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Despite being "cheat day" I'm going to try not to. I figure I used that up the other day. Boo. I think my hormones are going nuts and that's what's making me crave sweet stuff something awful lately.
I'm going to try and get a walk in before meeting time and dinner.
I'd say more but I'm so BLARG the past two days that I can't think of much to say.
I have under 100 calories left for today. I'll have to use a smidge of willpower to resist eating snack stuff between now and bedtime. Luckily, I'm only halfway through dinner...gonna store it for an hour or two and when that snacking urge comes around I'll finish it.
I didn't have the greatest track record calorie-wise the last two days, so I walked to campus again today. I think I'm going to try and do that more often. It makes me feel good and it burns ~400 calories to get there!
It feels nice to be relatively caught-up on my schoolwork! I don't have to panic or squeeze in exercise time, it's so much more relaxed! So long as I work on keeping on top of these things this semester shouldn't be as bad as I expected.
I'm going to watch some Golden Girls, print a bunch of school stuff, and maybe clean my poor neglected room. That should help me keep occupied 'till bed time! :D
Wow, it didn't click in my head that this would be week 3 for me. Too bad last night was such a disaster! XD Between hormones and everything else, I went way over my allowed calories. But I can't feel too badly about it, since the day before I was under my range completely because I felt too sick to eat. So, I guess in the long-term it'll balance out. Back on the wagon for today.
So...weigh-in. I wasn't expecting much of anything....between yesterday's eating, the water weight, and my hair probably holding onto some moisture still from my shower this morning.
My starting weight was 244, and last weigh-in I was almost 247.....and now I'm UNDER both of them! :D It's not a huge amount but it sure feels like it!
Once I start feeling better over the next two or three days things are REALLY going to pick up!
No walk yet....woke up in pain at 8am and I'm only just now feeling well enough to go out and do stuff. Yay for late lunches! I'll walk later...luckily it's a great day out today.
I pulled a miracle last night with getting schoolwork done and today is just tying up all the loose ends I couldn't get to. Once that's done I'm going to try and relax most of tomorrow. It'll be nice, especially since I apparently need to get my car fixed.
Good thing I can finally ride my bike! :D I got it second-hand from a friend who was going to give it away and he's way higher than me. Said friend is now new boyfriend (squee!!! you have no idea how excited I still am about everything!) and helped fix the seat for me the other day. He's a lot more active than me, so maybe I can ask if he would mind me finding some things we could do together. ^_^
Well, good news--I wasn't feeling sick from that walk! I don't have to be scared now about long hikes!
NOTE TO ANY MEN SPARKMEMBERS READING THIS: Here be monsters, you may want to turn around. XD I know a lot of you guys feel uncomfortable hearing about this stuff, so I'm giving you fair warning.
Anywho, yeah....so I was feeling sick, but that had more to do with internal plumbing than walking. My cycle's been screwed up for a long time and I think the sudden change in diet and increase in exercise finally triggered my period to start up again. This also makes me feel a bit better about not losing any weight yet. I was 244 pounds days before starting SparkPeople officially. Last Sunday (without any real increase in exercise, mind you), I was suddenly about 247 pounds....hence the unhappiness from me about weigh-in. But now I'm thinking (hoping?) it may just be water weight to some extent.
Not sure how much walking I'll be able to get done today feeling like I do. I get a crazy array of symptoms that can be pretty debilitating when they're bad enough. My stomach and knees hurt like mad (to the point where sometimes it's really hard for me to walk even just across the room), I sometimes get nauseous to the point where I have trouble handling even water, I get incredibly tired, and my mind kind of gets "fuzzy" where it's hard for me to focus on a lot of things. When I get a decent combination of all that I'm not even safe to drive. ....best part? It's gotten BETTER over the years! O_O Seriously, evolution, you screwed up on this one.
Took 3 advil yesterday for my body to have any desirable reaction to the medication. I think I'm going to try and take a second one now in hopes that I can make it to class on time. Luckily we're just doing paper editing (I'm weird, I have fun editing papers) and then I can come right back home.


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Who are the best Buckeye football players from out of state?
So, which state (other than Ohio) has produced the most Ohio State football players over the past 30 years? You probably won't be surprised to find out it's Florida with 52.
But who is the best of that bunch? After all, more than half have become starters, and one quarter have been drafted into the NFL.
We narrowed it down to six candidates and gave BuckeyeSports.com readers a chance to vote for their favorite. We did the same for Buckeye football recruits from Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan, too, and you can find the stories below. Continue reading
Ohio State football recruiting continues to spread nationwide, but Ohio not being left behind
Ohio State picked up a pair of verbal commitments Wednesday morning, first four-star linebacker Justin Hilliard of Cincinnati St. Xavier then four-star defensive end Jashon Cornell of St. Paul (Minn.) Cretin-Derham.
While Hilliard's hop on board highlights one issue of interest in regards to recent recruiting (Ohio State in Cincinnati), Cornell's commitment has its own significance. The 6-3.5, 270-pounder is in line to be the first player from Minnesota to pick Ohio State since Willie Mobley in 2008 and only the third since 1988 (but probably much longer). When eventual All-American linebacker James Laurinaitis signed with Ohio State in 2005, he was believed to be the first scholarship Buckeye football player from the Land of 1,000 Lakes since the great Sid Gillman in the early 1930s.
