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A blog about my journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome including HHV 6, EBV, C. Pneumonia, Bartonella, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Biotoxin Illness
Monday, September 30, 2013
The Last Straw?
I'm tired of this. Fighting with doctor's over medical bills, the sense of aloneness, and difficulty making friends due to this illness. Trying to convince doctor's that I'm not exaggerating or malingering, having to explain why I can't join social events. Being poor. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of doing everything alone. Having to drive myself back home from a painful medical procedure while in severe pain, going to appointments by myself hoping I'll be able to remember what was said. The struggle for sleep, the struggle to gain muscle, the inability to dive into my research like I used to.
I can't even go out to explore because I can't friggin drive far. Not that I could right now anyway due to the back pain but when I look at all the activities I could get discounts on through groupon I want to cry. I don't mind doing things by myself at all but I sure would like somebody to do things with. I can't drive but I can, or I used to be, fun and easy to be around.
Everyday I ask the Universe to have mercy on me and just let up already.
I've been giving it until my birthday to see if anything shifts or eases. My birthday is Sunday. I'm now carefully weighing my options.
There's a line in a popular song by Rihanna called "Stay". It catches my attention each time I hear it. It goes: "this isn't much of a life you're living". So true. Not much of a life. Not much hope left, if any.
Yesterday I woke up and was in such severe pain I could not get out of bed. My back, which has a herniated disc at the same level (L5-S1) as before (when I had surgery), was hurting so bad I wanted to go to the ER. I could not walk downstairs for the next 4 hours the pain was so bad. I've been taking massive doses of Advil, Vicoden, and Soma in spite of the risk of a stomach bleed due to NSAIDS and gastritis. I'm icing as much as I can. I only use pain meds as a last resort.
I'm taking all these meds just so I can walk around my bedroom! It's not to go out and do something but just to be able to bend over and feed my cat or clean his litter box.
This isn't a life at all.
Because I have Medicare I can't get in to see the neurosurgeon until November 27th. WTF am I supposed to do until then?
The pain I'm in feels like the last straw. I've never felt this sort of pain before. It's just a tad better today. A tad. Not enough to go downstairs yet. I may need to take a Vicoden on top of the large dose of Advil I took an hour ago.
I know that to ease pain I need at least a lumbar epidural. If that doesn't work the next step is either going to a stronger pain medication or fusion. I can't afford the epidural or surgery. Pain meds not only slow my already slow gut motility but they exacerbate the gastritis. I can't afford more slowed gut motility especially right now as my body recovers from the medical procedure I had last week.
I'm too tired to deal with this level of pain. I'm dealing with way too much stuff alone. I'm at the tipping point. I'm fed up with all of this.
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- Jessrose21 said...
The frustration and pain you're experiencing is almost palpable through your blog! I'm sorry you're dealing with so much crap all by yourself. Please don't give up! This is probably an obvious suggestion but could you call an ambulance and tell them you are in so much pain you can't walk? Then they could carry you on a stretcher. You shouldn't have to wait so long to get some pain relief!
Does your cat cuddle with you a lot? Mine are such a comfort to me, especially when they purr. That's one of the most soothing sounds in the world!
I'm praying that today brings you hope and healing.
- October 1, 2013 at 12:26 AM
I'm so very sorry, I've followed your blog for some time now and watched as things have become progressively worse for you. It's just so unfair that you are going through so much horrible pain and doing it alone, my heart goes out to you.
I've often wished there was something that I or someone could do for you, I know how it feels to feel like you're knocking your head against a brick wall and getting nowhere.
I know there are sites where you can promote your needs and ask for funds to help with things like medication and surgery, but I'm not much help because I just can't think of what they're called - perhaps someone reading this can help.
Please hang in there, I've often found that just when I want to give up, something shifts and opens up for me. Sending you lots of positive thoughts so that the universe listens to your needs and something comes through for you.
Oh how my heart aches for you, sending gentle hugs and love, Caron
- October 1, 2013 at 1:08 AM
Try this website http://www.gofundme.com/how-to-fundraise/
Hugs, Caron
- October 1, 2013 at 3:48 AM
- Creek said...
Hi - I feel some kinship not only as a co-sufferer from ME, but being a Bay Area native too, and having fallen ill close to the same time as you - my kids and I got sick in May 2007.
I want to ask you not to give up. Different reasons work for different people so pick one:
If you give up you're a wuss.
If you give up you don't get to find out what happens next.
There might be a research breakthrough at any moment so don't give up or you'll miss it.
Suicide hurts those you leave behind.
It might be messy and/or painful.
It might damage the delicate balance of the universe.
There are still books you haven't read, music you haven't heard and art you haven't seen, not to mention blog posts you haven't written.
Believe me, I have had the days I was close. We all do. But the number one reason I want to selfishly ask you not to give up, is that WE NEED YOU. We need every articulate and passionate voice we can get, to speak up for us.
Each one of us does what activism we can, gets burned out, retreats, regroups, then contributes again as able. We can rest, but we cannot completely retire.
Healthy people aren't fighting for us. We have to do it ourselves, and we can't do it without you. Please stay, for all of u.
- October 1, 2013 at 8:17 AM
- Sue Jackson said...
Haven't visited in a while and am so sorry to hear things are so bad for you right now. I know how much you have been through - last I heard form you, you had found a place to live and things were looking up.
You are not alone. It may be difficult to make friends with others in your new neighborhood, but you have a lot of friends here in the virtual world who care about you very much and who completely understand how you are feeling right now. We have all hit these low points ourselves at various times.
Once when I was at a low point, a friend who'd been through his own health challenges simply said to me,"I'm thinking of you. This too shall pass." It was so simple, but it had a profound effect. True the ME/CFS has not gone away, but that low point - and the feelings of desperation and despair - did pass.
I wish I lived nearby so I could come over and help you through this difficult time. I'll have to settle for virtual hugs instead and will leave you with this, my favorite quote which I read every night before bed when times get tough:
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow'".
I know you have that kind of courage in you - I have seen it before.
