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27 August 2004
Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy: You Need It!
Atlas of Human Anatomy with CD-ROM
Frank H. Netter
Publisher: ICON Learning Systems; 3rd edition (April 2003)
To be good at frequency medicine you need to understand anatomy and their is no better illustrated text than Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy. You can even use some of these drawings for plate zapping they are so high quality. I would never have believed this if my laboratory setup had not demonstrated it to be true.
25 August 2004
Good Guys in Medicine: John Halamka
His goal: Computerized patient records
By Michele Kurtz, Globe Correspondent August 24, 2004
A few years ago, Dr. John Halamka's grandmother died and his quest to computerize medical records became personal.
Halamka had pressed for electronic medical records years earlier and won awards for developing cutting-edge technology for CareGroup, which includes Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. But when his grandmother died, in part, he believed, from a medical error, he became even more driven to hasten the day when every patient's health records are available on a computer, able to be accessed by doctors anywhere.
Now, Halamka, the 42-year-old chief information officer of CareGroup and a former emergency room physician, is helping to shape federal discussions about how to move hospitals and doctors away from pen and paper, and to link health records nationwide -- overhauls that proponents say would save money and reduce medical mistakes. Researchers have estimated that there are anywhere from 98,000 to 195,000 preventable deaths each year because of medical errors.
"That would be like a 747 crashing every single day, killing everybody on board," Halamka said.
A fuller record of Halamka's grandmother's past treatment might have saved her life, he said. At the time, a doctor in rural Wisconsin did not know she was already taking steroids for her arthritis and prescribed a powerful form of ibuprofen. The combination, Halamka said, caused a bleeding ulcer. His grandmother's blood pressure dropped and she had a terminal stroke.
"It's hard in medicine to keep track of best practices and drug interactions," Halamka said. "But, today, if you tried to do that in our system, it wouldn't let you."
19 August 2004
Nanobacteria: Need Regular Attention
Killing cells infected by nanobacteria can release them back into the system. So if you are eliminating cancer cells, fat cells, or any other cells by accident using frequency technology you may be reinfected. Chelation with EDTA breaks up calcified deposits and can cause reinfection. Killing infected parasites can cause reinfection. Resveratrol has been shown to help with heart disease and cancer. By causing apoptosis it can release nanobacteria embedded in cells. See:
Clement MV and others. Chemopreventive agent resveratrol, a natural product derived from grapes, triggers CD95 signaling-dependent apoptosis in human tumor cells. Blood 92:996-1002, 1998.
Recently, resveratrol has been shown to free up hidden sources of HIV virus so those taking resveratrol for life extension should be on the lookout for internal reinfection with viruses released as well as nanobacteria, particularly if you have been infected with the carcinogenic SV40 virus (over 100 million Americans).
Reinfection can be easily cleared using the nanobacteria frequency set previously posted. You definitely want to get rid of nanobacteria as it has now been shown to be associated with heart and kidney disease by researchers at the Mayo clinic.
Evidence of nanobacterial-like structures in calcified human arteries and cardiac valves
Virginia M. Miller, George Rodgers, Jon A. Charlesworth, Brenda Kirkland, Sandra R. Severson, Todd E. Rasmussen, Marineh Yagubyan, Jeri C. Rodgers, Franklin R. Cockerill, III, Robert L. Folk, Ewa Rzewuska-Lech, Vivek Kumar, Gerard Farell-Baril, and John C. Lieske
Departments of Surgery, Physiology and Bioengineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clinical Microbiology, and Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905; and Heart Hospital of Austin and Department of Geological Sciences, The University Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 287: H1115-H1124, 2004. First published May 13, 2004; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00075.2004 0363-6135/04
Mechanisms mediating vascular calcification remain incompletely understood. Nanometer scale objects hypothesized to be a type of bacteria (nanobacteria) are associated with calcified geological specimens, human kidney stones, and psammona bodies in ovarian cancer. Experiments were designed to evaluate human vascular tissue for the presence of similar nanometer-scale objects. Calcified human aneurysms (n = 8), carotid plaques (n = 2), femoral arterial plaques (n = 2), and cardiac valves (n = 2) and noncalcified aneurysms from patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease (n = 2) were collected as surgical waste from the Heart Hospital of Austin, Austin, Texas, and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Whole mounts or adjacent sections from each specimen were examined by electron microscopy, stained for calcium phosphate, or stained with a commercially available antibody (8D10). Filtered (0.2 µm) homogenates of aneurysms were cultured and costained with 8D10 antibody followed by PicoGreen to detect DNA or incubated with [3H]uridine. Staining for calcium phosphate was heterogeneously distributed within all calcified tissues. Immunological staining with 8D10 was also heterogeneously distributed in areas with and without calcium phosphate. Analysis of areas with positive immunostaining identified spheres ranging in size from 30 to 100 nm with a spectral pattern of calcium and phosphorus (high-energy dispersive spectroscopy). Nanosized particles cultured from calcified but not from noncalcified aneurysms were recognized by a DNA-specific dye and incorporated radiolabeled uridine, and, after decalcification, they appeared via electron microscopy to contain cell walls. Therefore, nanometer-scale particles similar to those described as nanobacteria isolated from geological specimens and human kidney stones can be visualized in and cultured from calcified human cardiovascular tissue.
10 August 2004
Personalized Medicine: It's in our future
At a recent meeting of CIMIT the Boston based Partners research consortium, a few of the leading researchers in the U.S. agreed at the cocktail reception that within 20 years, prescribing drugs on the basis of clinical trial results will be considered as archaic as bloodletting in medieval times.
A recent article in The Scientist points out:
Medicinal drugs save patients, but compounds fail in many cases and even cause death in others. According to the US Food & Drug Administration's Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, adverse drug reactions kill 100,000 Americans each year, registering as the fourth leading cause of death. In the United States at least, prescribed drugs are more lethal than AIDS or automobile accidents. The problem is, no physician can know for certain how a patient will respond to a drug. Pharmacogenomics, however, could help alleviate that problem.
