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David prays for the deliverance of Israel from their enemies. (1-5) He entreats God to carry on and complete their victories. (6-12)
Verses 1-5 David owns God's displeasure to be the cause of all the hardships he had undergone. And when God is turning his hand in our favour, it is good to remember our former troubles. In God's displeasure their troubles began, therefore in his favour their prosperity must begin. Those breaches and divisions which the folly and corruption of man make, nothing but the wisdom and grace of God can repair, by pouring out a spirit of love and peace, by which only a kingdom is saved from ruin. The anger of God against sin, is the only cause of all misery, private or public, that has been, is, or shall be. In all these cases there is no remedy, but by returning to the Lord with repentance, faith, and prayer; beseeching him to return to us. Christ, the Son of David, is given for a banner to those that fear God; in him they are gathered together in one, and take courage. In his name and strength they wage war with the powers of darkness.
Verses 6-12 If Christ be ours, all things, one way or another, shall be for our eternal good. The man who is a new creature in Christ, may rejoice in all the precious promises God has spoken in his holiness. His present privileges, and the sanctifying influences of the Spirit, are sure earnests of heavenly glory. David rejoices in conquering the neighbouring nations, which had been enemies to Israel. The Israel of God are through Christ more than conquerors. Though sometimes they think that the Lord has cast them off, yet he will bring them into the strong city at last. Faith in the promise will assure us that it is our Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom: But we are not yet made complete conquerors, and no true believer will abuse these truths to indulge sloth, or vain confidence. Hope in God is the best principle of true courage, for what need those fear who have God on their side? All our victories are from him, and while those who willingly submit to our anointed King shall share his glories, all his foes shall be put under his feet.
Psalms 60:1-12 . Shushan-eduth--Lily of testimony. The lily is an emblem of beauty As a description of the Psalm, those terms combined may denote a beautiful poem, witnessing--that is, for God's faithfulness as evinced in the victories referred to in the history cited. Aram-naharaim--Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the river (Euphrates) ( 2 Samuel 10:16 ). Aram-zobah--Syria of Zobah ( 2 Samuel 10:6 ), to whose king the king of the former was tributary. The war with Edom, by Joab and Abishai ( 2 Chronicles 18:12 2 Chronicles 18:25 ), occurred about the same time. Probably, while doubts and fears alternately prevailed respecting the issue of these wars, the writer composed this Psalm, in which he depicts, in the language of God's people, their sorrows under former disasters, offers prayer in present straits, and rejoices in confident hope of triumph by God's aid.
1-3. allude to disasters.
cast . . . off--in scorn ( Psalms 43:2 , 44:9 ).
scattered--broken our strength (compare 2 Samuel 5:20 ).
Oh, turn thyself--or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions ( Psalms 46:2 Psalms 46:3 ).
3. drink . . . wine of astonishment--literally, "of staggering"--that is, made us weak (compare Psalms 75:8 , Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:22 ).
4, 5. Yet to God's banner they will rally, and pray that, led and sustained by His power (right hand, Psalms 17:7 , 20:6 ), they may be safe.
5. hear me--or, "hear us."
6-10. God hath spoken in--or, "by."
his holiness--( Psalms 89:35 , Amos 4:2 ), on the pledge of His attributes ( Psalms 22:3 , 30:4 ). Taking courage from God's promise to give them possession ( Exodus 23:31 , Deuteronomy 11:24 ) (and perhaps renewed to him by special revelation), with triumphant joy he describes the conquest as already made.
Shechem, and . . . Succoth--as widely separated points, and--
7. Gilead . . . and Manasseh--as large districts, east and west of Jordan, represent the whole land.
divide . . . and mete out--means to have entire control over.
Ephraim--denotes the military ( Deuteronomy 33:17 ); and--
Judah--(the lawgiver, Genesis 49:10 ), the civil power. Foreign nations are then presented as subdued.
8. Moab--is a my washpot--the most ordinary vessel.
over--or, "at"
Edom--(as a slave) he casts his shoe.
Philistia, triumph, &c.--or, rather, "shout."
for me--acknowledges subjection (compare Psalms 108:9 , "over Philistia will I triumph").
9, 10. He feels assured that, though once angry, God is now ready to favor His people.
who will lead me-- or, who has led me, as if the work were now begun.
10. Wilt not thou?--or, "Is it not Thou?"
11, 12. Hence he closes with a prayer for success, and an assurance of a hearing.


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The link is still there! On the right hand side under the donate button and above the Tomgeeks button there are six Rainbow Buttons of Wonder. The yellow one is for the forum. It's a little difficult to spot if you don't know where it is :/
...I spent a good 15 minutes looking for the forum button before going to Google and finding the forums in that roundabout fashion. -_-
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Today I finally give in after 5 years and go to the intro section of the forums out of sheer curiosity to see what Asa dubs me as. Curse you, naturally insatiable curiosity!
