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It seems almost irreverent to sully the memory of this fine man by debating yet another conspiracy-style theory, yet 50 years after his death controversy still surrounds the president's murder.
It has been difficult to lay the case to rest when so many questions remain unanswered, and there have been calls to exhume President Kennedy's body in order to finally uncover the truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, described by some as "the last true president the US has ever seen", was assassinated 50 years ago today, on November 22nd 1963. The event will be commemorated in Dallas by civic leaders who have arranged an hour-long ceremony called "The 50th". The service intends to "set a solemn, dignified and understated tone as we commemorate the life, legacy and leadership of President John F Kennedy," mayor Mike Rawlings said in a statement. "There will be speeches, hymns, a flypast and a moment of silence at 12.30pm, the time of the shooting. "
The level of security at the event will be very high, and all attendees have been subject to background checks by Dallas police. Demonstrators and conspiracy theorists will not be welcome.
It is understandable and entirely appropriate for the authorities to wish to maintain a reverent atmosphere at the memorial service, as its primary objective should be to remember a great life that was ended far too soon. Yet, for those groups such as The Washington-based Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA), to be denied the opportunity to remind the public that this case is, in their eyes, far from resolved is very frustrating.
COPA, who are described by their executive director, John Judge, as the "serious end of the research community", have been allowed to gather at a nearby parking lot, and will hold a period of silence at 12:30pm. They will then be escorted by police into the plaza after the official ceremony is over. COPA's view is that they are still investigating an unsolved murder, and that denial of this fact dishonors the memory of the murdered president.
The official version of events released by the Warren Commission states that former marine Lee Harvey Oswald found a vantage point on the sixth floor of his workplace, the Texas School Book Depository, and shot Kennedy using a 6.5mm Italian rifle. He was alleged to have fired several shots at the presidential motorcade as it proceeded down Elm Street, two of which hit their target in the back and the head.
"Most of us feel that Oswald is not responsible, he was a patsy," said Judge, who considers that the restrictions are "a denial of free speech" and that the ceremony will just cover the true facts. "This is a PR event, they know the press is coming at that moment to that place and they want to control the message."
COPA members will show their feelings by wearing T-shirts bearing the slogan: "50 years in denial is enough. Free the files. Find the truth."
COPA are certainly not alone in their beliefs, and the evidence to support a cover-up seems to gather weight with every passing year. Matthew Smith, a British author, has called for Kennedy's body to be exhumed to allow a thorough analysis using the latest forensic techniques. Smith believes that Kennedy was the victim of a military-style ambush by several assassins, and his claim is supported by Cyril Wecht, America's former top pathologist who was once in charge of the US academy of forensic sciences.
Smith, a retired college lecturer and author of a new book entitled "Who Killed Kennedy", has spent years scrutinising all of the available facts, and is now convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have perpetrated the US president's murder.
Mr Smith writes in his book : "First, the members of the Kennedy family who have records placed in their protection must reveal those for public scrutiny."
"Second, as painful as it may be, President Kennedy's remains must be exhumed and re-examined, this time by the top pathologist in the nation. We will then learn about the direction of the gunfire, which will result in a decision on whether a new, thorough investigation is warranted."
Wecht has written the forward for Smith's book, in which he states that "it is not at all ghoulish to talk about exhuming the dead body when there is a question of murder and the need to determine who committed the act." It was Wecht who made the shocking discovery that the president's brain was missing when he examined highly sensitive autopsy evidence: President Kennedy's brain was not buried with his body, but was stored in a container and locked away in the National Archives, but three years after his death it was found to be missing.
It has been suggested that the brain may have been stolen by Kennedy's brother, Robert, to prevent disclosures about the medications he was taking when he died. Information gathered by historians has revealed that the president was taking a cocktail of drugs - codeine, demerol, and methadone - to combat a string of medical problems as well as for anxiety and sleep disorder.
Smith believes, however, that the brain was stolen in order to further obfuscate the facts of the investigation. Examination of the brain would confirm whether or not the president was actually shot in the back of the head as would have been the case had Oswald been the shooter, or from the front as conspiracy theorists claim. Smith thinks that there was a shot to the back of the head which did come from the sixth floor of the depository or another nearby building, but that Oswald was not the shooter.
The author puts forward a theory that there were two other shots from different positions on a grassy knoll to the front and right of the presidential Lincoln car, and that the first bullet hit Kennedy in the throat. The fatal shot, according to Smith, came from another assassin on the knoll and entered the right temple before exiting out of the rear of his head.
