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Why is shingles vaccination needed?
Most of us had chickenpox when we were young and some will not be aware that we've had it. If we did have it, then the virus that caused it can stay in our bodies for the rest of our lives without our knowing it is there. Sometimes, however, the virus reactivates when we're older and causes a disease called shingles. So shingles isn't like other infectious diseases because you don't catch it from someone else. Shingles can be very painful and tends to affect people more commonly as they get older and the older you are, the worse it can be. For some, the pain can last for many years. There is now a vaccine that can reduce your risk of getting shingles or reduce the severity of its symptoms should you develop the disease.
How do you catch shingles?
You don't catch shingles - Chickenpox virus caught earlier in your life reactivates later to cause shingles. You can't catch shingles from someone who has chickenpox, however, if you have shingles blisters, the virus in the fluid can infect someone who has not had chickenpox and they may develop chickenpox.
Where is the vaccination given and will I need one every year? Like most vaccinations, the vaccine will be given in your upper arm. You will only have the vaccination once – unlike the flu jab, you do not need to be re-vaccinated every year.
Are there people who shouldn't have the vaccination?
People who have weakened immune systems, for example due to cancer treatment, should not have the vaccine. Your doctor will advise whether this applies to you. Also, if you've had a severe reaction to any of the substances that go into the vaccine, you shouldn't have it.
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If you fit the age eligibility criteria, as identified above, phone the surgery or ask one of the receptionists to book you into one of our weekend flu/pneumococcal/shingles clinics to have your shingles vaccination. The receptionists will check your date of birth before booking you into the clinic.
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Can I have the whooping cough vaccine at the same time as the flu jab? Yes, you can have the whooping cough vaccine when you get the flu vaccine, but do not delay your seasonal flu jab so that you can have both at the same time. Pregnant women are at risk of severe illness from flu at any stage of pregnancy. All pregnant ladies who are between 20 weeks to 38 weeks of pregnancy are being advised to have the Whooping Cough containing vaccine.
How do I get the Whooping Cough containing vaccine?
Please contact the surgery by phone to book an appointment with Christine, Jennie, Eve or Michelle to have this vaccine.
Our practice nurses trained in family planning offer a comprehensive family planning clinic for patients where they will discuss all forms of contraception and try to find the most appropriate one for you.
We also provide emergency contraception. Since this is best given as soon as possible after you have put yourself at risk, please explain to the receptionist what you need the appointment for, and we will try and see you quickly.
Sexual Health services in Barnet are run by CNWL - please see below for information:
Travel Clinic appointments are not available at Longrove for Travel advice and non NHS vaccination. We do however offer immunisation for Diphtheria Tetanus Polio and Pertussis, Typhoid and Hepatitis A under the GMS contract.
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Based at Barnet General Hospital (BGH), midwives will provide shared care with the GPs before and after delivery. Once pregnancy has been confirmed by the GP, and so referral made to the antenatal clinic at BGH, an appointment for dating ultrasound scan (normally 12 - 14 weeks) will be sent.
This is followed by an appointment with midwives at approximately 14 - 16 weeks, including full antenatal check, information giving, etc. Subsequent care will be provided in accordance with the recommended NICE guidelines. www.nice.org.uk
Some women will have shared care with the consultant team at BGH, others will have midwife-led care, depending on medical and obstetric history.
Following the birth of your baby and discharge home from hospital, home visits will be provided by Team 6 midwives on a needs basis, normally 10 - 14 days, when your care will be handed over to the health visitor.
Information about Meningitis B vaccinations for babies
A comprehensive Immunisation programme is given via appointments with the practice nurse. Developmental surveillance is provided for the under fives and postnatal and six week checks by appointment with the doctor.
The health visitors are based at the Vale Drive Clinic - Tel: 020 8447 3500 where your baby can be weighed.
Patients over 40 are recommended to have their blood pressure checked every 3 years and the Health Care Assistant can do this for you or you can check this yourself in the new self-monitoring blood pressure machine sited in the waiting room. Two readings should be taken as often the second one is lower.
If you are found to have high blood pressure you will be asked to attend monthly over the next few months to see whether or not it settles as some people are nervous and the reading can be falsely high. If you drink excess alcohol, are overweight, add too much salt in your diet, take little exercise and smoke, you will be advised to rectify these factors as the blood pressure should then fall and medication may not be needed.
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Once settled on regular medication for Hypertension (blood pressure), you will normally be reviewed by the nurse every six months with repeat blood and urine tests annually. The ECG and chest X-ray is repeated every five years.
It is important to have blood pressure under control as high blood pressure can cause strokes.
Whether you have recently been diagnosed, or have lived with diabetes for some time, we are here to help you develop an understanding of diabetes and gain control of your disease. Our aim is to improve your health and minimise complications of diabetes.
Patients who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes will need to see the Diabetic nurse a few times in the first few months. During this time patients and carers will be given support, information and advice about managing diabetes. This will involve some blood tests being done at the surgery.
Patients will be given the opportunity to see a dietician for initial dietary advice, since this is the single most important part of achieving good control of diabetes. The practice nurse can give additional dietary advice.
We would like to see you once a year for a full review but will see you more often if it is needed.
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If any changes are needed to be made it will be explained to you, and a management plan for your asthma will be discussed.
If you have asthma and take regular inhalers you will be invited to have a flu immunisation every year and a one off pneumonia vaccination.
If you have been told you have COPD then you should ideally be seen at least once a year at the surgery for an annual review of your symptoms and inhalers. You will also be invited to have a flu immunisation every year and a one off pneumonia vaccination.
