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Hibernating animals can survive extreme cold with incredibly slow metabolic rates
Scientists want to induce "suspended-animation states" in humans
Experimental surgery will chill patients to 15˚C (59F)
Other research could aid organ transplants, increase lifespan of donated blood
Imagine it: you have been rushed into the emergency room and you are dying. Your injuries are too severe for the surgeons to repair in time. Your blood hemorrhages unseen from ruptured vessels. The loss of that blood is starving your organs of vital nutrients and oxygen. You are entering cardiac arrest.
But this is not the end. A decision is made: tubes are connected, machines whir into life, pumps shuffle back and forth. Ice-cold fluid flows through your veins, chilling them. Eventually, your heart stops beating, your lungs no longer draw breath. Your frigid body remains there, balanced on the knife-edge of life and death, neither fully one nor the other, as if frozen in time.
The surgeons continue their work, clamping, suturing, repairing. Then the pumps stir into life, coursing warm blood back into your body. You will be resuscitated. And, if all goes well, you will live.
Beyond science fiction
Suspended animation, the ability to set a person's biological processes on hold, has long been a staple of science fiction. Interest in the field blossomed in the 1950s as a direct consequence of the space race. NASA poured money into biological research to see if humans might be placed in a state of artificial preservation.
In this state, it was hoped, astronauts could be protected from the dangerous cosmic rays zapping through space. Sleeping your way to the stars also meant carrying far less food, water and oxygen, making the ultimate long-haul flight more practical.
One recipient of that funding was a young James Lovelock. The scientist would dunk hamsters into ice baths until their bodies froze. Once he could no longer detect a heartbeat, he would reanimate them by placing a hot teaspoon against their chest (in later experiments, Lovelock warmed to the space-age theme by building a microwave gun out of spare radio parts to more gently revive his test subjects). These experiments on the flexibility of life would set him on the path to his most famous work, the "Gaia hypothesis" of the world as a living super-organism.
Adventurous as they were, these early experiments did not progress beyond the animal stage, and astronauts were never frozen and revived with hot spoons. The idea of transforming people into inanimate bars of flesh for long-distance space travel remained in the realm of science fiction. NASA's interest tailed off with the end of the space race, but the seeds planted by Lovelock and his colleagues continued to grow.
Suspended animation
In 1900, the British Medical Journal published an account of Russian peasants who, the author claimed, were able to hibernate. Existing in a state approaching "chronic famine," residents of the north-eastern Pskov region would retreat indoors at the first sign of snow, and there gather around the stove and fall into a deep slumber they called "lotska." Waking once a day to wash some hard bread down with water, the family took it in turns to watch the fire, only rousing themselves fully once spring had broken. No trace of the sleepy peasants of Pskov has ever emerged since, but the fantasy of human hibernation persists, and very occasionally, something that looks very similar to it crosses into reality.
A century later, Anna Bagenholm was on a skiing holiday in Norway when she crashed head first into a frozen stream and became trapped under the ice. When rescuers finally arrived, the Swedish radiologist had been submerged for 80 minutes, and her heart and breathing had stopped.
Doctors at Tromso University Hospital recorded a body temperature of 13.7°C (56.7F), the lowest ever observed in a victim of accidental hypothermia. By all accounts she appeared to have drowned. And yet, after careful rewarming and 10 days spent in intensive care, Bagenholm woke up. She went on to recover almost fully from her cold brush with death. Under normal circumstances, even a few minutes trapped underwater would be enough to drown a person, and yet Bagenholm had survived for over an hour. Somehow the cold had preserved her.
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It's not the first time the benefits of cold for traumatic injury have been made apparent. As far back as the Napoleonic era, medics noted that wounded infantrymen left out in the cold had better survival rates than the wounded officers kept close to the fire in warmed tents. Therapeutic hypothermia is now commonly used in hospitals to reduce injury in a wide variety of situations, from surgery to helping infants recuperate following difficult births.
Lowering your body temperature slows your metabolic activity, about 5-7% for every degree dropped. This in turn reduces the rate at which you consume essential nutrients such as oxygen. Tissues that might become starved of oxygen due to blood loss or cardiac arrest are thus protected. In theory, if we were to keep reducing your temperature, eventually your biological processes would come to a standstill. You would exist in a state of suspended animation. Like a stopped clock, there'd be nothing physically wrong with you – all the components inside would still be intact, simply stationary. All it would take would be a little heat to set you in motion again.
Of course, it's not that simple. Hypothermia is dangerous. Your body wants to be warm and will fight to remain that way. Throughout your life, it will maintain a fairly constant temperature of around 37°C (99F). This requires great effort. Your body must perform countless constant adjustments to balance heat production with heat lost to the environment, working to keep your temperature within a narrow band. If it drops too low, your blood is shunted away from the exposed skin and gathers in your central torso while you shiver and huddle under blankets. The effects of more severe cold are disastrous. At a body temperature of around 33°C (91.4 F) – just four degrees below normal – your heartbeat begins to flutter. At 25°C (77F), there's a risk it will stop altogether. And even if you survive hypothermia, warming you up again can cause extensive kidney damage.
There are, however, certain species of animal that can endure far greater spells of cold. The Arctic ground squirrel normally maintains a body temperature similar to our own. But during hibernation, it can survive a core temperature as low as -3°C (26.6F), carefully managing its super-cooled bodily fluids so that it won't freeze solid. And Lovelock's hamsters could survive hypothermic depths that would kill us. How animals survive these states is of great interest to anyone hoping to unlock the secrets of suspended animation for humans.
Secrets of hibernation
"When is your comrade dead?" asks Professor Rob Henning with a grin, quoting an army handbook he received as one of the Netherlands' last draft of conscripts. "One: Is he rotting? Two: Is his head more than 20 centimeters from his body?" Like Lovelock, Henning has conducted experiments with hibernators that have given him a flexible view of what constitutes being alive.
From the top floor of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), a large window looks down on the medieval city spread over a pancake-flat landscape. Below is a bustling hospital, the region's hub for transplant surgery. It's also where Henning and his team are uncovering the secrets of hibernation.
"What we're doing here is biomimicry," says Henning, "using these great adaptations in nature to hijack them for the benefit of medicine."
Many animals can slow their metabolism to enter low-energy states: insects, amphibians, mammals, birds and fish. In short periods, this condition – characterized by reduced body temperature and inactivity – is known as torpor. By stringing together many of these short sessions of torpor, animals can enter the long-term dormancy we call hibernation. With this technique, small animals such as mice, hamsters and bats can last out the cold famines of winter huddled away, conserving energy.