Many medication errors occur because the wrong patient is given the medication, the dose is in error, or the wrong drug is given the patient. But the "right" dose of chemotherapy is routinely given to the "right" patient and they may die anyway, because genetic factors assure that many patients will not respond.... a more recently heralded poster child for pharmacogenomics, Iressa, an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor has variable effects based on a single gene. Iressa battles non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which accounts for 85% of all lung cancers. Unfortunately, the drug fails more often than it works. Moreover, different populations experience varying efficacies with Iressa, which works in about 25% of NSCLC cases in Japan, but only about 10% of cases in the United States. Because of those numbers, Matthew Meyerson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and his colleagues suspected a genetic factor in Iressa's efficacy.
At the CIMIT meeting, a keynote speaker had criticized physicians for not prescribing the "correct" dose of a chemotherapy agent in many cases, the "correct" dose being prescribed on the basis of averages from clinical trials. She failed to mention that individual variability requires radically different doses for different people in many cases.
More complex gene-response relationships have begun to emerge. Some drugs, for example, demand precise attention to dosage. Warfarin, the most common oral anticoagulant, is prescribed to two million Americans, and it causes severe bleeding in some patients. "We've got to get the dose just right," says Brian F. Gage, associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, "and that is highly variable. I might be taking care of a football player with a blood clot after orthopedic surgery, and he might need less warfarin than a little old lady who just had a hip fracture."So even when the "right" dose is give to the "right" patient, we run the risk of being a statistic on the positive side of the medical error column, due to improper dosage. You can bet that our death certificate will never read "The correct medication was administered and it killed the patient due to failure to provide individualized medicine."
Pharmacogenomics Lurches Forward
Small battles push toward making personalized medicine a reality
By Mike May ©2004 Massachusetts Medical Society
The Scientist 18:15:26, 2 Aug 2004
Applying genomic information to pharmacology may reveal how a specific drug will work in a specific patient. In the most far-blown visions of the future, genomic screening will be done alongside all diagnoses, providing a personalized patient profile and indicating which drugs will have the best probability of working or causing harm. Although not new on the single-gene scale, broader gene-expression profiling studies are beginning to enter clinical trials. Some of the information collected may even feed back into better treatments.
08 August 2004
Cancer: It's a Programming Problem/Opportunity
The entire issue of a recent issue of the Journal of Biology is focussed around a single "hot" paper on this topic. Julie Clayton gives an overview.
Wnt signaling and the developmental fate of lung cells
Julie Clayton
Journal of Biology 2004, 3:9
28 June 2004© 2004 BioMed Central Ltd
When embryologists began cutting and pasting pieces of chick embryos into new positions back in the 1950s and 1960s they sometimes noticed bizarre changes in tissue types but had little notion of what was going on at a molecular level, and even less idea of how to investigate it. Likewise, clinicians have puzzled for many years over pre-cancerous conditions called metaplasias, in which cells appear in one part of the body that normally belong in another. Neither group could get a handle on how cells escape the usual 'rules' that tell them which types of tissue to form in which part of the body. Now, researchers from Duke University Medical Center have contributed to a new awareness of the molecular signals that could explain these phenomena; furthermore, their data suggest possible ways to manipulate stem cells of adult tissues, to make them develop into the tissue of choice for therapeutic purposes.
Tadashi Okubo and Brigid Hogan report in this issue of Journal of Biology a surprising result from their studies of the Wnt signaling pathway, a central cell-cell signaling pathway during development. If a key component of this pathway is expressed in active form in the lungs of developing transgenic mouse embryos, cells appear within the lung that are more like cells of the gut than they are like their lung neighbors.
The lung cells in the transgenic mice seem to have switched developmental pathways to become part of a different lineage; the lungs appear grossly normal at first, but they contain far fewer than normal of the usual fully differentiated lung cell types. By microscopy alone it was initially hard to say what had happened to the specialized lung cells that should have lined the airways and alveoli, but gene-expression profiling using microarrays revealed the activity of genes that are normally expressed only in intestinal epithelial cells.
"We nearly fell off our chairs when we saw all these intestinal genes coming up," says Hogan.
Multihit Model of Carcinogenesis
John C. Bailar, M.D., Ph.D., and Heather L. Gornik, M.H.S. Cancer Undefeated. New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 336:1569-1574. May 29, 1997, Number 22.
The lack of clear understanding of the cause of the cancer has led to billions of dollars spent on treatments, which on the average, have not improved cancer survival. This fact has been documented by my colleague and former thesis advisor, John Bailar, M.D., Ph.D., in the paper above. A brilliant scientist and MacArthur Fellow, in his spare time, Dr. Bailar was the statistician for the New England Journal of Medicine for over a decade and much of the modern medical literature has been published only after his careful review and approval of its accuracy, methodology, and method of inference.
Several people have asked me to post some of my research, largely done under the guidance of Dr. Bailar, from eight years of funding by the National Cancer Institute focused on cancer epidemiology and treatment. I scanned in a good summary paper that shows an elegant way to model the risk of cancer with a specific example applied to radiation risk and breast cancer. You could use these data to estimate risk of mammography induced cancer, for example.
Sutherland JV (1984) Estimates of cancer risk associated with radiation exposure. In Health Effects of Low Level Radiation. Hendee WR (Ed) Norwalk: Appleton-Century-Crofts, pp 93-117.
Of immediate interest is the fact that cancer appears to be the result of triggering programs in normal DNA. It is not a "disease" in the sense of an infectious disease caused by pathogens, although these genetic programs may be triggered by pathogens, particularly by Baccilus Licheniformis, the so-called "cancer germ" or Rife virus mentioned elsewhere on this site. The initial insults may be due to mutations caused by pathogens, radiations, chemicals, or other insults. However, the triggering process of DNA programs causing uncontrolled growth may be caused by extensive DNA repair mechanisms as cells attempt to correct these mutations.