If you are due a COPD review then please book a respiratory appointment with our respiratory nurse. She will ask you about how you use your inhalers, and will do a test called spirometry to see how well your lungs are working.
If any changes are needed to be made it will be explained to you, and a management plan for your COPD will be discussed.
In order to prevent cancer of the cervix it is recommended that all sexually active women start having smears at the age of 25 and then every three years until the age of 50 and then every five years until the age of 65.
There is a robust system of invitation and recall as well as provision of results by the local Cervical Screening Programme. Women will be sent an invitation to have a cervical smear when they are due or overdue a smear.
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WASHINGTON, September 26, 2016 – Now Scott Adams is in for it for sure. In a Sunday posting to his Scott Adams' Blog titled "Why I Switched My Endorsement from Clinton to Trump," the popular satirical cartoonist who created "Dilbert" announced he's switching his presidential endorsement from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. It's a brave move for anyone who works in the entertainment business.
Adams famously (or perhaps infamously) has been proclaiming for months, perhaps longer than a year now, that Trump would win the Republican nomination and that he was highly likely to run the table in November. It seemed to many, including his fans, to be a peculiar opinion, even as the MBA-holding cartoonist continuously supported it with cold, hard facts. Yet he steadfastly continued to support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton personally.
All that has changed. After headlining his switch of allegiance, his Sunday blog entry acknowledges up front that this change of heart and mind will likely disrupt his life and his business:
"As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn't safe to be a Trump supporter where I live. And it's bad for business too. But recently I switched my endorsement to Trump, and I owe you an explanation."
Adams then lists five reasons for his switch of allegiance, following each with logical explanations—something you might expect from Adams if you've ever followed the various story arcs of his nerdy cartoon stand-in, Dilbert.
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What distinguishes Adams' cartoons is not only their intelligence. Nearly every short, daily strip zeroes in on organizational incompetence and illogic based on his long-running personal experiences with the frequently absurd and arbitrary way that modern businesses and institutions tend to function. Or dysfunction.
Over the years, "Dilbert" has become the satirical strip that lampoons corporate America from its cube farms to its posh management suites to its evil minions in HR. Lately, Adams has been applying his MBA business chops and human insights to the 2016 presidential contest, deploying that knowledge and logic again as he details the reasoning and motivations behind his switch.
After freely listing the "things I don't know," Adams gets more specific in his five remaining points.
First up: "Confiscation of Property." Adams drills down on Clinton's latest risky "Tax the Rich" scheme.
"Clinton proposed a new top Estate Tax of 65% on people with net worth over $500 million. Her website goes to great length to obscure the actual policy details, including the fact that taxes would increase on lower value estates as well. See the total lack of transparency here, where the text simply refers to going back to 2009 rates."
It's at this point that Adams nails not only the core of Hillary Clinton's tactical maneuvers but the ruthlessly obfuscatory tactics of 21st century Democrats as well.
"…don't fall for the claim that Clinton has plenty of policy details on her website. She does, but it is organized to mislead, not to inform. That's far worse than having no details."
"To mislead, not to inform." In this one brief phrase, Adams gets to the very heart of Clinton's and her party's tactics.
Doing the math on Clinton's "Tax the Rich" proposal, Adams says "I don't want to give 75% of my earnings to the government. (Would you?)
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Adams also zeroes in on "Clinton's Health." He doesn't need to spend much time here, as any frequenter of political blogs and videos already know. But again he cites this as a key reason for his switch, pointing any still skeptical readers toward Hillary's "now-famous "Why aren't I 50 points ahead" video clip."
Where Adams really gets on a roll occurs in his two longest discussion points, "Pacing and Leading," and "Persuasion." It's here that Adams' understanding of how successful businesses and businessmen work that makes this article important and well worth reading in its entirety.
To synopsize, Adams explains what may very well be obvious to anyone who's run or operated a business, particularly in matters like commercial real estate development and construction where many disparate players, ranging from local, state and national government to funding sources to trade unions must all be brought on board and motivated to get with the developer's plan. Or as much of it as he can sell.
Noting that "Trump always takes the extreme position on matters of safety and security for the country," Adams readily acknowledges that public statements along these lines are scary when the average Joe hears them. But Adams regards Trump as a "trained persuader" employing the tactics of "pacing and leading."
In short, Trump functions the way Ronald Reagan often did, by leading with an extreme, attention-grabbing position that can seem threatening even to seasoned veterans sitting across the negotiating table from him. But during negotiations, this gives a "trained persuader" like Trump plenty of room to modify proposals or even back off a bit until an agreement is reached that likely tilts in the direction of that original, radical proposal.
In the real world, most business negotiators know that if you start out with a "reasonable" position, you've already lost the argument. You have no bargaining room left. Adams cites Trump's developing position on "The Wall" as a case in point.
With regard to the art of persuasion, or perhaps the art of the deal, Adams once again perhaps unwittingly, conjures up the ghost of the Great Persuader himself, Ronald Reagan as he focuses on this key skill set that must be possessed by any real leader.
"The best kind of president for managing the psychology of citizens – and therefore the economy – is a trained persuader. You can call that persuader a con man, a snake oil salesman, a carnival barker, or full of shit. It's all persuasion. And Trump simply does it better than I have ever seen anyone do it.
"Most of the job of president is persuasion. Presidents don't need to understand policy minutia. They need to listen to experts and then help sell the best expert solutions to the public. Trump sells better than anyone you have ever seen, even if you haven't personally bought into him yet. You can't deny his persuasion talents that have gotten him this far."
If Scott Adams the business expert hasn't persuaded his own readers of the rightness of his view, perhaps Scott Adams the cartoonist will, given his remaining reason for his dramatic switch: "Party or Wake."
