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On Monday, May 5, Carmen Erna Jacobsen will be the featured guest for the Nokturne First Monday Reading Series at 17062 Saturn Lane in Webster at 8:30 p.m. Her reading will be followed by an open mic. In addition, Carmen will be raffling off a copy of her book, Saudade, to one of the first five people who sign in.
Carmen was born in Missouri but grew up in Mexico City where she taught English as a Second Language to pay her way through medical school. She received her degree at the Universidad Nactional Autonoma de Mexico in 1987. Since then, Carmen has moved back to the United States and has continued her work in education. She has directed and set up plays for a Montessori school at University of Houston Clear Lake. She is also a creative writing teacher for Writers in the Schools and has been published in Rice University's Entrepreneurship Educational Program Blog.
Saudade is Carmen's first book. Carmen agreed to answer some questions for us about herself and her book.
Q: Is there anything you'd like to tell us about yourself?
A: I make my living as a teacher, I dream as a poet, and I write life stories of those I meet along my pathway. I love dogs, but also love all expression of life in the animal world.
I love to travel, but learned that living in the place that you travel to, will give you a different life experience unlike from visiting the place as a tourist.
Q: How long did you work on this book?
A: As crazy as it may seem, the book was not planned. I just realized after being surrounded by a community of poets and writers that I had enough material to publish my own book. It was the poetry community in Houston that inspired me to put it together. Many of the poems talked about events in my past. I would say it took me at least two years to get it together.
Dustin Pickering, Editor in Chief at Harbinger Asylum and Owner at Transcendent Zero Press wrote the following review about the book. "Saudade is not merely a personal history; it is also a lesson and a record of thought. There are portraits of lost loves, of lost friends and family; but, there are also visions of life's direction and essential purpose. Like any poetry collection, the speculative nature of the writing draws in the reader and guides his or her curiosity." The review will be coming out soon.
Q: Is there a theme to the poetry that appears in this book?
A: Definitely. This is why I titled it "Saudade" – "(n.) a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; 'the love that remains.'"
The book is an insight of what remains in one's life after those that you love or the things that you love are no longer there. Then again it is a record of the things that we long for in the future, too. There is nothing more human than the feeling of longing and how we respond to it.
Q: What influenced or inspired your poetry? Your family? Being part of the Writers in the Schools program? Your life experiences?
A:What has influenced my poetry is that same thing that inspires every poet to write, the feeling of passion. What is your passion? Mine has been the feeling of love and being loved and its loss, the feeling of justice and injustice, the feeling of wonder awakened by the beauty of our world, but also the feeling of disgust at the horrors of inhumane events.
Poetry for me has been an effort to find an answer to the so many unanswered questions. It is a personal quest for a reason to be, a reason to live and the adventure in finding the responses received to such questions that seem to change with time and age.
Q: Do you have any plans for future books?
A:Yes, I am currently working on a collaborative project with David Little a photographer from Cordova, Alaska. The book is called Men of Fish. It is a collection of haiku poems inspired by the pictures of a place I once lived in several years ago. The book is in its final stages. I have also another non-fiction book called Blood Tears waiting to be released. I have several projects lined up and in different planning stages.
Q: What advice would you give other poets who are working on their first poetry books?
A: I have met many poets and writers through Writers in the Schools and in the Houston area who have an incredible collection of their own. Many of them I have met through the different literary venues that I have had the chance to go to and participate in. My advice to them is the same one that was given to me once, "Keep on Writing."
Go out and meet other poets, support and be supported. Go to critique groups as often as possible. Support poetry groups like "The Gulf Coast Poets" that support and promote poetry. Talk to people who have been published, learn the ropes to making a book. I got support from other poets. I am still in the learning stages.
In the process of making a book I learned one thing - you have to create a team of experts – Especially graphic designers and those who may know a thing or two on typesetting and text graphics. Find people who are willing to volunteer their time, experience and effort in the making of the book in exchange for having their name published. - Especially as a beginner artist where self-publish is an out-of -pocket expense. The truth is I have met a lot of talented people in the process, and I hope to meet and support more as my work grows and matures.
Be sure to come out and see Carmen on Monday, May 5! You can also purchase a copy of her book from Amazon.com.


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Well everyone who had battled depression know how hard it is to keep positive and to overcome the negative part of the illness because it sets in dob't want you to win.
You know it's a daily struggle to stay positives but everyday I get feeling positive till I have a bad encounter like:
Negative people who Tare you apart just because it makes them feel better
I feel man they got to depressed to do that ok I try to say its going to be on we can do it right
I just want to say some people belittle people and don't even realize it because they think they are thinking it but opps says it
then there's the other type
Who says it see ya hurt like the bully type
I just try to do the best I can that's all I can do
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But I expect respecting me is a top priority
if you can't respect me don't say anything right
I never try to hurt any one I will not hurt anyone on purpose but I do and I know it I apologize for it cause I respect everyone even when disrespected I still try to be a positive person till I get out of my skin and turn into a I can't believe all this the shock it's a numbing place I don't like but when I felt it all last week I mean I was sick to my stomach all week feeling like my guts was yanked over the stress that happened earlier on Sunday I'm been telling everyone to pray about it and then I wrote it down burned it to god to deal with again I felt a little better but still hurts your feelings I made a deal with myself from now on don't talk till spoken to don't try to be involved to be jumped on just try to stay out of fire because its not my fault for others actions I'm no longer going to take it at face value like before because I know it's lies and I try to be a team player but I'm the only person who can protect me and that's my top priority from now on if they don't like me that is fine but don't insult me just because your upset at everything that's nothing I did it never been this bad at work but when we need like a whole shift of people cause we had one quit one fired in dec. and our temps we had both was let go and now we have one out on sick leave I'm wishing her the best and I don't want her to have a fast recovery I want her to have a healthy safe recovery and I just hope she does good for the remainder of the time when we get full staff again she won't be as stressed I feel she wanted the position so I think she should be respectful still yet talking to us like we can't read or follow directions was just wrong and down right rude and honestly it made me disrespect her little because she made me feel bad about myself I don't need anyone doing that to me people with depression have a hard enough time keeping positive she knows I have depression and anxiety and add and takes advantage of it sometimes by saying stuff against me on it when frustrated but I been ignoring it but over several months of building it knocked me down and made me feel worthless I just keep hearing her say all the time how slow I am but I am one person I can't do everyone's job at one time I cook I attend hot case and make sandwiches at the same time and if someone needs meat and cheese cut I'm walk away and do that when you get interrupted it takes longer when working on so many things at once I feel like I never get anything finished then when she pops off says that you don't do anything your trying to keep the department floating it just bunch stress I want to goto the lake and fish and play in the water just to relax I so need a vacation but right now it's to cold but soon it will be awesome I haven't been fishing in 3 years I'm going this year no matter what I better get at least one day off I can fish at least weekly I would like to relax I'm willing to work Sunday - Friday but not good enough I think it's sad I work open schedule 24 hrs a day any shift but they won't guarantee me Saturdays off I think that just crazy one day if I try to change my availability they deny it because my availability is open
I'm staying positive and doing my job to the best of my ability I just hope it's good enough I haven't heard anyone else complain about it
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Thanks everyone I been doing great since I put it out of sight and out of mind I just do my job and if things seem to be hectic I just stay to my self and don't talk so I can't be in trouble just for my protection and I'm feeling better more confident about my job and I know when we get our help that things will happen for the better and she will be fine today we still had people breaking the rules so I tried to tell them again that we need to stop putting things that don't belong because that's what is upsetting her people not doing the job right I can understand that but I try to tell them if you want her to not be stressed or mad maybe you can help me by not putting stuff in freezer that don't belong to make bit easier and better for all
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Remember that when others try to make you feel bad about yourself, that says a lot more about them than it does about you. Be confident in your own worth and nobody else will be able to bring you down. Best of luck!
