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When we started our Certified Palliative Care program, we took a broader, more holistic approach to palliative care services. This has set Visiting Angels® apart from other palliative care providers.
Today, most people think that palliative care is only provided in cases of terminal illness, offering relief from physical symptoms of disease. But historically, palliative care has not been limited to terminal illness or physical symptoms. Rather, it's been available to care recipients of any life expectancy. What's more, palliative care is not limited to physical symptoms. In fact, it can be used to address a wide range of physical and non-physical care needs, including a person's emotional, social, and spiritual well-being.
We've based our Certified Palliative Care program on this understanding of palliative care services. Rather than focus strictly on physical concerns, we strive to provide care and comfort in a holistic manner.
At Visiting Angels, we take a unique approach to palliative care services. Most people think that palliative care as another term for end of life care. But there's a key distinction between these two types of care.
While end of life care is for individuals with terminal conditions, palliative care is a philosophy of care that's primarily focused on the recipient's comfort. These two types of care can be and are often provided in conjunction with one another, with palliative care used to minimize the pain and discomfort of terminal illness. This is why many people conflate end of life care and palliative care services.
But at Visiting Angels, we continue to treat palliative care as a distinct type of care. Our Certified Palliative Care program is offered to individuals in need of comfort-focused care, regardless of life expectancy. We also operate with a broader definition of palliative care, one that goes beyond physical pain and discomfort to provide a more holistic style of care.
Within the home care industry, many caregivers approach their work with a narrow focus. Their clients suffer from physical difficulties, like poor mobility, reduced strength, or chronic aches and pains. In response, caregivers focus on physical assistance. In doing so, they often neglect emotional, social, and spiritual aspects of care.
In neglecting these other aspects of care, they fail to address some of their clients' most pressing needs. Age, physical disability, and chronic health conditions can devastate a person's emotional well-being, disrupt their social life, or leave them feeling less-than-whole on a spiritual level. By only addressing a person's physical care needs, caregivers can fail to impact a client's overall quality of life.
When we created our Certified Palliative Care program, we wanted to solve this issue. To do this, we built our program around a more holistic approach. Rather than focus solely on physical aspects of care, this program educates caregivers about the emotional, social, and spiritual side of caregiving.
With this approach, our palliative care services still address physical needs. But at the same time, our caregivers can address a wider scope of care needs, helping care recipients find inner comfort and achieve a higher quality of life.
Our unique approach to palliative care services is best understood in practice. To demonstrate how our approach addresses different types of care needs, here are four examples of how our caregivers improve comfort and quality of life for care recipients.
To learn more about our unique approach to palliative care services and request a free in-home consultation, contact your local Visiting Angels office today.
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It occurred to me this evening that I have now been a professional writer for ten years: a decade of selling fiction. So miracles do happen. For years and years, I seriously doubted I'd ever be published at all. But if you stay the course, things happen when they're supposed to. If you're a writer aspiring to make your first sale, don't give up.
(How was that for a really short sermon?)
Anyway, more about books! For anyone who has not yet been there, I strongly encourage you to back up to the previous post and especially to read the reader comments beneath it. The readers of this blog have been answering the call to recommend favorite books. You'll find wonderful titles there to keep you busy for a good long while. And everyone: you can keep right on recommending books in response to this post — or at any time. On this blog, good books are always on the subject!
[Aside: the phrasing of that last sentence is an echo from our years of playing Dungeons & Dragons back in junior high, high school, and college. To keep the game focused, we set up something called the Pun Fund. It was a can with a slot in the top. When it started out, as the name implies, if you made a pun, you had to pay a fine by dropping a coin into the slot. Quite soon, though, we expanded to a whole system of fines for anything that held up the game. If your character went on an "Ego Trip" (meaning he talked too much about himself or otherwise behaved like the center of the universe), that cost you a nickel. If you used "Logic," you had to pay up. (A "Logic" violation meant that you stopped the game cold by arguing that a particular pit trap, for example, violated the laws of physics.) The catch-all offense was "Off the Subject." That one's self-explanatory. But in the interest of decency, we soon established the rule that certain things were always on the subject and could not be fined — most notably, food. Any mention of when we'd be taking a food break or what we'd be eating was always, always to the point and welcome. (And for reasons I never understood and never agreed to, Bugs Bunny was always on the subject. You could be in the middle of the most harrowing adventure ever, with the city about to go up in flames, and if you said something in a Bugs Bunny voice, you could not be fined! Go figure. . . .)]
My, do I digress! One more topic before I get to The Lists. . . .
I was happily surprised to discover some on-line reviews of Dragonfly I'd never seen on a site called "goodreads." What made me even happier was that some of the reviews were quite recent! The book was first published in 1999 — a decade ago — and the mass-market Ace edition is out of print. (It's still easy to acquire for pennies on Amazon. Yes, you can buy this book for about the price of a Pun or an Ego Trip!) But now and then, people are still finding it, and even better, they're still liking it! Here are a few lines from some of my favorites, and notice the dates!
In April 2008, "Woodge" wrote: "I found this while browsing in a bookstore and I must admit that the arresting cover caught my eye. Upon a closer look, the cover would seem to appeal to a Young Adult audience but an even closer inspection revealed that to be misleading. (There's a moral here somewhere.) . . . Well, it was as advertised. This imaginative, original story gets cracking from the very first pages. The imagery is lush and painted with a rich vocabulary. There's nothing cutesy about the story . . . and it manages to include all sorts of beasties. Vampires, werewolves, gypsies, and other various ghouls all make an appearance in this unpredictable tale. And when the action is really moving it brings to mind thrills you might find in a summer blockbuster. Good times."
