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Seven days is a long time in wrestling. Each week Rachel will cast her eye over the landscape and handpick the stuff that stands out. Sometimes they'll be the most obvious events, but often more subtle shifts in the business. They'll always be written from her own unique point of view. Unlike the original That Was The Week That Was, she won't be singing the news.
The Death of CHIKARA?
Last week I was playing the Related Artists Game on Spotify. You pick a song, then your next tune must be by one of the listed related artists. I found myself faced with Noah and the Whale. I'm not a particularly big fan of theirs, but there is one song that will forever justify their existence – Tonight's the Kind of Night. I was rushed with a flood of heart thumping nostalgia.
This song happened to find my ears during the week leading up to CM Punk's immortal will-he-won't-he story at Money in the Bank 2011. Through sheer coincidence, the lyrics were so close to summarising Punk's journey, it gave me shivers. It really was the kind of night where absolutely everything could change. To date, I have never been more invested in how a wrestling tale was going to work out. I have certainly never had such an explosively emotional reaction to a show.
The thing about those few months of change was that the events were rooted in reality. That's what made the difference. How much of it was written and how much was Punk just not giving a damn will only ever be known by a handful of people. If you watch his DVD, it was all legit. He was off. In actuality, it doesn't matter. The fact that we didn't know where the boundary was made it all the more compelling. It made it categorically wrestling.
Last night the CHIKARA: Never Compromise iPPV reminded me of Money in the Bank. For all that the matches were brilliant, there was a strange, electrically charged cloud hanging over it; the cloud that had the potential to rain on CHIKARA's parade and put it out of action for good. Rumour's had it for some time that real life, highly personal matters threatened the company with extinction. At least, under the branding as it stands. It was an unsettling discussion. If there's one thing CHIKARA fans love it's that it's a complete break from the everyday. Unlike with Punk, though, I wasn't torn between someone doing what was right for them and doing the thing that made me most happy.
The show was running later than we expected and it was getting late in the UK. We debated whether to stay up for the main event or not, but decided that the big announcement promised for the end of the show had to be worth losing a little sleep over. The announcement never came. Icarus and Eddie Kingston's main event match was interrupted by a team of men in dark suits. They trashed the stage. They shut the show down. They turned off the feed. They threw all the fans out of the building and locked the doors. It didn't feel good. It didn't feel very CHIKARA. It felt kind of real.
There were reports that someone had thrown something through a door in anger and smashed it, before being dragged back into the Trocadero. According to Twitter this was the start of a riot. Those at the scene quickly closed that idea down. Even the legitimacy of the furious protestor has been called into question today, because of the way he was swiftly pulled back into the building. A real fan? A plant? Who knows? One thing I do know is that I don't want to hear about Bryce Remsburg – happiest man on the planet – leaving in tears. It messes with my head.
The manner in which the show was halted was, of course, staged. But the reality behind it is yet to come to light. CHIKARA may very well have huffed out its last breath, ready to morph into something new. But one thing I've always placed in CHIKARA is trust. There is no cleverer promotion in operation. I've lost count of how many AH-HA! moments there've been, where various easter eggs dotted around the internet suddenly make sense. Was this a story they took too far and made too dark? Possibly. But they haven't steered me wrong yet and you don't build the best pound-for-pound wrestling promotion in the world only to let it disperse for the sake of paperwork.
Just like when Punk (temporarily) kissed his tenure goodbye, I have never been more eager to know what happens next, while at the same time never more unsure about which parts of wrestling are fooling me. But isn't that the point?


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ROH Honor United: Doncaster (5/27/2018)- Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK
TENILLE DASHWOOD IS SPECIAL GUEST REFEREE: The Addiction vs. Kenny King & Toru Yano- DUD!
Tenille apparently asked to be the referee for this match so ROH is just letting her do so. Can we at least get her a referee's shirt?
It turned out that her role here was to engage in stupid comedy. Even worse, all of this comedy included her hurting the heels, including even giving them hip tosses, which gave you the feeling that this match was completely unfair. This was not helped by the finish, in which she almost certainly would have seen Kenny King- a babyface- hit Daniels in the nuts, allowing Yano to roll him up for the pin (yes, Toru Yano just pinned a man who was the ROH World Champion one year ago).
ROH TV TITLE MATCH: Silas Young(c) vs. Doug Williams- 6/10
The match was good for the mere eleven minutes it got, but it was once again another completely pointless dirty finish that not only makes the champion look weak, but also will never be followed up on, and happened against someone who ROH has no reason to protect… and they couldn't even think of a different heel finish than a low blow, so we've now had two matches and two straight low-blow finishes.
DALTON CASTLE & THE BOYS vs. BULLY RAY, SHANE TAYLOR, & PUNISHMENT MARTINEZ- 3.25/10
The heels attacked Dalton before the match, with Bully hitting is injured legs with his chain, resulting in this being basically a Handicap Match. We then got several minutes of Bully for once managing to successfully manipulate the crowd (although getting them to cheer for guys they were going to cheer for already anyway isn't much of an accomplishment) before the bell finally rang.
Martinez was in his street clothes and was acting a lot more like a random Bully Ray henchman than like his usual stoic monster self. The match was slow and boring for a while as the heels dominated for a bit. Dalton came back out at the right dramatic moment to receive a hot tag, leading a nice little period of action until Bully and Dalton brawled away to the back, leaving Martinez and Taylor alone with the Boys, who they then squashed.
JAY LETHAL vs. MATT TAVEN- 6.5/10
These guys had a disappointing match for two people as high up on the card as they are. Lethal beating a guy who has an outstanding world title shot should set him up for a world title shot, but there really hasn't been any movement in that direction since, and there was no need for Taven to lose when a time-limit draw would have sufficed.
ROH WOMEN OF HONOR TITLE MATCH: Sumie Sakai(c) vs. Chardonay- 4.75/10
They tried, but there's not much you can do with only eight minutes and when absolutely no one believes the title will change hands because the challenger is a random woman getting a title shot for no explained reason who isn't under contract to the company. Also, I could have done without Sumie spanking Chardonday. That's exactly the opposite of what they should have been doing.
SCORPIO SKY vs. CODY RHODES (w/Brandi)- 5.75/10
Cody was playing the total babyface early on and Scorpio was playing the total heel… and then they randomly did a spot where Brandi spit water in Scorpio's face and totally flipped things. Then, a few minutes later, they did a spot where Scorpio hit Cody with a foreign object. If they were going to both be heels then why start off with Cody being a total babyface (even letting fans kiss his stupid ring gimmick). They switched several more times throughout the match, before ending in a obnoxiously overbooked finish involving Brandi, Kazarian and hairspray being used to give Scorpio Sky a false finish before Cody just hit his finisher and won. This was a decent match brought down by overbooking.
HIROSHI TANAHASHI vs. ADAM PAGE- 6.75/10
They only went twelve minutes, which is a lot less than a guy like Adam Page needs to really be able to benefit from a loss to Tanahashi. The finishing sequence was great, but the match seemed to be stuck in second gear for a lot longer than it needed to be.
TAG TEAM FOUR CORNER SURVIVAL MATCH: The Young Bucks vs. The Briscoes vs. The Kingdom vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL & Sanada)- 7.5/10
The match was just fast-paced spots. It was fine because we hadn't really seen that yet tonight, but it wasn't even close to anything special, either. The Bucks winning makes sense, but the pin on The Kingdom makes it feel like we're trying to go around in circles after we just had them lose to The Kingdom in last night's main event for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Titles. I think it would have made a lot more sense to have them either pin The Briscoes, who the announcers already told us they would be challenging for the tag titles at Best in the World, or have them pin LIJ to give us an even better set-up for them challenging EVIL & Sanada for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles, which NJPW had them challenging for at Dominion anyway.