But we're getting at a larger trend here.
Meyer mines Cincinnati for top linebacker prospect for Ohio State
Justin Hilliard of Cincinnati St. Xavier is the 11th verbal commitment for Ohio State's 2015 recruiting class and the second linebacker, joining Nick Connor of Dublin Scioto.
He is the seventh recruit from southwestern Ohio in Urban Meyer's three-plus years as head coach of the Buckeyes and the third from Cincinnati, joining Adolphus Washington (Taft) and Sam Hubbard (Moeller). That makes a pair of Greater Catholic League pickups for Meyer in as many years with Hubbard having been the top-rated player in the state last year. Continue reading
Comparing Careers: Ohio State football 3- and 4-star recruits
After taking a look at the success rate of Ohio State's five-star recruits, we turned our attention to the lower rated but perhaps overall more important guys who account for well over 80 percent of the roster.
The study of the Buckeyes who signed as four-star recruits and those rated three-stars (or lower) brought out a couple more surprises than the five-star study, which served as more of an affirmation of the practice than anything else.
Are 5-star recruits worth the hype?
This might seem like a no-brainer, but it is a source of conversation from time to time on message boards such as "Ask the Insiders" at BuckeyeSports.com, and it seems as though every year around National Signing Day you can find a new hot take about how recruiting rankings are overrated because not every five-star prospect becomes an All-American and plenty of four- and three-star players turn into big stars.
So I figured it was time to take a look at the issue, at least from an Ohio State point of view.
Here's what I found: Comparing Careers: OSU Five-Star Recruits – ohiostate – Scout.
Yes, the five-stars tend to outperform their lower-rated counterparts, but the degree of superiority actually turned out to be higher than I might have expected. And that was without making the same compromises in terms of personnel losses or even recruiting home-state heroes as opposed to national stars.
Two verbals in as many days for Ohio State football
I guess the Internet produced enough stories and message board posts analyzing Ohio State's slow start to recruiting this year that someone decided the suffering could end.
The 2015 class of future Buckeyes has more than doubled in size in the past couple of weeks, including the addition of a South Dakota offensive lineman and a safety from Maryland.
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Just your typical 91-point win (and recruiting other notes)
Ohio State 2014 signee Makayla Waterman personally tied Springfield 11-11 Wednesday night in Greater Western Ohio Conference girls' basketball action. Meanwhile, Waterman's Kettering Fairmont teammates outscored the Wildcats 91-0 as the defending Ohio Division I state champions improved to 14-1 on the season (H/T).
As you might expect, the 102 points for the Firebirds is their season high, but they have rolled early in GWOC play with an average margin of victory of 43.2 points during a 5-0 start.
Their level of competition will ramp up considerably this weekend when they head to Berlin, Ohio, for the annual Classic in the Country, where they are scheduled to play Toledo Notre Dame and Solon. TND (despite what ESPN might think) is led by Tierra Floyd, one of the top junior prospects in Ohio.
Ohio well represented in Scout Top 300 | FOX Sports on MSN
The final 2014 Scout 300 had 17 Ohio State verbal commitments and 19 players from Ohio.
There are 21 four-star prospects in Ohio, and those Buckeye Staters who aren't going to be Buckeyes are going to the SEC, Big Ten, ACC and – believe it or not – the Ivy League.
Read on: Ohio well-represented in Scout Top 300 | FOX Sports on MSN.
Per ESPN, highly regarded Ohio girls' basketball prospect attends all-boys school
Tierra Floyd is a highly regarded junior guard from Toledo who figures to get plenty of looks from big-time programs between now and next fall when she can sign a national letter of intent.
Hopefully big-time schools already recruiting her such as Ohio State don't rely on information from the ESPN database to find her, though, because the Worldwide Leader erroneously lists the Notre Dame Academy standout's school as St. John's (Actually it says, "Saint Johns," but we'll assume that's a typo).
Tierra Floyd 2015 High School Girls' Basketball Profile – ESPN.
But if a coach were to show up at St. John's Jesuit looking for Floyd, it's safe to say he or she wouldn't find her – or any other potential women's basketball standouts, for that matter.
Why? Because St. John's is an all-boys school.
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Sales increased 17 percent to a first-quarter record of U.S. $107 million versus sales of $91.2 million in the same period of 2003. First-quarter net income was $14.4 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared with $14.8 million, or $0.50 per diluted share, for the same period in 2003.
This year's first-quarter net income results includes a loss from discontinued operations of $222,000, or $-0.01 per diluted share, related to Tactica International, Inc.'s final operations from March 1, 2004 through April 29, 2004. Last year's first quarter net income includes a one time non-operating gain from litigation proceeds in the pre-tax amount of $2.6 million, or $0.08 per diluted share.
Excluding the impact of the litigation gain in fiscal year 2004 and the discontinued operations in fiscal years 2004 and 2005, comparative earnings were $14.7 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in the first quarter ended May 31, 2004, versus $12.3 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, for the first quarter ended May 31, 2003, an increase of 20 percent in comparative earnings.
