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Let me know what you guys think about this please.
I think many of us are very interested in this. But maybe too "small" to help in other ways than our personal opinions and advice.
I think Aloe vera is something you should really try. I believe it's a miraculous specie(hope I'll study everything about it one day).
Good luck
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort" - H. Albright
Aloe vera is just one of the things of this sort you can try...Naturist medicine offers tons of things... Also homeopatic remedies are something... But none of them is proved medically
"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter
If you guys saw the video of this bacteria swimming around in and out of the skin cells then you would know that no Aloe Vera on any planet is going to kill that nasty bug! I'm on an antibiotic protocol right now that has been dubbed "the chemotherapy of antibiotics" and that's still not killing it as I continue to show signs of active infection.
But, that's just the Lyme part. Unfortunately, I still have this whole Morgellons issue to contend with.
Am I the only one to find it amazing and even disturbing that a disease such as Morgellons is not being investigated as it should? Why are doctors clueless? Where is their intellectual curiosity?
I believe we could be dealing with some type of man made biological agent. Believe me, their is nothing natural about this! I have small fibers that are not visible until put under a blacklight and these fibers come from the pores of my skin. No doubt this florescence is an intentional marker of some sort.
Thousands of people now have this too and a lot people don't even know it yet. I had it for a long time before I was ever able to put a name to. Once I found others, the symptoms I shared with them were undeniable.
If you guys think you are too "small" to help, how do you think an I feel? No, you guys are not too "small" because you have already helped by keeping an open mind and giving this issue your sincere thoughts. Thank you for that.
This is very frightening to have and I think it is cruel that the sufferers have been left to fend for themselves. What do you think is needed for this disease to be taken seriously and properly researched? How can I help the medical community help us? What else do they need?
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Unfortuantely this is the reality with a lot of conditions.
Doctors really don't understand it and its so difficult to treat.
I've had to put up with a similar situation with my eczema for the past 5 years. There is no cure, just treatments which mostly fail and doctors just dont have a clue. It seems that unless people are dying from it you are left to fend for yourself. But it only takes one team of researchers or one doctor to make a breakthrough so it could all change.
Is there a charity or society for your condition? This would raise money for research and also increase knowledge of the disease among the general public.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
fiber disease
Hello. I have had this disorder now for close to 3 years. I am 99 % sure that is was vectored to me through a bedbug bite while staying in a south san francisco hotel. http://www.nondelusional.com to see some pictures, videos, and a questionaire to fill out if you also suffer from this. my sites goal is to gather enough stories and photos from people suffering from this that anyone in their right mind would see this is real and not imaginary. Make sure to look at the link page too for lots of thought inspiring direction into this very difficult to explain disorder.
Note my page has been getting hacked alot lately for god knows what reason. ive been having to reload it daily for a week now. if a page wont load just check back later and it should be back up. and no Im not selling anything.
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
In reply to butterbone
try to imagine the symptoms of scabies multiplied by 100. then add the fact that no one believes you. if you cant let me tell you its enough to drive anyone a little bit nuts.
If you go to this pest control companys question and answer forum http://www.e-bug.net/forum/index.shtml simply view the questions being asked concerning invisible bugs, whats biting me, what is it and how do i kill it, mystery bug bites,etc etc You will see that there a quite a few questions concering this. Next search their archives going back 2 to 3 years and you will see there are hardly any of these same questions asked back then. so it is spreading. Its an terrible thing to go through so pray you dont get it.
If you still dont believe me, come on over and give me a big hug you bum and spend one day with this nightmare.
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
I don't think it's important what people say about this. The opinion of specialists is important.
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort" - H. Albright
To a specialist, what people say is just as important as actual evidence.
There is plenty of "opinion" by the "victims". Using that in conjunction with data, gives you paths and directions you may not have had with either one seperately.
There is as of yet, no actual evidence.
Doctors don't just ignore things they don't understand. Most of them flip out over something truly different that they can't wrap up easily.
Specialists don't just throw their hands up in the air and say-"I don't know what you got dude you must be crazy".
If that was the norm there would be no specialists. Specialists are driven by an interest in something specific. Hence the name.
So this "disease" is a bigfoot or loch ness monster or little grey abductors.
You can rage against the machine all you want.
But without proof you just make yourselves more of a cult that noone wants to listen to.
There is evidence right?
The little black specs?
The "fibers".
Lesions on the skin can be caused by ten thousand different things.
Why not take this Trace evidence that is supposed to exist to a professional and find out what they have to say?
I bet some people have.
I will also bet, near gurantee, those people didn't like the answers they got back from the professionals so they never talk about that.
They wrote it off as elitism, or bigotry of some sort.
Oh the great equalizers.
These little black specs. Like a black grain of sand. May indeed be some form of insect feces. Crickets, Bedbugs, Cockroackes, the possibilities are constrained by continent and region and what insects reside in them.
But that wouldn't fit with the answers you want would it.
What about these fibers?
Shouldn't be hard to have a materials analyst look it over. Put it in the microcope. Tell you if it is synthetic or biological.
Whether it is organic, or petroleum based.
But those who have a collection know in the back of their mind that the answer they will get won't allow them to rant maniacly about how they are being disadvantaged and ignored.
I've had two substances analyzed for me. FOR FREE.
At the University of Cincinatti which turned out to be nothing more than calcium something or other that was growing in my basement because it was damp and dark and underground natural rock construction.
And I had a blood sample from one of my dogs analyzed because he just keeled over one day with odd twitching and biting his own tongue and I wondered if maybe someone poisoned him.
Well he was poisoned. Natuarally.