A very bland show from ROH, with pretty much every match under-delivering. The whole show honestly seemed pointless, with almost no storyline relevance, no stand-out matches, and a good number of things which detracted from some of the on-going stories in my opinion. It felt like ROH booked three shows on this tour but then only had two nights' worth relevant or interesting matches, and the random title matches on tonight's show (especially the Women of Honor Title match) felt like they devalued the titles simply by happening (and the TV Title match would have been the same if Doug Williams wasn't such an important name in British wrestling and didn't have such a connection to ROH's early history. A very disappointing end to this tour, especially after last night's excellent show seemed to get things back on track.
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On March 6, 2011, Violet passed away peacefully at the age of 76 years. She leaves to cherish her memory her husband of 56 years, Ted; one daughter and three sons and their spouses; six grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and numerous grand-animals.
A Memorial Prayer Service will be held at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 11, 2011, at Connelly-McKinley Funeral Home, 10011 114 Street, Edmonton, where a Celebration of Violets Life will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, March 12, 2011.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Caritas Hospitals Foundation, 3C60 11111 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB, T5K 0L4.


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Osteopathic manipulative medicine
|Osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM)
|osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)
|Alternative therapy
|This article is part of a series on
|Alternative medicine
Fringe Medicine and Science
|Osteopathic medicine in the United States
|Andrew Taylor Still (founder)
Osteopathic manipulative medicine is a core set of techniques of osteopathy and osteopathic medicine distinguishing these fields from the rest of medicine.[1] Parts of osteopathy, such as cranial therapy have been labeled pseudoscience and are said to have no therapeutic value.[2][3] The techniques are based on an ideology created by Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917) which posits the existence of a myofascial continuity – a tissue layer that connects all parts of the body. Non-physician osteopaths and osteopathic physicians attempt to diagnose and treat somatic dysfunction by manipulating a person's bones and muscles and therefore address a variety of ailments. OMT techniques are most commonly used to treat back pain and other musculoskeletal issues, and are less commonly used to treat systemic conditions such as asthma and Parkinson's disease.[1][4]
OMT is based on the idea that a myofascial continuity "links every part of the body with every other part"; a practitioner, through a "skillful and dexterous use of the hands" treats what was originally called "the osteopathic lesion", but which is now named "somatic dysfunction".[1] The most commonly treated ailment is back pain, although some practitioners claim OMT can be used to treat a wide range of conditions.[4]
Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O. was a 19th-century American physician and Civil War surgeon who founded osteopathic medicine. Following the loss of three of his children to spinal meningitis, Still became dissatisfied with contemporary medical practices and sought to further medical understanding and treatment.[5] Still claimed that human illness was rooted in problems with the musculoskeletal system, and that hands-on manipulations could solve these problems and so effect a cure by harnessing the body's own self-repairing potential.[6] Still's proposed treatment regime also included as strong dose of healthy living: he advocated abstinence from alcohol, and patients were forbidden from taking medicine.[1]
Clinical practice
According to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), osteopathic manipulative treatment is considered to be only one component of osteopathic medicine and may be used alone or in combination with pharmacotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, patient education, diet, and exercise. OMT techniques are not necessarily unique to osteopathic medicine; other disciplines, such as physical therapy or chiropractic, use similar techniques.[7]
One key concept osteopathic medical students learn is that structure influences function. Thus, if there is a problem in one part of the body's structure, function in that area, and possibly in other areas, may be affected. Another integral tenet of osteopathic medicine is the body's innate ability to heal itself. Many of osteopathic medicine's manipulative techniques are aimed at reducing or eliminating the impediments to proper structure and function so the self-healing mechanism can assume its role in restoring a person to health.[8]
Osteopathic medicine defines a concept of health care that embraces the concept of the unity of the living organism's structure (anatomy) and function (physiology). The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) state that the four major principles of osteopathic medicine are the following:[9]
- The body is an integrated unit of mind, body, and spirit.
- The body possesses self-regulatory mechanisms, having the inherent capacity to defend, repair, and remodel itself.
- Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.
- Rational therapy is based on consideration of the first three principles.
These principles are not held by Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine to be empirical laws; they serve, rather, as the underpinnings of the osteopathic approach to health and disease.
Muscle energy
Muscle energy techniques address somatic dysfunction through stretching and muscle contraction. For example, if a person is unable to fully abduct her arm, the treating physician raises the patient's arm near the end of the patient's range of motion, also called the edge of the restrictive barrier. The patient then tries to lower her arm, while the physician provides resistance. This resistance against the patient's motion allows for isometric contraction of the patient's muscle. Once the patient relaxes, her range of motion increases slightly. The repetition of alternating cycles of contraction and subsequent relaxation help the treated muscle improve its range of motion.[10] Muscle energy techniques are contraindicated in patients with fractures, crush injuries, dislocations, joint instability, severe muscle spasms or strains, severe osteoporosis, severe whiplash injury, vertebrobasilar insufficiency, severe illness, and recent surgery.
Counterstrain is a system of diagnosis and treatment that considers the physical dysfunction to be a continuing, inappropriate strain reflex, which is inhibited during treatment by applying a position of mild strain in the direction exactly opposite to that of the reflex.[11] After a counterstrain point tender to palpation has been diagnosed,[12] the identified tender point is treated by the osteopathic physician who, while monitoring the tender point, positions the patient such that the point is no longer tender to palpation.[13] This position is held for ninety seconds and the patient is subsequently returned to her normal posture.[12] Most often this position of ease is usually achieved by shortening the muscle of interest.[13] Improvement or resolution of the tenderness at the identified counterstrain point is the desired outcome.[12] The use of counterstrain technique is contraindicated in patients with severe osteoporosis, pathology of the vertebral arteries, and in patients who are very ill or cannot voluntarily relax during the procedure.