This was concurred by a witness at the scene who reported that the president had a gunshot wound to his temple, and also by a member of the medical team who worked on Kennedy at the Dallas Parkland Hospital, who reported seeing a round hole entry point by the temple. That fact was never properly recorded, however; the post-mortem examination on the president's body should have been carried out in Dallas, where he was killed, but instead it was flown to Washington and the autopsy carried out at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Mr Smith said: "An examination of the skull would establish whether a bullet did enter his head at the temple, which would disprove the theory that the fatal injury came from behind."
Unless a full investigation is conducted, and that includes the exhumation of the president's body, it appears that the conspiracy theorists will never be satisfied. The official story has now stood for 50 years, but the drive to uncover the truth remains as strong now as it was half a century ago.
Even the official memorial in Dallas seems to lack conviction that Lee Harvey Oswald was the perpetrator. A plaque erected by the Texas Historical Commission on a corner of the Book Depository, bears the inscription: "On November 22, 1963, the building gained national notoriety when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window as the presidential motorcade passed the site."
The word "allegedly" has been roughly underscored by an unknown hand, and its presence confirms that the official theory has not been widely accepted.
At the end of the day, enough loose ends remain untied to keep conspiracy theorists' fingers busy for many years to come, and it appears that they are not operating without support. According to a recent Gallup poll, 61% of the American public still doubt the official explanation that Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president, and an Associated Press poll conducted in April this year concluded that 59% of Americans do think there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
There may be those who consider that it is disrespectful to perpetuate the investigations and that the president should be left to rest in peace, but there is also a valid argument that John Fitzgerald Kennedy deserves to find justice before his soul can rest.
"We've won the debate. Most people want what we're calling for, all the files released, a further investigation," said Judge. "Our history has basically been stolen from us by this secrecy. I think the military-industrial complex had a great deal to do with the Kennedy assassination. I don't think a hoopla event gives you a catharsis. I don't know how you celebrate the life of JFK and refuse to solve his murder."
Smith echoes Judge's sentiments and summarised his views thus:
"These would appear to be the essential steps towards this country coming to terms with the nagging questions which have plagued it since Friday, November 22, 1963. Until then, there can be no expectation of truth for the living, nor justice for the dead."
There was a show on Reelz recently which advanced the only really compelling analysis I've ever heard on the assassination. It was based on the ballistics work of Howard Donahue and the investigative work of Detective Colin McLaren who went back to the eyewitness testimony recorded by the Dallas Police Dept as well as the Warren Commission and depositions from the 1990s. The salient facts are: 1) the entrance hole in the final kill shot was too small for the bullets fired by Oswald 2) two different types of bullets were fired: Oswald's bullets were wider and designed to pass completely through the body accounting for Kennedy's neck would, but the final kill shot was a frangible bullet designed to explode/disintegrate upon impact 3) a shot occurred at ground level because many witnesses described the smell of gun powder which could not have come from Oswald's perch given the prevailing winds and small opening. Witnesses included military man/hunter in the car behind Kennedy, street level witnesses and a police officer on the overpass 4) there was an AR15 weapon present, in the hands of Secret Service agent George Hickey, which could account for the kill shot (entry hole diameter and frangible round); Hickey was photographed holding the weapon 5) Warren commission interviews with other Secret Service agents revealed that they thought the AR15 had been fired 6) several witnesses saw Hickey with the gun, who was in the back seat of the following car, and saw him fall back into his seat during the shooting 7) Donahue claimed that the final shot could be triangulated to Hickey's vector. Also compelling in this documentary were the '90s depositions from autopsy staff. One of the x-ray technicians said that after the autopsy, he was ordered to fabricate an x-ray of the President's head into which fragments of a bullet similar to the one Oswald shot were taped; he actually did the taping and x-raying as ordered by his boss. The secret service also collected all the photos and notes of what went on and made them available to no one. A week before they were asked to provide info during the 90s they destroyed everything. They also silenced everyone present with National Security Gag orders. There is a lot more in the documentary. The most compelling facts seem to be the entrance hole diameter, gun smoke at ground level, the different types of bullets used and the witness testimony. Next question is: if it occurred as described, was it an accident or a deliberate shot? I would think the latter.