It seems much of northern kentucky southern ohio has natural springs that pop up during heavy rain seasons and sometimes those springs can access deposits of strychnine or cyanide I don't remember which one it was. It was 12 years ago or so. Anyway animals drink the water or even just walk through it and boom they die later.
They told me it was nothing abnormal. If I was worried about my other dog, just keep him close to home and don't let him drink out of mud puddles for a couple weeks until the water tables lowered and the toxic stuff went back in the ground.
The next week there was a dead cat and several dead large crows and then two weeks later nothing was out of the ordinary.
I didn't have to pay tons of money.
I didn't have to call newspapers and create a national interest.
I just went to the university chemistry department asked to speak to someone from the labs, asked them if they could tell me if something like this (getting tests done) was possible, or if the sample I had with me was something dangerous, and they said SURE. No problem.
I signed some papers saying they were not responsible for damage or return of the items I was giving them and that the results they offered me were in no way legal to be used in court and the the school was in no way associated with whatever it was I was doing with the materials or results of the tests.
Why don't any of you try that?
Cause you know you don't want a scientist to get ahold of your "proof".
You don't want someone to analyse your "evidence".
Now, the vicitims are part of a group. And that group has passion, direction, and purpose. If anything gets solved most of the Morgellons sufferers go right back to being plain Jane and Joe, either with medications
or with a pat on the back saying nothing is wrong.
And nobody wants that do they.
Well not from what I have read.
And what I have read has been offshoots of links that have been provided in this thread.
Posting this rubbish on a legitimate forum does not legitimize it.
I do completely agree with what you said above and I cut out, yet I cannot agree with your conclusion. True this forum cannot be completely exact, yet the moderators have as a policy to let people talk as long as they respect the forum rules. Even if this morgellons diseases is pure bullshit, I cannot rule out a part of doubt that there may be something beside, so as a mod I cannot trash the thread.
Yet I will recall to every one that we do not want any flame war and that you better behave and avoid name throwing, or the mod will have to take actions.
pompous arrogent know it all dontcha? Bonehead
To a specialist, what people say is just as important as actual evidence.
There is plenty of "opinion" by the "victims". Using that in conjunction with data, gives you paths and directions you may not have had with either one seperately.
There is as of yet, no actual evidence.
Ok butterbone. sounds like this is your profession so give me a few links to some seriously inquisitive minded professionals that will "flip out" somewhere in the bayarea in california. You give me a name and I will supply the doctor with interest. I wont bore you with other stories but beware my friend with a closeminded, lousy attitude such as yours, your karma makes you prime to be the next in line to get this. Also have you ever considered that maybe a neighbor of yours whom may think you are an .....hole poisoned your dog? This seems likely considering your aggression. Not one story submitted to my site at http://www.nondelusional.com mentions any of the things you bring up above. Its legitimate and time will tell because this is contagious and seems to have a lengthy latency period. If my girlfriend is an example it can take around a year to develope symptoms. Now she has it full blown while I in the other hand seemed to have developed somewhat of a tolerance to this. I bet you felt the same when aids first started being reported, or lyme disease or legionaires disease and the list could go on. I would love to get some answers, any answers other than its in my head. bullshit I know my body and I can pinpoint the time and place that I aquired this crap. so again beware your karma because this is one bug you do NOT want to run across.. Also go to this link where the director of the health and human resources of duval county florida states that there is enough proof now concerning this to warrent an investigation. http://www.cbs47.com/news/reports/story ... E8599D16B7
so eat your words my pompous friend and give up some research avenues smart guy
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
Heres the best evidence there is at this point
http://www.cbs47.com/news/reports/story ... E8599D16B7
even the cdc admits this is a topic of concern see here. http://www.nondelusional.com/cdc01.jpg
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
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The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to better understand parents? experiences of bonding with their babies in utero and after birth, and to discover the relevance of a prenatal and perinatal psychology (PPN) based bonding class in this process. Five couples were recruited from prenatal parenting classes in Santa Barbara, CA, and interviewed in person 2-6 months after giving birth.
Prenatal and Perinatal Memories in Preverbal Children: Clinical Observations Using Videotape ExaminationAbstract:
This research study examined the hypothesis that preverbal children are capable of implicitly and explicitly registering their prenatal and perinatal experiences and of subsequently communicating these experiences through their behavior. It asked the question, Can trained observers accurately identify preverbal children?s prenatal and perinatal experiences based on the children?s behavior in a therapeutic setting? The study utilized mixed-method analysis, and accuracy was assessed according to the degree of correspondence between the observers?
The Alchemical Dance of Mother and Infant: A Blueprint for Co-Creative Dyadic Unity During the Prenatal and Perinatal PeriodAbstract:
This theoretical dissertation considered the biological and psychologicalimportance of the dance between mother and infant from conception through the bonding period. It proposed a unifying dance metaphor of pre- and perinatal motherinfant alchemical dance to provide a psychological term describing their first organizing co-creative dynamics. The process of alchemical dance is postulated to be Nature?s blueprint for the initial creational unfolding of human development.
In this article a tentative and provisional theory is advanced on the treatment of birth-giving trauma. ?Birth-giving-trauma? here refers to women (and men) psychologically, physically or emotionally traumatized during birth-giving. In the first part of this article I outline anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd?s argument that Western medicalized birthing can be constructed as a ?modern? rite of passage which can negatively imprint disempowering images into women?s minds, reinforce messages of inferiority, and traumatise the birth-giving mothers.
