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There was a patch of mystery bulbs nearly a year ago when I was starting out (maybe daffodils, the bulbs were very small though) that never bloomed and I wanted to plant in that area - I cultivated them into the ground with other grasses and such, thinking they would just become like a green manure too. I made the patch into a nice little garden, then in fall chopped down the annuals and put them under the soil too. It was rather warm but there were snow days too, and I noticed once the snow melted there are little scattered bulb-leaves coming up and one even with a flower starting. February is our coldest and we should get snow. What should I do if anything to the plants? |
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I can tomorrow. |
Not the best pic but the flowering one isn't open enough to see any coloring yet, and that is a black raspberry stalk in the background for size reference. |
They could be snowdrops. The bud is out of focus but doesn't look like a daffodil. The do not appear to be the weedy Muscari or Ornithogalum. The flower will tell you unequivocally. You do not need to remove bulbs in order to grow annuals or perennials in the same bed. The bulbs will be over by the time the other flowers need the space. In fact I like to have bulbs everywhere in the garden under perennials, shrubs, trees, anything. |
I didn't know if the cold would ruin them. I planted a patch of bulbs next to them this season, but none look like them. I don't remember the bulbs I mixed in being all knobby like that either. |
Snowdrops, if that is what they are, will take any weather thrown at them. I don't know what that knobbly thing is but it isn't a snowdrop bulb, or in fact any sort of bulb. It could almost be a Jerusalem artichoke. |
It appears I went and pulled up the most diseased weird bulb of them. I went and got a few more and they look like bulbs. |
There was a patch of mystery bulbs nearly a year ago when I was starting out (maybe daffodils, the bulbs were very small though) that never bloomed and I wanted to plant in that area - I cultivated them into the ground with other grasses and such, thinking they would just become like a green manure too. It is rather difficult to kill a bulb that is planted, other than it maybe killing it by being too wet and rotting, or too dry and dying. When you cultivated the soil, you just mixed the overly crowded bulbs that could not bloom, around in the soil. By mixing them around, and getting them spread out, they had a chance to grow and thus make a few blooms this year. From the looks of the one with a bud, it looks like an early 'double' daff, possibly a historic like at the link below. There are numerous early double ones. Double daffodil buds typically are fatter as opposed to being longer and slimmer on singles. Sue |
Here is a link that might be useful: Double Daffodil Telamonius Plenus
I agree with chemocurl - they do look like daffodils. Especially now I can see the whole bulb. I was fooled by what I thought was the scale and decided they were smaller than daffs. I am still certain that the knobbly item you show is not a bulb at all, even a diseased one. p.s. I'm really pleased you didn't manage to kill them off! |
Cool, I'll let them be until they're done then find a better home for them (I noticed a bunch more popping up in the lawn, and one of the bulbs in the pic had recently divided). The knobby creepy thing did have bulb-leaves just like the others that looked healthy, but I damaged them trying to pull it out. It was only about 1" deep and looked the easiest to pull ..... maybe that's how it got weird from freezing? |
- Posted by johnsonm08 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 17, 13 at 8:22
The knobby thing looks like a violet. Mike |
The knobby thing looks like a violet. I agree, but it could be something else, either friend or foe. It for sure is not a bulb. It will be interesting to see what all emerges in your new bed this spring. Hopefully we can find out for sure what grows from the knobby looking thing. Did you replant it? Sue |
Other possibles for the knobby thing (and I agree with Mike on the violets option) are - Corydalis, Dicentra, Primula. |
I replanted them, but the mystery knobby thing did have two 'bulb-leaves' (is there a proper word for those?) that were about 3" long. Maybe I should replant it in a pot away from the bulbs. |
Could you post a picture of the leaves from the 'knobbly thing'? |
It looked no different than the ones in the picture. Maybe it was just close to a bulb and I dug it after pulling the leaves instead, though I kinda remember pulling the other bits of leaf away then washing it for the photo, it was caked in mud so I didn't see it was knobby at first. I didn't plant the other types mentioned so I do want to see what it grows into. I found another one - or two? when I went to find it to pot. It's in a sterile mix in the cold frame so I can watch it. |
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Hi all, I have some pampass grass that just gets trashed in heavy rain.... which we get a lot of on the west coast. Is there anyway to stake them effectively so that the stalks don't keep snapping?