Thinking of you, my friend - please send a message if you want to "talk" online or even just vent.
Live with CFS
- October 1, 2013 at 1:24 PM
- Jo said...
Hang in Terri. You say you had a procedure recently. It may be you are having a bad reaction to that, especially if you had anaesthesia. I urge you to find someone to talk to even if it is a helpline. We have the Samaritans over here and they are great for just listening. Also, we are there for you on Spoonies on FB. Perhaps you just need to surrender for a while. It doesn't have to be permanent. Please post and we will support you.
- October 1, 2013 at 1:31 PM
Hi Terri,
I can't know what it is to be you and what your pain is like, but I can so clearly identify with so much that you said. The time before my spinal fusion when I was often in uncontrollable pain & isolated having just moved 2 weeks before the accident that lead to L4/5 L5/S1 injury. I was often housebound for months and spent 5 years of isolation in that house. And I too felt that it wasn't enough to keep going. So being in incredible levels of pain with long long waits to see medics who just sent me round the loop again....well it sounds horridly familiar. Surgery didn't solve things for me thought it did stabilize things as bit, but finally a consultant in pain management did take me on with the determination that I couldn't be left like that, he was I suppose one of the lifesavers for me. Not the general pain management team but the person who deals with medication & procedures for pain relief.
None of what I said above is about me, only that I really do get where you are coming from, and I did hang on in the end though I can't really say how, just one moment at a time and lots of distraction helped. I asked for support & eventually things did change for me. Though I couldn't have imagined things ever improving, or being believed and helped.
Remember if you had sedation or general anesthetic there is almost always a massive low mood are a few days, it passes. Just in case that applies.
But most of all, I can't ask you to stay for it is you that is suffering so much. I can and do send you love & heart-felt hugs, and say that reaching out in any way is courageous and sometimes is enough to just shift the internal pain if not the physical pain.
I was sent a quote once, something about the coldest time of day is just before dawn.
May that be true for you,
I so feel for you,
Alex x (from FB group)
- October 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM
- Cusp said...
Oh my dear, you have been through so much and kept plugging on. I can hear and feel your despair from this latest post.
I think that many of us in the M.E. community have been in a similar position when we feel that we can't bear any more, that it's all too much but in the end we have, somehow, won through by taking each day moment by moment and coming out the other side to better times.
There are many people that you know from around the globe who do care about you and will support you (if only virtually...for, being far away geographically, that's all we can do) . Please try to think about contacting any of us through email or FB or maybe a helpline as Jo suggests.
In my last relapse, when I thought I would never emerge again, I clung on to my favourite Julian of Norwich quote
'All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well'
--- moment by moment I hung on to that and gradually returned. I hope that you might find some comfort from anything similar.
We are all standing with you and offering gentle hugs xxx
- October 2, 2013 at 1:17 AM


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Oh, so you think you're a zeitgeber, well who the heck gave you the right to control the universe?
After all, you may not get it, but every pet knows full well the world orbits that bowl on the floor in the kitchen — the rising, and setting, of the sun determined by it being filled in a timely manner.
Now — Sunday to be exact — us humans are about to change the course of things … Again.
Sure, you'll be waxing eternal to your boss Monday morning as you run for the vehicle with mismatched socks and fly-away hair, but will you tell the dog sorry, not likely.
Instead he'll be waiting by his bowl at the "real" 5 o'clock, while you spend the next couple weeks in woe-is-me, yawn punctuated whining that you've lost sleep.
Do you have any idea how long an hour is in the dog world when there's food hanging in the balance?
Long, real long.
Of course now the bowl is filled an hour earlier in the morning, but by evening that hardly seems to matter as the anxious minutes of that final hour reveal the torture of it all and it's not just the pooches and kitties.
Come Sunday evening, fence lines throughout this country will be dotted with the forlorn faces of cattle who made their way in from the fields just to look like extras in the opening scene of some Armageddon type movie — not a farmer in sight.
That's nothing, however, compared to the inevitable surprise of raccoons and bears, when, in those last bits of darkness before morning, they get busted Dumpster diving — you know, that time when you're SUPPOSED to be sleeping!
In the natural world there are these elements most all creatures respond to that direct the rhythm of the day. They're called "zeitgebers" German for "time givers," and it's a power humans seem bound and determined to try and harness for themselves.
Why we play this little time game is as simple as it is complicated.
Starting in the first decade of the 1900s western nations began fiddling with the hands on the clock in the interest of maximizing efficiency and minimizing resource consumption, needs compounded with the onset of World War I.
The U.S. was late to the time changing game, finally taking steps to save the day in 1918 — incidentally during an era where Taylorism and Fordism were already looking for spaces to pencil in more hours on the clock and world markets wanted more time for commerce — though that was just a first step toward controlling time as laws proceeded to be written and rescinded, lobbied, and amended.
Even though us American mammals have adapted (accepted may be a better word) and forgotten when times were different, times, they've been a changin' off and on ever since.
Of course there are consequences to playing with time, not the least of which are broadening derriere's and atrophied muscles.
Yep, confused cows, interrupted scavengers, and neglected pups aside, experts say our season of efficiency is counterbalanced by the off-season and electricity isn't the only energy we conserve thanks to the shorter days — Our couches, on the other hand, work overtime.
Because if the experts are right, while the pup may have to wait a little longer for his kibble during the adjustment period, theoretically that extra hour of daylight means you're off the couch and going for an evening jog or tossing a ball in the yard… theoretically anyway.
So don't forget to move the hands forward Sunday, and if you must play zeitgeber, remember, your dog would probably love some too.


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Vin Scully will be at Fenway Park for one game!
Last night it was announced that Vin Scully will make the rare trip to Fenway Park for one game! He will broacast Friday night's game! WOOHOO!!!
The last time the Dodgers went to Fenway Park, Vin also made the trip for one game. Here he is throwing out the first pitch at that game: yeah, that is Jaime McCourt in the background.
