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Why do people eat when they are not hungry? According to the foundational theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), people overeat to tranquilize unresolved negative emotions and traumas. Recent research has established that obese people overeat because their food cravings are controlled by the same part of the brain that control drug cravings in addicts. This brain circuitry located in the hippocampus is also the part of the brain that is involved with emotion.
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In other medical news, pharmaceutical giant, Merck abandoned their anti-obesity drug MK-0577 when it failed to produce significant weight loss results in human clinical trials. Meanwhile, a French pharmaceutical company is awaiting US FDA approval for their "magic bullet for obesity" drug, rimonabant.
In one year, this drug, plus a low calorie diet resulted in an average weight loss of less than 11 pounds in obese drug trial participants. Only those on a high dose of the drug had noteworthy weight loss and the accompanying side effects included nausea, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, joint pain as well as psychiatric and nervous system disorders.
In contrast, when people use EFT for their food addictions, there are no drugs involved and even willpower is unnecessary if users connect with and resolve their emotional reasons for turning to unhealthy foods. In 80% of the cases immediate food cravings subside in moments. Craig acknowledges, "While this is not yet mainstream thinking, hundreds of doctors, psychiatrists and psychotherapists are using EFT to help their patients change their relationships with food."
Craig reports, "I see repeatedly that emotional issues like fear, anger, boredom, shame, and resentment are the very centerpiece of someone's weight gain. But their emotional issues have remained unresolved despite willpower and conventional therapies. This is because the emotional issues have disrupted their energy meridian system (or Chi in Chinese Medicine). Until the energy system is balanced, the emotional eating will continue."
Over 400,000 people have downloaded Craig's free training manual and another 10,000 download it each month, making it one of the fastest-growing healing modalities in the world. Known as The EFT Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The EFT website is the fourth most actively visited natural health site in the world.
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I am researching what I believe is BS when it comes to defining a "moderate" Muslim. I do not believe once can exist if they believe in the Koran and Mohammad. Please read:
Muslim Demon Worshippers Join The Terrorists In Iraq Busts The Myth That Sufi Islam is Peaceful
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The Muslim terrorist demons in Iraq will soon force open western eyelids to witness what the Naqshbandi Sufi order in Iraq and the rest of the world is all about. The Sufis surprisingly just joined the ranks of the most notorious Muslim terrorists in the world; the ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). The Sufi order is now one of the largest five armed factions that joined the terrorists who are opposing the Iraqi government.
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Honestly, the only reason I even watched the second half was to see when the Bobcats would surpass that ever-elusive 60-point barrier they fell short of last time (the answer: four minutes left in the third quarter), whether 'Sheed would pick up his second technical of the game (nope), and if KG would really come to blows with Nazr Mohammed. (And, if so, would Stephen Jackson fire bullets into midair to end the beef, only to get run over by a car -- or, in this case, Perk?) Sadly, none of that happened either.
All I need to do to explain to you how badly the Bobcats were outclassed is to tell you one thing: Nazr Mohammed (yes, THAT Nazr Mohammed) was arguably their best player. From my experience following the NBA, let me share some valuable knowledge with you: When Nazr Mohammed is your team's best player on any given night, you are going to lose on that night.
The player who's supposed to be their best player, Gerald Wallace, was completely non-existent. Greg Payne from CelticsBlog wrote an article titled "Paul Pierce Will Have His Hands Full With Gerald Wallace", but Pierce remained empty-handed the whole game, as Wallace more or less entirely disappeared. Mike Gorman noted, "Wallace wishes he didn't get up this morning," but his play was even worse than that. He probably wishes he doesn't get up tomorrow morning, either.
The Celtics, much like they've done recently, played great team basketball. They moved the ball terrifically, at times looking like a well-oiled machine. Playing against a Charlotte Bobcats team with an old, slow, and weak frontline, the C's did just what they should do; pound the ball inside. (Note: What the hell happened to Tyson Chandler? A few years ago, he was on the National Team. Yes, the USA National Team. And yes, for basketball. Now, he looks like Space Jam's Monstars took over every skill he ever had, as well as all of his athletic ability.)
Kendrick Perkins was dominant. He rebounded, he blocked shots, he scored, and he even threw in a between-the-legs crossover move to blow by Mohammed for good measure. (Okay, maybe "blow by" isn't the right phrase. How does "rumble by" sound? A little more accurate? Good.)
But you know what? That crossover, as nice and unexpected as it was, wasn't even my favorite part of Perk's game. So what was my favorite part, you ask? When he fouled a Charlotte player and, instead of sending a menacing scowl in the direction of Mr. Referee, he simply raised his hand and admitted the foul. It wasn't a nice play, and it wasn't positive for either Perk or the C's, but Damn! did it make me chuckle. Since when does Perk politely raise his arm after getting whistled for a foul? Seeing him do that proves true the old adage: There's a first time for everything.
Besides Perk, Ray Allen was Boston's other stud. After a prolonged slump left Ray shooting only 30% from behind the arc, it was nice to see the classy star break out for 27 points, including 5-6 shooting from three-point land. He drained a couple threes to start off the first quarter and, by that point, had already matched the total number of three-pointers the Bobcats would hit in the entire game. (Which, coincidentally, is also the number of threes they've drained against the Celtics ALL SEASON -- two.)
