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Osteoporosis is caused by an imbalance between bone loss and bone formation (known as bone remodeling). After age 30, bone loss occurs more quickly. Many factors over the course of a lifetime can influence bone remodeling.
Osteoporosis is more common in older adults. It is more common in women than in men. People of Caucasian, Asian, or Hispanic ethnicity are more likely to get osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is more likely to occur if full bone mass was not achieved during your bone-building years. Other factors that may increase your chance of osteoporosis include:
In most cases, people with osteoporosis remain symptom-free until there is a fracture. In those who do have symptoms, osteoporosis may cause:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Tests may include:
Osteoporosis can be seen with bone mineral density (BMD) tests of the hip, spine, wrist, or other site. These may include:
The treatment and management of osteoporosis involves lifestyle changes and medications. Although osteoporosis is highly preventable, it cannot be cured. Treatment focuses on reducing the incidence of fractures and slowing bone loss.
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NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases National Resource Center
National Osteoporosis Foundation
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Clinician's guide to prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. National Osteoporosis Foundation website. Available at:
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A total of $18,000 in prizes was awarded today at World Ag Expo to the winners of the 2011 World Ag Expo Forage Challenge, presented by Mycogen Seeds.
Finalists were chosen out of 37 entries from nine Western states that entered the challenge. The competition challenged farmers and ranchers to enter the bounty of their labors to see who produced the highest-quality forages in the West.
Samples of the finalists' alfalfa hay and corn silage entries are on display in World Ag Expo's New Product Center on "Q" St. and Expo Lane during the Expo. Attendees also can attend seminars to learn more about forage production.
"We salute the winners and finalists for their dedication to high-quality forage production. As presenting sponsor of the World Ag Expo Forage Challenge, Mycogen Seeds is pleased to have the opportunity to recognize these growers and provide information to help improve forage quality throughout the West," says Greg Cannon, silage marketing specialist at Mycogen Seeds.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition North America sponsored the $18,000 in contest awards and prizes. First place winners in all three categories received $3,000, while second place winners were awarded $2,000 and third place winners $1,000.
"Forages are a major component of all dairy rations and producing high-quality preserved forages is therefore a major key to ensuring profitability, says Robert Charley, PhD, Forage Products Manager, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, North America.
"Our participation in, and support of, the Forage Challenge at World Ag Expo is a key part of our efforts to help spread awareness of these key facts. In addition, Lallemand Animal Nutrition sales and technical support staff and distribution partners work closely with producers to help improve forage management and ensure maximum quality of their forage stocks. We hope to see the Forage Challenge grow to become a major event that will provide a focal point to truly challenge producers to achieve top quality in all their preserved forages. "
Following are the winners of the 2011 World Ag Expo Forage Challenge:
Alfalfa Hay Winners
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Farmers and ranchers from 11 Western states were invited to enter the competition. Entries were judged in three categories: alfalfa hay, standard corn silage and brown mid-rib (BMR) corn silage. Cash prizes were awarded based on forage lab analyses, along with a visual evaluation of the entries by experts in dairy nutrition and forage production.
"High-quality forage is an important tool in our agriculturalist's toolbox," says Lee Coito, 2011 World Ag Expo chairman. "This challenge not only provides a competitive venue for our growers, but also provides an educational forum for those interested in learning how to grow higher quality forages."
The 44th annual World Ag Expo, Tools for Agri-Business, will run Feb. 8-10 at the International Agri-Center show grounds in Tulare, Calif. An estimated 100,000 visitors from 72 countries are expected to attend World Ag Expo. The expo is the largest annual agricultural show of its kind with 1,500 exhibitors displaying cutting-edge agricultural technology and equipment on 2.6 million square feet of show grounds.


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Even though Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom got married this past Saturday, they aren't legally married, reports TMZ. Evidently, the couple has yet to obtain a marriage license.
In the case of Khloe and Lamar, they also need a postnup (instead of the prenup). Both of their attorneys started negotiations on Friday hashing out the conditions of the marriage. Lamar is reportedly demanding the prenup/postnup as a condition to legalizing the marriage. Attorney Neal Hersh is doing his bidding for Lamar, while Lisa Meyer is representing Khloe.
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When we last discussed leather shorts (a big spring trend for chicks!), you dolls were split practically 50/50 on whether they were a Do or a Don't. Maybe you're more decisive when they're practically Daisy Dukes on a member of the male species, like we saw at Bottega Veneta?
Those weren't the only odd bottoms, dolls--Roberto Cavalli thought his guy would just love a pair of ombre rainbow harem pants for next spring.
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The shorts suit may work for Olivia Palermo, but I'm not so sure it's doing the same favors for the male model wearing it at Jil Sander. Add in an electric blue hue and a cinched waist, and I could swear this thing was lifted straight from her closet!
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Migration Patterns
For roughly the first 100 years, the colonies remained a coastal civilization. It was Virginia and Maryland that were the first to begin a slow but steady migration westward. Understanding this migration pattern will often help the genealogist to get around (or over) some of those brick walls.
Roads were being made by chopping out underbrush and small trees in a swath ten to thirty feet wide. Many times, the largest trees were left standing even in the path just cleared. Small streams could be bridged with logs, but only fords or ferries on the main traveled routes allowed a passage over the rivers. Just imagine what fun in wet, wet weather!
The drawing above is my attempt to try and understand the early migration patter into my families' home. Thick, heavy forest; tall mountains ranges; and fierce ethic groups opposed to this western expansion, all produced obstacles to this migration. How folks arrived to a particular area, will often give a direction of origin to the genealogist seeking to climb out a branch of the family tree.
For example, if a family member settled along the Ohio River, it was a good bet that they came down this migration route, thus being from PA or VA. If they came through "the gap", it would be most likely they came from NC, or VA. Maryland had both routes available. In this way, a genealogist may be able to pick a "first" or "second" way to begin their tree climbing. Finding the migration/immigration route may be a way around some brick walls.
