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Lengthening cycle
I am forty-six and I am having one menstrual cycle on top of another. I am not too trustful of doctors...would rather find a natural way to lengthen cycle out again. I tried natural progesterone in the past and didn't find it helped and felt it caused my arm lymph nodes to swell slightly. Any suggestions?
Why don't you get your doctor's opinion and then go on from there. As I was told year ago, when you stop ovulating, often you can stop having periods, or you can have constant ones. The doctor who told me that, was talking about my 16 year old daughter. But this may be true of menopause also. Whatever he gave her was very temporary and not relevant to your symptoms, but you might just want a blood test and find out what is going on, then go the natural way.
Just wondering if this is something that you've been dealing with for a long time. The lymph nodes swelling in the arm doesn't sound too good to me.
Maybe if you found a female doctor, you wouldn't mind going so much. I think this makes a world of difference. Please have this checked out------there may be something readily available that can help you. Keep us posted on how you do.
Also, just wanted to say that when I started menopause----it was a slowing down of my period. One month I would have a period of 4 days, the next month 3------till eventually I wasn't having a period. Of course, each person is different. But, I really hope you'll go have your problem checked out. There's some really nice female doctors who understand our situations.


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Magnus Park
Petoskey, Michigan
Phone: (231) 347-1027
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Sites: 72
Recent Rate: $23 9/2014
Latitude: 45.3732335405736
Longitude: -84.9744447612686
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Date of Stay: September, 2014 - $23.00
Perfect spot for a visit to Petoskey and surrounding area. Within walking distance to downtown. We were here in Sept and there were lots of sites available. I assume that sites would be hard to come by in high season. Right on the water with beautiful sunsets. Sites are grass with some low/muddy spots after rain which is the only reason for a seven rather than nine or ten rating. We camped at Magnus Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2014 - $23.00
Very nice lake front city park, that is well maintained. The 30 amp power was good and the water pressure was fairly high so I would suggest a pressure regulator. The baths and showers were very clean and but could use a little updating, however they were very acceptable. Excellent free campground Wi-Fi and our MiFi and satellite TV worked very well. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2014 - $26.00
Really enjoyed this city park. It's right on Lake Michigan, a few blocks from downtown and right on the bike trail. We stayed here twice in the month. One site was electric (50 amp) and no sewer, and the other was full hookups. The full hookup site was not level but we made it work. It was in the trees on the back row and we could only get satellite with our portable on another person's site. Verizon data and cell was great. Quiet park and the price was great. They do charge a $4 reservation fee. Great area to visit and a great park for the price. There is a small beach, playground for kids, and picnic tables overlooking the lake. Fabulous sunsets. You can also put a boat in the water there. Would definitely stay here again. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2014 - $25.00
Rate is for 30 amp and water, back in site. Reserved here in February via the mail. Received several calls from the manager about site choice. Seems he was dealing with a larger than normal number of 'seasonal campers' so we were moved from a full hookup site into a power & water site. No problem, happy to be able to stay here for a week in July. Site was level with view out front and 'living room' of Little Traverse Bay. Park wifi is very good and we had no problems with cell or DirecTV service. There is a very loud hum, as others have mentioned, from the hospital which is located above the campground. After a day or two it became background noise and we didn't really notice it any more. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: June, 2014 - $24.00
This campground is situated in a great location to visit Petoskey and the surrounding area. Some sections of the park appear more crowded then other sections. Some sites are within the trees and others are not. The tent section has been converted to accommodate both tents and RV. Some of the sites are below the air conditioner for the hospital while other sites face the water treatment plant. The interior roads are on asphalt and the sites are on grass. The electrical post and water hoses for two rigs are located somewhere in the back. They can be close to the rig or a long way from the back of the rig. This means that one of the rigs will have to run their water and electrical lines under the rig. Some of the electrical boxes contain 20/50 while others have 20/30 amp electrical service. The park has WiFi but we did not us it. Verizon air card and cell phone worked well here. The bath room and showers were OK but dated. We did not use them. It was surprising quiet at night. We would definitely come back here again if we were in the area. We camped at Magnus Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2013 - $23.00
We love this park and keep coming back. In real estate, the mantra is "Location, location, location" and that is what this park has in spades. Our site, 14, faced the bay and the view was tremendous. We love to bike and having that access to the Little Traverse Wheelway is a big bonus. We found the restrooms and showers to be clean and functional though not luxurious. We were not bothered by the lack of a gate and would like to remind the reader that this a city park and the public has access to the park as well. We were never bothered by the people sharing the park with us. My minor concern would be the Wi-Fi that offered spotty connectivity and that is about it. We camped at Magnus Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: May, 2012 - $23.00
Tough park to rate! The pluses: easy to walk to the charming town. Close in enough that the restaurants will deliver, if you'd like to enjoy the pretty views of the lake. Big sites, with water and electric, plus dump station. $23/night is a reasonable fee. The minuses: No visible security or gate. Pickup trucks went through last night very late. Today two semi trucks pulled in and have partially blocked our view (thank goodness they stopped idling). Are they paid campers? Who knows. There are no windshield tags to identify registered campers. No paved/gravel pads means muddy sites after a rain, and generally unlevel to begin with. We've used up both bags of leveling blocks. Sewage plant on one end (we didn't smell anything) and hospital on other end (we could barely hear the noise as we were far away) ignorable, but definitely present. So, a real mixed bag. If we were staying longer, we would probably go to the state park and get a rental car (we don't tow), but because we were only here two nights, we focused on enjoying the very nice walk to town and ignoring the rest. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2011 - $24.00
