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The Czechoslovakian Sinobiological Society has established a consultation center for practitioners and patients of Traditional Chinese Medicine working since 1996. The library of the society, three rooms for medical consultations and space for meetings and society events has been furnished.
At present there are seven practitioners of Chinese Medicine working there offering consultations for patients for 12 hours per day. Chinese doctor HU Yizhi is a specialist for diseases of the back and joints and internal medicine. His main method is massage combined with acupuncture where necessarry. The center also has access to traditional chinese herbal formulas. A dietetian, doctor of western internal medicine, massage therapist, pediatrician and acupuncturists are also among the staff of the center offering a wide range of healing methods.
Traditional Chinese Medicine uses four main methods to restore harmony in the human body. The two main methods are acupuncture and phytotherapy. However diet consultations and special movement therapies like taiji or qigong are by no means neglected as they can all together contribute to the wellbeing of modern people.
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Lady Panthers play in CCAA Softball tournament
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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Nancy Lacy Kixmiller
The Prairie Home Lady Panthers played in the CCAA Softball tournament in Higbee over the weekend. At the end of the second day of competition, the Panthers defeated Pilot Grove to take third place.
School pictures will be taken Sept.19 beginning at 8 a.m. Please be sure to send picture order form, along with payment, to school with your student.
You have until Sept. 21 to vote for Prairie Home School in the "Give with Target" promotion. Target is giving away $5,000,000 to schools throughout the country. You can help Prairie Home receive some of it by going to https://givewith.target.com/ and voting for the school. It does require that you allow target to post on Facebook that you voted. After the first 25 votes the school receives $25 and an additional dollar for each vote. As of Wednesday morning the school had 81 votes. You can vote once a week until the contest ends on Sept.21.
Home owner Mattie Hutchison has designated a special pizza fundraiser night for the Panther athletes and Boosters. Panther athletes will be waiting tables for tips at Granny's Country Vittles Cafe in Prairie Home. In addition to tips earned, $1 from every pizza sold will go to the Booster Club. You can eat in, take out or the coaches and athletes will make deliveries.
Come help the Prairie Home United Methodist Church members paint the grandstand at the fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 28. Helping Hands 4-H and FCCLA will help in this community project.
Prairie Home PTO is sponsoring SmartyPants Trivia Night on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m., at the school. Entry fee of $80/team with eight people maximum/team. Prizes will be awarded for first-third places. Refreshments will be served. Teams should register by Sept. 25 by calling Lacy Scott, PTO president, at 660/888-8773.
The Helping Hands 4-H held its first meeting of the year last week and voted to work with Prairie Home United Methodist Church on a community service project, painting the grandstand at the fairgrounds. They also voted to donate to the Buddy Pack program again this year. Election of officers was held. Officers for 2013-14 are: president – Amber Carmichael; vice president – Sage Eichenburch; secretary – Nina Cherry; treasurer –Aubrey Scott; reporter – Gabe Turner; historian – Paiton Williams; song leader – Faith Vance; and recreation leaders – Tripp Kendrick and Enoch Turner. Enrollment continues through October. Contact P.A. Eichen email@example.com or Tammy Carmichael email@example.com for more information.
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Sept. 20 – early dismissal at 12:45; Softball/baseball at Higbee at 6 p.m.
Sept. 23 – Softball at Fayette at 5 p.m.
Sept. 26 – Softball vs. Slater at 5 p.m.
Sept. 27 - Softball/baseball at Bunceton at 5 p.m.
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Sept. 28-30 – CCAA Conference Baseball Tournament; Softball vs. Glasgow at 5 p.m.
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Sept. 23 – eggs and toast or cereal, milk or juice.
Sept. 24 – banana muffins or cereal, milk or juice.
Sept. 25 – waffles or cereal, milk or juice.
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Sept. 19 – ham and beans. coleslaw, cornbread, pears, milk.
Sept. 20 – sausage pizza, fresh carrots, apple slices, milk.
Sept. 23– chicken patty, scalloped potatoes, green beans, mixed fruit, milk.
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Haiti's previous presidential administration said 316,000 people were killed but no one really knows how many died. The disaster displaced more than a million others.
Most of the rubble created by the quake has since been carted away but more than 350,000 people still live in grim displacement camps.
Many people had hoped the reconstruction effort would have made more headway by now, but progress has been stymied by political paralysis, the scale of devastation and a trickle of aid.
