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HCG Diet - Injections vs Drops
Which HCG Drops Are NOT Real HCG?
The HCG drops you see advertised are not real HCG if they are referred to as:
- Homeopathic HCG drops
- HCG releasers
- HCG peptides
The hCG drops that can be bought at your local Wal-Mart or online without a prescription are simply a few cents worth of grain alcohol placed in an official-looking bottle with a pretty label, impressive packaging, and glossy instructions. "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
If you've heard of people who have had great results with these fake hCG drops, we explain how that can happen and the side effects that can accompany it below.
Which HCG Drops ARE Real HCG?
- Real Pharmaceutical HCG usually requires a prescription. (Check out our Purchase Real HCG page for how to get your prescription from a phone consultation.)
- Pure, pharmaceutical grade HCG ---- the injectable stuff that really works---is still effective when taken sublingually.
- There are pharmaceutical grade HCG drops - the same liquid can be injected or dropped under the tongue. There are also small, quickly-dissolving HCG pellets available.
- Pharmaceutical HCG CAN be taken under the tongue, but usually requires a double dose to be as effective as injecting it directly.
There are a lot of companies out there who, whether by design or ignorance (some are well-meaning people), are making and promoting fake hCG. Remember, homeopathic HCG drops, HCG releasers and HCG peptides are all impostors.
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Real Results With Fake HCG
You can still lose weight with the fake HCG because of the Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD), but there are side effects. We know this personally, as our first round with The HCG Diet, we got caught by the fake "HCG Drops". We saw results, but not quite as good as those we later achieved with real HCG, nor those reported by clinics that work with real HCG, and it wasn't without consequence. Let me break it down for you.
What is often referred to as the "HCG Diet" is made up of two equally important ingredients:
If you are looking for fat loss, we say "equally important," because one won't work well without the other.
Each of the two has different, synergistic functions:
- The HCG hormone is used to unlock unwanted fat and tells your body to use it for energy, while sparing your muscle and keeping you from being hungry.
- Dr. Simeons' Diet is a program designed to provide enough protein and nutrients while keeping the calories extremely low, making sure your body is not getting its energy needs met by the food you eat.
Now, as we found out, you can lose weight rapidly on this diet alone, without real HCG. You will not get any of the benefits of the real HCG (protecting muscle, unlocking trapped fat, resetting metabolism, preventing physical hunger, etc.). The results that we had, during our first trial, came from the fact that we were on a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD), but their were some frustrating side effects.
Side Effects of the HCG Diet Without Real HCG
Following 3 weeks of the diet without the real HCG hormone in our systems, we noted that:
- For us women, we lost a lot of breast size and shape. This was because we were losing a lot of fat and did not have HCG protecting our breast tissue, as it is designed to do during pregnancy.
- In the third week of the diet we began losing a lot of muscle mass. The HCG hormone protects muscle and unlocks trapped fat for energy use. Without it, our bodies started to scale down and prepare for famine.
- The unhealthy fat we actually wanted to lose (legs and hips and post-pregnancy belly-fat) was the last to go. Dr. Simeons talks about this in his manuscript - HCG unlocks the trapped fat and makes it available for the body to use.
- My husband actually bailed out of this diet (HCG diet without real HCG) partway through the 3rd week, because he was getting too thin (6% body fat) and still had that hated belly fat pouch. Later, on a round of real HCG, that fat pouch was quick to go.
- All of us began disliking our skin tone as we headed into the third week. Although we stuck to the Phase 2 Diet until the end of the 3rd week, our skin was looking old and dry. HCG doesn't only unlock trapped fat, but it keeps nutrients cycling through the body for maximum use. Without real hCG to direct the burning of fat for energy and the recycling of other necessary materials, our skin simply wasn't keeping up with rebuilding new tissue. This is exactly what doctors are worried about for people who follow a Very Low Calorie Diet without real HCG—the body starts shutting down skin and tissue repair, especially in the 3rd and 4th weeks.
- We all found that we were hungry and headachy a lot during the day, especially in the 3rd week. Everyone will deal with mental hunger at some point during a diet—we are used to eating—but with real HCG in the body, physical hunger (caused by ghrelin) is mostly turned off.
When You Need The Full HCG Protocol
The full HCG Protocol (real HCG + Diet) is needed if:
- You have difficulty losing fat. Other diets have not worked for you.
- You have specific areas you can't seem to lose fat from (even if you lose it easily from other areas).
- You are a woman who wants to maintain her natural breast size even while sliming elsewhere.
- You (especially referring to men, here) need to rebalance your body's hormonal system while "cutting" after a "bulking cycle."
- You want to reset your body's metabolism and lose stubborn, trapped fat.
Summary of Real HCG - Injections vs. Drops
Please, don't waste your money or your health by going on The HCG Diet without the real, pharmaceutical grade HCG hormone.
- The real pharmaceutical grade HCG hormone usually requires a prescription (Check out our Buy Real HCG page for how to get your prescription from a phone consultation).
- Pharmaceutical HCG CAN be taken under the tongue, but usually requires a double dose to be as effective as injecting it directly.
If you're looking for a weight-loss program that has the ability to reset your body's metabolism and/or are looking for a way to permanently lose unsightly fat from specific areas of your body, then Dr. Simeon's Protocol of real HCG + The HCG Diet is for you.


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I look at the viaduct outstretched ahead. The 126ft high viaduct. First I walk past the four canal boats while trying not to peer in, I am so intrigued by the long wooden vessel that house wood burners, flat screen TVs, flowers and kitsch curtains. It's eerily quiet and I wonder for a moment if I have actually come out earlier than I thought due to the recent change in clocks, but I haven't.


