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THURSDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also suffer from depression, according to a new study.
Researchers reviewed the findings of 57 studies that included more than 6,600 civilians and military personnel who suffered from PTSD and found that 52 percent of them also had symptoms of depression.
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that usually stems from a traumatic event, and its symptoms include avoidance behaviors and flashbacks to bad memories. In depressive disorders, people feel lingering and overwhelming sadness and hopelessness. Symptoms of depression can range from "feeling blue" to thoughts of suicide.
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In the war-ravaged African nation of Uganda — a deeply religious country — the concept of forgiveness "seems to be everywhere," said Daniel Philpott, associate professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. (Email: email@example.com)
Philpott recently returned from Uganda, where he is exploring the traditional indigenous practice of forgiveness as it is now being practiced among survivors of the two-decades-long civil war between the Lord's Resistance Army — consisting largely of abducted young boys — and the Ugandan government.
Philpott's ongoing study asks the question: "What role, if any, does forgiveness play in the context of war, in the wake of unspeakable atrocities?"
His project begins as the Uganda war has abated and major efforts are underway to reintegrate thousands of refugees and former child soldiers who had been abducted from their villages and forced to kill, reports Joan Fallon of Notre Dame.
The concept of forgiveness "doesn't have a lot of status in the international community, including the United Nations, human rights organizations, international lawyers, and diplomats," said Philpott, an expert on religion and global politics.
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"But [forgiveness] has played a role in a number of post-war regions. My hunch was that forgiveness is more commonly practiced than we know, and that it may be flying under the peacebuilding radar in some parts of the world."
Philpott's Uganda pilot project, funded by the Fetzer Institute, is the first step in what he hopes will be a multi-year research initiative on forgiveness in peacebuilding.
Philpott's interview subjects included Archbishop John Baptist Odama, leader of the Acholi Religious Leaders' Peace Initiative, whom Philpott first met at Notre Dame in 2008. Archbishop Odama has publicly encouraged Ugandans to forgive perpetrators of war crimes and to observe traditional rituals of reconciliation.
Other subjects included Anglican bishops and Muslim clergy, district government officials, leaders of local NGOs, and "ordinary people," including the mother of a girl abducted by the LRA from a Catholic girls school, who struggled for her daughter's release and for justice while also advocating forgiveness. "I want to see what the experience of forgiveness is among the war's victims," Philpott said.
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Philpott is the director of the Program on Religion, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His book Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press as part of the Kroc Institute's "Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding" series.
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I approached Julia Hoban's Willow with a bit of trepidation after reading on several blogs about the title character's struggle with cutting throughout the novel. I read so much YA fiction for my column and honestly sometimes it all starts to strike me as one long digression into disease of the week territory. You know the drill - anorexia, bulemia, bipolarism, depression, bullying, promiscuity, alcoholism, steroid use, drug abuse, prescription drug abuse, drug addiction and on and on and on (and on...). Honestly it all gets to be a bit much for me as a reviewer and I wasn't sure that I wanted to know why someone cuts. But I gave the book a shot and what I found was that Willow is not really about cutting at all - or only peripherally. Willow is really a book about grieving and it is so powerfully written, so intense and honest and smart and sensitive, that it damn near blew my mind. I loved it so much that I fired off a quick email to Julia and asked if she could answer a few questions for the SBBT at very nearly the last minute. I'm delighted that she took the time to talk about her book with me and I hope that our exchange piques your curiosity and you will seek her book out as well. It's really wonderful and I can't recommend it enough.
CM: Between Willow and David I don't know which one I feel worse for. This book is about some serious raw grief and how hard it is to handle grief (at least that is how I'm reading it) and more than anything - how you can not deny your grief, you have to express it and let it out. How hard was it to write about such incredibly intense feelings for this brother and sister? I'm sure you did some serious research for the cutting issue but what about how complicated the grief is in this story? What was your inspiration for writing on that aspect of it?
JH: The processing of grief, or rather the inability to correctly process grief is most certainly a major theme of WILLOW. I love that you read it that way rather than focusing on it as an "issue" book about cutting. Cutting was the vehicle I chose to express that theme. As with all maladaptive behaviors (I am making a rather sweeping statement here) cutting is an attempt to deal with feelings that would otherwise be intolerable. The cutter feels that he or she is about to be overwhelmed by some emotion, and in an effort to impose control, transmutes that psychic pain into physical pain. As I learned in my research, inflicting that kind of pain on oneself releases opiates, and becomes chemically addictive.
