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I am a big believer in the old adage that you are what you eat. I also believe it is quite difficult to remain strong and healthy if you choose to eat fast food every day.
On this particular afternoon, I decided to do a story on olive oil -- not to be confused with Popeye's girlfriend! I am sure that most of you are already familiar with the fact that olive oil is quite beneficial to one's health, but I thought I would recommend a few articles in order to boost your knowledge of the subject nevertheless.
In answering the question of why olive oil is exceptionally healthy, the website oliveoiltimes.com, which I highly recommend, explains that the antioxidants found in olive oil can aid in fighting a wide range of diseases. Moreover, they also explain that olive oil is a great source of "monounsaturated fatty acids" which happens to be a fat which has been known to help contribute to healthy blood cholesterol levels.
Read about it here: http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/faq/whys-olive-oil-healthy
Olive oil times also has a gives a long list of health benefits one may receive after adding olive oil to their daily diet right here:http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-health-benefits
Olive oil times also has a gives a long list of health benefits one may receive after adding olive oil to their daily diet right here:http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-health-benefits
I would also like to encourage you to visit Elana Paravantes's article on oliveoiltimes.com. In Paravantes's article she details five benefits of olive oil. One of the unexpected perks of olive oil, which may really surprise you, is that it may actually be conducive to improved brain health, and help prevent cognitive decline throughout the aging process.
Read about it, as well as the other four benefits she lists, right here: http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-health-news/top-5-health-benefits-of-olive-oil/31463
Till next time and happy eating!
Till next time and happy eating!


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mod_dav enables Apache to understand the WebDAV protocol (extensions to HTTP). WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning", and is defined by RFC 2518. WebDAV is intended to replace proprietary authoring protocols such as those used by Frontpage or NetObjects' Fusion, but is also a complete set of protocols for manipulating a webserver's files and directories, and their properties.
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Microsoft does want to toss their extensions and use only WebDAV (I used to work at MSFT, and even talked to the FP group about this). The problem is that the FP protocol is a superset of WebDAV, so they have to keep some kind of extension. They could certainly degrade behavior and whatnot, but it is a lot of work and they're a bit leery of digging into that.
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A Theological Autobiography
Socrates told his tribunal that he didn't fear his sentence because if death was the end it would be like falling into untroubled sleep, while if his soul migrated to another realm he would meet the heroes of the past and a just tribunal, which would make it no wasted journey. When I found that passage from the Apology inscribed on a historical marker in Athens, the words no wasted journey jumped out at me, for I was on my first trip around the world, and they captured my mood perfectly. Not only was girdling the globe not a waste. Neither was life's journey, for I was learning so much!
I mention this because, though the prospect of writing my memoirs has never appealed to me (not even for grandchildren), I have toyed with the thought of what an appropriate title might be were I to do so, and in early manhood, "No Wasted Journey" was the obvious choice. In my forties, though, it gave way to "That Strong Mercy," for I underwent a midlife crisis which only mercy (it felt like) pulled me through. And in these later years, "Bubble Blown and Lived In" displaces both preceding candidates. For though I am not a constructionist, it does feel (now) as if I have spent my years sweeping out a horizon of beliefs, soap-bubble thin, that I could live in.
How that bubble took shape, together with the iridescent colors that swim on its surface, I have been invited to recount. Some things that I wrote in the introduction to the book I co-authored with David Griffin, Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology, apply equally to the start of my story, so my first several paragraphs will follow that earlier statement closely.
I was born of missionary parents in China, and spent my formative years there. I don't suppose one ever gets over that. Because we were the only Americans in our small town, my parents were my only role models, so I grew up assuming that missionaries were what Western children grew up to be. As a consequence, I came to the United States for college, thinking that I would return to China as soon as I was theologically accredited, but I had not reckoned with the West's dynamism. Never mind that my landing pass was Central Methodist College, enrollment six hundred, located in Fayette, Missouri, population three thousand. Compared with Changshu (or even Shanghai of that day) it was the Big Apple. Within two weeks China had faded into a happy memory; I wasn't going to squander my life in its backwater. The vocational shift this entailed, however, was small. Instead of being a missionary I would be a minister.
My junior year in college brought a second surprise: ideas jumped to life and began to take over. To some extent they must have gained on me gradually, but there came a night when I watched them preempt my life with the force of conversion. Returning from a meeting of a small honor society that gathered monthly for dessert and discussion in the home of its faculty sponsor, several of us lingered in the corridor of our dormitory to continue the arguments the evening had provoked-as unlikely a knot of peripatetics as ever assembled. My excitement had been mounting all evening, and around midnight it exploded, shattering mental stockades. It was as if a fourth dimension of space had opened and my mind was catapulting into it. And I had my entire life to explore those endless, awesome, portentous corridors. I wonder if I slept at all that night.
In retrospect it seems predestined, but at the time I could only see it as providential that the faculty sponsor of our discussion group was a protégé of Henry Nelson Wieman, who had founded the school of naturalistic theism almost single-handedly. Wieman was at the University of Chicago, so it was inevitable that I proceed there for my graduate study. Having earlier shifted my vocational intent from missionary to minister, I now moved next door again by opting to teach rather than preach-although in moments of misgiving I suspect that I have friends who think I never accomplished that move. When Charles Kingsley asked Charles Lamb if he would like to hear him preach, Lamb replied, "I don't think I have ever heard you do anything else." That's too close to home for comfort.
Because those vocational adjustments were obvious and small, they occasioned no soul-searching; but as I think back, I am surprised that I didn't find the collapse of my youthful supernaturalism disturbing. I entered the Divinity School of the University of Chicago a committed Wiemanite. Despite World War II-I was headed for the chaplaincy, but the war ended before I made it-Chicago was an exciting time for me. Via naturalistic theism, my vocation was clear. It would be to align the two most powerful forces in history: science and religion. I was a very young man, and fresh to the world's confusions.
