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2009 Rockstar goes big with mural... again!
GTA: Chinatown Wars - General News | @ 03:25 PM MDT | By rappo
You may remember before Grand Theft Auto IV's release, we reported on a massive artwork mural found in Downtown Los Angeles. It seems like Rockstar Games is at it again with the "larger than life" advertising - this time for GTA: Chinatown Wars.
The same building that featured the GTA IV mural is now home to three towering paintings of previously seen Chinatown Wars artwork, pictured to the right. Another view of the mural is available here.
For those in the area that are interested in seeing it, the mural is located on the south side of the Hotel Figueroa, located at 939 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA.
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Cubs' Sveum accidentally shot by Yount on hunt
Incident happened during quail hunt in Arizona
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum says he was accidentally shot in the right ear and back by former teammate Robin Yount during a recent quail hunt in Arizona.
Sveum brushed off the mishap Tuesday at the baseball winter meetings. Sveum says the pellets drew blood, but adds he was OK and didn't need stitches.
Sveum and the Hall of Famer played together in Milwaukee and are hunting partners. Sveum said he was about 50 yards ahead of Yount when a bird went up. Yount pulled the trigger, but had lost track of Sveum and hit him.
"You don't get hit very often," Sveum said. "It's not that big a deal."
Yount got the bird, plus some razzing from his friend. Sveum said he started calling him "Dick Cheney," a reference to the former vice president who once accidentally shot a friend while hunting.


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While browsing on Ebay today I noticed a model kit for the Dagobah scene with Yoda, Luke and R2. Has anyone put these together?? Do they display nice?? Where can I get them at retail??
While browsing on Ebay today I noticed a model kit for the Dagobah scene with Yoda, Luke and R2. Has anyone put these together?? Do they display nice?? Where can I get them at retail??
If you're referring to the large box with the art, then you can probably find it at Big Lots, Kaybee, or other fine clearance warehouses. There is this one, and one with Jabba's court.
The way I describe it, it's cheap enough to consider buying, but it's too crude for my collecting needs.
"It's bombs away for Iraq and on our civil liberties if Bush and his cronies get their way. Dissent is patriotic!"
- Helen Thomas, veteran journalist
Journalists are mostly centrist in their political orientation. The minority of journalists who do not identify with the "center" are more likely to identify with the "right" when it comes to economic issues and to identify with the "left" when it comes to social issues.
The model is cool, and is no longer avaliable at retail. Unless you have a hobby shop in your town that still has models that are years old in them. You will most likey have to resort to Ebay if you want one. I recall TRU clearencing them out ages ago.
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There's a Hobby Town USA by me that has them for $6!! I picked one up, I just haven't had the time to put it together yet. It looks like a nice model, though. I'd be happy to grab you one if you want to pay for the shipping.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Thanks for the offer DS. I'm going to check out a few places by me first.
I don't think this one was that good of a model. I passed on this so many tomes. I'll just build the ships.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
The ships are definately the most fun to put together. I hope they come out with some Episode II models. And not those stupid snapfast models they had with Episode I.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
I wanted to get the Hoth Hangar model, but everytime I wanted it, I remember I never had put a model together and would probably push it aside too many times so I never really tried to get one.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
got my dagabah model today. I haven't put together a model for probably 17 years. I was hoping someone that has put this one together could help me with a few things.
1. It says the model glue is needed, but I don't see anywhere in the directions that requires it. Does anyone know if I'm supposed to glue everything, or is it a snap together?
2. I don't see where it says what colors to paint the base.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, you can also email me any hints to email@example.com.


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quote:Wow. A nominee in every category that anybody cares about
Best motion picture of the year
"Amour" Nominees to be determined
"Argo" Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
"Django Unchained" Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
"Les Misérables" Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
"Life of Pi"Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
"Lincoln" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
"Silver Linings Playbook"Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
"Zero Dark Thirty"Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman in "Les Misérables"
Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master"
Denzel Washington in "Flight"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in "Argo"
Robert De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master"
Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts in "The Impossible"
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "The Master"
Sally Field in "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt in "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"
"Amour" Michael Haneke
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Benh Zeitlin
"Life of Pi" Ang Lee
"Lincoln" Steven Spielberg
"Silver Linings Playbook" David O. Russell
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I'm surprised Rise of the Guardians didn't get nominated for animated picture. I've only seen Pirates on the list and it was kind of dumb and not really anything spectacular.
Thought Leo deserved a best supporting actor nominee
A few surprises in there, but nothing shocking.
So The Hobbit is not even nominated for Best Picture? Surprising?
Disagree. Ben Affleck's directing snub for Argo is probably one of the biggest snubs in a very long time.
Silver Linings Playbook seems pretty unimpressive to have so many nominations. I hate the oscars
Disagree. Ben Affleck's directing snub for Argo is probably one of the biggest snubs in a very long time.
Have you even seen it? It's a great movie. And I think it's between Silver Linings Playbook and Lincoln for Best Picture. Sure, Life of Pi got the second most nominations (11), but it isn't the kind of film that usually wins Best Picture. It's a technical triumph that will more than likely go the way Hugo went last year.
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Warning: MP-1 Optimus' Megatron Gun Disintegrating
After I photographed Starscream and Thundercracker last week, I picked up the Megatron handgun accessory I had given Starscream from the original Masterpiece Optimus Prime. Anyway, I had disassembled Megs to make sure nothing would break when I had moved and hadn't put it back together for quite some time. The gun, barrel, and scope all went on fine, but then the attachment slide on the stock instead of slipping over just crumbled into tiny pieces! It's only the hard plastic of that hinge which disintegrated, the soft PVC of the stock itself is fine, as is the rest of the hard plastic on the other accessories. I did nothing to break it, and upon close inspection it appears it truly was just disintegrating, that the plastic had broken down and was coming apart. I've never had another Transformers accessory do that. Anyway, I suspect it's either related to age or to the pressure from the rivet used to hold it to the stock, but either way it's something to watch out for, and it's not fixable.


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Ummm...I just have to say...
The bows are now in the 55g tank. It cycled surprisingly fast (3 weeks or so), and I just transferred the filter from the old tank, so hopefully we are OK. I will still be testing daily, since I'm psycho like that.
Anyway, the bows are so happy and they are BEAUTIFUL - they colored right up. Like, I love them even more than I did before. So active and colorful!
I think I need to start saving for a six foot tank.
But, I will probably go to fishkeeper hell for keeping them in that 20gallon tank for so long. Will I ever stop feeling guilty? Probably not. But I am feeling slightly better now that they are in a halfway decent tank.
Anyway, just needed to share. I love my rainbows. Love.
What's important is that you're working hard to keep them happy and healthy! When I started fish keeping, I had a comet goldfish in a 10 gallon tank and I didn't know I had to change the water, so I never did.
Somehow, he survived 5 years like that.
Now I know better! You shouldn't feel guilty. You didn't know, and now that you do, you're making the right steps to improve their living arrangements! I think that's great! :D Most people would stubbornly say "Well, they're obviously fine the way they are." and just leave them like that.
I think you're doing great!


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Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In his career-capping thirteenth novel, master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA - "The Company" to insiders.
At its heart lies a spectacular mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad - a stunningly conceived trip down the rabbit hole to the labyrinthine Alice-in-Wonderland world of espionage, "a wood where things have no names."
Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare the internecine warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game.
©2013 Robert Littell (P)2013 Phoenix Audio
"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have." (Tom Clancy, author of Patriot Games) "If le Carre is the Joyce of spy novelists, Littell is the Dickens." (Booklist, starred review). "An epic tale...peopled by heroes and villains who seem almost mythological in retrospect...Keeps you riveted." (Nelson DeMille, author of Up Country)
"Destined to become the definitive novel about the CIA." (Amazon.com)
"Hang on to your Hat"
Littel has spun a tale so true-to-life that I found myself thinking it might be thinly veiled non-fiction. More than once I found myself sitting in my car, listening until the very last moment I could walk in to work. The characters are fully three dimensional, the plot develops naturally, and the history lessons contained within the story are so well woven I couldn't tell where the fiction ended and the history began.
Don't miss this revealing look at the rise and near-fall of one of this country's governmental institutions.
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"Full of twist and turns and surprises."
This is one of the most complicated and deeply written plot, based on real people and historical events. While a novel, you soon forget that fact as the characters develop and the story unfolds. You have to pay attention, because the plot turns on itself, and you can loose the storyline. I don't know how many times I had to replay a section, because I missed a switch in the plot.