After reading over 50 of the best-researched books on the technical aspects of the assassination, I have to say that the account and the forensic analysis that I find most convincing is Best Evidence by David Lifton, 1981. He published the original autopsy photos in the second edition of the book, 1988, and shortly thereafter Dr. Charles Crenshaw the first physician to attend to JFK at Parklands Hospital confirmed many of Lifton's conclusions in the book Trauma Room 1. The sheer of number of high ranking military officers, FBI agents, Secret Service, and un-identified "suits"crowding into the autopsy room, the odd behaviour of the doctors and staff that resulted from that presence, the fact that all known film and photos taken that day in Dealey, Parklands, and the airport were collected by alleged FBI agents and not returned or returned in degraded condition, the fact that so many eye-witnesses were ignored by the Warren Commission and the fact that there was NO GSR on Oswald or his clothes and that he was NEVER CHARGED with the assassination, and most tellingly that the limousine was whisked away and completely re-furbished before any forensic investigation could be done on it, screams conspiracy. Oswald shot no one on 22 Nov 1963. His palm print was planted on the rifle only after Oswald's death. Ruby was able to walk - armed - into what should have been the most secure building in the world and was able to shoot Oswald in full view of everyone there and a bank of TV cameras, screams set-up. There is no hysteria, no sentimentality, no political point scoring in Best Evidence. It is what it claims to be: the assimilation and presentation of the Best Evidence available at the time the author was doing his research and despite decades of new findings since then, it stll holds up as the best analysis and the most likely re-construction of the actual events. Don' take my word for it. Read it for yourself and see what you think.
Official story ? Although I don't believe it, 911 has the 9/11 commission report as the "official story" ! What does the JFK assassination have as the "official story" ? Certainly not the Warren commission, since years later the House select committee on assassinations found in 1976 that there was a conspiracy to kill the President and Oswald did not act alone. Which is the official story ? The Warren commission was flawed, tainted and bias. Please google "James Files" . James Files says if you were to exhume the Presidents body and examined the skull you would find traces of mercury, because he said the bullets he used had mercury in them. Although I'm not sure if I believe his story, there is a lot to consider. He said he acted with his boss and they shot the fatal shot within a fraction of a second of each other. He said that his main job was to take a head shot, but only if no one else had done so. He says he knew Oswald and that he was out firing their weapons days or weeks before the assassination and has shown pictures of him and Oswald together. Charles Nicolletti, was his boss and accomplice. Here's a link. http://jfkmurdersolved.com/filestruth.htm
I was so disappointed that all of the documentaries I saw, put together for the 50th anniversary of President's Kennedy's assassination, used that old worn-out story of Oswald being the assassin. They didn't acknowledge any controversy and just rammed that tired old story down our throats yet again. I just can't understand why our government is allowed BY US to lie! It's a sad state of affairs when good people look the other way.


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This seems pretty neat and for those with multiple cats it could be worth it to you. The story behind how it came about is sad but hopefully this will help some other cat.
"Sung is the co-founder of Bistro, a smart cat feeder that has the power to recognize your feline's face in order to distribute and then track its food intake. It can also tell your cats' faces apart to prevent jerky tendencies of stealing the food that is rightly their brethren's.
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It's neat and very interesting.
It seems kind of odd that person's cat was so sick and her didn't even know. Cats are good at hiding illness and it is hard to tell who's eating and not in a multicat house hold. I think I would know when one of mine were that sick a bit earlier than he did though even without the software.
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Cool in a Star-Trek kind of way....I'm not sure that my cat would be willing to eat and drink by sticking her head through that opening though.
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NTLDR is missing
I have a 2006 Pavilion dv5000, with a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 OS.
When I start my computer I get the following message:
"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
Following this directions does nothing.
I cannot enter BIOS before this message occurs.
Starting with my original OS dvd does not help either. First I get a message to hit any key to start with the dvd. Then after doing so I am back to the above quoted message.
So far web searching and using help forums have not been helpful, as they assume one of the previous steps would get me started.
Any help would be very appreciated.
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"NTLDR is missing" problem solved in Windows XP.
March 22, 2009 — Pradnya
You switch on your pc,select the OS and find what
NTLDR missing!!! Cant get in?
Here's the solution..
What is NTLDR?
NTLDR is the boot loader for Windows NT operating systems including
Windows XP.It runs from primary hard drive to load the OS selected from
the startup menu with the help of boot sector in a file.
Components important to load OS:
NTLDR: contains boot loader
boot.ini : system file which stores list of Operating Systems
to be shown at start up .
ntdetect.com: detects basic hardware required to start the operating system.
ntoskrnl.exe/ntkrnlpa.exe : stores kernal image of Windows NT systems &
responsible for various system services such as hardware virtualisation process and memory management, etc.