I can remember as if it were yesterday the night in which that entire prospect, including its underlying naturalistic worldview, collapsed like a house of cards. It was four years later, in Berkeley-but before I relate what happened, I need to explain how I got there. Chicago proceeded as planned, with one surprise. Although in my first year I would not have believed that such a thing was possible, in the second year I discovered something better than Wieman's theology, namely, his daughter. Two years later we were married. We celebrated our golden wedding anniversary last fall.
As I was now a member of Wieman's family, he couldn't direct my dissertation, but he did suggest its topic. Stephen Pepper at the University of California had written his World Hypotheses, one of which was pragmatism (or contextualism, as he called it), which was close to Wieman's metaphysics; so he sent me to Pepper to explore the fit. With a wife and an infant child, I spent 1944-1945 in Berkeley writing my doctoral dissertation, "The Metaphysical Foundations of Contextualistic Philosophy of Religion."
In the course of that year I chanced on a book, Pain, Sex, and Time, by Gerald Heard, who is credited for moving Aldous Huxley from his Brave New World cynicism to the mysticism of The Perennial Philosophy, and reading it brought the collapse of my naturalism that I mentioned above. The mystics hadn't figured much in my formal education, but when I encountered a sympathetic presentation of their position, I responded from the soles of my feet on upward, saying, Yes, yes! More than any other outlook I had encountered, it was their vision, I was convinced, that disclosed the way things are.
Mysticism pointed toward the "mystical East," so, Ph.D. in hand and teaching now, I cut back on philosophy to devote roughly half my time (as I have ever since) to immersing myself in the world's religions; immersing is the right word, for I have always been devotee as much as scholar. During my eleven years at Washington University (1947-1958) this involved weekly tutorials with a swami of the Ramakrishna Order who grounded me in the Vedanta and set me to meditating. When I responded to MIT's call to strengthen its humanities program by adding philosophy to it (my years there were 1958-1973), I shifted my focus to Buddhism and undertook Vipassana [a type of meditation] practice in Burma, Zen training in Kyoto, and fieldwork among the Tibetans in their refugee monasteries in North India. Angry at the hammerlock that analytic philosophers had on the field-in those days Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell constituted a "Bermuda Triangle" in which "planes" that entered from outlying territories disappeared professionally-I welcomed a bid from Syracuse University to move from philosophy to religious studies, and invested my last decade in full-time teaching (1973-1983), primarily in its graduate program. Asia-wise, that decade brought Islam into my lived world, through Sufi sheikhs [spiritual masters] that I encountered in pre-Khomeini Iran and North Africa-their five Arabic prayers continue to frame my day. On retiring from Syracuse we moved to Berkeley to be close to our children and their families. Until this year I continued to teach half-time: semesters here and there across the country, an occasional course at the Graduate Theological Union, and the last three years at the University of California. The new incursion on my religious front has been the primal religions. I helped edit a book with Reuben Snake (a leader of the Native American Church), One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church, to help restore to that Church the rights the Supreme Court stripped it of in its 1990 Smith decision.
This all sounds flagrantly eclectic, and I can't argue that it wasn't, for the truth of the matter is that in culling from the world's religions what was of use to me, I was largely ignoring their differences. What they said about reality seemed sufficiently alike to carry me as I stepped from one to another like a hunter crossing ice floes, but I had no real idea what to do with their differences. I had been avoiding that question for some time when, in the course of a year-long around-the-world seminar that I co-directed in 1969-1970, I ran into Professor S. H. Nasr in Iran, who pointed me to a small group of thinkers who had the answer I was looking for. Referred to sometimes as Perennialists, sometimes as Traditionalists, their roots were in the sophia perennis and "Great Chain of Being." René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon have been their chief twentieth-century spokesmen, and I also recognized the names of Ananda Coomaraswamy, Titus Burckhart, Martin Lings, and Professor Nasr himself. Meeting those men changed everything. As their position has remained in place for me since I encountered it, autobiography will enter into the rest of what I have to say only to indicate why I found its key features plausible.
In the foreword to his collection of essays by Perennialist writers, titled The Sword of Gnosis, Jacob Needleman puts his finger on what struck me first about these thinkers.
[They] were not interested in the hypothesizing and the marshaling of piece-meal evidence that characterizes the work of most academicians. On close reading, I felt an extraordinary intellectual force radiating through their intricate prose. These men were out for the kill. For them, the study of spiritual traditions was a sword with which to destroy the illusions of contemporary man.
I shall come back to those illusions, but let me begin with the contrast with academicians. None of the teachers I had actively sought out-Huxley and Heard, Swami Satprakashananda, Goto Roshi, the Dalai Lama, and Sheikh Isa-had been academicians. They had served me as spiritual directors as much as informants; I know the ashrams, viharas, and monasteries of Asia better than I know its universities. When I found Schuon writing that "knowledge only saves us on condition that it engages all that we are: only when it constitutes a way which works and transforms, and which wounds our nature as the plough wounds the soil," I recognized him as standing in the line of my preceding mentors. With two additional resources. Schuon worked all the major traditions. And he was a theoretician, actively concerned with the way those traditions fit together.
The kingpin in constellating them, he insisted, is an absolute. Only poorly can life manage without one, for spiritual wholeness derives from a sense of certainty, and certainty is incompatible with relativism. Every absolute brings wholeness to some extent, but the wholeness increases as the absolute in question approximates the Absolute from which everything else derives and to which everything is accountable. For (as the opening lines of my Forgotten Truth state the point) "people have a profound need to believe that the truth they perceive is rooted in the unchanging depths of the universe; for were it not, could the truth be really important?" If a human life could be completely geared to the Absolute, its power would course through it unrestrictedly, and it would actually be a jivanmukta, a soul that is completely enlightened while still in its body.
So much (momentarily) for the Absolute, the One. What of the Many? As the succeeding sentence in Forgotten Truth puts the question, "How can we [hold our truth to be the Truth] when others see truth so differently?" As I think back on the matter, this is one of the two issues on which the Perennialists have helped me most. The other is the character of the modern world, which I shall take up in my closing section.
