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Embellished Locker Mirror
Celebrate your style as you head back to school with this colorful embellished locker mirror. Then every time you look in the mirror, celebrate YOU!
- 3 pieces of 4" x 4" mat board (from a frame store)
- Paper: Scrappin' Creations Power Pad; Paper Reflections Full Spectrum Color Line- Blue/Green Hue Palette Scrap Pack; Fibermark Paper- Cobblestone series
- 3" Square Mirror (we used one from Darice company)
- Silver Plate Wire, 20 gauge, The Beadsmith
- Kreinik Iron-On Braid, 6420 Sky Blue
- Mini-Iron or household iron and Teflon Presscloth
- 3/4" roll of Treasure Tape
Turn your iron on to its highest heat setting and let it heat thoroughly.
Mark out a 2.5" x 2.5" square in the center of one piece of mat board. Using an xacto knife, cut out square to make the mirror's frame. Cut your second piece of mat board into 5/8" strips.
Apply strips of 3/4" Treasure Tape to the front of your mat board frame until it is covered. Cut strips of paper in varying widths, up to 1". Peel back your red liner and begin even with the inside corner of your mat. Leaving a 1/2" overhang on the inside of your mat and 3/4" on the outside, begin applying strips of paper around the sides of your frame.
When you have covered the entire front of your frame, turn it over. Apply strips of tape to the back of the frame. Peel back the red liner and begin pressing down the INSIDE ends of your strips of paper. When all inside ends are secured, apply a second layer of tape to the back and set frame aside.
Begin constructing the rest of your mirror. Using the Treasure Tape, attach two of your cut mat board stips to the sides of your last 4x4 piece. Cut a third strip to fit between them along the bottom. Cut a fourth strip into two 1.25" pieces and place them along the top edge so that there is a small gap between them. Using your tape, attach the mirror to the center of the mat board so there is a small channel between it and each side strip.
Make your hanger. Cut a 10" length of wire. Make into a 1/4" loop and hold the loop with pliers while you twist the ends, so that you have a 1/2" twisted section directly beneath the loop. Center the loop in the gap in your top mat border and bend the ends of your wire to fit into the space between your mirror and the mat strips, Remove the wire, apply tape to the gap, peel back the liner, and press your wire hanger into place.
Peel back the red liner on the back of your frame, align edges with the matted mirror, and press them together. Apply tape to the back of your mirror along the edges. Peel back the liner and begin folding your paper strips around the back of the mirror. At the corners, make square cuts to allow folding.
Embellish the front of your mirror with Iron-On Braid. Lay the thread at a starting point, cover with the Teflon Press Cloth, and press for several seconds with your hot iron. Use your iron to make loops along each side of the frame. Iron the ends onto the back of the mirror.
Use your tape to adhere a 3.75" square of cardstock to the back of your mirror to finish it.
Kreinik threads available through needlework stores or www.kreinik.com.
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Chris Ainsworth makes all kinds of seasonal dessert flatbreads at his restaurant, but his s'mores version is a year-round favorite. While baking the flatbreads in the oven is easier, they're also delicious grilled; just be sure to set the dough away from direct heat so the bottom doesn't burn before the toppings melt.
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Prep Time: 30 min
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- 3/4 cup(s) coarsely crumbled graham crackers
- 2 tablespoon(s) light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon(s) granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract
- 1 pinch(s) salt
- All-purpose flour, for dusting
- 1 pound(s) store-bought pizza dough, halved
- Vegetable oil, for drizzling
- 2 (3-ounce) bars semisweet chocolate, broken into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 cup(s) mini marshmallows
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Set a pizza stone on the bottom of the oven and set a rack on the top shelf. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F and heat the stone for at least 45 minutes. In a food processor, combine the crumbled graham crackers with the brown and granulated sugars and the butter, vanilla, and salt. Process the mixture to fine crumbs.
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out each piece of pizza dough to a 12-inch round. Transfer 1 round of dough to a lightly floured pizza peel. Very lightly drizzle the round with vegetable oil and gently rub the oil over the dough.
- Slide the dough onto the hot stone and bake for about 2 minutes, until it starts to brown on the bottom and puff on top. Using 2 large spatulas, remove the pizza crust and sprinkle it with half of the graham cracker crumbs, half of the chocolate, and half of the marshmallows. Return the pizza to the stone and bake for 1 minute. Transfer the pizza to the top shelf of the oven and bake for about 1 minute, until the marshmallows are browned.
- Sift confectioners' sugar on top. Cut the pizza into wedges and serve right away. Repeat with the remaining dough, oil, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate, and marshmallows to make a second pizza.
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The Super Trawler's High-Tech Secret Seal-Saving Device
By Ellen Fanning, Clare BlumerSeptember 15, 2012
Hang on, isn't that just a small hole in the most enormous net you've ever seen?
A frazzled receptionist was answering phone calls this week to Seafish Tasmania, the company responsible for luring the world's second largest mega-trawler to Australian waters (though it now seems unlikely to catch a single Australian fish).
The poor woman complained that amid the saturation publicity (200 media calls a day) being given to her boss's efforts to operate the 9,499-tonne super-trawler in Australian waters, someone had signed her up to receive daily emails from a dizzying number of religious websites. So many, they were causing the company's email server to crash.
Emails from Religion Today and The Wisdom Retreat were being redirected straight to the junk mail folder, she said.
Perhaps, given that the nation's parliament is in the midst of banning its megatrawler from the area, the director of Seafish Tasmania Gerry Geen will now have the time to trawl back through that junk email folder and fish out any bit of wisdom he can get his hands on.
On September 12, Geen wrote in an article published in Fairfax newspapers that Seafish Tasmania had carried out research, along with a leading marine research institute, into what he called the "highly emotive issue" of dolphins and seals getting caught up in big trawling nets. And that Seafish Tasmania now has a special device which "will lead these animals to escape".
Seafish Tasmania did participate in research that was conducted by the University of Tasmania's Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute over 13 months to February of 2007.
The research was paid for by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), through the Natural Heritage Trust and the Research Fund, the federal Department of Environment and Water Resources and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Not a dollar came from Seafish Tasmania, according to the Institute's communications manager.
Seafish Tasmania's role was to allow scientists to use its trawler, the 800-tonne F/V Ellidi, and having its crew help them set video cameras in mid-water trawl nets during trawling operations to assess different devices designed to allow seals and dolphins — air-breathing creatures — to escape from the nets before they drowned.