Jan. 12 was observed as a national holiday the last two years to remember the quake. This year, the government said the day would no longer be a holiday but called for the Haitian flag to be flown at half-staff and for nightclubs and "similar establishments" to close.
The anniversary this year has been used by Haiti observers to criticize the reconstruction process and by foreign aid groups to promote their work and raise money. The European Union announced Saturday it was giving Haiti 30.5 million euros for displaced people still living in camps, as well as victims of a subsequent cholera epidemic and those affected by Hurricane Sandy late last year.
The Clinton Foundation also announced that it was contributing about 40 solar-powered streetlights to a housing community north of Port-au-Prince for deaf families who were relocated there.
But for some Haitians, it was just another day.
"We can't remain focused on January 12th," said Asaie St. Louis, a 56-year-old teacher and devout church-goer, Bible in hand. "It's passed already."
(AP PHOTO: Relatives of those who died in the 2010 earthquake walk in single file to place a cross on a hilltop to remember those who died in the devastating earthquake.)


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The Washington Post passes along the latest in charm offensives:
The media arm of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaeda affiliate, has been churning out videos featuring community gatherings in Syria during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as the group battles to win hearts and minds. It is a far cry from the organization's usual fare of video offerings, which includes public executions.
The headline on this piece is my favorite of the day, though it has some stiff competition from this one in the LA Times this morning:
British officials introduce Jane dough
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Seattle writer/professional dominatrix's personal musings, rants and life-trivia... Updates here are rare, but I tweet prolifically, here.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Now I'm going to be spoiled some more. Bye!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
So yes, I've been reading about the busts at the tanning salon/brothels on Aurora Ave. I have some sympathy for the female manager who got arrested, seeing as how I once managed a "sensual touch" business myself. And just because you read something in the paper doesn't make it true. However, if she and the owner really were running women in and out of other states, through three different locations, all I can say is: with an operation that size, you should have seen this coming. I hope you both have a good lawyer.
See, I have this thing about sex work. One woman working for herself? Great. A couple women decide to band together to share a space and perhaps swap clients back and forth? Fine. Anything where it's a small group of peers working together - okay, I'm all down with that. But this kind of set-up makes me deeply suspicious.
Now, it's possible those women wanted to be doing what they did, that it was a very safe and egalitarian workplace, no one ever felt pressured to do anything they didn't want to, and they were paid as well as they should have been.
But… I bet not. I just don't get a sense of that from places like this. They look like strip-clubs without the pole, if you know what I mean. And strip-club management works like this: use the women to get as much money as you can from the men, and then take as much of that money as you can from the women. In this situation, I'm betting they took a lot.
In the place I managed, the house supported itself by taking a set portion of the basic appointment fee – "the gate fee" we called it. My job was mostly to keep track of that, coordinate everyone's schedule, and to deal with the new clients and the guys who needed, for whatever reason, a lot of wrangling. Occasionally I would have to pull rank and tell someone that, for example, leaving a large pink vibrator on the coffee table in the public area was really not okay. Showing up an hour late for the shift? Not okay. Coming out of the session room accompanied by a literal cloud of pot smoke? Not okay.
But I was by no means controlling the six women who worked there. (Hah. As if. Most of them were pals of mine.) And once the client and the woman were in the room together, whatever extra services were negotiated, whatever other money was exchanged, that was all strictly between them. We did not ask about it or monitor it in any way, and we did not ever, ever take any of that money. That was her money.
Once in a while the owner would wistfully mention how she wished the house could get a cut of that cash, and I would threaten to instantly quit before I'd participate in any such practice. That always put an end to that conversation, especially since half the staff would have quit with me, and the owner knew it.
But this looks like the kind of place where you'd get pushed to get as much money as you could from the guy, and then you'd have to give it all to the house. You'd think it would be easy to hide your tips and keep them, but it's harder than you think. The trick of moving women around is that not only do you create variety for the clients, you prevent the women from forming alliances with each other. So you can't trust the other girls not to rat you out if they find out you're holding money back. And you don't stay on one place long enough to get to know and trust the regular clients, so you can't rely on them to not say anything, even as an innocent mistake. Some places like this are wired for sound – or even cameras, although not always – so management will see or hear if a girl gets more money in the session rooms.