Trained as an anesthetist, Henning started "hobbying" in hibernation in the 1990s, but things took off in earnest when his research group was formed around six years ago. "If you think about hibernators, you have a lot of applications. The most obvious ones are any type of major surgery," he explains. Blood loss is the major cause of death during surgery, but in their hypothermic state, hibernators can survive far worse injuries than they can at normal body temperatures. This is partly because tissues are protected at low metabolic rates, and partly because the heart is pumping blood at a fraction of the rate it usually does.
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But a resistance to cold and blood loss isn't the total sum of hibernators' incredible endurance. Although it resembles a very long lie-in, hibernating is not a simple matter of sleeping through the cold. It's a grueling marathon of hypothermia, starvation and disease susceptibility. To endure these sufferings, the animals that practice it have developed a suite of adaptations to protect mind and body.
Before a long hibernation, animals eat their way into obesity, essentially becoming type two diabetic. Unlike in humans, this does not result in the thickening of artery walls that leads to heart disease. Some species will stop eating two or three weeks before hibernation, suddenly resistant to the pangs of hunger even while maintaining their regular level of activity.
While a human can lie in bed for a week before muscles begin to atrophy and blood clots form, hibernators will endure months without moving. During hibernation, the microbiome – the community of bacteria living in an animal's digestive tract – is battered by cold and the sudden lack of food. Hibernators' lungs become covered with a thick deposit of mucus and collagen like those seen in people with asthma, and their brains show changes that resemble those of early-stage Alzheimer's. Some species lose memory during hibernation. Most surprising of all, some show symptoms of sleep deprivation when they finally wake. And yet, hibernators are able to counter all of these issues to bounce back in spring, often without any long-term ill effects.
Surviving the cold
UMCG is a half-kilometer complex of buildings so tightly huddled together that it's possible to walk from the grand foyer at one end to the bicycle racks at the other without stepping outside. One of these buildings is the animal laboratory.
In a tiny room set away from the main corridor, Henning's doctoral student Edwin de Vrij and his colleague are tending to a rat laid prone on a bed of ice. A tangle of fine tubes and wires surrounds the animal, delivering life-preserving fluids and carrying away precious data. A spool of paper inching from one machine shows that from a frenetic 300 beats per minute, the rat's heart rate has slowed to just 60. The red numbers glowing on another show that the rat's internal temperature has dropped more than 20 degrees to 15°C (59F). Clicking like a metronome, a ventilator delivers steady breaths to the anesthetized rodent. As a non-hibernator like us, the rat cannot survive deep hypothermia without medical assistance. "If you cool them down, nerve impulses will be slower, and muscles have a harder time in the cold, so it's quite physiological that they have a harder time breathing," explains de Vrij. This isn't the case for true hibernators – or some other non-hibernating mammals, for that matter. "Somehow hamsters can maintain adequate breathing," he says. "We don't have to ventilate them."
As well as inducing hibernation in hamsters (a process that takes weeks of gradual adjustment in climate-controlled rooms to mimic the onset of winter), the UMCG team also induce forced hypothermia states like that of our rat, chilling the animals rapidly until they fall into a state of metabolic suspension.
Today, de Vrij is searching for platelets, which are essential for blood clotting to prevent bleeding. Hibernating animals avoid getting blood clots despite their lack of activity, an ability that comes down partly to a curious change in the hypothermic body: as they cool, platelets disappear from the blood. Nobody yet knows where they go, but their prompt reappearance on rewarming has de Vrij convinced that they are preserved somewhere in the body, rather than being absorbed and later resynthesized. Surprisingly, this change also happens even in non-hibernators, including rats and – occasionally – human victims of hypothermia.
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The shared characteristics of different hibernators mean it's likely that these species have inherited fragments of protective mechanisms against cold, inactivity, starvation and asphyxiation from common ancestors and developed these into a comprehensive low-metabolic syndrome. There are even hints that we humans might, to some extent, retain some of these abilities. For a long time, there was no evidence that primates could hibernate. But in 2004, a species of Madagascan lemur was shown to practice regular bouts of torpor. "If you look at the lemur and look at us, we share about 98% of our genes," says Henning. "It would be very strange if the tools of hibernation were all packed into that 2% difference."
As their body temperature drops, hibernators also remove the lymphocytes (white blood cells) from their blood and store them in the lymph nodes. And within 90 minutes of awakening, these reappear. This damping down of the immune system prevents a general inflammation in the body during rewarming – the very thing that would cause humans and other non-hibernators to suffer kidney damage. However, it's a risky strategy, leaving animals unable to mount an immune defense while hibernating. The fungus responsible for white-nose syndrome, currently wiping out bat colonies in the USA, takes advantage of this vulnerability, infecting the bats while they are dormant. In response, the bats frequently exit hibernation and rewarm to fight off the pathogen – the high-energy cost of these interruptions ultimately killing them.
Knowing how hibernators control these changes in their blood could have immediate and far-reaching benefits for us. As well as improving our ability to survive hypothermia and cold suspended-animation states, stripping the blood of white blood cells could prevent the aseptic sepsis caused by heart–lung machines, in which activation of blood cells as they pass through the life-support equipment triggers a body-wide immunological reaction. Transplant organs, often chilled for transport, would also benefit from better cryoprotection. And we could increase the shelf-life of our blood stocks – we still haven't figured out how to store donated blood platelets at low temperatures, so blood donations can only be kept a week before they must be used or thrown away due to the risk of bacterial infection.
The UMCG team took a giant leap towards achieving these goals quite by accident after a student left a culture of hamster cells in a fridge at 5°C. After a week the hamster cells were still alive, and smelling of rotten eggs. The student poured the medium surrounding the cells over a separate batch of cells from a rat, suspecting the smelly cells might have secreted some kind of protective agent. She placed them in the same fridge and waited. Normally, refrigerating rat cells would quickly kill them, but after two days they were still alive.
The team is investigating several compounds that might be responsible for this cryopreservation. One is an enzyme known as cystathionine beta synthase (CBS), which stimulates the production of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their characteristic whiff. If hamsters are injected with a chemical to inhibit CBS, they can no longer enter torpor, and those that were forced into hypothermic states suffered the kind of kidney damage one would expect in non-hibernators like us.