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I've used a remesh 'shelf' to support large ornamental grasses. Take an appropriately sized section of remesh, and suspend it at each corner from 4 pieces of rebar, driven into the ground. Set it up about 2' over the clump of grass, after you've given the grass it's early spring haircut. The grass will grow up through the mesh, and be supported by it. It doesn't look very good until the grass grows, but eventually it almost disappears. |
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Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom Working paper for the Scientific Working Group meeting on Leprosy Research, convened by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, 26–28 February 2002 Full text source: Scientific Working Group, Report on Leprosy, 26–28 November 2002, Geneva, Swizterland, Copyright © World Health Organziation on behalf of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, 2003, http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/swg_leprosy.htm The decade between initiation of the Mycobacterium leprae genome project and its final publication [1] witnessed a progressive decline in interest in leprosy research. This was caused by the perception that multidrug therapy provided a sufficient solution to the clinical problems of leprosy, the fact that Mycobacterium tuberculosis presented a more tractable experimental system than M. leprae for exploitation of the emerging techniques of mycobacterial genetics [2], and disappointing results with the heat-killed M. leprae vaccine developed under the IMMLEP programme [3]. To take advantage of new opportunities arising from the genome sequence, there is a need to rebuild momentum in the leprosy research community. This can be achieved within a framework that combines research on the fundamental biology of leprosy alongside research that addresses practical aspects of leprosy control. Fundamental biology of leprosyStudy of the genetic make-up of M. leprae is an important component of the general investigation of evolution of human pathogens and is of particular relevance in the context of comparison with the closely related M. tuberculosis. Investigation of the dramatic neurological and immunological pathologies of leprosy provides a unique perspective that may increase understanding of normal human physiology. Evolution of microbial genomesThe explosion of information from microbial genome sequencing projects has had a major impact in the field of evolutionary biology [4]. There is an active interest in trying to understand how genetic exchange and genome reorganization have contributed to the evolution of different pathogenic strategies [5]. M. leprae provides an interesting example as an evolutionary snapshot of a genome in transition [1]. By comparison with M. tuberculosis, a quarter of the genome has already been deleted, and the large number of pseudogenes are thought to represent intermediates on the way to gene loss. M. leprae has undergone a process of adenine thymine enrichment that has been observed in several obligate pathogens [6]. This may reflect loss of DNA repair enzymes that are required for correction of spontaneous cytosine to uracil deamination. To pursue research in this area, there is a need to collect information about genetic variation amongst M. leprae isolates; experience with M. tuberculosis indicates that deletions and single nucleotide polymorphisms are likely to be particularly informative as evolutionary markers [7]. Strategies to approach this would include detailed analysis of chromosomal DNA from one or more additional isolates prepared by armadillo passage. Partial coverage by shotgun sequencing would be sufficient to identify candidate polymorphisms. This could be complemented by PCR-based analysis of target loci in clinical samples to determine the extent of strain diversity at a population level. In addition to fundamental information about pathogenic mechanisms, investigation of M. leprae in an evolutionary context may provide some indication of when it adapted to human pathogenesis [8], and may allow us to determine whether it is now on an inevitable pathway to extinction. An interesting aspect of such studies involves examination of M. leprae DNA preserved in archaeological samples [9]. This allows analysis of long-term changes in population structure, and could address the question of whether present day isolates of M. leprae differ from those that were prevalent in medieval Europe. Host-pathogen interactionsCellular microbiology - combining the tools of cell biology and microbiology - is at the forefront of current efforts to explore the host-pathogen interactions [10]. In addition to its direct application to understanding pathogenesis, this field has generated useful insights into the fundamental biology of signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization in mammalian cells. The neural predilection of M. leprae offers an opportunity for a novel