If they were moving the women around, it's possible that they were housing them, too. That's not unheard of even in more legitimate sex work jobs – strip clubs in Alaska used to fly girls up there and put them in what we called "the barracks". I don't know if they still have those, but I stayed in one once. It wasn't a bad place – it looked like a low-end college dormitory, or a hostel. But I got out and found my own place to stay after a week, because it was feeling strange to never be someplace really separate from my work. You need that, I think. But if these people were moving the women around and housing them – oh, that would look pretty bad to me. That would look a lot like trafficking.
Of course I don't know that, it's all speculation at this point, so I'll be interested to see how this story develops. But from this perspective, they don't look much like people I'd have much in common with.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I understand this completely. The thing I hate the most is when I have to call a service person over to my dungeon space to fix something. Naturally I always hide all the toys and throw sheets over the bondage furniture. But still, it looks a little... odd in there, and people always ask questions, or at least look at me really funny. I loathe dealing with it.
So if you know your way around washing machines, you're cool with an unusual atmosphere, and you'd like some occasional work, email Monk: email@example.com.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
As Dakwallah pointed out, it's November sweeps time. I suppose they were bored with inventing excuses to get footage inside a strip club - that's the usual way to titillate people while making them feel that as though they're watching "news". Bah.
UPDATE: The link doesn't work because KOMO seems to have pulled the story. No trace of it can be found anywhere on the website. Isn't THAT interesting! Looks like a flood of negative responses cowed the station, as well it should have. Of course they can't un-show it to all the people who watched last night.
Here's the piece on YouTube, though...
Monday, November 17, 2008
For an early birthday gift, I just received this: Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer.
From Publishers Weekly: "With impressively clear prose, Lehrer explores the oft-overlooked places in literary history where novelists, poets and the occasional cookbook writer predicted scientific breakthroughs with their artistic insights… how Cézanne anticipated breakthroughs in the understanding of human sight, how Walt Whitman intuited the biological basis of thoughts and, in the title essay, how Proust penetrated the mysteries of memory by immersing himself in childhood recollections…"
I love stuff about how our minds work, so this looks fascinating to me. And I'm charmed that the sweet man who gave it to me knew it's exactly the sort of thing I like.
In fiction, I just finished this: The Wolfman, by Nicholas Pekearo.
From Publishers Weekly: Marlowe Higgins, who's both a werewolf and a detective, lives in the small town of Evelyn, just outside the Tennessee border, flipping burgers by day and waiting for the full moon that will awaken the blood curse that has afflicted his family for generations. Higgins has hit on a way to alleviate the guilt he feels for having claimed countless innocent lives—he investigates vicious crimes that have gone unsolved by the police and targets the perpetrators in his lupine form. When a sadistic serial killer known as the Rose Killer for the flowers left in the victims' eye sockets appears in Evelyn, Higgins turns his attention to tracking him down."
I got this book after seeing it reviewed on the Slog. I figured if those hipster book snobs had to grudgingly admit it was good, then I'd definitely like it. (I do not dig highbrow fiction any more than I dig highbrow films, or for that matter, highbrow food. Philistines, unite!)
And I did indeed like it. Pekearo's prose is spare, and almost too terse for my taste - but not quite. He reminds me of a tightly edited Steven King, and also of the author who King says influenced him, Richard Matheson. It's got the stark landscape – both inner and outer – of a lot of King's horror novels, but with a flavor of the hard-boiled-detective genre, too. If I was casting this as a movie, I'd want someone like Nick Nolte or Nicholas Cage as the lead – a guy who'd taken some hard knocks and survived, but who had very little to lose and as a result, feared nothing.
(One quibble – this teensy little town in the middle of nowhere has not one but two flourishing multi-girl brothels, and one of them is very upscale? Oh please. I can believe in a werewolf easier than I can believe in that.)
The story unrolls smoothly for most of the book, wobbling only a trifle towards the end. Still, I liked the characters enough to shrug it off and enjoy it overall. Sadly, the author has died, so we'll see no sequels to this book.
And now I have another twist-on-the-genre novel loaded on the Kindle and ready to go…
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setter.
