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Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Brief description of study
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Auditory hallucinations are the most frequent symptoms with an incident of 50% to 70% in patients. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can significantly reduce symptoms of schizophrenia. TMS is capable of inducing changes in the electrical activities of the brain in humans. The purpose of this trial is to study the use of TMS to decrease auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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We hypothesize that: True treatment with rTMS will have significant decrease in auditory hallucinations versus sham treatment over the temporoparietal cortex. FMRI will highlight areas of activation with auditory hallucinations distinct from the area identified by Hoffman's scalp based method. Cortical inhibition as measured by paired pulse TMS will be increased after true TMS but not sham TMS.
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Reported: 3/28/2009 9:48:23 PM 21:48
Posted: 4/14/2009
Location: Eagle Butte, SD
Shape: Changing
Duration:30 sec.
|My son and his wife, 9 yr old son, and 9 neighbors and I were present; they were all outside talking and my son called me. He said some lights just went by north and looked like UFO's.
He called his brother who works for the Law Enforcement. I went outside and looked to the North. I said lets stay here maybe they will come back, and laughed. Their neighbors said they all saw the lights and were amazed at how fast they went.
I was looking North and I saw a small white light that I thought was a star move south towards us slowly; then, it speeded up and when it came about 1/2 mile north of the housing area the light broke up into three lights. As they moved extremely fast within 10 seconds they were above us; they seemed to pause in midair with no sound. The lights turned gold and there was no moon out that night. Then, the objects changed shape into golden flying angels. Some of the neighbors said they looked like flying golden eagles from where they stood.
Within the next second, the three objects flew at a southwest angle and disappeared completely into the dark night. I ran in to call the police department and asked them to record it on their dispatcher log. We talked with the neighbors for a few more minutes and I spent the night with my son and his family. i was spooked to return to my home which was 19 miles away.
We couldn't even guess how fast the objects moved; it was an eerie feeling watching the objects change shape. I will never be a skeptic of ufo stories. There is something out there; I feel we are not alone.
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Fortnite superstar Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has actually left Twitch and is taking his computer game live streams to Microsoft's Mixer platform, a spectacular switch that might have wide-ranging effects for the rapidly growing industry.
Blevins revealed his move Thursday, ending an extremely successful collaboration with Twitch, a live streaming giant owned by Amazon.
" I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunities Twitch has supplied me," Blevins informed The Associated Press. "But as I looked at the next action in my career, I wished to be someplace that empowered me to press the boundaries of gaming and achieve larger goals within the industry. Mixer offers me with more ways to get in touch with my neighborhood."
Blevins has earned millions relaying himself playing Fortnite and other video games on Twitch and YouTube. He has more than 14 million fans on Twitch, and the platform has hosted much of his pioneering esports moments, consisting of a Fortnite event in March 2018 featuring rappers Drake and Travis Scott and football gamer JuJu Smith-Schuster that moved the video game into a full-blown cultural phenomenon.
Blevins will host his very first Mixer live stream Friday from Lollapalooza, a four-day music celebration in Chicago. The 28-year-old has openly welcomed Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf– the 16-year-old who earned $3 million Sunday for winning the inaugural Fortnite World Cup– to join him. Blevins stated he will not actively recruit other players to leave their existing platform, however if more streamers follow him to Mixer, it could become a genuine rival in a market dominated by Twitch.
" I desire my good friends to make their own choices for what platforms they select to play on," Blevins said. "With that being said, I will welcome anyone with open arms who wants to join me."
In a statement to the AP, Twitch said, "We've enjoyed enjoying Ninja on Twitch throughout the years and take pride in all that he's achieved for himself and his household, and the gaming neighborhood. We want him the best of luck in his future endeavors."
Mixer introduced in 2016 but hasn't almost matched Twitch's popularity– Microsoft reported 10 million monthly users in 2015, compared to well over 100 million for Twitch, which released in 2011. Mixer has actually been applauded for its interface and its management of hazardous gamers, though, and Blevins stated he anticipates to link to fans with "more interactivity and range than previously" because of Mixer's technological abilities– for instance, banners can share their controller with fans, and the chat function has a greater variety of features. Blevins also expects the deal with Mixer will free him as much as do more live events and other non-streaming material.
" I enjoy what I do and will still be actively streaming and continuing to communicate with my fans," he said. "With Mixer, I get to further engage with the tools on the platform, which I am thrilled about."
Within 40 minutes of the announcement, Mixer was the leading trending subject on Twitter in the United States, and Ninja's Mixer page had more than 28,000 subscribers.
Blevins first emerged in the streaming community eight years ago while playing Halo. After some competitive success with battle royale games H1Z1 and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, he burglarized the mainstream as the face of Fortnite in 2015. He's the most followed gamer on Twitch, although his appeal has actually slowed. He ranked fourth in hours seen on the platform in June, about 6 million hours behind Turner "Tfue" Tenney, according to StreamElements.
Blevins consistently broadcasts with other professional players, including friends Ben "DrLupo" Lupo, Jack "CouRage" Dunlop and Tim "TimtheTatman" Betar. He's been criticized for not welcoming more female gamers into his streams, and that magnified when he told Polygon last year that his issue was "if there's a hint of flirting, that is going to be taken and going to be placed on every single video and be clickbait permanently." Blevins married in 2017.
Blevins said that at Mixer, "I will do my part to guarantee I am helping to produce an enjoyable and welcoming neighborhood," which consists of playing with female gamers.
" I will have fun with any gamer who likes video gaming as much as I do," he said.
Blevins has notoriously had his partner, Jessica, handle his company during his gaming profession, but he's expanded the operation by adding Loaded management group and law practice Loeb & Loeb. That group is banking that Blevins' immense fan base will follow him to a brand-new platform. Mixer streams online and also via Microsoft's Xbox consoles, and Fortnite is popular on the Xbox, which should assist. Loaded CEO Brandon Freytag believes Blevins' influence will bring fans to Mixer, calling him "the Michael Jordan of video gaming."
"We are pursuing Tyler being associated in every home, so if you understand gaming, you understand Tyler," Freytag said.
The relocate to Mixer is among a couple of modifications for Blevins this year. He's also trying to branch beyond the digital space, starting by authoring 3 books that will be published later on this year, including a how-to on streaming video games and a graphic novel.
"It is the capability to achieve bigger goals in gaming and more expand my own individual brand within the industry," Blevins said.
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United States District Court, D. Kansas
July 26, 2019
WILLIAM BRIDGEWATER, Plaintiff,v.JEFF EASTER, Defendant.
William Bridgewater brings this pro se civil rights
action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff proceeds
in forma pauperis. Mr. Bridgewater is an inmate at
the Sedgwick County Detention Facility (SCDF) in Wichita,
Kansas. He has been convicted of a state felony and is
awaiting sentencing. For the reasons discussed below,
Plaintiff is ordered to show cause why his complaint should
not be dismissed.
Nature of the Matter before the Court
complaint (ECF No. 1) alleges conditions at SCDF are
overcrowded. Mr. Bridgewater describes an incident on
February 10, 2019, where he got up from a table where he had
been eating to return his empty meal tray and tripped over a
chair, which caused him to fall into a chair occupied by
another inmate and injure his back. He claims the sleeping
area is also cramped and inmates have no room to eat, walk
around, or talk on the phone privately. Plaintiff states he
fears for his safety as a result of the crowded conditions in
the old work release building at SCDF ("Annex")
where he is housed.
names as defendant Jeff Easter, Sedgwick County Sheriff. He
requests relief in the form of $5, 000, 000 in compensatory
damages and an order to bring the SCDF Annex up to code.