The company reaffirmed its full-year guidance of $2.50 to $2.70 for the 2005 fiscal year. Full-year sales are expected to be in the range of $575 to $600 million, compared to prior year sales of $475 million, or an increase of 21 to 26 percent.
"For the second quarter ending August 31, 2004, we expect overall sales to be in the range of $135 million to $140 million compared to last year's second quarter sales of $105 million, or an increase of 29 to 33 percent. Earnings per share for the second quarter are expected to be in the range of $0.50 to $0.55 per diluted share versus prior year earnings per share of $0.42 per diluted share, an increase of 19 to 31 percent," said Gerald J. Rubin, chairman, CEO, and president.
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This progress report provides guidance for corporations as they implement best-in-class supplier diversity programs that optimize their competitiveness, said Gloria Castillo, president and chief executive officer of Chicago United.
"Minority business owners who participated in Five Forward from the beginning have reported increased revenue, capacity expansion and job growth," she said. "Also, it's very important to note that in 2011, the last year that was analyzed, corporations continued to increase their expenditures with the Five Forward MBEs, even though all companies were making adjustments in order to respond to the recession. This allowed the MBEs to remain in business even while they reduced their expenses. This makes them stronger, better partners for corporations."
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"How can something so perfect go so wrong?" Saher wonders. "My three beautiful children were once healthy and full of energy. And now I watch them suffer every day and there is nothing I can do to help them."
Up until nine years ago, Saher and her husband Shahid seemed to have it all. They had a perfect family with two active and bright children, and had just welcomed their third child, unaware of the disease that was present in the DNA of each of their three children.
When Nida, then 7, suddenly developed high fever that would not subside, the Zubairs did not suspect anything out of the ordinary, even when it took five days of intravenous antibiotics in the hospital to bring down Nida's fever. Back home, the parents noticed that the child seemed a bit unstable going up and down the stairs.
"We took Nida to see a doctor who ordered some tests and a few days later, our whole world came crashing down," said a distraught Shahid.
Nida was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy (MD) characterized by progressive weakness and wasting of muscles. At the age of 9, Nida was paralyzed from waist down and needed a wheelchair to get around.
By that time Ahmad had turned 7 and he started to experience similar symptoms—high fever followed by muscle weakness. Within days, doctors confirmed that he too had the same form of MD. The Zubairs were inconsolable. Their perfect world had suffered the worst imaginable blow.
"Without losing time, we decided to get our youngest daughter Eman tested," said Shahid, "and the results confirmed what we already knew. All three of our children were carriers of MD."
The distraught father took to the web to find some answers. What he discovered shocked and saddened him. There was no known cure for MD. The life expectancy for many of the forms of MD depends on the degree to which the muscles, lungs, and heart are affected. Shahid found clinical studies and drugs that were in trial stages but none that he could benefit from, considering his limited financial resources and reach.
An added stress to the Zubair family is the fact that Shahid—the only earning member of the family has been given two month's notice to find a new job. He is a logistics manager at a local supply chain in Lahore. Even with a degree in MBA, Shahid has been unable to find a high-paying job that can support his family and their unique needs. The funds that are already limited are haunting the Zubairs as the dreaded end of job day approaches. The monthly cost to run the household and manage the children's health expenses is Rs. 60000. The health bills add up quickly as the children routinely suffer from respiratory, cardiac, stomach, and pulmonary issues.
"I knocked every door I could from higher up political leaders to specialists to philanthropic organizations," said Shahid. "No one seems to want to help an individual and are only interested in helping other organizations or charities. My only hope is to have the children admitted to some clinical trial, research study, or gene therapy, specific to their condition in the U.S. or U.K. I can't sit on the sidelines and watch my children suffer."
Today Eman is in wheelchair too, while Nida suffers from scoliosis of spine and needs corrective surgery. The family lacks the financial means to pay for the surgery, which can cost upward of Rs. 15000000. Nida is also unable to use her arms to eat or drink, while Ahmad's spine is being compromised as each day passes.
In the midst of it all, you can still catch a glimpse of the children living their childhood—through their interests in internet surfing, playing computer games, reading, teasing each other, and joking around. The parents try to attend to both the children's intellectual side during the week—a tutor comes a few days a week to teach academics.
"Our children lift our spirits and we cherish them," said Saher. "It is devastating to hear the hushed whispers, the cutting remarks by thoughtless people indicating that our predicament is somehow a punishment from God. How can that be? Children are God's gift and we will take care of ours until our dying days."
The Zubair children depend on the parents for everything—from going to the bathroom to changing positions during day and night to prevent sores. In the morning, Shahid gets up early to attend to the children's hygiene and sanitary issues and helps them on their wheelchairs before leaving for work.
"I often get calls at work from one or other of my children to come help them sit, stretch, or for other health reasons," said Shahid. "It breaks my heart. As they grow older and heavier, it's getting harder and harder for Saher to lift them and attend to their every need."
Shahid understands that it is hard for others to imagine what his family goes through day to day. He feels reluctant to obligate family members by asking for caregiving respite. "People have their own problems to solve and houses to run," he explains. "What I tell people is that if they want to experience what my children go through, just sit in a chair for a whole day with your hands tied to your back. That is what my children go through each day."
