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Silvio Berlusconi's government crumbled in November amid the country's economic crisis, ending a tenure marked by manipulation and restriction of the press. As prime minister and media owner, Berlusconi owned or controlled all of Italy's major national television channels, ensuring news coverage favorable to his administration. He worked methodically for three years to enact controversial legislation to prevent print and online media from publishing embarrassing information about alleged corruption in his government and his dalliances with young women. Even in the final days of his tenure, Berlusconi sought to revive a bill that would have limited the use of police wiretaps, penalized journalists for publishing the contents of wiretaps, and forced websites to publish "corrections" to information considered damaging to a person's image within 48 hours of receiving a complaint. Parliament had already postponed action on the measure, termed Berlusconi's "gag law," in 2010. In Perugia, prosecutor Giuliano Mignini used Italy's harsh defamation laws to intimidate journalists, authors, and media outlets--in Italy and the United States--that reported critically about his performance in two high-profile cases.
In October 2011, Wikipedia disabled its Italian website to protest the revival in parliament of a controversial bill that would, in part, order online media to publish corrections--within 48 hours of a lodged complaint and without the right to appeal--if the online material was deemed damaging to the plaintiff's image.
Through his media company, Mediaset, Berlusconi owned the commercial national television stations Canale 5, Italia 1, and Retequattro. Before resigning as prime minister, Berlusconi also controlled the public national television channels Rai 1, Rai 2, and Rai 3, part of the RAI broadcasting network. Mediaset and RAI together have dominated Italy's viewership and advertising market since the 1990s, which gave Berlusconi a virtual monopoly on the broadcast media landscape.
Most popular Italian media, according to the European Journalism Centre:
Print: National dailies Corriere della sera and La Repubblica were the leaders in circulation.
Television: Mediaset and RAI channels together attracted 90 percent of Italy's audience.
Radio: The divisions of RAI, Radio Uno, and Radio Due shared the top spots in terms of listenership.
Online: News websites with the highest number of visitors were the Italian version of MSN, Virgilio, Libero.
Perugia prosecutor Mignini has sued or threatened to sue several individuals and media outlets critical of his record. The threats, which have had a chilling effect on the press in Italy and the United States, stemmed from coverage of Mignini's performance in two high-profile murder investigations--the Monster of Florence case and the November 2007 slaying of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
A prosecutor's defamation complaints:
February 2009: Mignini told the BBC he had filed a defamation claim against the U.S. weekly West Seattle Herald concerning an article critical of the prosecution in the Kercher case. Mignini was prosecuting a Seattle woman, Amanda Knox.
August 2009: After a critical comment by U.S. writer Joe Cottonwood was published in the Italian daily Il Giornale, Mignini threatened a criminal defamation lawsuit. Cottonwood said he was deterred from traveling to Italy after the threat.
September 2010: Gianfranco Sulas, an investigative reporter with the newsmagazine Oggi, received notice that Mignini had started legal action over coverage of the prosecutor's record.
July and September 2010: Oggi Editor Umberto Brindani received two "notices of investigation" in relation to coverage of the Monster of Florence case.
February 2011: A Florentine judge ordered the closure of the English-language blog Perugia Shock, which published commentary critical of the Kercher investigation. The order stemmed from Mignini's lawsuit for "defamation, carried out by means of a website." The blog was shuttered.
March 2011: A Florentine court found veteran journalist Mario Spezi guilty of offending Mignini's "honor and prestige" in a public statement. Spezi was ordered to serve 15 days in prison or to pay 570 euros (US$826). Spezi opted to pay.
Squadro Mobile--the local police unit in charge of the Kercher murder investigation--harassed, assaulted, and detained Frank Sfarzo in retaliation for critical reporting and commentary on his blog, Perugia Shock. The blog was later ordered removed.
Timeline in Sfarzo case:
November 2007: Sfarzo created Perugia Shock to report on the Kercher case.
October 28, 2008: Outside a Perugia court, Squadra Mobile officers struck Sfarzo and said his blog had angered them.
December 2008: Squadra Mobile continued to harass Sfarzo throughout the Kercher trial, preventing him from entering the court, seizing his cell phone and going through his contacts and text messages, and mouthing insults at him from across the courtroom.
September 28, 2010: Five Squadra Mobile officers forcibly entered Sfarzo's apartment without a warrant, striking and handcuffing the journalist. They brought him to a city hospital where they tried to have him declared mentally incompetent, then kept him in custody overnight without access to a lawyer or his family.
September 29, 2010: Squadra Mobile brought Sfarzo before a local judge, who indicted the journalist on several criminal charges, including "using violence and threats to resist public officials" and "injuring an officer."
May 10, 2011: Google took down Perugia Shock after a Florentine judge issued an order for its closure.
Compared with other members of the European Union, Italians have been slower to embrace new media and the Internet, according to research by the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU.
Netherlands: 90.7 percent
Luxembourg: 90.6
Germany: 81.8
France: 80.1
Belgium: 79.3
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Human cloning.
I remember well when we were promised that human cloning was never going to happen. People who raised this issue were, as usual, mocked and heckled as paranoid fantasists. Now, of course, people who oppose human cloning are mocked and heckled as "backward" and "anti-science."
Another moral issue that is not mentioned in this video about recent advances in human cloning is the misogynist practice of farming women's bodies for eggs with little or no concern for the consequences to the women.