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How to mix Soluble Ferrous Sulphate
Here we show you how to work out concentrations plus showing you how to make up the mixture to prevent clogging of spray equipment
This playlist covers the full procedure for treating moss from mixing ferrous sulphate, spraying the moss, raking it out and then over seeding the whole lawn to get fast and complete recovery.
Here we show you how to work out concentrations plus showing you how to make up the mixture to prevent clogging of spray equipment
Follow this method and you'll find a knapsack sprayer is the quickest and most effective way to spray ferrous sulphate on lawn moss
You can also use a watering can quite easily to spray ferrous sulphate on moss in small lawns
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Gerald R. Ford was laid to rest on the grounds of his presidential museum Wednesday after eight days of mourning and remembrance that spanned the country, from the California desert to the nation's capital and back to Ford's boyhood home.
The sunset burial capped the official mourning for the 38th president after a 17-hour viewing Tuesday night and Wednesday at the museum in his hometown.
At a graveside service that included a 21-gun salute and a 21-aircraft flyover, Vice President Dick Cheney presented former first lady Betty Ford with the American flag that was draped over her husband's casket.
Earlier, Ford was remembered as a man not afraid to laugh, make tough decisions or listen to the advice of his independent wife in eulogies delivered during a funeral at the church the couple attended for six decades.
An honor guard carried the casket inside Grace Episcopal Church, where Ford's defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and Ford's successor, Jimmy Carter, recalled his public service.
Rumsfeld: 'He was one of us'
His widow wiped away tears as she sat with the couple's four children and more than 300 dignitaries and family friends, including golfing legend Jack Nicklaus.
"He was one of us," Rumsfeld said, "And that made him special and needed in a dark and dangerous hour for our nation."
Rumsfeld, who recently left his post as President Bush's defense secretary, remembered Ford as a courageous and steady leader who healed the nation after Watergate.
Rumsfeld said the Navy is considering naming a new aircraft carrier after Ford, a Navy veteran. A decision is expected later this month.
"How fitting it would be that the name Gerald R. Ford will patrol the high seas for decades to come in defense of the nation he loved so much," he said.
Carter described the close personal friendship he and Ford developed over the years.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
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- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
"I relished his sound advice," Carter said as his wife, Rosalynn, cried. "I want to thank my predecessor for all he did to heal our land."
Thousands of flag-waving mourners lined the roads under sunny skies as the motorcade bearing Ford's casket traveled between his presidential museum in downtown Grand Rapids to the church, before returning to the museum.
Viewing period extended
The viewing had to be extended Wednesday until nearly noon so everyone in line could pay their respects. Some 57,000 mourners waited hours to file past the flag-draped casket during the night. Some stopped and made silent prayers.
"We're here to honor him," said Philip Bareham of Lansing, who was the last person to view the casket and whose parents were among Ford's earliest supporters and political allies. "We just love this family. They are so down to earth."
Ford represented Grand Rapids in Congress for 25 years. His family had belonged to Grace Episcopal Church since the early 1940s.
Richard Norton Smith, an author, presidential historian and former director of Ford's museum and library, reminded mourners how important Ford's hometown was to him.
"Grand Rapids returned his affection many times over," which was "unforgettably demonstrated by the tens of thousands who stood in line for hours outside the museum, braving the cold to assure that his last night was anything but lonely," Smith said.
Draped over the back of one pew at the funeral was a blue blanket with the letter "M" emblazoned on it, symbolizing Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he played football for national championship teams in 1932 and 1933.
Many of the mourners at the museum and lining the roads during his funeral procession on Wednesday wore Michigan hats and sweat shirts in his honor.
Ford, who became president after Richard Nixon resigned, died Dec. 26 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 93.
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The Umage Eos Mini feather lamp shades softness and its oval shape creates a lovely ambient light suitable for any room, anytime for relaxing in its pleasant glow. The feathers are hand placed on to the paper by hand. It comes packed in a lovely gift box. Routine cleaning can be done with a hairdryer. A Soft, tactile, sculptural light which will bring a new dimension to your lighting and decor.
The fitting is for a standard E27 socket and for use with a max 30W bulb or a low voltage bulb. This shade comes flat and includes instructions on how to assemble, a video of this is below.
It will look equally fine on one of the floor or table tripods we sell as an option. Cord, socket and bulb are not included but can be ordered on our site as optional extras.
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Colour: White
Dimensions: 20H x 30D cm
Material: Goose Feathers and paper
Bulb: Max 30W E27
We use flat packaging, re-cycled materials and repurposing of by-products. The latter is the case of our goose feathers used for our popular VITA EOS feather lamps. All feathers used are a by-product of the food industry. Goose feathers that would otherwise be burned are instead sanitized and repurposed thus diminishing the environmental impact. NONE of our goose feathers are derived from live or mistreated geese. VITA is required by law, and all major retailers around the world, to document the origin and proper handling of all geese and feathers. We at VITA sincerely hope we have clarified any misunderstandings and alleviated all concerns.
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Here we are in Day 1 of our RIAA boycott, and what do you know? The RIAA says it's going to offer a special deal to certain college students, letting them off easy instead of suing them for hundreds of thousands of dollars for illegally downloading music. The recording industry Gestapo said letters were going out offering "discounted settlements" to 400 students at 13 universities across the United States.
"The theft of music remains unacceptably high and undermines the industry's ability to invest in new music," whined Mitch Bainwol, the chief bottle washer of the RIAA. Before taking downloaders to court and suing them for those six-figure amounts, the RIAA usually settles for around $5000. There was no word about the exact amount of the RIAA's special settlement sale that's going on now. Jump to the list of schools on the hit list.
Here are the schools listed by the RIAA in its special sale on settlements for "music thieves:"
Arizona State University, Marshall University, North Carolina State University, North Dakota State University, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, University of South Florida, University of Southern California, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Texas, Austin.
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In Vim, we can duplicate a line from normal mode, insert mode, or with an Ex command. But which is best?
In this masterclass, we'll work through a series of exercises, finding at least two solutions to every problem. In response to the question "which is best?" we'll see that the answer is always: "it depends".
Vim is optimized for repetition. We'll study a few examples of how to use the dot command to repeat the last change. Then we'll develop a strategy for composing repeatable changes, and meet the optimal Dot Formula: a two step solution with a thousand uses.