While just about everybody for the C's played well, one thing people might complain about is Doc's decision to put the starters back into a 20-point blowout with six minutes remaining. I see why you would complain; after all, who needs KG getting hurt playing useless garbage time? Still, I don't think it was all that bad. Even with those minutes, Ray Allen was the only starter above 33 minutes. (36 for Ray, 33 for Pierce, 31 for Rondo, 29 for Perk, and 26 for Garnett.) Maybe Doc shouldn't have put those guys back in -- and, really, I still don't get why he did. It was still a 20-point lead! -- but, with those minutes, nobody should be too worn out for Thursday night's game in San Antonio.
Anything else worth noting? Ummm... Garnett got into a little scuffle with Mohammed in the first half. Rasheed got another weak tech. (This time, he was walking off the floor when the whistle was blown. His reputation really kills him when it comes to techs.) Rondo was decent, Pierce had his first single-digit scoring output of the season, and Garnett continued his efficient play. D.J. Augustin barely played any minutes, Flip Murray was horrendous, and Boris Diaw is kind of chunky.
After winning in such convincing fashion, on the road -- again -- I want to say the Celtics are road warriors, but I think it has a lot more to do with who they played in their losses, rather than where they played those games. Had the Celtics played Atlanta, Phoenix and Orlando on the road rather than at home, they probably still would have lost all those games. Being on the road shouldn't help win games... right? Right?
Anyways, on a completely unrelated note, it sure is fun, ain't it?
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Norco Horseweek's third annual barrel racing contest drew 80 or so participants from around the state Wednesday night, April 22, to the Ingalls Park Moreno Arena.
Eva Casario, 14, took home top honors among Norco residents and was awarded a gold-plated belt buckle. The competition took more than five hours.
"Horseweek is a wonderful event because it brings out lots of people in our community that don't normally come out," said Jerry Lunde, who coordinated the race with his wife, Shelly. "It was a really great turnout."
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The study published in the Nov. 25 issue of Science was led by Alejandro Snchez Alvarado, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the U of U School of Medicine, and carried out by members of his laboratory, in particular Helen Hay Whitney Foundation post-doctoral fellow Peter W. Reddien who is now an Associate Member at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Elimination of smedwi-2 not only leads to an inability to mount a regenerative response after amputation, but also to the eventual demise of unamputated animals along a reproducible series of events, that is, regression of the head tip, curling of the body and tissue disintegration. These defects are very similar to what is observed after the planarian stem cells are destroyed by lethal doses of irradiation. The key difference, however, is that the irradiation-like defects observed in animals devoid of smedwi-2 occur even though the stem cells are still present in the organism.
This finding suggests something surprising: the instructions that a daughter stem cell needs to differentiate for regeneration or for maintaining tissue structure begin to be defined at the time of division of its parent cell. "Once the smedwi-2 molecule is eliminated, the animal is destined to die since the functions of the daughter cells are severely compromised" said Snchez Alvarado.
The study follows a landmark work that he and Reddien published last spring in Developmental Cell, in which, using a method of gene silencing called RNA interference (RNAi), the researchers silenced more than 1,000 planarian genes, some of which they identified as essential
Contact: Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
University of Utah Health Sciences Center


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Annual Fund
Our commitment to carry the values of President Lincoln to future generations.
September 2019
Dear Friend of Hildene,
Over the course of the last eighteen years we – staff, board, volunteers and our generous donors – have transformed Hildene from a very nice, local house museum to a 412 acre, world-class cultural heritage site. As a result, we draw 42,000 visitors annually from around the world, another 4,500 wedding guests and we host 10,000 student days a year. As that activity translates into salaries, room nights, meals in restaurants, purchase of supplies and construction of projects, we generate $15,000,000 for the area economy each year.
As much as all of that matters, there is something even more profound going on here; we are a unifier in what can seem a hopelessly divided world. This goes to the heart of why Hildene means so much to me and why I believe it is on its way to becoming something larger than a site. It is becoming an idea with the power of purpose reaching far beyond its physical borders. Hildene is committed to bringing people together toward the common purpose of achieving America's, even the world's, highest ideals.
Emanating straight from Abraham Lincoln, our core values are Integrity, Perseverance and Civic Responsibility. We hold ourselves to the not always easy standard of living our stated values so that anybody who comes into contact with Hildene is reminded of the possibility of America as the civil, constructive society Lincoln exemplifies. We do it by living our environmental ethic; our commitment to young people; and through our high-quality programming.
Everything we do is about others. We work as hard as we have to work to offer our school programs, summer camps, Youth Corps, high school program and our summer jobs program. It would be easier not to, but they are a large part of our contribution to society; they are a large part of the reason we exist.
In the midst of all the hard work, Hildene is a place brimming with joy. I feel it just coming down the driveway each morning because I know that we are positively impacting young lives across the entire property; I know how much our staff cares about Hildene; I know how much our dedicated volunteers care about creating the best experience possible for all our guests; and I know the joy visitors feel as they spend their day with us. And, I know that, even if they can't put their finger on it, guests leave with the sense they have experienced something meaningful.
