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Protection From Retinopathy and Other Complications in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes of Extreme Duration
The Joslin 50-Year Medalist Study
- Jennifer K. Sun, MD, MPH1,2,3,
- Hillary A. Keenan, PHD3,4,
- Jerry D. Cavallerano, OD, PHD1,2,
- Bela F. Asztalos, PHD5,
- Ernst J. Schaefer, MD5,
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- Vincent M. Monnier, MD6,
- Alessandro Doria, MD, PHD, MPH3,
- Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PHD1,2,3 and
- George L. King, MD3,4⇓
- 1Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- 3Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- 4Department of Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- 5Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
- 6Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- ↵Corresponding author: George L. King, george.king{at}joslin.harvard.edu.
OBJECTIVE To assess complication prevalence and identify protective factors in patients with diabetes duration of ≥50 years. Characterization of a complication-free subgroup in this cohort would suggest that some individuals are protected from diabetes complications and allow identification of endogenous protective factors.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional, observational study of 351 U.S. residents who have survived with type 1 diabetes for ≥50 years (Medalists). Retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, and cardiovascular disease were assessed in relation to HbA1c, lipids, and advanced glycation end products (AGEs). Retrospective chart review provided longitudinal ophthalmic data for a subgroup.
RESULTS A high proportion of Medalists remain free from proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) (42.6%), nephropathy (86.9%), neuropathy (39.4%), or cardiovascular disease (51.5%). Current and longitudinal (the past 15 years) glycemic control were unrelated to complications. Subjects with high plasma carboxyethyl-lysine and pentosidine were 7.2-fold more likely to have any complication. Of Medalists without PDR, 96% with no retinopathy progression over the first 17 years of follow-up did not experience retinopathy worsening thereafter.
CONCLUSIONS The Medalist population is likely enriched for protective factors against complications. These factors might prove useful to the general population with diabetes if they can be used to induce protection against long-term complications. Specific AGE combinations were strongly associated with complications, indicating a link between AGE formation or processing with development of diabetic vasculopathy.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/dc10-1675/-/DC1.
See accompanying editorial, p. 1060.
- Received August 30, 2010.
- Accepted November 24, 2010.
- © 2011 by the American Diabetes Association.
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Who was at your 20 week ultrasound?
I wanted my 20 week ultrasound to be a private and personal experience between my fianc� and I when we find out the gender of our baby. After weeks of hint dropping and small guilt trips, I asked my mom to come with us as well. Now that my mother is coming, my dad feels hurt and left out. He says he wants to come as well or else he'll be excluded. I didn't want to go to this appointment with a large group of people with me. Am I being insensitive? :/
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at my 20 week appt i had my fiance(babys father) my mother and my fiances mother.posted 05/21/2013 by horselover2012
Is this your first child? And/or the first grandchild? Parents really want to be in on every detail with the first one, so you have to be patient and tolerate (they get really great stuff for the baby which helps compensate the stupid questions, advice and lack of privacy during the pregnancy). If you exclude someone who wants to be a part of it, you may cause a wound too deep to heal, so instead why not explain to them that this is a sacred moment to if they want to share it with you to please not talk during the ultrasound so that you can relax and enjoy it. But it is never a good idea to alienate parents who are otherwise wonderful and loving, be patient with them, they'll only do this with the first one, after that they are less obtrusive. :)posted 05/19/2013 by keilahrose
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- A new thermal-mechanical finite element model capable of taking into account changes in the specific volume during austenite to ferrite γ-α transformation during cooling has been developed. This model, coupled with any of the existing phase transformation models, allows simulation of the sample shortening due to both thermal contraction and the dilatometric effect. The solution is considered as a direct problem model for inverse calculations. The distance between predicted and measured sample elongations is formulated as the cost function for the inverse analysis. It has been shown that the random distribution of the appearing ferritic phase within the sample cross section results in more gentle changes in the sample elongations with time during cooling than that in the case of the conventional approach. This allowed achievement of satisfactory agreement between the experimental and predicted curves in the dilatometric test reflecting both the dilatometric effect and thermal contraction of the specimen during cooling through austenite-ferrite transformation temperatures.
