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On 12/29/07 I heard an infomercial about Purity Products' HA Joint and Skin Super Formula. They advertised a free trial as long as you paid for shipping. I called the number, ordered and as the Customer Service rep went through my order, she mentioned that I would be enrolled in the company's Super Saver Program. I stopped her and asked for details. She said the program would allow me to receive the product I was trying for a discounted rate that would be received in a 3-month supply amount. (3 bottles @ $39.95 each in one shipment) I informed her that I did not want to be in the Super Saver Program.
She tried to get me to consider it as I would be afforded great savings. I told her that I would be giving the product to someone that I thought could use it and if, upon using it, he found it to be effective and a good product, then he could order it on his own. After going back and forth several times on this I finally was satisfied that I had gotten through to her and even made sure at the end of the conversation that I was NOT enrolled in the Super Saver Program.
On 1/19/08 I received and email from Purity Products informing me that my credit card that I provided was about to expire and that I needed to contact them so that I could make sure that my next Super Saver shipment was not jeopardized. It said that 3 bottles of the HA Joint and Skin Super Formula was scheduled to be charged to my credit card and shipped on 1/21/08. On 1/21/08 (which was the next business day from when I received the email) I called Purity Products first thing in the morning. The man that answered the phone told me that I was scheduled to be charged for the 3 bottles as stated above and that it was also scheduled to be shipped that day.
I informed him that I did NOT want to receive the order. He told me that I would be receiving a tremendous savings by being on the Super Saver Program. He also asked me if I wanted to order other Purity Products instead of the one I had ordered and a few other things that I am unable to recall - to which I kept saying that I wanted to be taken off the Super Saver Program and not be charged or shipped the product. I felt like he was not listening to what I was saying and kept trying to get me to order something else or stay on the program.
Needless to say I was frustrated and finally raised my voice to say once more that I wanted to be taken off the program and not charged or shipped the product. HE got rude with me and said to me: "Ma'am, I'm not the person who took your order." To which I said again what I wanted. He then gave me a cancellation number. 1/22/08 I decided to check my credit card to see if Purity Products charged my account anyway. Sure enough - THEY DID! I wrote an email to them that day and got an auto-response saying that someone would contact me in a few days.
1/24/08 I received an email from ** who told me that it looked as if my inquiry was handled so if I needed further assistance I could contact customer service via email. 1/25/08 I received a box in the mail from Purity Products. It sits here unopened and I am furious at the fact that they charged my account and sent me the product. I wrote to the company and ** and am awaiting a response. This company's consumer practice is less than ethical and I expect a full refund and don't expect to have to take my time to send back their product that I did not want in the first place.
They have cost me time, money and they have cost themselves a customer and then some as I will make sure to share this with everyone I know. I am the editor of a natural health magazine and so welcome any emails from consumers out there who have had similar experiences with this company. As I plan to look into their ethics and fiscal practices and will no doubt publish my findings if they turn out as I think they will.
CALGARY, ALASKA -- As a company Purity Products has screwed up in their service to me. They've occasionally sent me stuff I've either never ordered, in a way I did not order it, and during periods when I've voluntarily suspended my shipping. The later was usually due to not taking the prescribed daily amount daily while being on the Super Saver program with auto shipments. Each time any of the above happens I find it a pain to have to deal within the first place. On the other hand, each time I've contacted them regarding these matters they have corrected the situation in an agreeable manner. I've dealt with them for years.
These so called "pain" incidences might occur a couple times a year. They should correct these shipping situations so they don't happen. Regarding their product HA (Hydraluronic Acid). Speaking of pains: Years back I would awake in the middle of the night with a sharp stabbing pain in my knee. The regular routine was to get a frozen gel pack from the freezer, go back to bad, put the gel pack on my knee, and eventually go back to sleep. I bicycle and, since knees are important to cycling, I wanted it fixed. I went to my GP, physio therapy, chiro, had infrared radiation, but they didn't work. (No disrespect intended toward people in these respected professions.)
Eventually, I came across HA as a potential solution. I signed up with Purity Products Super Saver. In two or three months no more pain. I've since bicycled across the continent on a loaded bike. Never have I had a recurrence of that sharp pain, or anything like it, since taking HA. I realize this is designed to be a whining site. I think it's better to solve a problem. Yes, I too would like Purity Products to de-bug their shipping issues to absolute perfection. As it currently stands, I have to ask their customer service agents to fix these things - and they do. HA tablets probably do not cure baldness or poor life choices, but they did fix my issue.
(Speaking of bugs that can be fixed, I think this very site could easily accommodate Canadian addresses.) With respectful regards.
It is almost impossible to cancel their automatic shipping/billing. You can tell it's a scam when: You send them an email, and they tell you can't cancel by email - why not? You can't cancel by calling the "order" number - why not? The only way you can cancel is by calling the "customer service number". The automated customer service system will allow you change your automatic shipping quantity, etc, but it won't let you cancel. For this you have to speak to a "customer service rep". I was on the phone for 15 minutes before anyone picked up. I'm sure this delay is purposeful also.
The customer service representative wouldn't stop talking - told me all sorts of BS: account was fully customizable (who cares?). Told me they just wanted to make sure that I got all the CO-Q10 I needed, and since it was a "natural" product. I may need more than the free 30 day supply for it to take effect. I said no thanks. Then began all the other offers and discounts. I had to be rude, and said I want to cancel and I don't want to buy anything! This is the worst high pressure, dishonest experience I've ever had with Internet/Mail Order products. My advice is don't do business with these people.