First, the highlights; this is a stunningly beautiful location for a campground with access to Lake Michigan, downtown Petoskey and the Little Traverse Wheelway. The sunsets from the beach are as spectacular as any I have ever seen and the 26 mile long paved Wheelway is a jewel. As for the negatives, the site we ended up in was the 3rd that we tried. The first two our 31' travel trailer did not fit in due to the site not being level. The site we ended up in still required 4" boards on one side to get us level. We were on the end of the park that was next to the sewage treatment plant and the odor was slight but persistent. On our site, we did not hear the hospital A/C units at all. Honestly, a few days with a bulldozer could fix the problems with the sites not being level and would greatly increase the accessibility of this park and would be money well spent! We will return but will be much more picky about which site we will stay on. We camped at Magnus Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2011 - $22.00
Nice campground, right in town. Many spots are seasonal, and getting in, and out can be interesting (down long street, hills on entrance to the street). Great views, great sunsets, easy walk to marina, downtown. Some noise from Hospital cooling towers, and right next to treatment plant. But, these are minor issues for the view, and location. Would stay again. We camped at Magnus Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: June, 2011 - $24.00
Magnus Park is a real gem. We were on the second row with a FHU (30 amp: they only have one 50 amp site), and we had a nice view of the water. Sites are grass but we needed boards to level. We were a 30 second walk to the shoreline. Bathrooms and showers were very nice and there were good areas to walk the dogs. We hiked 30 minutes into the downtown area and had lunch at a very good Thai Restaurant but there lots of other eateries. We were parked below the hospital and the hospital A/C was of no consequence-noise wise. Same with the sewer plant at the end of the park. No sewerage odor AT ALL. The park is right on the 26 miles bike path that leads to Charlevoix. Really neat. One suggestion is place a few extra trash cans around the campground and keep a supply of 2x6 boards to help unprepared campers level their rigs. At the suggestion of our camping kin folk, we drove to The Side Door Saloon ( head towards the KOA on Rt 31North ) and ordered 3 Olive Burgers. At 1/3lb per burger, one apiece would have been sufficient. The park manager and his staff does a great job and they have people returning for over 20 years for lengthy stays so book early if you want a site here. Yes, we would definitely return. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2010 - $24.00
This is a great park with great location if you are looking for inexpensive camping. Sites are not all level and park is located within a short distance of the city wastewater treatment plant (it's at the end of the park). We did not notice the smell unless you were right next to the plant. Sites are fairly close together but still enough room to put awnings out without encroaching on your neighbor's property. Fire pit was right by our door, we weren't able to use it. There is a fantastic bike path, the Little Traverse Greenway that runs along the city's park. The city hospital is right behind the park as well, so you can hear the hospital's power plant running. We really weren't bothered by that. Great location to city's restaurants and parks, within walking distance. Rated a 6 because of site conditions. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2010 - $28.00
If you want to be near Lake Michigan, basically lake front, close to city park, green way, bike trail, easy access to the town of Petoskey, this park will suffice. There are not a lot of extras, but for an easy place to camp, be left alone, it is certainly acceptable. The folks complaining about odor from water treatment plant-it was not a problem to us. Issue with hospital air conditioning noise, was not a problem to us. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2010 - $26.00
Very high winds the time we were here, but nice to be near the waterfront anyway. What few sites that had direct waterfront view, were taken up by seasonals, though if you are fine with a w/e only site, you may have a better choice. We asked for a full hookup site and were placed way in the back with 2 rows of RV's to look at, wishing we had toured the park before being placed, as we had minimal views of the water. Bathrooms, though dated, were clean. The showers always seemed to have a mess in them though I do liked the individual shower booths for convenience and privacy. Town of Petoskey is a perfectly laid out to enjoy a walking tour and a nice place to visit, as is the pretty community of Bay Harbor a couple of miles away. Great paved bike/walking path along the waterfront that goes through the CG, and all the way into town. Sites are gravel with some grass, though our's was all dirt and gravel and not level. As previously stated the "poo poo plant" at the end is quite pungent, though at the other end, the loud A/C units off the large hospital on the ledge above us is very loud. Pick noise or smell, your choice, but the waterfront and location for the money is a value. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2009 - $22.00
This park is very convenient to the town of Petoskey. It could be a very nice park, but it need some attention. The roads are pretty rough. The worst part is the sewer plant at the end of the road. It really smells bad if you are close to it. The views are fantastic and the marina and Bayfront Parks are great. I would stay again. Just make sure you are away from the sewer plant. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2009 - $22.00
Clean park, right on the lake. Sites are sand and grass. All of the waterfront sites are taken with rigs that stay here all summer. There is a hospital on the hill behind the park that has a very noisy A/C system. I would stay here again because it is very convenient to Petoskey and Mackinac Island. If the City spent a few bucks and a little time, this could be a great park. We camped at Magnus Park in a Motorhome.Undo
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Guns in America: The weapon of choice for criminals, but also a deterrent?Submitted by DeMolay on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 04:59
On average, about 86 people a day are killed by firearms in America, or 31,672 per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control tally for 2010, the latest year available.
That year, the CDC counted 19,392 gun deaths by suicide, 11,078 homicides with firearms, 606 deaths by accidental shootings and 596 with other or undetermined cause. (Read the full report.)
A child aged 5 through 14 in America is about 13 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than children in Japan, Italy or other industrial countries, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. (Watch the Harvard forum on gun violence.)
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Replacing lawn with groundcovers and low-growing herbs
I am looking for someone who has successfully replaced lawn with steppable ground cover and low-growing herbs.