Character development is great and you soon know and care about the characters. It is sometimes hard to tell who the good guys are and who are the evil ones. No matter, you will find yourself engrossed by the story. If you lived through some of these actual events, the book makes you wonder if it has let you in on what really happened and why things happened the way they did.
I will definitely be reading more of Mr Litell's books.
"My Review of the Reviews"
I don't really like spy novels, but I love long books. So I read most of the reviews and decided to give the book a try. So here are my responses to the reviews:
1 Some said it had too much cursing. I don't get easily offended by too much cursing. I kept an ear out for it, but felt there was very little cursing. Unless you are overly sensitive to cursing, don't worry about this one. And now, I'm going to find another book by this author...
2 Some said too long. I do like long books and felt that every hour was great. There was 1 slight lull in the 80's after a major plot climax, but overall, it was captivating.
3 Some got mixed up with names because of it being a spy novel. This was my biggest concern. I have the same problem. But I was able to be reasonably sure of what was going on at all times.
4 ...It was a condemnation against democracy. This is the most ridiculous claim. I didn't see any "preaching" for or against. It is a spy novel. The author showed that the Russian actually believe in their cause. Characters on both sides of the "game" were well developed and real.
Spy novels aren't my genre, but I would recommend this book highly.
"You're in Good Company with"
I've never written a book review before because I would hate someone to buy something on my account and then not enjoy it. However, I can confidently state that "The Company" is a top notch listen in every respect. History has never been so entertaining or personal. I hesitate to imagine the hours of research that went into its writing, for, although it is a work of fiction, the factual events are covered in amazing detail that shows uncanny clarity and insight on behalf of the author. It is easy to get lost in the names, places, titles and relationships, but it is worth the effort. The narrator was perfect. His readings were well prepared (it is probably difficult to switch from German to Russian accents back to English), and he put real emotion in the reading when required (without overdoing it). I can't really overstate how much I enjoyed this audiobook, and I am sure that you well also.
The Company will become a part of your life. Over the course of a month I came to know the men and women depicted in The Company, and to care about them. This book is about more than just the cold war, it is about the shaping of modern America and the people who (could have?) made it happen. I didn't want it to end.
"Keeping me"
This is the first review I have written and I just had to do it. I am about half way through the book and it's great! I really believe it is more true that fiction! I had reservations about downloading such a huge book, but I am enthralled. I was afraid that it would be too confusing listening to this type of book, due to both the subject and the length, but it is so interesting I can't wait to get time to listen to it. It is written in such a way that it is easy to follow and the narration is exceptional. What a great book!
"The Holy Grail of Audible.com"
At 40 hours, this juggernaut of an epic pulls you deep into the story of the second half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the true soldiers of the Cold War. At 23, even relatively recent events like the fall of the Berlin Wall are shadowy memories at best for me. Littel brought the meaning and feelings of over forty years of tension straight to the surface with action, secret agents, double agents, love affairs, suspense, history, spectacular characters, and humor to slide you through smoothly. This audio book is a rite of passage to being a true Audible listener.
"Fascinating read"
Littell strikes a great balance between detail and drama. The story sweeps over decades and continents, but still keeps you connected to the three men whose lives are traced the most closely. When a major plot twist involved one of them, my heart actually started pounding and I became concerned for him.
I highly recommend this entertaining book, especially if you take advantage of a subscription to pick it up for a song!
"Lavish, Totally Absorbing"
When I bought this book, I shelved it for a while because I couldn't commit myself to the sheer length of it. Everyday I didn't start listening to <U>The Company</U>, I was robbing myself of one of the greatest audio book experiences I will probably ever have. The depth of character development and the complexity of the interweaveing stories is handled masterfully by Littell. Scott Brick's narration is fantastic.
Do not be intimidated by the length of this book! Once you get in, it will stay with you during your days and nights when not listening to it.
So many great books, and so little time to meet them all..this is why I adore audio books, I take them with me everywhere: studio, garden etc.
"A Great Listen"
What a fantastic listen, at no time did I think that 40 hours was too long: I found this novel interesting from start to finish and a great way to get a birds eye view of modern history. Littell's style has enough detail and originality of expression to engage the 'reader' without slowing it down too much for the listener who likes action. Definitely qualifies for a repeat listen before too long. The narrator was easy to listen to and characterised the voices very well without causing one to cringe.
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For the Eastern churches, this feast denotes Christ's baptism in the Jordan River. Theologically, it is Jesus' first revelation as the Son of God and the revelation of the Holy Trinity.
Highlights of the feast
The baptismal site of Qasr el-Yahud on the Jordan River, east of Jericho -Morning of the 18th - A procession of clergy and pilgrims (O) travels down to the river bank. The baptism celebrations are held on the bank of the Jordan River. By submerging a cross in the river, the Patriarch purifies and consecrates the water, which is then sprinkled on crowds of the faithful.
In the afternoon the Ethiopian Orthodox Church celebrates the Baptism in the site. Morning of the 19th - The Baptismal celebrations of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Syrian Orthodox Church are held on the bank of the Jordan River.
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Family: Pieridae, Whites and Sulphurs view all from this family
Description The Mustard White (Pieris oleracea) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. Its historical range is in the great lakes area of the United States and southern Canada. The caterpillars feed on brassica type plants and the adults feed on flower nectar. Some authors consider oleracea to be a subspecies of the Green-veined White, Pieris napi, of Eurasia.
The Green-veined White, Pieris napi, of Eurasia is a circumboreal species widespread across Europe and Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, Japan and the Maghreb and North America (Many authors consider the Mustard White of North America to be conspecific with napi or consider napi to be a superspecies).
It is found in meadows, hedgerows and woodland glades but not as often in gardens and parks like its close relatives the Large and Small Whites, for which it is often mistaken. Like other "white" butterflies, the sexes differ. The female has two spots on each forewing, the male only one. The veins on wings of the female are usually more heavily marked.
The underside hindwings are pale yellow with the veins highlighted by black scales giving a greenish tint, hence Green-veined White. Unlike these two butterflies it rarely chooses garden cabbages to lay its eggs on, preferring wild crucifers.
Dimensions 1 1/2-1 5/8" (32-41 mm).
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Meadows & fields, Cities, suburbs & towns, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs.
Range California, Northwest, New England, Eastern Canada, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Alaska, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Western Canada.


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- Written by Dave Walsh
This weekend plays host to one of the most exciting heavyweight tournaments in history's opening round, as we get to see Fedor Emelianenko square off with Antonio Silva and Andrei Arlovski take on Sergei Kharitonov. As the time grows near, it is impossible to not be incredibly excited about it. While at LiverKick.com we pride ourselves on our kickboxing coverage, there is so much crossover within the Strikeforce Heavyweight GP we feel like it is a huge injustice to not get amped about it and tell you all about it. Ariel Helwani just posted up this incredible video of the Strikeforce Heavyweight GP fighters being introduced in NYC by Scott Ferrall (YAMMA represent!). Watch this and try not to drive yourself too crazy. [source]


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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Are you deficient in Vitamin D? The odds are good and the risk is high... Read on!
Dr. Michael F. Holick is a vitamin D researcher at Boston University's Medical Center and the author of "The UV Advantage". Dr Holick has done some of the recent seminal work in this area.
Vitamin D has a multitude of effects, the principal of which is the development and maintenance of bone health. In people who are vitamin D deficient, you will see a wide variety of bone disorders, such as osteoporosis, osteopenia and osteomalacia -the inability to mineralize bone, causing pain and weakness.
But while its effect on bones may be most commonly known, vitamin D also has many other very important functions. For example, it reduces the risk of diabetes and certain forms of cancer including ovary, breast, colon and prostate; it has been shown to improve hypertension; help psoriasis; and it drastically reduces the risk of heart disease. There are even some studies that link Alzheimer's disease, depression and multiple sclerosis to low vitamin D levels.
In terms of the immune system, vitamin D has extremely important, yet subtle effects. For example, studies have shown that people at higher latitudes have a higher rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) - possibly due to deficiency in vitamin D. In fact, several animal studies have shown that animals that can be induced with MS will not get MS if treated with vitamin D beforehand. Another study in Finland found that proper levels of vitamin D actually reduce the occurrence of Type 1 diabetes in children by about 80%.
Vitamin D is critically important for maintaining normal calcium levels in the blood and for bone health. Not only that, but research by Dr Holick has shown that if blood levels of vitamin D are good, it reduces the rate of colon cancer by about 50%. In short, vitamin D plays a crucial role in many metabolic functions as well as nerve, cardiac and muscle function.