MICHIGAN -- These people are liars. We tired this product one time, called them back and said thanks but no thanks, it did not help with the joint problems ad advertised, and we told them in no uncertain terms to not ship us any more product. Months later, out of the blue, they shipped again, and billed our checking account 80 bucks! Now we have to wait two weeks to get our money back and they have the gall to lie to us and tell us that we authorized delayed shipping which is total BS, and an outright bald face lie.
The customer service department told us that we would have to pay for return shipping if we wanted to get our money back. What a bunch of liars. This company engages in highly unethical and in my opinion illegal activities - if they take out money from someone's checking account without permission that is nothing less than stealing. We have to waste valuable time on the phone trying to get our money back and waste more time going to UPS to ship back product. Don't trust these telemarketing scammers, if you call them after hearing their ad radio ad as we did, you will be on their list and they will lie and ship your product you never ordered if you choose to not order again.
For the last few years I had been managing my mother's and my sister's Purity Products accounts. Neither of them really take the product anymore, but wanted me to keep their options open for later and preserve their pricing (which you only get if you are on auto-ship). Purity wouldn't let me suspend the auto shipments, so I had to move the shipping date every 3 months. In the beginning I had to call in and talk to a representative to do this... a hassle... and then later I changed the date online. My shipping date was August 5th and I went online on July 28th and moved the date ahead as usual.
This morning I was awoken by my bank telling me I was overdrawn. I don't keep much money in that account, but I knew I wasn't overdrawn. I went online and saw that Purity had sent my order even though I had changed the date. When I contacted a representative (and then a supervisor) they said I hadn't changed the date and they sent out almost $130 worth of products. They offered me 25% off or a shipping label to send it back. All fine and dandy, but that means a refund weeks from now and no reimbursement of the $70 bank fee they caused.
I usually take a screen shot of every time I move the date but this time I didn't. Of course... they told me that their system tells them when someone logs in and it didn't show that in July. Well, if that's the case how come only one of the orders shipped, my mom's, and the other order, my sister's, was accurately canceled????? Sorry guys, that one obviously doesn't fly. So anyhow... I finally got them to cancel my accounts and they are sending me a return postage. Refund hopefully to follow in a few WEEKS (If not I will post it here). SOL on the bank charges.
Told them I would review the company - they didn't care - so here it is for what it's worth. Just remember folks, any company that lures you in with a free sample and then requires you to do auto-shipments is usually not reputable and you WILL get sent something you don't want sooner or later. Save yourself a lot of hassle, and possibly bank fees - go down to a good health food store and buy what you need, when you need it. I have no indication that their products are superior to anyone else, or that their prices are better. Save the hassle, the unwanted shipments and possibly the bank fees.
We apologize for this experience. We hope everything was resolved. If not, please call our Customer Care Coordinator, Joel Joseph, directly at 516-301-5023 or our customer care line at 888-769-7873.
Most companies selling nutrition supplements create marketing programs to exaggerate the potency and usefulness of their products. For example, this morning on the car radio I heard a Purity Products "expert" waxing eloquently about the multi-health benefits of AFX. He stated that this product has 6,000 times the antioxidant value of vitamin C! If that is factual, then this product is possibly poisonous to your body! Whatever antioxidant potency nature created in food for your body is what is RIGHT for your body! That goes for ALL nutrients! Do not ingest multi-potency anything. Need extra vitamin C? Eat more foods containing vitamin C.
The supplement industry mostly sells you synthetic nutrients. They are chemicals. The FDA authorizes the industry to claim ascorbic acid as being vitamin C. It is not! That is a lie. It is merely a single factor of the vitamin C complex. When you consume 1,000 mg of ascorbic acid as vitamin C it acts as a drug in your body. It might make your infection symptoms cease, but it won't answer your body's deficiency and need for vitamin C complex. All symptoms are the body's communication that you have a deficiency, or toxic overload.
Self-disciplined people who do detox programs twice a year, eliminate addictions to carbs and sugar, and consume wholesome foods, tend not to have disease. There are genetic issue exceptions, of course. "Eat to live--not live to eat." "Eat only food that spoils, and eat it before it spoils." This Purity AFX product, and all others in the industry similar to it, are counterfeit - all their study claims notwithstanding. American society has a "disease"-care system, not a "health"-care system. Do you know that the FDA is registered as a private corporation? It is not a people's regulatory agency. It's management staff mostly all come from the industry it supposedly regulates.
Speak to your congress representative about that. He or she may or may not be on the take, but speak up anyway. The entire system is in serious need of detoxification!
When it comes to antioxidants – the more powerful the better. Like Vitamin C, the AstaREAL Astaxanthin in our new Asta FX formula is derived from natural sources such as salmon and shrimp. Our formula contains 4 mg of Astaxanthin per serving and has also been proven to be up to 6000 times more effective than Vitamin C and significantly more potent than Vitamin E, Alpha Lipoic Acid, EGCG and Co-Q-10! Why is this so important? Antioxidants are nature's way of fighting "free radicals" in our bodies. Free radicals are molecules that are destructive to our cells and tissue. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, so the more potent the antioxidant the more beneficial it is to our bodies.
As for vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, we agree with you that a person who eats a well balanced diet every day would most likely not need to take nutritional supplements. Unfortunately, for most, eating a well balanced diet is not always possible or practical. For example, according to the Vitamin D council, many people have Vitamin D levels in the winter months that are 1/3 of what they are during the summer months due to a lack of sunshine, which is a natural source of Vitamin D. That's why nutritional supplements are so important, they help fill in the gaps when we fail to get all the nutrition our bodies need every day.
Yours in Good Health,
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PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK -- I am trying to cancel an automatic shipment and it is nearly impossible. It cannot be done online. It cannot be done by telephone unless the person on the account calls. If that person is no longer able to communicate by telephone, there appears to be no way to stop these deliveries short of closing the bank account they are being charged to.
PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK -- I've been a customer of Purity Products for a couple years now and I think their products are of far better quality than any local drug or vitamin store, as evidenced by the way I feel when I use them. As a health care professional, I'm aware of the importance of taking daily vitamins and supplements. I must admit that I did stop using their brand of vitamin D and C, and Omega 3's, opting for the cheaper ones at The Vitamin Shoppe and GNC, but I didn't get the same results. Those vitamins in your local food market and drug stores are full of fillers, which is why they don't cost much. I had one small billing issue using the super saver program but it was resolved promptly.
The company offers incentives to keep your business by sending the super saver coupons to use towards a free bottle and $20.00 off coupons to used to purchase a new product. Side note, I am not an employee or affiliated with this company in any way, but I felt led to write this because I believe in the product, not to minimize or rebuke anyone else's opinion or complaint.
Yesterday I called to cancel my subscription for their Omega3 and Vitamin D supplements. After trying them for a month, I decided they were not worth the $55 per month cost and I could do better elsewhere. The customer service representative put me on hold while she got a confirmation number from her manager. When she came back on the phone, she said that they really wanted to keep me as a valued customer, so her manager authorized a special lower "super-saver" price for me. I declined, and then another, even lower price was offered, which I again declined.
Finally, because they really wanted to help me so much, I was told I would be given the vitamins at the same, even lower price, that employees pay. I said I don't like dealing with companies that keep lowering the price when you want to discontinue their products, I would rather deal with a company that offers the same always-low price to everyone, all the time. And I feel incredibly stupid for paying the inflated price for the 3 months I had already purchased. If you want to do business with a company like this, just be aware that they have many different price scales and you probably aren't getting the lowest without considerable dickering. Good luck!
PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK -- April 6, I called Purity Products' Customer Service. After waiting at least 5 minutes, I hung up. I tried again that same day. Waited nearly 10 minutes & finally hung up. April 7, 3:20 PM I emailed Purity Products informing the company that I wanted to cancel my order. An automatic reply, 6:07 PM, informed me that a customer care representative would reply via email within two business days. ** replied April 8, 3:33 PM that they had received my request to cancel my Super Saver order and that it was being processed. April 12, a Super Saver order arrived. I emailed Purity Products April 12, 2:50 PM stating again to cancel the order & that an order had arrived.
7:18 PM, I emailed them and asked for the RMA (return merchandise authorization). I have yet to receive a reply. I am disappointed my request to cancel was ignored as the product was sent to my house. Now, my concerns are growing. I will contact my credit card company today (June 14). I have already contacted the radio station that I heard the Purity Products commercial broadcasted.


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England v New Zealand: Joe Root hits maiden Test hundred
Second Test, Headingley (day two, close):
England 337-7 v New Zealand
Joe Root thrilled his home crowd with his maiden Test century to put England in a solid position against New Zealand at Headingley.
The 22-year-old, playing only his sixth Test, put on 124 for the fifth wicket with his Yorkshire team-mate Jonny Bairstow.
Root became the first Yorkshireman to score his maiden Test century at Headingley and the 11th youngest England centurion of all time before falling to the first delivery with the new ball for 104.
Bairstow soon followed after a fluent 64 and Stuart Broad made a duck as England threatened to undo much of their good work before Matt Prior's quick-fire unbeaten 38 took them to 337-7 at the close on day two.
Test Match Special analysis
"Joe Root's played beautifully, but ever since he was about 15, we at Yorkshire felt we had a good player here and that he had what it takes to be pretty special. He has good touch, good footwork, plays the ball late, and it always helps to play at your home ground as you're used to the pace."
The hosts, who lead the two-match series 1-0 following a 170-win in the opening Test at Lord's, will be looking to push on towards 400 on Sunday before picking apart the Kiwis' fragile batting line-up.
England had lunched on 67-3, with Jonathan Trott and captain Alastair Cook falling in successive balls before the interval after Nick Compton had gone early for just one.
Ian Bell added 30 in a partnership of 79 with Root, but it was the combination of the young Yorkshire pair that really transformed the mood among the colourful Headingley crowd.
Scoring heavily square of the wicket on both sides, Root reached his fifty off 90 balls and accelerated into the nineties after tea.
Then came two heart-stopping moments.
On 92, a Bairstow drive deflected off bowler Neil Wagner and on to the stumps at the non-striker's end, but fortunately Root had not strayed far from his crease and grounded his bat in time.
Shortly afterwards, he survived an appeal for a catch down the leg side, with New Zealand using up a review to establish that the ball merely brushed Root's pads.
To his credit, Root retained his composure and advanced from 94 to his hundred in the space of two balls, punching the air in celebration as the crowd rose to its feet to toast the local hero.
New Zealand needed a spark and they found one in Trent Boult with the new ball in his hands.
Joe Root's first-class scores this season
- 49 & 182 - Yorkshire v Durham, Championship, Headingley
- 236 - Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Championship, Headingley
- 179 - England Lions v New Zealand, tour match, Leicester
- 40 & 71 - England v New Zealand, 1st Test, Lord's
- 104 - England v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Headingley
Root, perhaps switching off momentarily after reaching three figures, chased a length ball and nicked to the keeper.
Bairstow, who struck eight fours in an innings which mixed timing and power, mis-judged an attempted leave and toe-ended a catch behind.
A Broad inside edge from the first ball of Boult's next over gave McCullum - keeping wicket in the absence of the injured BJ Watling - his fifth catch.
The momentum almost shifted further in New Zealand's favour, but Doug Bracewell put down a tough chance at midwicket to remove Prior for 21 and the England wicketkeeper, in tandem with Graeme Swann, ensured the hosts finished the day in the ascendency.