Having found Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim (as well as Christian) teachers I had grown to revere, there was no way I was going to privilege one religion over the others. The question was where (within them) was there an absolute I could live by. (It needed to be an ontological absolute, not just a moral absolute, like tolerance or the golden rule, for only ontological realities wield objective power.) I knew that such an Absolute couldn't be slapped together from pieces gleaned here and there, for it was obvious that the power of the historical revelations derived from their respective patterns, or gestalts. To think that I could match such power by splicing chi [spiritual energy], say, to pratiyasammutpada [literally, "dependent arising"] and the logos made about as much sense as hoping to create a great work of art by pasting together pieces from my favorite paintings. Or creating a living organism from a heap of organ transplants.
The alternative seemed to be to find a single thread that runs through the various religions. This, though, ran into the problem of essentialism. Who is to say what the common essence of the world's religions is, and how could any account of it escape the signature of its proponent's language and perspective?
Caught as I was in this impasse, the Perennialists called my attention to a third possibility that resolved it: Don't search for a single essence that pervades the world's religions. Recognize them as multiple expressions of the Absolute, which is indescribable. One reason it is ineffable is that its essence is single, and knowing requires a knower and a known, which means that we are already in duality. The more understandable reason, though, is that descriptions proceed through forms, and the Absolute is formless.
This solution to the problem of the One and the Many has satisfied me since it first came to view, but I have had to recognize that it is not widely available because most people hear formlessness as lack. To them, if formless things exist at all, they are vague and abstract. Others, though, see matters differently. To distinguish the two types of people, Perennialists call the first type esoterics and the second exoterics.
The lives of exoterics are completely contained in the formal world. For them the formless is (as was just noted) abstract at best. It is incomplete. Lacking in important respects, it is not fully real. Esoterics, on the other hand, find reality overflowing its formal containers into formlessness, though this puts the cart before the horse. Because the formless is more real than the formed, the accurate assertion is that the formal world derives from the formless. The logical argument for the esoterics' position is that forms are finite and the Absolute is infinite, but for genuine esoterics the formless is more than a logical inference. It is an experienced reality. Through a distinctive mode of knowing (variously called gnosis, noesis, intellectus, jnana, and prajna) esoterics sense the formless to be more concrete, more real, than the world of forms. This is incomprehensible to exoterics because they conclude that an absolute that lacks formal divisions must lack the qualities those divisions fan out. But for esoterics, not only are those qualities in the Absolute; they are there in superessential, archetypal intensity and degree. Opposite of abstract, the Absolute is superconcrete.
I said that the Absolute is indefinable, but we need indications of its character, and these are what the great revelations provide. In doing so, they resemble telescopes that "triangulate" the Absolute like a distant star. What in varying degrees of explicitness they all proclaim is that the Absolute is richer in every positive attribute we know-power, beauty, intelligence, whatever-than we can possibly imagine. This all the major religions assert, and we can understand the logic of their claim. For the only satisfying reason that can be given for the way things are is that it is best that they be that way, so the mind instinctively attributes to what is ultimate the best that it can conceive. The alternative is to accept meaninglessness to some degree.
The consequence of this approach for the relation between religions runs something like this. As the superconcrete Absolute includes all forms, it can deploy them at will. In anthropomorphic (which isn't to say inaccurate) idiom, it chooses to do so in the great formal constellations we call revelations, crowding as much of itself into each as is possible under the formal limitations that finitude exacts. Because the esoteric takes the Absolute to be the formless source of these revelations, he or she can endorse their plurality as alternative voices in which the Absolute speaks to be understood by different audiences.
While this format gave me exactly what I was looking for-(a) an Absolute (b) that didn't require that I rank order the religions I work with-it carries a stubborn consequence. There is no way to satisfy both parts of this two-fold desideratum on the formal, exoteric plane. To which hard truth Perennialists add: If it is necessary to choose, it is better to adhere to the Absolute as truly and sufficiently disclosed in one's own revelation than to displace it with the "civil liberties" principle of religious parity, which is no more than a personally arrived at guide for conduct. Somewhere within these last two sentences I sense myself as parting company with my liberal friends in "the wider ecumenism," for they seem willing to reshape the forms of the great, originating revelations to two ends: politically, to reduce conflict by rounding off their sharp corners and rough edges, and theologically, to improve on their truths by learning from others. For my part, believing as I do that each of the enduring revelations already contains "truth sufficient unto salvation," I am not enthusiastic about tampering with them. The project smacks of precisely the sort of human fiddling with the revelations that Perennialists find themselves charged with when their position is mistaken for (a) the cafeteria approach or (b) articulated essentialism.
Continuing with the last point, the chief objection to Perennialism that I hear is that its universalism rides roughshod over differences. I suspect that many such critics would shift their attack from Perennialism's (presumed) New Age all-is-oneism to its (actual) conservatism if they understood that everything that esoterics say about such things, universalism included, presupposes the formed/unformed distinction I have outlined. I was a universalist long before I encountered Perennialism. Where it changed my thinking was in persuading me to balance my universalism with an equal regard for the differences that distinguish revelations. Schuon's Transcendent Unity of Religions really is transcendent-radically so in being formless. In our "formal" life, forms are decisively important; so important that the forms of revelation should be respected. The cosmologies and social mores of their day (which they assume) are negotiable, but for spiritual insight we do better to plumb their pronouncements than tinker with them. For those forms are not incidental to the clarity of the message they convey, which clarity accounts for their historical power.
So much for religious pluralism. What of the modern world? Jacob Needleman warned us that for Perennialists "the study of spiritual traditions [is] a sword with which to destroy the illusions of contemporary man." What are those illusions?
As long as the issue was the relations between religions, Perennialists was the appropriate name for the thinkers I identify with. When we turn to their view of modernity, it is their other appellation-Traditionalists-that makes their point.