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Written by James Cooper and Jeff McComsey
Art by Jeff McComsey
Printed by Alterna Comics
This is an interesting comic book that takes place before world war three when everything is up for grabs. Power, wealth, control, all of it is in the hands of a few people, while everyone else scratches out a meager existence in a nicely pre apocalyptic earth. Bring in Victor Sheppard, a walking talking one man destruction machine and in the opening sequence of the comic book he takes out a room full of people, as well as a couple of people who were running late. Grenades, explosions, shotguns, and machine guns, Victor has a couple of issues that he needs to resolve. The pre apocalyptic world is really one where might makes right, and just because you have something today does not mean that a walking talking harbinger of destruction will not show up to your party and pretty much so trash the place.
We start off with Victor sitting in a coffee shop in the post apocalyptic world realizing that just about everyone he knows is dead. They are all dead by working on the projects that bring death desecration and ruin to the people that he stops by to visit. He is an old man, who is fleeing into the memory and images of the past, a past that he misses because he felt that he was alive and valued in that past. As he realizes just how alone he really is, we also get a number of awesome flash backs to him being a force for destruction. It does not matter if the modern world is a better place, it is that there is little room for a man of his talents when everyone has enough to eat, enough to drink, and few reasons to rebel because the stomach is empty and life is generally a struggle just to eat for the day. The new age of peace means that there is little to no room for a guy whose primary talent is killing people to steal important stuff from them. Like many old men, he feels that it is time to tell his story, time to open up the past; the question is in an age of prosperity will anyone even care about the sins of the past?
This is a really interesting comic book, and rating this one four of five stars. The only reason to take it down a notch is that it is in black and white, and it is harder to read the text in the boxes at times. Otherwise this is a pretty boss comic book that is well worth hunting down and reading digitally. Right now you can find it on Comixology, both as a paid version and as a free preview of the series. There is a lot of good action packed violence in this, as we touch upon the past, but there is little said about the new world that Victor finds himself in. Well worth hunting down and reading online, it will at least keep you interested with some serious mayhem and violence.
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The history of Apothecary gardens in Russia
The oldest form of medicinal plant cultivation in Russia were monastic gardens, some of which, along with the cultivation of vegetables was also planted the garden "selinah herbs".
Appeared in 1606 the first Russian court pharmacy used the drugs more exclusively of foreign origin. And only in 1630 (after the establishment of the pharmaceutical order) first mentioned about the organization in Russia wild collection of medicinal herbs through special collectors, so-called "pumas" or "herbalists", who were parties all summer to collect herbs under the supervision of writ of the people or the local Governor.
Besides time, the beginning of cultivation of medicinal plants in Russia. In the second half of the XVII century in Moscow and its surroundings were established 4 the Apothecary garden, which occupied a small area and cultivated for up to 20 different plants, giving yields as measured in the tens bundles.
In the eighteenth century organized a network of new pharmaceutical vegetable gardens: in 1706, in Moscow, in 1709 – in Lubny and in the village of Terny in the province of Poltava, in 1713, in St. Petersburg in 1720 – in Astrakhan and in 1763 – in Tobolsk. Were created Apothecary gardens when hospitals.
St. Petersburg pharmaceutical garden was made in 1752 about 300 species of medicinal plants, but later lost its pharmaceutical person and turned into Botanicheskaya, which was named in 1823 the Cultivation of medicinal plants, nevertheless, it lasted until 1842,while the demands for medicinal plants have not stopped. Until then, while the St. Petersburg Botanical garden, handed over free of charge in state pharmaceutical store their products in 300 and 400 pounds – it was supported, but only with 1830 stopped free vacation, products began to fall, prekratilis perfectly to 1842, when the Treasury decided that it is cheaper to buy medicinal herbs abroad. Continue reading
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Watercolor Wednesday
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My world is a wonder of visual candy and foreboding shadow shapes vying every waking moment for my full attention. View more posts
An extra quick sketch this week. Shall we dance?
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Gorgeous painting!
Thank you Jill:)
Such a delicate,impressive character interpretation with flowing beautiful warm colours 🙂
Thanks very much:)
Forever beautiful!
She will be. Thanks Patti!
è veramente splendido!
Thank you!
Very nice portrait sketched, dear Elena! How beautiful you expressed the delicacy and beauty of women. Charming!
Thank you for sharing with us. Have a wonderful day dear Elena and beautiful Spring! 🙂
Thank you Stefania! Happy spring to you:)
Gorgeous, especially how you manage to convey all that hair with lines and shapes.
The hair was so much fun! Thanks Cindy.
Love the combination of the pink in the dress and the blue in her hair! Very nice.
Thanks Jess.
So lovely 🙂
Thanks Allyson!
Thank you Darren!
For extra quick, you capture her essence! Dance away!
Thanks much Anna!
simply divine
Thank you:)
very lovely
I'd be delighted!
Love too.. I am practicing..
Me too Doron, thank you!
Send me a ticket for the ball when you are ready… and have a super weekend meantime x
I will! You enjoy your weekend as well:)
Beautiful and delicate. I love it!
Thank you Nuno!
Superb! I like very much.
Many thanks Daisy!
Who would refuse to dance with the embodiment of purity and innocence?
Very sweet Marcelo, thank you.
Very expressive —- telling all the stories !
Thanks so much Yoshi!
Classy, as always!
Thank you Uday!
Who could refuse …with her soft blue black tresses and gentle inviting demeanour …
Absolutely lovely Elena .
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Beautiful Elena, as always 🙂
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There is so much I love about her…strength, poise, self-assured…I could go on and on. Love how you gave her such thick curly hair! Beautiful!
You should see her in real life-hardly did her justice. Thanks very much Robin!
A strong girl emerges from a stron watercolor!
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Absolutely lovely. 🙂
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This one feels quite adventurous somehow… Lovely!
She is:) Thank you Leslee!
Beautiful!!! So delicate, Elena!
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Fabulous, well done.
Thank you KC!
Yes, let's do a spring dance shall we? Like a rain dance only it summons warmth and sunshine! She's a beauty, Elena. Exquisite.
Love that idea Karen, chair twirling as I type:) Thank you!
Beautiful, Elena: I love your choice of complementary colors and the dynamism of your sketch. Great!
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Amazing and so delicate!
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Lovely energy and movement
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I like these 'extra quickies'; you've got it in your fingers. Beauty!
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Funny Mary, this sketch was inspired by a local beauty in her prom dress:) Thank you!