Statutory Screening of Prisoner Complaints
Court is required to screen complaints brought by prisoners
seeking relief against a governmental entity or an officer or
an employee of a governmental entity. 28 U.S.C. §
1915A(a). Additionally, with any litigant, such as Plaintiff,
who is proceeding in forma pauperis, the Court has a duty to
screen the complaint to determine its sufficiency.
See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). The Court must
dismiss a complaint or portion thereof if a plaintiff has
raised claims that are legally frivolous or malicious, that
fail to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or
that seek monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from
such relief. 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)(1)-(2).
state a claim under § 1983, a plaintiff must allege the
violation of a right secured by the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and must show that the alleged deprivation
was committed by a person acting under color of state
law." West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42, 48 (1988)
(citations omitted); Northington v. Jackson, 973
F.2d 1518, 1523 (10th Cir. 1992). A court liberally construes
a pro se complaint and applies "less stringent
standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers."
Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94 (2007). In
addition, the court accepts all well-pleaded allegations in
the complaint as true. Anderson v. Blake, 469 F.3d
910, 913 (10th Cir. 2006). On the other hand, "when the
allegations in a complaint, however true, could not raise a
claim of entitlement to relief, " dismissal is
appropriate. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550
A pro
se litigant's "conclusory allegations without
supporting factual averments are insufficient to state a
claim upon which relief can be based." Hall v.
Bellmon, 935 F.2d 1106, 1110 (10th Cir. 1991).
"[A] plaintiff's obligation to provide the
'grounds' of his 'entitlement to relief'
requires "more than labels and conclusions, and a
formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of
action." Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555 (citations
omitted). The complaint's "factual allegations must
be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative
level" and "to state a claim to relief that is
plausible on its face." Id. at 555, 570.
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has explained "that, to
state a claim in federal court, a complaint must explain what
each defendant did to [the pro se plaintiff]; when
the defendant did it; how the defendant's action harmed
[the plaintiff]; and, what specific legal right the plaintiff
believes the defendant violated." Nasious v. Two
Unknown B.I.C.E. Agents, 492 F.3d 1158, 1163 (10th Cir.
2007). The court "will not supply additional factual
allegations to round out a plaintiff's complaint or
construct a legal theory on a plaintiff's behalf."
Whitney v. New Mexico, 113 F.3d 1170, 1173-74 (10th
Cir. 1997) (citation omitted).
Tenth Circuit has pointed out that the Supreme Court's
decisions in Twombly and Erickson gave rise
to a new standard of review for § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii)
dismissals. See Kay v. Bemis, 500 F.3d 1214, 1218
(10th Cir. 2007) (citations omitted); see also Smith v.
United States, 561 F.3d 1090, 1098 (10th Cir. 2009). As
a result, courts "look to the specific allegations in
the complaint to determine whether they plausibly support a
legal claim for relief." Kay, 500 F.3d at 1218
(citation omitted). Under this new standard, "a
plaintiff must 'nudge his claims across the line from
conceivable to plausible.'" Smith, 561
F.3d at 1098 (citation omitted). "Plausible" in
this context does not mean "likely to be true, "
but rather refers "to the scope of the allegations in a
complaint: if they are so general that they encompass a wide
swath of conduct, much of it innocent, " then the
plaintiff has not "nudged [his] claims across the line
from conceivable to plausible." Robbins v.
Oklahoma, 519 F.3d 1242, 1247 (10th Cir. 2008) (citing
Twombly, 127 S.Ct. at 1974).
Failure to state a claim of a constitutional
Plaintiff brings one count in his complaint, alleging his
constitutional rights have been violated by the overcrowded
conditions in the SCDF Annex. He does not specify which right
has been violated, but claims based on the conditions of
confinement fall under the Eighth Amendment. An Eighth
Amendment challenge to prison conditions must contain facts
showing both (1) that the conditions resulted in a
"sufficiently serious" deprivation "so as
to constitute a substantial risk of serious harm" or,
in the alternative, that the conditions deprived the inmate
of "the minimal civilized measure of life's
necessities"; and (2) that the responsible officials
acted with deliberate indifference to the prisoner's
conditions. Barney v. Pulsipher,143 F.3d 1299, 1310
(10th Cir. 1998); Shannon v. Graves, 257
F.3d 1164, 1168 (10th Cir. 2001). The Constitution
does not require comfortable prisons, but it does require
that inmates have "adequate food, clothing, shelter and
medical care." Barney, 143 F.3d at 1310-11.
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Father, I come to You, the Mighty Judge, the Judge of all judges in the courts of Heaven with my D.A. Yahushua, (and you show your hand) and you say Father, I have my receipt in my hand to prove that I was born lock stock and barrel by You through the Blood of Your Son, and oh yeah and He told me this too, add this in your prayer. I forgot to tell you this. He said that when we come to Him right, the natural bloodline that we was once inherited to, we are no longer inherited in that Bloodline because we come to God, so your bloodline that you had flowing through you when you was in the world, or carnally minded.
You no longer have that blood in you. You have the Blood of Yah in you so what you have to say in the prayer is Father God, I come and petition the Courts today to you for a divorce decree, and to break all sexual transactions and sexual soul transactions, sexual covenant transactions and sexual abominational transactions, and sexual rape, and sexual defilement, and incest in Yahushua's name. And Father Your Word says that once I come to You, I no longer have the natural blood in me of my bloodline anymore, I have the Blood of You, the Blood of Yah that runs through your loins so therefore the enemy cannot use the old sins of my old natural bloodline because I no longer have that bloodline I have the bloodline of You.
And I accuse the enemy because he is illegally walking on illegal territory and illegal ground which is me Your Temple because I am no longer held under that natural bloodline, I'm under your bloodline and I'm purified and I'm renewed and refined in fire so I petition to You today to give me a divorce decree and to burn up anything they may have on the altar that's of mine, any marriage certificate, any rings, wedding gowns, dowry, anything in the spiritual realm, DNA, clothes, underwear, anything, hair, anything that they have of me, or any of my ancestors going all the way back to Adam and Eve, my mother and father's side, step parent's side, I petition the courts today for you to destroy all of these things for me and my bloodline today in Yahushua's name.
And then you say God I thank you for the divorce decree and covenants and soul ties and transactions You have bought, and then you say I thank my DNA, my Messiah that died for me in Yahushua's name and then you say Father God, thank you for my new blood that I have inherited from your loins through the Messiah in Yahushua's name and I am no longer under the natural blood where satan can use that blood against me and also Father I petition that you bring satan to the courts to be judged and bring his demons and all that he's been using to come against me to be judged because they have illegally trespassed in Your Temple which is mine in Yahushua HaMashiach's name.


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The question is often put to me by friends 'why do you love film so much?'.
The answer is simple . I'm not sure that another art form exists that can be so divisive. Start a conversation with film loving friends about what the greatest film ever made is and sit back and watch the fireworks to see what I mean.
Only God Forgives is a prime example of this quality. To date opinions have been right across the spectrum and reviews are ranging from 5 to 1 star. I'm not sure there has been a more divisive film in recent times.
Ryan Gosling plays Julian a Bangkok based drug dealing Thai boxing club owner. When Julian's brother kills a prostitute, the avenging angel police officer Chang allows the father to kill his daughters murderer, then restores order by chopping off the man's right hand.