High-velocity, low-amplitude
High velocity, low amplitude (HVLA) is a technique which employs a rapid, targeted, therapeutic force of brief duration that travels a short distance within the anatomic range of motion of a joint and engages the restrictive barrier in one or more places of motion to elicit release of restriction.[14] The use of HVLA is contraindicated in patients with Down syndrome due to instability of the atlantoaxial joint which may stem from ligamentous laxity, and in pathologic bone conditions such as fracture, history of a pathologic fracture, osteomyelitis, osteoporosis, and severe cases of rheumatoid arthritis.[15][16] HVLA is also contraindicated in patients with vascular disease such as aneurysms, or disease of the carotid arteries or vertebral arteries.[15] People taking ciprofloxacin or anticoagulants, or who have local metastases should not receive HVLA.[15]
Myofascial release
Myofascial release is a form of soft tissue therapy used to treat somatic dysfunction and the resultant pain and restriction of motion. Treatment requires continual palpatory feedback to achieve release of myofascial tissues.[14] This is accomplished by relaxing contracted muscles, increasing circulation and lymphatic drainage, and stimulating the stretch reflex of muscles and overlying fascia.[17]
Fascia is the soft tissue component of the connective tissue that provides support and protection for most structures within the human body, including muscle. This soft tissue can become restricted due to psychogenic disease, overuse, trauma, infectious agents, or inactivity, often resulting in pain, muscle tension, and corresponding diminished blood flow.[18] Although fascia and its corresponding muscle are the main targets of myofascial release, other tissue may be affected as well, including other connective tissue.[17]
Lymphatic pump treatment
Lymphatic pump treatment (LPT) is a manual technique intended to encourage lymph flow in a person's lymphatic system. The first modern lymphatic pump technique was developed in 1920, although osteopathic physicians used various forms of lymphatic techniques as early as the late 19th century.[19]
Relative contraindications for the use of lymphatic pump treatments include fractures, abscesses or localized infections, and severe bacterial infections with body temperature elevated higher than 102 °F (39 °C).[20]
In 2014, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 randomized controlled trials found moderate-quality evidence that OMT reduces pain and improves functional status in acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain.[21] The same analysis also found moderate-quality evidence for pain reduction for nonspecific low back pain in postpartum women and low-quality evidence for pain reduction in nonspecific low back pain in pregnant women.[21] A 2013 systematic review found insufficient evidence to rate osteopathic manipulation for chronic nonspecific low back pain.[22] In 2011, a systematic review found no compelling evidence that osteopathic manipulation was effective for the treatment of musculoskeletal pain.[23]
In 2013, a Cochrane Review reviewed six randomized controlled trials which investigated the effect of four types of chest physiotherapy (including OMT) as adjunctive treatments for pneumonia in adults and concluded that "based on current limited evidence, chest physiotherapy might not be recommended as routine additional treatment for pneumonia in adults." Techniques investigated in the study included paraspinal inhibition, rib raising, and myofascial release. The review found that OMT did not reduce mortality and did not increase cure rate, but that OMT slightly reduced the duration of hospital stay and antibiotic use.[24] A 2013 systematic review of the use of OMT for treating pediatric conditions concluded that its effectiveness was unproven.[25]
With respect to irritable bowel syndrome, a 2014 review found that there had been a limited number of studies done and that all these studies had small sample sizes; with that caveat, it found preliminary evidence that osteopathic manipulation may be beneficial in this condition.[26]
A 2005 Cochrane Review of OMT in asthma treatment concluded that there was insufficient evidence that OMT can be used to treat asthma.[27]
Initially, D.O.s were regarded by M.D.s as "cultists" whose treatments were rooted in "pseudoscientific dogma", and tensions between the two continued for many years.[6]
In 1988, Petr Skrabanek classified osteopathy as one of the "paranormal" forms of alternative medicine, commenting that it has a view of disease which had no meaning outside its own closed system.[28]
In a 1995 conference address, the president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Jordan J. Cohen, pinpointed OMT as a defining difference between M.D.s and D.O.s; while he saw there was no quarrel in the appropriateness of manipulation for musculoskeletal treatment, the difficulty centered on "applying manipulative therapy to treat other systemic diseases" – at that point, Cohen maintained, "we enter the realm of skepticism on the part of the allopathic world."[6]
In 1998 Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch posted a highly critical article online entitled "Dubious Osteopathic Practices", in which he said that the worth of manipulative therapy had been exaggerated and that the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) was acting unethically by failing to condemn craniosacral therapy. The article attracted a letter from the law firm representing the AOA accusing Barrett of libel and demanding an apology to avert legal action.[6] In response Barrett made some slight modifications to his text, while maintaining its overall stance; he queried the AOA's reference to "the body's natural tendency toward good health" and challenged them to "provide [him] with adequate scientific evidence showing how this belief has been tested and demonstrated to be true."[6] Barrett has been quoted as saying "the pseudoscience within osteopathy can't compete with the science".[6]
In 1999, Joel D. Howell noted that osteopathy and medicine as practiced by M.D.s were becoming increasingly convergent. He suggested that this raised a paradox:
if osteopathy has become the functional equivalent of allopathy, what is the justification for its continued existence? And if there is value in therapy that is uniquely osteopathic – that is, based on osteopathic manipulation or other techniques – why should its use be limited to osteopaths?[1]
In 2004, the osteopathic physician Bryan E. Bledsoe, a professor of emergency medicine, wrote disparagingly of the "pseudoscience" at the foundation of OMT. In his view, "OMT will and should follow homeopathy, magnetic healing, chiropractic, and other outdated practices into the pages of medical history".[29]
In 2010, Steven Salzberg wrote that OMT was promoted as a special distinguishing element of DO training, but that it amounted to no more than "'extra' training in pseudoscientific practices".[30]
See also
- Chapman reflex points
- Chiropractic
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- List of osteopathic colleges
- Osteopathic medicine in the United States
- Spinal manipulation
- 1 2 3 4 5 Howell, Joel D. (1999). "The Paradox of Osteopathy". New England Journal of Medicine. 341 (19): 1465–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM199911043411910. PMID 10547412.
- ↑ "Dubious Aspects of Osteopathy". www.quackwatch.org. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- ↑ "Why Cranial Therapy Is Silly". www.quackwatch.com. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- 1 2 Vincent C, Furnham A (1997). Manipulative Therapies: Osteopathy and Chiropractic. Complementary Medicine: A Research Perspective. John Wiley & Sons. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-471-96645-6.
- ↑ "Andrew Taylor Still, The Father of Osteopathic Medicine". A.T. Still University - Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Guglielmo, WJ (1998). "Are D.O.s losing their unique identity?". Medical economics. 75 (8): 200–2, 207–10, 213–4. PMID 10179479.
- ↑ "What Is Osteopathic Medicine?". Aacom.org. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
- ↑ "What is Osteopathic Medicine". American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM). Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ↑ "Statement of Healthcare Policies and Principles" (PDF). American Osteopathic Association. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ↑ DiGiovanna, Schiowitz & Dowling 2005, pp. 83–5
- ↑ DiGiovanna, Schiowitz & Dowling 2005, pp. 86–8
- 1 2 3 Wong CK, Abraham T, Karimi P, Ow-Wing C (April 2014). "Strain counterstrain technique to decrease tender point palpation pain compared to control conditions: A systematic review with meta-analysis". J Bodyw Mov Ther (Systematic review and meta-analysis). 18 (2): 165–73. doi:10.1016/j.jbmt.2013.09.010. PMID 24725782.
- 1 2 Wong CK (February 2012). "Strain counterstrain: Current concepts and clinical evidence". Manual Therapy. 17 (1): 2–8. doi:10.1016/j.math.2011.10.001. PMID 22030379.
- 1 2 "Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology, November 2011 Edition". AACOM. pp. 30–31. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- 1 2 3 Roberge, Raymond J.; Roberge, Marc R. (2009). "Overcoming Barriers to the Use of Osteopathic Manipulation Techniques in the Emergency Department". Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 10 (3): 184–9. PMC 2729220. PMID 19718381.
- ↑ Savarese, Copabianco & Cox 2009, p. 146
- 1 2 DiGiovanna, Schiowitz & Dowling 2005, p. 80
- ↑ DiGiovanna, Schiowitz & Dowling 2005, pp. 80–1
- ↑ Chikly, Bruno J. (2005). "Manual Techniques Addressing the Lymphatic System: Origins and Development". The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 105 (10): 457–64. PMID 16314678.
- ↑ Savarese, Copabianco & Cox 2009, p. 126
- 1 2 Franke H, Franke JD, Fryer G (August 2014). "Osteopathic manipulative treatment for nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis". BMC Musculoskelet Disord (Systematic review & meta-analysis). 15 (1): 286. doi:10.1186/1471-2474-15-286. PMC 4159549. PMID 25175885.
- ↑ Orrock PJ, Myers SP (2013). "Osteopathic intervention in chronic non-specific low back pain: a systematic review". BMC Musculoskelet Disord (Systematic review). 14: 129. doi:10.1186/1471-2474-14-129. PMC 3623881. PMID 23570655.
- ↑ Posadzki P, Ernst E (February 2011). "Osteopathy for musculoskeletal pain patients: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials". Clin. Rheumatol. (Systematic review). 30 (2): 285–91. doi:10.1007/s10067-010-1600-6. PMID 21053038.