perspective on the organization and physiology of human peripheral nerves, and this has been exploited in a recent series of papers implicating phenolic glycolipid in neurotropism [11]. There is considerable scope to extend these studies to investigate intracellular compartmentalization of M. leprae in Schwann cells and other cell types. It would be interesting to determine why M. leprae is found in multiple cell types during infection, for example, in contrast to the apparently restricted cell tropism of M. tuberculosis. A central component of research on host-pathogen interactions involves analysis of changes in pathogen gene expression associated with adaptation to an appropriate in vivo phenotype. The technical problems associated with direct analysis of in vivo phenotypes have been a central feature of leprosy research. Experience in isolating M. leprae from infected tissues and analysis of protein and lipid profiles may provide a useful model for parallel studies with other bacterial pathogens. Reciprocally, increased interest in the application of molecular approaches to histopathology may provide ways of examining leprosy lesions. Microarray-based whole genome expression profiling can be applied to characterization of the M. leprae transcriptome. This will depend on development of techniques for amplification of mycobacterial mRNA [12]. ImmunologyThere is considerable current interest in analysis of initial recognition of pathogens by innate immune mechanisms, and translation into signals that alert and direct the adaptive response. This is mediated in part by the family of toll-like receptors on macrophages and dendritic cells, and includes release of a series of proinflammatory cytokines [13]. M. leprae can accumulate in tissues to much higher levels than M. tuberculosis, and appears to present a less potent proinflammatory stimulus. Comparison of responses to the two pathogens, together with knowledge of surface components, may be useful in identifying molecular determinants regulating innate immune recognition. Understanding of inflammatory responses to M. leprae is of particular importance in the context of leprosy reactions. The specific absence of a Th1 response to M. leprae antigens in lepromatous leprosy represents a remarkable model for studying immune regulation. Evidence from analysis of leprosy lesions suggests that this may in part reflect polarization of the immune response towards a Th2 phenotype [14], but other mechanisms of tolerance remain to be investigated. It is not clear whether Th1 anergy is a predisposing factor for lepromatous disease, or is a subsequent consequence of prolonged exposure to antigen. There is a current renewal of interest amongst basic immunologists in understanding mechanisms of peripheral tolerance and the role of regulatory T cell subsets [15]; lepromatous leprosy would seem to provide an interesting challenge in this context. Findings from leprosy can be expected to generate insights into the less polarized immune changes underlying reactivation tuberculosis. While the immune response in infected humans should be the main target for research, experiments in genetically manipulated mouse strains may assist in dissecting fundamental aspects of immunity to M. leprae [16]. Host geneticsTwin studies demonstrate that there is an important genetic element in susceptibility to mycobacterial disease [17]. Considerable effort has been invested in searching for genetic determinants of susceptibility to tuberculosis in humans and in animal models. Few clearcut results have been obtained; it is likely that multiple loci contribute to susceptibility. For leprosy, the presence of well-established clinical phenotypes may offer an advantage in facilitating selection of tightly defined cohorts for genetic screens [18,19]. Supporting leprosy controlIn spite of the success of multidrug therapy over the last decade, there has been no obvious decline in the number of new cases of leprosy reported from high incidence countries [20]. This raises the question as to whether passive case finding and treatment is sufficient to interrupt leprosy transmission, or whether additional intervention tools are required. The M. leprae genome offers a range of research opportunities of direct relevance to current control strategies. Drugs and drug resistanceThe emergence of multidrug resistant organisms has had a major impact on tuberculosis control. Although dapsone resistance was widespread in the pre-MDT era, rifampicin resistance has not yet presented a major problem for leprosy control. Molecular genetic tests for mutations associated with rifampicin resistance provide a convenient surveillance tool to monitor this situation [21]. From a similar perspective, it would be of interest to identify the genetic basis of M. leprae resistance to other drugs. While it is unlikely that novel drugs will be developed specifically for treatment of leprosy, it is important to have the ability to test whether newly developed antibiotics