In children, vitamin D is critically important. Without it, you'll have growth retardation, rickets and other skeletal deformities. In fact, rickets - once considered a disease from a hundred years ago is on the rise. Why? There is not enough vitamin D in breast milk. Children in particular need to get more vitamin D.
Sunlight is a crucial factor in maintaining proper levels of vitamin D. It's so important that our skin makes vitamin D when exposed to UVB radiation from the sun. Studies have shown that between 80% and 100% of the daily requirement for vitamin D comes simply from being in sunlight for about 15 minutes a day. One problem with that is that we are worried about sun exposure because of the risk of skin cancer. We stay indoors more often and wear sunscreen that doesn't allow us to get the proper amount of sun to manufacture Vitamin D.
Few foods actually contain any appreciable level of vitamin D naturally. Certain fish, like mackerel and salmon have some, as do oils from fish like cod, shark and tuna. Meats and egg yolks also have some vitamin D in them, but very little. Of course fortified milk has vitamin D, but the amounts in every container are highly variable and insufficient to provide what the average person requires.
Research has shown that certain types of low pressure lamps used in tanning beds supply UVB radiation-which is exactly what you need to make vitamin D. But not all tanning salons use that particular type of lamp, so you would need to check.
While anyone who doesn't get enough exposure to sunlight or supplement their diet with Vitamin D is at risk, studies from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) have shown that African Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiencies the most. As many as 42% of all African Americans ages 15 to 45 have low levels of vitamin D. In fact, they need five to ten times more exposure to make the same amount as a Caucasian because the melanin in their skin acts as a sunscreen.
People who live at higher latitudes are also at high risk for being deficient. A study in Boston showed that 36% of young adults ages 18 to 29 had insufficient levels of vitamin D. The subjects were local medical school students and hospital residents whose work or studies limited their exposure to sunlight. The bottom line is that people - especially if they live in the north or spend most of their time indoors either need to find ways to get outside or replenish their levels of vitamin D with supplementation.
Other studies show that >30% of the general population is deficient, with >60-90% showing insufficient or suboptimal levels of Vitamin D. People with chronic conditions and inflammation frequently are Vitamin D deficient.
Symptoms associated with Vitamin D deficiency:
hypertension, heart disease
most cancers
malabsorption (as seen in Celiac and gluten intolerance)
Multiple Sclerosis
asthma, allergies
periodontal and gingival disease
osteoporosis, osteopenia
musculoskeletal pain, fibromyalgia
chronic wounds
seizure disorders
dementia, depression, and mental illness
Get a blood test to determine your Vitamin D levels. Look at the chart below to determine where you fall regarding deficiency.
Normal or Suboptimal Levels of 25 hydroxy vitamin D
<10 ml=" possibly">36 ng/ml = decreased incidence of heart disease
>40 ng/ml = decreased incidence of MS
40-50 ng/ml = probably sufficient levels
>50 ng/ml = sufficient or optimum levels
>50 ng/ml = decreased incidence of cancer
80-100 ng/ml = goal for most cancer patients
>125 ng/ml = potentially toxic
Supplements are an excellent source of vitamin D. However many people only take a multivitamin and if you're already low in vitamin D, your body needs more than the 400 IU it can get from a single multivitamin. While 400 IU may be fine for some people who are not deficient, those who are need more - about 1000 -2000 IU per day to satisfy their body's requirement for vitamin D.
When supplementing, use Vitamin D3 – D2 is only 60% absorbed. Also supplement with adequate Calcium and Magnesium which is important for gluten intolerant patients anyway as those minerals are frequently malabsorbed as well. Supplementation should continue for 5-9 months for maximal benefit. Evaluate levels every 2 – 3 months and get them into the optimal range.
Note: Patients who are potentially Vitamin D sensitive are those with certain conditions such as sarcoid lymphoma, TB, renal or liver failure. These patients could get toxic taking Vitamin D and shouldn't without doctor supervision.
In extreme cases of vitamin D deficiency, some patients will need to get a prescription to take very high doses of 50,000 IU/week for eight weeks. Because if you are extremely deficient, taking 400 or even 1000 IU a day would be insufficient to handle the deficiency. You would need to "prime the pump" with a higher amount for a period of time to efficiently handle the severe deficiency.
It's a simple blood test to find out and a very small vitamin tablet to take if necessary. I consider this a small price to pay to handle a deficiency that can create such widespread problems.
To your good health!
Dr Vikki Petersen
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Good afternoon! I read your article on Vitamin D deficiency on the internet. I've taken the prescription of 50,000 units of Vitamin D for 6 months, and my levels are still undetectable. I know someone how successfully treated their Vitamin D deficiency with a Vitamin D shot. Is that readily available in the USA?
Please note: I'm absorbing all other vitamins, calcium, etc Glucose, etc is normal. Only problem is Vitamin D.
Thank you!
I am a 57 yo female with a vit D level of 23 after being treated for over 2 months with 50,000 IU weekly. I am exhausted, I had over 20 hours of spinal surgery in Nov. 2009 and have been suffering from fatigue since. My Vit. D level was first drawn in April 2010 and found to be severely deficient at 18. My physician then started treatment with p.o.Vit D as above. My last blood test that resulted in 23 was drawn the evening that I had taken my weekly dose of 50,000 IU that morning.
I have a long history of surgeries and now that I am aware that I have this deficiency, I think may have contributed to my problems over the years. I had avascular necrosis of my joints and no one could determine why, I was not an alcoholic so they thought it was caused from the steroids I had been given prior to my first disc replacement surgery at age 35. I had my first hip replaced at age 43. I have been taking some antidepressant for the past 14 years as I kept complaining of fatigue and my physician believed it was depression.
I just want to know why I cannot get the Vit. D levels to stay in the normal range, what else I may be able to ask my physician to do or to look at, or if there is a specialist in this area that I could see. I live in the St. Louis metro area.
Please help me, I am so tired and so tired of the surgeries, I have had 3 on my spine, and have more discs that are affected by osteoporosis. I have tried to maintain a healthy weight and do work out when I feel well enough, I have pushed myself now to exercise, with no difference in the way I feel. I have had 2 hip replacements, and 2 closed reductions and one open reduction. I have avascular necrosis in my knees, discovered after surgery.
I have psoriasis, worse in the winter months, now I think I know why. I have had CIN and VIN III, a total hysterectomy when I was 30 and 2 surgeries to remove the VIN at ages 53 and 55.
To the 57 year-old with the stubborn levels:
- Is your doctor testing the right type of vitamin D? 1,25-hydroxy-vitamin D is regulated through homeostatic mechanisms (the level is kept within a certain range whether or not you are deficient).
Assuming the right type is being tested:
- Your intake is too low. 50,000 IU per week corresponds to 7,000 IU a day, which, if you are seriously deficient, isn't going to be enough to fill the hole.
- You are taking ergocalciferol (D2). Though it remains a matter of debate, some specialists say that D2 is not absorbed as well as cholecalciferol (D3).
- You probably have a defect in your vitamin D metabolism, which means that what applies to most people may not apply to you. It may be that you need way, way more oral vitamin D to make a difference.
In most people -- that is, people who do not have a metabolic disorder like sarcoidosis -- high-dose vitamin D supplementation is very tolerable. Have a look at this trial:
Note: the researchers measured a mean peak 25-hydroxy-vitamin D level of 413 nmol/L, which is a value believe to predict toxicity. Despite this, they found no laboratory evidence of toxicity.
You need to find a doctor in your area who is knowledgable in the subject. Try the Grassroots Health website.
Good luck!
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But I have heard from two sources that there is supposed to be a "glow-in-the-dark" skull inside the opaque helmet. I have not seen photos to back this up.