Now, as to whether or not it was hard to write about the grief in the story, well most of the book was about the containing of grief, the difficulty of expressing grief, and I am sorry to say it was all too easy for me to write about how to deal with such feelings in an inappropriate fashion! The really hard thing for me to express was when Willow does connect to her pain in a healthy way, when she allows herself to feel all the anguish that she has been attempting to stuff down through cutting. I think that to some degree most of us have difficulty dealing with overwhelming emotions in a correct manner, I know I certainly do, and that as much as anything else was my inspiration.
CM: Willow and Guy are, among other things, a couple of serious intellectuals. These are kids who think very deeply and have some great conversations about the world and living in it. I almost felt like Tristes Tropiques was a supporting character in the book! ha! How did you find this book, when did you first read it and did you always intend to include it in the plot?
JH: You have no idea how much I would love to impress you and say that I discovered Tristes Tropiques in third grade or something equally precocious, but my relationship with TT has its beginnings in less than inspiring circumstances! When I was nineteen I was fixed up on a blind date with a man who, unbeknownst to me, was forty eight. A charming age, but not one that normally compels the nineteen year old heart to beat faster. I met this man at his apartment, and I must confess I was most disconcerted when I saw that not only was he old enough to be my father, but short enough to be my infant. We had less than nothing to talk about, but he did have a copy of TT on his coffee table. Although I had never read it before, I certainly knew of Claude Levi- Strauss, and seized upon it as a lifeline. I owe Claude Levi Strauss a debt of gratitude. Without TT as a topic of conversation I don't know how I would have made it through the evening! Although the date was a disaster, I will always remember it fondly. The next day I bought Tristes, read it in one sitting, and it remains one of the most life changing books I've ever encountered.
Now strangely enough, when it came time to chose a book for Willow and Guy to bond over, I didn't think of Tristes Tropiques at all! I was having a hell of a time deciding what book to use. There were certain criteria that I had, and nothing really satisfied them. The book had to be about Anthropology. It had to be a classic. I had to assume that many in my audience would not be familiar with whatever I chose, BUT, that choice still had to resonate in some way, even to those who had never heard of whatever book I did use. At first I considered The Golden Bough. Certainly a classic, and an extraordinary book, but it just didn't feel right. I didn't think that it would really speak to people. I was stuck for days on this issue, and then it hit me. Tristes Tropiques. As you mention in your next question, the title means "Sad Tropics.†And yet, TT is the only book ever translated into English where the title wasn't translated. The publishers thought that the original was so evocative, that the alliteration was so poetic, that even if one had no more than high school French, one would immediately understand and connect with the title. No translation was necessary. Once I settled on TT everything just fell into place. Again as you mention below, there are a variety of levels in which WILLOW draws on themes in Tristes Tropiques, this was an incredibly fortuitous coincidence, and the day I decided that TT would be the book my characters would fall in love over, was one of the happiest of my writing life.
CM: I did a bit of reading on Tropiques and saw some themes that seemed to be in the plot - Willow mentions at one point that she feels like a tourist in her old friends' lives (which is why she is dodging Markie). Tropiques is about travel and the view of an anthropologist (and it's translated as "The Sad Tropics"!) so I know this wasn't a casual choice for you. It's almost as if Willow has become an observer of the life she will never have and views all of her classmates from the distant view of an anthropologist. (Or maybe I'm reading way too much into all this...please correct me if I'm wrong.) Do you think though that this is something we (as humans) get wrong about grief? We talk about finding closure and moving on but really, you need to mourn not only who you've lost but the whole life you would have had if that person (or persons in this case) was still alive. What do Willow & David (and their struggle to handle their grief) teach readers about moving on and how does Claude Levi-Straus tie into this?