We are considering doing this a bit at a time for our whole front lawn, with small patches of rock garden and paths.
i think it would be awesome. especially coming from someone who has to cut the grass :)
i really like it because it is something out of the ordindary. when i look around my neighborhood, atleast my street, everyone has just grass and i think it would be cool to make a whole rock garden with various green groundcover.
good luck with it!
I'd love to have thyme but it doesn't suppress weeds too well so you end up pulling blades of grass everywhere. Ground Ivy (gill) might work - it's a bear to get rid of once planted and covers very well forming a 3-6 inch high mat and survives some foot traffic. It and virginia creeper are fighting it out in a corner of my yard and they've both easily overcome grass.
I would be very hesitant to do that. The previous owner of my house did that, and I had to replanted the grass. I also heard many of my neighbors not so favorable comment about my previous yard. Unless your yard is very small, having a whole yard of herb and ground covers may looks strange and uneasy. Nothing beat a nice well maintained green lwan for landscaping. A garden is beautiful only when it sits alongside a clean and neat green lawn. Besides, a herb/ground cover lwan can be a maintenance nightmare in adverse weather conditions such as extreme dry, cold or heat. And, ... can you imaginge taking your family to walk on top of herb and ground covers after dinner?
I like the idea. Living where it is hot and dry, I removed the grass along the street, and where a driveway was on the side of the house (the garage is in the alley so I did not need a driveway). All of that is slowing being coverted over to plants. I have lilac bushes, lots of lavendar etc. The part of the lawn closest to the house has has 40% of the lawn removed and plants added. I would like to finish it some day. I left this smaller portion grass cause my dog does like sitting under a tree when I work in front. Where I live in Denver (an older neigborhood built in the 1910's and 1920's), it is very acceptable to convert the front lawn to plantings. As I drive to work, I see more and more people doing it. I love the look of a nice green lawn. On the other hand...I prefer what I have....esp with drought and heat With 20 different irises lining the front I had people stopping to compliment my yard this year. I say go for it...esp if you are in a desert-ish region. Mulching and weed barriers can do wonders for conserving water. Planting plans with the area around is slightly lower helps to retan moisture. Do it!


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1 Training Secrets for Extreme Performance By: William Wong N.D., Ph.D., Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame Here in the US we like to think of ourselves as adaptable to sports performance. I'll explain being on the cutting edge, leaders in all how that works in a bit. endeavors, and ahead of the game in all things. This attitude may be true in some True strength training uses very heavy things but it is definitely not true in Sports weights, few repetitions and they do Medicine or athletic conditioning. Typically something unthinkable in bodybuilding - they America's ivory towers of sports medicine and cheat. In other words they use their whole exercise physiology are 20 to 30 years behind body to help perform the lift. It's like Bruce Scandinavia and Eastern Europe in their Lees' principle of putting the whole body mass theory and application. As an example, the behind a punch! This is not the recipe for top textbooks in exercise physiology on the safety in commercial gym settings where development of strength and power are from worries about injury liability run dominant over Scandinavian physiologists. Romania's former performance physiology. Neither is it the national weightlifting coach was scoffed at by recipe for a body builder's kissibly beautiful American academics when he described the biceps. But whole body involvement is the training techniques he and the Communist recipe for functional strength. Skill movement Block in general utilized to build their gold in martial arts, sport, dance or any activity medal powerhouse teams. They did not scoff involves the whole body, never one joint at a for long. On trying the techniques out, mostly time. Training only one joint solo without in attempts to discredit the Eastern Blocks synergistic involvement of the rest of the body methods, it turned out that they worked! The produces strength that has little transference Romanian coach now heads up the US to real movement during performance. When Olympic Weightlifting Team! involving the whole, body strength is amplified into power (strength over time). Proper Most of the powerful Iron Curtain competitors strength training does not produce a lot of were relatively small and poor countries. How hypertrophy (bloating). Instead it produces a could these nations with their small gene pools change in muscle known as hyperplasia where hope to compete against the powerhouses of a muscle bundle splits and becomes two or genetic variety such as the US with it's huge more overlapping muscle bundles. The result racial mix and the Soviet Union with it's is not the bloated, soft, easily lost size of the hundreds of nationalities. These large nations bodybuilder, but plywood strong dense could custom fit a genetic type to a sport. The muscles with lasting useable strength. smaller countries had to work with what they had. What mix of things did the likes of Here again we have one of the differences Romania and East Germany do to produce between European sports science and the athletes of such superior ability? The answers US; physiologists here don't believe were threefold: True strength training, hyperplasia happens in humans. In Europe plyometric power training, Systemic enzymes. hyperplasia has been a given in sport science for 20 plus years and they've adjusted their What do we mean by true strength training? training methods accordingly with great Strength is the ability to apply force. Most of success. what passes for strength training in the West today is simply modified bodybuilding and as Notice the difference in size between Russian strength coach Pavel Tsatsouline bodybuilders and Olympic weight lifters. The says bodybuilding is the worst thing that ever smallest Olympic lifter is considerably stronger happened to weight training. Bodybuilding pound for pound than the biggest bodybuilder works with moderate resistance with moderate despite the size difference. Also, according numbers of repetitions, in very strict movement to studies done at two separate Olympics, the with the aim of producing muscular weight lifters are the second most flexible, hypertrophy. Hypertrophy is defined as an balanced, and agile athletes