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We offer a wide variety of therapies in order to tailor the healing as required. Whichever technique we use, the objective is the same: to release unwanted emotions / thoughts / behaviour from your system and recover your authentic, genuine self. Thoughts and emotions are the interface between our mind and body. Usually, when we are fully present in the moment we only focus on thoughts which are required to move forward. However, in many cases what happens is we are not able to proceed because of old thoughts, beliefs from the past. These words are no longer valid. Not relevant for the reality today. They act as a virus, interfering with the program that you do need.
If thoughts, which are just words in your mind, can influence how you think and behave, we can do the reverse too. We can use selected words chosen for a given objective to influence our mind. There are many resources which give suggested affirmations based on the relevant issues. The therapies below provide a more accurate and detailed insight into the causes of thought viruses to effectively root them out.
Access your own subconscious mind. There is no 'mumbo jumbo'. Hypnosis is simply entering a very relaxed state with your eyes closed, and then seeing and / or reliving scenes from previous experiences. Consciously, it just feels like you are on the verge of falling asleep while you are able to visualise experiences just like memories. In this state, we can help you access the moments, experiences which are causing certain issues in life. It could be an experience in which you were very humiliated and as a result there is a small part of you stuck in that experience. Still reliving it. Still seeing the world on the basis of that experience and not moving on. The aim is to make peace with that moment, accepting that it is over. It is a new day. Time to move on.
A simple, yet pure method of channeling life force energy to heal any kind of mental or physical issues. Reiki essentially means guided life force energy. The healer merely acts as an intermediary to guide the healing energy to where it is needed the most and for the highest good. The principle is that when our life force energy is low, then there is less energy available to flow to the physical body. This is how diseases begin. This is why many diseases return despite numerous medical treatments. Since medicine only works on the physical body - it does not deal with the root cause at the energy level.
Reiki is one of few treatments that can be applied remotely. Time and space are not a constraint so healing can be done for you wherever you are in the world.
Chakras are vortices of energy in your aura - the energy field surrounding your physical body. Primarily there are seven major vortices corresponding to various points in the body and governing different aspects of life. From basic survival, creativity, drive, love, expression, vision to enlightenment. Ideally, energy flows freely through the chakras ensuring healthy functioning of the respective aspects and parts of the body. However, life is not always ideal and we often meet with stresses, traumas, incidents which can disturb the energy flow and can even create blockages if not dealt with.
In addition to the seven major chakras that many people know about, we work with 150+ additional minor chakras. This enables a much more accurate reading to find the core issue. Once we have established which chakras need healing, we suggest a suitable affirmation to be repeated for 21 days. An affirmation is basically a phrase, a statement designed to influence your thoughts according to your desired outcome. Usually the words are chosen to counteract any negative thoughts which may be detrimental to you.
Affirmations are very effective because of a very simple principle. Our thoughts are essentially words in our mind. How we feel at a given moment is determined by the thoughts and the resulting emotions. What we are thinking can be put into words. In order to influence our thoughts we do some reverse engineering by repeating positive words. Positive words equal positive thoughts. By repeating affirmations over a set time frame, new positive thoughts replace old, negative thoughts. At a deeper level even beliefs, conclusions about life can be changed.
The readings can be done in person or over the phone.
Crystals have been used for their various properties by numerous civilisations throughout history. From ancient Ayurveda in India, to Atlantis, Egypt, Aztecs, Mayans to tribes all over the world have documented their usage. In modern times crystals are used in clocks (quartz), liquid crystal displays and many other uses for the raw silicon. We have researched hundreds of types of crystals and identified suitable variants for healing and empowerment. In therapy, crystals can be used directly by placing on relevant points on the body or through the use of grids for distant healing. For more effective, sustained results many people like to wear bracelets, necklaces or even carry a small tumble in the pocket. See redgreenbee for a wide range of crystals.
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The clinical data analytics industry is poised to expand by more than $18,700,000,000 through the year 2020. The 4 areas of analysis predicted to be in highest demand are financial analysis, supply chain analysis, fraud & human resources, and, of course, clinical.
In fact, some experts say that there's never been a better time to implement clinical analytics, considering how badly healthcare reform is needed. If reducing overall cost and improving the quality of care are indeed the goals of reform, then technology such as clinical data analytics must be viewed as our primary means of achieving such lofty goals.
Clinical analytics is the process of using informational analysis to draw meaningful conclusions using the data collected from the different segments of healthcare: pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), claims & cost, electronic medical records (EHRs), and patient sentiment & behavior (from surveys, case studies, purchasing preferences/practices, etc.).
Conclusions and discoveries may then be used to guide decision-making regarding changes that need to be made, new ways of doing things, and the establishment of "best practices" criteria.
Clinical analytics improve health care, while at the same time reducing cost by analyzing trends, patterns, and deviations from the norm revealed by the data.
1– Differing in terms of the types of information users, data involved, and the management decisions or clinical action supported by the analysis, there are approximately 8 different types of clinical analytics—these include:
- Public Health Surveillance
- Comparative Effectiveness
- Quality Improvement
- Clinical Decision Support
- Clinical Benchmarking
- Population Health Management
- Regulatory Reporting, Compliance & Transparency
- Retrospective Performance Measures & Predictive Analytics
2– Clinical analytics works either on a prospective (zooming forward) or a retrospective (zooming into the past) perspective. Performance measuring tools/systems using data about patients gathered over periods of time is an example of "retrospective." Such information can be used to ameliorate a population's health or an organization's performance.
CDS (clinical decision support) systems, on the other hand, are predictive or prospective since they help guide future action (e.g., treatment plans) based on past information about individual patients.
3– There are 5 main types of performance measuring tools:
- Process Measures: compliance levels for standard-of-care programs (e.g., requiring mammograms for certain women)
- Cost, Resource & Efficiency: treatments/tests used (e.g., MRI to confirm CT scan's vague results), outcomes, etc.