Excerpts from my paper estimating cancer risk reinforce comments above:
The Multihit Model of Carcinogenesis
…The multiple mutation theory or multihit model of carcinogenesis was originally proposed by Muller in 1951. An extensive literature has developed from this idea during the past 30 years. In the past decade, the multihit model has gained dramatically increased acceptance due to (1) Fialkow's demonstration that virtually all cancers arise from a single cell and (2) Ames' demonstration that almost all carcinogens are mutagens.
The present conception of this model assumes that a normal cell is initiated (rendered potentially malignant) through alteration of cellular DNA by radiation, chemical, viruses, or other factors. Initiation may be retarded by DNA repair or accelerated by promoting agents. Farber suggested that a malignant cell is the result of an evolutionary process in which a normal cell and/or its progeny pass through several rate-limiting steps, someof which may be mutations. From a mathematical standpoint, "hits" may be either mutations or nonmutational rate-limiting events and the terms may be used interchangeably. Breast cancer may be viewed as a four-hit process. The first and third hits may be mutations. The second and fourth hits could be epigenetic events that cause proliferation of clones of cells.
Recently, Holliday unraveled two puzzling phenomena that lend greater credence to the model. Many researchers have viewed carcinogenesis as an epigenetic process since programs embedded in cellular DNA, which cause rapid prenatal cellular proliferation and which are normally dormant, could give rise to malignancy if triggered by mutation or other factors in the cellular environment. In addition, if hits cause malignancy, it was not clear why animals with short life spans are prone to tumor incidence similar to humans who have an extensive life span. Holliday proposed that "damage to DNA followed by repair can trigger epigenetic changes in gene expression which are responsible for malignancy. Since DNA repair is more efficient in large long-live animals, tumors occur over a more extended time span.
06 August 2004
Inflammation Interacts with Carcinogens to Cause Cancer
Cancer-inflammation link found
A genetic link between cancer and inflammation has been discovered by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Scientists had long suspected a relationship between cancer and inflammation caused by chronic infection, but did not have proof. The finding was published in the August 6, 2004 issue of the journal Cell...
Dr Karin commented, "We've shown how tumors arise from chronic infection and inflammation that act together with chemical carcinogens. In response to chronic infection, the interplay between immune cells and the epithelial cells of the intestinal tract, which become genetically transformed to give rise to malignant cells by the carcinogen, results in increased tumor growth and suppression of apoptosis, whose role is to reduce cancer incidence. Our studies show how NF-kB acts very early in the carcinogenesis process, in two different ways."
05 August 2004
Update on Healthcare Financing: 2002 spending $1.6 trillion and mismanagement of heathcare billing absorbs one third of healthcare costs
Health spending rebound continues in 2002
Levit K, Smith C, Cowan C, Sensenig A, Catlin A
Health Accounts Team. National Health Statistics Group, Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 Jan-Feb;23(1):147-59.
U.S. health care spending climbed to dollars 1.6 trillion in 2002, or dollars 5,440 per person. Health spending rose 8.5 percent in 2001 and 9.3 percent in 2002, contributing to a spike of 1.6 percentage points in the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) since 2000. Hospital spending accounted for nearly a third of the aggregate increase. During the past three decades, per enrollee spending for a common benefit package has grown at a slightly slower average annual rate for Medicare than for private health insurance, with more pronounced growth differences recently reflecting legislated Medicare reimbursement changes and consumers' calls for more loosely managed care.
Last year the Boston Globe reported on the major reason that U.S. healthcare is the most expensive in the world, while patient outcomes are very bad compared to other developed countries. One third of the healthcare budget is wasted in adminstrative billing systems that are incompatible and compute bills in so many different ways that the Globe describes it as "medical mayhem." Given that the third leading cause of death is medical error and the majority of errors can be eliminated by proper automation, the fact that automation cannot be implemented because of mismanagement of financials is a deadly aspect of our neglect of the most important service industry in the U.S.. As Einstein once said, there is only one thing without limit and that is "collective stupidity."
Paperwork pileup
Technology is only part of the problem in the medical billing logjam. A far bigger obstacle is mistrust between doctors and health insurers.
By Beth Healy, Globe Staff, 4/21/2003
Even in a slow economy, hiring has been brisk in a corner of Massachusetts General Hospital that patients never see: the billing department. This group of claim handlers, coding specialists, computer gurus, and data-entry clerks shoulders the labyrinthine task of getting insurance companies to pay more than 1,200 Mass. General physicians for taking care of patients. The department has grown 32 percent since 2000 -- three times as fast as the doctor ranks. It's now an army of 250, based at the former Charlestown Navy Yard, a mile away from the prestigious Boston hospital, with an annual budget of $10 million that has nearly doubled in three years. The system is broken when it takes one administrative worker for every five doctors to get bills paid, executives who run the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization argue.
03 August 2004
Pollen Alert: Boston Area
The pollen season is beginning in Boston and I got a good dose of what is probably a grass pollen on the way to work. If you are susceptible you will get hay fever, a headache, some respiratory effects, and a stomach ache. This will be followed by general weakness and lack of energy as the pollen spreads throughout your system. As noted previously, a few seconds per minute of broadcasting the correct frequency with the Advanced Biophoton Analyzer (ABPA) will eliminate all allergy symptoms by killing the pollen. The frequency for today in the Boston area is:
label start
dwell 13
duty 50
pulse 64 75
converge 17 1
pause 47
goto start
02 August 2004
Placebo Effect: It's the Real Thing!
Photo by Fabrizio Benedetti in The Scientist, 2 Aug 2004
During a deep brain stimulation clinical trial, researchers detected elements of the placebo effect. The pre-placebo neuron was recorded from the left subthalamic nucleus as a control. The post-placebo neuron was recorded from the right subthalamic nucleus. Other neurons demonstrated a similiar decrease in activity.
New Views On Mind-Body Connection: Studies into placebo effect and empathy suggest how the brain encodes subjective experience
By Eugene Russo , The Scientist, 2 Aug 2004


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Jul. 10, 2010, 04:33 PM
Does anyone have PVC fences for their pastures? What are you likes? Any dislikes aside from the initial expense of installing it?