there: the increase in the size of an existing structure. gymnasts are the first. Watch a bodybuilder Bodybuilders use techniques that balloon out move - flexibility and balance are definitely not size with out producing significant gains in strong points of their training or being. Now, strength or producing strength that is watch the balance of an Olympic lifter doing a clean and jerk; try the technique yourself if you 2 don't think there's much to it! Then, watch some aspects of plyometric training with giant that lifter get out from under a fully loaded rubber balls and fancy equipment. You don't barbell held over head! Strength, balance need any of those; the Russians used tables and agility; sounds like traits needed in most and locker room benches. sports, do they not? Next, feel the difference in the muscle. Show muscle feels doughy to a Let's first answer the basic question as to what hard squeeze, like the muscles on a plyometric exercise is. Plyometrics are dystrophic child. Now squeeze the arm of an exercises that involve an explosive movement Olympic lifter or power lifter. Solid steel of the extremities to propel the entire body. covered by flesh. Show or performance? The wind-ups to these movements are usually Posing or movement? Kata or Combat; for full body and the body learns how to which shall you train? The physiological law of cooperate in producing great speed and training specificity demands that one has to explosiveness that transfers directly to a sport condition the muscles against the loads that skill. One example of plyometric work you the endeavor will demand from them. may have seen involves athletes zigzag Bodybuilding is a fine activity but it is a non jumping over knee high benches side to side. contact sport. If all you want to do is look The most common plyometric exercise involves great, then fine, bodybuild. But if you want to jumping up onto a bench some 20 to 25 be able to apply your muscles to a task, then inches high with both feet. Then the athlete strength train. Real strength training gets you jumps down again absorbing the downward ready to perform, to excel and to strive. energy on the return only to uncoil it once more to jump up again. The Soviets trained all Next, the Communists had to develop an of their athletes in Plyometrics, from the advanced way of turning the strength their archers to the fencers, the shooters to the techniques developed into power. Training wrestlers. They found that the balance, slowly teaches you to move slowly. While slow precession, agility, anaerobic conditioning, performance is initially needed to learn the and power developed by this work were useful proper mechanics of a skill, practice must be for all athletes in all sports. sped up after learning to insure proper performance. Most sports demand explosive A typical day for a Communist block athlete movements against resistance. That would go something like this. resistance can come either from gravity (as in Stretching, not the slow, static, passive gymnastics), a medium (such as water in stretching we advocate here, but an active swimming), an opponent (as in judo or stretching that actually had a side effect of wrestling) or a bat hitting a ball (as in producing strength. baseball). Explosive movements against the weights can be done safely if proper training if • Progressive Resistance Training. Strength its bio mechanics is done before hand. (This Work at the afore mentioned low reps, low is definitely one not to try at home boys and sets and high weights. Example 3 sets of girls, unless you've got the supervision of an 3 to 5 repetitions with 80 to 95% of a 1 Exercise Physiologist or certified Strength RM. A RM is a 1 Rep Max, the maximum Coach knowledgeable in the safety of such weight you can move in that exercise for 1 techniques). Don't depend on a personal repetition. (As far back as the early 1960's trainer to know these things. What's the the two pioneering PRE researchers, difference between those an Exercise DeLorm and Watkins, found that if an Physiologist or certified Strength Coach and a exercise is properly programmed and personal trainer? It's like the difference executed then its goals could be between someone who gets their black belt by accomplished in 3 to 4 sets. Adding sets attending two or three weekend seminars after 4 made no difference to the final every few months as opposed to someone outcome and often served to over train the who masters an art by spending years learning subject). it's discipline in a temple. • Plyometric Exercises. Explosiveness against weights only partially builds the ability to produce power. To fill this • Skills Training. Practice in the actual sport. need of sport, the Eastern Block exercise science group developed Plyometric training. • Additional aerobic or anaerobic Here in the States some folks have fancied up conditioning as needed by the sport. 3 What is anaerobic conditioning? Everyone wasting catabolizing responses, where the can more or less describe aerobic exercise as body begins to break it's own muscle down working out the heart and lungs to develop and eat itself. These happen through the endurance. This description would be correct, cortisone hormones the body produces in and we'll add one thing; in aerobic exercise, response to the inflammation. oxygen is the primary fuel the body uses to maintain its workload. You literally burn The one aspect unrecognized until the 60's oxygen. Anaerobic exercise on the other was that intense training schedules lowered hand does not involve long steady bouts of the bodies immunity. Every day of hard work, but short and super intense rounds of training is followed by two to three days of exercise. In this type of work, oxygen is either immune system suppression. When an athlete not available to the muscles due to the tags too many days of training together intensity of muscular contractions which cut off without adequate rest then the immune blood supply or, the work bout overloads the system goes into steep decline to the point body beyond it's ability to deliver oxygen to all where in some athletes, such as marathoners, of the working parts. In this type of work, the it dies out all together. There is now even a cells burn glycogen or blood sugar as their professional journal for immunology issues in primary fuel instead of oxygen. sports medicine. What armament did the Iron Curtain countries use to combat these three Olympic free style wrestling is the best deadly foes to performance? example of an anaerobic sport. Free style wrestlers are the best conditioned athletes in Through the 40's and into the 60's they tried all of sport both aerobically and anaerobically, to use Cortico Steroid drugs against the as the demands of their skill are so great. inflammation. These drugs had nasty side Conditioning for anaerobic ability involves