After rain washed out Friday's first day, Headingley was bathed in sunshine on Saturday morning as cricket fans - many in fancy dress - streamed in through the gates.
England won the toss and chose to bat but were swiftly one down as Compton followed an away-swinger from Tim Southee and was caught by the agile Dean Brownlie at third slip.
After back to back centuries in New Zealand, Compton has scored 45 runs in his last five Test innings.
Cook and Trott looked to be bedding in for a long partnership only for England's steady progress towards lunch to be checked by a double-strike.
Trott drove expansively at a tempting ball outside off stump from Wagner and was caught behind and, from the first ball of the next over, Cook's lack of footwork proved his undoing as he nicked to third slip.
Bell successfully reviewed an lbw appeal on 12 but succumbed meekly for 30 when he feathered part-time spinner Kane Williamson through to the keeper.
At 146-4, England needed a partnership of substance, which Root and Bairstow duly delivered to the delight of their adoring public.
Comment number 134. Posted by keepitcleanon 27 May 2013 06:25
@129 (myself) - found the answer - follow-on is normally 200 for a 5-day match but 1st day was washed out. Follow-on target for 4-day matches is 150. "Lots of you are asking why the follow-on mark is 150, not 200. As I understand it the adjustment has been made because of Friday's washout, turning this into a four-day Test."
Comment number 133. Posted by cartjdon 26 May 2013 19:48
I sometimes wonder at the decisions of England's captains past and present not to go for the jugular, its always play safe, lets not lose. Do they not look at the weather forecasts for the remaining days when they decide what to do. England's bowlers were on top, they should have been given the opportunity to have another go at NZ. Eng batsmen too slow, Trott 11from 69 Compton failing again 7-45
Comment number 132. Posted by Rene Artoison 26 May 2013 18:27
@118 gowers
Youre right about Bell, very poor form of late, and Comptons failures cant be an excuse for him. BUT Compton is a far bigger problem- this needs to be adressed first. Bringing in two new faces at this stage is too risky.
Try to solve the biggest problem first. If Bell fails in the first 2 ashes tests, then consider dropping him too- but for who?
Comment number 131. Posted by PAJATPon 26 May 2013 18:24
Cook is 18 runs short of 7500 , and 12 short of a 25th test century, Root, you have a lot to do to match this english legend.
Comment number 130. Posted by Cookiemonsteron 26 May 2013 18:24
@129........completely agree.....killed the game and I turned off immediately.
Comment number 129. Posted by keepitcleanon 26 May 2013 18:18
can someone explain the follow-on? I thought a lead of over 200 is required in test matches.
Comment number 128. Posted by Stevon 26 May 2013 17:26
Compton is only in the team because of his name, if he really had any potential to realise he would have done so long before now, its not as if he is a young man recently discovered.
Comment number 127. Posted by Rene Artoison 26 May 2013 16:40
Compton's latest demise follows a familiar trend. Scratching around like a no 10 trying to save a test on the final day, despite facing a part time spinner, and having a lead of 250.
Has the penny finally dropped? This must surely be Compton's last international innings.
It doesn't matter if its Root, Trott, or another opener for the ashes, but not Compton again. He's holding England back.
Comment number 126. Posted by paulon 26 May 2013 16:17
guy i would guess Ian Bell
Comment number 125. Posted by GuySon 26 May 2013 15:32
"Root became the ... 11th youngest England centurion of all time"
I've spent the afternoon trying to find the youngest ten and have found Denis Compton, Jack Hearne, Len Hutton, Peter May, David Gower,
Alastair Cook, Johnny Briggs, Colin Cowdrey and Mike Atherton.
Can anyone tell me the tenth?
Comment number 124. Posted by Morton 26 May 2013 12:49
@122 paul
You want to scan posts on an internet message board using an electron microscope?
It might be a bit awkward to force your screen under the lens but be my guest.
Comment number 123. Posted by oldcentre3on 26 May 2013 12:38
I am amazed at the number of posters who blithely assume that KP will be automatically selected to play in the Ashes. He's been injured, will have no match practice, and he is rather a curate's egg proposition at the best of times. He will NOT be at his best for the Ashes, so forget about him, and concentrate on developing the young, enthusiastic, talented young cricketers we have now.
Comment number 122. Posted by paulon 26 May 2013 12:31
using your own logic mort we should go back over your meaningful contributions.
I would hazard a guess they could not be observed with a scanning electron microscope
Comment number 121. Posted by jabberwockyon 26 May 2013 11:48
sensational Root! now that the marauding Capt Cook has lost his mojo your gonna need a good Root to repel captain "bungback" and his band of antipodean misfits soon to grace olde blighty's shores. bring on your summer!!!!
Comment number 120. Posted by Morton 26 May 2013 11:42
118 Gowers
I don't understand why his serial lack of contribution is never acknowledged.
And exactly - he will presumably skirt away from reproach because Compton has solely taken the heat.
Comment number 119. Posted by BaggiosPonytailon 26 May 2013 11:36
Fantastic knock from Root. He has the makings of a top class player, he just needs to keep working at his game to find those little improvements.
Looks like the conditions are conducive to swing today. It is going to be a big session this afternoon. Can England make the most of the conditions?
Comment number 118. Posted by Gowers great Tiger Moth incidenton 26 May 2013 11:11
110 - just as you have cherry picked the stats, in particular the India innings.
The point is that you have few innings to rave about because during the period Bell has failed more often than not - or pick 3, 6 and 12 month periods from the current test the answer is the same. Bell has not contributed enough.
116 - why let Compton's failure excuse Bell? Root opens.
Comment number 117. Posted by Morton 26 May 2013 10:57
They can both be left out without degrading the side.
