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Road to the Breeders' Cup
Country House Wins The Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Country House has won the Kentucky Derby. He took off with 65-1 odds, a long shot in the race. Maximum Security
Horses Running In Kentucky Derby 145
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18)– The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby is expected to take off around 6:50 p.m. There have been two horses to
Favorite Vekoma Cruises To Blue Grass Victory At Keeneland
Favored Vekoma pulled away down the stretch to earn a 3 ½-length victory in the $1 million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday and take a big step toward the Kentucky Derby.
Report: Kentucky Thoroughbred Deaths Surpassed National Average In 2018
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WAVE 3)– Thoroughbreds dying from injuries experienced on Kentucky tracks has surpassed the national average, according to new data released from 2018. Experts
'Showdown Time' for 2019 Kentucky Derby Media Poll's Top Horses
2019 Kentucky Derby Media Poll voters are expecting high impact from Saturday's Rebel Stakes (G2) featuring top-ranked Game Winner and Improbable.
Florida's Thoroughbred Breeding Industry Still Struggling
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Data show that Florida's thoroughbred breeding industry still has not recovered from the recession a decade ago.
Derby Festival, Kentucky Lottery Team Up For 'Festival Fanatic' Promotion
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18)– The Kentucky Derby Festival and the Kentucky Lottery are teaming up for a special promotion. According to a press release, the
Triple Crown Winner Justify Gets Horse of the Year
Triple Crown winner for 2018, Justify, added Horse of the Year to his resume, getting the nod over Accelerate for the biggest prize handed out at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night.
Kentucky Derby Purse Raised To $3 Million
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) – The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve on Saturday, May 4 will be the richest in
2019 Kentucky Derby Prep Races
|Churchill Downs
|Sep 15, 2018
|American Pharoah
|Santa Anita Park
|Sep 29, 2018
|Juddmonte Royal Lodge
|Sep 29, 2018
|Juddmonte Beresford
|Sep 30, 2018
|Belmont Park
|Oct 6, 2018
|Breeders' Futurity
|Oct 6, 2018
|Prix du Jean Luc Lagardere
|Oct 7, 2018
|Vertem Futurity Trophy
|Oct 27, 2018
|Breeders' Cup Juvenile
|Churchill Downs
|Nov 2, 2018
|Kentucky Jockey Club
|Churchill Downs
|Nov 24, 2018
|Cattleya Sho
|Tokyo Racecourse
|Nov 24, 2018
|Dec 1, 2018
|Los Alamitos Futurity
|Los Alamitos Race Course
|Dec 8, 2018
|Springboard Mile
|Remington Park
|Dec 16, 2018
|Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun
|Dec 19, 2018
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|Santa Anita Park
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|Fair Grounds
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|Smarty Jones
|Oaklawn Park
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|Robert B. Lewis
|Santa Anita Park
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|Holy Bull
|Gulfstream Park
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|Sam F. Davis
|Tampa Bay Downs
|Feb 9, 2019
|El Camino Real Derby
|Golden Gate Fields
|Feb 16, 2019
|Risen Star
|Fair Grounds
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|Hyacinth Stakes
|Tokyo Racecourse
|Feb 17, 2019
|Oaklawn Park
|Feb 18, 2019
|Patton Stakes
|Mar 1, 2019
|Fountain of Youth
|Gulfstream Park
|Mar 2, 2019
|Road to the Derby Condition Stakes
|Kempton Park
|Mar 6, 2019
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|San Felipe
|Santa Anita Park
|Mar 9, 2019
|Tampa Bay Derby
|Tampa Bay Downs
|Mar 9, 2019
|Jeff Ruby Steaks
|Turfway Park
|Mar 9, 2019
|Oaklawn Park
|Mar 16, 2019
|Louisiana Derby
|Fair Grounds
|Mar 23, 2019
|Sunland Derby
|Sunland Park
|Mar 24, 2019
|UAE Derby
|Meydan Racecourse
|Mar 30, 2019
|Florida Derby
|Gulfstream Park
|Mar 30, 2019
|Fukuryu Stakes
|Mar 31, 2019
|Wood Memorial
|Apr 6, 2019
|Blue Grass
|Apr 6, 2019
|Santa Anita Derby
|Santa Anita Park
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|Cardinal Condition Stakes
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Have you been thinking that it is time to better secure your home? You have to learn all you can. You should use many different strategies in order to keep your home safe. The article below will educate you about home security.
Change the locks after buying a new house. The previous owners or tenants might have made several copies of the key. Find a good locksmith who can replace the lock and make a few copies of your key. Do the same thing if you happen to misplace a key.
When in the process of purchasing a home-security system, be sure to comparison shop. You would be surprised to see that the prices are much different for each company, even though it's for the same type of protection. Get three quotes or more before making a choice.
A spare key must be carefully hidden and not in the obvious spots that a person might think. Placing a key above a door or under a doormat is quite obvious! A better place to keep your key is inside your outside dog's collar.
Seek recommendations from friends and family when choosing a security company or system. They have likely had interactions with home security providers that they can tell you about, saving you time and stress. Be sure you seek out advice by asking those people.
Try not to have a shy attitude. Talk to your neighbors. Watch their homes and ask them if they'll watch yours as well. Don't disregard gossip either. You might hear helpful information, for instance if strangers have been hanging around.
Install motion-sensor lights. These kinds of lights will pop right on when they detect motion near your home. You will be alerted to movement, but most importantly, it will deter burglars or at least make you aware of their presence. Remember to keep working bulbs in them at all times.
The first thing to do is get your locks changed out. There are many different people who might have keys from your past, and removing the potential of them accessing your home can be a very good idea. It shouldn't cost too much, and the process can be completed very quickly.
If you have skylights, do not neglect them when making sure your home is secure. Skylights are nice to bring extra light into your house, but they are also easy ways for burglars to enter your home. Make sure that you use safety hardware when the skylights are installed and maintained.
Walls are a great hiding spot for your valuables. This is a great way to hide jewelry, for example. Target any unused phone jacks or electrical outlets for an easy hiding spot. If there are no unused plates, you can easily install fake ones.
Unhappily, all homes are subject to security breaches. You can decrease the possibility of an invasion with certain steps though. This article should have given you some ideas to work with. Use them to ensure your home is protected.

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The Monarch flight from Gatwick is almost entirely populated by middle-aged folk in neatly pressed Chinos and deck shoes, reading Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals. As the plane taxis along the runway a slightly dishevelled looking gent in a navy blazer three rows back pipes up: 'Any chance of getting a brandy round here? I'm not a pisshead. Far from it. I just need something to sharpen me up.'
You get a better class of lout on a CV Travel package holiday to Corfu. But then CV Travel is not your typical package holiday company and, come to think of it, Corfu is not your typical Greek island. A former British protectorate, this lush island in the Ionian sea successfully manages to pull off posh and trashy at the same time, a bit like Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. This split personality has helped ensure its enduring popularity with a broad spectrum of British holidaymakers.
If you want Club 18-30, foam parties and pizza joints, then Kavos and Ipsos will be happy to oblige. But head for the north-east coast, in particular the stretch between Nissaki and Kassiopi, and you are entering an area which has been dubbed Kensington-on-Sea because of its wealthy visitors and posh villas. This is CV Travel territory. The company started here in 1972 (the CV stands for Corfu Villas) and though it has since expanded across the Med, this stretch of coastline is its stronghold. Remember that picture of David Cameron in his flowery swimming trunks? Well that was taken in Corfu while the family were holidaying with CV Travel.
Our villa is in the tiny hamlet of Kaminaki, a 45-minute drive north from Corfu Town. We turn off the coast road and down a vertiginous track which ends at a small cove with a pebble beach, just two waterfront tavernas, a mini-market and a handful of pastel-coloured villas and houses, most of which seem to have been snapped up by CV Travel.
Our villa, Christina, is perched high on the hillside, a thigh-curdling 10-minute walk up the lane: any steeper and you'd need crampons. But the climb is worth it. From our elevated position we get complete privacy, cool breezes and commanding views across the Ionian sea to Albania, just a couple of kilometres away. The villa is spacious and comfortable with a huge pool and plenty of balconies and terraces from which to admire the breathtaking blue vistas.
Kaminaki is a sleepy little resort where nothing much happens at all, and the only decision to be made each day is which of the two tavernas to have lunch in (though the menu is virtually identical in both). The only thing approaching excitement is when a speedboat dragging an inflatable banana from the nearby resort of Ipsos screeches across the horizon each afternoon. As the hysterical squeals of the banana people drift across the water, the peace-loving folk of Kaminaki beach look up for an instant, shake their heads and return to their watercolours or paperbacks with a gentle shudder.
You'll probably want to hire a car, or even better a little motorboat, to explore the coast. The 'butterfly blue' bays and 'silver and green iridescence' of the olive groves will be familiar to anyone who has read Gerard Durrell's memoir of his idyllic childhood in Corfu before the Second World War. And while this coast has not been immune to the development which has swept the island, with a boat you can still discover coves which have changed little since the budding naturalist visited them in his own homemade vessel.