Here's how u can get back into your Windows XP.
1. Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1″ key and pressing enter.
5. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password(Usually it is
password,if not set)
6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk.
The CD-ROM drive letter may be different on your computer.
Here it is "e."
copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.
Working of NTLDR.
When booting NTLDR follows these steps in order:
1. Accesses the file system on the boot drive (either FAT or NT File System, NTFS).
2. If hiberfil.sys is found, and it finds a hibernation image, its contents are loaded into memory and the system resumes where it left off.
3. Otherwise, reads boot.ini and prompts the user with the boot menu accordingly.
4. If a non NT-based OS is selected, then NTLDR loads the associated file listed in boot.ini and gives it control.
5. If an NT-based OS is selected, then NTLDR runs ntdetect.com, which detects the computer's hardware to load the OS.
6. Starts Ntoskrnl.exe, passing to it the information returned by ntdetect.com.
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06-04-2011 11:34 AM - edited 06-04-2011 11:34 AM
NTLDR is the file which accesses the file system on the boot drive. Once the file is missing the Operating System is unable to load resulting one of following message
NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart
Boot: Couldn't find NTLDR
Please insert another disk
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl Alt Del to Restart
There are several reasons this could be happened.
- Booting from non-bootable source. (New hard disk, CD or any other removeble media)
- Corrupted Master/ Boot record or Corrupted NTLDR or ntdetect.com file.
- BIOS configuration Problem
source : http://techyv.com/questions/ntldr-missing
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I thank everyone for their information and advice.
The problem I am having is that I cannot enter the BIOS before I receive the error message; nor will the computer respond to any inputs after the message:
Press Ctrl Alt Del to Restart
NTLDR is missing
The only difference if I start the computer with the OS DVD installed is I get a "Press any key to boot from CD..." message before the one above - then it is totally unresponsive, just as when I start it without the DVD installed.
Re: NTLDR is missing
Just to close out this message thread, and perhaps to help some one with similar problems, I will note that my issue has been resolved.
As I suppose is often the case, the problem was complicated by two separate components malfunctioning. (Not counting the operator - i.e. me.)
The reason I could not access my BIOS or activate my OS installation disk was because of a malfunctioning keyboard (partially resolved now).
The non-booting and "NTLDR is missing" parts were a bit more involved, and I forget now all of the steps I had to do to fix them, but I believe the original cause was a malfunctioning memory module (although my misguided efforts to repair, and then reinstall, the OS before I removed the offending module may have aggravated the problem).
I am now struggling to reinstall the OS and drivers, but I opened another thread for those issues.
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I get NTLDR is missing, Press Ctrl +Alt + Del to restart. I had done this and goes back to same screen, I have checked the BIOS and reloded the defaults, and it still bring me to this same error. I finally chose Windows Boot Genius from http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Boot-Genius/3000-
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Taking your original question and the other responses you've received into account, I can only add that while it is a do-able thing, it won't be easy, and I have to agree that if you would feel discouraged by only losing 3 lbs. in spite of trying very hard, it might be counter-productive to set such an aggressive expectation.
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Please don't take this the wrong way...it's just my opinion.
I thnk setting any 'pounds per week' goal is unrealistic and sets you up for failure and disapppointment. (the 'you' is the universal EVERYONE, not you specifically)
This is such a hard thing to do, and if you say - I want to lose four pounds a week, and you lose three - did you fail?


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In 1815, on this day the American shipping merchant Sampson Vryling Stoddard (S.V.S.) Wilder disembarked at his home port of Boston accompanied by the deposed French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.Napoleon's Escape to North America by Ed and Eric OppenA member of the small American community in Paris, Wilder was an acquaintance of both Talleyrand and Lafayette. Impressed by the changes brought about in society and politics under Napoleonic Rule, he was compelled to act after the tragic defeat at Waterloo. And so he travelled to Île d'Aix and offered to help the Emperor escape the British blockade.Reluctant to leave his fellows, appeals to Napoleon's sense of grandeur finally prevailed and he was eventually persuaded to flee to America and establish the "Second France" where his friends could join him. Perhaps he even imagined a fanfare welcome from James Madison, the President who had declared war on England in 1812.But first they had to get to that future. And the escape plan was deceptively simple, to travel in disguise under a passport prepared for the merchant's valet. But of course there was a complication; until the danger-line was passed, he would have to be concealed in the false compartment of a hogshead barrel. Water was to drip incessantly, and during the voyage, he developed the pneumonia that would kill him shortly after he arrived at the merchants house in Bolton, Massachusetts.