To level the playing field, we'll be using bare Vim (not vi - we're not savages). You'll be asked to leave your .vimrc at the door.
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Construction on sewer improvements will require limiting traffic on roads in Thibodaux's western areas, city officials say.
The Daily Comet reports the restrictions will be in effect until Sept. 13 while the work is done by Boh Bros. Construction Co.
Affected are Plantation Road at Ridgefield Road; a segment of Olive Street; the intersection of Redfefiled Road and Talbot Avenue; Ridgefield Road from West Eighth Street to Young Place; the intersection of Ridgefield Road and West Eighth Street; and Ridgefield Road from Plantation Road to W.S. Lafargue Elementary School.
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Clubfoot repair is surgery to correct a birth defect of the foot and ankle.
Repair of clubfoot; Posteromedial release; Achilles tendon release; Clubfoot release; Talipes equinovarus - repair; Tibialis anterior tendon transfer
The type of surgery that is done depends on:
Your child will have general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free) during the surgery.
Ligaments are tissues that help hold the bones together in the body. Tendons are tissues that help attach muscles to bones. A clubfoot occurs when tight tendons and ligaments prevent the foot from stretching into the right position.
To repair a clubfoot, 1 or 2 cuts are made in the skin, most often on the back of the foot and around the inside part of the foot.
Older children who still have a foot deformity after surgery may need more surgery. Also, children who have not had surgery yet may need surgery as they grow. Types of surgery they may need include:
A baby who is born with a clubfoot is first treated with a cast to stretch the foot into a more normal position.
Clubfoot found in babies can often be successfully managed with casting and bracing, thereby avoiding surgery.
However, clubfoot repair surgery may be needed if:
Risks from any anesthesia and surgery are:
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Depending on the surgery that is done, your child may go home on the same day or stay in the hospital for 1 to 3 days right after the surgery. The hospital stay may be longer if surgery was also done on the bones.
The child's foot should be kept in a raised position. Medicines may help control the pain.
The skin around your child's cast will be checked often to make sure it stays pink and healthy. Your child's toes also will be checked to make sure they are pink and your child can move and feel them. These are signs of proper blood flow.
Your child will have a cast on for 6 to 12 weeks. It may be changed several times. Before your child leaves the hospital, you will be taught how to take care of the cast.
When the last cast is taken off, your child will probably be prescribed a brace, and may be referred for physical therapy. The therapist will teach you exercises to do with your child to strengthen the foot and make sure it stays flexible.
After recovering from surgery, your child's foot will be in a much better position. Your child should be able to have a normal, active life, including playing sports. But the foot may be stiffer than a foot that has not been treated with surgery.
In most cases of clubfoot, if only one side is affected, the child's foot and calf will be smaller than normal for the rest of the child's life.
Children who have had clubfoot surgery may need another surgery later in life.
Kelly DM. Congenital anomalies of the lower extremity. In: Azar FM, Beaty JH, Canale ST, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 13th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2017:chap 29.
Ricco AI, Richards BS, Herring JA. Disorders of the foot. In: Herring JA, ed. Tachdjian's Pediatric Orthopaedics. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2014:chap 23.


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BlackBerry Wants to Send Money Over Messenger
BlackBerry's Messenger (BBM) service was conceived as a simple but secure real-time instant messaging client. And it became enormously popular on that basic conceit. But with upstart rivals like WhatsApp crowding the messaging space, and smartphone manufacturers like Apple offering their own integrated messaging solutions, like iMessage, BlackBerry is working to add new features to messenger to stem defections to other platforms. The latest: A money transfer service.
Working with Indonesian bank PermataBank, BlackBerry today began piloting BBM Money, a service that allows BlackBerry users to transfer money to contacts over BBM. The company says sending cash from one user to another is as simple as chatting — with bank-grade security measures protecting the transactions.
The pilot program is currently limited to BlackBerry 5, 6, and 7 devices, but BB10 devices will surely follow. And if all goes well in Indonesia — PermataBank expects a few hundred thousand users to try BBM Money in its first year — BlackBerry will extend it to other emerging markets, as well.
It's worth noting that BlackBerry isn't pitching BBM Money as a killer app, but as a simple value-added proposition — something that might give the company's handsets an edge with consumers torn between a Z10 and an iPhone or Android device.
"Is somebody going to buy a BlackBerry in the United States because it potentially has got BBM Money," T.A. McCann, vice president of BlackBerry Messenger, told Bloomberg. "No. Would they buy it in Indonesia because of BBM Money? Maybe, but in that case we have lots of reasons why they want to have a BlackBerry, and BBM is one of them."


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After former-CEO Dick Averitt retired on Monday, the president of Raymond James' independent channel, Scott Curtis, met with more than 50 prospective Raymond James advisors at the firm's development conference in Orlando. During these discussions, Curtis says, he has assured them that their potential transition to Raymond James (RJF) won't be hampered in any way by the parent company's recent purchase of Morgan Keegan and its roughly 1,000 reps.
The Morgan Keegan acquisition raises the question for some prospects, "Are you going to be able to support my transition as independent advisor coming over to Raymond James versus the other [acquired employee] advisors coming on board?" said Curtis (left) in an interview with AdvisorOne.
"We anticipated this," the executive said. The answer to whether the acquisition will affect prospective reps joining RJFA, he adds, "is 'No' and should remain 'No.'"
As for existing independent reps, about 1,600 of whom are attending the weeklong Raymond James Financial Services event in Orlando, "We have to reassure those that have been with us for a long time that this does not mean a degradation in services to them," Curtis said. "And [parent-company CEO] Paul Reilly will reassure them of this on Wednesday."
Both he and Raymond James private-client CEO Chet Helck also believe that the full advisor force—which now numbers about 5,500 across the firm's different channels—stands to benefit from the deal. "We think our RJFS reps will get better fixed-income support and products thanks to the Morgan Keegan acquisition," Curtis said.
"It really didn't come up [Monday] morning," said Helck (right) in an interview, "and it's largely a nonevent for RJFS. But it is a big event for the Raymond James & Associates [employee-advisor] group, and there will be more discussion there."
As for the overall benefits to Raymond James, notes Helck, there will "be access to a much more prolific flow of fixed-income product for clients," including municipal bonds, "which clients love and financial advisors do, too."