JH: You are definitely not placing too much emphasis on the parallels between the themes of TT and the current circumstances of Willow's life. ( Although, you may be surprised to hear that while I consider TT to be a major character in WILLOW, the role I believe it plays is somewhat different than you may imagine.) Claude Levi Strauss is writing about a world that is about to be lost forever, and Willow's old world has been lost to her forever. She does tend to look at her classmates as an anthropologist might, and the line about her being a tourist in her old life was no casual throwaway…. Now, regarding grief, as you rightly say, we need to mourn not only the life that is lost, but the life we would have had with that person. That is something I had in my mind throughout the writing of WILLOW, and my feelings regarding that were really shaped, not by Tristes Tropiques, but by the beautiful play "I Never Sang For My Father,†by Robert Anderson. The play starts with this line: 'Death ends a life, but it doesn't end a relationship.†In many ways WILLOW is a book about relationships, and it is about four relationships specifically. The first of those relationships is between Willow and her dead parents. Willow (and David) must learn how they are going to be able to continue their bond with their parents, even though they are gone forever. This is a lesson that all of us must learn, and I do see this as something different than closure. It is a way of keeping the dead alive and vital in ones heart and mind. The second relationship in WILLOW is the fractured one between Willow and David. A large part of the book is Willow learning how to reconnect with her brother, how to mend that fracture, which will in turn help her to revive her relationship with her parents. What brings her back to David? What heals the rift between them? Her relationship with Guy, and her relationship with Guy develops because of their shared love of books. In fact I think of books, and the major characters relationships with books as one of the most important relationships in WILLOW. It is here that TT really comes into play. Willow and Guy fall in love discussing TT, which was her father's favorite book. The conversations the two of them have replace those that she once had with David. Willow further bonds with Guy when she buys him a book (and she does so only after failing to procure a book for her brother). And finally, it is David's discovery of a contraband copy of TT, one that Willow has stolen from their father's study to give to Guy, that breaks down the barriers between them, and enables them to start communicating again. In many ways, TT It is the glue that bonds everything and everybody together.
CM: I have to be honest - I often wonder when I read a book about a kid in peril like this (depressed or suicidal, etc.) I wonder if the books exist for readers who suffer from similar issues or for readers who have never felt this way. Its sort of the Lurlene McDaniels syndrome - a kid whose never had a serious illness likes to read about kids being all noble while they die of cancer. (I blame the Lifetime network and after school specials for this syndrome.) So tell me, if you don't cut for the same reasons as Willow (grief) would reading your book still be helpful? Is it a book that helps more a teen in Willow's situation or someone in Guy's or David's (the person who loves a teen in trouble)?
JH: That is certainly something only the reader can answer!! It would be truly presumptuous for me to say who would or would not be helped by WILLOW! I can tell you what I was hoping to get across, some things that I hoped readers would take away from the book…. I never thought of WILLOW as a book about cutting. I thought of it as a book about a character who was self destructive, as many of us are. And I wanted to take that character from a place of self harm to a place of healing. I very much hoped that readers would take that journey with Willow, and in doing so take a second look at their own damaging behaviors, whether they were cutting, issues with food, procrastinating or even something as seemingly innocent as watching too much television. There's another thing that I very much wanted teenage readers to take away from this book, something that was very important to me. Just as I wanted to take a character from a place of self harm to a place of healing, I wanted to take a character, a teenage character, who starts out by dealing with her sexuality in a very disturbing, irresponsible way, and learns to treat her sexual self in a correct manner (Disclaimer, I am not advocating for teen sex here!)
In the YA literature, there tend to be two models of sexuality. The first ends in tragedy: abortion, leaving school, throwing your baby in a dumpster, and the second is completely glamorous and consequence free, let's call it the Gossip Girl model. (Please don't get me wrong, I adore Gossip Girl, the accessories alone are simply drool worthy!) But there are almost no examples of two teenagers who are deeply in love, and who have sex with appropriate birth control. Now, when Guy first finds out that Willow is a cutter, she offers to sleep with him in an effort to secure his silence. When I talk to teens, I tell them that when she does this she is being no less self destructive than when she takes a razor to her flesh. Now fortunately Guy rejects this offer, however they do ultimately end up having sex. Right before this happens, Willow runs into an old school friend, with Guy in tow, the friend (Markie) asks Willow who Guy is. Willow's reply is, to my mind, one of the most important sentences in the book. She doesn't say that Guy is someone she met at the library, she doesn't say that he's someone from her new school, she says "He's someone that knows me, and someone that I know.â€
Robertson Davies said something rather beautiful about virginity. He said "Chastity is the body in the souls keeping.†I wanted my characters to be embodiments of that, I wanted Willow to go from attempting to make a disastrous sexual choice, to making a healthy and respectful one. Now, I was worried when I did this that I would come in for some flak, not everyone like the idea of teenagers having sex. However I can tell you that I have had some very moving letters from mom's who say that they want to save the book for when their daughters are old enough because they think it does (ultimately) offer an appropriate model of how to deal with ones sexuality. One mother said that my characters don't just have technical safe sex, but emotional safe sex as well, which is exactly what I was going for.