When I wrote last December to let you know that 2019 would be my last year as President of Hildene, I spoke of wanting to leave on top and, even more importantly, of wanting to leave Hildene positioned for continued success under Brian Keefe, who will take my place in January. I have worked as hard as I have ever worked since then to tie up loose ends, finish projects and simply to get things done. For his part, Brian has taken full advantage of what will be a ten-month apprenticeship to learn the operation and systems, to get to know staff, volunteers and donors, and to internalize Hildene's unique culture.
The place Hildene has taken on the world stage is already remarkable; the possibilities ahead of us are astonishing. Please do everything you can to help us end this year in the black. You will be doing me a final favor and you will make sure Brian starts his tenure from a position of strength. I am eternally grateful for all the support I have received for the last eighteen years. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Seth Bongartz
We are an internationally recognized Lincoln site, drawing visitors from around the world and every state in the Union;
We are the only Lincoln site focused on promoting President Lincoln's core values of Integrity, Perseverance and Civic Responsibility;
We have increased attendance from 19,000 in 2005 to over 42,000 in 2019;
We know that half of those 42,000 are in the area for the purpose of coming to Hildene, while the other half come on the recommendation of our friends in the surrounding area;
We serve nearly 3,500 elementary and middle school children each year with excellent programming focused on natural science, agriculture and hands-on history;
Our summer jobs program provides employment and teaches life skills to as many as 15 high school and college students each summer;
Our Eighth Grade Lincoln Essay Competition, run statewide, has become a part of the curriculum in many Vermont middle schools;
We provide excellent programming for adults on topics connected to Hildene's mission;
Our 412 acres in the middle of Manchester represent one of the great land conservation projects in Southern Vermont;
By returning agriculture to Hildene through the goat dairy on the upper level and Dene Farm on the lower, we help keep alive a vital component of Vermont's heritage;
We plant and manage our landscape to provide habitat for pollinators;
We use only organically-derived pesticides or herbicides, even then very rarely;
We contribute $15,000,000 annually to the economy of The Shires;
Hildene provides an authentic, soul-enriching experience that draws people back year-after-year, time-after-time.


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Creating a One-Word Brand Statement
What do your customers think of when they see your organization's name and logo? Your public image is important and should be up-to-date and fresh, especially during times of swift technology, cultural changes, and new generations. Every organization should go through a periodic review of how it is viewed and how it wants to be viewed by customers, donors and prospects.
While sitting in an organization's Board of Directors meeting last month, the topic came up of the desire to create a new logo. It had been the 1990s when it was last updated, and at that, it still had visual remnants of a decidedly 1970s feel. It was agreed a new logo should be developed, but it was also agreed that before going too far, a branding statement should be created to guide along the process more efficiently and result in a better outcome.
If you're like many organizations, you might not have a branding statement. This isn't to be confused with a mission statement (which can too often be filled with empty language that rings hollow to customers and staff).
A branding statement is a marketing tool. It reflects your organization's reputation: what you are known for, or would like to be known for. It articulates how you stand apart from competitors. A branding statement is often written by individuals to define and enhance their own careers. If that's of interest to you, adapt these steps and you can be on your way to creating your personal branding statement.
Today we launch into steps you can take to freshen your organization's brand and image. This first installment will lay out five research and brainstorming steps to distill your image down to a single word. My next blog post, published in a couple of weeks, will focus on how to succinctly state your logical and emotional promise, both of which must be formulated in order to create a hard-working branding statement for your organization.
Reinventing Direct is for the direct marketer seeking guidance in the evolving world of online marketing. Gary Hennerberg is a mind code marketing strategist, based on the template from his new book, "Crack the Customer Mind Code." He is recognized as a leading direct marketing consultant and copywriter. He weaves in how to identify a unique selling proposition to position, or reposition, products and services using online and offline marketing approaches, and copywriting sales techniques. He is sought-after for his integration of direct mail, catalogs, email marketing, websites, content marketing, search marketing, retargeting and more. His identification of USPs and copywriting for clients has resulted in sales increases of 15 percent, 35 percent, and even as high as 60 percent. Today he integrates both online and offline media strategies, and proven copywriting techniques, to get clients results. Email him or follow Gary on LinkedIn. Co-authoring this blog is Perry Alexander of ACM Initiatives. Follow Perry on LinkedIn.


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Pickled Chillies
It's simple to make a basic vinegar brine and a great way to preserve and enjoy food. I often find myself with an abundance of one ingredient in my fridge, pickling them is a great way to use them in the future.
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By the time you read this, I'll be out in Penobscot Bay on the schooner Olad to see the solstice sunrise. This is play, an anniversary party that starts at 4 AM. I'm usually awake at the first glimmering of light, so this is no big deal for me. However, it's tough on my husband, who likes to sleep in until 6 AM or so, the layabout.
Sunrise is at 4:52 today, but twilight starts almost an hour earlier, and the Olad—like me—wants to get a jump on the dawn. That's why I was up at 4 AM last Monday on the American Eagle. Crew member Chris Pederson had told me that if a sunrise splashed out, it would be through the rigging of the Isaac H. Evans. When the show was a no-show, I painted riprap instead.
There is a legend that JMW Turner had himself lashed to the mast while painting Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842). I don't believe it. There is a lot of equipment around the mast that would get in the way. The view is not the best from the centerline of a boat. And even if one could stabilize one's footing, there are brushes, paints, and other impedimenta to fly around. Captain John Foss and his crew were awfully patient with my tools and paints rolling around their deck. It's a fine crew who can sail in a stiff breeze and not sacrifice a single one of your brushes to Neptune.