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MY prize‐money enabled me to go to Dublin, to visit my brother James and his wife; and I staid there till September,—writing all the time, and pondering the scheme of my Political Economy Series. I sketched out my plan in a very small blue book which was afterwards begged of me as a relic by a friend who was much with me at that time. My own idea was that my stories should appear quarterly. My brother and the publishers urged their being monthly. The idea was overwhelming at first: and there were times when truly I was scared at other parts of the scheme than that. The whole business was the strongest act of will that I ever committed myself to; and my will was always a pretty strong one. I could never have even started my project but for my thorough, well‐considered, steady conviction that the work was wanted,—was even craved by the popular mind. As the event proved me right, there is no occasion to go into the evidence which determined my judgment. I now believed that for two years I must support an almost unequalled amount of literary labour: that, owing to the nature of some of the subjects to be treated, my effort would probably be fatal to my reputation: that the chances of failure in a scheme of such extent, begun without money or interest, were most formidable; and that failure would be ruin. I staked my all upon this project, in fact, and with the belief that long, weary months must pass before I could even discern the probabilities of the issue; for the mere preparations must occupy months. In the first place,—in that autumn of 1831,—I strengthened myself in certain resolutions, from which I promised myself that no power on earth should draw me away. I was resolved that, in the first place, the thing should be done. The people wanted the book; and they should have it. Next, I page: 123 resolved to sustain my health under the suspense, if possible, by keeping up a mood of steady determination, and unfaltering hope. Next, I resolved never to lose my temper, in the whole course of the business. I knew I was right; and people who are aware that they are in the right need never lose temper. Lastly, I resolved to refuse, under any temptation whatever, to accept any loan from my kind mother and aunt. I felt that I could never get over causing them any pecuniary loss,—my mother having really nothing to spare, and my aunt having been abundantly generous to the family already. My own small remnant of property (which came to nothing after all) I determined to risk; and, when the scheme began to take form, I accepted small loans from two opulent friends, whom I was able presently to repay. They knew the risks as well as I; and they were men of business; and there was no reason for declining the timely aid, so freely and kindly granted. What those months of suspense were like, it is necessary now to tell.
I wrote to two or three publishers from Dublin, opening my scheme; but one after another declined having any thing to do with it, on the ground of the disturbed state of the public mind, which afforded no encouragement to put out new books. The bishops had recently thrown out the Reform Bill; and every body was watching the progress of the Cholera,—then regarded with as much horror as a plague of the middle ages. The terrifying Order in Council which froze men's hearts by its doleful commands and recommendations, was issued just at the same time with my poor proposals; and no wonder that I met only refusals. Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, however, requested me to take London on my way back to Norwich, that we might discuss the subject. I did so; and I took with me as a witness a lawyer cousin who told me long afterwards what an amusing scene it was to him. Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock sat superb in their arm‐chairs, in their brown wigs, looking as cautious as possible, but relaxing visibly under the influence of my confidence. My cousin said that, in their place, he should have felt my confidence a sufficient guarantee,—so fully as I assigned the grounds of it: and Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock seemed to be page: 124 nearly of the same mind, though they brought out a long string of objections, beginning with my proposed title, and ending with the Reform Bill and the Cholera. They wanted to suppress the words Political Economy altogether: but I knew that science could not be smuggled in anonymously. I gave up the point for the time, feeling assured that they would find their smuggling scheme impracticable. "Live and let live" was their title; and its inadequacy was vexatious enough, as showing their imperfect conception of the plan: but it was necessary to let them have their own way in the matter of preliminary advertising. They put out a sort of feeler in the form of an advertisement in some of the Diffusion Society's publications; but an intimation so vague and obscure attracted no notice. This melancholy fact Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock duly and dolefully announced to me. Still, they did not let go for some time; and I afterwards heard that they were so near becoming my publishers that they had actually engaged a stitcher for my monthly numbers. Fortunately for me, as it turned out, but most discouragingly at the time, they withdrew, after a hesitation of many weeks. They had read and approved of a part of the manuscript of "Life in the Wilds,"—my first number: but they went on doubting; and at last wrote to me that, considering the public excitement about the Reform Bill and the Cholera, they dared not venture.
Here was the whole work to begin again. I stifled my sighs, and swallowed my tears, and wrote to one publisher after another, receiving instant refusals from all, except Messrs. Whittaker. They kept up the negotiation for a few posts, but at length joined the general chorus about the Reform Bill and the Cholera. They offered, however, to do their best for the work as mere publishers, on the usual terms of commission. My mother and aunt re‐urged my accepting a loan from them of money which they were willing to risk in such a cause: but of course I would not hear of this. Mr. Fox appeared at that time earnest in the project; and a letter from him came by the same post with Messrs. Whittakers' last, saying that booksellers might be found to share the risk; and he named one (who, like Baldwin and Cradock, afterwards failed) who would be likely to go page: 125 halves with me in risk and profit. I did not much relish either the plan or the proposed publisher; but I was in no condition to refuse suggestions. I said to my mother, "You know what a man of business would do in my case."—"What?"—"Go up to town by the next mail, and see what is to be done."—"My dear, you would not think of doing such a thing, alone, and in this weather!"—"I wish it."—"Well, then, let us show Henry the letters after dinner, and see what he will say."—As soon as the cloth was removed, and we had drawn round the fire, I showed my brother Henry the letters, with the same remark I had made to my mother. He sat looking into the fire for several minutes, while nobody spoke: and then he turned to me, and said oracularly "Go!"—I sprang up,—sent to have my place taken by the early morning coach, tied up and dispatched borrowed books, and then ran to my room to pack. There I found a fire, and my trunk airing before it. All was finished an hour before tea time; and I was at leisure to read to my old ladies for the rest of the evening. On my mother observing that she could not have done it, my aunt patted me on the shoulder, and said that, at least, the back was fitted to the burden. This domestic sympathy was most supporting to me; but, at the same time, it rendered success more stringently necessary.
My scheme of going to London was not at all a wild one, unless the speed of the movement, and the state of the weather made it so. It was the beginning of December, foggy and sleety. I was always sure of a home in London, with or without notice; and without notice I presented myself at my cousin's door that dreary December Saturday night. It was a great Brewery house, always kept open, and cooking daily going on, for the use of the partners. My kind cousin and his family were to leave home the next morning, for three weeks: but, as he observed, this would rather aid than hinder my purposes, as I went for work. I was really glad to be alone during those three eventful weeks,—feeling myself no intruder, all the while, and being under the care of attentive servants.
My first step on Monday was seeing the publisher mentioned page: 126 by Mr. Fox. He shook his head; his wife smiled; and he begged to see the opening chapters, promising to return them, with a reply, in twenty‐four hours. His reply was what was already burnt in upon my brain. He had "no doubt of the excellence,—wished it success—but feared that the excitement of the public mind about the Reform Bill and the Cholera would afford it no chance," &c., &c. I was growing as sick of the Reform Bill as poor King William himself. I need not detail, even if I could remember, the many applications I made in the course of the next few days. Suffice it that they were all unsuccessful, and for the same alleged reasons. Day after day, I came home weary with disappointment, and with trudging many miles through the clay of the streets, and the fog of the gloomiest December I ever saw. I came home only to work; for I must be ready with two first numbers in case of a publisher turning up any day. All the while, too, I was as determined as ever that my scheme should be fulfilled. Night after night, the Brewery clock struck twelve, while the pen was still pushing on in my trembling hand. I had promised to take one day's rest, and dine and sleep at the Foxes'. Then, for the first time, I gave way, in spite of all my efforts. Some trifle having touched my feelings before saying "Good‐night," the sluices burst open, and I cried all night. In the morning, Mr. Fox looked at me with great concern, stepped into the next room, and brought a folded paper to the breakfast table, saying "Don't read this now. I can't bear it. These are what may be called terms from my brother." (A young bookseller who did not pretend to have any business, at that time.) "I do not ask you even to consider them; but they will enable you to tell publishers that you hold in your hand terms offered by a publisher: and this may at least procure attention to your scheme." These were, to the subsequent regret of half a score of publishers, the terms on which my work was issued at last.
I immediately returned to town, and went straight to Whittaker's. Mr. Whittaker looked bored, fidgeted, yawned, and then said, with extreme rudeness, "I have told you already that these are not times for new enterprises." "Then," said I, rising, page: 127 "it is now time for me to consider the terms from another publisher which I hold in my hand." "O, indeed,—really, Ma'am?" said he, reviving. "Do me the favour to give me a short time for consideration. Only twenty‐four hours, Ma'am." I refreshed his memory about the particulars, and endeavoured to make him see why the times were not unseasonable for this special work, though they might be for light literature.
