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STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville has been named a "Baby-Friendly Hospital" by the World Health Organization.
Texas Health Stephenville is one of three hospitals in the Texas Health Resources system to be designated as baby-friendly. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen also were designated.
So far, only about 80 U.S. hospitals have earned the designation and the Texas Health hospitals are the only ones in Texas named baby-friendly.
An international program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is designed to encourage and acknowledge hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for lactation.
"Everyone on our women's and children's staff is thrilled to receive this recognition," Devra LeFevre, R.N., director of nursing for women and children at Texas Health Stephenville. "But the real reward comes from seeing a new mother successfully breastfeeding her newborn."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in its recent Breastfeeding Report Card, lauded the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and listed the number of facilities in each state that have achieved the Baby-Friendly designation.
"Birth facility policies and practices significantly impact whether a woman chooses to start breastfeeding and how long she continues to breastfeed," the report said. The CDC encourages breastfeeding because of its many known benefits for infants, children and breastfeeding women.
Representatives from Baby-Friendly USA, the nonprofit organization that oversees the initiative, conducted an intensive site visit at Texas Health Stephenville in late February to assess its breastfeeding program.
To achieve Baby-Friendly status, hospitals must successfully implement and follow 10 steps outlined by the program. These include starting breastfeeding in the first hour of life, extensive employee training, practicing "rooming in" for new moms and infants, and providing outpatient support after the new mom and infant are released from the hospital.
Texas Health Stephenville recently expanded its family resource center to provide space for new mothers to learn more about breastfeeding.
"We really take a holistic approach to educating parents from the childbirth preparation classes to breastfeeding assistance and education after the birth," said Jennifer McMeens, clinical educator at Texas Health Stephenville. "We also work with young families on car seat and booster seat checks all the way through the child's eighth birthday."
"Our employees do a wonderful job anticipating the needs of new parents and providing education and support throughout the birthing process," said Texas Health Stephenville President Christopher Leu. "We are so proud to receive this prestigious recognition from the World Health Organization. This recognition is a great way to promote breastfeeding education and other support options for new mothers."
About Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital StephenvilleTexas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville is a 98-bed acute care, full-service facility serving Erath and surrounding counties since 1926. The hospital's services include inpatient and outpatient surgery, women's services, advanced diagnostic imaging, inpatient and outpatient physical therapy and wound care. Texas Health Stephenville, an affiliate of the faith-based, nonprofit Texas Health Resources system, has been recognized as a Nurse-Friendly Hospital and a Level IV Trauma Center. For more information, call 1-877-THR-WELL.
About Texas Health ResourcesTexas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served. The system of 13 hospitals includes Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, Texas Health Harris Methodist hospitals, Texas Health Presbyterian hospitals, and a medical research organization. Texas Health is a corporate member or partner in six additional hospitals and surgery centers. For more information, call 1-877-THR-WELL, or visit www.TexasHealth.org.
Doctors on the medical staff practice independently and are not employees or agents of the hospital.


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Steve Brill's blackboard jungleAugust 19, 2011: 5:00 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. Each Friday we feature a different review. This week, Fortune contributor David A. Kaplan takes a look at Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, Steve Brill's sprawling survey of what's wrong with the U.S. education system.
FORTUNE -- Every few years a new public policy issue becomes au courant for authors. We got religion on religion when it infiltrated political debate; we focused on nutrition when so many studies seemed to connect diet to overall health; we serially turn to tech when the stock market heats up. The latest subject is education reform. Books (as well as magazines and movies and blogs) have come out on the charter-school movement, standardized testing, technology innovations, for-profit schools, and even education-as-national-security problem. Now, no less a media star and entrepreneur than Steve Brill has weighed in. His widely anticipated Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, published this week, aims to do for education what David Halberstam once upon a time did for Vietnam or Bob Woodward these days does seriatim about the White House.
It's a superb book, written in a journalistic style that one would expect from the 60-year-old Brill, who founded CourtTV, and the American Lawyer and Brill's Content magazines. In contrast to more scholarly examinations of education reform -- like Stanford political science professor Terry Moe's earnest "Special Interest" -- Brill understands the value of character, scene and gossip. Class Warfare brims with them.