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Today I forgot to go to the weekly meeting for my school's newspaper. This is the second week in a row. It counts as a class. Sunday I forgot that I had a small online quiz due for one of my psychology classes--even though we have these quizzes due at the beginning of every chapter.
How do I forget that I have a class two weeks in a row?
It is a matter of time until I forgot something really important, like work or a major project. ><;;;
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Nu do you have a calendar or a datebook? Or maybe you can set yourself reminders on your phone?
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Last week I had my interview, I don't really know how it went. It was an all day assesment so by the time the one on one interviews came around I don't think I was at my best. Oh well, *fingers crossed*
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Nem: Are you sure coffee makes you unfocused?
Well, it's taken me four days just to get back to you, so that should give you some idea of my laser-like focus and ability to get stuff done of late. Just kinda flitting from thing to thing, writing stuff and then going, 'meh.' and deleting it. *shruggle* Most of my stuff gets written in blocks, I'll tend to have a few documents on the go at any one time. So they're coherent, but you shouldn't take that to mean I just sat there in one go and rolled them out like that.
You can generally see the sections where I've come back to something from little bits where I've come across a sentence or paragraph and retyped part of it because I'm reading it in a different direction than I wrote it and haven't reached some qualifier yet that needs to be in there.
Heck, I got distracted from arguing with someone over whether the way a girl dresses makes her more likely to .... well, you can fill in the rest of that for yourself.... and spent a reasonable portion of time writing a fairly lengthy essay on Will Wheaton and why, although he has many excellent qualities, sometimes he just comes out with this really polarising stuff such that I can totally see why some people don't like him (though of course there are reasons to dislike most people, and on balance it's not like he's a bad person.) Most recently there was this little gem:
I suppose I could make [attending conventions and signings] less mentally taxing if I just sat there and didnt make an effort to engage people or treat them like human beings (and there are some folks who do exactly that), but thats not how I roll, and I will stop attending conventions before I become That Guy. That Guy has no perspective, no humility, no gratitude, and while Ive met him a few times (there are a few people who act like fans at conventions are simply meatbags attached to wallets) I wont ever be him.
And I wouldnt have it any other way. Because I was a fan at conventions long before I was a special guest, I know what its like to be on that side of the table, and its important to me to treat people the way I want to be treated.
Which, though I doubt he means it that way, is a very mean thing to say that about those of us who are occasionally admired and don't want the attention, and he's no right to say it.... For reasons that are somewhat complex to explain:
Many people have this sort of personality: they think their life is incredibly interesting. That you should be honoured that they want to share their time with you. And worse: They often think that you think they same way about yourself.
That's fine if:
1) They have deep interests in things to share (i.e. they actually /are/ among the more interesting people in the world.)
2) You're the sort of person who finds emotionally charged situations innately rewarding.
3) They're actually right in the latter assumption about how interesting you think you are.
In those cases, you're both getting something out of it. However, two of those are assumptions about what sort of person you are. If you're not that sort of person, and assumption 1 doesn't hold, then the attention of someone really interested in you can be terrifying and/or draining. They seem to want to offload all their emotions onto you and pry into your private life. So, you end up sitting, (or standing,) there feeling like crap because you have no idea how to respond constructively to any of it and don't particularly want to share anything about yourself with them.
I remember saving a girl from a spot of bother when I was younger - I ended up actively avoiding her afterwards until I no-longer lived in the area. Meaning something significant to people can be very scary. I don't think just because she liked something I'd done I owed it to her to be some sort of social prostitute. Not that I think that was her end of the thing either.
Fans honestly seem to expect their heroes to be flattered, and feel offended by the suggestion, however well founded, that they are not interesting people. Some actors are flattered and that's fine. But I can see both perspectives, and I can totally understand why an artist would feel that they'd given something and that the consequence of giving something shouldn't be that you owe more. Admittedly this no-longer seems to be a theory that banks and government subscribe to but it seems the normal understanding of giving.
There are some relationships that add to both parties. Many people who dislike attention are happy to talk at great length about their interests with others who have similar interests. There are other relationships that are parasitic. Would you want someone to listen to you and smile at you just because they owed it, as a duty, rather than because they were honestly interested? If you think that way, then you're a parasite. And whether someone actually owes it to you or not I don't much care, there's something ugly inside you in treating people who do things for you as little more than unwilling social tools .
Where does it come from? There's a question. I suspect it's an expressing of insecurity arising out of a society that emphasises egoism rather than rewarding development and maturity.
There's often a certain arrogance that goes into making an honest attempt at creation. The belief that you can make something beautiful, that it's
doing. And in a way that makes learning to create hard. You get into art because you have an appreciation for beauty, be that efficient systems, a desire for things to make sense, or just for visual aesthetics, but what you create is initially ugly.