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Olivier Henaff, Robbe Goris, Eero Simoncelli; Perceptual straightening of natural video trajectories. Journal of Vision 2017;17(10):402. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/17.10.402.
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In a video of an object moving or deforming over time, the vector of pixels follows a complex high-dimensional trajectory. Yet human observers understand such trajectories and immediately recognize the persistence of the object. Inspired by the "untangling hypotheses" (DiCarlo & Cox, 2007), we propose that the visual system builds a representation of temporally contiguous images that is less curved, such that linear operations are sufficient to capture object persistence. To test this hypothesis, we estimated the curvature of a set of natural image sequences in the pixel and perceptual domains. Pixel-domain curvature is computed as the angle between high-dimensional vectors corresponding to differences between consecutive frames. Perceptual curvature is computed by first estimating an internal trajectory that best accounts for the discriminability of pairs of frames under brief, peripheral presentation in a sequential ABX paradigm. Specifically, we formulated an observer model that measures distances in a fixed-dimensional perceptual space, then maximize the likelihood (over the entire data set for an observer) of the location of each frame within that space. The curvature of this perceptual trajectory is then computed as for the pixel-domain trajectory. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found that perceptual curvature of natural videos was systematically reduced relative to pixel-domain curvature. This suggests that the visual system non-linearly distorts incoming information so as to linearize natural image sequences. It follows that image sequences that are straight in the pixel domain should generally be curved perceptually. We tested this prediction by estimating the perceptual curvature of synthetic image sequences that fade linearly from an initial to a final frame. In this unnatural case, perceptual curvature was systematically larger than pixel-domain curvature. Together, these results demonstrate the existence of non-linear operations used by the visual system to build simple representations of naturally occurring temporal image transformations.
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The 65th Annual Dinner and Prize Presentation was a successful evening for Cardiff Ajax Cycling Club. Many thanks to all those that attended and also helped out. Special thanks to Nia James and her many helpers.
Courtesy of Ian Homer are some photo's of the evening. If any trophy winners would like a free high resolution image of themselves then please contact Ian Homer direct via his website.