Of over 100 compounds Henning's team has investigated, many had no effect, but a few did, conferring long-term cold protection to cell samples. The team has already patented one of these compounds, Rokepie, as an additive. This would allow cells that normally need to be kept at 37°C (99F), such as those from humans or mice, to be stored in the refrigerator, either for transport or so experiments can be put on hold during weekends and busy periods.
The leading cryopreservation molecules extracted from hibernators are incredibly potent, and it seems they work by eliciting changes in the cells themselves – whether these are from hibernators or not. If so, this offers further evidence that we still possess some tools that could help endure hypothermia and low metabolic states.
For now, applying the lessons they've learned from hibernators wholesale onto humans is not within the remit of Henning's group. The space race is long over, and NASA is not awarding major grants to develop suspended animation. However, the U.S. Army is.
Surgery against the clock
"If you look anywhere near a trauma bay, things are pretty chaotic," says Professor Sam Tisherman. "It's controlled chaos, but the chaos mainly comes from the fact you never know what's going on with the patient."
In frenetic hospital emergency wards, it's often not possible for doctors to identify the problem, fix it and keep the patient alive all at the same time. Patients suffering uncontrolled blood loss, for example, may go into cardiac arrest. When this happens, surgeons must fight the clock to stop the bleeding before they can start resuscitation efforts. "Somebody rolls in and they're basically dying," says Tisherman. "We're quickly trying to resuscitate them, and figure out what's wrong with them, and repair injuries all at the same time." This is the fundamental underpinning of trauma medicine: you are always against the clock.
Tisherman wants to buy doctors a little more time. He believes that by inducing hypothermia we can extend the "golden hour" in which surgeons battle to save the lives of critically injured patients. To do this, he's pushing human endurance of hypothermia far beyond its normal limits.
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After graduating from MIT in 1981, Tisherman built a career in critical care medicine. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award in Trauma Resuscitation Science from the American Heart Association in 2009, and is now an associate director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in Pittsburgh. It was founded by Peter Safar, the Austrian physician who popularized the "kiss of life," CPR, and drove the creation of the Resusci Anne doll used in teaching it. At Pittsburgh, Safar created the world's first intensive care training program. His lifelong aim was to "save the hearts and brains of those too young to die."
The procedure that Tisherman is pioneering is called emergency preservation and resuscitation. His work is supported through the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, which funds research on topics as niche as advanced prosthetics and robots to carry wounded soldiers out of the battlefield.
Some of his surgeons will already be familiar with hypothermic techniques, having routinely chilled patients to the low 30s or high 20s. For procedures that require zero blood flow, cardiac surgeons will even cool patients to around 15°C (59F), the point at which their heart stops.
Tisherman is planning to cool patients to this point, and perhaps even further, chilling them to such a degree that the entire body enters a kind of suspended animation. During this time, they will have no heartbeat, no breathing and no discernible brain activity. In fact, they'll have no blood, either – it will be drained and replaced with ice-cold saline, the only way to cool a human fast enough to avoid tissues becoming damaged as they struggle to remain functioning. Tisherman calls this state "hypothermic preservation."
The procedure has already been demonstrated successfully in the lab, reviving dogs that had lain suspended in cold states for up to three hours. Trials are now moving to a clinical setting. Surgeons, anesthetists and perfusionists at Massachusetts General Hospital have even undergone training for the pioneering surgery. But no one knows when a suitable patient will arrive through the doors. That is in fact one of the issues they face: by the nature of trauma, patients won't be able to give informed consent for the procedure. Because of this, Tisherman's group has engaged in a wide community consultation to let citizens in the area know the program was going on. The study had to be signed off personally by the Secretary of the Army, the highest-ranking civilian official in the organization.
Beyond that lie further obstacles. Amid the frantic activity of the emergency room, Tisherman must make sure that a team of trauma surgeons can work in concert with cardiac surgeons and perfusionists armed with pumps and bags of chilled saline, an additional layer of complexity in an already chaotic environment. And although cooling affects all tissues equally, it is not without secondary effects. The blood factors responsible for clotting are also inhibited by the cold. This creates problems controlling bleeding during the rewarming phase. The surgeons, too, will suffer from the cold, as both the patient and the room itself will be chilled during the procedure. Yet the cold is only a tool; the end goal is metabolic suspension.
In the future, emergency preservation and resuscitation could be extended to those suffering heart attacks or exposure to poisons, or any critical care situation where time is a factor. "Cooling is the most powerful way of suppressing metabolism we have," says Tisherman. "If we can either decrease the needs of the tissues or improve oxygen delivery to the tissues then everything will be okay."
Although animals in the laboratory were able to recover from three hours in this suspended state, the first human patients to experience it will only be put under for a third of that. "An hour should be enough to repair the bleeding," Tisherman says. "The cooling period doesn't necessarily have to cover the entire surgery." For those wanting to travel to distant stars, going beyond that hour is, sadly, out of the question for now. "We're not trying to freeze the dead," Tisherman chuckles, "just buy enough time to save the living."
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Attaining the ACR Gold Seal of Accreditation is an arduous process that involves submission of physician and staff credentials, safety policies, detailed quality assurance records for each scanner, radiation dose calibrations for the ionizing radiation-producing scanners, and multiple samples of actual clinical images from each scanner.
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Don Caylor has been in the construction business for more than three decades and has been a member of the Memphis Area Home Builders Association for just as long.
He started Summerset Homes Inc. with his brother Bob Caylor in 1982, back when out-of-the-office messages were relayed through pink "while you were out" notepads and nearby dime-operated payphones were the main source of contact while out on the job.
"When I started homebuilding, there wasn't any computer. You had a stack full of dimes," Caylor said. "If you needed a concrete truck, you'd have to go down to the local store and hope you weren't five miles out in the muddy field to try to get there to where you could call and find out where your concrete truck was. Nowadays, you can call anywhere. It's a lot easier to be a builder today communication-wise than it was when I started."
A native Memphian, Caylor comes from a construction and commercial demolition background, as his grandfather founded Chandler Wrecking Co. Inc. in 1946. His resume includes past positions in corporate America, certifications like being a licensed Realtor in Tennessee and Mississippi, and now 2013 president of the homebuilding trade organization he's been involved with for the majority of his life.
He's built hundreds of homes across the city across all price ranges. Besides Summerset, which specializes in custom homebuilding and remodels, Caylor and his brother own a cabinet company called Superior Kitchen and Bath. And in his down time, he's an avid day trader.