People need something to get through that, and there are many potential ways - to mention but a few: the fascination with a process of continual refinement, finding beauty in smaller thing or discovery, pride in self-improvement, or to be really goal driven. However, many of the positive routes to self-development can be difficult to come by in a world focused on the idea of winning. Attainment is typically promoted to people along with a fragile doctrine of egoism; unjustified self-worth out of all proportion to their achievements and maturity. This seems likely to be damaging both in terms of motivation and in terms of self-worth.
An obsession with heroes and actors and the like may be to some extent a function of that. To be affirmed by someone you admire is a massive motivation to admire someone who you think is likely to affirm you, and seems in many ways a substitute for a sense of self-respect founded in personal achievement.
I've no hard data directly on that point, but the idea seems to agree with the fact that areas of the world that are more likely to promote hero-worship tend to be those areas of the world that have massively overblown success aesthetics coupled with horribly inefficient/restrictive criteria for that success. (Japan, America, etc.) and most of the research on attainment I've seen backs me up on the idea that the best way to encourage attainment is via a process of rewarding people for improvements rather than trying to get them to buy into a winner image.
Of course that's not to say that having heroes is always bad, for some people the strategy works. They're inspired by their heroes to pursue some line of work, just as many of us are inspired by technological or artistic accomplishments. But it seems to create more losers than winners as compared to strategies that reward effort immediately rather than focusing on the goal. And egoism is highly destructive when you look at small groups with high relative social value like footballers in high-school groups in small towns....
It is to say, however, that one should maintain a sense of perspective: that people you admire are still people, and people like different things, and maybe you should consider what it would be like if people wouldn't leave you alone. Because a lot of people talk about owing but not very many people talk about what it's like to give beyond some nebulous claim that it gives the giver something (by implication worthwhile, which is really just a way of the audience praising themselves again when you think about it) - and I think secretly many of the people talking about owing think that the attention is something enjoyable; that they think they'd like to mean a lot to others. So for them, it's not really something owed, it's not a cost in the same sense that it would be for others.
I've had this reply open all day flitting in and out of it while other things have been going on and I've just done it
>_< And it's not even like I'm strongly attached to that many of the assumptions/ideas in there. It's not even particularly well written as an argument. You can see flaws easily enough. That to an extent people are buying your attention. Though equally you can turn around there and say well clearly they're not because they're handing over the money and not getting it.
Personally I think the buying it argument is a weak one to make but really you should have that sort of thing in there if you can see a move ahead of time.
But yeah, I just can't manage to sit down and get stuff done of late.
Today I read a bunch of stuff, wrote nothing particularly worthwhile, and went to karate.
Today I think I need a break. The other folks are going up to Scotland for a week or so soon. It'll be nice to be shot of them for a while honestly.
Ah well.
Today I learned that the UK may be getting a new nuclear power station. Which is all to the good, we're all royally boned if nuclear power doesn't get a kick in the arse.
Today I notice my language is slipping. Nuclear power seems one of the more viable long term .... Yeah. Whoever runs the PR department of Nem's brain needs firing so we can hire someone a little less blunt.
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We stroll along the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers.
- Issa
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I've dusted off my planner that I got at the beginning of the year, and I am going to put in a weekly alarm right on my phone right now.
Today I got one of those "hey we're offering a cool class next semester you should take it" e-mails from my school. I skimmed it and then had to stop and re-read it because I couldn't quite believe it. It's a class about Rainforest conservation, which is something I've always been interested in. More than that, it's a travel course, and the class will be going to Nicaragua over winter break.
I went to Nicaragua in 2005 (right, actually, before I joined the forum. Hmm, time does fly), and ever since then I have been itching for an excuse to go back. Looks like I finally have one. ^________________^
Today I hope everything works out and that they'll let me take the class and that there's enough interest that I can go. Sigh. ><
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Will you have to pay for the trip?
Nem: I didn't read through your whole post because I don't have the mental capacity right now to process that much text (I'm sure you can sympathize). However, on first blush it looks like a standard extrovert's misconception of an introvert, with the worst negative spin put on it.
Granted, there are selfish people in the world who treat customers/fans ans waking wallets, but that's not everyone.
Yesterday I cleaned for Pesach. Those of you not Jewish possibly don't know what this means. Also, my room is tiny - just big enough for a queen bed, desk, bookshelf, and closet, with 'hallways' between.
Behold the following facebook conversation:
Me: Pesach cleaned today! ^_^ My main room is spotless-ish and pesachdic. Tomorrow: The Kitchen.
Brother: that took you a whole day?
Me: Well first I had to sell my chametz [leavened grain-based products], then I had to sort all the papers piled up on the desk, then I wiped down all the horizontal surfaces, then I took a break to make french toast with a friend. Then I had to sort laundry, sweep the floor, mop, and wipe down the furniture outside. Then I sat down for an hour or so. Now I'm off to a chavruta, to learn and do laundry. Is that productive enough for you?