13 days till my friends and I take a red-eye to Boston!
in the meantime, we lost the first game with Kuroda on the mound. Today is Kershaw against Kawakami and is 70's night wih cool 70's poster giveway. See the picture of James Loney and Casey Blake as Starky and Hutch. That is 71 Chevelle! I had a boyfriend that restored a 70's Red Chevelle
with the stripes
"Brady Bunch" actor Barry Williams will sing the National Anthem and God Bless America.
Thoughs and prayers to coach John Wooden. He went into the hospital yesterday. Hang in there coach! We love you!
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70's night… way to many memories of the 70's…. hopefully your guys will win tonight….
Phillies Outside
I hope you share some of the 70's memories in your blog Peter! And I hope your guys win tonight! I am rooting for the Phillies!
I am super excited that Vin is making the trip!
Very exciting that Vin will be making the trip to Boston. Talk about bringing along the voice of the team! Good for him and good for the Dodgers.
I was going to post my pictures from the 70's but it will have to wait.
Rest in peace coach John Wooden. You were such an inspirations to us all. We will never forget you!
Just wrote that on my calendar.! When i do that…consider it done!
Hopefully I can see this trip! You know OBF and Trueblue of Brooklyn are making the trip for one game. Hopefully I can see them too!
Vin Scully at Fenway? Color ME jealous! When do I go?
I hope MLB.com carries that broadcast feed. I'd have to take a one-night break from Boston's radio, WEEI, to catch Vin! TOO COOL!
Have fun at Fenway, Emma! Take care! (Still jealous…)🙂
So good to read you again! Yes! you should definitely catch Vin if you can! I am counting the days till our trip!


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So yes then... If its secured against the ground it isn't really lost is it?
The ground isn't worth the debts secured against it. If it was ever sold, the RFL would only get a fraction of their money back.
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:35 PM
So yes then... If its secured against the ground it isn't really lost is it?
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:43 PM
The ground isn't worth the debts secured against it. If it was ever sold, the RFL would only get a fraction of their money back.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:45 PM
Fair enough. How much would they potentially get back then? Is there a current valuation for the Racecourse Ground anywhere?
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:47 PM
I don't know. The ground is only worth what someone will pay for it. I don't know that anyone is prepared to buy it at present.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:51 PM
So the RFL could get their £700k back then, potentially...
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:54 PM
Yeah if anyone wants to pay well over the odds for a stadium belonging to a cash strapped soccer club which can only be used for sport.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 09:55 PM
You sometimes misunderstand what I say e.g. I didn't claim that there was a dozen junior clubs in Keighley just that you were understating how much RL exists.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:05 PM
Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:07 PM
So they havent lost their £700k then. Lovely stuff.
Edited by Northern Sol, 12 November 2012 - 10:07 PM.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:12 PM
How about you give me a couple of grand interest free and I keep it? You may theoretically get it back if I ever sell my flat* and we'll pretend that you still have your cash and have lost nothing
* I may not even own a flat
Posted 12 November 2012 - 10:13 PM
Nah you're alright thanks. Its not in my interests to keep you going...
I'm sure you would put it to good use and I would eventually get it back though.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 03:42 AM
That's just the sort of thing that beggars belief.
But doesn't beg a reply.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 04:16 AM
You two doomongers deserve each other.
It's always the same stuff, don't change anything...
Always go backwards to where we were.
Because if we don't the game will DIE.
Three teams in Leeds in the past. Only one team in it in Leeds today.
Profitable large crowds
Large numbers of quality players being produced.
Forget reality guys
The problem with you two is your biased, you support small clubs who make big losses and want the past to come back.
I don't blame you but your private Fraser impressions are self serving.
Were old men we aren't the audience of tomorrow, and tomorrows fans have no alliegences to the old traditional clubs
Posted 13 November 2012 - 04:30 AM
You and your mate need to wake up grasp the economics.
St.Helens is a profitable RL club and attracts support from a wide area not from it's small town base.
Wigan is a profitable RL club and attracts support from a wide area and not from it's small town base.
But you have your facts filter on as always. Anything that proves we have to move forward is filtered out.
We need 12,13,14 profitable clubs in SL and your stupid (no apologies it is stupid) idea is to dump one of the few who are successful.
You say less clubs will "disenfranchise many, many thousands of fans, who will not flock to the remaining SL teams",
That phrase is as always not backed up by any logic whatsoever.
There's effectively two less clubs in Leeds yet more people pay to watch RL and Leeds are profitable like Wigan and Saints.
When HKR were dumped out of SL Hull went on to profitable 14,500 crowds and competed. Now 19,500 fans watch the pro game in hull and guess what.........
Both clubs make losses.
You like to mock the idea of mergers and less clubs but here's a great idea for you.
Bring back Recs, Boro, Huyton, Carlisle, Tyldesly, Belle Vue, Bramley, Scarborough, Highfield, Springfield, Streatham, Carlisle, Mansfield, Crusaders, Cardiff, Nottingham, Pontefract, Liverpool, Newcastle, Acton, Coventry, Brighouse, Ebbw Vale, merthyr, Bradford PA, Manningham etc.
Let's then split the SKY money 60 ways. That's £300K a club each. let's have 5 divisions of 12.
Now there's a wonderful future for our game. We can have 60 clubs all making losses, all attracting gates in the hundreds, we can enjoy it without TV getting in the way, the evil SKY the awful BBC and their dreadful coverage. We can cheer on the players knowing they like to play for next to nowt because they love the game, those top class players who've gone to RU are mercenaries anyway.
Enjoy the fantasy.
You fail to grasp that when Oldham (back on topic) got 3,600 fans that gave them a big fat monetary loss. It was not enough to fund a competitive pro team or repair the ramsahckle ground. You surely understand this simple economic situation? Or do you??
By creating an Elite league of a smaller number of clubs the number of fans paying to watch game live at the ground had RISEN CONSIDERABLY. Can you not grasp this fact. Water it all down and you have everyone going bust and fans walking away all over.
Try the calder area, there's 16,000 fans there and guess what. Wakefield go bust, Castleford in dire economic problems, featherstone making losses year on year.
How can Rugby league thrive on losses all round.