- ↑ Yang, M; Yuping, Y; Yin, X; Wang, BY; Wu, T; Liu, GJ; Dong, BR (2013). Dong, Bi Rong, ed. "Chest physiotherapy for pneumonia in adults". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2 (2): CD006338. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD006338.pub3. PMID 23450568.
- ↑ Posadzki, P.; Lee, M. S.; Ernst, E. (2013). "Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Pediatric Conditions: A Systematic Review". Pediatrics. 132 (1): 140–52. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-3959. PMID 23776117.
- ↑ Müller A, et al. Effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative therapy for managing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review. J Am Osteopath Assoc. 2014 Jun;114(6):470-9. PMID 24917634
- ↑ Hondras, Maria A; Linde, Klaus; Jones, Arthur P (2005). Hondras, Maria A, ed. "Manual therapy for asthma". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2): CD001002. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001002.pub2. PMID 15846609.
- ↑ Skrabanek P (April 1988). "Paranormal health claims". Experientia (Review). 44 (4): 303–9. doi:10.1007/bf01961267. PMID 2834214.
- ↑ Bryan E. Bledsoe (2004). "The Elephant in the Room: Does OMT Have Proved Benefit?". J Am Osteopath Assoc (Letter). 104 (10): 407.
- ↑ Salzberg, Steven (27 October 2010). "Second Thoughts On Osteopathic Medicine". Forbes. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
Further reading
- American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (2011); Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology.
- Crislip M (4 October 2013). "Pump it up: osteopathic manipulation and influenza". Science-based Medicine. Retrieved February 2014. Check date values in:
- Savarese, Robert G.; Copabianco, John D.; Cox, James J. (2009). OMT review. ISBN 978-0967009018.
- Smith JC (2009). "Manipulative and Body-based Practices". Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons. p. 342. ISBN 978-1-4443-1013-9.
- DiGiovanna, Eileen L.; Schiowitz, Stanley; Dowling, Dennis (2005). An osteopathic approach to diagnosis and treatment (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 978-0781742931.
- Ward, Robert C. (2002). Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0-7817-3497-5.


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What does seem to make a difference, though, is the quality of the breath. I have noticed that on days when I am successful in grabbing both ankles and holding them for five breaths (like today), the quality of the breath is different. Different in what way? Well, for the last couple of weeks, whenever I walk my hands to the feet to get into Chakrabandhasana after the third drop-back, I always try to imagine my breath being the anchor that anchors my hands to the ankles: The deeper and more steady the breath, the more stable it will be as the anchor that "roots" the hands to the ankles. Conversely, the more shallow and hurried the breath is, the more likely it is that the body will be "swept up" back to the surface (i.e. back into standing) by the "currents". I'm not sure if this image of anchoring the body in the backbend makes sense to you, but don't you think that backbending is a little bit like deep-sea diving; after all, we do speak of deep backbends, don't we? :-)
A couple of weeks ago, after reading about the pain-body issues that were so clearly manifested in my pity-party post about the prospect of going to Singapore (yeah, I really have issues), Claudia sent me a copy of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. It's been a very interesting and fascinating read so far (thank you, Claudia!). I would like to share the following passage from the book:
"Form means limitation. We are here not only to experience limitation, but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some limitations can be overcome on an external level. There may be other limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally. Everyone will encounter them sooner or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is. That is what they are here to teach. The surrendered state of consciousness opens up the vertical dimension in your life, the dimension of depth. Something will then come forth from that dimension into this world, something of infinite value that otherwise would have remained unmanifested. Some people who surrendered to severe limitation become healers or spiritual teachers. Others work selflessly to lessen human suffering or bring forth some creative gift into this world."
Citing an example of overcoming severe limitation through uncompromising surrender, Tolle relates his meeting with world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking is widely regarded to be the world's leading theoretical physicist; as you also probably know, he has motor neurone disease and is almost completely paralyzed, and can only speak with the help of a voice synthesizer. Tolle describes his meeting with Hawking thus:
"...when I held the door open for his electric wheelchair to come through, our eyes met. With surprise I saw that his eyes were clear. There was no trace of unhappiness. I knew immediately that he had relinquished resistance; he was living in surrender."
Stephen Hawking
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Hawking's life is a compelling testament to the power of complete and utter surrender: It is only through total surrender that he was able to cease identifying with his physical limitation and allowing it to cause him suffering. It was this surrender that freed his being, allowing him to dig deeper into himself and do the wonderful work that he is today renowned for...
Well, I guess I better stop here. It seems almost trite and trivializing for somebody like me to go on and on like this about such a powerful soul. I guess you get the picture. I am also guessing that you see how all this applies to our practice and life. There are many limitations in life that can be overcome externally (such as, for instance, overcoming whatever it was in my breath and muscles that prevented me from getting Chakrabandhasana). And that's wonderful. But very often, we get so used to the idea that limitations are to be overcome externally, that we forget that certain other limitations are such that the only way to overcome them is to live with them and surrender to them: If we try to overcome them externally, we will only be banging our proverbial heads against the wall and creating unnecessary suffering for ourselves and others (hmm... is my present inability to get to Mysore one such limitation? I wonder...). There are times when the only way out is in.
In other news: It appears that somebody has nominated this blog for this thing called the 2012 Fascination Awards, under the category of Yoga Teacher. Which is, strictly speaking, an undeserved nomination, since I am not at present an active yoga teacher (for more details about my, ahem, misadventures in this area, see this post).
But I'm not one to quibble over the deservedness of nominations, especially when they involve me or my blog (ego...), so I will gladly accept this nomination. To whoever out there who has nominated this blog: If you want to change your mind now and withdraw this nomination, I'm cool with that too :-)
Anyway, here are a few more details about this nomination. Apparently, the article that earned me this nomination was a post I wrote more than a year ago titled "Health At Every Size...seriously?", in which I totally lamblasted what I believe to be the socially and scientifically irresponsible Health At Every Size (HAES) movement. I still feel the same way about the HAES movement, but honestly, I'm not particularly proud of that post. To me, it feels that all I succeeded in doing was stir up a whole bunch of shit without really changing anybody's mind: Which, to me, is the quintessence of blogging from a place of ego. But, well, I was a relatively inexperienced blogger at that time. But having said that, I still accept the nomination anyway. Why? Because I don't get too many honors like that coming my way, so I have to grab them when I do get them :-)
Anyway, voting for the award begins June 11th at 12:01 AM (EST). If you feel so inclined to vote for this blog, please click on the "Vote for Me" icon on the right hand side of this blog. And what do you get in return for voting for me? Well, nothing, except my love and gratitude and (hopefully) many more years of faithful blogging on my part :-) Damn, I need to get better at making campaign promises; at this rate, I'll never make it as a politician...


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Just a hatchet job
Your article on federal judges and FREE puzzled me. It contained no fresh reporting, so I wonder why you bothered to run it. You could have referred your readers to the original hatchet job in the Washington Post. Or you could have taken a look at what actually goes on at these conferences.
At the last one I attended, Felix Romero of San Luis, Colo., and I gave a presentation on "Communal land rights and the law of usufruct," based on an article from the Chicano-Latino Law Review. Does that sound like a right-wing conspiracy to influence judges supposedly too stupid to distinguish wheat from chaff? I don't think so. Did we "influence" federal judges? Well, two of the Hispanic judges took a strong interest, and they thanked us for calling their attention to the issue. Here's what I would do with your reporter: send him to one of these conferences. Then have him write an article worthy of HCN's high journalistic standards.
Tom Wolf
Westcliffe, Colorado
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HCN tried to cover the seminars two years ago, when freelance writer Ray Ring asked FREE for permission to attend and report on one of the events. However, John Baden would not allow it.