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Simba will be aiming to win in order to reduce the gap between them and two teams at the top - Yanga and Azam FC.
Apart from that goal, the Msimbazi Street boys will be targeting to win over the armed forces side for the second time after their 2-0 win in the first leg, where Amri Kiemba and Haruna Moshi 'Boban' scored the goals.
This will be the second league game for the city side after returning from Oman. They stunned African Lyon 3-1 last weekend when the second round kicked off.
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Simba are third on 26 points while JKT Ruvu are 10th with 15 points.
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Haven't written here for ages. Partly because I am still not enamoured with this site anymore, and partly because I'm busy what with a new baby and job hunting, and partly because I was in Havana for quite a while.
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Jamaica is quite calm now. Floods are over. Murder is down to only 77 per month. No jobs. Economy stagnant at best.
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Whenever I attend a fashion illustration exhibition, or otherwise find myself in the company of fashion illustration enthusiasts, I hear variations on this sentiment: "fashion illustration is having a moment"! My inner reaction is always: is it, really? What does this mean, exactly?
A moment.
To me, "having a moment" in the context of fashion means that for a period of time, fashion shines the spotlight on your particular specialty, attention shines on the work across all media, rates inflate, and superstars emerge – that is, names become recognizable even to outsiders. Photographers had a moment in the 1950s and 1960s. Designers had their big moment in the 1970s and 1980s. Models had their moment in the 1990s. Currently, bloggers and fashion editors are both having their moment. Outside of these "moments", the practitioners of their respective crafts carry on doing their thing, and a few outliers will make a name for themselves on an individual basis, but for the most part careerists receive relatively modest levels of scrutiny and interest.
I think fashion illustrators had their moment in the 1940s. That was when Bérard and Gruau were superstars – their artwork was featured on magazine covers, and their work even influenced designers rather than the other way around. At that time, fashion illustration was everywhere – mail-order catalogues, advertising, home sewing patterns – a lot of hands were needed to create all those drawings. When I was in school, I voluntarily studied fashion illustration texts from the 1940s, in which it was clear that fashion illustration was treated as a common, appropriate profession for young ladies to occupy themselves with between graduation and marriage. Fashion illustration paid, sometimes quite well, as Elizabeth Hawes documented in Fashion is Spinach.
So, no, I don't think fashion illustration is having a moment right now, or will anytime in the near future. That's just wishful thinking. The current state of fashion illustration is a tiny niche on the periphery of fashion's consciousness. Even within the industry, the names of fashion illustrators aren't well known. When you tell people outside of the fashion industry that you are a fashion illustrator, the reactions are always quizzical. Which is fine – you can't make a moment, even if a moment can make you. Just know that if you pursue a fashion illustration career now, your chances of become rich and famous doing it are virtually nil. Even fashion illustrators at the top of their game right now live in middle-class, relative obscurity.
A career.
Despite reduced circumstances, fashion illustration still carries on. There are about half a dozen well-known, respected fashion illustrators with names that are recognized, at least within the industry. For some reason, most of them live in London. Beyond that, there is a small cohort of full-time working fashion illustrators struggling to make a name for themselves (I include myself among this number), and a much broader population of amateur, and part-time fashion illustrators who often combine their work with other professions. There are also the more general illustrators who also occasionally do fashion work.
Fashion illustration is currently making the media/technology shift along with the rest of the creative world. Along with illustration as a whole, fashion artists are increasingly creating careers online. Personality has always been an essential component of creating a name for yourself, and the up-and-coming cohort of the future-famous (moment withstanding) tend to also be bloggers – most notably Danny Roberts, Kathryn Elise, and of course Garance Dore. As the internet has become the starting point, the role of the agent or editor as the mediator in launching an illustrator's career is waning.
There are two main ways to build a career as a fashion illustrator. You can create an original body of work and sell it as originals and prints, either through galleries or online. This type of career is more on the "art" end of the spectrum. Or you can assemble an online portfolio, based on which freelance clients will hire you, as I do. This is more aligned with the "commercial" side of the business. Or you can do both. There is a third, more obscure stream you can sail down too – but I'll get to that at the end of this (long) post.