"It seems to me that Trump supporters are planning for the world's biggest party on election night whereas Clinton supporters seem to be preparing for a funeral. I want to be invited to the event that doesn't involve crying and moving to Canada."
Read the whole thing. It may very well provide some useful perspective on Monday night's first 2016 Presidential Debate as Hillary Clinton and Lester Holt take on The Donald, allegedly with Mark Cuban and Gennifer Flowers seated in the front row of the audience.
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Secret services fugitive Edward Snowden claimed on Sunday that US government officials 'want to kill me' in an interview with a German TV channel.
The intelligence leaker's Moscow lawyer had already voiced similar fears after controversial comments from unattributed sources.
Snowden - currently hiding from US justice in Russia, where he is believed to be under the protection of the The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) - said he has received threats on his life.
'These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower,' he said.
The translated Snowden quotes were issued by German public television netowork ARD with the promise of further comments from the renegade intelligence contractor.
The interview was broadcast in Moscow in secret.
Snowden's concerns follow a BuzzFeed article entitled 'American Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead', which cited an alleged Pentagon official.
'I would love to put a bullet in his head,' said the source, who was not named.
A current analyst for the National Security Agency - where Snowden used to work - was quoted as saying he would not hesitate in murder Snowden.
'In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,' they said.


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It seems like VZL winter ball just ended and already we are talking about Spring training and how that is just around the corner! I had an absolute blast of a time in the VZL and I learned a lot of things, although my numbers really don't show it. I was able to work on some things with the help of a pitching coach that has never seen me before; and thus he was able to look at me with a fresh set of eyes and help me out. What was great about still playing that late is that not only did I get to hear those suggestions, but I was able to use them in a game situation right away and test them out and continue to work on them. I am extremely thankful that I had that opportunity as I think it is going to be vital for me going into the 2012 season.
Alas, another season approaches and I am extremely excited for 2012 and to put 2011 behind me. For me, 2011 was a season that was filled with a lot of learning and going through new experiences and dealing with a lot of adversity and failure on the mound. I did have my bright spots and I really feel like I started to make a turn around the corner when the season was coming to an end. So I am eager to get 2012 started. I spent most of the year last year as a reliever, and I believe that is what I am going to do this year as well, although I am not too sure. Preparing to be a reliever is not much different from being a starter for me. I have my routine and what I like to do in terms of lifting weights and running. But when it comes to throwing, I might have to tweak it a little bit.
After the season ends, the Nationals send all of its players a manual it really wants us to follow in terms of running, core work, lifting, and a strict throwing schedule. This is extremely helpful in terms of them making it a step-by-step program for the players and easy to follow. Right now, I am taking some time off from throwing since I technically just got done with my season about 2 weeks ago. I will pick it back up once the new year starts, but that doesn't mean the other aspects of my training have stopped either. I feel like if I stop running, it will be really hard for me to get to get back to where I currently am before spring training starts.
My mindset right now is to do everything I can to make it to the next level in 2012. I really feel like I lost myself a little bit in 2011 and tried to do too many things and over think myself. I just didn't allow myself to be as successful as I was in 2010. I learned a lot about myself and my own mental game down in the VZL and I think that will pay dividends for me this year. What I personally need to do to get to the big leagues this year is to attack the strike zone more and stop nibbling around the plate. I had a horrible tendency to try to make a perfect pitch every time and I wound up falling behind in the count and getting hit or walking people. When I walk people is when I truly get into trouble. I was able to work with Calvin Maduro with the Baltimore Orioles down in Venezuela and we just talked about the mental aspect of pitching. Just being able to do that and get a new view on things really helped me.
Overall, I am very excited for the 2012 season to start and to get ready for spring training. Although I am technically just starting my "offseason" right now, I have a few more weeks of letting my body rest. Then it's back at it for about a month and a half before its time to report back to Florida!


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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Prayer request...burying our girl...
One of the hardest things for us to find closure in Zemirah's death is that her beautiful, little precious body is in a mortuary in Nevada and we have no legal rights to bring her home and bury her properly. This has been extremely difficult for us.
We were coming to a place of acceptance when we received a phone call stating the mortuary had already buried her. For a second, there was relief....then the reality of that started to sink in...when was she buried? who buried her? where is she buried? was she given a name? will we ever know where our daughter was buried? A new depth of grieving has begun for us...none of this seems right...our baby girl was buried and we had no say in it...we have no idea where she is...this is almost too much to bare.
So, I sent our questions to our precious social worker. She had been in constant contact with the mortuary and we were all under the impression that they would keep her sweet body for 30 days while we tried to find the bmama so she could release her to us. It has not be 30 days, so needless to say, we were shocked by that phone call on Friday telling us she was already buried. Our sw has been making several phone calls.......and we just found out.....
Our little love has NOT been buried...she has NOT been given a legal name...she is now tied up in social services...YES...social services! We have bmama's consent and support in them releasing her to us BUT we need prayers that social services will release her to us so we can bring her home and bury her properly.
We've been told social services can take up to 90 days to determine her 'abandoned' and then we aren't sure what happens...I still can wrap my head around that...90 days?!?!?!?! SHE'S NOT ABANDONED...WE WANT HER...WE LOVE HER...SHE IS OUR PRECIOUS BABY!!
Please my sweet friends...pray for the Lord's will and if it's His will that we get the honor of burying her, pray that social services will work quickly to allow us to bury our beautiful baby!!
In the midst of all of this we do have a bmama update:
She called a couple of days ago...what a relief to hear her voice. She is doing amazing! She did receive the 'package' of love we sent her and was so incredibly blessed by it and all of you!