It was not until we went out that I began to understand the challenges of painting from a boat under sail. I needed to brace myself against the main cabin to paint at all. That often put me in the crew's way. The motion also meant that I did not have the control to draw rigging or anything else in detail. Furthermore, a ship creates what I call the Norman Rockwell problem, because he used it as an effect in his illustrations. There are foreground objects set against far distant objects, but nothing to create mid-field perspective.
Eventually I realized my focus was going to be the sea and the sky. I would come to realize that was a blessing, but at the beginning, it seemed limiting. That first day was a struggle, and I think my paintings reflect that. Everything I did was experimental.
The wind meant that the schooners who met up at the Fox Island Thoroughfare—I believe there were eight of them—couldn't raft up for their gam. (This is a word that seems to range in meaning from a meeting to a bull session, depending on who's talking.) As the sun set, various small vessels started circulating with visitors and musicians. The sky had been angry and overcast all day, so I tore down my kit, only to have Captain Foss point out that we were, in fact, getting a sunset, albeit a rather anemic one. I sketched it in watercolor.
I asked First Mate Justin Schaefer whether the distant hills I was seeing were in the town of Northport. Surprised, he replied that we were looking at Isle au Haut. I'd been so focused on painting that I had completely lost track of where we'd gone.
Captain Foss is in the habit of reading bedtime stories to his guests, and he's an excellent spinner of yarns. These included a story by John Thomas Gould. This dry, razor-witted Yankee humorist wrote for the Christian Science Monitor for many years. I'd never heard of him, but I plan to rectify the oversight.
(The American Eagle, the Isaac H. Evans and other Rockland and Camden schooners are featured in Below the Waterline: Seven Weeks in the Shipyard, at Camden Falls Gallery this month.)


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Kotoko Bronze Equestrian Figure, Cameroon / Chad (Tchad)
This fine, small abstract bronze figure formed as a horse with two riders found near the Lake Chad basin, along the Logone and Chan rivers has been used by the people of Kotoko as a talisman to protect against illness mental illness in particular.
The form of the animal is clearly abstract, due to the uncertainty about the nature of the animal. The explanation is that in the area of the Kotoko / São people, huge constellations in the form of fossils of dinosaurs existed, believed to possess supernatural powers which they attempted to imitate in these equistrian figures. The first figures found originate from the 2nd century in forms of imaginative horses, camels or elephants.
The Kotoko have their settling area in the northernmost edge of Cameroon and adjacent parts of Nigeria and Tchad and counts around 100.000 people. They are the followers of the Sao Empire who lived near the Lake Chad basin. The ancient kingdom of Sao was located in this area from the 6th century BC to the 16th century AC, ending in the 16th century where it mixed with the conquering Massa and finally were absorbed into the Kotoko people.
H: 5 cm, L: 7 cm, W: 1 cm – weight 40 gram
Age: Est. after the 15th Century.
Provenance: Private Belgian collection acquired through a Brussels gallery.
Literature: Hermann Forki: The Influence Bornus, Mandara, Bagirmi, the Kotoko States and the Jukun-Confederation.
Pierluigi Peroni: Kotoko Worriers.Request price for Bronze Equestrian


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10 March 2020 | Client at Tari & Yudis Wedding
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It's crazy how neat and beautiful they arrange my wedding. I was so satisfied with their service. Thank you so so much!
05 March 2020 | Bride at Almira & Jaka Wedding
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For this one vendor.....no word could describe how much i can thank you them! vendor who works with you and help you almost like family, what can you expect more? Profesional, sangat cepat tanggap, dan memperlakukan keluarga dengan sangat santun dan baik. Bisa diajak diskusi untuk menyelesaikan segala permasalahan yg muncul. They are more than a family to me! If you ever need a trusted wedding organizer pls contact them! Thank you akuwedding team. Much love. And keep up the good works.
07 September 2019 | Bride at Vanya & Martin Wedding
The Best WO Ever
We had a great experience with AkuWedding for the last 10 months. Our PIC were Mas Aldy and Mba Rika. They were extremely helpful and kind! They were very careful and managed every of our needs. On top of that, they helped a lot in relieving tensions and difficult situations during the preparation which made everything much easier. All of my family members also appraised AkuWedding and team! Thank you so much! You are the best!!
12 July 2019 | Client at Suzuki & Stevi Wedding
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I have not become their client yet. At least I WAS interested in their services & contacted the PIC named Soraya. 5 days no reply, my message was not even read, but she changed her Profile Picture in WhatsApp. Honestly speaking, I've always dislike this kinda people, who keeps online or even change status/profpict but never even open someone's messages; hey in this case, client. It's truly unprofessional and disappointing. Lucky now I learned very well what kind of Wedding Planner I want to cooperate with, definitely not this one.
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05 March 2019 | Bride at Putri & Randy Wedding
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Awalnya tau akuwedding searching di instagram. Terus ketemu sama akuwedding (sama Ibuku jg) dan pilihan ibuku ga salah!😂 Selama menjelang pernikahan akuwedding membantu banget dlm mempersiapkan semuanya. Santai dlm bekerja yg aku kira awalnya apa kami aja yg terburu2 dan panik? namun hasilnya beresres! Apalagi saat hari H berlangsung, ga nyangka kalau tegas bgt sama semua pihak agar acara berjalan lancar. Ngga lupa kl semua crewnya seru bgt smp skrgpun msh menjalin silaturahim dgn kami. Terima kasih byk akuwedding☺ Semoga semakin sukses kedepannya!!