A trend.
One thing I find fascinating and unique about modern editorial and commercial fashion illustration is its susceptibility to micro-trends. Illustration is very rarely used in major fashion magazines now, and for some reason when it is it seems that certain styles tend to be ubiquitous for short periods of time. In the late 1990s as computers were just beginning to be used as a tool, vector spot illustrations were suddenly everywhere. Though Jason Brooks actually works in Photoshop (example above), he has become the most well-known example of this slick style. When editors became tired of the digital look, there was a reactionary shift back to classic painterly effects, notably David Downton and Stina Persson.
This lovely 2004 ad campaign for Choice by Calvin Klein was illustrated by the multitalented Charles Anastase. Anastase used photo-realistic pencil rendering, done so tightly that every hair was articulated. This was a major campaign and I remember seeing and remarking upon it at the time because fashion illustrations are so rarely on billboards. It would have been great if it had inspired more brands to commission illustrated campaigns – but instead it inspired a host of photo-realistic pencil-rendering fashion illustrators. This has become the most common style of fashion illustration, and now in 2012 it is dangerously near saturation.
It is very difficult to differentiate the styles of illustrators who use this technique unless they combine it with some other element (like Richard Kilroy's linear effects). There are also copyright and ownership issues when the illustrations are based on fashion photography, not to mention the identity of the models. In a way, the proclivity for this style of shifting analog illustration towards photography mirrors photography's own migration towards illustration with digital dependency on photoshop. Perhaps it indicates a future category of imagemakers, the photostrators? Still, my heart goes out to the illustrators whose careers are based on this style, which is not likely to keep fashionable favour forever.
Never mind the medium, no fashion illustrator is immune to the ends of trends. The main thing that differentiates fashion illustration from any other type of illustration is its currency. A fashion illustration's essential quality must always reflect the attitudes and tastes of its time – as a result fashion illustration dates very quickly and fashion illustration careers are rarely long ones unless the illustrator is remarkably adaptable, like the great Antonio.
An idea.
The other aspect of fashion illustration that differentiates it from the rest of the illustration industry is that it also plays a vital, creative role in design development. As an illustrator who also creates ideation sketches, design drawings and technical flats for designer clients, I have a very personal interest in fashion illustration that is used for practical purposes. To me, these are often the most fascinating types of fashion illustration, and I find it poignant that such a huge swath of drawn material is not for public consumption. It bothers me that when fashion illustration is discussed, its hidden industrial role is so often ignored.
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Grits: trendy new food -- at least in Baltimore
The other day I was cleaning off some shelves and pulled down the obligatory grits (obligatory in my house).
For some reason, I looked at the expiration date, and it was 1996. I was astounded. I haven't made grits often in recent years, but I know it hasn't been that long since the last time. ...
Had I been poisoning my family? Would they be full of bugs? I threw them away without (shudder) opening them.
In my family, grits aren't a cereal. If you have them for breakfast, you have them with butter, salt and freshly ground pepper with eggs and crisp bacon. You might have them for a starch at night with a slice of ham. (When did we last have ham?)
Anyway, since then I'm seeing them on every restaurant menu -- or at least it seems that way. Are grits the new trendy food?
We had grits at Mr. Rain's Fun House in the American Visionary Art Museum with shrimp, pheasant sausage and kale. I see from Suzanne's In Good Taste blog that the new Langermann's in the Can Co. will feature grits on its southern-style menu.
And it goes without saying, of course, that you'll find them at Charleston.
By the way, when I was writing this I couldn't think of the word for the cardboard cylinder grits and oatmeal come in. Box doesn't seem right, or container, or carton. Is there a word?
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Canadian scientists have discovered a way to clone elm trees, which for decades, have have fallen victim to the deadly Dutch elm disease [1]. It is believed that their findings could become a model to preserve, and successfully grow, thousands of endangered plants around the globe.
The study [2], published Thursday in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research [3], is the first known procedure that uses in vitro technologies [4] to replicate the buds of mature American elm trees. One scientist, Praveen Saxena, said that the research at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, brings the possibility of restoring American elm trees throughout North America.