Comment number 116. Posted by Rene Artoison 26 May 2013 09:34
People calling for Bell's head should calm down a little. Our batting is not blessed with the same strength in depth as our bowling. Bell is out of form, and is without a score for some time. This cannot be ignored. However, our biggest problem remains Comptons failures at the top of the order. When KP returns, can we really keep Compton opening, ahead of Bell in the middle order?
Comment number 115. Posted by Morton 26 May 2013 08:52
The true method to assess Bell, or any other player, is to go back over scorecards and see when a significant contribution is made at a time of I importance.
There are probably 5 or less occasions in Bell's career. For someone who has played so many tests, that's not great.
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Is there such a thing as shelf envy? If so, I have it! I know you are waiting anxiously for the return of the washer/dryer, but I'm waiting to see the first cookbooks and dishes and pantry items go on those shelves. Each Friday night brings huge changes; it's easier for us to see that when we see photos once a week, but the progress is speedy now.ReplyDelete
I'm still waiting for our kitchen wall to get knocked out - to turn the kitchen / dining room into one larger space. Hopefully done before Gosia gives birth, I don't want all the dust and noise with a newborn in the house...ReplyDelete
It's all looking great Kalyn! I can't wait to get my blog dishes back out of storage, and the thought of having dedicated storage for them is something I've dreamed of for a long time. I envy you!ReplyDelete
Johanna, that was me too before this project. Definitely I'll show the finished project. I hope there will be some room for future cookbooks, since I doubt I'll stop buying them.ReplyDelete
Lydia, I do feel so lucky to have the room for cookbooks and pantry items. I'm excited as well to see things go on the shelves, especially cookbooks!
Scott, very fun to have two exciting things to anticipate! I hope you can get it done before the baby comes.
Jerry, thanks. I'm most excited about the idea of being able to arrange dishes in short stacks with only 2-3 in a stack. Right now when I want a dish I sometimes have to move ten off the stack to get the one I want, not fun when you're in the middle of cooking and need to take a photo!
I am SO envious of your cookbook shelves. I have books piled upon books in my one small bookcase. You must be so excited to have all of that new storage space.ReplyDelete
All those wonderful shelves and the lovely grouping of windows! I'm with Lydia on the shelf envy. I just can't wait to see them with all the books and dishes. Organization and light are two of my favorite inspirations.ReplyDelete
Look at all of that shelving! I am so jealous!! Everything is looking so good!ReplyDelete
Kalyn, that looks beautiful! I don't know if I'm more envious of the bookshelves or the pantry shelves or the place to hang laundry!ReplyDelete
Generally I agree with Anna Quindlen: "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
However, after 4 moves in 12 years and the possibility of another one (or two) I see the value of minimalism. Books, yes, even cookbooks, are being downsized. I have a real weakness for cookbooks featuring food from the Mediterranean. So far, I'm hanging on to them, even though I rarely cook from them.
As I've gone through them, I'm amazed not only by how many I've not used for six months, or a year or two, but didn't even remember I had. I have some in storage and I'm also stunned by how little I miss them.
Washer & dryer will always make for a happy day.ReplyDelete
Carpet under the washer & dryer..never heard of that. Won't it be hard to keep clean.ReplyDelete
Cookin' Canuck, very excited indeed!ReplyDelete
Cora, I agree, organization and light are both very wonderful. Hopefully I will have both.
Maria, thanks! Hopefully dinner on the deck soon.
Sally I know what you mean and believe it or not, I did sell and give away a lot of my cookbooks a few years ago! Love the Anna Quindlen quote!
Tanna, happy inded.
Eileen, I had carpet under the washer and dryer before and never thought it was a problem. I'm talking about flat, low pile carpet. Just used the hose attachment to vacuum around the edges and between.
Wow! You must be so excited! I bet you can't wait to start filling those shelves.... Fun summer ahead!ReplyDelete
Oh, for more shelf space, closet space, pantry space! I think I've turned green with envy, Kalyn. I hope you will let me know when your house-office-deck-warming party will be. I think Delta still flies between Arcata and SLC!ReplyDelete
Lydia- Yes, there is such a thing as shelf envy because I have it too. Big time! ;-)ReplyDelete
Kalyn, it's so exciting to see your new space develop. Can't wait to see it full of books and all your personal touches.
Have fun shelving books. Will you do it systematically, or just random?
Katie, I am really looking forward to filling the shelves, even if it's mostly with stuff I already own for a while!ReplyDelete
Christine, it's a deal! And now I have a guest room so you really must come!
Karina, can't wait to put the books on the shelves. Other than the computer (and washer and dryer!) that's definitely the first thing I'll move in there. I'm planning to file the cookbooks by categories, but don't know exactly what those categories will be.
oh my gosh kalyn - everything is coming together so nicely!ReplyDelete
Your house is going to look so nice when all the work is finished. I'll look forward to seeing all the glam pics of the finished rooms! :)ReplyDelete
I am so jealous of all your shelves! I love shelves and need lots, lots more.ReplyDelete
Wow, I am jealous of all the shelves! I love the ones in your office.ReplyDelete
I am a confirmed cookbook addict and really need to get more shelves to house all my lovelies.
Didn't think of low or even indoor/ outdoor carpet. Living in the "Desert" everything here is hard to keep clean. Glad it is good for you.ReplyDelete
take care.
Update: Since my last comment my daughters and I did a major cleaning and purge. I now have fewer books in my home than I've had at any time in my adult life -- less than 10 linear feet and that includes all cookbooks, knitting books and other books as well.ReplyDelete
I do have books in storage.
Just look at those shelves!!!!ReplyDelete
Hi Kalyn,ReplyDelete
Wow, the house project is moving along very nicely! It looks great so far!!