For more information about the Zubair family, please visit www.miracleforthree.com.
Shaila Abdullah is an award-winning author, writer, and designer in Austin, Texas. She has written three books: Beyond the Cayenne Wall, Saffron Dreams, and My Friend Suhana. Her work primarily focuses on disadvantaged individuals and groups. She also serves as an interpreter for the Zubair family. Shaila can be reached at email@example.com or www.shailaabdullah.com.
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To overcome the parking space crunch in the city, GVMC is planning to open free parking lots in vacant sites.
"Such sites are being identified to open them up for parking. If owners co-operate vacant land exemption will be given for such sites," Municipal Commissioner B. Ramanjaneyulu told reporters on Monday.
Besides, permission of the railways is being sought to construct a multi-level parking lot near the LIC building. Also there is a disputed VUDA site near its office that could be used for parking, he said.
A case in point is a site in the Rajendranagar Park that is caught in legal dispute for a long time. It can be used for parking.
"We are only like trustees. Once the dispute is settled, the site will be handed over," he said. Several vacant sites are available in the posh MVP Colony and on Beach Road as well. All the sites are being documented and video-graphed. The corporation will get in touch with owners of such sites in a bid to obtain their approval. Any regularisation by VUDA will not be allowed.
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Official figures for gross domestic product (GDP) for the first three months of the year are due to be released on 15 May, which is also the day of the inauguration of the new President, Francois Hollande.
Hollande was elected on a platform of boosting economic growth.
The economy grew 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011.
In January, the French government halved its forecast for the whole of 2012 for 1% to 0.5%.
Also on Thursday, the statistics office Insee released worse-than-expected industrial output figures for March, which showed a 0.9% drop.
The decline was partly blamed on a 14.2% drop in energy consumption as the weather improved following a cold February.
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I'm sorry for almost overlooking this important milestone. Congratulations! You made it! 3 months NC...3 months affair free.
Girl, you have been such an asset to this Board, I can't tell ya. Yes I can! Your willingness to share and put yourself out there, and your willingness to reach out to others has been been quite remarkable.
You rock!
Here are your wings...wear them proudly because you deserve them. May they take you to new heights and fly you back here in 3 months for acknowledgement of your Super Tweener status.
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Wooohoot! Congrats Pac-woman! Three months is huge, especially the FIRST three months They are just lousy but you did it, in spite of the e-quake in IVillage. Enjoy the milestone, the wings, and the company - there's still work ahead and you are on track. XO Daisy
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Congrats Pac!
We are very fortunate to have you as a member here and appreciate you sharing your story, warts and all. And WOW, such wisdom in your most recent posts.
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Hi, WC!
Thanks for this. I needed it! I am still facing challenges in my M, but without the backdrop of sheer madness that being in an A can bring.
I would be lying if I said I do not think about my xAP, which I've always maintained is the one area that NC cannot reach. But I *do* know that an A is absolutely not a healthy way out of a bad marriage - it's a temporary (and poor) escape from one.
I'm still working on my marriage and it continues to be a challenge. My H has so much anger - anger that is not mine to own. At times he appropriately takes ownership of it; other times he plays the blame game.
I still do not know where we are going, but I do know that I will have no part of it unless this anger gets permanently resolved.
At any rate, my progress is a result of simply doing the right and healthy thing. Getting out of an A that had no future; no real hope of going anywhere, and was founded in deceit was essential. There 's no way it was going to end happily, as so few do.
I had no choice but to face the sad music of my own M and deal with it head-on.
I do know this: I want a future filled with happiness, mutual respect with my partner (whether that's my current H or someone else) and a happier ending than where I seem to be headed unless things change.
My MC is assuring me that feelings for my H will return, but, so far, they have not. I am willing to give it more time.
Anyway, so glad to be a tweener. I am so much more like my old self now, after three months of NC. I'm once again thinking clearly, and feel more confident again. An A is just so debilitating, both mentally and physically.
Thanks for the well-wishes and I look forward to continuing to document progress and provide my own brand of advice!
Merry Christmas to my friends who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays.
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Thanks, Daisy. Your support means alot to me. It's been a tough holiday week. I am in a very stressful marriage with someone who is insecure and angry - and had been before we ever got married. We are currently going through the difficult task of selling off some assets that we can no longer afford. My H is uncooperative, angry about the sale of these things and is not helping me make progress. He says he wants to be involved (i.e. calling the guy who is able to sell our boat for us) but then takes no proactive action.
I have days when I have some hope for this relationship, and then the verbal abuse happens all over again. I am tired and part of me wants out. I cannot stand his touch. Christmas only made things worse; made me think how much I wanted to be happy - perhaps with a better partner.
I have re-discovered my spirituality and have begun to pray/meditate in a small private chapel in my town. I am seeking enlightenment and answers as to my path forward.
Thanks again for your encouragement. Hopefully at some point in the future, I'll be looking back on this time when I am in a better place.