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I am very interested in migration patterns. My husband's family came to Illinois in the early 1840's from Maryland, and my mother's family came west from New Jersey to Ohio to Illinois then finally to Missouri, in the 1830's - 1850's. Thanks for the post! You've inspired me to dig a little deeper into the route my ancestors might have taken.ReplyDelete
Hey...your welcome...glad to help get those genealogy juices flowing. Please share what you discover.ReplyDelete
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WELLINGTON – (AFP) – A campaign to eradicate New Zealand's cats as a way of protecting native wildlife has raised the hackles of pet lovers, with critics leaping to the defence of their feline friends.
Gareth Morgan, a businessman turned philanthropist, has called for New Zealanders to give puss the boot, citing research showing the average cat kills at least 13 native birds or animals each year.
He said the figure was unacceptable in a country where many bird species had already been wiped out and 37 percent of those that remained, such as the flightless kiwi, were endangered because of introduced predators.
Morgan, best known for helping to ship a stray Emperor penguin dubbed Happy Feet back to Antarctic waters after it washed up near Wellington in 2011, said cat owners should keep their pets indoors and not replace them when they died.
"Naturally, I'm not suggesting you go out and knock your furry friend on the head right now," he wrote in the Dominion Post newspaper Wednesday.
"But if we are serious about conservation, then we must acknowledge that we are harbouring a natural born killer."
Morgan's campaign has not gone down well in a country where a 2011 survey by the New Zealand Companion Animals Council showed almost half of all households own a cat, one of the highest rates in the world.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) executive director Bob Kerridge said Morgan had no right to tell people they could not have cats in their family.
"I say to Gareth Morgan, butt out of our lives," he told television station TV3. "Don't deprive us of the beautiful companionship that a cat can provide individually and as a family."
Even on Morgan's own website, opinion was running against his campaign, with three-quarters of respondents to an online poll answering negatively to the question: "Would you make your current cat the last one you own?".
John Innes, a wildlife ecologist with government research body Landcare, said Morgan's argument that cats killed birds may be too simplistic, pointing out that they also kill rats, another major bird predator.
"No one's ever actually done the numbers to see whether the number of birds that those rats would kill is bigger or less than the number that the cats kill," he said.
"I'm not saying that [cats] are good for birds, but it's not a stupid suggestion."


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Lac Baai has repeatedly been proclaimed one of the best surfing spots in the world. Almost every day you'll see real pros training for championships. These windsurfing professionals also often give lessons, teaching others the tricks of the trade. With a bit of luck, you may even master the Gecko Flaka, a 'surf move' that originated on Bonaire.
This beautiful bay is also perfect for novice surfers. There's no reason to fear ending up in the water, since this lagoon is shallow and the water wonderfully warm. Further down the bay, the wind blows more strongly and the water is deeper, challenging even the most experienced surfers. Prefer to watch? The fine white sand of Sorobon Beach is perfect for lazing away the day in the Caribbean sun. And with so many beach cafés close by, a fruity cocktail is never too far away.
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Kitesurfing is a popular water sport on Bonaire. Although it is not permitted everywhere on the island, there are plenty of great locations where enthusiasts can spread their wings. At Atlantis Beach, for instance, on the southwest coast of Bonaire, dozens of large kites adorn the skies – quite a spectacular sight. Experienced kite surfers who venture further out may even come across a pod of leaping dolphins. Most dolphins are unafraid of humans and enjoy showing off their own acrobatic skills to those crazy creatures with their kites.
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The Four Locks community developed in a region where the Potomac River makes a hairpin turn, traveling a loop of about four and half miles before returning to within a half mile of itself. The Canal Company decided to shorten its route by cutting across the neck rather than following there river bank. This decision created problems, though, because it meant they had to build four locks (numbers 47 through 50) close together to compensate for the rise of the river over those four-and-a half miles. The community that developed there consisted of several buildings, including a lockhouse (a home for the lockkeeper and his family), a store, several houses, a barn, a wait house (for those on the boats), a warehouse, and a school.
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Hour of Destiny
By Loreen Willenberg
July 14, 2008
Sacramento, California
There are rare times in life when all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. The launch of this Blog occurs at such a moment for me, and I am grateful to Bonnie Goldman and The Body for inviting me to share it with you.
As an HIV-positive woman in her mid-fifties, I hope to encourage others to strive toward their dreams, whatever those may be. I know that dreams do come true, because I am living mine!
Three years ago, I resolved to dedicate the rest of my natural life to HIV/AIDS advocacy through an interesting chain of events. As is true for all of us, HIV or not, there are many parts that comprise the whole, and through this blog I will eventually share the back story that lead me to this decision. Today, however, it must suffice to say that I have been walking this path since my diagnosis in July of 1992. There have been many players, situations and places that have contributed to the journey and inspired my arrival to that rare 'hour of destiny'.
Since the fall of 2004, my volunteer efforts toward HIV/AIDS advocacy have become the focal point of my life. As 2005 came and went and early spring of 2006 arrived, the questions inside my head were "How will you transition from your twenty-two year career as a landscape designer into paid advocacy work?" and "Is it even possible to make a living wage in the field of HIV and AIDS during this time of funding cuts?" After all I haven't got a degree in either public health or social work. It was during these times that I would recall my Mom saying "Where there's a will, there's a way " and kept putting one foot in front of the other.
Four short months ago, with the financial support from my siblings, I moved to Sacramento. I brought my household belongings, Keena, (my fourteen year-old cat) and a big dream. I believed I would find employment in the nonprofit sector with an agency providing services to the HIV/AIDS community. In my minds-eye, I envisioned a job that would utilize my artistic background, administrative skills, love of people and nature, commitment to clinical research, history of volunteerism, and my knowledge about HIV and AIDS.
