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Phytosterols are natural plant derived nutrients that the body uses to produce the hormones it needs.
They are another of the "must supplement" nutrients since, according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University and other notable health researchers, the Western diet is low in phytosterols compared to early human diets which were rich in these compounds.
Hormones are chemical messengers released by a cell or endocrine gland in one part of the body that sends out messages that affect cells in other parts of the organism.
Whereas Glyconutrients were discussed as enablers of cell-to-cell communications, phytohormones can be viewed as enablers of organ-to-organ communications.
Endocrine glands are organs such as the pancreas, adrenals, thyroids, thymus, pituitary, pineal, ovaries and testes; all of which secrete their hormones directly into the bloodstream.
The medical community seems to be obsessed with cholesterol and is determined to keep it as low as possible.
If we got all the phytosterols we needed in our food, perhaps there wouldn't be so many prescriptions for Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor and others written.
Right, a prime function of phytosterols is to inhibit the intestinal absorption of cholesterol. It has been proven in numerous clinical trials that a daily diet enriched with plant sterols or stanols, does lower serum LDL cholesterol. Low density lipoprotein is popularly known as the bad cholesterol.
The book Understanding Medicinal Plants is written to help the layman unravel the mysteries of phytosterols, saponins, lignans, glycosides, tannins and all the rest of those strange sounding words. Click on the image to read a review and add it to your library.
One of the most important and most prevalent of phytohormones are the phytoestrogens. Throughout this section, we will be using phytosterols and phytohormones interchangeably.
The estrogens produced naturally in our bodies are actually a group of hormones that have a major effect on the metabolism of nutrients such as minerals, protein, carbohydrates and fats.
Phytoestrogens are similar to our natural estrogens and have been shown to have the same effects but can also block the action of our natural estrogens.
There are three types of phytoestrogens: saponins, isoflavones and lignins; all of which bestow differing health benefits.
For example, diosgenin, one of the saponins, can be converted into the natural hormones progesterone and cortisone. Studies on this compound indicate that it may lower blood cholesterol levels, reduce blood sugar, decrease inflammation and protect against bacterial infections and even certain types of cancers.
There are about 700 known isoflavones, many of which are thought to provide protection against such health issues as cancers, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and numerous others.
The lignin phytohormones provide the building blocks for cell walls in plants and in humans, have shown the ability to inhibit fungus growth and kill various bacteria and viruses.
The lignins are most prevalent in whole grains, beans, vegetables and seeds. Flax seeds are one of the best sources for lignins.
About 12 years ago, 2003 to be exact, the FDA issued a letter advising its enforcement branch to use discretion in going after health claims pertinent to coronary heart disease. They would henceforth allow some leeway concerning plant stanol and sterol esters, also known as phytosterols, and coronary health claims.
Fast forward to 2010, in the light of new intervention studies validating such health claims, the FDA began revisiting its earlier position to possibly expand the number of foods and substances eligible for making health claims. As of 2011, the proposed changes were still open pending the receipt and evaluation of comments from interested parties. So far as we know the proposed changes are still pending as of the end of 2014.
On average, most Americans get between 2 and 4 mg/day of the phytosterols discussed above. Natural health practitioners believe that we actually need to consume between 30 and 50 mg/day of phytosterols.
In comparison, many Asian populations that exhibit low incidences of prostate and breast cancer consume between 20 and 80 mg/day of the isoflavone genistein, mainly from soy. In contract, we in the U.S. might get 1 to 3 mg/day of genistein.
With all phytosterols, bioavailability (absorption) is an issue in that dietary phytohormones undergo a fermentation process in the gut and both fermented products and the phytoestrogens are absorbed into the blood stream.
The process depends on the availability of bacteria to breakdown the food products and there are several things that can impact on the presence of such bacterial.
Antibiotics will kill off beneficial bacteria as well as the harmful bacteria. An inadequate intake of fiber can reduce the fermentation action of digestive bacteria.
To get an idea of how many mg/serving some of the common sources contain, following are a few examples:
Before getting into phytosterol supplementation, it is helpful to know something about the "Master Hormone", dehydroepiandrosterone. For simplicity, we will just refer to it as DHEA. It is a hormone made in the body, and secreted by the adrenal gland.
DHEA serves as precursor to male and female sex hormones and the levels in the body begin to decrease after age 30, sometimes even at age 20. Low levels of DHEA are seen in some people with anorexia, end-stage kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, AIDS, adrenal insufficiency, and in the critically ill.