It does so because Traditionalists consider the ethos by which people lived before the rise of modern science to be on balance more accurate than the scientistic one that has replaced it. Not (to repeat the point just mentioned) its science, which has been superseded, or its social mores, but its ontological vision. I wrote Forgotten Truth to celebrate that vision; and I wrote its sequel, Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, to expose the Procrustean epistemology-again, scientistic-that has caused traditional truth to be largely forgotten. I say forgotten rather than refuted, for there has been no refutation, merely an exchange of traditional ontology for one that derives from an epistemology that (in the short run, at least) caters to our material wants and wish to control, "the Old Adam." There are, of course, oceans of historical and psychological reasons for the West's having made this exchange, but no logical reasons. We simply slid into assuming that the most reliable viewfinder available to our human lot is the scientistic one that edits out spiritual truths in the way X-ray films omit the beauty of faces.
I know that this assessment will be disputed; though actually it is a good day when one encounters dispute, for typically it is simply ignored. When rejoinders are heard, they point out that the preceding paragraph doesn't even mention science; only scientism, with which (by tacit association) science is sneakily tarred.
That reply is useful, for it forces me to drop innuendo, come into the open, and say right out loud that science is scientism. I didn't have the wit (or was it courage?) to arrive at that conclusion by myself; a scientist at the University of Minnesota who teaches science to nonscience majors pointed it out to me at the close of an all-day workshop that I had devoted to distinguishing science from scientism and exempting it from the latter's pernicious effects. "Everything you said about the dangers of scientism is true," he said; "but there's one thing, Huston, that you still don't see. Science is scientism."
His assertion startled me, but on the long walk it provoked I came to see his point. If we define science as the procedures that scientists follow and the demonstrable results that thereby accrue, and scientism as the assumption that the scientific method is the most reliable method for arriving at truth and that the things that science works with are the most real things, thus defined, the two are clearly different. But here's the point. Although in principle it is easy to distinguish them, in practice it is almost impossible to do so. So scientism gets overlooked in the way the power plays that are imbedded in institutions get overlooked until the extraordinary eye of a Michel Foucault spots them and points them out.
The cause of the blur is the one that Baruch Spinoza stated abstractly: things tend to enlarge their domains until checked by other things. This applies to institutions as much as to individuals. The vanguard of science's expansionism is scientism, and it advances automatically unless checked. Religiously, it is important that it be checked, for the two are incompatible. So where are the guardians to keep scientism from sweeping the field? The Traditionalists are the most vigilant and astute watchdogs I see. And scientism is one area where I claim expertise, for my longest tour of duty (as they say in the military; fifteen years) was at MIT.
The chief places I have tried to keep an eye on scientism are:
1. Higher education. Rooted as the universities are in the scientific method, as a recent president of the Johns Hopkins University pointed out, they are killing the spirit.
2. Mainline theology. Looking up to their more prestigious counterparts at the universities, seminary professors tend to accommodate to their styles of thought. As those styles do not allow for a robust, alternative, ontological reality, our understanding of God has slipped ontologically. (When was the last time I heard the word supernatural from a lectern or pulpit?) This slip is having disastrous effects on mainline churches whose members are moving to evangelical churches, Asian religions, or New Age cults and frivolity in search of the unconventional reality that homo religiosus requires.
3. The science/religion dialogue, with evolution as a major checkpoint. The only definition of Darwinism that has survived its multiple permutations is that it is the theory that claims that our arrival as human beings can be explained naturalistically. Scientism must make this claim, but the evidence for it is no stronger than that which supports its theistic alternative. Yawning lacunae in the naturalistic scenario are being papered over with stopgap "god of the gaps" stratagems-the god here is Darwin-that are as blatant as those that theology has ever resorted to.
4. Deconstruction and postmodernism. These thinkers see through scientism, but their constructive proposals make the wrong mistake (as Yogi Berra would say) for being brilliant answers to the wrong question. The question of our time is no longer how to take things apart, but how to work responsibly at reassembling them. For as the opening speaker at the 1992 U.C.B./Robert Bellah-sponsored Good Society Conference put the point: "We have no maps and we don't know how to make them."
If those four one-liners seem extreme and my obsession with scientism a complete tapestry woven from a few threads of fact, I suggest that a reading of Bryan Appleyard's Understanding the Present would alter those judgments. In it he asks us to imagine a missionary to an isolated tribe. Conversion is slow work until a child contracts a deadly disease and is saved by some penicillin the missionary has brought along. With that single stroke, Appleyard argues, it's all over for the world the tribe had known, and by extension for the traditional world generally. For the miracle its medicine men and priests couldn't accomplish, science delivers. And "science has shown itself unable to coexist with anything."
Speaking for myself, if the chiefs of the tribe could reason as follows: This white man knows things about our bodies and how to maintain them that we don't know, and we certainly thank him for sharing that knowledge with us. But it appears that knowledge of that sort tells us nothing about how we and the world got here, who we are in the fullness of our being, what happens to us after death, and whether there are beings of other kinds-immaterial beings, some of whom may be more intelligent, powerful, and virtuous than we are, the Great Spirit, for example. Nor does it tell us how we should live with one another. There seems to be no reason, therefore, why we can't accept the white man's medicine with gratitude while continuing to take seriously the wonderful explanatory myths that our ancestors entrusted to us.
If, as I say, the chiefs could reason this way and hold true to that reasoning, science would not be a problem. But they can't. We moderns and postmoderns can't. And I can't-not wholeheartedly, so scientized is the culture that encases me. But trying to change it is happiness enough.
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The outspoken owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks said this week that the show would be a behind-the-scenes look at the Girls Gone Wild brand, known for young women exposing themselves on camera.
The series is titled "Girls Gone Wild Presents: Search for the Hottest Girl in America." It will run for 12 weeks starting next week as part of HDNet's "Guys Night in" lineup.
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The Hold Steady have announced tour dates for October of 2006. They'll be touring in support of their upcoming album, Boys and Girls of America, due out the same month on their new home of Vagrant Records.