Caylor has certainly seen the homebuilding industry – and the economy as a whole – transform many times over during his career. But now is perhaps the time when the changes are the most evident.
"What's affected us the most is the value of houses because it costs more to build one than you can actually get one appraised for today," Caylor said. "People can buy a lot of house for the money. And then you put the low interest rates, which they're about a half to a third of what they used to be years ago, it makes new constructed housing an exceptional value."
But Caylor said it's not going to be that way for long. Prices are going up on lots and houses alike. Most of his homebuilding peers have been consistently raising prices over the last 24 months due to escalating material costs. Dry wall expenses spiked twice this year and roofing has doubled.
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"For years, we've been telling people that, 'Now's the time to buy,'" Caylor said. "I don't think we've ever gone wrong with that. The prices are going to get pretty high."
And it's all due to supply and demand. Caylor said lots, especially those that are well priced, are depleting at rapid rates. Many new homes are also now receiving multiple offers.
"We can't supply enough new houses right now," Caylor said. "Builders are saying that the average time that they have a house sit on the market after it's completed is anywhere from 30 to 45 days and it's sold. That's a change in the marketplace."
Also shifting is the way MAHBA defines itself as an association. Because of changes in technology and in government, the group's focus is now more education-based.
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Caylor's goals for next year at the helm of MAHBA include "seriously looking at growing our association again." He's already noticed membership tick up slightly for builder and associate members, both of which have lessened over the years due to the lackluster economy.
Builder moral and board participation is also noticeably different.
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Numerical modeling is an effective way to test the tidal origins of peculiar galaxies. In addition, detailed modeling of individual systems complements and helps interpret the observational data.
Since the first `reconstructions of orbits and outer shapes' of galaxies such as NGC 4676 and NGC 4038/9 (Toomre & Toomre 1972), modeling galactic collisions has attracted much attention -- and consumed much computer time! The rules of this game are to build models of isolated galaxies, place them on approaching orbits, and evolve the system until it matches the observations; if the model fails to match the observations, one adjusts the initial conditions and tries again. Such experiments helped show that tidal interactions could explain the specific features of interacting systems.
|Modeling the Mice. A close encounter between two identical disk galaxies produces a configuration resembling the Mice (Hibbard & Barnes, in preparation). Here the encounter is seen from our viewpoint, almost edge-on to the orbital plane. The numbers at upper right show elapsed time in units of about 160 million years. The best match to NGC 4676 is about one time unit after pericenter.
|HST/ACS Images & High-Resolution Models. The Mice were selected as one of the initial targets of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Holland Ford and Garth Illingworth asked us for an animation; we ran a model with N = 1048576 particles.
|Models With Star Formation. Most simulations in the literature set the rate of star formation proportional to a power of the local gas density. The new approach taken here makes the star formation rate proportional to a power of the local dissipation rate; this yields star formation in regions where strong shocks exist.
|Simulation of `The Antennae', NGC 4038/9. This is a self-consistent adaptation of the Toomres' test-particle model (Barnes 1988). The best match to the present morphology occurs about half-way through the animation; the galaxies merge shortly thereafter.
Constructing models by trial and error is a rather slow process. To rapidly explore the vast parameter space of initial conditions, I devised a semi-consistent approach in which each galaxy is represented by a self-gravitating halo with a number of embedded test particle disks; the two disks best matching the observations are interactively selected after the calculation has run. J. Hibbard (NRAO) and I are using this `identikit' technique to produce models of The Antennae (NGC 4038/9). We are using VLA data of this system (Hibbard et al. 2001) to determine the HI velocity field. Models matching the optical appearance are fairly easy to create (e.g. Barnes 1988), but the velocity field data provides a significant additional constraint. At present we have a very preliminary model matching the overall morphology and velocity data. Goals for improved models of the Antennae include:
Another galaxy we plan to model self-consistently -- including gas dynamics -- is NGC 7252. Earlier work produced a model which reproduces the overall morphology and HI velocity field of this system (Hibbard & Mihos 1995), but the calculations did not include a dissipative component which could form a central disk like the one detected in HST images (Whitmore et al. 1993). It's worth repeating these experiments with a combined N-body/SPH code; a single model reproducing both the tails and the central disk would aid in interpreting the observations of this system, and may constrain the gas content of NGC 7252's progenitors.
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As a kind of addendum to the previous post on hacking Getting Things Done , I thought I'd share my Hamburger Helper template for a new GTD list. It's pretty underwhelming, I have to admit, but it has a few features that are kind of neat.
First off, it's text. Nice, simple, ASCII that opens perfectly any place UNIX line breaks are honored. If you save it as stationery in BBEdit, it will be available as a new document type any time.
Second, it's structured using Markdown, so I can instantly convert it to a valid XHTML doc. (Remember: always leave two spaces before a line break if you want to make a "
Third, there's a little area for "Done." This is an artifact of my "Now Up-To-Date" days; I like seeing what I've accomplished. It just makes me happy, and I'll own that. This is totally optional, but it can also be a handy place to drag "Pending" items that need to live someplace else.
Finally, you'll notice an infelicitous sounding area at the bottom called "Dumps." This is so that, when I do the Quicksilver trick, new line entries get shunted to the bottom—so as not to disrupt any previous entries.
A tip: if you want to be a really good GTD doo-bee, only use that append function for @inbox; personally I also use it all the time for @sometime, @tech, @groceries, etc.—anywhere I know stuff "just needs to go."
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Aerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise, refers to exercise that is of moderate intensity, undertaken for a long duration. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in a muscle's energy-generating process. Many types of exercise are aerobic, and by definition are performed at moderate levels of intensity for extended periods of time.Aerobic exercise should involve 5-10 minutes of warming up at an intensity of 50-60% of maximum heart rate, followed by at least 20 minutes of exercise at an intensity of 70-80% of maximum heart rate, ending with 5-10 minutes of cooling down at an intensity of 50-60% of maximum heart rate.
Both the term and the exercise method were developed by Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., an exercise physiologist of the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Cooper, an avowed exercise enthusiast, was personally and professionally puzzled about why some people with excellent muscular strength were still prone to poor performance at tasks such as long-distance running, swimming, and bicycling. He began measuring systematic human performance using a bicycle ergometer, and began measuring sustained performance in terms of the ability to utilize oxygen.
His groundbreaking book, Aerobics, was published in 1968, and included scientific exercise programs using running, walking, swimming and bicycling. The book came at a fortuitous historical moment, when increasing weakness and inactivity in the general population was causing a perceived need for increased exercise. It became a best seller.