If Wakefield at Newmarket had a clear run of the area, managed to get crowds to a profitable 10,000 and started to provide some competition for leeds, Wigan and saints how fantastic would that be?
Not in your book though. You'd lament how 9,000 Cas and Fev fans would have been lost to the game, and how these clubs would die and how RL in the area would die and how nobody from Cas or Fev or Ponte would ever watch Wakefield. Yeh nobody from South or west leeds would ever watch Leeds and east Hull would become a soccer stronghold.
You also fail to see the armchair fan. Open your eyes and look at how many people pay how much to sit in their armchair and watch our SL clubs. Every friday and saturday i have two mates who watch Superleague and their subs go on to pay SKY who go on to pay the RFL. They don't go near live SL games.
I'm sorry mate but this idea that creating an elite "disenfranchises" fans to the detriment of the game is correct in that it disenfranchises a good 15,000 fans who would have liked to stick with the old days like you.
But is has franchised many thousands more fans who are attracted to an eleite professional game - probably 40,000 or more, and it has enabled hundreds of thousands of RL fans who cannot get to a ground because they only really play the game in the north and Twickenham.
Open the other eye..........
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:22 AM
My point is that Keighley don't need there to be enough SL quality players in Keighley. SL clubs sign players from across the country and from overseas, even Wigan do it.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:25 AM
Keighley don't need there to be enough SL quality players in Keighley.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:27 AM
What an idiotic thing to say.
Here's the scenario.
Everybody in SL decides to not bother with an academy to save costs.
Don't bother with promoting RL locally - just save costs.
They all just sign players in from a distance.
Kids of 15 and 16 and 17 are signed up to travel miles and stay away from home in the hope they'll make it in some town they ain't heard of. (That'll add to costs)...
Yeh that'll really work a treat won't it, and it's one of the daftest things I've heard and boy do you say daft things.
Please release me from this torture. Agree to disagree
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:27 AM
No moderator has told me anything of the sort. If you think you get nickpicked unfairly it could be your confrontational style of posting,
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:28 AM
They certainly need there to be money though and there's none of that in Keighley either.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:30 AM
The adage in football
Academies don't produce enough talent to fill a SL team,...


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An inside look at heroin withdrawal
The road to recovery for heroin users is anything but easy.
Gundersen Lutheran's Director of Addiction Medical Services, Dr. William Bucknam, said the reason withdrawal from opiates is so difficult is that the drugs go to the part of the brain that regulates appetite, sleep and energy.
The brain stops secreting its own natural substances to regulate those things. So when the drug is taken away, it takes a while for those functions to kick back on.
That's when withdrawal kicks in.
Former opiate addict Emily Lodoen can still remember how it felt overdosing on her kitchen floor.
"I said to my husband at the time, 'I feel lightheaded.' And the next thing I knew, I woke up with him crying over me. He was like, literally sitting right above me and crying and saying my name and 'Please wake up. Please wake up,'" said Lodoen.
But that wasn't enough to stop her from continuing to use opiates. First came prescription painkillers, then heroin.
"It wasn't even the almost dying that made me want to quit. It wasn't losing three of my children. It was that I felt so completely empty inside, as if the void inside of me had taken over my entire being. And that was really the point of desperation for me. That was my bottom," said Lodoen.
So after using opiates every single day for seven years, she quit cold turkey.
"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy," said Lodoen. "I shook a lot. There was very little time that I spent feeling relaxed, that my body could be still. I sweat a lot. I had, you know, a fever I suppose, chills and feeling hot as well."
But unlike withdrawal from addictions to alcohol and drugs like Valium and Xanax, withdrawal symptoms from opiates rarely turn deadly.
"People feel like they would rather die than go through the withdrawal. It's that uncomfortable. But they're not going to. It's not medically dangerous," said Bucknam.
Even after withdrawal symptoms go away, that doesn't mean an addict's struggle is over.
"Craving goes on for much longer than the physical withdrawal. And with addiction disorders in general, we don't have a cure," said Bucknam.
Lodoen never went back to opiates, and life hasn't been the same since.
"It feels like freedom," she said.
For Lodoen, withdrawal symptoms lasted two weeks. That's not the case for everybody. Depending on what kind of opiate a person is on and how long he or she has been addicted, withdrawal can last anywhere from a few days to a few months.
Bucknam said while there is no cure for addiction, there are treatments. There are several medications available to help ease the effects of addicts' withdrawal symptoms.


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Much of Texas still is grappling with dwindling and uncertain water supplies. This decline is caused by a prolonged drought that is now entering its seventh year and includes the record-setting year of 2011, when the state experienced its most severe single-year drought in history.
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It may come as a surprise to many urban Ohioans that agriculture ranks as the state's leading industry. Across the state, crop, livestock and specialty niche farm production helps sustain the local and broader economies, while supporting smaller farm operations to large cash grain producers. Critical to every producer, whether large or small, is access to water, whether used in conjunction with farm production or by the family. In the Paddys Run drainage area in southwest Ohio, a unique program is working to improve and conserve water quality, reduce runoff, and protect productive farmland. The Paddys Run Conservation Project (PRCP), a collaborative project managed by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Three Valley Conservation Trust, provides funds to purchase development rights through agriculture and conservation easements from willing landowners. The program helps keep land in private hands and on the local tax rolls while protecting farms and the environment.
Since the Paddys Run project began in late 2012, over 2,200 acres have been permanently protected through conservation easements. This voluntary program allows landowners to continue owning the property while permanently protecting natural areas and farmland from subdivision and incompatible land uses. For the Paddys Run Conservation Project, matching funds awarded by USDA's Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program have been integral to the project's success. When used in conjunction with funds awarded through the Paddys Run Conservation Project, property owners have willingly placed their lands under easement. Significantly, funds used to purchase easements allow farmers to acquire additional farmland, invest in new equipment or retire existing farm mortgages.