Julian's mother Crystal (played in spectacularly sinister form by Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in Bangkok to collect her son's body. She orders Julian to find his killers and raise hell.
Increasingly obsessed with the Angel of Vengeance, Julian challenges him to a boxing match, hoping that by defeating him he might find spiritual release but Chang triumphs. The stage is then set for a bloody journey through betrayal and vengeance towards a final confrontation and the possibility of redemption.
I was warned by some friends that this was 90 minutes of my life I would never get back but to be honest I really enjoyed the film. Although to say I 'enjoyed' this film is perhaps a strange phrase to use.
From start to finsih this is a tough watch. the violence portrayed is graphic as is the choice of language (Kristin Scott Thomas said in interview they had to do multiple takes of one particular scene as she couldn't bring herself to say some of the lines). Dialogue when not including profanities is scarce, which for some is problematic, but in some ways that is the beauty of it. Winding Refn has made a film that says more in the silence than it does in dialogue. For example Gosling constantly staring at his hands to some peers was a huge point of frustration. To me this was a clear indication of a character who is scared of the potential his hands have to do carry out evil. It is for this reason he fantasises of his hands being removed as it is only in doing this that true release will come for him.
No character in this film is likeable. Normally that would be a problem but that is the point. All cahracters in this film are flawed and all have committeed atrocities in some form. The deeds carried out by the characters in this film leave them only with darkness as comfort which is why Winding Refn chooses the neon illumination of the Bangkok night to allow us to see them.
Only God Forgives is a tough watch and to many may be considered difficult to engage with. This however is a film that has many questions to ask around justice and redemption. The major difficulty though is the manner in which the questions are poised although this does not make the questions any less valid.
Drive is far and away the more mainstream and accesible of Winding Refn and Gosling's collaborations. Fans of Drive should know this is not a companion piece and while Drive is itself violent and a difficult watch in places Only God Forgives takes those elements to a new extreme level.
For me though it is Only God Forgives which may, after repeat viewing (if you can stomach it) and the passage of time prove to be considered as Refn's true masterpiece.


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In the middle of a historical presidential campaign that will make or break the direction of this country, it is only appropriate to bring up Mahatma Gandhi's wise words–"A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." Take it from the leader who led India to its independence and changed the world in unimaginable ways.
As it turns out, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is far from being a contender with conviction. His inconsistent campaign rhetoric and his conveniently evolving views make up what is a highly elusive presidential agenda in an era where information is readily available to most Americans through the internet. First are his ever-changing ideas on immigration reform, which began with building a wall and deporting all documented immigrants; then changed to bringing the "good" ones back and being flexible on deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants; then stated "there's not amnesty but we work with them" and most recently promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants within his first hour as president.
Trump has also proposed a Muslim ban, which initially included all Muslims, then excluded U.S. citizens and members of the military and now seems to be about people from countries with a history of terrorism–although Trump himself has stated that he's just avoiding using the word "Muslim." When it came to border control and refugees, Trump said the U.S. had a humanitarian obligation to accept some Syrian refugees, although he later stated the exact opposite and currently suggests he's not for closing borders entirely but is against taking in Syrian refugees.
Having been part of a crowd of 5,500 who attended Donald Trump's rally in Austin on August 23, I experienced first-hand what has been a campaign filled with hatred, mocking and negativity. Trump maintains his egocentric, unsubstantiated language about his undeniable power to "fix the problem" by "restoring law and order, liberating citizens from violence and fear, protecting jobs and wages, reinstating American unity and promoting common culture, values and principles." By calling his democratic opponent "Crooked Hillary," he continues to show a lack of professionalism and respect for others. His message of sending back undocumented immigrants who are murderers, rapists and thieves is the kind of message that his supporters want to hear, inspiring them to passionately chant "build that wall" and "lock her up."
Yet I also watched the "other side" of Trump during his visit to Mexico on August 31. The man I saw talking to the camera referring to Mexicans as "spectacular, hard working people" and stating that "the bond between our two countries is deep and sincere" is nothing like the man at the Austin rally. The tone in his voice changed and he stuck to a script, as if trying to make up for the past 14 months of derogatory comments towards the people whose roots lie in the very soil on which he stood.
This month we celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, recognizing the contributions of Hispanics to this country. With elections coming up in November, it's a good time to reflect on the kind of leaders that we want to elect not only at the national level but at the local level as well.


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This function allows a user to upload files using MATLAB to DropBox. The function does not require the user to have the DropBox application installed. It uses publicly documented APIs to upload the file to DropBox using the WEBWRITE function in MATLAB.
Vinod (2020). Upload files to your DropBox folder from MATLAB (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/59673-upload-files-to-your-dropbox-folder-from-matlab), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
There was an issue for me and it worked after using this
headerFields{2,2} = sprintf('{"path": "/%s%s", "mode": "overwrite","mute": true}',remoteFName, remoteExt);
does anybody know the answer to this error?
Conversion from cell failed. Element 4 must be convertible to a string scalar.
Error in uploadToDropbox (line52)
headerFields = string(headerFields);
Thank you!
I get the following error:
Error using string
Conversion from cell failed. Element 4 must be convertible to a string scalar.
Error in uploadToDropbox (line 49)
headerFields = string(headerFields);
could you please help me?
thanks in advance!
@Yasser Soltanpour- This function will work and will not make a copy of file if you use the following syntax:
headerFields{2,2} = sprintf('{"path": "/%s%s", "mode": "overwrite","mute": false}',remoteFName, remoteExt);
If this is not working, make ..."mute": true...
This function do not work on MATLAB R2015a.
I like to update a file in dropbox when I make any change in the data in Matlab. Unfortunately, dropbox makes a copy of the existing file with numeric extension. Is there any way to update the dropbox file without making extra copy? Thanks
Paul, the release compatibility for this function indicates that it will work with R2015a or later, however the neither the STRING class nor the HEADERFIELDS property for the WEBOPTIONS object appear to exist in MATLAB 2015b. Is there a work-around?
Paul: The Dropbox access token is just a string, so there is no limit on how long it can be. You'd call this function like this:
uploadToDropbox('YOUR VERY LONG ACCESS TOKEN HERE', 'c:\foobar.txt')
My access token exceeds the MATLAB maximum name length of 63 characters and is truncated. How can I do?
It appears DropBox changed their API. I updated the function to use the new API. Try getting the latest version of the file.
Undefined function or variable 'weboptions'
How to remove this error
Change the title of the FX entry
Updated to use v2 of DropBox API
Bug fix.
Inspired: Download files from your DropBox API folder using MATLAB
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This is a great aerial view of the Westown section of downtown looking west along Kilbourn Avenue. It is from sometime in the late 1940's before the Arena was built and after the area east of the Courthouse was cleared out in 1941. It gives an interesting view of an area of downtown that was already past its peak and was succumbing to an urban renewal frenzy that eventually nearly cleared it into oblivion.
Note: This link will take you to the Gigapan page with a high resolution view.
A comparable view from 1967 is shown here with many more buildings magically turned into parking lots. This view was before MECCA was built in 1974.


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Learn All About Iroquois Longhouses: Who Lived There, & How Were They Built?
Who Are the Iroquois?
The Iroquois Confederacy was a group of five Native American tribes that were peaked about 300-500 years ago. They were primarily located in Upstate New York. The Senecas were found in the west, the Mohawks in the east, and Onondagas in the center. The Cayuga and Oneidas were two other groups. When traveling through Upstate New York, you can find regions and cities named for these tribes.