It's a coastal tour, skimming around the outside edges of the US. They'll be taking Minneapolis' Sean Na Na with them as the opening act. Ever hear of Har Mar Superstar? Sean Na Na is the real band of Sean Tillmann, the guy who's alter ego is Har Mar Superstar.
The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls In America was recorded with Producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Dinosaur Jr). It was recorded at Water Music in Hoboken and mixed at the Magic Shop in New York.
"Boys and Girls in America" is a reference to a line from Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road, said lead singer Craig Finn. "The line goes, 'Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.' Basically, the songs are about guys and girls, and love. It's not a concept-type record like the last one -- it's more of a theme record."
The band is also planning to be at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 6th.
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Flute part from Brandenburg Concerto No.5
This concerto makes use of a popular chamber music ensemble of the time (flute, violin, and harpsichord), which Bach used on their own for the middle movement. It is believed that it was written in 1719, to show off a new harpsichord by Michael Mietke which Bach had brought back from Berlin for the C�then court. It is also thought that Bach wrote it for a competition at Dresden with the French composer and organist Louis Marchand; in the central movement, Bach uses one of Marchand's themes. Marchand fled before the competition could take place, apparently scared off in the face of Bach's great reputation of virtuosity and improvisation.
The concerto is well suited throughout to showing off the qualities of a fine harpsichord and the virtuosity of its player, but especially in the lengthy solo 'cadenza' to the first movement. It seems almost certain that Bach, considered a great organ and harpsichord virtuoso, was the harpsichord soloist at the premiere. Scholars have seen in this work the origins of the solo keyboard concerto; indeed it is said to be the first-ever example.
An earlier version, BWV 1050a, has innumerable small differences from its later cousin, but only two main ones: there is no part for cello, and there is a shorter and less elaborate harpsichord cadenza in the first movement. (The cello part in BWV 1050, when it differs from the violone part, doubles the left hand of the harpsichord.)
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She added, "Epic Games supports efforts that would stop overseas websites profiting from pirating our games, but we have to do that in a way that's compatible with freedom of speech and due process of law."
Epic is the first member of the ESA - the political lobbying arm of the game industry - to speak out against SOPA, but we suspect it won't be the last. We've dropped a list of remaining ESA members after the break who have yet to rescind support for the proposed legislation.
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Verizon Droid Eris Not Getting Android 2.2 Update
Computerworld has received confirmation from a Verizon Wireless spokesperson that the HTC Droid Eris will not be receiving an Android 2.2 update for the device, even though some Verizon customers with the Droid Eris still have a year left on their contract. I am not surprised, seeing as how the Droid Eris reached it's end-of-life some time ago, but this decision will not sit well with users that have been waiting for Adobe Flash capability.
Below is an excerpt from the Computerworld article regarding the spokeperson's statement:
Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney confirmed that Froyo would not be provided for the Eris. "We have other options in Android devices, so this is part of the normal evolution of our portfolio," Raney said in an e-mail.
Engadget believes there will be more than a few people upset by this decision:
While we didn't really expect Verizon to pull a T-Mobile and support phones that died even before the original G1, we have to imagine there'll be a few ruffled feathers at that particular choice of words. No one likes to be told to buy a new device in order to get a software update.
No word on how long ago this decision was made, or if there will be other options for Droid Eris users upset by the lack of support.
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I do love my Eris.. Have Rooted w/ 4 ROMs to switch between on my SD card.. including a 2.2 Froyo ROM.. so im not missing anything.
Theres always craigslist (buying a better but used phone) ..lol..in all seriousness, this eris has been an overall good intro-to-android phone for me. I have been thinking of my next phone and I wonder which one because once a phone comes out a better one comes out right after..at least with those still under contract they can do some android research to see which phone will be their next..I might wait until the 4G is set up before I ask for a new one
Well we with the Eris can all run our phone over with our car then get a replacement upgrade.. lol


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The virtual Middle Earth feels just the way the book and movies have led us to expect. Environmental design is a key feature in this regard, recreating each of the various race's starting areas perfectly. In particular, the developers have nailed the various types of architecture. The human starting area looks just like an Elizabethan village, while the Elven structures are based on Rivendell, with their flowing white lines and cliff-hugging locations. Hobbit-holes are just as cozy and welcoming as we'd always imagined them to be, from the cute flowerbeds decorating the front yard to the warm fireplace crackling within.
Tolkien spent a great deal of time describing the landscape in his books (a little too much time if you ask us), and this has provided the perfect blueprint for the landscape designers of the game. When combined with Tolkien's meticulous descriptions, the extremely capable engine helps to deliver the most stunning natural vistas we've ever seen in the MMORPG genre. Scratch that- they deliver some of the must stunning natural vistas we've seen in a game, period.
With all settings cranked up to the "melt your CPU" option, the detail is astonishing. Grass blows in the wind and stretches into the distance, with very little of the obvious pop up seen in games like Oblivion. The water reflections are stunning, making lakes and rivers some of the prettiest areas of the game. Draw distance is massive, with more subtle pop-in of detailed assets than most games of this type. This draw distance extends to players and NPCs - you'll spot them much further away than in competing titles. A lovely bloom effect is employed around lights and certain areas, but it's not overdone. And the trees&#Array; oh, the trees. We could spend a full page about how lovely the forests are to wander through, but a screenshot is as good as a thousand words. Performance was silky smooth, although we were testing on a ninja fast Core 2 Duo/8800GTX/2GB memory system.
So the game looks just like the book and the films - but does it feel like it? Staying true to the source goes well beyond whether the correct bricks were used in the well in Bree. Does the dialogue fit with the style of Tolkien's writing, and are the quests the kinds of tasks that are believable?
Let's focus on the quests first. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of quests available at the start of the game. At last count, our Hobbit Minstrel had over fifteen quests on the go. None of these involved slaying Orcs or raiding dungeons. He's a level seven Hobbit Minstrel for god's sake - not a level thirty Human Guardian.