The F/V Ellidi had already had its fair share of heartache over the issue of bycatch.
Back in late 2004, the trawler accidentally caught 17 dolphins in its nets in three separate incidents in waters off Flinders and Maria islands, even though it had escape devices in its nets.
(A formal AFMA investigation eventually declared the incidents "an unexpected and unusual occurrence" and concluded that Seafish Tasmania had not breached any laws or permit conditions.)
During the 2007 bycatch research project, more than 700 hours of video footage was taken, showing about 170 seals swimming into the nets to steal fish during trawling.
Some of the video footage can be seen on Seafish Tasmania's website. It shows what are most probably Australian fur seals escaping safely from the net through what is called a "seal exclusion device".
But the research, published in 2008, actually showed these failed rather a lot, leaving perhaps as many as 27 seals dead. That's about 17 per cent of all seals which entered the nets. What's more, some of them drowned after getting tangled up in the very safety device, designed to offer them an escape.
The photo gallery in this story shows a still image from that video footage included in the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute report. It shows a dead seal actually wedged through the bars of a special grid, designed to prevent seals and dolphins swimming further into the net.
Dr Mike Bosley, a marine biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, which was involved in the research, says such deaths are always a concern because seals and dolphins are air-breathing creatures and slowly drown when they become caught in the nets.
"Any animal that dies in this way, dies a pretty horrible death," he says.
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority is refusing to allow the University of Tasmania's researchers to release any more of the moving video footage, including the parts that shows seal deaths.
In a statement defending its decision to withhold release of the video footage to The Global Mail, AFMA said "Making all footage taken on these trips publicly available will undermine industry confidence in AFMA and jeopardise our ability to use commercial voyages to conduct cost-effective and realistic research that is supported by industry. In turn, this will slow the development of more selective and innovative fishing gear and practices."
But it's not just The Global Mail asking to see the video. The office of the federal Environment Minister has been seeking the footage all week. Hundreds of hours of the material has now arrived at the Environment Department, waiting to be viewed by some unlucky public servant.
It's a week that has seen ample evidence of a strained relationship between the federal Minister for the Environment Tony Burke, and AFMA with the minister quoted in parliament saying: "I do not believe they have been precautionary enough."
Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania 2008.
Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania 2008.
Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania 2008.
Nevertheless Geen seemed confident this week, that Seafish Tasmania has solved the problem of bycatch.
Geen's Fairfax article continued "the lessons learnt from this study were applied to the design of an excluder device that will lead these animals to an escape. We are confident this device works". While confident, he hastened to add, the excluder device still would be monitored by an AFMA "bycatch mitigation expert" and a "European net and excluder design expert". (Of course, carrying an AFMA observer is not an option, it's a requirement.)
The Global Mail asked Seafish Tasmania to send us pictures and details of this new excluder device, but they did not respond to our enquiries. Nor did they choose to comment on any other aspect of the story.
What is certain is that the device tested by the University of Tasmania in 2006/7 — significant international research — did not "lead animals to an escape".
According to Dr. Bosley even calling it an "exclusion device" is "a bit of a misnomer".
"It doesn't exclude seals and dolphins," says Dr Bosley. "In theory it allows them to escape."
The photos in the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute report reveal that a "seal exclusion device", which the scientists call a "SED", is actually not much more than a hole in the net, coupled with a set of steel bars designed to prevent seals and dolphins swimming too far into the net.
It's a bit like calling a door a "human exclusion device". The scientists concluded that the bigger the escape hole, the better the seal's chance of escaping. Well, yes.
Dr Bosley also said the Institute's research provided no insights on whether the SEDs were useful for dolphins, because no dolphins entered the nets during the 13 months of research. It's left him puzzled as to how Geen can be so confident his device works.
"How can he say that, if there is known bycatch [the seals which died during the research] and it's unknown how dolphins would respond to it?" he asks.
Bosley also makes the point that as far as he is aware, no one has any idea of how effective these devices would be in the giant nets — 600 metres by 200 metres — which are dragged behind Seafish Tasmania's mega trawler, formerly the Margiris, now known as the Abel Tasman after its ill-fated sojourn down under.
"A smaller trawler with a smaller net might get five seals whereas a bigger vessel might get 20 or 30 before they knew what was happening," he says. "And the cameras used in the trials were only at the boat end of the net where the escape hatch is. They don't provide information about the other end. You could have mammals dying down there."
The lead co-author of the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute report, Dr Jeremy Lyle agreed that his research proved that these escape hatches work only "up to a point" and that figuring out whether they would work in bigger nets was not certain but an open question.
"Of course it is!" he said, "Until it's been tested in real life, then we won't really know how well it works".
Also under scrutiny is the scientific rigour AFMA has brought to determining whether this mega-trawler should ever have been given the green light to trawl Australian waters and specifically if AFMA should have doubled the allowable quota of jack mackerel, the small pelagic fish that would have been the main catch for the super trawler.
Contributing to this controversy is that Geen was a member of the AFMA committee that increased the jack mackerel quota from 5,000 tonnes to 10,600 tonnes.
The minutes of the March 2012 AFMA meeting showing that Geen noted his "direct conflict of interest as a Director of Seafish Tasmania" but still took part in discussions. He did not, however, take part in the vote taken by the committee to increase the quota.
After concerns about this process were brought to independent MP Andrew Wilkie, he reported them to the Commonwealth Ombudsman, who is investigating why Geen was not ejected from the discussion phase of the meeting in line with the committee's rules.
Ties between AFMA and the industry, specifically Seafish Tasmania, are not unknown; Stuart Richey was on the founding board of AFMA, as well as being chair of the regulator. A couple of years after his departure from the AFMA board in 2001, he says, he became the independent chair of Seafish Tasmania, a position he told The Global Mail he held for around six years until his resignation in August 2011.
The scientific argument over the quota of jack mackeral revolves around the rates of egg production of the small fish — a major indicator of healthy stocks — and whether the AFMA committee should have relied, as they did, on a survey from 2002 to make the quota decision.
But AFMA has limited funds for scientific research. In response to questions from The Global Mail this week, AFMA has confirmed that of it's total budget of $41.44 million, only about $3.2 million was spent on researching target stocks in 2011-12.
Furthermore, AFMA has confirmed that at least some of the information about the health of our fisheries comes from the industry itself, through a logbook program. According to an AFMA spokesperson, the authority uses information "collected in logbooks … to inform formal stock assessments".