By boosting its advisor force with the merger, Helck adds, the firm is also improving the economics for its technology infrastructure. "We now have 1,000 more advisors to help us finance more technology … and this gets us there faster and more efficiently."
"We're committed to making a deliverable transition of the Morgan Keegan advisors and employees, so that we do not disrupt the services we provide or slow down the tech enhancements," Curtis explained. "If anything, we will be overstaffed for the transitions and then will take look at staffing."


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures closed higher on Friday for the second consecutive session, scoring a weekly gain of nearly 2% as prices continued their rebound from last year's loss to finish at their highest level in nearly three weeks.
Following the prior session's surge, gold for February delivery US:GCG4 tacked on $13.40, or 1.1%, to settle at $1,238.60 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange — their highest settlement since Dec. 16, FactSet data, tracking the most-active contracts, show. Futures prices, closed at $1,214 last Friday.
"While bargain hunting and short-covering may have been the initial catalyst for the pop off support [levels], we are now seeing more conviction buying premised on the third failure to sustain losses below $1,200," said Peter Grant, chief market analyst at precious-metals dealer USAGOLD.
"A theme among clients I've spoken to this week has been skepticism about the sustainability of the stock market rally," he said. "They're taking money off the table in equities and using it to bolster their gold holdings."
Silver prices gained along with gold Friday. March silver US:SIH4 added 8 cents, or 0.4%, to $20.21 an ounce after an early slip below the $20 mark. Prices for the white metal had jumped almost 4% on Thursday and saw a gain of 0.8% for the week.
So far for gold, support is holding at $1,140 an ounce, said Adam Koos, president of Libertas Wealth Management Group.
"In the short term, we might be seeing the beginning of a bottoming process, but it's very early yet, he said.
On Thursday, gold futures soared by nearly $23 an ounce on reports of physical buyers looking for bargains. China, in particular, was believed to be behind the piqued appetite. The Lunar New Year falls at the end of the month, and that usually means a strong period of gold buying.
"Since gold took such a beating last year, there are likely a lot of investors who took the opportunity in one of their rare positions with losses on the books to realize those losses for tax purposes," said Koos. Gold futures prices dropped 28% in 2013.
"Since the IRS Wash Sale Rule limits the repurchasing of securities for the purpose of tax loss harvesting to 31 days, there's a chance that we might start to see a bid come back into GLD mid-month, but we'll know for sure whether this hypothesis is remotely correct by month's end," he said, referring to the gold-backed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust
For now, Koos said he's "watching the show from the sidelines and waiting for more of a consolidation to occur with some upward momentum prior to adding a position" in gold.
But Julian Jessop of Capital Economics can be counted in the gold bug camp. "We see plenty of scope for gold to bounce back in 2014," he said in a recent note.
"Indeed, the poor performance in 2013 has left the precious metal looking attractive again compared to other assets, including equities. The bursting of the bitcoin bubble may even make gold look more appealing to Chinese investors," Jessop said.
Elsewhere in metals trading Friday, platinum for April delivery US:PLJ4 closed up $9.60, or 0.7%, to $1,414.20 an ounce — up about 2.6% from a week ago, while March palladium US:PAH4 rose 95 cents, or 0.1%, to $731.20 an ounce, for a 2.7% climb on the week.
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Political operatives seized upon Austin plane crash to callously advance their anti-free speech demonization campaign against liberty movement
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 19, 2010
Even before many of the details were confirmed surrounding yesterday's tragic events in Austin, political operatives were callously exploiting the incident to advance their agenda in demonizing opponents of big government as terrorists who crash planes into buildings – unfortunately for them it has since emerged that Joe Stack was not a "fringe extremist" and he was not a member of any Tea Party organization.
Time Magazine instantly labeled Stack a domestic terrorist and openly implied links to the Tea Party by including a red link to an article about the Tea Party movement in the middle of their story about the Austin plane crash.
A Washington Post editorial compared Stack with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and claimed, "His alienation is similar to that we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement."
This is of course a ludicrous aspersion to make. Polls show that at least 75 per cent of the entire country are angry with the federal government – that doesn't mean that 200 million Americans are going to slam planes into buildings or indeed do anything violent. Tea Party protests have been noted for their peaceable nature – not so much of a window has been broken.
New York Magazine jumped on the bandwagon, writing that Stack's rhetoric "could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a tea party rally," again overwhelmingly implying that anti-tax groups and small government advocates should be silenced because they are dangerous extremists.
But by far the most belligerent reaction came from the Obamanoid blog websites, places like the Daily Kos which carried a post entitled, "Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building."
"After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack," read the post.
Of course, blaming random acts of violence on the liberty movement has become par for the course for those who wish to crush the free speech of their political adversaries. The University of Alabama-Huntsville murders were also blamed on the Tea Party movement until it turned out that the killer was an Obama-worshipper.
Unfortunately for those who like to exploit tragedies to further their own anti-free speech talking points, it turns out that Stack was not a "teabagger," he was not a "terrorist," and he was no Timothy McVeigh, he was a guy pushed to the edge, a sad figure in the mould of Michael Douglas' character in the movie Falling Down.
Austin Tea Party director Greg Holloway told Newsmax that Stack was not a member of the Austin Tea Party.
"His name does not appear on any of their contact lists, Holloway says. He does not know of any tea party leader who ever met him," writes David A. Patten.
Asked his reaction to media reports linking the tea party movement to the tragedy, Holloway told Newsmax, "I think it's just the whole notion of a few people in politics, and I'll include some of the media, that everything is about political process rather than about people. Here you've got a terrible tragedy involving so many people, and the first thought is: 'How do I use this to forward my own agenda and to try to attack someone else's?'
National tea party leader Everett Wilkinson also poured cold water on any links to Tea Party groups. "As far as I know, Joseph Andrew Stack was not a member of the tea party movement," he said. "The movement is not involved in protesting the IRS, but rather government spending. Our best wishes go out to the families and people involved."
In addition, despite efforts to portray Stack as a political extremist, friends told CBS News that Stack "talked politics like everyone but didn't show any obsession."
People who knew Stack said he was an easy going guy, a view backed by Infowars producer Rob Dew, who knew Stack from the Austin music scene and said he was a reserved, soft-spoken, well-dressed man. Dew expressed his shock that Stack could have been capable of flying a plane into a building.