Still clinging to the joy of the Lord...still hurting...still missing our girl...still feeling like we won't ever be completely whole...BUT still trusting and loving our Lord...still hanging onto the hope that only He can give us...still resting in the peace that HE IS IN THIS!!!
10 comments:
- Ransomed~Redeemed said...
Oh Stacy, I am sorry. We are praying the Lord will go before you and smooth out the details so you can bring your princess home and hopefully get at least some sort of closure. Bless you sweet sister. Even in the midst of your pain you are bringing Him glory.
- October 31, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Oh, friend. Such a journey you are on. Will keep praying-thanks for giving us specifics. Love to you and the family~
- October 31, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Dear Lord...hear the cries of your children! Continue to show Yourself strong on their behalf. We pray for another miracle. Thank you for precious Zemirah and all You have planned because of the life you gave her. Love you, Andrea K
- October 31, 2012 at 1:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Stacy, I cannot even imagine what you are going through. We are praying for you. Praying that sweet Zemirah can be brought home to you and the rest of her loving family.
- October 31, 2012 at 2:58 PM
- Jewels of My Heart said...
Oh honey.... I am just so sorry..... will be praying for the Lord to move mountains of bureaucracy as He continues to hold you all in His loving arms....
Love you and praying....
- October 31, 2012 at 4:08 PM
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- October 31, 2012 at 11:28 PM
- Linda said...
Oh friend, I am praying and trusting that our God will be gracious to work out the details so that Zemirah will have a proper burial, surrounded by her forever family. We love you guys!
- October 31, 2012 at 11:30 PM
- jill funkhouser said...
praying for you all..
- November 1, 2012 at 2:11 AM
- jill funkhouser said...
praying for you all...
- November 1, 2012 at 2:11 AM
- Marie said...
Oh my! So sorry you have to go through this on top of everything else. Praying that your baby will soon be where you want her, that you will be filled with indescribable peace.
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Violence Inherent in the System
By E.M. Wollof from SLN More Blogs by This AuthorFrom the Spawn Point Blog Series
We are a people of violence. We were born from violence and we shall return to the Earth violently. All the many moments provided during our daily sojourn into reality are permeated with violence and violent tendencies.
Upon the commute to work, a car cuts you off, and for a moment a heat rises in you. Though you may quell this burning desire with a turning of cheeks, you can not, and must not, ignore the fact that it was there.
During the brief, but gloriously silent walk to your place of employment, a person of unparalleled kindness offers you a warm hello and, while you are in the process of reciprocating said kindness, this joy-for-profit tyrant pulls out a brochure for the next great pyramid scheme; you want to release ages of repressed rage upon them, but you only kindly decline and move on.
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be altered through understanding." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you have reached your place of work, your mask of fulfilled happiness firmly in place, so begins an 8 hour tug-of-war between your desire to scream about the injustice that is the modern workplace and the archaic need to work hard for a paycheck. Violence courses through you during these hours, the structured chaos that is an office playing out a modern day Lord of the Flies as you struggle to identify yourself amongst the teeming masses doing the same.
When the work day is done and you have arrived home, the violence emerges and you handle it in any way you can, be that repression or sweet release. You handle it, but you never truly acknowledge it, never truly choose to engage its critical part in your life.
We are a people of violence, but we fear it so. We fear the power it may hold over us. We fear the mirror it provides, the reflection of our base selves. We are afraid, and in our fearing we point the finger at what is most accessible and faceless...the media and the shadowy government that controls them.
A Professional Opinion
In an article published by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Eugene V. Beresin M.D. points his finger at modern media and calls for clinical intervention as a solution to our violence problem.
"While the causes of youth violence are multifactorial and include such variables as poverty, family psychopathology, child abuse, exposure to domestic and community violence, substance abuse, and other psychiatric disorders, the research literature is quite compelling that children's exposure to media violence plays an important role in the etiology of violent behavior."
"Physicians should make parents and schools 'media literate,' meaning they should understand the risks of exposure to violence and teach children how to interpret what they see on television and in the movies, including the intent and content of commercials. In doing so, children may be increasingly able to discern which media messages are suitable."
While I'm sure that Dr. Beresin believes this, or was at least paid a handsome fee to do so, he is so far from any concept of realistic truth that I'm fairly positive he has a prescription pad just for himself. It is an unfortunate truth that he comes from a terribly long line of misguided practitioners of mental health and purveyors of prophetic wisdom. Alas, that is the unfortunate truth of unfortunate truths...they are unfortunately true.
Let's say that his proposal is taken up by those like-minded fools who would proclaim themselves protectors of our mental heath, and doctors begin dictating to our education system and parents what is acceptable and what is not. Are we really going to allow these men and women who repress rage daily with fake smiles and practiced bed-side manner to tell us what is violent and what is not? These men and women who so gallantly parade around our heads daily, consciously ignoring that violence is inherent to our very survival? The men and women who prescribe addictive downers to pacify our very nature?
No, that won't work either.
We can yell and scream at all the "reasons" we are violent until we are blue in the face, it will change nothing. The media portrays violence in the manner it does because it is a direct reflection of who we are as a people. Developers don't choose to saturate all their stories with violence because that is what they want to do, but because it is what we have shown them we want them to do, because it is in our nature.
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." - Abraham Lincoln
As a matter of fact, we love violence in our media because it is far away from us. We live vicariously through it as our darkest desires play out across the screen, those desires we bury deep within but can never truly be rid of. We pine for more violence, we yearn for it and the media answers in kind, profiting off our gluttonous appetites. The media is a symptom, not the cause.