Tom Schneider, Ohio EPA Fernald Natural Resource Trustee, says "FRPP has been an excellent companion to the Paddys Run Conservation Project. The PRCP is funded through the natural resources damage settlement at the U.S. Department of Energy Fernald site and we've been able to leverage funds between the two programs to increase the amount of easement properties substantially above what either program would have been able to achieve on its own. The Paddys Run Conservation Project and FRPP create a great example of government agencies working with a local land trust to maximize the benefits available to landowners in the area for land and water conservation."
The Henshaw property, first settled ca. 1805 by Welsh migrants to the area (hence the name Paddys Run), is one of several large family farm operations in Paddys Run recently placed under conservation easement through this program. Funds awarded through the FRPP have helped protect 332 acres of the Henshaw land in perpetuity. Picturesque and productive, the Henshaw farms are distinguished by a high percentage of prime silt and clay loam soils and 123 acres of woodland that is guided by a Woodland Stewardship Plan. The Woodland Stewardship Plan provides guidance on managing invasives such as bush honeysuckle and autumn olive, along with suggested Best Management Practices for timber sales and erosion control.
According to Stanley and Charlotte Henshaw, "The timing of the easement offer was perfect for us. It allowed us to become sole owners of the property and to make some necessary repairs to the house. There has been no change in our management of the land except for stepped up efforts to remove honeysuckle. We were able to benefit from the development value of the property without having to give up land or be surrounded by new construction. We and our children are happy to know that the forest will remain natural and the farmland will continue to be managed in ways that will preserve its productivity."
"We at Three Valley Conservation Trust are thrilled to be a part of such a wonderful collaboration of like-minded agencies working together for the benefit of land and water conservation in the Paddys Run area," said Liz Woedl, Executive Director. "We've been fortunate to utilize FRPP in accordance with our mission and look forward to continuing our relationship as we all strive to protect Ohio's special places."
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Detroit may be known for Motown, but each Labor Day weekend for the past 34 years the sounds of world-class jazz takes over Downtown Detroit. Today, Chris Collins, artistic director for the Detroit Jazz Festival fills us in on what's in store for the four-day festival that starts Friday.
Q: Can you tell us more about the Detroit Jazz Festival and your role?
A: The Detroit Jazz Festival is a really a cultural tour-de-force for Detroit region and throughout the jazz world. It's the world's largest free jazz festival and was recently voted by JazzTimes magazine readers as the one of the top two festivals in North America. Every Labor Day for 34 years running, this festival has brought some of the greats of this true American art form to the heart of Detroit for four days of music on four stages, three in Hart Plaza and one in Campus Martius. The festival attracts more than 100,000 people over four days and nearly 25 percent are from out of state, and we have an economic impact in the tens of millions, so it's a cultural and economic driver for Southeast Michigan
While the festival weekend is our most visible event, many people don't realize that the Detroit Jazz Festival is a year-round happening. We have events throughout the year such as a Duke Ellington tribute with saxophonist James Carter, a Detroit native, at the Fillmore last March; our Detroit Divas Sing Sing Sing event annually at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe which is tonight, Aug. 23; and then our Nov. 2 event at Orchestra Hall featuring world-renown saxophonist Wayne Shorter, with Grammy-winner Esperanza Spalding, and the DSO. These are events that are designed to keep the spirit of the festival prevalent throughout the year.
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It is made of a large kitchen, a double sofa bed in the living room, a private bedroom with double bed, a bathroom with window, high heat resistance frames.air conditioning
On request we can rent sheets and towels and provide furniture for babies (bed and high-chair).
Outdoor there's a small covered lodge facing a private garden fully equipped with garden furniture, and lighting.
Private parking with independent entry.
beauty salon spa solarium next to the apartment, to find the energy and harmony of your body ... ask us for info
2 km from the end of the Firenze Pisa Livorno freeway
3 km from the Amerigo Vespucci airport - please take a taxi should you land there
3 km from the end of the Firenze mare A11 motorway
3 km from the A1 motorway, take the exit Firenze Scandicci then follow the indications for Florence
6 km from the central train station - take the Cable Car, Linea 1 bus n.77 o 78
bar an bus stop (bus n.77 e 78)
Public garden, Pizzeria / Restaurant (take away service available)
Shopping Center: Multiplex, bowling, restaurant, pub, pizzeria, smoke shop, video games, playground, mall, shops, Rugby and football stadium, tennis court, cycling track, newspaper kiosk, hairdresser, lampredotto kiosk (typical meal), bakery.
Mall, post office, laundry, library, filling station.
3 km "Amerigo Vespucci" Airport, A1 Motorway called " Milano - Napoli", A11 Motorway called "Firenze-mare", Firenze-Pisa-Livorno freeway, Cable car stop, Cascine Park, Golf Camp, Horse riding.
6 km Downtown, Central train station called "Santa Maria Novella"
House rules
Baby equipment on request (deleted Cot, highchair)
wifi fee 1,00 € / day
Please note that as of 01/10/2014 the city of Florence is introducing a new city tax.
This tax will be levied on all visitors depending on the type of accommodation chosen and official category rating for a maximum of 7 consecutive nights. The fee for our structure is 2,50 Euro per guest for night.
Children under 12 years of age are exempt from paying this tax.
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Reviews of this property
The appartment was very nice! It was also very easy to go to the city-centre by bus. We had a nice garden to sit in and because of the heat, the airconditioning was very welcome. Edi was nice and helpful. A great place to stay!
Nice apartment with a small garden. Unfortunately a bit too noisy so you can hear the neighborhood again. The facilities are good, but unfortunately the dishwasher was not operational. Very comfortable is the private self-parking in front of the apartment (garden)
Unfortunately we were only at 18:00 clock refer the apartment. A little late if you traveled long ....
Supermarkets and restaurants are enough available nearby. You can walk to everything easily.
The center of Florence can be reached quickly and easily by public transport.
Nette Wohnung mit kleinem Garten. Leider etwas zu hellhörig so dass man immer wieder die Nachbarschaft hören kann. Die Ausstattung ist gut, aber der Geschirrspüler war leider nicht einsatzfähig. Sehr Vorteilhaft ist der private abgeschlossene Parkplatz vor der Wohnung (Garten)
Leider durften wir erst um 18:00 Uhr die Wohnung beziehen. Etwas spät wenn man lange angereist ist….