After working our way through the menu of good, simple Greek staples such as grilled fish, lamb and Greek salad, offered by Kaminaki's two restaurants we are ready to broaden our horizons, so we book a water taxi to the Agni Taverna which is in the next bay along. The restaurant is buzzing and as the lights twinkle on in Albania we study the menu. Shall we go for the mussels ('as recommended by the Sunday Telegraph') or the seafood platter ('recommended by the Sunday Times')? In the end I opt for the fish soup and the garlic king prawns. For what it's worth, The Observer can highly recommend them.
This sense of following a well-trodden trail is a recurring theme of the trip. The next day we take the winding road to Old Perithia, an abandoned village which we've heard is a good place to sample traditional Corfiot cuisine. As we drive inland through olive groves the car radio flickers between the local Greek radio station and Radio Tirana lending an air of exoticism to our excursion.
Eventually we arrive at the old stone village on the slopes of Mount Pantocrator, the island's highest peak, which you can climb if you're feeling energetic (we aren't). Currently it's home to a handful of tavernas but it can only be a matter of time before the derelict village houses are snapped up and converted into lovely B&Bs. The streets are empty and silent, and just for a moment we allow ourselves to think we may have stumbled across a bit of a hidden gem. Then a coach pulls up and 50 French tourists spill out. We turn the corner and find a charming little restaurant packed to the gills with people who look like they are probably on a CV Travel holiday. On the menu board is pasted a sun-bleached photograph of Rick Stein with the restaurant owner. He filmed here for his last programme Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escapes. All the other tavernas are empty.
On the last night, after a final dinner in Kaminaki, we walk to the next beach. We follow the sound of music to the Nissaki Beach Hotel, a sprawling resort which has an open-air disco.
We buy cocktails and take a seat but not for long. A crack team of young women from Eastern Europe seems to have been employed with the sole purpose of dragging unwilling holidaymakers onto the dance floor. One of them is heading our way. I consider explaining politely that we are, in fact, with CV Travel and seem to have wandered into someone else's package holiday by mistake but I can see she won't take no for an answer. My boyfriend and I are frogmarched on to the dance floor. A group of Germans are on their knees in a circle banging the floor in time to Queen's 'We Will Rock You'. And what's more surprising, after a few more cocktails, so are we. I suspect that neither Gerald Durrell, David Cameron or Rick Stein have ever patronised this particular establishment, which in itself is strangely liberating. Still, when the East European dance enforcers are looking the other way, we do a runner and we don't stop running until we get to Kaminaki.
Joanne O'Connor travelled as a guest of CV Travel (020 7401 1026; cvtravel.co.uk) which offers a week's stay at Villa Christina in Kaminaki for between £395 and £795 per person based on eight people sharing and including return flights from Gatwick, transfers, daily maid service and a welcome food hamper. Car hire was provided courtesy of carrentals.co.uk.


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I have been asked where I get my ideas for my dreamscape paintings. And the answer is, I don't know!
I paint intuitively and spontaneously. I do know that I need to feed the creative well in order to draw from the well. One thing I do to feed the well is to go on nature walks. Lately it's been too hot and humid around here to walk. But there have been a couple cooler days last week and I was able to nature walk again. I walked on a trail where I saw this beautiful meadow. And I felt my spirit fill up again. Are there things you do to feed your creativity?


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During her Tuesday appearance on Fox & Friends, Laura Ingraham indicated that she wasn't super-excited about the possibility that she might replace Sean Spicer as Press Secretary.
Recent reports indicate that Spicer could soon be promoted to head of the White House communications department, and that Ingraham is one of the leading candidates to replace him at his podium. The matter attracted interest on Monday due to the White House's off-camera press briefing, and today, Ingraham talked to Fox about how many questions she's been getting about whether there was any truth to the reported developments.
"I've always said that if it's something that I think I could do well, and it would really advance the agenda of this administration at a time where I think there's so much at stake for the country and for the future, you know, I would think about it. I'm not sure if that's the role I would pick for myself, but I have a legal background, strategic, you know, political communications planning. I'm not sure the press secretary thing is something I'm dying to do." Read more here.


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Screensketcher is a desktop based mockup tool that is design to create basic mockups for web pages and desktop applications. This program functions on Windows XP, Vista or 7.
- Hand-drawn sketches – The mockups created by Screensketcher have a purposefully hand-drawn appearance. This is so that the client does not mistakenly believe that the mockup indicates that the majority of the coding for the finished product has been completed.
- Black and White – Screensketcher mockups are presented in black and white, eliminating debates of colour, pixel alignment etc. At such an early stage, the mockup is designed to represent a basic outline of the finished product, and not distract the client with colour issues etc.
- Minimal coding – As there is no real coding required to create a mockup with Screensketcher, you can make adjustments to the appearance of the finished design without having to recode, or scrap any previously written code.
- UI elements – There are 34 predesigned elements to incorporate into your mockups.
Screensketcher can be purchased for delivery by email for $70.21 (which includes 19% VAT on the base price of $59).
You can purchase your copy at http://www.codingrobots.com/screensketcher/ .
Wireframing features are limited and prototypes are not clickable. Finished designs can be printed out, or shared online. Screensketcher only functions on Windows operating systems, which reduces its client base somewhat. As this is a native Windows application however, its developers point out that it should run and launch quicker on Windows machines. All files are stored locally and not on internet servers, which provides additional security.
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- Balsamiq: Balsamiq Mockups – "so freaking good" Balsamiq is a wireframe and mockup tool that is currently desktop-based. The web-based version is under development and should be available soon. Simple prototyping is available on the desktop version, with linked mockups. Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop is also integrated with Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, XWiki and FogBugz. Features: Fast,...


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Our Vision for P.E.
Here at Kingswood Primary Academy our vision is to provide the highest quality PE and School Sport for all children, of all abilities.
PE and Sport Premium Funding at Kingswood Primary Academy.
For full details of our 2018-2019 aims, spending and impact please see the "PE and Sport Premium 2018-2019" attachment below.
This funding was used to raise teaching and pupil attainment throughout the school, increase pupil participation in sports and to promote exercise as part of healthy life style that goes beyond school.
For full details of our 2019-2020 aims, spending and intended impact please see the "PE and Sport Premium 2019-2020" attachment below. This year it is estimated that we will receive an estimated £17,800.


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Beautiful coworking spaces are mushrooming all across Asia. From Ho Chi Minh City to Jakarta, Google-grade spaces are giving a new face to work.
In the past 12 months, WeWork has expanded to the fertile markets of China and Japan. It has no real competition in Asia. For a company valued at over US$10 billion, this strategic move received scant attention. It's a good time to take a second look at the macro environment that WeWork is now operating in.
WeWork's traditional competitor and predecessor is Regus, a giant of the 20th century. Its office spaces are traditional serviced offices. WeWork keeps a focus on cultivating relationships between members and offering additional services to its members, all through technology of course. EngageRocket, provider of employee engagement survey and analytics, revealed that Lazlo Bock (former Senior VP of People Operations at Google) defined the importance of HR for the technology industry. Their solution is now a common ask for startups and their support organizations like office space providers.
The most visible difference between WeWork and Regus though is simply the aesthetic. Changs, Marketing Director of AgileLab in Singapore, shared that the experience of work is improved through design. It is the aesthetic of coworking that has been copied most widely, and which cements the association between beauty and coworking.
With that, the search volume of coworking space is a useful proxy for interest in the category as a whole.
I've looked up the interest for coworking space in Google Trends as well as Google's Keyword Planner.
I have chosen India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam as the research targets. I wanted to include China but data quality from Google Keyword Planner for this market was too poor.
The Google Trends chart shows the popularity of coworking space in each market. The popularity of the term at any point in time is expressed as a ratio of all the searches within that place at that time. Hong Kong sees a higher level of interest in coworking space than the other markets on the chart, but this does not mean that she sees a lot more searches than a large country like Indonesia. The truth is that Hong Kong is seeing a lot of coworking space search relative to the total searches in Hong Kong itself.
Indonesia and India are so large that searches for coworking space are low relative to the sum total of searches.
Notably, in the past 6 months or so, interest in coworking spaces has reached new highs for all the markets shown except India.
This is why Google Trends is a useful measure of popularity for search terms. Height of these lines are measured against the sum total of searches, giving context to the data.
The increasing popularity of coworking spaces on Google Trends gave me confidence to take things a step further by taking a look at actual search volumes through Google Keyword Planner.
Using the same time window as Google Trends (Jan 2015 – July 2017), I looked up search volume for the phrase "coworking space". The results are shown in the chart below.
The increase is even more stark when we look at the raw search numbers. While search popularity had increased somewhat modestly, actual search volumes have seen a much steeper growth curve, especially in Indonesia. JumboLens founder Jian shared that in Indonesia, the main markets for coworking spaces are Jakarta and Bali. In Malaysia, the market is similarly binary in Kuala Lumpur and up-and-coming tech hub Penang.
Remarkably, pure software or marketplace startups exploiting this explosion in commercial real estate are few and far between. Many new companies entering the niche of coworking spaces are space operators such as Spacemob, or space owners themselves.