American elm trees, introduced in 1928, were once a common sight along city streets in American and Canadian cities and suburbs. To date, over 95 percent of these trees have died because of Dutch elm disease. Across the Atlantic Ocean, the epidemic has wiped out most of the trees [5] in the United Kingdom as well. However, one in 100,000 elm trees carries a natural resistance to the infection.
Saxana and his team extracted samples from surviving elm trees in Ontario and cultivated genetic copies from dormant buds and shoot tips. After raising those copied trees, the scientists hope to glean genetic material with traits that can resist Dutch elm disease. In turn these plants could assist elm breeding and conservation programs around the world. The scientists benefited from a bank of 17 genetic collections from trees that have survived throughout Ontario. The technique, called micropropagation, also included samples from a 100 year-old tree growing on the University of Guelph campus.
With urban sprawl becoming a growing problem in North American cities, the need to conserve endangered species like the American elm has become more urgent. So, could ancient plants [6] be next on the cloning agenda?
Via Daily Mail [5], New York Times [4], University of Guelph [2]
Photos courtesy Wikipedia [1], State of Connecticut [7]
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[5] most of the trees: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122617/Could-elm-trees-return-landscapes-Scientists-clone-1-100-000-trees-resist-Dutch-Elm-Disease.html?ITO=1490
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I've got family over in Japan, but I learned from my cousin, Hiroshi's Facebook Page that everyone family-wise is OK. Fortunately most of my Japanese relatives live in Tokyo/Yokohama area which is on the central eastern coast , while the rest of the family live in western parts of Honshu, or Kyushu to the south - south of the Sendai area where the Earthquake epicenter and the main tsunami damage took place. So everyone is out of harms way. However, there is now a volcanic eruption going on in Kyushu, and my cousin, Kumi, Hiroshi's sister and family live in Kyushu - so there's that. Other than ash deposits, I think she is still relatively safe as well.
It was kind of scary in the first 24 hours of the event for me, as I hadn't heard from relatives yet. Hiroshi works 10 miles from his home, and on Friday had to walk home, because all the trains were out of service at the time - so rather inconvenient for him, but at least not a danger.


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ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Department of Defense announced the winners of the fiscal year 2011 Department of Defense Value Engineering Achievement Awards.
A ceremony was held to recognize the recipients' outstanding achievements through the application of Value Engineering at the Pentagon.
"Value Engineering is an important contributor to the "Better Buying Power" program of continuous improvement in defense acquisition. By reducing cost throughout the life cycle of U.S. defense systems, value engineering delivers more capability at reduced cost to the taxpayer," said the Honorable Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
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On May 8, 2007, David Letterman asked perhaps the least important question any man could have asked: "How many guys in Spider-Man suits can fit into a Jamba Juice restaurant in New York City?" In order to answer this question, Letterman sent a rather large group of Spider-Men into a Jamba Juice, filming the whole time. This is one of the dumbest, weirdest things I've ever seen. I think about this every few days. When life seems a little low, maybe you should just send some Spider-Men into a juice bar... READ ON
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Remember Pigs in Space? It was a series of sketches on The Muppet Show parodying Star Trek (and other 60s/70s space-themed TV shows), featuring the adventures of a crew of pigs aboard the Swinetrek. Pigs in Space became so popular that it was used to wake up actual astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia during its second mission. Muppet Wiki tells the story:
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33 years ago yesterday, The Muppet Movie made its silver screen debut. Over the opening credits, Kermit played his banjo in the swamp, singing the now-iconic theme song, "Rainbow Connection." The song was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, though it didn't win either; instead it reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, appeared in every subsequent Muppets film, and has been covered dozens of times. And it all started with Jim Henson's voice in a swamp.
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In this two-minute clip from The Muppet Show, two Whatnots sing a semi-tuneless ode to happiness. In a dusty room filled with cobwebs. Covered, themselves, with cobwebs. It's a pretty grim situation. They're pretty happy guys.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had a habit of ending on a positive note, particularly in the first season before those pesky Borg showed up in Season 2. No matter what troubles the crew had seen during their adventure, the episodes generally ended with Picard specifying a new course and then saying "Engage" as music swelled. I recommend this practice the next time you take a road trip: strap everybody in, set a course for Isis III, then say "Engage!"