Supermärkte sowie Restaurants sind genug in der Nähe vorhanden. Man kann alles problemlos zu Fuß erreichen.
Das Zentrum von Florenz erreicht man problemlos und schnell mit dem öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln.
We were warmly welcomed by Max.
The apartment has our erwarungen ergüllt, very gereumige room, large bathroom / WC, good cooking facilities and a small garden for relaxing.
Everything was very clean and orderly!
The parking was also very good.
Very good price-performance ratio.
Wir wurden sehr herzlich von Max empfangen.
Die Wohnung hat unsere erwarungen ergüllt, sehr gereumige zimmer, grosses Bad/WC, gute Kochmöglichkeit und kleiner Garten zum entspannen.
Alles sehr sauber und geordnet!
Die Parkmöglichkeit war auch sehr gut.
Sehr gutes Preis-Leistung Verhältniss.
We (2 adults. 2 children) were very pleased with the Apt. very clean, very well equipped, super parking space for the car, and centrally located to quickly ID by bus and tram City to go. Max and his wife are very friendly and gave us great tips. It was a great stay and I can only give a recommendation. 5 of 5 stars.
wir (2 Erw. und 2 Kinder) waren sehr zufrieden mit dem Apt. sehr sauber, sehr gut ausgestattet, super Stellplatz für das Auto und zentral gelegen um mit Bus und Tram schnell i.d. Stadt zu gelangen. Max und seine Frau sind sehr freundlich und haben uns tolle Tipps gegeben. Es war ein toller Aufenthalt und ich kann nur eine Empfehlung abgeben. 5 von 5 Sternen.
Very clean place, everything new and modern.unfortunately bedding towels and wifi cost extra.other than that, great place in Firenze!
We had a very nice stay in Florence. The host was very nice and had good tips. The apartment was clean, tidy and everything you needed was there .. The distance to the city was to do good bus and subway were close. Should we still go back to Florence we will definitely go back to this address. It was great! Thanks a lot! Greetings Heidi
Wij hebben een ontzettend prettig verblijf in Firenze gehad. De gastheer was erg aardig en had goede tips. Het appartement was schoon, netjes en alles wat je nodig had was er.. De afstand naar de stad was goed te doen, bus en metro waren dichtbij. Mochten wij nog eens teruggaan naar Firenze dan gaan we zeker weer naar dit adres.
It was great! Thanks a lot!
Groeten Heidi
We, a family with two teenage daughters, had a nice time in the apartment in Firenze. We stayed four days to visit the musea. To travel to the center (central station) is about 25 min. The busstop is close to the apartement, after 8 min. by bus, you take the tram that stops at the central station. From there you can walk to all the musea.
The apartment was clean, the beds oké, and we liked it to use the kitchen. Our car was parked at a safe parkingplace, just behind the garden of the apartment. Inside there is airconditioning. Because of the mosquitoes, we didn't sit in the garden. The owners of the apartment were kind and hospitable. Firenze is a beautiful city!
Love to stay in the appartement. Nice and clean new appartement and quite surroundings. Loved the littel garden. We will stay there again if we come to Florence.
Not only has the flat been spotless and nicely arranged but the owners had the kindness to look for events coming in May and even greeted us with some documentation in French. To me, having a fully furnished kitchen easily makes up for the 15mins in public transports necessary to reach the historic centre of Florence. I strongly recommend this flat!
The owners are very welcoming and helpful. The apartment is very well appointed and tastefully. Although a bit far, by tram 5 minutes by car you get directly to the city center where almost all the museums and monuments to visit.
Les propriétaires sont très accueillants et serviables. L'appartement est très bien agencé et avec goût. Bien qu'un peu éloigné, grâce au tramway situé à 5 minutes en voiture on arrive directement au centre ville où se trouve la quasi totalité des musées et monuments à visiter.
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ICBA: Hold Wall Street Bad Actors Personally Accountable
Washington, D.C. (Sept. 30, 2013)—Camden R. Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA), released this statement following the recent meeting between JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder amid continued reports of misconduct on Wall Street.
"While JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street firms negotiate the terms of their penalties for misconduct and violations of the law, ICBA and the nation's community bankers urge financial regulators and the Justice Department to ensure megabank officials are held to the same personal accountability as community bankers.
"The seemingly endless number of fines and penalties that regulators continue to impose on the nation's largest financial institutions reflects serious and harmful behavior from Wall Street to Canary Wharf. This misconduct is manifest in the fraudulent packaging and sale of mortgage-backed securities, a loss funded in part with federally insured deposits, and collusion to rig LIBOR interest rates.
"Nevertheless, financial penalties that can be paid in full out of these megabanks' quarterly profits are not enough to deter wrongdoing and minimize the threats these institutions pose to our nation. Unlike community bankers, who are held publicly and personally accountable by their regulators when things go wrong, not one senior Wall Street executive or board member has been held personally responsible for the 2008-10 financial collapse and the repeated scandals that have followed.
"To truly combat Wall Street's excessively risky and reckless behavior, regulators and the Justice Department must bring financial bad actors to justice."
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The Office of Alumni Relations has added a new online directory for the use of all College alumni. Users can access information about their classmates and others who shared similar interests and activities. The directory encourages alumni to reconnect and communicate.
"The directory also allows users to easily update their contact information and submit classnotes," says Adrian Aldrich '02, director of alumni relations.
The directory required three years to implement, and numerous alumni inquired about the former directory after it was removed for the redevelopment process, Aldrich says. Within three weeks of "going live," 700 alumni had logged in and accessed information.
The directory is housed at northcentralcollege.edu/alumni. In a mailing sent earlier this fall, all alumni received a unique username and password. Once logged in, users can create a new password and/or access privacy options, if desired. For assistance accessing the site, contact Bonnie Beetz '06 Kniss at email@example.com.
"We're not trying to compete with Facebook but instead provide an additional social media resource that benefits our alumni and makes it easier for them to stay connected with North Central," adds Aldrich.