- Structural Measures: how healthcare delivery systems operate (e.g., number of prescriptions sent electronically)
- Patient Experience: patient satisfaction/perceptions (mostly through surveys)
- Outcomes Measures: impact on patient health of healthcare delivery (e.g., mortality rates) and patient safety (e.g., nosocomial infections)
4– Clinical analytics can greatly improve the quality and reduce the costs of healthcare delivery—such as by:
- Promoting/encouraging prevention-based (rather than "reactive") healthcare—a practical, cost-saving solution;
- Promoting/encouraging evidence-based treatment plans—using patient histories to guide treatment plans;
- Enabling more personalized patient care—reducing test repetition & change-of-doctor-created lack of coordination;
- Improving diagnostic accuracy—using predictive algorithms to make patient decisions;
- Providing hospitals and employers with predictions about insurances products costs.
5– Clinical analytics improves health care–this key role in improving healthcare and R&D systems is partly made possible thanks to the "Center for Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs." Using data from electronic health records, healthcare providers and researchers, thanks to this major initiative by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, can start making use of a vast amount of data which would otherwise remain poorly utilized.
6– Clinical analytics improves healthcare by providing the following benefits:
- Improving margins
- Reducing waste
- Streamlining operations
- Improving performance
- Automatically tracking quality measures
- Shared-savings arrangements success
- Complete cost-structure understanding
Clinical analytics may sound like a fancy term reserved only for IT and management personnel, but, at the core of clinical analytics technology is the basic fact that the huge amount of data being collected every day about millions of patients can be used as an effective tool to fix, transform and reform the broken healthcare system. This data is called big data and more and bigger data is being created and stored every minute. Technology advancement means more data is being created and it also means there are more ways and tools that can be used to interpret, dissect and use this data for better use.
Practically speaking, improvement in the healthcare industry means, reducing costs across the board, improving outcomes and enhancing the quality of care for all patients. But it also means being able to use data to prevent illness, increase population health and make proactive changes to the way health is given and received. Although some healthcare reform ideas unfairly favor one stakeholder or segment, clinical analytics, if applied objectively and responsibly, can be a powerful tool for meaningful, long-lasting, helping-all-involved and proactive change all around the industry in every level and in every field and specialty.

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Description of problem:
XEmacs fails to terminate when the connection to the X display is
lost. Furthermore, when this occurs, XEmacs begins consuming
an exorbitant amount of processing cycles. An lsof run on the
system indicates the TCP state of the the process' X connection
as CLOSE_WAIT.
According to an entry on the XEmacs mailing list (see provided URL),
this bug has been fixed in 21.4.10. After compiling/installing
21.4.14, I've verified that this problem is not present in that revision.
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How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use ssh login to a remote system (enable X11 Forwarding)
2. Execute 'xemacs somefile &'
3. Send SIGKILL to the ssh client
Actual Results: xemacs on the remote machine was still running, and consuming
processing cycles.
Expected Results: xemacs should terminate.
Additional info:
Created attachment 94643 [details]
Supporting information from 21.4.10 patch
I suggest upgrading to a newer version of XEmacs then.
While this sounds pretty annoying, I'm sorry but I don't feel
this is serious enough to warrant an errata.


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Bad weather didn't stop the Black Yeti and riders from 6 nations to rock at the Protest East Rookie Fest in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, in order to conquer the last invitation at the upcoming rookie finals. The event saw an high level of riding in both half pipe than slope style competition, re-loading the same format of the 2008 edition in Czech, with an overall rank as avarage of both results.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Homeowners in Baton Rouge's Garden District believe residents of a group home are responsible for a string of break-ins. The Harmony Center is located on the corner of Camelia and Government Streets.
There is a neighborhood effort underway to shut it down.
The Garden District is a neighborhood where you find people enjoying the outdoors under the shade of tall Oak trees. It's known for its charm. Anthony Lascaro said it's just one reason he moved here.
"The neighborhood has some character to it. The people, the neighborhood is close to LSU, close to downtown, close to family," Lascaro said.
A couple of weeks ago the peace and quiet Lascaro and some of his neighbors' enjoy was disrupted by burglars.
"It was a smash and grab. They ransacked my bedroom, tossed over some things in the house, then got out of dodge," Lascaro said.
J.T. Bacon said his neighbors were hit too.
"About a week and a half, two weeks ago, we had a break in two houses down from me here on Camelia and from what I understand it was some of the boys from the Harmony House," Bacon said.
The Harmony Center is a group home for young boys, under the direction of Collis Temple.
Garden District Civic Association President, Ray Mack, said four boys who were living at the center were recently arrested in connection to the burglaries.
The Harmony Center is currently empty but neighbors worry another group will move in soon and the problems will return.
"The opinion of the Garden District Civic Association Board is this group home has failed both its neighbors and the boys that live there," Mack said.
Since October of 2010, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has cited the Harmony Center for a long list of deficiencies including failure to check criminal records, failure to provide residents safeguards, failure to perform preadmission screening and having insufficient qualified staff.
"It makes me a little uncomfortable know that people are running around during the day unsupervised," Lascaro said.
The civic association is asking state leaders to either hire qualified professionals to run the Harmony Center or close its doors.
"We would welcome a good well run group home," Mack said.
With two unsuccessful attempts to overhaul the home, one in 2006 and another in 2008, Mack is convinced a positive transformation is possible only through new leadership.
A spokesperson with the Office of Juvenile Justice said the agency no longer has a contract with the facility.
Collis Temple, the director of Harmony Center, said he is working to improve the group home's relationship with its neighbors. But when 9News asked for details he had no further comment.
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Do you have a truly inspirational story about how a projector or plasma display changed your conference room? NEC wants to reward the most unique, creative applications of display technology. Professionals can submit their story and picture of their room, and the best business application will win five NEC LT30 projectors. In addition, the public can cast their vote for their favorite submission at www.necvisualsystems.com.
"We are constantly amazed by the many different ways that NEC customers think to use our projectors and plasmas," says Pierre Richer, senior vice president of NEC's Visual Systems Division. "We figured a contest like this would be a great way to showcase their creativity, while also giving them the opportunity to win five NEC projectors!"