In October 2007, "The other John" wrote: "(Had to re-read this one and get my fix of Midwest October…) Dragonfly is a great read. The premise is nothing new — a child has adventures in a mystical realm. But unlike Dorothy, Meg Murry or the Pevensie children, Bridget Anne (also known by the nickname Dragonfly) heads down to a dark realm — the essence of Hallowe'en. Not quite hell, but much closer than any other 'faerieland' of which I've read. But it's not all blackness, either. There is love and hope and faith amidst the suffering and death. Mr. Durbin does a very good job of bringing the story to life, weaving together the plot and the characters. Nothing is wasted — details that I just thought of as embellishment suddenly turn out to be important to the plot. One of the folks who reviewed Dragonfly at Amazon.com said that the book reminded him of Ray Bradbury. Me, I was reminded of C.S. Lewis, partly because of the basic premise, partly because of the underlying Christianity of the heroes. . . . But despite Mr. Lewis' skill in portraying good and evil characters, his fiction comes across as a weekend gardener — a tad dirty, but still very prim and proper. Dragonfly, to continue the metaphor, is more like a real farmer, for whom sweat and dust are a part of daily life. I really enjoyed reading this and I'm going to put it on my shelf so I can read it again. I suspect it will only get better the second time around."
On January 1st of 2009, "Jaymi" said: "I remember picking this book up on a lark. It was the name and the cover that caught my eye. We were just about to leave the store when I saw it and knew I had to have it. I'm glad I got it. Imagine Neil Gaiman meets H.P. Lovecraft and this is one possible reality. Dragonfly is the story of a 10-year-old girl who foolishly adventures down into a horrible realm (much like Lovecraft's Dreamlands). Dragonfly follows a strange 'exterminator' down into her basement. . . ."
This is probably my favorite: on April 25, 2009, "Crystal" wrote: "I find it hard to believe this book is not more popular. Far from being overwritten or too descriptive, the narrative is perfect. Death is not off limits, nor does the author try to dumb the story down. So far, it's as d**n near to perfect as I have come across."
Finally, on September 10, 2008, "Todd" said: "It is very dark and complex. . . . I really enjoyed the writing style. It is imaginary and literary, with lots of allusions to mythology, great books, and the Scriptures. But they are very very subtle. This is no Left Behind kind of cheap Christian novel. The author, a Lutheran, does a wondrous job of weaving elements of the Christian faith in . . . . I hope he writes more soon."
There's also a review in a language I can't read and my computer can't reproduce, so I won't quote that one.
Groink! On to THE LISTS!
I'm going to give you three separate lists here (you'll see why as we go along). Obviously, I'm not making any attempt to identify the greatest works of literature in the history of humankind. For that, I commend to you The New Lifetime Reading Plan, by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major, though the authors aren't as focused on fantasy and horror as most of us are. (The weirdos.) Heh, heh. What I'm going to list here are the books that, for whatever reasons, have meant the most to me, have influenced me the most, and/or that people who know me well have recommended to me. In general, the books appear in no particular order: if they make the list, they make the list. Without further adieu, then (lest the referee declare us Off the Subject, and we all have to fork over a nickel or a dime):
List #1: My Treasured Books (The Small Shelf):
1. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
3. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
6. My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett (This is a children's book, but its influence on me is immeasurable: it's the very essence of mystery and exploration, penetrating the unknown, adventure in exotic places, friendship, and doing things for the right reasons. The illustrations and those wonderful maps are at least half of the enchantment.)
7. Collectively, the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Where to begin? Among my favorites are The Dunwich Horror, A Shadow Over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, and "The Dreams in the Witch-House." My absolute #1 favorite of his short stories is "The Shunned House." And finally, his story that I believe supersedes genre and belongs in every college freshman English lit survey course textbook, right alongside "A Rose for Emily" et al., is "The Strange High House in the Mist." I'm telling you, Lovecraft. . . . I grew up reading him, because the covers intrigued me in our family's bookstore. As a kid, as a grownup, I read him perennially, and he's one of the few authors whose stuff I've read most of. Even now, when spring comes around and the weather warms up, I itch to dig out a volume of Lovecraft, go outdoors, and read until the sun sets. Lovecraft in the dusk is the ultimate reading experience! If you don't own any Lovecraft books yet and are wondering what to buy, I'd point you toward the annotated Lovecraft editions edited by S.T. Joshi, who is probably the world's leading Lovecraft scholar. [I've personally met him — he shook my hand at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, and he gave Dragonfly a wonderful review in Weird Tales!]
8. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
9. The Book of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany (To protect the very guilty, I won't tell you how I acquired my copy of this. But it's worth acquiring, even if you have to venture into a Peruvian temple and outrun a gigantic rolling stone sphere and a tribe of angry Hovitos.)
10. Bertram's Fabulous Animals, by Paul T. Gilbert (This is another children's book, but it gave me endless hours of entertainment as a kid. In a nutshell, the protag, Bertram, is a kid who keeps finding out about various fantastic creatures, and he always wants to get one as a pet. His mama always kind of misunderstands what he's talking about and says okay. He gets one, and pandemonium ensues. Finally, Bertram's daddy comes home (he's always in Omaha on business) and straightens things out and sends the destructive and/or selfish fantastic creature packing. It's that delicious combination of funny and fascinating and terrifying that makes for the very best of children's books. I remember almost having nightmares about one of the creatures . . . and laughing really hard many a time.)
11. Enchanted Night, by Steven Millhauser (This is my most recent discovery on this list. But it belongs here. I found the book in Tokyo, because of its beautiful cover. Now I read it almost every summer. But I implore you: read it only at night, during the very hottest season you can manage in your part of the world. It's pure magic. The whole book [which is quite thin, an easy read] takes place during a single summer night; it follows the nightly adventures of a group of people linked by the fact that they are all residents of the same New England town. Wow, just thinking about it makes me want to take it down off my shelf right now. . . .)
12. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
13. Jaws, by Peter Benchley (Go ahead and laugh, but everything I've written has been colored in some way by Jaws. I'll never forget the happy hours spent on my Aunt Emmy's back stairway, just off her kitchen, reading Jaws. Yes, this is a rare case in which the movie is better. But the movie wouldn't exist without the book. The book was first.)