For example, Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes across not only as a courageous change-agent in New York City, but a hypocritical pol. Once Bloomberg decided in 2007 to run for a third term, according to Brill, he gave up trying to get major concessions from the teachers union in contract negotiations on matters like tenure. That meant undermining the schools chancellor, Joel Klein. "For the rest of his tenure," Brill writes, "Klein would be the rabid school reformer whose most eloquent arguments would be about union protections that remained embedded in the contract he had just signed." (Klein is now a top lieutenant to Rupert Murdoch and is running News Corp.'s (NWSA) internal probe of the phone-hacking scandal.)
There's also a wonderful bit about Klein's final day in office, last December. He inquired about his benefits package, which provided that if he chose to leave his 401(k) contributions in the education department's retirement fund, he'd get a guaranteed return of 8.25%. "How can you guarantee 8.25%?" asked an incredulous Klein. A human-resources clerk explained to him that he was entitled to what the union contract gave teachers: If any investments fell short of 8.25%, the city had to make the difference up. "Who else but Bernie Madoff guarantees 8.25% a year permanently?" Klein asked Brill. There's another rich scene in which a bunch of billionaires secretly meeting in Manhattan to discuss funding school reform all get stuck in the elevator at the apartment of Kenneth Langone, the Home Depot (HD) co-founder. It's this kind of inside reporting that make "Class Warfare" fun to read, even with its occasional tics. There are just too many characters, and the narrative jumps from Washington to Manhattan to Denver to Texas to L.A. to New Jersey to Brooklyn, from the 1980s to the present -- and not always in that order.
Brill's pedigree is as observant journalist, but he's made a mark as a doer as well. Beside the magazines and cable channel, he founded Journalism Online LLC -- which logistically helps publications charge Web fees -- and the now-failed Clear -- which enabled travelers to move faster through airport security. In "Class Warfare," he proposes a range of ways to fix the education system. He wants to undo the stranglehold he says the teachers unions have on politics, which in turn prevent teachers from becoming more accountable. That, he says, will permit teachers to be paid far more nationally -- from $65,000 to $165,000.
But unlike other reformers he wants not to co-opt labor's leaders rather than emasculate them -- to "enlist" them in the "fight." His "Nixon-to-China" suggestion for New York City: Hire Randi Weingarten, the powerful leader of the American Federation of Teachers, to run the schools. Brill says Weingarten actually told him she'd take the chancellor job. She even said Bloomberg offered her the post some years ago, Bloomberg denied this to Brill, adding, "It's a really stupid idea. Never in a million years." Brill's fantasies notwithstanding, it sounds like management-labor collaboration still has a long way to go.


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Windows Shortcuts
February 28th, 2009 Val Posted in General LVS info, LVS Online, Vista, Windows | 2 Comments »
An interesting MS Knowledge Base article came across my desk recently that I thought might be useful to many folks. Here is a list of all the official keyboard shortcuts:
I was just discussing this subject with my DH last night. I'm not really a keyboard shortcut sort of person. So what shortcuts do I use? Here is my much abbreviated list of shortcuts I think EVERYONE ought to know.
- CTRL+C: Copy
- CTRL+X: Cut
- CTRL+V: Paste
- CTRL+Z: Undo
- CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
- F1: Help (for the currently active window, if it's available. Windows help is from the desktop.)
- ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
- SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
Dialog box keyboard commands
- TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
- SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
- SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
- ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
- ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
- ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item
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On Thursday Charter Media will open the doors on its new production facility in Madison, Wis. To mark the occasion, Charter will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Madison Chamber of Commerce. Charter Media is the sales division of Charter Communications.
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Disney to buy YouTube video producer Maker StudiosMarch 25, 2014 11:19 am | by Associated Press | Comments
Disney said Monday that it is buying YouTube channel operator Maker Studios for $500 million as the family entertainment giant seeks to stay in front of younger viewers who are increasingly watching short videos online. It's the latest and largest acquisition of a YouTube channel network by a major Hollywood studio and represents another vote of confidence in the video service as an incubator of talent.
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After months of open suspicion that Huawei is party to Chinese espionage, press reports allege that the U.S. has hacked Huawei equipment. The report alleges the U.S. spying activity began around the time that concerns were growing in Washington that the telecommunications equipment manufacturer was a threat to U.S. national security.
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Bright House Networks has re-branded its business services division as Bright House Networks Enterprise Solutions. The former name was Bright House Networks Business Solutions, but Bright House said in a press release that the premise for the new name was "we're wired differently."