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EAST LANSING, Mich., January 14, 2014 -- Rep. Henry Yanez (D-Sterling Heights) will have a special guest for Gov. Snyder's State of the State speech Thursday evening. Mark Julien, an English and Language Arts teacher at Henry Ford II High School and the 2013 Michigan recipient of the Milken Educator Award is the honored guest.
The Milken Educator Award is the nation's preeminent teacher recognition program. Established in 1985 with the motto "The Future Belongs to the Educated," along with a $25,000 award, the program provides public recognition to outstanding K-12 teachers, principals and specialists who are furthering excellence in education. Recipients, who are confidentially recommended by a blue ribbon panel of a state's department of education, are selected in early to mid-career for what they have achieved and for the promise of what they will accomplish.
Known for his creativity, compassion, drive, diplomatic and data tracking skills and inspiring leadership style, Mark Julien is known as a "rising star" at Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights. At Ford—where he teaches subjects such as Advanced Placement English literature and composition, Honors English and 10th-grade English, and is a popular varsity baseball coach—Julien is known as a teacher whom students returning from college love to visit. Julien uses the best research-based practices, assiduously tracks the progress of his students and studies the data to learn what approaches work best. An advocate of blended learning, Julien has students watch videos of his lessons at home, freeing up classroom time for discussion, while making himself available to students online around the clock. He also makes parents feel involved and respected in the education of their children, making presentations to them throughout the school year.
"I feel overwhelmingly humbled," said Julien when he was presented the Milken Educator Award in front of an excited school wide assembly in October.
Although the Milken Award is always presented as a surprise to an unsuspecting teacher, it should come as no surprise that teachers like Mark Julien make all the difference in their students' lives.
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I don't know...it's a good idea. It really is...but it changes the complexion of the game more because you still 9/10 got that teams ACE on the floor.
And it's only if HE commits a foul...now if you were to say as long as he is on the court...any player on that team commits a foul in the penalty or not...they get 2 free throws and the ball...then I'd go along with it...because in that situation it's supposed to be more risk than reward.


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Roosevelt and Curry counties have much more cotton than normal this year, and the crop is shaping up to be excellent, people in local agriculture say.
Roosevelt County has 75 percent more cotton than normal this year, said Floyd farmer Allen Deen.
Kenny Whitecotton of Strippers Custom Harvesting estimated 5,000-6,000 acres in the Roosevelt County had cotton, and Curry County was up 50 percent to 75 percent in cotton acreage as well.
Roosevelt County Extension Agent Patrick Kircher said high projections for cotton prices and low prices for other agricultural commodities led area farmers to take a chance on cotton.
Deen, who is growing both dryland and irrigated cotton, said contracts for planting the crop were favorable to farmers. He said he has never grown cotton before and his father, who also farms in the area, hasn't planted cotton since 1975.
"This year we're going to be way over our yields, more than we could even imagine," Deen said.
He said the abundant moisture early in the season and following hot, dry weather were perfect for cotton.
"We've had an excellent fall for cotton," Deen said. "It wants hot weather."
Whitecotton said the cotton crop looks to be the best in 10 years for both Roosevelt and Curry County.
Wednesday morning, Deen said, the price of cotton was $1.02 per pound, double the normal amount. Whitecotton said the price isn't dropping just before harvest as it normally does.
"Actually it's climbing," he said.
Whitecotton expects most area farmers to wait to harvest until after the first freeze in a month or so, although some may use a chemical to remove the plants' leaves and then harvest early.
Colin Chandler, who harvests cotton with Whitecotton, said he thought the prices would hold through the cotton stripping after the freeze.
Because flooding hurt the cotton crop along the Mississippi River, Whitecotton said, the market needs southeastern New Mexico cotton to meet the demand, leading to the high prices. Cotton gin managers knew they would need cotton, so they offered incentive contracts with good guaranteed prices, he said.
Whitecotton said gins haven't offered incentive prices in a long time.
If cotton prices hold, Deen said, irrigation farmers may switch corn acreage to cotton next year.


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Most full time white collar jobs in Beijing don't provide enough outlets for creativity. Typical Chinese parents tend not to encourage many interests in their children beyond getting top grades in school, mastering English, and securing a high paying job. Efforts of parents, relatives, and teachers often make the lives of children so restricted prior to university entrance that the various avenues for self expression open to them are very limited.
As with children anywhere else in the world, this encourages rebelliousness and a desire to break beyond established barriers. In China this period of questioning is often delayed till the twenties.
It is a blessing when such disobedience finds productive creative outlet.
Growing up, Yuanyuan was never given enough time to pursue her interest in handicrafts. Despite her lack of interest in all things related to calculations of profit and loss, Yuanyuan was forced by her parents to study finance in college.
She found it entirely boring and after graduation had no interest in jobs in related fields. Still, the only real road open to her was work in the corporate sector and she entered a foreign public relations company. This was somewhat interesting, but she still felt that something more enriching had to be around the next corner.
So she returned to her childhood interest in creating things and them making by hand. She asked her boyfriend for a sewing machine for her birthday and most spare moments are now spent knitting scarves and other objects. From her courtyard in the heart of Beijin's Shichahai community, she makes pillow cases, scarves, hats, books, booties, knit ties, and just about everything else she can possibility get her mind and hands around.
Her life is quite idyllic when she isn't in a high rise in front of the screen. She is lucky to live in Beijing's most captivating neighborhood, where despite boring bars and noisy tour groups, remaining are the charms of getting lost in the winding hutongs (alleys) with their water stained walls and wind beaten red doors. Some corners remain where life has changed little since the Qing Dynasty even as China as somersaulted wildly and brilliantly out of its past.
She has various plans to start businesses related to her crafts, perhaps having local people produce them for sale in markets throughout the city. However, thus far the more practical demands of work have made realizing these goals challenging.
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2014 Winter Olympics set to begin
The Columbus Dispatch - February 07, 2014 02:18 PM
By Glenn Greenberg
The eyes of the world are on Sochi, Russia, where the 2014 Winter Olympic Games are taking place through Feb. 23.