14. Beowulf, by the Beowulf poet
15. Andersen's Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen (My mom would read these to me whenever I was really sick, so I will forever associate them with fevers and vomiting and delirium — but also with tenderness and love and the comforting presence of a mom . . . and release from all responsibility, because you're sicker than a dog . . . and the hope of recovery, and the delight of water or ice cubes to a dehydrated mouth . . . and fantasy, and dreams. . . .)
16. October Dreams, edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish (This is a hefty collection of stories about Hallowe'en by many different writers, some famous, some you've never heard of. And what may be even better than the fiction is that between the stories are short recollections by the writers of their favorite Hallowe'en memories. I get this book out every October and read around in it.)
List #2: Honorable Mentions:
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (His best book — and the single greatest influence on Dragonfly — there's even a balloon.)
2. The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin, Jr. (I've met him and heard him preach at the church he once served [he's a Lutheran pastor] in Evansville, Indiana.)
3. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White (I remember crying in Miss Logan's first grade classroom as I finished this book. It's the book that taught me that stories that make you hurt can be among the most effective — and that really good endings are what you should aim for as a writer.)
4. The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany (My Cricket story "Ren and the Shadow Imps" is a tribute to this one.)
5. The Knife-Thrower and Other Stories, by Steven Millhauser (Wonderful, wonderful stuff — Millhauser finds the details that recapture all our childhood longings — longings, perhaps, as C.S. Lewis said, for things that do not even exist in this temporal life.)
6. It, by Stephen King (In my opinion, this is Stephen King's best work: it doesn't get any better than this. I read most of this book in the summer just before I left for Japan, and finished it up in Tokyo.)
7. 'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King (His second-best book. Vampires!)
8. The Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling (Ever heard of them? They're kind of obscure, but you can probably find some somewhere. . . .)
9. I Heard the Owl Call My Name, by Margaret Craven
10. Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog (This book inspired my next-door neighbor and me to climb everything in sight: the barn, trees, buildings. . . . And to take grainy photos of ourselves at the summit.)
11. The Book of Lies, by Agota Kristof (Search for her name, not for this title: I don't think the three short novels that make it up were released under this title in the States. This book is not for everyone — it's very disturbing in places. But for virtuosity of technique and construction, it's brilliant!)
12. Zothique, by Clark Ashton Smith (Happy memories of dusty crypts and sere mummies that creak as they walk. . . . I saw a new release on Amazon of some of Smith's stories.)
13. The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle (A South American plateau on which dinosaurs still live . . . for a pre-teen boy, Heaven.)
14. The Land That Time Forgot and its two sequels, The People That Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Fun, fun, fun, fun!)
15. The Man-Eaters of Kumaon, by Jim Corbett (He was a big-game hunter hired by the local governments of India's Kumaon district whenever they had a problem with a big cat that turned maneater. It's a factual account of his showdowns with various tigers and leopards. Not a "chick flick" at all, but I'll bet some of you chicks would like it. . . .)
16. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (Never would have read this if I hadn't gone to college. Glad I did.)
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (I saw this performed, too, outdoors on a summer night. Just as much fun as the play was seeing the cast milling about under the trees before and after the show — all these people dressed as fairies in the light of the moon, taking part in this magical experience that is a theater production, which happens briefly in life and then is gone forever, but never forgotten. . . .)
18. The Mothman Prophecies, by John Keel (If you're going to read just one book on Fortean subjects/the paranormal, this should be the one.)
19. Shiokari Pass, by Ayako Miura (A story of what it means to be a Christian in Japan. I've been there — I've stood in the actual Shiokari Pass on Japan's north island of Hokkaido. If you've seen the movie — I was there!)
20. Run, Melos! by Osamu Dazai (A collection of short stories by one of Japan's darkest writers — when I was a young, tormented twentysomething, I loved it — "He understands!")
21. Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne (Um, yeah. Doesn't take much to see the influence this has had on me.)
22. Kwaidan, by Lafcadio Hearn (The title means Weird Tales. Hearn was a westerner who moved to Japan and spent the end of his life there, documenting the ancient, strange folklore of Japan for English readers. In your readings of ghost stories from around the world, if there's ever a Japanese ghost story, I guarantee you that it came to you via Lafcadio Hearn. This book's shadow falls large across Dragonfly.)
23. The short stories of Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce (Particularly "The Willows" and "The Wendigo" by Blackwood and "The Damned Thing" by Bierce. I have delightful memories of reading these in the pine grove in my first years in Niigata.)
24. In Evil Hour, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And finally:
List #3: Books Recommended to Me by Those Who Know Me and Whom I Greatly Respect:
1. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
2. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
3. Zod Wallop, by William Browning Spencer
4. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
6. The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson
7. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer
8. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
9. Montmorency, by Eleanor Updale
10. Inkheart and Inkspell, by Cornelia Funke
11. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller
13. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
14. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
15. The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
16. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham
18. Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
19. Roverandom, by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
21. Stravaganza: City of Masks, City of Flowers, City of Stars, City of Secrets (4 books), by Mary Hoffman
22. Surprised by Joy and Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
23. Phantastes, by George Macdonald
24. "The Golden Key," The Light Princess, and The Princess and the Goblin, by George Macdonald
25. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
26. House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski
27. "The Door in the Wall," by H.G. Wells
28. The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges
29. The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen
30. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
31. "The Mezzotint," by M.R. James (Actually, I think I may have read this one: was it reprinted in Mooreeffoc?)
32. Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock
33. "The Lonesome Place," by August Derleth
34. The Shadow Year, by Jeffrey Ford
35. No Clock in the Forest, by Paul Willis
36. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
37. Song of Albion, by Steven Lawhead
38. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
39. Unlundun, by China Mieville
40. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
Think that'll keep you busy for awhile? Happy reading!

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"THE OILING OF NORTH AMERICA"A Book by by: Fallon, Sally, M.A.
Sally Fallon is a nutrition journalist and food historian. She is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, a full spectrum nutritional cookbook which documents the politics behind the cholesterol theory of heart disease, and contains a detailed description of what fats and oils are good for us and why, with supporting scientific documentation. Sally is the editor of the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Health Journal, and is a regular contributor to a number of alternative health publications.