"Iroquois" was the name given to them by European settlers. Amongst themselves they were also known as "Haudenosaunee."
They were known as farming tribes, as they primarily grew corn and maize in their villages.
Information about these tribes was gained through tribal legends passed down from generation to generation, as well as recorded observations from missionaries and explorers who visited the region. Archaeological excavations at various village sites have also yielded a lot of information. The European explorer Jacques Cartier was the first to write descriptions of the longhouses. French explorer Samuel de Champlain actually lived among the Iroquois tribes.
The Longhouse
The longhouse is exactly what it sounds like. It is a structure that served as a home to clans (extended families) within the Iroquois tribal community. They were long and narrow in shape. They were commonly found throughout Ontario, Quebec, southern New England, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. The Iroquois specifically lived in Upstate New York. Similar structures were used by the Vikings and are used today by some communities in Borneo.
Longhouses were the primary residence of tribal members prior to European colonization. Now they can found living on or near reservations in apartments, houses, and mobile homes. Longhouses are still used for tribal meetings and rituals.
Who Lived in the Longhouses?
Inhabitants of the Iroquois longhouse were several families within a clan. Each clan consisted of the descendants of one particular person, usually a woman. There could be as many as twenty extended families living in one unit. One longhouse per clan was found in each village, though relatives could have longhouses in neighboring villages. Clans were not allowed to intermarry, so they had to find love in another abode. When a couple decided to marry, the husband would move out of his longhouse and into his wife's building.
Each clan would have an animal as its symbol. These symbols were often found on the front doors to the longhouses, as well as in household decorations and tribal tattoos. Common clan symbols were the turtle, bear, and wolf.
How Were They Built?
The structure of an Iroquois longhouse is made of posts (often from cedar trees) placed in holes dug into the ground. After vertical posts were in place, horizontal poles were attached, making a sort of grid. Other branches were bent to create the traditional curved roof. Strips of bark were braided together like a rope and used to tie all of these parts together. They were then covered with large sheets of elm bark, also tied or lashed together.
Most of the materials were harvested from what is known as a second growth forest. These are created when an older forest is destroyed by fire or when tree trunks are girdled.
They were usually 180-220 feet in length, though a couple have been uncovered that were longer than a football field or city block. Length was determined by the size of the clan that would inhabit the home. They were almost always 20 feet high and 20 feet wide. Rounded ends often served as storage areas. The only doors to the buildings were found in the two ends and were covered by skins in the winter. Later longhouses became shorter, as smaller extended families lived within them.
Running the entire length of the longhouse was a corridor that measured about ten feet wide. Two families would occupy a sort of apartment about twenty feet in length, with one family on either side of that aisle. These areas were used for family storage and as sleeping quarters. In the common area of the aisle was a fire for cooking and heat. Smoke could escape through a hole in the ceiling. These holes could be adjusted depending on the weather. They also served as skylights to bring in a bit of light as there were no windows.
Insulation on the walls came from furs and mats. These were also used to make the sleeping benches more comfortable.
To protect the property, a fence known as a palisade was built out of posts and poles along the perimeter.
To create the longhouse, the Iroquois used stone axes to cut down trees and to cut and shape the logs. A tool known as an adz is similar in shape to a hoe but made like an ax. It was used to pare rough surfaces. They also used small knives made of flint for cutting, chisels made of deer antlers to dig holes, and bone tools as awls for piercing bark.
The features of the Iroquois longhouse have great symbolism to the Iroquois nation. The floor represents Mother Earth, while the roof represents the sky. The rafters represent the Great Law of Peace, under which the tribes live. Five smoke holes in the roof represent the five nations that make up the Iroquois Confederacy.
- Iroquois Longhouse Project (Slideshow) http://www.oneonta.edu/oas/collegecamp/Longhouse/index.htm
- A Mohawk Iroquois Village, New York State Museum. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/constructionone.html
- Iroquois Longhouse Drawing by Wilbur F. Gordy found in the public domain of Wikimedia Commons
- Iroquois Longhouse Replica at the New York State Museum in Albany photograph by Jaro Nemčok, under Creative Commons License 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons
- What Is a Longhouse?, Iroquois Museum. http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/longhouse.htm
- Online Activities: Iroquoian Longhouse, Royal Ontario Museum. http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/activities/longhouse/longhouse1.php


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Mark Hughes at Stoke: QPR criticism will motivate me
- From the section Football
Mark Hughes says criticism of his time at QPR will help motivate him to ensure he is a success as Stoke manager.
The Welshman, 49, has signed a three-year contract at Stoke just six months after being sacked by Rangers.
He endured a difficult 11-month spell at Loftus Road, winning only eight of 34 games in charge.
"I have listened to what people have said about my managerial ability and I can assure you I will use that as a motivation," he said.
"I've had something like 270 games as a Premier League manager, but people do tend to look at the last year or so.
"But I don't regret moving to QPR. A lot of managers have gone in there and found it difficult."
Hughes signed a dozen players last summer but failed to win any of his opening 12 league games of the season and was sacked in November.
Harry Redknapp took over but was unable to keep QPR in the Premier League.
Hughes conceded the London club had tried to do too much too soon and said he was aiming for steady progress at Stoke.
"If I am honest, we all tried to run there before we could walk," he said. "That was the mistake that we made. I made mistakes I will learn from."
Hughes, who will be joined at Stoke by coaches Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki, said he expects the stable environment at the Staffordshire club - owned by Peter Coates for the last eight years - will prevent a repeat of the errors made at Loftus Road.
He said: "There is solid ownership at the club and you need that behind you to give yourself an opportunity to be successful."
The former Manchester United, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Chelsea striker aims to add an attacking edge to a Stoke team that only scored 34 goals in 38 Premier League games last season.
"It's not a case of wiping away all the hard work that's been put in place in previous seasons. That would be crazy," said Hughes.
"But I would like to think I can make them a bit more offensive and maybe that's where the club hasn't helped itself in the past by not scoring enough goals."
Coates said Hughes was always Stoke's first choice for the manager's job.
"We had other interest, but we've only interviewed Mark. We focused on him, he was our choice. We went for it and it's happened," he told BBC Sport.
"It's only that part at QPR [that went wrong], up to that I don't know what he did wrong anywhere in terms of success rate at the particular football club he was in."
Coates wants Hughes to promote players from the club's academy as well as bring in new talent.
Previous manager Tony Pulis had paid large fees for players with little sell-on value, including the £10m signing of Peter Crouch, then 30, from Spurs in 2011 on a four-year deal.
"We want to have a sustainable model," said Coates. "We can do that and still provide funds for the manager."
The appointment of Hughes was met with a lukewarm reception by Stoke supporters, with one fan protesting by putting a placard on the back of his van calling for Hughes to go - even before he was confirmed as manager.
Coates said: "I do understand it [fans' doubts] but I remember very well Tony Pulis was not universally popular when he came to this football club. There was more [dissent] I suspect than there is now, by a long way, so it's nothing new.
"Supporters are going to have their own views and their own favourites, so that goes with the territory, I understand everybody won't be jumping up and down but I believe the majority will think we know what we're doing, we've done our homework and we've made a good decision."
Bryan Shaw, chairman of Stoke City's Supporters Club, said: "If you ask the majority of Stoke supporters, Mark Hughes would not be their first choice. That said, whoever the chairman appoints we have to get behind. We just have to hope he proves us wrong."