Such information might be useful, but asking fishermen to guess how many fish are in the sea — even if it is cross-referenced with the observations of on-board observers and whatever state fisheries agencies might know, doesn't exactly sound like the last word in scientific rigour.
After the public outcry about the super-trawler, Minister Burke rushed through legislation which would allow the environment and fisheries ministers the power to suspend operations on fishing vessels pending further research. Following the passage of the bill through the House of Representatives on Thursday, after some hasty amendments from cross benchers, it is expected to pass the Senate next week.
With all the scrutiny on AFMA, the Labor government has also announced a review of the floundering fishing management authorities.
Read more Ellen Fanning stories on a radical new plan to improve Indigenous Australians' access to tertiary education; weighing the toll of obesity on the world's population count; and the equal parts dogged and diplomatic lobbying effort behind the National Disability Insurance Scheme.


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What is the point of outside dogs?
What exactly is the point of having outside dogs? I don't get it. Why have dogs if they are just going to live outside? It seems like a lot of bother (poop scooping, food and vet expenses) just to always keep the thing outside.
I know that some guard dogs and working dogs are outside almost all the time but I've encountered people that get them as pets and they are "outside" dogs. I never understood this concept.
Am I missing something?
I have always wondered also. Dogs need to live where the family lives. They are great for security, but not if fenced in a yard (or tied up). Our (7) cats live outdoors, and I feel guilty if one of us doesn't spend time next door letting them into the guest house for 'lap time' - and I feel cats need to be outdoors because it is in their nature to hunt and explore.
Dogs have been socialized to live with their people.
I wonder, though, how many people start out with the intention of keeping their pet as an outside only dog?
It seems like the more common situation (in my limited experience) is that people start out with a puppy in the house, but can't cope with the training required to keep it inside, and end up relagating it outside.
I think this mostly because I never see puppies left outside (granted, there is a short window of puppy-hood).
What about those folks who buy a dog for their small kids and have no bond to their dog whatsoever? We have them down the street. The adorable pug is always in the backyard, they rarely bring it out even when they play out front with dad, and every time we pass by for our dog walks, twice a day, their little dog yipes at us. Sometimes I think it is begging for contact, of any kind. Seemingly nice people, so clueless. Hope they are more in touch with their children.
Cats should NOT be outdoors. It is no more their nature than a dog's nature. Outdoor cats live much shorter lives (less than 50% as long) as indoor cats. They end up attacked by dogs, coyotes, other cats, fisher cats, etc. They get hit by cars. And they kill countless birds. Saying your cats need to be outside is an excuse, just like people who think their dogs should be outside.
I totally agree Sue. Dogs AND cats need to be inside animals. Why have a pet if they aren't where you are? None of my cats have ever been outside except for the mother cat who was alone, pregnant, starving , and longing for affection.. That was many years ago and she would never leave this house if you left the doors wide open. My dogs are never outside either unless I am.
Freezetag is probably right. I think a lot of dogs get relegated to the outdoors because the owners don't know how to deal with their behavioral issues, but fear what will happen to them if they give them up. It's a legitimate fear and that's why forums like this one are important for helping people deal with their pets' issues.
I also agree with Sue about cats. I see so many dead cats on the road, especially in rural areas where people think that because they have acreage it's ok for their animals to roam. There's nothing natural about being hit by a car. I could never sleep at night if I thought one of my pets could be lying bleeding and dying somewhere simply because I chose to open the door and let them out. They're a hazard to drivers, too, when they suddenly dash across the road.
I doubt you will hear many farm families say that cats shouldn't be outside! Rodents destroy all sort of expensive farm equipment as well as eat expensive feed. Our cats are totally loved by us but also have a real purpose for living here. They are working cats. BTW, we never went out of our way to get a cat -- these were left here (not the kittens though.) We will take in any that are abandoned in the future also.
I seldom see feathers from a bird kill, but they get voles, moles and mice on a daily basis. Yes, most won't live past 10 years, but they sure live a happy life.
I had a dog that HATED being inside. He would pace, whine, howl, and tear up things.
He hated rain, but hated being inside worse.
Now, he was built to stay outside. Alaskan Malamute. Even in 100 degree weather(I kept him in the shade and blew cool air from inside into his dog house) he preferreed outside.
And farmers would ask the reverse question? What good is an inside dog?
Many dogs have been bred to be inside dogs in todays world. Those dogs should be inside dogs. My neighbor's Shih Tzu, for instance. No way could Andy survive outside for long.
But, there are many dog's who need to be outside animals.
I have inside dogs and cats, part of my family ... and I have a feral barn cat who lives, quite conmfortably, in my barn.
I got her from a local rescue, they were looking for barn owners to adopt barn cats, that could not be adopted as pets. The rescue captured my barn cat and others from a feral cat colony of 50+ cats; spayed them, gave them their shots, checked them over and tried to socialize them.
Obviously, the ones they socialized were adopted out as pets ... the others are adopted out to barn owners like me.
She's a long-haired tortie, really pretty ... she looks like a raccoon in the winter when her fur gets long. She keeps my barn clean of rodents ... She has her food and water bowls that I fill daily ... she shares them with a little tiger cat she found at another barn and brought home. During the winter she has a big box filled with blankets that she sleeps in, and a heated water dish.
She tolerates my presence and my dogs and donkeys ... but if I get too close she's gone in a flash. She has a much better life in my barn than she would have in the feral cat colony. She leaves me mice once in a while to show her appreciation.
Pam, your story is an exception. The feral cats who cannot be tamed, and many can't ever be, have the perfect life with people like you who care for them in protective surroundings. I'm sure that little tortie is happy having a home where her needs are tended. I'm talking about friendly cats who are adopted or rescued and left to run outside. My first cat was left in and out , mostly in, but we lived in a quiet cul de sac where there were few cars and that was 35 years ago.At age 13 he almost died from a wound suffered in a fight. After that, he stayed indoors and lived till 20. I was young and stupid and later educated myself on the horrible danger awaiting outdoor cats like anti= freeze, traps , malicious people who poison animals, kids who torment them, wild animals or dogs who kill them, cars who hit them and diseases thy pick up eating dead carrion. Meanwhile my cats sit on their sunny window sills , eat when they want, play when they want, and know that they are protected and safe and none have any desire to go out. .
Oh jeez I didn't mean to start a debate!
I firmly believe that all pets should be "inside".