The picture that emerges from all this is not of a violent terrorist hell-bent on destruction to further his paranoid political agenda, as many in the media have attempted to portray, but a man driven to the edge of sanity as a result of his personal disputes with the IRS.
That didn't stop controlled shill Glenn Beck comparing Stack to Osama Bin Laden and fitting him in to his fairytale delusion about terrorists being within Obama's inner circle ready to kill the President. Beck even threw the people he claims to represent – Tea Party members – under the bus by saying Stack could be a "radical constitutionalist," which is how a lot of Tea Party members would describe themselves.
To characterize yesterday's tragedy as a deadly portend of the "domestic terror" waiting to be unleashed on U.S. cities by disgruntled Americans is not only completely irresponsible, it's a revelatory insight into how desperate the establishment is – both fake left and right – to neutralize growing peaceful political opposition to the big government agenda across the country.
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Cocktails and Spirits with Paul Clarke: Getting a Grip on Grappa
Virtually everything in the world of spirits is an acquired taste, but some tastes take longer to acquire than others. In today's Washington Post, Jason Wilson tackles a tipple that can be a particularly rough one to get accustomed to: grappa.
Wilson doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to the way most people view this spirit (which is made from the grape pomace left over from pressing wine), asking rhetorically right at the outset, "You're afraid of grappa, right?" Wilson writes that Italian winemakers looking to jump on the grappa bandwagon in the 1980s and 1990s bear a lot of responsibility for the spirit's shabby reputation; by viewing grappa as a marketing tool for their wines, many wineries contracted out production to distilleries that didn't have the expertise, the access to quality pomace, or the attention to detail that the making of a good grappa requires.
But while many producers still churn out the kerosene-like substandard grappa that Wilson describes as smelling like a pet shop, premium grappas can be a wonderful thing. Wilson recommends Nardini, which has a long reputation for making excellent traditional grappa, along with Poli, which takes a more innovative approach and is planning on introducing grappas that have been aged in used port and sherry barrels.
My own initial experiences with grappa were of the "Ooh, it burns! Make it stop, make it stop!" variety, and while I've tried a few good grappas such as those recommended by Wilson, grappa is still pretty much virgin territory for me. Fortunately, there are many ardent fans of this rustic spirit. Are you one, and if so, what brands and types would you recommend for those pursuing a grappa education?
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Editor's Note: In selecting our news story of the year, there were many more obvious choices. The Quebec student protests, which began over a tuition-fee hike, brought thousands of people to the streets, red squares on their lapels, in one of the largest, continuing mass demonstrations in Canadian history. In the end, a government fell and Canadians were reminded of the power of protest and civil disobedience. It was also the year of Thomas Mulcair, who won the NDP leadership and lifted support for the party across the country, until Justin Trudeau changed course on his own leadership ambitions and sparked new life in the moribund federal Liberal Party. The year saw the biggest food recall in Canadian history, a stunning CRTC decision that stopped telco giant BCE in its tracks, and enough mayoral hijinks to shake one's faith in municipal governance.
But for all the flash and sizzle of those headline-making stories, we opted to recognize the quieter story of Kevin Page, civil servant, watchdog, persistent thorn in the side of the governing Tories, and perhaps the best opposition member never elected to Parliament. Despite Ottawa's Orwellian grip on messaging, and despite public condemnation of his work by some of the most senior members in Stephen Harper's cabinet, Page as Parliamentary Budget Officer has managed to cut through the noise, crunch the numbers, demand accountability and speak truth to spin. His reputation approaches that of former auditor-general Sheila Fraser. Like her, Page is loved or loathed depending on where you sit in the House of Commons. But he has been proved right, time and again, most recently on the F-35 cost fiasco. When his term as parliamentary budget officer comes to an end in a few months, taxpayers will lose an ally in Ottawa.
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To best understand Kevin Page, one must revisit Sept. 9, 2006, a day of deep tragedy and one that shook the career civil servant to his core.
Page was then a 27-year veteran of the bureaucracy, working as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assistant secretary for macroeconomic policy in the Privy Council Office, following the Tories' minority government win earlier that year.
Living in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven, the married father of three was content in his role at the PCO, the nerve centre of the federal government.
Then everything changed.
On Sept. 9, Page's eldest son, Tyler, 20, was killed by a freight train near Perth, Ont. The young man had been out with friends at a pub and was walking home alone when, his family believes, he likely tripped and bumped his head. A student at Algonquin College's Perth campus, Tyler was hit by the train later that night.
"There is no recovery. You learn to cope. We try," Page said. Ever since, he and his wife, Julie, and two surviving children, Jesse, now 24, and Chelsey, now 21, have been dealing with the loss.
Growing up in Thunder Bay, Page had learned from his parents not to be easily intimidated, he said. But after he lost Tyler, his outlook shifted; his attitude changed. Not only did he understand loss in a different and deeper way, he said, but he realized that nothing is permanent, that one's sense of security can be pulled out from under you.
"I have taken too much for granted. Life is limited. My wife and I try hard not to worry about small things," he told The Huffington Post Canada during a recent interview at his Ottawa office.
"After losing a son, I am not afraid of losing a job for doing what we feel is right and required."
It's that attitude that shaped his appointment as Canada's first Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), a role that he initially had little interest in, but one that he eventually embraced with a fierce independence born of this new outlook on life.
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In 2006, the same year his son died, the Conservatives had moved swiftly after their election to create the position of a parliamentary budget officer within their flagship legislation, the Federal Accountability Act. When they were in opposition, the Tories, fed up with Liberal government budget projections that missed the mark by billions of dollars, had called for the establishment of a PBO as a sort of chief fact checker.
Almost from the beginning, the new watchdog's mandate was up for debate. Critics questioned the wisdom of not making the parliamentary budget officer a fully independent agent of Parliament. The PBO was housed within the Library, the position classified as a lower-level public service executive and the appointment made by the Prime Minister with no opposition input.
"Right at the get-go, I knew that one of the reasons that no one wanted to be parliamentary budget officer was because the legislation was very flawed," Page told HuffPost.
From the start of his term, Page set a confrontational tone with the government.
Seven months after his appointment – and smack in the middle of a federal election campaign – Page's office published a costing of Canada's participation in the Afghanistan war. His projection, made at the request of an NDP MP, pegged the cost at $18.1 billion by 2011 – far above the $8 billion the Tory government had previously promised – and it raised eyebrows.