It was next necessary to look at the paper I had been carrying. I read it with dismay. The very first stipulation was that the work should be published by subscription: and, moreover, the subscription must be for five hundred copies before the work began. Subscribers were to be provided by both parties; and Charles Fox was to have half the profits, besides the usual bookseller's commission and privileges. The agreement was to cease at the end of any five numbers, at the wish of either party. As Charles Fox had neither money nor connexion, I felt that the whole risk was thrown upon me; and that I should have all the peril, as well as the toil, while Charles Fox would enjoy the greater part of the proceeds, in case of success, and be just where he was before, in case of failure. In fact, he never procured a single subscriber; and he told me afterwards that he knew from the beginning that he never should. After pondering this heart‐sickening Memorandum, I looked with no small anxiety for Whittaker's final reply. I seemed to see the dreaded words through the envelope; and there they were within. Mr. Whittaker expressed his "regrets that the public mind being so engrossed with the Reform Bill and the approach of the Cholera," &c., &c. The same story to the end! Even now, in this low depth of disappointment, there were lower depth to be explored. The fiercest trial was now at hand.
I remonstrated strongly with Mr. Fox about the subscription stipulation; but in vain. The mortification to my pride was not the worst part of it, though that was severe enough. I told him that I could not stoop to that method, if any other means were left; to which he replied "You will stoop to conquer." But he had no consolation to offer under the far more serious anxiety which I strove to impress on his mind as my main ob‐ page: 128 jection objection to the scheme. Those persons from whom I might hope for pecuniary support were precisely those to whom I despaired of conveying any conception of my aim, or of the object and scope of my work. Those who would, I believed, support it were, precisely, persons who had never seen or heard of me, and whose support could not be solicited. My view was the true one, as I might prove by many pages of anecdote. Suffice it that, at the very time when certain members of parliament were eagerly inquiring about the announced work, the wife of one of them, a rich lady of my acquaintance, to whom a prospectus had been sent, returned it, telling me that she "knew too well what she was about to buy a pig in a poke:" and the husband of a cousin of mine, a literary man in his way, sent me, in return for the prospectus, a letter, enclosing two sovereigns, and a lecture against my rashness and presumption in supposing that I was adequate to such work as authorship, and offering the enclosed sum as his mite towards the subscription; but recommending rather a family subscription which might eke out my earnings by my needle. I returned the two sovereigns, with a declaration that I wished for no subscribers but those who expected full value for their payment, and that I would depend upon my needle and upon charity when I found I could not do better, and not before. This gentleman apologised handsomely afterwards. The lady never did. It should be remembered that it is easy enough to laugh at these incidents now; but that it was a very different matter then, when success seemed to be growing more and more questionable and difficult every day. I had no resource, however, but to try the method I heartily disapproved and abhorred. I drew up a Prospectus, in which I avoided all mention of a subscription, in the hope that it might soon be dispensed with, but fully explanatory of the nature and object of the work. To this I added in my own handwriting an urgent appeal to all whom I could ask to be subscribers. I went to Mr. Fox's, one foggy morning, to show him one of these, and the advertisement intended for the next day's papers, announcing the first of February as the day of publication: (for it was now too late to open with the year). I found Mr. Fox in a mood as gloomy page: 129 as the day. He had seen Mr. James Mill, who had assured him that my method of exemplification,—(the grand principle of the whole scheme) could not possibly succeed; and Mr. Fox now required of me to change my plan entirely, and issue my Political Economy in a didactic form! Of course, I refused. He started a multitude of objections,—feared every thing, and hoped nothing. I saw, with anguish and no little resentment, my last poor chance slipping from me. I commanded myself while in his presence. The occasion was too serious to be misused. I said to him "I see you have taken fright. If you wish that your brother should draw back, say so now. Here is the advertisement. Make up your mind before it goes to press." He replied, "I do not wish altogether to draw back." "Yes, you do," said I: "and I had rather you would say so at once. But I tell you this:—‐the people want this book, and they shall have it." "I know that is your intention," he replied: "but I own I do not see how it is to come to pass."—"Nor I: but it shall. So, say that you have done with it, and I will find other means." "I tell you, I do not wish altogether to draw out of it; but I cannot think of my brother going on without decisive success at the outset." "What do you mean, precisely?" "I mean that he withdraws at the end of two numbers, unless the success of the work is secured in a fortnight." "What do you mean by success being secured?" "You must sell a thousand in a fortnight." "In a fortnight! That is unreasonable! Is this your ultimatum?" "Yes." "We shall not sell a thousand in the first fortnight: nevertheless, the work shall not stop at two numbers. It shall go on to five, with or without your brother." "So I perceive you say." "What is to be done with this advertisement?" I inquired. "Shall I send it,—yes or no?" "Yes: but remember Charles gives up at the end of two numbers, unless you sell a thousand in the first fortnight."
I set out to walk the four miles and a half to the Brewery. I could not afford to ride, more or less; but, weary already, I now felt almost too ill to walk at all. On the road, not far from Shoreditch, I became too giddy to stand without support; and I leaned over some dirty palings, pretending to look at a cabbage page: 130 bed, but saying to myself, as I stood with closed eyes, "My book will do yet." I moved on as soon as I could, apprehending that the passers‐by took me to be drunk: but the pavement swam before my eyes so that I was glad enough to get to the Brewery. I tried to eat some dinner; but the vast rooms, the plate and the liveried servant were too touching a contrast to my present condition; and I was glad to go to work, to drown my disappointment in a flow of ideas. Perhaps the piece of work that I did may show that I succeeded. I wrote the Preface to my "Illustrations of Political Economy" that evening; and I hardly think that any one would discover from it that I had that day sunk to the lowest point of discouragement about my scheme.—At eleven o'clock, I sent the servants to bed. I finished the Preface just after the Brewery clock had struck two. I was chilly and hungry: the lamp burned low, and the fire was small. I knew it would not do to go to bed, to dream over again the bitter disappointment of the morning. I began now, at last, to doubt whether my work would ever see the light. I thought of the multitudes who needed it,—and especially of the poor,—to assist them in managing their own welfare. I thought too of my own conscious power of doing this very thing. Here was the thing wanting to be done, and I wanting to do it; and the one person who had seemed best to understand the whole affair now urged me to give up either the whole scheme, or, what was worse, its main principle! It was an inferior consideration, but still, no small matter to me, that I had no hope or prospect of usefulness or independence if this project failed: and I did not feel that night that I could put my heart into any that might arise. As the fire crumbled, I put it together till nothing but dust and ashes remained; and when the lamp went out, I lighted the chamber candle; but at last it was necessary to go to bed; and at four o'clock I went, after crying for two hours, with my feet on the fender. I cried in bed till six, when I fell asleep; but I was at the breakfast table by half‐past eight, and ready for the work of the day.
The work of the day was to prepare and send out my Circulars. After preparing enough for my family, I took into my page: 131 confidence the before‐mentioned cousin,—my benefactor and my host at that time. He was regarded by the whole clan as a prudent and experienced man of business; and I knew that his countenance would be of great value to me. That countenance he gave me, and some good suggestions, and no discouragement.—It was very disagreeable to have to appeal to monied relations whose very confidence and generosity would be a burden on my mind till I had redeemed my virtual pledges; while the slightest indulgence of a critical spirit by any of them must be exceedingly injurious to my enterprise. It was indeed not very long before I had warnings from various quarters that some of my relations were doing me "more harm by their tongues than they could ever do good by their guineas." This was true, as the censors themselves have since spontaneously and handsomely told me. I could not blame them much for saying what they thought of my rashness and conceit, while I cordially honer the candour of their subsequent confession: but their sayings were so much added to the enormous obstructions of the case. From my first act of appeal to my monied relations, however, I derived such singular solace that every incident remains fresh in my mind, and I may fairly indulge in going over it once more.
My oldest surviving uncle and his large family, living near Clapham, had always been ready and kind in their sympathy; and I was now to find the worth of it more than ever in connexion with the greatest of my enterprises. On the next Sunday, I returned with them when they went home from Chapel. While at luncheon, my uncle told me that he understood I had some new plan, and he was anxious to know what it was. His daughters proposed that I should explain it after dinner, when their brothers would be present. After dinner, accordingly, I was called upon for my explanation, which I gave in a very detailed way. All were silent, waiting for my uncle to make his remark, the very words of which I distinctly remember, at the distance of nearly a quarter of a century. In his gentle and gracious manner he said, "You are a better judge, my dear, than we of this scheme; but we know that your industry and energy are the pride of us all, and ought to have our support." When we page: 132 ladies went to the drawing‐room, I knew there would be a consultation between my uncle and his sons: and so there was. At the close of the pleasant evening, he beckoned to me, and made me sit beside him on the sofa, and told me of the confidence of his family and himself that what I was doing would be very useful: that his daughters wished for each a copy of the Series, his sons two each; and that he himself must have five. "And," he concluded, "as you will like to pay your printer immediately, you shall not wait for our money." So saying, he slipped a packet of bank notes and gold into my hand, to the amount of payment for fourteen copies of the whole series! To complete the grace of his hospitality, he told me that he should go to town late the next morning, and would escort me; and he desired me to sleep as late as I liked. And I did sleep,—the whole night through, and awoke a new creature. Other members of the family did what they thought proper, in the course of the week; and then I had only to go home, and await the result.