To be perfectly honest, not everyone reads the book this way. I have heard from some readers that they consider the sex and the love relationship to be a candy coated way of resolving some very deep issues. Their take away from the book is that I am saying, "Meet the perfect boyfriend, have sex, and poof! Your troubles are over.†This saddens me as this was not my message at all, and makes me feel that I have failed my readers. However this does lead rather neatly into your next question.
CM: How did you resist the need for a happy ending? Actually - the better question might be why did you resist it? Your ending serves the book (and the characters) perfectly and yet I know that it is rare to go for the hard ending, the not perfect ending, the one where the brother can't fix everything and the boyfriend is not a cure for what ails you and Willow is not transformed by her moments of truth and clarity. We are so accustomed to the happy ending - you sold the reader a hard one here and I'd love to know how you came to this conclusion and if anyone along the way (early readers/editors/etc.) thought you were making a wrong choice.
JH: Well first of all, thank you very much for that extraordinary compliment. I'm extremely pleased that that was your reaction to the ending. Now as to other people's reactions, I certainly never had anyone say it was a hard ending. As I mentioned above there have been some readers who think that the relationship between Willow and Guy wraps everything up too neatly. As to my own feelings about the ending, I neither see it as hard nor easy, but in fact literally spell it out. The last sentence of the book is "If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps, a happy beginning.â€
Look, if you're a member of the human race, chances are that at some point you're going to have the stuffing kicked out of you six ways from Sunday. The question isn't whether you're going to have your share of hard knocks, but how are you going to deal with whatever life hands you? Are you going to be thrown for a while like Willow, but ultimately come out on the other side? I'd like to quote from a UK review if I may: "The essential and uplifting message of WILLOW is that not every problem can be solved, but there is no bad situation that cannot be improved.†That's really what I wanted to get across.
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to talk about WILLOW. It's a real honor to explain some of the thoughts I had while writing the book, and ideas I was trying to express, and doubly so when the questions are so thoughtful and interesting!
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On April 25, 2014, SALC is hosting our 5th Annual Nearly Naked Mile! Students are invited to strip off and donate excess layers of clothing before the start of the race. Remember - bathing suit area(s) must be covered! Also, if Nearly Naked isn't your thing come in a fun costume! You must donate at least one piece of clothing to participate!
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Peace Corps service is the opportunity of a lifetime and offers two years of international experience immediately upon graduation. Join us at Eastern Connecticut State University to learn about Volunteer experiences, have your questions answered, and gain tips to guide you through the application process. Join us on Tuesday, October 29th at the Internship Fair to learn about what it's like to be a Volunteer including what Volunteers do, where they go, and the many benefits of Peace Corps service. Or apply now to begin your life-defining experience.
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Name: Edward Status: Other Grade: Other Location: TN Country: United States Date: November 2005
It has been stated that DNA is only found in white blood cells as opposed to red blood cells. If a person receives whole blood, which contains red cells, through a transfusion, is it possible that DNA from the doner will mix or combine with the recipient's DNA?
A followup question would be if a person receives a bone marrow transplant, is it possible that DNA from the doner will affect the DNA of the recipient? This effect being that the DNA would merge or one become dominate over the other.
A more simple question - Is it possible that the DNA of one person will mix or merge with the DNA of another person if a doner receives a whole blood transfusion or a bone marrow transplant? Since bone marrow produces blood cells, would the transplanted bone marrow produce cells with the DNA of the doner or produce cells with the DNA of the recipient?
No, there is no reasonable chance that DNA from blood transfusions or marrow donations will mix with host DNA. Cells don't readily exchange their DNA, except in the case of sexual reproduction. In order for such a mixture of DNA to occur, you have to achieve a fusion of cell nuclei in such a way that the nucleus and its cell remain intact and alive. That's a fairly difficult trick, and it requires a lot of very specialized cellular apparatus and behavior to pull it off. Somatic cells (those not involved in reproduction) don't ever go around fusing their nuclei; it's just not a part of their behavior.
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There are mutliple questions here, each of which would require quite a bit of explanation to respond completley. First off, reb blood cells as alluded to, have no nucleus and no DNA. They do have rna....which is a nuclear informational molecule. White blood cells do nave nuclei and a full compliment of chromosomes. Red blood cells have a life span of about 120 days. White cells have highly variable life spans once released from the bone marrow into the circulation...from hours to years. The subject is complicated by the nature of cells...in that they divide to form "daughter" cells. The original cell no longer is an entity. In transplantations of tissues, be they a transfusion or a marrow transplant or organ transplant the donor tissue if it does not come from the individual must meet certain compatability criteria prior to transplantation.