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This name is given to a fatal cattle-disease, which was the fifth of the plagues of Egypt (Exodus 9:3), and which affected not only the flocks and herds, but also the camels, horses and asses. The record of its onset immediately after the plague of flies makes it probable that it was an epizootic, whose germs were carried by these insects as those of rinderpest or splenic fever may be. Cattle plagues have in recent years been very destructive in Egypt; many writers have given descriptions of the great devastation wrought by the outbreak in 1842. In this case Wittmann noted that contact with the putrid carcasses caused severe boils, a condition also recorded in Exodus as following the murrain. The very extensive spread of rinderpest within the last few years in many districts of Egypt has not yet been completely stamped out, even in spite of the use of antitoxic serum and the most rigid isolation. The word "murrain" is probably a variant of the Old French morine. It is used as an imprecation by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan writers, and is still applied by herdsmen to several forms of epidemic cattle sickness. Among early writers it was used as well for fatal plagues affecting men; thus, Lydgate (1494) speaks of the people "slain by that moreyne."nt that at least two witnesses must concur in any capital question (Numbers 35:19-30; Deuteronomy 17:6-12; 19:12,17). Under the monarchy the duty of executing justice on a murderer seems to have been assumed to some extent by the sovereign, who also had power to grant pardon (2 Samuel 13:39; 14:7,11; 1 Kings 2:34).
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Near the end of another exciting and exhausting Greenbuild, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with three other women deeply invested in sustainable material management: Lindsay James, InterfaceFlor; Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Building Potential Building Systems, and Sarah Brooks, Natural Step Canada. We started the session with the question "Are there any sustainable materials?" and ended with the question " What does material stewardship look like in a sustainable society?"
In between these two questions lives a world of aspiration and complexity followed, if you're lucky--or defiant--by deeper aspiration. The thing is, this stuff is hard. It's complicated and can be messy. Simple answers can lead to different problems. The deeper answers we need to figure out together--no one can single-handedly provide the roadmap.
What became very clear to us as a panel, in all our discussions leading up to Greenbuild, was that we wanted to continue and deepen the conversation. It is our belief that the shift toward sustainable materials--and likely sustainability in general--will require dialogue across boundaries.
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What other deeper questions do we all need to be asking? Who needs to be in the conversation? What are the best forums out there now for getting to the heart of the challenge we face in materials management, and what's still missing? If you'd like to be part of this continued conversation email firstname.lastname@example.com, or comment on this blog post.
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2. I hate "the 'S' word" - it's become just a buzzword that's slapped on everything to "greenwash" it. I'll have to dig out my 'S' diagram and e-mail it to research.
3. "Can we achieve sustainability in the context of exponential growth of demand and an exploding global population?" The short answer is NO. We have to reduce both demand and the global human population - and that's going to hurt a whole lot more than Greece's present austerity measures.
4. "What if we saw our economic system as a design problem instead of a design constraint?" It is a problem, because it is based on ever-increasing growth, which is an impossibility - and would leave our progeny a world of desolation. However, if we DO recognize it as a problem, we can start thinking about how to go about tackling it.
This presents the fundamental dilemma of all technological "progress" – every new, "improved" manipulation of the natural world results in unintended consequences, because the world is not amenable to human control.
Yes, the current global economic system is a primary obstacle to sustainability, as is our exponentially-growing human population and always-increasing material desires. But underlying both of them, as well as every social, political and ecological crisis we face today, is a cultural paradigm – the story of why things are the way they are – that's essentially dysfunctional.
Foundational elements of that paradigm include the separation of the individual from each other (the "skin-encapsulated ego" of Alan Watts); the disjunction of culture from nature; a mind-centered (in contrast to a heart-centered) approach to life, which leaves us in a chronic state of physical, emotional and spiritual dis-ease; the scientific method of objectification, reductionism, analysis and exclusion of non-rational processes in the determination of "reality", or the story of how the Universe works; and the near-universality of what anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called the "Galbraithian way" of affluence through production to attempt to meet unlimited artificial wants, contrasted with the "Zen way" of affluence by which hunter-gatherers desire little and meet those basic needs with what is available to them.