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Aurora Networks took the wraps off of a new transmitter system that was designed to reduce power consumption for DOCSIS 3.1 services. Aurora Networks said the HT3300H Series Double-Density 1310 nm Transmitter System also included 1.2 GHZ transmitters and featured high rack density.
Cisco to Invest $1 billion in new global cloud platformMarch 24, 2014 12:04 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | Comments
Cisco Monday announced plans to invest over $1 billion over the next two years in a global cloud for delivering applications and services. The "Intercloud," as Cisco is calling it, will be hosted across a global network of Cisco and partner data centers.
Virgin Media sticking with TiVoMarch 21, 2014 12:45 pm | by Brian Santo | Comments
The company said it will be sticking with its TiVo-based service, rather than adopt the Horizon platform developed by new owner Liberty Global. Virgin Media elected to use the TiVo box in part because it enables the company to offer Netflix. The company has also talked to Amazon about adding Amazon Prime.
Midcontinent gets green light in FargoMarch 21, 2014 12:11 pm | by Mike Robuck | Comments
Midcontinent Communications is now able to move forward with its plan of offering services in Fargo, N.D. now that a franchise agreement with the city commission has been reached. Earlier this week, the city commission voted in favor of the 15-year franchise agreement, which allowed Midcontinent to start on its $55 million expansion into Fargo
Column: Plenty to worry about in Comcast/TWC dealMarch 21, 2014 12:03 pm | by Frazier Moore, AP Television Writer | Comments
The herky-jerkiness of my Netflix video stream is nothing compared with my jittery nerves. I've been fretting since news broke last month that Comcast, the nation's reigning cable colossus, plans to swallow titanic runner-up Time Warner Cable.
Time Warner Cable execs rake in cash on Comcast dealMarch 21, 2014 11:57 am | by Associated Press | Comments
Departing Time Warner Cable Inc. executives are in line to receive "golden parachute" compensation totaling around $135 million as part of Comcast Corp.'s $45 billion acquisition of the cable operator. Shareholders are being asked to vote on the packages in a non-binding advisory vote. The details were contained in a securities filing Comcast made Thursday.
BlackBerry selling most Canadian real estateMarch 21, 2014 11:52 am | by Associated Press | Comments
BlackBerry is selling most of its real estate holdings in Canada as the struggling smartphone company continues to look for ways to improve its business. BlackBerry Ltd. did not disclose the buyer or purchase price, but said Friday that it will sell more than 3 million square feet of space and vacant lands.
Sony demos virtual reality headset for PS4March 20, 2014 1:28 pm | by The Associated Press | Comments
The prototype headset is capable of surrounding a wearer's vision with interactive virtual worlds. Codenamed Project Morpheus, it utilizes a 1080p head-mounted display with head-tracking capabilities and works in concert with the PlayStation 4 console to display imagery on the headset's screen, providing a 90-degree field of view.
White-label portal combos OTT and linearMarch 20, 2014 1:19 pm | by Brian Santo | Comments
Unified Video Technologies said it will introduce a new front-end interface for its video-on-demand portal service. While there are multiple white-label portal services, United Video claims its uVOD is differentiated in that it now also enables consumers to search and stream linear TV programming, in addition to over-the-top content.
Atlantic Broadband accelerates business broadband packagesMarch 20, 2014 12:52 pm | by Brian Santo | Comments
Atlantic Broadband is quietly increasing Internet transmission rates and expanding the number of service tiers for business customers. ABB has more than doubled its fastest tier, from 50 Mbps to 110 Mbps. The new set of tiers also includes options for service at 15-, 30-, and 75 Mbps.


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This document is an endorsement for ash tree conservation as part of integrated approach to managing emerald ash borer in urban areas, and is supported by university scientists with expertise in EAB management, commercial arborists, municipal foresters, public works officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Emerald Ash Borer
Emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, is an exotic beetle that was discovered in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002. The adult beetles nibble on ash foliage but cause little damage. The larvae (the immature stage) feed on the inner bark of ash trees, disrupting the tree's ability to transport water and nutrients. Emerald ash borer probably arrived in the United States on solid wood packing material carried in cargo ships or airplanes originating in its native Asia. Emerald ash borer is also established in Windsor, Ontario, was found in Ohio in 2003, northern Indiana in 2004, northern Illinois and Maryland in 2006, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 2007, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia in the summer of 2008, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky in the spring of 2009, Iowa in the spring of 2010, Tennessee in the summer of 2010, Connecticut, Kansas, and Massachusetts in the summer of 2012, New Hampshire in the spring of 2013, North Carolina and Georgia in the summer of 2013, and Colorado in the fall of 2013. Since its discovery, EAB has:
- Killed tens of millions of ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of millions more lost in Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Quebec, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
- Caused regulatory agencies and the USDA to enforce quarantines (Michigan, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Quebec) and fines to prevent potentially infested ash trees, logs or hardwood firewood from moving out of areas where EAB occurs.