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Integration of applications within a business and between different businesses is becoming more and more important. The needs for up-to-date information that is accessible from almost everywhere and developing e-business solutions — particularly business to business — require that developers find solutions for integrating diverse, heterogeneous applications, developed in different architectures and programming languages and on different platforms. They have to do this quickly and cost effectively, but still preserve the architecture and deliver robust solutions that are maintainable over time.
Integration is a difficult task. This book focuses on the SOA approach to integration of existing (legacy) applications and newly developed solutions, using modern technologies, particularly web services, XML, ESB, and BPEL. The book shows how to define SOA for integration, what integration patterns to use, which technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions. It also shows how to develop web services and BPEL processes, and how to process and manage XML documents from the JEE and .NET platforms. Finally, it also explains how to integrate both platforms using web services and ESBs.


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We could have simply heaped much deserved praise upon director Anthony Minghella. And to be honest he might have preferred it that way. But We, who have been given the green light by Mr. Minghella to do a page about his work just can't make things easy for ourselves. So where does that leave us? It leaves us ready to launch the best darn Anthony Minghella: The Storyteller Page that has ever been created in the history of the world wide web.
What will you find here? You'll find lots of information about the work of Anthony Minghella who might be one of the few people who could write an autobiography titled 'From Muppets to Men' if it wasn't for the fact that we might just beat him to it. You will find interviews, real and imagined with some of the fine artists who have worked with Anthony Minghella. Some will express profound thoughts about their work with Mr. Minghella.
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Poems of Frank Rupture
REVIEW: "It's typical of the narrative persona conveyed in much of Peter Manson's previous work that "The Baffle Stage", the second of the Poems of Frank Rupture, should offer a kind of pre-emptive piss-take of the compositional techniques underpinning the collection's subsequent and most significant piece, "Sourdough Mutation", defined as it is by verbal shuffling of the "rack/lack/cack" variety (though far more myriad and pleasurable).[...] On the one hand, the formal invention of this poetry occasionally seems powered by a veritable dynamo of masochism; on the other, and not unrelatedly, it's often hilarious.[...] This is what "Sourdough Mutation" feels like to read: like someone has extracted the hypnagogic voices from your supine head and played them back to you, algorithmically shuffled into pleasing patterns of sound and shape. It's an act of generous communication to allow a poem to speak a reader like this: to show them that the most primordial aspects of their cognition are shared and understood. It also seems like it could have been an indirectly rejuvenative process for the poetic voice itself. At the close of that creation sequence in "The Baffle Stage", Manson offers an almost-potty-mouthed reworking of Rimbaud's "Je est un autre" – "I is this constellated cupid stunt" – which seems to get to the heart of the matter (8). The compositional logic may in essence be a logic of self-punishment – "I am a stupid cunt" – but embraced and played out in language, it yields a childlike, celestial play: a constellation of cupid stunts."
REVIEW "The case of Peter Manson provides another handy example of canonical speciousness.[...] If we expect our poets to write out of an experientially defined self, to 'find their voice', and take the assault course of form by cranking out the odd villanelle, then Manson can only baffle and disappoint. Expecting him to do these things, however, I would suggest, is no more meaningful than expecting Webern to write 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. [... This] poetry is thrillingly of the present moment, and pregnant with possibility for anyone who cares to absorb it. I have seen the future and it (still) works."
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Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His other books include Adjunct: an Undigest and For the Good of Liars (both from Barque Press), and "Between Cup and Lip" (Miami University Press, Ohio). Miami UP also publish his book of translations, Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse. With Robin Purves he edited the seminal Object Permanence magazine.
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"'Ah more eh…oh oh'. In the light of Faraday's candle Coleridge channels Loewenhoek and Whalen (I was thinking) as Peter Manson shakes the frayed carpet of culture and, as a fearless Duprat caddis fly larva, makes jewels from the motes. Even the bits of themselves the poems create make interesting shadows. 'Groups of words which didn't describe the image but which were it'. Yes. Wit, intelligence, a dispassionate view of self: plus images that are not words. Nothing to want for in this excellent book that moved my chitin heart." Tom Raworth
Review of Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse:
"A superb translation", David Wheatley, The Guardian
"Manson's translations of Mallarmé never pretend to the Romantic ambition of recreating the poem from its origins, nor do they entirely estrange the English language from itself. What they do achieve is the creation of a contemporary English poetry that stands in tension with Mallarmé's own in a way that deepens and highlights the potentialities of both. They will stand as a mark, singular and idiosyncratic rather than blandly definitive, of what translation can and should attain to." David Lloyd, The Enclave review
"works of a patient and conscious art that releases its enchantment in a slow, increasingly potent vapour." Allison Croggon, Overland
"a marvel of luminous precision." Financial Times
Review of Adjunct: an Undigest:
"For those who believe erroneously that the avant-garde have no sense of humour, Peter Manson's Adjunct, An Undigest- certainly the most entertaining collection of the year - is highly recommended. A seven-year creation, it manically folds together rueful diary entries, irreverent comments on artists, writers and musicians, gleeful misprints, and all sorts of found and heard material. Undigested in appearance, but regurgitated in combinations either crafted or mathematically determined, the consistent hilarity of its relentless, deadpan juxtapositions has inescapably serious implications too.' --Robert Potts, The Guardian
Review of Between Cup and Lip
Peter Manson's first American collection, Between Cup and Lip, is made up of an astonishingly varied set of slips of the tongue, jokes, bagatelles, serious wit and a jangling of all registers and codes… [The] poems here are more than a melange of procedural and prosodic compositions (though there are examples of both), but a quizzical quest, through comedy, for a procedural prosody or prosodic procedure, as Snarkish a beast, perhaps, as the old prose poem of old.This [Snail Book] is a wonderful poem, and reinvents procedural prose prosody as comic routine, with Snarkish laughs as tough as old snails." Adam Piette, Blackbox Manifold
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Let me start by sincerely apologising to my non-Nigerian readers for, you shall not understand what is going on here. I just have to do this!