Thanks. :)
Jul. 10, 2010, 04:46 PM
There are different types of PVC fencing. Do you mean the PVC rail that looks like the standard wood rail type fencing, or the flexible stuff like Ramm/Centaur? I have the Centaur HTP and love it, but not sure that is what you are referring to.
Jul. 10, 2010, 07:43 PM
I love our Centaur. I do not like the PVC that looks like standard rail fencing, for the same reason I don't like PVC jumps -- it can shatter if kicked, particularly in cold weather. Very dangerous, not to mention then the horses are free.
Jul. 10, 2010, 11:34 PM
I was talking about the PVC that looks like rail fencing. My concerns are similar to fordtraktor's, but I have seen many people using it... so I was interested to see if people liked it or found it dangerous. It certainly looks very nice -- but it obviously needs to be safe and functional, too. :yes:
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:08 AM
The barn I board at has the PVC that looks like rail fencing. I know the owners like it because it doesn't require as much maintenance as wood fencing. I myself do not care for it. The rails pop out pretty easily when horses lean on them. You can add hotwire to keep them off it, but I've seen them lean on the gates which moves the post, which pops out the rails. I've also seen some pretty jagged edges on broken pieces.
She did have a horse just get itself caught under the fence in it's paddock(didn't see it happen, but assumed she was stretching under to get to grass) and it actually pulled one of the posts up part way out of the ground and some of the rails came out. Horse was scratched up a bit, but ok. In this case it may have been a good thing that it had some give.
Anyway... pros and cons, but after living with it, it would not be my first choice.
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:10 AM
There are different grades of the pvc rail fencing. I do not have it at my place, but have been at barns that used it. One place I have visited used the cheaper, Home Depot stuff that is more decorative than useful and every single paddock had a broken rail duct-taped together. Tells you how well that stuff lasts! A friend has the expensive, meant for horses stuff and it has lasted very well. Even in ice and snow, it might bend down some, but not break. Of course, we don't get major snow/ice here often, nor extreme temperatures, so that might affect it as well.
What I really like the looks of is that stuff that is wood on the inside, coated with pvc -- looks like that would last really well and is very attractive, but I'm sure it is $$$.
One thing that seems common among the places that use it and have it continue to look pretty good is they all had electric along the top/inside to keep the horses off it.
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:16 AM
I dreamed for years of PVC fencing. (the kind that looks like white board fencing.) I was totally sold on the "never rots, never have to paint it, lasts forever" sales pitch I was told as a teenager. 20 years later I finally had the money (and a substantial amount at that) and put in 4 board PVC fencing as cross fencing and arena fencing. I bought the highest quality I could find, the thickest, etc, It was - the "good stuff".
It has proven to be the most useless horse fencing I've ever used. The horses lean on it, pop out the boards, and break it all the time. It was no time before they figured out they could pop out the top board and hop over the lower ones to get out. They also pull the caps off the posts for fun and destroy posts & boards all the time. Even the minis figured out they could push really hard and bend the boards up to crawl underneath. We had to run hotwire along every fence to keep the horses in. I could have saved a lot of money by just running a hot wire to begin with.
I am currently boarding a horse who was terribly injured when she escaped from a nearby farm with the same kind of fence but no hot wire. She just pushed the boards down and then tangled with a neighbor's barbed wire fence.
It's lovely fencing, but I will never use this kind of fence again. I think it works well to line golf courses and look "pretty" in areas where there are no actual livestock!
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:29 AM
The only PVC I've seen that really impressed me was sold by company called
Plantation Suppy in Denver. Crooked Willow Farm has tons of it, including
pens with round rails. Very thick, sturdy stuff. Talked to them about selling it in Texas but they weren't much interested. All I could find out was it was made in Utah. They are no longer in business.
A building contractor near us who does a lot of large horse properties has
several miles of it on his own place. He said he had to electrify but doing
that voided the warranty--guess due to screwing in insulators.
But got an email from this company, www.esfencing.com, who has designed
a snap on insulator (no screws) for PVC plank or wood rails and holds
tape, wire or rope.
If you go the PVC plank route, make sure you get an installer that understands the extra demands horses put on the fencing. Have seen directions that call for ribar and concrete inside the corner and gate posts.
Have seen way too many installations with corners falling in, planks held in
place with baling twine, etc.
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:46 AM
I have white vinyl fencing, this is the second farm I have built with it. We have 25 separate turnouts ranging in size from 24'x60' to over an acre in size. Half of the turnouts are 3 board white vinyl and the other half are top rail white vinyl with no climb. Half the horses are in their paddocks every day from dusk to dawn and half are in them 24/7. All of them have hot wire running on the inside top rail. I have never actually had a horse injure themselves on this fencing. (Knock on wood) I quite like it. I have never had a horse "push" out a rail, either. I have had them kick a rail, and it gives and breaks. It looks like it has sharp edges when it breaks, but it is pretty flexible so the edges give and break again if a horse rubs up against it so it is hard to get a cut from it. I watched a pony of ours freak out once and jump the fence (over the post) and she cleared it with her front feet but not her back and the post and fence gave way for her. Which is good because if it were wood or metal she would have flipped and really been hurt. Then we just caught her and later replaced the rails and post. She was totally fine.
We replace maybe one rail every couple of months. We have forty acres worth of fencing, and we also have our outdoor arena and area around our house fenced, so that equals a heck of a lot of fencing! I don't think that is too big of a deal. Besides, I would much rather have a rail break when a horse kicks it then have their leg break!
We live in a high desert, so it is pretty dry. It is cold in the winter and I don't think it shatters more when it is cold. The only thing I can say is that in a wetter climate, the rails will get mossy or greenish and need to be washed, which is too much maintenance for me. But here we don't need to do anything!