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This will be a week of self-discovery, empowerment, education, and relationship-building. Our desire is for attendees to complete the week equipped with the tools and knowledge to be successful disruptors of the status quo.


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You know what I think? I think we should just get over it! Over what you say? Sex. I am so sick of it! Sex alla time ever day! I doe know. Sorry about the accent, but for some reason that just popped out of me. But sex. Why don't we just get it out of our system. Then we can attend to the really important matters, like which combination of breakfast cereals do I want to eat this morning. So allow me to make a proposal.
Let's all go bottomless. What do you think? I mean naked is a bit impractical, and topless is too in-your-face, you cannot avoid it. But bottomless is quite the deal. You can ignore it if you just remember not to look down. Seriously though, who is going to do that? We will be checking each other out. It's only natural. Our curiosity would be satisfied for the most part. Men could still wonder about those breasts. And women have been short changed for too many years, now they would get the full package. Sounds fair to me. Unsanitary? Not really. The people that go on about that old canard are just afraid of sex. They think it is yucky. Ew! get that away from me! Bodily fluids are good for you. Animals understand this. Why can't we?
I mean in this age of tattoos and body adornment, don't you think it is a shame to cover our wonderful works of art. Show it off! Oh, nice vagina bracelet you have there! Oh thank you, and your cock ring is awesome! It's an ice breaker!, a conversation starter. Given the overwhelming preponderance of porn on the internet today, nobody is going to be shocked by this. I mean, let's be honest. When newscasters joke that they aren't wearing pants, they really won't be wearing pants! Won't this make the delivery of news a lot more interesting?
I like my idea. And I think you do too. You may not admit it publicly, but inside you're saying, "I'd vote for that!" So let's do it!
Hold on! Hold on! I can hear some of you saying, you realize, of course, that all of the people we would never ever in a million years want to see bottomless, would go bottomless. Have you ever been to a nude beach? Who do you see there? One hint. You don't see Jessica Alba. You see all the people you would rather not see naked. So how is this any different?
Excellent point! And if we follow through with this proposal I will be able to see your point even better! I recognize that there will have to be sacrifices. You can't restrict the bottomlessness to certain people that happen to turn you on. It has to be available to everyone. But think about it! The thrill of seeing those few just might be worth the aggravation of all the rest. Besides, think of the boost to self-esteem. You're walking along feeling a bit glum and somebody says, "that is an awesome penis you've got there!" It brightens up your whole day! I think I have made a good case for it, but naturally (get it? naturally!) I welcome your comments, Just put them down below. (I know how much you like to put things down below, if you get my drift) And remember! It's all in good fun!


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Low-budget horror. When a jetliner crashes to earth, there is only one survivor - a small boy, totally unharmed. Adopted by a childless couple, it soon becomes clear that there is more to this small boy than meets the eye, and that he is in reality the son of Satan himself.


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During a time of constant change, comfort can be found in something steady. Yoga offers just that. Steadiness, strength, support, relaxation, and a sense of calm in the ever changing beauty of growing a new life inside you. Whether you have been practicing yoga for years or are just discovering (or rediscovering) yoga now, this is a practice that nourishes your body and mind so that you can keep nourishing your baby.
These classes are also a safe space to connect with other like-minded women and share in experiences, build life-long friendships and share and find resources. All levels of yogis and all stages of pregnancy welcome.
Thursdays 6:30 – 7:45pm. This 4 week series runs once per month so you can easily roll into the next session. There will be a Restorative/Yoga Nidra practice the third week of each series. Other than that, class themes are rotating (meaning it will not be the same four themes/sequences in consecutive sessions.)
The Studio Downtown (625 Williamson Street)
Members: $60/session Early Bird, $70 thereafter
Non-Members: $70/session Early Bird, $80 thereafter
Drop-in: Interested in trying out the classes or can only make a few a month? Drop-in for $25/class.
*Cancellations that occur more than 14 days from program date will be charged a $20 cancellation/administrative fee. Cancellations less than 14 days of program date will receive a 50% refund – any cancellations within 48 hours or less of program date will not be refunded.
Aja Lefebvre has been teaching yoga at The Studio since 2012. Her recent experience moving through pregnancy, childbirth and becoming a mom inspired her to dive deeper into the study of pre and postnatal yoga and landed her in an in-depth 85 hour Teacher Training at Amala Prenatal in Chicago. It also showed her what a huge impact her yoga practice had on being comfortable in pregnancy and confident and prepared for labor and birth.
Her relationship with her midwife inspired her to want to cultivate more resources for women moving through this season of life. She is excited to build a community of mamas and mamas-to-be here at The Studio to share in the experiences, joy and even the not so glamorous things about pregnancy, birth, postpartum and motherhood.
Aja also offers Private Prenatal Yoga Sessions for those looking to work one-on-one and/or for those who may be moving through something specific that may need more focused and personalized attention. (Can be used for Postnatal Sessions as well.)


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As Temp Agencies Surge, Access to Staffing Financing Becomes Crucial
More than any other time in recent history, people looking for work today are much more likely to find it as contingency staff workers rather than full-time employees. Though the numbers and statistics vary by city, profession, and experience level, there's little dispute that staffing and employment firms have experienced unprecedented growth since the Great Recession. To sustain this seemingly never-ending development, employment firms have turn to alternative commercial financing such as invoice factoring and payroll factoring for revolving capital or credit.
Staffing Agencies, for Both Specialty and General Workers, Thrive
This growth in staffing is true for both high-skilled professionals and rank-and-file employees. On one end of the spectrum, there are high tech, engineering, medical, health care and finance professionals with advanced degrees filling out high paying and very competitive contingency positions.
On the other end, there are low-skilled office workers, assistants, coordinators, manufacturing workers and others that fill the role of the traditional temporary worker. For both sets of employees, employers have adopted a let's-take-this-slowly approach to adding staff to their payroll. They are taking advantage of the just-in-time hiring model that today's staffing agencies can provide.
Consider the Following Recent Statistics on Hiring and Staffing Trends:
- In the Dallas-Fort Worth area from 2013 to 2014, nearly one in five employees for private firms was a contingency staff worker. Many of these jobs were for high-tech contractors and general oil and gas laborers.
- In August 2014, temporary workers accounted for 2 percent of all workers across the nation, a record high in the staffing industry. Those temp firms employed an average of 3 million contract workers per week in 2013.
- Sales for temporary and contract staffing totaled $109.2 billion in 2013, an increase of four percent from 2012.
- Turnover, a considerable expense in the staffing business, is normally around 300%. In 2013 turnover was 263%, a record low for the industry. This means staffing agencies are employing workers for longer periods of time.
Main Hurdle to Staffing Growth is Insufficient Payroll Financing
Given these recent statistics and trends, the industry of staffing is growing at an unprecedented rate and shows no signs of decelerating. According to reports by the American Staffing Association, the only real slow-down seems to come from within. Lack of capital, insufficient payroll funding, not enough qualified workers and logistical limits are the only things slowing down industry growth. It certainly isn't lack of demand.
While pure logistics and timeframes limit growth for some agencies, the largest blockage is insufficient staffing financing, particularly payroll financing. Regardless of industry or specialization, temporary employment firms require considerable startup costs. In addition to advanced payroll financing costs, which comprises at least half of all expenses, staffing firms must pay for:
- Marketing, advertising, and promotions costs
- On-going sourcing, recruiting, retaining and hiring costs
- Healthcare and benefits costs
- Business office space, utilities, telecommunications, etc.