Huge hugs for you guys though…
1. Ponmo
Need I state the obvious reason behind my feeling of over-hypness of this thing Nigerians treat like gold??? It is just cow hide!
Cow hide!!!
It has no nutritional value nor any value whatsoever other than to be cooked and chewed and chewed and chewed.
God help you if the cooker of your Ponmo did not cook it well, you wee enterit!
The almighty cassava flakes, saving the souls of Nigerian students since 1666!
I like Gari (PhemieMichael, notice how I have been helping you to 'capitalize' the letter G?) but, I don't think it is almighty… Maybe it is.
I think I actually don't have a valid argument for my hate.😩
3. Jollof Rice
This one actually really tire me!
What is it sef?!
Did Jollof Rice just come into existence? Or a revelation just dawned on you people !
Enough of the Jollof Rice hype!
Yes, I am vexed!
Rice is rice! It comes in varieties, end of story. If you prefer a variety to the others, good for you.
Don't come and make one god!
I know they will come for me for even daring to add Dodo to this list of mine but, biko, it is fried plantain and nothing more.
Fried plantain!
Hian! 😌
This one, I just do not get.
The way people queue up just to get this thing, you'd be amazed – if you're not one of them.
NSG recently did a review of this wonders-shall-never-end loaf on her blog and so many of those that commented agreed with her…
Were you people agege-bread deprived ni? Because if you were not, you will know that this is just agege-bread scam!
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Getting ready for holidays... But before going, I went to Gacha Garden and picked up some of the gifts from their anniversary. I'm showing you some of them here with one of the last releases from Alien Gizmo's store.
Skin/Piel: .::WoW Skins::. 2016 Hope Catwa applier
Hair/Pelo: AD - jenna FULL COLOR PACK - GROUP GIFT at The Gacha Garden
Collar: ::Static:: - Dragonfly Choker - GROUP GIFT at The Gacha Garden
Necklace/Colgante: Cae :: Sea Star :: Collection - Past MMM gift
Bracelet/Pulsera: shine by [ZD] COCO PYRAMID STUDDED BRACELET - GROUP GIFT at The Gacha Garden
Outfit/Conjunto: Alien Gizmo's - Bella Outfit BROWN - NEW!!
Shoes/Zapatos: Agueda's S#1001 for Slink & Maitreya
Anklet /Tovillera: [Faida] Flower Yen - GROUP GIFT at The Gacha Garden


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Our Supported Employment program helps the people accomplish their employment and educational goals. Many of our clients have struggled to secure and/or maintain competitive employment because of the nature and severity of their disability and a lack of hope that they can actually return to work after years of unemployment. Our Supported Employment program is based on the same philosophy as our Housing First model: we believe that anyone who says they want a job is "employment ready." As soon someone tells us they want to work, our Supported Employment team helps them find and retain employment in Washington, DC and the surrounding region. The team provides assistance and support throughout the job search, application, interview, and maintenance process. Our Supported Employment program also operates quarterly workshops, as well as other ongoing support services tailored to each individual's needs. We won't let anything stand in the way of someone achieving their goal of getting back to work.


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Entomology has few sacred sites — Mt. Katahdin, maybe, where legions of us have trekked to see the Katahdin arctic; Paul Ehrlich's checkerspot colony at Jasper Ridge (where he did decades of important studies on gene flow among separated populations, and which has now gone extinct); and perhaps Matecumbe Key, long known as the safe haven for Schaus' swallowtail. Add to the list Klots' Bog in Lakehurst, NJ, known to veteran lepidopterists (including its namesake, Alexander B. Klots) for two-spotted skipper, bog copper, and a puzzling relict population of Georgia satyrs.
Buoyed by some mid-June reports that the coppers and satyrs were already on the wing, I decided to drive up last week for an overnight and check out the area in preparation for a more formal LepTrek later this month. So, armed with directions from the NABA archives and pieced together from other online sources, I headed for downtown Lakehurst, NJ.
The first thing you need to know about getting to Klots' Bog is to ignore any directions you get online. Unless you're good enough to teach orienteering to Eagle Scouts, you'll never find it that way. I spent the first afternoon after my arrival stumbling, fumbling and bush-whacking my way into false start after false start. Most of the online directions say to start out in downtown Lakehurst near the Post Office and walk to the bog on the railroad tracks. Don't — I'm just sayin'.
However, if I hadn't been wandering in the wilderness I wouldn't have seen the two spotted turtles I found basking on a log in one of the ditches. Or eaten about a gallon of some of the biggest and best blueberries I've ever seen. I did manage an Appalachian brown and a very faded striped hairstreak while beating my way through the barrens.
By 5 pm I was exhausted and dispirited. I checked into a local motel, showered the remains of many crushed deer flies off, and availed myself of one of the innumerable Jersey diners at the shore. At the local Starbucks, I hauled out my computer and emailed Steve Rosenthal, one of the posters from the June trip, for help — it's good to have friends in high places!
Steve quickly set me straight — nobody ever gets to the bog by the RR tracks anymore; the area has become so grown over with maple that most of the trails are hidden and impassable even if you could find them. There's actually a very easy way in, which with Steve's help I located next morning.
The first thing that strikes you on entering the bog is how tiny it is. Just a few acres, really. And quickly getting crowded out by maple and white cedar saplings. But the second thing that strikes is — George satyr! In transecting the bog, which was actually very dry, I kicked up three of these beauties. But as Steve had warned, the flight was almost over for them already, and had already ended for bog copper at this location. And as folks familiar with this part of the world know, the butterfly action was pretty much over by noon. Didn't stop me from shaking about a hundred white cedars hoping to knock loose a Hessell's hairstreak, or from marveling about the numbers of common wood-nymphs darting around the perimeter of the bog. But other than that, the pickings were pretty slim, and I left Klots' Bog with its patina of butterfly history about 2 pm.