near effects such as water weight gain, death of endless repetition of exercise drills involving bursa (the tissues that lubricate the articulation one burst of energy after another. Athletes of muscle to bone), weakening the tendons, wind up breathless, nauseous, dizzy and the wasting muscles, osteoporosis, extreme mood number of precious energy producing centers swings and more. None of those are of the cells known as mitochondria just build conducive to high level athletic performance! and build. This increases both the stores of The issues of fibrosis and immune system potential energy as well as the actual furnaces depression, they had no answers for. Then to burn that energy in the cells. The result: came the late 60's and everything changed. longer, stronger, more controlled and able bursts of skill performance. In the constant search for substances to improve performance, the East Germans took The third secret was not a training method but notice of a preparation that was gaining favor a physiological realization as to three on the other side of Germany. This product drawbacks of intense training: Inflammation, was used by physicians to naturally reduce micro injury with muscle breakdown, and inflammation, eat away at fibrosis, and immune system depression. These are the modulate immune function. main limiting factors on sports performance. • It's components were already approved for All conditioning and skills training produces use in boxing to reduce brain swelling due inflammation. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, to practice or matches. bursa, periosteum all react to hard training by • When the product was tested it surpassed swelling and becoming painful. The more of all expectations as an inflammation this accrues, the less intensely the athlete will controller. What's more, it kept micro participate in the training. Micro injuries injuries from becoming macro injuries and happen every day in skill and conditioning ate away at the limiting fibrosis of older exercise. These tiny injuries are not enough injuries. to sideline an athlete but they accumulate and • When an athlete was injured, use of the sooner than not become a macro injury product caused that athlete to heal faster demanding rest. Over and above the lapse in than was ever seen before. Further, since training, both micro and macro injuries produce it readily controlled inflammation, the scar tissue (fibrosis) which limits the range of bodies' cortisol response did not have to motion in the limb and creates the potential for kick in. Therefore, the product was protein further injury. Hard training produces muscle spairing, preventing catabolism. And as a 4 further assist to anabolism, the product 5. Opens clogged circulation. Fibrin forms was found to produce as near a total the matrix for arteriosclerosis. Systemic digestion and absorption of protein as is enzymes eat away at the matrix, dissolve possible, increasing the speed in which the fat that holds the blockage together muscles could rebuild and grow. and bonds onto the heavy metals that reinforce the clog carrying them to the Use of cortico steroids could be dropped. bowel for deposition. Enzymes have been Moreover, the toxic non-steroidal anti- doing all this without creating dangerous inflammatory drugs (NSAID's) such as aspirin, stroke and heart attack causing embolites. ibuprofen and the rest could also be dropped, European doctors have been using oral saving the athletes from facing the great killer Systemic Enzymes for over 40 years of young sportsmen - kidney failure. The without ever having a single patient die or combination of dehydration and NSAID use is fall ill from using the products! the single largest cause for athletic deaths. During one New Your Marathon in the late Here in the US, we have the planets best 1990's an Ibuprofen manufacturer gave out systemic enzyme in Vitalzym, from World samples of their product before the race. Four Nutrition. It has replaced Ibuprofen, aspirin runners died at that marathon from kidney and other enzyme products in NBA, NFL, failure! Major League Baseball and NHL training rooms. What was this product whose use was classified as a state secret in most of Eastern The next Eastern Block trick was to use Europe - Systemic Enzymes! The exact same Androstene to increase natural testosterone products we can buy over the counter here in output in their athletes. Tests had been heath food stores! developed to detect Anabolic Steroids, as they are traceable long term in the body. The International Olympic Committee banned Andro on the other hand, though it boosted T cortico steroid use in 1975. Most of the production up by several hundred percent, Eastern Block countries did not even blink. only did so for some 3 hours at a time and Their athletes were already off the anti- could not be detected in any tests then had. inflammatory drugs and performing harder, If we timed the application of an Andro stack healing faster, staying healthier and to the natural rhythm of a person's maintaining their ranges of motion all through Testosterone production, then the effect of the use of safe Systemic Enzymes. What are the natural T boost could be further Systemic Enzymes? These are a synergistic enhanced. We all make T at two primary times blend of protein cleaving enzymes that have during the day, between 2 and 4 in the five primary actions. Systemic Enzymes are: morning and again between 2 and 4 in the 1. Anti-inflammatory. Hydrolytic enzymes afternoon. Andro was applied just before bed are the primary anti-inflammatory agents of and at mid afternoon. The effects were the body. stupendous. 2. Fight Fibrosis, from scar tissue to fibrotic cysts, the enzymes eat them. Oral ingestion of Androstene and it cousins is 3. Modulate Immune Function. If the wasteful. Research at the University of Dublin immune system is depressed, as happens Department of Pharmacology found that after hard training, the enzymes boost absorption through the gut was only at 5% of function, along with creating more Natural what was taken in. On the other hand it was Killer Cells and White Blood Cells to kill found that applying the Andro stack to the germs. If the immune system is operating skin as a cream, using a special lipid carrier to too high, as happens in Lupus or draw the supplement into the tissues, Rheumatoid Arthritis, the enzymes down produced 95% absorption and utilization. shift immune function and eat the Tests proved it and even better, the effects of Circulating Immune Complexes the system the increased T could be felt in 15 minutes! is making to attack the patient's own The cream the doctors at the school tissue. developed is available from a Phoenix based 4. Cleans the blood of dead debris the liver company called Life-Flo; the product is named can't handle on it's first pass through, Andro Edge. leaving the blood freer flowing and better able to carry oxygen and nutrients. 