have any potential application in improved leprosy treatment. Assays based on measurement of transcriptional activity, and perhaps the use of reporter phage constructs [22], provide possible avenues for exploitation of genetic tools in development of novel tests to assess the effects of drugs on M. leprae. TransmissionMonitoring transmission of M. leprae may provide a powerful tool for assessment of the impact of leprosy control strategies, since reduced transmission may precede a reduction in disease incidence by years or even decades. In principle, transmission patterns can be analysed by studying immune responses in infected individuals, or by analysing the population structure of the pathogen. Mycobacterial infection can be detected by antigen-specific immune responses manifest by delayed type hypersensitivity, T cell proliferation, or cytokine release. Antibody production represents an alternative readout, though this is likely to require presence of a higher concentration of antigen and may therefore be less sensitive. The most convenient current technologies involve measurement of interferon-γ production by exposure of peripheral blood T cells to synthetic peptide antigens. The readout involves detection of soluble cytokine by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), or enumeration of cytokine-producing T cells by ELISpot. In the tuberculosis field, considerable enthusiasm has been generated by an ELISpot assay based on the ESAT6 antigen [23]. Comparative genomics offers a powerful solution to the prolonged search for M. leprae-specific antigens for use in such an assay. Simple bioinformatic tools can be used to screen the limited panel of M. leprae-specific open reading frames to identify peptides that include appropriate major histocompatibility complex binding motifs and lack cross-reactive homologues [24]. Development of a specific test for M. leprae infection represents a very feasible short-term goal. Molecular epidemiology has taken on an important role in tuberculosis research, with the use of strain typing to confirm reactivation disease [25], to distinguish reinfection from relapse (26), and to estimate the prevalence of disease due to recent transmission [27]. When disease arises predominantly as a consequence of recent transmission, the resulting isolates tend to share the same genetic features. When disease results from reactivation of some earlier infection, isolates are more likely to be genetically diverse. It is anticipated that the molecular epidemiology of leprosy will follow a similar pattern and that strain typing would therefore help clarify the relative importance of recent transmission within an endemic community. Several polymorphisms have been described for strain typing of M. leprae [28–30]. The number of copies of a non-coding triplet repeat sequence shows considerable variation between clinical isolates (30). A diverse range of triplet repeat patterns was found in a panel of isolates obtained from the same single leprosy clinic at Hyderabad in India (SK Young, GM Taylor, unpublished), suggesting that this polymorphism may be useful for localized epidemiological mapping. Tools for the molecular epidemiology of leprosy will be generated by the fundamental research on evolutionary biology of M. leprae described above, and will open up exciting new opportunities for practical application. Nerve damageThe need for new tools to assist in prevention of nerve damage during leprosy treatment has consistently been viewed as a high priority in leprosy research. Basic research on neurotropism and on immunology clearly have potential relevance in this area, which is discussed in detail in an accompanying working paper. VaccinesThe search for an effective prophylactic vaccine provided a central theme for TDR-sponsored leprosy research in the 1980s. An important finding from the resulting clinical trials was that BCG consistently confers protection against leprosy, and that this protection is boosted by a second BCG vaccination [31]. Both of these findings appear to be in contrast to experiences with the use of BCG against tuberculosis, and the repeat BCG result tends to contradict the prevailing thought that BCG is ineffective in individuals with pre-existing mycobacterial immunity [32–33]. A second mycobacterium, the ICRC bacillus, was also shown to elicit a protective effect, in this case after delivery as a killed vaccine [3]. In terms of leprosy control, it would seem attractive to include repeat BCG (or an alternative vaccine) as part of any targeted strategy to reduce leprosy in high incidence areas. From a research perspective, it would be interesting to try and understand the nature of the immune response that is boosted by repeat BCG and that confers protection against M. leprae. SummaryLeprosy offers an interlinked series of research topics ranging from fundamental biology to practical application. To exploit these opportunities, there is a need to bring about some restoration of the extent and momentum of the leprosy research community. TDR can play a role in this by publicizing research opportunities, coordinating meetings of basic and applied scientists working on leprosy and related topics, and supplying seed money to encourage new investigators to take an interest in leprosy. CommentsThere are no comments about this article: Please login if you want to submit a comment. |