More than 3 billion people around the globe are expected to watch the games on television. The 2014 Sochi Games will draw 6,700 athletes from 88 nations to compete.
The Paralympic Winter Games, which will take place March 7-16, will also be held in Sochi. In the Paralympics, athletes with disabilities compete in sporting events. The Paralympics began in 1960 to give athletes with disabilities a chance to compete for Olympic gold.
A return to Russia
The 2014 Games in Sochi are not the first to take place on Russian soil. In 1980, Moscow, Russia's capital, hosted the Summer Olympic Games. Sochi, located on the coast of the Black Sea, is one of Russia's largest resort cities, with a population of about 350,000.
Russia has been preparing for the games since it was chosen to host them in 2007. Construction of the Olympic venues in Sochi began in 2009. Opening and closing ceremonies will take place in the newly built Fisht Olympic Stadium, which seats 40,000 people. The dome-shaped stadium is named after the nearby Mount Fisht.
Just in case the weather is too warm for snowfall, Olympic organizers have been stockpiling snow. They learned their lesson from the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. During those games, temperatures were so warm that organizers had to truck and fly in snow from a nearby mountain.
For Sochi, organizers gathered up 16 million cubic feet of snow — about how much water flows over Niagara Falls in four minutes. They also used hundreds of snow-blowing machines to collect icy-cold water from two lakes, which they then turned into tons of artificial snow. Thick insulated blankets on top of the snow keep it from melting.
In addition to having enough snow, security is a top priority for both Olympic officials and the Russian government. After several recent terrorist attacks in Russia, tens of thousands of security officers have been assigned to Sochi to make sure the games remain peaceful and safe for everyone in attendance.
Facts about the world's largest country
* Official name: Russian Federation
* Size: 6,601,668 square miles; the largest country in the world, and nearly double the size of the United States
* Population: 142,500,482 as of 2013
* Capital: Moscow
* Official language: Russian. There are more than 100 other languages and dialects spoken.
* Currency: Russian ruble (RUB)
* Climate: Cold winters; mild summers; frigid in the Arctic regions
* Products: Coal, gas, oil, chemicals, metals, timber, furs; vehicles, aircraft, weapons, machinery; beef, grain, beets
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* 6,700 athletes
* 88 nations
* 2,800 journalists and photographers
* 3 billion television viewers will tune in worldwide
* 25,000 volunteers
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Located in the very centre of Viseu, surrounded by a beautiful green park, this hotel with modern facilities has accommodated many famous names.With wide spaces and light walls, the Hotel Grão Vasco provides an environment reminiscent of the early Sixties. The hotel strives to keep alive that spirit that welcomed celebrities such as Maradona, Eusébio, Raymond Burr, Oscar de LaRenta, King Umberto of Italy, Princess Lee Radziwill, Fiat's Umberto Agnelli, Frank Carlucci and Amália. Just 50 metres away there are many historical and commercial attractions, ranging from churches, museums and monuments to all kinds of shops, pubs and handicraft boutiques.


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Like many other people on this forum, I have a p3 with a touch screen which is partially unresponsive. Luckily, I've still been able to use it, because it's the right hand side of the screen which has gone, so I can still navigate through my music and videos. However, what's now happened is that I had it in my pocket unlocked, and it's moved to one of the other screens with different widgets on (brightness, memos etc), and I can't get it back to the screen with the music icon by swiping across. This has already happened a few times, and I've eventually got it to switch back by continually swiping and being very persistent, but I can't seem to do it this time
I know sometimes when I put music on my device, after updating the library, it reverts back to the now playing screen, but that's not happening this time. I've tried updating the firmware again and pressing the reset button, but the p3 still just switches on playing the same album and on the same screen that it got stuck on.
Does anyone know how I could get back to the now playing screen? I know it sounds like it's time to get a new mp3 player, but I just don't have the money at the moment to invest in a good one with lots of space. I do have an iPhone, but don't particularly like using it for music (hence clinging on to my half broken p3!).
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Managed to get it working now, after many MANY attempts to swipe the screen. I read someone else's thread about putting your finger on the responsive part of the touch screen while trying to swipe across the dead bit, and eventually, I managed to switch to the next screen! Would still like to know if anyone knows an easier way to 'now playing' though, in case it happens again.
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- Title
- 'Omic' genetic technologies for herbal medicines in psychiatry
- Author(s)
- Sarris, Jerome; Ng, Chee Hong; Schweitzer, Isaac
- Abstract
- The field of genetics, which includes the use of 'omic' technologies, is an evolving area of science that has emerging application in phytotherapy. Omic studies include pharmacogenomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Herbal medicines, as monotherapies, or complex formulations such as traditional Chinese herbal prescriptions, may benefit from omic studies, and this new field may be termed 'herbomics'. Applying herbomics in the field of psychiatry may provide answers about which herbal interventions may be effective for individuals, which genetic processes are triggered, and the subsequent neurochemical pathways of activity. The use of proteomic technology can explore the differing epigenetic effects on neurochemical gene expression between individual herbs, isolated constituents and complex formulae. The possibilities of side effects or insufficient response to the herb can also be assessed via pharmacogenomic analysis of polymorphisms of cytochrome P450 liver enzymes or P-glycoprotein. While another novel application of omic technology is for the validation of the concept of synergy in individual herbal extracts and prescriptive formulations. Chronic administration of psychotropic herbal medicines may discover important effects on chromatin remodelling via modification of histone and DNA methylation. This paper focuses on the emerging field of herbomics, and is to our knowledge the first publication to explore this in the area of psychiatry.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Centre for Human Psychopharmacology
- Source
- Phytotherapy Research, Vol. 26, no. 4 (Apr 2012), pp. 522-527
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 03 Chemical Sciences; 06 Biological Sciences; 11 Medical and Health Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Depression; Epigenetics; Genetics; Herbal medicines; Herbomics; Omic technologies; Pharmacogenomics; Polymorphisms; Psychiatric disorders; Psychiatry
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Peer reviewed