From Publishers Weekly: "Former academic Setterfield pays tribute in her debut to Brontë and du Maurier heroines: a plain girl gets wrapped up in a dark, haunted ruin of a house, which guards family secrets that are not hers and that she must discover at her peril. Margaret Lea, a
bookseller's daughter…is contacted by renowned aging author Vida Winter, who finally wishes to tell her own, long-hidden, life story. Margaret travels to London Yorkshire, where she interviews the dying writer, walks the remains of her estate at Angelfield and tries to verify the old woman's tale of a governess, a ghost and more than one abandoned baby. Contending with ghosts and with a (mostly) scary bunch of living people, Setterfield's sensible heroine is, like Jane Eyre, full of repressed feeling—and is unprepared for both heartache and romance. And like Jane, she's a real reader and makes a terrific narrator."
I like classic Gothic novels, and this looks like an entertaining twist on that genre. I'll let you know what I think after I read it.


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"[The Tea Party] is the Taliban wing of American politics and we all ought to be a little worried about them."
When asked if he thought that his comments were "a little harsh," Bond quipped, "The truth hurts."
Watch Bond's comments here:
On one end, I actually agree with Bond's assessment that the Tea Party represents an extremity in American politics. Though not all members of the fold may be racists, the movement itself has exploited White resentment toward the nation's first Black president in order to move its agenda forward. Moreover, it's been widely reported that many of these groups are funded by corporatists looking to move their agendas forward in the guise of a grassroots movement.
The Tea Party's vitriol and methodology do not mirror that of the NAACP and their criticism of President Obama is far more hostile than anything the NAACP has said of President Bush in the past.
In addition, many Tea Party groups play in to libertarian ideology — some of which includes the abolishment of the IRS — from the likes of the Koch brothers. It's not a surprise that a few in the IRS might see them as a threat, but that doesn't make it okay.
That said, between the IRS targeting conservative groups for their political point of view as well as the Justice Department reportedly secretly collecting phone records from several Associated Press reporters last year, I'm weary of giving the government a free pass to two-step over the line when it comes to intrusion.
There is absolutely a valid reason for the IRS to review 501c organizations, but simply doing so if they have "tea party" and "patriot" in their names is profiling.
Even if some of those jackasses wouldn't defend my right to live profile-free, I'm willing to defend theirs. So if you want to catch those who abuse their tax-exempt status, by all means do so…but fairly.
Sound off!
Michael Arceneaux is a Houston-bred, Howard-educated writer and blogger. You can read more of his work on his site, The Cynical Ones. Follow him on Twitter: @youngsinick


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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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My weekly challenge for my BL Dazzling Diamond team is to make a Blog using the word "DIAMOND".
D= Do Something For Yourself
Nightly reading.
I= Invest time in a personal interest
Started the 30 day Strength Building... Read more
Friday, July 17, 2015
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My Biggest Loser individual team challenge for this week is to make a blog with two truths about myself and a dream. We are not to indicate which is which until the end of the weekly challenge; so …
1.) I drink coffee for the taste, not the ... Read more
Friday, July 10, 2015
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I had a foot injury and couldn't run or do any weight bearing exercises for a while. My podiatrist told me I could only cycle and swim for at least 6 months. I was so distraught; I am a runner and love doing so. Well, I took that as the end a... Read more
Thursday, July 09, 2015
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I found this app that helps earn money for charities. You earn a set amount for every mile you walk, run, or cycle. (About $0.25/mile)
I hope that this really works because some of these charities could really use money for research.
I earn... Read more
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
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My family had lots of New Year traditions when I was growing up.
We would always go to my maternal grandparent's house on New Year's Eve; not really for the adults to drink or the kids to do fireworks; we just enjoyed being together and it's n... Read more
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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Time to recap my BL Challenge
I made simple goals again; I wanted to get better about my diet:
- track my foods -- goal not met
- have more fruits/veggies in my diet -- goal not met
- limit the coffee or elimintate it completely ag... Read more
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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I made simple goals again: �Eat less; Move around more� and actually Track my foods
I was doing fairly well with this� I suppose; I didn�t really seen any weight loss but I was maintaining my weight so I guess that I was happy.
De... Read more
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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I have decided to stick with the basics again:
1) actually TRACK MY FOOD!
- have more fruits/veggies in my diet, limit the coffee or elimintate it completely again
- Remember that any activity is better than ... Read more
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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I made easy goals and ended up not even trying; I just stopped caring again; I let "life get in the way". I have to admit that I lost my Spark & I ended up gaining 7 lbs this challenge
But what did happen:
1.) I am letting go of the ne... Read more
Friday, March 14, 2014
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I made big goals for myself for the Fall Challenge and BOMBED; then didn't do so great for the Winter Challenge. I just didn't exhibit any Will Power at all and still haven't been doing so great with it. . . . .