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An Illinois man took law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase Sunday that started on Inter-state 80 near Penryn that ended when his motorcycle ran out of gas. Larry Goetluck, 41, was riding a Honda street motorcycle and clocked by a California Highway Patrol aircraft just outside Auburn at speeds in excess of 140 mph, said Officer Mike Fong of the Newcastle CHP office. The chase started on westbound Interstate 80 around 12:15 p.m. near Penryn and continued on through Loomis and Penryn surface streets, he said. One patrol officer, a motorcycle officer and a CHP helicopter tracked Goetluck. The suspect ran out of gas on Power House Road at Oak Hollow Road in Penryn. There was a little bit of struggling, Fong said. Goetluck was arrested on suspicion of felony evading, reckless driving and for not having a driver's license. He is being held in Placer County Jail on $20,000 bail.


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Today Producer Shields Matt Lauer From Ann Curry Criticism
After sixteen straight years of losing, ABC's Good Morning America has been steadily beating NBC's Today in the ratings, even well after Ann Curry's awkward departure as host. Following some finger-pointing gossip aimed mostly at "anchor animal" Matt Lauer, the once-dominant morning show has responded with a press offensive, in which executive producer Jim Bell puts himself in the line of fire, squarely in front of the network's $25 million man. "It was definitely not Matt's call," Bell insisted to the Times about firing Curry. "He is the host and does not have management responsibility. It was not his call. That was my call."
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The Daily Mail have a brief piece saying that Arsenal are looking into the signing of Lyon midfielder Maxime Gonalons.
Although the article goes into next to no detail at all on the deal, they claim to know that Arsenal sent scouts to watch Lyon's game on Sunday, when they beat Bordeaux 4-0.
While in theory Arsenal could be simply sending scouts to this game as well as many others around the world, it is thought that the defensive midfielder was their main focus on this occasion.
Arsenal were linked several times with Mohamed Diame over the last few months in a bid to bolster their midfield, which has been weakened since the summer sale of Alex Song to Barcelona, as well as repeated injury worries with Abou Diaby, Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere.
As far as I'm concerned, that's probably the only thing that links this rumour together. We had scouts at a Lyon game, Gonalons is an impressive defensive midfielder in the mould that we need, and the Mail have put two and two together.
Arsene Wenger often looks to Ligue 1 to find players, but there's little to suggest there's a great deal more in this story than any of the rumours that go around.
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DALLAS, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LIG Assets, Inc. (OTCPK: LIGA), a Company focused on residential and commercial real estate, reported it filed the end of year 2012 Financial Statement with OTC Markets. The status with OTC Markets now shows OTC Pink Current Information. The Company reported net equity of $8,485,932 and the issued and outstanding shares at 99,911,100 for a net book value of .0849 per share. The management at LIG Assets remains positive about its Strategic Alliance with Texas Real Estate Hedge Fund, LP, MMR Realty Advisors, and InterContinental Real Estate Partners that is focused on commercial properties including multifamily, retail, hotel, casino, and office with valuations between $3 million and $100 million. The Strategic Alliance was formed in December, 2012.Yesterday, LIG Assets announced that it will partner with one of the most respected consulting groups in gaming throughout the world, The Gillmann Group, LLC. This relationship was forged through introductions from the Strategic Alliance. Early in the first quarter of 2013, The Strategic Alliance completed its initial transaction with Terry's Supermarket and plans to help the grocery chain open a total of 10 locations for its new premium concept. A 20 year lease was signed for the first location, and additional potential locations have been identified. The Strategic Alliance continues to view that anticipated profit from turnover and/or leases is significant, and the opportunities to take positions in distressed and special situations are fantastic. LIG Assets CEO Jeff Love stated, "LIG Assets is actively involved in a number of large transactions with the Strategic Alliance at various stages. The Company prefers not to announce specifics about these transactions for competitive reasons and until we reach a point of near certainty they will close. It is our goal to report significant closings in the current operating quarter that will end June 30, 2013." Mr. Love added, "We appreciate patience from our shareholders while we work to complete the transactions involving the Strategic Alliance as well as our own real estate projects." It is noted that LIG Assets also recently