Jul. 11, 2010, 03:03 AM
My husband's family had this at their ranch for over 20 years without any problems. It was one of the first and is still one of the best fencing products available on the market and is made in Nebraska (USA). Since I know several families that have this fencing and have had it for years I definitely have seen for myself how well it holds up with horses. It may be a little more expensive but in this case you get what you pay for. We also had it put in for our arena at our stables in Hawaii. It was beautiful.
Jul. 11, 2010, 07:56 AM
I am on year 7. My only minor complaints is that in Maryland, it should be pressure washed to keep it white every few years. I have not been entirely happy with the gates, but will probably upgrad to Lucas Equine gates in the fall.
As the above posters have mentioned, installation is paramount. It appears to vary by your soil type. I have concrete in each post, not just corners and gates. Also, my boards are notched at the ends, which prevents the boards from popping.
Jul. 11, 2010, 12:21 PM
My barn has some PVC that looks like wooden rail fencing left, and some of it borders part of my horse's paddock and the riding ring is done in it. It's not bad for the riding ring, but for the turnouts, it does pop out very easily. Also, it shatters. My horse got a nasty cut to his throat/jugular area last summer and there are some "boards" of the PVC fencing that are broken with jagged edges and I'm pretty sure that's what he did it on when he was reaching between to eat grass. I'm not a huge fan.
Jul. 12, 2010, 12:36 AM
Find several suppliers and ask them to send you a sample. There are some
suppliers that make it in colors--black, sandstone, wood-grain looks, etc.
Jul. 12, 2010, 11:26 AM
I've got Heritage 3 rail vinyl. It came with a lifetime guarantee. We put all the posts in with Quikrete, and the rails have held up very well over the last 10 or so years. It does benefit from a pressure washing every now and again to keep the sparkling white appearance, it gets mossy on the north sides of the rails.
I do have a couple of horses that will take a notion to flip the post tops off but that isn't a big issue, you just take a walk and slap 'em back on. Good exercise, walking and bending.;)
I do have a few rails out by the road that need to be replaced due to an idiot hunter that thought taking a shot at a deer as it jumped the fence would be a good idea. 00 Buckshot makes sizeable holes in vinyl rails.
Jul. 12, 2010, 01:31 PM
Please don't :no:
I have nothing nice to say about PVC fencing, and have the awful experiences to back it up. As other posters have said, the boards pop out all the time when the horses lean on it or run into it, and it shatters into a million sharp nasty pieces.
Now flex fence? Love it. It's what we have now
Jul. 12, 2010, 04:37 PM
It looks lovely, but is really difficult to deal with if you have a horse that will test the limits...the rails will pop out. On the plus side, it's easy to install and if there's a break it's pretty easy to replace. I wouldn't install it if I had a choice. But it's what was already here when I bought my place, and my horses are too mellow to destroy it...so far. The whole community looks really nice, though, because the city mandates the white vinyl fencing. Many people have installed other types just inside the split rail fence, for security's sake. I have a hot wire running along the inside.
Jul. 12, 2010, 06:04 PM
If you are going to get the vinyl... and it is beautiful, definitely run the hot wire around the top of it to keep your horses off of it. It doesn't stand up well to scratching butts.
With that said, always keep several spare pieces around because you can't just run to the hardware store and get another board easily.
Also, if you have hungry hippo ponies, run a strand around the middle too! I have seen more than one little pony stick its head between the rails to get that delicious grass just on the other side of the fence. When they do, they buckle the vinyl board and can pop it out easily and if the fencing has weathered in the sun, it doesn't really go back quite right.
I second the Quikrete in the posts... I just hope you never want to move your pastures around and restructure the layout of the farm. I helped a friend dig up wooden fence posts that were Quikreted in - NOT fun! I felt like someone had Quikereted my joints when we were done :lol:
It definitely requires work, but good old wood fencing does too. It just depends on what works for your horses.
Jul. 13, 2010, 01:41 PM
Previously owned a farm that already had PVC fencing. So many rails popped out that I had to screw a nail in each end of EVERY rail! And we added a strand of hot wire to keep the horses off it.
Also, depends on where you are. Some brands can get brittle in cold and it gets really green and moldy in humid areas.
Jul. 13, 2010, 03:05 PM
You folks with the rails popping out...did you not crimp the ends of your rails?
Our fencing came with the crimping tool. You crimp, slide the rail through, and the "Teeth" makes the rails really tough to pop back out of place.
Aside from messing with the post tops, my horses leave the fence alone. The mini will stick her head through and nibble grass on the other "greener" side of the fence, but she's never bent or popped out a rail.
Or maybe my Heritage vinyl is just a tougher kind of fence. I am glad of that.
Jul. 13, 2010, 05:24 PM
Yep, all the ends were crimped, still popped out if the horses leaned against the middle of the rail.
We left the crimping tool with the buyers, we knew we'd never use that type of fence again.
PITA - beautiful looking but after installing screws in every rail end, resetting posts in Quikcrete, glueing down all the post tops...rather build a wooden fence and be done with it!
Jul. 19, 2010, 01:38 PM
Yep, all the ends were crimped, still popped out if the horses leaned against the middle of the rail.
PITA - beautiful looking but after installing screws in every rail end, resetting posts in Quikcrete, glueing down all the post tops...rather build a wooden fence and be done with it!
Ditto - we crimped ends & placed screws & concreted posts & glued on tops (and put screws in the tops too) & ran hotwire. My horses still destroy it regularly, and we order a constant supply of replacement posts, boards, and caps.
I wanted it for the "lack" of maintenance, and so far it's required more maintenance than any other kind of fence I've ever had.
And with having to bleach the green mildew off......it's just not worth it.
Jul. 20, 2010, 10:26 AM
Ours has been up for about 15 years. Posts were cemented in. It's pretty to look at, we've had a few boards pop out but nothing terribly annoying. We do have hot wire on the top and middle rails. Cons: the caps on the top of the posts always find their way into a horse's mouth, and then into 10 pieces in the pasture. To date haven't had any of the rails break, but several posts have gotten a kick, and had to be replaced, which is highly frustrating and $$$. Pros: it's been up, like I said, 15 years, and in the grand scheme of things has required next to no maintenance. Everyone always comments on how beautiful it is, but I'm a believer that without that electric it would have been in pieces long ago.