In peripheral blood....blood in the circulation, this is somehat routine since it is the first transplantation of human tissue to become routine. The donor cells in a blood transfusion...which is a transplant, to my knowledge do not generally remain detectable for long periods but simply die to be replaced by the recipient's own cells. This is not the case in bone marrow transplantsan where stem cells seed into the recipient's bone marrow to produce their cells indefinatley...if the recipient does not reject the transplant because of a lack of tissue compatability. There is also a chance that the donor cells will "reject the new home" and attack the recipients body. This is called a " graft verses host response." In any case, if the new marrow is successful in seeding the marrow, the recipient will typically have the donor's DNA in all the decendents of the transplanted cells. The dna from these cells does not generally "mix" with the DNA of the recipients cells. Nor does it replace the DNA of the cells in other tissues of the recipient.
No, no and no. When you get a packed cell transfusion (ie. RBC's) there are always white blood cells in there also. Packed cells are actually blood minus the plasma, or liquid part of the blood, not just RBC's. So, yes, the WBC's have the DNA because RBC's get rid of their nuclei before emerging from the bone marrow. Even if you do have someone else's blood in your body, it is only transient because the life span of one red blood cell is only 3 months. A transfusion is supposed to give someone enough blood to last until they can make their own. So while it is theoretically possible to have someone else's WBC DNA in a sample, those cells will eventually be eliminated from the body.
No, their DNA does not merge with yours.
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Crutcher, after all, was the roommate of the writer. It was his friend Terry Davis who, if life were a Hollywood comedy, was supposed to maintain top billing. Davis was first in print, and his "Vision Quest" still ranks in many readers' minds as the quintessential Spokane novel. It was even adapted into a middling success of a 1985 film that made the Lilac City look beautiful and introduced a somewhat grateful nation to the music video of Madonna singing "Crazy for You." All Crutcher did was write a little novel based on his experiences growing up in Cascade, Idaho. But that 1983 novel, "Running Loose," proved to be merely the start of what has been an impressive career. With the nine novels that followed – including "Deadline," from which he will read at Auntie's Bookstore on Sept. 17 – Crutcher became that rarest of successes: the secondary character who ends up sharing the spotlight. This is one reason why his 1991 story collection "Athletic Shorts" (HarperTeen, 208 pages, $6.99 paper) reigns as the September read of The Spokesman-Review Book Club. It's hardly the main reason, though. Fact is, "Athletic Shorts" is a deserving book even without the inspiring back story. Crutcher's strength as a writer always has been based on his ability to mine the material provided to him by his longtime day job. As a family counselor, he has worked with children haunted by the specter of abuse. His value comes from showing how while sometimes that abuse destroys you, other times it makes you stronger. And no matter how hard their lives become, Crutcher's characters typically display overly developed senses of humor. A good example in "Athletic Shorts" comes in the story "The Pin," which tells the story of a prep wrestler named Johnny Rivers whose talent for wordplay is matched only by his desire to wrestle his father. Johnny's baby brother may be a – cough, cough – "cereal killer," but his father is an abusive jerk. "Dad and I don't see eye to eye – to the extent that at times we see eye to black eye," Johnny says. As I wrote in my original review of "Athletic Shorts," pain, both emotional and physical, is the key that holds the book together. An overweight football player learns his essential worth in the story "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune." And one of Johnny Rivers' buddies figures out how to confront fear in "The Other Pin." Aside from pain, though, "Athletic Shorts" offers up a pantheon of characters that fans of Crutcher's fiction have come to know. One of the swimmers from his 1986 novel "Stotan!" shows up in the story "Goin' Fishin.' " And Louis Banks, the protagonist of "Running Loose," is the central figure of the story "In the Time I Get." As in the best of Crutcher's work, these half-dozen stories are told in the voices of actual kids, who can be as profane as they are smart. But, again, as I wrote in my 1991 review, "(A)s a writer whose specialty is portraying youthful struggles with all the other difficult challenges that life poses – especially morality, courage and parental pressures – Crutcher is as tuned into his subject as any author can be." Other reviewers have tended to agree. From Publishers Weekly: "In these six short stories, (Crutcher) and his athlete protagonists take on such weighty issues as racism, homophobia, sexism and the teenager's essential task of coming to terms with his parents. At the same time the author makes the world of sports compelling enough to engage even the most sedentary readers." School Library Journal: "The stereotype of jocks as insensitive dullards is challenged in stories that grapple with the big questions of life as well as with athletic prowess, told with good-natured aplomb and gritty honesty." But maybe the review that is most worth considering is this commentary posted online by Aaron Countryman, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Fairfield, Iowa: "I think this book 'Athletic Shorts' is a very good book because I'm into athletics. But 'Goin' Fishin' ' is a serious story that shows the problem that kids today are having with alcohol and the bad things that can happen when kids use alcohol. Chris Crutcher's description of the characters is great and you can get into the characters' thoughts and actually envision the peoples' lives." Let's leave the final word, though, to Crutcher himself. Commenting about "Running Loose" when it was first published 24 years ago, he gave as good an introduction to "Athletic Shorts" as one could want. "The core of that book is that life is a game," he said. "Relationships are games. And the job of life is to learn the rules. To learn how they work. … "It's a game. But it's a serious game. And if you don't learn the rules, you play it badly." Return to Book Club Home // Contact Dan Webster |


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Emo is a toy design concept which is developed from the value of psychology and physical level of capabilities in children on the category of infant and toddler.