The only question worth asking is "How do we restore the truly sustainable cultural paradigm that carried humanity for hundreds of thousands of years within the broader Web-of-Life?" The corollary question is "Can we?"
I explore some of those questions, in terms of human shelter, in my Riversong's Radical Reflections http://www.buildinggreen.com/live/index.cfm/Riversongs-Radical-Reflections.
Sounds like a great discussion. I'm of the mind that it's more effective to think of sustainability not as a destination, but as a journey -- similarly, I find that thinking in terms of sustainable products is more awkward and distracting than thinking in terms of sustainable processes. A process view gets to the context part: what's the source of the material, how is it made and deployed, and what does its end of life look like? The environmental impact depends on all of those things, so I find it difficult to consider sustainability without considering behaviors related to deployment, usage, and retirement.
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I did it!!
Finally a DD that came in just under 500 cal AND I didn't starve.
I have tried DD's ZC, Fat fast, LC, fasting (the F word, ugh) and was usually coming in at around 700....and really hungry! I changed my latte to black coffee, my breakfast smoothie to gluc pudding then my usual soups and a Baby Bell thrown in.
I even have a few cals left for a few bites of gluc pudding before bed if I'm hungry.
So all that aside, I want to keep my DD's low to really reap the health bene's so am doing 2/wk and a medium.
I really don't think the medium is helpful but it keeps me from continuing to lose weight.
I am really psyched since I seem to have decided that JUDDD is the perfect plan.
Also, isn't it ironic how so many of us maintainers have to try to not lose more weight, lol. :laugh:
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Wonderful Jem. Don't do what I just did and have a glass of red wine!
WTG on continuing to search for the combination that worked for you!
Great job on finding what works for you. I find it so interesting the variances in what makes people satiated on their down days. Really gives you pause when the so-called experts start spouting about how this food or that macronutrient is bad for all people. We are all different, and it takes some detective work to find the right things for our individual metabolism and tastes.
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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Road Trip: LA & Vegas!
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Yay!! I loved seeing your other vacation photos! Great photo editing, too! :)ReplyDelete
The BR shell you got looks cute with the white shorts! I wore my BR outlet striped dress the next day when I was out with my mom. I almost wish I picked it up in other colors! Well, I am glad you suggested an outlet mall...I can see myself going their again specifically for the BR outlet!
I am so glad that you guys made it out to Vegas! It was so much fun shopping and talking...and I am so happy that my husband got to hang out, too! :) He had nothing but nice things about you guys! :) I will be doing a blog post today or tomorrow with some more pics...will let you know when it is up. :)
So fun to see your vacation pictures, Ping. You and Michelle both look so lovely. I think you must be seeing the mirrored image of what i'm seeing, because all your description of the pictures have left and right reversed. lol.ReplyDelete
Wow, so cool that you guys met up! Looks like you girls had a great time. :D All your outfits are so cute!ReplyDelete
You can get REALLY close to the Hollywood sign, but you can't be all up in and on top of it like they do in commercials or movies! There is a hike that takes you to the top of that hill, and you can see the city behind the sign. It's pretty cool to be that close! Glad you enjoyed LA!!! KateJones.meReplyDelete
Great pics! Your outfits were really cute as well!ReplyDelete
Yay! I love reading travel posts (even though I am no good at doing them myself); this looks like SO MUCH FUN. You and Michelle make for quite a striking pair...I bet you two turned a few heads on the streets of Las Vegas. ;)ReplyDelete
Aww! You look cute in all of these! Looks like you both had a lot of fun. Makes me want to go on a road trip but my boyfriend and I don't have the time yet. Boo.ReplyDelete
What a fun trip. Love your outfits. Bet you dressed up Vegas well.ReplyDelete
like one of ur readers said, there's a trail you have to hike. but i like to kill 2 birds w/1 stone by going to the observatory.ReplyDelete
looks so much fun!
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love that dress from forever 21! totally going to order it now, thanks!ReplyDelete
Great pics! I can't believe that was your bf's first visit to Vegas. Did he like it?ReplyDelete
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Below are the Photography Winners from the Spring 2008 contest. It was a difficult decision this year and the judging was very close thanks to all the terrific submissions!
Grand Prize Winner!
Fan, Age 17, from Boyds, MD
"Winter came with the birds."
Honorable Mention Winners Below!