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Failed Cities
6 November 2009
The city is the central exhibit of civilization, crucial to the origins, development, and continued vitality of civilization. And as history is littered with now defunct civilizations, so the landscapes of the world, from arid deserts to tropical jungles, from broken cliffs to the shores of the world's oceans, are littered with defunct and abandoned cities. And even in their derelict state, these cities continue to exercise a power over the landscape and over our imagination. Is there anyone, anywhere in the world, who has not heard of Babylon? Babylon is a city perhaps more famous posthumously than during the years of its glory.
And Rome. What city has exercised greater power over the historical imagination of Western civilization than Rome? Consider the famous passage from Edward Gibbon's Autobiography:
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire…
It was the experience of the ruins of Rome, of Rome in its derelict state, that inspired Gibbon to write The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
As we have observed above, the globe is littered with failed cities. Most were small, but there is a significant number of larger remains as well. Some failed cities are remembered only by pot sherds and broken roof tiles and the remnants of terracing (I have walked through a site like this in the hills of the Turkish coast) while others have left more considerable remains, some to the point of almost appearing intact, so that one can easily imagine moving in to the abandoned structures and taking up life almost where it left off, as though seamlessly recovering a lost history.
The question of exactly what constitutes a city is as difficult as the question of what exactly constitutes a civilization, and indeed the question of how one knows when it's love. Well, even if we can't define a city precisely, we can usually recognize one — or the remains of one — when we see it. I suppose we could specify some quantitative measure in terms of population, area, production or consumption, but this would only be an oblique admission that we cannot get at the essence of the city… at least not yet…
The ends of great cities are as mysterious and as varied as their origins and growth. In so far as a city is like a king among the lesser human assemblages of villages and towns, the manifold ends of cities remind me of a passage from Shakespeare's Richard II (Act III, scene iii):
For Heauens sake let vs sit vpon the ground,
And tell sad stories of the death of Kings:
How some haue been depos'd, some slaine in warre,
Some haunted by the Ghosts they haue depos'd,
Some poyson'd by their Wiues, some sleeping kill'd,
All murther'd.
So it is with cities: there is no single pattern of urban dissolution Of course, we know much more about the decline and fall, the decay and ends of great cities, because there were people, many people, present to chronicle the events — unlike the obscure years of their rise to prominence. Yet there remains something compellingly inscrutable about how a grand and thriving metropolis ultimately meets its doom.
Every successful city has spawned a literature devoted to it. Many authors are closely identified with their chosen city, as Joyce with Dublin or Baudelaire with Paris. Unsuccessful cities, that is to say, failed cities, have not the same paper trail to document them. As dying men often find themselves isolated and lonely, so too dying cities are left only with those who cannot leave, and once the city is utterly dead, no one but an archaeologist or an historian has anything to say about it: the authentic voices the city, those who partook of its life, are as dead as is the city itself.
No city is a failure in its inception. A city begins with a pre-city nucleus, perhaps a town or even a mere village. It is precisely due to the success of such a nucleus that it grows into a city. But it is often the case that the first thought inspired by the ruins of an abandoned city is how and why the city was ever built in the first place, and how it ever came to grow to its apparent former size. Many abandoned cities are to be found buried deep within tropical jungles, far from contemporary civilization, or stranded in the midst of a desert like the toppled statue of Ozymandias in the poem by Shelley.
A failed city is not the same as an abandoned city, although failure and abandonment obviously overlap. On the one hand, cities might be abandoned for many reasons, most of which have little or nothing to do with the intrinsic failure of a given city as a city, while, on the other hand, a failed city may continue in existence, much as Rome was never completely depopulated even at its nadir. Many cities are abandoned due to natural disasters. Pompeii is perhaps the most famous example of this, buried by the ash of the eruption of Vesuvius, but more recently, much more recently, there is the example of San Juan Parangaricutiro, buried by the lava flow from the formation of Parícutin volcano in 1943.
We all know that particular technologies outlive their usefulness. I have written about this in The Law of Stalled Technologies and More on Stalled Technologies. Because of the succession of technologies, one technology and its infrastructure may have to be abandoned in order to move on to the next technology. This does not mean that the society or civilization that produced the first technology has collapsed; on the contrary: the abandonment is a consequence of the vigor of a society that can leave behind the past. However, when an entire life of a city is based upon the infrastructure of a particular technology, and that technology is abandoned, or has changed so rapidly that older production facilities are without value to the contemporary iteration of the technology, then that city must enter a most painful decline.
The most obvious examples of the process of abandonment because of obsolescence due to technological change are to be found in the industrialized "Rustbelt" of the United States, although examples can be found in every industrialized region of the world. In the Pacific Northwest, a similar process has occurred in connection with the timber industry. Small towns dependent on a single large timber mill were reduced to not much more than a minimart, a gas station, and maybe a bowling alley once the mill closed. I have long thought it would be an excellent topic for an academic study — whether sociological or economic or cultural geography — to write a thesis on After the Mill Closes. We could call this process industrial succession, by analogy with ecological succession, understanding that cities are a petri dish of the ecology of civilization.
There is a sense in which this process of industrial succession is predictable and an obvious consequence of social and technological change, but there is also a sense in which it is striking and remarkable. Even in a middling-sized city like Portland, where I am somewhat familiar with the commercial and industrial real estate market, a relatively small structure in the industrially zoned area of the city (and I understand that not all cities have zoning laws) costs a million dollars or more, and this represents a significant investment for a small business. If you cross the bridges over the Willamette in downtown Portland and see a panoramic view of the city, thick with small and large buildings, and you realize that each one of these properties may be worth millions (some of them worth tens of millions), you immediately understand how valuable a contemporary city can be. The amount of money represented by a urban landscape is staggering, and we aren't even talking New York, Paris, London, or Berlin here.
That anyone can afford to abandon commercial or industrial urban properties is remarkable. And yet it happens. Perhaps the property is owned by a corporation that goes bankrupt, the property tax bills go perpetually unpaid, and the city has other, more pressing needs and will not spend the money required to raze or refurbish such properties. Where the decline of a particular city is terminal, this process escalates and turns into a vicious circle of declining property values that drive further bankruptcies and abandonments.
Industrial succession is a force as relentless and as inevitable as the Industrial Revolution itself. We could say, in fact, that industrial succession is part of the Industrial Revolution, and that the civilization that has emerged from industrialized societies is a civilization that must reckon with the industrial succession that comes with the Industrial Revolution. The rational approach to this would be to plan for cities to emerge around particular technologies, and for these same cities to be abandoned gradually as that same technology inevitably becomes obsolete. This has been attempted in some highly controlled and managed economies, but cities cannot avoid becoming the domicile of our dreams and our aspirations at the same time as they grow rich, just as they become symbols of failure and decay as they decline into poverty.
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4 Responses to "Failed Cities"
Martin E Williams said19 August 2010 at 2:20 pm
I seem to find myself dealing with the decline of Eugene,Oregon and must count myself amongst those currently unable to leave. Thanks for some of the clarification brought about by reading your article.
geopolicraticus said19 August 2010 at 2:42 pm
Dear Mr. Martin,
Thanks for your comment.
I would be very interested to hear more about the decline of Eugene. I never much cared for Eugene myself, though it is certainly preferable to Salem. Like many college towns, its demographics are skewed by the presence of the University of Oregon. That being said, I know that some people are quite enthusiastic about Eugene, and I believe that the contemporary anarchist writer John Zerzan lives there. As a representative of "anti-civilization" thought, he is the antithesis of my own point of view, and for that reason alone I have cause to view Eugene with suspicion, though I would much rather hear directly from a resident of Eugene than rely on my own suspicions.
Best wishes,
xcalibur said1 July 2015 at 5:05 am
Cities are centers of civilization, so their rise and fall is tied with the larger civilization. The character of Roman and Medieval cities was different because they were part of different civilizations. The same is true of modern cities. When cities decay and collapse, the answers must be found in large, impersonal social and economic forces.
The question of defining a city is interesting. I would say that a city has a junction/joint purpose in the structure of society. It is a place where things are centralized. It must have ties to other areas, and it must be large enough to be impersonal (a settlement where everyone knows each other is a village). Of course, there are overlaps with market towns and trading centers. Also, Greek city-states were a special case. They seem like cities, but they were much more independent, relying only on surrounding agriculture. I don't think I'd call a polis a city.
geopolicraticus said1 July 2015 at 12:11 pm
I touched on the idea of cities as junctures (i.e., centralization) in my recent Centauri Dreams post, The Zoo Hypothesis as Thought Experiment, when I suggested that even on a planet devastated by nuclear war the remnants of a transportation infrastructure would be found connecting the radioactive craters were cities once stood.
One of the most interesting things about cities today is their long term demographic growth since the advent of industrial-technological civilization coupled with technology that would seem to make cities unnecessary. Do you remember the predictions about how people could live anywhere and telecommute to work, so that where you lived wouldn't matter. Didn't happen. Isn't happening. Cities are growing, and in the most popular cities the prices for real estate continue to climb even while economies are largely stagnant.
I will think about the definitional problems of cities. That might be worth writing about.
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The 1970s and 80s
1971 – Invading the commercial engine market
In the 1970s, development of commercial engines began playing an even more significant part in the company's activities that had been focused almost entirely on military business. After M.A.N. Turbo, MTU's precursor, had previously made forays into the commercial engine sector, MTU began to methodically expand these efforts. In 1971, a cooperation agreement was signed with GE that gave MTU a manufacturing role in the CF6-50 engine powering the Airbus A300.
1979 – Demand-driven diversification
Growing demand for engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services caused MTU in 1979 to form MTU Maintenance Hannover, at Langenhagen and separate its MRO activities from the manufacturing activities in Munich. And as MRO demand continued to rise, MTU launched another shop, MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg, at Ludwigsfelde near Berlin in 1991. The early focus of these shops was on maintenance, test runs and worldwide services.
1983 – MTU takes stake in V2500
IAE (International Aero Engines) is formed to develop and market the V2500 engine. Founding members are MTU Aero Engines, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Japanese Aero Engines Corporation JAEC and FiatAvio. In the 1990s, the Fiat group withdraws from IAE and its stakes are taken over in equal shares by Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney.
1985 – MTU becomes a wholly-owned Daimler-Benz affiliate
M.A.N. AG sold its 50% stake in the company to Daimler-Benz AG, making MTU a wholly-owned Daimler-Benz company. That same year, MTU and Pratt & Whitney Canada begin cooperating.
1986 – MTU takes stake in EJ200
In 1986, Eurojet Turbo GmbH is founded by Spain, Italy, Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany as a consortium for the development and production of the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter. Shareholders are MTU Aero Engines, Rolls-Royce, FiatAvio and ITP.
1989 – Launch of Deutsche Aerospace (DASA)
On May 19, 1989, the MTU group was integrated into the newly established Deutsche Aerospace AG, or Dasa for short, which also comprised parts of AEG as well as Dornier and MBB. This move brought almost all of the German aerospace industry together under one roof. Daimler-Benz had grown into a conglomerate that manufactured engines, vehicles and aerospace equipment for transportation on land and sea as well as in air and space. Former Daimler CEO Edzard Reuter's vision of an integrated technology group had become reality.
1989 – Power for the "Tiger"
The company MTR is founded by MTU, Safran Helicopter Engines and Rolls-Royce. Under the cooperative effort, the MTR390 turboshaft engine, which features a free power turbine, is built. It powers the Franco-German Tiger escort and antitank helicopter. An uprated version, dubbed the MTR390 Enhanced is developed later on by the MTRI consortium for export customers Australia and Spain. MTU's stake in the MTR390 includes the core engine with its combustor and gas generator turbine, plus a number of accessories.