- Cost municipalities, property owners, nursery operators and forest products industries tens of millions of dollars.
The prolonged sub-zero temperatures experienced this winter in North America have raised hopes that pests like EAB will freeze to death.
Though studies suggest that this may happen to some of the EAB larvae, it looks like it may not be enough to make a big impact on the EAB population. Here's what some of the experts are saying:
From Michigan
While there might have been some effect [on EAB], a Michigan State University professor who is one of the state's leading experts on the pest said it is doubtful it had the overwhelming impact reported elsewhere.
"It's probably not nearly as much as we'd like," said Deborah McCullough, an MSU professor in the departments of entomology and forestry.
"...The ability of insects, including EAB, to survive cold winter temperatures depends greatly on whether the insects are acclimated to colder temperatures," she said.
In fall, as the temperatures drop, physiological changes occur in most insects, including EAB, McCullough said.
"The insects are able to produce a sort of antifreeze that keeps their cells from freezing," she said.
(see the full story here: "STATE: Frigid temperatures might not have killed emerald ash borer")
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One way that cold temperatures can be helpful is by beating back the wave of invasive insects that have laid siege to the state's forests, but State Entomologist Piera Siegert tells NHPR's Brady Carlson that the some of the recent headlines about the impact of this cold on invasive bugs over-state the case in the Granite state.
Siegert says Red Pine Scale and Hemlock Wooly Adelgid are both more exposed to cold than the Emerald Ash Borer, but all three bugs are adapted to deal with the cold. The Ash Borer in particular is remarkably cold hearty. Several recent media stories have stated that this beetle would be killed by cold of -30 degrees Fahrenheit, but Siegert says it has to be that cold "below the bark." In other words, there's no guarantee that this cold will cause populations to decline.
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Information circling the Internet earlier this week suggested a silver lining to London's record-breaking cold weather emergency — the death of the dreaded emerald ash borer.
As it turns out, people may have gotten their hopes up a little too early. According to Taylor Scarr, provincial forest entomologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the cold snap happened too late in the winter to be much of a help.
"There may be some impact of the cold weather on the survival of emerald ash borer in Ontario, but I think it will be minimal," Scarr said. "It didn't get cold enough, soon enough, fast enough. It has to happen early, it has to happen fast, and it has to happen deeply."
Reports stemming from research out of Minnesota earlier this week said the extreme temperatures associated with the so-called Arctic Vortex might kill off a "significant percentage" of emerald ash borer larvae.
Scarr, however, said studies done in Ontario, including ones spearheaded by Brent Sinclair at Western University, found that once temperatures drop down to the -30C range, about half of the emerald ash borer larvae have a probability of dying. Put another way, it means still half of the insects will survive.
And that, Scarr said, was looking at the temperatures in January and February. If these cold temperatures would have occurred in November or December, it might have had more of an impact.
(see the full story: "Extreme cold won't help London's emerald ash borer problem")
For those of us living in regions of North America where the bitter cold seems to hang on and on this winter, it would be nice to hear that the death of EAB is a silver lining. But it looks like EAB can handle it.
These stories, and other news stories related to cold tolerance of EAB, can be seen on this website's "Latest News" link. Meanwhile, dress warmly!
New Strategy Being Developed to Deal With Emerald Ash Borer
- Research is being conducted at universities, as well, to understand the beetle's life cycle and find ways to detect new infestations, control EAB adults and larvae, and contain the infestation.
- Quarantines are in place to prevent infested ash firewood, logs or nursery trees from being transported and starting new infestations.
This Website provides information from Michigan State University, Purdue University, the Ohio State University, the Michigan and Ohio departments of Agriculture; the Michigan, Indiana and Ohio departments of Natural Resources; the USDA Forest Service; the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS); and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Our goal is to help you find answers to your questions about EAB. We also provide links to other EAB-related Websites. Please check this site often because information changes frequently.
What to know about EAB:
- It attacks only ash trees (Fraxinus spp.).