Lawson, Age 13, from Elkton, FL
"i brought my camera to the 4th of july last year, and a few of my pictures turned out looking like a lightning bolt or something. "
Puppy Dreams
Henry, Age 16, from Spokane WA
"They say you can't each an old dog new tricks, but there are always dreams of tomorrow "
Little Boy in the Window
Reiser, Age 15, from West Chester, OH
"While on a mission trip in Highgate, Jamaica, I saw this little boy peeking out through the window of his home. I found him so striking. "
Bubbling Lava
Little, Age 17, from Troy, NY
"This is what happens when I'm left with a camera, a glass paperweight, a laser pointer, and too much free time "
Sepia Toned Sunrise
Little, Age 17 from Troy, NY
"Taken just before the sun rose behind my favorite tree"
Under My Umbrella
Boerema, Age 12, from St. Augustine FL
"My neighbor Dulcie in my backyard with her umbrella "
String Shadows
Zagorin, Age 10, from Austin, TX
"I'm currently learning the cello and my sister is learning the violin. This picture represents the long hours we spent practicing this skill."
Skate The Sun
Bernstein, Age 16, from Germantown, MD
""You got to see him to beleive him, Cant you hear em callin, You got to hear him, theres no fear, In that man, Cant you hear em callin, Hes like a mean molten gold, Cant you hear em callin Lord, hes got to have his story told, Cant you fear youre fallin" -Jefferson Starship, "Skateboard" "
Austin Light
Light, Age 17, from Lubbock, TX
"this is an abandoned house located in wolfforth, texas. "
Beckmann, Age 17, from East Setauket, NY
"Most people don't appreciate that a bass is more than just an oversized violin. One of the many reasons why I love the bass is that it has many interesting angles from which it can be photographed. Like this one. Beauty, in the eyes of the musician."
Pouring Water
Hayman, Age 18, from Wind Gap, PA
"Water pouring from a vase."
Glass Drop
Cardwell, Age 17, from Granby, CT
"This picture I took after setting up a glass surface and my tripod in my room. I dropped water onto the glass for long periods of time until I captured this image on my camera. I shot this image with a very high shutter speed and it came out the way I had hoped it to. "
Green Sunset
Johnson, Age 16, from Compton, CA
"This photo is used to describe the calm, and reguvinated feelings that i have when the sun sets. "


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Wall Street Whispers: AIG Pricing Critics Persist
Weedin says AIG has been aiming big. The insurer has gotten aggressive on acquiring and keeping big, corporate P&C accounts whose pockets run deep. But it's inclined to sidestep small-to-mid-sized P&C players if the price doesn't make sense for the size of the relationship.
Weedin explains that small-to-medium sized firms may only be paying $50,000 a year in premiums, while big corporate accounts can deliver $5 million a year. Several factors go into figuring out the price-to-risk-premium for a particular client - from its claim history to its line of business. But the bigger the company, the more opportunities to build out the relationship. And the bigger the overall revenue figure, the more wiggle room an insurer has to offer a discount or value-added perks.
"You can be pretty creative," says Weedin.
Indeed, in July, Chubb Chief Operating Officer John Degnan said that in some "large property accounts," competitors had stolen business by offering "double and even triple" the traditional limits for flood and earthquake insurance without raising premiums for the added coverage.If AIG is, indeed, targeting big game with low rates and added perks, it wouldn't be the first time. Adams, the lawyer, himself came up against AIG's bidding wars himself as a managing director at recently-bankrupted mortgage-bond insurer Ambac (ABK) as well as Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. during the boom years. Even then, Adams says, AIG "always won and always had much lower pricing." Joseph Padduda, a former AIG executive who is now principal of managed-care consulting firm Health Strategy Associates, has also heard that AIG has been "very aggressive" in trying to get new business in areas that seem attractive. He says it's "reminiscent of the 'old' AIG that was very good at identifying niches and selling into them." But those moves certainly aren't occurring across the board. For instance, Adam Sherman, who helps individuals select insurance policies at Firstrust Financial Resources, indicates that insurers - including AIG - have been behaving as one would expect in any competitive landscape. They've been cutting premiums on products with slack demand, such as term life insurance or annuities without a guaranteed return. But the industry has kept rates constant or raised prices on products where demand has remained resilient, such as whole life insurance or annuities with a minimum return-on-investment. "I've really not seen very much going on with AIG's life portfolio very much this year," says Sherman. "I haven't noticed price wars."