The Skin as a Psychic Organ: The Use of Infant Massage as a Psychotherapeutic Tool in Infant-Parent PsychotherapyAbstract:
This paper explores the use of touch, particularly infant-massage in infant-parent psychotherapy and the ways in which clinicians can utilize this intervention to strengthen infant-parent attachment. Touch as a taboo in psychotherapy, and the paradigmatic shifts that are occurring to allow for a reconsideration of the value of touch in psychotherapy is considered. Theories on touch and development from a depth-oriented perspective are presented, including related concepts such as: psychic skin, skin ego, and Winnicott?s holding environment or handling.
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to better understand the impact and implications of a cesarean birth on later adult behavior patterns. A written survey was designed using Dr. William R. Emerson?s questionnaire The Evaluation of Obstetrical Trauma: A Questionnaire (1997). Forty statements were developed to represent behaviors believed to relate to birth via cesarean section. Four cesarean-born women participated in the study. Each completed the questionnaire and was interviewed by telephone about the statements she thought best applied to her experience.
In France the policy of regionalization and organization of perinatal care is governed by a Decree issued in 1998, the objective of which is to improve prevention of premature births and perinatal risks. Within this context, forty-nine health professionals were interviewed by means of a qualitative questionnaire designed to evaluate implementation of the Decree. The present report is primarily an analysis of the mechanisms and psychosocial issues of over-medicalization of birth.
This paper describes the rationale and curriculum for an attachment-based intervention for pregnant women who attend an outpatient methadone-maintenance clinic. Maternal drug use has been associated with negative prenatal internal representations and problems in mutual regulation after birth. Maternal attachment status during pregnancy has been correlated with subsequent security of infant attachment. Recent studies suggest maternal reflective functioning as a key mediator in attachment.
A position on the necessity of evaluating both obstretrics and midwifery is offered to utilize what strengths each discipline brings birthing mothers. But beyond this, the effects of birth on subsequent events, for example breastfeeding in the short term, and the potential for sweeping effects in the long term for the culture are included. To summarize, the accumulation of research in a number of areas points to the conclusion that interfering with pre- or perinatal development can have future effects currently not envisioned.
This article attempts to apply Rank?s concept of individual birth trauma to the history of ancient Israel as depicted in the Bible. The birth of the Jewish people as reviewed in the relevant Biblical texts demonstrates recurrent and significant traumata at individual, family, and large-scale collective levels, indicating that the early Israelites did experience collective birth trauma. Ramifications of this for a greater understanding of the Bible and of Jewish history and cultural practices are explored.

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The global financial crisis of 2007 drew attention to failures by financial services institutions to adequately manage their risks. Governments and regulatory bodies around the world have responded by issuing a spate of new laws and regulations, including the Dodd-Frank Act, the Basel III framework, and updates to the European Union's (EU's) Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
In combination, these new guidelines will have a significant impact on how banks do business—which will necessarily impact their relationships with corporate clients. Treasury & Risk spoke with Takis Sironis, risk management senior principal with Accenture, to discuss what corporate clients can expect from their banks in the near future, and what they can do now to prepare.
T&R: What are the biggest legislative and regulatory changes on the horizon for banks today?
Takis Sironis: We see four primary areas in which impending regulations will have a direct impact on the relationships between banks and their corporate clients. The first is capital; all kinds of transactions will now require more capital from banks. Basel III, in particular, might have a really punitive effect on banks in terms of the capital they must hold. Prices of financial products will be affected, with the creditworthiness of the corporate counterparty determining the size of the impact. All the analysis we've seen from the banks suggests that rates and credit products will be hardest-hit.
T&R: Will it become more difficult for companies with lower credit ratings to access longer-term credit products?
TS: Yes, banks are likely to prefer corporate customers with better ratings and products with shorter maturities.
T&R: Will the new capital requirements affect corporate banking clients in other ways, or will it mostly be through higher prices?
TS: From the corporate point of view, it is worth considering whether to acquire clear capabilities—in other words, whether to begin clearing their own financial transactions. Companies that do so will be subject to the same reporting obligations as the banks. But by clearing transactions themselves, companies can reduce the overall price of the transactions.
T&R: How will the derivatives market be affected?
TS: In derivatives trades, banks will be heavily impacted by the increase in counterparty credit charges imposed by the CVA [credit valuation adjustment] capital charge. It's new in Basel III, and it hits transactions that are collateralized or long-dated. Banks are currently running the numbers to understand how the CVA capital charge will impact their funds transfer pricing. These analyses will also determine how banks change their product pricing to reflect the CVA capital charge, which will obviously be felt by their corporate clients.
That leads us to the second major area in which banking regulations will affect companies' relationships with their financial institutions: the OTC [over-the-counter] derivatives market structure and execution requirements. Derivatives are one of the most customized services that banks offer because they meet the client company's needs for a very specific, complex transaction. The new regulations are designed to increase market transparency in OTC derivatives trades. To the degree that they're successful, banking customers will benefit because there will be increased competition and less emphasis on personal relationships between the company and its banks.
T&R: Will other factors work to either increase or lower prices for corporate banking clients?
TS: Yes. The third area in which we see the new regulations affecting banking relationships is around documentation. Banks are going to have to start doing a lot more post-trade reporting. For instance, they will have to report details of derivatives contracts to regulators. They will also have to provide clients with more information about a range of products, including retail structured products. If used properly, this information can give corporate clients a better understanding of the services they get from their banks.
So even as the documentation requirements increase banks' costs, they exercise more pressure on the banks through increased transparency. It's hard to say at this point how these conflicting pressures will affect the pricing of banking products.
T&R: What is the final area in which the regulations will affect banking relationships?
TS: It's liquidity, which will definitely have a major impact on the banks, but it will also be important to their corporate clients. Under Basel III, there are two new liquidity measures that banks need to conform with: the liquidity coverage ratio, which requires banks to maintain a buffer of high-quality assets to cover 30 days of outflows around liabilities, and the net stable funding ratio, which requires them to keep long-term assets for funding and a minimum level of stable liabilities in relation to their liquidity risk profiles.