5 If you are into extreme sports, true fitness and real training - overdoing and pushing the envelope of human performance, then take heed of what they did behind the Berlin wall. The Comrades got it right! Now 30 years later, we need to catch on. References: 1). Muller-Hepburn W.: Anwendung von Enzymen in der Sportsmedizin. Forum d. Prakt. Artes 18 (1970). 2). Bronstein J.L.: Oral Enzyme Tablets in the Treatment of Boxing Injuries. The Practitioner 198 (1967), 547. 3). Baumuller M. Therapy of Ankle Joint Distortions with Hydrolytic Enzymes - Results from a double blind clinical trial. In: G.P.H. Hermans, W.L. Mostred (eds.) Sports, Medicine and Health. Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford (1990), 1137. Resources: Vitalzym is made by World Nutrition 1-800-548- 2710 Andro Edge is made by Life Flo 1-888-999- 7440 Soviet training techniques can be learned about by reading the works of Russian coach Pavel Tsatsouline. His books are available from Dragon Door publications at www.dragondoor.com. About the author: Sports Medicine Hall of Fame member Dr. William Wong has been involved in athletic training, sports conditioning and rehabilitation for over 20 years. His lifting carrier spans some 35 years. He is the author of the book "10 Natural Treatments You Haven't Heard Of" and the upcoming book "Natural Sports Medicine". In 1993 Professor Wong was also inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame as Wing Chun instructor of the year. His teachings can be found on the net at www.totalityofbeing.com. What Are Systemic Enzymes and What Do They Do? By: William Wong N.D., Ph.D. Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame. The word systemic means body wide. Systemic enzymes are those that operate, not just for digestion, but throughout your body in every system and organ. But let's take first things first, what is an enzyme? An enzyme is a biocatalyst – something that makes something else work or work faster. Chemical reactions are generally slow things, enzymes speed them up. Without enzymes, the chemical reactions that make up our life would be too slow for life as we know it. (As slow as sap running down a tree in winter). For life to manifest as we know it, enzymes are essential to speed up the reactions. We have roughly 3000 enzymes in our bodies and over 7000 enzymic reactions. Most of these enzymes are derived or created from what we think of as the protein digesting enzymes. But while digestion is an important part of what enzymes do, it's almost the absolute last function. First and foremost, these body-wide protein-eating enzymes have the following actions: Natural Anti-Inflammatory. Enzyems are the first line of defense against inflammation. (1,2,3). Inflammation is a reaction by the immune system to an irritation. Let's say you have an injured right knee. The immune system, sensing the irritation in the knee, creates a protein chain called a Circulating Immune Complex (CIC for short), tagged specifically for that right knee. (The Nobel Prize in biology was won in 1999 by a scientist who found the tagging mechanism). This CIC floats down to the right knee and causes pain, redness and swelling – the classic earmarks for inflammation. This, at first, is a beneficial reaction; it warns us that a part of ourselves is hurt and needs attention. But, inflammation is self perpetuating, it creates an irritation that in response, the body makes CIC's for! Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Celebrex, Viox and the rest of the Non Steroidial Anti Inflammatory Drugs all work by keeping the body from making all the CIC's. This ignores the fact that some CIC's are vital to life, like those that maintain the lining of the intestine and those that keep the kidneys functioning! Not to mention the fact that they, along with acetaminophen, are highly toxic to the liver. Every year 20,000 Americans die from these over the counter drugs and another 100,000 will wind up in the hospital with liver damage, kidney damage or bleeding intestines from the side effects of these drugs. (4,5). Systemic enzymes, on the other hand, are perfectly safe and free of dangerous side effects. They have no LD-50, or toxic dose. (6). Best of all, systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the good CIC's and the bad ones. This is due to the fact that hydrolytic enzymes are lock and key mechanisms and their "teeth" will only fit over the bad CIC's. So instead of preventing the creation of all CIC's, systemic enzymes just "eat" the bad ones and in so doing, lower inflammation everywhere. With that, pain is also lowered. Anti Fibrosis. Enzymes eat scar tissue and fibrosis. (7). Fibrosis is scar tissue and most doctors learn in anatomy that it is fibrosis that eventually kills us all. Let me explain. As we age, which starts at 27, we have a diminishing of the body's output of enzymes. This is because we make a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime and we use up a good deal of them by the time we are 27. At that point, the body knows that if it keeps up that rate of consumption we'll run out of enzymes and be dead by the time we reach our 40's. (Cystic Fibrosis patients who have virtually no enzyme production to speak of, even as children usually don't make it past their 20's before they die of the restriction and shrinkage in the lungs from the formation of fibrosis or scar tissue). So our body begins to dole out our enzymes with an eyedropper instead of with a tablespoon. Result: the repair mechanism of the body goes off balance and has nothing to reduce the over abundance of fibrin it deposits in nearly everything from simple cuts, to the inside of our internal organs and blood vessels. It is then when most women begin to develop things like fibrocystic breast disease, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis. We all grow arterial sclerotic (meaning scar tissue) plaque, and have fibrin begin to spider web its way inside of our internal organs, reducing their size and function over time. This is why as we age our wounds heal with thicker, less pliable, weaker and very visible scars. If we replace the lost enzymes, we can control and reduce the amount of scar tissue and fibrosis our bodies have. As physicians in the US are now discovering, even old scar tissue can be "eaten away" from surgical wounds, pulmonary fibrosis, kidney fibrosis even keloid years after their formation. Medical doctors in Europe and Asia have known this and used orally administered enzymes for such for over 40 years! Blood Cleansing. The blood is not only the river of life, it is also the river through which the cells and organs dispose of their waste. Enzymes improve circulation by eating the excess fibrin that causes blood to sometimes get as thick as