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Decompressive craniectomy (crani- + -ectomy) is a neurosurgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to allow a swelling brain room to expand without being squeezed. It is performed on victims of traumatic brain injury and stroke. Use of the surgery is controversial.[1]
The procedure evolved from a primitive form of surgery known as trephining or trepanning. The older procedure, while common in prehistoric times, was deprecated in favor of other, less invasive treatments as they were developed; although it was still performed with some frequency prior to the twentieth century, its resurgence in modern form became possible only upon the development of precision cutting tools and sophisticated post-operative care such as antibiotics.
Though the procedure is considered a last resort, some evidence suggests that it does improve outcomes by lowering intracranial pressure (ICP), the pressure within the skull.[1][2][3] Raised intracranial pressure is very often debilitating or fatal because it causes compression of the brain and restricts cerebral blood flow. The aim of decompressive craniectomy is to reduce this pressure. The part of the skull that is removed is called a bone flap. A study has shown that the larger the removed bone flap is, the more ICP is reduced.[4]
In March 2011, investigators from Australia and several other countries published the results of the DECRA[5] trial in the New England Journal of Medicine. This was a randomized trial comparing decompressive craniectomy to best medical therapy run between 2002 and 2010 to assess the optimal management of patients with medically refractory ICP following diffuse non-penetrating head injury. The study investigators found that decompressive craniectomy was associated with worse functional outcomes, as measured by a standard metric, than best medical care. There were no differences in deaths between groups. However, the results of the DECRA trial have been rejected or at least questioned by many practicing neurosurgeons, and a concurrently published editorial raises several study weaknesses.[6] First, the threshold for defining increased ICP, and the time allowed before declaring ICP medically refractory, are not what many practicing physicians would consider increased or refractory. Second, out of almost 3500 potentially eligible patients, only 155 patients were enrolled, showing that the study cannot be generalized to all patients with severe non-penetrating brain injury. Lastly, despite being randomized, more patients in the craniectomy arm had unreactive pupils (after randomization but before surgery) than patients in the medical therapy arm, a potential confounding factor.
In addition to reducing ICP, studies have found decompressive craniectomy to improve cerebral perfusion pressure[1][3] and cerebral blood flow in head injured patients.[1]
Decompressive craniectomy is also used to manage major strokes, associated with "malignant" edema and intracranial hypertension. The pooled evidence from three randomised controlled trials in Europe supports the retrospective observations that early (within 48 hours) application of decompressive craniectomy after "malignant" stroke may result in improved survival and functional outcome in patients under the age of 55, compared to conservative management alone.[7]
The procedure is recommended especially for young patients in whom ICP is not controllable by other methods.[1] Age of greater than 50 years is associated with a poorer outcome after the surgery.[3]
Infections such as meningitis or brain abscess can occur after decompressive craniectomy.[8]
In severely head injured children, a study has shown that decompressive craniectomy resulted in good recovery in all children in the study, suggesting the procedure has an advantage over non-surgical treatment in children.[9] In one of the largest studies on pediatric patients, Jagannathan et al. found a net 65% favorable outcomes rate in pediatric patients for accidental trauma after craniectomy when followed for more than five years. Only three patients were dependent on caregivers.[10] This is the only prospective randomised controlled study to date to support the potential benefit of decompressive craniectomy following traumatic brain injury.[11]
After a craniectomy, the risk of brain injury is increased, particularly after the patient heals and becomes mobile again. Therefore, special measures must be taken to protect the brain, such as a helmet or a temporary implant in the skull.[12]
When the patient has healed sufficiently, the opening in the skull is usually closed with a cranioplasty. If possible, the original skull fragment is preserved after the craniectomy in anticipation of the cranioplasty.[13]
A prospective randomised controlled trial is currently enrolling patients in an attempt to provide Class I evidence on the role of surgical decompression in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure after severe head injury. The RESCUEicp study [1] is an international multicentre trial, coordinated by the University of Cambridge Academic Neurosurgery Unit [2] and the European Brain Injury Consortium (EBIC)[3].


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Dr. Tanaka has three offices in California.
Specializing in the field of Ophthalmology, Dr. Tanaka is prepared to diagnose, treat and perform various types of surgeries for diseases, injuries, or trauma of the eye. Dr. Tanaka may treat disorders such as glaucoma, corneal tumors, cataracts, retinal disorders, conjunctivitis, astigmatism and ocular tumors, among others.
Dr. Tanaka works with seventeen doctors including Dr. Andrew Iwach and Dr. Danny Lin.
Diagnoses and provides treatment (both surgical and non-surgical) for diseases and disorders of the eye.