Dr. Eugene V. Beresin M.D. and his ilk are also just symptoms of a violent people. In fact, they are an even truer gauge of our psychosis because they actually sell repression to us. We repress our very being daily and they sell us the tools we need in order that we may not have to exert as much effort in our longing to be dead inside.
Acceptance and Acknowledgement
Mahatma Gandhi once wrote:
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."
"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil." - Albert Einstein
In this case, Gandhi was not talking about angry men and little blue pills, but more a lack of self-restraint. Over the years, a picture of Gandhi has been painted that skews slightly to the side what he stood for. He is used as a portrait of non-violence, cheek turning, and christian virtue, and while these may be pieces of the truth, what he really spoke to was acceptance of the ENTIRE self.
We are a people of violence. This does not mean that we run every person who cuts us off into a ditch, but it does mean that we should accept that the urge exists. Know that there is violence inside all of us. Know that violence is what allowed our species to prevail against all odds. Know that violence ensured the ability to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Know that violence will be needed again. Do not repress it, but come to understand it.
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Very well written, blog, E. I enjoyed reading it! However, I would argue against the term "people of violence" which seems too definitive to me.
While I agree that we all feel anger at times and that it's healthier to acknowledge and express that anger than to bury it ( I wrote about this in a previous blog of mine here: http://www.smartlivingnetwork.com/emotional-health/b/id-and-ego-sad-people-mad-people/), we are no more people of violence (seems more like anger than violence to me in the way you describe it), than we are people of sadness, or people of love, or people of happiness, or people of fear.
Toddlers hit and kick and bite, because they haven't fully developed the ability to empathize and express themselves verbally. Can you imagine if the whole world acted that way? Acting out violently is very rarely the course in our best interest when dealing with something that makes us angry. Acknowledging the anger in us, analyzing it's roots, managing it, and expressing it is usually a much more beneficial route to take.
Still, you bring up some very interesting ideas about the appeal of violence in the media, and you may have a point about the repression of anger (as well as many other feelings) in our culture. Like I said, I enjoyed the blog.
I guess I wonder how you define "violence."
How are you defining violence?
Humans as creatures and humans as a society HAVE evolved though, and as social creatures, we've moved more toward norms that benefit us as a whole. If we continued to live like cavemen did, acting essentially like toddlers, thinking only of ourselves, and acting out of impulse, doing whatever felt good, we would not have been able to make the progress we have made.
I agree, it is not wrong or bad that we have angry thoughts and feelings, but I do think intention and will and action are important figures in determining what is moral or immoral.
Let's say some guy cuts me off. Would it be moral for me run my car into his because I feel slighted? Would it be beneficial to me either? It might feel good in an emotional, ego sense, but it would also be immature and unproductive.
Repression of a feeling is different than processing through it and determining the best way to go is to talk it out or let it go.
I'm not sure what metaphysical violence would consist of. Could you give an example of that?
So then you're proposing we should embrace and act upon racist thoughts?
"What I am saying is that we need to stop ignoring that violence exists and that it will always exist."
How do you think we are ignoring the existence of violence? In your article you were pointing out how we like to watch it on TV.
"We like to think of ourselves as evolved individuals, but all we have done is find clever ways to hide our violence. "
So the point you're trying to make is that we are capable of violence? Granted, and I agree that too often we tend to view things as black and white, them and us, but I would argue that the ability to manage our feelings in a way that benefits us and society as a whole IS a positive movement in human evolution.
We may all be capable of acting out with physical - or metaphysical - aggression, and that we can't escape, but the in the majority of cases, violence is avoidable/escapable.
"I would argue that violence is not a feeling, nor is a vast majority of what we think we feel actually represented correctly at all.We ignore the fact that violence exists within us by accepting outside sources of violence as an appropriate outlet for them."
If violence is not a feeling, how does it exist within us?
"For instance, if you look at countries who don't have the massive amount of interactive outlets that we have, there is a constant state of change perpetrated almost exclusively by violence."
I think you are assigning a cause and effect relationship where one doesn't exist.
I am certainly under no illusion that everything we a purely emotional creatures, but fight or flight is a fear response which we EITHER fight (resort to violence) or flight (don't). It only comes up in the most extreme circumstances, and it's a leftover from significantly more dangerous times. If we promote violence over peaceful conflict resolution, these times become the more dangerous times we evolved from and devolve backward from the growth we've made.
I and many other people I know manage to live without TV - and in my experience the people that do are some of the most peaceful people I know. I don't have studies to support me, so I won't pretend this is a fact, but if I were to guess why poor TV-less nations experience more war and crime, it makes more sense that it would be the environment that has lead to the extreme poverty, and the results of that poverty that are contributing to the incidence of violence. Though poverty means no TV, I do not believe it is the lack of TV that is causing people to act out in physical hostility toward each other.
The hermit is a archetype which removes all distractions to find inner peace and wisdom. You see this theme repeated over and over with some of the most important people throughout history, so I don't think a lack of distraction can be blamed for violent action.
What is right and what is wrong are not black and white issues. If my life was being threatened, I don't believe violence could be seen as immoral on my part, but even still, it would be regrettable. I do think violence or harm to others should be avoided if possible. We as human being are also more complex than being good or bad. I don't personally believe in evil. If I had to judge an action moral or immoral, I would look at the circumstances - the cognitive and physical abilities of the people involved would play into, and their intentions as well. I wouldn't consider you evil for or bad or immoral for having violent urges, but because you have the ability to choose, I would consider it wrong of you to harm someone when you didn't need to.
I don't agree in blanket statements like "people are violent in nature" because I think it's misleading and incorrect. People have two basic urges - the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain. We do what we can to survive, but I believe most people do not want to resort of violent and (luckily) I would not describe the nature of anyone I know as "violent." Your nature is made up of the traits that are most uniquely you. I'm am not violently natured - though i wouldn't say I've found true peace either. I don't think true peace is something you can accomplish and not worry about anymore. It's a lifelong effort.