Oh yeah, and I also took time to finish a coat repair.
Look look look! I was productive! If I can do it,
can do it. ^_^ Pictures forthcoming.
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Today, I made it to my first class. Gonna go the next. Go me.
Today I'm trying to solidify a topic for my Constitutional Law class. I really wanna write on immigration and somehow tie that into the Supreme Court, cause well, the paper has to deal with the Supreme Court in some way.... so far no such luck... I am here. gah. I am also very unfocused right meow.
Today I discovered that in about 3 months I will be around the world in another country! The only small comforting factor is that I can already somewhat speak the language... so yay?
Today my friend told me to look up a site about couch surfing and I've started to look into... dunno how much I trust this...
I can't remember....oh *le sigh*
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Today was what feels like the worst day I've had in years.
Today I'm going ignore all of the papers I need to write and curl up and watch bad tv, instead.
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Oh nu', *hugs*
@ Asa: Yay for getting stuff done-ness. I do sympathise on the mental resources front. Really it's not worth the reading anyway ^^;
Today the parents have gone off to Scotland for a few days. You forget how much of a strain having other people around can be sometimes. A sort of subconscious pull on you all the time.
Find yourself whistling as you walk up the stairs all of a sudden. Singing. The sort of stuff you couldn't really get away with when you're around other people - at least not without tiresome comment.
The lights of the router twinkle merrily. The laptop hums. There's no-one else around ^_^
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Gazing at flowers.
- Issa
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Hugs for Nu. I hope crappy TV and ice cream help. Sometimes you just need a day off *hug*.
Today the demolition of the East Side gallery began at 5:30am accompanied by an army of police officers in case of protesters. I have yet to find any official statement on the matter, but I'd like to call some attention to it.
The East Side Gallery is so much more than some pretty graffiti on a wall. It's a symbol of peace. Something beautiful and moving created from something horrific by artists from around the world and from people who came to bear witness to one of the most important historical monuments of the last century. I had such faith in Berlin. I had faith that it was a city which wanted to preserve its past, no matter how distasteful, as a mark of respect and a way of showing how far they have come. Berlin was brave, bearing her scars to tell the rest of the world 'never again'.
It seems history can be bought.
an article covering the removal of the wall this morning.
He who does not eat cheese will go mad. ~ French proverb.
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Today did a bit more karate.
"You're still thinking of me as your friend." Said one of the older students.
And he was right.
There's an incredible reluctance to hit people. To take the safeties off and just go for the throat. You've got to feel... confident in the other person's ability that if you go there - even if you retain a degree of control so that you know the fight's not going to go further than you've agreed - they're not going to get really messed up.
I can flick the switch but ... I don't know. I've been losing some of my edge for a while now I think. I'm very fast when I want to be. To a degree where there aren't that many people who it's fair to go all the way with - and when you don't do it for a bit your progress can become a little weirdly non-symmetrical. There's stuff you can do that you haven't really worked up to speed yet.
It's a weird thing to see in yourself.
Like the man said, "When we bow, you're not my friend."
I've missed being able to just ... it's the weirdest feeling when you're actually coiling everything in and then unleashing it at someone. Personally I imagine that if lightning bolts were people that's what they'd feel like. And you can see why people used to build a sort of mysticism around it.
Eh, maybe you've got to do it to know what I'm talking about. *shrug*
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Thank you for the well-wishes, all. Things are . . . better? Things are better.
Most of the bad happened to a friend of mine, and I've been fretting and worrying and trying to keep her head above water all week. That hasn't cleared up, but I think we're managing better.
On the bright side:
Today I got assigned to cover
stories for the environmental center, and at some point--over the weekend, I think?--they sent me an e-mail saying they'd like to keep me on after I graduate.
Today or yesterday I finally managed to set up an interview for my internship. Fingers crossed.
However, the high point of my week so far is that I successfully knitted a sock. Its mate is in the works.
I try to have priorities for happiness but it doesn't always work out the way it should.
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Makes sense to me. Your biggest sense of accomplishment comes from something you physically accomplished all on your own, and you can see immediate results.
Pesach. Indulgence food: meat annd potatoes, and butter on matza. Mostly the butter; I don't eat that during the year.