OILING OF AMERICA What we have had in the last 80 years is the oiling of America. We have had a big decline in the use of animal fats. People don't use lard any more. We have had a huge increase in the use of vegetable oils, either shortening, margarine or the liquid vegetable oils. Butter consumption has fallen dramatically, but the increase in heart disease and cancer is continuing to rise. It doesn't take a statistician to realize that butter consumption is not the cause of heart disease and cancer. You may have heard of the French paradox. They have one quarter the heart disease that we have, one of the lowest coronary heart disease rates of all western countries, yet they consume a lot more dairy fat than we do, and more animal fats, but their consumption of vegetable oil and hydrogenated fats is much lower.
GOOD FATS AND OILS: A good fat is a traditional fat like butter and other animal fats, and the cold-pressed traditional oils like olive, flax and sesame. These are oils that have been used for thousands of years. They are easy to get out of the seeds. We cannot extract the modern oils without technology. Traditional oils are rich in anti-oxidants. The tropical oils such as palm and coconut oils which have nourished people throughout the globe are very healthy oils. Osteoporosis does not exist in countries that use coconut oil.
BUTTER Weston Price who studied primitive peoples in the 1930's found many healthy people who nourished themselves on butter fat, and they actually considered butter a sacred food, especially when the cows were eating rapidly growing green grass. Butter is an excellent source of the fat soluble vitamins.
OLIVE OIL The type of fat which is in the adipose tissue is mostly monounsaturated. That is the kind of fat which is found in olive oil. Olive oil if it is properly processed, if it is extra virgin, is full of anti-oxidants. It is a traditional fat that has nourished people for thousands and thousands of years. It is the safest oil you can use, but it does promote weight gain, and in the Mediterranean countries the women do tend to gain weight in middle age.
FLAX SEED OIL We do recommend supplementation with flax seed oil with its high omega-3 content. Flax oil is very unsaturated. The more unsaturated something is, the more susceptible it is to rancidity when heated. When you heat it, it forms free radicals and these are very cancer promoting. Flax oil should always be kept refrigerated, and never heated.
SATURATED OILS Palm, palm kernel and coconut oils contain 80 to 90% saturated fats with small amounts of oleic acid and linoleic acid. Part of the saturated fat content is lauric acid which has strong antifungal and antimicrobial properties. These oils protect tropical populations from bacteria and fungus so prevalent in their food supply. They are extremely stable and can be kept at room temperature for many months without becoming rancid, and can be used for cooking and baking. Unfortunately they have received bad publicity from the lobbying of the vegetable oil industry and these safe and healthy oils have been abandoned in favour of artificially saturated hydrogenated soybean, corn and cottonseed oils, the waste products of America's three biggest crops.
BAD FATS AND OILS: The bad fats are the partially hydrogenated fats and the new vegetable oils and the animal fats that have been heated over and over again. There are many health problems associated with the consumption of polyunsaturated oils such as soy, corn, canola, safflower, sunflower, soybean and cottonseed oils. Use of all these oils should be strictly limited. They should never be consumed after they have been heated as in cooking, frying, baking, etc. These oils are new to the diet; you do not find these kinds of oils in the traditional diet. You get your essential fatty acids from traditional foods like nuts and seeds and green vegetables. Animal fats also provide essential fatty acids. You do not need to supplement them with vegetable oils. The only exception to that is flax seed oil. Canola oil has attracted the attention of nutritionists because of its high oleic acid content, but canola oil presents dangers of its own. It is a new oil which comes from the rapeseed, and the rapeseed oil is highly toxic. It is very high in sulphur which can cause a lot of problems. Canola oil is not a traditional oil and it should be avoided completely. All the salad oils, the pre-mixed salad dressings and the Wesson oils were not in our diet at the turn of the century. People cooked in lard, butter, goose fat, duck fat and beef tallow.
MARGARINE AND HYDROGENATED FATS Margarine is made with vegetable oil which itself is new to the human diet. It is probably already rancid because of the way the oils are extracted. Almost all of these oils contain hexane which is used as a solvent to get out all of the oil from the seeds. The oils are then steam cleaned and mixed with nickle catalyst; then they are hydrogenated by high pressure and high temperature reactions. This process rearranges the molecular structure so that the oil can become solid at room temperature. The hydrogen atoms have been moved around, and a molecule is created that does not exist in nature. Soap-like emulsifiers are mixed in and then it is steam cleaned because it smells horrible and is a lovely gray colour. They bleach it and add artificial flavours and synthetic vitamins. It is packaged in tubs and promoted as a health food. Some of the diseases that are caused or exacerbated by hydrogenated fats are atherosclerosis, heart disease, auto-immune diseases, cancer, degeneration of the joints and tendons, diabetes (hydrogenated fats interfere with insulin receptors), failure to grow and learning disabilities. Mothers who eat a lot of hydrogenated fats seem to have low birth weight babies and have reduced fat content in mother's milk, so they are not as successful in nursing their babies who are not getting all the fat they need. Hydrogenated fats are also found in chips, cookies, crackers, and fast food french fries.
POWDERED MILK AND EGGS Oxidized cholesterol in powdered milk and powdered eggs and animal fats used for deep frying initiates the build up of pathogenic plaque. Powdered milk which contains this oxidized cholesterol is added to 1% and 2% milk.
CHOLESTEROL Cholesterol is a large sterol molecule, and it is manufactured by almost every cell in the body. It is nature's repair substance. It repairs wounds and tears in the arteries. It gives structural integrity or stiffness to the cells. It is the precursor for vitamin D and bile salts. It is the precursor to the sex hormones. It is a powerful antioxidant which protects us against free radicals. That is why people with low cholesterol levels tend to get cancer, and that is why as you age, your cholesterol levels should naturally go up because it is there to protect you. Finally it is essential for the development and function of the brain and nervous system. You need cholesterol for the proper functioning of the seratonin receptors in the brain. So if it's not cholesterol, what causes heart disease? There are a number of studies and many theories which suggest a diet of fabricated, processed, refined foods.