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Imagine designing the layout of a 2D world, uploading it to a program, and suddenly being able to walk around in that world. Sound a bit like something from the movie Inception? Well Idaho's Human Factors program in the psychology department has turned that concept into something tangible with the recent installation of a virtual reality lab.
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"When someone puts on the helmet, he/she sees an entirely different world, and when he/she moves in the real world, they also move in the virtual world," said psychology professor and primary investigator of the lab Russell Jackson, who has driven the creation of the virtual lab since his arrival on campus last year. "I use this lab for placing people in virtual environments that would be too dangerous in real life, such as on top of a steep cliff or over the side of a tall building."
The special helmet is attached with infrared and inertia sensors, so the cameras located in the corners of the room will be able to accurately locate where the user is in space, allowing the program to sync the user's movements with that of the avatar moving in the virtual environment. Two state of the art computers also aid the process. One computer creates the image of the virtual world, using a high-end video card, while another computer is solely dedicated to running the cameras to orient the user.
"The limit on this lab is essentially human imagination," said Jackson. If one can design it, one can set up the environment for testing in a virtual setting on any scale. For example, one could walk around inside a life-sized human cell to better understand its internal functions.
This ability has a huge impact on research capabilities for the department. For example, in studies of social reactions one could test for discrimination in a given environment, or in studies of safety and design one could look at how people board or exit a bus in order to create a more efficient design. Interactive objects can also be added to the program, such as birds in a city square that scatter when the avatar walks up to them, to allow the user to participate in a more life-like environment.
The lab is crucial to Jackson's own professional research, which he began as a graduate student at the University of Texas. His experiments focus on observing how people perceive and navigate the world in order to prevent falling, the biggest cause of injury in the workplace. He is interested in researching why fall rates have increased despite extra safety precautions that have been put into place, such as railings.
Labs like this can also be used for treating anxiety disorders, such as a fear of heights. In one scenario, a user is asked to walk across a plank, which appears to be over a bottomless pit. Although the user is safely on the flat surface of the classroom in real life, he/she still experiences the anxiety or other emotions associated with the event and reacts as if they were actually in the situation—like treading a careful foot-in-front-of-foot line across the virtual "plank" with arms spread out for balance.
"I also use this lab for placing people in virtual environments where we might not be able to collect data about their perception without being interrupted, such as in the middle of campus in the middle of the day," said Jackson. "This lab allows me to take people from one environment to the next in a flash, rather than the long time that it would take to go from one place to another."
Additional components of the lab include a second helmet to allow for multiple users in an environment, and separate infrared markers that when strategically placed can allow the user to walk through doors or pick up an object.
"When it came to actually installing the equipment and making it work, I heavily relied, and continue to rely, on [Idaho] Neuroscience Ph. D. student Roger Lew," said Jackson. Lew tackled the difficult base programming jobs, making the process of loading an environment for trials more user-friendly to graduate students, who will only have to work with a 3 to 4 hour learning curve.
Although the initial funding for the lab came from income generated by online classes taught by his department colleagues, and through Dean Katherine Aiken's outreach fund, Jackson envisions the lab as a long-term investment generating future research opportunities.
"This kind of lab allows me to be competitive for large federal grants in ways that I wouldn't be competitive otherwise and ways that help financially support our university outside of my lab," said Jackson. "It also allows me to give an unparalleled education to the undergraduate Research Assistants that work in my lab and the Graduate Students in our department who work with me."
Jackson hopes the lab will soon be available to other researchers and students across campus. Students in a course in the Virtual Technology and Design (VTD) program are already slated to work in the lab this semester. The lab will allow VTD students to experience the worlds they create in detail, such as walking around a building they designed to study the architecture to scale and from different perspectives.
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Lesson Nine: Chart Imbalances
Until now we have been looking at what is in the chart, finding the emphasis and focus and the living energy. We have seen what happens when planets are brought together in a dynamic way by the aspects and by the aspect patterns, and we have looked at some of the stories that emerge. But what I want to do tonight is to turn everything on its head, and to look at what is missing from the chart, because that is important, too. In every birth chart there will be empty houses, and there may be whole areas of a chart which are empty, or elements or modes which are absent altogether or under-represented, or planets which make no aspects. We need to pay proper attention to anything which is absent or lacking in a chart, because it is likely to exert a powerful unconscious influence over us. If you would like to follow up this idea in more depth, then I would highly recommend Richard Idemon's book, The Magic Thread.1
Audience: I am not sure what you are saying here, because it sounds as if everything is equally important, whether or not it is in the chart.
Clare: That is a good point, and I will try to explain
what I mean. Let's start with what is actually there in the chart. No matter
how challenging our birth charts may be, they will feel familiar to us because
we have been inhabiting them all our lives. The birth chart defines our personal
experience of the world, and tends to be more or less under the control of
the ego, to the extent that it can be made conscious. For example, if we
have several personal planets in air, we are likely to have a well-developed
thinking function which we will use to navigate and make sense of the world.
As far as we are concerned, that is normal. And if we have several personal
planets in mutable signs, we will be naturally flexible and adaptable. And
if we have several aspects to our Mars, we will know very well how to assert
and defend ourselves. All of these ways of being feel normal to us. By contrast,
anything which is not in the chart will be outside our conscious or ego control.
But that does not mean that it doesn't exist. In fact, the way this seems
to work is that whatever we don't have inside, in our birth charts, somehow
has to be manifested out there in the world. In other words, every void or
imbalance within seeks to be filled or balanced in the outside world. This
is another example of the compensatory nature of the psyche.
However, there is a noticeable difference in expression, emphasis and intensity between what is within our charts and what lies outside, and we seem to have a particular blind spot about what is not in our birth charts, with the result that whatever is lacking functions autonomously, like a complex. And we do not have complexes - complexes have us. When a complex is activated, it takes us over, which is why we are prone to finding ourselves in the grip of anything which is not in our birth chart.