I fanned out resumes everywhere. I attended meeting after meeting to reconnect with colleagues on the Planning Council. I sent emails to my network. I contacted just about every agency in town and answered job postings by those agencies from craigslist, monster and career-builders. When I started my new phone service, I made lots of calls. Looking for work became a full-time job!
Two months passed, yet I kept the faith. Just when I was starting to think I should place my own ad on craigslist for landscape consulting services (a girl has got to eat, after all!), I received a return call from the facilitator of a women's support group to discuss an article I was writing for a local newsletter. During our conversation, I mentioned that I had grant-writing skills, did her agency need help with that process? She thought it might be a possibility, and promised to set up a meeting with her boss as soon as possible. Lo and behold, she followed up the call that very afternoon and invited me to the offices the next day!
The first thing I noticed in the Sunburst Projects office were two wall-sized collages hung on the waiting room walls. They showed hundreds of faces of children and staff members at a place called 'Camp Sunburst' with bronze plaques heralding the particular year of the camp. Both collages were impressive, colorful and alive, and I felt instantly happy to be where I was. I grabbed one of the brochures and learned that Sunburst provided services to children infected with HIV/AIDS and their families, with a special focus on women. I also learned that Camp Sunburst for kids would be twenty years old this year.
I was greeted by the facilitator, Mireya, with a big hug of welcome, who said Dr. Brooks was on her way in. I was sitting below one of those collages when I got my first glimpse of Geri, co-founder and executive director of Sunburst Projects, coming through the front door. A petite woman, sixtyish, with long flowing gray hair, she smiled as she reached out to shake my hand. Hugs with staff ensued, and soon I was ushered into a small office to the rear.
I offered Dr. Brooks my professional resume and HIV/AIDS advocacy biography to review. She looked up with a startled expression and said, "I need a professional landscaper at my home right now, I can't believe you walked in here today!" I was so surprised, all I remember saying was "Really?" as we three women laughed out loud.
Ah, synergy! It's a special event when it happens!
I told her I would be happy to assist her in my role as landscape contractor, and went on to explain the interesting transition I was trying to make. We proceeded to talk about grant writing opportunities and the background of Sunburst, and looked at the three-inch thick binder that represented the Ryan White grant proposal from their last application process. When she asked me if I thought I could help them write the next one, I said yes!
So, long story short, I did pull together her landscaping project, and worked alongside two talented men for the next three weeks to beautify Dr. Brooks' home. She made it possible for me to pay my bills and to get to know her in a way that I might not have otherwise. On the other hand, it gave her an opportunity to see me in my capacity as a project manager, coordinating a variety of tasks into a stream-lined whole, using the workers strengths and skills to achieve the desired result on her property, ordering supplies, deliveries, and tracking expenses and receipts.
What I did not know was her need to fill a vacancy for the position of Camp Director for the youth camps, and her concern over the lack of response to her job-posting on craigslist. All I know is that a bell went off in her head during our usual Monday update meeting, as I sat at her dining room table quantifying the number of bricks I needed to purchase that day for the project. She excused herself to make a call to her staff in Rohnert Park (headquarters for Sunburst Projects) to discuss her dilemma.
I will never forget her question as she rejoined me at the table, or the distinct 'click' of that puzzle piece locking into place -- as she looked at me and said, "So tell me, Loreen, have you ever worked with kids?"
To be continued ...
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Loreen Willenberg
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Loreen Willenberg, a resident of California, has survived HIV infection since 1992. She is part of a tiny group of people with HIV that scientists call "elite controllers." What is an elite controller? It's someone with HIV who has never had a detectable viral load, although they have never taken HIV meds. She also has an astonishingly high CD4 count and has never experienced any adverse health effects from HIV. Loreen considers it her responsibility as an elite controller to help other people with HIV, which is why she's currently participating in three clinical studies in which researchers are trying to understand how people like Loreen actually control the virus. In fact, she's created a new organization for people like her called the Zephyr Foundation.
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February 7, 2011 - On-the-Air: My First Radio Interview -- "Have You Heard of HIV Long-Term Nonprogressor?": A Blog Entry by Loreen Willenberg
December 6, 2010 - Marvels, Milestones and Mom: The Ups and Downs in a Year of Functional-HIV-Cure Research -- A Blog Entry by Loreen Willenberg
July 23, 2010 - The Alphabet Soup of Immune Control: ADCC Antibodies, (Memory) B-Cells, Elite Controllers and Exposed Sero-Negatives -- Will They Amount to Z? A Blog Entry by Loreen Willenberg
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ESPN has been making a little bit of noise recently about being willing to throw a few bucks towards wireless providers in exchange for letting its content roll through to users without affecting their data caps. While this may sound like a good deal for sports fans stuck with low data caps, there's a whole lot wrong with this "offer," above and beyond the obvious "pay-to-skirt-net-neutrality" issue. Chris Morran has a good rundown of the negative side effects ESPN's data subsidy would unleash. First and foremost, ESPN offering to help out users with data caps plays right into the industry's talking points.
Subsidizing wireless usage in this way would only give rise to this myth that smartphone data plans are capped because of congestion and a supposed high cost of moving data. However, studies show that the cost of delivering content to wireless customers has dropped while the user base has increased.Morran's right. The last thing the wireless providers need is someone granting credence (albeit in a very roundabout way) to their ongoing myth of congestion and costs. This allows these providers to continue dining out on this story while simultaneously casting themselves as "good guys" in the new narrative. "See, we're allowing you to access popular content without using up a chunk of your data plan!" ESPN gets preferential treatment, the providers make more money and everyone wins. Well, almost.