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Welcome to Halu-Halo's brand new series: Author-ish. Halu-halo as a blog has always focused on inspiration, and our interviews will ask authors about theirs. Author-ish is named as such because these interviews won't be about the craft of writing, but all the feelings behind it.
Rachel Lacey lives in North Carolina, with her husband, son, and their own rescued pup. She volunteers her spare time with Carolina Boxer Rescue and truly has a passion for helping our furry friends. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America as well as her local Heart of Carolina RWA chapter.
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UNLEASHED - Releases October 28 2014. Published by Grand Central Publishing
What happens when you find the right one at the wrong time?
Cara Medlen has a serious case of animal attraction. And it's not because of all the foster dogs she's rescued. She's got it bad for her incredibly sexy neighbor. Her one rule: Don't get attached. It's served her well with the dogs she's given to good homes and the children she's nannied. Yet the temptation of Matt's sexy smile might just convince her that some rules are made to be broken.
Matt Dumont doesn't need his skills as a private investigator to detect disaster on the horizon. Cara is everything he thought he'd never find-gorgeous, funny, and caring. But there's no way he can start a relationship just as he's about to move to another state. Talk about bad timing. As their attraction sizzles too hot to deny, they'll have to make a decision: forget the consequences and let loose, or forget each other and let go...
Tif (Halu-halo): I'm honored to interview Rachel Lacey, a contemporary romance author I met through one of my critique partners. Part of the online writing circle #girlswritenight (Twitter), she is a kind and encouraging individual, and the perfect person for this first interview on this blog. Rachel, what was your inspiration for UNLEASHED?
RACHEL - Thanks so much, Tif! When I was beginning to plot this book, I had a basic idea that my heroine would work in animal rescue. As a volunteer with my local boxer rescue group, I sometimes received emails forwarded from area shelters listing urgent dogs needing immediate rescue. Shortly after, I received an email with a photo of a fawn boxer named Sadie. The look on her face was heartbreaking. I copied that photo into my plotting notes as the inspiration for Unleashed, and the rest of the book fell into place around her.
Tif: I am a boxer lover as well, and I just fell in love with your book cover. My heart completely melted. When do you do your best work? Do you have a routine?
RACHEL: It's hard to go wrong with a cute dog on the cover, right? I'm a night owl, and my best creative time is usually in the evenings and later at night. Right now, my routine is to start work after my son is in bed around eight. It works for my creative time, but it's exhausting because he happens to be an early bird, so he wakes me up early! :)
Tif: I know how that feels! Although, sometimes I think a lot of great words come from that haze. ;) What fuels your spirit? What fills your tank?
RACHEL: Creatively, reading is my fuel. Whenever I'm stuck or burnt out, I know I need to close the laptop for a couple of days and just read for fun. That can almost always recharge me. When all else fails, a glass of wine never hurt either :) Outside of work, spending time with my family and traveling keep me happy. I love visiting new places and trying new things, and well, reading is important to me outside of work too. Nothing feeds my spirit like being lost in the pages of a good book.
Tif: What are your biggest distractions and how do you stay focused?
Rachel: I feel like life is a distraction right now! I don't have a lot of dedicated work time, so I'm always trying to squeeze in a little writing time between teaching, parenting, and trying to keep my house in some semblance of order. I need quiet to concentrate, so I can't work with the TV on or my six year old buzzing in and out of the room. I have to close myself in my office, or wait until my son's in bed and my husband has gone upstairs to the media room when I can have the living room to myself.
Tif: I'm incredibly excited about your book birthday. Give me five words that describe UNLEASHED.
Rachel: Love. Rescue. Dogs. Healing. Bubble-bath ;)
Tif: Squee! Such a tease! Now, the hard questions. Love at first sight or the slow burn of being friends first?
Rachel: Slow burn :)
Tif: Gummy bears or sour patch kids?
Rachel: Sour patch kids!
Tif: I knew there was a reason why we are friends! Donuts or cinnamon rolls?
Rachel: Hmmm, this one is tough, but I have to say donuts. Mmmm, now I'm getting hungry!
Tif: I am starving too. Starving for UNLEASHED! Thank you so much for gracing this blog with your presence! CONGRATULATIONS! I cannot wait to have it in my hands!