There are no companies of the profile of an Airbnb for commercial space within South-East Asia or East Asia like these companies in North America.
If things remain as they are, we will see WeWork become the primary supplier of sales to spaces simply by default. The likeliest challenge to WeWork will come from space operators who decide to expand into lead generation. Outcomes will depend on whether WeWork's lead generation can outpace the rate of learning by putative challengers from the space operators.
(Wei Leen is founder of Lean Metrics, specialised in advanced SEO, as well as founder of wine delivery site Bottles of Joy and coworking space startup SeekSpaces)


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- Selected Works
She Alone, 2012. Acrylic and oil pastel on 100% rag paper, 30 x 22″
Departure, 2012. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper mounted on museum board and wood, 41 x 26″ Sold
How Do I Love Thee, 2011. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper, 30 x 22″ Sold
Solace, 2013. Acrylic and charcoal on 100% rag paper mounted on museum board and wood, 41 x 26″ Sold
Study for the Thread Will Not Be Broken, 2013-14. Acrylic on paper, 22.5 x 17.75″ Sold
The Stranger, 2012. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper, 41 x 26″ Sold
The Thread Will Not Be Broken, 2012. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper mounted on museum board and wood
41 x 26″ Sold
Study for Amicizia, 2014. Acrylic and graphite on hand made paper, 19 x 14″ Sold
The Memories Within, 2014. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper mounted on canvas, 46 x 36″ Sold
They Were Still There, 2009. Acrylic on 100% rag paper, 41 x 26″ Sold
House Dreams, 2004. Acrylic and graphite on 100% rag paper, 22 x 30″ Sold
Always There, 2004. Acrylic, graphite, and collage on 100% rag paper, 30 x 22″ Sold
Letters, 2004. Acrylic and collage on 100% rag paper, 30 x 22″
The Sketches, 2014. Acrylic, graphite and collage on 100% rag paper, 30 x 22″ Sold
The Night Gathering, 2014. Acrylic and graphite, pastel on mylar, 19.25 x 16.25″ Sold
Conversation, 2014. Acrylic, paper, conte crayon on canvas, 14 x 14″
Refuge, 2012. Acrylic and charcoal on 100% rag paper, 19 x 19″ Sold
Evocation, 2012. Acrylic and oil pastel on 100% rag paper, 19 x 19″ Sold
Amicizia (Friendship), 2014. Acrylic on 100% rag paper mounted on canvas, 50 x 40″ Sold
- Previous Exhibitions
Anne Slaughter
10 October – 16 November 2014
Terra Incognita: Forty Years of Anne Slaughter, 1966-2006
in collaboration with Second Street Gallery
3 March – 29 April 2006
- Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Terra Incognita: Anne Slaughter, Forty Years,Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA ( Full-color catalogue available) 2001 Lost Writings, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC 1999 Fields of Memories,McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1998 Effacements: Fading Memories, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC 1997 Paintings, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC (two-person) 1996 Lost Messages, Bivins Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC 1995 The Memory of Walls, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC 1994 Violence: The Aftermath (installation), Daryl Reich Rubenstein Art Gallery, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC 1993 Violence: The Aftermath, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Paintings, Miroir d'Encre, Brussels, Belgium
White Patterns, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
1992 Masada Series,Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA 1991 Vestiges, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
From the Sahara, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
1990 Vestiges, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1987 Ancient Landscapes, Gallery IV, Alexandria, VA 1986 Earth Fragments, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1985 Collages, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1984 Arid Landscapes, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1983 Sere Landscapes, Emerson Gallery, McLean, VA
New Works, Galerie l'Angle Aigu, Brussels, Belgium
1980 Landscapes and Collages, Galerie l'Angle Aigu, Brussels, Belgium 1979 Recent Works, Downtown Library Gallery, Roanoke, VA
Invitational, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Lynchburg, VA
1978 Landscapes,McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 1976 Landscapes,McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Alumni Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
WPA/Corcoran Select, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (co-curator: Sally Troyer)
2005 Faces of the Fallen, National Memorial for Women in the Military, Arlington, VA
WPA/Corcoran Select, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Family of Law, University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, VA
2003 30 Years: Three Decades of New Art at Second Street Gallery, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Summer Show, Troyer Art Gallery, Washington, DC
2002 9.11.01 Reflection, part II, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Wintergarden, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Fold Here: 3D Paper Sculptures, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA
2001 Through the Looking Glass: Celebrating the Octagon's Bicentennial, The Octagon, Washington, DC (Curator: Vivienne Lassman)
10+10 American and Italian Artists: The Sea, The Color of Wine, Scudere Medicee, Poggio a Caiano, Italy
2000 Moving into the Millenium: Darkness, Les Yeuxdu Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Connections, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1999 University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, VA
Myth, Memory and Imagination: Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Get Surreal: Reviving the Exquisite Corpse, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1997 Juried Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (Juror: Donald Kuspit) 1995 Totems & Icons, Crestar Bank, Richmond, VA (Curator: Georgia Coopersmith) 1994 Artemis XVII (traveling exhibition), Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
Artemis XVII (traveling exhibition), Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Winners of Juried Exhibition 1993, Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
Commissions, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
1993 Ephemerides, Miroir d'Encre Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
American Art Alumni Collection, McCormick Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Juror: Thomas Hoving)
Explorations, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
Ecritures, Miroir d'Encre Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1992 Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried Exhibition,Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (Juror: Neal Benezra) 1991 Ephemerides, Miroir d'Encre Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Select, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (Juror: Julia Boyd)
Corporate and Public Collections
University of Virginia Art Museum
Art Museum of Western Virginia
CSX Corporation
Suez Energy International
Trammel Crowe Corporation
University of Virginia Hospital
Shenandoah Life Insurance Co.
University of Virginia Law School
McGuire Woods
SunTrust Bank
Hunton & Williams
Central Fidelity Bank-Virginia Collection
Akin & Gump
Bank of Virginia
Dickstein Shapiro & Morin
The World Bank
Julia Norrell Collection
Awards and Fellowships
1995 Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1993 Award of Honor, Environmental: Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Newport News, VA (Juror: Susi Gablik)
Certificate of Distinction, Greater Reston Art Center Juried Exhibition, Reston, VA (Juror: Jeremy Strick)
1975 Purchase Award, Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Regional Juried Exhibition, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA (Juror: Roy Slade)
Selected Bibliography
2006 Stoddard, Leah. "Terra Incognita and the Intuitive Archeologist" Catalogue Terra Incognita – Anne Slaughter 40 Years 2006)
Troyer, Sally, "Anne Slaughter : Layers of Emotion&rdquo Catalogue : Terra Incognita – Anne Slaughter 40 Years (2006)
Lassman, Vivienne. "Nature Laid Bare: Anne Slaughter's Artistic Journey&rdquo Catalogue : Terra Incognita – Anne Slaughter 40 Years (2006)
Latter, Ruth. "Memories of War Reflect on Canvas&rdquo Daily Progress (March 16, 2006): D1
Maurer, David. "Solid Perfection" Daily Progress (April 9, 2006): C1
Laura, Parsons. "Recollection: Slaughter's Sentimental Nature" The Hook (April 13, 2006): 44
Michael, Alexander. "Terra Incognita 40 Years of Anne Slaughter" Albemarle Magazine(April/May 2006): 20
2005 "Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Michael Fitts and Anne Slaughter, March 2005," Albemarle Magazine (February/March 2005): 24. 2001 O'Sullivan, Michael. "A Tale of Two Houses," The Washington Post Weekend (February 9, 2001): 55. 2000 Goodwin, Lauren. "Anne Slaughter: A True World Artist," Southern Accents (March/April 2000). www.southernaccents.com/art/slaughter/asp
Kramer, Jennifer. "Memories Redux," Southern Accents (March/April 2000): 94-97.
1999 Latter, Ruth. "Colorful Contemporary Figures," The Daily Progress (July 22, 1999): D1. 1998 Protzman, Ferdinand. "Reflections on Memory," The Washington Post (October 24, 1998).
Wall, Donna Dorian. "Paper Chase," Southern Accents (May/June 1998): 122.
1997 Protzman, Ferdinand. "Bronze and Ochre," The Washington Post (February 1, 1997): C2.
Bates, Anne. "Must Sees," Ken ODA's Art Newsletter (February 1997): 19.
1995 Protzman, Ferdinand. "Memories That Walls Can Reveal," The Washington Post (December 2, 1995): C2.
Rotner, Sheilah. "Must Sees," Ken ODA's Art Newsletter (December 1995): 18.
1994 Atkinson, Linda. Artemis XVII,Roanoke, VA (March 1994).
Weinstein, Ann. "Art inView," The Roanoke Times (February 1994): 11.
1993 Purvis, Mike. "Art Reviews," Washington Review (October/November 1993): 17.
Fleming, Lee. "When the Spirit is Thrilling," The Washington Post (July 10, 1993): D2.
Latter, Ruth. "Slaughter's 'Violence' Leaves Room for Healing," The Daily Progress (June 17, 1993): D1.