Hughes, who has also managed Wales, Blackburn, Manchester City and Fulham, takes over from Pulis, who left the club on 21 May after seven years in charge.
Pulis took Stoke to the 2011 FA Cup final, where they were beaten by Manchester City, earning them a place in the Europa League.
Stoke finished 13th in the Premier League last season.


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World Airshow News has announced that Greg Koontz is the 2014 recipient of the Bill Barber Award for Showmanship. Koontz joins a growing list of honorees that reads like an airshow hall of fame.
Greg Koontz is known throughout North America and parts of Latin America as a foremost authority on American Champion Super Decathlon aircraft. His aerobatic routines in both the Super Decathlon and the new Xtreme Decathlon have been featured at airshows from coast to coast and internationally, and culminate with an inverted ribbon cut in a stock aerobatic training airplane. His comedy act – The Alabama Boys – features Greg as "Clem Cleaver," an Alabama Good Ol' Boy who steals a 1946 Piper J-3 Cub. The act concludes with Greg landing the Cub on top of his pickup truck.
Koontz learned to fly in 1969 while he was still in high school and got his start in the airshow business at the age of 20 with Ernie Moser's Flying Circus based in St. Augustine, Florida. While with Moser's flying circus, he began perfecting the comedy act, the truck top landing, and began performing low-level aerobatics in the Great Lakes and the Decathlon. Greg stayed with the flying circus until 1981 when he began pursuing a corporate flying career.
Until 2002, Koontz flew jets for a corporation in Alabama while flying airshows part time. Today, he is a full time airshow performer and teaches basic aerobatics at the flight school/bed & breakfast called Sky Country Lodge that he runs with his wife Cora. Greg is a former chairman of the ICAS ACE Committee, holds an unlimited aerobatic waiver, and has been designated a Master Certified Flight Instructor-Aerobatics by the National Association of Flight Instructors.
The Bill Barber Award for Showmanship began in 1986, and is awarded to airshow performers or teams that have demonstrated great skill and showmanship. World Airshow News and the friends and family of the late Bill Barber present the award annually. Plans are for the award to be presented on Tuesday, July 29 during EAA AirVenture at EAA's Theater in the Woods.


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Armed Forces Day
23rd June 2019
Event Navigation
A fun day out for all the family with free events taking place throughout Kendal town on 23rd June.
A chance to show your support for our Armed Forces and our emergency services.
Activities include:
- Kendal Town Hall – exhibitions, interviews, music and film screenings
- Abbot Hall Park – blue light vehicle displays, military vehicle display, a bouncy castle, a fun run and an inflatable assault course
- New Road Acoustic Stage – several bands playing throughout the day
- Fleece Inn – film screening of "The Longest Day"
- Market Place – a sports demo's, vintage cars and cadet demonstrations
For event timings and further details head to: https://www.facebook.com/AFDKendalMorecambe


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Hello again, it is now 6.15pm on the 6th November and our baby has been with us for 12 whole hours. I am very shattered and not overly in the mood for a blog post but I really want to get everything down before I forget it.
So I left off with the Man taking the Boy to the house of the One He Loves and as usual he was a superstar as he went straight to bed in her room, having never spent a night there before so I was pleasantly surprised when the Man was back home within 15 minutes. Continue reading
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Sometimes men fight just to fight. Tempers flare and punches are thrown, and a lot of time the biggest damage is done to egos more than anything else. Filmmaker Ian Palmer found a situation in Ireland where much more damage is done to the bodies and the faces of the fighters that live in a constant sort of conflict with neighboring families. Called Travellers, Gypsies, or any number of things, these nomadic people have long-standing feuds that are settled with individual fights between two representatives of a family in a somewhat civilized stand-up fist fight. Over the course of more than a decade Palmer followed the Quinn McDonaghs and their champion, James, and compiled a documentary simply titled Knuckle, which opens in limited release this weekend and on VOD. Earlier this year I had the chance to sit down with James Quinn McDonagh and Ian, and after the jump you can read the entire interview about this compelling, troubling, and challenging film.
Collider: This film is very much set in Ireland. Very much set across the ocean. You're coming a long way to promote this film. I'm curious how your family has reacted to this. It seems to me that your family is very close but they would be wary of all of this attention. What has their reaction been?
James Quinn McDonagh: They're very aware of what I say and do. Because of Knuckle, and they've all seen Knuckle, and because of the way Ian has done it and we trusted Ian, they trust me to go out and speak, give interviews and talk like this to try and portray our family as good as possible. In that sense I don't tend to provoke the feuds any further and I don't bad-mouth the Evans and Joyces. Just keep things nice and clean and enjoy myself out here.
Are you enjoying this experience?
McDonagh: I'm enjoying it. It's a trip of a lifetime, Knuckle itself. Traveling with Knuckle and traveling with Ian is a trip of a lifetime in general. To get to the States over here. To get to Austin, Texas, New York and LA, it's a dream come true for me. From where I've come from at the beginning of Knuckle to the end of Knuckle, to me it's one of my dreams.
Do you sit around when they screen the film?
McDonagh: I do, and I'll tell you why. I like sitting in with the fans and developed filmgoers. I feel like it's nice and polite to be there among them to get their reactions because there's a lot in there where you'll tilt your head and hear them clap, laugh, and hear their comments. I like hearing all that. I like them to see me there that I'm showing interest in them. It's nice to be there for them. At the end of the day they're paying money to watch the film and I'm not a star person or a celebrity. Nothing like that. So I like to be among the people… I wouldn't call them fans.
The audience.
McDonagh: The audience and to just let them know that I'm enjoying the film as much as they are.
Ian Palmer: Especially if they're pretty girls.
McDonagh: Especially that, yea yea yea.
For Ian, you were filming this in spurts. Over a decade…
Palmer: Yea, a decade or more.
When you were watching this finished product, and you're watching your final cut of it, were there moments when you say to yourself, 'Damn, I wish I would have put that one part there. I had something great'? It sounds like you would have a ton of footage.
Palmer: Yea, I had a ton of footage that I shot myself or my crew shot with me. I also had a ton of stuff from the various families giving me footage. Whether it was wedding footage they had themselves; back story stuff. Very difficult to weave that stuff together into a coherent film. Lots of scenes, even now, I'm looking at it and unlike James, I've seen this film a lot.
So you don't stick around?
Palmer: I don't sit through it. Actually, I did a couple months ago for the first time in ages where I sat through one of the screenings. My brother was there; he lives in Boston. Thankfully it was a good experience for me. But I have so many scenes which we didn't include which are really good. It's a real tough thing that you have to do. You've got to leave stuff out that…
McDonagh: Shouldn't be left out.
Palmer: You really shouldn't have to. Which are insightful. Which would add something else. But the fact is that you've got to make a film for a particular length— an hour and a half. If you got away with two hours it'd be a very unusual film on your hands.
McDonagh: It probably should be used for the bonus footage.
Palmer: Maybe, yea. There's always that. There's films that have different lives now. It's not just on the big screen, or not just in the TV slot. There's loads. There's so much stuff I would have liked in there.