Well-heeled content providers like ESPN would not be hurt financially by subsidies, but if they became standard, that extra could effectively put up a huge roadblock — or at least a very nasty speed bump — to smaller startups seeking to compete.Basically, if one content provider is shown preference in exchange for a fee, it makes it tougher for the competition to reach consumers. If FOX Sports is just going to eat away at your data plan, it only makes sense to switch to the "free" data ESPN is providing. Wireless companies will be able to leverage content providers against each other, gradually levelling the playing field with fat stacks of subsidy dollars.
If ESPN is able to follow through on its plan, this will become the norm. Wireless providers will have a new source of income and exactly zero reasons to increase or remove data caps, seeing as the caps themselves are providing the incentive for content providers to ante up for unmetered data to keep consumers hooked.
As unmetered data usage increases, the wireless providers will simply adjust the argument, stating that this new level of network strain requires data caps to stay in place and that the infrastructure improvements needed to support this will require higher overage fees and lower caps.
Morran argues it shouldn't be that way, and again, he's right, but given the track record of most providers when it comes to data caps, nothing will change but the amount of cash flowing towards wireless companies.
If content providers do begin subsidizing wireless plans, then consumers should demand lower monthly rates — or the elimination of data caps entirely, as that extra cost will be borne by ESPN and others. Of course, we all know that will never happen.Consumers can make all the demands they want, but the simple fact is most of them lack the options to make a stand on principle. Even in areas covered by more than one provider, the differences between the "competing" companies is almost imperceptible.
From a business standpoint, this works out extremely well for ESPN. Even if most customers are in no danger of hitting their data cap, the pull of unmetered data is very strong. Unfortunately, it works out all too well for wireless providers, most of whom have shown little interest in upgrading their infrastructure even as they shed crocodile tears over congestion.
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Avoid it. When you start learning guitar, or anything for that matter, short but frequent practice sessions yield the best results. Most people get excited about playing at first and keep at it for an hour or more the first time they try it. I've known more than one person who practiced till they were sore, quit for a week, and repeated this with the same three chords until they decided guitar hurt too much and quit for good. Practicing 10 or 15 minutes EVERY DAY to start will keep finger soreness to a minimum as well as speed progress. As you learn more and gain finger strength, the practice sessions can gradually get longer.
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A Life Lived in Dreams
While Edward Masen is consumed by his own dreams, Bella Swan is haunted by those of others. Only together can they find a way out of their waking nightmare. AH, rated for dark themes & language.
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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty is not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
A Life in Dreams
When Bella Swan was twelve years old, she stopped going to slumber parties. It was a Saturday afternoon and she had just returned from a night spent at Anna Baker's, a girl in her class who'd thrown a karaoke-centric, sugar-infused party to celebrate her 13th birthday. No less than fifteen girls had been invited, and they'd all been instructed to wear something 'pink and sparkly'. Bella, not owning such an item, had unwillingly borrowed a bracelet from her mother, which she'd promptly discarded minutes after stepping over Anna's threshold.
Bella sauntered into the light-filled kitchen of her house in Arizona, where her mother was busy cleaning.
"Hello, sweetheart," Renee said, her hands decked in sunny polka dot rubber gloves as she sprayed sanitizer all over the surfaces. "Have you only just got back?"
"I went to the library," Bella said, opening the fridge and helping herself to a bottle of coke. She uncapped it and relished the soft hissing sound it made, watching as the bubbles surged up, threatening to overflow. At the critical moment she took a sip, preventing it from spilling onto the newly sanitized faux marble surface. Then, drink in hand, Bella settled down on a stool in prime position to watch her mother.
"How was the party?" Renee asked absentmindedly. She wasn't really listening for an answer; she was focused on removing a rather tough looking stain from the draining board.
"It was okay," Bella replied, sipping her soda. "I don't really like Anna that much. She made us watch while she opened all her presents, and then cried when she didn't get the lipgloss she wanted."
"Sounds lovely," Renee murmured, clearly not listening to a word. Her hand was moving back and forth, back and forth over the stainless steel, the cloth making an annoying squeaking sound. Bella watched her, and decided that this was the moment to drop her bombshell.
"Which is why I don't think I'm going to go to any more slumber parties," she said, waiting to see if her mother had heard. Judging by the way she turned round and caught Bella's gaze, she had- albeit only the last part. Bella internally wondered at the power of Renee's ability to hear selectively.
"What did you say, darling?" she asked, pulling off her gloves and dumping them in the sink with a flourish-I've had enough of cleaning today- "Something about parties?"
Bella looked carefully at her mother's face, wondering how this would be received. "I said I don't want to go to them any more." As predicted, her mother's expression became stricken.
"You don't want to?" she asked, confused. "Why on earth not?"
Bella opened her mouth, trying to come up with an explanation… and then closed it again, when she realised that she didn't really have one. Not one she could tell Renee, anyway, and the truth definitely did not come under that category. However, even with that aside, Bella doubted that she would be able to find an excuse that her mother would deem acceptable, because Renee Dwyer was, and always had been, a consummate socialite. As a child, she was continually out for play-dates; as a teenager, kids queued up to sit with her at lunchtime and boys itched with the chance to ask her to dances; at college she been elected student president in just a year. Renee loved people; she lived and breathed for communication. Gossip was her currency and parties her solace. It was perfect that her new husband, Phil, was a semi-successful baseball player, because his career brought her even more ways to network. Therefore Bella knew that no matter what excuse she came up with, no matter what story she spun, it would never satisfy her mother.
It's not like they'd ever seen eye to eye anyway. How ever much Renee loved her daughter – and she did love her - she could never quite understand her. Bella was so much more like her father, Renee decided. She preferred books to people; she could go days without watching television; she'd never expressed any interest in clothes, or fashion, or make up. She loved Vanity Fair… but the novel, not it's flashier, trashier counterpart. So, really, Renee wasn't as surprised as she was dismayed by Bella's announcement that she was foregoing the number one form of pre-teen socialisation. If there was one thing Renee could count on her daughter to do, it was behave in the exact opposite to how she had done as a child.