Margulies, Stephen."Review: Exhibition," The Daily Progress (June 10, 1993).
O'Sullivan, Constance Lord. Environmental: Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Newport News: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, 1993. [exhibition catalogue]
1992 Latter, Ruth. "McGuffey," The Daily Progress (December 1992): D4.
Mook, Bea. "Ancient Legacy Flowers at PVCC," The Daily Progress (September 14, 1992): 2.
O'Sullivan, Constance Lord. Peninsula Fine Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Newport News: Peninsula Fine Arts Center, 1992. [exhibition catalogue]
1990 Latter, Ruth. "Styles Vary, but Artists Mirror Human Experience," The Daily Progress (April 14, 1990): 3.
Latter, Ruth. "Slaughter Exhibit Rich, Inspirational," The Daily Progress (May 1988).
Clark, William. The William and Mary Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 1988.
1987 Latter, Ruth. "Landscapes Reshaped by Artist," The Daily Progress (September 27, 1987). 1986 "McGuffey Exhibit," The Daily Progress (November 23, 1986): E4.
Latter, Ruth. "Emotions Overflow Downtown," The Daily Progress (April 14, 1985): D3.
1984 "Art Center to Display Landscapes," The Daily Progress (October 6, 1984): 3.
Latter, Ruth. "Decorative Banners Again a Popular Art Form," The Daily Progress (July 1, 1984): F6.
Ripe, Peter. 1984 Roanoke Biennial, Roanoke: Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, 1984. [exhibition catalogue]
1983 "Galerie l'Angle Aigu Review," Le Soir (October 1983). 1982 Latter, Ruth. "Art Exudes Calm Atmosphere," The Daily Progress (May 16, 1982). 1979 "Art for All," Roanoke Times and World-News (February 4, 1979). 1978 "McGuffey Exhibit," The Daily Progress (June 25, 1978). 1976 Latter, Ruth. "'Good Views' Interest Artists," The Daily Progress (June 13, 1976): E11. 1975 Hathaway, Walter. Roanoke Fine Arts Center Juried Artists Exhibition 1975, Roanoke: Roanoke Fine Arts Center, 1975. [exhibition catalogue]
- Statement
Artist's Statement: Connections
My passion has always been to renew my self in the natural world, to linger in the vastness of the land, the water and the sky. But also to explore the physical and emotional evidence of the passage of time on that world and on our human presence. I wonder at the beauty of the patina of earth and water on a smooth rock or a desert cliff, the bleached ruins of an ancient city, the layers of paint on a distressed wall or a weathered door, the faded traces of lost writings… The markings of time and the elements speak to me in their subtle colors and textures, and in the layering of our collective and individual memories, the continuity of our human endeavors and yet also of our temporality in a universe that transcends us. For many years, this has been the underpinning of my work as an artist. But in this new body of works, I have for the first time attempted to make the human figure the main focus of my paintings.
At this stage of my life, I needed to address strong emotions that kept surfacing as ripples deep in an ocean become a continuous, powerful wave. The great loss of a childhood friend, a soulmate, was at its edge. But also surging and ebbing were the threads that weave the fabric of human friendship, joys and play, but also loneliness, pain and more and more, irretrievable losses.
I realized, over many months of painting, that as I was layering, transforming and burnishing my materials into distressed surfaces and human figures, I was also continuing the theme of my former work by trying to express the passage of time on the layers of feelings and emotions in our lives. In my mind, I was closing a circle.
Anne Slaughter
October 7, 2014
- Biography
Anne Slaughter has had over 20 solo and many group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. She showed her work for a decade at the Troyer, Fitzpatrick & Lassman Gallery in Washington DC, and has been included in curated shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Her work has been extensively reviewed, including several articles in the Washington Post by critic Ferdinand Protzman and in the Art Section of Southern Accents magazine.
Slaughter's works are in corporate and private collections across the United States and Europe. One of her work has recently been acquired by the University of Virginia Art Museum. She was educated at the University Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium, where she was born, and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, where she was one of the founders of the McGuffey Art Center.
Born in Brussels in 1934, Slaughter was six when the Germans marched into Belgium. Her life and travels around the world find expression in her landscapes, abstractions, and later installation and word pieces. Each body of work in her development to 2006 was represented, all touching upon themes constant in her art: the passage of time, the love of the natural world, and the desire to evoke profound feelings through surface materiality. The walls of bombed out buildings, seascapes of Belgium and landscapes of pastoral Virginia, and the earth in all its connotations – all these experiences inform Slaughter, whose tactile expressionism seeks to communicate "our need for silence and a sense of the infinite mystery that is still part of the human condition."
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Come on admit it. You didn't know that the Prophet, blessed be His name and cursed be His infidel enemies, discovered a cure for cancer 1,400 years before we stupid, backwards Westerners started to deal with the disease.
But not only cancer. Apparently the Great Prophet, all praise be unto Him and death and destruction rain down upon the unbelievers, discovered the cure for many other diseases that so-called, much vaunted 'Western medical science' is still grappling with.
Yet another proof, were one needed, that the Religion of Peace is not some backwards, primitive, death cult hostile to progress. But in fact the Religion of Peace has made a massive contribution to human scientific advancement.
You think I'm taking the piss? No. They're taking the piss. Camel piss to be precise. Yup, it seems that one of the most popular cures for a whole series of maladies (as the short video below shows) is camel urine.
A few months ago, I featured a video in which a leading, high-IQ, Muslim 'thinker' explained that the Earth didn't rotate. After all, as the Religion of Peace genius explained, if the Earth rotated there would be no need for planes to fly anywhere – they could just go up in the air and their destinations would come to them. Obvious, isn't it? I'm surprised this brilliant man hasn't received a Nobel Prize for his great discovery.
And today I'm proud to present a video explaining the many health benefits of camel urine. Give thanks to the Prophet, Peace be upon Him and death and destruction be upon His foes, for finding the cure to many of the world's worst illnesses long before stupid, blasphemous Western so-called 'scientists' were born.
Incidentally, initial scientific studies have linked MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) to camels, but disease experts say it is not at all clear how the infection passes from the animals. Many people infected in the community and in hospitals report no contact with camels, they note. MERS causes coughing, fever and breathing problems, and can lead to pneumonia and kidney failure, and even death.
While many of these people may not have access to camels, there is an abundance of camel-based products on the market, not the least of which is camel urine for human consumption. Oh, could there be a connection between MERS and camel piss? Duh!


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Mineola Middle School in New York Reopens after Successful Asbestos Abatement
November 14, 2008
Mineola Middle School, located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York, is reopening this week after the school was temporarily closed to remove asbestos from the roof of its technology and shop rooms.
The asbestos was initially found when construction workers began renovating a ventilation system used by the technology and shop rooms. The school district immediately notified the students' parents about the issue after the discovery of the asbestos.
Following the discovery, regulations required Mineola Middle School to perform tests to determine whether any asbestos fibers had become airborne. Air quality tests found slightly elevated asbestos levels present in the area. To protect students and staff from further asbestos exposure, the school was closed during the asbestos abatement process.
Air quality tests performed after the asbestos was removed indicated that levels of airborne asbestos fibers were within acceptable limits. More asbestos is expected to be removed from ceilings in other classrooms at Mineola Middle School in the future.
Because asbestos was used to make thousands of different construction materials and consumer products between the 1930s and 1970s, almost every school constructed before 1980 contains asbestos. For example, schools may be insulated with asbestos insulation and older school equipment may contain asbestos. Additionally, school buildings may contain asbestos containing construction materials, such as floor and ceiling tiles, acoustical plaster, pipe insulation, and fireproofing materials.
Asbestos is only dangerous if its fibers are released into the air and inhaled. Typically, asbestos found in school equipment, insulation, and construction materials is non-friable, meaning it will not become airborne and dangerous unless cut, or broken. Therefore, the EPA advises schools to leave most asbestos containing materials undisturbed.
On the other hand, friable asbestos, or asbestos that is dry and can be easily crumbled, poses a significant risk to school children. Friable asbestos is extremely dangerous because, when it crumbles, it can release toxic asbestos fibers into the air. When these fibers are inhaled, they remain lodged in the body and can cause fatal diseases, including mesothelioma, asbestosis, and various cancers.
School Asbestos Exposure Lawyer
If you or your child were exposed to asbestos at a school, you should immediately contact a medical professional. If you or a loved one has been injured by asbestos exposure, please contact us immediately as you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries.


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Artificial Intelligence
Brands are actively looking to increase revenues from their own website in addition to sale on marketplaces such as Amazon. In order to do that, the greatest challenge is the Customer Acquisition Cost which in several cases could be as high as 30% to 40% of the sale value (GMV). Brands find this unsustainable as they are not looking to burn cash to achieve growth in online sales. Shoptimize has been working closely with these brands for several years now and realizes this problem. Shoptimize is actively investing in Artificial Intelligence in order to reduce Acquisition costs for brands. These investments have now started paying off with companies having cut their acquisition costs into half of what they were before applying AI.