Yesterday I went to an art fair, and it was the perfect example of all's well that ends well. In the morning I woke up late and scraped paint of my door because I forgot I was planning to meet a friend for the bus ride to the fair. By the time I noticed, it was ten minutes before departure, and I was sweaty and covered in paint fragments. Turned out she was running late, so I had plenty of time to shower. The fair was nice, I bought a couple of things including a big, slightly-damaged decoupage painting for heavy discount. At the end of the day I went to the bus stop and pulled out my wallet to prep the fare (I usually wait til I'm on the bus, but a friend told me it's better to be prepared). The bus came and I ran to catch it, and when I got on the bus I didn't have enough money out, so I reached for my wallet to get more... and it wasn't there. I immediately panicked and made the driver stop so I could get out and walk back to the stop to look for it. As soon as he drove off I realized that I might have dropped it on the steps of the bus instead, and I hadn't looked! Panic, panic, panic. Walk, walk, walk along the shoulder of the highway with an awkwardly sized canvas, panicked call to a friend for advice. Finally I got back to the bus stop, and my wallet was lying innocently on the road, directly in front of the where the bus door had been.
Until I got to the station, the day had been great. During m impromptu hike, the entire day soured utterly. When I picked up my wallet, the day lightened again. So I had a horrible fifteen minutes, but all's well that ends well. Also, I met a woman who knows an old friend of mine.
Today the clocks jumped forward, so I got an extra hour of sleep. Also, first watermelon of the season. Yum! And beautiful weather.
Shabbat shalom, all!
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- 8 ounces green beans, trimmed
- 8 ounces orzo (1 1/4 cups)
- 2/3 cup (packed) chopped fresh dill
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 cups 1/3-inch cubes unpeeled English hothouse cucumber (about 8 ounces)
- 3/4 cup diced fresh fennel bulb
Cook green beans in large saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, about 5 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer beans to plate. Add orzo to same boiling water. Cook until tender, stirring occasionally; drain.
Blend dill, oil, vinegar, and lemon juice in mini processor until almost smooth. Season dressing with salt and pepper.
Cut beans crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces. Place in large bowl. Add orzo, cucumber, and fennel; mix in dressing. Season salad to taste with salt and pepper.
One serving contains the following: Calories (kcal) 243.58; % Calories from Fat 36.7; Fat (g) 9.93; Saturated Fat (g) 1.48; Cholesterol (mg) 0.00; Carbohydrates (g) 33.44; Dietary Fiber (g) 3.10; Total Sugars (g) 3.80; Net Carbs (g) 30.34; Protein (g) 6.00
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type: Quick & Easy, Pasta/Noodle Dish, Salad
main ingredients: Dill, Cucumber, Fennel, Pasta, Green Bean
cuisine: Italian American
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Pneumococcus is a bacteria that can cause serious illness in children, including pneumonia, infection in the blood, and meningitis (infection in the tissues around the brain and spinal cord). In young children, pneumococcal infection often causes otitis media (middle ear infection), which can very rarely lead to more serious complications, although fairly rare such as meningitis.
The best way to prevent pneumococcal disease is by getting vaccinated. The pneumococcal vaccine is a shot that helps protect against some of the many types of pneumococcal bacteria. There are currently 2 types of vaccines:
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13 or Prevnar). This vaccine protects against the 13 types of pneumococcal that causes severe illness in children. It can also help prevent some ear infections. PCV13 protects children by preparing their bodies to fight the bacteria. Adults with certain medical conditions can also get this vaccine.
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23). This vaccine protects against 23 types of bacteria. It's recommended for all adults 65 years and older and for anyone who is 2 years and older at high risk for disease. It is also recommended for adults 19 through 64 years of age who smoke or have asthma.
It is also important to get a flu shot every year because having flu increases your risk of getting pneumococcal disease.
PCV13 can be given along with other childhood vaccines and is recommended at the following ages:
2 months
4 months
6 months
12 to 15 months
Children who are moderately to severely sick or have a fever should wait until they are well to receive the vaccine. Children who have had a prior serious reaction to any type of pneumococcal vaccine should not receive PCV13. According to the CDC, healthy children 24 months through 59 months of age who are unvaccinated or have not completed the PCV13 series should get one dose. It is recommended that a single dose of PCV13 be given to children 6 through 18 years of age with certain medical conditions (such as sickle cell disease, HIV or other immunocompromising condition, cochlear implant, or cerebrospinal fluid leaks), regardless of whether they have previously received a pneumococcal vaccine. Talk with your health care provider for more details.
A vaccine, like any medication, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. However, the most common reactions to PCV13 include the following:
Pain and redness at the location where shot was given
Muscle aches
An allergic reaction would most likely occur within a few minutes to a few hours of the shot. Signs of an allergic reaction may include difficulty breathing, wheezing, (squeaking sounds while breathing due to tight airways), weakness, fast heartbeat, hives, and paleness. Report these or any other unusual signs immediately to your child's health care provider.
Give your child an aspirin-free pain reliever, as directed by your child's health care provider.


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This 10-speed chain is an industry-first mountain-bike-specific chain, specifically optimized for 10-speed Dyna-Sys drive trains with mud-shedding, task-specific link plates.