Cooper's data provided the scientific baseline for almost all modern aerobics programs, most of which are based on oxygen-consumption equivalency.
Aerobic versus anaerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise and fitness can be contrasted with anaerobic exercise, of which strength training and weight training are the most salient examples. The two types of exercise differ by the duration and intensity of muscular contractions involved, as well as by how energy is generated within the muscle.
Initially during aerobic exercise, glycogen is broken down to produce glucose, but in its absence, fat metabolism is initiated instead. The latter is a slow process, and is accompanied by a decline in performance level. The switch to fat as fuel is a major cause of what marathon runners call "hitting the wall".
Anaerobic exercise, in contrast, refers to the initial phase of exercise, or any short burst of intense exertion, in which the glycogen or sugar is consumed without oxygen, and is a far less efficient process. Operating anaerobically, an untrained 400 meter sprinter may "hit the wall" short of the full distance.
There are various types of aerobic exercise. In general, aerobic exercise is one performed at a low to moderate level of intensity over a long period of time. For example, running a long distance at a moderate pace is an aerobic exercise, but sprinting is not. Playing singles tennis, with near-continuous motion, is generally considered aerobic activity, while golf or doubles tennis, with their more frequent breaks, may not be.
Among the recognized benefits of doing regular aerobic exercise are:
- Strengthening the muscles involved in respiration, to facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs
- Strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle, to improve its pumping efficiency and reduce the resting heart rate
- Toning muscles throughout the body, which can improve overall circulation and reduce blood pressure
- Increasing the total number of red blood cells in the body, to facilitate transport of oxygen throughout the body
As a result, aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of death due to cardiovascular problems. In addition, high-impact aerobic activities (such as jogging or jumping rope) can stimulate bone growth, as well as reducing the risk of osteoporosis for both men and women.
In addition to the health benefits of aerobic exercise, there are numerous performance benefits:
- Increased storage of energy molecules such as fats and carbohydrates within the muscles, allowing for increased endurance
- Neovascularization of the muscle sarcomeres to increase blood flow through the muscles
- Increasing speed at which aerobic metabolism is activated within muscles, allowing a greater portion of energy for intense exercise to be generated aerobically
- Improving the ability of muscles to use fats during exercise, preserving intramuscular glycogen
- Enhancing the speed at which muscles recover from high intensity exercise
Aerobic exercise versus aerobics
"Aerobics" are a particular form of aerobic exercise. Aerobics classes generally involve rapid stepping patterns, performed to music with cues provided by an instructor. This type of aerobic activity became quite popular in the United States after the 1970 publication of The New Aerobics by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, and went through a brief period of intense popularity in the 1980s, when many celebrities (such as Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons) produced videos or created television shows promoting this type of aerobic exercise. Group exercise aerobics can be divided into two major types: Freestyle Aerobics and Pre-choreographed aerobics.
Aerobic capacity
'Aerobic capacity' describes the functional status of the cardiorespiratory system, (the heart, lungs and blood vessels). Aerobic capacity is defined as the maximum volume of oxygen that can be consumed by one's muscles during exercise. It is a function both of one's cardiorespiratory performance and of the ability of the muscles to extract the oxygen and fuel delivered to them. To measure maximal aerobic capacity, an exercise physiologist or physician will perform a VO2 max test, in which a subject will undergo progressively more strenuous exercise on a treadmill, from an easy walk through to exhaustion. The individual is typically hooked up to a respirometer to measure oxygen, and the speed is increased incrementally over a fixed duration of time. The higher a cardiorespiratory endurance level, the more oxygen transported to exercising muscles, the longer exercise can be maintained without exhaustion and accordingly the faster they are able to run. The higher aerobic capacity, the higher the level of aerobic fitness. The Cooperand multi-stage fitness tests can also be used to functionally assess aerobic capacity. In most people, aerobic capacity can be improved through a variety of means, including Fartlek training.
The degree to which aerobic capacity can be improved by exercise varies very widely in the human population: while the mean response to training is an approximately 17% increase in VO2max, in any population there are "high responders" who may as much as double their capacity, and "low responders" who will see little or no benefit from training.[1] Studies indicate that approximately 10% of otherwise healthy individuals cannot improve their aerobic capacity with exercise at all.[2] The degree of an invididual's responsiveness is highly heritable, suggesting that this trait is genetically determined.[1]
When generalized fitness is a professional operational requirement, as for athletes, combat services, police and fire personnel, aerobic exercise alone may not provide a well-balanced exercise program. In particular, muscular strength, especially upper-body muscular strength, is usually neglected. Also, the metabolic pathways involved in anaerobic metabolism (glycolysis and lactic acid fermentation) that generate energy during high intensity, low duration tasks such as sprinting, are not exercised at peak rates. Aerobic exercise is, however, an extremely valuable component of a balanced exercise program and is good for cardiovascular health.
Some persons suffer repetitive stress injuries with some forms of aerobics and then must choose less injurious "low-impact" forms or lengthen the gap between bouts of aerobic exercise to allow for greater recovery.
Aerobics notably does not increase the resting metabolic rate as much as some forms of weight-training, and may therefore be less effective at reducing obesity. However, this form of exercise also allows for longer, more frequent activity and consumes more energy when the individual is active. In addition, the metabolic activity of an individual is heightened for several hours following a bout of aerobic activity.
Aerobic activity is also used by individuals with anorexia as a means of suppressing appetite, since aerobic exercise increases glucose and fatty acids in the blood by stimulating tissues to release their energy stores. While there is some support for exercising while hungry as a means of tapping into fat stores, most evidence is equivocal. In addition, performance can be impaired by lack of nutrients, which can impair training effects.
Commercial success
Aerobic exercise has long been a popular form of weight loss and physical fitness, often taking a commercial form.
- Tennis and jogging gained prominence and popularity in the 1970s
- Judi Sheppard Missett largely helped create the market for commercial aerobics with her Jazzercise program in the 1970s
- Richard Simmons hosted an aerobic exercise show on television, beginning in the 1980s, and continued with a variety of exercise videos.