"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and excepting the other person to die." - Buddha
I believe that a more appropriate term would be domination (I have control over you). Violence holds the connotation of acting out so as to harm or kill another individual. Violence may or may not be used with a purpose. Domination, however, may use violence as a means, but does not necessarily require it. As humans, we have certainly proven ourselves to quickly and unnecessarily falling to violence to accomplish domination.
OK. Not sure it's so much connotation as definition by Webster:
Violence - exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse; injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation
Domination - supremacy or preeminence over another; exercise of mastery or ruling power
One may dominate with or without violence. Historically, violence has been the fastest route to domination, but is not the only choice.
Yes, if my children were attacked by a bear (or another human), if flight were not an option, I would resort to violence to defend them. However, this would not be violence for the sake of some mental clarity or to establish my dominance as top predator. It would be the truest application of fight or flight response.
Beating up the neighbor kid to steal his kite is not a throw back to fight or flight. That is violence for the purpose of domination. Killing others over a land dispute is not fight or flight, it is domination.
I appreciate your ideas and I think you've brought up some good points, but I still think there is a better word for the what we are people of. And words are important. Why be ugly? We are creatures of survival - as is every other creature on Earth. We all do what we must to survive and thrive. Physical aggression is one means of doing this, yes, and no doubt, there are moral cases of it, but typically there are other and better ways. I feel like there are more important and productive human characteristics we should promote and more descriptive words we could use to identify the difference between us and any other life form.
(I had a gerbil named Nietzsche. )
If you ask me "a people of violence" is equal to "the devil is in all of us"


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Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" has polarized opinion for more than 50 years. At the time it was published, critics weren't fans of the book.
There are two sides to every issue: One side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." — Ayn Rand's hero John Galt speaking in "Atlas Shrugged"
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Hoover Windtunnel 2 Rewind Pet Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner - $83.00 at Home Depot
Kohl's offered the Hoover Windtunnel 2 Rewind Pet Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner for $7.00 more last Black Friday and today the next lowest price on Google Shopping is $97.99 at Bonanza. On Home Depot, the vacuum receives 4.1/5 stars based on 174 customer reviews.
Logitech K400 Wireless Keyboard - $19.99 at Best Buy
Today's deal matches Best Buy's Black Friday price from 2014 and the only lower price we could find was $16.99 for a refurbished keyboard. Amazon also has the Logitech K400 Wireless Keyboard for $19.99 today and it receives 4.3/5 stars with 7,775 reviews. On camelcamelcamel today's price matches Amazon's previous historic low. This keyboard is probably the number one goto wireless keyboard for HTPC (Home Theater PC) users. The keyboard make a list of top htpc keyboards at Htpcbeginner.com, Digitaltrends and PCMag have a great review.
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Here's an idea I've been toying around with for a while, thought I'd share it with you to get your feedback and ideas on how we can make Belize better. National Board will managed the daily on-goings in the nation. They will be elected by the people in a national election that will be every… Continue reading Belize New Management
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Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show
A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that drivers who use marijuana are at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who use alcohol. And after adjusting for age, gender, race and alcohol use, drivers who tested positive for marijuana were no more likely to crash than who had not used any… Continue reading Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show
How Neuroscience Reinforces Racist Drug Policy
A recent neuroscience study from Harvard Medical School claims to have discovered brain differences between people who smoke marijuana and people who do not. Such well-intentioned and seemingly objective science is actually a new chapter in a politicized and bigoted history of drug science in the United States. Different-looking brains tell us literally nothing about… Continue reading How Neuroscience Reinforces Racist Drug Policy
The promises of a better future …
So I've been reading the manifestos for both the PUP and UDP parties and have some items I want to cover, hopefully I can get to it all before election day... From the UDP Manifesto "Completing the Norwegian Cruise Line cruise port in southern Belize" I thought it was Norwegian Cruise Line that was investing… Continue reading The promises of a better future …
Thought of the Day
I haven't done this in a while but here is my TOD for today June 25, 2015 The problem is that we allowed our Colonial masters to instill in us that one race is superior to another and one group is to rule others and that certain "classes" of people are inferior and should be… Continue reading Thought of the Day
Attention Parents: Your Emotions Are Contagious
To stay healthy, people will do everything short of quarantining themselves to avoid getting coughed on, sneezed on, or breathed on by the sickly. As a parent, you're probably well aware of how quickly contagious diseases like the flu can travel through a family—nay, a neighborhood. Teachers notice the same thing when they see student… Continue reading Attention Parents: Your Emotions Are Contagious
Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?
It's an accepted concept by now that taking antibiotics in order to quell an infection disrupts the personal microbiome, the population of microorganisms that we all carry around in our guts, and which vastly outnumbers the cells that make up our bodies. That recognition supports our understanding of Clostridium difficile disease — killing the beneficial… Continue reading Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?


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Launched in 2006, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)'s Civil Society Programme aims to strengthen civil society organisations (CSOs) by facilitating their establishment and building their capacity to improve the quality of life of communities.
The programme also seeks to increase the knowledge and appreciation of good governance in society. Since 2008, over 160 CSOs have completed the process of self-assessment and certification. In 2010, the Certification Committee included government officials, members of parliament, representatives from international agencies and leaders of local CSOs. The National Association of NGOs in Tajikistan, established under the programme, played a central role in lobbying legislative changes and consolidation of CSOs in Tajikistan. A total of five legislative changes have been introduced. Changes include legislation aimed at regulating government support to CSOs and allowing VOs and SUDVOs to officially register with the government.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama presented Vice President Joe Biden with the highest civilian honor Thursday, commemorating an "extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service."