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A thriving community is generally defined by economic growth. Winona's strong entrepreneurial roots and economic success benefit the community as a whole. The entrepreneurial spirit and giving goes well beyond what businesses give themselves. Corporate leadership in Winona believes in supporting the community and by their example therefore support their employees' efforts to do the same. This means families giving financially as well as through corporate programs that offer volunteers and matching dollars for employees' community efforts. Successful entrepreneurs give back to the community which has helped to make them successful. One community organization alone stewarded gifts from individuals and local businesses and in 2006 gave back over $1.25 million to local charities and community initiatives. That's one organization alone. Imagine all the other organizations, gifts, in-kind resources and direct giving that are not recorded or captured in statistics. It boggles the mind.
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In the final weeks of the campaign, as we reported earlier today, Secretary of State Scott Gessler has continued his controversial anti-fraud campaign by tracking down individuals he believes are illegally registered to vote, because they are immigrants. Gessler sent them letters to 300 people asking them to verify their citizenship -- and yesterday, we reached one legal citizen who got the letter and is not happy about it, in part because he himself has done advocacy work around voter participation. Alan Kaplan
Alan Kaplan, 35, has been a citizen since 2001. But since a database of the Department of Homeland Security has him listed as an immigrant, he is one of 441 registered voters in Colorado that Gessler's office believes are illegally registered and would therefore be committing fraud if they voted on November 6. The letters are part of a larger effort from Gessler's office to eliminate fraud, which includes crosschecks with a federal database that critics fear is unreliable.
Kaplan, who lives in Fort Collins, also works in immigration advocacy and has been involved in efforts to encourage voter participation. He was the former communications director of Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and now does consulting for immigrant rights groups.Sam Levin Scott Gessler earlier this month.
"When I got this letter, it got me thinking...not about me per se, but about people like my grandmother, who I have to drag to vote every year," he says. "If she got a letter like this, it would not only stop her from voting this year, it would stop her from voting forever."
The letter can be seen in full below. It reads in part:
We have information indicating that you may not be a U. S. citizen and that you are registered to vote. In Colorado, only U.S. citizens can register to vote and vote. We are relying upon immigration information you previously gave to the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Revenue when you applied for or renewed your driver's license or state identification card. This information was later crosschecked with the United State Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Signed by Gessler, the letter goes on to list forms of identification that would suffice, including a naturalization certificate or U.S. birth certificate. The letter was sent on October 3, although the Secretary of State's office announced results this week of their crosscheck with the Department of Homeland Security. The names of the flagged individuals were sent to county clerks across the state, but it's uncertain at this time how many could actually be challenged or removed from voter rolls in the final week-and-a-half before the election.Please complete and return the Colorado Secretary of State's office the enclosed "Admission or Denial of Non-U.S. Citizen" return form with thirty (30) days of receipt of this letter. You may return the form by mail, fax, or email, or you may return the form in person to the office. To the extent requested on the return form, include a copy of any document that either shows you are not the person identified in this letter, that you are a U.S. citizen, or that your immigration status has otherwise changed.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which has been critical of Gessler connected us to Kaplan. And the ACLU is now working to help voters who received the letter but are citizens. And Kaplan's case seems to illustrate the argument of those who oppose Gessler's use of the database: It's not always up-to-date.