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Gorham southwestern & western RR now fully operatinal. will will lay tracks on Nunert Rd an ferry crost the Misisippi river to conect with BNSF RR. We will take all traffic from UP RR and conect with BNSF RR. will going to build innermodel term on bank of missippi river for transload of coal to ship container an other innermodal commodites to travel on missippi riv.
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we will take all freit trains from UP RR and load them into barge on missippi river adn move crost river to BNSF who will then run train to Rockview jct and rout back onto UP RR Chestar Sudbivison. 167 train per day.
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For Geider, one noteworthy draw of ICC Lowe is the deep bench of more than 20 physicians, Ph.D.s, and Pharm.D.s in the agency's three Parsippany, N.J., offices, led by Stacy Patterson, M.D., chief medical officer. In fact, one member of this team, MJ Sawey, Ph.D., sits on the advisory board of NORD (National Organization of Rare Disorders). "These are the kind of resources that make ICC Lowe and Pace unique and why our clients continue to choose us," Viviano says. "Stacy and her team excel at creating a simple medical story with a unique lexicon that establishes a brand's desired place in the current treatment paradigm – whether it's in pre-launch or seeking to maintain its competitive position at any time in the brand's life cycle."
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I'm currently on the Las Vegas Strip and I was having dinner with my buddy, professional Keno player Neil Fontenot, and he was discussing the hardships of being a winning Keno player. It was an exciting conversation because there such an emphasis on Taoism these days. Neil pointed out that Keno is losing popularity because it is hard to pick all the numbers because the odds are against them. Neil embraces this fact because he is a nihilist and believes in nothing. He sometimes plays all the numbers.
My roommate Grubby, a professional minature golfer, called me in the middle of dinner and told me I needed to read Yahoo's home page because I was on the front page. And wow, there was the Tao of Poker mentioned on Yahoo because Oprah was discussing Taoism. Thanks to Oprah and Yahoo. But how the hell did I slip behind the Tao of Fuckin' Pooh as most popular Tao sites on the web?
Anyway, I would like to welcome all my new readers via Yahoo. If you want to read some good stuff, check out my archives (June & July) from this summer when I moved to Las Vegas and covered the 2005 WSOP. We also have a cool 2005 WSOP photo gallery.
You might want to read the Best of the Tao of Poker section. That's where I highlight my favorite posts.
Neil wants to get Grubby and myself to play low limit donkey poker at the Excalibur, where we will attempt to tilt the table. More stories to come, stay tuned.


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I found this little 70th Japanese bird tile on Etsy (fox & found), and had to have it! It just makes me happy to look at it!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
lil tiny tile dilemma...
I found this little 70th Japanese bird tile on Etsy (fox & found), and had to have it! It just makes me happy to look at it!
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- Michelle Engel Bencsko said...
The Ribba 9x9 frame at IKEA would be a perfect size and I believe you can use it as a shadow box.
Cute tile! I can see why you like it.
- August 12, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Maybe you could find a little tiny easel to display it on :)
- August 12, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- orange you lucky! said...
Should I glue it onto the easel or wood with hot glue?
- August 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Glue would make me nervous; I wouldn't want to damage the tile. Depending on how heavy the tile is, you might try double-sided tape to hold it in place, or maybe that tacky, gummy stuff you can use to hang posters on the wall.
- August 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM
- Heather Moore said...
Such a cute tile! Can't you just leave it on the blackboard like that?
- August 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- FancyPants-design said...
Such a cute tile!! I love the easel idea!! They sell tiny easels at Dick Blick online http://www.dickblick.com/zz071/47/
- August 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM
- JoeGirl said...
Sweet! I say leave it au naturel... hang it with a plate hanger on the wall, or prop it up on a shelf or ledge.
Love the Charlie + Lola mug too... One of those fab kid's shows I catch myself watching even when the kids aren't around!
- August 12, 2008 at 3:16 PM
- s a n s k u :) said...
If you want to go totally over board, you could buy a garden stepping stone kit from Michaels and make a bigger art work with it. You might have the how to hang it dilemma still though. :) And it would be heavy. Lean it against a wall somewhere...
Or just frame it in a shadowbox like everyone else is saying. :)
- August 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM
- orange you lucky! said...
I think I'm going to hand it with a plate hanger:)
That's seems best. The shadow box sounds good, but I'm afraid it would be too much. I really do like the simple solution best:)
Thank you all so very very much! h:)
- August 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Top bird said...
Oooh, just found your latest purchase. How fabulous - lucky girl! Yeah, go simple. I've got two Rob Ryan tiles and I've got them propped against the window sill (with a blob of bluetac at the back for extra security). xx
- August 14, 2008 at 8:34 PM


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New LCSH may contain trace amounts of nuts
As you may've seen on twitter:
Here's the timeline of how this came to pass:
- In late January of 2016, Catherine floated the idea of us tag-teaming Asexuality and Asexual people as LCSH proposals. We shared some resources and then got to work.
- I submitted my half (Asexuality) through the non-SACO proposal form, and then followed up with an e-mail.
- On February 2nd, Paul Frank (hooray!) swept up the heading from the sea and popped it right into the queue. In addition, he created the heading Asexual people. Catherine's work is to be commended and was not for naught! (Just wait)
- March 31st: the PSD editorial meeting posted their minutes which had a lot of concerns and questions about the proposals. They were given the a "revise and resubmit" status.
- Enter the Team.
- Assembled in a google doc, Catherine, Jessica, Miranda, Violet and I began gathering sources and sources and sources (Catherine's earlier work proved quite useful here!)
- On April 18th I resubmitted both proposals to Paul directly (I was unable to edit the master records because they were DLC's)
- May 24th, notification came that the headings were scheduled for List 1606.
- Today — July 13, 2016, they are approved for usage.
I wanted to illustrate this process (and I'm glossing over a LOT) because it's all pretty opaque to people who haven't gone through it. There isn't a lot of clarity on what it's like to get a heading into production, and I want to remedy that.
Onto the headings! (As always — check out the full approved list)
Book burning in art
Bus accidents–Investigation
Cary-Elwes family
Crescents (Shapes)
Flash fiction, Spanish
Freedom of religion in motion pictures
Horsea Island (England)
Juggalos (Music fans)
Libraries–Computer programs
Plagiarism in literature
Proud globelet
Quiverfull movement
Riddles in motion pictures
Two thousand fourteen, A.D.
My favorite thing from 2014. I still enjoy saying 'apparently' in this manner.