So I have decided that I w... Read more
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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I went with the old tried and true method of weight loss this challenge: "Eat Less; Move Around More" and did neither.
I started out really well, then Winter & Life hit.... I allowed myself to keep telling myself "I'll do it tomorrow" or ... Read more
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
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I made big goals for myself for the Fall Challenge and BOMBED!
So I have decided that I just want to stick with the basics this time around; Go back to the old tried and true method:
"Eat Less; Move Around More"
1) Get back to trac... Read more


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Reich Redux
The revised edition of the former labor secretary's memoir is an object lesson in the difference between spinning and lying.
Granted, Robert Reich's isn't the very first name that comes to mind these days when you think about political figures in trouble over twisting the truth. But if there ever was a moment that showed the importance of finding the fine line between spinning the facts and dispensing with them, this is it. For an object lesson in the difference, consider Reich redux.
Last year, Slate reported that in parts of Locked in the Cabinet, his memoir of his term as labor secretary, Reich fabricated quotations and distorted events. Moreover, the changes appear to have been systematic rather than random, crafted to create Hollywood-style set pieces in which Reich was the embattled decent man who was savaged by ruthless journalists, politicians, lobbyists, and other Beltway vermin. (Click here to read the original story.) The real people for whom nasty lines had been constructed were not amused.
Reich replied that his book was faithful to his experience as he remembered it, that the media were unfairly attacking him yet again, that the discrepancies were minor, and that he would correct them in a future edition. Now the new edition is here, in the form of a paperback with revisions and a new introduction.
In this new introduction, Reich again portrays his variances with reality as mere memory slips. "Memory is fallible," he writes. "Where I have subsequently learned of errors or misinterpretations I have made changes in this edition. In no instance, however, are the changes of material importance to the story I relate."
The book's disputed passages come in three broad types. First, denied quotations. In his new introduction, Reich says, "You are duly warned, had you not assumed it already, that most of the quotes in this book should be considered paraphrases rather than verbatim accounts, as is often true of memoirs." But many of the people Reich quotes have denied the substance as well as the precise wording of the quotations ascribed them. Rep. Martin Olav Sabo, D-Minn., denied that he had said the following of his fellow Democrats: "We're owned by them. Business." Former House Republican leader Robert Michel denied that he had told Reich that Newt Gingrich and friends were "out to destroy. They'll try to destroy anything that gets in their way." And so on.
In the new edition, Reich has not changed these disputed quotations. You just have to decide whom you believe.
The second sort of dispute involves Reich's interpretations and characterizations of events and/or people. Lane Kirkland, the former president of the AFL-CIO, comes in for rough treatment in Reich's book, and he wrote a bitter letter complaining about it. He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.
The new version makes some small but revealing changes in the party scene. Some characters who Lane Kirkland said had been fabricated have been removed. Ilena Kirkland still exclaims "No!" as Reich makes for the mint jelly. But she is now a solicitous hostess rather than a tactless snob: She is "apparently concerned that I will embarrass myself." That's nicer. The scene has been subjectified, too. In the original, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan was "appalled like the rest." Now, "I imagine he is appalled like the rest." Before, various people "stare at me silently." Now, "I feel as if everyone is staring at me." No one can dispute that Reich felt and imagined what he says he felt and imagined. But the moral is the same: "I might as well have farted 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'... Sam's right: Washington sucks." Again, readers need to decide for themselves how likely it is that a Cabinet officer would bring a Washington dinner party to a mortified standstill by mistaking jelly for sauce.
T he final, most striking category of discrepancy involves public events where official records exist and flatly contradict Reich. In one such case--a presidential press conference at which reporters supposedly bombard him and President Clinton with nasty questions, none of which appears in the White House transcript (the actual questions were quite pedestrian)--he makes no changes. Much more interesting, however, are two episodes that Reich has overhauled.
In one of them, a congressional hearing on the minimum wage becomes an "attack ad" as Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., jumps up and down in his chair "like a schoolboy" and crudely berates Reich while a bread-and-circuses audience laughs and applauds. In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic. In the new version, Reich sticks to the transcript and accurately quotes Saxton droning on at length about studies and Godfather's Pizza. Saxton's statement is partisan but monotonously real, and Reich's complaint is not that he was attacked but that he had "no real chance of getting a hearing at this hearing."