Rather than chuck it in and drive back just yet, I popped over to the Dover Creek Walk-In Access Area, a trail that parallels Dover Creek and runs by some additional old cranberry bogs. Also pretty dead, but I was surprised to find the second half of an aerial dogfight with a common buckeye was a coral hairstreak, first I've seen in years.
I was back on the NJ Turnpike by 3, and back home about four hours later, tired but very pleased to have made what amounts to an almost spiritual quest to a spot with a unique place in lep history.


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NOTE: This screening does NOT take place at Deckchair Cinema. It is happening at Darwin Waterfront on the Peninsular Lawns.
From ancient Chinese legends comes a beautiful tale of love and sacrifice. There is a mystical race of beings that control the tide and the changing of the seasons. But one of these beings, a young girl named Chun, wants to experience the human world, not simply observe it.
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Necessary Explanation
translated by Rae Dalven
There are certain verses—sometimes entire poems—
whose meaning even I don't know. What I don't know
sustains me still. And you are right to ask. Don't ask me.
I don't know, I tell you.
Two parallel lights
from the same center. The sound of the water
falling in winter from the overflowing drainpipe
or the sound of a drop as it falls
from a rose in the watered garden
very slowly on a spring evening
like the sob of a bird. I don't know
what this sound means; nevertheless I accept it.
Whatever else I know I explain to you. I don't neglect it.
But these things too add to our lives. As she was sleeping
I watched her knee squaring the sheet—
It wasn't only love. That angle
was the crest of tenderness, and the fragrance
of the sheet, the cleanness and of the springtime completed
that inexplicable thing I sought, again in vain, to explain to you.
This comes from the book, The Fourth Dimension: Selected Poems of Yannis Ritsos, published by David R. Godine, Boston, 1977. I've owned a copy since close to its publication date. The piece I have chosen has long been a favourite of mine. I love its imagery and music. (For the latter we must thank the translator too.) But I could just as well have flipped through for any one of the shorter — but not too short — pieces. (Some are very short indeed, others extremely long, and all wonderful.) I would probably like to have written everything he ever wrote.
His is deep poetry that needs, deserves and rewards thought. You can't get it all in one quick read — though you can get a lot. The one I've chosen is perhaps the most straightforward. (Or is it just that I like ars poetica?) Yet I wouldn't call him obscure — just deep.
The back cover blurb of this book says: 'Yannis Ritsos is Greece's finest living poet; indeed, Peter Levi in the Times Literary Supplement calls him "one of the greatest poets now living." Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, he has become a cultural hero in Greece.'
Imagine a culture where a poet is a hero!
He was born in 1909 and died in 1990. A member of the Greek resistance during World War II, he remained an activist. Here is a detailed biography relating his writing to his life. And here is a blog of English translations of his poems by Scott King.
You'll find his poetry at various other places online if you Google 'Yannis Ritsos poems'. (Note also the variant English spellings of his first name: Yiannos and Giannes.) A new translation of his work by Greek poet Manolis was published in 2010, and is available from Amazon and Smashwords. Other volumes of his writing are available at Google Books.
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One of the defining aspects of the big 2004 "screener ban" court case—which saw indie plaintiffs fighting against the MPAA's decision to forbid their subsidiaries from sending out DVD "screeners"–was the way the specialized studio divisions rolled over and stayed quiet, rather than campaign alongside the indie producers who were essentially working on their behalf.
With the exception of pro-screener Harvey Weinstein, the only other mini-major exec to take part in the court proceedings was Warner Independent Pictures chief Mark Gill–recently ousted in favor of a new inside-studio corporate-friendly exec–who ironically testified against the indies. (Producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte told me at the time, "He tried to do what was right in serving his employer.")
Well, little good it did him. Gill is now out on the street because he couldn't make nice with Warner Bros. production president Jeff Robinov. Maybe it was all those foreign art movies (Paradise Now, Duck Season or auteur films (Good Night, and Good Luck, A Scanner Darkly) that got Gill into trouble. Speaking about new hire Polly Cohen, Robinov told indieWIRE, "It should come as no surprise that Polly's [tone and philosophy] is in line with mine." Just what we need: another "indie" division that toes the line of its corporate parent.
This is this kind of reasoning that killed United Artists, morphed Paramount Classics, makes Fox Searchlight target teens, and keeps foreign films off theater screens. It kills risk and it destroys art.
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This is a leaf mobile that I made from felt! I saw something like it in a shop in Portland and made my own version. Views from inside and outside.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Assemblage by Joan
I took a wonderful TEXT ART & WORD COLLAGE class at Pratt in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This is a box covered with old book pages, the bird was cut out of a magazine, I found the sticks in the parking lot, my daughter made the nest years ago, and the egg is really a rock from the beach.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Gas Prices Falling!
Finally! I'm taking a road trip this weekend so it'll be nice to pay a little less at the pump. We also need to fill our heating oil tank soon so every penny drop helps...the tank is 275 gallons! Don't do the math, it's too scary!
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Bainbridge Marina
I'm learning to carry my camera with me so I get more opportunities to snap 'em when I see 'em. This is the marina viewed from Waterfront Park on Bainbridge Island. The fall light was so beautiful even more beautiful than I could capture on film (??? on disk?).
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Ah, Autumn!
My pumpkins didn't do so well this year so this is a photo from a couple of years ago. It was nice to come across this photo...I can see how much the lilac tree in the background has grown. I better get the pruners out or I'm going to have too much shade out in my raised beds.
We're having a sunny, crisp day here in the Pacific Northwest. It reminds me why I love this season so much.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Voting is a privilege....please take the responsibility seriously!
In Washington (at least in my County) we vote by mail and I know in some states you can actually go to the polls early. So if you can, VOTE EARLY!
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Bozeman in October
My son is a freshman at Montana State University in Bozeman! It had been six weeks since he left home and I just had to make a visit. I must say he's adjusting quite well. It is scary sending your first born off into the big wide world. You immediately think of all the things you wish you'd taught them....like wash whites in hot, colors in warm and do not mix them! "Mom," he said "there are only two buttons on the machine...whites or darks."