Kaplan is originally from Belarus, a part of the former Soviet Union. He tells us that he became a citizen in 2001 through what is called "derived citizenship," which means he was underage when his parents became citizens and thus could become a citizen himself through their actions.
When he went to get his driver's license at the DMV in 2010, he used his green card -- the identification he had at the time -- and decided to sign up to vote while he was there, which he was able to do, since he is a citizen and had been for many years.
But because he used a green card, he shows up in the federal immigration system as a non-citizen. He received a letter over the summer in Gessler's first round of notifications and again this month, after the Department of Homeland Security crosscheck.
The ACLU and other voter advocacy groups say this kind of story could be quite common, since there a wide range of scenarios in which the SAVE database would not have the most recent information. Given his background in immigration advocacy, Kaplan says it's obvious to him that there are situations where an immigrant may become a citizen but it wouldn't be recorded in SAVE or may take time to be updated.
"It's fraught with errors," he says.
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As an independent product consultant and wellness advocate for essential oils, I'm not allowed to say certain things about essential oils. No matter how truthful, factual, and scientific I say it. I'm not allowed, by the FDA, to tell you the wellness benefits of essential oils. But for some reason, Cheerios can tell you how beneficial their cereal is. The FDA's Warning Letter Database is full of 'warnings' to companies for some good reasons and some ludicrous reasons. You may recall the accusation they made against Diamond Walnuts for being 'unapproved drugs'. As a result of Diamond not removing their labeling, they ended up needing to dish out $2.6 million dollars to consumers as compensation. I buy Diamond brand walnuts and I didn't want a dime of that money. It doesn't seem fair at all, that a government agency can force a company to not indicate the proven health benefits of their foods or products. Today's question is, are essential oils a drug or an unapproved drug?
Though Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine by thy food', some agencies don't want people making those claims when selling foods and supplements. The Mayo Clinic can tell us the health benefits of food, but food and supplement suppliers can't. The difference is that the Mayo Clinic isn't selling those foods.
I've looked over my blog and I must be doing a pretty good job with how I present information, because I can't find an article that states the scientific facts that support essential oil benefits to your wellness routine while asking you to buy essential oils from me. In fact, I don't sell essential oils directly. I don't have a surplus of essential oils in my house, I don't offer receipts, I don't take payments, and I don't deliver products. If you ask me how you can get essential oils at a wholesale discount, I would explain that in a private conversation over the phone, Skype, or in person.
I do have essential oils in my healing hutch, my medicine cabinet, my kitchen, my laundry room, and in my bedroom. I even carry some in my purse. I just don't have a shelf stocked with bottles for resale.
I use essential oils as supplements, but I also found that essential oils could be used in other ways (for personal use of course). I don't administer essential oils to people as if it's a medicinal alternative, even though the National Library of Medicine has articles about essential oils being used as complimentary health care.
Are you practicing medicine illegally?
Did you know that if you direct people to use essential oils as a medicine, that you're essentially practicing medicine without a license? But the FDA says essential oils aren't a drug unless approved. And since they aren't an approved drug then you would be administering an unapproved drug without a license.
Wait, I thought essential oils aren't drugs. *scratches head*
But then again, doctors aren't allowed to administer essential oils either. Oh that's right, because essential oils aren't really drugs. Only doctors can give you drugs. In fact, they can even sell them to you, sort of. They can tell you what drugs you need to take and give you permission to buy them with a piece of paper called a prescription. They can even inform you of which OTC drugs to get at Walgreens or CVS. They can do this because they aren't selling OTC drugs to you and they don't profit from making those recommendations (well, they aren't supposed to anyway). That would be bribery and we all know doctors aren't supposed to accept bribery in order to recommend and use pharmaceutical products (like GlaxoSmithKline did).