So too did Page's decision to make the report public while Parliament wasn't sitting.
Ian Lee, the director of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and a self-described Kevin Page "fan," said the timing of his release of the Afghan war analysis was unwise and is an unfortunate mark on his record.
"I believe he is non-partisan. However, some of his judgments provided ammunition to some of his critics that allowed them to make that claim," Lee said.
"He should not have released that study. I lived in Ottawa all my life, my father was a public servant for 40 years, I've known tons of public servants and there is a very strong norm in this city that when the writ is dropped, everybody goes underground," he said.
"No reports are released because you just don't want to be seen as having an impact on the election in any way, shape or form."
In his defence of the decision to release 'The Fiscal Impact of the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan' documents mid-campaign, Page said he was stuck in a "lose-lose situation." If he hadn't issued the Afghan report, he said, the opposition would have accused him of sitting on the figures for partisan reasons, while making them public brought complaints from the government that he was injecting himself in the election.
He knew this job wasn't going to be easy.
But the allure of creating something new, building an office and making a mark proved too great, he said. He wanted to make a positive difference for MPs and Canadians, and he saw the creation of the PBO as the means to do it.
When he was finally appointed in 2008, Page understood the immensity of the challenge.
"I work at the pleasure of the Prime Minister, and I don't think that if you do the work – and sometimes this work can create a certain amount of anger from politicians – that you necessarily want to be working at pleasure," he said.
"I don't think it is the job of the parliamentary budget officer to be pleasurable. It is probably more the opposite."
His brash nature, what he calls "grit," is praised by the dozens of Canadians who write to him every week (he responds) and the opposition MPs who believe he has been a tremendous help in opening the black box of government finances.
To his critics, however, Page is an annoying media seeker who craves the spotlight, oversteps his mandate and has done little to help MPs understand financial procedures. His reports have contributed to making the public service even more cautious and closed-minded about public disclosure, they say.
After he released the Afghan war analysis, the Conservatives were livid.
The Speakers of the House of Commons and Senate thought Page had also gone too far and urged his boss, the parliamentary librarian, to rein him in. That triggered another public fight, this time between Page and then-librarian William Young, to whom he reported under the odd arrangement of the legislation. Page fought with Young for the right to publish his reports on the web rather than adhere to the library's practice of writing confidential reports and releasing them to MPs only.
He also wanted a budget increase and the ability to hire his own staff, and he made his demands public.
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His very public quarrel with his boss was frowned upon by some in Ottawa, including Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett.
"I don't know of another bureaucrat or public servant who gets to go public when their budget is cut. A deputy minister would be fired," she told the Hill Times in 2009.
After the death of his son, however, job security mattered little to Page. What mattered was making a difference. He believed that an independent Parliamentary Budget Officer could empower MPs, make the legislature stronger and foster better public policy decisions.
For Lee, Page's lasting legacy will be his fight to cement his independence vis-à-vis the Parliamentary library and the Speakers, as well as his tenacity in recruiting talented outside staff.
"He has such a tiny budget in this city (and) that organization, the PBO, has punched so far above its weight. It is truly remarkable," he said.
Page has become so indispensable to the work of MPs that his office is now an "essential position," said NDP finance critic Peggy Nash, who recently introduced a private member's bill to make the PBO an agent of Parliament, which would place it on the same footing as the auditor general.
"It was Kevin Page who first sounded the alarm about the projected cost over-runs over the F-35's procurement, and now we know today that cabinet actually knew those numbers and were not being forthright," she said. "We have found his projections to be more accurate than the government's projections."
Page said he tried to provide value to all parliamentarians by picking "hot button issues" so that his small office, with its very big mandate, got a bigger bang for the taxpayers' buck.
He knows that approach created an uncomfortable position for government MPs who probably wanted him to spend his days costing private member's bills rather than F-35 fighter jets.
"Who knows, I may have had a public sector career after this if I had spent my time focussing on those low key issues that made everybody happy, particularly the government," he told HuffPost.
Université de Moncton professor Donald Savoie believes Page erred in making his role so visible.
"I don't think MPs are any better at understanding the government's estimates or any better able to contribute to the debate than before he came in," Savoie told HuffPost. "I think he (Page) saw himself a bit as a cowboy out in the meadow taking on the government. Helping MPs understand the budget process was never what he was about."
Page said he regrets the fact that he hasn't been able to get more support from the government's backbench.
"I think it's a symptom of the way parties have aligned themselves into these sorts of cohesive tribe-like-groups where they have to support the overall messages of the government even though we want them to come to Ottawa and represent their constituents from their ridings," he said.
"It's been frustrating. ... One of my biggest fears right from the beginning was that it would politicize our work, and we don't want to be seen to be partisan."
Another frustration, he said, has been his inability to reform the estimates process, a series of financial information releases that the government provides in different formats and at different times for MPs to scrutinize. The data are convoluted, and it is difficult for MPs to track where spending is actually increasing and what programs are being chopped. Page recommended changes, but at the end of the day, he said, it was the federal government's decision not to streamline the process.
More than anything, Page said he wants the PBO to be an agent of change, a body that can level the playing field between the legislature, MPs and the executive. Right now, the government controls the information and can control the nature of debates, he noted. But MPs are better able to question government policy when the PBO publicly releases costing information on things such as the decision to buy 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets, or to reform the Old Age Security program because it is viewed as being unsustainable, he said.
Getting the data to build such projections has been very difficult, especially when it is not in the best interests of the government or the public service to release them, he said.
"We got little-to-nothing on F-35, little-to-nothing on crime bills."
More recently, Page started a high-profile legal fight with the government after several departments refused to hand over detailed information on Ottawa's decision to slash program spending by $5.2 billion.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Treasury Board President Tony Clement have all publicly suggested that Page overstepped his mandate and should be studying where money is spent – not where cuts are happening. Page wants the Federal Court to decide who is right.
He hopes the court will rule before he leaves the PBO in March at the end of his five-year term, but it could take many more months before there is a decision from the bench.
Two years into his mandate and after numerous squabbles with the government, Page made it clear he would not seek a new term. This would allow him to speak more openly about changing the legislation to make the PBO more independent, he said.