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THE LION of JUDAH UNVEILED, and the KING OF KINGS by Apollo
The year 10, 500 BC marked the beginning of the Aeons, and the Age of LEO and the Ancient ones in the first age regarded HU as the giver of life. NUT the Sky Goddess in the Egyptian beliefs, revealed her celestial canopy after the Virgo ruled land of MU Lemuria disappeared under the sea along with Atlantis ending the Age of Cancer and Gemini in the flood of Noah 3,000 years BC when the protective sky canopy broke and paradise was lost .
The male rulership of Jehovah was claimed to decree this catastrophic event . It was the age of Taurus in which he chose a group of people to represent him and the age of Aries in which a ram replaced the sacrifice of a cherished Son of Abraham.
It wasn't until the age of Pisces that a Lion of the Tribe of Judah was prophecied to arise to restore the first ancient ways of pacifism to a people accustomed to war. A lion was to lay down with the lamb. A great teacher was to preach peace to the war weary Hebrews under Roman Dominion .
The lion was a mighty animal free to roam in the Lebanon, Hermon and Jordan ranges and the southern Judean wilderness. The mane of the lions hair reminded people of the sun, so fittingly the symbol of the Sun God became the lion and the ruling planet was the sun. A lion cub grew its golden shaggy mane at around three years old. It was around three years of age that a child was visited by three wise men in a country home.
From lead to Gold was the escape and promise from the structures of Saturn to the freedom of exhaltation to whom would bear the light.
"Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals. Revelation 5:5
Let us look back on the history of the formations of the tribes..
Tribe, The Hebrew words representing tribe was "matteh" and "shevet" meaning rod or staff. Exodus 7:12 and Proverbs 13::24 . Cause of the leader of the clan would carry a scepter or staff.
The tribal arrangement of Israel was based on Jacobs twelve sons who had to encamp in the wilderness under their representative zodiac signs.
The Tribe of Levi was the Priestly class under the Sons of Aaron.
The Tribe of Benjamin produced Israels first king, King Saul who was anointed by Samuel. The Tribe of Judah produced King David who slew Goliath. Judah was Jacobs forth son from first wife Leah whom Jacob was tricked into marrying (his heart was tied to her more beautiful sister Rachel) . The Tribe of Judah was described as a lion cub and the prophecies of Judah was pronounced in Genesis 49: 10. "the scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commanders staff from between his feet until Shiloh comes , and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong."
David fulfilled this when King Saul died and David fought to obtain the lands of Israel until he claimed all the Benjamite territory and made Jerusalem the capital and claiming Zion. For 500 years, Judah claimed the Kingship Sceptre and Staff until King Solomon lost favor and his Son Rehoboam lost ten tribes from his Kingdom so Israel was united no more. Benjamin and Judah was the only ones that stayed loyal to the house of David splitting the Kingdom to Israel of the Northern Kingdom and Judah to the South. In 722 BC Assyrian invaders from what is now (Iraq) invade the Northern Israel and Babylon (also what is now Iraq) attacked the nation of Judah in 586 BC and destroying the temple of Solomon. These invasions began the Lost Tribe theories when many of the individuals of the tribes became un accounted for when they had been taken prisoner. Many have intermarried with the invaders bloodline, but others have migrated and scattered.
Restoration for the prisoners of Babylon occurred when King Cyrus of Persia allowed the land of Judah restored. The nation of Judah at least could commence the generations to fulfillment in Ezekials promise
" A ruin, a ruin! I will make it a ruin ! It will not be restored until he comes to whom it rightfully belongs, to him I will give it. Ezekial 21:27
"In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples : the nations will rally to him and his place of rest will be glorious. In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from upper Egypt , from Cush, Fom Elam, from Babylon, from Hamnath and from the islands of the sea. Isaiah 11:10
… Judahs enemies will be cut off. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah. Isaiah 11:13
The promise of the Lion was to be fulfilled. The sphinx of prophecy was to become the Capstone the builders rejected.
12 golden lions lined the walkway to the Throne of Solomon in the Porch of the throne that stood on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Even Solomon knew that there was to be a man of Gold to arise from one of the 12 tribes of God. LEO, The Lion of Judah.
The Hierosgamos of the Sacred marriage of Sun and Moon occurs with Leo Sun and Cancer Moon. The shining brilliance of the summer sunlight is the golden mane of the Lion of Judah who is crowned as King. The sign of cancer was also known as the sheepfold congregation which hosts the beehive constellation of stars and the two donkeys of Aselus Borealis and Aselus Astralis which was the manger of the Christ child. The moon is the fruitage of Yesod which births the young child Mercurius .
The sign following the Hierogamos and the divine mystery of union and conjunction is the sign of Virgo, the woman and the Mother of God.
This brings to mind the bible verse: Isaiah 7:14, 15 . Therefore Jehovah himself will give you men a sign: Look! The maiden herself will actually become pregnant, and she is giving birth to a son, and she will certainly call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey he will eat by the time that he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good.
Spiritual apotheosis is the nourishment of the material world into connection with the divine. The pomegranates is the blood that the High Priestess nourishes when the ascending spirit passes between the twin pillars . Judgement is given in the scales of Maat, "justice" and the works of equilibrium heals the monad on his return and reunion of the ONE.