Let's set the record straight, essential oils are not drugs. They're not even unapproved drugs, because they aren't drugs to begin with. Essential oils are a botanical and as such they are classified as supplements. If you happen to discover a gazillion ways essential oils can be used that go beyond being a supplement then that's your freedom to use them as you see fit. Some people use them on their skin, in homemade soaps and lotions, and even in homemade cleaning products. Baking soda is a food, but we all know the multiple benefits of using baking soda in other ways from toothpaste to beauty regimes. Sugar is also a food, but can also be used in other ways.
Let me make sure I understand correctly.
- Essential oils aren't drugs.
- Essential oils aren't unapproved drugs (see previous statement).
- Essential oils are a botanical.
- Essential oils are supplements.
- Essential oils can be used in other ways.
- Essential oils can be used as complimentary support for wellness.
- Essential oils are being studied by physicians and scientists.
- Essential oils can't be patented.
- Essential oils can be purchased without a prescription.
- Essential oils have been proven to be effective in numerous ways to benefit mankind.
- The National Cancer Institute can tell you how essential oils support cancer patients(government site).
- I'm not allowed to tell you essential oils can cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent any illness or disease.
- The National Library of Medicine lists ways essential oils are being tested to cure, treat, mitigate, and prevent illness and disease.
- I'm not allowed to say essential oils are therapeutic.
- Aromatherapy is an unregulated field.
- Aromatherapy is a permitted field.
- Aromatherapists use essential oils.
- The FDA doesn't approve essential oils.
- The FDA can disapprove how we market essential oils.
- The FDA doesn't approve supplements.
- The FDA can disapprove of how supplements are marketed.
- The FDA is limited on what they can approve of, but they can disapprove of anything they want.
These poor botanicals, they're wanted by millions of people world wide but don't make the government or pharmaceutical companies any money at all.
Essential oils have multiple uses, though are only legally permitted to be marketed as supplements (though they aren't approved).
Ok, I *think* I understand. Do you?
*These statements have not been evaluated or approved by the FDA, though they might disapprove of them anyway.
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The Struggle with Sweets
I'm still struggling a bit with sweets. Somehow they crept into my diet in a big way—bigger than I thought, now that I'm keeping a food journal. It seems like every day, every night, even though I'm planning and doing well with the meals and snacks, I still sneak something sweet into my food. At work the other day it was the chocolate-covered graham crackers that I have stashed in my cabinet. Many nights, it's my husband's ice cream. I've heard that sugar is addictive, but I'll be truthful: Cutting it out of my diet completely just is not going to work for me. However, the constant high-calorie, not-quite-healthy sugary stuff isn't working for me either.
So I decided to strategize. I noticed that around 3 or 4 p.m. each day (surprise), I crave something sweet at the office. And then about an hour after dinner, I want sweet again. But giving in to both is derailing me. I decided to find a sweet substitute that isn't a diet-killer to keep in my desk drawer at work. My choice: Werther's Original hard candies. Yes, I've heard a zillion times the advice to suck on a hard candy when you want something sweet because it takes a while to eat, and I've always dismissed it as blah, blah. But the thing is…this works for me. The Werther's are sweet and buttery and taste rich, plus they last forever, so I really can stop at one.
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Mobile devices provide professionals with the ability to collaborate on projects with co-workers and complete assignments from anywhere. Although using smartphones or tablets to conduct business offers employees multiple benefits, there has been a rise in the number of cybercriminals targeting mobile devices. People must take preventative measures to protect confidential information from hackers.
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Jiang said that the vulnerability cannot leak information from personal devices, but it can allow for hackers to send phishing attacks. Because the threat does not need users to agree to permissions, a cybercriminal can make it seem as if a contact from the victim's address book sent a message asking for personal information, according to the source.
A leading security firm said that 200 applications in the Google Play store are able to send SMS phishing messages if a hacker exploits the vulnerability, Computerworld reported. Google is currently working on a patch to fix this issue.
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