Instead we were sent on our way to look for kids playing hide and seek, to create pie crusts for a hobbit fearing his angry wife, to deliver mail within set times and to try to find a hidden recipe for beer in the Great Smials. Sounds boring, eh? But for a player who chooses the laid-back characteristics of the Hobbit, this focus on exploration and helping your fellow Hobbits is a perfect fit. It's a great character type for those lazy Sunday arvos with a glass of red by your side. That's not to say there wasn't a fair share of spider-slashing and pig-grinding involved - there was - but we could do more Hobbity things if we felt like it.


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(ABC News) -- A 91-year-old woman from Marion County, Oregon, has become confined to a chair in her home after her wheelchair and walker were allegedly stolen.
Edythe De La Rosa, who has outlived her husband and six children, is feeling lonelier and more helpless than ever because of the incident, ABC affiliate KATU in Oregon reported.
"I don't know, I don't know what to do," De La Rosa told KATU. "I don't understand how anyone – Christian or not – how could they do that to a woman in my condition and of my age?"
De La Rosa believes her mobile aids were stolen sometime this past weekend during a storm. She said she had put her wheelchair and walker into her van parked outside her house just in case she needed to evacuate.
"I'm an old timer, she said. "When something's going to happen, you prepare."
Fortunately, the storm came and went without causing any significant damage. But De La Rosa was devastated when she realized her van — along with her wheelchair and walker — was gone.
"I can't do much — my hands don't work, I've had a stroke," she told KATU. "Why do that to me? What did I do to them?"
De La Rosa said her van, wheelchair and walker were priceless to her. She explained that she has been living on Social Security and had to save for over a year to afford the items.
De La Rosa added that the day she got the walker, she felt she was in "seventh heaven" because she was finally able to get around by herself and tend to her flowers without help.
But now, she's confined to a chair in her home and completely dependent on her caretaker.
De La Rosa's church community has since started a crowdfunding campaign to try and raise enough money to buy her a new van, wheelchair and walker, KATU reported.
ABC News was not immediately able to reach De La Rosa nor the organizer of the crowdfunding campaign for additional comment.
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Im am positive Im not the first person to think of this but...
If you have a rip in your cover, denim iron on patches work great to fix it. My cover had about a two foot rip in it and I fixed it today with a few iron on patches. They worked great! I am pretty stoked to not have to worry about buying another cover soon.
Good info Sean. What kind of cover do you have? I have what I think is an Evolution Cover, and there is alot of stretch to it. I wondered what I would do when it inevitably rips some day. And are you talking about just regular denim pants patches?
Can you post up a pic and where did you get the patches? Thanks
I've used this stuff in the past for small rips.

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Bu Coo if your cover rips it's probably user error. I can't see that cover ripping under normal conditions. You don't know what brand it is? If it's an evolution call up Cory and tell what's going on, he'll fix it for you if you're having issues.
Its the cover that came with the boat in 2005. I will have to look for a mnfg name on it.
BuCoo, yes just regular old denim pants patches. Got em at my friendly walmart. Two 5x7 for $1.77.
The cover ripped where the tower lays down on my ski pole behind the rear seat. At first it was a 1/2" rip no big deal....then one day rrrrriiiiip when I was pulling the cover back over the transom. I will post up some pics.
Keep in mind that the denim is not going to have the same waterproof properties that Sunbrella or Sharkskin or whatever other material your cover is made of. Making patches of that same material could be just as easy. Walmart (and most other stores) sell the iron on adhesive alone, then you just bond it to a piece of Sunbrella, then to your cover.
Although I think I'd have it sewn in place for added strength, especially if it's in any high stress areas on the cover. I've had a shop do this kind of repair for $20 or $30 in the off season before. In fact, I have a repair that needs to be done on my Rankin cover now.... will be getting it done soon.
5x7 inch patches. Used 8 of them.

I installed two of those vents in my cover and while pulling the cover to the back of the boat, as I did before the vent install, it ripped where I had placed one of the vents. Went to the fabric store and picked up some more canvas and some liquid thread. Cut out two pieces and glued them over the tear on the inside and out. Worked great. I actually pulled to Powell with the cover on and the patch job held up fine.
I have a cover that has about a dozen repair patches and has been good for over a year. I used contact adheisive (like the type to glue carpets) and cut up an old pair of jeans to make the patches.

I glued all mine on the inside of the cover and you have to look closely to see the repairs.
Nu Bu, What the heck? I havn't ripped my cover yet, hopefully it won't be because of user error, and no I'm not 100% sure who made my cover. I also don't know who made my wheel rims or depth finder. Harsh dude. Thanks for the name of the person to call once something does happen... I think.
hahahah sean you let your tower down a little too fast didnt you........... I did the same thing on my V210 but i gorilla glued my cover back to life, but its in the garage
Bu Coo don't be so sensitive. I guess my post should have read " you say you think it's a evolution cover, are you sure?". That cover will not "inevitably rip" unless it's installed wrong, something dropped on it, etc.. Same thing with the stretching, sunbrella does stretch a little initially but shouldn't be something that is considered "alot".

If it's the stock cover that says malibu with the straps that go down to the traieler it's definitely not an evolution cover or rankin.
Thats right Travis..well not exactly. My buddy dropped it a few years ago. Put a dime size dent in the tower too. Started out as a 1/2" rip that I should have patched a long time ago.
I took it off for the pictures, but since then I throw a folded up towel up there for the tower to sit on..especially if it gets dropped again.
hahah im glad im not the only one who has down that! my gorilla glue looks like ass I may look into these patches, thanks!
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Governor Pataki is resting comfortably today after surgery to remove his appendix. The appendix is a vestigial organ that serves no apparent purpose, and is often referred to as the Lt. Governor of the body.
Despite being criticized for the practice, the NYS Democratic committee has posted yet another selectively edited item on its website. In this case, party officials are claiming  that President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address amounts to an endorsement of the policies of the Clinton administration.
Original Statement: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Four men were arrested Thursday night and charged with selling cocaine, following a year-long investigation of cocaine trafficking in the Mexico and Rumford area.