- Billy Blanks's Tae Bo helped popularize cardio-boxing, workouts that used martial arts movements in the 1990s
- The Nia Technique, also called Neuromuscular Integrative Action, was developed in the 1980s as a form of "non-impact" aerobics (the original words in the acronym). This is in contrast to popular "no pain no gain" attitudes, and attempted to combat the problem of impact injuries.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchard, Claude (1999). "Familial aggregation of VO(2max) response to exercise training: results from the HERITAGE Family Study". Journal of Applied Physiology. 87 (3): 1003–1008. PMID 10484570. Retrieved July 17, 2007. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Kolata, Gina (February 12, 2002). "Why Some People Won't Be Fit Despite Exercise". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
- Cooper, Kenneth C. The New Aerobics. Eldora, Iowa: Prairie Wind.
- Donatelle, Rebecca J. Health: The Basics. 6th ed. San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc. 2005.
- Hinkle, J. Scott. School Children and Fitness: Aerobics for Life. Ann Arbor, MI: ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services.
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|Bentley opens his kennel and gets inside.
Why is crate training important?
|Fits in SUV for perfect traveling.
|PetSmart has a great selection of crates and pads.
|Bentley opens his kennel and gets inside.
|Fits in SUV for perfect traveling.
|PetSmart has a great selection of crates and pads.
They look good in the new crate! :) Lol they look super happy lolReplyDelete
Great article M.K.! Mine is going live at 8am. I guess ours was the "luck of the Irish" to get it on St. Patty's Day, BOL! I love being in our crates with my fur siblings too by the way...most of the time. Does Bentley and Pierre feel the same? Have a great Tuesday.
All excellent info! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Thank you for this, my peeps have never crated any of their dogs so this is just the sort of helpful advice they need
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Very informative and there sure are advantages in using them. Have a terrific Tuesday and happy St Patrick's Day..
Best wishes Molly
You boys turned crate into a doublewide! Bailie and I tried sharing a crate, but it didn't go well. It was as school and we get possessive about our turns, so we each have our own now.ReplyDelete
I believe in crate training, really helps out with teething puppies or dogs getting into everything, ie---Gambler, he still stays in a crate when left alone at 4 years.ReplyDelete
Happy St. Paddy's Day to you....ReplyDelete
Great post! We love our crates but unfortunately, we can't have any blankets or pads in them. We are professional chewers and de-stuffers, mom learned that the hard way! BOL!ReplyDelete
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Bentley and Pierre look adorable in their crate. We leave our cat carriers out and open, with a towel inside. Believe it or not, Moosey likes to sleep in there sometimes. :)ReplyDelete
Rooney is crate trained and it definitely keeps him safe throughout the day! Plus he loves to sleep and chew on toys and bones in his crate even when we are home!ReplyDelete
I have all 3 of mine crate trained, although I don't use the crates anymore, they definitely came in handy in their destructive days!
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We crate train too!ReplyDelete
My boys were crate trained for traveling but that is all - I hate reading about people who leave their dogs in crates all day when they go to work - how would they feel being locked in 3' x 4" bathroom all day!!!!ReplyDelete
We used to work longer days, making crate training impossible (I knew people who crated their dogs for 8 hours and I would never do that). But when we brought Luke home I cut my hours back to part time so we were able to try it. I am so glad we did....it worked out so great. It really saved my sanity! :)
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We're glad we're cats and don't hafta be crate trained. :)ReplyDelete
We were crate trained but we never go in them anymore except after we get groomed. We walk in and back out. Not sure why mom makes us do that but she does so now we do it automatically. Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Your Pals,
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Wonderful post! Crate training is so important ~ we started right away when our pups joined us at 8 weeks of age.
3.5 years later, they have come to know their crates as safe relaxation places and will walk in and out of there as they please throughout the day. We found very practical crate pads which are reversible ~ one side is warmer and for wintertime, the other one is cooler and for the warmer months.
We actually no longer crate them when we're not home; the pups have both earned our trust and have the run of our downstairs. We actively use the crates when maintenance technicians are over at the house, or when the pups just can't be underfoot.
I use crates for both my own dogs and dogs I foster. I also bring them along when traveling. I think of crates as my dog's "bedroom", there own special place. Great review!ReplyDelete
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Beef Bourguignon
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I love Julie and Julia! What a perfect movie for us cooking/recipe bloggers huh? :) Eversince I saw this recipe in the movie, I've been wanting to try it. It looks great!ReplyDelete
I too saw the movie and loved it. I found her actual blog and started reading it. Very interesting. I can say it truly inspired me to cook more but I won't be cooking myself through Julia's book anytime soon. :)ReplyDelete
I have been wanting to try this recipe so thank you for posting it.
I loved that movie - except i didnt get to see the whole thing because the dvd freaked out. Waiting for netflix to send another. The stew looks very tasty.ReplyDelete
This is definitely on my list to do!...Maybe, I'll have to put it at the top of my list:) Looks wonderful.ReplyDelete
Oh .. it looks tasty. .I can just imagine the flavour must be fantastic. Your picture looks great.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2010 at 9:56 AM
The movie, coupled with blogs like yours, has sparked my cooking duldrum I was in--- It was a long dry spell! My husband is quite pleased that I'm really cooking again! I guess I'm going to have to make the beef bourguignon! Maybe it would be a fun menu item for Valentines day.ReplyDelete
Yum... is all I can say. The French have found a way to make stew sound delicious. Bun then, this is no ordinary stew.ReplyDelete
Oh boy would I love a bowl of that right now. It looks fabulous Kathy and hats off to you for taking the time to make it!!ReplyDelete
Way to go, Kathy! How fun to try one of the recipes from the movie...and from Julia's collection. It looks most delicious!ReplyDelete
It's sizzling in my mouth...I'm about to try something like that...this weekend. How motivational!ReplyDelete
Kathy, it looks as delicious as it did in the movie! How inspiring! I would loved to have been with all of you while you watched the movie, just to hear what you all said about it! (Mum and Angie and I watched it over the Christmas holiday!)ReplyDelete
That looks absolutely ready for a magazine spread! I'm sure it tastes as good as it looks.ReplyDelete
I'm going to print,file it, and look for an opportunity to try it.
Aunt Martha
I have made the original Julia recipe and yours was equally as good with your few changes. This was absolutely divine and will be making it again for sure. I absolutely love your blog and am so happy I came across it. I check every morning to see what's new.ReplyDelete
I made the recipe from the cookbook and the changes I would make is less wine, the cookbook called about 3 cups or so. There was enough for a single glass to drink. I added about 1 lb boiled baby potatoes at the end, and I would add more carrots to the recipe. The baby carrots that someone suggested sounds like a good idea for next time.ReplyDelete
can this be cooked in a crock pot??ReplyDelete


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It looks awesome doesn't it? We have four mixins dieing to be scooped, and they're huge too! it's actually alot of fun trying to dig out a mixin that is so big that it doesn't want to come out. There's that whole rewarding yourself with candy pieces for your "hard work" of digging it out. It's even better if you've been dieing for a candy bar all day long. Great fun is had, you just want to keep scooping and chomping and scooping and chomping....