In the late summer and fall we have Virgo appearing right before Dawn with the Sun shining around her head as a halo in mid September which is near the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah. She announces the Fall Equinox and the harvest of grain and crops which nourishes our body
In October the sun is moving down her arm to conjunct with Spica every October 16th, In the western zodiac, the suns placement is Libra, but in the skies he shines in virgo and nourishes her sprig of golden wheat which brings to fulfillment this Bible verse in Jerusalem more than two thousand years ago ..
"Also, he took a loaf, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying,"This means my body which is to be given in your behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me. Also the cup in the same way after they had the evening meal, he saying. "This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf" Luke 22 : 19, 20
Under the sun, the wheat berries have grown to harvest and the stones would grind them into flour for the bread. The sun also ripened the grapes which was to be fermented into wine'
South east of Virgo lies the cup of Christ, the constellation of crater which is the Holy Grail of Bloodlines. We are the children of the Sun, and his bread is our body and his wine is our blood. How fitting it is that the ancient Holy land announces the new year (Rosh Hashanah.. Various dates in September) at harvest time when the Mother rises with the Sun shining as her halo and blending all faiths into the apotheosis monad of ONE
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why do I keep forgetting how great I feel after a good workout. Or even before then when I'm walking from my car in the parking lot into the gym with all the other people that get their butts up early on a saturday morning. I haven't exercised for about a week and I NEED TO GET MY BUTT INTO GEAR!!! yesterday i made a collage that represented my motivators filled with pictures of organized shelves, running shoes , cooking etc... and what did i do yesterday? lounge around the house and did.... NOTHING . Time to get with it! My community Center Gym opens at 7 today...and I will be the first person there.
kay...so I've got some of my before pics that I want to put up on my page. We recently had an 80's night at church and lemme tell you, there's nothing that reveals the stuff your trying to lose more than 80's clothes. I'm so glad I'm on SparkPeople and on my way to slim because those pics are mighty depressing. Soon to come for you viewing pleasure and probably for my before pic. Maybe I'll keep those same clothes and wear them for my after pics! Anyway..yesterday the office brought in free pizza , and it wasn't that generic dominoes stuff, it was a gourmet local pizzeria. And i had the willpower to say NO! I felt really good and rewarded myself with a trip to the mall with my hubby and a visit to Jamba juice. I'm sure I'll reap the benifits of turning down the pizza later on when my pants get looser!


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I wonder why there are so many union bashers in this state considering union workers make up only about 10 percent of the labor force. I wouldn't call that any kind of threat to anyone.
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I am making a point, these days, to only purchase products that are made with American Union-Labor. I am trying my hardest to do this, because so much of what we have around us is made with overseas sweatshop labor.
I am also thinking about not purchasing specialized goods from abroad. For example, I am a big fan of German and Czech beer. Its very much possible that the more foreign beer I drink, the less money American brewers make and that this will hurt American labor.
Thus, I will drink American beer, but only the tastiest kinds.
Here are some good links on how to buy Union-Made American beer. Remember, not all American beer is brewed by Unions.
This issue is important to me. My working-class, German-American family has been involved in the Labor movement for well over 100 years. My paternal Grandfather was an apprentice brewer from Germany. When he fled the massive poverty and anarchy of his home country in the 1920s, he immediately went to work in the Rheingold brewery and joined what would become the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers. Ths group would merge with the Teamsters in the 1970s.
My Grandfather made good money with the Union, had two sons and was able to buy a house---something he would have been unable to do in Germany, with his poor, peasant background and family's high level of farming debt.
My maternal Great-Grandfather was was a proud, Portuguese-American, World War I Naval Veteran. His family came from Portugal and the Azores and they immigrated to the United States for the great fishing-fleet opportunities. My Great-Grandfather spent his early years fishing, grew to hate fish, but still loved the water. When the war came in 1917 he enlisted and served on convoys in the Atlantic. After the war, he spent some time in France, and took many pictures, all of which I still have. Alot of these pictures concern captured German siege-guns, POWs, and American soldiers marching around on the parade field. There are some pretty ladies in those photos, too...
When he came back from France, he returned to his home town in Brooklyn, NY and joined the Teamsters. He began to drive a coal-delivery wagon, drawn by horses, in the winter. This wagon was converted for ice delivery in the summer. It was a tough job, but you got to interact with lots of people, learned about your neighborhood and became a part of your community. His job was based only 10 blocks away from where he lived. Every morning he would get dressed, put his boots on, and walk to the Wagon-House, where the horses were being bridled and attached to the wagons. Then he would spend 12 hours a day hauling ice and coal all over his and neighboring towns in Brooklyn. Throughout his life, he remained a strong American patriot and Union-supporter. He never trusted Wall-Street, and refused to cross a union picket line. He taught his daughters to do the same.
My Great Uncle was in the US Army. He served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He also took part in the second wave on Omaha Beach, during the Invasion of Normandy, in 1944.
He saw much action during the war, but never really spoke about it until Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," came out. Then he started talking to us about the war. He basically kept his mouth shut for 50 years prior, only occaissionally letting us know little tidbits about his war record. He saw many good buddies die, in close proximity. Guys he spent alot of time with, joked around with, played baseball with during R&R.