Well, I had my mornings to myself. He and his roommate do not wake before noon on weekends. So I did lots of exploring around Bozeman, mostly on foot. I loved all the brick buildings, wide avenues, gorgeous trees, lots of independent coffee shops and bookstores, and the signs.
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Recently, the Weinstein Company (an independent film studio) dropped the production of a line of action figures based on the controversial Quentin Taratino movie, Django Unchained. They did this because they felt the figures were inappropriate due to the movie's slave-based theme. After this announcement, scores of sellers raced to their local stores to buy-out the figures and a short while later they began appearing on eBay with hefty price tags ranging from $300 a piece to $2000 to $7000 for an entire set.
Needless to say, it wasn't too long before eBay stepped in to put a stop to the selling of these figures on their site, stating that the figure are in violation of eBay's 'Offensive Materials Policy.'
|Meanwhile, the Lego company has had some fallout of their own to deal with since a Turkish group is claiming that the "Jabba the Hut Palace" is actually a replica of the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul. This particular item, however, is not banned on eBay and is still being sold by Lego. At the time of this article, there were at least 8 of them available on eBay.
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There are two sides to listing controversial items on eBay – money, and ethics. Where does the buck stop? Most people have a line they won't cross – have you thought about where yours is?
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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
High-risk ETP-ALL subtype targeted in upcoming clinical trial
Early T cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL), an uncommon subtype of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), carries a poor prognosis and low response rate to traditional chemotherapy drugs. But a clinical trial of a targeted agent that shows promise against ETP-ALL will soon be enrolling patients at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Few connections have been made between the biological features of T-ALL (which also presents as T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma) and patients' clinical outcomes. The World Health Organization classifies T-ALL cases into subtypes based on leukemic cell biomarkers that correspond to four stages of T cell maturity: prethymic, prothymic, thymic, and mature. In practice, many researchers began combining the prothymic and prethymic stages into one class, "early." But neither classification system nor any subtypes of T-ALL have demonstrated prognostic or predictive value—until the discovery of ETP-ALL.
A clinically relevant T-ALL subtype
ETP-ALL was first described in a 2009 study of pediatric T-ALL. By flow cytometry, the leukemic cells of some patients had an expression profile reminiscent of recent arrivals in the thymus from the bone marrow. These cells had a unique biomarker signature: the key immunophenotypic features of immature leukemic T cells—the absence of antigens CD1a, CD8, and CD5—along with the expression of one or more stem cell or myeloid antigens. Clinical assessment of the pediatric patients in that study showed that those with this subtype of T-ALL responded poorly to conventional T-ALL treatments.
Subsequent studies reported ETP-ALL in 11%–12% of childhood and 7%–8% of adult T-ALL cases and confirmed that children with ETP-ALL have significantly worse clinical outcomes.
However, studies of clinical outcomes in adults were largely inconclusive until a recent study by Joseph Khoury, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Hemato pathology; Nitin Jain, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Leukemia; and colleagues.
The researchers retrospectively analyzed the records of 111 patients newly diagnosed with T-ALL at MD Anderson between 2000 and 2014. All patients had received frontline chemotherapy with hyperfractionated cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and dexamethasone (hyper-
CVAD) or an augmented Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster regimen. Reassessment of the patients' flow cytometry data identified 19 patients who met the criteria for ETP-ALL, and these patients experienced a significantly lower complete remission rate (73%) than did patients with non–ETP-ALL (91%). In fact, a multivariate analysis of 11 potential prognostic markers found only two to be significant: age and the ETP-ALL subtype.
The study was notable for its use of a single, large patient population, Dr. Khoury said. "The prognostic significance of this subtype is demonstrated now within a relatively well-controlled cohort of patients who received the same fundamental types of treatment," he said. "We confirmed that clinical outcomes of adult ETP-ALL patients mirror those of pediatric ETP-ALL patients," Dr. Jain said. "When treated uniformly with chemotherapy, patients with ETP-ALL have poor long-term outcomes."
Targeting the ETP-ALL subtype
"Traditionally, patients with T-ALL are grouped within a single category from a therapeutic standpoint," Dr. Khoury said. Whereas the more common B cell ALL cases are treated differently based on genetic markers such as the Philadelphia chromosome, all TALL cases are typically treated with the same chemotherapy regimens. "Based on our findings," Dr. Khoury said, "patients with ETP-ALL need a different approach than those with non–ETP-ALL."
"ETP-ALL affects a relatively small group of patients," Dr. Jain said, "but these patients have a largely unmet medical need." Drs. Jain and Khoury and their team are investigating how to address that need. One drug target they've recognized as promising is the apoptosis regulator Bcl-2. In recent years, studies by Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Leukemia, and others have noted that T-ALL cells—and especially ETP-ALL cells—express high levels of Bcl-2. An oral inhibitor of Bcl-2, venetoclax (formerly called ABT-199), has demonstrated activity against chronic lymphocytic leukemia in clinical trials, and preclinical studies suggest that venetoclax may be effective against ETP-ALL. "ETP-ALL cells are preferentially sensitive to Bcl-2 antagonism in vitro and in mouse models," Dr. Jain said, adding that he and others are optimistic about this strategy's potential for patients with ETP-ALL.
In the next 3–5 months, Dr. Jain and researchers from the Departments of Leukemia and Hematopathology plan to open a single-arm, phase IB multiple ascending dose trial evaluating the safety of venetoclax in patients with ALL. Eligible patients must have untreated ALL (of any type), be over 50 years of age, have good organ function, and not be currently receiving treatment for other cancers. This will be the first trial of venetoclax in patients with ALL.
The trial, as planned, will pair venetoclax with a low-intensity chemotherapy regimen that the team calls "mini-hyper-CVD," which is similar to hyper-CVAD but omits doxorubicin and uses much smaller doses of the other agents. Dr. Jain said the low-intensity chemotherapy regimen was designed to minimize the risks of tumor lysis syndrome and neutropenia, both of which have been associated with venetoclax treatment.