This chain is lightweight and expensive. But I've broken at least 3 in the past year. Make sure you have a quick link when using this chain so you won't get stuck out in the woods. If you're cranking hard, I think the hollow pins just don't last that long. I'd recommend the XT if you want more reliability. Get the XTR if you want to save a little weight and add some bling.
I take good care of my drivetrain. It gets cleaned often and the chain gets white lightning about every 5 hours of use. This chain replaced an XT chain that was just worn. After about 150 miles of use, some links bind. None of the links where a master pin is inserted bind. The only fix is pulling out a pin and replacing it. It is a bad feeling to have a couple of links seize up when hammering up a hill. Skip, pop, bang. It doesn't shift as well as other chains I've used too. Bummer, normally Shimano stuff rocks.


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You can make a statement with these knots any day of the week or simply use them to look elegant and stylish during those special events where you really need to stand out. Either way, you'll practically be a forefather of men's fashion no matter which style you choose.
Ever notice how hard it is to find blacks bottoming for whites in interracial porn? With few exceptions, porn studios seem to think there is only one acceptable way to show interracial sex: The hyperaggressive African-American top and the submissive white bottom. Is gay porn racist?
There is no place any longer, either in the NFL or the nation at large, for the injustices and hypocrisies of prohibitionist marijuana policies. It's time for the NFL to be a leader and create a rational and science-based marijuana policy.
Certainly, the lack of variety in Hollywood is not the biggest problem in the world today, yet it is a serious issue and one that we can do something about. In the true U.S. tradition of protest we can boycott movies and shows that are discriminatory as a tactic to force change.
Ruth's designs have graced the silver screen for over 28 years. Recently, she had the pleasure of working on the 2014 Oscar-nominated film Selma that was directed by the incredible Ava DuVernay.
We should be concerned about the impact of Hollywood's continual whitewashing on the collective psychology of people of color and it should be of concern for any educated person who wants to have an accurate understanding of history.
True, social justice and political activism can help solve many of the continuous problems facing our community, but what about economic growth and stability to help heal our struggling neighborhoods?
The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling -- after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower. At age 47, he is facing a very long prison sentence. As a whistleblower, he has done a lot for us.
Driven by the drug war, the marijuana issue is continually debated in local, state, and federal jurisdictions about its illegality and wide-spread impact on the wider society as a whole.
Banks lived on Chicago's South Side. He often commuted to Cubs home games on the L train. He had no choice. Though he was the biggest name and biggest draw the Cubs had, he could not buy a home or rent an apartment in the neighborhood surrounding Wrigley Field.
For two decades, the Screen Actors Guild has been highlighting its members' best performances. The annual gala isn't as white as the 2015 Oscar nominees, but it's pretty close. Some say the lack of meaningful roles or developed character arcs -- especially for Asians, Latinos and African Americans -- contributed to their perpetual absence in the winners' circle. Others point to audiences' intolerance for non-white central characters. At the 2015 SAG awards, Viola Davis became the third actor of colour to ever take home the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Drama.
I was quite literally born into the Civil Rights Movement in 1959, as my mother and father were already deeply committed to changing the world for the better by simply getting married: a handsome Negro man to a strikingly beautiful, aristocratic, blue-eyed blonde.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's obsessive resentment toward the civil-rights movement in general, and Martin Luther King Jr. in particular, made President Richard Nixon's infamous "dirty tricks" look like child's play.
The national holiday celebrating Dr. King's birthday is over, but I hope we will heed and act on his 1967 declaration and work to win the first victory right here at home in the biggest economy on earth and end the shame of 14.7 million children being the poorest Americans by ending child poverty now.
In 1960 Ruby Bridges was one of six kids to integrate a public school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell commemorated the civil rights moment with a painting that graced the cover of Look Magazine in 1964.
As Islamic fundamentalists encroach on the basic liberties of people in Africa and the Arab world, we hear about it, but it's hard to put it into context and understand the magnitude of the situation. Leave it to veteran, Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako to boil a complicated social phenomena down to a simple allegorical tale.
No one who has ever come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to their family, particularly their parents, will ever forget that life-altering moment. Sometimes the connective thread will be cut; other times that bond will be deepened, enriched by this new reality.


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By shopping online with mySupermarket, you are able to compare ASDA prices to those in ASDA, Sainsbury's and Ocado and make sure you are getting the best deal. In addition, as you shop you can see the total cost of your trolley in all four supermarkets, enabling you to swap supermarkets with one click if you see that your trolley is not the cheapest at ASDA.
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To inject a bit more fun into your supermarket shopping, we have looked at some of the most popular trolley items and have come up with 5 inventive ways to use them – both in your cooking and in other ways. This Top Tips profile looks at a product which regularly tops the list of most popular weekly grocery items – Eggs! (Don't forget to compare ASDA prices or check out ASDA Offers to get the best price on Eggs this week).