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Diva Flow Yoga: Stretching on Silks, With a Side of Feminism
The Class: Diva Flow Yoga, a ladies-only yoga fusion class that ends with some upside-down acrobatics.
The Venue: The Sweatshop, 4200 Laguna St., Coral Gables. This boutique gym, steps from the Village at Merrick Park, largely functions as a private training facility, but hosts a number of weekly classes open to the public. You can attend classes a la carte, buy class cards, or buy various memberships that get you unlimited classes and gym access.
Duration and Schedule: An hour and 15 minutes, once a week on Saturdays starting at 9:30 a.m.
The Concept:
Instructor Sari Velar, a yoga practitioner for the past 15 years and an instructor for the past four, created this yoga/acrobatic fusion class in an effort to create a fitness environment a little less focused just on the exterior.
"I am the survivor of a long battle with an eating disorder and body image issues. With so much pressure on way we look, I thought it was high time to focus on the way we feel and what our amazingly strong bodies can do," says Velar. "I wanted to create a class that celebrates the female form and its abilities regardless of shape or size. Although I am a purist at heart when it comes to my own yoga practice, I thought I'd mix it up."
In other words, it's an an empowering take on the current "aerial yoga" rage, which takes the practice into the air with poses done on aerial silks -- you know, those long loops of fabric usually reserved for circus people. In this particular class, the first 45 minutes consist of a beginning/intermediate yoga flow, and the final 30 minutes focus on the silks.
The soundtrack does away with the usual Enya/Bjork snooze-fest of many yoga classes and instead goes for a more energizing, all-xx-chromosome playlist of greats like Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Beyonce.
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When you're the longest serving member in the history of the state legislature, certain perks come your way. Only two senators have a reserved parking spot, and R.C. Soles has a spacious office to go along with his spot. Despite the size, he still has to sift through nearly 300 letters and emails a day.
Keeping businesses afloat is important for all Americans, not just politicians. On Tuesday, in his personal conference room, Soles led an effort to modernize the Brooks Brothers plant in Sampson County.
"If we don't do it, the plant will likely have to be shut down and the plant will move to Malaysia," Soles said.
Soles serves on nine Senate committees. He typically attends three a day. They normally last about an hour, and afterward it's onto the next one.
But Soles has to stop for lunch. There's a members only dining room at the State Legislative Building. Despite his status, he still has to pay, but he does stake claim to the same corner table every afternoon.
After lunch, it's more committee work and more networking. It certainly makes for a long day at times, but that's how state government works.
"It's like watching sausage being made," Soles said. "It doesn't look good, but once it comes through it tastes good."
The negative side to being the Senator Majority Chairman, Soles has to stand on his feet a lot. Many wonder if Soles will he keep standing in order to run for another term?
"Let's put it this way, I'm actually campaigning every day, but you never know what's around the corner," Soles said. "Some people think I've been here long enough and to some extent I think I have to. At this point I'm running, but you always have the option of changing."
During his 21 terms in Raleigh, Soles has worked with eight different governors.


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Apple Nut Crisp
The following recipe is from "Stevia Sweet Recipes", by Jeffrey Goettemoeller. Health-conscious readers will find over 165 creative recipes which use the herb, Stevia. In addition to dozens of mouth-watering dessert suggestions, "Stevia Sweet Recipes" provides a tantalizing array of breakfast, main course, salad and side-dish recipes - all sugar-free! This is a traditional Missouri dessert for a family meal.