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I'm sorry you are having such a hard time at work. It's unfortunate when other people take advantage of others when they know they can. I hope things get better soon!
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You are a wonderful, caring and helpful person. Unfortunately people take advantage of your kindness and good nature.
People have a very hard time dealing with any illness that is not physical. It's like if they can't see it, they don't believe. My dear husband deal with severe anxiety and it's something that people do not understand because from the outside, he seems "normal".
Hopefully you can always find the strength to put yourself first and do what you need to do.
Your garden sounds lovely!
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I am glad you can talk about your frustrations here. Keep that tender heart of yours, its precious!
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It sounds like you have a very tender, loving ,kind heart. When you have such a kind heart as you do it is easy to get it hurt. I know you would never hurt someone on purpose so it is hard to understand when it happens to you. Just remember, when someone is rude to you that is a reflection on them not you! Try not to take it personal, maybe they have problems that no one knows about and are just venting on you.
Keep smiling that is your gift to the world!
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Thanks it's true you just got to decide wich role your going to be everyone has better days than other and I am the same way I hope on my worst days I'm still confident enough about my service and situations not to be a bully or do sarcastic I hurt others if I offend anyone I will apologize but I am pretty easy going not hard to get a long with I'm honest respectful and loves to do her job and mostly a happy go lucky person who has been told I smile to much but hey that's what makes me me I feel good a out myself for the most part I just want others who not as fortunate as me on the positive front I used to negative to the point I felt sorry for myself I deserve respect just like everyone is does and if you got mental illness it isn't your fault and don't blame yourself for it just be positive about it take it one day at a time try something new like journaling to get it off your chest talk to a friend about it what ever makes you feel better about it I'm thinking about after everything like this plant a new seed to try to start new healthy chapter along my new healthy corn plants that's what I'm planting veggies and maybe a few flowers but I want zucchini and squash okra and eggplants tomato cucumbers and onions lettuce carrots potatoes lettuce leaf romaine and spinach seems like I'm missing something kale and carrots to go into stews and salads and boy I'm getting Hungary just thinking about it
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I think that when most people think of the Vancouver housewife, they imagine a latte drinking, Lululemon wearing, Coach purse carrying, SUV driving soccer mom who is made up to the nines at a 5:30am hockey practice. When I think of one, I see someone who shops across the border to get the best deals, makes their lattes at home on a Tassimo, carries a purse she bought pre-kids, and either takes transit or rides a bike. Someone who is mortgaged to the eyeballs and lives in a 500 sq ft condo, so can't actually afford to go out all that often.
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Since I actually live in the Fraser Valley (insert bad Valley girl joke here), I'm not sure if I might be disqualified out of the gate. Yes, I love my Starbucks, but I only wear my Lulus to work out in, and don't drive an SUV. I will admit, though, that I got a gorgeous Coach purse for Christmas from my husband, but before that I had a little "purse" that clipped on to my diaper bag (you know, the one I haven't carried in about 2 years). I don't do yoga though, and there is nothing about me that would ever have you mistaking me for a "housewife".
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During his sophomore season, Tuipulotu (5-11, 215) had 59 total tackles (26 solo and 33 assists). In his totals were 2.5 sacks (-10 yards) and four tackles for loss (-22 yards) to go with four pass breakups.
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Epic, unbelievable and historic are just a few adjectives to describe yesterday's thrilling 7-3 win by the Texas Rangers in Game 2 of the ALCS. It was just a good all-around postseason baseball game played by both teams with a finish that was as good as it gets in any sport.
The Tigers had good chances in the first two innings to score, but Rangers' starter Derek Holland worked out of trouble. The Rangers jumped on the board early with two runs in the first courtesy of Josh Hamilton and Adrian Beltre RBI doubles before Tigers' starter Max Scherzer settled in.
Holland's wildness (four walks and a HBP) caught up to him in the third when Ryan Raburn popped a three-run home run to left field to give the Tigers the lead. The score would remain 3-2 until the seventh inning when Nelson Cruz turned the game around when he crushed a solo home run high off the left field foul pole to tie the game at 3. The missile by Cruz ended Scherzer's day, but it was just the beginning of the heroics for "Nellie" Cruz.
The Tigers had a chance to take the lead with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, but Neftali Feliz got Victor Martinez to pop out on a 100 mph heater to Elvis Andrus in shallow center field to end the threat. But it was no routine popup by any stretch as Andrus made a heck of a running catch over his shoulder. The ball hit Andrus' hand then went into his glove and back out as Elvis finally trapped the ball against his body to secure it. It was quite an intense and nerve-wracking moment for Rangers' fans everywhere as Andrus pretty much saved the game with that catch.
It looked like the Rangers had the game in the bag in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and nobody out after Cruz was beaned by Jose Valverde to load 'em up. However David Murphy got over anxious and popped up to shallow left before Mitch Moreland grounded into a double play that was nicely turned by the Tigers to send the game into extra innings.
It was a great battle between the two bullpens with each 'pen getting clutch outs in clutch situations. Scott Feldman was the unsung hero in my opinion, tossing 4 1/3 innings of one-hit baseball, picking up Holland after his disastrous start. Feldman deserves a lot of credit for giving the Rangers a chance to pull this one out. The Rangers' bullpen as a whole pitched 8 1/3 innings of shutout baseball with eight strikeouts, which allowed for one of the most exciting finishes to game I have ever seen.
Michael Young and Beltre led off the bottom of the 11th inning with consecutive singles. With runners on first and second, Mike Napoli lofted a fly ball to right field that was misplayed, which set up the Rangers with the bases loaded and nobody out once again. Sound familiar? This time there was a different result.
Cruz, who looked seriously injured after getting drilled in the ninth inning, strolled up to the plate with 51,227 fans on their feet chanting "Cruuuuuz" and delivered another clutch hit: a walk-off grand slam down the line in left. It was his second home run of the game and the first ever game-ending grand slam in MLB postseason history. It was the shot heard 'round Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the crowd was sent into a state of euphoria. Cruz was mobbed at home plate and blasted in the face with water from a bottle by Mark Lowe as the Rangers celebrated a 7-3 win and a 2-0 series lead over the Detroit Tigers.
For those that were lucky enough to be at the game, including myself, it will be a moment that you will never forget. It's one of those moments that you will tell your kids and grandkids about. Fans were jumping around, hugging and high-fiving everybody around them. It didn't matter if you knew who that person was because he or she was a Rangers fan and that was all that mattered at that point in time.
The Rangers are still two wins away from clinching this ALCS and the Tigers now get to play at least two if not three games in front of their home crowd. This series is far from over, but what a day and night it was on Monday to be a Texas Rangers fan.


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The Christian Science community will host a series of meetings for the public that focus on Spiritual Value every Wednesday at the Park Hotel, 605 Main St., from Oct. 2 through Nov. 27. Meetings will be held from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. The topics span personal, relational and community-based issues. The first topic is Valuing Oneself. There is no fee to attend.