Here are five inventive ways to use eggs:
Run out of beauty products? Head to the fridge and simply beat the egg whites of 1 egg to create your own home made facial treatment. Apply the egg whites as a mask and leave for 10 mins, then rinse with warm water and enjoy your skin's new fresh feeling. Egg whites are also good to reduce the puffiness under your eyes.
When heated, eggs are a great way to bind other ingredients together in your cooking –they are particularly useful with meatballs and flour mixtures.
If there is no glue in the house, egg whites serve as a handy alternative to glue for light paper and cardboard items.
Mixing 1 egg yolk with a tablespoon of olive oil and a cup of lukewarm water will create a simple but effective mask which will leave your hair shining. Leave the mixture on your hair for 5 mins and rinse.
Separate the egg whites and use a clean paintbrush to rub the mixture on leather shoes for a shining result.
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"Snorers are three times more likely to suffer a potentially fatal blood clot," the Daily Express has reported. The newspaper explains that researchers from Taiwan say this is the first study to prove that a link between sleep apnoea and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) exists.
Sleep apnoea is a particularly severe condition where sleep is disturbed by pauses in breathing as well as snoring. There are an estimated 3 million people in Britain who have sleep apnoea.
This seven-year study of more than 10,000 people - of whom about half had sleep apnoea - resulted in 40 cases of DVT. DVT is a serious but rare condition in which a blood clot forms in a vein - usually in the leg. The clot can break off and cause a life-threatening blockage in the lung, known as a pulmonary embolism.
Although the number of people developing a clot in this study was small (about 0.4%) the increased risk for people with sleep apnoea seems large when presented in relative terms (three times the risk). This presentation of the figures in the headlines could cause people to worry unduly.
There were 30 cases of DVT (0.53%) in the sleep apnoea (snoring) group and 10 (0.22 %) among the non-snorers after three to four years, which is an actual difference of 20 cases (0.31%). This means that if sleep apnoea was cured in 1,000 people then, "optimistically", about 3 cases of DVT could be prevented.
Limitations worth noting include:
- The study relied on administrative claims data recorded by physicians and non-clinical staff, which might make the diagnoses less accurate.
- Some personal information, including body mass index and smoking status, was not available, so the researchers were unable to fully adjust for these. Obesity is clearly linked to DVT and sleep apnoea and could have been an important confounder or alternative explanation for the effect seen.
"Sleep disordered breathing" and obstructive sleep apnoea are treatable conditions. Treating them is important as there are already several clear complications to having the condition, including:
- high blood pressure
- heart attacks
- strokes
Snorers (or partners of snorers) can find out more about sleep apnoea.
Summary analysis by Bazian. Edited by NHS Choices.


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Retired responder recalls shock of Dann shooting
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GLENCOE — "It just hits you between the eyes."
The news that children have been shot, again, is hard on anybody who's been there.
For John Fay, the memory goes rushing to the past, peeling back the never-fully-healed wound of May 20, 1988 when Laurie Dann shot one boy to death and wounded four other children at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka.'
"I was in the station when the tones rang out.
"Jump on the ambulance, a kid's been shot," said Fay, retired from the Glencoe Public Safety Department in 2010 as a deputy chief.
"When I got there, they handed me a kid who had been shot three times."
You never forget it, he said. Not first responders, and especially not parents. Not the survivors. Not him.
"I remember the weight of that child in my arms," he said. "The crying of the other kids.
"I don't think, with kids, you ever forget."
The little girl survived. So did another he worked on.
"I had just been to a class," he said. "They told us if you throw (a gunshot victim) on the affected side, it will hopefully keep the other side (the other lung) open.
"That's what we did. It worked."
In the wake of Friday's shooting in Connecticut, Fay, who teaches policing for a living now, said he knows some of what's coming.
"I talk to a lot of officers," he said. "Anytime something happens, it resurrects a lot of memories."
Sometimes, the tough days change a person for the better.
A trooper who has seen sudden death on the highways no longer gets upset by getting stuck in traffic, Fay said. He's a better man.
Other times, when you can't save the 18-month-old who got wrapped up in a dry-cleaning bag, it's almost too hard to live with.
Fay has never gotten over that one.
"A lot of rescuers go through a lot of stress," he said.
"We train to win, and when it doesn't happen, it's hard."
It will be hard, too, at the Sandy Hook School in Connecticut.
"The sense of insecurity that's instilled in that school, anywhere there's violent death, is very strong," Fay said. "Everyone is uneasy, so much more cautious."
May 20 changed everything not just on the North Shore, but in America.
"Laurie Dann really rocked the United States. It was the first time it breached a school.
"You realize that when you send your loved ones to school, you can't be sure they're coming back."