How have audiences reacted to this film? Obviously it's very specific…
Palmer: It's a very local Irish story. Well, it's a local Irish story that crosses into England, too. But it's a very tight story about a few people in a few families in Ireland and it's shown to audiences in the States, in Canada, in Israel, in Croatia…
McDonagh: Finland…
Palmer: Yea, we just got back from Finland. It's shown in Iceland, and a ton of other countries. Australia, New Zealand, and the audience in all of these places… I'm getting a similar reaction, really. People are very grabbed by the story. They're engaged by the characters. A lot of big characters. So it's working on a dramatic level; it's working on a factual level. They're intrigued by this strange kind of tradition of sorting out a problem with fighting. Sorting out a potential fighting problem with a controlled fight, really. They're very interested in that. Someone at the Q&A yesterday said that this had echoes of stories down through history, and I see that as well. And lots of places I'm going to… Like I'm showing the film in Kosovo; a recent war zone. Show the film in Tel Aviv; trouble going on there, obviously. People are picking up on echoes of this small, little story having echoes in conflict in lots of different parts of the world. That's something that was in my mind. I've never brought that up myself, but people are coming back with that kind of connection, which I appreciate.
When you first find out about what's going on with the Travellers, who did you approach as far as getting permission to start filming this stuff?
Palmer: You see, that's not the way it happened. And because it didn't happen that way, I think I was given access. I never approached anyone. First of all, I never discovered there was a big world of feuding families with bare-knuckle [fights]. It's a hidden thing. It's much more hidden then than it is now. It would be in a lot of newspapers now. Tabloid coverage. Front pages; national papers in Ireland, and Britain for that matter. At that time it was much more hidden away. I wasn't chasing this as a story, initially. I got introduced into the families by a friend of mine who is a cameraman. I'd done a bit of work with him on some educational stuff. He introduced me to the family of this girl, Jacelyn, who was getting married to Michael [Quinn McDonagh]. I met James at Michael's wedding. A couple of weeks later, the other brother, Paddy [Quinn McDonagh], gave me a call. 'Do you wanna [come out?] James is training.' So it was step by step. I was never focused on forcing my way into this world. This world opened up. A crack opened.
You were brought in.
Palmer: I was brought in, and then I stepped in and I wanted to make a film. But even then I wanted to make a film that was going to portray multiple perspectives. I did think, early on, that it would be James' life story. But then what I really wanted to do was give as many angles as possible. And that was really about trying to get into the other families, too. That was almost more surprising. I mean, I got to know the Quinn McDonaghs. The fact that I got in there was unusual enough. But I had known them. The other families I hadn't met, but they were very open once I [built] up courage to go and talk to them politely. I treated them civily, and they treated me in the same way. That's one of the things about Travellers. You don't have the same perspective here of Travellers as they do in Ireland and Britain. As trouble, but in fact, there's an awful lot of good manners and good behavior, outside of this conflict. People are quite civil. There's name calling on the videos, but people don't use the same kind of…
They're riled up.
Palmer: Yea, in their riled up moments people are like that, but generally speaking people are quite polite and well-mannered.
McDonagh: Just in the heat. And what is said a lot in the film… a lot of that is just adrenaline running and the heat of the moment. After a win or after a [loss]… anger.


text: I recall being 6 and falling asleep hoping that when I woke up I would be white. I would imagine that my black skin is a extended joke and I would wake up white. Everything around me pointed to that idea that beauty, intelligence, power and success was built on a foundation of white skin. I grew up thinking that I was intellectually inferior because of my skin, it was only when I was 16 that this preconception left me. What people don't realise that despite outlandish acts of racism ceasing to exist, racism nowadays is insidious. Embedded so deeply within the frames of our subconscious that only upon closer inspection one can see it. It took me 18 years to realise that my low self esteem lay partially in the idealisation of white skin within our media. It's hard to see a POC as beautiful when only 4% of models are of colour. Yet because we aren't enslaving someone, racism is not something big enough worth talking about because we are "seeing to deep into things"


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Yeti's Demon Dive Bar is the latest comic creation from EastEnd Cabaret, the Australian comic duo of Jennifer Byrne and Victoria Falconer-Pritchard. They made their Edinburgh debut in 2011 with The Revolution will be Sexual and they are back again this year with Yeti's Demon Dive Bar.
As you enter the venue you are greeted by 2 of the shows characters who are working their way through the seated crowd giving out handfuls of popcorn this gives the audience a good preview of what they are about to witness, including that nowhere within the audience is safe from this pair.
The pair then race back stage and after a very quick costume change they reappear with Yeti taking to the stage to introduce the rest of the cast of characters we are about to see and be entertained by. The basic storyline that follows is that of a special night at Yeti's bar with performances from a colourful cast of characters including The Psychedelic Nuns, Johnny the Head in a Box, some twins joined at the monobrow and even a friendly angler fish. There is some audience interaction to the point of the duo climbing over the seats and into the audience to interact with the audience close up.
I don't think the comparisons that have been made, comparing the duo to The Mighty Boosh and The Flight of the Concords are unfair but they don't quite cover it. They certainly do have elements of both these shows but there is much more going on than just that. They make use of very quick costume changes and wild changes in character interspersed with catchy songs all mixed in with sexual innuendo and sexuality of many of the characters to create something unique. It's an hour that's completely bizarre, utterly surreal and very funny.
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Federal study finds toxins in baby food
June 6th, 2003
Federal study finds toxins in baby food. Experts differ on whether to alter youngsters' diets
Health Canada scientists have found that most cereal-based baby foods, usually the first solid meals given to infants, regularly contain multiple mycotoxins, potentially harmful moulds more often associated with sick building syndrome.
The department's Bureau of Chemical Safety is in the midst of a health hazard assessment of the findings of the study of infant cereals that tested 363 products -- including cereal mixes, teething biscuits and creamed corn -- bought in stores across Canada.
The tests even found ergot alkaloids, the fungus from which the hallucinogen LSD is derived.
"They are still examining the results in more detail but [Health Canada officials] did indicate to me that there is nothing that represents anything alarming from a health and safety standpoint in the data," said Margot Geduld, Health Canada spokeswoman.
"There is no reason for any recommended dietary changes based on the data at this point in time," she said.
Scientists, however, caution that mycotoxins have been linked to poor growth and development and suppressed immune systems in small children and should be eliminated from food at every avenue.
Mycotoxins are fungi and moulds that naturally grow on most grains.
"An accurate prediction of the possible health impact of individual mycotoxins in infant foods is difficult; possible additive or synergistic effects of multiple mycotoxins make the task far more complex," the study by Health Canada's scientists concludes. "The importance of using all measures aimed at minimizing the presence of mycotoxins in these foods is evident."
Mycotoxin specialists said much research still needs to be done on the health effects of the toxins. "You don't want to put weaning children on to food that have mycotoxins in them, wherever possible. You want to avoid that," said Dr. Kitty Cardwell, national program leader of plant pathology for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cardwell said the reason scientists began to measure mycotoxins in foods was "because many of them are pretty strong cancer-causing agents. As long as we know about them, we try to remove them from our diet."
Dr. J. David Miller, professor of chemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa and former head of the mycotoxin program at Agriculture Canada, said the extensive testing and evaluation of baby food by Health Canada is important because mycotoxins cannot be eliminated from the grain supply.
"We are worried about these toxins in food, for sure," said Dr. Miller, a leading expert on mycotoxins. "It is one of the things that is really important to monitor for because, unlike bacterial food poisoning, which... makes you really sick today, they have long-term effects from chronic exposure.
"It is one of the reasons why Health Canada and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] are pretty scrupulous about keeping their finger on these things."
The study, headed by Gary Lombaert, the natural toxins specialist for Health Canada, is the largest of its kind. The commercial products were bought at grocery stores from every major Canadian city from 1997 to 1999 to ensure a wide net was cast.