Another promising strategy against ETP-ALL is to target the Janus kinase (JAK) signaling pathway. Like Bcl-2 levels, JAK levels are especially high in ETP-ALL cells, suggesting that inhibitors of JAK may also be effective against this subtype. And in preclinical studies, the JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib has shown activity against T-ALL cells. Dr. Jain said, "Ruxolitinib may be a future option for treating patients with T-ALL, including patients with the ETP-ALL subtype." Drs. Jain and Khoury, along with other researchers from the Departments of Hematopathology and Leukemia, are studying the feasibility of JAK inhibition in experimental models.
Identifying ETP-ALL
Identifying the ETP-ALL subtype is a practical way to anticipate a poor response to traditional T-ALL treatment, Dr. Khoury said. Screening requires only flow cytometry, a standard diagnostic procedure already used in most clinical workups. Patients who screen positive for ETP-ALL may respond better to more intensive treatments or to chemotherapy using nonstandard agents.
Dr. Khoury and his team are calling for awareness of this subtype in research centers to find new treatments and in clinics for oncologists and patients to make informed treatment decisions. "It is important for oncologists to be aware that patients whose T-ALL is subtyped ETP-ALL will likely need a different approach," he said.
For more information, Dr. Nitin Jain at 713-745-6080 or Dr. Joseph Khoury at 713-745-2387.
Jain N, Lamb A, O'Brien S, et al. Early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (ETP-ALL/LBL) in adolescents and adults: a high-risk subtype. Blood. 2016;127:1863–1869.
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Williamsburg, NY - Jews Rushing to Get Caffeine Suppositories for Yom Kipper
Williamsburg, NY - Jews throughout Williamsburg snapped up caffeine suppositories today, hours before the start of the Yom Kippur fast that would deprive them of the jolt — and hunger suppression — that coffee typically provides.
The day-long fast is the centerpiece of the holiest day on the Jewish calendar — but some religious Jews see a Talmudic loophole that allows them to ingest their daily dose of caffeine, albeit through a different orafice.
"It helps — you know, it's hard to concentrate when you're fasting and also addicted to caffeine," said Baruch Herzfeld, an Orthodox Jew who owns a bike store in Williamsburg. "Some take it before sundown, but most take it throughout their fasting. These guys love a good loophole."
These huge, rectally inserted pills are popular. Pharmacists at Rafieh — one of many distributors in south Williamsburg on Lee Avenue — sold nearly 150 suppositories today.
"We have caffeine suppositories!" the store's handwritten sign heralded. "Be ready!"
But is it kosher?
There's some controversy over whether Jews observing the Biblical fast should be taking an easy out (or, more accurately, in).
Some Jewish leaders said that consuming anything — through the body's traditional entrance or its exit — is against the spirit of the ritualistic fast.
"We're supposed to do it the old fashioned way — I wouldn't advise [suppositories]," said Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, a Hasidic leader. "We wanna keep Jews in the synagogue and not in the bathroom."
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Sep 17, 2010 at 04:25 PM
This is rather disturbing!
Sep 17, 2010 at 04:31 PM
Niskatnu hadoros.
Sep 17, 2010 at 05:03 PM
Sep 17, 2010 at 05:04 PM
As per most rabbonim, it is ok to use them for all fast days except yom kippur.
Sep 17, 2010 at 05:06 PM
Weird article wish every easy fast.
Sep 17, 2010 at 05:24 PM
I take a couple of them every fast day & it does wonders! My dayan approved it.
Sep 17, 2010 at 05:28 PM
"We wanna keep Jews in the synagogue and not in the bathroom". Someone should shut this guy up before he says something stupider than this.
Sep 17, 2010 at 06:23 PM
Seriously.. What has become of this world? Caffeine suppositories? My gosh! One day without coffee. Its yom kippur for heavens sake!!! So u don't feel well over the fast? Join the club. Who does??? It is ridiculous what they will think of next.
Sep 18, 2010 at 04:44 PM
I don't know, it doesn't sound traditional. Maybe the people who use them were reared differently.
Sep 18, 2010 at 08:39 PM
If they would take a few days and detox from caffeine this would be a none issue.
Sep 18, 2010 at 09:29 PM
I took it for many years I never heard it should be a halacha problem. Wonder who cam e up with this chumra
Sep 18, 2010 at 10:00 PM
These are nothing new. I bought them in a Boro Park pharmacy over 20 years ago. They do help, but recently I've started cutting back on caffine a at least a week before a tainis. I never heard that there were any halachic issues involved.
Sep 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM
That is really too funny to think someone would do somthing like that. But I say its totally against halacha. Goodluck. Dont pull your pants down too much in the day of atonement!
Sep 18, 2010 at 11:14 PM
I think its all sociological issues.. I will give for anybody in a fast day a good hot coffee with milk and sugar but I will put decaf. coffee, u will see, they will feel so fine...
Sep 18, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I dropped caffiene a few days before Yom Kippur. I can't see how this could be permitted on Yom Kippur as it is not a machel briyim taken in this manner. As a medicine it would be ossur dirabonon for shaboss and Yom Kippur unless you were nafal limishkov (typically febrile).Taking it before the fast would be allowed, albeit frowned upon as not in the spirit of the taanis, but it would not help you the next morning. I also imagine that It should be disolved before you walk out of shul to avoid carrying issues.
Sep 18, 2010 at 11:28 PM
I take them too. Theyre a LIFESAVER. when youre home with little children the fast can be exhausting. I take one in the morning as soon as I get up and my fast day is a dream. yes, I'd rather daven all tefillos than lay on the couch with my eyes closed and feeling like I'm collapsing.
Sep 18, 2010 at 11:36 PM
I feel bad for them, they have no education in nutrition and about whats bad for you, why its bad etc. not great at all in the long run.
Sep 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Finally, I'm speechless!