catsup or yogurt, creating the perfect environment for the formation of clots. All of this material is supposed to be cleaned off by the liver on "first pass" or the first time it goes through. Given the sluggish and near toxic or toxic states of everyone's liver these days, that seldom happens. So the waste remains in the blood, waiting for the liver to have enough free working space and enough enzymes to clean it. This can take days or in some people, weeks! (8). When systemic enzymes are taken, they stand ready in the blood and take the strain off of the liver by; ♦ Cleaning excess fibrin from the blood and reducing the stickiness of blood cells. These two actions minimize the leading causes of stroke and heart attack: blood clots. (8). ♦ Breaking dead material down small enough that it can immediately pass into the bowel. (8). ♦ Cleansing the FC receptors on the white blood cells, improving their function and availability to fight off infection. (9). And here we come to the only warning we have to give concerning the use of Vitalzym or any other systemic enzyme – don't use the product if you are a hemophiliac or are on prescription blood thinners like coumadin, heparin and plavix. The enzymes cause the drugs to work better, so there is the possibility of thinning the blood too much. Immune System Modulating. Enzymes are adaptogenic, seeking to restore a steady state to the body. (9). When the immune system is running low, we become susceptible to infectious disease. When it's cranked up too high, then the system creates antibodies that attack it's own tissues, as are seen in the autoimmune diseases of MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Lupus. Here the Vitalzym will tone down immune function and eat away at the antibodies the immune system is making to attack its bodies own tissue. When the immune system is run down too low, the enzymes increase immune response, producing more Natural Killer cells, and improving the efficiency of the white blood cells, all leading to improved immunity. Virus Fighting. Viruses harm us by replicating in our bodies. To do this, a virus must bond itself to the DNA in our cells through the medium of its exterior protein cell wall. Anything that disrupts that cell wall inhibits the ability of viral replication by rendering individual viruses inert. (10,11). Systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the proteins that are supposed to be in your body and those that are foreign or not supposed to be there (again the enzyme lock and key mechanism). Vitalzym has the strongest protein eating effect of any enzyme due to its Serrapeptase content and can be of help in combating viruses. Vitalzym with its serrapeptase based blend of enzymes is the strongest and fastest working systemic enzyme on the planet. No brag, just fact. References: 1) Carroll A., R.: Clinical examination of an enzymatic anti-inflammatory agent in emergency surgery. Arztl. Praxis 24 (1972), 2307. 2) Mazzone A, et al.: Evaluation of Serratia peptidase in acute or chronic inflammation of otorhinolaryngology pathology: a multicentre, double blind, randomized trial versus placebo. J Int Med Res. 1990; 18(5):379-88. 3) Kee W., H. Tan S, L., Lee V. Salmon Y. M.: The treatment of breast engorgement with Serrapeptase: a randomized double blind controlled trial. Singapore Med J. 1989:30(l):48-54. 4) Celebrex article Wall Street Journal 19 April 1999. 5) No author listed: Regular Use of Pain Relievers Can Have Dangerous Results. Kaleidoscope Interactive News, American Medical Association media briefing. July 24, 1997. 6) Enzymes – A Drug of the Future, Prof. Heinrich Wrba MD and Otto Pecher MD. Published 1993 Eco Med. 7) Kakinumu A. et al.: Regression of fibrinolysis in scalded rats by administration of serrapeptase. Biochem. Pharmacol. 31:2861-2866,1982. 8) Ernst E., Matrai A.: Oral Therapy with proteolytic enzymes for modifying blood rheology. Klin Wschr. 65 (1987), 994. 9) Kunze R., Ransberger K., et at: Humoral immunomodulatory capasity of proteases in immune complex decomposition and formation. First International symposium on combination therapies, Washington, DC, 1991. 10) Jager H.: Hydrolytic Enzymes in the therapy of HIV disease. Zeitschr. Allgemeinmed., 19 (1990), 160. 11) Bartsch W.: The treatment of herpes zoster using proteolytic enzymes. Der Informierte Arzt. 2 (1974), 424-429.
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Planning on planting my year old bines this weekend near a river off the Chesapeake bay. Do you think the roots could grow too deep and tap into brackish water. They'll be planted about 6 feet above water level.
If you provide a nice rich bed a couple of feet deep and twice as broad, I don't think a hop plant will send roots down anywhere near six feet...
Ever try to dig up a 5-6 year old crown?
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I don't know how deep they actually go but at about 3.5 feet down they were as thick as my wrist and didn't want to let go of the crown. No excavator, just a shovel, pry bar and many quarts of beer. I've seen quotes in different sources that said they'll travel as far as 10-12 feet and if they have deep soils (the kinds in grape growing regions) they may even go further. After 30+ years in different aspects of agriculture, I've haven't seen many plants (perennials) that can compare to what hops are capable of.
For the op, I don't fully understand hydrology and wouldn't want to guess what types of water the plant would actually find at different levels in the soil or how much of a buffering effect the soil in a region like that would provide. I have a feeling they would grow but not certain on how well. Stick one in and tell us about it!
Thanks for the input. I'll keep you all informed periodically as to what happens
Personally, I wouldn't be as worried about how deep the roots go but rather is there ever a chance of river flooding your hops? That usually does them in.
I think they are high enough they'll be ok. If the stars aligned and a hurricane came up the Chesapeake Bay with a storm surge during a full moon. Then they might flood out. But that is like a 50 to 100 year occurrence. Last time that happened was 2003 and I'm pretty sure where I'm putting them was dry then.
More than just damage to the plant, that can add a lot of extra force on the trellis system, too.


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It's been almost 150 years since Christmas was celebrated during the Civil War.
But at the Swetland Homestead this weekend, it's 1863 all over again.
It's a Civil War Christmas at the historic site in Wyoming, where the Luzerne County Historical Society is holding its annual Christmas Candlelight Tours. The tours of the original farmhouse built in 1803 - and the rooms added in the 1860s - began Thursday evening and will continue through Sunday evening.