A teary-eyed Biden accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House dedicated to honoring the outgoing vice president.
Obama said he is bestowing the honor on Biden for "faith in your fellow Americans, for your love of country and a lifetime of service that will endure through the generations."
Biden praised his wife and children for their support throughout his career, and praised the Obama family for their dedication to country and service.
"I was part of the journey of a remarkable man who did remarkable things," Biden said.
Speaking ahead of Biden, Obama said the tribute will give the Internet one last chance to joke about the "bromance" the two share. He called Biden the "best possible choice, not just for me, but for the American people."
Obama commended the "Biden heart," listing the influences in Biden's life, from the nuns who taught him in grade school, to his Senate colleagues, to his parents.
Noting that Biden's career is "nowhere close to finished," Obama said his vice president will go on to have an impact in the U.S. and abroad.
After nearly half a century in public office, Biden will exit the national stage next Friday, although he plans to stay active in Democratic politics and work on policy issues at a pair of institutes he's developing at the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania.
He also plans to continue with the cancer "moonshot" effort he launched after his son died.


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The flowers from the Vintage Vogue stamp set have been stamped with So Saffron Basic Ink & finished off with a bit of bling.
I've printed the sentiment & punch it out using the Large Label Punch. I've punch another label in Gold Miri & mounted this behind the sentiment.
The 50 has been mounted on two Top Note Dies. The first is cut in So Saffron & the second in white cardstock which has been trimmed down & then passed through the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. Don't you just love the detail on this folder?
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Taniwhasaurus Hector, 1874
= "Yezosaurus" Obata and Muramoto vide Muramoto, 1977 (?)
= Lakumasaurus Novas, Fernandez, Gasparini, Lirio, Nunez and Puerta, 2002
Comments- There are three or four species in this genus, one of which (T. mikasaensis) was originally believed to be a tyrannosaurid and called Yezosaurus.
References- Hector, 1874. On the fossil Reptilia of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 6, 333-358.
Novas, Fernández, Gasparini, Lirio, Nunez and Puerta, 2002. Lakumasaurus antarcticus, n. gen. et sp., a new mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Ameghiniana. 39, 245-249.
T. mikasaensis Caldwell, Konishi, Obata and Muramoto, 2008
= "Yezosaurus mikasaensis" Obata and Muramoto vide Muramoto, 1977 (?)
Late Santonian-Early Campanian, Late Cretaceous
Kashima Formation of the Upper Yezo Group, Japan
Holotype- (MCM.M0009; specimen of "Yezosaurus mikasaensis") (~10.3 m) (skull ~1.5 m) partial snout, sclerotic plates, partial mandibles
Paratypes- ?(MCM.A1008) two dorsal vertebrae, two proximal caudal vertebrae, distal caudal vertebra
?(MCM.M10) two dorsal vertebrae
Late Santonian-Early Campanian, Late Cretaceous
Haborogawa Formation of the Upper Yezo Group, Japan
Paratype- ?(MCM.A600) jugal, postorbitofrontal, squamosal?, parietal, quadrate, ectopterygoid, coronoid
Specimen named "Yezosaurus mikasaensis" in right lateral (A), dorsal (B), left lateral (C) and ventral (D) views. Scale = 100 mm. (after Caldwell et al., 2008)
Comments- The original partial skull of "Yezosaurus mikasaensis" (originally part of Muramoto's private collection, but later designated as MCM.M0009) was discovered in 1976 and thought to be a tyrannosaurid. It has had a confusing citation history, as the West learned about from a two page photocopy in the late 1970's to early 1980's attributing it to Obata and Muramoto, 1977. This authorship and date was used by Olshevsky (1991) and Glut (1997), though neither includes a full citation, and an extensive literature search has failed to locate any such publication. The photocopy originated from a 1977 book by Muramoto and lacks a diagnosis (hence Olshevsky listing the taxon as a nomen nudum), though it's unknown if the book contains further description which could validate the genus. Thus a citation based on this reference should be Obata and Muramoto vide Muramoto, 1977. Chure and McIntosh (1989) list the authorship merely as Obata, 1977, providing a citation for a short article about Muramoto's collection. This may actually be the correct reference for the name, depending on whether it refers to the taxon and when exactly it was published. Yomiuri (1977) also wrote a book later that year about "Yezosaurus" as a dinosaur (with Osborn's Tyrannosaurus skeletal on the cover), but again the technical content remains unknown. Chure (pers. comm. in Olshevsky, 1991) identified the remains as a mosasaur, which it was later redescribed as by Caldwell et al. (2008). Those authors named it as a new species of Taniwhasaurus, retaining the species name originally given to "Yezosaurus" (though the latter is not mentioned in the paper). If any of the 1977 publications include a description which follows ICZN rules, the authorship for mikasaensis will have to change, though "Yezosaurus" would still be a junior synonym of Taniwhasaurus. The holotype is clearly not a theropod, as it lacks an antorbital fenestra and maxillary ascending process (instead having a large prefrontal laterally exposed in that space), and further differs from tyrannosaurids and most other large theropods in having premaxilla-frontal contact, an extremely low snout, and uncompressed fluted teeth with expanded roots and no serrations. While spinosaurines are most similar among theropods, even they lack expanded roots and premaxilla-frontal contact.
References- Muramoto, 1977. [Road to Dinosaurs - Discovery of Yezosaurus mikasaensis]. North Garden, Inc. 114 pp.
Obata, 1977. [Home country collection room of the city of Mikasa and Muramoto's collection]. Natural Science and Museum. 44(1), 40-43.