Sep 19, 2010 at 12:22 AM
First, yes, it is an odd practice. And yes, it helps tremendously. There's no mitzvah make something harder and more difficult that it needs to be, provided of course it is in accordance with halacha. Weinstein's unintelligble comment notwithstanding, I have used them for years with the approval of some extremely choshav poskim, although "curious" raises some interesting concerns, particularly carrying. If carrying is indeed a concern, however, I wonder how it is distinguished from eating at a kiddush on shabbos and walking home since one's food has not yet digested.
Okay, now, a relevant joke. Yanki walks into a pharmacy Erev Yom Kippur and orders 900 caffeine suppositories. The pharmacists asks why he needs 900, to which Yanki replies, "I'm making a Kiddush tomorrow."
Sep 19, 2010 at 12:39 AM
People who are regular caffeine users get terrible headaches when they don't get their fix while they're fasting. I'm not a major user (maybe 24 oz. of coffee a day), but I find that if I gradually reduce my coffee consumption to zero over the 3-4 days before a 25-hour fast, I don't get a headache. I don't know if this would work for hardcore caffeine fiends (I knew a doctor who told me he had 25 cups a day!)
Sep 19, 2010 at 02:01 AM
love it.
Sep 19, 2010 at 05:59 AM
Buy some decaffeinated coffee. Starting a few days before the taanis, gradually mix in a small part of the decaff with your coffee each day, until you are almost caffeine free the day before the fast. If you do this gradually you will not feel any ill effects. If you are only on 2-3 cups a day this should not take more than 2 days. For more it will take a bit longer, but I am sure it can be done within a week. Definitely worth doing.
Sep 19, 2010 at 08:12 AM
Caffeine is also a very potent diuretic. It makes you lose bodily fluids. One of the worst things anyone can do on a fast day is take medications that make them lose a lot of fluid. Better to have a bit of a headache then have low fluid volume.
Sep 19, 2010 at 09:59 AM
I unfortunately got to my pharmacy too late - they were completely sold out by the time I got there.
I asked how this was possible, and they said a customer had come in earlier and bought all they had. When they suggested to him that taking more than one or two could be dangerous, he said that they were not all for him, but that he needed them because he was making a kiddush in shul Yom Kippur.
Sep 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Poster # 24 (What?); See poster # 19; To all posters who advocate and / or use the Caffeine suppositories on Yom Kippur. First of all, it's a disgusting way of taking a non-essential supplement. Secondly. I'm a moderate+ coffeee consumer. (8-10 cups daily). On Yom Kippur (a/o to a regular day), I feel no special discomfort for not ingesting my daily dose of coffee. Thirdly. No matter what Rav or Dayan gives permission to use Caffeine Suppositories on Y.K., it's still a loophole and you're circumventing the spirit of the day. If one is medically at risk, they are allowed to consume regular food according to Halachah.
Sep 19, 2010 at 01:23 PM
why don't they make caffeine powder that can easily be insufflated nasally? much less disgusting!
actually it would be easy, all you would have to do is make lots of strong coffee, dry it, put a strong acid or base into it, dissolve everything other than the caffeine alkaloid, neutralize it (although you would want it to remain slightly acidic so as to keep it in its salt form and not in a freebase form), and you would have a white powder, that is pure caffeine which can be snorted on Yom Kippur
Sep 19, 2010 at 02:29 PM
I stopped drinking coffee last year, and fasting is now easy as nothing. I enjoy being coffee free, I am no longer a slave to the coffee, I don't need to run looking for coffees and don't need to consume the pareve milk for shabbos and yom tov afternoons.
Sep 19, 2010 at 06:35 PM
I recommend "kali tzom".. it has really helped and b"H, I was able to concentrate and daven.. it has hechsher, imported from Israel.. I am not sure if it helps with caffeine withdrawal symptoms, but is worth a try.
Sep 19, 2010 at 08:07 PM
Poster # 26 (Hanavon) Because it might be mistaken for another white powder of a less benign reputation. We (the Jewish people) need nothing more than looking and acting like Cocaine or Heroin addicts on Yom kippur. If things deteriorate any further, we will one day be faced with the possibility of ingesting Chometz on Pesach intravenously or through other ports of entry. Then someone will come up with a chemical way of ingesting dried, pulverized pork. All with the permission of Rabbis and Dayanim.
Sep 19, 2010 at 08:49 PM
To all those armchair poskim : It's a good thing you have vozisneias -how else could the world know all your pisokim. It's 100% mutter. Anybody who would take such a thing would only do this if they didn't feel too well. This in halacha is called Noful l'mischuv. (You don't need to have a fever.) It's not a problem of Inuy -again people taking these things need it for their health or to prevent sickness. They don't feel they can the the marathon afterwards. What happened to Koach d'heter adif?
Sep 19, 2010 at 09:00 PM
Bigwheel -It's good you're a big wheel, not a big poisek. "If one is medically at risk, they are allowed to consume regular food according to Halachah." You're only allowed to eat if it's a sakanah nefoshos, not if you're Noful l'mischuv!
Sep 19, 2010 at 09:35 PM
" To all those armchair poskim : It's a good thing you have vozisneias -how else could the world know all your pisokim. It's 100% mutter. Anybody who would take such a thing would only do this if they didn't feel too well. This in halacha is called Noful l'mischuv. (You don't need to have a fever.) It's not a problem of Inuy -again people taking these things need it for their health or to prevent sickness. They don't feel they can the the marathon afterwards. What happened to Koach d'heter adif? "
Caffeine headaches hurt, but as I said they can be avoided and it is not so poshut that it is nafal limishkov. I went to work with one on a few occasions. Do not look for heterim on YK. This problem is easily avoided as I wrote previously. If you will be machmir one day a year, let it be YK.
Sep 20, 2010 at 10:07 PM
I'm not against prevention, but if you do end up getting a caffeine withdrawl -don't belittle people's withdrawl just because yours' is mild. That's like saying you aren't a noful l'mischuv if you have 101 fever because 101 never bothers me. But a lot of people will be bothered with a 101 fever.