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Simple Definition of digress
: to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject being discussed
Examples of digress in a sentence
The third visit, the first one after I started the drugs, is shorter, more perfunctory than the first two. Papakostas moves briskly from one question to the next and looks at his watch if we digress. —Gary Greenberg, Harper's, May 2007
Coleridge, of course, who happily called himself a … lover of parentheses, does not bridle himself, but merely produces digressions about how he should not digress. —James Wood, New Republic, 6 Sept. 1999
He had not written too much per se; he had digressed intolerably given the significance of the events under consideration. —Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life, 1997
He digressed so often that it was hard to follow what he was saying.
If I can digress for a moment, I'd like to briefly mention her earlier films.
Origin and Etymology of digress
Latin digressus, past participle of digredi, from dis- + gradi to step — more at grade
First Known Use: 1529
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Tony Stewart probably said it best. The 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup champion was signing autographs at a grand opening for another Home Depot store. It was midway in the '03 season, and Stewart was still in the hunt for a repeat title. But he wasn't optimistic about his chances.
"It's tough to repeat," he said. "To win a title, so much has to go right. And a lot of those things are nothing a driver has control over, like getting caught in a wreck you had nothing to do with, or like a mechanical failure on a part that just shouldn't break.
"Then you figure it all has to go right two years in a row," he explained. "The odds are really against it."
Yet it happens. It is becoming rare in Nextel Cup, but at local tracks there are some drivers who so dominate their hometown oval that what they can't control in luck they can make up for in skill, familiarity, or consistency. Their houses and shops are filled with trophies, and they emerge as icons among their peers.
Some of the best ones go on to become champions in NASCAR's Dodge Weekly Racing Series. Some are track champions, others win divisional titles, and a few go on to become the nation's top short-track driver.
It isn't all driving skill, says Andy Bozell, who has conquered all comers at Kalamazoo Speedway for the past seven years. It is knowing how to be around at the end of the race, scoring as many points as possible, and being able to wring every ounce of performance out of a car without crossing the line and ending a good run on the outside wall.
Bozell and four other of short-track racing's most successful drivers shared their secrets of what they see as keys to becoming a track champion over and over again.
OK. They didn't share all their secrets. But here are the ones they-and some of the people who have watched them dominate their ovals-were willing to talk about.
Raw PowerBozell won his track titles and the NASCAR national weekly series championship in 1998 in one of racing's toughest classes.
He drives a 2,600-pound Outlaw Modified in a class with no engine rules. You stuff as much power as you can find between the framerails and hang on.
"We run at Kalamazoo Speedway, a 31/48-mile high-banked oval, and we turn 12.5-second laps," he said. "So it's pretty quick."
Bozell likes the track. It is 20 miles from his home, the management is fair, and the track pays a good purse. That's important when you expect a race car to pay for much of its own keep.
"Consistency is the key," he said. "You've got to be on the track at the end to score points."
To do that, you have to recognize when you have the car to win, and you have to keep it underneath you until the checker flag falls.
"We don't dominate the competition," he said. "There are a bunch of cars at the track every weekend that can win."
Bozell says he has won some championships with as few as four wins in a season, and others with as many as seven.
"But we always score points," he said. "Last year our worst finish was Fourth."
He says a driver must recognize when he has a car capable of winning and when the best he can do is finish Third or Fourth.
"You can wreck a lot of cars trying to take a Third place car and force it to First," he said. "If you want to win a championship, you have to look at the larger picture."
Part of that is looking at what other teams are doing.
"I always look a few series up from where we are," said the engineer-by-day. "I look at the latest technology in Cup, Busch, or Craftsman Trucks and study what they are doing and then decide if it is something we can adapt. There are things you can always learn from other teams."
"The guy comes off the trailer ready to race," said Gary Howe, owner of Kalamazoo Speedway. "While a lot of teams are working on their cars in the pits, Andy's crew know what they want to do and have already done it before they arrive at the track.
"They aren't a big-funded team, but they really work well together."
Bozell said he's been able to find and keep a good crew for a long time. "Everyone knows what to do on the car. Everyone has his own job, and we don't worry about them doing it."
"They excel at it," said Howe.
Bozell said his team motto is "You win races in the shop Monday through Friday. You prove it on the weekends."
As a result, Bozell said his record is four DNFs in seven seasons.
"And two of them were crashes," he said. "You can't miss all of them."
Knowing What It TakesRacing success has always been about knowledge. Even back in its moonshiner days, the difference between winning and losing-either on the track or the back roads-is knowing how to get the most out of an engine and chassis.
It's no different today, according to Mark Wertz, two-time regional champion from Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia.
"One of the best investments a new driver can make is to go to a chassis school," he said. "A two- or three-day school is expensive, but it will be the best money a new racer can spend."
Wertz races a NASCAR late-model on pavement and said he reads everything he can find about suspension dynamics and how they apply to a short-track car. He said chassis setup should be the first priority for any new race team.
"You have to know how suspension dynamics work and how things like weight transfer affect a car," he said. "Until you know that, nothing else you do will really make much difference. If you aren't up on your math skills, a driver needs to find someone to work with him who is."
Wertz encourages young drivers to seek advice from those who have been successful at a track.
"But one of the things new drivers do is they listen to everyone," he said. "If they talk to 50 people they get 50 different ideas, and when something works, they won't know which did it."
He said it is critical that one person on the team becomes the crewchief-no crewing by committee-and makes the decisions.
Like most successful drivers, Wertz works at keeping his team intact. They've been together since 1998.
"We get together Tuesday and Thursday nights," he said, "unless we had a catastrophe at the track that requires something special."
He said the work night begins with dinner-he buys-and ends at 10 p.m.
"I want guys to get home to their wives at a decent time, so they get to come back the next night."
Bulldog Tenacity"There are a lot of guys out there who have fast cars," said Ted Christopher, 2001 NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series national champion. "And there are a lot of guys who can drive fast in time trials. But that doesn't make them racers."
That happens on the track, wheel to wheel in the corners.
"I think that's where I'm strongest," he said. "I always focus on the car in front of me. I don't care where I am on the track, I'm always digging to pick up one more place. If there's a mistake new drivers make, it's to get behind a fast car and follow it. You don't pass anyone by following them. You end up taking the checker behind them.
"The key is to see where they run and find a way around them. Make your car handle better than theirs so you can pass them on the inside or outside, wherever you can force them to go."
"He races like it was a chess game," Mark Arute, who operates Stafford Motor Speedway in Connecticut, said of Christopher. "He doesn't make any rash moves on the track. He takes his time, he knows his competitor's moves and anticipates what they'll do."
Christopher doesn't believe in conceding he may have only a Third-Place car some night and not be able to win a race.
"I never go out there saying I will win," he said. "But the only time I have a Third-Place car is when the checker falls and I'm in Third Place. Up until then, I'm trying to get around the car in front of me for Second."
Arute said Christopher "looks two or three cars ahead of his and has his moves planned out before he gets there so he's always progressing through the field."
Arute figures Christopher has an advantage over some of the competitors in that he races all year long in just about anything that has wheels.
Christopher had 20 races in before the end of Daytona Speedweeks and figured he would race in as many as 100 features before the season is over.