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Selama mengurus pernikahan, akuwedding selalu detail dalam mengurus semua hal, padahal aku sendiri sudah merasa sangat detail tp akuwedding selalu make sure I got everything I needed. Team nya juga sangat approachable dan ramah, keluarga aku yang panikan jadi tenang setiap meeting wedding preparation. Rekomendasi mereka untuk vendor juga selalu tepat sama kemauan aku. God bless untuk akuwedding!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Being a Little Cautious
My knee's been bothering me just enough to scare me into short runs (read: 1 mile) the past few days.
My knee doesn't really hurt, but it's just bothering me enough to worry that it WILL hurt later.
I had to stop marathon training in 2006 because of a knee injury and I really don't want that to happen again.
I'm going to do some more research on possible causes and solutions, while remaining cautiously optimistic that maybe this will just stop.
Anybody else have this problem?
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- AnonymousJuly 21, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I don't know what's going on with your knee in particular. I know that when I had patellofemoral pain syndrome, the thing that finally fixed it was getting more stable shoes.ReplyDelete
That said, I looked at a lot of the research. For that particular issue, somewhere around 30% of patients seemed to improve with any given treatment - physical therapy, orthotics, taping it, using a brace.
You might want to think about not running for a week or two and letting it sort itself out before it gets worse. I know that this prescription is the one that every one of us least likes to hear.
I'm a big believer in icing your knees, wrapping/taping them if nessecary--and yes, taking some time off, if needed! I took a few days off in mid July and while I really thought it messed up my actual "running goals" I felt 100% better the following week.ReplyDelete
I'm not a runner... wish I could give some advice -- I do know I have trouble with my knees and when/if I do run, it doesn't help... I really hope you'll figure something out so you can keep your goal!!!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your hugs yesterday…
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it is a good idea to be cautious. do you do yoga? I always have knee issues when I STOP doing yoga. It totally helps - for me at least. My problem is a tight hamstring. Do you know what is causing it?ReplyDelete
I understand your FEAR of knee pain, BUT when you anticipate pain, you tend to change up your stride... as I did for a long time! YOu can end up doing more damage than good.ReplyDelete
Work and focus on strengthing your knees with low impact exercise...such as cycling. This will help build up without over doing it... cross train, cross train, cross train.
Secondly, cut your runs back until you feel strong again, and get your normal stride back under you...
Best of luck!
Thank y'all so much for the advice! I'm definitely using it and I'll write a post soon to let you know how it's going.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM
As someone with knee trouble now and in the past, I'd say rest it for a day or two, then test it out with a short run.ReplyDelete
Trust yourself. Listen to your body.
If it's still bothering you, start asking yourself questions. Is it my shoes. Am I adjusting my stride? Am I running on pavement too much? Etc., etc.
Before I tore my ACL I had patella tendentious. This happened in high school and I had to take about three months off. The rest helped, as well as specialized braces.
I wouldn't panic. You are totally doing the right thing. Be cautious, listen to your body and go from there.


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So, you're looking for yogurt in Israel? Confused much? In the U.S., there is one thing that comes in what we would call a "yogurt container" and that is yogurt.
In Israel, there are dozens of non-yogurt cheese products that come in little plastic containers. You have yogurt, gevinah lavanah (white cheese), cottage cheese, shemenet (sour cream), gil, eishel, etc. Each one of these may come in various fat contents, flavors, and with a myriad of toppings.
What is the difference between them? Which are the tastiest? I set out to answer these questions with some research and a taste test. In this first post I will cover only Tnuva products, since they can be found in any grocery store or makolet. Of these products, I tried two types of yogurt, "Gil", "Eishel", "Classic Sheli (My classic)", and three types of shemenet (sour cream). Below are the pictures of these products with the nutritional breakdown.


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Nautilus Build Guide by koreancrimson
Swim your way to the top with Mid lane Tank Nautilus!By koreancrimson | Updated on May 30, 2016
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Nautilus Passive Ability
What Nautilus brings to your team, why in the mid lane and how to win games
- great waveclear as E gets more levels.
- good trading with a lot of CC / damage and a shield to absorb return damage
- Very tanky while dealing a lot of damage early.
- Can snowball his lane by harassing the enemy mid laner (especially melees) and or kill them since his full combo can essentially oneshot a lot of champions.
- Quite a safe laner. If you don't use your Q to fight, you can use it to anker yourself back to safety under turret - the Q being the length of half of mid lane is a definite plus for mid Nauti.
- Finally, placing Nauti in the mid lane allows him to control the side lanes more. You don't have to use your CC in your own lane, but may rather save it to get guaranteed kills in both side lines. With Teleport this map pressure only increases.
HOWEVER, Nautilus also has a few weak points:
- Most of the time you're going to have to use Q to engage on non-melees, which leaves you without an escape besides your flash if the fight turns in the enemy's favour.
- Nautilus' damage and waveclear falls off later in the game, making it harder to make solo plays and leaves you a little reliant on winning team fights in the later stages of the game.