"I don't know, Mom," Bella said, her eyes downcast, fiddling with the peeling rubber of her sneakers. Renee hated it when she wore those things. She'd lost track of how many times she ordered her to bin them. "They're just not fun anymore." She paused, looking up and staring straight into Renee's eyes. "I'm sorry, I really am."
And they both knew that she was talking about much more than a stupid slumber party.
Much later, Bella sat on her bed, staring blankly into the darkness. It was past midnight, she knew, but beyond that she had no idea of the exact time. The street outside was quiet, except for the occasional murmur of a passing car at the crossroads ten blocks down. Renee and Phil were asleep. But, as usual, Bella didn't even try to close her eyes. There was no point. She was waiting for the moment she knew had to come.
She suddenly felt a pulling sensation at the back of her eyes, as though they were being sucked backwards into her skull. Her surroundings completely disappeared, and a deafening roaring sound filled her ears, her pulse going into hyper-drive. Then, just as the sound and heat of the blood pounding through her heart were about to become unbearable, everything stopped. A completely pure silence hit Bella with the force of a car crashing into a wall. And then the images began to invade her mind.
Oh – there – yes, there –yes, yes...
Hands interlocking in the darkness, lips on heated skin, and then she's falling, falling into oblivion...
And then it was gone, and Bella was back where she had begun - alone in the darkness of her room. Only now she was paralysed by the familiar, yet still sickening, feelings of nausea and horror that represented the aftershock. There were tears, too, on her cheeks. That was common, but it was worse some nights. Nights like this.
Even if Bella lived to be a hundred, she would never get used to seeing her mother have sex with her stepfather in her dreams.
Bella couldn't pinpoint when it had started. She knew she hadn't always been able to see into people's dreams – because that was, Bella decided, the only explanation of what was happening to her. There was noway she was coming up with this stuff on her own - she was onlytwelve - but she couldn't remember exactly when it had all started. It wasn't like she went to bed one night and all of a sudden, BAM, she was watching a second grade porno, courtesy of Renee Dwyer. No, this power – this ability that Bella neither understood nor controlled – had developed slowly. As the years went by, her dreams had become stranger, sometimes containing people she'd never met or places she'd never been. Bella would usually see everything through the other person's eyes, but sometimes she was an outside observer. By the time she was eleven and a half – about eight months before Anna's sleep over – Bella had realised that her dreams were no longer 'hers'. They were stolen, spied-on fragments of other people's.
There was no constant to the dreams. Sometimes they lasted hours, sometimes only a couple of seconds. They could be sexual – and those were the ones that Bella grew to dread with a cold, sick terror – but more often than not they were just normal, boring dreams. Her mother's tended to be about parties or engagements with her friends, although when she was stressed they veered towards endless shopping lists and phones ringing continuously off the hook. Phil's were generally about him winning the Superbowl in some capacity, but he occasionally had nightmares which featured him being chased or back in a ninth grade chemistry lesson. Sometimes Bella wouldn't see their dreams at all, instead finding herself thrust into the sleeping minds of neighbours, or even people further afield. Once she had even been her seventh grade English teacher, Mrs Pickles. She lived on the other side of town.
There was no method to when she saw them, either. Despite them mainly coming at night – although they had been known to invade her mind randomly during the day – Bella had no way of knowing when the dreams would come to her. Sometimes she made it all the way through the night without having a single vision. Those nights were like gold dust to Bella; they were the only times she could sleep uninterrupted. Other nights, the dreams would assault her mind in a barrage of never-ending images, foreign thoughts and voices raining down on her like a sea of mental bullets.
Bella couldn't tell anyone about the dreams. Even at the age of twelve, she knew that her ability, whatever it was, was most definitely 'not normal'. People would think she was insane. Her mom would think she was insane. Bella didn't want to do anything to further damage their already strained relationship and, somehow, she knew that telling the truth would definitely come under that category. She could imagine the conversation.
Yeah, so you know how I said I don't like slumber parties? Well, the truth is that I can actually see into other peoples dreams and I'm finding it really traumatic, as a matter of fact, no I'm not crazy, and oh did I mention that I know that when you and Phil go to bed you do more than just sleep and it makes me want to throw up?
Yes, Bella decided that it was altogether safer to keep her secret just that – secret. It was easier to suffer alone every night in the dark and the silence than to let anybody else in. Because if there was one thing she didn't want to do, it was give the rest of the world proof of what she already suspected they knew to be true – that Bella Swan was a freak.
So, the night of the day after Anna's sleep over, Bella silently wiped away her tears with shaking hands. The cool night air that crept through her open window brushed against her cheeks, soothing their burning heat, easing the remnants of shame and disgust that lingered in her still pounding heart.
She took a deep, shuddering, breath, sank back against her covers and rolled onto her side. Then, with effort, she closed her eyes, waiting, in vain, for dreams of her own making to come.
Three rooms away, Phil Dwyer dreamt he hit a home run.
As Bella aged, she developed coping strategies. The 'no-slumber parties rule was to be the first of a long line of tactics adopted to try and minimise the impact of her power. She avoided cinemas, theatres, or anywhere else that involved being around large groups of people in the dark. She never drove after 6pm and took odd routes around school and other public buildings to make sure she wouldn't come into contact with the apparently ubiquitous sleeping security guard.
Despite her best efforts, however, Bella couldn't plan for every eventuality. She still had the visions on a regular basis – mostly when she was alone, at night, but occasionally it was worse. A couple of times she had been caught off guard by a classmate snoozing in the back of the room, and had had to fight to stop herself from being noticed as she blacked out and was overtaken by the familiar roaring noise that accompanied the dreams.