"He's tested in USAC Sprint Cars and in an Indy Racing League car," Arute said, "so he has a good feel for what different cars do on the track. It lets him turn a lot of laps."
The track uses a full invert based on winnings, so Christopher usually finds himself digging his way through the field.
"I always figure I'll start at least in 15th spot," Christopher said. "I don't even bother looking."
"It suits his driving style," said Arute. "He's a much better chaser than a leader. He's the kind of guy who is much more likely to pass for the win on the last lap than get out front and dominate an entire race."
Know The Track Ed Kosiski remembers what it was like growing up the son of a racing father.
"We'd go to a track, and even if we won, he'd tell us what we did wrong," he said. "He was always looking for a way to make us better."
Kosiski won the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series championship in 1998, adding the title to more than a dozen track and regional championships he has on Midwestern clay ovals.
If he has a secret, he said, it is his knowledge of the clay and being able to predict how it will change by the time his race group hits the oval.
"It's hard to explain without standing next to the track," he said. "The clay changes color as it gets raced on, and you have to adjust the car to accommodate the change."
Kosiski said he watches the races before his to see where cars are working best, whether or not there is a "cushion" of clay to give the cars a place to run their outside tires, and where on the track the surface has been "raced out."
"And once the race is underway," he added, "a driver has to change his style, because on a dirt track the surface can change almost lap to lap. How you drove at the beginning of the race isn't going to work at the end of it."
That ability to change with the surface comes with lap after lap of practice.
"There's no substitute for seat time," he said.
His dad also insisted that while Ed was learning, he begin at the back of the field.
"He figured you couldn't run out front until you learned to get there," he said. "So we learned to keep our focus on the car in front of us and not worry about the ones behind us."
His team arrives at the track with the same basic setup almost everywhere they go.
"We know what works in most places, so all we have to do is play around with shocks and spring rates. It's all little stuff, but it all adds up. And because we arrive ready to race, we have time for the little things that make the difference."
His advice to novices?
Ask questions. Talk to the drivers who are running well no matter what the track conditions.
"And don't be in a hurry," he said. "You have to be on the track at the end if you want to accumulate any points. I've seen so many guys come out and they can win a race or two every season, but they are so inconsistent that they never end up in a position to win a championship. They give races away because they don't look at the big picture."
Maintain PerspectiveAfter 10 years of driving the same cars on the same track, it should come as no surprise that Bruce Quale has more than his share of victories on Magic Valley Speedwa in Idaho.
"It took some time, but I guess I've learned my way around the place," he said.
"I'm sorta the old guy in the class," he joked. "A lot of the guys I started with have moved up."
With a sealed crate engine, his Grand American Modified is far from the most powerful car in the feature.
"So we put a lot of emphasis on handling," he said. "Our goal is to put the car underneath the competition in the corner. If we can get ahead of them, we can hold them off down the straight. It's only a third of a mile track, so it is the turns where you make the passes."
He came up through the ranks until climbing into a Grand American Modified 10 years ago.
"If I had a secret, that would be it," he said. "I've been in the same class so long that we just know what to do."
At Magic Valley Speedway they invert the top in points and start last week's winner in the back of the main every week.
"Starting in the back most races, I have worked at being patient and smooth at the beginning of the race, looking far ahead to the cars in front, and trying to stay out of the wrecks," he said. "And I try to save the tires and brakes for the later stages. We pay attention to lap times throughout the races, and often my quickest laps of the main event are late in the race when others have slowed down."
While he begins each night with a baseline suspension setup, he's not afraid to change spring and shock settings to get things dialed in correctly.
"We keep a fairly open mind on setup," he said. "Sometimes we do things that are just the opposite of what 'the book' says to do, but for us it works. And if we aren't the fastest car out there during time trials, we don't panic. If we are way off, then we'll begin to worry and begin throwing things at the car to try to figure out why. That is especially the case if we haven't changed the car since we had it out the previous weekend. Then we know something is wrong."
Quale has given up on his dream of making a career in racing.
"We're doing it for fun now," he said. "We try to keep racing in
perspective. So if we aren't having a good time, we sit back and find out why.
"Winning's great, but that's not the only reason to race."
5 Top Tips From 5 Top Drivers1 Be prepared Don't do things at the track that should have been done in the shop. Show up ready to race
2 Respect your crew Work to keep them together and let them know you appreciate their help
3 Know your car and don't race it into the wall Be patient. You can score more points by finishing Third than you can by finishing on the end of a hook
4 There's no substitute for seat time
5 Don't give up handling for horsepower You can have all the power in the world, but it won't do any good if you can't get by the car in front of you


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BOSTON -- An industry source confirmed on Monday that the Red Sox and the Nexen Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization have reached a strategic partnership.
It is the first such partnership that the Red Sox have made with an Asian organization.
Lee Jang-seok, president of the Heroes, views the Red Sox as a model organization.
"We're entering only our seventh professional season, and we have a lot to learn," Lee said in a statement issued by Nexen on Monday. "And as we move forward, learning from Boston should help us a great deal in achieving our vision. We hope to maintain a mutually beneficial strategic partnership that can build and improve new systems and models through active exchanges."
Nexen, which is based in Seoul, went 72-54 last season in KBO, advancing to the postseason before losing in the semifinals.
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This month, just like last month, I picked up my homeless friends from their undisclosed location in Cincinnati to attend the free community dinner at Shiloh UMC located at Foley and Anderson Ferry.
Since I was picking them up from work, I wasn't quite sure of the timing, and as I was turning onto Rapid Run, realized that we were early. Since Teresa has been to my house to help me clean, I told them since we were a tad early, we'd stop at my house first to hang out. I had worn my uniform to work and decided to change clothes also to fit in a little better.
Teresa never feels awkward at my house, but I always do, and it was the first time Lee had been there. I wondered what goes through their minds - do they compare their camp with my cottage? Do they see all the things in my house and think I live in excess?
I had been with Teresa also on Wednesday night as she has been working with me on a project at the house, and I had Tenth Avenue North playing in the car during our drive. I had seen their concert at the Underground last Saturday night, and was still overwhelmed, even though it wasn't my first concert experience with them. But their new album, with the raw, honest lyrics have really been speaking to me. This week, with everything happening in my life, track 3 was pretty much on repeat.
As it played, over again, I noticed Teresa trying to sing along with the words. And I was suddenly struck by the amazingness of it. The song fit her life perfectly. If she listened to the words, it was a song we can all share. The lyrics are:
There's a girl in the corner
With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she's wandered
And the shame she can't hide
She says, "How did I get here?
I'm not who I once was.
And I'm crippled by the fear
That I've fallen too far to love"
But don't you know who you are,
What's been done for you?
Yeah don't you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.
Well she tries to believe it
That she's been given new life
But she can't shake the feeling
That it's not true tonight
She knows all the answers
And she's rehearsed all the lines
And so she'll try to do better
But then she's too weak to try
But don't you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.
'Cause this is not about what you've done,
But what's been done for you.
This is not about where you've been,
But where your brokenness brings you to
This is not about what you feel,
But what He felt to forgive you,
And what He felt to make you loved.
You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.
You've been remade
You've been remade.
You've been remade.
You've been remade.
I'm still getting to know Teresa's story, and I want to walk softly and share Christ with her as I feel she's ready.
But this was a great way to introduce her to the knowledge that yeah,
we make bad choices,
we make mistakes,
things in our past damage us,
but we don't have to stay there.