Yomiuri, 1977. [The Japanese archipelago Yezosaurus ? ? ? Ryuu Itizou testimony of one million years of dinosaurs]. Green Arrow Publishing.
Chure and McIntosh, 1989. A Bibliography of the Dinosauria (Exclusive of the Aves) 1677-1986. Museum of Western Colorado Paleontology Series #1. 226 pp.
Olshevsky, 1991. A Revision of the Parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, Excluding the Advanced Crocodylia. Mesozoic Meanderings. 2, 196 pp.
Glut, 1997. Dinosaurs - The Encyclopedia. McFarland Press, Jefferson, NC. 1076 pp.
Caldwell, Konishi, Obata and Muramoto, 2008. New species of Taniwhasaurus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the Upper Santonian-Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28(2), 339-348.


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Sunday, July 31, 2011
On the Chair
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Love the wrought iron chair.
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1 pound dry pappardelle pasta
Olive oil for the pasta and the pan (about 3 tablespoons total)
3/4 cup thinly sliced shallots (about 5 small to medium-sized shallots)
1/2 cup black garlic cloves (about 2 heads)
3/4 cup dry white wine
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1. Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling, salted water. Drain and set aside.
2. Coat the bottom of a medium to large sauté pan with olive oil, and place it over medium heat. Add the shallots and cook until they are soft and beginning to brown, about 4 minutes.
3. While the shallots are cooking, peel all the garlic and then roughly chop it, keeping it in relatively large chunks.
4. Add the garlic and toss it with the shallots. Add the wine, turn the heat to high, and let it reduce by about 1/3. Add the butter and swirl the pan around until it's melted into the wine. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. Add the cooked pasta to the pan and very gently toss everything together (If the pan isn't big enough, pour everything into a large bowl to mix it). Season to taste again, if necessary, and serve.
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In their manifesto, the people behind the libertarian website Zero Hedge argue that anonymous speech plays an essential role in maintaining our freedoms. I wouldn't disagree with this, but I am a bit ambivalent about some aspects of online anonymity and the widespread use of pseudonyms. They have a place, but anonymity and pseudonymity are arguably being overused today and are all too often providing cover for wild and/or irresponsible and/or careless and/or crass content and commentary.
Strangely enough, however, the craziest articles at Zero Hedge are not from 'Tyler Durden' so much as from reprinted content from certain named, usually well-known – and often slightly unhinged – conspiracy theorists.
The site itself is fun. And useful, so long as you take most of what is said with a grain of salt.
And don't bother reading the comments. Unmonitored (as befits a libertarian site), but generally tedious and vulgar.
Here however is a little gem from a recent thread. It's witty, and could be seen – in an oblique and enigmatic sort of way – to be relevant to some of the wacky thinking (especially the technical analysis) that you often see on the site. Just two sentences from Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark...
"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish – but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence."
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We all have regrets in our lives and have made wrong decisions, it is these stories I want to know of, no matter how small.
It could be that you done something wrong and blamed another, you was nasty to someone who didn't deserve it, had an affair, laughed when you saw someone fall, anything at all that you later realised wasn't the right thing to have done.
You should 'Never Judge a Man Until You've Walked a Mile in his Shoes'. So along with the story, I need a pair of your old shoes, preferably ones with plenty of wear, or that tell a story. It's said that one can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they wear.
I intend to wear your shoes and walk a measured mile whilst reading your story, and draw my own conclusion purely on what you've told. The judgement I make will be on your version of events only, viewed from your perspective, taking your justifications into account.
The shoes will then be used as a mould, this creates a morphed foot/shoe like object with the impression one has made on the inner-sole. A foot print of things we've left behind.
This will be produced with TOTAL anonymity, your story will not be part of the finished piece.
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650 g manitoba flour
250 g whole milk
100 g sugar
100 g room temperature butter
10 g brewer's yeast or 50 g sourdough
4 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
pinch of salt
For garnish
1 egg yolk
caster sugar
50 g whole milk
To celebrate the Spring's arrival we propose you the Chick's brioche bread, a preparation that, thanks to blast chiller LIFE, will be easy and fast. The function levitation helps you to save time, ensuring the correct development of yeastes.
Heat the milk foe few minutes until 37° C, add the yeast and the milk and mix until the dissolution.
Pour all in a bowl. Be careful that there aren't lumps, add slowly sifted flour, eggs, butter, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. Knead up to get a soft dough.
Spread the dough with a rolling pin until you have a thin sheet, long and narrow shape.
Pleat on itself as a fabric forming different layers.
Divide the mass obtained in two parts: the larger one will become the Chick's body while the smallest will be the head; keep aside some scraps of dough to form the legs, the wing and beak.
Place the dough on the blast chiller LIFE's baking sheet covered with baking paper, remembering to leave 2 cm of space between the head and the body of the chick.
Sets the leavening : LEVITATION ˃ IMMEDIATE at the temperature of 28° C for 2 hours and 30 minutes and START.
If you want to find the dough perfectly risen up to 24 hours distance sets the same parameters as the temperature and decide the cooking time.
At the end of levitation LIFE brush the Chick's brioche bread with egg yolk, milk and sugar and bake for 15 minutes at 175° C.


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Designer of Reality Introduction
June 17, 2017
This is the first in a series of Designer of Reality podcasts serving as an introduction to the program. The goal of these podcasts is to spread the awareness that each of us is creating our own unique variation on reality. After listening we invite you to get "Your Ticket to Adventure" by visiting http://eepurl.com/cTiGwH for some ideas and pointers to unlocking your inherent power as a Designer of Reality.