Because they specify the quality of assets the bank must hold, these metrics require banks to really understand how they cover liquidity. For instance, if we look at the Eurozone trouble, a lot of European banks may find it difficult to raise U.S. dollar-denominated funding through traditional instruments such as foreign exchange swaps or cross-currency swaps. That puts pressure on internal funds transfer pricing, which at some point may be reflected in pricing of products for corporate clients.
T&R: So, you anticipate that the primary effect of the liquidity regulations on corporate banking customers will be to raise the prices of banks' products?
TS: They will definitely have an impact on pricing, but they will also have an impact in terms of the deals that banks will offer because they will change the level of actual capital the banks need to hold.
T&R: Are there any steps that corporate banking customers could be taking now to prepare for changes that may be coming from their banks as a result of all these new regulations?
TS: Well, first they need to understand that every bank will choose to respond in a different way to the incoming regulations. One example is the ways that banks are changing the operating model for their internal treasury functions. Some of them are centralizing treasury, while others are decentralizing, splitting their treasury function into several divisions.
The drive to optimize capital and optimize liquidity buffers makes centralization seem appealing. But for some banks, that appeal is overridden by the need to understand exactly how capital is being used in the bank's different lines of business and how to optimize funds transfer pricing. In the past, that was more in the background, but it's now a more critical part of capital planning and pricing decisions. For banks that put a high priority on understanding local regulations, decentralizing treasury may be the best choice, despite pressures on capital, collateral, and the like.
T&R: How does this affect corporate banking clients?
TS: From the corporate point of view, it is important to understand how the bank is going to change to comply with these regulations. Are they going to be members of a CCP [central counterparty]? If so, what facilities are they going to offer? For instance, a bank could offer clearing facilities to provide a better pricing structure to their corporate clients. It could also offer more optimized terms for using CSAs [credit support annexes] and other structured deals to ensure that everybody benefits through lower prices for the corporate clients and minimum capital for the banks.
Banks that aren't CCP members will be affected, as well. They might find it more difficult to make money in certain products, so they may now be considering whether to pull out of certain products that they were previously planning to offer. Companies need to understand their banking counterparties, where they are moving, and whether they will continue to be major players in the products in their current portfolio.
T&R: Should corporate treasurers just sit down and talk to their banks about where they're going?
TS: That is the obvious way to respond. But a best practice, particularly for large companies, is to take a proactive approach to monitoring and assessing their banking counterparties. Some treasury departments in large corporations are offering an educational program to help treasury and finance employees understand the impacts of the regulations. They have reviewed their major products and major exposures, at least, and they keep abreast of all the changes. How sophisticated and how comprehensive this type of program needs to be varies from company to company.
T&R: To what degree should a company formalize the process of monitoring its banks' plans to change their product offerings and business lines?
TS: Companies should monitor this on a regular basis. If we look at the horizon of upcoming regulations, not even the banks know right now how they're going to respond. There is a lot of ambiguity and uncertainty, and as banks absorb the full impacts of the new regulations on their business model, their plans might continue to change. Corporate banking clients should really monitor their banks like they monitor their clients, asking: What's the current state? What is the strategy? Where are they going? They need to track how the banks respond to all the different aspects of emerging risks.
For example, it makes sense for companies to monitor their banks' liquidity spreads. We have seen banks' funding spreads widen due to ratings downgrades and country spreads. That might increase the funding price, which ultimately might lead a corporate treasury function to conclude that it makes sense to go directly to the capital markets, rather than working through the traditional channels of relationships with banks.
T&R: In the leading-edge companies that are effectively monitoring their banks and providing training to employees, where does this type of initiative originate?
TS: In some cases, banks will help their best customers with the training, but usually it originates in the company's C-suite. When we talk about the C-suite, obviously, the three main stakeholders are the risk management and treasury functions, and the business lines. Treasury needs to manage liquidity exposures, as well as the pricing and impact of deals.
Ultimately, the treasury department needs to work with risk managers and others in the organization to make sure that the company monitors counterparty risk in financial transactions, and that the process for doing that incorporates insights into how the bank is responding to new regulations, and how it plans to respond in the future.


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Enabling next gen smart utility meters
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Ultra low-power (ULP) microcontrollers (MCUs) have been around for at least 20 years, when Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) first introduced the 16-bit MSP430 microcontroller. Since then, the proliferation of ultra-low-power solutions in sensors, metering and a large variety of battery-powered devices like blood glucose meters, thermometers, watches, etc., has proven that the ULP system approach is the best strategy for the future.
Ultra-low-power technology has been extended to RF transceivers, sensors, MCUs and to all types of silicon products for battery-powered applications. Similarly, the widespread adoption of wireless technologies in many consumer applications like tablets and smartphones was only made possible because of significant reductions in semiconductors power consumption.
The next worldwide opportunity for growth is commonly recognized in the smart grid market, which comprises gas, heat, water and electrical meters and heat cost allocators, as are metering and sub-metering devices. There are also smart grid home gateways, data concentrators and data collectors that collect information from the metering units. The combination of smart grids with home area networks (HAN) is expected to enable utilities to ease peak power demand, which in turn helps reduce the need for new power plants. It is also expected to bring cost savings and increased comfort thru home automation for consumers.
This article shows how combining the best ultra-low-power MCUs, the highest performance RF transceivers for Sub-1GHz communication and advanced power system solutions will enable the next generation of smart utility meters in Europe and beyond. The maturity and latest developments of the European wM-Bus protocol stack opens new opportunities for large-scale deployment of battery-operated gas, water and heat meters.