The tour times at the Swetland, located at 885 Wyoming Ave., are tonight from 6 to 8; Saturday from 1 to 5 and 6 to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Members of the 143rd Pa. Volunteer Infantry Civil War re-enactors will be there, said Mark Riccetti Jr., the historical society's director of operations.
He said visitors will learn about what Christmas was like during the Civil War.
Costumed interpreters will recreate a Civil War Christmas. Visitors will tour the kitchen where food is prepared in the open hearth, and visit the dining room, which is set up for the holiday meal. Others in costume will be decorating the Christmas tree in the parlor. The tour will include an upstairs bedroom, decorated for a child's Christmas.
Guests will learn about the Christmas traditions of that time and enjoy refreshments and Christmas music.
"The house will be decorated in the traditional style," he said. "We'll be on hand as the Swetlands."
Riccetti will portray George Swetland, great-grandson of Luke Swetland, one of the original settlers to come to the Wyoming Valley from Connecticut in the 18th century.
According to local history, Luke Swetland took part in the Battle of Wyoming in 1778 and later joined Sullivan's Expedition against the Indians after having been captured by Indians. He also helped build the Forty Fort Meeting House.
The Swetland Homestead has been open for tours since 1958 and the Christmas tours have been going on for well over a decade, Riccetti said.
"But this is the first time we're doing this particular one," he said.
And this year, the tours have a sponsor - Michael Valenti's Restaurant in Exeter.
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CA Technologies Offers Solution that Integrates with SAP Solutions for GRC to Help Address Risk and Compliance Challenges09:00 EST Monday, January 28, 2013 ISLANDIA, N.Y. (Business Wire) -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution that integrates with SAP® solutions for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) to help reduce the risk of fraud and manage access compliance. Through a partnership agreement between CA Technologies and Greenlight Technologies, CA's IAM capabilities are integrated with the SAP Access Control application. The integration was developed using Greenlight's Enterprise Business Controls Platform and provides real-time segregation of duties visibility and compliant user provisioning and de-provisioning across both IT and the business application landscape. The solution automates segregation of duties policy checks using SAP Access Control for risk analysis in order to provide preventative controls that can escalate, mitigate or even stop toxic combinations of access prior to provisioning. Additionally it delivers a consistent provisioning model across both SAP and non-SAP applications to reduce IT support requirements. By combining the risk efficiencies gained though SAP Access Control with the operational efficiencies of CA IAM, organizations can reduce their on-going risk exposure and streamline their compliance efforts and reporting. "Today's multi-application, multi-policy environments add complexity and risk to IAM processes, such as provisioning, making it tough for organizations to improve operational efficiencies and manage compliance," said Mike Denning, general manager, Security business, CA Technologies. "Our agreement with Greenlight creates a solution to simplify the process of provisioning while enabling consistent segregation of duty checks across key applications." "Our proven track record of extending access policies across the enterprise coupled with the award-winning capabilities in CA Technologies IAM solutions make implementing the Greenlight Enterprise Integration Solution a simple choice for organizations," said Anand Adya, Founder and CEO of Greenlight Technologies. "We look forward to further collaboration with CA Technologies." About CA Technologies CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com. Follow CA Technologies TwitterSocial Media PagePress Releases Legal Notices Copyright © 2013 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. CA TechnologiesLeanne Agurkis, 386-738-1912Mobile: email@example.com


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At our local Hydrangea Society meeting this week, they were offering a 3-Pack of quart sized Hydrangeas for a nominal donation of $5.
Included were:
Invincibelle Spirit (Pink-flowering Hyd. arb. mophead)
Blue Bunny (Hyd. involucrata)
Lets Dance Starlight
I brought one of the packs home and hope to grow them into mature shrubs.
I have 'Annabelle' and several Hyd. macs, but have never grown H. involucrata or found any at local nurseries.
Have always heard they were too tender for the landscape in my area, but the PW site states they are hardy to Zone 6 (-10°F). Anyone have experience with these?
"...the PW site states they are hardy to Zone 6 (-10�F)."
I had H.involucrata for 3 years in my 6b and it experienced severe diebacks every winter. Of course it didn't bloom.
I gave it to a friend in a solid z7 (Long Island, NY) where it produced handfull of blooms this year.
Not familiar with this particular cultivar which might have better hardiness characteristics.
In any event, you have nothing to lose, try and see.
Wow wow wow what a great buy !I,m looking for two of those and I,m sure I will end up paying closer to $40 each for them. I haven,t heard of the lets dance Star Light. Is it a new release as well?
I have seen the Let's Dance®Series being offered by on-line vendors for a year or more, but they often ship rooted cuttings or liners.
According to the nursery that introduced them (link below), they were supposed to be in the retail nurseries this year.
That said, I have not found a single one of the series at any of the local retailers that carry the Proven Winners (PW) line! In fact, I saw no PW plants at all there, throughout the year.
HD is the primary retailer of PW plants in this area and their supplier may not grow the Let's Dance Series or grew tired of having to take back a bunch of dead plants!
Here is a link that might be useful: Let's Dance® Starlight Hydrangea
Thanks for the responses!
Since I'll be growing the Blue Bunny in a pot for a year or so, I will probably need to bring it indoors after the first frost.
Last winter was horrible for most of my macs and serratas. Springtime revealed lots of dead canes and some plants were killed back to the roots. Some of those in pots didn't recover. I didn't protect any of them, because during the past 20 years, I had never experienced that problem. No record lows were recorded, it was just an overall colder season than we have experienced in recent memory.
Thanks again!