Jul. 20, 2010, 10:43 AM
I built two large paddocks with the stuff and it was the bane of my existence.
When the weather is cold, rails will just pop out and sometimes even shatter. The shards of PVC are like glass.
The caps simply DO NOT stay on. Even if they are glued down.
Rails pop out easily if the horse leans on it. If you do decide to go with it hot wire around the inside is a MUST. Also make sure every single post is filled with cement or you will have serious trouble with shifting.
Last weekend we had 70 MPH winds in our area. A friend of mine lost four big sections of her PVC fence to the wind and two of the PVC gates BLEW OPEN. The standard latches that come with that type of fence are pieces of crap.
She is extremely lucky her horse decided to hang out and not wander off during the storm...
I on the other hand dealt with the same 70MPH winds on my hilltop farm and my electrobraid was still as good as new in the morning.
If you have a mild climate where you're at, cement in all the posts, upgrade to better gate latches and run several strands of electric around the inside you might be okay. The fence DOES look nice but I personally would never go with it again.
Jul. 20, 2010, 08:06 PM
I am on year 6 with PVC fence and love it. We have a line of electric along the top and have had zero problems. We had every post cemented into the ground and only occasionally does one pop out, but they're so easy to put back in.
Jul. 21, 2010, 09:56 AM
Great info. I am looking at new fencing and will probably use PVC for pretty purposes and not to hold a horse in. I always use hot wire at the top and bottom to keep my Draft Xs and Draft from LEANING :-)

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Skip to comments.Happy [belated] 65th birthday, Smokey Bear
Posted on 08/10/2009 3:57:03 AM PDT by Daffynition
Today the nation celebrates the 65th birthday of one of our most beloved protectors: Smokey Bear, the guardian of our forests. Dressed in a ranger's hat, belted blue jeans, and carrying a shovel, he has been Americas forest fire prevention symbol, since his debut in 1944. Today, he is one of the most famous advertising symbols in the world and is protected by Federal Law. He has his own private zip code, his own legal council, and his own private committee to insure that his name is used properly. Smokey Bear is much more than a make-believe paper image; he exists as an actual symbol of forest fire prevention.
Kentuckys Governor Steve Beshear, along with the Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) and Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF), are recognizing Smokey today. The governor officially proclaimed Sunday, August 9, 2009 as Smokey Bear Day in Kentucky in an effort to celebrate Smokey Bears 65th birthday and provide critical information about wildfire prevention.
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Happy Birthday, Smokey! I remember as a boy seeing Smokey during his brief stint at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. It was not a happy time for the old bruin. He and others were displayed in the typical Victorian style of large rectangular cages on elevated concrete platforms, and it saddened me to see him so confined. Mercifully, reforms were instituted so that animal exhibits now reflect a more natural and humane habitat.
Yes I was at the National Zoo just the other day Smokey and about 75% of the Zoo animals are no longer there. They have no Polar Bears and practically no bears at all other than the Panda's. Yes, they are no longer caged and the Zoo is mo longer a zoo,it is merely a park with damned few animals.
The great collection of animals you went to see has been destroyed by people who feel that animals have no business in cages and a great larning experince for children of all ages has been decimated.
I know I wont be wasting my time on another visit to the National Zoo.
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Not any more, Smokey died in 1976 and is buried in Capitan NM.
They need to get they're facts straight, Smokey was a young cub when found in 1950 after a huge fire in Capitan NM.
I hate to sound like a pill, but Smokey the Bear was the thin edge of the wedge. It was the beginning of the infantilization of the American people and the first example of government through slick marketing.
Of course, we have now reached the point where government is nothing but slick marketing. But it all started with Smokey the Bear.
Thanks for posting that, I've been to the museum, also went to the Billy the Kid museum. We've had a place in Ruidoso for 22 years now.
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"By the way, the U.S. Forest Service makes a specific point of denying that the name was ever "Smokey the Bear"; however, in the 1950s, that variant of the name became very widespread both in the popular imagination and in print. The campaign to remind the public of the correct version of the name is almost as old as the Smokey Bear campaign itself. Smokey's debut poster was released on August 9, 1944, which is considered his birthday. His name was inspired by "Smoky" Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who shrugged off burns and blindness in a bold 1922 rescue."
His real name was Smokey Bear.
Classics! Thanks again!
Correction, his real name was Smokey.
A candleless birthday cake.
Perhaps it is, but a zoo without animals is not a zoo.
Your memories of the National zoo differ from mine. I was a kid who went a couple of times a year. They had animals of every kind ,some of which amazed me as a kid. Herds of Zebra, Wildebeests,they had Prairie dogs, Panthers and white Tigers.
Perhaps you are right , Kids can see these animals on a video tape now, they dont need to see the real thing. I guess the animals they do have left over there will just be allowed to go as they die off. Probably all for the best.I do know I wont be going there again , but if you like to hike and climb a large hill and be ripped off by high price concessions, give it a shot. There are a couple of elephants left, and an old mangy male lion. LOL
There are a few more animals left there, but not enough to make it worthwhile paying the 20 buck parking fee and traipsing that hill with two Grandkids in tow.
I've heard those six-legged headless grizzlies are extremely rare in some parts.
I wish I could find the Far Side cartoon with Smokey blindfolded blowing out the candles that look like little trees, and saying "Can I look now?"
Many people dont get direct contact with wild animals. They dont get the opportunity to visit foreign countries and see exotic animals. The Nations zoos are the only opportunity they will get to see these animals.
I see your point in wanting animals to be free , it's a great point , I also see a need for people to actually see these animals, so that when they are asked for funds to save their habitat so they know what kind of animals are being saved. It's educational for kids to see these wondrous beasts. They wont get that opportunity any longer at the National zoo. That too is shameful.