acquired the majority interest of another publicly traded Company symbol THCB and filed to change the name of that Company to South American Properties. The plan is to acquire and develop real estate properties and other income producing assets located in South America with more specific focus on the country of Peru. Year-end statements included a valuation of LIG Entertainment Management, Inc. (LIGE) at $1.2 million. This division was started to assist with the finance of movies in Texas. The increase in valuation was attributed to progress of its first movie "HOA: The Movie" starring Daniel Baldwin. Although it is anticipated that LIG Assets will make a significant return on its investment in this and one more movie, the Company plans to focus on its core real estate business. For those that wish to see Daniel Baldwin on a TV show appearance to discuss the movie, you can visit: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwzfgx_hoa-the-movie_news#.UWTEE-jn-Uk About LIG Assets, Inc. LIG Assets, Inc., based in Dallas, TX, is a Company focused on residential and commercial real estate. Through our Strategic Alliance with Texas Real Estate Hedge Fund, MMR Realty Advisors, and InterContinental Real Estate Partners, LIG Assets will expand its focus on multifamily, retail, hotel, casino, and office properties with valuations between $3 and $100 million. LIG Assets, Inc. trades on the pink sheets under the ticker symbol "LIGA". For additional information, please visit LIG Assets corporate website: www.ligassetsinc.net. Forward-Looking Statements
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Second, you are absolutely in the right. His health comes first, not their feelings. If they don't like it, too bad. I would just ignore them after that point.
You are not being controlling - you have a PREMIE for God's sake. And the dad isn't even living with you? You've been more than accommodating.
Watch out for that Grandparent's Rights stuff. You might want to speak to a lawyer to protect yourself. This could get very ugly.
I'm sorry they are doing this to you at such a stressful time. Your child's health and well being is number one. Good luck!!
It really isn't that hard of a concept to grasp for them. You have a premature baby. Toting him to a house that is heavily smoked in is not a wise idea, even with a full term newborn. If you have told them that they can come to visit YOU to see him and they still throw a fit and have made no attempt to visit... oh well. They can spit and hiss all they want, no one is stopping them from seeing the baby but themselves.
"Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eff that. Just tell them flat out, clean the pissy carpets,and stop smoking in the house for a good two weeks, wash walls and have upholstery cleaned, I'll do a quick inspection and if it isn't a filthy, stinking, pit from hell, I'll bring the baby by--oh and if you don't like my rules then I have no problem fighting this out in court.
No judge is going to force your baby to be around filth and second hand smoke to that degree.
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Scarlet wanted me to let you know about her new favorite shoes. We've shared selections from her insane dad-curated shoe collection here, here, and here. Well, her dad picked up these cuties at fave LA sneaker shop Undefeated last week, and she hasn't taken them off since.
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The issue of additional months arose late last month when veteran leaders became aware that the city planned to spend $300,000 for an extra three months of operations at a general-population shelter, which has 220 beds for single adults on the edge of downtown San Diego. That money came from a surprise city budget surplus of $3.6 million.
In response to complaints, Mayor Bob Filner gave the veterans shelter a last-minute reprieve, telling organizers that he would find the money needed. The extra funding will be expended from the city's general fund.
Shelter operator Veterans Village of San Diego said the additional time will benefit homeless veterans who just fell on hard times or who for whatever reason haven't had enough of a chance to find permanent housing.
Previously, $442,000 in federal and local dollars from the San Diego Housing Commission covered the bulk of the expense of the veterans tent. The downtown general-population shelter originally had a budget of $530,000 and was scheduled to operate from Nov. 23 to April 1.


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Cyberimmortality: Science, Religion, and the Battle to Save Our Souls; Research Enabling You One Day to Archive and Regenerate Your Memory, Personality, and Consciousness-Giving You Cyberimmortality-May Meet Resistance from Religious Groups Arguing That the Soul Is a Spirit, Not a System
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A crucial battle in the longstanding conflict between science and religion will concern the prospects for "cybernetic immortality"--the possibility that converging technologies will offer humans extended lives within information systems, robots, or genetically engineered biological organisms.