CHOLESTEROL LOWERING DRUGS do not lower the risk of coronary heart disease but in study after study have been shown to increase the risk of cancer, intestinal diseases, depression, suicide and violent behaviour.
SUGAR AND HEART DISEASE Most fat in our bodies and in the food we eat is in the form of triglycerides (three fatty acid chains attached to a glycerol molecule). Elevated triglycerides in the blood have been positively linked to proneness to heart disease but these triglycerides do not come directly from dietary fats: they are made in the liver from any excess sugars that have not been completely burned. The source of these excess sugars is any food containing carbohydrates, but particularly refined sugar and processed carbohydrates. Refined sugar and other refined products were virtually unknown in the human diet before 1600 and never used in great quantities before the present century. In 1821 the average sugar intake in America was 10 pounds per person per year; today it is 170 pounds per person per year. As the consumption of sugar has increased so have all civilized diseases. We need foods that are whole, not skeletonized and denatured. Sugar, especially sucrose and fructose has been shown to shorten life in numerous animal experiments. Excessive use of sugar is associated with a rise in blood cholesterol, rise in triglycerides, increase in adhesiveness of the blood platelets, increase in blood insulin levels, etc. Numerous studies have positively correlated sugar consumption with heart disease. These results are far more positive than any of the studies linking heart disease and saturated fats. Moderate use of natural sweeteners is found in many traditional societies. We therefore recommended you satisfy your sweet tooth by eating fully ripened fruit in season and a limited use of natural sweeteners high in vitamins and minerals such as raw honey, dehydrated cane sugar juice (Sucanat) and maple syrup. Avoid all refined sugars including table sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, fructose and large amounts of fruit juice.
PESTICIDES, TOXINS AND CONTAMINANTS We all need to be very concerned about pesticides, toxins and contaminants, not just in our animal foods but in all of our foods. If we start demanding organically grown milk, butter and vegetables, that will promote a small scale yeoman-type farming economy. There are really only two types of economies in the world: the type where millions and millions of people make a decent living and the type where a few people make millions and millions of dollars. We want to reverse the trend and gradually go back to the kind of economy where we have a prosperous healthy farming community and real foods and naturally raised foods.
BACKGROUND POLITICS: THE MOVE FROM SATURATED FATS TO UNSATURATED OILS I have a little cookbook called The Baptist Ladies' Cookbook published in 1895 - it's 100 years old. This collection of recipes is very interesting because it contradicts our present day dietary principles which are based upon the theory that the increase of cancer and heart disease today compared to a century ago is caused by our consumption of more saturated fat from animal products. Today we are being told that saturated fats from animal sources and saturated oils are the cause of cancer, heart disease and obesity. Vegetable oils are being used as a substitute in everything from baked goods to baby food. There is hardly a recipe in this book that does not contain plenty of butter, cream, eggs or lard, but cancer and heart disease were extremely rare before the turn of the century. People were strong and sturdy, and gross obesity was not a problem. The history of how this came into being, how a whole continent traded animal fats for vegetable oils on the premise that vegetable oils are better for our health is an interesting story.
The rate of heart disease began to climb in the 1930's. By 1950, it was apparent that there was a huge increase in heart disease, particularly myocardial infarctions. The American Heart Association was formed, and in their original statement, they singled out the trans fatty acids found in hydrogenated oils as the probable source of heart disease. Hydrogenated fats are made from vegetable oils that are artificially hardened. However, Dr. Fred Matson who worked for Proctor and Gamble (who makes hydrogenation equipment and hydrogenated fats) was on the American Heart Association Advisory Board, and he was able to persuade them to drop all reference to trans fatty acids in hydrogenated oils, and instead they laid the blame for this great increase in heart disease on saturated fats from animal products. These altered documents actually encouraged the consumption of the very hydrogenated oils that were the prime suspect. The edible oil industry has a lobby called the Institute for Shortening and Edible Oils which supervised what was happening at the American Heart Association. The result was that dieticians were trained to promote processed foods. Finally in the 70's and 80's this same Dr. Fred Matson held two controlling positions in the Lipid Research Clinical Trials that led to the National Cholesterol Education Program.
By the early 70's, the American Heart Association stated that Americans had elevated levels of cholesterol in their blood and it was necessary to lower these cholesterol levels in order to avoid heart disease. All Americans in the "at risk" category were encouraged to substitute polyunsaturated vegetable oils for all saturated fats. The people behind this advice were the Institute for Shortening and Edible Oils. But they were pushing this lipid (fat) hypothesis without really having any evidence that there was any truth to it. In the early 70's, research was coming in from all over the world and some of it supported the lipid hypothesis, but much of it did not. The dissenting testimony was ignored. Their final report claimed that animal fats caused cancer and heart disease, and vegetable oils prevented them.
VEGETABLE OILS, HEART DISEASE AND CANCER My co-author, Mary Ennig from the University of Maryland, who is considered the foremost authority on lipids in America reviewed the data and noticed that people consuming a lot of vegetable oils had more cancer and heart disease, and people eating traditional foods with the animal fats had less cancer and heart disease. She published a report about her conclusions in a scientific journal, and subsequently received a surprise visit from a delegation from the edible oil industry and the margarine industry who advised her that her department wouldn't get any more funding if she continued to follow this line of research. Subsequently, when she applied for funding for her research, she was refused.
The Framingham study was supposed to support the theory that if you had high levels of cholesterol in your blood, you were more prone to heart attacks. If you evaluate their graph honestly, it shows that the difference in the heart attack rate is fairly constant, from 200 all the way up to 1,000. So what is all the fuss over cholesterol about? The truth about the Framingham study came out in 1972 in an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine in which William Castelli, the director of the Framingham study stated that the more saturated fat, the more cholesterol, the more calories one ate, the lower the peoples' serum cholesterol was. They also found that people who ate the most cholesterol and the most saturated fats weighed the least and were the most physically active.