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So, there is my dilemma: We have one of the funnest ice cream ever, yet it can't execute in the taste department, and that, well, it is really unfortunate. Now I've already second scooped this last night (when I finally ran into the huge white chocolate chunks), and I have gotten somewhat use to the overall mix (in part by being wary of the heath bar chunks), but this really has been a lesson ...in the fact I use too many periods and parenthesis, so I apologize for that. No, seriously, it's a lesson than you can have too much of a good thing. Bummer.


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Next generation federation requirementsbwallis42 Jan 28, 2012 11:55 AM
We need a federating connector that has a much more sophisticated mapping capability than the current one has.
I have been making some brief notes about what we might need (included below) and am interested in any suggestions. You will notice from the notes below that a prime requirement is the ability to easily specify where a document is stored and the ability to relocate it to another location. As mentioned in earlier posts, my application needs to store large numbers of documents with storage requirements in excess of 20TB. In a production environment you need control over where the documents are physically stored and you need to be able to change your mind later and move them around (management tools will be required in the long run to view and manage this).
I have already written one readonly connector (prototype) for ModeShape over the last few weeks that connects a legacy store that uses a proprietary database and filesystem layout. It was a bit of a steep learning curve but I got there in the end. I would be interested in any comments on the best approach to an implementation of a new federating connector based on the ideas below. Start with the existing one or just start from scratch?
My timeframe is longish so I'd be aiming to do this in version 3.0.
The idea is to introduce a layer, like the current federating connector, that delegates the actual storage to underlying connectors of all types (filesystems, DB, other JCR implementations, NoSQL connectors, etc.) but has a very flexible mapping scheme so that a unified tree above can be arbitrarily split across multiple storage locations.
Requirements are
- map any subtree within the document hierarchy to a particular connector based on the metadata at the root node of the subtree.
- ability to do this mapping at any level, such that a subtree is on one connector but child subtrees of that subtree are on other connectors and so on.
- able to move any subtree to a different connector - at runtime and transparently to the application above.
- mapping algorithms should be plugable to allow the introduction of new mapping schemes (not necessarily at runtime though)
- a map algorithm selects a node to be mapped and supplies a destination.
- all child nodes of a mapped node are assumed to map to the same destination unless selected by a different algorithm
- this connector could use an additional attribute on each node that determines the mapping.
- The value if not specified is inherited from the parent
- an operation that changes the value of this attribute results in a move of the node.
- the move is transactional if the source and destination connectors are transactional
- this might make bulk moves expensive
- If a mapping attribute is used, you could introduce an extra layer above this that maps based on the document metadata by adding the extra attribute. This could be the pluggable mapping algorithm.
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by Debra Saunders | July 31, 2012 12:02 am
It doesn't matter who wins in November; Bill Clinton will end this year on top.
The former president will introduce Barack Obama on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. That's prime placement for the man who dismissed Obama's campaign as "a fairy tale" four years ago.
In the new USA Network series "Political Animals," Ciaran Hinds plays the lovable coot ex-president ex-husband of Sigourney Weaver's secretary of state, who was appointed by the Democrat who trounced her in a contentious primary. Sunday night, viewers learned that the Big Creep-like Bud Hammond made crazy-talk statements during the race not to sabotage his wife's electability but because he knew she would lose, and he wanted Democrats to blame him for the loss, not her.
A selfless Bubba? Only on cable.
Obamaland hasn't always played well with Clintonia. In his 2009 book, "The Audacity to Win," senior Obama adviser David Plouffe wrote that he signed on with Obama in part because he thought "twenty-eight years of Bushes and Clintons would be too much. Our country needed a fresh start."
On Sunday, Team Obama sang a different tune. Explaining the prime-time slot to The New York Times, Obama guru David Axelrod gushed, "There isn't anybody on the planet who has a greater perspective on not just the last four years, but the last two decades, than Bill Clinton."
Republicans have been feeling the love, as well. During the GOP primary, Newt Gingrich practically attached himself to Clinton's hip. The former House speaker frequently boasted that the two frenemies delivered budget surpluses and welfare reform.
On Monday, Gingrich told reporters that "Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton."
Team Romney also likes to quote Clinton. The real-life secretary of state's spouse praised Romney's business career as "sterling." In June, Clinton told CNBC that Washington should "find some way to avoid the fiscal cliff, to avoid doing anything that would contract the economy," by passing all of the Bush tax cuts temporarily.
Clinton later apologized, but not until after he had made clear what he thinks the smart move would be.
Obamaland believes that Clinton can serve as living proof that Washington can levy a 39.6 percent income tax rate on top earners without weakening the economy. But as the recovery teeters, Clinton certainly doesn't seem to think so.
The Romney campaign sent out a press release Monday that credited Clinton for presiding "over balanced budgets and economic growth."
CNN aired a deadly graphic that showed the creation of 9.9 million jobs in America under Clinton by this point in his presidency. Under Obama, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, America has lost 473,000 jobs.
I am no Gingrich. I lack the nostalgia that many Republicans now exhibit for the Clinton years. So I figure that the Democrats' decision to recruit Clinton as a featured speaker does not bode well for Obama. What Clinton said about the iffy economy applies to an iffy re-election effort: If you want to avoid going off a cliff, don't stand so close to the edge.
Email Debra J.: Saunders at: [email protected][1].
Source URL: https://rightwingnews.com/column-2/bill-clintons-new-best-friends/
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This clutch bag is not only stunning but incredibly practical. It is the perfect size to carry essential items and features multiple pockets so that you can section your possessions and find them easily in a hurry.
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What I've Learned
Evan Sanders
Posted on December 30, 2012
What a year. I mean, wow. To be real…this has been the best year of my life. And I look back on all of my posts and just am slightly in awe of what has occurred. This post, is going to be a slight tribute to everything I have learned over the past year and what it means to me now. In fact, to do it properly there might have to be multiple posts because I'm sure I'm not going to nail everything on the first shot. So here we go 🙂
- Dream Big: 6 months ago, I decided to take a huge chance and go all in on creating my first book coming out of college. Well, we are about 11 days away from this becoming a reality, and forever I will be able to walk with the experience of barreling through fear and doing something I am incredibly passionate about. When you dream big, you give yourself the chance to become something much greater than what you are right now…because the journey is the transformational process, not the destination. But you have to take that first step.