Because of what Christ did for us on the Cross, we can be remade.
I want to not only bring Teresa home with me, I want to lead her Home - to know she can have an eternal Home with a Father and Brother that can't wait to lavish love on someone who has known so much apathy and hate.
We can be remade and go Home.
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TWENTY-FIVE and counting!
That will be the status of the Epworth Park Chautauqua Homecoming Days, which will reach the quarter-century mark next Saturday and Sunday.
Not only has the celebration grown in size, but it has been expanded in recent years and now is known as the Chautauqua Homecoming Days and Bethesda Festival.
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THE EPWORTH Park Chautauqua Homecoming Days and Bethesda Festival planners are ready for a two-day festival next weekend in Bethesda. Helping to organize the activities are Judy Jenewein, at left, and Jack O'Neil. This will be the 25th year for the celebration at Epworth Park, where Chautauquas once were held. More photos are on Page B1.
Activities have been added or enlarged during its first 24 years, and there also are new features this year.
Jack O'Neil, president of the Epworth Park Cottage Owners Association, said the group hopes to get participation from individuals wearing vintage hats this year.
O'Neil also mentioned the addition of "Abraham Lincoln," portrayed by John Cooper, who will stroll through the park and talk to visitors.
The actual Chautauquas, which began in 1890, drew such personages as President William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, the "silver-tongued orator" who was unsuccessful three times in his bid for the presidency.
O'Neil indicated those planning the two days of activities are pleased with the variety of musical entertainment.
"One of the things we're really excited about is how the fishing contest has taken off," he said. "The Hazen Masonic Lodge here in Bethesda is really stepping up. Because of their efforts, large groups of kids are participating."
The Masonic group is only one of the organizations sponsoring events during the celebration. Varied activities and food are included on the two-day schedule.
Vintage hats and the Tour of Cottages, planned Sunday, will serve as reminders of the Victorian era when the Chautauquas at Epworth Park drew crowds, many of them arriving on excursion trains.
The annual homecoming at the Bethesda park takes its name from the Chautauquas held for years at the park. A Chautauqua is an annual educational meeting, providing public lectures, concerts, Bible classes and dramatic performances. It takes its name from the system of education originating at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y.
On the schedule for this year's celebration are:
8 a.m. - White elephant sale opens.
8 a.m. - Concession stand at the park entrance opens for breakfast with coffee, doughnuts and sausage gravy with biscuits.
8 a.m. - Chautauqua Days 5K Run/Walk. Registration is from 6:30-7:45 a.m. in the park shelter area at the corner of Lake and Virginia Streets.
9 a.m. - Registration starts for a "Footprints in the Park" Fun Walk for all ages and a Health Fair; both events at the Epworth Center.
9 a.m. - Epworth Park memorabilia and baked goods available at the bake sale.
9 a.m. - Craft show with more than 40 crafters, vendors and antique dealers.
9 a.m. - The "Spirit of America" miniature train will provide rides around the park.
10:15 a.m. - Bicycle decorating contest for ages 13 and under at the four-way stop, North Main Streeet. Prizes will be awarded.
11 a.m. - Festival parade - Line-up to begin at 10 a.m. at the four-way stop, North Main Street. Awards will be presented.
After the parade - Chicken barbecue dinners available at the Methodist Church and food also available at the park concession stand, which features chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, coney dogs, kraut dogs or sloppy joes along with homemade potato salad and baked beans as well as root beer floats, ice cream treats or an apple dumplings.
11:30 a.m. - Youths' and children's activities begin at Epworth Center.
Noon - Registration begins for the children's fishing contest for ages 2-14 at the lake.
Noon to 4 p.m. - Meet and greet "Abraham Lincoln" as he strolls along the Avenue.
1 p.m. - Brat sandwiches available at the auditorium.
2 p.m. - Entertainment will begin, rain or shine, in the open-air-covered auditorium with guitarist Roger Hoard.
3 p.m. - Children's games for ages 10 and under will begin at the gazebo.
4 p.m. - "President Abraham Lincoln" (as portrayed by John Cooper) will recite the Gettysburg Address in the auditorium.
7 p.m. - Almost Famous will entertain in the auditorium. Award-winning banjo artist Stephen Moore, who is from Bethesda, heads this group.
10:45 a.m. - Morning worship service in the auditorium with the Pastor Tom Detling from the Bethesda United Methodist Church as speaker.
11:30 a.m. - Spaghetti dinner as well as sandwiches and other food items at the park concession stand.
Noon - White elephant sale opens.
Noon - Antiques under the Oaks and craft sales continue.
Noon - "Spirit of America" train rides begin.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Registration for the Bethesda Auto Show, sponsored by the Bethesda-Belmont-Morristown Rotary Club, with the auto show planned from noon to 4 p.m. There is a $7 registration fee and dash plaques will be awarded to the first 50 entries. Category winners will be given awards. Disc jockey Frank Prebec will provide oldies music. Food and beverages will be available plus door prizes as well as gas card and 50/50 fund-raisers.
Noon - Chicken and rib dinners, sponsored by the Bethesda Festival Committee.
1-4 p.m. - Xtreme Entertainment will have inflatable games and Slip & Slide water games (weather permitting).
(The car show, chicken and rib dinners and inflatable game events all take place on the west side of Epworth Park at the corner of Lake and Virginia streets.
1-4 p.m. - Tour of Cottages in the park. Each year, a few of the park residents graciously open their cottages for viewing, a spokesperson noted. Tickets may be purchased near the concession stand.
1 p.m. - Brat sandwiches available at the auditorium.
2 p.m. - Entertainment begins in the auditorium with the Vince Villanova Big Band playing music from the big band era.
Persons attending are invited to wear vintage hats related to the Victorian era. For Chautauqua Homecoming Days information, call 740-484-4716 or email jack email@example.com.
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Like me, you've probably asked yourself over the years why Canada's health care costs keep rising, seemingly without any hope of relief or controlled mitigation. Is it a wholly natural concomitant of an ageing population and the absence of market discipline in pricing, or are we managing state expenditures in identifiably mistaken ways that can be corrected? I'd say it is mostly the former. But let me tell you a story about something that's happening in B. C. right now.
In 1994, with about a million dollars a year in funding from the B. C. government, the University of British Columbia started an outfit called the Therapeutics Initiative. The Therapeutics Initiative (TI) exists to provide independent, skeptical analyses of clinical data about new health therapies to the medical and pharmaceutical professions --and to the government, which has used TI's advice to decide which drugs its Pharmaceutical Services Division (PSD) should foot the bill for. Much of the TI's job consists of cutting through drug company spin, and it has earned an international reputation for doing so. Its director, Jim Wright, is considered a big wheel in the world of evidence-based medicine (EBM) -- a worldwide cult of grouchy physicians and pharmacists who insist on seeing hard data, and lots of it, before they believe in the power of the latest marketing-driven prescribing fad.
This is not a good way to earn friends. EBM types tend to be harsh critics of not only drug companies, but of fellow practitioners who take from those companies gifts ranging from golf outings and foreign trips to desk sets and expensed luncheons. TI is, frankly and explicitly, very shirty about conflicts of interest in its own work and in the published work of others. Combined with a mastery of the mathematical tools of EBM, that independence has allowed it to discern important facts more clearly and quickly than individual physicians grappling with new scientific literature can hope to.