LOW CHOLESTEROL LINKED TO INCREASED RATES OF CANCER The next study was called the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, done on 362,000 men, testing their cholesterol levels related to heart disease. They found a very trivial increase in the rate of deaths from coronary heart disease as the rate of serum cholesterol went up. They also found the same thing which had been found in many other studies, that when your cholesterol levels are too low, the rate of death from other diseases, particularly cancer, goes way up. With cholesterol levels below 160, there was a greater rate of death from cancer, intestinal diseases, violence, suicide, increased depression. So it isn't a very fair trade off.
The final major study that is used to justify the lipid hypothesis was the Lipid Research Clinics Trial. Once again, Fred Matson from Proctor and Gamble held two very important positions in designing this research and the way it was presented to the public. These studies didn't study whether a low cholesterol, low fat diet would help you. All the subjects were on a low cholesterol, low saturated fat diet. One was given a cholesterol lowering drug and one was given a placebo. Researchers claimed that the group taking the drug had a 17% reduction in the rate of coronary heart disease. But independent researchers including Mary Ennig at the University of Maryland found no difference in coronary heart disease between the drug group and the placebo group. Once again they found that those who had lowered their cholesterol by using the drugs had an increase in deaths from cancer, stroke, violence and suicide. Nevertheless, this study was presented in the media as the long sought proof that animal fat was the cause of heart disease, though it proved nothing of the sort.
In 1984, we had the Cholesterol Consensus Conference. In their report they defined all Americans with cholesterol between 200 and 300 as "at risk". As we saw earlier, there is no increase in coronary heart disease between these two levels. There is no difference in risk or rate or anything else. But they defined 200 as this magic point where you are at risk. They called for mass cholesterol screening and recommended a diet low in saturated fats and cholesterol for at risk Americans. One very specific suggestion in this report was that Americans replace butter with margarine. Don't forget that Fred Matson of Proctor and Gamble who makes hydrogenation equipment and hydrogenated fats was behind all of this work.
FAT FOR CHILDREN One of the most serious things to come out of this program was the recommendation that the low cholesterol diet be given to all Americans above the age of two. But children need a lot of fat in their diet. Mother's milk is 55% fat and it is mostly saturated fat. It is extremely high in cholesterol, and it has a special enzyme that helps the baby absorb the cholesterol. That is how important cholesterol is for the growing child. Studies of children put on this low fat, low cholesterol diet show failure to thrive. They do not grow the way they are supposed to on this low fat diet. Children need more fat than adults right through their growing years, right up to the age of 18 or 20 because fat and cholesterol are very important for the development of the brain and nervous system.
Basically, the experts disagree with the lipid hypothesis. George Mann who worked in the Framingham study said the public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century. Here is what has caused the health care crisis: The ingredients are greed, cunning, ignorance, lies, envy, extortion, manipulation and fraud. The agenda is that you conspire to convince the populace that natural whole foods that have nourished mankind for thousands and thousands of years are dangerous and unhealthy, and that they cause heart disease and cancer so that the populace will buy the new fabricated foods which you are selling. Then you train the medical profession to advocate antibiotics, vaccinations, fluoride and fabricated foods as scientifically proven methods for preventing illness. You ignore and suppress healing methods that have worked for centuries, you claim that real diseases have no cure, and you define normal human conditions such as menopause and average cholesterol levels as illness that must be treated with expensive drugs which create serious side effects.
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Yum! Brands Announces Full-Year 2013 Expectations
Reconfirms Full-Year 2012 EPS Growth Forecast of at least 13%; Will Host Investor Update Meeting Thursday, December 6, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - November 30, 2012 - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM), in advance of its Annual Investor Meeting, reconfirms its full-year 2012 EPS growth forecast of at least 13%, or $3.24 per share, excluding Special Items. Yum! also announces it expects to once again deliver at least 10% EPS growth in 2013, excluding Special Items, which would mark twelve consecutive years of meeting or exceeding this annual EPS growth target.
David C. Novak, Chairman and CEO, said, "I'm pleased to report we remain on track to deliver at least 13% EPS growth this year. Our 2012 EPS growth is driven by double-digit operating profit growth, prior to foreign currency translation, in all three of our major operating divisions: China, Yum! Restaurants International and the U.S. Solid same-store sales growth at each of our divisions and record international new-unit development highlight the quality of our growth.
"For the fourth quarter, stronger than expected operating performance from Yum! Restaurants International and our U.S. division is offsetting softer sales in China, where we now expect same-store sales to be negative as we overlap 21% same-store sales growth from last year. Full-year same-store sales growth in China is expected to be 6%. Next year will be another strong year for our China division, given this year's record development of at least 800 new units and significant innovation in the pipeline, underpinned by world class operations. We are extremely confident Yum! China remains the best growth story in the restaurant industry.
"Our leading, global brands are well positioned in the fastest growing emerging markets. We remain focused on the three keys to driving shareholder value: new-unit development, same-store sales growth and high returns on invested capital."
Q4 2012 Update
- Strong momentum leads to record international development of at least 1,850 new units for the year, including at least: 800 new units in China, 950 at Yum! Restaurants International (YRI), and 100 at Yum! Restaurants India
- Same-store sales in the fourth quarter are expected to be +4% at YRI, +3% in the U.S., and -4% in China
- Completed the refranchising of the Pizza Hut U.K. dine-in business of 330 restaurants on November 9, 2012
- The fourth quarter will include an overlap headwind due to an additional week in our 2011 fiscal year which produced a combined $26 million operating profit benefit to the U.S. and YRI
- On November 16, 2012, the Board of Directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to $1 billion in additional shares of common stock through May 31, 2014
Yum! Ongoing Earnings Growth Model
- Earnings per share growth of at least 10%
- China operating profit growth of 15%, driven primarily by:
- Double-digit percentage growth in units
- Mid-teen system sales growth
- Mid-single digit same-store sales growth
- Moderate G&A leverage
- Yum! Restaurants International (YRI) operating profit growth of 10% driven primarily by:
- Net-unit growth of 3% to 4%
- System sales growth of 6%
- Same-store sales growth of at least 2% to 3%
- Margin improvement and G&A leverage
- U.S. Division operating profit growth of 5%
- Same-store sales growth of at least 2%
- Margin improvement and G&A leverage
2013 Overall Guidance
Yum! expects to deliver at least 10% EPS growth in 2013, excluding Special Items.