Broad areas where we applying Artificial Intelligence has shown substantial results:
Dynamic Messaging
Shoptimize has seen conversion ratios improve by as much as 200% by ensuring the right message is positioned to the right user. The Shoptimize platform picks the right message for the right user segment with a focus on optimizing conversion ratio. Over time, the Shoptimize platform also learns about a user's preferences and positions banners and offers accordingly. With over 10 million monthly active users, Shoptimize is able to train the learning algorithms at a much faster pace than it would be possible for an individual brand. This gives the brand the ability to deliver an experience close to what they would get on leading marketplaces.
User Experience Personalization
The Shoptimize AI algorithms track usage of the website while the user is browsing and positions messages and offers that the user are most likely to respond to. This real time experience optimization allows us to further fine tune the experience not just based on the profile of the user but also actions that she / he is taking on the website during that session. We can help influence the order in which search results show up, catalogues are displayed and coupons are shown to the user.
Product Recommenders
Based on the rich data that Shoptimize tracks for the brand, we are able to build ideal product recommendations based on actions taken by users similar to the user who is currently browsing. This is a great way to recommend different products to different users based on their preferences. By doing this, we were able to increase the sale of long tail items at one of our customers by as much as 235% in a matter of 3 months.
Digital Marketing Optimization
Shoptimize believes that a user's shopping experience starts when she / he first views an online ad or some content that drives the user to the website and ends when this person places her second order or in other words, becomes a repeat buyer on the website. We are now actively leveraging the user information gathered from the website to create personalized campaigns through SEM and SMM. This has led to a steady decrease in the Cost Per Click on the campaigns and is increasing the Click-Through-Rates of our ads.


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Homemade Fermented Onions To Burn Fats And Stop Brain Fog
Homemade fermented onions are excellent choice for your health. Different cultures around the world practice the fermentation for centuries. This process was used for creating some national dishes and secret foods. Lacto-fermentation is actually the process through which the most familiar fermented foods are made.
What is actually Lacto-Fermentation?
"Lacto" refers to Lactobacillus. Strains of these bacteria are in fact present on the surface of the plants. They are also common for the human's mouths, gastrointestinal tracts and vaginas. The name of the bacteria is Lactobacillus because it was initially discovered in milk ferments. These bacteria in fact mostly use lactose as well as other sugars, converting them into lactic acid. Lactic acid has its ability to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria.
Here are the health benefits of Lacto-Fermentation:
Enhance Nutrients Absorption and Improve Digestion
Fermented foods are extremely beneficial for our health. One of the main benefits is that our body absorbs the nutrients for healing more easily. In this way, we can help the digestive tract and improve our digestion. Our gut needs healthy bacteria. When we supply it with these bacteria, the digestive process can more effectively destroy the harmful bacteria. Moreover, these bacteria help our body to absorb the nutrients from the food that we consume.
Boost The Immune System
Our gut can help to protect ourselves from different illnesses. So, this means that adding the healthy bacteria to our diet can significantly strengthen our immune system. We can find healthy bacteria in lacto-fermented foods. It can control immune cells and prevent some autoimmune reactions, including inflammation.
Improve Brain Functions
Our brain is connected with our digestive and immune system. Just think about the last time you had cold or flu. Just remember how fuzzy your head felt and you will understand this connection. The vagus nerve is in fact responsible for all this. This nerve is one of 12 cranial nerves responsible for the transfer of information from our intestinal nervous system to the central nervous system in the brain. So, limiting unhealthy bacteria and maintaining the healthy bacteria can actually keep the proper functioning between these two systems.
Contain Powerful Antioxidants
Lacto-fermented foods are excellent source of potent antioxidants which has the ability to destroy free radicals that can contribute to cancer. These antioxidants can boost the immune system and prevent inflammation. In other words, this will help you treat eczema, arthritis, and other inflammation or autoimmune response-related conditions.
Lose Weight by Eating More Sauerkraut
Lacto-fermented foods are really beneficial for the regulation of some hormonal functions. In this way, you will be able to suppress your appetite and control your food cravings. According to many studies, people with a high intake of healthy probiotics have a reduced risk of obesity.
Homemade Fermented Onions
When preparing Lacto-Fermented onions, we highly recommend to use natural salt like Himalayan pink salt, kosher salt or Celtic sea salt. They have a rich content of minerals unlike the table salt used in commercially-prepared fermented foods.
You can add fermented onions can to your salads, sandwiches, in your tacos or nachos, eat on their own or as condiments with your meals.
- 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of small peeled onions or shallots,
- A handful of garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 liter (about one quart) of pure water (distilled water is best)
- 50g of natural salt of choice
- A few wide mouth glass jars with airtight lids
Spices (Optional):
- Coriander
- Dried chilli
- Black pepper
You can use the onions whole or slice them.
First you should dissolve 50g of salt in 1 liter of water in order to prepare the brine. Put the onions in the jars and make sure that the jars are more than half full. Pour the brine over them and let 1-2 inches head-space. Cover the jars with their airtight lids. Keep them at room temperature, until you obtain the desired texture and flavor. We recommend opening the lid every day for the first 2 weeks, in order to release the accumulated fermentation gas. After the first 2 weeks, open it every other day.
The process of fermentation can last up to 1-2 months.
If you notice that your jar smells putrid when opening it, make sure to throw it out and start the whole process again.
Lacto-fermentation is an easy, safe and healthy process. Moreover, it is very economical. This will keep your foods safe for months because the brine used in Lacto-fermented foods actually creates an acidic, anaerobic environment in which the "bad guys" are unable to grow in this environment!
Source: TradersHealth


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One of the recurring themes in Yakov's life is deception – both as perpetrator and victim.
Yakov opportunistically buys the birthright from Esau and tricks his father into giving him Esau's blessings. This sets a course of events in emotion, wherein Yakov must flee to Lavan, who deceives Yakov by substituting Leah in place of Rachel, causing lifelong tension between their children; culminating in the brothers kidnapping and cover-up of Yosef; the effects of which Yakov describes at the end of his life:
וַיֹּאמֶר יַעֲקֹב, אֶל-פַּרְעֹה, יְמֵי שְׁנֵי מְגוּרַי, שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמְאַת שָׁנָה: מְעַט וְרָעִים, הָיוּ יְמֵי שְׁנֵי חַיַּי, וְלֹא הִשִּׂיגוּ אֶת-יְמֵי שְׁנֵי חַיֵּי אֲבֹתַי, בִּימֵי מְגוּרֵיהֶם – And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.' (47:9)
It is simplistic to hand wave and whitewash away Yakov's responsibility for the events of his life. R' Shamshon Raphael Hirsch teaches us to acknowledge the flaws our heroes proudly, so what we can learn that perfection is elusive, but excellence is not.
It's easy to say Yakov did nothing wrong, but the Torah suggests that he might have:
כִּשְׁמֹעַ עֵשָׂו, אֶת-דִּבְרֵי אָבִיו, וַיִּצְעַק צְעָקָה, גְּדֹלָה וּמָרָה עַד-מְאֹד – When Esau heard his father's words, he cried with an extremely great and bitter cry (27:34)
The Zohar remarks that Esau's tears caused thousands of years of suffering, and R' Jonathan Sacks notes that the Torah narrates emotions sparingly. The inescapable conclusion is that Yakov should not have gone through with his mother's scheme.
At the very least, there is moral ambiguity in Yakov's actions, if not outright error.
As Yitzchak neared his deathbed, Rivka knew that her husband could not see what Esau truly was, so instructed Yakov to misappropriate Esau's blessing:
וְיִתֶּן-לְךָ, הָאֱלֹהִים, מִטַּל הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּמִשְׁמַנֵּי הָאָרֶץ וְרֹב דָּגָן, וְתִירֹשׁ יַעַבְדוּךָ עַמִּים, וישתחו (וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ) לְךָ לְאֻמִּים – הֱוֵה גְבִיר לְאַחֶיךָ, וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְךָ בְּנֵי אִמֶּךָ; אֹרְרֶיךָ אָרוּר, וּמְבָרְכֶיךָ בָּרוּךְ – May God give you of the dews of heaven, and of the fats of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you. Lord over your brother, and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one that curses you, and blessed be every one that blesseth you. (27:28,29)
R' Jonathan Sacks sharply notes that this blessing for wealth and power is not the blessing of Avraham's covenant, which is about family and land. Yishmael received a blessing for power and wealth, and Esau could too.
In the aftermath of Yakov and Rivka's deception, Yakov flees, and his father blesses him, transparent with who he is speaking to:
וְאֵל שַׁדַּי יְבָרֵךְ אֹתְךָ, וְיַפְרְךָ וְיַרְבֶּךָ; וְהָיִיתָ, לִקְהַל עַמִּים. וְיִתֶּן-לְךָ אֶת-בִּרְכַּת אַבְרָהָם, לְךָ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ אִתָּךְ–לְרִשְׁתְּךָ אֶת-אֶרֶץ מְגֻרֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר-נָתַן אֱלֹהִים לְאַבְרָהָם – God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a congregation of people; and give you the blessing of Avraham – to you, and your children together; that you may inherit the land of your residence, which God gave to Avraham. (28:3,4)
By imparting Avraham's blessing to Yakov with no pretenses, the Torah suggests that the entire ruse orchestrated by Rivka and carried out by Yakov was entirely unnecessary, and the strife and deception that characterizes Yakov life began with an honest misunderstanding of God's blessing.