I was rather afraid to show myself to my mother,—thin as I was, and yellow, and coughing with every breath; and she was panic‐struck at the evident symptoms of liver‐complaint which the first half‐hour disclosed. I was indeed in wretched health; and during the month of April following, when I was writing "Demerara," I was particularly ill. I do not think I was ever well again till, at the close of 1833, I was entirely laid aside, and confined to my bed for a month, by inflammation of the liver. I am confident that that serious illness began with the toils and anxieties, and long walks in fog and mud, of two years before. My mother took my health in hand anxiously and most tenderly. In spite of my entreaties, she would never allow me to be wakened in the morning; and on Sundays, the day when Charles Fox's dispatches came by a manufacturer's parcel, my breakfast was sent up to me, and I was not allowed to rise till the middle of the day. For several weeks I dreaded the arrival of the publisher's weekly letter. He always wrote gloomily, and sometimes rudely. The subscription proceeded very little better than I had anticipated. From first to last, about three hundred copies were subscribed for: and before that number had been reached, the page: 133 success of the work was such as to make the subscription a mere burden. It was a thoroughly vexatious part of the business altogether,—that subscription. A clever suggestion of mother's, at this time, had, I believe, much to do with the immediate success of the book. By her advice, I sent, by post, a copy of my Prospectus (without a word about subscription in it) to almost every member of both Houses of Parliament. There was nothing of puffery in this,—nothing that I had the least objection to do. It was merely informing our legislators that a book was coming out on their particular class of subjects.
I may as well mention in this place, that I had offered (I cannot at all remember when) one of my tales,—the one which now stands as "Brooke and Brooke Farm,"—to the Diffusion Society, whence it had been returned. Absurd as were some the stories afterwards set afloat about this transaction, there was thus much foundation for them. Mr. Knight, then the publisher of the Society, sent me a note of cordial and generous encouragement; but a sub‐committee, to whose judgment the manuscript was consigned, thought it "dull," and pronounced against its reception accordingly. I knew nothing about this sub‐committee, or about the method employed, and had in fact forgotten, among so many failures, that particular one, when, long after, I found to my regret and surprise, that the gentlemen concerned had been supposing me offended and angry all the while, and somehow an accomplice in Lord Brougham's mockery of their decision. In vain I told them that I now thought them perfectly right to form and express their own judgment, and that I had never before heard who had been my judges. I fear the soreness remains in their minds to this day, though there never was any in mine. Lord Brougham's words travelled far and wide, and were certainly anything but comfortable to the subcommittee. He said he should revive the torture for their sakes, as hanging was too good for them. He tore his hair over the tales, he added, unable to endure that the whole Society, "instituted for the very purpose, should be driven out of the field by a little deaf woman at Norwich."—As I have said, I cannot remember at what time I made my application; but I imagine page: 134 it must have been during that eventful year 1831,—in which case the writing of that story must come into the estimate of the work of that year.
A cheering incident occurred during the interval of awaiting the effects of the Circular. Every body knows that the Gurneys are the great bankers of Norwich. Richard Hanbury Gurney, at that time one of the Members for Norfolk, was in the firm; and he was considered to be one of the best‐informed men in England on the subject of Currency. The head officer of the bank, Mr. Simon Martin, deserved the same reputation, and had it, among all who knew him. He sent for my brother Henry, who found him with my Circular before him. He said that he had a message to communicate to me from the firm: and the message was duly delivered, when Mr. Martin had satisfied himself that my brother conscientiously believed me adequate to my enterprise. Messrs. Gurney considered the scheme an important one, promising public benefit: they doubted whether it would be immediately appreciated: they knew that I could not afford to go on at a loss, but thought it a pity that a beneficial enterprise should fall to the ground for want of immediate support: and they therefore requested that, in case of discouragement in regard to the sale, I should apply to them before giving up. "Before she gives up, let her come to us," were their words: words which were as pleasant to me in the midst of my success as they could have been if I had needed the support so generously offered.
Meantime the weekly letter grew worse and worse. But on the Sunday preceding the day of publication came a bit of encouragement in the shape of a sentence in these, or nearly these words. "I see no chance of the work succeeding unless the trade take it up better. We have only one considerable booksellers' order—from A and B for a hundred copies." "Why, there," said my mother, "is a hundred towards your thousand!" "Ah, but," said I, "where are the other nine hundred to come from, in a fortnight?" The edition consisted of fifteen hundred.
To the best of my recollection, I waited ten days from the day page: 135 of publication, before I had another line from the publisher. My mother, judging from his ill‐humour, inferred that he had good news to tell: whereas I supposed the contrary. My mother was right; and I could now be amused at his last attempts to be discouraging in the midst of splendid success. At the end of those ten days, he sent with his letter a copy of my first number, desiring me to make with all speed any corrections I might wish to make, as he had scarcely any copies left. He added that the demand led him to proposed that we should now print two thousand. A postscript informed me that since he wrote the above, he had found that we should want three thousand. A second postscript proposed four thousand, and a third five thousand. The letter was worth having, now it had come. There was immense relief in this; but I remember nothing like intoxication;—like any painful reaction whatever. I remember walking up and down the grassplat in the garden (I think it was on the tenth of February) feeling that my cares were over. And so they were. From that hour, I have never had any other anxiety about employment than what to choose, nor any real care about money. Eight or nine years after, I found myself entirely cut off by illness from the power of working; and then my relations and friends aided me in ways so generous as to make it easy for me to accept the assistance. But even then, I was never actually pinched for money; and, from the time that the power of working was restored, I was at once as prosperous as ever, and became more and more so till now, when illness has finally visited me in a condition of independence. I think I may date my release from pecuniary care from that tenth of February, 1832.
The entire periodical press, daily, weekly, and, as soon as possible, monthly, came out in my favour; and I was overwhelmed with newspapers and letters, containing every sort of flattery. The Diffusion Society wanted to have the Series now; and Mr. Hume offered, on behalf of a new society of which he was the head, any price I would name for the purchase of the whole. I cannot precisely answer for the date of these and other applications; but, as far as I remember, there was, from the middle of page: 136 February onwards, no remission of such applications, the meanest of which I should have clutched at a few weeks before. Members of Parliament sent down blue books through the post‐office, to the astonishment of the postmaster, who one day sent word that I must send for my own share of the mail, for it could not be carried without a barrow;—an announcement which, spreading in the town, caused me to be stared at in the streets. Thus began that sort of experience. Half the hobbies of the House of Commons, and numberless notions of individuals, anonymous and other, were commended to me for treatment in my Series, with which some of them had no more to do than geometry or the atomic theory. I had not calculated on this additional labour, in the form of correspondence; and very weary I often was of it, in the midst of the amusement. One necessity arose out of it which soon became very clear,—that I must reside in London, for the sake of the extensive and varied information which I now found was at my service there, and which the public encouragement of my work made it my duty to avail myself of.
It seemed hard upon my kind mother and aunt that the first consequence of the success they buoyed me up in hoping for should be to take me to London, after all: but the events of the summer showed them the necessity of the removal. We treated it as for a time; and I felt that my mother would not endure a permanent separation. The matter ended in their joining me in a small house in London, before many months were over: and meantime, my mother stipulated for my being in the house of some family well known to her. I obtained lodgings in the house of a tailor in Conduit Street, whose excellent wife had been an acquaintance of ours from her childhood to her marriage. There I arrived in November, 1832; and there I lodged till the following September, when I went, with my mother and aunt, into a house (No. 17) in Fludyer Street, Westminster, where I resided till the breakdown of my health (which took place in 1839) removed me from London altogether.