"The survey clearly demonstrated the regular presence of low levels of mycotoxins in cereal-based infant foods. In addition, many samples contained multiple mycotoxins," says the study, published last week in Food Additives and Contaminants, a scientific journal.
Mr. Lombaert said, however, that while the number of products found to contain the mycotoxins was high, the levels of the toxins were fairly low. A prime tenet of toxicology is that it is the dose that makes the poison.
The study found soy-based cereals were most likely to contain the various toxins tested for, while rice-based cereals contained the least contamination by a wide margin.
Soy cereals regularly contained four mycotoxins and all samples contained at least one of the toxins. Mr. Lombaert said this is likely due to the presence of some corn in most soy-based cereals. More than 70% of multi-grain cereals contained at least one of the toxins, also likely attributable to corn.
Almost 60% of the barley-based products tested were found to contain a toxin, and 56% were found to contain ergot alkaloids, the fungus associated with LSD. Only one sample of rice product was found to contains toxins. Most wheat-based teething biscuits -- 74% of the 24 samples -- also contain a mycotoxin.
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Eat and drink well. Talk with your doctor, nurse, or a registered dietitian to learn what foods and drinks are best for you. You may need to eat foods that are high in protein or iro
•Appetite Loss
Cancer treatments may lower your appetite or change the way food tastes or smells. Side effects such as mouth and throat problems, or nausea and vomiting can also make eating difficult. Cancer-related fatigue can also lower your appetite.
Talk with your health care team if you are not hungry or if your find it difficult to eat. Don't wait until you feel weak, have lost too much weight, or are dehydrated, to talk with your doctor or nurse. It's important to eat well, especially during treatment for cancer.
•Bleeding and Bruising (Thrombocytopenia)
Some cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and targeted therapy, can increase your risk of bleeding and bruising. These treatments can lower the number of platelets in the blood. Platelets are the cells that help your blood to clot and stop bleeding. When your platelet count is low, you may bruise or bleed a lot or very easily and have tiny purple or red spots on your skin. This condition is called thrombocytopenia. It is important to tell your doctor or nurse if you notice any of these changes.
Call your doctor or nurse if you have more serious problems, such as:
Bleeding that doesn't stop after a few minutes; bleeding from your mouth, nose, or when you vomit; bleeding from your vagina when you are not having your period (menstruation); urine that is red or pink; stools that are black or bloody; or bleeding during your period that is heavier or lasts longer than normal.
Head or vision changes such as bad headaches or changes in how well you see, or if you feel confused or very sleepy.
Constipation is when you have infrequent bowel movements and stool that may be hard, dry, and difficult to pass. You may also have stomach cramps, bloating, and nausea when you are constipated.
Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy can cause constipation. Certain medicines (such as pain medicines), changes in diet, not drinking enough fluids, and being less active may also cause constipation.
There are steps you can take to prevent constipation. It is easier to prevent constipation than to treat its complications which may include fecal impaction or bowel obstruction.
Diarrhea means having bowel movements that are soft, loose, or watery more often than normal. If diarrhea is severe or lasts a long time, the body does not absorb enough water and nutrients. This can cause you to become dehydrated or malnourished. Cancer treatments, or the cancer itself, may cause diarrhea or make it worse. Some medicines, infections, and stress can also cause diarrhea. Tell your health care team if you have diarrhea.
Diarrhea that leads to dehydration (the loss of too much fluid from the body) and low levels of salt and potassium (important minerals needed by the body) can be life threatening. Call your health care team if you feel dizzy or light headed, have dark yellow urine or are not urinating, or have a fever of 100.5 °F (38 °C) or higher.
Edema, a condition in which fluid builds up in your body's tissues, may be caused by some types of chemotherapy, certain cancers, and conditions not related to cancer.
Signs of edema may include:
swelling in your feet, ankles, and legs
swelling in your hands and arms
swelling in your face or abdomen
skin that is puffy, shiny, or looks slightly dented after being pressed
shortness of breath, a cough, or irregular heartbeat
Tell your health care team if you notice swelling. Your doctor or nurse will determine what is causing your symptoms, advise you on steps to take, and may prescribe medicine.
Some problems related to edema are serious. Call your doctor or nurse if you feel short of breath, have a heartbeat that seems different or is not regular, have sudden swelling or swelling that is getting worse or is moving up your arms or legs, you gain weight quickly, or you don't urinate at all or urinate only a little.
•FatigueFatigue is a common side effect of many cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, biological therapy, bone marrow transplant, and surgery. Conditions such as anemia, as well as pain, medications, and emotions, can also cause or worsen fatigue.
People often describe cancer-related fatigue as feeling extremely tired, weak, heavy, run down, and having no energy. Resting does not always help with cancer-related fatigue. Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most difficult side effects for many people to cope with.
Tell your health care team if you feel extremely tired and are not able to do your normal activities or are very tired even after resting or sleeping. There are many causes of fatigue. Keeping track of your levels of energy throughout the day will help your doctor to assess your fatigue. Write down how fatigue affects your daily activities and what makes the fatigue better or worse.
•Hair Loss (Alopecia)Some types of chemotherapy cause the hair on your head and other parts of your body to fall out. Radiation therapy can also cause hair loss on the part of the body that is being treated. Hair loss is called alopecia
•Infection and NeutropeniaAn infection is the invasion and growth of germs in the body, such as bacteria, viruses, yeast, or other fungi. An infection can begin anywhere in the body, may spread throughout the body, and can cause one or more of these signs:
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I have to admit. I was a little skeptical of the hype. I'd seen partial eclipses, I've looked through a pinhole viewer. I've even seen pictures of 'totality' on the internet and in books. Yet, still. Nothing could prepare me for what we were able to witness this past August 21st.
In the words of my daughter Ashleigh, "That was amazing."
Throughout scripture we read the phrase, "…to fear and love the Lord…" It's a phrase that we think we understand, but we just can't quite wrap our minds around the concept. However, I think after viewing totality for those two and a half minutes, I'm beginning to get an inkling of what that might actually mean.
I was overcome with all sorts of emotions leading up to that moment and during it. Anticipation, a little worry, excitement. When I removed my eclipse glasses to view the moon completely blocking the son, I was overawed with emotion. My eyes watered and I couldn't help, but think, "God's creation is so freaking amazing. I too am a part of that."
The same hands that intentionally fashioned me and all of you in the womb, the same one who knows every hair on our head, is the same one who put the earth in motion, who set the moon and sun in its place, who started the processes that lead to the beauty and bewilderment of a total solar eclipse. The same God who did all that is the same one who came to earth as flesh and blood, to share the Good News of God's love for the world, who died, rose, and ascended in the victory over death on the cross. The same one who calls us to love and serve with and for one another.
Being witness to all of that myself was incredible. Being witness to that surrounded by thousands of people that are sharing in that moment? Words can't begin to describe it all.
Y'all. Y'all. We're in this together. We are surrounded by our brothers and sisters. We worship and give praise and thanks to God who loves and holds us all. All of us. Wow.
In that spirit of a 'fuller' body of Christ on Sunday, October 29th we will be worshipping with our neighbors for the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. We will gather at Wiles Chapel at Newberry College at 10:30am. We will celebrate in that wonder of God who has fashioned us, continually re-forms us, and sends us out proclaiming God's love, mercy, acceptance, and forgiveness to the world.
Mark it on your calendars. October 29, 2017 – 10:30am. It's going to be great. No glasses needed. Just full hearts and serving hands.