Audience: Can you say a bit more about complexes, Clare, so that we can understand how they function?
Clare: Yes, and I am taking a particularly psychological approach here, because I think it makes the subject of chart imbalances very clear and easy to understand. Complexes are powerful, compulsive, autonomous driving forces. However, because they exist outside ego consciousness, they are only experienced in projection, and are never really 'owned'. They are highly charged - affect-laden - and seem to have a life of their own, acting independently and often inappropriately or out of proportion to the objective reality of a situation. One of the easiest ways to recognise complexes is that they lack a sense of humour. I am sure you have all noticed how perfectly reasonable and relaxed people can suddenly become rigid and defensive and start speaking in an authoritative or strident voice which is not normal to them. Suddenly, in the place of the person you know, there is an inflexible, intolerant, rigid, fanatical individual who is completely certain that they are right. If that has happened to you, then no doubt you have unwittingly stepped on their complex. Does this make sense to you?
Audience: Yes, I can think of one or two examples already.
Clare: Just to take this one step further, singletons and missing functions constellate a variety of different psychological defence mechanisms, which is the ego's way of trying to keep control. We may well attempt to deny what we lack by using another function instead. For example, we may try to feel with our thinking, air function. Or we may try to achieve concrete results with our fire function. Alternatively, we may consciously devalue, neglect and criticise what we lack, and at the same time work hard to achieve it. This would mean that we both deny and over-compensate for what we lack at the same time. Another way of balancing ourselves is to enter into relationships with people who have plenty of what we lack. This is why it is so easy to fall into the habit of criticising our partners for expressing the qualities we lack, while at the same time being dependent upon them because they balance and complete us.
Audience: I have no earth in my chart, but I do have an angular Saturn and several planets in the earth houses. Does that compensate for my lack of earth?
Clare: Your reaction is not uncommon, but it could be
interpreted as a denial or defence mechanism, an example of the ego trying
to defend itself, since it is an attempt to give yourself some earth. The
same thing might be said, for example, of a chart with no water but with
an angular Neptune, or many aspects to Neptune or planets in the water houses.
The point here is that neither your angular Saturn nor its ruler will be
in an earth sign. The same thing is true of your planets in the earth houses
- they will not be in earth signs, and neither will the planetary rulers
of the earth houses, so I am sorry to say that we cannot manufacture an earth
function for ourselves if none of the planets are there.
But the main point I want to make is that our greatest gifts can come from the imbalances in our charts. The energy that clusters around a complex can be immensely creative, for the very reason that it lies outside the control of the ego. It is important to remember that obsession and compulsiveness are not necessarily negative. After all, if we were all perfectly balanced, it is unlikely any of us would bother to get out of bed, let alone work obsessively on a scientific discovery, climb Mount Everest, write a symphony or a book, or paint a great painting. It is through what is lacking in our birth charts that we may make our greatest contribution to the world.
Here is a crib sheet which may help you to identify quickly how the various imbalances in a chart might function.
Rough Guide to Interpreting Chart Imbalances
What is Absent or Singular in the Birth Chart
Chart shaping:
ASC/DESC axis (self/partner)
Marked emphasis either above or below the horizon will lead to a fascination/obsession to explore the opposite hemisphere.
MC/IC axis (public life/private life)
Marked emphasis either east or west of the Meridian will lead to a fascination/obsession to explore the opposite hemisphere.
House/Sign Emphasis:Lack of planets in first four houses/signs:
Intense involvement with all that is personal & subjective
Lack of planets in second four houses/signs:
Intense involvement with social life and relationships
Lack of planets in last four houses/signs:
Intense involvement with collective or public life
Modalities:Lack of planets in cardinal signs:
Tendency for sudden action, impulsiveness, leadership
Lack of planets in fixed signs:
Tendency towards resistance, rigidity, perseverance
Lack of planets in mutable signs:
Tendency towards confusion, drifting, deviating from purpose
Elements:Lack of planets in earth signs:
Powerful emphasis on/obsession with body, sexuality, food, money, e.g. the businessman, naturalist, body-builder
Lack of planets in air signs:
Powerful emphasis on/obsession with education, learning, writing, communicating, e.g. the writer, philosopher, actor
Lack of planets in water signs:
Powerful emphasis on/obsession with feelings, relationships, e.g. the musician, psychotherapist
Lack of planets in fire signs:
Powerful emphasis on/obsession with meaning, faith, adventure, risk-taking, e.g. the entrepreneur, the explorer, the preacher
Unaspected planets and singletons:
Driving motivation, autonomous, compulsive expression of the archetypal qualities of the planet concerned
Audience: What happens if you only have one angle and one planet in an element? Is that still an imbalance?
Clare: Yes, there will still be a sense of deficiency that seeks to be balanced. However, in a case like this, there is usually an element of awareness of the imbalance - it is more accessible. When someone has a total lack, it will be immediately obvious to everyone else, but the person with the total lack can be oblivious of the fact.
Audience: What about the outer planets, Chiron, and the Nodes?
Clare: Well, the same thing applies. In charts where only an outer planet, Chiron, or one of the Nodes is in an element, the individual will be expressing the collective charge of that planet or point in its purest, most autonomous and archetypal expression. The particular individual expression of this influence will be experienced in the house in which it occurs.
Audience: I'd really like to get this counting thing straight. I know you only use the seven traditional planets, but do you also count the angles?