Mike Joyce, a retired senior assistant secretary at the Treasury Board Secretariat who worked with Page and is now an adjunct professor at Queen's University, said the problems Page experienced are due in part to the very vague nature of his mandate.
"Another budget officer might have been more restrained, but Page made the PBO what he thought it should be," Joyce said.
"He's a fairly independent thinker. He likes thinking outside the box. He's not risk averse, so it doesn't surprise me that he's taken the bull by the horns and charged ahead in a way that he thinks is the appropriate way to go," Joyce said.
"He leaves shoes of a particular size to fill."
Time will tell, and not everyone will agree, but Page believes he was not a bad first choice for Parliamentary Budget Officer.
He was willing, and he was stubborn, he said.
"When you you lose a child, it makes it difficult for someone to threaten to take anything away from you," he added.
"There are a lot of smarter people than yours truly, but not necessarily more gritty, so I think in that sense … I may have just been right for the times."


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Each burp cloth requires two pieces of fabric; one for the front and one for the backing. I traditionally make my burp cloths using a terry toweling with a cotton or knit backing. I purchase towels on sale to use for the front of the burp cloth. Usually I can find them on sale for around $2 to $3 and since I'm able to cut six burp cloths out of one towel, that's quite a savings. Another version is to use cotton batting (Warm & Natural) sandwiched by two pieces of batiste fabric for an heirloom effect. I have tried flannel in the past, but I don't like using flannel for the front side because it is not absorbent like cotton or terry. It works great for the backing though.
Next, fold the burp cloth in half to mark the center of the width with pins on each end.
Repeat this step with the lower width markings.
If you are doing machine embroidery, hoop an adhesive stabilizer in the appropriate sized hoop for your design. In this demonstration, I used HydroStick Tearaway.
The markings you've made for your design are great tools for placing the burp cloth in the proper placement in the hoop. Simply line up your lower pins with your center markings on the hoop. I prefer to line this up prior to activating the adhesive on the stabilizer. Once I have it aligned, I fold up the burp cloth and moisten my adhesive before I fold it back down and press it onto the stabilizer.
Here is the finished design after I have removed the excess water soluable stabilizer.
For the version using cotton batting and two pieces of cotton batiste/fabric, I embroider the design using a water solubable stabilizer, hooped with the batiste. I then layer the three layers: backing, cotton batting, top.
Pin the backing piece to the terry towel, wrong-sides-together.
I prefer to overcast the edges of the burp cloths before finishing the edges. This will hold all the layers together to prevent shifting while attaching the binding. I used a simple zig zag stitch with a 2.5mm width and 2.0mm length.
There are several methods I use for finishing these, including piping, decorative serging, envelope method with a simple edgestitch, or bias binding. For these, I attached bias binding. If you are attaching binding, it must be bias binding because of the curves of the burp cloth. I make my own binding cut in 2 1/2-inches width. It takes approximately 66-inches for the burp cloths.
Using the French bias binding method, line the raw edge of the binding with the raw edge of the burp cloth leaving a 3-inch tail on the front side of the burp cloth. I move my needle over to 6.5 when applying the binding.
I stop sewing at approximately 4-inches away from the beginning of the binding stitching. Remove the burp cloth from your machine and lay the binding to the end and fold back as shown in the picture above.
Fold the end over.
Finish stitching the binding to the burp cloth. Fold the binding to the back side of the burp cloth making sure to cover the first stitching and attach. I prefer to hand stitch but you can certainly stitch it down by machine.
Here are the two versions opened up.
This is an heirloom design stitched on the cotton batiste. The design is from a design set by Hatched In Africa.


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Mandela's old South Africa neighborhood hard hit by drugs and unemployment
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Across the street from Nelson Mandela's former home, the hulking Alexandra Heritage Center stands empty and abandoned.
The ambitious project to attract tourists was never finished. It's a visible reminder of mismanagement, waste and empty promises in Alexandra, one of many impoverished black townships in South Africa ravaged by unemployment and drugs.
Swazi Ntshingla, 43, lives near the one-room shack that Mandela, apartheid struggle icon and South Africa's former president, rented in the early 1940s. Today, she is frustrated with the lack of opportunities for the jobless youth.
Pointing to a vacant building across the street, attached to the heritage center, she says: "It causes problems," explaining that this is where teenagers go to smoke a drug called "nyaope."
It's a highly addictive and damaging cocktail drug that can include heroin, marijuana, rat poison, anti-retrovirals used to treat HIV/AIDS, and crystal methamphetamine, known locally as "tik."
Gangs and violence plague Alexandra, and some locals say that life is only getting worse with the drug epidemic that is plaguing township youth.
South Africa's population is largely young, and out of work. Census figures show that 72 percent of South Africa's unemployed are younger than 34, while 65 percent of black youth are without jobs.
Overall, unemployment in South Africa is officially at 36.7 percent when you include workers who have simply given up looking for a job.
Mandela was 23 years old when he moved to "Alex," as it is known, one of the oldest townships in South Africa, a slum near the wealthy areas of northern Johannesburg.
Young, broke and seeking his fortune in the big city, he moved into a one-room, dirt-floor shack rented from the Xhoma family on Seventh Avenue.
"Life in Alexandra was exhilarating and precarious," Mandela would later write in his memoirs from prison. "Its atmosphere was alive, its spirit adventurous, its people resourceful."
But in 1941, Alexandra was also dangerous, "desperately poor" and "desperately overcrowded," he wrote. "Every square foot was occupied by either a ramshackle house or a tin-roofed shack."
It is a description of Alexandra that could still fit today, more than 7 decades later.
Ntshingla said the area around Mandela's former home has been improved with paved roads, but little else despite many promises over the years.
The room Mandela rented is marked with a small plaque and a badly weather-beaten signboard. Garbage strews the dirt yard around the home.
"The house is not looking good," Ntshingla said. "We should not have the yard looking like this. A lot should have been done."
In comparison, in Soweto, the famed township south of Johannesburg where Mandela would later live, the change is visible. Parts of Soweto have become virtually middle class, with upscale malls and health clubs.
Vilakazi Street, where Mandela lived in a matchbox house with his first wife Evelyn and later his second wife Winnie, has boomed thanks to a steady stream of foreign tourists, and local entrepreneurs opening restaurants and guest lodges. The area was given a facelift ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup, with proper sidewalks, landscaping and visitor-friendly signage.