- Adult Beetles are metallic green and about 1/2-inch long.
- Adults leave a D-shaped exit hole in the bark when they emerge in spring.
- Woodpeckers like EAB larvae; heavy woodpecker damage on ash trees may be a sign of infestation.
- Firewood cannot be moved in many areas of Michigan, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin because of the EAB quarantine.
- It probably came from Asia in wood packing material.
If you suspect you may have EAB in your ash trees, call these numbers:
- Michigan — 1-800-292-3939
- Colorado — Colorado Dept. of Agriculture at 888-248-5535, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Connecticut — The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at 1-203-974-8474 or email email@example.com
- Georgia — Contact your county Extension office or email to Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Illinois — Contact your county Extension office. The Illinois Department of Agriculture also will offer a toll-free hotline at 1-800-641-3934 for extension-confirmed infestations
- Indiana — 1-866-NO-EXOTIC
- Iowa — 1-515-294-5963
- Kansas — 1-785-862-2180
- Kentucky — 1-859-257-5838
- Maryland — University of Maryland Home and Garden Information Center — 1-800-342-2507 or the Maryland Department of Agriculture — 1-410-841-5920
- Massachusetts — 1-866-322-4512
- Minnesota — 1-888-545-6684 (Arrest-the-Pest Hotline)
- Missouri — 1-866-716-9974
- Nebraska — 1-866-322-4512
- New Hampshire — Report suspect trees and submit photos of damage to www.nhbugs.org or call 1-800-444-8978.
- New York — 1-866-640-0652
- North Carolina — 1-800-206-9333 or email@example.com
- North Dakota — North Dakota Forest Service in Fargo at 701-231-5138 and North Dakota Department of Agriculture in Fargo at 701-239-7295 or Bismarck at 701-328-4765
- Ohio — 1-888-OHIO-EAB
- Pennsylvania — 1-866-253-7189
- Tennessee — 1-800-628-2631
- Virginia — The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Plant Industry Services at 1-804-786-3515
- West Virginia — 1-304-254-2941
- Wisconsin — 1-800-462-2803
- Canada — 1-866-463-6017
Scientists are studying methods of controlling EAB. The latest information on insecticide evaluations can help homeowners, arborists and landscapers decide if and how they can treat trees for EAB.
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Cataplexy Triggers
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 11:42 AM
Angry, or really hurt or sudden disappointments
Core body temperature low
Thinking about having cataplexy
Pushing myself too much when working out (comes the following days)
A drop in blood pressure
A drop in blood sugar
Too much internet
Pushing myself to stay awake
Not getting enough sleep
Not eating enough
Too much on my plate - ie severe stress
Certain food allergies
I think that's it. If I think of something, I'll edit my list.
Posted 02 August 2011 - 07:43 AM
Not getting enough sleep
Pushing myself to stay awake
Pushing myself too hard physically
Pretty much any time I push myself too hard and my body is feeling weakened because of it... cataplexy is bound to happen.
Then of course the normal triggers like laughter, shock/disbelief, sadness/helplessness.
Posted 18 September 2011 - 10:17 AM
Anxiety - in very crowded places for example
Low blood sugar
When working out (most common -- I am always close to grabbing something in the gym just in case I go down)
Super excited
Feeling overwhelmed
(Never when Laughing and I laugh a LOT). Thankfully that is not my trigger (knock wood).
Posted 18 September 2011 - 11:23 PM
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:00 PM
was being in a public place and having smoked MJ... or even just with someone i didnt know well... both those things cause panic, so it kind of went hand in hand
10 years later...
when i am super tired
and i scare really easily... this is the worst, opening a bathroom door at work with someone on the other side, can not tell you how many times i fell to my knees
I think I notice it a lot more now that i know what it is...
Just starting driving a manual car... nothing like get scared when someone in front of you slams on the breaks and your legs are shacking/not really working, and you almost wreck!
Posted 26 July 2012 - 12:00 PM
was being in a public place and having smoked MJ... or even just with someone i didnt know well... both those things cause panic, so it kind of went hand in hand
10 years later...
when i am super tired
and i scare really easily... this is the worst, opening a bathroom door at work with someone on the other side, can not tell you how many times i fell to my knees
I think I notice it a lot more now that i know what it is...
Just starting driving a manual car... nothing like get scared when someone in front of you slams on the breaks and your legs are shacking/not really working, and you almost wreck!