- At least 1,800 new international units, including at least: 700 new units in China, 950 at YRI, and 150 at Yum! Restaurants India
- Estimated tax rate of about 27% with quarterly fluctuation
- Foreign currency translation expected to be flat
- Global capital expenditures of over $1 billion
- Interest expense expected to be flat
- 2% reduction in average diluted shares outstanding as a result of share repurchases
- Worldwide G&A increase of 3% due to continued growth in China
2013 Refranchising Plan
- U.S. refranchising of about 200 units and $200 million in proceeds mostly related to Taco Bell units. This will substantially complete our U.S. refranchising program
- Consistent with our transformation plan, any U.S. refranchising gains or losses will be included in special items
2012 Annual Investor Meeting
The Annual Investor Meeting will be held on Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 8:45 am to 1:00 pm EST in New York City and the theme is "On the Ground Floor of Global Growth…China and so Much More." The company will share its plan to continue to be the defining global company that feeds the world, as well as present a business update and take questions on its strategies and global expansion outlook. This meeting will be webcast live and will also be available following the event. These can be accessed online through the Yum! Brands Investor Relations website at http://www.yum.com/investors.
This announcement, any related announcements and the related webcast may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We intend all forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Our forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that can cause our actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: food borne-illness or food safety issues; economic and political conditions in the countries where we operate; currency exchange and interest rates; our ability to attain our target development goals; commodity, labor and other operating costs; our ability to secure and maintain distribution and adequate supply to our restaurants; the operational and financial success of our franchise and license operators; the success of our refranchising strategy; pending or future legal claims; the impact of any widespread illness; the value and perception of our brands; publicity that may impact our business and/or industry; government regulations; our effective tax rates; our ability to protect the security of individually identifiable customer and employee data; competition; and consumer preferences. You should consult our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the information set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Forward-Looking Statements" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K) for additional detail about factors that could affect our financial and other results. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and currently available data and are neither predictions nor guarantees of future events or performance. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We are not undertaking to update any of these statements.
About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 38,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories. Yum! is ranked #213 on the Fortune 500 List and generated revenues of more than $12 billion in 2011. The Company's restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Outside the United States, the Yum! Brands system opened approximately four new restaurants each day of the year, making it a leader in international retail development. The Company has consistently been recognized for its reward and recognition culture, diversity leadership, community giving and consistent shareholder returns.
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Debate Tower collapses after an experimental argument
because tk ends with k just like mk
Why are 90% of your posts about tk
Cause it can
you hated tk at first lmao tf
Well thats because it was worse then db.But then I realised things can get worse then tk,eg the forums now(srry)
Yeah, well you weren't even here before the liam incident soooo...
mate this is the original forums, in 2013 you would have to have liked it or lumped it
We even seen each other
You used an alt, with a different name
I was here even longer then u
You had a different name!
You knew back in ms that I was canovie remember!
This thread is a big poo
True. This was made in 2013, but as it is, it will take quite some time for this to die.
Maybe not if this becomes an actual thing and people start talking in this thread
this was a thread created by 10 year old me to gain a few posts that's all
Dawm who knew that you were so different back then...
I mean I was 10
But still it would be intresting to meet the ten year old version of u
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This August see's the first Home Front Legacy Big Recording Month swing into action, perfectly timed for those of you who are looking for something to do now the Festival of Archaeology is over for another year.
For those of you who don't know, Home Front Legacy is a Council for British Archaeology (CBA) project, funded by Historic England, that helps community groups, local societies and individuals record the legacy of the First World War in their area. Our recording app enables people to share new knowledge about buildings, places and events and make them accessible to all via a map of sites.
We've already had over 3,000 sites added to our map but we'd love to get even more so we decided to create the Big Recording Month to let people know just how easy it is to discover and record sites in your local area. Over the next four weeks we'll be providing a step by step guide to give you all the tools you need to get involved. Our first blog went live on Monday and my colleague Chris Kolonko, Home Front Legacy Project Archaeologist, tells you everything you need to know about the project and the enormous impact the First World War had on the UK. We'll be posting a new blog every Monday for the next three weeks with details on how to search for sites and how to record and upload your data to the app.
Alongside our blog posts we'll be busy on social media providing inspiration and encouragement and highlighting some of the new sites recorded so make sure to follow us on Twitter @homefrontlegacy and Facebook /homefrontlegacy.
We've also come up with some great themes to get you inspired: local events; the role of women and food and rationing. From fundraising performances at the local cinema, to schools producing scarves and clothing for soldiers and sailors, recording the Home Front covers much more than the pillboxes and practice trenches that immediately spring to mind.
Today I've been busy finding out about sites in York that I can add to the map. A quick search of the internet and the list is already fairly long, including an internment camp at the Castle Museum that held both civilian and military prisoners; a chemist who offered cheap tooth removal so your rotten teeth didn't prevent you from joining up; and the Yorkshire Herald Building where the war was announced to cheers and a hearty performance of the national anthem.
I've also been working on our plans for a series of First World War training events, a collaborative partnership between the Home Front Legacy and Living Legacies, one of the AHRC funded First World War Engagement Centres. These events will provide training on how to record First World War sites around the country and provide help and guidance to community groups and societies who would like to develop their own First World War projects. The first workshops will be held this October at IWM Duxford and Bristol. Follow the links if you'd like to find out more.
I hope you'll join me and take part in the CBA's Home Front Legacy Big Recording Month, and get your friends, family and local societies involved too! Lets see how many new sites we can add to the map over the next month and help preserve the stories and places of the First World War at home for future generations.