God's blessing is abundant; not exclusive or zero-sum. Yishmael and Esau can also have Gods' blessing; it will not detract from our own.
Perhaps when they meet again years later, Yakov had learned this lesson:
קַח-נָא אֶת-בִּרְכָתִי אֲשֶׁר הֻבָאת לָךְ, כִּי-חַנַּנִי אֱלֹהִים וְכִי יֶשׁ-לִי-כֹל; וַיִּפְצַר-בּוֹ, וַיִּקָּח – "Please take my blessings that I gift to you; because God has been gracious with me, and I have enough," he urged him; and he took it. (33:11)
R' Jonathan Sacks suggests that the material gifts to Esau were the literal return of the material blessing – בִּרְכָתִי – and bowing to Esau was a return and submission to Esau's power; acknowledging the great wrongdoing of his youth. Instead of trying to usurp Esau's position in the family and taking his blessings; Esau could be Esau, and Yakov could be Yakov – וַיֹּאמֶר עֵשָׂו, יֶשׁ-לִי רָב; אָחִי, יְהִי לְךָ אֲשֶׁר-לָךְ.
Only once Yakov fights off the specter of trying to be like Esau does he earn the name and title of Yisrael.
Perhaps the lesson is straightforward. We each have our own blessings, and we mustn't seek our brother's blessing. His blessing is his, and yours is yours.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.


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Every game developer has a number of fruit themed slots under its belt. This new retro-themed slot from EGT is a fruit-themed pokie which adds to the already growing list of fruit themed slots from the developer.
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Bonus Round
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Paytable Information
- The Scatter is the icon that carries the game's highest prize. Five of these fetch 30 000 credits, four of these fetch 1200 coins and three fetch 300 credits.
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20 Super Hot slot is a game that suits players looking to play retro themed online fruit machines.


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A winter storm has blanketed the east coast with snow. This morning, in places like Washington, D.C., which is not accustomed to snow many inches deep, people are trying to figure out how to get around. I hope they will find a moment to take in the beauty. I paused this morning to take in the sunrise on the frozen lake in our small town."Only that day dawns to which we are awake." Henry David Thoreau
One thought on "Morning on Reeds Lake"
Gorgeous and so serene! I also noticed how pretty the light was this morning.


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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
As a rule of thumb, if they cannot cure you in 6 months, tell them to go fuck themselves because they are failing miserably. Sorry folks, this isn't politically correct, but I don't care anymore. Crohn's is an infection, which compounds into a series of infections.
I hear all sorts of medical pricks claiming there is no proof that the Beck Protocol works, well fuck them, I went and tried it, and I found it WORKS. They have proof it works too, there are hundreds of IRB studies, which the little greedy pricks won't publish because it would mean no more BMW's and luxury condominiums while there patients rot.
Doctors mean well, but they are like most university graduates, naive and sheltered as fuck.
Its not that they want to keep you sick, its the fucking mafia (Yes the Mob) controlling what your doctor knows. They teach them drugs, drugs and only drugs.
If you want to cure Crohn's it isn't rocket science. Stop eating shitty foods like Dairy, Wheat, Sugar, Greasy foods, and so on. Dairy is terrible for you, if you think otherwise your an idiot.
Learn how to eat properly. Take quality vitamins, no the stuff from the local pharmacy is shit. You have to go to companies like Integrated Health Products and so on to find anything that works. Use something to get rid of the MAP infection and the variety of infections that will present once your immune system if crippled. The Beck Protocol is the best, but I'm sure there are a variety of ways to do this. Fuck Hulda Clark, it doesn't work. Take a pro-biotic once you clear out the yeast overgrowth in the intestines. Don't take pro-biotics until the intestines are somewhat healed.
I've gone from 120 lbs to over 170 lbs, no more drugs, no more Crohn's.
The sissies at the gym keep accusing me of taking steroids, well fuck them, they are stupid.
They eat hot dogs and shit and wonder why they can't make gains.
I eat excellent food, no junk, and work out hard. I do things properly, the way you are supposed to. I don't do things the fucked up way like I used to. I used to take pharmaceuticals and eat not too well, and couldn't figure out why I was sick. Well I was fucking stupid, like most people. Now its all about tasty healthy food, vitamins, and enjoying life.
Eat lots of Quinoa, eggs, berries, chicken, veggies and cut out the fat stupid person junk.
So the next time someone says there is no cure, tell them to lick my sac cause I am proof motherfucker!
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I share your sentiment. I argued tooth and nail with a Doctor that wanted to put me back on the exact same steroid medications for asthma that gave me cataracts.ReplyDelete
I finally agreed with him if I got to see the allergist first.
We figured out that my asthma was related to my being hyper-allergic to dust mites.
After changing my diet and avoiding too much Omega 6 fatty acids and eating plenty of Omega 3's (Omega 6's promote inflammation, while Omega 3's relive it) and using allergen covers on my mattress and pillows, my asthma is almost completely gone.
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2009 at 4:49 AM
Dude you have a way with words. Fuck yeah. Spread the word. I've been doing the Beck protocol for 2 years now and it fucking works! All you stupid fucks who don't believe it step the fuck off and don't knock shit until you try it for yourself!ReplyDelete
Mhmmm.. I like the look of the beck thing. The only thing thats holding me back is the cost of all that gear. I'm about to try DMSO and colloidal silver topically. I read that if you mix it and apply it to your gut it kills the infection. Anyone else heard about this? cheersReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I am taking DMSO and Colloidal Silver in a glass with water (I tried applying it topically but it burned too damn much and didn't seem to absorb well) and it seems to be working on my Crohn's. I've been doing it for a month now and am off all meds.ReplyDelete
Never even thought to ingest the DMSO mixed with Colloidal Silver, probably gets it into the intestine even better than topically.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your success!
Remember to keep at this for many months, the infections are hard to completely clear.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2012 at 11:20 PM
I must have been cured of AIDS because I took colloidal silver for just 12 weeks and then tested Undetectable for AIDS! how could this be , I got it from the site - www.SilentCures.com I took their Immune Shock Program and ohh I forgot to mention that was 3 years ago and I CONTINUE TO TEST UNDETECTABLE FOR AIDS! man my doctors had me on all kinds of fucking pills hand fulls, and throughout these 3 years I haven't taken or needed ANY fucken pills, I can only imagine what my liver would look like today if I had continued all those pills these fucking doctors are all quacks when they graduate from med school they are done learning while we suffer new diseases! thank you SilentCures.com awsum shit, they have some miracle colloidal silver or some shit going on..Delete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Where does one get DMSO?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Hi -- I'm the one from the message above who has been ingesting the DMSO / Colloidal Silver for Crohn's ... After 6 weeks of doing this, I feel better than I have in more than 12 years (since I first was diagnosed with Crohn's on my 21st birthday.) I have been using the DMSO liquid from Nature's Gift, which I bought from the local health food store for less than $20. I think the DMSO from jacoblab.com is probably higher quality, but the Nature's Gift has been working for me. I haven't even started the Beck protocol yet and my colloidal silver is the store-bought kind (Mesosilver.) Anyway, I am glad to be off my meds after 12 miserable years of steroids, malaise, and generally feeling like crap. Just today I went for a 1 mile long swim in a lake near my house ... this is not something I could have accomplished when I was sick. One thing to note is that it took more than a month for the DMSO / Colloidal silver to start working for me 100%. I had 2 bad days with pain in the first couple of weeks as I was ramping up. I am also thinking about taking MSM supplements, as the strictures in my small intestines had gotten quite bad (my doctor said they were only 5mm wide in some places in my small intestines.) It seems like the strictures have gotten a little better since I started the DMSO as I have noticed less intestinal "gurgling" after I eat. My GI doctor had told me that gurgling sounds in Crohn's patients are often caused by strictures.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I am a ADDICT of HUMIRA the drug that mades billions of dollars of revenue every year (inside US and outside)ReplyDelete
Read the financial notes about Mercx etc etc the pharmaceutical conspiracy...
The thing that makes me more hungry is every time I try to explain notorious doctors and scientist (they are all rich) about the conspiracy , the cancer produced by these drugs... they treat me like a crazy person... and really have a good technical way to make you feel wrong.
I suggest you to google ''JANE BURGMEISTER''
who have found that sequolone and many products can ''create'' arthritis reumatoidis and auto immune disease.
That could be one of the reasons some patients with crohn don't have MAP , they could have been ''infected'' by other ways... so the argument ''OOH BUT NOT ALL PEOPLE WITH CROHN HAVE MAP SO THAT PROOVES THAT MAP IS NOT 100 % RESONSABLE''
It could be some patients intoxicated in different countries of UK and USA (where the highest rates of MAP in Crohn infected patients are found... because of the dairy products).