Here I stop, thinking that the third period of my life may be considered as closing with the conquest of all difficulty about page: 137 getting a hearing from the public for what I felt I had to say. Each period of my life has had its trials and heart‐wearing difficulties,—except (as will be seen) the last; but in none had the pains and penalties of life a more intimate connexion with the formation of character than in the one which closes here. And now the summer of my life was bursting forth without any interval of spring. My life began with winter, burst suddenly into summer, and is now ending with autumn,—mild and sunny. I have had no spring: but that cannot be helped now. It was a moral disadvantage, as well as a great loss of happiness: but we all have our moral disadvantages to make the best of; and "happiness" is not, as the poet says, "our being's end and aim," but the result of one faculty among many, which must be occasionally overborne by others, if there is to be any effectual exercise of the whole being. So I am satisfied in a higher sense than that in which the Necessarian is always satisfied. I cannot but know that in my life there has been a great waste of precious time and material: but I had now, by thirty years of age, ascertained my career, found occupation, and achieved independence; and thus the rest of my life was provided with its duties and its interests. Any one to whom that happens by thirty years of age may be satisfied; and I was so.


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Audio Technica ATH-IM04 SonicPro Balanced In-Ear Monitor Headphones
"Design: The IM-04 is quiet bulky, but it is rounded off in the inner side, and with the short nozzles I have found no fitting issues whatsoever. The body is shinny with pitch black color, and a gold logo of Audio Technica. The shells are made of hard plastic, and of what kind of quality and durability is up to guesses, but I will have to go with "Japan made" and say..." --Whitigir
Audio Technica ATH-CK7 Titanium Earphones
" CK7 earphone is a nice detailed ear piece with titanium housing which makes it very durable. For me, although i am not using it very often this works the same as it used to be the first day i bought it. They require burn in time at least 100 hours and you can definitely tell the difference in the bass section and the mids. Comfort: i would recommend to be worn..." --FarCry
Audio-Technica Balanced Armature type Inner Ear Monitor Headphones Gold ATH-CKB50 GD
"Written originally in http://www.head-fi.org/t/738635/new-audio-technica-iems-ckr7ltd-ckr9ltd-ckb50-ckb70/30 thread on 4th September 2015. Silly me because I just found out how to add new item for review, discussion purpose. I bought the CKB50 through Aliexpress for just 26USD, free shipping. They described it as original CKB50 and even..." --AzimAkbar


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Hi everyone,
Many of you may already have received this request from Dr.Chris Zink. Chris is in the process of conducting an anonymous survey aimed at understanding the needs of canine athletes. She'd really like all dog sports to be well-represented. If you can, please take the time to fill out this brief online survey. Also, please feel free to cross-post!
Pamela Martin
To all my friends with canine athletes: I have designed an anonymous survey to help people learn more about the needs of canine athletes. It seems hard to believe to those of us who are passionate about canine sports, but there is hardly ANY research being done on injuries and conditions specifically affecting canine athletes. One of the big reasons is that the demographics of canine athletes and their people are not well known. This survey will start to change that.
So please go to the following URL and fill out the survey. It should take less than 10 minutes of your time - time well spent!
And thanks from active dogs everywhere!
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When Cynthia Masters, Allied ASID, president and lead designer with Panageries, Inc. was tasked with designing the offices of Falls Park Dentistry in downtown Greenville, S.C., she knew she had to respect the building's historic lineage while also creating a calming environment for anxious patients.
"By using reclaimed heart pine floors, rich stained woods, traditional moldings and natural colors, we were able to create an inviting interior with a sense of history," Masters says.
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the office include Mohawk carpeting in the hallway, chosen to evoke the waterfall nearby Falls Park; Burnt Chestnut vinyl plank flooring from Amtico in the operatories; a Lumicor raised countertop at the check-in
desk featuring natural grasses; and transitional-style seating from Cartwright and Gunlocke in the waiting area, along with benches from Arcadia overlooking the quaint, tree-lined streets of Greenville.


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The return on investment graphs rarely includes inflation and fees
An image of the 1980s video game figure Pac-Man gobbling up everything in sight reminds me of the effects of inflation, tax and fees on investment returns. Gobble, gobble, gobble.
Too many savers and investors have no idea just how much of their returns are eaten up by Pac-Man.
The financial services industry for its part can be a bit disingenuous. Return on investment graphs produced by these companies rarely include inflation and fees, although showing post-tax returns is becoming more common. As a result the graphs show an inexorable march towards gaining a fortune.
The reality is that many investments are losing money after the three evils are taken into account.
In a year such as 2011, with 4.6 per cent inflation (to the end of September 2011), your lump sum investments lost 4.6 per cent of their purchasing power to inflation. The interest rate or other return needed to be 4.6 per cent just to make up for the inflation effect.
Add tax to that equation and a 17.5 per cent taxpayer would have to get a 5.6 per cent gross interest rate just to break even. A 28 per cent taxpayer would have needed 6.4 per cent gross. If not, their investment would be going backwards.
The NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has a very simple explanation of how inflation affects the buying power of your money. "You have $1 and an apple costs 50c. You can buy two apples. Next year the price of apples doubles to $1. Your $1 now only buys one apple, so your purchasing power has fallen. Inflation erodes the value of savings."
Hard-earned and saved lump sum investments are worth less every year. Sadly, $1 million will buy a whole lot less than it does today when those people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s retire. According to the Reserve Bank's inflation calculator, a basket of goods and services that cost $10,000 in 2002, would have cost $12,948.81 at the same month in 2012.
Like all investments, KiwiSaver returns are gobbled up by Pac-Man. Before-tax returns for the five best performing KiwiSaver funds for the year to September 2011 were between 2.41 and 3.48 per cent, says Russell Hutchinson, consultant at Chatswood Consulting. After tax even the best one fell to just 1.97 per cent. Take inflation off and the fund goes backwards by more than 2 per cent.
This year is better thanks to lower inflation at 0.8 per cent and higher investment returns on many KiwiSaver funds. The top KiwiSaver funds in Canstar's annual KiwiSaver ratings have all more than broken even post-Pac-Man. Just how well they're doing can be seen on Fundsource.co.nz.
As an approximate measure a fund that has returned 8 per cent gross in the past year at today's inflation rate would return 5.4 per cent net to a 17.5 per cent taxpayer and 4.56 per cent net to a 28 per cent taxpayer.
These are very approximate measures, however. Every KiwiSaver fund is affected differently by tax. For example, a conservative fund has a different mix of investments and will be taxed one way on New Zealand-based investments and another for a United States-based fixed-interest investment. New Zealand equities are taxed differently from overseas ones that are subject to Foreign Investment Fund (FIF) tax. And so on.
KiwiSaver returns should never be viewed over one year alone. It is a long-term investment.
One year's returns may be spectacular and well and truly make up for a previous year's poor showing.
This year, some funds have done well indeed in the year to September and the returns are back in positive territory, especially when the low inflation is taken into account.
What's more, KiwiSaver is a special case because those returns don't include the member tax credit and employer contributions, both of which can make KiwiSaver much more profitable than a similar managed fund or investment.
Today's low inflation rate is probably a bit of a blip, however, says Jeff Matthews, senior financial adviser at Spicers Wealth Management. The Christchurch reconstruction in particular is likely to boost inflation.
There is no guarantee inflation won't be a percentage point or two higher next year.
Saving and investing in a low-inflation environment is a different exercise to higher-inflation years. The high dollar is keeping inflation low. Should the currency devalue we could also see higher inflation. In the meantime it is people on fixed incomes and those saving to buy homes or businesses who are struggling most.
Matthews cites the case of a retiree with $1 million invested for income, who might have been getting a 7.5 per cent gross return three years ago. That person's before tax income may have dropped from $75,000 to $45,000. For such a retiree equities can be a good proposition as an investment in low-inflation times, especially shares in New Zealand companies that have relatively high dividends, says Matthews. "But shares spook some people."
There are "inflation-linked" investments available such as inflation-linked New Zealand Government Inflation Indexed Bonds, which mature in 2016.
Mark Brighouse, chief investment officer at Fisher Funds, says: "This is a timely debate because this week a new tranche of New Zealand Government Inflation Linked Bonds begins trading. They mature in 2025 and can be purchased in amounts from $10,000 upwards.
"These bonds provide a return that is specifically linked to the inflation rate so investors don't need to worry about how the investment will perform if inflation rises," Brighouse adds. The problem with such bonds is that they come at a price - that being a low yield.
"There are other investments that provide some inflation hedging and generally higher overall return. Our view is that shares in companies with strong industry positions will find themselves better placed than those that are unable to pass on cost increases."
Many managed and KiwiSaver funds invest in equities and should, in theory, have inflation-beating qualities. So, too, does paying down the mortgage. If you put available savings into a revolving credit loan or simply pay down another type of mortgage your return on investment is equivalent to the mortgage interest rate and that is tax-free return.