When we were younger, my cousins and I would try to get him to tell us war stories. We were raised on action films and were obsessed with the tales of combat and heroics he could share.
He would kindly try to oblige our youthful interest, and would begin to tell us a classic "war story." However, he would sometimes hit a tough point and tear-up. Then he would either go out for a cigarette and have a beer, or he would turn-on the TV and change the subject.
Often, when we wanted to hear a "war story," he would start going into some funny baseball story about him and his war buddies. Apparantly, soldiers had lots of down-time and they spent this time forming deep bonds with one another. I think this made the carnage and the death that much more unbearable when it eventually came. It made you refrain from getting close to people, after a while. Made you bottle your feelings up and build walls up around you. By the end of the war, alot of guys, my Great Uncle said, were just sort of empty.
Anyway, my Great Uncle was born in an orphanage. His parents died in a fire when he was young. He had no prospects when he came back from the war and he wasn't the college type. He took a job at a gas station and joined the Teamsters. He worked there, diligently, from 1946 up until the 1970s. He never ditched work and never took a sick day. He was so tough, and had such a work ethic, had such a miserable, horrible time during the Depression and World War 2, that he could simply not fathom taking a day off from work. He was greatful for his job, loved his job and would go out of his way to go above and beyond his duties as a gas station attendant. But he never got promoted. This never bothered him. He was just happy to be married, have children, and to be able to use the local municipal golf course on the weekend, which he frequented with religious zeal along with his buddies from the VFW. They also drank alot of beer while playing on this golf course. But you know what? He fought at Normandy. He earned it.
In the 1970s the gas station changed owners. The new owners promised everybody that if they left the Teamsters they would be given an immediate bonus. The new owners tried every trick in the book to get all the employees to leave the Union. My Great Uncle and 2 other guys refused. The remaining 10 guys sold-out, and quit the Teamsters. Within 2 weeks they were fired, which was management's intended plan, my Great Uncle told me. Well, he stayed in the Union and now "had the number" of management, so to speak. Eventually, the neighborhood Teamsters Local did something to intimidate the gas station owner and he sold the station. The new owner was pro-union and everything was fine after that. My great-uncle kept his job until his 60s and retired with a full pension and benefits, from both the gas station and the military.
I have many other family members with union backgrounds. My mom was in the SEIU, my brother-in-law is a Teamster. I support the Unions and so should you.
What's interesting, though, is that many Union folks in the 1950s-1970s were military veterans. Today, I get the impression that few in the military join Unions. What's your sense?
In any event, Buy Union!
This is really unfortunate since getting involved in both unions and co-ops could free them from the tyranny of the oligarchs and their obedient political minions.
Sadly, the Americans of today are seldom made of the same courageous stuff as were their immigrant ancestors. The wage slaves no longer find honour in standing up and demanding the respect due to them but prefer to bleat helplessly and be grateful to the wolves who dine luxuriously on their labour.
The "American Dream" lives on in so few that, if not dead, it is surely gasping and near its end.
Unions need to be restructured just like corporations. Collective bargaining should be a right granted every American as an expression of economic democracy. Unions as they are structured today benefit a very few who sit in cushy, high-paying jobs while often selling out their fellow workers. The bakers union leadership in this Hostess fiasco arguably effed over the rank and file worker while still maintaining their cushy, high-paying jobs.
I think we would all agree that replacing the Jamie Dimons of the world with Jimmy Hoffas doesn't really buy us a whole lot. Although it does benefit the Jimmy Hoffas. The reality is we need to get rid of both of them. That means restructuring corporate governance as well as union or collective bargaining governance. And, leveling the playing field between capital and labor. A playing field that Reagan and Clinton destroyed in favor of capital. Especially Clinton.
In the mean time, enjoy a great American craft beer and some antibiotic and GMO-free meat. We as a nation now dominate the global beer ratings after being mocked by the Europeans for our ditch water Budweiser and Miller forever. They may not all be union but they are all local and that means they are helping to restore the concept of community to our nation.
""Most Americans have been thoroughly indoctrinated with "me first", dog-eat-dog, predatory, greed capitalism, and are suffering the consequences of that corrupt, degrading system.""
......or perhaps he/she just doesn't understand the terms "indoctrination" or "suffering", or doesn't accept that people who have been indoctrinated are not to blame for their condition and can only even recognize it when its results are pointed out to them.
As to Canada being headed in the same direction..... there has never been any doubt of that. I have said that so often, on so many blogs and comments, that anyone of 'logic' would know that this is acknowledged by myself - and many other Canadians.
This is also true of all nations that have also adopted predatory greed capitalism due to the aggressive promoting of it by the banks and corporations who so richly profit by it. That aggressive promoting of a philosophy that may well serve the interests of a segment of the economic system, becomes indoctrination (or brainwashing) when it is promoted as a social system as well as an economic one.
As to "most Americans are losers"..... that phrase has only been uttered by him/her. Perhaps he/she thinks in such terms because of the mind conditioning that he/she has been subjected to; that put about by the big money elite. I referred to them as "sufferers."
As to the difficulties with unions, the illogical one seems to think (again due to conditioning?) that no effort at change should be made unless it is to some "perfect" system; that people joining and supporting unions is not a good idea because those unions have been the target of many unscrupulous individuals. In this disparagement of unions, this person is wholly in full agreement with the elite and is parroting their propaganda perfectly.