This article will explain the building blocks of a smart meter (gas, water and heat) for the European market, using the popular wM-Bus RF communication in the 868MHz and 169MHz band. Practical advice on implementing and optimizing wM-Bus solutions for gas, water and heat meters will be provided.


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For most car rental companies worldwide, the minimum age requirement is 25. Drivers aged between 21 and 24 might be subject to additional local fees and may not be allowed to book vehicles under the Premium, Specialty Car, SUV, Minivan, Van, Convertible, Utility and Lux Vehicle categories. Additional drivers must be at least 25 years old.
Each driver must present a full, valid and original national license, held for minimum of 2 years. If your license is not in roman alphabet (i. e. Arabic, Greek, Russian or Chinese) you need to bring an International Driver Permit as well as your national driving licence.
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Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi Talk 'Captain Phillips'
Tom Hanks and Director Paul Greengrass' Captain Phillips looks like it's going to be one of many award-worthy films that are coming out this fall. I'm really looking forward to catching it.
In the video below, Hanks and star Barkhad Abdi talk about the filming, how Abdi got the part and more. "It was unlike anything I've ever read," Hanks says.
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Linnea Berthelse on Her 'Stranger Things' Audition and Keeping Her Role a Secret for a Year
"Sometimes when actors don't get the part, it's not always about an actor being a bad actor; it's about connecting to the material." – Linnea Berthelsen Stranger Things is back on our screens with its second season, something fans have been waiting for ever since season one arrived on Netflix in 2016. Returning to the […]
Jonathan Groff on Playing King George III in 'Hamilton': "I rehearsed for about a day, and then went into the show"
Can you even imagine stepping into a role in one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time with barely any time to prepare?
Lina Esco on Playing the Only Female Officer on 'S.W.AT.': "I have to portray her as someone equal to all of the guys on her team"
"The important thing for me when I read scripts is how much respect I have for the character and how far I can take her" - Lina Esco
Sam Rockwell on Typecasting and One of His Worst Auditions
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Rachel Bloom: "The way that I learned comedy was not rigid, but this very specific technique taught by the Upright Citizens Brigade"
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Ammo shortage stressing shooters
Have you tried to buy .22 rimfire ammunition lately? Good luck! It's not easy to find, and the situation doesn't seem like it's going to get a lot better for the foreseeable future.
For those readers who are not shooters, the .22 rimfire is America's "fun gun." It has no recoil, doesn't make much noise and is great for formal target shooting, plinking cans and hunting squirrel and rabbit. The ubiquitous .22 has been around forever and is not some new high-demand gun where ammo availability sometimes lags behind new buyers.
I stopped at Milton's Thunder Shooting Supply last week to see if the store might have some .22 rounds in. They had, but every box had been sold within 24 hours. I also checked out a number of other stores in the Janesville area that carry ammunition. The answer was always the same:
"We got some in a little while ago, but it disappeared as fast as we could get it on the shelf."
Many stores are limiting the amount a customer can purchase.
"It's one box to a customer here," Thunder owner Reno Garthwait told me, "because we want as many of our customers as possible to be able to get some." Even with that limit, the small shipment flew off the shelf, and customers kept coming in days later to see if there was any left.
Why rationing? Like any scarce commodity, when people find it, they want to buy up the whole lot. And it's those guys who want to buy it all who are actually causing the shortage. They're hoarders, and most of them are sitting on more boxes than they could possibly use. Some individuals are said to have many thousands of rounds squirreled away, and they still are on the lookout for more.
Even worse are the opportunists. These guys will buy up whatever they can get their hands on and then sell it at inflated prices at gun shows. While the price of a box of 100 .22s has gone up from perhaps $5 a few years ago to three times that much now, the ammo opportunist will jack up the price astronomically.
One gun-show patron claimed to have seen someone offering a box of 100 CCI mini-mags for an outrageous $75. Other gougers are now selling it by the bullet, rather than the box, hawking bullets by the dozen in plastic sandwich bags.
Unfortunately, things aren't going to get a lot better any time soon. One dealer I talked to reported a factory rep from Winchester told him not to expect anything near a normal supply of .22 ammo for the next two years. Likewise, Reno told me that his ammo suppliers won't be filling his 2014 orders until 2015, and even then he can expect only partials.
"And I have to make those orders for at least $10,000 to get anything" he added. "Otherwise they'll be ignored."
If there was a shortage of 5.56 centerfire ammo (fodder for the so-called but erroneously labeled "assault rifles"), one might have suspicions about why the supply is drying up, but why the .22?
As nearly as anyone can tell, including the manufacturers, it simply goes back to a seemingly insatiable level of "customer demand."
Are you one of those who is buying everything you can lay your hands on and then selling it for jacked-up prices? If so, you might think of yourself as a savvy businessman taking advantage of the law of supply and demand, but 99 percent of your fellow shooters have a different take on you.
They think you're a jerk—a greedy bozo who is making a problem infinitely worse than it really has to be.
D.S. Pledger is an outdoors columnist for The Gazette. Email him at email@example.com
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Area communities plan Veterans Day events
Area communities are hosting programs to honor the service of veterans:
Beloit: Ceremonies will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at the Grinnell Hall Senior Center, 631 Bluff St., Beloit.
Mark Finnegan and Bob Hopper will be speaking, and the ROTC will be posting the colors. Grinnell's singing group, the Goldenaires, will sing patriotic songs.
Clinton: A Veterans Day assembly will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Clinton Elementary School, 301 East St., Clinton.
The event will include poems, readings and songs about Veterans Day.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, students will read the Gettysburg Address with the background of a Civil War song.
Vets Roll volunteer Judy Kutz will speak, and the local American Legion and VFW posts will present the colors.