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Healing Hearts
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A retelling of Superman Returns with a twist - Lois remembers... Everything!
Healing Hearts
This story is a complete rewrite and retelling of Superman Returns and what happens after the movie ends. Lois and Clark are not what you would expect in this story. You should know that Lois remembers everything. Its pretty clear right from the start.
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This is a sequel to SR-Healing Hearts. Lois and Clark have returned from their honeymoon and they're still in that 'mode.' Clark begins his new position with the Justice League. Clois Forever!
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Ending the Annual Ad Valorem Tax
For the most up-to-date information, read our 2016 ad valorem tax blog post.
The unpopular "birthday tax" car owners pay ended when Governor Nathan Deal signed the tax reform bill HB 386 earlier this year. The bill eliminates the annual ad valorem tax car owners pay and the sales tax manufacturers pay for future purchases.
Individuals who purchase a new or used car after March 1, 2013 will no longer have to pay the annual tax, but pay a one-time sales tax up front beginning at 6.5% in 2013 and increasing to 7% by 2015. The new sales tax will take the place of both the purchase sales tax, and the annual ad valorem tax.
Consumers who purchase a new or used car this year before March 1, 2013, will have the option to pay the one time title tax or continue to pay the yearly ad valorem "birthday" tax.
The new program will be phased in over about 10 years as current car owners will continue to pay the previous ad valorem tax as long as they keep their current vehicle.
The reform plan unanimously passed the state Senate and House, and was signed by Governor Deal during the Governor's Awards Luncheon for the 2012 Manufacturers of the Year.
Visit the Office of the Governor for more information about HB 386.
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Could a Major Death on 'True Blood' Fix Everything?
True Blood has been limping along all season, trying to convince us the plot is crazy like a fox instead of just plain crazy. Most of us have lost hope and if we're still watching it's because Alexander Skarsgard deserves our support and because "concerned Jason Stackhouse" is the best Jason Stackhouse, even when he's surrounded by nonsensical plots that flow together like a river of nuts and bolts clanking through a funnel. But with Sunday night's big death and the potential loss of a few other characters, could True Blood be cleaning up its hapless plot-spewing spree enough to return a few shreds of watchability to the once engrossing supernatural romp?
Let's do a little math to determine the outcome, shall we?
Character Loss: Terry's Bullet to the Neck
Terry Bellefleur has long been a miserable character. When he finally got a slice of happiness with Arlene, Scott Foley's Patrick came traipsing through Bon Temp, reminding Terry that an insatiable fire monster was bearing down on them. The plot was in a word: Horrendous. It sucked up precious minutes of plot time with no payoff, even for those of us temporarily thrilled at the chance to see Noel Crane back on television as a crazed ex-soldier. In the end, Terry shot Patrick and his guilt has been his entire story line throughout Season 8. And while it makes sense that Terry would feel that way, it's hard to emotionally connect to the results of a plot that basically drove us nuts for an entire season.
When Arlene's plan to have Terry glamored so he doesn't kill himself backfires (because, as you may recall, Terry has asked his friend to kill him at a moment when Terry's not expecting it) and Terry winds up lifeless on the dirt lot behind Merlott's, it's a bit sad. Terry was a good guy and he's been on the show forever, but the sick part is: it really clears up some much needed space in the plot. Now let's just hope Terry will not have died in vain.
Character Gain: Andy's Fae Daughter Now Has a Character Name
Just when you think things are getting cleaned up, a very minor character steps up and becomes something more. Damnit. Andy's only surviving fae daughter asks her pop for a name and he gives her four names that sound like a hacky parody of creative names in the deep South: Adeline-Braylynn-Sharlaine-Danica. Did I mention the actress is drop dead gorgeous and that she possesses a draw not unlike young Jess just before Bill was forced to make her a vampire way back when? All signs point to Adeline becoming a full-fledged character.
Character Loss: Emma and Her Grandma Hit The Road
After Nicole finds Emma crying in the bathroom, she decides to tell Sam that he shouldn't keep her because a life of running is terrible for a child. She's right, but there are two options right now: Sam the runaway or Alcide 2.0 and his ravenous pack of fornicating beasts. Fortunately for Emma, it seems we've underestimated Martha, who's willing to ditch her pack for the rest of her life in order to take Emma away from Sam (and, to a lesser extent, the Funyons that Sam apparently lets her shovel into her face). The duo hop in a car and ride away, and if we're lucky, their stories will never again grace an episode of True Blood. Both characters were accessories of other characters whose stories have dramatically changed. They're just clogging the plot; let them stay gone, alright?
Character Gain: Nicole, The Buzzkill, Is Sticking Around
We lost the cute, little girl who sometimes turns into a cute, little husky and instead we've got a Shifter activist who looks like she jumped out of a Levi's ad and into Sam's open arms. This would be more fun and far more acceptable if these two characters had any chemistry. I almost wish Alcide did the wrong thing when he found them. If he'd rip them to shreds, they'd no longer be taking up precious minutes with their non-plot and Alcide would finally have a decent storyline as he wrestled with his massive amounts of guilt. But we weren't so lucky.
Character Loss: Ding, Dong The Tyrant's Dead
Bill finally acts like the God he supposedly is (with the help of Warlow's blood) and walks in the sun to the Governor's house where he uses his sudden super powers to make the guards kill each other so he can kill the Gov (Lilith's "Tyrant rising"). Luckily, the man with the golden Col. Sanders impression is finally gone. We'll still have Sarah and the entire LAVTF, but that eliminating that man and his incredible penchant for whining is a respectable victory.
Character Gain: Willa's One of the Gang Now
As her father literally has his head ripped off, Willa becomes an official member of our favorite vampire gang. When Eric summons her from the General Population prison room, she pulls a series of fancy and totally impossible maneuvers (none of which we actually get to witness), frees Eric and Nora (who's dying from a vampire-killing virus injection), gets them LAVTF costumes, and helps them escape. Look, she's cute and it's nice that she likes vamps, but do we really need another new face in that over-stuffed vamp crowd? Especially when Sookie is seriously considering (and maybe even in the actual process of) letting Warlow turn her.
Character Loss: Sookie's Murderous Parents GTFO
Speaking of Sookie, she takes a big step and spiritually emancipates herself from her parents this week. Bill lets Warlow out so he can rescue Sookie and expel the murderous Mr. Stackhouse from Lafayette's abused shell - the man really needs his own storyline, stat. Sookie tells her father's ghost to "get the fuck out of my life" and she completes her father's worst nightmare by having light-emitting faerie sex with Warlow while he's tied to a gravestone with an angel on it. Buh-bye, Stackhouse parents.
Character Loss: Lilith to Bill: We Are Never, Ever, Ever Getting Back Together.
Like, ever. Taylor Swift's got nothing on Lilith, who responds to Bill's accusation that she started this Human-Vampire war by leaving him on his own and demanding that he never contact her again. If Swift's revenge is like writing basic angry poetry, Lilith's is like throwing your ex's prized possessions into a lake... after you put them in his car, set it on fire, and pushed into a lake. Let's hope she and her naked, blood-drenched minions stay true to their word, or we may have to sing Swifty's catchy breakup tune to the HBO series itself.
Results: If all goes well, we're netting one character loss. This means the plot (which is still absolutely bananas) will be slightly cleaner or the writers were just making room for something else far more distracting and complicated. Of course, if that distracting and complicated thing happens to be giving Lafayette a decent, robust plot for the first time since his hunny Jesus died, that's an overabundance of story we just might be willing to accept.
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