Clare: No, because the angles are not planets. For example, if you have Sagittarius rising, then, although your Ascendant is in fire, it is the element of the ruling planet which we will be looking for. I think it is unfortunate that computer programs always include the outer planets in the mode and element count, because this encourages us to think of them in the same way as the seven traditional planets, whereas they belong to another order altogether, to a different dimension. I think we need to count again and to take them out, but that is only my view, and you are welcome to make up your own minds about this.
Audience: What happens if you have two planets in an element?
Clare: That is fairly average, and wouldn't register as a lack. Let's have a look at the element imbalances to see how they work.


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Malaria and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common in pregnant women in Africa and are important preventable causes of poor birth outcomes and maternal and infant mortality. This study investigated baseline characteristics of the population including: rates of STIs including HIV, prevalence of malaria and tuberculosis (TB) and resistance to common antimalarial drugs.
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2004
|Study Completion Date:
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A cross-sectional observational study was conducted with 2008 pregnant women attending either Binza or Kingasani Maternity clinics in Kinshasa, DRC to determine baseline rates of STIs, TB and malaria. Data was collected for sample size calculation in a larger STI/Malaria and TB randomized controlled trial.
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|Genders Eligible for Study:
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- pregnant
- presenting for antenatal care at one of the two target maternities for the first time during the current pregnancy
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Exclusion Criteria:
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|University of North Carolina
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Fans took to Twitter after she unveiled the artwork, tweeting messages like "you look like Britney Spears," "Damn you got some photoshop there" and even drawing comparisons to Aguilera, her "Burlesque" costar.
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State of Wonderby Ann Patchett
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State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's best book yet (yes, even better than Bel Canto). Brimming with mystery, philosophy, intrigue, ethical questions, the flora and fauna of the Amazon jungle, and absolutely beautiful prose, Patchett's new novel should be at the top of your reading list.
What if women could become pregnant into their 70s? What if a woman's fertility could be increased exponentially? What if the ever-encroaching biological clock disappeared? Ann Patchett takes us deep into the Amazon in search of answers to these questions in her latest novel.
The amazingly long fertility window in the female members of the Lakashi Amazonian tribe is the subject of study for a group of doctors. When head researcher Dr. Swenson, after a decade of study, refuses to come home, share her work, or even report back to her bosses, Dr. Eckman, is sent in after her. When Dr. Eckman turns up dead, Dr. Singh is sent in to bring back his body, but also to shake loose Dr. Swenson's research results. What follows is a terrific story of survival, curiosity, culture shock and acclimation, as Dr. Singh makes her way through the jungle and finally tracks down Dr. Swenson. A story thread involving a deaf-mute child, who has somehow defected from a rival tribe, is sweet and eventually astonishing.
Patchett has laser-like insight into her characters; they never feel anything less than real. With anacondas, a hailstorm of arrows, unsanitary surgery, big-business-pharmaceutical greed, ethnocentric interference, and a great story buoyed by wonderful characters, this is must read.
"Ann Patchett, who held readers captive with Bel Canto, her 2001 novel about a famous opera singer and a group of international dignitaries taken hostage by Latin American terrorists, is back in form with her mesmerizing sixth novel, State of Wonder. Set in the Amazon rain forest, Patchett's new book is a dramatic, transportive adventure story that takes on issues of medical ethics, cultural respect, friendship, love and loyalty." Heller McAlpin, NPR (Read the entire NPR review)
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Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including The Magician's Assistant and the New York Times bestselling Bel Canto. Now she raises the bar with State of Wonder, a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.
Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina's assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina's research partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to several troubling questions about her friend's death, the state of her company's future, and her own past.
Once found, Dr. Swenson, now in her seventies, is as ruthless and uncompromising as she ever was back in the days of Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins. With a combination of science and subterfuge, she dominates her research team and the natives she is studying with the force of an imperial ruler. But while she is as threatening as anything the jungle has to offer, the greatest sacrifices to be made are the ones Dr. Swenson asks of herself, and will ultimately ask of Marina, who finds she may still be unable to live up to her teacher's expectations.
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, and a neighboring tribe of cannibals, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss. It is a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, and then shows us what lies on the other side.
"Patchett (Bel Canto) is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of. In this expansive page-turner, Marina Singh, a big pharma researcher, is sent by her boss/lover to the deepest, darkest corner of the Amazon to investigate the death of her colleague, Anders Eckman, who had been dispatched to check on the progress of the incommunicado Dr. Annick Swenson, a rogue scientist on the cusp of developing a fertility drug that could rock the medical profession (and reap enormous profits). After arriving in Manaus, Marina travels into her own heart of darkness, finding Dr. Swenson's camp among the Lakashi, a gentle but enigmatic tribe whose women go on bearing children until the end of their lives. As Marina settles in, she goes native, losing everything she had held on to so dearly in her prescribed Midwestern life, shedding clothing, technology, old loves, and modern medicine in order to find herself. Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure, a juggernaut of a trip to the crossroads of science, ethics, and commerce that readers will hate to see end. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"In fluid and remarkably atmospheric prose, Patchett captures not only the sights and sounds of the chaotic jungle environment but also the struggles and sacrifice of dedicated scientists." Tatler
"[A] superbly rendered novel....Patchett's portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Patchett exhibits an extraordinary ability to bring the horrors and the wonders of the Amazon jungle to life, and her singular characters are wonderfully drawn....[P]owerful and captivating." Library Journal (starred review)
"A pharmacologist travels into the Amazonian heart of darkness in this spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett....Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures — even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction." New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft,Run, The Magician's Assistant, and The Patron Saint of Liars, Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment in State of Wonder — a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.
About the Author
Ann Patchett is the author of five novels, including Bel Canto (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize), and the bestselling nonfiction book Truth and Beauty. She has written for the Atlantic, Harper's, Gourmet, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the Washington Post. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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