<I remember as a boy seeing Smokey during his brief stint at the National Zoo in Washington, DC
Me too! I still call him 'Smokey the Bear.' Screw the Park Service.
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The state unit of the CPM has pushed its fellow comrades of other states far away in membership by contributing 40 percent of the total share, as per an organisational document tabled at the central committee meeting held in New Delhi recently.
The state has recorded a growth of 16 percent in the party membership in a year when it lost nearly 2,000 members nationwide.
The 'big three' - Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu - together has a whopping 76 percent share of party cadre.
"Though the membership in the state has been growing over the years, it is significant that the party recorded a growth despite the fact that it is sitting at the Opposition for the past two years. We are getting more participation in the various struggles. There is considerable increase from all class organisations. Significantly, more number of women, youth and students are drawn to the party ideology," said Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, CPM politburo member and deputy chief of the party in the state Assembly.
According to the latest figures, the party has a total membership of 10,42,000 from 10,44, 833 in 2011.
The party had 10,42,287 members in 2009.
The state unit in Tamil Nadu recorded a milestone as it crossed one lakh in membership, while Andhra Pradesh once hailed as the Red bastion suffered a slight dip.
The 'dominance' of the Kerala unit over West Bengal will increase as the latter had lost almost 50,000 members.
"It is true that the party received a setback in West Bengal, but at the same time it has to be noted that many in the region are fleeing from their locality fearing 'terrorist' strikes and hence they fail to renew their membership. The party never had balanced growth across the country," Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said.
Of the 15-member politburo besides general secretary Prakash Karat, Pinarayi Vijayan, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, S Ramachandran Pillai, and M A Baby belong to Kerala.
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Stone pelting at a Ramlila in Muzaffarnagar
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Published: 12th October 2013 10:21 AM
Last Updated: 12th October 2013 10:21 AM
A few unidentified men pelted stones at a Ramlila in Kawal town in Uttar Pradesh Friday night, raising tensions in the district that had witnessed communal violence in September leaving 62 people dead and 43,000 homeless, police said.
According to sources, stones were hurled at the stage and the at the audience of a Ramlila in the Muzaffarnagar town around midnight. The audience grew restless and a woman, who was trying to leave, was injured in the commotion.
A stone hit Savita, wife of a local resident Satbeer. Another woman was also injured when people ran for cover. The show was ended abruptly.
The injured woman was rushed to a hospital, and was shifted to the Muzaffarnagar district hospital, where she continues to be serious.
Circle Officer (CO) Mukesh Chandra Mishra rushed to the spot and immediately fanned out policemen in the area and requisitioned extra forces.
The situation was tense but under control, an official told IANS.
In another incident, bike-borne assailants shot at a woman in Aryapuri and within 15 minutes a youngster was shot at on the Bhpa road.
Two persons were killed in two separate incidents Thursday triggering panic among the people.
Police say that these are attempts by mischief makers to vitiate the atmosphere in the district.
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Singer Paloma Faith has revealed details of a UK tour for January and February 2013.
The dates will be the first full tour for her album Fall To Grace, which reached number two in the album chart when it was released in May.
Beginning in Manchester on 23 January, the 10-date tour ends at Hammersmith Apollo on 7 February.
She is also playing some live shows this summer, including two at London's Somerset House on 17 and 18 July.
Fall to Grace, the 26-year-old's second album, was only kept off the top of the chart by Gary Barlow's Diamond Jubilee record by 5,000 copies.
Tickets for her 2013 tour go on sale Friday 15 June at 9am.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Everyone wants to do their part to help in the relief effort following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. For people in the fashion and beauty worlds, that means helping to raise money for charity.
Designer Kenneth Cole, who is known for his socially aware ad campaigns and fund-raising projects, summed it up on a flag-motif T-shirt: "What we stand for is more important than what we stand in."
The shirts are $25, with all proceeds going to the Kenneth Cole Emergency Relief Fund.
Other fashion and beauty companies contributing to charities related to the attacks include:
Skechers delivered 400 pairs of steel-toed boots to firefighters helping at "ground zero" of the World Trade Center.
Cartier donated $200,000 earmarked for the grand reopening party of its flagship New York City store to the American Red Cross.
L'Occitane is giving 100 percent of the proceeds of its new Lavender Harvest Candle to the American Red Cross during October, and Essentiel Elements is giving 10 percent of the profits from candle sales to the American Red Cross.
Half of the proceeds of Sue Devitt's "New York" lipstick will be donated to the Red Cross through the end of the year.
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A blank document in Word has a default font, font size, margins, styles, and more. If your personal preferences don't match Microsoft Word's basic document, you can change the defaults. There are two ways to do this depending on your needs. If you want every single document from now on to use your preferred elements, you can change the normal .dotx template that every new document is based on. If you want to set the defaults for a specific type of document, take advantage of Word's templates. Let's start by looking at the templates.
Maybe I produce different documents with different needs. My reports may require specific spacing, fonts and margins. But my customer service correspondence such as this one also contains letterhead and boilerplate text. So we can use this basic layout to set up our document defaults. Notice some things about this file. My logo and my company name are up in the header, not in the document itself. And my date is set up, so that it automatically updates, that way I won't have to change the date every time I use the file.
Now do a Ctrl+Home to move your cursor up to the top of the document, and I am going to save this as a template. A fast way of doing a Save As is simply to press the F12 key on your keyboard and the Save As dialog box opens, where it says Save as type: Word Document, click on it and pull down to Word Template. Now on some computers, it will allow you to save it where you want to. On others, as soon as you choose Template, it will go to Word's default location for templates. Personally I prefer that, especially from sharing my template with other people.
In this case, it's going to my Exercise Files folder and that's fine, so I'll click Save. Now, close this document and open up Windows Explorer if you need to so that you can see our files. So here you can see our original 01_10_template, but then this one has a little orange bar at the top. And when I hold my cursor over it, it tells me that it's Microsoft Word Template as opposed to the first one, which is a Microsoft Word Document. Now if I double click on the template, it doesn't open the actual template file.