At a youth drug and alcohol center in Alexandra, Emmanuel Mangena, 40, said that lack of opportunities and the easy availability of drugs are the township's biggest problems.
"It's killing people," he said.
More from GlobalPost: South Africa's perfect storm
Mangena, who was born and raised in Alexandra, said Mandela's connection to the township is "a source of pride." The drug treatment center is located in a church where Mandela, an avid boxer, is reputed to have once trained.
But grinding poverty and a lack of basic services are continuing problems. In some parts of Alexandra, up to 20 families share one toilet, Mangena said. The electricity goes out every day.
"Poverty is very rife here because the people don't work," he said. "I grew here, I'm used to it. But things are changing from bad to worse."
In a recent speech, President Jacob Zuma said that in past decades black youth would fight against white minority rule for freedom and a better life.
The fight today is against alcohol and drug abuse, he said, with youth becoming "slaves of drugs such as nyaope," and worsening social problems such as crime and domestic violence.
"We must fight the scourge with the same vigor that we fought apartheid," Zuma said. "We must today declare drug and alcohol abuse as the enemies of our freedom and democracy."


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The exercise of identifying whether or not money down is professional or public can be a difficult one to get right. When it comes to sports betting, perhaps the most obvious example of when large of amounts of professional money are put down is in horse racing. Often, when a horse that has started at 8/1 in the morning hardens in the market and eventually ends up at a price nearer even money, you know that either the online bookmakers – or professional bettors – know something.
Notable examples of horses shortening in the market in the past have come from race-fixing. Professional con men would run their horses in races that didn't suit their animals and then, when the horse ran badly enough and drew a big enough price for his next race, the man would run his horse in a race that did suit him, and from there back his animal off the boards. This is a rather hackneyed example, but the concept is the same: horses that start off at a big price, and whose prices drop dramatically, are likely to have been subject to professional betting.
It is not just the professional gamblers' money that causes horses to shorten in the market. Indeed, online bookmakers employ "form-readers" whose job it is to interpret a horse's form to put it in a particular place in the market. These form-readers, along with the opinions of those "in the know," talk to the trainers and owners of their respective horses and gauge what kind of a chance their horses have. With this information, online bookmakers can price their horses accordingly, and this is why you sometimes see a horse that hasn't run for a year at the head of the market, or a horse that hasn't finished in his last three starts halve in price, for example.
It is hard, though, to tell the difference between public and professional betting. Tom Segal, the United Kingdom's most successful tipster, causes markets to fluctuate all by himself, with his tips affecting public money betting in a significant way. If, on the morning of a particular sporting event, you noticed a well-known tipster in a widely-read newspaper urging his readers to go for one outcome over another, you can expect public money betting to respond accordingly, causing a considerable swing in the market.
Gambles can also be staged at sporting venues themselves. In particular, as far as greyhounds are concerned, people have been known to favor a specific dog that may not have run particularly well in its last outing, or a dog that is weak in the betting. This is an easy way of spotting the chances the dog may have, and, often, it is wise not to ignore the fluctuations of the market.
If a horse or dog – or soccer team, for that matter – shortens considerably in the market as an event is about to start, then you know that this is either professional bettors or public money down. This is because online bookmakers usually shorten the odds of a participant long before the occasion, so that it can take as little money as possible – if a horse was at longer odds and the public latched on to the fact that it had a chance, it would render the bookmakers' form-readers useless.
In essence, it's wise to follow both public and professional betting, whether or not it has been orchestrated because, if you follow the money, you're not likely to go far wrong. The same goes for a horse, dog, individual or team on a slide: don't follow the market that is not being backed.
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10 things the weight-loss industry won't tell you «
Currently, more than one in three American adults over 20 is obese — up from roughly one in four 20 years ago. And millions of other people are currently carrying more weight than they'd like this time of year, thanks to the annual holiday overeating ritual.
Many Americans experience not only health problems but also guilt and shame over these added pounds. And that's why weight loss — an industry of diet companies, weight-loss supplement manufacturers, diet book authors and obesity doctors — is big business. Companies that focus on weight-loss programs (think Nutrisystem and Weight Watchers) raked in $2.4 billion last year; sales of supplements — many of which promise weight loss — add as much as $14 billion. And doctors now perform hundreds of thousands of bariatric surgeries a year to help patients lose weight.
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According to the most recent data from the Federal Trade Commission, roughly 15% of weight loss ads contain false claims or false information. Already this year, the FTC has fined three companies about $34 million over deceptive advertising claims. Among the cited companies is the marketer of Sensa, a product that consumers sprinkled on their food to help them lose weight, which will pay $26.5 million to settle charges of false-advertising because, according to the FTC, the company "deceived consumers with unfounded weight loss claims and misleading endorsements." (Sensa says that "the settlement includes no admission of wrongful conduct.")
"There is little evidence that pills and supplements can help you lose a lot of weight," says Mary Engle, the director of the advertising practices division at the FTC.
What's more, some of the biggest players in the industry have accused each other of deception. In 2010, Weight Watchers (the largest provider of weight loss services in the U.S., with more than 43% market share) sued Jenny Craig in U.S. District Court in New York over its ads that said that "Jenny Craig clients lost, on average, over twice as much weight as those on the largest weight-loss program." Weight Watchers claimed that no major clinical trial was done that proved this statement and that those assertions were false and misleading. The two companies reached a settlement: Jenny Craig, though it admitted no wrongdoing, agreed to never again publish, broadcast or disseminate the ad in any form. In a statement issued at the time, Jenny Craig said, "We challenge Weight Watchers to compete directly with us in a head-to-head clinical trial."
To be sure, the majority of weight-loss ads are relatively honest, and there are some diet supplements that work. Still, the amount of misinformation in this industry is high, experts say. Engle says that to avoid fraudulent weight-loss products, consumers should be on the lookout for labels that promise quick action (like losing 10 pounds in 10 days), and labels that use words like "guaranteed" or "scientific breakthrough." She also cautions against using creams or patches that promise to help with weight loss.


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Reindeer: The Truth Behind the Legend
Each Christmas season we hear the stories of the eight tiny, flying reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh all over the world in one night. But what made Santa choose reindeer to help him accomplish this feat? Wouldn't elephants, with their huge flappable ears, make a better choice? Okay, there's the weight factor, but what else makes reindeer the right choice for the jolly North Pole toymaker on his annual voyage? Read on to learn some of the secrets of the world's most famous deer.