That being said, our old house which we still own was in a semi-rural part of the metro area. The animal rescue down the street has a section for cats that can't be indoors (they may be semi-feral, or were outside their whole lives and can't accept living indoors). That's the only time I'd have an outdoor cat. If the animal rescue place says they are semi-feral or relaly can't go inside, I'll trust them. They would be happier in a huge 20 acre yard than in an animal shelter.
Other than that, I really do believe dogs and cats should be inside. People don't realize, and/or don't care, that their outdoor cats will die much earlier.
Dogs should almost always be inside, they have been bred over millenia to be human companions. There are rare exceptions for certain working dogs like handymac describes but 99% of the time dogs should not be relegated outside. What a shame for those dogs.
At a dog festival yesterday, I met the woman who has chained herself to a doghouse outside the capitol for weeks. I admire her. She was on a local talk show last week and local yokels called and said the state can't tell them what to do with their dogs. Butt out of our lives, they said. They can shoot their dogs if they wish. I admire this woman and her cause . She had a wall of shame with pictures of tied dogs who never ever socialize with humans and rarely have shelter from the elements. Her website is UnchainPADogs.com
Actually, most of the number of different breeds in existance today are less than 300 years old. And some less than 100 years old.
Dogs with heavy or layered coats are at a huge disadvantage indoors.
I totally agree with not chaining a dog. Or not socializing one. There are exceptions. Sled dogs have to be chained since it is usually cost prohibitive to build pens. And they are built to survive below zero temps and deep snow. As long as they get the proper exercise---pulling a sled---they are among the happiest dogs on earth.
Speaking of exercise, not properly exercising a dog is among the worst things man can do to a dog. Herding dogs need to herd. Standard poodles need to hunt water fowl---that is their instinct. Sight hounds need to run full speed. And so on.
I'm not debating ... I actually think pets should be kept inside ... to me they are family.
I was responding to some "generalilities" posted above ... about cats never being outside. That's what happens when people post general statements, someone like me is going to come along with the exception to that general statement. :>)
Beautiful kitty, pamghatten. As long as she has adequate food and shelter, I see no reason a kitty can't live outside. I know it's safer inside, but some cats just can't tolerate it. I have an outside kitty too, (as well as an inside one). I am the third neighbor to "own" this kitty. She is well known in the neighborhood. I keep her warm in winter and she has me at her beck and call for dining privileges. She likes my dogs. Who could ask for more in a kitty?
Lazygardens - that sounds like my dogs! nearly an acre of yard, a creek, plenty of wild life to keep them active, and me working in my garden three or four hours a day! They hate being inside - would much prefer to lie on the front porch and watch the world go by, or be on the deck at the back of the house, snoozing in the sun. they all get long walks everyday, plenty of chew toys, one-on-one time with each dog, and frequently back off at the thought of being in the house.
I think there's a huge difference between dogs who spend a lot of time outside by choice and dogs who are left on a chain or in a pen in all kinds of weather and mostly ignored. I doubt anyone here has a problem with the lifestyles of the dogs lazygardens and bmmalone describe.
my second great dane rescue came from a neglect situation. she was bought as a puppy and when she was no longer "cute", she was relegated to the back yard which was privacy fenced. the only human contact she had from 6 months to 3 years old was when they fed her and filled her water bucket.
when she came to rescue, she was terrified of pretty much everything. she had no idea she could drink from a bowl in the house. she would not eat a meal unless she was behind a closed door. she was in foster for several weeks before i got her and her foster mom NEVER saw her eat.
it took months to bring her out of her shell. she has the sweetest personality, she is SO lovable, it amazes me that her original people could ignore her like they did. their loss, my gain. she is a total social butterfly now.
my dogs go in and out at will. sometimes they stay out for a while. other times, they come right back in. i can't imagine it being any other way!
my third rescue dane was left out in the back yard, behind a 5' chain link fence for 8 or 9 hours/day. being the social dog that he is, he would see activity at the neighbor's house and started jumping the fence to join in the fun. thankfully, his owners didn't want to deal with him so they turned him in to rescue. again...their loss, my gain!
my second great dane rescue came from a neglect situation. she was bought as a puppy and when she was no longer "cute", she was relegated to the back yard which was privacy fenced. the only human contact she had from 6 months to 3 years old was when they fed her and filled her water bucket.
when she came to rescue, she was terrified of pretty much everything. she had no idea she could drink from a bowl in the house. she would not eat a meal unless she was behind a closed door. she was in foster for several weeks before i got her and her foster mom NEVER saw her eat.
it took months to bring her out of her shell. she has the sweetest personality, she is SO lovable, it amazes me that her original people could ignore her like they did. their loss, my gain. she is a total social butterfly now.
my dogs go in and out at will. sometimes they stay out for a while. other times, they come right back in. i can't imagine it being any other way!
my third rescue dane was left out in the back yard, behind a 5' chain link fence for 8 or 9 hours/day. being the social dog that he is, he would see activity at the neighbor's house and started jumping the fence to join in the fun. thankfully, his owners didn't want to deal with him so they turned him in to rescue. again...their loss, my gain!
I have wondered about the same thing. We live in a small rural town and a vet turned an office next to us into his Animal Hospital. They have a dog that stays outside in all weather, even during the 110+ days of summer. The dog barks at everything, all day. We had work done on our house and the dog barked all day at the workers for a week. Last night at 11 pm the dog was still barking so I called them and said I am tired of listening to the dog bark.
I feel sure the dog is just bored in the fenced in yard, but his barking is driving me batty. They have his dog house next to the fence and he barks the entire time I am working in my garden.
Very stressful and this is a vet!!!!!!!!
There is a huge difference between dogs who love to be outside and those who are chained and get no human attention. My own dogs are out all day if we're outside too. The Dachshund would sit under the tree all day and look at the squirrels. But then at night he and the other one are snug on their beds, not tied to a dog house in the sweltering heat or frigid cold.
The Labrador next door is strictly an outdoor doggie. His mommie finds him just too large and clumsy to have underfoot inside. This family has had a series of Labs going back 20-30 yrs, and they have all been outdoor dogs.
BUT!!! Every one of these dogs has been well trained, and properly exercised. Never simply abandoned out there. The current guy loves this time of year, because he gets to go hunting with Dad. We'll be babysitting him for the next 10 days while his people vacation, and he ain't coming into our house either. But he'll get walked at least an hour per day.