Serves 7
Ingredients |
5 cups sliced apples |
¼ to ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans |
¼ cup unsweetened coconut meal |
1 tsp. cinnamon |
¼ teaspoon NOW Real Food® Stevia Extract* |
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons rolled oats, lightly chopped in a blender. |
6 tablespoons vegetable oil |
¼ cup natural apple juice |
A dash of nutmeg |
½ cup barley flour |
- Peel apples; peeling not necessary if they are organic.
- In a lightly oiled 8 x 8 inch baking dish place apples, then sprinkle with juice, nutmeg, and ½ tsp. cinnamon; stir.
- In a bowl, mix flour, stevia, ½ tsp. cinnamon, and oats, then stir in oil, walnuts, and coconut meal and spoon over apple mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees in a preheated oven for 50 minutes or until apples are tender. To prevent over-browning, loosely cover with aluminum foil the last 15 minutes.
- Serve warm or chilled.
- Variations: Substitute whole wheat pastry flour for barley flour. For special events top with lemon ice cream.
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Rotisserie chicken and fries at a new Peruvian restaurant in Hicksville, Millennium Chicken. (March 2013) (Credit: Handout)
The dish on Long Island's restaurant and food scene.
Millennium Chicken, a Peruvian restaurant based in Valley Stream with an offshoot in Elmont, just opened its third location, this one in Hicksville. Owner Nury Burbon said the place has seating for 145, a full bar and table service. On the menu: a whole rotisserie-roasted chicken with rice and beans or fries and a salad ($13); chaufa de pollo, or chicken fried rice ($12); and arroz con camarones,...
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As I understand it, all elements heavier than He were formed in various supernova and other explosions of dying stars. If our solar system is about 4.6 billion years old, and the universe is about 15 billion years old, then that would mean that other stars would have lived and died within a distance that would allow their heavier elements to travel to our area of the universe, and thus be incorporated into our solar system. But it hardly seems like a long enough time, as at best only two generations of stars could roughly, have lived and died and spewed their elements to be incorporated when our sun and planets formed. It seems that even travelling at relativistic velocities, matter from other dying stars would only have a few billion years to travel, and thus must have been close to our location. I am not wording this well, but it just seems like there was not enough time for numerous stars to have lived and died to give us enough heavier elements to form the planets.
Thank you for your comment. I disagree; I think there was plenty of time.
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It always amazes me that people think that they understand and visualize great spans of time when there is probably no one who can conceptualize a million years, let alone a billion years. Ten billion years is a huge amount of time and obviously plenty for gravity to act on the heavy elements in developing solar systems. Here we are!
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Inbound marketing is all about positioning your company in the right place, at the right time. If you can make it into that context, your next task is to provide the right information to the people you're reaching.
Calls to action are a critical part of this inbound information process - in this post, we're going to talk about how you can create and display them on a Joomla site.
First, let's take a look at some examples of calls to action in action across the web (sorry, I can't help myself when it comes to puns)...
HubSpot uses CTAs in the right column of their blog:
Joomla.org has CTA buttons to encourage demos:
Master Inbound includes CTAs at the bottom of each blog post:
Even Walmart uses CTAs all over their homepage:
As you can see, CTAs are utilized in diverse contxts across the internet and are not necessarily exclusive to Inbound. The distinction between general Call to Action usage and Inbound usage is all about relevancy.
On an Inbound friendly Joomla site, your CTAs will be hyper-relevant to the environment they're displayed in. These Calls to Action can come in two formats:
Static - This type of CTA lives on a certain page and displays regardless of the content. Displaying one CTA on the right column of your blog is an example of static usage.
Since it lives there all the time, you'll need to utilize a CTA that is relevant regardless of the blog content is displays next to. (HubSpot is doing a good job of this above)
Situational - These CTAs are handpicked by you to display on specific pages that you deem relevant to the action at hand.
In the Master Inbound example above, the article about SEO is displaying a CTA about SEO. This was manually placed (No, I'm not a psychich - I know because I wrote it!)