It could be a forced infection by other ways in order to fuck the immune system of people of other countries where you don't have that dictatorship of junk food so stats won't reveal that Crohn is mainy caused and a consequence of ''junk food'' and bovine steroids and hormonal treatments as well as infected MAP bovines...
I really hope one day , justice can be made and we can sue these people who have made conspiracy and play with our health in order to gain millions , fraud investistigation etc etc...
What would do a CEO for a net income of billions each year...(and that's only the begining ... only for HUMIRA)
REMICADE is making billions also of net revenue.
Mercx , Johnson and Johnson etc etc... all guilty..
Crohn's is mainly a result of a biological warfare agent known as Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognito.ReplyDelete
I tested positive for it, doctors don't even know to test for it.
I will have to update my blog, the MAP theory is only partially correct.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2010 at 6:02 PM
u can also get dmso at any grain store 90% gelReplyDelete
99.9 liquid pure.(In the horse section) go easy don't use alot, less
than a teaspoon, use for topical only.
It works great for me I have been on meds for the last 7 years. No more meds. And I can walk again.
Good Luck all And great Info
- AnonymousMay 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM
This is the mircle drug of the year...........ReplyDelete
copy and paste. And Agways, and horse and grain store they all carry the DMSO and they even have
it in roll on.
Good Luck to All and Way to Go
Barbara from Massachusetts (I was a horse trainer)
Used it years ago....No compaints from me.....
- AnonymousMay 1, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Except I can't spell COMPLAINTS. SO I JUST WHAT TO TELL EVERY ONE TRY IT. IT WORKS !!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2011 at 11:57 AM
What % of DMSO is good for drinking with colloidal silver?ReplyDelete
Also, what is the ratio?
These treatment are seriously the real deal. I was once on Remicade for Crohn's and have been off all meds for 5 months now with only using DMSO and Colloidal Silver alone. People are too afraid to try it and just blindly follow the masses. Jesus Christ himself said that people would still doubt despite someone being raised from the dead. We are all prone to doubt. It is inherent in Man. I am now training to be an NYC fireman and will soon begin to implement the full Beck protocol to completely rid myself of this infection.ReplyDelete
CBail, glad to hear of your success.ReplyDelete
Remember to steer clear of sugar and white flour to help speed up healing.
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Wow your an idiot. I have eaten nothing but raw foods for five years. Last year I had my lower intestine taken out. Do your research and don't be an idiot. They do not know what causes chrons and they do not know the cure you assholeReplyDelete
Anonymous, you are a loser.ReplyDelete
If you had done your research, which is real easy today with the internet, you would have come across Dr. Tom Borody, Dr. Hermon Taylor and Dr. Marcel Behr.
I personally went to consult the infectious disease proof with Dr. Behr in Montreal. The evidence that MAP causes Crohn's is irrefutable from what he gave me.
Also, if you had done your research, you would know you need a small intestine if you plan to live very long or with an quality of life.
Yes, the small intestine is required to absorb most of your vital nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids.
And it is Crohn's, not Chrons.
I'm an asshole even though I have personally received about 45 emails from people who read my blog, tried the antimicrobial approach, dietary adjustments, are telling me they are cured, out running 2 miles a day again, I'm an asshole?
Don't read my blog anymore, just fuck off.
I would wish bad things to you, but I know that with the drugs, surgery, and poor diet you are on, you will be in your own personal hell the rest of your life.
- AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 8:27 AM
please can you tell me how to use the dmso. i want to try this or i will be on remicade at my next hospital appointment. i have bought the gel formula from jacob lab which is 90%. thanksReplyDelete
I don't think DMSO alone is going to remedy your situation. The only success I have had, and others on here, have been through dietary adjustments, anti-mycobacterials, DMSO and a lot of discipline.ReplyDelete
Success is a multiple pronged approached. First thing is first, I would find a good doctor who can do some live blood analysis to check for mycobacteria/mycoplasma infections. Get checked for food allergies, this seems to be the greatest factor, people are sensitive to gluten/casein, we are not looking for celiac disease, that is a different test, we are looking for sensitivities. If all the above comes back clean, get checked for parasites via stool analysis.
Your usual gastroenterologist will not even know what the above is, so you either need to pack a bag and head to Mexico, or try to find a really good naturopath or chiropractor. Be careful, I have come across many shitty naturopaths who are total quacks. There are some amazing ones however. Usually anyone who tries to sell you on bullshit like ionizing foot bathes and claiming water has a memory, is a fucking quack.
I just rubbed DMSO over the inflamed area, diluted as per Dr. Jacobs recommendations. Undiluted this stuff can be pretty irritating. I hope this helps, and best wishes and health.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2016 at 1:03 PM
Dude, what is the dilution that Dr Jacobs recommends? I can not find it anywhere. His website will no longer post it and he has passed. I know my Crohns is curable, as is everyone else's. I completely subscribe to the theory that it is a bacteria/pathogen, etc.Delete
Can you tell me the dilution recommendations and what amount to apply topically(with Colloidal silver), and also the recommendations for ingestion with colloidal silver?
This is fantastic. I feel the exact same, I think Crohn's is entirely environmentally induced and they pharm wants to keep us sick so we keep paying,ReplyDelete
My problem is learning how to kill all the bad eating habits. I'm 20, poor and don't know how to cook, I have no idea how to set up a good diet plan...
But I have hope for the all natural cure. Cheers
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2012 at 3:02 PM
the only place to obtain safe human grade DMSO is from Jacob Laboratories http://www.jacoblab.com/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Thank you for making this blog. I don't have crohn's but I did come across DMSO and colloidal silver as a cure for cancer and arthritis too. I actually joined a crohn support group online to tell them about it and was kicked off because I was noting the dangers of remicaid and the non dangers of dmso and colloidal silver. Good work getting the word out. And yes, diet and exercise, discipline and knowing that this is an infection and can be cured all help.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Right on! I wish more people would see the light. Another thing that can cause Chrones...man made term for bacterial, parastic, fungal, viral infection is contaminated water. Treatments to not remove giardia and chrypto...I use 5-filterd UV, reverse osmosis, carbon, etc. that I buy for 40 some cents per gallon refillable jugs at PCC or Wholefoods. These nasty's can also be airborne and transmitted via vector hosts..I live near a sewage treatment plant that has failed it's "vector reduction" and just recently incorporated UV. Another thing...septic..My dad's rental house had a break in the main line leading to the septic. Sewage was under the house! It made me sick when I was working there getting it ready for re-rental and discovered the problem. You not only need to treat the infection..but give up the crappy foods like the writer said, clean water, clean air and environment. Hard to do in this day and age...I also use sodium chlorite enamas...over a year and I am still getting parasites out layer by layer, DMSO (I drink it with limeaid), peroxide up the nose and sodium chlorite mixed with water up the nose. It's lifetime change, but worth it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 9:49 AM
My mother took remicade for years, first for arthritus, that was mainly diet and structure related, and became severly disabled with ALS type symptoms, brain tumor, degenerating spine. She has since passed. Remicade is deadly dangerous and doctors ignore the severe black box warning signs. It is a biologic drug..they use chinese hampster and mouse ovary cells...total truth! and inject this crap in the bloodstream. Rodents are carriers of borellia and borellia cannot be cultured. How do they know these cells dont contain borellia, a spirochette bacteria? Not only that, Remicade supresses the immune system, when the immune system needs to be strengthened. It also allows any latent infection to become active and cross the blood brain barrier. Why in the world this drug is legal is clueless to me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 10:36 AM
One more thing regarding "Usually anyone who tries to sell you on bullshit like ionizing foot bathes and claiming water has a memory, is a fucking quack"....I disagree. My father and I where so convinced about ionic therapy after he and I tried it, that he bought me my own commerical unit. There are alot of quack units out there. I did my research. All cells have a positive/negative charge. When the cells become depolaried (too many positive ions that are negative on the body), cells don't function properly and disease sets in. This is also where the term bi-polar comes from. Negative ions have a positive effect on the body...autistic children respond well to ionic therapy, because their cells are depolarized from heavy metals, parasites, bacteria, what have you. Water is alive and living...current treatment methods strip water of its energy force and minerals. The body is primarily water. If you have toxic water in your cells, your body is toxic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2012 at 2:25 PM
i hope you'll answer to this!ReplyDelete
i'm a girl from germany and don't have crohn's, but an rbs (well, we all sit in the same boat anyways, i guess). i agree on the points that eating bad, especially milk (if dairy IS milk ;) ) and wheat and sugar. i'm tryping to skip those, but i've no idea what to eat instead because my damn body doesn't accept veggies and fruits and eggs (i think chicken is ok if it's just a little). what should i do? please help me :(Replies
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There is evidence that IBS is also caused by MAP infection if you search for it, Professor Tom Borody has talked about this. Many people have had success on the SCD diet for IBS and it is all about keeping strict to the diet, and with this making sure you keep a food diary. This way you can detect if you are eating something that you are not ready to eat! I would recommend finding I diet that helps you and SCD is a good start, this may not cure you but will help you get back on your feet. I have just started the BOB Beck Protocol and from what I have researched I would recommend that you at lest look into this as a possible treatment option. Finally you have to look at your lifestyle and environment, healing is a holistic thing. This means if you want to be truly free of your issues you have to deal a number of factors to create a new environment that will enable you to heal. Good luck, stay strong and you CAN heal.Delete
Usually IBS is just food sensitivities/allergies to wheat, dairy, and grains. That said, you may be infected with MAP also, it is opportunistic and loves weakened tissue.Delete
Believe it or not, your diet just got a lot more enjoyable and exciting avoid said foods.