Incongruent Payment Terms Can Hurt Burgeoning Temp Agencies
There is a financial mismatch in the contractual agreement between the employer (the client) and the temporary staffing agency. Temp employees must be paid in two weeks for the work they have performed (even though the staffing firm doesn't collect payment for four weeks). Because payroll financing costs are so high, a temporary staffing firm must be able to cover this financial discrepancy between incoming and outgoing funds.
And while it's true that many industries and companies must contend with cash flow differences due to incompatible payment terms, few are as impacted by them as the staffing industry. This is in part because the cost of payroll financing is so high, but also because payroll financing simply cannot be paid late.
Though it is ill-advised for any business to pay a supplier or vendor late, it is unacceptable for a temp agency to neglect its payroll funding obligations. Simply put: Payroll payments are not the same as other vendor payments.
What Happens to a Temp Agency that Can't Meet Its Payroll Funding Requirements?
- It could be sued by the workers. When it comes to payroll financing, it isn't just a bad business practice to not meet payroll obligations, it is also against the law. Though the specifics vary by state, the temp agency can expect to have legal claims filed against it for not paying its employees.
- It could be heavily penalized by the U.S. Department of Labor. It's actually a federal crime not to pay workers, and it's an offense the government takes seriously.
- It could be fined by the IRS. Call this the icing on the cake but the IRS will severely penalize a firm for issuing payroll late because this means it is falling behind on its payroll taxes.
For all of these reasons and more, being unable to meet payroll obligations is widely viewed as "the" most urgent situation a business can face. This is doubly so if the business is a staffing firm. No employer will want to hire a temp staffing firm that can't cover payroll expenses, and no personnel will want to work for a firm that can't pay them.
Our latest infographic explains how staffing agencies are using factoring for reliable and steady cash flow to cover the many costs related to employment firms.
Payroll Factoring Becomes Attractive Option to Staffing Firms
For all of these reasons and more, many general and specialized staffing firms have opted to partner with invoice factoring companies rather than banks to secure their revolving payroll financing needs. Unlike banks that can take several weeks to process a business loan application, factoring companies can process – and issue – payroll factoring in 2-3 days.
Because factoring companies provide cash or credit so quickly their rates tend to be higher than bank lending fees. But when you are talking about something as crucial as payroll financing to a staffing company, the higher costs are of little consequence. Advance payroll factoring allows new and growing temp agencies to meet their current and upcoming payroll obligations, and that's the most important thing to such a business.
Fast-moving Factoring Pairs Well with Fast-growing Staffing Firms
Growing employment agencies seeking staffing financing quickly have a number of options to turn to instead of traditional banks (which might take too long and have too restrictive terms). One such option is staffing factoring or payroll factoring, which provides an advance on existing receivables thereby bridging the payment gap between the sale and the collection period. Though factoring receivables is used by a wide variety of industries, its expedited services are particularly useful for businesses experiencing rapid growth.
Written by Peter Amundson, since 1991 I specialize in Invoice Factoring, PO financing and ABL facilities. I currently work internationally with companies in the US and Canada via our internet marketing division. Specialties: Accounts Receivable Factoring and Payroll Funding for Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Wholesale Trade Distribution, Staffing and Transportation. I always enjoy helping companies rise to the next level of success. For more information businessfactors.com.


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Sandra is a gorgeous young girl with sparkling blue eyes, and she is new to our site! In this scene her beautiful gaze is planted firmly upon George. Her fantasy is to be taken in the arms of a more experienced, handsome man and to be fucked with abandon until she is quivering and shaking with the pleasure waves of post-orgasm bliss! George always gets so excited when he is working with a girl who is genuinely into the scene, and this was no exception, he comes twice during sex with her! But guys, seriously, with a face like Sandra's and a beautiful natural body with such a tight, warm and wet pussy, who wouldn't come more than once!
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DWP Confirms details of further roll out of personal independance payment
Personal Independence payment (PIP) is to be rolled out to existing DLA claimants in four additional areas, the DWP has confirmed.
From 17 November 2014, existing DLA claimants in areas with postcodes beginning CH (Chester); HD Huddersfield); L(LIVERPOOL);
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But although the scene's stars hold ambitions that extend well beyond the country's borders, the reality is that they're thriving on home turf. Johannesburg has written—and continues to write—its own narrative. It has tales of hardship. The fight to free itself from the brutality of apartheid, and the role music played in that struggle. In a city still rife with poverty, house music can offer a way out. For our latest Real Scenes film we journeyed to Johannesburg and its outer lying townships, meeting the DJs, producers, promoters and record labels who are central to its story.
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Amanuensis Monday – Mrs. Fannie I Breneman Obituary, wife of Dr. Joseph T. Breneman
Mrs.Fannie I. Breneman Obituary
Oakland Tribune
22 April 1947
Fannie Breneman Obituary Transcription
Funeral Rites for Physician's Widow
El Cerrito, April 22 – Funeral rtes are scheduled at 1:30 today for Mrs. Fannie I. Breneman, 84, widow of Dr. Joseph T. Breneman, pioneer Contra Costa County physician. She died Saturday following an extended illness.
A native of Illyria, Iowa, she had resided in Califonia for 57 years, and in this community for the past 35.
Surviving are four daughters, Miss Fay Breneman, Miss Hazel Breneman, and Mrs. Eula Staley, all of El Cerrito, and Mrs. Frances West of Craddockville, Virginia, two sons, George H. of Martinez and Flint Breneman of Los Angeles.
Services will be conducted at Wilson and Kratzer Chapel. Inurnment at Sunset View Crematory will follow.
I love it when I can add another piece to the family genealogy puzzle, and finding this obituary was the work of a snowy winter day when I had a flu bug, so finding an obituary that had been evading me made the day a lot better.
Now, if I could just find her husband's obituary, that would be awesome!
52 Weeks to Better Genealogy – Week 16 – Online Catalog of Kansas State University
by Sherry Stocking Kline
29 April 2010
I missed out on the first few weeks of 52 Weeks To Better Genealogy (check out this week's challenge on www.geneabloggers.com) began by Amy Coffin of We Tree, but there are such great weekly challenges there that I'm trying to join in all the fun!
I have to confess to something. I've not really researched online library catalogs very much before. I know that's terrible, because I could be missing so many great sources. (I do check library catalogs IN the libraries). So, it seemed like a great idea to use this blog challenge to 'get my feet wet' so to speak.
I began with the online catalog of the library at Kansas State University, my alma mater. I thought that I might find histories, genealogies, and diaries. So remember that I'm not real knowledgeable about searching the online catalogs, but anyhow, I didn't find anything under the "Genealogy" search there.
I did find a link to a magazine database that I would absolutely LOVE to have access to. ProQuest. ProQuest not only owns the Heritage Quest database that we all love to search, they also have copies of all types of magazine articles. Type in Vitamin D, and you've got beau coup articles to read about the new discoveries science has made that Vitamin D plays in our health.
But I digress. Anyhow, ProQuest magazines isn't available to non-students. So I pick up the phone, call the librarian, and ask if I can get a library card that will let me access ProQuest through the university website. Alumni should have privileges, right?
Too expensive, the librarian said…
Apparently not. ProQuest is not available to non-students. Too expensive, the librarian said. But the very nice librarian sends me to the State of Kansas library website, goes there on her own computer and points out a free database that is similar to the ProQuest, called the Expanded Academic, and that shows promise for some of the non-genealogy research that I want to do.
Going on down the list of fun research tools available on State of Kansas library website, I find the Heritage Quest link! Woo Hoo! And I don't have to in-put my library card number or pin number. Better and better.
I Put in My Great-Grandmother's Name…
I go to Heritage Quest and in the census, put in my great-grandmother's maiden name, Martha Ellen Jones for 1910. And got nothing. Must have done something wrong. Usually there are hundreds if not thousands of Martha Ellen Joneses. I'm just trying to figure out, if I can, what happened to her after the 1880 census.