I don't think the real debate should be about indoors or outdoors. Responsible dog owners care for their pets, and train and exercise them properly, regardless where they live.
I agree. All my pets are indoors. What's the point of having a pet if you don't want it to be around you (most people live indoors!)? If I had a horse, which I don't, I would probably want it to be inside with me but I know it's not quite realistic. Pets belong with their owners. Companion animals means animals that keep you company.


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Do you remember how Tom Hanks's character walked around in a bathrobe while living in the airport in the movie The Terminal? Or how Natalie Portman got creative while living in Walmart in Where The Heart Is? I thought Kate's Month at the Museum would be something like that crossed with Mythbusters. I imagined all-nighters spent making Home Alone-worthy physics-filled gadgets to fight off the possibility of living mannequins. I looked forward to hearing the thoughts of a normal person who has excessive time to contemplate every stage of baby chick development. I imagined a cross between entrainment and learning and charming transparency; I was excited to learn along with Kate. Instead, I learned that Kate learned.
Don't get me wrong. I think that the Month at the Museum was engaging, fun, and a great marketing endeavour that opens the doors for several new opportunities for museums… but why weren't mission and marketing more united in this innovative-museum-world initiative?
Kate spent her last day in the Museum of Science and Industry on November 18th. The Month at the Museum seemed to be used primarily as a marketing tool for the institution. And I think it worked well in that way. Kate's glass cube was awesome. The competition was awesome. There's a sort of magic about having the opportunity to spend the night (let alone several) inside a museum with doll houses, interactive activities, and a darkened 727. However, the Month at the Museum could have transcended the boundaries of a marketing project and more efficiently engaged audiences in the wonders of science while promoting the museum.
Bravo to MSI for taking on a roommate and opening their doors to the world. They have set a great standard. But, should MSI have the opportunity to take on another overnight visitor, I would like to present some changes to make the experience even more time-and-interest worthy for folks at home. The thing that unites all of the following suggestions? Making it more about people and learning, and less about Kate. Don't get me wrong: as another female twenty-something Chicago native– I thought Kate was spunky and fun. But I don't know if all demographics relate to Kate, or even if Kate represents the demographic that the MSI was trying to reach… even though she did frequently make me smile.
1) Get people involved during the month. The Month at The Museum initiative was arguably the biggest success during the competition stage. Over 1,500 people applied or submitted videos and folks even created a "We Applied for MSI's Month-at-the-Museum" Facebook group. The event was publicized in newspapers, blogs, and news broadcasts all over the country. But after the winner was picked, the buzz died down. Why? There's no reason why Kate's adventures couldn't be made to be news-worthy throughout the month by keeping the innovation going. The vision of the MSI is to "inspire and motivate our children to achieve their full potential in the fields of science, technology, engineering and medicine." That's an exceptional vision but Kate's Month at the Museum didn't help people do that very easily. Getting the community involved in creative ways throughout the event would have painted a more accurate picture of the institution and its values. Here's a quick brainstorm of things that could have helped:
- putting out a call for things people wanted to see her do in the museum
- hosting a daily "Kate Report" in which she interviews visiting kids and families about what they've learned
- posing daily challenges to visitors such as to walk like a T-rex for the rest of the day, do their best impressions of the inner-workings of body parts, or offer a prize to the person who can best explain why a tornado spins (with creative, silly answers also featured).
- put on a could-be historically accurate skit with visitors in Yesterday's Main Street exhibit
- conduct a real-life version of Leno's Jay Walking and test the science literacy of visitors (with their permission, of course)
2) Make it about learning more than living. Kate shared what she learned with us through a few videos after she learned it. Case in point? SnugSci Episode 3 (or 2 or 1). However, it wasn't often that we got to learn along with Kate. It would have been fun to see Kate go around in a snuggie and mash-up cool parts of her tour of the Science Storms exhibit with Olivia, the on-site scientist and one of the creators of the exhibit. And while snuggie science aims to teach us something, most of Kate's videos are more of a video diary in which the audience is removed from the experience. Some ideas that wold have gotten us more actively involved? Here's a few:
- make creative mash-ups of tours from on-site scientists
- engage in a ridiculous but scientifically-correct debate with an exhibit interpreter
- walk us through Kate's favorite interactives as she masters each of them and challenges others to a duel
- spend a full day in the life of a coal miner, having interpreters aid Kate in learning what her day-to-day life would be like working there.
- spend a day living in the Smart Home without using any energy or making any kind of carbon footprint (or try to do that for the whole month!)
3) But a little more living would have been cool, too. Two of my favorite videos from Kate show an insight into her day-to-day life while living at the museum. I love this one where Kate pretends to go crazy being alone in the museum. I also like this one where she actually shows viewers what she thinks is the scariest exhibit at night. Kate lived at the museum for a full month, so it's fun to see insights into how she lived. (Though I must give some serious kudos to Kate for showing just how fun it can be to work in a museum). Given the reality of time constraints, I think Kate did a good job in this arena, but here are a few things that would have been fun to see:
- a morning routine in which Kate starts training for next year's Chicago Marathon, showing her route around the inside of the museum visiting her favorite exhibits. Kate mentions taking runs in some of her posts. Why not take us along?
- conduct a museum bathroom inspection and formally propose which bathroom is the very best in the museum
- solve a mystery (the case of the missing bernoulli ball)
- discover a secret hideout in the museum for when Kate needs a break from the cube
- sleep in the Zephyr and create physics-filled booby traps just in case mannequins come to life
- try to summon spirits within the museum
- name the chicks in the hatchery
4) Give us some more fun features to inspire audiences in science education. The Museum of Science and Industry is in the business of inspiring people and making learning fun. And learning is fun– even when you're not a special, publicized guest living in a glass cube on-site.
- have a short, daily highlight or fun fact and compile them at the end into one video to summarize the weird awesomeness of the month
- on Kate's first day, write down a list of science-based "Why" questions and make it a goal to get them answered before the month is up.
- make a MATM bucket list of things Kate is determined to do before the month's end
- create a lip-dub to Weird Science with MSI staff members (this is less about science education, but highlights a sense of community)
Though I am sad that MSI's Month at the Museum has come to an end, I look forward to seeing how museum's will build upon the MSI's idea. I expect to see many more initiatives involving transparency, and I hope that we will build upon these initiatives to merge mission and marketing in order to captivate audiences– with a purpose.
Have ideas for how MSI's month at the Museum could have better merged mission and marketing? Please leave comments below.