Arrested were Wayne Sinclair, 53, of Mexico, on two Class B counts; Daniel Allen, 53, of Mexico, arrested on three Class A counts; Darren Joudrey, 51, of Mexico arrested on two Class B counts; and Dana Lee Richardson, 54, of Carthage, arrested on one Class A count.
Under cover Maine Drug Enforcement agents bought cocaine from all four men at Tommy Guns Pit Stop, a bar in Mexico, and other locations in the area, said Steve McCausland, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman.
Agent and police officers also searched the homes of the four men and seized drugs, cash, scales, packaging material and phones, said McCausland.
The men were taken to Oxford County Jail. Allen's bail was set at $7,000, Richardson's at $5,000 and Joudrey's and Sinclair's at $3,000.
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House of Jazz Montreal Reviews
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Pleasurable music, subpar meal Sep 15, 2011
This will be the first review that I write in which I'm giving a rating below recommended. Which is a shame, because I actually did enjoy the music...
My companion and I decided we would dress up, eat a nice meal and hear some jazz. I made reservations at the Maison du Jazz (House of Jazz) for us, and we took a taxi there. I was looking forward to some good food and good tunes.
I was surprised right away when we checked in with the host, who said there would be a $10 cover charge per person included in the meal to watch the band perform. I didn't know that there would be a cover charge. It makes sense, in retrospect, but at the time, it caught me off guard. Oh well, no big deal. We agree to pay and go inside...
The House of Jazz is a pretty big restaurant; from the outside, you wouldn't think so, so this also surprised me. I noticed that it was very eclectic. Lots of jazz related art, portraits and musical instruments on the walls. And the TVs showed jazz performances.
We were led to our booth, not too far from the stage were the band was going to perform. As we took our seats and perused the menu, I was stunned yet again, this time by the price of the food on the restaurant's rather limited menu. A half rack of ribs, french fries and coleslaw cost $25 Canadian! WTF?! I ended up ordering the ribs, hoping they would be spectacular for that price.
While waiting for our food, the band came out. It was a trio - a guy with a bass, another guy with a sax, and a third on the piano. Once they started playing, they sounded great! Also, there were these women sitting next to us who struck up a conversation with us. They turned out to be pretty nice people. :)
When the food showed up, I took my first bite of the ribs and was disappointed by how flavorless they were. You can taste the barbecue sauce on them, but that was about it. And because it was the half rack, I only got four of them. Four ribs, some fries and coleslaw for $25. :( I can get twice that many ribs at home that taste a hell of a lot better for a hell of a lot less money...
For dessert, I had a piece of this raspberry cake that was okay.
Bottom line: The music was good, but the food should've been better, especially considering how much it cost. I heard about this other dinner jazz club called The Upstairs in Montreal that's supposed to be pretty good, and I wish I had checked it out instead. If you come to the House of Jazz for the music alone, it's worth it, but not for the food.
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Do you mean when the ship stays late in port? I know when we were in LaHavre last year we missed usual our dinner time as our excursion did not return until 8 pm.
Not that it mattered, we still could have had dinner. The ship had an open seating that day for the dinning room, but we opted for the lido restaurant, as many others did that night. This did not surprise me as Paris and Versailles were over 3 hours away, so those of us that chose those destinations, were very late returning to ship. We had been 6 hours on the road, just traveling to and from our excursions.
I did not mind. We had a late dinner in the lido restaurant. It was not a problem. Although it was cafeteria style, our plates were served for us-it was not self serve, a waiter carried my tray to the table and we had a waiter who filled our drinks and also offered us a chance to order wine or alcoholic drinks. I was fine with that, especially as I was exhausted from the long drive and excursion that day. I had no desire for a long dinner that would take 90 minutes to be served.
I do believe that is why,perhaps they have discontinued this service. Many were like me, simply too tiered for a 90 minute dinner.
Perhaps you could pick that night for the specialty restaurant?
Now, if you mean on days the ship leaves port at 5pm that Celebrity is discontinuing their dinner, I would not understand that. I would dislike that also.
As far as lunch, I have not been on a ship yet that served lunch on a port day. Normally on port days we use the lido for breakfast as it seems we always have early excursions. so I would not mind breakfast and lunch being discontinued.
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Following the hype surrounding Sacha Baron Cohen in the build up to The 84th Annual Academy Awards and the show-stopping appearance of Angelina Jolie's right leg, the 2012 Oscars managed to rake in a peak audience of 39.3 million.
Although the ceremony secured four per cent more viewers than last year's event, which saw The King's Speech scoop best picture and an audience of 37.6 million, it failed to top figures for the 2010 Oscars which saw The Hurt Locker and Avatar go head-to head, securing 41.3 million viewers along the way.
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The Oscars received its biggest audience with 55.2 million viewers back in 1998 when Titanic scooped the award for best picture.
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Preservationists are pushing a multi-million project to save an iconic piece of Mansfield's industrial past, before it becomes confined to the pages of history.
Hermitage Mill was a leading cotton manufacturer for the town for 150 years, and the site is now the focus of a campaign to bring it back to life.
It has stood derelict for nearly six years, but the Hermitage Mill Trust say it is a race against time to preserve the grade II-listed structure as it continues to deteriorate.
Members of the registered charity have been working as far back as 2005 to secure its future, and have a grand vision of transforming it into a modern facility set against a strong historical background.
Eventually it could boast a heritage area, exhibition space, office units, corporate meeting and lecture rooms and retail, including a restaurant.
Trust member and conservation architect Peter Rogan said the group has a 'robust case' for preservation, and has the backing of Mansfield District Council which has earmarked the site for employment purposes.
Peter said: "It's the last surviving mill on the River Maun with great heritage potential.
"We want to try and preserve the heritage on that site and retain as much of the character as we can.
"There's no reason why we should not be successful, this is not something that has not just come out of the blue, this has been worked on for some years.
"The mill needs a viable future, and as the last surviving mill we have to give it a chance.