First, get some Quercetin and Curcumin, I'm really impressed at what I've seen it do for people.
Try some Quinoa with coconut oil for dinner.
Fish, lobster, scallops, shrimp are a great source of minerals, just avoid any farm raise junk from asia.
Cooked vegetables usually are easiest to digest, try some steamed broccoli with coconut oil and sea salt, yum!
Steamed spinach, carrots, beans. Avoid raw veggies, very very hard to digest.
I love throwing a whole duck in the slow cooker, slow roasted duck is a great source of protein, and you can use the fat to make a great gravy.
Avoid potatoes, tomatoes, and other nightshades, they promote inflammation.
Try reading up on some Paleo diet websites, they have some great recipes.
Enteric peppermint also helps soothe the intestines.
It works like this, once the intestine is inflamed/irritated, it takes about 5-7 days to get the swelling down.
If the cause is non-infectious, but rather a food allergy or irritant, you must avoid it forever.
When your intestines are inflamed, digestion is terribly interrupted, and diarrhea is the result.
Nothing gets digested well. Once you get the inflammation down, things will start to normalize.
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2012 at 6:12 AM
I live in Europe and have Crohns nineteen years and I am currently on Scd the last eight months and right before that I done an elemental diet for six weeks. I also take oregano oil probiotics glutamine fish oils calcium and folic acid. I have done Jini Patels dmso protocol when I was on the elemental diet for a few weeks because its meant to help heal stricture which i have. Anyway dmso is out at the minute as I am over three months pregnant but I am really not doing well as I have nausea which makes it hard to eat large amounts of protein which means I lost weight. Anyway the doctors said there was ketones in my urine which meant my body was starving and eating my muscle. I unfortunately listened to people who told me I would gain weight eating crap food and ended up cheating on diet which of course didnt work out well. I have been in pain the last two days and not been able to eat so had to resort to steroids today. I have really tried to heal myself especially with this diet and I still have to puree fruits and veg. Is Jini Patels protocol the same as the Beck protocol? Can u eat rice and potatoes on your diet ? If u do this protocol and diet for six months will the bacteria and yeast be gone?
Please help me and advise me how to go about this. I am sick of this disease ruling my life.
Hello, I am sure "Uncharted Thoughts" will respond but I just wanted to let you know that the BOB Beck Protocol is very different from any of Jini Patels protocols. I have also been diagnosed with Crohn's disease (since age 11 I am now 31) So I know what you are going through, except being pregnant. I have followed Jini Patel and read her books, so I am aware of her methods and what you are speaking of regarding a liquid diet and oregano etc. however without knowing more details I could not say whether you were/are doing something else that has effected your results. It is VERY important if you are doing any of these things that you take the right products and it is hard to substitute without being very knowledgeable of the product and its contents. Oregano oils, probiotics, glutamine, fish oils, forms of calcium and folic acid need to be in the correct form and of the correct quality to get results, otherwise you could be making yourself worse and getting no benefit!Delete
I have also followed SCD and I have just started the Bob Beck Protocol however I am not sure if you can do the Bob Beck Protocol while pregnant, so before starting please make sure it is safe! If it is not and you are sticking to SCD you may need to strip back to the intro diet and start again, strict diary keeping of your intake. I am sure you are aware but Jini Patel does offer good information on being pregnant with Crohn's disease, as she experienced this first hand. As this is such a vital time for you and your baby she may help you if you email. You need nutrition and while we all know this can be hard if you have active Crohn's disease you may need a good elemental shake, but be careful what you choose! I know Jini Patel has her own but this can be expensive.
Finally you can give birth to a healthy baby while on steroids and if you have a good Gastroenterologist they will work with you closely to ensure this. Now let me be clear, I am on no medication for Crohn's and I am not fond of the medical system and their treatments for Crohn's disease. However what is most important here is your state of well being, stress levels and giving birth to a healthy baby. Being on steroids is not ideal, but trying to cure the disease while you are pregnant is a tall order I would not wish on anyone. Try to stay calm, know you can and will heal but while you are pregnant take it slow and ensure you are not stressing and fearful of the steroids, if nothing else is getting results for you no one can tell you what to do and what is best, because that is what your intuition is for! The body is an amazing thing and when you have given birth to a healthy baby, if you are in fact on steroids, you can go about getting off them and all other medications and healing this nasty disease!
Best wishes, you can do it! :)
I wouldn't advise starting the Beck protocol while pregnant.Delete
MAP when it dies off, is very toxic and causes a storm of inflammatory cytokines, which means you actually get worse before you get better.
That said, when you get better, it is back to great health better.
Junk food is just going to make things worse. To help get things under control, Quercetin and Curcumin.
Try having some Quinoa with Coconut oil and cinnamon, very easy to digest and nutritious.
Potatoes are highly inflammatory.
The videos from Bob Beck are on the left toolbar, I advise you watch them.
You will not heal until the infection is gone, you may get remission at best, but even that is usually short lived.
This microbe, MAP, is continuously destroying your intestines. Eating fruit and vegetables won't do a thing to fix this infection.
SCD and drugs will mask the symptoms but will not resolve the infection. Most people on SCD end up having surgery, it doesn't fix the problem.
Read the first issue of Silver Star, lots of good info in there.
You can get through this!
- AnonymousDecember 24, 2012 at 8:36 PM
Uncharted. Do you still have Cronh's now?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2013 at 9:51 AM
Man....I'm super happy I stumbled upon this!! It makes SO much sense. I hate how Doctors don't know this (or probably know and don't tell us). Its clearly a money racket. I was doing GREAT recently, no symptoms, no pain, nothing until I had this nasty Kidney infection. I get to the ER and they told me I couldn't have ANY water or food. Like a moron, I just shook my head and did what they said while they gave me 4 different types of antibiotics thus sending me into 3 months of Hell. The doctor who first told me I had Crohns was like, "yeah, you can eat what you want, but make sure to take your medicine every day." Looking back on it, I kind of wish I would've spoke my mind at that very moment. I was diagnosed at 17 and I'm now 23.ReplyDelete
Moral of the story, doctors do not always know best. Be your own doctor.
I'm going to try this protocol and let it work.
Uncharted Thoughts, never met you, probably never will, but you've made a huge difference in a skinny little Crohns girl's life. Lol.
To good health!Replies
I have a similar story.Delete
Diagnosed at 16, took 8 years of pharmaceutical bullshit lies from the quacks.
I do my own research, been Crohn's free for 8 years.
No drugs, nothing.
I work out 5 days a week and have no health problems now.
No carbohydrates/sugar, that seems to be the problem. Eating nothng but Paleo.
I have no dairy, wheat, sugar, coffee.
It is a lot of eggs, vegetables (raw or steamed), fats like coconut oil and olive oil.
I went from 120 lbs to 170lbs of lean muscle pretty quick.
The whole western diet is wrong in every aspect.
You can do this, it is hard at first. Be strong and you can get healthy again.
- AnonymousApril 9, 2016 at 9:29 AM
Does anyone know if you can use DMSO while on Remicade? I want to ween off it but want to test DMSO first before I make the jump. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I'm taking it pinkbisou with the same intentions. I've gone from 7-10 weeks in my treatments through a %85 raw diet. Dmso, aloe vera, collodial silver drink seems to be killing off parasites when I drink it internally. Also started using it externally with aloe. Will start am intense gcmaf probiotic in a few weeks which is supposed to emulate a fecal matter transplant. Updates everybody?? Still doing well?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2016 at 7:19 PM
My partner was just diagnosed with Crohn's and has a severe stricture. We have not even begun to embark on western medical protocols, as we have read the side effects and what surgery can do. We are trying to find a naturopathic doctor who can work with us and we have read great things about jini patel thompson's remission diet protocol. We have had trouble getting anyone to answer specific questions about it from her website. Where can we find some guidance? We know it is only a first step, but we need to start somewhere and we need to rebuild her strength and get her vitamin and mineral levels back up. Any advice is appreciated!!Replies
I cannot offer medical advice, that could land me in hot water.Delete
But I can tell you what worked for me!
Crohn's, from my experience, is a combination of celiac disease and a chronic infection, like Mycobacterium Avium SSp Paratuberculosis.
To treat the MAP infection I used Myco by Rain Tree Herbs, one of the few treatments for it. To help rebuilding the intestines and fix the immune dysfunction I took 500mg Zinc Sulfate Heptahydrate daily. Lots of glutamine, and you'll need to follow a paleo type diet. Gluten free doesn't mean much if you are cross reacting with other foods, like coffee/chocolate/etc.
More to come, follow the blog!
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