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Just returned from a briefing on the $3.5 trillion budget with OMB director Peter Orszag and Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer.
The title of the budget outline: "A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise."
The first chapter was called "Inheriting a Legacy of Misplaced Priorities."
Orszag, saying the nation had been put on an "unsustainable fiscal course" by the previous administration, heralded the budget's $2 trillion in deficit reduction — half from savings, half from tax increases and other similar revenue streams. Left unattended, the deficit would go up more than $9 trillion in new debt than it will with this plan, he said.
He also pointed out that he's blogging again at the OMB website.
Orszag defended the reduction in itemized deduction for charitable contributions, saying the stimulus provides $100 million for charities and the economic recovery will mean charitable contributions will bounce back.
Romer predicts negative -1.2 percent GDP growth for 2009, but said it would be back up in 2010, +3.2 percent, and +4.0 percent in 2011.
She predicted unemployment would reach 8 percent in 2009, then would go down only slightly in 2010 to 7.9 percent.
Then: 2011 – 7.1 percent; 2012 – 6 percent; 2013 – 5.2 percent.
When asked, Romer said her projections were not in any way overly rosy.
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Classic Film Revisited: Alien: The Director's Cut (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Dir. Ridley Scott, 2003, US, 115 mins
Cast: Sigourney Weaver Ripley, Tom Skerritt Dallas, Ian Holm Ash, Veronica, Cartwright Lambert, Yaphet Kotto Parker, Harry Dean Stanton Brett, John Hurt
Review by Elizabeth Griffin
The Director's Cut is digitally enhanced and contains footage that was not used in the original edit. One reinstated scene sees Ripley stumble over the remains of Brett and Dallas cocooned in the alien's nest, and there are other smaller additions, which help to build the relationships and tensions between the characters. The re-mastered film looks and sounds great and the additional material is well judged and unobtrusive, but essentially this is just a great opportunity to see once again one of the most scary and stylish sci-fi films ever.
The crew of commercial vessel Nostromo, on its return journey to earth, receives what appears to be a SOS from a stricken craft on a nearby planet. Despite concerns, the workers discover that they are under contractual obligation to launch a rescue attempt. Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt) leads the mission but returns to the Nostromo when his colleague Kane (John Hurt) is attacked by a mysterious organism which refuses to release him from its grip. Second-in-command Ripley is reluctant to allow the creature into the ship but scientist, Ash (Ian Holm), is insistent. Ripley's misgivings are soon vindicated as the strange and resilient nature of the alien begins to reveal itself to the crew.
From establishing shots of the metallic innards of the labyrinthine ship, to the emergence of the crew from flower-like pods surrounded by white light, to the blue mist of a force-field which hovers over the alien's eggs, Scott's film is a visual triumph. Indeed, Alien won the 1979 Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and the supremacy of Swiss artist H. R. Giger's 'bio-mechanical' alien has rarely been challenged - despite the big budget monster movies of the following decades. The fear-factor is heightened further by Scott's restraint as for the most part we catch only terrifying glimpses of the alien. The studio famously backed the film because of its "Jaws in space" potential, and just like Spielburg, Scott knows exactly when to conceal and when to reveal his star. Scott's other central character, Ellen Ripley, was one of the first female leads in a sci-fi/horror film. It was also the role that brought Sigourney Weaver to the attention of movie audiences for the first time, launching a career defined by bold and complex performances. Scott steadily builds the tension around his heroine, who struggles to keep control as her shipmates are picked off one by one. The film's climax, in which Ripley with all her strength and vulnerability, fights for survival against the relentless creature, is one of the most unnerving sequences in sci-fi cinema history.
As Scott says himself, "The film looks today as good as it did 24 years ago - almost better."


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Samsung has been boasting about winning 27 CES Innovation Awards including a Best of Innovation Award for its as yet unreleased 85-inch UHD TV. They plan on showing off the 8 million pixel telly at CES 2013.
It's billed as, 'the world's largest commercialized UHD LED TV,' with four times the resolution of Full HD displays. It will be the company's first 85-inch 4K TV. LG has already brought out an 84-inch 4K 3D TV, selling for around $20,000, which gives you a ballpark idea of how much Samsung's telly will be selling for.
Toshiba and Sony are also getting in on the act, having announced their own 84-inch 4K models as well. The one obvious thing Samsung has got over its competitors is the fact that their screen is 1 inch bigger.
Other Samsung products that won awards include; the Samsung Smart TV Camera, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II and Samsung's 64GB MicroSD Memory Card.
Many of the winning products will be first unveiled at Samsung's CES press conference on Monday January 7, 2013.


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Preventing Spams and Relays
The Internet has been around since the 1970s with people using it mainly for electronic mail (e-mail). This is still true even today as we see increasing numbers of multimedia-based applications on the Internet. People still use e-mail more than web browsers and file transfer programs. The reason is simple—it is a low-cost yet effective method for communicating with others all over the world. More and more people are getting onto the Internet, and the first thing they do is get an e-mail address.
Realizing this, certain individuals and even organizations have taken the opportunity to send unsolicited e-mail to Internet users. Most of this mail is commercial advertising. They send thousands of copies of the same message to a list of e-mail addresses obtained from either Usenet postings or companies' home pages. Such action is called spamming.
The consequence of spam is that the receiver ends up paying for the cost of the e-mail, since the ISP (Internet Service Provider) usually charges on the basis of connect time and downloading mail takes time. At companies where each employee has an e-mail address and the company has a fixed line for e-mail, that line can become quite expensive if it is targeted by spammers.
To hide their identity, spammers usually send from a forged e-mail address and use mail servers that have not been configured to prevent such activities. Relaying, as it is usually called, will cause the targeted e-mail server to send mail on behalf of the spammer to hundreds or even thousands of users. Spamming can seriously affect the performance of the mail server and cause massive bandwidth loss for the company affected. Not only will the mail server's performance be affected, but recipients of the spam will be given the impression that the company is in business with the spammer.
For more information on this, visit the number one anti-spam site on the Internet at http://spam.abuse.net/.
My company was recently the target of a spammer who used our mail server as a relay. The spammer was using an account from a well-known service provider, and my guess is that it was probably a trial account. I had not installed any preventions against such attacks and was thus targeted. When I discovered the attack, I dropped all my current work and began searching for a solution. I started by looking at the Sendmail home page (http://www.sendmail.org/). It had links that led to more tools and tips for spam prevention. I chose to implement the solution based on the smtpd package from Obtuse Systems Corporation for the following reasons:
smptd is a small package with only two executable files to manage and one configuration file to tweak.