Cyberimmortality would require redefining human personalities as dynamic patterns of information, and human life as a process of evolution from material to computational planes of existence. The convergence of cognitive science with information technology already threatens traditional beliefs that are the heart of religion, notably the need for a God to save souls.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, psychiatrists struggled with the apparent contradiction between the traditional notion of an immortal soul and the discovery that injury, illness, and old age can rob an individual of memory, personality, and many other functions. If much of an individual's personality can be destroyed during life, the idea that it can survive death intact becomes less plausible. Later, the psychoanalytic school of psychology, led by Sigmund Freud, explicitly criticized religion as an illusion or a shared psychosis. But most branches of psychology, like science more generally, discreetly chose to avoid the topic.
Beginning around 1980, cognitively oriented researchers in sociology, psychology, and anthropology began developing rigorous models of religious faith. By explaining it, they came perilously close to debunking it. In the 1980s, sociologist Rodney Stark and I published a deductive theory, bolstered by extensive sociological data, about how social interaction can lead to belief in supernatural sources of rewards, when highly desired rewards (like eternal life) are unavailable in the real world. Wishful thinking, we suggested, is the typical mode of religious cognition.
On the basis of psychological and anthropological data, a number of writers have argued that the human brain evolved in such a way that people tend to see complex phenomena as the actions of conscious beings, thus encouraging belief in gods. In Descartes' Baby (2004), psychologist Paul Bloom argues that humans imagine they have souls because the human brain has no awareness of its own functioning. We falsely perceive ourselves to be separate from our bodies.
Cognitive scientists may not say explicitly that religious beliefs are errors of perception and interpretation, but that is what many people would infer. Cognitive science is making considerable progress in understanding how human thought and behavior arise in the structures and electrochemical processes of the human brain, and it has found no evidence of a soul.
At the same time, computer scientists have been creating technologies that effectively imitate more and more distinct functions of human intelligence, although the goal of full artificial intelligence (AI) remains elusive. As more people gain experience with computers, information systems, robots, and AI agents, cultural assumptions are likely to change. These machine intelligences cannot yet duplicate human mental behavior, but they do provide rather compelling illustrations of how pure mechanism could be responsible for complex thought.
More to the point, people are increasingly archiving their memories, experiences, and thoughts by means of computers. In the future, when combined with AI surrogates (avatars, robots, and distributed intelligence), these archives will enable technological resurrection and migration to new worlds in outer space. Although this development will be of vast historical significance, it may begin so imperceptibly within the standard customs of the society that it initially arouses no opposition from the churches or other conventional institutions.
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The english premier league. Chelsea against Fulham. Chelsea now has 7 points and is in the 6th postition of the tabel, while Fulhame with 4 points is in the 14-15 places. This week Chelsea quite surprisingly lost to Basel in Champions league, So, today they should be more motivated and angry. Here I expect Chelsea dominating and win even with the 3 way handicap with 0-1 Fulham leading. What is more here I expect a lot of goals and over 2,5 looks really good. So, good luck to all who agree with me, betting on Chelsea win (0-1) and of course other bet is over 2,5 goals.
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I've been having really bad palpitations lately, too, that seem to last a long time (like days without my heart rate slowing...). So bad that it would keep me from sleeping some nights cause my heart was pounding so hard. It can feel really scary, but palpitations and a high heart rate are completely normal anxiety symptoms. Your heart is a pretty strong organ, and it can take it, though. I just went to my doctor about my racing heart cause I was worried (similar bpm as yours), and she told me that your heart could race at that pace for years and nothing would happen. It is really really annoying though!
My mother's been having palpitations for over 50 years. She has been to numerous cardiologists. SHe is 85 now and still strong as an ox. They are called premature ventricular contractions and they are completely benign.My question is: what's causing you the health anxiety? Is there something currently going on in your life that you're not coping with as well as you would like?Are you seeing a therapist, taking any other meds?I wish you good luck,Best, Julie
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