So sad.......
Y'know, Labor came out heavily for Obama this year. I wonder if Labor feels if they got their money's worth. Obama is certainly better than the Alternative Who Must Not Be Named, but his support of unions in this anti-union time has been pretty tepid.
But the propaganda, begun in childhood and maintained throughout all the formative years and adulthood, goes in very very deeply. Tis a damn hard thing to shake off.
By the way, Hostess had 372 separate collective bargaining agreements with their employees, 80 different health plans, and 40 different pension plans. In many parts of its distribution system, workers who dealt with bread could not touch cake; and workers who dealt with cake could not touch bread. Hence, two crews had to load and unload trucks, as well as shelve and unshelve products, when one crew would often have sufficed.
Further, under some of the Teamster contracts at Hostess, transportation routes that would have required only one truck, and touching products only at the bakery and distribution ends, were required to employ two trucks. An intermediate stop was mandated under the work rules, during which the products were emptied from the first trailer in order to fill a second one to complete the run.
It all reminds me of the commercial remodeling job I once was on in which I inquired one day why an electrician was standing around, doing no work. The response was that he was waiting for an operating engineer to come move his small ladder to a different part of the room in which he was working.
Nevertheless, I am certain that Hostess lost $314 million last year, on revenues of $2.8 billion simply because of vastly inflated executive salaries. The Bakers Union, which refused bankruptcy court ordered modifications to its bargaining agreements and then failed to mediate with management in good faith, told its members that there was a buyer for Hostess and that the new buyer would accept the unions.
Hostess management tried to inform union members that this was not true and that the company was at risk if insufficient workers returned to their duties. However, the workers chose to believe their union stewards.
Damn those Hostess executives!
I am certain that the truth hit the now unemployed Hostess workers as hard as it did the PATCO members who struck in violation of their agreement and the law in 1981. What I am less certain about is whether unions do much good for most workers these days.
I am apparently joined in this uncertainty by millions of workers who now have elected to no longer be union members. I am joined in this uncertainty by the ease with which more than a dozen States have passed 'right to work' laws since the height of union membership. I am joined in this uncertainty by those who are able to understand that unreasonable demands for wages and benefits have driven millions of jobs away from America.
What I always fail to understand is the whine that a job pays too little to sustain a certain standard of living. The questions that immediately occur to me when such complaints are raised center on why the employee accepted the job in the first place, and/or why the employee doesn't adjust his standard of living downward to accommodate the financial constraints of his wages or salary.
It isn't that I disapprove of employees unionizing, formally or informally, permanently or temporarily, to speak with management in a more powerful way. What I find incomprehensible is their frequent misunderstanding of the other side of the equation.
But, then again, there's much in this world that I do not understand.
You've got that one right, Chris. Your lack of understanding is actually much more significant than you think. This explains why you were smacked down by the people who commented on your latest post. You should take the cue from Gordon, who has now become more than a laughingstock, and retire from OS before you embarrass yourself further.


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Urine 24-hour volume
The urine 24-hour volume test measures the amount of urine produced in a day.
Alternative Names
Urine volume; 24-hour urine collection
How the test is performed
A 24-hour urine sample is needed.
- On day 1, urinate into the toilet when you get up in the morning.
- Afterwards, collect all urine in a special container for the next 24 hours.
- On day 2, urinate into the container when you get up in the morning.
- Cap the container. Keep it in the refrigerator or a cool place during the collection period.
- Label the container with your name, the date, the time of completion, and return it as instructed.
For an infant, thoroughly wash the area around the urethra. Open a urine collection bag (a plastic bag with an adhesive paper on one end), and place it on the infant. For males, place the entire penis in the bag and attach the adhesive to the skin. For females, place the bag over the labia. Diaper as usual over the secured bag.
This procedure may take a couple of attempts -- lively infants can move the bag, causing the urine to be absorbed by the diaper. Check the infant frequently and change the bag after the infant has urinated into it. Drain the urine from the bag into the container provided by your health care provider.
Deliver it to the laboratory or your health care provider as soon as possible upon completion.
How to prepare for the test
The health care provider will instruct you, if necessary, to stop taking any drugs that may interfere with the test results.
If the collection is being taken from an infant, some extra collection bags may be needed.
How the test will feel
The test involves only normal urination, and there is no discomfort.
Why the test is performed
Urine volume is normally measured as a part of the creatinine clearance test, or any test that measures the amount of a substance eliminated in a day.
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This test may also be done if you have polyuria (abnormally large volumes of urine), such as is seen in diabetes insipidus.
Normal Values
The normal range is 800 to 2000 milliliters per day (with a normal fluid intake of about 2 liters per day).
The examples above are common measurements for results of these tests. Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What abnormal results mean
Disorders that cause reduced urine volume include dehydration, not enough fluid intake, or some types of chronic kidney disease.
Some of the conditions that cause increased urine volume include:
- Diabetes insipidus - renal
- Diabetes insipidus - central
- Diabetes
- High fluid intake
- Some forms of kidney disease
- Use of diuretic medications
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