It works nicely with my mail server (Sendmail v8.8.8).
The configuration file is very flexible and easy to configure.
As of this writing, the smtpd package is at version 2.0 and can be obtained from ftp://ftp.obtuse.com/pub/smtpd/smtpd-2.0.tar.gz.
smtpd works with other MTAs (Mail Transport Agent), but I have been using only Sendmail. The latest Sendmail can be retrieved from ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/sendmail.8.9.1.tar.gz.
Note that you must have a working MTA before installing smtpd. It acts only as a mail proxy, storing and forwarding mail to other MTAs for the actual delivery.
Briefly, here's how smtpd works: the smtpd daemon runs and accepts mail instead of your regular mail server. It accepts mail from the Internet as well as your own domain. smtpd can be configured to reject mail based on several criteria:
IP address of the sender
Host name or domain of sender
E-mail address of sender
E-mail address of receiver
Based on the configuration file, the mail is either rejected or accepted and spooled. The second program, smtpfwdd, will do the actual forwarding of the spooled mail to the MTA (Sendmail in this case).
Once you've obtained the package, unarchive the files to a directory. Assuming the files are to be put in the directory /usr/src/smtpd-2.0, do the following:
cd /usr/src tar xvzf ~/smtpd-2.0.tar.gz cd smtpd-2.0
Now, by typing ls, you'll see many files and subdirectories. Be sure to read README and INSTALL as these files contain valuable information on the installation of the mail proxy.
To compile the package, do the following:
Choose a user and group for running the smtpd daemon. Your choice must be defined as a trusted user in the sendmail.cf file. I chose to use the user daemon. If you are not sure what to use as trusted user, check the /etc/sendmail.cf file for lines like this:
# Trusted users # Troot Tdaemon Tuucp
In this example, the trusted users are root, daemon and uucp. Do not use root. smtpd works without any root privileges; thus, it is more secure to run it as some other user.Create a directory in which smtpd can store spooled mail before smtpfwdd processes it. Change permissions and also the user/group of that directory so only that user has full rights to it. If you put it in the /home/smtpd/spool directory, execute these commands:
mkdir /home/smtpd mkdir /home/smtpd/spool chown -R daemon.daemon /home/smtpd chmod 700 /home/smtpd ls -lad /home/smtpd
The output from ls will look like this:drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 1024 Mar 26 01:34 /home/smtpd/
Edit the Makefile in the source directory to reflect your choice. The changes we need to make for our example are as follows:
SMTP_USER = daemon SMTP_GROUP = daemon SPOOLDIR = /home/smtpd SPOOLSUBDIR = /spool EHLO_KLUDGE=1 JUNIPER_SUPPORT=0 #LD_LIBS=-lresolv CHECK_IDENT = 0
EHLO_KLUDGE is needed to fix a bug in Netscape Communicator. JUNIPER_SUPPORT is set to 0 unless you're using Obtuse's Firewall Kernel. LD_LIBS is commented out, as my Linux distribution does not require the external library libresolv. CHECK_IDENT has been set to 0 to disable IDENT checking. I personally do not believe in IDENT checks—they take time and do not return any useful information.By default, the Makefile has been configured to be compiled on Linux, so no other changes need to be made.
In the source directory, type make to compile smtpd and smtpfwdd.
Once the compilation is finished, you will find two executable files in the directory. Copy them to another location in your PATH. To copy them to the /usr/local/sbin directory, type:
cp smtpd /usr/local/sbin cp smtpfwdd /usr/local/sbin
Create a few subdirectories under the /home/smtpd/ directory by typing:
cd /home/smtpd mkdir etc usr mkdir usr/lib mkdir usr/lib/zoneinfo
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If you have fibromyalgia, a good night's sleep might seem like a lost cause.
It is for Lynne Matallana. Bedtime has become a nightmare in the 16 years since she learned she had the condition.
"My brain just doesn't shut down," says Matallana, 57, founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association, based in Newport, Calif. "When I finally get to sleep, it's interrupted."
Pain may be the hallmark of fibromyalgia, but sleep problems are often its most intolerable symptom.
Fibro patients typically wake up feeling as if they'd never slept. They struggle to fall and stay asleep and often suffer from so many different sleep disorders that they're exhausted.
Experts don't know "whether the pain is responsible for the sleep problems or vice versa," says Victor Rosenfeld, M.D., neurology department head and medical director of the Sleep Center at SouthCoast Medical Group in Savannah, Ga. Or both symptoms could be manifestations of something not yet known.
Researchers speculate that fibromyalgia may be linked with trauma, genetic mutations and autoimmune diseases.
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Fibromyalgia — also called fibromyalgia medical syndrome (FMS) — affects about 5 million people in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health. Most are diagnosed between 20 and 50 years old, and between 80% and 90% are women.
Every patient has different symptoms, but typically they include:
Unexplained pain
Numb hands and feet
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Mood changes
Pain is the tip-off, but some experts suspect that poor sleep plays an even bigger role.
Most patients ranked morning stiffness, fatigue and poor sleep as their biggest complaints — ahead of pain and forgetfulness, according to a 2007 study by noted fibromyalgia researcher Robert T. Bennett, M.D.
What causes the sleep problems? Here are the top 4 culprits:
1. Your racing brain
Danielle Liss, 34, a Las Vegas lawyer and fibromyalgia sufferer, says she frequently battles insomnia.
The reason?
Alpha waves were disrupting her sleep, according to a test in which Liss's heart rate, breathing, leg movements and brain waves were monitored.
"It's like trying to sleep after two or three cups of coffee," says Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., a fibromyalgia expert and author of
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That's because fibromyalgia sufferers have an alpha wave pattern typically seen in awake people, according to Harvey Moldofsky, M.D., head of the Sleep Disorders Clinic of the Centers for Sleep in Chronobiology in Toronto.
The pattern, called alpha intrusions or alpha abnormality, prevents them from sinking into the deep sleep stages needed to feel refreshed.
The problem starts in the autonomic nervous system, which controls your body's involuntary processes such as breathing, heart rate and digestion, with help from the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).
For fibromyalgia sufferers, "the SNS is in overdrive and often stays dominant, even during sleep," Dr. Teitelbaum says.
Sleep solution:
Like many others with her condition, Liss finally got some shut-eye with prescription medications.