When the new anti-inflammatory drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors started hitting the market in the late 1990s, doctors couldn't prescribe them fast enough. Confronted with the promise of a new class of drugs for chronic pain, many took the attitude of the slothful journalist: "Too good to check." But the TI did check. As early as February, 2001, in an edition of the group's Therapeutics Letter, you can find it noting that a particular COX-2 inhibitor called Rofecoxib appeared to be associated with a significant, troubling increase in myocardial infarctions.
Rofecoxib's trade name was Vioxx: you might remember it disappearing from the shelves because of those cardiac concerns in 2004, in what was perhaps history's largest-ever voluntary drug recall. TI's early warnings about the Vioxx data, as well as its complaints about the reporting of trial evidence on other COX-2 inhibitors, led to restricted prescribing in B. C. compared with other provinces. That saved lives -- about 500, by one estimate. It saved money, too. Indeed, TI's first-do-no-harm approach to new, oppressively over-marketed drugs has been credited -- by the auditor-general of B. C., among many others -- with keeping overall drug costs much lower in B. C. than elsewhere.
So when the B.C. government launched a task force to review its decision-making process for funding new drugs and devices, TI might have been expected to receive accolades. Unfortunately, the committee was stacked with members who had past and present connections to the drug business, while the EBM community was sidelined. When the task force's report came out in April, it contained a hysterical revenge attack on TI. The world's physicians have praised TI as "independent"; the report calls it "narrow" and "insular" Its resistance to conflicts of interest becomes, in the words of the report, "resistance to meaningful stakeholder engagement." (Note how that buzzword "stakeholder" puts the B. C. taxpayer and the vulnerable patient on an equal footing with drug vendors.)
The Therapeutics Initiative, concludes the report, should be excluded from any role in deciding what the PSD funds. B. C. Health Minister George Abbott has accepted all the recommendations of the task force, and the cutoff of the group's direct provincial funding seems inevitable, since the task force makes that funding contingent on a "reform" that would lead to "expansion of the scope of expertise available to the Initiative" -- which is code for lowering the conflict-of-interest barriers -- and a "reassignment" of its "public education" role -- which is code for shutting up and ceasing to distribute notes on clinical data to the Canadian medical and pharmaceutical professions.
There is no chance the TI will agree to such blackmail. Indeed, the vicious, bizarre task force report only confirms the wisdom of the stringent attitudes it has taken in the past toward drug-industry money and its effects on sound judgment. Unless Mr. Abbott comes to his senses he will be discarding what the citizens of British Columbia ought to regard as a rare jewel.


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- Turkey to be Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of of Honor
- Çırağan Masters Golf Tournament Mania
- Zorro on ice!
- Two exhibitions abroad by Istanbul Modern
- Photographs of Jehsong Baak at Pg Art Gallery
- New edition of Eczacıbaşı Encyclopedia of Art!
- In Turkey for the first time in the world...
- Two Turkish films en route to Montreal Festival
- An offshore race from Nice to Istanbul
- Choice selections of classical music in a single album
- Leyla Gencer archives at Borusan Music Library
New edition of Eczacıbaşı Encyclopedia of Art!
First published in 1997 by YEM Publications, the Eczacıbaşı Enclopedia of Art is now on bookshop shelves in a brand new revised and updated design.
This encyclopedia, which takes up topics such as painting, sculpture and architecture as well as archaeology, bookbinding, textiles, industrial design, photography, graphic design, carpets, calligraphy, cartoons, miniatures, seals, repair and restoration, prehistory, pottery, coins, theater and stage design and costumes in detailed articles, has been enriched with the latest developments in the fields of art and archaeology. Also included are national arts and architecture, and movements, schools and groups in art and architecture, as well as the technology of art and architecture and historic settlements, regions and provinces of Turkey.


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|Hanson, Mass.
|High School:
|Whitman Hanson Regional
Earned her first Full National Team cap on Mar. 7, 2014 vs. Sweden at the Algarve Cup … Made history with her older sister Kristie in that game when they entered the game together, becoming just the second pair of sisters to take the field together for a U.S. Women's National Team match … Also earned a cap vs. Denmark on Mar. 10, 2014 … First called up to the National Team in January 2014 … Played with U.S. U-23 National Team at the 2013 Four Nations Tournament, which was won by the U.S. … Starter for Under-20 U.S. National Team that won FIFA U-20 World Championship in 2012 … Member of the 2008 Under-17 U.S. World Cup team that won the silver medal in New Zealand … Member of the U.S. team that won the 2010 CONACAF Under-20 Women's Championships in Guatemala to earn a berth to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup … Played in 13 total games for the USA heading into the 2010 Women's World Cup, including eight internationals, scoring one goal against New Zealand.
Honda Award winner … MAC Hermann Trophy finalist … espnW National Player of the Year … Pac-12 Player of the Year … First-team NSCAA All-American and All-Pacific Region … Named to Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI first team … First-team Capital One Academic All-American … First-team NSCAA Scholar All-American … Led the Pac-12 with 16 goals, 13 assists, 45 points and seven game-winning goals … Recorded a goal or assist in 18 of 24 games … Honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic for the third-straight year … Ended her career ranked in the Top 10 all-time at UCLA in goals (31, ninth), assists (32, second) and points (94, sixth) … Her 13 assists ranked as the third-most assists ever by a Bruin in a season … NSCAA and Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week Oct. 28 after a two-goal, two-assist performance at Oregon … Named to Top Drawer Soccer's Team of the Week four times … Twice earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors … Finalist for U.S. Soccer's 2014 Young Female Athlete of the Year award … Team captain for the second consecutive year.
Named to Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI third team … Second-Team All-Pac-12 for the third-straight year … Scored six goals, four of which were game-winners … Third on the team in scoring with 21 points and in assists with nine … Tied the school record for single-game assists with three against USC and also scored the game-winning goal in the 4-1 victory… Recorded one goal and five assists in UCLA's six NCAA Tournament games … Second-team NSCAA Scholar All-West Region and honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic for the second-straight year … Named to Top Drawer Soccer's Team of the Week three times … Notre Dame adidas Invitational All-Tournament selection.
Second-Team All-Pac-12 selection … Honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic … Played and started 16 games, missing the first six games while helping lead the U.S. to a gold medal at the FIFA U-20 World Championships … Recorded three goals and three assists for nine points … Had a goal and two assists in her first game of the season against Princeton … Scored the tying goal with 1:31 to play at USC to send the game to overtime … Scored the game's first goal in the NCAA Quarterfinal at Stanford … Assisted on the game-winner at Oregon.
Second-Team All-Pac-12 selection … First-Team All-Pacific Region … Member of the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team … Ranked second only to Sydney Leroux in scoring, finishing the year with 19 points on six goals and seven assists … Tied for the team lead in assists with Jenna Richmond … Had two multiple-goal games … Tallied two goals in a 3-1 victory at Loyola Marymount … Also had a pair of strikes in a 5-2 home win over cross-town rival USC … Assisted on the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
High School/Club
Considered the nation's No. 1 recruit in the class of 2011 … National Soccer Coaches Association (NSCAA) National Player of the Year in 2010 … Two-time Parade All-American (2009 & 2010) … Four-time NSCAA Youth All-American … Two-time NSCAA High School All-American … Two-time Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of Massachusetts (2010 & 2011) … Boston Globe Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010 … Two-time ESPN RISE First-Team All-American (2009 & 2010) … Helped her high school team, Whitman Hanson Regional, to four league championships and one sectional championship during her career … Her club team, Scorpions SC, won three state championships and two regional championships in five years … Also participated in basketball and track & field in high school … In 2008, Sam and her sister, Kristie, became the first sisters to represent the U.S. at the a World Cup event … Highlighted with Kristie in Sports Illustrated's "Where Will They Be?" feature in August of 2010.