DHEA levels may also be depleted by a number of drugs, including insulin, corticosteroids, opiates, and danazol. So the thinking is that if we can keep our DHEA levels relatively high throughout life, perhaps we can delay the aging process and avoid some of those so-called diseases of old age.
This is where Dioscorea comes in; specifically Dioscorea villosa, the Mexican Wild Yam.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of plants on earth that the body can use to make hormone precursors that eventually convert to hormones, specifically DHEA, but the Mexican Wild Yam is the best.
Just any old yam won't convert to DHEA, it has to be the Dioscorea villosa.
Photo: Dioscorea Villosa or Mexican Wild Yam
However, eating a lot of Mexican Wild Yams won't do the trick. We need a standardized quantity of sterols for the body to effect the conversion.
In simple terms, the more DHEA there is in the body, the more other hormones the body can produce and there are at least 70 hormones, possibly more, the endocrine glands produce for regulation of all the bodily functions.
So since phytosterols are a natural combination of plant estrogens, steroidal saponins and amino acids, what we want to look for in a supplement is a combination of these compounds. Beta sitosterol is one phytosterol that should be included in any phyto supplement.
By itself or in combination with similar phytosterols, beta-sitosterol reduces blood levels of cholesterol.
Because the structure of beta-sitosterol is very similar to that of cholesterol, beta-sitosterol takes the place of dietary and biliary cholesterol causing less cholesterol absorption in the body.
Photo: Saw Palmetto, source of beta sitosterol
Why not just take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or steroid drugs from your friendly physician; most will gladly comply.
The reason is that all synthetic hormones and steroids have harmful side effects. HRT in particular has been linked to blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, breast cancer and endometrial cancer (uterine lining).
A template of what an ideal phytosterol supplement should look like would be a label that shows wild yam extract, beta-sitosterol, relevant amino acids (glycine, L-arginine, L-lysine, L-glutaminc acid), and critical polysaccharides (arabinogalactans and gums).
Please feel free to do your own research for sources of phytosterol supplements keeping in mind that phytosterol supplements, like all dietary supplements, are not intended to prevent, mitigate, cure or treat any disease condition.
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Just as the dot.com era produces this generation's young millionaires (or billionaires), the green trend is starting to drive out new entrepreneurs straight out of school..or some of them still in school.
An example is this MBA student from the University of Toledo who re-purposed part of his student loan to set up his eco-tableware business.
Lawrence Ohlman III could be the next Tableware king if demand for his Eco-collection continues to blaze in the US houseware kingdom. Ohlman said the first offering on his EcoProducts is shaping to be one of the hottest gift this Christmas season.
His products, made from plant-based resins, are said to be 100% natural and sustainable. They are also FDA-approved (since when did the Food and Drug Administration approves tablewares??).
Ohlman still plans to finish his MBA with his leftover loan money.
In a different field, another young green entrepreneur who was recently mentioned in my blog is SiGNa's Michael Lefenfeld. Lefenfeld also founded his start-up advanced materials company SiGNa Chemistry when he was still working as a graduate student in molecular electronics at Columbia University.
You can read his story (such as trying to invent a new toilet bowl freshener for his grandfather and discovered a new chemistry material instead) in this New York Times article published in 2005.
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What bodies of water are included in a freshwater ecosystem? What are the components of a lake's watershed?
Freshwater lacks the "salty" nature of saltwater. Streams, rivers, ponds and lakes are the most common freshwater environments. Like oceans, bodies of freshwater are products of the surrounding land and the tributaries that feed into them. Lakes, the largest of the freshwater bodies, often incorporates the products of freshwater springs as well as streams and rivers. Sometimes many streams will flow into a larger stream or a river, and rivers can flow together into larger rivers.
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The watershed incorporates all of the land and water areas that ultimately drain into a river, stream or lake. The watershed areas can have their own subwatersheds; for example, the Haw River, which flows into Jordan Lake, has its own watershed. Watersheds that drain directly into rivers are often called river basins (NC DENR). The section on watersheds will give you more information on what watersheds are, how they influence the main body of water and how human actions can affect them.
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Lakes contain a balance of positive and negative ions. Each lake has three major negative ions that balance four major positive ions when their amounts are summed together:
Other compounds make up less than 1% of the ion balance for freshwater lakes:
All of these ions and compounds must balance each other out for the lake to be considered "healthy."
Problems occur when one or more nutrients exceeds their natural levels. Nutrient loading usually occurs when people disturb one of the elements in the watershed. Lakes are subject to two dangers that increase nutrient loading:
Of all of these compounds, phosphates are the most critical ones to keep in balance because the element phosphorus controls the amount of algae in the water, and as a result, the amount of oxygen available for fish to survive.