- Very aggressive laners may abuse your shield downtime, which has an 18 second CD without any CDR. Without your shield, your trading becomes mediocre, as your DPS will go down and you will receive much more return damage.
- Finally, his ult may be Zhonyas'd to cancel its effect on the target.
In lane, you have good level 1 against melee's because of the W shield / damage. If they are ranged be a bit careful and just try to last hit going in with your W. At level 2, you become even stronger in melee matchups with E slowing them down, which will allow you to AA them for free a couple of times. If they're trading back, they're just hitting your shield. Remember that W is an AA reset, so your damage combo in the early levels is AA (which will root with your passive), then activate W, then E. Depending on whether you want to trade to continue or not (or if you need to initiate from range), you may use Q. However, it is safer to keep it off cd so you can use it to escape if you get ganked.
Once you hit 6, if the laner isn't 100% hp you can kill him. Simply Q him, then AA W R E AA and he should be dead. Be careful not to get baited by defensive summoners like Cleanse, Heal or Barrier, however.
Ask your jungler to camp you - your abundance of CC means that essentially every gank will turn in a kill for your team.
Once you force your laner back, you can either go gank a lane, go back to buy or call a dragon. If your jungler is around, you may also ask him to come invade the enemy jungle with you to ward and potentially catch the enemy jungler.
As the game goes on, your damage will fall off, but you will stay relevant as you get tankier and your CC will stay useful all game. In mid / late game teamfights, ult a carry, generally the ad carry. Since he will typically be in the back line, such an ult will also hit their front line before reaching the adc. Don't waste your ult on AP mids if you know that their Zhonyas is off cd.
How to use Banner and ZZ portal
If you're playing against an AP mid, chances are you will buy Banner. It's not recommended buying Banner if you're playing against a waveclear ADC, as he will simply rotate where the waveclear is needed. Used correctly on cannon minions, especially early game banner minions are very hard to kill and will push the wave significantly. This will give you the chance to roam - or to protect the cannon with your jungler's help and get a turret with it, as the AP mid cannot clear it. The efficiency of Banner just increases the more AP enemies you are facing.
ZZrot may be placed right behind your turret in mid lane if the enemy tier 1 mid turret is still standing and this will simply push the wave, along with your banner. Eventually the turret will fall as it gets chipped away by your items. Later in the game, you will want to place ZZrot in bushes in side lanes and splitpush there. Try to protect it as much as you can, as the item has a hefty cooldown. Also try to fight around dead / alive turrets - the item gives you a significant speed buff that one should not forget about, making it very efficient in splitpushing.


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Boxed In: A Nation of Landlords
by prokofy on 12/07/07 at 11:40 pm
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate
The other night I attended an off-the-record meeting of inworld business people who, for some reason I couldn't fathom decided to use the new outworld Crowne Plaza meeting space (claiming to be the first such private meeting facility in SL!) under the theory that this was "safer" or "more elegant". What it really was, was a box, with some kind of security system that kept knocking away even everybody who had joined the group. You couldn't have picked a more apt metaphor for the sad tale unfolding in Second Life: outworld businesses, mainly metaversal developers, are able to make a whopping $33,000 a year per employee average revenue, mainly through servicing companies like Crowne seeking a presence in SL; even $9000 median income. Inworld land businesses, if they can show a profit on the Positive Monthly Linden Flow chart maintained by Meta Linden, are more likely to be making at best about $3000 a year *after tier* (far more research and better math is needed on both categories of businesses).
The Crowne furniture and setting was uninspired, unlike some of the really spectacular rental sims out there these days, like this new mountain waterfall development. I'm a big fan of Lilith trees, but seeing the flat palms one too many times arranged in exactly the same way begins to wear on you. Still, sitting in a box with Trumanville surroundings — what better way to contemplate the fool's errand called "mainland rentals" which to one extent or another, form the bedrock of most SL businesses?
Many people have a misplaced notion of "land barons" based on the myths perpetrated by the media (including the inky tabloid you're clutching in your hand) as fat, blinged-out money-grubbing, greedy capitalists bent on rapacious destruction of innocent newbies in threadbare rags. The fact is, all of us in SL are owners or accessors of high-end graphic cards and DSL lines here, people. If we're going to weep, it should be for a couple of hard working gals who charge only $280/200 prims a week, who, when you do the math, make only…$50 US a month which they usually have to blow on houses, or buying out ad farms or grief parcels on the riotous lands outside their manicured Damani prefabbed sims.
Have you done the math?
A casino and mall landlord only makes enough to keep himself in flip-flop bling, not the butter-soft pimped baby furry skin boots favoured by tabloid editors.
Let's say you spent US $2200 on the auction for your flat, grassland nothing-special new class-5 sim with a hard-to-pronounce name like Mkhachkala (I swear the Lindens did just name a whole continental area after every Russian province *but* that one). You decide to go "fancy" and divide up to only 16 parcels, leaving one for a commons area with some casinos, freebie dumpster-diving or other money-soakers in the middle, which means 15 x 4096 m2 for which you can *try* to charge $25 US each a month ($6756/mo or 1689 Lindens/wk).