Posted 14 August 2012 - 04:36 PM
Posted 16 August 2012 - 06:35 PM
laugh, joy, sad, excited- tingles in legs, arms, head- like goose bumbs without the bumps
laugh really hard- need to sit down, head drops, body tilts over
startle- knee buckle with a slow motion fall- I can usually use an arm to direct my descent, face sags
embarrassment or attention drawn to me- face sags, speech stutters, vision fuzzes like static, hands drop- I basically look drunk. This happened a year ago when I was pulled over for a minor traffic violation. It resulted in police back up, searched my trunk for drugs because no alcohol on my breath. They asked if I needed an ambulance. I didn't know it was C then- I just thought they were a little too into their job.
any emotional stress makes everything worse.
Intense exercise makes my legs heavy. Like jumping rope- the faster I go the slower I get. Moderate exercise - my knees get shaky but only after I stop. I broke my elbow when I fell backward after completing a run.
Objects coming at me- this one fascinates me. catching a ball, pen, keys, a bug/bee flying at me- causes my arms to go slack and I tilt to the right, but just briefly
****If anyone has found a good way of explaining this to strangers without giving your medical history, I would love to hear it. Overly curious/ annoyingly helpful people are hard for me. I just need a quick phrase so I can recover. I joked with my wife that I should say I've got "bad gas", so they will leave me alone quickly and abandon their curiosity. She is too polite to encourage that, but agreed it would achieve the goal.
Posted 15 October 2012 - 03:12 PM
Angry or sudden disappointments- in fact any sudden strong emotion including grief.
Core body temperature too hot
Pushing myself too much when working out (comes within the hour)
A drop in blood sugar
Fasting ie going without food for too long
Prozac ( yup makes my cataplexy worse )
Not observing a regular sleep schedule.
Posted 23 February 2013 - 11:32 PM
Never had cataplexy for 14 years, just extreme EDS, been on Ritalin that long. After developing a progressing photosentivity issue for the last two years, my doc put me on Topamax for Christmas, an anti-seizure drug for epilepsy. It really helped the seasickness of the photosensitivity, but caused me to have my first cataplexies. This would only happen after my Ritalin wore off at night.
So I told my doctor, go figure out that nice little chemistry set going on in my poor brain! Luckily, it was only a side effect and went away after a couple weeks. (I also had to figure out, on my own, that the main source of my photosensitivity is DLP projectors.)
I can say that I now know what some of my narcoleptic brethren deal with on one hand, but also know now what I may deal with one day as well. Sure wasn't any fun, but I guess I can think of worse things too!
Posted 21 May 2013 - 02:50 PM
for a long time my main trigger was "synchronicity," or believing that some occurrence was a meaningful coincidence. there's something called "apophenia," which i believe is the 'delusion' that everything is connected! all it took was seeing someone with the same shoes i had, and it was 'omg!' and the ground would come up to meet me.
i was lucky, and was soon able to do the 'fold and fall' -- lowering myself to the ground, so that i rarely hurt myself [unless i did: i've broken an ankle, both bones in my calf, each foot, and an eye socket, all at separate times…].
besides, the situation was almost always such that i could FEEL it coming on, and eventually sort of learned to avoid a cataplexy attack.
Posted 21 May 2013 - 02:56 PM
one more trigger i used to have:
i read once on the old u.k.a.n. site [united kingdom association for narcolepsy, now narcolepsy uk] that in a survey of possible triggers, respondents listed "Response to a Call for Action" as a likely trigger.
well, i got put on the nn board of trustees [not bragging, i couldn't even serve a term because of other medical stuff]. but if that's not a call to action, i don't know what is! the thing is, as soon as i was asked [by telephone], i dropped the phone and LITERALLY fell off my chair and onto the floor because all my muscles went limp! ;->


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"It was far from our best effort, and there's certainly room for improvement, but we did some positive things," Spanish Springs coach Christine Eckles said. "Damonte Ranch is much improved from a year ago. Their kids came to play, but I thought for the most part, ours did too."
Damonte Ranch tried to fluster Spanish Springs with some early full-court pressure but the Cougars welcomed it and broke the Mustangs' press schemes for easy layups. That helped key the Cougars early spurt as they ran out to a 21-11 lead after one period of play.
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A 3-pointer by Kayla Bruesewitz left Damonte down 37-25 at the 3:40 mark of the third period. The conference clash got ugly from there. The Mustangs did not score again in the third and managed only five points through the remainder of the contest.