Look at the file name, it says Document1. So this is a completely blank document based on that template and so when I go to save this, it won't overwrite that file, it will create a whole new blank one. And it's already populated with today's date and all of my boilerplate text ready to go. Let's say you want some of your personal preferences applied to every single new document. Let's start with a blank document, hold down the Ctrl key and tap N for New. So we are going to start with a blank file and then customize it.
The default font is Calibri, 11. Let's say I am not a fan of Calibri, 11, I would much rather use Tahoma, 12. I'll click on my Fonts and I can type TA and it will jump me down to the bottom of the fonts list and there's Tahoma. If it wasn't Tahoma that I wanted, I could scroll down a little bit further. But I'll go ahead and click on Tahoma. And then I'll change my Font Size to 12. Go up to the Font group and click on the launcher button in the right-hand corner, and here I can see Tahoma, 12.
In the bottom left-hand corner, there's a button that says Set As Default, I'll click on it and it gives me a choice, do I want to make this change for This document only or All documents based on the normal template, which will move it into the future, and I'll choose that second option and click OK. Now that same Set As Default button can be found in many windows, such as the Paragraph dialog box. So I'll go up to the Paragraph group and click on the launch button in the corner. Now Word 2010's defaults are different than they were in Word 2007.
By default you have a 10 point paragraph space after and your Line spacing is 1.15. At first people aren't used to it and they don't like it and so your instinct may be to just come in here and change it automatically, but I actually recommend sticking with the new defaults for a little while and see if you get used to it, before you take this step. Let's say I'm in school and all my documents need to be double-spaced. Maybe, I'll change the Line spacing from 1.15 to a Double space and then I'll click on the Set As Default button, again it asks This document only or All documents based on the normal template, and so I do want to edit the template, so I'll click OK.
Now if you want to permanently change a document's margins, for example to accommodate your preprinted letterhead, go to the Page Layout tab, click on Margins and go down to Custom Margins. I'll make my Top Margin 2.5, so that my printing will always start lower on the paper and my preprinted letterhead will look wonderful. I'll do the same thing, click Set As Default. Now this time my dialog box looks a little different, but I'll go ahead and say Yes. And notice now my cursor jumps down 2.5 inches. Last but not least, let's go to the Home Ribbon and maybe you don't like the default heading style and you'd like to change that.
Right click on it and then click Modify. I'll change my color of my heading from blue down to red. And at the bottom of this dialog box, we have the same choices, again it just looks a little different, Only in this document or New documents based on this template, I'll select the second option and click OK. Start a blank document again from scratch, hold down the Ctrl key and tap N. I'm in a new document. Notice that it defaults at Tahoma, 12, my cursor is starting 2.5 inches down and my heading is red automatically.
So if you spend time with every single new document setting it up to your individual needs and personal taste, instead create a template or change the default normal .dotx template, you'll never have to repeat your setup again.
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Letters to Santa
As it is Christmas Eve we are now closed for receiving letters. We are now on our holidays until later on in 2016.
Thank you to everyone who wrote to me this year, there seem to be more and more children who write letters.
Writing your letter is quick and easy. The elves have spent many hours while Santa was away on his holidays building a new post office. This will help them receive and respond to your letter.
Simply think about your top ten gifts that you would like from Santa and you're ready to begin writing your letter.
If you are under 12 please check with Mum, Dad or an adult that it is OK to do this before you begin.
A letter from Santa makes a great surprise.
There really is no substitute for a child of any age receiving a Letter From Santa.
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Boajibu is a town in Kenema District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.[1] It is the Chiefdom Headquarters of the Simbaru Chiefdom. The current Paramount Chief of Simbaru Chiefdom is P.C Madam Mamie G. Gamanga.[2] The present population of Boajibu is about 7384 according to the 2004 Population and Housing Census of Sierra Leone.
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pros and cons of getting toddler a tablet
I got one for my birthday and have used it a couple of time with LO. Yes I know he's too young to really get it, but there are some fun apps for toddlers. His favorite is Peekaboo Barn. We've also used it to distract him on our 9 hour drive to Thanksgiving.
Anywho - I'd invest in getting an otterbox or simliar product because it will get dropped and you want to protect it. I also have screen protectors to help with LO when he decides to drive his cars over the screen.
I have the Google Nexus and I like it. I'm an iPhone kind of girl, so it isn't as intuitive as my iPhone, but seems to do a lot and was way cheaper than an iPad.
my son has played on ours a bit with us but I think there are more age appropriate gifts to get a toddler. I really try to monitor my sons screen time and know that he can be amused by things that are healthier for him at this age like art and other activities. just my opinion though : )
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My LO loves the Nabi commericals. We dont have one but I know they are made for toddlers, I think they have timers you can set so they shut off after so many minutes. I have an IPad and I have apps downloaded that my LO plays with ever so often.
We aren't planning on having ODS get one for quite a while. We won't be buying it, and grandparents aren't likely to at this point either. I've read several articles on how children learn through manipulating things with the hands and how it promotes brain development. Hoping to hold out as long as we can.
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our family has had an iPad for the last two years. My girls (4 and 5) use it all the time and have learned tons from it. DS likes it. He mainly likes to swipe the pages.
I don't like the addiction kids get to it, the sedentary stretches of time it promotes and my high school students now often refuse to read actual books.
Yes it's appropriate. and we prefer apple products with ruban foam cases. We have appleTV for screen sharing.
My daughter is using PowerPoint on the Mac at school for projects, she's 11, so the ipad will help her with homework.
My 5 year old can draw, do flash cards, practice writing, reading, etc.
LO will get the fisher price apptivity case with an iphone in it.
The ipad is everywhere. Businesses around us are foregoing the the typical cash register and just have iPads and a card swiping attachment for taking payment.
It's sort of how we see business and productivity happening around us and my kids need to be adept so we are ok with exposing them to it early.
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