But…you'd be wiser not to try to get that as everybody else has the exact same idea as you, you discover as you stare out over the steppes of Krasnoyarsk and Ulyanovsk. So you go with $1500 and try to offer some extras, maybe some free furniture or a TV (that runs $999 at least). Let's say by a miracle of charming personality and SLevents with sploder balls you get 100 percent occupancy and $333 in rental revenue (never the case). $195 immediately goes out the door in tier for the sim — oops now you have only $138 left per month, and that means it will take you 16 months — a year and four months, to make back your $2200 "investment". But…let's say your occupancy this month is 60…or 40…you are facing the grim prospect of having to bail.
The game of Second Life basically consists of about 50,000 people or so trying to beat the odds of those grim numbers each months by all kinds of ingenious methods. So let's say they buy a sim, but they sell off part of it to a friend 4 x 4096 x $60,000 — they can then get about US $880 recouped on the purchase price and make the wait less painful, if they can be sure that friend will keep those parcels nice, possibly with a store those newbies in the rentals need. Or perhaps they'll group their land and get about 6,500 m2 of tier generated from the 10 percent group bonus, and use that tier to flip land for sale around the area, or perhaps buy a few lots on the margins to protect the view and reduce their risk — because at any moment, on all four sides of their flat kingdom of money-making dreams, chaos can break out in the form of a ridiculously laggy texture store, newbies barn, sex palace, or just plain stupid giant chicken. Lag on another sim infects yours due to the "child agents"; clubs and malls are not only blighty, they add to traffic and that means griefing. The landbaron — that caricature of a man who is usually a woman in SL — in fact means sitting on their front porch with a shotgun trying to keep themselves awake to take care of tenants 24/7 so their rentals are filled, keep griefers at bay, and stay one step of the landbots if they're trying to run their land-flipping tier on the side as well.
Do the math on the islands to understand why no one in their right mind goes into mainland rentals: there, if you terraform your island nicely, you can sell each of the 15 4096s for even only L$25,000 (you won't get more given the competition)– and still make US $1387 in the first month, making back almost all or all of your purchase price of US $1695. And now you can still charge US $25 and make US $375 a month in rentals — or if you have really nice landscaping and build your own pretty prefabs, even $30 or more per 4096 — and still have US $80 in the clear after tier of $295 is all paid. Not much of an income, eh but get a couple islands going, maybe a commercial strip and a club area where you can pump out more revenue, and as long as you can keep full occupancy, assure yourself of say, US $2400 a month income for 30 islands.
Of course, occupancy and sales were what everybody was groaning about at this Crowne meeting and several others I've attended or hosted in recent weeks at the Sutherland Dam — but people had a hard time figuring out how they could cooperate when everybody competes — sure, when they get to 90 percent occupancy they start referring to colleagues, but now, everybody's scrambling. At all of these type of meetings lately, there's talk about a "summer slump" and trying to reassure themselves it's nothing — but they've been talking about it since St. Patrick's Day and here it is really summer and the slump is the worst it has ever been in SL for many people. Occupancy is at 0 or 30 percent for many. People are eating a US $75 tier level, a $780 tier level — it feels like the over-expensive inventory and maintenance you pay in an MLM. Even Ancient Shriner of Coldwell Banker, with all kinds of RL business backing and blighty ads peppering the mainland landscape claims only 30-40 percent occupancy, and high turnover (something he seems proud of, strangely, but given their scheme of holding deposits which they can invest for interest, it may make sense).
More people are online, but fewer people are buying or renting. Many business people are noticing that the problems with billing that numerous Second Lifers are experiencing and the problems in purchasing Lindens from inworld are taking a terrible toll on their sales. A customer poised to pay a month's rental, or buy a big, expensive vehicle suddenly jams and can't access the $5000 or $10,000 he needs to get started, despite having a valid credit or debit card onfile. Frustrated, but addicted to SL, he gives up and goes back to that free living arrangement with a friend and stays. Some people wonder if *their* economy is tanking, but maybe other people's aren't (SL always makes people jealous that way). If you are a new German player flush with stronger currency making interesting prefabs and building a lovely-looking rentals sim where you can talk to your customers auf Deutsch, you're simply going to do better than somebody from Bayonne, even if they've learned to put "grundstucke" and "miete" in their classified keywords.
Many landlords are not making tier and trying to talk themselves out of ever making it. Indeed, curiously, the more I talk to them the more I marvel at how many women especially are willing to go into this business and not make tier. And that's because their mindset is completely different from that of someone who simply must obtain a bottom line or get out. They're proud of themselves if they just manage to pay for their game. They come to SL primarily to socialize at first, and maybe try their hand at making clothing or furniture. Yet it's so competitive, and so hard to meet the right people, that they turn to rentals as both a side income and a way to socialize. The typical rental emporium often contains not only housing, but a club and stores with vendors and some kind of theme that helps generate content and experience, whether it be South Pacific or Country Western or Hotlanta, and keep people interacting, talking — and buying, which is what they'll do when they reach a comfort level, socializing. The hours logged on most are by people who own or rent land and create or socialize on land; the people willing to not make tier back are holding up the Lindens' entire empire.
These mainly high-school educated people, who perhaps went to community college and even work in real-life hotel management or sales in large chains like Wal-marts, buy into SL almost like into Amway, paying a little more to resell something that most people know they could get for less, hoping they make a little income and the people paying a little more get a little better social and customer service experience. But they wind up frustrated and angry at the Lindens land-glutting, popular stereotypes of landbarons, and deadbeat tenants, many of whom bail out of SL merely becaue they can't get their game working.