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What do lakes and rivers provide us with on an everyday basis?
Besides providing a source of recreation, including swimming, boating and fishing, some rivers and lakes also feed into a city's water system for drinking water. Of course, water from lakes goes through an extensive purification process before it flows through anyone's faucet, but a seriously imbalanced lake can have toxins that will pass through a water purifier. In addition, some of the local fish in the western and central parts of North Carolina (such as trout and catfish) come from freshwater environments.


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- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan with cooking spray, and set aside. Grate zucchini on the large holes of a box grater (to yield 1 3/4 cups); set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together sugars, oil, vanilla, and eggs.
Into a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and salt. Add flour mixture to egg mixture, and stir to combine well. Stir in grated zucchini.
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About Your Miniature Tuscan Olive Tree
This small member of our well-known olive family has a long history in its Mediterranean home of origin. Prized for its subtle, complex olive oil and culinary applications, these olive jewels can be sliced and used as garnish for cocktails, diced with garlic and onion for snacks, or for the adventurous, pressed for their famous virgin oil. This small- scale orchard replica will delight for many years to come. Use the general guidelines below as a point of reference.
Light Exposure
As bright as possible but avoid excess heat which will dry out the soil too quickly. In the landscape they enjoy full sun. A location that provides morning sun or filtered light throughout the day is ideal. Generally, the larger the container, the slower it will dry out the more sun it will tolerate.
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Water daily through hot spells and every other day in the spring and fall if left in the original pot. As needed in the winter. A well balanced liquid fertilizer should be used monthly. Olives in general are not heavy feeders, . The local nursery should have an adequate liquid feed available.
Prune to shape as you desire, keeping in mind the small- scale size of the plant and its container. Flowers will appear from small shoots that originate where the leaves meet the stem and the shoot tips in the spring. Flowers in the spring, harvest in the autumn. If too much new growth is produced at the branch tips, don't be shy about cutting it back to a lower position to shorten the trees height as it begins to re-grow. Planting in a larger container is the easiest way to keep the plant healthy. Remove the tree from its pot, during winter, every 1-2 years and remove about 1/3 of the roots. Re-pot with a blended potting soil. This will encourage new roots and keep it growing happily.
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Keep the tree from cold extreme temperatures in a bright location through the winter. Depending on your location, you could leave it outside in a frost free area or in a bright, warm room if freezing temperatures occur. As old leaves fall off, fertilize regularly to create new growth and keep the tree productive.
As your tree grows, transplanting it into a larger container is the easiest way to keep it healthy. Every one to two years, remove the tree from its pot and trim away 1/3 of its roots. Repot in a larger container with a blended organic potting soil. This will encourage new root growth and keep your Tuscan Olive tree healthy and thriving.
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Promising, undefeated bantamweight Chris Avalos (14-0, 11 KOs) of Lancaster, Calif., will make his main event debut when he when he faces Jose Nieves (17-1-3, 8 KOs) of Carolina, Puerto Rico, in a 10-round match on Friday, Jan. 29, on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME ® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). The first ShoBox telecast of 2010 will mark the return of respected ShoBox play-by-play announcer Nick Charles to his familiar ringside spot. Charles has been given the OK to return to action following a five-month battle with stage IV bladder cancer. It was announced in August that Charles was taking a leave of absence from his duties at SHOWTIME because of his illness. The last fight he worked was on July 31, 2009.
In the co-feature at Tingley Auditorium in Albuquerque, N.M, local favorite Archie Ray Marquez (9-0, 7 KOs) of Albuquerque will risk his unblemished record against the vastly more experienced, former world title challenger Derrick Campos (20-7, 11 KOs) of Topeka, Kan., in an eight-round super featherweight bout.
The doubleheader is promoted by Gary Shaw Productions, LLC.
Avalos, 20, who'll be making his third appearance on ShoBox, was named by several publications in end-of-the-year stories as a Prospect to Watch in 2010. The 5-foot-7-inch youngster has maintained an extremely active schedule since turning pro on Feb. 1, 2008, fighting eight times that year and six times in 2009.
An aggressive fighter with solid two-fisted punching power, Avalos tends to get reckless on occasion and forgets to play defense, but it's his all-out style that makes him that much more entertaining to watch.
In his last start, the Mike Criscio-managed stablemate of unbeaten two-time light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson and junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo, registered a second-round TKO over Jose Pacheco on Dec. 4, 2009.