Bella usually managed this – barely – but there had been that one horrible time in tenth grade Spanish when she had regained consciousness to find herself lying on the floor of the classroom, being scrutinised by onlookers. Despite her protests that she had simply fainted from the heat of the stuffy classroom, Bella had still found herself rushed to the nurse and her mother had been called. Renee had driven over from work in the middle of the day to pick her up in a flurry of panic and, ever the over-dramatic, had diagnosed her with epilepsy on the spot. It wasn't until Bella had agreed, under duress, to visit the doctor and been given a clear bill of health that Renee finally calmed enough to drive them both home.
Apart from that one, horrible day, however, Bella's time at secondary school had passed generally uneventfully. By the time she was seventeen, she'd perfected the art of blending into the background. Bella didn't have friends. She never tried to talk to people and, though polite, she never encouraged anybody else's attempts to get to know her. In the eyes of her classmates, she was aloof, distant, cold.
Predictably, it broke Renee's heart. As Bella drifted through her teenage years and it became even more apparent that she would never show an interest in any of the things her mother held so dear – fashion, entertaining, socialising – the gap between them became even greater.
"Why don't you just go out?" Renee exclaimed, one Saturday night in December, at the end of Bella's first term of Senior year. Bella was eating cereal at the kitchen table, her head buried in a book.
"Excuse me?" She looked up in surprise at her mother's words; she hadn't noticed her presence.
Renee was standing in the doorway, her eyes hard and critical. "You heard me. It's a Saturday; school's just let out for Christmas. All the other kids your age are out having fun, but you're sitting here reading Jane Eyre," her face grimaced at the title, "for the fifth time in so many weeks. It's not healthy, Bella."
Bella didn't answer. Underneath her frustration and disappointment, Renee did look concerned. The emotion was there, buried deep under the perfect face of make-up and impeccable clothes. She was worried about her. Worried about how little her daughter was living.
"I'm fine, Mom," Bella said. It was the same sentence she always churned out whenever Renee started this argument.
"You are NOT fine!" she cried, her voice getting slightly higher, "You might think it's normal to live like this, without any real contact with people, but it's downright weird and –" Renee broke off her tirade. Bella had suddenly got up from her seat and was walking through the other door into the hallway, heading for the stairs. Her face was white and her hands were shaking, but Renee didn't notice. "You come right back here!" Renee shouted, but Bella kept going, her head down and face forced into an impassive expression. Her breathing had quickened and her hands were trembling. Renee's shouts followed her as she mounted the first step...
"You've got no consideration for how I feel -,"
second step, third
Bella could feel her eyes beginning to roll in their sockets
"- Or how your behaviour affects mine and Phil's lives -"
sixth, seventh,
The roaring had started in her ears, but it wasn't loud enough to block out her mother's ranting below
"– how embarrassing it is when my friends tell me about how popular their children are -"
last step and on to the landing,
Bella turned right towards her bedroom. The darkness was descending and had to fumble her way, almost tripping on the rug
"– I didn't sign up for this when I applied for custody, I didn't think I'd be living with a robot -"
nearly there, nearly safe
Renee's shrieks were so loud now that they reverberated off of the walls of the hallway. Bella's throat was burning and in her mind she could see the blurry outline of pictures beginning to take shape
"– you make it so hard for anyone to love you, Bella. Do you think getting pregnant in college was how I planned my life? - "
two more steps, just two more steps
Bella dove blindly for the door, unable to prevent a gasp ripping from her throat as she felt her legs threaten to give way. She wrenched open the door and fell into her darkened room
"- Do you think I wanted it? Do you think I wanted this? -" Renee's voice broke and she began to sob.
On the floor above her, Bella's door slammed shut.
Across the road, while dozing in his chair, old Mr Bannerman began to dream of the day he had first learnt to ride a bike.
It was a nice dream.
But for Bella, it might as well have been a nightmare.
Needless to say, Bella wasn't happy.
She had alienated everybody at school; her own mother had admitted she was unwanted; the only time she was close to anybody was in their dreams.
She didn't naturally yearn to push people away – it was, like everything else in her life, a strategy. It was hard to form relationships with people when you knew their deepest, darkest desires. By the time she reached her teens, Bella had witnessed so many people's dreams that she was jaded. It didn't matter if the person was new – all people were fundamentally the same; their minds worked the same way, their mean thoughts and petty jealousies or spites were the same, their selfishness and egocentricity as uniform as if it was fresh from a mould. What was the point in talking to people? What was the point in getting to know the boy in maths, when she knew that the minute he fell asleep he would have the same lust-crazed, hormone fevered dreams as every other teenage boy in the world?
... Or at least that's what Bella told herself. Because pretending that all people were horrible made it easier to be alone.
Assuming they were identical would stop her from trying to reach out or make friends, and that was crucial, because if she got close to anyone, they would know her secret. And that would ruin everything.
At least, so Bella believed. So she told herself.
But then, she met him. And everything changed.
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Thanks to the "flightless" molecule, the spread of cancer from one tissue to another may one day be grounded. In a new report published in the August 2012 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.
"The study of flightless and its role in the control of cell movement offers the promise of developing new drugs and treatments to control diseases in which cell movement has gotten out of control," said Christopher A. McCulloch, from Matrix Dynamics Group at the University of Toronto in Canada. "We hope that one day treatments to regulate cell movement could be used to bring under better control the spread of cancer cells from a tumor into the rest of the body."
To make this discovery, scientists used three groups of cells that made either normal amounts of flightless, or were genetically modified to produce no flightless, or to make above-normal amounts of flightless. Researchers then studied the rate of movement of these different groups of cells and examined the specialized parts of cells that enable them to stick to tissues. When the stickiness of the cells to underlying tissues was examined, results showed that flightless had a marked effect on how quickly cells could detach from underlying tissues and move forward in response to stimuli that encourage them to migrate.
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March 24, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Based on his performance at the NCAA Championships held at Penn State this past weekend, Captain Michael Pearce was named as a second-team All-American. In competition against the best fencers from around the nation, Pearce finished eighth among all epeeists. This marks the second time in his four years fencing for Yale that Pearce has been named to the All-America team.