The gravest problem for the nation of landlords now is that cheaper land — prime waterfront is down as low as $10.9/11.9/meter — means people go off and buy their own land. And as much as they may gloat that they are the winners of Second Life by helping to make losers of other people, those other people — by liquidating, abandoning, cashing out, drive down the value of the Linden, deplete the business core willing to keep engaging in this utter folly of investing unpaid labour for risk-laded virtual sales. They make the MLM — sustained largely on belief — collapse.
To be sure, those gloaters are merely the next generation of frustrated land-sellers as long-time observers can confirm, as their pristine new mainland beachfront becomes uglified with clubs and malls by other eager new landlord-nation members without much aesthetic sense (some of whom were driven out of nice residential rentals into the more lucrative mall business because land prices plummetted *cough*).
So the newly-blighted then sell out to liquidators at $8 or $9/m or less and go back to island renting in the never-ending SL drama cycle that depletes the pockets of mainland landlords, delights and then frustrates and impoverishes short-term end-use landowners, fills up the coffers of especially themed island owners and finally makes a quick buck for small-time landbarons. But don't be too quick to scorn people with names like Buzz and companies with names like SLeaze-By-Night Liquidators and profiles that say THIS LAND IS OUR LAND, YOUR LAND IS MY LAND. You will thank your lucky stars they are there to pay as much as $8 or $9 per meter on your now-uglified formerly $18/m prime waterfront. And don't start hatin' on those island barons either — they're often screaming in the Concierge queue with islands that are down, won't work, crash, or don't let people rez objects, and their vacancy rates are nearly as low as mainland vacancy rates now.
Why do so many of the nation-keepers turn to clubs, malls, and casinos? The math here is better if you can squeeze, say, 120 vendors on to your shopping sim, extract $450 US in rents (say L$1000 per month per unit), pay the $295 tier, and have $155 US recouped to help pay back your island purchase in 10 months. Hmmm. Better go mainland, have $255 left and not think about paying the $2200 initial cost back so soon, or at least put in some camp chairs, casinos, soak out more income to shorten that to a less painful 4 or 6, or you begin to wonder: why didn't I just leave the same money in the real-life stock market or money-market on PayPal???
Now can you see why there are malls and casinos everywhere? It's a cycle that begins with the never-ending glut of $1000 opening-bid mainland auction sims; following through to the $2200-$3400 auction buy and frenzied chop and sell or develop-and-rent — and leads inexorably to the feeding of the Lindens' bottom line and the conclusion by the now hardened landlord that he has to open a mall or a club with sexy clothing in vendors to make ends meet.
The tipping point for getting out of the cycle of fearfully watching vacancy rates plummet, never having enough land to satisfy period surges in demand, seems to come at about 32-38 private islands, after about 6 months — those barons that cross that threshold seem to assure themselves income, if they can avoid the temptation of putting all that income into "growth" which equals "over-exposure of risk". But with the growth and competitiveness of SL, this threshold number is likely to double inexorably — at what point does it become madly risk-laden?
So why is it a good thing if land prices plummet? It's temporarily a good thing for those people who fly around shopping and then finally wish to find their dream 2048 or 4096 to put down their McMansion and cyber on. But by impoverishing the "landbaron" class that can no longer rent or sell, the socialists, the airheaded shoppers, the cybering masses who hate paying a lot, are gutting out the only form of income production in SL available for the unskilled long-hours-labouring middle class — the equivalent of Korean deli owners sending their kids to college. Not everyone can script, design, build, and make beautiful prefabs for $3000 or $10,000 a pop or sex beds selling for $45 US per unit. Content makers, unlike rental agents, can put out a vendor inworld and leave it to ka-ching all day while they play WoW or do RL jobs. Many people turn to rentals work because it's *what there is* — until the economy becomes far more rich and diversified it's not only what keeps the Lindens' bottom line fed, it's what keeps the engine of the inworld economy fed. Don't forget that the "landbaron" you're renting in fact may not even make a profit; in fact he may barely make tier and is actually *paying for* the privilege of playing store. And content-makers can't forget that they can't live off third-party shopping sites — they really the presence in world to get sales, and that means owning or renting land for stores and vendors — and facing high rents, and the same slump everybody else faces.
If land barons see that this already really thinly-margined highly risky business venture is made even more ridiculous by plummetting land prices, problems with buying Lindens, and less log-ons, they sell and pull out. That reduces investment in SL and purchases on the auction; but it also leaves the now highly diversified and reasonably-priced market to be seized by only 2-3 large oligarchs — which was exactly the story back in 2004-2005 when land only cost $6-7/meter. Then mall rents skyrocket in high-trafficked areas, island tiers increase, and there's a slowing in sales, especially for people who can't pay higher rent to display their stores and vendors . If it's an impossibly hard balancing act for the Lindens, who have all the server-side data we don't about real sales and peaks and slumps, for us, it really begins to look like an MLM scam.
"…MLM programs are set up to make most distributors fail, as there is a continued incentive to continue to recruit distributors even as the products have reached market saturation, thus causing the average earnings per distributor to continue to fall."