All along I've been running under the assumption that she died, and that I just didn't know where she died and was buried, but that may not be true. She and great-grandfather may have 'split the blanket' and gone their separate ways. Anyhow, I'm not finding her this morning.
So, on to the PERSI index at Heritage Quest, where I check out the name Stocking in the Revolutionary War database. None of my ancestors are listed in this database. But some other Stocking's are, including Lemuel and his wife Ruth. Lemuel fought in the Continental Army from Massachusetts, and then there was Moses and his wife Elizabeth. Moses was in the Navy. While these folks are not my ancestors, there is a nearly 100% chance they are relatives, as so far, I've not connected with anyone with the Stocking name who is not related to me.
I Found the Original Stocking Ancestry…
Next, I search for books with the Stocking name, and find "The family of George Stocking", Boston:: D. Clapp & Son, printers, 1896, 8 pgs. How cool is that. This man is my first American ancestor. A few years after he arrived, he was with Thomas Hooker's party and helped found Hartford, Connecticut. The information here is included, perhaps in its entirety, in the Stocking Ancestry updated and compiled by Hobart Stocking, but it was awesome to see an old copy of the original book.
I am Deacon Samuel's descendant.
On the last page of this book, Page 8, that is on-line, it lists the Revolutionary War soldiers in the family, and there are more than were listed on the PERSI Revolutionary War database. Hmm, maybe the George listed is one of my ancestors.
So here is another clue for future research! And if this George is 'my' George, then I can join the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) in two different lines.
While searching, I also found three other books located in Kansas that may be available by library inter-loan. Awesome! Thank you Amy and Thomas for the inspiration!
Tombstone Tuesday – J. Thomas and Nancy A. (Smith) Harrison
by Sherry Stocking Kline
January 19, 2009
The following stone is the final resting place of my great-grandmother's sister and her husband.
The Stone Reads:
J. Tom.
May 13, 1844
July 10, 1911
Nancy A.
November 9, 1846
October 13, 1927
This Stone is located in the cemetery of the Caney Fork Baptist Church, Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky.
Nancy A. (Smith) Harrison was the sister of my great-grandmother, my great-aunt. And until I began doing genealogy and doing research,I didn't even know she existed.
Somehow, that feels strange to me, that I have fairly close extended family all over the United States that I don't even know. That the person I hand money to in the store, even here in town, might be a cousin that I don't know exists.
My husband and I experienced a situation very much like that in 2006, and probably I should blog about that soon. It was one of those serendipitous moments that we've had at least three times, meeting people that we were related to, and never knew about. But I digress.
Nancy A (Smith) Harrison was the daughter of Charles and Virginia (Hawley) Smith, and the sister of my great-grandmother, Martha Ellen Smith Jones. Now I know where my great-aunt was buried, but to this day, so far, I haven't a clue where Martha Ellen was buried.
My great-grandmother is not buried next to her husband, and I don't believe she was alive when he lived in the area he is buried in. Nancy Harrison's other sibling, children of Charles and Virginia Hawley Smith (the ones that I know about) are: Calvin, George W., Sarah A., Mary E., Martha Ellen, Jones (my great-grandmother), William, and I believe there was one more child, but I don't have that child's name.
Nancy's brother, George, married Miss Julia Harrison, but I've not yet tried to learn if Julia and J. Tom are siblings. That would be a great addition to my Genealogical Goals for 2010! And a goal that should be fairly straightforward.
For more information about the Smith family, see the following posts:
The Day the Genealogy Serendipity Angels Smiled…
And if you are reading this, and you're my kin, please leave a note so we can say "hello, nice to meet you!"
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – My Most Unique Ancestral Name
The following challenge comes from Randy Seaver of http://www.geneamusings.com/
Hey, genealogy fans – it's Saturday Night – time for more Genealogy Fun!
In honor of Surname Saturday (the new, official genealogy blogging prompt for Saturdays), let's consider this, assuming you accept the challenge to play along (is it Mission Impossible?):
1) What is the most unique, strangest or funniest combination of given name and last name in your ancestry? Not in your database – in your ancestry.
2) Tell us about this person in a blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a comment on Facebook.
3) Okay, if you don't have a really good one – how about a sibling of your direct ancestors?
by Sherry Stocking Kline
October 24, 2009
Because Most folks laugh when I tell them my maiden name, Stocking, I picked an ancestor from that side of the family.
When folks asked me how to spell my maiden name, I'd say "Just like you wear, just like it sounds." When my brother was in high school, his friends nicknamed him "Sox" a name that stuck with him, and after he graduated and I entered high school a few years later, my friends called me "Sox" as well.
The ancestor's name that I've been curious about ever since I read it in the family history book, was Deacon Samuel Stocking, son of George and Anna Stocking who immigrated from Suffolk, England on the ship Griffith in the 1630's, and traveled to Hartford, Connecticut with Thomas Hooker's party. George became one of Hartford's founders.
According to family records, Deacon Samuel married Bethiah Hopkins on May 27th, 1652. A quick Google search brought his will to light in several places on the internet. Awesome, considering 10 years ago, it was only available in one place.
My question has been, was Deacon Samuel his name, or was Deacon his church title? And I realized when I re-read the wills, one after the other, (for what was NOT the first time) that George's will refers to his son Samuel, not his son, Deacon Samuel.
So surely Samuel's "Deacon" is a church title. On the other hand, Deacon Samuel's will does refer to him as Deacon Samuel, sen.
So, while I think the question is answered tonight, I'd be happy to hear comments from those with more experience.
A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford district, 1635-1700
By Charles William Manwaring
Page 136.
Stocking, George. He died 25 May, 1683. Invt. £257-09-00. Taken by Nath. Willett, Tho. Bunce, John Easton. Invt. in Middletown taken 8 June, 1683, by Nath: White & John Warner.
Court Record, Page 73—6 September, 1683: An Inventory of the Estate of George Stocking was exhibited in Court. Adms. to Samuel Stocking.
Page 78—18 December, 1683: This Court haveing viewed that presented as the Last Will & Testament of George Stocking in the circumstances of it, together with what George Stocking hath declared to George Stocking & Capt. Allyn, & his declaration of his will in part contradicting, doe Judge that the will presented is of no value, & therefore the Court distribute the Estate as followeth: To Samuel Stocking, £100; to Hannah Benton's children, £41; to the wife of John Richards, £41; to the wife of Samuel Olcott, £41; & to John Stocking, who hath lived with George Stocking, his grandfather, for some years, the remainder of the Estate, being £34, we distributed to John Stocking; and desire & appoint Marshall George Grave & Thomas Bunce to make this Distribution. (See Will, Vol. III.)
Page 168-9.
Stocking, Deacon Samuel sen., Middletown. Died 30 December, 1683. Invt. £648-08-08. Taken by Giles Hamlin, William Ward. The children: Samuel 27 years of age, John 23, George 19, Ebenezer 17, Steven 10, Daniel 6 years old, Bethia Stow 25, Lydia Stocking 21 years. Will dated 13 November, 1683.
I Samuel Stocking of Middletown do leave this my last Will & Testament : I give unto my loveing wife Bethia Stocking my whole Homestead lying on the both sides of the Highway with all ye Buildings thereon thereunto belonging, with my whole Lott in the Long Meadow, with my Lott at Pistol Poynt, & half of my Meadow lying on the other side of the Brook, that part of it that lyeth next to the Great River, with all my Meadow Lands at Wongunk, together with all my Stock & Moveables; these I give my wife during her Widowhood, and upon marrying again I Will to her £4 yearly to be raised out of that Estate which I have agreed to my son Daniel Stocking.