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In an Australian first, Arena Media, Red Agency and Havas Content in collaboration with 2DayFM, have partnered to live-stream a real-life event for EA Games, The Sims 4. Using GoPro live stream, 2Day FM enabled their Facebook audience to control Angus O'Loughlin, 2Day FM's Hit 30 Announcer, and high profile EA gamer, Deligracy.
In time for the release of The Sims 4, the two VIPs were transformed into a real life Sims, navigated by their online audience and made to traverse Western Sydney University's Parramatta campus which was converted into The Sims sandbox environment.
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2DayFM's Facebook community watching the live stream were put in control of the game by being encouraged to post challenges and overcome obstacles for Angus and Deligracy to complete.
Angus O'Loughlin, national nights announcer, 2Day FM, said: "I haven't been told what to do since breaking up with my ex-girlfriend. From dancing, romance, court rooms to yoga I had a ball, maybe I should hand my life over to strangers more often?"
James Wright, managing director Red Agency and Group COO Havas PR Australia, said:"Western Sydney University has built a reputation on going the extra mile for its students, and supporting this activation is no different. Undergraduates studying Game Development at the University were involved throughout, from route planning and suggested activities, to starring in the live stream. We hope this will be the first of many innovative activations on the campus."
Mark Campbell, Havas head of content, said: "It's fantastic when we can bring two Havas clients together and to trust in us to deliver such a bold & unique content proposition."
The activation has so far secured a reach of over 345,741, encouraging 1,467 comments and 110,000 video views.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Last night Big T and I pampered ourselves a bit. After a long day of work, we went to a local day spa and indulged in a spa pedicure and a paraffin treatment for our hands. If you know me in real life, you know that I hate paying someone to do something I can do myself; things like dyeing my hair, painting my nails, etc. However, sometimes I just decide that damn it I'm worth it and willingly hand over the debit card. If you have never had a spa pedicure, go do it!
Whats the difference between a pedicure at the little hole in the wall shop on Main Street and a pedicure at a spa? Besides about $25 or $30 a spa pedicure is so much more luxurious and decadent. The ambiance, the heated massaging chair, the professionals who will carry on conversation if you wish or just leave you alone with your thoughts as you close eyes, lay your head back and just relax. With a spa pedicure you typically get a special sugar scrub and massage. A glass of wine to enjoy while strands of relaxing music drift around you. Muted colors, low lighting (as opposed to harsh florescent lighting), quiet voices, no children running around, no television or loud radio distractions. Forty five minutes to an hour of pure relaxation and escape from everything. Definitely a wonderful way to spend an evening! And perhaps an excuse to go buy some new sandals....
6 comments:
- Rachel said...
I also prefer to dye my hair rather then pay for it, but I absolutely blow at painting my own nails. I found a great place that does the spa pedicure at a great price and also gives you a shoulder/neck massage afterwards....I haven't been able to go in in a little while, but my b-day is coming up and I already informed my husband that I am getting one. So hooray for spoiling ourselves!
- May 29, 2008
- Nikki said...
Ooo, I'm jealous!! I hinted to my boyfriend that I want a massage for my birthday.... but this sounds nice too!!
- May 29, 2008
- chickbug said...
sounds wonderful! i'm going tomorrow...to a hole in the walls hop. =)
- May 29, 2008
- Trina G. said...
ooooh....new sandals!!!
Glad you and big T got to spend some special time together. Sissy and I are doing the same next week, before we leave for vacation. CAN'T WAIT!!
- May 29, 2008
- Nikki said...
Yes I did!! I watched re-runs of Boy Meets World until I was like 15!!!
- May 30, 2008
- MeLaNiE said...
Sounds like fun! I love pedicures! I've asked for one for my birthday!
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Ship the Sheep
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Pop Pop Rush
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Zombies Can't Jump
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Nut Rush
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Cannons and Soldiers
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Flipping Jellies
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Twins Family
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Diving Kitties
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Fruity Pops
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Spiny Tom
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Loot the King
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Animals & Colors
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Games for Girls
Take me out
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Battle Fish
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Puzzle Games, Skill
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Jelly Picnic
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Zombie Getaway
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Flappy Bird
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Best Candy Friends
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Fruit Cut Ninja
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Get Fit
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Bubble Meadow
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Puzzle Games, Skill
Rebel Thumb
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Magic Bunnies
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Puzzle Games
Have fun dressing up your characters in this fun game. Also take pictures of your best combinations, beat and share your highscore!
Games for Girls
Have you ever fancied being a ranger like those fantasy characters you love so much? Well, now you can in Archer! Pick up a bow and a quiver full of arrows and get shooting! Don't worry you won't be shooting at anything alive or moving. This addictive free online hunting game has you blasting arrows at targets in many fun and interesting ways. Forget traditional archery ranges, because you'll be shooting your way past obstacles, and using physics based gameplay to hit those targets. You can use the power of your shot to slam through objects blocking the way and hit your target, all in one fell swoop. To control your shot you must swipe your finger or drag the mouse across the screen to adjust the shot power, and then release once you've chosen the trajectory you want. There are multiple levels each with varying challenge difficulties that make for a seemingly endless stream of fun scenarios and results. The farther you progress in the game the harder and more challenging the levels become. The puzzles can be compared to other slingshot based games where you have to shoot a variety of birds at pigs – you know the one we're talking about! If you find that you can't reach a particular target, you can swap out to the bouncy arrows – one of many different ammunition types. What are you waiting for? Get out there and start shooting targets! Compare your scores with friends and family to see who can get the best. Don't forget that this game can be played from any smartphone, tablet or computer. Choose your weapon of choice so to speak and aim for those targets! There's a lot less to clean up when you've finished a game of archer too, and nobody likes to clean.
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Coconut Beach
You are in paradise, enjoying the sun and sitting under a coconut tree. Suddenly you decide to collect coconuts by blowing them of the tree, let them role and bounce until they are finally in your basket. Puzzle your way through many interesting levels at Coconut Beach.
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Feed the Figures
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Gem Crush
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Heart Breaker
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