Evansville: Evansville High School, 640 S. 5th St., will host a community Veterans Day program including kindergarten through 12th-grade students at 9 a.m. Monday.
A coffee and doughnut social will follow for all veterans and community members. The public is welcome, and valet parking is included.
-- Janesville Elks Club 254 will serve its annual Veterans Day Dinner at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
-- The unveiling and dedication of the Gold Star Mother and Purple Heart monuments will highlight this year's Veterans Day ceremony Monday in Janesville.
Activities will start with a social time at 9 a.m. when coffee, tea, juice, donuts and sweet rolls, provided by the Associates of the Vietnam Veterans of America Rock River Chapter 236, will be served in the Traxler Park Warming House.
The Veterans Day program will start at 10:30 a.m. at the Veterans Plaza Walkway in Traxler Park, 600 N. Main St. After the posting of colors, invocation, singing of the National Anthem and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, veterans of all wars and conflicts will be recognized with music and flag placement on the battlefield crosses.
Those who donated time and materials to making these new monuments a reality will be acknowledged.
The program will end with a moment of silence rifle salute and Taps at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month with concluding comments and retiring of the colors.
An 11:30 a.m. chili luncheon, prepared and provided by American Legion Post 205 and its Auxiliary, will be served in the Warming House.
Orfordville: The public is welcome to attend the American Legion Post 209 Veterans Day program at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Parkview High School, 106 W. Church St., Orfordville.
The program will include the presentation of colors by Post 209, the Parkview choir and two student speakers. A firing squad tribute and retirement of colors will end the program.
Delavan: Local veterans will be doing presentations at local schools Monday.
At 8 a.m., veterans will be at Phoenix Middle School, 414 Beloit St., Delavan. An active member of the military will speak, and "Taps" will be played. A color guard will be present, and children will learn about Veterans Day.
At 9:30 a.m., the group will present the colors at Delavan-Darien High School, 150 Cummings St., Delavan. The high school band will play, and an active member of the military will speak.
Then, the group will move to the American Legion Hall, 111 S. Second St., Delavan, for a ceremony and a luncheon at the hall.
Elkhorn: Tibbets Elementary School students and choir will present Veterans Day projects at an appreciation program at 9 a.m. Monday. Veterans, American Legion Post 45 and VFW members will also be at the school program, W5218 County A, Elkhorn.
Walworth: Walworth Middle/Elementary School, 121 Beloit St., will have a Veterans Day program at 9 a.m. Monday. American Legion Post 102 will perform a gun salute and present the colors.
A veterans appreciation open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Exemplar Financial Network, 630 Kenosha St.


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Niese deals strong outing, but Mets fall
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- In what is becoming a heated battle to replace Chipper Jones at third base, Chris Johnson and Juan Francisco continue one-upping each other.
Johnson homered as part of a three-hit effort Sunday, leading the Braves' 2-1 win over the Mets at Tradition Field. Battling Francisco for the right to replace the retired Jones as Atlanta's starter at third, Johnson is batting .340 with three home runs this spring.
Francisco, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning, singled in his only at-bat to increase his own average to .326. That line includes four home runs in 46 at-bats.
Johnson's homer came in the fourth against Mets starter Jon Niese, who gave up only one other hit in five innings. The Mets' presumed Opening Day starter, Niese threw 82 pitches, striking out four and walking one. After Niese left the game, Freddie Freeman singled home Jordan Schafer to give the Braves their second run.
"They made me throw a lot of pitches," Niese said. "Overall I felt good though. I was kind of nibbling with my changeup trying to work on it, and … [Johnson] has a history of hitting me well. He's a guy that I can't fall behind on. He'll make me pay for mistakes."
Equally strong was Braves starter Julio Teheran, who continues to prove his worthiness of a rotation spot. Teheran fired six innings of one-run ball, lowering his Grapefruit League ERA to 1.35. Perhaps more impressive is his 25 strikeouts against six walks in 20 innings.
The Mets' only run against Teheran came on Jordany Valdespin's leadoff home run in the first inning, his fourth long ball of the season. Another player locked in a roster battle, Valdespin's chances of making the team grew exponentially when Kirk Nieuwenhuis suffered a left knee injury earlier this month; barring some unforeseen development, Valdespin should now break camp with the team.
It helps also that Valdespin is hitting with aplomb, reaching base three times Sunday on a homer, a single and a walk. Playing second base against the Braves, the utilityman is batting .378 this spring.
Up next: Matt Harvey will look to keep padding his strikeout rate when he faces the Cardinals Monday afternoon at Jupiter. Harvey, who struck out 70 batters over 59 1/3 innings last season, has already whiffed 18 in 13 innings this spring. He will oppose Jake Westbrook in a 1:05 p.m. ET game at Roger Dean Stadium.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Man admits to hiding, burning body of Aprina Paul
TOWN OF PORTER—A town of Porter man has admitted to Rock County investigators that he hid and burned the body of a Dane County teen last week, Sheriff Robert Spoden said Tuesday.
Nathan C. Middleton said he was with 18-year-old Aprina S. Paul when she died at his home but told detectives he did not kill her, Spoden said.
After she died, Middleton admitted he hid Paul's body and later burned it in his backyard fire pit, Spoden said.
Middleton, 29, remains in custody at the Rock County Jail on suspicion of probation violation.
Four days after he told investigators they would find Paul's body in his yard, launching an intensive weekend search and investigation, Middleton still has not been charged with a crime.
Paul's family scheduled a vigil Tuesday night at Penn Park in Madison, according to WMTV-TV.
Middleton has told detectives his version of events, though Spoden declined to say how he claimed Paul died.