I give to my son Samuel Stocking my whole Allottment upon the Hill between the Land of Lt. White and Israel Willcox, only excepting 6 acres adjoining to the Land of Lt. White, which I give to my daughter Bethia. Moreover I give to my son Samuel the remaining half of the Meadow over the Brook, with 10 acres of the Swamp adjoining to it. I give him my whole Allottment at the Cold Spring on the west side of the Way to Hartford. I give to him, sd. son Samuel, the whole of my Lott at Pipe Stave Swamp, with the half of my Allottment next unto Wethersfield Bounds, with the halfe of my Lott at Pistol Poynt, upon his Mother's decease.
I give unto my son John Stocking the whole of the Land and Buildings at my Father Stocking's decease bequeathed me by his last Will, within the Bounds of Hartford. I give unto my daughter Lydia my Lott lying next unto Thomas Ranny's, and butting upon ye Commons West and Dead Swamp East, with a good Milk Cow, to be delivered her within 12 months after my decease.
I give to my sons George & Ebenezer all my Lands on the East side of the Great River, to be equally divided between them, excepting the y2 of my Great Lott next unto Haddam Bounds.
I give to my son Steven my whole Lott upon the Hill, bounded upon ye Lands of Thomas Rannie North, the Commons East, West & South, with my whole Allottment in Boggy Meadow, with all my Meadow & Upland in the farther Neck, giving the Improvement of the Boggy Meadow unto my son Samuel till the abovesd. child is of age to inherit.
I give to my son Samuell (Daniel, see original paper on File) my whole Homestead lying on both sides of the Highway, with my Lott in the Long Meadow, with half my Lott at Pistoll poynt, with ^ of my Lott lying on the West side of the way as you goe to Hartford, adjoining to the Land of Anthony Martin on the North, the Land of Thomas Ranny South, the Highway & Commons West.
This I say I give to my son Daniel, that is to say, the West end of it, the other halfe of sd. Lott to be to my son Samuel. These aforementioned parcells of Land as specified I give to him my sd. son Daniel & his heirs forever, with the other halfe of my Lott next Weathersfield Bounds.
I give to our Pastor, Rev. Nathaniel Collins, £3, my son Samuel to be sole Executor.
After the decease or marriage of my wife, my Estate to be equally divided amongst my children. I desire Mr. Nath. White & John Savage sen. to be Overseers. Witness: Nath: White, Samuel Stocking Sen.
John Savage sen.
A Codicil, without Change of the above, signed 25 December, 1683.
Court Record, Page 85—6 March, 1684: Will proven.


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1. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then press and hold the POWER button.
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Date: 30/11/2011, 1:02 PM Author: COGAT Website, IDF (Zahal) Website
During this quarter the Gaza Strip exported 30% more goods in comparison to last year and unemployment rates decrease to the lowest they have been in the past decade.
The international community deemed the Gaza Strip closure legitimate and the Palmer report declared it to be a legitimate security measure in accordance with international law.
The legitimacy of Israel maritime security closure was supported by the Palmer reported published on September 2nd, 2011. The report says that the maritime naval closure on Gaza is a security measure and is in accordance with international law. According to the report, the source of the measure is the threat to the security of Israel from extremist groups in the Gaza Strip – terrorist organizations smuggling weapons both via land and sea, and firing rockets at Israeli southern communities.
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A great story about the future of shopping and identity management using finger vein patterns instead of credit cards is at NewLauncher.com.
We need to use credit cards less since they are so easily stolen or forgotten at home. I like the finger vein method or iris pictures to confirm identity, although neither is perfect, it takes criminals a lot more work than swiping a credit card blank through a magnetic writer.
A related story on using finger vein identity in a coke machine is here
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Agile ATX Lunch Crowd at Central Market
I had a great time at the Agile ATX lunch today at Central Market on 38th and Lamar. The group meets every other Thursday at 11:30.
Some of today's topics were Mercurial vs. Git vs. Subversion, Domain Driven Design, SSIS and RhinoETL, and raising babies.
As usual I didn't understand many of the conversations, but its good to be humbled sometimes.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Can You Name the Most Popular Programming Languages?
Fun Quiz to test your knowledge of the most popular programming language (well, fun if you are a languages geek).
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Java User's Group on March 2, 2010
Norman Richards, long time java guru, gave a presentation to about 40 people on JSR 299: "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the JavaTM EE platform". It was very interesting to hear about the merging of Spring, Seam, and other technologies being baked into the latest version of Java.
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"Shark Tank" investor and entrepreneur Robert Herjavec has called Tipsy Elves, an ugly Christmas-sweater company, his best investment on the show yet.
Herjavec invested $100,000 for 10% equity in the business in 2013. Two years later, the company pulled in over $10 million in sales and has expanded to other holiday apparel.
There's an important lesson to be learned from the founders' pitch: They brought energy. Herjavec says if entrepreneurs are able to entertain him, they have his attention.
"Investors are tired, they're cold, they're hungry. They hear boring pitches all the time," Herjavec tells Business Insider. "You have to entertain me."
We spoke with Herjavec while he was participating in a hackathon for kids, called "Invent-athon," at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. It's part of Frito-Lay's Dreamvention contest, which will award $250,000 to the dreamer — age seven and up — who comes up with the best invention. (They need only submit a drawing to apply.)
Herjavec said most kids have a knack for pitching because they bring tons of energy.
When Tipsy Elves cofounders Evan Mendelsohn and Nick Morton appeared on the show in 2013, they gave a quick spiel about their company, then launched into a surprise fashion show.
Models wearing goofy Christmas and Hanukkah sweaters strutted their stuff for the sharks, while Mendelsohn and Morton provided commentary on the looks.
It was silly, but certainly entertaining — which may have helped the former dentist and lawyer grab Herjavec's interest. Look at that smile on Herjavec's face.
Herjavec tells Business Insider one of the worst things an entrepreneur can do in a pitch is appear bored. If a founder is excited, an investor will be ready to listen, he says.


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A tournament which takes place in Samoa from November 22 to 26 and doubles as the first stage of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup.
The Cook Islands will meet hosts and favourites Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga at the event.
The twelve Rarotonga based players contains members currently playing in the local football league while the other nine members is made up of players based in New Zealand and Australia.
According to Rufer the preparations are running smoothly and the full squad is looking towards competing at this major football tournament and representing their country.
"We have a team of 12 players based here in Rarotonga," Rufer says. "We will meet with the eight overseas-based players soon and it will be up to them to push for a place in the starting line-up."
"Our goal for the tournament is to be the best that we can be and while in Auckland to intergrate the nine players into the team and with the purpose to qualify for the next round of the FIFA 2014 World Cup tournament".
The national team has departed for New Zealand earlier this morning where they are scheduled to play a couple of friendly matches against the local football clubs in Auckland.
The Cook Islands National Football squad is as follows:
Campbell Best, Branden Turepu, Emiel Burrows, Gichin Fuhiniu, Grover Harmon, John Michael Quijano, Joseph Ngauora, Junior Lupena, Junior Puroku, Mii Joseph, Nathan Tisam, Nikorima Te Miha, Paavo Mustonen, Paul Luiz Van Eijk, Roger Manuel, Tahiri Elikana, Taylor Saghabi, Terii Framhein, Tony Jamieson, Tuka Tisam and Twin Tiro.
The Team Officials are Shane Rufer as Head Coach, Paul Turepu as Manager and Paul Aitu as Team Physio.
The Cook Islands Football Association and Executive Board Members would like to wish the National squad all the best in Samoa.
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