Pearce qualified for the NCAA Championship based on his performance throughout the season and his results from the Regional Championship. At the NCAA Championships, Pearce compiled a 14-9 record for a .609 winning percentage. This record was only one victory shy from earning him a spot among the top four epeeists, who advance from pool play to 15-touch elimination bouts to determine the first, second and third place finishers. Pearce's fifth-best record was matched by five other fencers, and their ranking was then determined by their respective indicators -- a statistic which measures touches scored minus touches received. Pearce's 95 touches scored and 92 touches received -- good for an indicator of +3 -- earned him eighth place in the competition and a spot on the All-America second team.
Said Pearce of his performance, "Personally, this was an exceptional way to end my collegiate fencing career. It was amazing to bring home hardware my last year especially because I took top eight my freshman year but haven't done so since. It was a great bookend to an amazing collegiate career."
Freshman Shiv Kachru also turned in an exceptionally good performance at the NCAA Championships. He posted a 12-10 record and a .545 winning percentage. Though these results put him in a tie with Brown's Adam Pantel for the 10th-best record, Kachru's +10 indicator was good enough to earn him 10th place and an Honorable Mention for the All-America team.
Kachru was quick to give credit to his teammates, team manager Andrew Holbrook and fellow foilist John Gurrieri, "I was very happy with my individual performance. Even though I lost many bouts by one touch, I would not have done so well if it were not for the help of Andrew and John."
"Shiv did really well, placing the highest on our team for a freshman since the 2006 season," noted Pearce. "Although he had some heartbreaking losses, he is motivated and ready for next season."
Pearce has ended his outstanding Yale fencing career on a high note. Moreover, the two standout performances are indicative of the strides forward that Yale Fencing has made this season, and Kachru's achievement is especially encouraging for the future of the program.
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When it comes to tires, besides quality manufacturing, I look for ease of mounting: that means using hands only.
Yesterday I put two new tires on identical rims and found that one went on easily — Bontrager — and one was a bear to force on by hand — Nashbar. I'm not surprised.
I find myself pinching tubes when I use a tire iron, so I look for tires that go on easily, which they should. Air pressure keeps a tire on the rim, not how tightly it fits.
Now there is a certain skill to making a tire just the right diameter and you can be sure the people who really care about this make sure they get it right. Bontrager gets it.
Everybody screws up, including Continental, an otherwise great tire maker. I'll never forget a cheap Continental I bought about five years ago, made in Thailand. It was the hardest tire to put on I've ever come across. I cursed that tire up and down every time I flatted!
The Nashbar is an economy model. I don't need something fancy. I just wish tire companies would take the time to test-mount tires before selling them.
Before I get off my saddle sore, there's one other item about tires that bears inspection. The bike industry would be doing consumers a big favor by making tires at actual widths, not nominal widths. If a tire sidewall says 700 x 28, make sure it has a 28-mm cross-section, not 25 mm.
Follow up: I have been told, and can now confirm through personal experience, that the rim plays a role in tire fit. The Nashbar tire fits easily onto a Mavic Open Pro 700c rim. I suspect this is because the rim is deeper than the Mavic MA2. I still contend that tire/rim combinations should be tested and rated for fit so the consumer can know what fits best. It's not an impossible task.


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Always try to arrive a day or two before your cruise embarks to shake off the jet lag. In addition, arriving early gives you time to explore the city.
I briefly explored central London to take some nice photographs and experience the city, rather than being hustled from airport, to bus, to cruise ship. London was so expressive and large and diverse. I can now return in the future and spend an additional week discovering London and all it has to offer.
What I particularly love about Azamara cruises are the longer port stops, which sometimes provide two to three days to explore. One can experience the destinations through guided tours, but then there's time to re-examine areas of interest in greater detail and get lost in the city and its way of life.
Get underneath the skin of each city. You can download an app called GPS NAV which allows you to track your location without the use of any cellular signal or local SIM card. City and whole country maps can be downloaded ahead of time. You can also find local restaurants, shops and things to do and look up recommendations using the embedded Yelp feature. Don't be afraid to get lost to find yourself, because the app will always guide you back to the cruise dock!
The excitement builds as I sail away on the Azamara Quest and our journey begins. I am off cruising the delightful havens and vineyards of France, Spain and Portugal and look forward to the adventure ahead. Please follow my journey with #LoveTravel.
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December 27, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 10
BMW's new HPS protects heads from serious injury in side impact crashes
Import automakers plan window curtain airbags for heads
Federal crash studies show severe vehicle damage in fatal side impacts
Graduated licensing has strong support among Nova Scotia parents, teens
Truck reflective material study finds tape U.S. requires may not be best
November 29, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 9
Special issue: airbags
Rare bird: only a few should get airbag on/off switches
Most shorter drivers can eliminate risk without on/off switches
Kids safer restrained in back in vehicles with and without passenger airbags
Child seats soon may be simpler to place in the back due to fixed attachment points
With on/off switches, some belts may have to be replaced
Hold on unbelted barrier test may be extended, different size dummies used
October 11, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 8
Higher speed limits mean faster speeds and more highway deaths
Gender fact sheet shows female motor vehicle deaths increasing
Benzodiazepines may increase crash risk among elderly drivers
Institute internet sites have new look and updated content
August 30, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 7
Saturn's bumpers are stellar compared with other small cars
Intersections can be deadly places for elderly drivers
Leading pedestrian interval signals give pedestrians advantage
Drivers want vehicles with airbags and are aware of airbag injury risks
Most truckers die in single-vehicle crashes, usually rollovers
July 26, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 6
Special issue: truck driver fatigue
Truckers need more rest, less highway time
Flawed fatigue study doesn't justify longer road hours for truck drivers
History of hours-of-service rules
Hours-of-service debate divides trucking industry and safety groups
Program exempting medium trucks from logbook regulations could spur violations
Onboard computers should reduce hours-of-service infractions
May 10, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 5
Luxury car bumpers flunk low-speed impact tests
Bumper performance varies among cars from same automaker
Ignition interlocks deter repeat alcohol driving law violators
North Carolina adopts strong new graduated licensing law
April 12, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 4
Special issue: head restraints
Cost of whiplash injuries: How much is real? How much fraud?