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Ford's Performance Edition (FPE) of the irrepressible Fiesta ST is limited to only 600 examples, all of which are in three-door body style and finished in a Deep Orange paint that was last used for the Focus ST launch editions. Based on the best-selling ST-3 trim, the Fiesta ST FPE gains from a number of specially-designed and developed Ford Performance parts that include 18.0-inch diameter alloy wheels that shave seven kilograms of weight from the standard wheel set and a race-car style coil-over suspension pack, which features stainless steel damper housings and blue powder-coated Ford Performance springs.
In many respects, these additions are not dissimilar to the various RS packages that Ford created for its earliest versions of the Escort model. The Fiesta ST is the car that Ford believes 'keeps on giving'. Being fast, fun, relatively affordable, practical and quite economical, the FPE version will help owners to stand out from the crowd. However, this ST is for customers who consider themselves to be either performance-oriented drivers, or tuning enthusiasts who demand maximum fun on the road combined with a sporty appearance. Unfortunately, as with many of the company's 'special variants', it is likely to be snaffled-up by the RS Club brigade, leaving no examples available for anyone else!
For what it is worth, the coil-over suspension pack lowers the ride height by 15mm at the front and 10mm at the rear and has been tested extensively at the Nürburgring Nordschleife Circuit by Ford's performance arm engineers. It is a suspension package that can be adjusted manually, with 12 bump and 16 rebound settings for a personalised, finely-tuned driving setup. Unless owners possess an intrinsic knowledge of adjustable suspension, this could lead to around 600 breathed-on Fiestas with the worst ride/handling characteristics possible.
The 10-spoke, 18-inch flow-formed alloy wheels are lighter, stronger and more durable than a traditional cast wheel. Flow-forming involves the application of pressure to the inner barrel of the wheel, while spinning and after it has been cast, which stretches and compresses the aluminium, increasing tensile strength. The alloys are finished with a winter-resistant, high-grade triple-layer 'Magnetite' paintwork.
Other standard equipment includes LED headlamps and a B&O premium audio system, as well as a specially-designed Quaife limited slip differential (LSD), launch control and performance shift-light indicators. More than 5,000 Fiesta STs have been sold since May 2018 and it has won several key awards. Final pricing for the Fiesta ST FPE will be announced next month, but this ultimate specification ST will carry a premium of at least £3,000 over the standard ST-3 list price, which could whisk its price tag to almost £26,000, which is a lot for a sub-compact hatchback model. It goes on sale from June 2019, with deliveries expected from early September.


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The Falcons are carrying just two quarterbacks at the moment, and since one of them's hurt, they're looking for help.
With backup Dominique Davis limited in practice yesterday with a knee injury, the Falcons worked out veteran quarterbacks Trent Edwards and Mike Kafka, via multiple reports which PFT has confirmed.
Per a league source, the quarterbacks were joined by receivers Dominique Croom and Brandon Kaufman.
Davis had to leave Sunday's blowout loss to the Buccaneers with the injury, meaning starter Matt Ryan had to go back in, since they had no other choices. The Falcons are carrying Seth Doege on the practice squad which is fine to get them through the week, but they'd need to make a roster move if Davis isn't able to go Thursday night against the Saints.
Edwards and Kafka have at least been around long enough that they could capably execute professional plays in a short time, and the Falcons might need just that.


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There are three sides to every story, yours, mine and the truth.
I don't have the patients to go on with all the formalities so I'll just cut through the chase and call you a fucking idiot, life is to short, have a nice day.
Trolls aside the one thing the left fails to understand is criminals don't obey laws...
I know, I've been this way since the election.
You're a criminal.
So you never so much as committed a traffic infraction? You are either paradigm of moral responsibility or a liar.
All good things must come to an end...
When I logged on at 4:00 am and saw Nautical Underpants I knew someone had called clean up on aisle 6, 7, 8, and 9.Please, if all of you would avoid these aisles till the floor dries and we can clear the air of the stench.Thank you - The management....
The guy posted last year as "Tennyson" he was banned previously under a numer of other names, he kept coming back and saying stuff like this about his background especially the EMT firefighter part then dropped off the radar...I thought maybe prison or the ding ward.lot of similarities but many of these lefties have Walter Mitty fantasy's.Billy
There's a carefully cultivated character over at the other PF named Margot. He or she shows up on a couple other sites, same name.He/She claims to be an old lady who grew up wealthy as the daughter of an oilman in the middle east, knows absolutely everything about the history of all the countries, sects, tribes, etc. of the middle east. Of course anti-America / pro Islam, anti-gun but of course he/she has owned and shot every weapon you can name, lifelong conservative republican, who of course has had to become a raving Obama supporter because of Bush..He/She/It's an expert in medical matters, legal matters, child-rearing (a whole passel of kids who are doctors, lawyers, researchers, who all own have been great athletes, shooters, writers, artists, etc.).And also knows lots of high level govt folks, entertainers, CEO's, and so on.And also had a husband who was immensely more accomplished than even she and her miracle children.It may be the same clown as this Obvious person. Who the hell puts such effort and their existence into crap like this ? Somebody in a jail or a hospital somewhere ? If it was a free person, they could just put the same effort into writing a book or a screenplay, lol.


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The roof pieces are cut from 0.040 inch sheet styrene. They are sized so that the overhang at the eves is about 1 scale foot.
Campbell Scale corrugated metal stock was also used to panel the roof. In this case though, I made use of the full 12 foot length of the stock and didn't cut the pieces down to 8 feet as I did with the wall siding - the width though is still 4 feet. It does seem weird: cutting up the stock into 4 foot pieces and them gluing them all down again on the substructure. The difference is that the individual pieces, when glued side-by-side, form slight ridges that help give the illusion of individual sheets - which should be enhanced when painted.
All the panels are glued down with thick super-glue. I'm moving on to adding the defunct mill substructures to the roofs.