So, how do we display a CTA on a Joomla site? Great news, my friend - it's easier than you think:
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Team FRW Calendar release Riders star - 12 months with Team FRW Bringing added style to Italian datekeeping..... Team FRW release - translated In the run up to the Christmas season, the Freewheel calendar has been released. Freewheel is the company responsible for road bikes and MTB's (under the trade name Ravenna). Included in the calendar are not products from Freewheel, whose owner is Claudius Brusi, but the riders who will wear the Team FRW colours in 2006. Team FRW is one of the top women's professional teams in Italy and Europe. Included in the team are Giorgia Bronzini and Modesta Vzesniauskaite. Both are new to the team, but not to winning races. Bronzini, who will be team captain in 2006 won 13 races in 2005, including 3 stages of the Giro Donne and the Nürnberger round of the road World Cup. The calendar proves that although cycling is often considered a male dominated sport, it is more and more a women's sport too. The calendar will be available throughout Italy from early December onwards at events and functions attended by the team. A page from the calendar : Want to contact WomensCycling.net? The WomensCycling.net email address is To contact the webmaster, the address is : Type this address into the "To" line of a new email message in your email programme. The WomensCycling.net email address is displayed as a graphic in order to reduce the amount of 'spam' email received from programmes which 'crawl' the internet for sites with addresses displayed in text and then overwhelm that address with junk, or even forge the address in junk messages that they generate and send to others. Sorry for any inconvenience this approach causes you. |
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Healthy Swaps: Halloween Treats
by Dana Angelo White in Halloween, Healthy Tips, October 28, 2011
You can probably figure out that candy isn't the healthiest option, but this time of year it's pretty much unavoidable. Explore the options below for improved candy picks.
Instead of: King size candy bar
Choose: Mini "fun size" bar
The Payoff: An average savings of 475 calories and more than 20 grams of fat
Instead of: Candy apple
Choose: Apple slices dipped in peanut butter
The Payoff: Less sugar, plus you'll get good-for-you nutrients like healthy fat
Instead of: Chewy taffy
Choose: Sugarless gum
The Payoff: A 100-percent reduction in calories (most sugarless gum has none), plus a healthier mouth; taffy can do some serious damage to your teeth.
Instead of: Candy Corn
Choose: Homemade caramels
The Payoff: Less processed sweeteners and no artificial colors. Read ingredient labels on all of your Halloween candy, you'd be surprised at what's in some of them.
Instead of: Jelly beans
Choose: A lollipop
The Payoff: A portion controlled goodie instead of mindless sugary shoveling.
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Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »
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You all know the old saying:
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It a true viable alternative to deter a possible attack for those times when a first use of a deadly firearm may not be appropriate for a given episode of personal self defense.
In my opinion it is probably at least threefold more effective than the leading CS Spray used by the majority of Law Enforcement. I won't mention any specific product names.
Due to its unique formulation it really does open the pores of the skin on contact and THAT - in combination with the highest percentage of active ingredient on the market (and the high volume of material released) - makes it is extremely effective for its intended purpose.
One slight disadvantage for Law Enforcement Use might be that it does not very easily rinse off after a Bad Guy is cuffed/subdued.
A "PLUS" is that due to the way Guard Alaska is canned & does not chemically react with the container material ~ It does not require an Expiration Date.
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Go to the Guard Alaska web site & scroll down & click on the small, short, video block. That will (at least) give you an idea of the amazing volume of material that is released when you use it. It has a very effective range.
I keep the largest size can in the car. You might want to consider buying a smaller size for personal carry in addition to your defensive firearm.
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Southampton will give defender Jos Hooiveld and midfielder Victor Wanyama as long as possible to prove their fitness for the home Premier League clash with Liverpool.
Hooiveld missed the league encounter at West Ham last weekend with an eye injury while Kenyan midfielder Wanyama is set to remain sidelined by the unspecified knock which kept him out of the squad to face the Hammers.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino is ready to give the majority of the squad that slipped up 3-1 at West Ham the opportunity to atone for that defeat.
Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has returned to training after two months out with a hamstring injury but Daniel Agger will retain his place at centre-back for the trip to Southampton.
Midfielder Lucas Leiva is back working with the first team group after a six-week absence with a knee injury but will not be considered for the weekend.
Left-back Jose Enrique continues his rehabilitation from a knee operation which has sidelined him since early November.


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Starting this thread to see if anyone local is ordering sliders or anything from Jerry (JLee/BAMF) from his Black Friday Sale he has going on.
He stated that shipping would be considerably cheaper if we could get some freight going and send them in bulk. I personally ordered some powder coated sliders which ship for around $130 due to the extra wrapping and secure packaging to ensure safe delivery.
I am located in Simi Valley and work in Ventura at a machine shop that I might be able to have everything shipped to! if anyone from the Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, etc areas would like to join in with me and get some cheaper rates going that would be great!
Feel feel to add your location on here even if you arent within any of those areas and perhaps other people can join in and we can all work this out and save some money on these awesome deal!
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