Three outings ago, on ShoBox, Avalos scored a thrilling fourth-round knockout over Giovanni Caro in a slugfest on Sept. 18, 2009, at Santa Ynez, Calif. Avalos registered a second-round TKO over Andre Wilson in his ShoBox debut on July 31, 2009, at Temecula, Calif.
"It's really exciting to be in the main event on Shobox," Avalos said. "It's something that I've been looking forward to. Once I heard that, it was crazy. I do nothing but smile. Just watch me grow as I grow. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be here for a long time."
Nieves is a 5-foot-6-inch, 29-year-old southpaw who turned pro on June 22, 2001. He went unbeaten in his initial 18 starts (16-0-2) and won 12 consecutive fights between October 2002 and November 2006. But he's fought just three times since – twice in 2009 and once the year before.
In Nieves' last outing on July 17, 2009, a fight with Felipe Almanza ended in a three-round technical draw. Nieves unanimously outpointed Jose Garcia Bernal across eight rounds on Jan. 14, 2009.
Marquez has also impressed boxing insiders, who have also tabbed him as One to Watch in 2010. He will be appearing in his hometown for the first time since he turned pro at the Tingley Auditorium on Jan. 12, 2007.
The 5-foot-6-inch, 21-year-old Marquez was born and raised in Albuquerque's North Valley – the same neighborhood that produced world champions Johnny Tapia and Danny Romero.
"I grew up right between Johnny and Danny," said Marquez, who won a six-round majority decision over Andres Ledesma in his last outing on Dec. 4, 2009.
Marquez is prepared for what likely will be the most dangerous assignment of his young career. "Campos is a durable fighter, but I'm ready," Marquez said.
The 5-foot-5, 28-year-old Campos has won three of his last four, the defeat coming in his last start on a majority 10-round decision to Andrey Isaev on Nov. 7, 2009.
Campos once fought for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) 140-pound title, losing a decision to Dmitriy Salita on Nov. 8, 2008.
Nick Charles will call the action from ringside with Steve Farhood and Antonio Tarver serving as expert analysts. The executive producer of ShoBox is Gordon Hall with Richard Gaughan producing and Rick Phillips directing.
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Brandonites will be treated to music from nationally and internationally recognized performers this summer at the 30th annual Brandon Folk, Music and Art Fesitval.
The artists that will take the main stage throughout the July 25–27 weekend include Brandon talent like Slow Spirit and Son Latino, other Manitoba performerslike Mariachi Ghost and Chez Willi, plus acts from further afield, like Martin Sexton, Cold Specks and Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers.
The festival site, underneath the trees of the Keystone Centre grounds in Brandon will become an epicentre of activity for the weekend, hosting an Under the Canvas Makers Market, a fun-filled family area, daytime entertainment and workshops, and of course a fantastic main stage evening schedule. New to this year, we are thrilled to announce that each of the evening headliners will be performing a full concert length set to close out each evening!
Critically acclaimed Martin Sexton will headline Friday night. He is described as a musician's musician and prolific recording artist who first made his mark in the early 90s. His songs cover the American musical landscape, combining soul, gospel, R&B, country and blues.
Saturday night's headliner will be Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers. Caplan's voice is rugged, raspy, and charismatic; his songwriting is bold and melodramatic, telling stories of life and love on the road with a distinctly Nova Scotian feel.
Closing the festival on Sunday night is a 26-year-old Canadian singer under the name Cold Specks. Since her arrival on the music scene in 2011, Cold Specks has combined talent and depth of feeling. Now, she's returning after a world map of tours with an ever deepening sound that dwells upon beauty found in the dark and unknown.
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Venting Question!
I've never asked a question here, but get SO much out of this board from reading other topics. This is really a great thing you guys are doing and your time replying is appreciated! :thumbup: I just had a G.C install my rough in and noticed that the laundry drain is hooked up downstream from the vent! I'm not sure, but I believe this is wrong. SO, I guess my question is does a drain hooked up downstream from a vent mean it isn't vented?? plz help
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Vent should be downstream of trap. What did your G.C. say and why is he plumbing anyways?
I thought he was a plumber and turns out he's more like a g.c. what kinds of things should I worry about happening beacuse the vent is upstream to the laundry?