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In the preceding column I raised questions about the terribly difficult issue of euthanasia, and specifically, whether in an Orthodox Christian perspective there could ever be a morally acceptable way to hasten the death of a dying person, when that person is consumed by uncontrollable pain and suffering. Fortunately, such cases today are rare. Palliative care and medications for pain management have been developed to the point that "terminal anguish" can usually be mitigated to an acceptable degree. But not always.
The question arose because at the time my aged and infirm mother was dying. Her final days were marked by organ failure and acute respiratory distress. The hospice team did all it could to provide her relief and facilitate her struggle. But her struggle continued, and we had no doubt that her suffering was real. Now she has passed on, and we are still grieving: both her loss and the fact that for days she was consumed with the physiological process of having her life painfully ebb away. We knew that for months she had longed to die. Seeing her lying on her death bed, gasping for breath and in obvious distress, I couldn't keep from mulling over what I had always taken to be a forbidden, even unthinkable question. Is it ever appropriate—that is, in conformity with the will of God—to intervene in the dying process in such a way as to facilitate the passage from a life that is no longer a life, into the blessedness of life beyond?
Is our reluctance to talk about euthanasia—or, when the patient is conscious and able to make choices, physician assisted suicide—due to some cosmic law against deliberately ending a human life? Is it due to the conviction—or the fear—that God will condemn us for the sin of Cain if we even raise the issue? Yet the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" refers not to cases of terminal illness but to murder—the unlawful taking of a human life against the best interests and wishes of the victim—within the Israelite community. (And even there, under certain conditions, capital punishment was authorized and prescribed.) Is our real objection to euthanasia in fact just fear of the "slippery slope" that might lead to the wholesale slaughter of genetically "defective" newborns, the handicapped, the marginalized, the burdensome members of society? But what does that have to do with this person in these immediate circumstances: a dying loved one who longs for nothing more than "the peaceful separation of soul and body"?
We rightly hold that God determines the when and the how of our conception—which gametes will produce the zygote that becomes "me"—and we declare that therefore (a non sequitur?) He alone must determine the way and the time we die. Yet there is a synergy involved in both. God brings a zygote into existence with the cooperation (conscious or not) of the parents. Is it not possible that God might expect and act through such a synergy at the time of our death? Can He not move or inspire us to make a decision concerning the diagnosis and prognosis of a terminally ill person that would lead us to extend medical care to the point of ending, peacefully and lovingly, this life that is no longer a life, but merely an existence void of substance, aim and meaning? Particularly when that existence is consumed by unmanageable pain and suffering? Is it morally wrong to take such "quality of life" issues into consideration when the dying person's only prognosis is an imminent and painful death? Could not a gesture to foreshorten that agony be the most appropriate and compassionate way to achieve what we pray for each day: "a painless, blameless and peaceful ending" to our earthly existence?
There are some questions we Orthodox refuse to allow ourselves. "Euthanasia" and the circumstances that might warrant it is one of the most obvious. "There are better ways," we insist. And on the whole this is certainly true. Hospice care can work wonders, as can proper pain management and palliative care in general. And the slippery slope does present a very real and present danger. Proper care, when a cure is not possible, is the most appropriate response we can make, the most precious gift we can offer, when a person becomes irreversibly "terminal," when death is imminent.
A question we Orthodox need to address, though, is whether under certain very specific circumstances that caring can include medical intervention to relieve—and even, if deemed beneficial to the patient, accelerate—the dying process and thereby alleviate the person's otherwise unmanageable suffering. (There is no moral or spiritual obligation to bear anguish until the bitter end, as if suffering were punishment for our sins or a precondition for our redemption. It is neither. God does not inflict punishment as a penalty; and Christ alone has wrought our redemption through His own suffering on the Cross.)
It is no secret that a tacit pact is often made between patients and their doctors, which leads the latter to make decisions regarding terminal care that border on euthanasia or physician assisted suicide. To be sure, we cannot and must not "license doctors to kill" (that language, however, stacks the deck). On the other hand, may we—insofar as we follow the patient's competent request or advance directives—encourage clergy, family and the medical team to reach a mutually acceptable decision concerning terminal care that under tightly controlled, well-monitored circumstances might allow a doctor, with both legal and moral sanction, to intervene medically so as to hasten the dying process, once the patient has irreversibly entered it? Will we forever condemn such an action as "murder," or will we one day come to regard it as an aspect of appropriate—that is loving and compassionate—medical care?
There may indeed be "a better way." But as my mother's breathing became ever more belabored and her distress ever more evident, as her body continued to waste away, and as we persisted in our ardent supplications that God at last release her from this final agony, I felt compelled to raise the question. I have raised it because for too long—with the exception of a very few Orthodox medical professionals who specialize in terminal palliative care—we have considered it to be "unthinkable," and therefore a non-issue. We have been far too reluctant to deal with it directly and prayerfully, keeping in mind the best interests of the patient who struggles, often in pain and anguish, to complete the Paschal journey and enter into eternal rest.
Some readers of these reflections will, of course, condemn them and me for heresy or insensitivity or wanton neglect of dying patients. They may feel that they only advance the perverse aims of the "euthanasia movement," and therefore it is "unorthodox" even to voice (or to think) them. But if any of those readers have found themselves raising similar questions as they watched a loved one die in pain and distress, yet as Orthodox Christians they felt compelled to keep such questions to themselves, then perhaps it is worthwhile discussing this issue publicly. Perhaps by openly confronting difficult and even offensive questions—especially those we dare not raise out of the misguided fear that they are forbidden or definitively resolved—we might allow and even encourage our faithful to voice the cares and concerns they have about their own lives and personal experiences. We might convey the important message that life is made up of difficult questions and hard choices, and that we have not only the moral right but the pastoral obligation to address those questions and make those choices as faithfully as we can.
In the final analysis, we are asking not "what is morally acceptable?" or "what course of action is licit?" We are asking rather, "What is God calling us to do in this particular situation, given these particular circumstances, in order to fulfill His will and remain faithful to His ultimate purpose?"


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Willard Middle School Students Join UC Berkeley to Protest Cuts
Willard Middle School students also took part in the March 4 Day of Action—some joining the march and others cheering from the school balcony.
As the protesters approached the Willard campus, the middle schoolers broke into applause, jumping up and down in excitement.
A small group ran out to hug their friends, who took part in the rally with permission from their parents, Willard teacher Sharon Arthur said.
"Some teachers took their students on field trips so that they could witness the march," said Arthur, who teaches sixth grade English and history. "We support the Day of Action. But we teachers can't leave because of our contracts."
The Berkeley Federation of Teachers held their own rally outside the Berkeley Unified School District headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Way Thursday, raising awareness about the cuts.
BFT President Cathy Campbell said the union had wanted to do something more "family oriented," so that the parent and teacher community could stay in Berkeley.
"The kids are pretty juiced up," Arthur said. "They know what's going on, they are Berkeley kids. Teachers from the 70s remember what it was like when Prop 13 changed our lives. It's not a spending issue, it's a revenue issue."


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Cranberry Pineapple Smoothie
Green smoothies are my new favorite grab-and-go breakfast. My blender has been getting a serious workout over the last several months as both Robert and I have been hitting the smoothie train pretty hard. We started making them a lot back in the summer, but honestly it's been slow-going for me to find my groove with them. I'm not a huge fan of bananas so I get sick of smoothies with them pretty quickly; I have to be in the mood for the ones with peanut butter, and I get stuck in a rut of making the same few recipes over and over again. It can be hard to get creative with your smoothies when you're just trying to throw something in the blender that will taste good so you can run out the door with it. [Read more…]


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