- The Voice: Inside each of us, there is a voice that will tell you what to do. That is you. It is yourself in pure form and if you quiet down the rest of your world around you…you will be able to connect with this voice. When you can hear it loud and clear, you will follow your dreams.
- Loved Ones: One of my greatest fears that was overcome this year was the fear of losing loved ones. But through many many posts and learning from people around me, I found that people come in and out of your life for a reason…and to cherish the few that will always be there no matter what.
- Do It Now: If you are thinking about it, do it now. I mean…seriously. If something else can wait, get after it. The major thing I found out about myself is when an idea comes up in my head, I might let it wait. The problem with that is you lose motivational juice throughout the day…and if you wait too long…a good idea won't have the battery power behind it when you need it.
- Write it down: If you need to do it, write it down. My phone is starting to become more and more packed with notes and calendar. It's not that I don't want to do something, for me or for another person, it's just that I used to get so excited about something else that I forget. So…hail to writing things down haha and slowing down a bit to get it done.
- My Teachers: If you are reading this, and still in college, please go to office hours and talk to your teachers. I can't tell you how many times I went in there and just talked to them about their lives and what were the major lessons they learned. You can learn major major nuggets of wisdom if you just ask people. In fact, whenever I go out to a bar or somewhere, I like to ask my elders what they have learned from life. It's incredible when you listen.
- Writing: I had two amazing teachers this year who taught me how to write. Father. MC and Prof. Carroll. They taught me things that I will never forget. Fr. taught me, by having me write 3 page papers max, to take all the fat out of my writing. Prof. Carroll taught me many many things, but to always consider who I am writing to…and to consider why I am writing it. I must also give me HS teacher Mr. Nelson huge credit in sitting down with me most mornings and turning my disastrous writing into something special. I'll never forget his message to me. "Tell them what you are going to tell them…tell them…and then tell them what you told them." That one piece of advice changed my writing forever.
- The Past: I'll put it straight, when you clear it up…you are free. You no longer carry baggage with you. Do it. I promise it is worth it.
- Fitness Goals: My body has transformed through a year of hard work and lifting weights. I did have to battle through my slight guilty pleasure for fast food…but I have given it up for this entire year. Not a drop of it. So to the next year of hard work and transformation.
- The Mind: It is the most powerful thing you have. When you have the ability to trust your mind, you can accomplish and achieve anything you want. Give it it a shot, it is an amazing tool to have.
I will continue to post more about what happened this year, I just need to sit down and scan through some times. But if anything, dream big and trust yourself are the two major things I learned this year. Go after your vision.
Evan Sanders
The Better Man Project


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The BFG (1989)
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Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities, and whisked away to Giant Country. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalogue and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but the mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children. Sophie enlists the help of the Queen, by making up a dream for her, and with the backing of the armed forces, they defeat the mean giants.
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Army targets Congress to keep tax spigot flowing: US Forces Strategic Communications Plan Memorandum of Instruction, 18 Apr 2009
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The document presents a leaked copy of the US Army Forces Command "Strategic Communication Plan". This file is part of the Army's strategy for influencing Congress towards its budget goals. It clearly includes "Congress members" as its strategic communications targets. Goals (see E-2), include "Resourcing Full Cost of Expeditionary Army; Preserving All Volunteer Force" and "Maintain Public and Congressional Support".
The document also includes a rather remarkable graphic on page G1 showing the Public Affairs Office's interactions with social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Reddit, etc, something it refers to as the "StratComm Social Media Network."
Section J-1 "Marketing and Media" again refers to "Members of Congress" as targets.
The Tactical Plan "Enduring Theme" (I-1) is "The Strength of the Nation".
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Hello all! The September sketch on Practical Scrappers is up on the blog.
Haha! These girls crack me up.
Practical Scrappers blog using this sketch.
Hello all! The September sketch on Practical Scrappers is up on the blog.
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Check my previous post for the Die-Versions Blog Hop.
Are you all ready for a sketch challenge? If so, you are in luck because we have a fun one over at My Creative Sketches.
First let me show you the prize pack to get you really interested. ;)
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Welcome to our first ever BLOG HOP!
I have really enjoyed being on this DT thus far...the dies are amazing! They are so intricate and they cut really super smooth.
I have so many favorites but this Bug Jar die, (which obviously can be used as a cute canning jar), is on the top of my favorites list.
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Continuing on with my layouts made with September's fabulous Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook...
I have an I Phone hijacker and she is only 12 years old. Haha! It seems like every time I turn on my phone there's a crazy, new picture of her. She is loaded with personality and I love it!!
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Hello all! Today I want to share a cake I made for an adorable little girl turning one. My friends who ordered the cake gave me the green light to do whatever I thought would be cute for a girl's 1st birthday. I am really loving owls lately so I chose that for my theme.
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Its reveal week at My Creative Scrapbook so I have a few more projects to share using the September Main kit.
My bunch is a little crazy, but a good kinda' crazy and I love it that way. They each are so different, sometimes I am amazed that they're all related. Haha!
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I was thrilled to be asked to stay on for another month as a Guest designer at My Creative Scrapbook and it was just announced today that I will be joining them as a permanent designer. Yay! I LOVE MCS kits as many of you do.
Here is the glorious Main Kit featured this month:
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So...school starts tomorrow. I am excited and nervous for my sweet kids, but more happy that I will have a quiet household during the day. ;) Perhaps I will have more scrap time too! Yessss!!!
I created this sketch and made a coordinating layout using a summer theme.
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While my own interactions with cable providers gave me the impression that getting a set-top box installed is a uniquely miserable experience, a new study indicates that satellite TV providers might actually be more annoying to deal with.
According to mobile advertising company Marchex Inc., people curse out satellite TV representatives more than they do customer service employees of any other kind of business. In fact, Marchex says customers swear during 1 out of every 82 calls they make to satellite TV companies.
As for cable company employees? They have it marginally better as the third most-cussed out customer service representatives. Customers swear at them during 1 out of every 123 calls. Contractors were second-most cussed out at 1 out of every 90 calls.
To get its data, Marchex's assessed more than 1.2 million consumer calls placed to U.S. businesses from March 2012 to November 2013. Here's its complete rankings: