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It's not every day that I chop into a leather coat. In fact, I don't remember ever sewing with leather before. But my bravery was rewarded last week with a new short jacket and a big chunk of red leather. I think I was more excited about what I could do with the part I cut off, but I do love my new jacket.
The first thing that came to mind for my extra leather was, maybe obviously, a bag. I decided to work with the bottom hem of the coat as the top of the purse, but this pattern could also be made using regular fabric. I'm big on pockets, so you'll find lots of those inside. I also like to wear my purse across my body when I'm shopping, so I'll show you how these straps can be adjusted at the end.
To make this bag, you'll need a piece of leather or 1/3 yard of medium weight fabric for the outside, 2/3 yard of medium weight fabric for the lining and pockets, an 8" or larger zipper, interfacing, one magnetic purse snap, two sets of large metal grommets and 66 inches of 1" wide webbing.
Cut two pieces from the leather, each measuring 14" across the top, 12" across the bottom and 11" down each side. The sides should angle in 1" on each side from the top to bottom. Measure in 2" from each side and 2" from the bottom at each bottom corner and cut that square away. It should be slightly angled to match the side.
Cut the same shape from the lining fabric.
Also from the lining fabric, cut one piece 9" wide by 8 1/2" tall for the cell phone pocket, one piece 4 1/2" wide by 6 1/2" tall for the lipstick pocket and one piece 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall for the inside of the zipper pocket. I chose to cut the last one from a contrasting fabric, shown in black below.
Fold the small lipstick pocket right sides together. Stitch around all raw edges (using a 1/4" seam, as throughout unless indicated otherwise) leaving 2" open on one side to turn. Clip corners, turn right side out and press. Repeat with the cell phone pocket.
Pin the cell phone pocket 3 1/2" from the top and 2 1/2" from each side on one lining piece. Stitch down both sides and across bottom 1/8" from the edge. Stitch through all layers from top of pocket to bottom 4 1/4" from right side to create two pockets.
Pin the lipstick pocket on the other lining piece, 4/12" from the top and centered between the sides. Stitch the sides and bottom 1/8" from the edge.
Draw a rectangle on the wrong side of the zipper pocket 1/2" from the top, 1/2" from each side and 1/2" wide. Pin above lipstick pocket so the top of the drawn rectangle is 3 1/2" from the top and 3" from each side of the lining piece. Stitch around the rectangle, following the line you drew.
Carefully clip through both layers in the center of the rectangle. Cut through to within 1/4" of each end. From there, clip to each corner as shown by the red lines in the photo below. Do not clip through the stitching.
Grab the bottom edge of the pocket and stuff it through the slit you just cut. Pull it from the back until the entire pocket is behind the lining.
Make sure it's laying flat on the back and press well from the front. It should look like this from the front.
And this from the back.
Shorten zipper, if necessary, but sewing over teeth and cutting off below. Make sure zipper still extends beyond the opening you just created by at least 1/4". Pin zipper behind opening, centering the teeth and making sure the pull is accessible from the front. Stitch around the opening, close to the edge, using a zipper foot.
From the back, fold the pocket up so the top edges meet. Press the fold.
Stitch the sides and top of the pocket together, 1/4" from the edges, making sure to move the lining piece out of the way and using caution near the ends of the zipper.
Your pocket should look like this.
Now that all of the pockets are completed, pin both of the lining pieces right sides together. Stitch 1/4" from the sides and bottom, leaving the squares at the corners open.
Press the seams open. Flatten the corners together so the raw edges meet and the seams touch. Stitch 1/4" from the edge.
Repeat with the two leather pieces. Be sure to use binder clips rather than pins to hold the leather.
Turn the leather right side out. Find the center of each side of the lining. Apply a 2" square of heavy interfacing to the wrong side of each side. Mark a dot at the center 1 1/2" from the top edge. Apply the magnetic snap over the dot, following the manufacturer's instructions, on each side. For mine, that meant cutting a small slit on either side of the dot, pushing the tabs through from the front, adding the back and bending the tabs.
Press the upper edge of the lining toward the wrong side 1/2". Slip the lining into the leather bag, wrong sides together. Using binder clips, clip the lining to the bag 1/8" from the bag edge.
Top stitch around the top 1/4" from the edge of the leather.
Mark your desired spot for the grommets. Mine are 2 1/2" from the side seam and 1" from the top (to the edge of the hole). Carefully cut the hole through both layers.
Apply the grommets according to the manufacturer's instructions. I can't recommend the ones I used because they were without instructions, even on the website they directed me to on the package. As far as I can tell, you put a ring on the front with tabs through the hole, one on the back and bend the tabs over to hold it in place. I like how they turned out, but the lack of instructions was disappointing.
For the strap, cut two pieces of leather, each 4" by 3". Fold the short sides under 1/2". Fold right sides together and stitch the long edge.
Turn right side out, which is a bit of work. Center the seam. Slide onto the 66" long piece of webbing to the center. Stitch near each end and 1" in from each side.
Slide the webbing through the grommets on the bag. Push both ends of the webbing into the second leather tube and stitch like the first one.
By keeping both leather pieces on the handle together, this can be a shoulder bag.
But you can also pull one strap up so one leather piece is on the back of the bag…
…and you can wear it as a cross-body bag. Cool, huh?
I chose not to add a bottom to this bag on the inside because I wanted it to stay a little more flexible for cross-body wear, but you could certainly cover a piece of cardboard or plastic and add it if you want it a bit stiffer.
Whew, that's a lot, right? Well, I'm not done…tune in on Wednesday for another project!


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The attorney for a conservative group that filed an ethics complaint against Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper did exactly what the governor is accused of doing.
Before Geoff Blue went into private practice, he worked for Republican Attorney General John Suthers and accompanied Suthers on trips for which the Republican Attorneys General Association covered some expenses.
Blue represents Compass Colorado, which says Hickenlooper violated the gift-ban provision of the state's ethics law by allowing the Democratic Governors Association to pick up expenses for him and some staffers at a policy conference last year in Aspen.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission on Monday will deliberate the governor's motion to have the complaint dismissed.
Asked if Hickenlooper was guilty of violating the state's ethics law, Blue said, "We'll find out, won't we?"
"The commission is going to decide whether that conduct is or is not an ethics violation," Blue said.
The commission also will consider a request to reconsider its decision that Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler violated the state's ethics law.
Both the Democratic Governors Association and the Republican Attorneys General Association have nearly identical mission statements: to support officeholders and candidates of their party.
But both Hickenlooper and Suthers said the conferences the organizations put on are a huge benefit to Colorado because of the relationships developed, although Suthers agreed "there is all kinds of political schmoozing going on."
Suthers said his deputy for legal policy usually accompanied him on RAGA trips. Blue held that post from 2008 to 2011. More recently, Suthers hosted the RAGA conference in Colorado Springs in 2012 and attended the RAGA conference in Hawaii last year.
"If you couldn't go to the meetings unless you paid for it out of your own pocket, some of us could pay for it but most of us could not," Suthers said. "That would be a huge detriment to the state of Colorado."
If the commission decides Monday that a hearing is warranted on the complaint, the governor's chief legal counsel said he plans to call Suthers as a witness. Blue already has indicated Compass Colorado would oppose Suthers being called.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission was created as part of Amendment 41, which voters approved in 2006. Critics of the ethics measure say it was poorly worded, and experts contend the gift-ban provision is the most difficult to interpret because of its nuances and exemptions. The governor's office says those exemptions allowed the DGA to cover costs for Hickenlooper.
The commission last year said Gessler, a candidate for governor, violated the ethics law when he used public money to attend a GOP lawyers conference in Florida in 2012. Gessler's attorneys filed a motion last week asking the commission to reconsider.
"The commission should not apply one standard for a Republican candidate for governor and a different, more lenient, standard for a Democrat candidate for governor," Gessler's attorneys wrote.
Gessler used state money to pay for the trip, while Hickenlooper's expenses were paid for by the DGA. Hickenlooper's attorneys have pointed out that two previous court rulings allow the governor to use staff at political gatherings.
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Three Racine sophomore students were notified on Monday that a celestial body they discovered during a science project had been verified as an asteroid.
The students at Racine's Prairie School will be able to name the asteroid, temporarily identified as "2008 AZ28," in about four years, according to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the international authority on known objects in the solar system.
Sophomores Connor Leipold, Tim Pastika and Kyle Simpson were able to make the discovery thanks to technology provided from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., which is also the alma mater of the science teacher, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, school spokeswoman Susan Paprcka said.
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Eastern Parkway follows the course of Jamaica Pass, a low area or valley resting between terminal moraines left here by the Wisconsin Glacier over two million years ago. During the Revolutionary War, Jamaica Pass provided British troops with access to American forces in what is now Prospect Park. This unfortunately contributed to the defeat of the Continental Army during the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776.


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Cherry LimeadeAfter that nice little cool spell we had, it sure has warmed up here in a hurry on the Coast. And with all that rain, it's left behind a lot of humidity. Already. Perfect weather for one or three of these. The homemade sno-cone syrup I shared recently is what I use to make these, and while I am not even going to try and say that this is a copycat of the beloved Sonic cherry limeade, personally, I like mine better. You can, of course, use any commercial syrup and I've left a few suggestions in the recipe.
Crush your ice, whether you use an ice shaver, a good blender, or simply pile a bunch of ice cubes in a clean dish towel and use a mallet with your own elbow grease - but definitely crush your ice. This classic is intended for crushed ice y'all.
I thought of increasing ingredients to post this as a whole pitcher, but frankly, I think a cherry limeade is meant to be made by the glass, like you would have gotten at the soda fountain from the local drugstore. It just seems right.
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Anyway... in all fairness, even though I think you ought to make these by the glass, I doubt you could stop at just one really. These are refreshing. Delicious. And downright addictive. I can't tell you how many of these I have made in the past couple of weeks, not only because the number is downright shameful and embarrassing, but mostly because I've lost count. They are just so darned tasty.
This mixture is based on a glass about 12 ounces in size, so if you're using a larger sized cup or glass - say like a big Tervis Tumbler - you'll want to make adjustments accordingly. Just keep your glass size in mind. I won't tell anybody if you sneak in a splash of vodka or rum for cocktail hour either.
Here's how to make a refreshing cherry limeade.
Recipe: Cherry Limeade©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 00 minYield: 1 (12 oz.) serving
Total time: 10 min
- 2 teaspoons of maraschino cherry juice
- 1 ounce of grenadine, commercial or homemade cherry syrup, or a combination
- Lemon-lime soda (like 7-up, Sprite, Sierra Mist)
- Crushed ice
- 2 wedges of lime
- 1 maraschino cherry with stem, for garnish
Add cherry juice and syrup to a 12-ounce glass and top with lemon-lime soda to fill glass about halfway; stir to blend. Fill glass with crushed ice, top off with additional soda, if needed, then squeeze two lime wedges in and drop them on top; add a maraschino cherry and straw.
Cook's Notes: I have used 7up, Sprite, Sierra Mist Natural and a homemade sparkling water (below.). Good choices for commercial cherry syrups are DaVinci, Torani, Hawaiian Shaved, Juicy Juice and other snow cone brands of syrup. If you want to go for a pitcher, a 1/2 gallon is 64 ounces, or a little more than 5 of these 12-ounce glasses.
Homemade Lemon-Lime Sparkling Water: Zest one lime and mix 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice and 1/2 cup lime juice (about 6 small lemons and limes) with 3/4 cup sugar. Add sparkling water (I use my Soda Stream) to make a total of 5 cups; mix well.
Shirley Temple: Pour one ounce of grenadine over ice in the glass and top completely with lemon-lime soda. Top with stemmed maraschino cherries.
Roy Rogers: Pour one ounce of grenadine over ice in the glass and top completely with cola. Top with stemmed maraschino cherries.
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Often, when schools raise money, students are sent home bearing boxes of candy bars, glossy brochures of flavored popcorn or other items to hawk door to door, most of which eventually gets sold by parents.
Not North Elementary School. They went another route – like having students run around the gym awhile.
The legacy of one of Lancaster's former schools is being further propelled with the creation of an academic scholarship.
The Barr Street High School Foundation, which was formed last year, is organizing the scholarship, which will be given annually to a college-bound high school student in Lancaster County.
Other specifics, such as the award amount, haven't been finalized yet.
With urbanized clusters now springing up in the Panhandle, Lancaster County Council discussed the future of highway funding in that area during its first meeting of the year Monday, Jan. 14.
County Administrator Steve Willis said due to Indian Land's burgeoning population, as reflected in the 2010 Census, several stretches of the area are now designated as urban by the Catawba Regional Council of Governments (COG).
As such, Wills said those areas no longer qualify for rural highway funding through COG, like the rest of Lancaster County.
A Lancaster real estate agent is facing multiple breach of trust charges in connection with more than $15,000 in missing funds from her workplace, according to newly released arrest warrants.
Kimberly Williams West, 46, 1505 Magnolia Drive, was arrested Oct. 25 and charged with seven counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent, per arrest warrants released Jan. 15 by the Lancaster Police Department.
A Lancaster woman is recovering from her injuries after she was bitten several times by a dog Jan. 12.
Deputies spoke with the 51-year-old woman as she was being treated at Springs Memorial Hospital a few hours after the attack, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
The woman said she was at her boyfriend's home in the 2400 block of Pineview Drive at about 10:30 p.m. that day when the man's German shepherd bit her.
Authorities are on the hunt for a man who robbed a store clerk at gunpoint late Wednesday night, Jan. 16.
The armed robbery happened shortly before 10 p.m. at the Dollar General, at 4472 Pageland Highway, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office press release. The store is located at Buford Crossroads.
Deputies responded a few minutes later and spoke with a female clerk.
The clerk reported that an unknown black man entered the store with a handgun while she was closing the store.
A packed house of firefighters waited anxiously Monday night, Jan. 14, moments before Lancaster County Council accepted a federal grant to boost manpower in the county's fire service.
Council chambers was packed before the vote with row after row of volunteer firefighters, fire chiefs and fire service members, many with their respective fire department logos emblazoned on their shirts.
INDIAN LAND – Blessed with an abundance of streams and rivers crisscrossing miles of rolling forests and rich farmland, Indian Land was once prized by the Catawba Indians and early settlers for its natural resources, including its wildlife.
Though it's easy to forget with all the suburban growth of the past decade, those rich forests off Indian Land's main corridors are still home to an amazing range of wild game – including some species you might not expect to see so close to home.
The recently concluded Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket fund provided assistance for many local families who have fallen on tough times.
In its last report, HOPE in Lancaster had received $8,700 in donations, which goes toward food for Lancaster County families in need.
The nonprofit organization manages the drive, which has just wrapped up its 53rd year.
HOPE staff decided to extend the donation period this time until mid-January. In years past, it concluded at the end of December.
Details surrounding the alledged attack of a woman at a house party earlier this month remain unclear, as investigators continue to interview witnesses.
Officers responded at 3:53 a.m. Jan. 2 to a home in the 300 block of Elm Street about a loud noise complaint, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
When they arrived, officers saw several vehicles leaving the area, though there were still several people inside the home.
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BERKELEY — How much will history matter to the Cal football team on Saturday against Ohio State?
It's a question worth pondering for a moment.
Yes, this is a new Cal team with a new coach, so what the Golden Bears have — or have not — done in the past perhaps has no direct influence on what might happen at Memorial Stadium against the No. 4 Buckeyes.
On the other hand, can a virtual mountain of history easily be dismissed?
Which leads us to this staggering fact: Cal has not won a nonconference game against a Top-5 team since … get ready … Jan. 1, 1938.
Zoom ahead to Saturday, and Cal's game vs. the Buckeyes will be played against this daunting backdrop: The Bears have lost 18 consecutive nonconference games vs. Top-5 teams.
The opponents include Miami, Colorado (in 1972, decades before joining the Pac-12), Ohio State, Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska (twice), Oklahoma (twice), Notre Dame (twice), Iowa (twice), Michigan State (twice) and Texas (three times).
The Bears' most "recent" — and only — win over a nonconference Top-5 team was its 13-0 shutout of No. 4 Alabama in the 1938 Rose Bowl. Cal entered that game as the nation's second-ranked team.
So you're wondering, what is Cal's record against Top-5 teams from within the Pac-12?
Well, it's a little better, but still feeble. Cal is 4-50 all-time against Top-5 competition, meaning it has a record of 3-32 against teams ranked that high from within the conference.
The Bears' most recent win against any Top-5 team: Their 34-31 triple-overtime conquest of No. 3 USC in 2003. That aside, you have to go back to 1975 to find one. And 1951 to find one before that.
How much will this mean to Jared Goff and Bryce Treggs and Stefan McClure when they walk onto the field Saturday afternoon?
Probably not a thing. They are free to write their own history.
But 75 years constitutes a trend by any measure, and one that may not easily be reversed.
For more on Cal sports, see the Bear Talk blog at ibabuzz.com/beartalk. Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at twitter.com/JeffFaraudo.


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Jets Eye Jaguars After Knocking Dallas in Thriller
Nick Folk, who was cut by the Cowboys two years ago, sealed his former employer's fate by booting a 50 yard game-winner.
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As the New York Jets prepare for the Jacksonville Jaguars on week two, they can take some comfort from their gritty come-from-behind
27-24 win over The Dallas Cowboys.
The Cowboys never in their franchise history had lost a game when leading by 14 points so late in a game. Their record had been 240-0-1 that late in the fourth quarter. The Jets, defensively and offensively, catapulted themselves with their first win of the season on opening day.
The first half was a defensive gem for both teams. The Jets held the Cowboys' rushing game to 28 yards; the Cowboys returned the favor, holding the Jets to 25 yards.
"We knew this was going to be a dog fight, there's no doubt. We told our team before the game - 'Whoever plays the hardest for the longest will win this game.' You've always heard me talk about it," said head coach Rex Ryan. "You talk about a team effort - that was it!"
The third quarter ended with the Cowboys leading the Jets 17-10, but the tug of war for victory began in the fourth quarter when both teams offensively showed their potential. The Cowboys unleashed themselves from the Jets bondage, temporarily, when Dallas' linebacker Sean Lee intercepted quarterback Mark Sanchez, and then scampered down field to the one yard line.
This was followed by running back Felix Jones' run for a 24-10 lead. Then on the next offensive series, Sanchez connected with Santonio Holmes, George Mason, LaDainlian Tomlinson, and finally Plaxico Burress for a 26 yard touch down catch. The game was now within reach for the Jets with 11:56 left. "I missed him early in the game on a third down," Sanchez would recall. "They gave us that same coverage - we came back and we hit him for the touchdown, so that was big."
There was magic in the air; but it almost dissolved when Sanchez fumbled with about six minutes left in the game and the Jets trailing, 24-17. Then the Jets defensively had something brewing in their tank; they forced Dallas to punt.
Mat McBriar lined up at Dallas' 41 yard line, and backup running back Joe McKnight crept through an opening and burst through the middle of the line to block the punt. Cornerback Isaiah Trufant, signed from the practice squad Saturday, craddled the ball in his clutches and ran 18 yards for the game-tying touchdown with five minutes left.
"When you get to situations like this, the thing that really starts to surface is the character of the team," said defensive lineman Sione Pouha. "In situations like this, obviously, there were situations last year that went down to the last minute, and the team prevailed. The fact that the team can prevail just mirrors the character of individuals out here laying it out for the team."
The game went down to the wire when the Cowboys had the ball with 59 seconds left and the game tied 24-24 after a Jets punt. The Jets' defense came through again when Darrelle Revis intercepted Dallas quarterback Tony Romo at the Jets' 46 and returned it 20 yards to the Cowboys' 34. Later, Nick Folk, who was cut by the Cowboys two years ago, sealed his former employer's fate by booting a 50 yard game-winner.
"I just trusted myself tonight, made sure it looked just like an extra point and just put it down the middle," said Folk.
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: As far as I know admission to the plane graveyard known as the boneyard is not generally granted. Just this past week I heard about someone who was taking photos just outside and he was surrounded by security police. All this in light of recent events.


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When Kymberlee Leighton's parents asked her where she wanted to spend her summer vacation this year, the Maine teenager told them Shelby, N.C.
When Kymberlee Leighton's parents asked her where she wanted to spend her summer vacation this year, the Maine teenager told them Shelby, N.C.
Kymberlee is a loyal fan of the Christian rock band MercyMe, which returns to Shelby on Saturday night to perform for the second straight year at the American Legion World Series concert.
The World Series and its related events draw visitors to Cleveland County from across the country each August.
This year, Kymberlee and her family will be among those visitors after traveling about 1,000 miles from Maine to Shelby to make the girl's wish come true.
And it's not the first time the family has traveled many miles to see MercyMe in concert.
It changed her life
On a snowy November morning in 2005, 11-year-old Kymberlee was riding in the front seat of her grandmother�s car. Heading to the store to pick something up for Kym�s cousin�s birthday party, the car hit an icy patch that spun the vehicle sideways in the road.
Before Kym and her grandmother could recover from the shock of their spinning car, Kym�s door was met by an approaching truck traveling at 55 mph.
Kym suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries, including damage to several areas of her brain. After a series of strokes in the hospital and almost two weeks in a coma, Kym woke to darkness � she was blind, with severe long-term, short-term, and immediate memory loss, in addition to no visual memory.
Even when Kym couldn�t remember people and events from her past -- and couldn�t recognize her mother�s voice -- she still managed to sing along to the songs of her favorite band, MercyMe.
'I can only imagine'
Kym had only been listening to MercyMe for about a year before the accident, but according to her mother, Darlene Sproul, she became extremely passionate about the band and its music afterward.
�Kym especially connected to the song �I Can Only Imagine,�� Darlene said. �Since she�s blind, she said the first person she�d see is Jesus in Heaven.�
In 2008, a nationwide wish-granting organization gave Kym the opportunity to meet MercyMe. Given a choice between meeting the band and swimming with dolphins, Kym said she prayed and heard God ask her, �Would you rather swim with an animal or grow in your faith?�
Kym chose her faith.
A connection with the singer
Before meeting the band, Kym�s parents bought her a MercyMe DVD to listen to in order to connect with the band members.
�Kym doesn�t recognize faces, but she is so tuned into voices,� Darlene said, �which is probably why she connected to Bart first, because he�s the singer.�
Kym said she feels a strong connection to Bart Millard, who does the vocals for MercyMe, on a personal level. Bart wrote one of Kym�s favorite MercyMe songs, �I Can Only Imagine,� after the death of his father on Nov. 26, which was also the date of Kym�s accident.
Bart and Kym both lost their fathers to cancer at the age of 18, as well.
�Being able to relate to the lead singer is big,� Kym said.
Inspiring memories
When Kym finally met MercyMe for the first time at Disney in Orlando, Fla., her love for them increased. Darlene described the band members as being down to earth and compassionate.
�The band members were amazing with her. When we told them how much their music impacted Kymberlee, they were humbled,� Darlene said.
After their first meeting, Kym and her family have traveled to see MercyMe in Florida, New Hampshire and Maine. The family now plans its vacations around the band�s tour dates, as one of Kym�s dreams is to see them in concert in every state.
Inspired by her love of music, Kym plans to pursue a degree in music engineering, and she would also love to perform. She has taken guitar lessons for three years, but tremors in her right hand and her short-term memory loss make it challenging for her to learn songs.
Despite her challenges with the guitar, music helps Kym learn and remember new things. Through repetition, Kym is able to remember song lyrics, and she can remember other information by putting it into jingles.
�Kym�s music memory seemed to be the only memory that was not impaired,� Darlene said.
'There is another side'
Music has also become an outlet for Kym. She has a collection of 3-400 songs she has written.
In a song she shared with The Star, Kym wrote about her cousin Jen and her boyfriend, who was out of the country on a military mission. The lyrics in the chorus could speak for Kym�s perseverance in her own situation:
�God�s given me the strength, push past the bullets, do this for you. I don�t know when I�ll take my last breath, I don�t want it to be today. Fears, and uncertainties that overwhelm, break me, are you broken?�
When asked what advice she would give to someone facing daunting challenges like those she has faced, Kym referenced another one of her favorite MercyMe songs and said to hold fast to the teachings of God,
�Look at it like there is another side � you come out somewhere, and God already knows where it is.�
Reach Katie Gilbert at 704-669-3333.
More about Kym
* Kym has Cortical Vision Impairment � her eyes and optic nerves are fine, but the part of her brain that interprets vision is severely damaged.
* She has recovered some of her vision, but it is distorted, like looking through a kaleidoscope, and it is limited to the size of two dice.
* She has strong math skills due to the repetition involved.
* She attends Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts.
* She volunteers at a local Christian radio station.
*Want to follow Kym? You can keep up with her on Twitter @13kymberleel.
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North Carolina was once among states with the lowest voter turnout in the country. But with new early-voting and same-day registration laws, the state had the nation's largest increase in voter participation from 2004 to 2008. Bob Hall is the executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a group that lobbied for the laws and is fighting to keep them on the books.
What's been the impact of same-day registration and early voting in North Carolina?
More than 100,000 first-time voters used same-day registration in 2008, and another 150,000 used it to update their addresses or names. We're actually the largest state, population-wise, to have same-day registration, and the most diverse. North Carolina is a state that is suffering from the legacy of Jim Crow segregation, slavery, and forced disenfranchisement—a culture that teaches people that "politics is not for you," and that's what we're trying to overcome.
Early voting jumped to over a majority of votes in 2008, 2.4 million out of 4.2 million. We did a study that showed that the single largest group using early voting in 2008 was African American female Democrats. In 2010, it was white male Republicans.
What's happened since Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010?
They're trying to make voting an exclusive activity for people who are highly credentialed and have property, money, and status. They're systematically trying to pass a series of bills that would end same-day registration and cut early voting back, and the biggest wedge they've tried to introduce is a government photo-ID requirement. At this point, we've been able to fight that back.
If these restrictive bills become law, will North Carolina's progress be rolled back? It would, particularly for the occasional voter. Putting more barriers in front of that person is going to make them turn away. There are more than 450,000 active registered voters—8 percent of the active registered voters—who do not have a current driver's license or a state-issued ID. The people without government IDs are disproportionately African Americans and elderly folks. African Americans, who make up 22 percent of active registered voters, are 32 percent of the voters who don't have a government photo ID.
What's the real reason for these GOP efforts?
Suppressing the vote of people they think don't think like their party. The Democrats did it 110 years ago. We had a turnout rate among eligible voters—which meant men, white and black—in the 1880s and 1890s that was up to 75 percent to 80 percent. But after the end of Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, the literacy test, and the poll tax, not to mention the Red Shirts and the KKK, drove turnout down. And now Republicans are acting similar to those Democrats, twisting the system to their advantage, which is not what democracy should be about.


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There are several common problems encountered when culturing cells. Problems in primary cultures may have different causes than the same problem in established cell lines.
The table below addresses some of the common problems encountered when culturing cells, along with their possible causes and suggested solutions.
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|Suggested Solution
|Rapid pH shift in medium
|Incorrect carbon dioxide (CO2) tension
|Increase or decrease percentage of CO2 in the incubator based on concentration of sodium bicarbonate in medium.
For sodium bicarbonate concentrations of 2.0 to 3.7 g/L, use CO2 amounts of 5% to 10%, respectively. Switch to CO2-Independent Medium.
|Overly tight caps on tissue culture flasks
|Loosen caps one-quarter turn.
|Insufficient bicarbonate buffering
|Add HEPES buffer to a final concentration of 10 to 25 mM.
|Incorrect salts in medium
|Use an Earle's salts-based medium in a CO2 environment and a Hanks' salts-based medium in atmospheric conditions.
|Bacterial, yeast, or fungal contamination
|Discard culture and medium.
Try to decontaminate culture. (See Decontaminating Cultures with Antibiotics and Antimycotics.)
|Precipitate in medium, no change in pH
|Residual phosphate left over from detergent washing, which may precipitate powdered medium components
|Rinse glassware in deionized, distilled water several times, then sterilize.
|Frozen medium
|Warm medium to 37°C and swirl to dissolve. If precipitate remains, discard medium.
|Precipitate in medium, change in pH
|Bacterial or fungal contamination
|Discard medium.
Try to decontaminate culture. (See Decontaminating Cultures with
Antibiotics and Antimycotics.)
|Cells not adhering to culture vessel
|Overly trypsinized cells
|Trypsinize for a shorter time, or use less trypsin. (See Dissociation of Cells from
Culture Vessels.)
|Mycoplasma contamination
|Segregate culture and test for mycoplasma infection. Clean hood and incubator. If culture is contaminated, discard.
|No attachment factors in medium
|For serum-free formulations, be sure they contain attachment factors.
|Decreased growth of culture
|Change in medium or serum
|Compare media formulations for differences in glucose, amino acids, and other components.
Compare the old lot of serum with the new lot in a growth experiment.
Increase initial cell inoculum.
Adapt cells sequentially to new medium.


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The heart weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (200 to 425 grams) and is a little larger than the size of your fist. By the end of a long life, a person's heart may have beat (expanded and contracted) more than 3.5 billion times. In fact, each day, the average heart beats 100,000 times, pumping about 2,000 gallons (7,571 liters) of blood.
Your heart is located between your lungs in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone (sternum). A double-layered membrane called the pericardium surrounds your heart like a sac. The outer layer of the pericardium surrounds the roots of your heart's major blood vessels and is attached by ligaments to your spinal column, diaphragm, and other parts of your body. The inner layer of the pericardium is attached to the heart muscle. A coating of fluid separates the two layers of membrane, letting the heart move as it beats, yet still be attached to your body.
The Heart Chambers
Your heart has 4 chambers. The upper chambers are called the left and right atria, and the lower chambers are called the left and right ventricles. A wall of muscle called the septum separates the left and right atria and the left and right ventricles. The left ventricle is the largest and strongest chamber in your heart. The left ventricle's chamber walls are only about a half-inch thick, but they have enough force to push blood through the aortic valve and into your body.
Four types of valves regulate blood flow through your heart:
- The tricuspid valve regulates blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle.
- The pulmonic valve controls blood flow from the right ventricle into the pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to your lungs to pick up oxygen.
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Like any holiday, New Orleans celebrates New Year's Eve in a big way, from fireworks over the Mississippi River to parties at hotels, bars, restaurants, and homes across the city. Downtown, Uptown, Mid-City, or the Marigny—all of New Orleans' neighborhoods will be alive with partygoers, including natives and those visiting the city for the holidays.
One of the most popular and memorable New Year's Eve traditions is to go down to Jackson Square for the famous Fleur de Lis drop at 9pm. People flood the square and the streets in anticipation and enjoy light shows courtesy of both the drop itself and the midnight fireworks show over the Mississippi. The event is free and open to the public, and the French Quarter and surrounding areas' establishments stay open after long into the night for continued late-night merriment.
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Boom Blox was a game that didn't roar out of the gates, but enjoyed a long and steady climb to something approaching cult status. If you can consider a game that crosses so many demographic lines "cult." We sat down with senior producer Amir Rahimi to talk about the sales of the first game, and what to expect from the sequel: Boom Blox Bash Party.
Reports of the first game's sales were all over the place following release, but Rahimi shrugs off the reports of lower-than-expected sales. "Our marketing partners, way before the game came out, told us what the sales curve was going to be like," he explained. "It was going to be a nontraditional sales curve, there wasn't going to be a huge spike on week one and a drop off, instead there would be a ramp up, and hit a certain level, and then continue to sell at that level. That's what we're seeing; the game just keeps going and going and going."
In fact, there was no downtime for the team after the game's release. I asked when work began on the sequel. "A week before the game was released," Raimi said while chuckling. "The morale on the team was so high...everyone was so high on the game that as a producer, as a manager, I had a hard time getting them to stop working on the sequel." There was no breath of relief or vacation. "These guys immediately branched the code base and started running, it was a very natural and organic process."
What is Rahimi most looking forward to unleashing upon the public? The online mode. In this version of Boom Blox, players will be able to create their own levels and share them online, and the creation tools have been significantly upgraded from the past game. In fact, the levels you play in the game were created using the same tools given to gamers. "On the first game we were building the game and the Create Mode at the same time to ship the game, so our own designers didn't get to spend as much time with the Create Mode as we would have liked," he told Ars.
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This is in contrast to how most games operate: build the game and then the editing tools. The team behind Boom Blox Bash Party created the editing tools, and then simply used them to build the game. If the tools weren't up to the job, they were upgraded as they went.
The important thing is making sure the levels are worth playing—anyone who has spent time digging through the many layers of LittleBigPlanet know how many crappy levels there are out there. Not only will inappropriate content be removed, so will levels the moderation team sees as "trivial," as Rahimi explains it. Don't expect to randomly place a block here and there and then upload your level, in other words.
"The level sizes are so small, a few [kilobytes], so you can download a dozen levels in a second or two, and play them just as if they were on your disc, before you commit to saving them. You can then click to save on your Wii's flash memory, and that level becomes permanently yours until you choose to delete it." A five-star rating system will also let you rate your favorite maps or spread the word on bad ones.
Above all, Bash Party is a game that's comfortable on the system it's on. "I get this question so much, and honestly I'll give you the blunt answer: we really want the game to be as good as possible on the Wii," Rahimi told me when I asked about porting the title to other systems. "We don't have a second to think about other platforms. That ends up clouding your thinking and diluting the game experience. Boom Blox is a Wii game through and through. If we went on to another platform we'd have to significantly reconfigure and redesign the core mechanics, but currently we have no plans to do that."
The game should be available at retail by the time you read this, for $10 less than the first game. I asked Rahimi if work on the sequel began... well, a week ago. He laughed, saying, "No, this time around we do not currently have plans to work on the next iteration of Boom Blox." We are promised—or warned—to expect more games from the team.
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Galax's first trip to Covington in 25 years will give a new generation of Maroon Tide football players a first-hand look at Casey Field, a dual-purpose stadium that in addition to the Cougar football field, houses one of the nicer baseball diamonds in Region C.
In keeping with that theme, the Maroon Tide will try to cover all the bases and take away the home run hitter.
In a nondistrict clash between Region C Division 1 playoff hopefuls, Galax will face a potent spread attack spearheaded by quarterback Troy Helton as the Tide tries to maintain its No. 2 position in the region's Division 1 standings.
A 5-foot-10, 155-pound sophomore, Helton isn't the biggest, but he certainly hasn't gone unnoticed by Galax coach Mark Dixon.
"From a pure speed standpoint, he may be the fastest kid we'll play," Dixon said. "He really concerns me. We've played some great quarterbacks. Shawn Christian [EastMont] certainly can do it all and Dontae Carter [Radford], you saw what he did to us, but this kid is more electric on his feet than those guys."
That's saying a lot. But with good reason. Of Covington's 23 touchdowns this season, Helton has had a hand in all but five of them, scoring 18 TDs as a runner, a passer, a return man and even one as a receiver. He is ninth in Timesland with a 123-yard rushing average.
"The idea is to spread you out and give him room to do his thing, and he can really do it," said Dixon.
Galax's last look at a spread offense wasn't its most enjoyable night of the year as the Tide allowed a season-high 38 points to Eastern Montgomery in a 12-point loss in early September. Though the Covington attack isn't as balanced as EastMont's, it can still be plenty dangerous. Dixon said Galax will pay attention to the edges but while keeping a keen eye on Helton.
"If they make us spread out like [against EastMont], it's going to be another 38-point night," he said.
After falling 37-18 to James River last week, Covington holds down the sixth spot in Region C Division 1, which will send six teams to the playoffs. Galax held on to the No. 2 spot despite its 20-16 loss at Fort Chiswell. It was Galax's second loss of the season in which it had at least one shot at the end zone in the final moments.
"There are a lot of reasons this game's important," Dixon said. "These are the teams we have to play and be capable of beating if we're going to be successful in our region. And it's important from a mind-set that we're building, but we need to continue moving forward. We've been in some close games that we still feel good about. Sometimes you lose a couple of close games and morale starts to go down. We haven't had that. But some day you have to win them."
Galax (4-3) at Covington (3-4)
Friday, 7 p.m., Casey Field
Radio: WWWJ 1360AM, www.wwwj1360.com
Last week
Galax lost to Fort Chiswell 20-16
Covington lost to James River 37-18
Last meeting
2009 – Covington won 30-26
Last Galax win
Galax is winless in the series
Common opponents
None to date
The series (since 1970)
1985–#Covington 20-0
2009–Covington 30-26
# playoffs
Covington leads 2-0
The season
Galax Covington
D Northwood 45-0 8/27 L to Alleghany, Va. 26-6
D Alleghany, NC 35-0 9/3 Open
L to EastMont 38-26 9/10 D Bland Co. 38-0
L to Radford 27-21 9/17 D Page Co. 26-0
D Craig County 30-21 9/24 L to Glenvar 35-14
Open 10/1 D Narrows 36-20
D Grayson Co. 23-14 10/8 L to Bath Co. 27-12
L to Ft. Chiswell 20-16 10/15 L to James River 37-18
at Covington 10/22 Galax
Bland County 10/29 Craig County
at Narrows 11/3 at Parry McCluer
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The Parapsychological Association presents the William Braud issue of Mindfield. Issue 5.3 features an unpublished paper by William Braud discussing alternatives to the model of the brain as producer of consciousness.
This number of Mindfield also includes some reflections by the new PA President Jim Carpenter, the Grande Dame of French Parapsychologists, Yvonne Dupplesis, is profiled by Renaud Evrard, Carlos Alvarado introduces the work of Italian psi researcher Ernesto Bozzano, Julia Mossbridge overviews a meta-analysis on presentiment studies, Gerd Hövelmann presents his 13th installment of Articles Relevant to Parapsychology in Journals of Various Fields, and Alejandro Parra reports on a survey of PA members.
Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association is an exclusive PA member publication that features theoretical, research, and historical articles along with regular columns by the PA president, news in the field, bibliographies of articles relevant to the study of parapsychology, and articles about researchers and laboratories around the world. Join now if you would like to support the PA and stay abreast of the latest developments in the field. Already a PA member? Log in and visit the Mindfield archive here.
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1969. The PA is a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization that endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry.


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Beijing, barely visible through clouds of smog. But what's the full story behind the images? (Jason Lee//Reuters)
China recently announced that it would be joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), as a global leader in terms of installed capacity and investment. This acknowledgement of its status as a clean energy leader may come as a surprise to some, given the recent headlines about the country's astounding air pollution. But in 2012, China invested US$ 68 billion on developing renewable energies, 55 percent greater than U.S. investments, making it the largest clean energy investor in the world. Installed capacities for hydro and wind power rose to 249 and 63 gigawatt (GW), achieving another two global "top spots." Looking into 2013, with aims to add 21 GW of hydro, 18 GW of wind and 10 GW of solar power in a single year, it seems that nothing can stop China's clean energy ambition.
However, what matters to the energy sustainability is not only the scale of clean energy products, but also the environment-friendly approaches through which the sector is built and operates. While clean energy is certainly not to blame for the large portion of pollution problems, China's efforts to develop renewable energy so quickly have generated some environmental problems, too. A lack of effective environmental policy-making and regulation has led to unsustainable practices in the renewable energy sector that cast a shadow on those "top spot" numbers.
The Reality of Environmental Impacts
While they constitute a critical building block of a sustainable future, if not managed correctly, production of renewable energy technologies can have some environmental impacts, and sometimes can even create hazardous pollution.
Hydropower is China's largest renewable energy resource. However, without incorporating sufficient ecological consideration into basin-level planning and engineering design (like fish ladders), dams built for hydropower projects can cause disruption of the natural flows of water that sustain balanced aquatic ecosystems. The country's heavily-dammed river system has led to decreases or even extinctions of fish and cetacean species.
For example, long before the Chinese River Dolphin (or "Baiji") was last spotted by humans, studies rang the alarm that numerous hydropower projects along the Yangtze River, including the Gezhouba Dam and the Three Gorges Dam, had segmented and altered the creature's habitat. Dam discharges also caused abrupt changes in water temperature, which disrupted the temperature-sensitive reproduction process of Baiji, further pushing it towards extinction.
Wind turbines, if not sited properly, may accidentally hurt birds and bats due to rotation of wind blades and related barotraumas. Therefore, wind farms are suggested to avoid migration pathways and sites of high population density. There is no traceable record showing that China has been conducting such impact assessment before planning on new wind farms. Without strict enforcement of environmental regulations – unfortunately often the case in China – wind power may generate other environmental impacts as well.
According to a life cycle assessment (LCA) of wind turbines, the making of concrete foundations generates particle emissions; the blades and nose-cone (containing fiberglass) are linked to heavy metal emissions. One indispensible component of a wind turbine is the strong Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnet which is located inside the generator and converts kinetic energy into electricity. In this sense, the rich rare earth reserves (especially neodymium) in Inner Mongolia should be a boon to the region, but without stringent implementation of waste treatment regulations, residents of the industrial capital Baotou have to wear masks on the street to protect themselves from acids, heavy metals and other chemicals emitted from the extraction and processing of rare earths.
Likewise, LCAs of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing reveal that the some processes are energy-intensive and could produce toxic by-products. Released without proper treatment, the pollutants pose health problems for humans and the environment. In the late summer of 2011, a heavy rain exposed poor waste handling practices at a crystalline silicon PV factory run by Zhejiang Jinko, which led to a 3-day protest from local residents.
Similar cases related to pollution in China's clean manufacturing and renewable energy sectors are still taking place, revealing loopholes in regulation and especially in enforcement.
Wasted Generation Capacity and Beyond
As discussed in an earlier ReVolt article, wasted installed capacity is a huge problem concerning China's renewable energy industry. In 2010, only 77 percent of China's wind turbines were connected to the grid. For 2011, given the considerable growth in total installed capacity and the increase in turbines connected to the grid (62.63 and 47.84GW, respectively), the ratio remained the same. The winter of 2012 witnessed a great curtailment in wind. Turbine idling is spreading like the flu, and many component manufacturers are cutting their staff, if they haven't already suspended production. In addition, the estimated proportion of solar PV installed capacity that is connected to the grid is 72 percent (calculated with data from the State Electricity Regulatory Commission and Solidiance).
Various aspects have contributed to such a gap in China between installed renewable generation capacity and actual units connected to the grid. Without proper guidance, the blind investment, fueled by local officials' pursuit of track records and renewable subsidies from the central government, completely saturated the wind and solar industries.
Local authorities' pursuit of renewable energy in some instances reached absurd levels. As early as 2009, solar PV was used to justify land-grabbing in Xing'an, Guangxi Province, resulting in farm lands turning into empty-shell factories. Until last June, totally untrained villagers pretended to work by the assembly lines only at times when government officials visited the facility.
This waste of not only electricity generation, but also of natural and human capital, further drives the industry away from true sustainability.
True Sustainability Needs Regulatory Supervision
If not planned well with strict regulation, stringent implementation and reliable technologies, the establishment of a renewable energy industry in China does not necessarily ensure true sustainability. The 'Great Leap Forward' style of thinking will not work. Every step, from the industry's own life cycle to the institutional regulatory capacity, matters to the overall sustainability of the industry. To reiterate one of the most important lessons from Worldwatch's China Green Economy and Green Jobs report: building a sustainable future requires using approaches and processes that are sustainable in practice as well.
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It also seemed to me like people's attitudes to women's magazines have changed – people value the web more for up to date, relevant information and some people bought the magazines specifically for the freebies, not for the read.
So this got me thinking –
What magazines do you buy and read?
I used to be a magazine addict but these days I don't have much time for it, and they're fairly expensive to buy. I used to buy women's magazines, photography magazines, design magazines etc.
I do get Make Up Artist Magazine on subscription (every issue is different, some are interesting, some are completely dull), and I occasionally buy LOOK because its cheaper and I like its easy to read format without any of the usual "Women's dilemmas" rubbish. That's one of the reasons I used to love Instyle, because they stuck to fashion and beauty but I find it a little dull these days.
I used to buy Allure from Borders (RIP Borders) but I did find it disturbing how there were ads for contraceptive pills throughout the magazine. Like, what? Go talk it through with your doctor!
Apart from that, I sporadically buy cooking magazines, like Delicious or BBC Good Food and if I am really desperate, I buy a Cat Magazine, or a Writer's magazine, which is always, always uber dull.


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What makes Dr. Fuhrman's Eat To Live Formula Unique
By Joel Fuhrman, MD
Since most people's diets are not ideal and individual absorption and utilization varies from person to person, it makes sense to recommend that all people take a high-quality multiple to assure most favorable vitamin D, B12, zinc, iodine, and selenium status, to name a few.
Even if your diet is ideal, some people require more of certain nutrients than others. For example, it is not uncommon for some people to need extra vitamin D, or extra B12, even when their diets contain typical amounts of these vitamins. This is especially true regarding vitamin D because of the depletion of the atmosphere's ozone layer and subsequent increase in skin damage from the sun. Because of this, many people practice sun avoidance and wear sunscreen, which decreases their vitamin D production.
I also took into consideration my recommendation to avoid all salt added to food. Salt is iodinated, making it the primary source of iodine in most people's diets. Therefore, a multiple will assure adequate iodine intake in those who avoid adding salt to their diet.
Are there any problems with taking supplements?
The main problem with taking a typical multivitamin is that it may expose you to extra nutrients that you do not need. Sometimes too much of certain nutrients can have toxic or harmful effects. For example, I do not recommend taking supplements that contain vitamin A, isolated beta-carotene, or iron, because there are risks associated with consumption of these nutrients above what we receive in our diet.
Ingesting vitamin A or beta-carotene in isolation—from supplements, instead of from food—may interfere with the absorption of other crucially important carotenoids, such as lutein and lycopene, thus potentially increasing cancer risk.1
The precursor to vitamin A, beta-carotene once was regarded as a safe and beneficial antioxidant and even recommended as an anti-cancer vitamin, but it has recently been shown to increase the risk of certain cancers when administered as an isolated supplement. Scientists now suspect that problems may result when beta-carotene is ingested without other carotenoids that would have been present had it been ingested from real food. Beta-carotene is only one of about 500 carotenoids that exist. Beta-carotene supplements are poor substitutes for the broad assortment of carotenoid compounds found in plants.
Why did researchers think that beta-carotene had such a powerful anti-cancer effect?
They had found that populations with high levels of beta-carotene in their bloodstream had exceedingly low rates of cancer. Recently, it was discovered that the reason these people were protected against cancer was because of hundreds of carotenoids and phytochemicals in the fruits and vegetables they were consuming. It wasn't that beta-carotene alone was responsible for the benefit; it was merely that it had served as a flag or marker for those populations with a high fruit and vegetable intake. Unfortunately, many scientists confused the flag for the ship.
In Finnish trials, those using beta-carotene supplements failed to prevent lung cancer, and there was actually an increase in cancer in those who took the supplement.2 This study was halted when the physician researchers discovered the death rate from lung cancer was 28 percent higher among participants who had taken the high amounts of beta-carotene and vitamin A. Furthermore, the death rate from heart disease was 17 percent higher in those who had taken the supplements compared to those just given a placebo.3 Another recent study showed similar results, correlating beta-carotene supplementation with an increased occurrence of prostate cancer.
As a result of these European studies, as well as similar studies conducted here in the United States,4 articles in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute,5 the Lancet,6 and the New England Journal of Medicine all advise people to stop taking beta-carotene supplements.
How have supplement manufacturers responded?
As a result of these studies, I expected many manufacturers to drop beta-carotene from their vitamins and substitute plant-derived carotenoids, but it never happened. This is one of the reasons I felt impelled to design my own formula.
Are there any other problems with standard formulas?
Yes. Since beta-carotene gets converted into vitamin A by your body, there is no reason why a person eating a reasonably healthy diet would require any extra vitamin A. The ingestion of extra vitamin A (retinyl palmatate) may be even more risky than the ingestion of supplemental beta-carotene.
There is solid research revealing that supplemental vitamin A induces calcium loss in the urine, contributing to osteoporosis. Too much vitamin A is known to be toxic to the liver, and to cause birth defects. The most common effect of toxic doses of vitamin A in animals is spontaneous fracture.
In humans, excess vitamin A is potentially a problem, even in ranges not normally considered toxic.7 One study found that subjects with a vitamin A intake in the range of 1.5 mg had double the hip fracture rate of those with an intake in the range of .5 mg.8 For every 1 mg increase in vitamin A consumption, hip fracture rate increased by 68 percent. Physicians don't permit expectant mothers to take more than 5,000 IU's of vitamin A (retinyl palmatate) because too much vitamin A has been linked to birth defects. These are some of the reasons why—for years—I have recommended supplements with the lowest possible dosage of vitamin A.
A recent study warns of the increased mortality caused by excessive beta-carotene
Is vitamin A still included in most formulas?
Yes. In spite of a huge volume of solid information documenting the deleterious effects of vitamin A, it is still impossible to find multiples without it. That is why it was important for me to recommend a multiple that included a wide range of natural, plant-food carotenoids (containing the entire family of carotenoids and not just beta-carotene). It was important for me to create a multiple with no isolated vitamin A.
What about vitamin C? How much is too much?
The current popularity of high-dose vitamin C supplementation is a possible concern. Researchers at the University of California found that men who took 500 mg of vitamin C daily had thickening of their arterial walls 2.5 times greater than men who did not take the supplement.9 Increased arterial thickening increases risk of hypertension and heart disease.