Full name is Samantha June Mewis … Born on Oct. 9, 1992 in Weymouth, Mass. … Parents are Robert and Melissa Mewis … Sister, Kristi, was an All-American at Boston College and currently plays for FC Kansas City in the NWSL and with the U.S. National Team … Enjoys scrapbooking, reading and hanging out with friends in her spare time … Lists beating Germany in the semifinals of the Under-17 Women's World Cup as one of her greatest athletic thrills … English major.
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Magical Magnesium
Magical Magnesium
Ten years ago, as a formulator, I formulated my first Cal/Mag product. The rest of the industry was doing a 2 to 1 ratio, and as I research, as well as what I found clinically, I found that with a 1 to 1 ratio, many people would feel so much better. As people used this I found that they saw great results. (It is interesting to note that 5 years later the industry is now doing a 1 to 1 ratio) Later, as I worked clinically, I found that many people need magnesium far more than calcium. If we have enough calcium in our diet, by taking a magnesium supplement they do great, and find they don't need the calcium unless they suffer from a bone disease.
If you are a person that is suffering from leg cramps, restless leg syndrome, heart palpitations, you may benefit from a Magnesium supplement. You want to be careful of what type of magnesium that you are using. All are not created equally. I only use amino acid chelated minerals. The reason is these minerals are bound to an amino acid instead of a cell salt which requires other minerals to use them. With the AAC magnesium, research shows that it's absorption is more bio-available. With minerals any thing you don't use is stored in the weaker parts of our bodies. You don't pea them out like you do vitamins. You want to be careful when you choose a mineral.
Why is Magnesium so important? It is involved in more than 300 essential metabolic reactions. Magnesium plays important roles in the structure and the function of the human body. The adult human body contains about 25 grams of magnesium. Over 60% of all the magnesium in the body is found in the skeleton, about 27% is found in muscle, 6% to 7% is found in other cells, and less than 1% is found outside of cells.
The metabolism of carbohydrates and fats to produce energy requires numerous magnesium-dependent chemical reactions. ATP, the molecule that provides energy for almost all metabolic processes, exists primarily as a complex with magnesium.
Magnesium is a vital catalyst in enzyme activity. Several enzymes participating in the synthesis of carbohydrates and fats, require magnesium for their activity. Glutathione (which is important for good liver detoxification), an important antioxidant, requires magnesium for its synthesis.
Magnesium plays a structural role in bone, cell membranes, chromosomes , and is required for the active transport of ions like potassium and calcium across cell membranes. It helps prevent calcification of soft tissue. It also plays a role in carbohydrate and mineral metabolism.
Early signs of magnesium deficiency include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. As magnesium deficiency worsens, numbness, tingling, muscle contractions and cramps, seizures (sudden changes in behaviors caused by excessive electrical activity in the brain), personality changes, abnormal heart rhythms, and coronary spasms can occur. Severe magnesium deficiency can result in low levels of calcium in the blood (hypocalcemia). Magnesium deficiency is also associated with low levels of potassium in the blood (hypokalemia).
Many of these symptoms are general and can result from a variety of medical conditions other than magnesium deficiency. It is important to have a physician evaluate health complaints and problems so that appropriate care can be given.
Eating a wide variety of legumes, nuts, whole grains, and vegetables will help you meet your daily dietary need for magnesium. Selected food sources of magnesium are listed in Table 1.
Table 1: Selected food sources of magnesium
|Milligrams (mg)
|Halibut, cooked, 3 ounces
|Almonds, dry roasted, 1 ounce
|Cashews, dry roasted, 1 ounce
|Soybeans, mature, cooked, ½ cup
|Spinach, frozen, cooked, ½ cup
|Nuts, mixed, dry roasted, 1 ounce
|Cereal, shredded wheat, 2 rectangular biscuits
|Oatmeal, instant, fortified, prepared w/ water, 1 cup
|Potato, baked w/ skin, 1 medium
|Peanuts, dry roasted, 1 ounce
|Peanut butter, smooth, 2 Tablespoons
|Wheat Bran, crude, 2 Tablespoons
|Blackeyed Peas, cooked, ½ cup
|Yogurt, plain, skim milk, 8 fluid ounces
|Bran Flakes, ½ cup
|Vegetarian Baked Beans, ½ cup
|Rice, brown, long-grained, cooked, ½ cup
|Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, ½ cup
|Avocado, California, ½ cup pureed
|Kidney Beans, canned, ½ cup
|Pinto Beans, cooked, ½ cup
|Wheat Germ, crude, 2 Tablespoons
|Chocolate milk, 1 cup
|Banana, raw, 1 medium
|Milk Chocolate candy bar, 1.5 ounce bar
|Milk, reduced fat (2%) or fat free, 1 cup
|Bread, whole wheat, commercially prepared, 1 slice
|Raisins, seedless, ½ cup packed
|Whole Milk, 1 cup
|Chocolate Pudding, 4 ounce ready-to-eat portion
Who may need extra magnesium?
Magnesium supplementation may be indicated when a specific health problem or condition causes an excessive loss of magnesium or limits magnesium absorption.
Some medicines may result in magnesium deficiency, including certain diuretics, antibiotics, and medications used to treat cancer (anti-neoplastic medication). Examples of these medications are:
Diuretics: Lasix, Bumex, Edecrin, and hydrochlorothiazide
Antibiotics: Gentamicin, and Amphotericin
Anti-neoplastic medication: Cisplatin
Individuals with poorly-controlled diabetes may benefit from magnesium supplements because of increased magnesium loss in urine associated with hyperglycemia.
Magnesium supplementation may be indicated for persons with alcoholism. Low blood levels of magnesium occur in 30% to 60% of alcoholics, and in nearly 90% of patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal. Anyone who substitutes alcohol for food will usually have significantly lower magnesium intakes.
Individuals with chronic malabsorptive problems such as Crohn's disease, gluten sensitive enteropathy, regional enteritis, and intestinal surgery may lose magnesium through diarrhea and fat malabsorption . Individuals with these conditions may need supplemental magnesium.
Individuals with chronically low blood levels of potassium and calcium may have an underlying problem with magnesium deficiency. Magnesium supplements may help correct the potassium and calcium deficiencies.
Older adults are at increased risk for magnesium deficiency. The 1999-2000 and 1998-94 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys suggest that older adults have lower dietary intakes of magnesium than younger adults. In addition, magnesium absorption decreases and renal excretion of magnesium increases in older adults. Seniors are also more likely to be taking drugs that interact with magnesium. This combination of factors places older adults at risk for magnesium deficiency. It is very important for older adults to get recommended amounts of dietary magnesium.
I have also found people that struggle with constipation, fibromyalgia and a lot of body builders( because they are so acidic) do well on a magnesium supplement.