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Hurricane's shutdown of markets irks idled Chicago traders
BY DAVID ROEDER Business firstname.lastname@example.com October 29, 2012 6:08PM
CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 29: The Volatility Index (VIX) pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) sits deserted on October 29, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The CBOE and other U.S. financial exchanges were closed today and will remain closed Tuesday because of Hurricane Sandy. This will be the first two-day weather-related shutdown of the markets since 1888. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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For Chicago trading firms, Monday was a quasi-holiday. As traders on the East Coast stayed away from offices because of Hurricane Sandy's life-threatening barrage, financial markets here operated at a leisurely pace.
And some Chicago traders didn't care for it one bit. But they'll have to put up with it again Tuesday, as the storm has forced the closure of most financial markets, including all stock-related dealings, for a second day.
The New York Stock Exchange and the New York-based Nasdaq Stock Market said they expect to reopen Wednesday but would post further advisories based on damage done by the hurricane. The storm was expected to make landfall late Monday in southern New Jersey.
It was the first unplanned closing of the exchange since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the first weather-related closing since Hurricane Gloria threatened Manhattan in 1985.
The decision of the New York exchanges led the Chicago markets to follow suit. In Chicago, the financial markets deal in "derivatives," so-called because they are futures and options contracts derived from an underlying cash market.
In the case of stock, the NYSE is one such cash market for the Chicago Board Options Exchange, a business entirely based on equities. The situation is different at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, which deal in derivatives from several markets, including stock indexes.
The Merc and the CBOT, both owned by CME Group Inc., closed their daytime trading in stock indexes Monday and Tuesday. Their other markets, including sessions for crop and energy contracts, were open as usual.
Quantifying the financial impact here is difficult. Traders said it's impossible to calculate losses from absent opportunities.
A look at the exchanges' financial records shows a one-day closure costs them several million dollars. At the CBOE, the nation's busiest options exchange, daily volume has averaged 4 million contracts, with the exchange getting about 31.25 cents for each one. That works out to almost $1.26 million in foregone business for the CBOE.
At the CME markets, equity-based trading accounts for an average 2.4 million contracts a day, with the exchanges collecting about 68.5 cents for each one. The calculated daily loss comes to $1.64 million but extends beyond that, as the slower activity was registered in all its markets.
Around Chicago's financial hub on La Salle Street, some traders criticized the exchanges for shutting down entirely. They said computerized trading should have proceeded to serve investors and firms worldwide.
"In an age of electronic markets, it's a fair question to ask if they should have closed completely," said Christopher Hehmeyer, chief executive officer of HTG Capital Partners, a firm that trades for its own accounts and uses high-frequency computer programs. "These markets are supposed to be virtual."
A spokeswoman for Getco LLC, among the largest high-frequency trading firms in Chicago, also voiced displeasure with the closure. "Our sense is that it's more important for financial markets to be open," she said.
The closures eliminated business opportunities for trading firms, which still had to pay overhead. But the Chicagoans were speaking from a city that was dry and no worse than a blustery Monday.
NYSE spokesman Robert Rendine, watching the storm pelt his eighth-floor window in Manhattan, reacted angrily to the comments out of Chicago.
"That's the kind of criticism you get from people sitting in an armchair 800 miles away," he said.
Rendine said the exchange made its decision in consultation with regulators and other markets, including those in Chicago, during several conference calls. It was based not only on public safety, but on people's inability to get to work.
Other market pros in Chicago agreed with the closure and said its financial impact here, while large, will be fleeting.
Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of CME Group, said there's "always a debate" among exchanges about a shutdown. In the end, he said, "The decision is made on what we feel is best for the markets as a whole."
The CME kept nighttime computer trading in stock indexes open Sunday and Monday nights, as is its custom when stock markets are closed but functioning normally.
The hurricane also is having another impact on the futures business. An annual convention sponsored by the Futures Industry Association, which represents large trading firms, is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday at the Hilton Chicago hotel.
The association was telling people Monday the convention is still on, but with flight cancellations everywhere along the eastern seaboard, many people will be unable to get here or will be dealing with urgent worries at home.


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Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats: A Pocket Atlas (9783131546913)
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by Christina Matern
Skilfully integrating traditional concepts of Chinese medicine with clinical experience and modern scientific research, Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats brings together all current information in one convenient book. Its atlas-style format, highlighted by hundreds of full-color photographs and supporting text, makes it ideal as a quick, user-friendly reference in the clinic or training program.
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Auriculotherapy Seminars - The 2014 UK Weekend Workshops with Jim Chalmers
A brief history of Ear Acupuncture, Anatomy and Enervation of the Ear, Techniques to locate active points, Prioritisation of point selection, TCM integration... [more]
Master Tung Acupuncture with Philip Weeks (22nd/23rd January 2015)
Tung Acupuncture is well known for its quick and spontaneous results... [more]