Are Reindeer for Real?
While Prancer and Dancer and the gang are the stuff of legend, reindeer are not. These large deer live in northerly climes, in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Arctic. In Eurasia (and the North Pole) they are called reindeer and in North America more commonly caribou, but they are all the same species. The wild herds of Alaska and Canada are known for their mass migrations, while large numbers of those in Eurasia are domesticated, raised for fur, meat, milk, and as work animals. Whether you call them reindeer or caribou, one thing is certain: they are physically well suited to pull a sleigh full of toys and a right jolly old elf.
Questions and Antlers
We've seen the pictures and we know that Santa's reindeer -- Dasher and Dancer and Blitzen and the rest -- sport antlers. Does this mean that all of them (even Vixen?) are males? Not exactly -- in fact, it almost means the opposite. Reindeer and caribou are unique among deer in that the females grow antlers, too. And even more interesting is the fact that the females retain their antlers from one spring till the next, while mature males shed their antlers in the fall -- and are unadorned on Christmas Eve. So the creatures that pull Santa's sleigh must be females or youngsters. Of course, it's entirely possible that a male reindeer with the power to fly also has the power to keep his antlers through the holidays.
All-Terrain Feet
The all-terrain vehicle enables humans to traverse rough, muddy, snowy, or icy terrain. The caribou or reindeer has it beat: it has an all-terrain foot. The animal's remarkable hoof actually adapts itself to the season -- becoming a sort of ice skate in the winter and sneaker in spring. The caribou of North America can run at speeds of almost 50 miles per hour and may travel 3,000 miles in a year. Luckily, the animal is helped along by its amazingly adaptable footpads. In the summer, when the tundra is soft and wet, the footpads become spongy like the soles of tennis shoes and provide extra traction. In the winter, when snow and ice coat the North, the pads shrink and firm up, while the rim of the hoof, like an ice skate's blade, bites into the ice and crusted snow to keep the animal from slipping. Sounds like the perfect footwear for an animal that needs to come to a flying stop on an ice-encrusted rooftop in the dark of the night!
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Given its geographic preferences, a reindeer has to have a pretty warm coat. In fact, the coat has two layers of fur, a dense woolly undercoat and longer-haired overcoat. The outer coat consists of hollow, air-filled hairs that give the animal such buoyancy when it enters water that only the lower two-thirds of its body submerges. A caribou or reindeer swims with ease and good speed, and migrating herds will not hesitate to swim across a large lake or broad river. If Santa ever decides to take to the seas rather than the air, he is in good hands!


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|Diabetes type 2: A personal story
Susan H., a 27-year old woman living in Massachusetts, has Type 2 diabetes. She was recently diagnosed and answered the following questions about living with this condition.
How did you find out you had type 2 diabetes?
I went in for a regular physical. For several years, I had been tested because of my family history; everyone in my father's family has or had diabetes - my father, my grandparents and even my great grandparents. This year, the test came back and it was official. I have had it since September 2003.
How has diabetes impacted your life?
I feel like the question should be "How hasn't diabetes impacted my life?" I have had to change a lot of old habits. I have had to change my eating patterns. This includes, what I eat, where I eat, how much I eat and especially how often I eat. I have a high stress, busy work schedule. Before, I would often go 12 hours without eating and then eat the wrong things.
What steps do you take to currently manage your diabetes?
I regularly check my blood sugars and take my medication. I have changed my eating and eat regular meals now. When I started adding breakfast and lunch at work, I found that I didn't need to overeat at the end of the day. I also limit myself to eating only in the kitchen as opposed to eating in the living room in front of the television.
Have you been working on losing weight?
Yes, I have lost about 20 pounds. I had tried to lose weight before but I was not successful because I would only change my behaviors for short time spans. I have made lifestyle changes now. I have come to realize that I can no longer do things the way that I was.
Have you been able to maintain your motivation?
Yes, numbers motivate me. When I see my blood sugar numbers and they are high, I don't want to feel like I am failing. I tend to eat better on days that I test my blood sugar than days I don't. I see how what I eat can affect my blood sugars. My father also motivates me. My parents live on the west coast but I talk to them about every other week. When we talk, we compare numbers. He has been doing it a lot longer than I, so it is a challenge to even get close to his numbers. I also want to see my hemoglobin A1c decrease as well. I know there has to be consistently lower blood sugar numbers over time to get that to reduce. That makes me push forward too.
Did you have to give up any favorite foods?
Yes, I love to have juice every morning. Most people have coffee, but I don't, so I had juice every morning. Juice has too much sugar in it, and so I don't have it any more on a regular basis. I have given up soda too. That was very difficult. I had never realized how much soda I drank. I instantly noticed that when I stopped drinking it my blood sugars dropped. I also love red meat but I have tried to start eating more chicken. Now, I have also seen my cholesterol numbers drop. These changes have been very difficult but rewarding.
Did you change any other lifestyle factors like exercise?
I have had a hard time motivating myself to exercise. I know that if I exercise, I would probably be dropping more weight. I haven't been able to master that part yet.
Do you feel differently now than when you were originally told you had diabetes?
At first I was scared. I didn't know if I could succeed at changing my diet and getting the diabetes under control. I remembered all the times in the past that I had tried to lose weight and hadn't gotten anywhere. I felt uneducated as well. I didn't know what to eat. I thought about it all the time. It was a huge adjustment but I have had good support. I was able to approach my boss and talk to him about making changes to my schedule so that I could fit in breakfast and lunch.
Also, I have a great group of friends who have encouraged and helped me. My nutritionist has been a huge help as well. She has helped me to make better choices. She has held me to be accountable but has made me feel like I can do this and succeed. The fear has gone away. I don't have to think about it every minute of every day, like I did at first.
Is there anything you'd like to add?
Two things: (1) I ask myself how important is this to me? Denying that I have diabetes makes things worse and can hurt me in the long run. There is a way to live with diabetes that leads to a better life. (2) A good support network helps. My family, my co-workers and my healthcare providers are there to help me. None of them will think less of me, which is a fear that I had at the beginning. Being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is not the end of the world but the beginning of a whole new experience to bring me to a better, healthier life.
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