Authorities still are approaching the case as a death investigation, Spoden said, not a homicide.
"He's offered an explanation of her death, but we have no way of confirming that," Spoden said.
While they have not yet found evidence that points to homicide, Spoden said, they are still suspicious.
"We find it very disturbing that Mr. Middleton went to the lengths he did to cover up the death of this woman," Spoden said. "Most people, if someone were to die in their presence, would not respond with that type of an action … They don't just hide a body and burn it."
Investigators from the sheriff's office and coroner's office are optimistic they can find a lab that will determine a cause of death from the burned remains they found in Middleton's yard, Spoden said.


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How valuable is "character" education?
No, numbers just released in the National Assessment of Educational Progress were not good. In fact, the headline on the story about nationwide math and reading progress in today's Gazette suggested new figures were abysmal and "unacceptable."
I wonder how much "character" plays a role. Today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel features a front-page story about Capitol West Academy, a K-8 charter school on Milwaukee's northwest side. The school is earning an honor from the Wisconsin Character Education Partnership, a coalition focused on improving the culture of schools.
The story by Astead Herndon says a pledge unites teachers, parents and students. One line suggests, "I am an important person with high goals." Another says, "I will not let myself or my community down."
Educators at the school insist this focus is paying off. Twice as many students in the high-poverty school are proficient at reading compared to four years ago. Discipline problems prompting trips to the principal's office have been cut in half.
This school isn't alone in focusing on "character" education. In Sunday's Journal Sentinel, education columnist Alan J. Borsuk wrote how more than 200 students from 14 southeastern Wisconsin high schools took part in a morning "responsibility retreat" at Brookfield East High School.
Borsuk was impressed that instead of silence, three-dozen kids stepped to a microphone to name one positive change each would make in the next year. They talked about halting the bad jokes for cheap laughs; about demonstrating a relentless work ethic; and about spreading kindness at school. Time ran out while others waited to make pledges.
These days, many employers complain that job applicants lack the "soft skills" that companies desire. We're talking about showing up each day, being punctual, communicating appropriately, working well with others, etc. Much of this comes through a sense of character. As Borsuk suggests, you don't develop character through a morning retreat. You develop it over the long term. It starts at home and can gain strength through educational focus.
"There is a good body of evidence that students who succeed, especially if they are coming from more challenging personal circumstances, are doing it as much because of their personal traits—grit, optimism, resilience, responsibility, respect—as their intellectual strengths," Borsuk wrote.
Good point. Results make Milwaukee's Capitol West Academy a shining example.
Maybe, too, as heroin continues to spread, character education can help lead more people to careers that pay well and to the personal strength to resist abusing drugs and alcohol.
How much time and energy get spent on developing character in your household and in your school district?
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or email@example.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
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North Park Village Nature Center
5801 N. Pulaski Rd. Chicago, Illinois 60646
(312) 744-5472
Fee: Free
Eagle Optics Day is also today from 10 am – 3 pm. The largest independent dealer of high quality binoculars, scopes, and all types of optic equipment will be on hand at the Nature Center. Equipment will be on display and experts will be available all day to answer questions and give guidance. For information about Eagle Optics Day call 773-539-6793. A portion of sales for the day goes to support the programs of the Chicago Audubon Society.


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Contemporary research indicates that the mother's emotional state and that of her unborn child are far more closely related before birth than was thought to be the case only a few years ago. The purpose of this study was to explore possible correlations existing between the primary emotional states of birthmothers during their pregnancies and the subsequent awareness of these emotional states of birthmothers by their offspring. To achieve this goal, 12 pairs of mothers (ages 44 to 85) and their offspring (ages 9 to 61) were hypnotically age regressed to the time of the pregnancy.
This qualitative study focuses on the experience of healing through prenatal and perinatal recall. Interviews were conducted with seven adults who variously attested to having healed conditions of: syncope, phobias, arthritis, asthma, migraines, depression, suicidality, obsessive-compulsion, side pain, and dysfunctional interpersonal patterns. Intentions were to: (a) illuminate the experience, (b) examine the benefits and drawbacks, and (c) underscore the impact of obstetric intervention.
The intention of this study was to examine the short-term psychological effects on parents, if any, of ultrasound scanning-that is, of fetal visualization. The starting hypothesis was that after visualizing the fetus, parents experience a lower level of stress and anxiety. To test that hypothesis, a quasiexperimental/control type of study was conducted. The subjects, all parents (N = 296), were divided into two groups: an experimental high-feedback group that watched the ultrasound screen, and a low-feedback control group that could not see a screen.
Using questionnaire and interview techniques, 167 children aged 11 to 18, and 213 adults were asked for information on their experiences of physical abuse, physical neglect, verbal abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual abuse. When neglect preceded abuse in children who experienced both, the negative impact on the child's outlook was magnified. Neglect increases a child's susceptibility and vulnerability to abuse. Our data indicates neglect has a greater impact than abuse on a child's selfperception and future outlook.
This prospective study focused on the relationships between social support, family, and income pressures on anxiety and stress during pregnancy. Four hundred and thirty-three women elected to participate in a study that included completing a medical/psychosocial questionnaire, the Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Jenkins Activity Survey, and stress measures formulated using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Each participant was assessed once during each trimester of pregnancy.
The aim of medical education is to produce doctors who promote healing in all people. This aim can only be reached by cooperation between medicine and psychology. One role of psychology is to educate physicians as to recent developments in pre- and perinatal psychology. A truly ecumenical medicine will consider all of the factors in the environment of the patient, rather than take a narrow view of physical healing.