If investors aren't getting a return ahead of inflation they may as well spend the money or invest it in something that is an inflation hedge such as property, says Hutchinson.
He adds that more investment property isn't what the New Zealand economy needs. "The central message [New Zealand] is trying to convey with KiwiSaver is that saving is good and you should save for your future. Yet when we have a year with a result like 2011, it says you would have been better off spending the money or buying property."
Leveraged investments such as property do better during higher inflationary times. That's because the value of the outstanding debt on the property is eaten away by inflation while the property price typically keeps pace with inflation. "If you are in a lower inflation environment it makes it safer to save and safer to invest," says Hutchinson.
If interest rates are low savers might want to avoid locking their money into term deposits. Other options include cash-based investments on floating rates or bonds whose yields move with economic conditions.
Another issue worth thinking about when calculating the return on an investment post-Pac-Man, is tax bracket creep. That's the effect that pay rises have on your taxes. As your income increases both your marginal tax rate and Pie tax rate may increase, which means you need a higher interest rate or other return just to break even.
Some people structure their income so it falls below the new tax bracket. That's what investors do with loss-making properties or businesses. Providing they're in the right ownership structure, losses can be offset against income from their day jobs and elsewhere to reduce the overall dollar figure "earned" each year.
Another issue is that most people find that their individual costs may rise in old age thanks to health care. Their personal inflation is higher than government measures.
Whatever inflation is doing, investors need to include it, fees and tax in their investment planning. It can't be controlled, but investment strategy can.


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Because I'm focused on Blurb bookmaking these days, my ruminations this month are a bit of a continuation from something I mentioned in last month's ruminations: digital photo archiving. And again, my thoughts are not quite in sync with the how-to methods you've read about from the experts.
Digital archiving as advised by the experts consists of scanning photos at 300 dpi and saving them as TIF files. An important pro of the TIF format is that it is not a 'lossy' format; in other words, no resampling of the pixels takes place if you should 'Save' the file over and over again. A TIF con is that the file size is considerably larger than that of the same photo scan saved in, say, the JPG format.
The experts' advice may be enough for you, as far as it goes. However, in the course of working on a book about my mother's childhood, I discovered that I was unable to use some photos as I wanted to. Why?
For an 8" x 10" book, the pixel dimensions for a full-bleed page image, such as the left side of the two-page spread above, are 2363 x 3000 pixels. I had previously scanned both of the snapshots above at 300 dpi, but a regular-sized snapshot scanned at 300 dpi is simply not adequate to enlarge that much.
Using small snapshots as full-bleed page images, as shown in the examples above, necessitated my finding the originals and rescanning them at considerably higher resolution. In most cases, 600-700 dpi was adequate, but in some cases I scanned as high as 1200 dpi in order to crop the photo as I wanted it, or to select some small detail to enlarge for closer study.
Fortunately, I do have access to most of my mom's old snapshots. There are many other photos in my digital collection, however, which I've scanned from photos which I no longer have access to. I hadn't foreseen that I would have need of higher-resolution images.
In the future, I plan to scan small photos and snapshots at a much higher resolution. Because saving them as TIF files would require an enormous amount of disk space, I'll save them as JPG files. When I open one of those files for use in a project, I'll make a copy to work on and then close the original file without using the Save command. That way, the pixels in the original file do not get resampled as they do when you Save. It's the resampling that causes a tiny loss of clarity every time you do it, unnoticeable at first but after Saving repeatedly, the degradation becomes noticeable. At least, that's my understanding from a number of articles I've read about digital images.
By the way, if you burn your photo files to a CD or DVD, a JPG file is not going to degrade any more than a TIF file. The only degradation would be that of the CD or DVD itself.
I find that every time I use a photo in a project, my needs are different--I may want to crop it differently, or change the color to sepia or some other tint, or maybe just desaturate the colors a bit, maybe erase the background... you just never know what your next idea might be. Consequently I always work on a copy anyway, rather than the original image.
My point, if I actually have one, is that you may want to consider what your purpose is in scanning old photographs, and how you might want to use the scans in the future. You may need to make some exceptions to the advice of the experts in order to serve your own needs better.
November Accomplishments
- I managed to get a post up for Bill West's Second Great Local Poem and Song Genealogy Challenge. I've been waiting all year for that one to come around, and almost missed it due to seemingly endless fussing over the finishing of the book I've been working on.
- I'm sure you're tired of hearing about it but at last, with six hours to spare before the deadline, I uploaded my first family-history-related book to Blurb.com and placed my order.
- There are still a few names remaining to be done on my Surnames page. This is a fine example of how I lose my momentum on a project if I take a break from it before it's completed. I'll finish them up eventually, but right now they're down some on my list of priorities. Sure would be nice if I could wrap that up before the end of the year, though!


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Real estate transfers
Allen Township
10-23-12 New Falls Corporation to W.S.O.S. Community Action Commission Inc., 20495 West State Route 579, $41,736.
Bay Township
10-26-12 Charles and Carole Cook to Douglas and Kandy Schnell, 645 Fostoria Road, $137,500.
Benton Township
10-23-12 William E. Liske Jr. to Mark N. and Michele N. Gradel, 7054 State Route 2, $230,000.
Carroll Township
10-24-12 David and Peggy Briggs and Ronald and Uneeda Stevens to Sabrina Taggart, 6627 Earl Street, gift value $16,000.
10-26-12 Teresa Cousino to Gary and Laraine Meinke, 12619 State Route 2, $128,500.
Catawba Township
10-24-12 Dennis P. and Mary C. Lehman to Michael L. and Karen Ritenour, 5914 East Catawba Beach, $245,000.
10-24-12 Wetzel and Cathleen Bias to John and Lory Kobelt, 5291 East Swain Drive, $299,200.
10-26-12 William Reamer and Judith Hines to William and Joyce Priest, 4251 East Linda Drive, $132,000.
Clay Township
10-22-12 David and Phyllis Michalak to Ottawa Residential Services, Inc., 2047 Brookside Drive, $159,000.
10-23-12 Mildred V. Tomanicek to Darrick A. and Samantha L. Applegate, 2244 North Manor Drive, $169,900.
10-23-12 William S. and Sandra J. Phillis to David L. Ferguson, 22934 West Hellwig, $69,900.
10-28-12 Sue Ann Schuster, Charles Adcock and Ronald L. Adcock to Scott A. Gillingham, 23703 West Hellwig Road, $90,000.
10-26-12 Garvin C. Lassiter to Thadd M. and Deanna L. Huss, 23085 West State Route 51, $15,000.
Danbury Township
10-24-12 5831 SR 163, LLC to Erie Pro Power Cleaning and Equipment LLC, 5831 State Route 163, Unit C-27, $66,000.
10-25-12 Pamela Young to Dave and Mary Jane Mallory, 546 Jasmine, $290,000.
Erie Township
10-24-12 Robert R. and Nancy J. Kaiser to Robert Kaiser, 6467 Camp Perry West Road, $371,000.
Harris Township
10-26-12 James A. Bristow to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 18647 West State Route 105, $93,334.
Oak Harbor Corp
10-25-12 Dorothy M. Priesman to Charles A. Hill Jr. and Mary A. Hill, 212 Prospect Street, $124,000.
10-26-12 Theodore Smith to Charles and Carole Cook, 318 Country Meadows, $133,000.
Port Clinton City
10-22-12 R. Edward and Irene Vangeloff, to Ottawa County Residential Services Inc., 637 Laurel Avenue, $131,500.
10-26-12 Lois Diedrich and John Hopfinger to Rodger and Tanya Vorhees, 112 West Sixth Street, $75,000.
Portage Township
10-25-12 Winkoe LLC to Robert Speck, 4125 East Kirk Road, Units 119 & 120, $90,000.
Put In Bay Village School
10-22-12 East Point Properties LTD to Greg and Michelle Evans, 1575 Deist Road #14, $225,000.
10-25-12 John and Linda Telzrow to Daniel C. and Lorna S. Strayer, 2330 Langram , $635,000.
10-26-12 Steve C. Simpson to Jane H. and Mark A. Motley, 1575 Deist Road #2, $260,000.
Salem Township
10-22-12 Barbara S. Lodermeier to Franklin Eugene and Bernadine A. Hammer, vacant land new split Portage South, $294,000.
10-22-12 Lawrence J. Schiller to David E. and Valerie L. Floro, vacant land new split Portage South, $170,000.


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