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Taylor Nuttal was the lone Damonte Ranch player to hit for double digits in the scoring column, finishing with 11 points.
"Defensively, after the first quarter we were pretty good," Eckles said. "We gave up some open looks early but we buckled down, got better ball pressure and got in some passing lanes as the game wore on."
Spanish Springs shot 24-of-53 (45 percent) from the field while Damonte Ranch was 11-of-35 (31 percent). Shooting wasn't the only area where the Cougars held an advantage. Spanish Springs out-rebounded Damonte 27-20 and forced 25 Mustangs turnovers while committing only 13.
The Cougars improved to 15-4 overall and 6-2 in league play with the victory. They will play again Jan. 18 at Reed.
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The Towering Strength of Science
Millions of atheist scientists and other rational freethinkers know full well, through the application of unbiased commonsense and the results of millions of complex experiments and the calculations of astute experimental and theoretical physicists, that we humans inhabit a tiny part of what is a vast godless universe of immense age; and that we have good reason to infer that gods exist nowhere but in the imaginations, stories and lies of faith-driven men.
So how can bible-believers seriously defend their ever-shrinking part of the world against the supreme logic produced by elite scientists when there is no case to answer? Why are there faith-believers at all?
A principal reason is that once the fictions of faith get into people's heads it is difficult to be rid of them. Indoctrinated when young, they indoctrinate the young of their own and of others, and the cycle of merciless irrationality continues.
These dogmatic bigots never let go—and that is because they never listen, their minds are already made up, and they are incapable of understanding and absorbing new knowledge no matter how thoroughly well-tested and proven the latter may be.
Only freethinkers and scientists see the universe clearly and correctly for its materiality and man's place in it as an evolutionary accident but a marvel nonetheless.
Religionists sink inside the mental quagmire and nightmare of their own making for it is philosophically incontestable, when the evidence is well presented and the listener has a high enough level of intelligence and freedom of thought, that gods exist nowhere but inside people's heads—and that is that.
Terence Meaden. 27 August 2008. Planet Atheism/ Enlightened Observer
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I wish a Merry IsaacNewtonMas to everyone, everywhere.
We know to 100% accuracy that the great scientist and mathematician was born on 25 December, whereas there is only a 1 in 365 chance that Jesus was.
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This genuine picture was photographed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England by science atheist Dr. Terence Meaden earlier this month.
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Thank you for the welcome. I'm glad to be here.
Thanks for the kind welcome. I got here via a search for amateur radio atheists. Listening to Christians on 14 MHz is a dispiriting experience! I look forward to many years of community.
Thanks for the warm welcome Terence!
Thank you Dr. Meaden for inviting me to the group. It looks like a wonderful place!
Thanks for the welcome.
thanks for the nice welcome Terry.
Thanks, I am going to enjoy this group, I can see that already.
Greetings from the UK
having just read your line that "gods exist nowhere but inside peoples' heads", a belief i have come to share, i find myself wondering if you don't know what "a meme in the noosphere" means, certainly your skepticism that i am an atheist is off-putting and confusing….
isn't "inside peoples' heads" somewhere in existence? i believe that it is and delight in the irony that now that i've gone from youthful anglican deist, to longtime fence sitting agnostic, to out and out atheist, i can in truth prove that god exists, if only as a meme in the noosphere….
like light being both a wave and a particle, or an electron appearing to be everywhere at once, common sense must sometimes bow to the truth of paradox????
Thank you. I certainly will.
Thank you I will.
Thank you for the welcome and invitation Dr. Meaden.
Thanx Doc for the warm welcome.
One particular interest I have is in a kind of "all-in-one" one-page refutation of theism in general and of each of its main sects/religions in particular. I've looked elsewhere and have not found such.
Do we have such a thing somewhere on this site?
Thanks for the invitation, Dr. Meaden. I have a frustrating subject I'm just itching to discuss. I'll see if I find the time to do that when I finally get home from work.
Thank you. Sorry for the late reply.
Thanks Dr. Terence for the invite, I have joined your group now!
Thank you!
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For the last four years, I have felt trapped and at times hopeless because I am a closeted atheist pastor. After much reflection, I no longer share the religious beliefs of the faith community I serve. I belong to a fundamentalist, evangelical, Bible-believing denomination, which means if anyone found out about my change in beliefs, I would lose my job immediately and plunge my family into financial ruin.
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