Observations in the field of psychotherapy give us every reason to believe that experiences before and during birth remain present in our awareness of our own bodies and in our inner states of experience as a constant background of experience. During external and internal crises and conflict situations, this background experience can be activated in the form of fantasies and emotional states and can then influence images and ideas about ourselves and the world.
For decades, millions of mothers have been subjected to new obstetric procedures, but with little knowledge of the long term effects from such interventions. Such procedures might, however, be of importance for the infant's behavior as an adult. Jacobson and Bygdeman found that a traumatic birth was associated with an increased risk of the infant subsequently committing suicide by violent means, whereas giving opiates to the mother during labor seemed to reduce the risk.
Water has always been a powerful symbol for human beings. Water is critical to life. First, the human fetus grows in the amniotic fluid. Second, the scientific context of the 1990s suggests a new vision of Homo sapiens as a primate that, although genetically related to the chimpanzees, has adapted to a particular environment through a land-sea interface. In this paper the origins of the power of water symbolism is explored, particularly in the context of the birth process.
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In this paper, I examine narcissistic difficulties experienced by the handicapped youngster, especially to the extent that they are anchored in pre-, peri- and early post-natal experiences that were cast in the molds of parental narcissistic vulnerability and of impediments to the infantile attainment of a core sense of self. Considerations pertain to relatively generalizable consequences of infant handicap, encompassing the potential effects upon narcissism of a broad range of developmental disabilities.


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Hamlin Park
3035 N. Hoyne Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60618
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Fee: $10 donation per family
Age Range: Ages 10 & under welcome with adult
Come join us for Hamlin Park's 2nd Annual BIGGER and BETTER Egg Hunt FUNdraiser hosted by the Hamlin Park Advisory Council! Thousands of pre-filled toy eggs, photos with the bunny, refreshments, entertainment, and much more! Exciting raffle drawing will take place for adults and kids! All proceeds go directly to the playground renovation fund.
Kids 3 & under hunt in the small gym at 10:00 a.m.
Kids 4 & older are outdoors at 10:30 a.m. (big gym if rained out)


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Marian Theresa Hurkman, Janesville, WI (1922-2014)
August 11, 1922 - April 12, 2014
Artist, wife, and mother, Marian Theresa Hurkman, age 91, of Janesville, died Saturday, April 12, 2014, at Lakeland Health Care Center, Elkhorn. She was born in Chicago, IL, on Aug. 11, 1922, the daughter of Emil and Anna (Oechiner) Meyer. Marian graduated from Lucy Flower High School in Chicago, and enjoyed a brief clerical career before marrying William Hurkman on June 29, 1946, in Wadsworth, WI. He preceded her in death on Sept. 11, 2011. Marian lived all over the United States, first moving from place to place while raising a family as a naval spouse, and later living in California, for a time, before finally settling in Janesville, WI. She was a member of St. William Catholic Church in Janesville, and of the Franciscan Third Order in Lake Geneva. An avid painter who mastered the Norwegian art of Rosemaling, Marian's work graces many homes around the United States.
Marian is survived by six children: William (Marion) Hurkman, Jr. of Martinez, CA, Joanne (Jerry) Bohren of Appleton, David (Sue) Hurkman of Fontana, Margaret (Bart Theiler) Hurkman of Tanglewood, CA, Mark (Jane) Hurkman of Lake Geneva, WI, and Alexis (Kaylynn Raschke) Hurkman of St. Paul, MN; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, Irvin Meyer.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2014, at ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH with Fr. John Auby officiating. Visitation will take place on Monday from 1 p.m. until the hour of Mass at ST. WILLIAM'S. Burial will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Rock County Humane Society. The family is being assisted by SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME. For on-line guestbook and condolences: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com


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Two local centers receive $17,000 grants
Friday, November 8, 2013
Two local centers that provide services for child victims and their families each have received $17,000 grant to help with professional development, medical consultation and service improvement.
The Walworth County Child Advocacy Center, W4063 Hwy. NN, Elkhorn, and YWCA CARE House, 1126 Conde St., Janesville, are among 14 Wisconsin Child Advocacy Centers to receive grant money administered through the Office of Crime Victim Services at the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
The centers coordinate services for child victims and their families using various agencies including law enforcement, child protective services, health care providers and victim advocacy agencies.


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Snow, snow emergency continue today
JANESVILLE—Weather forecasters scaled back snowfall totals from a winter storm that moved through the area late Saturday and could linger through midday today, but the area remains under a winter storm warning through Sunday morning.
Officials at the National Weather Service office in Sullivan said updated forecasts predict a winter storm overnight and into Sunday that could bring 4 to 7 inches of wet, heavy snow to parts of Rock and Walworth counties.
Earlier forecasts indicated that some parts of the area would get 8 to 10 inches of snow. But National Weather Service officials said the center of a band of snow that extends north from southwest Wisconsin to Green Bay had tracked further north than initially forecast.
Spotty rain was forecast to turn to heavy, wet snow late Saturday and continue throughout the night and into the morning today as temperatures hover just below freezing.
Forecasts for snow accumulation early today could total 4 inches, and another 2 to 3 inches of snow is expected to fall throughout the morning.
Visibility could remain poor today for travelers in open areas where snowfall is blown by winds up to 15 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service. Road conditions are expected to be sloppy today, as snowfall settles in over freezing rain on roads that already were icy in spots from periods of freezing rain late last week.
The city of Janesville has declared a snow emergency effective 6 a.m. today. The advisory means people should park their vehicles off roadways until the city is able to clear snow to the curb.
Travelers heading north in Wisconsin should expect to contend with roads hit by heavier snowfall. Snow accumulation totals in some northeastern counties of Wisconsin were expected to hit 8 to 10 inches, according the National Weather Service.