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Set back against Hermitage Road, Hermitage Mill started life as a cotton-spinning factory in 1803, and by 1848 was manufacturing high-quality embroidery thread for the world-renowned company, Taylor's of Leicester.
By 1894, hosiery manufacturers Samuel Eden & Son were leasing the mill, and eventually bought it from the Portland Trustees in 1912.
However, the mill was sold to Clumber Building Supplies in the 1950s, who in turn sold it to Buildbase.
They ceased trading in December 2008, and since then the historic building has been left derelict and fenced off, although it has failed to prevent vandals and thieves from entering the premises.
Windows have been smashed, walls daubed with graffiti and any item deemed to have scrap value has been stripped by thieves.
Yet its architectural significance has great merit, according to the trust, who say two unique wheelpits have survived intact, along with original iron column structure supports and original roof timbers.
The adjoining mill ponds offer what the trust describe as an 'extra dimension' to the redevelopment, and could eventually offer up a park environment for the public, and become a wildlife hotspot.
Detailed drawings have been put together in a report published by the trust, who estimate the overall cost of the scheme could fetch £7m.
However, a breakdown of finances suggests that the first phase could be completed at a cost of £2.5m.
That would include buying the site, which has been on the market since 2009, restoring the fabric and modernising the site ready for use.
It is hoped it could then open the door for attracting revenue streams at the mill.
The project hinges on securing part of the funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with whom the trust say they have had three 'promising' meetings so far.
Trust member and Mansfield resident Bill Taylor, who 50 years experience in the building trade: "It's been fairly well received already, but the Heritage Lottery Fund will not just hand over millions of pounds and hope it turns out okay.
"This project is enormous. We've had to go through the process of a long business plan to make sure it's sustainable.
"It could be of real benefit to the community, Mansfield is often seen as being deprived of heritage. We're keen to push this scheme.
"We have put together a suitable business plan, and there's a lot of passion for it.
"It's unique, there's nothing in the Mansfield area comes close to what we are trying to achieve here.
"Mansfield was built on industry, and we have little to show for it.
"This would mean a lot to someone like me who has lived in Mansfield all my life."


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After Prostate Cancer Surgery – Managing Urinary Incontinence
by Mary H. Palmer, PhD, RNC, FAAN
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It's not uncommon for men who undergo surgical treatment for prostate cancer to experience involuntary urine loss (called urinary incontinence) after surgery. Our society places high value on continence, often making people who lose control of their bladder ashamed, embarrassed, and sometimes reluctant to seek help. Despite Thoreau's famous quote about men who "lead lives of quiet desperation," there are steps men can take to manage or conceal incontinence and to regain continence.
The urinary sphincter, a ring of muscle that opens to release urine or closes to hold urine, is located at the base of the bladder. Without the sphincter, urine would continually drip from the bladder. The prostate gland, also located at the base of the bladder, surrounds the urethra. Urine and semen pass through the urethra. The area around the prostate and urethra is rich with blood vessels and nerves that are vital to maintaining normal functioning of the bladder and urethra.
Incontinence can go away, or resolve, over time as tissue heals and the sphincter regains its strength.
Surgical removal of the prostate may traumatize or damage the urethra, the sphincter, and the blood and nerve supplies to these structures. If the sphincter is sufficiently weakened, urine can escape from the bladder. This is known as stress incontinence, the most common type of incontinence after surgery. Some men experience another type of incontinence, urge incontinence. This type of incontinence occurs when the bladder muscle contracts with such force that urine leaks out.
Many men have either stress, urge, or mixed (a combination of stress and urge) urinary incontinence immediately after surgery. Incontinence can go away, or resolve, over time as tissue heals and the sphincter regains its strength.
The following may help prevent or control incontinence:
- Keep a bladder record. This record will help you find patterns to your voiding habits and incontinent episodes. Note what happened before an incontinent episode and try to prevent it from occurring the next time you need to void.
- Perform pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFMEs, also called Kegel exercises). These exercises consist of contracting your pelvic floor muscle (the muscle you tighten to keep from passing gas) for three seconds and then relaxing it for three seconds. Do these exercises three times a day in sets of 10 to 15 while in the sitting, standing, and lying positions.
- Avoid alcoholic beverages, which can overload the bladder.
- Avoid bladder irritants. Caffeine can act as a bladder irritant, and some people report bladder irritation from certain citrus juices and spices.
- Drink plenty of fluids. Your bladder needs to store urine to function correctly. By drinking adequate amounts of fluid, you also avoid constipation.
- Avoid squeezing the bladder. Be aware of situations that increase pressure on your bladder and cause leakage, including lifting, bending, coughing, sneezing, and laughing. Before you cough, sneeze, or change position, you can do a quick PFME to prevent urine from escaping. It's also important not to let your bladder stay full for a long period of time. If you feel like you have to go to the bathroom and it has been a couple of hours since the last time, then go.
- Use disposable absorbent products to help you contain any accidental leaks while you are regaining control. Many different products on the market are designed to contain urine and prevent odor and skin problems. Use a disposable absorbent product designed for the amount of urine you typically lose.
- Exercise regularly. Physical exercise helps your body regain strength and may help your overall well-being.
- Seek professional help. There are professionals who specialize in urine control issues who may prescribe medications, exercises, collagen injections, or surgery to help you regain control. If uncontrolled urine loss makes you feel depressed, seek psychological help.
Urinary incontinence can be distressing, but it is important to realize you are not alone; help is available. Important steps to taking control are doing PFMEs; avoiding alcohol, caffeine, and other bladder irritants; drinking plenty of fluids; keeping your bowels regular; and maintaining overall health and a positive outlook.
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Dr. Mary H. Palmer is the Helen W. and Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, interim co-director of the UNC Institute on Aging, and co-director of the UNC Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research. She also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and serves on the editorial boards of Geriatric Nursing and Clinical Geriatrics. Dr. Palmer is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America.
This article was published in Coping® with Cancer magazine, May/June 2010.