Common and important magnesium/drug interactions
|Potential Interactio
|Loop and thiazide diuretics (e.g. lasix, bumex, edecrin, and hydrochlorthiazide
Anti-neoplastic drugs (e.g. cisplatin)
Antibiotics (e.g. gentamicin and amphotericin)
|These drugs may increase the loss of magnesium in urine. Thus, taking these medications for long periods of time may contribute to magnesium depletion.
|Tetracycline antibiotics
|Magnesium binds tetracycline in the gut and decreases the absorption of tetracycline.
|Magnesium-containing antacids and laxatives
|Many antacids and laxatives contain magnesium. When frequently taken in large doses, these drugs can inadvertently lead to excessive magnesium consumption and hypermagnesemia, which refers to elevated levels of magnesium in blood.
Too much of anything is bad. It is about creating balance in the body.
Signs of excess magnesium can be similar to magnesium deficiency and include changes in mental status, nausea, diarrhea, appetite loss, muscle weakness, difficulty breathing, extremely low blood pressure, and irregular heartbeat.
You can always have your doctor test you to see what your levels are so you don't have to little or too much.


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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD has become a landmark diagnosis of our time—a condition falling in sync with the scattered spirit of Western culture. ADHD flooded mainstream popularity during the mid 90's when it was still considered primarily a condition that affected hyperactive children unable to focus in school. But public suspicion was sparked from the beginning. Teachers with low thresholds of patience and experience began advising parents of their children's need for medications such as Ritalin and Adderall—the latter having become the 'drug of choice' prescribed for the condition—and then these parents often seeking doctors who would comply with the least amount of resistance.
Moreover, the childhood age range had been ambiguously defined, causing the ADHD demographic to explode in size. It eventually came to include college students/young adults, who used the psychostimulant medications not only for schoolwork and increased concentration but also for recreational fun. And since ADHD is determined through clinical judgment one may conclude another avenue of misuse evolved through patient dishonesty and subjective diagnosis; the former, in combination with the ongoing age range controversy are two essential variables that have led to the current crisis.
It has been estimated 20 to 30 percent of college students abuse Adderall; with its candy taste and dual amphetamine formulation it packs a punch of energetic euphoria that medical experts compare to cocaine and street-meth, further crowning Adderall as "The most abused prescription drug in America."
This article series does not intend to undermine the significance of ADHD, or make an absolute charge against the use of medications. But there are dangers embedded in the treatment, given that the age-groups most afflicted are children and young adults—the same groups warned most against crossing in the traffic of street-drugs.
Perhaps the true travesty lies in the "mixed signal message" currently communicated to the younger generations: on the one hand, it would appear society condones and promotes amphetamines as a benevolent "learning tool," while on the other, they are told meth./cocaine use is the dead of all ends. In reality, street meth may be compared to an 'inbred' version of the pharmaceutical form; the latter just a purer and 'cleaner' formulation, compared with the meth born inside suburban garage labs across the country.
Regardless of the difficulty faced by those truly affected by ADHD, we may wish to reexamine the broader scope and protracted implications of prescribing methamphetamines as a source of assistance, especially when there is public suspicion of whether ADHD actually exists as a valid "mental disorder."
All considered it would appear a serious charge could be made—perhaps not on a legal front but certainly on a moral ground—that the rising use of street-meth and the resulting death toll is in part caused by the FDA's questionable approval control and by the DEA's failure to contain a problem they should have seen coming.
Who might have guessed that the widespread use of prescription amphetamines would have led to a new generation's drug of choice? Who might have thought such medications could ever serve as a workable tool for anything in the high demands of a consumer driven culture, without the recourse of disaster.
And yet who do we blame? And who pays the priceless price? It seems like fighting a war and facilitating the loss of life through 'friendly fire.'


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1. Complete the VONAPP to activate your educational benefits with the VA.
2. Apply for admission to the University of Alaska Anchorage to be a degree seeking student.
The VA requires that students actively pursue a degree to utilize VA educational benefits.
You can use your VA benefits for no more than two semesters before completing your admission status and becoming formally admitted into the program.
3. Register for classes using UAOnline.
Remember, only the courses that are applicable to your degree program can be certified for VA benefits.
It is highly suggested that you work with an academic advisor and refer to Degree Works to confirm that courses are applicable to your degree program.
4. Complete the VA Educational Benefits Certification Request Form
Please do not submit this form until you have completed your registration.
5. Submit required transcripts for admissions to include your military transcripts.
6. Submit a copy of your Certificate of Eligibility from the VA.
You will be certified without this form. However, it will remain a requirement until it is received.
7. Maximize all sources of funding by completing:
FAFSA application for federal financial aid (strongly recommended but not required)
UAA Scholarship application (strongly recommended but not required)
8. Check your preferred and UAA email addresses frequently.
- Confirmation of certifications, issues with course certifications, newsletters and other important, time sensitive information will be sent to your preferred and UAA email addresses only.
9. Contact information:
Military & Veteran Student Services: email@example.com
- Nichole Eichrodt, Military & Veteran Community Services Coordinator: 907-786-1183, email@example.com
- Terry Jackson, Vet Success on Campus Counselor: 907-786-1299, email@example.com


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I don't know, but it sounds so soft and cute and highly cuddleworthy.
I don't know, but it sounds so soft and cute and highly cuddleworthy.
Awwww!!! Aisha i love the haircut!!! You look sooooo cute!!!
I wasn't expecting it Aisha, but I like it on you
Aisha, you look adorable!
So... I'll keep searching for a place called home:
I'll rip my roots from this earth into the unknown.
Is it for the dreams I chased or the ones I caught?
This mystery, this misery is killing me.
So, now, I'll leave behind a murder scene.
My life isn't real; it's just a silhouette
and, when the sun goes down, I won't exist.
hey we're still kids!
slouching kids..but kids
aren't we serious
i look really awful on this one
100% Cotton!
sorry for bad light on some
Sepia colour effect, right??? Cooooool!
You all bring the hotness. *sizzle*
Its a similar effect, but its called Morning Glow and there are a few steps in making any image have that effect in Photoshop.
Nick, looking good dude. I really need Photoshop.
Yeah so I only posted a photo recently. I haven't been picwhoring enough.
A totally unedited, close up, smiling, outdoors shot of me? God forbid.
no matter where I turn
shut down
shut down
everyone's a runaway
where ya running now?
I have a load of other more holiday-type pictures from around Slovenia so I'll probably post that at some point. I decided to use an analogue camera for most of them so it'll take slightly longer for me to upload them.
I bet nobody even realised I was on holiday, I'm so sad
Dean...fuck...*thud*...wow, lol.
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Jessica Brooks Movies and Career Information
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Jessica Kate Brooks is an actress. In musical theatre, she is a soprano. She has appeared in various BBC television productions, including Murder Rooms: The Kingdom of Bones, and featured in episodes of Footballer's Wives. Brooks is known for her role as Ghanima Atreides in the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series, Children of Dune. She is also a trained voice-over artist, and has studied Classics at Oxford University. In 2003, she co-starred in her first feature film, Collusion. Brooks has appeared in an episode of the long-running British TV show, Casualty as police officer, Nikki Soames. She has also appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders titled "Four Funerals and a Wedding". In 2008, she played the role of Lisa Houseman in the stage version of Dirty Dancing.
- Jessica Brooks Movies before 2015
- Red Mercury 2003
- What Dreams May Come 1998