Drugs approved for fibromyalgia, such as pregabalin and gabapentin can help, but many patients need tricyclic antidepressant, which have a sedating effect, such as trazodone, or atypical antipsychotics such as olanzapine or quetiapine, which promote drowsiness.
Popular sleep aids such as zolpidem, eszopiclone and zaleplon can bring on slumber, but they often don't keep fibromyalgia insomniacs asleep.
When it wears off, "most people with fibromyalgia will wake up," says Lucinda Bateman, M.D., an internal medicine specialist who runs the Fatigue Consultation Clinic in Salt Lake City.
Many need a cocktail of medications to get sleep. Liss, for example, takes clonazepam and nortriptyline, along with zolpidem. On nights when her insomnia is worse, she also takes Tylenol PM.
"I can't shut off my mind without pills and the perfect sleep environment," she says.
But don't mix and match on your own. Consult your doctor before taking any medication, prescription or over-the-counter.
2. Your restless limbs
About 20%-40% of people with fibromyalgia also have overactive limbs at night. This stems from two conditions: periodic limb movement syndrome (PLMS) or
restless legs syndrome
With RLS, people feel a creepy-crawly sensation in their legs at night. Legs may feel twitchy and tingly and there's an overwhelming urge to move them.
"The other night I forgot to take my RLS medication and I had to get up and run up and down the stairs 50 times," Matallana says. "That was the only thing I could do to not jump out of my skin."
All movement disorders like PLMS and RLS chase slumber away.
"They pop you up into a more wakeful level, so you're never able to get into a deep sleep," Dr. Bateman says.
Sleep solutions:
Drugs to treat RLS include:
Dopamine agonists, such as levocarb, pergolide, pramipexole and ropinirole
Anti-anxiety drugs, such as clonazepam and lorazepam
Anticonvulsants, such as gabapentin
Sometimes, relief is found in over-the-counter pain relievers, baths, massages and warm or cool compresses. Cut back on caffeine and alcohol consumption.
Dr. Bateman also advises patients to stretch several times a day and drink enough water. Stretching can relieve the restlessness and staying hydrated helps restore electrolytes, because a deficiency may contribute to symptoms.
3. Breathless in bed
We take it for granted that we breathe while we sleep. But that's not a given for women with fibromyalgia.
About half of all fibromyalgia patients suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Their throats collapse during sleep so they stop breathing for up to 30 seconds at a time.
Matallana is one of them. After falling asleep at her desk and while driving, she went for a sleep study. It confirmed she had sleep apnea and was getting only 62% of the oxygen she needed.
"I was dumbfounded," she says. "I used to hear of it only in overweight people, but many people with fibromyalgia are diagnosed with OSA."
Sleep solutions
If you're overweight, losing pounds can often be the cure.
Many patients also need continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) machines, which help raise the pressure in the airways.
With these machines, the patient breathes in compressed air through a nose or full-face mask hooked up to a machine.
Orthodontic devices that resemble mouth guards can help too, by keeping the lower jaw and tongue forward.
Some fibromyalgia sufferers have a related condition called upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), in which airflow decreases in the upper airway, causing brief sleep disruptions.
Many sleep apnea treatments will work with UARS. Breathing aids, such as a nasal dilator or Breathe Right nose strips, can help too.
4. Teeth grinding
For some fibro sufferers, bedtime means bruxism, a condition that causes them to clench or grind their teeth, typically the result of stress and anxiety.
Bruxism can lead to temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), in which the joint that connects the lower and upper jaws becomes stiff, painful and tender.
Sleep solutions:
Experts recommend a night guard (a fitted, plastic mouthpiece that resembles a retainer) to protect the teeth from damage.
Relaxation exercises or meditation may ease the stress triggers.
Other remedies: physical therapy, warm compresses or medications, such as cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant, or clonazepam, an anticonvulsant.
See also
How to Stop Clenching Teeth to Protect Your Smile
The Road to Better Sleep
Good lifestyle habits and sleep hygiene also can help bring on the zzz's.
Liss, for instance, keeps her room no warmer than 73 degrees. She avoids heavy blankets, sleeps with an eye mask every night and uses earplugs when needed.
She has also given up caffeine and sees a massage therapist and a reflexologist, who puts pressure on her reflex points.
Regular exercise can help reduce the pain that keeps you awake. Matallana walks on her treadmill every day. She also does yoga and meditation and avoids caffeine and sugar after noon.
For Liss, accepting her condition and the limitations it imposes has been the biggest boon to getting enough sleep.
"I've had bouts of depression because I want to do more," she says. "But lately, when I need rest, I reprioritize and set realistic goals about what I can do."
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The National Fibromyalgia Association
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The American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association
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Fibromyalgia Network
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Mellanie discusses the atrial fibrillation symptoms women often experience.
The way to know that you have it is if you feel like your heart is kind of flopping around in your chest like a flopping fish or maybe have butterflies in your chest, or maybe it feels like a bag of wiggly worms. It could simply be as simple as just feeling tired or fatigued and knowing you just don't feel right.
If a woman feels those symptoms it's important to talk with her doctor and if they are getting more severe to do something about them right away, maybe even go to the emergency room. But you know that you have atrial fibrillation if you just feel exhausted, tired, perhaps even dizzy, winded – just don't feel right, you don't feel like yourself.
In my own case what happened to me was that I was simply sitting at my desk and all of a sudden my heart started racing, and then I could feel some skipped beats and I got very dizzy and felt like I was going to pass out.
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I suffered with A. Fib since I was 19 yrs old ( now 62) but because it woud not show up at will, I could not get a diagnosis. At 61 yrs old, I let it go on for a weekbefore I then went to urgent care while A Fib was happening, the Dr I saw at the urgent care center called fire rescue & had me taken to the hosp, where suddenly my condition became important. All those years I was told that everyone has a irregular heartbeat at one time or another, nothing to worry about, live with it. So, when it happened everyday for years, I ignored it, would try to rest to get it to go away, use breathing excerises to try to interupt it, etc.
My mother, sister & 3 daughters have it also but I am the only one that has a actual diagnosis. Is this inherited? My family is going thru what I did for years, & told " we have to actually see it on a ekg or hear it with a stethascope". How can I help my family deal with this & get a diagnosis? 2 of my daughters 36 & 39 & my sister(54 yrs old) have thick blood platlets, have had blood clots in the past. Any suggestions?