Keep in mind this is only one study. Hundreds of others have shown benefits of supplemental vitamin C for those on the vitamin C deficient diet that the vast majority of Americans eat. Other studies are needed to confirm these findings. However, healthy diets are already rich in vitamin C and contain over 500 mg just from their food. Since people on healthy diets need so little extra, I have included only 50 mg of vitamin C in each of my tablets.
Is excess a problem with any other nutrients?
Nutritional immunologists have shown that nutrient supplementation beyond what can be obtained from the diet is often necessary to optimize immune function, especially in the elderly.10 The downside to supplementation has been the potential risk present from consuming too much of certain nutrients. These include B6, iron, vitamin A, and beta-carotene. Iron is an oxidant and can contribute to infection and even increase heart attack risk. It only should be taken as a supplement when a deficiency exists, which is almost always due to blood loss.
Care to avoid consuming too much of certain nutrients is just as important as too little. I frequently find that patients who take an assortment of nutritional supplements consume potentially harmful levels of iron, vitamin B12, and even selenium or zinc. I designed my own multiple with special care to avoid issues from too much of potential risky nutrients, while utilizing quality whole-food, plant sources of those nutrients that offer nutritional insurance. It is unique for what it contains and for what it does not contain.
Because of these features, Dr. Fuhrman's Eat To Live Formula is an excellent prenatal vitamin as well. It also is designed so an elderly individual with increased vitamin D needs can take three or four a day (instead of two a day) and still not be concerned about the toxicity issues from too much of certain nutrients.
Do vegetarians have any special nutrient needs?
A total vegetarian (vegan) diet is deficient in meeting the nutrient needs of most individuals for vitamin B12. If you choose to follow a vegan diet, it is essential to consume supplemental B12. My multiple supplies the extra B12 and vitamin D that vegan patients almost always need, while still maintaining the vegan purity of the product. This was not easy. I was extremely careful and diligent to make my supplement totally vegan because I have become aware that the vast majority of supplements advertised as vegetarian or vegan are not vegan. For example, the vitamin D in most "so-called" vegan supplements is made from sheep wool fat. Similarly, many supplement ingredients use fish emulsion as a stabilizer. The documentation of ingredient sources and methods of manufacturing was carefully researched.
Can supplements make up for an unhealthful diet?
It is critical to recognize that all dietary supplements are supplements to and not substitutes for a healthful diet. To the extent that they offer some people the confidence to eat less wholesome vegetation, they are hurtful, not helpful. The point to be emphasized is that supplements alone cannot offer optimal protection against disease, and you cannot make an unhealthy diet into a healthy one by consuming supplements.
My Eat To Live supplement is the only one I know that has been designed to be gentle on the digestive tract, non-stimulating, and formulated to be added to a relatively healthy diet. It was not designed to take the place of healthful eating.
1 Mayne ST. Beta-carotene, carotenoids, and disease prevention in humans. FASEB. 1996;10(7):690-701.
Goodman GE. Prevention of lung cancer. Current Opinion in Oncology 1998;10(2):122-126.
Kolata G. Studies Find Beta Carotene, Taken by Millions, Can't Forestall Cancer or Heart Disease. New York Times, Jan 19, 1996.
Omenn GS, Goodman GE, Thornquist MD, et al. Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. New England Journal of Medicine 1996;334(18);1150-1155.
Hennekens CH, Buring JE, Manson JE, et al. Lack of effect of long-term supplementation with beta carotene on the incidence of malignant neoplasms and cardiovascular disease. New England Journal of Medicine 1996;334(18):1145-1149.
Albanes D, Heinonen OP, Taylor PR, et al. Alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements and lung cancer incidence in the alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene cancer prevention study: effects of base-line characteristics and study compliance. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1996;88(21):1560-1570.
Rapola JM, Virtamo J, Ripatti S, et al. Randomized trial of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction. Lancet 1997;349(9067):1715-1720.
2 Goodman GE. Prevention of lung cancer. Current Opinion in Oncology 1998;10(2):122-126.
3 Kolata G. Studies Find Beta Carotene, Taken by Millions, Can't Forestall Cancer or Heart Disease. New York Times, Jan 19, 1996.
4 Omenn GS, Goodman GE, Thornquist MD, et al. Effects of a combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. New England Journal of Medicine 1996;334(18);1150-1155.
Hennekens CH, Buring JE, Manson JE, et al. Lack of effect of long-term supplementation with beta carotene on the incidence of malignant neoplasms and cardiovascular disease. New England Journal of Medicine 1996;334(18):1145-1149.
5 Albanes D, Heinonen OP, Taylor PR, et al. Alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements and lung cancer incidence in the alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene cancer prevention study: effects of base-line characteristics and study compliance. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1996;88(21):1560-1570.
6 Rapola JM, Virtamo J, Ripatti S, et al. Randomized trial of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction. Lancet 1997;349(9067):1715-1720.
7 Whiting SJ, Lemke B. Excess retinol intake may explain the high incidence of osteoporosis in northern Europe. Nutr Rev 1999;57(6):192-195.
8 Melhus H, Michaelson K, Kindmark A, et al. Excessive dietary intake of vitamin A is associated with reduced bone mineral density and increased risk of hip fracture. Ann Intern Med 1998;129(10):770-778.
9 Supplemental vitamin c may hasten atherosclerosis. Geriatrics 2000;55(5):15-16.
10 Meydani SN, Barklund MP, Liu S, Meydani M, Miller RA, Cannon JG, Morrow FD, Rocklin R, Blumberg JB. Vitamin E supplementation enhances cell-mediated immunity in healthy elderly subjects. Am J Clin Nutr 1990; 52:557-563.
Meydani SN, Wu D, Santos MS, Hayek MG. Antioxidants and immune response in aged persons: overview or present evidence. Am J Clin Nutr 1995; 62;1462S-1476S.


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Michelle Obama Makes Light of President's Failures in Graduation Speech
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. Saturday that in order to achieve success in life, they must first experience failure.
"When something doesn't go your way, you've just got to adjust. You've got to dig deep and work like crazy, and that's when you'll find out what you're really made of during those hard times, but you can only do that if you're willing to put yourself in a position where you might fail, and that's why so often failure, is the key to success for so many great people," Obama said at the graduation ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School.
"Oprah was demoted from her first job as a news anchor. Now she doesn't even need a last name," she said. "And then there's this guy Barack Obama. … I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband.
"All jokes aside, the point is that that resilience and grit, that ability to pick yourself up when you fall, those are some of the most important skills you'll need as you make your way through college and through life," she said. "I want you to tell yourself that no matter what challenges you face that you will commit yourself to achieving your goals no matter where life takes you."
As a student introduced Obama, he noted that his own mother found inspiration in the first lady and her well toned arms.
"Now my mom's arms look better than mine," the graduate said.
"I would love to see your mom's arms. Where are they?" Obama asked as she started her speech and asked the graduate's mother to stand. "Yes! I love that, and she's showing them off too!"
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Madma wrote:Thanks for the answer, but in FL 12.5 this never happened (I think also FL 12.9 but I'm not sure 100%).
Could you create a simple file that has this problem (if possible, using just the Fabfilter plugin) and upload it here?
Do you still have FL 12 installed? If so, create the flp file in that version (for easier testing).


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