How bad are they? Only five passenger vehicles have head restraints with good geometry; more than half of the restraints are poor
Head restraint ratings for passenger cars, pickup trucks, utility vehicles, and large vans
Head restraint measuring device, H-point machine
Head restraint design: what's new now and what's just around the corner
March 22, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 3
Alcohol-impaired driving still a problem in United States
Administrative license suspension doesn't affect employment
National Park Service has ignored parkway hazards
Cellular phones quadruple crash risk when in use
Speed cameras reduce crashes with injuries in Norway
Speeds up in two states that raised speed limits
February 15, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 2
Airbag depowering, deactivation are addressed in comments
Consumers still want airbags in their cars, Institute survey finds
Large truck-car underride crashes undercounted in FARS
North Carolina seeks to raise safety belt use even higher
Driver license points would get nonusers to use belts
January 11, 1997 |Volume 32, Number 1
Driver education does not lower teenagers' crash rate
European driver ed programs also found insufficient
Crash tests show why airbags are important safety features
Brian O'Neill on the dangers of disconnecting airbags
Liquor stores, bars continue to sell alcohol to young people
Big trucks get airbags
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The freshman Kentucky Wildcats appeared rattled at the game's start and fell 15 points behind late in the first half. Once settled down they closed that gap to within four points on a 16-5 run, bringing the score to 35-31 before the break at the half. UK started the second half strong with James Young's crowd-roaring dunk shot. The Cats chased UConn's score to within one point on several occasions, but the Wildcats were never able to gain the lead.
Shabazz Napier's 22 points and 6 rebounds led UConn's more seasoned team. The Huskies couldn't miss at the free throw line, hitting all 10 of their free-throw attempts in contrast to Kentucky's 13 of 24 attempts.
In the end, after having been banned in last year's NCAA Tournament due to academics, the UConn Huskies were the top dogs this year, taking it all with a 60-54 win over the Kentucky Wildcats.
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A future beholds
This is my story of breaking dawn. Bella has a twist to her little nudger. Instead of having a wonderful baby girl, Renesmee Carlie Cullen. They have a boy. Ej Dawn Masen Cullen. Their son has a gift they cant even explain how Ej got his gift. With his father as a mind reader, and his mother a sheild, how did he get his gift? Maybe he got it from his aunty Alice?!
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I felt the venom run through my vains to my heart. How long was I here? I had my eyes close, duh. But I didnt think I was dead. I knew I was having what I always wanted. To be a vampire. But wheres my little nudger where is it? I keep thinking about my little nudger, while Im burning inside. I still feel the venom running through me, and it was coming to an end. I could feel the coolness as it took over my body, and my heart finally stoped.
"Carlisle, I think its over, her heart stopped." Edward, I think, called. "Bella, are you awake? Love?" He asked me in a nice velvety voice. I opened my eye's slowly to see him staring straight at me.
"Mmm." I said, I felt exhausted.
I sat up and looked around, Carlisle's office. Why was I here again? My little nudger! I threw my hands to my stomach feeling it all around. I was starting to panic. I looked at Edward. Like a where is it? kinda look.
"Love, calm down, he alright, he's fine." He told me, I was so shocked. He? I thought it was a she?
"He?" I asked him. "We have a son?!" I asked him.
"Yes, and I guess his name is Ej," He smiled. How happy he was, a son. I smiled to. And soon after, I felt this burning sensation in my throat. It burned.
"Thirsty?" He asked me teasingly. I smirked. "Lets go hunting?" But what about Ej?
"Cant I see him first?" I asked. I could handle my own son right? He looked at me and frowned.
"We should go hunting first love, he is half human babe."
I frowned. Man, I cant see my son till I go hunting! Take it or leave it Bella. Kay I'll go hunting.
"Fine, but I want to see him after, ASAP." I said sort of demanding.
Edward rolled his eyes, and smiled.
"Your still stubborn huh?" He said in a playful voice.
"I havent changed babe," I told him. I didnt right? I had my hair and my eye's I had my eyesn right?
He shook his head with dissapointment. What is wrong with me?
"You changed completly love, your eye's, they arent brown, your smell, you dont smell like floral, and your blush, I cant tell when you lie, and your clumsyness. You cant fall now." He said in one breath. that really must suck for him. He smiled though. I walked up to him and kissed him.
But there was a shock. We were warm against each other. I didnt care though. He was all I ever wanted. We kept on kissing, and then two chimes of bells laughed. I stopped kissing Edward, and saw Alice. She was laughing with a baby boy in her hands. Ej! I smiled. I was about to run up to him but two hands wound around my waist. I rolled my eye's.
"Edward!" I whined.
"Bella!" He whined back sarcasticly. "I told you, you cant hold him till we hunt."
"But I cant even hold him? I can handle! Honest!" I said pleading. I looked at Ej, he was perfect. He had bronze hair, my eye's. And he looked exactly like Edward. A mini me of Edward!
"Fine lets go hunting so I can hold our gorgeous son." I looked at Edward, then at Ej, he smiled, his white pearled teeth.
"Lets go before Ej changes his mind." Edward said. Change his mind? Huh?
"What are you talking about Change his mind.
"How bout I tell you later so you can find out later."
"Okay lets go! Now Im really thirsty!" I whined.
Without a word, Edward picked me up in his arms and jumped out the window.
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