I read somewhere else that the washing machine hose usually lets enough air in to where it doesn't need to be vented... is that true???:huh:
If you could post a picture of the rough in that would get the best answer---Mike---
The laundry set up should be a 2" pipe with a P- trap
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see if this photo of a washing machine standpipe and a laundry sink rough in helps
That is one tall stand pipe! :laughing:
Sink is also really close to washer tie in :)
I guess the laundry tub stub out could of been put in the next room(to the right in the photo) but why? How much room does someone need between the washer and sink??
How wide is your washer and how wide is your laundry sink?
No comment on the height of the standpipe though.
If you are replacing your laundry sink, why do you need the standpipe? Drain into the sink.
I personally think having the standpipe is a cleaner look rather than draining into a sink but thats me.
But as has been said a lot lately,im just a hack so check with cold iron or devil plumber666 just to be safe! :whistling2::thumbsup:
The five feet of seperation is to avoid another line or fixture from being loaded up with soap from washing machine when it drains.
Is there any other fixtures above the washing machine vent tie in on that stack? :)
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I reinserted the photo and numbered all fittings so that nothing can be lost in translation. As a note the stack is 2" not 3". This is not my work or my setup. It was another post on this site about 2 months ago. I saved the photo.
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The extravagant and romantic atmosphere of the Petrus French Restaurant overflows from its golden entrance to fill every corner of the venue. Designed with French furniture, oil paintings, and crystal chandeliers, Petrus is noble and elegant.
The wines are selected from five wineries in France, including both Old and the New World wines; there are about 1,000 collectable wines to choose from and enjoy.
French Chef Perie presents world-class French cooking a la Provence, using specially selected excellent olive oil, black truffles, vanilla pods, and seafood imported from Europe. The food at Petrus is prepared by Chef Perie with the utmost passion, and presented in the most aesthetic way accompanied by Christofle dinnerware paired with Redel crystal wine glasses.
The Petrus French restaurant is located on the second floor of the Legendale Hotel with a seating capacity of 86.
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Mid-Summer Magic Plant Walk for 8 -12 year olds
On this special kids-only stroll through the Garden, discover some of the enchanting plants found in your favorite magical fiction books and learn fun facts about the real magic behind garden plants! Costumes optional.
Register for one date only; the same tour experience is offered on each date.
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|This tour is for 8 - 12 year olds only. Bring this confirmation for free entry at the admission gate. Check-in and drop off is at the Visitor's Center. Pick-up will be at Lily Pool Terrace, near 1000 Washington Avenue entrance. Program is cancelled in rain or extreme heat; staff will contact you on the day of the program if there is a weather-related cancellation.
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How would you win BOB's heart? By taking him on a romantic date? Showering him with gifts? Send in a picture showing us how you would romance Bob and BOB could be yours! Remember – Bob likes to play hard to get so this is the time to bust out your best moves. Your creativity could win you a 2011 BOB Revolution SE. (Mamas are the ones setting up Bob, so let's all keep it Rated G!)
*You are trying to win BOB's heart, so BOB does not have to be in the photo! Kids don't have to be in the photo! No one has to be in the photo! We aren't going to give you all the ideas – but just to clarify – it could just be a photo of a picnic set up for BOB, for example. (It has to be YOUR photo though!)
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Submit your original photo (no more than 250 KB allowed) to firstname.lastname@example.com by 11:59pm CST on Sunday, March 27, 2011. Please include this information with photo submission:
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Our Baby Gizmo Judges will pick the best 20 photos to post on Baby Gizmo Facebook page for everyone to vote on the winner! That's right, you can help pick the winner!
Voting will begin on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 and end at 10:00pm (CST) on Monday, April 4, 2011.
Winner will be announced on April 5, 2011.
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Children with a repaired cleft palate may have a resulting condition referred to as "VPI" (Velopharyngeal Incompetence). This means that too much air escapes through the nose during speech, resulting in a nasal sounding speech. This occurs because the repaired soft palate is too short or does not move adequately.
A surgical operation called a pharyngoplasty or pharyngeal flap procedure improves the function of the soft palate. In this operation, some of the tissue from the palate and the back of the throat are repositioned to help close off the escape of air through the nose.
The goal of a pharyngoplasty is successful communication for a child with cleft lip and palate. The speech pathologist regularly monitors the development of using and understanding language and the development of speech abilities including pronunciation of words (articulation), the sound of the voice and the amount of nasality during speech. When necessary, recommendations for speech therapy are made based on the child's specific needs.
For details about education, experience, and specialty in this clinical area, please visit these physician profile pages:
This condition is diagnosed primarily by the trained ear of the speech pathologist. However, special diagnostic procedures such as nasoendoscopy, nasometry and videofluoroscopy of speech may be required to directly visualize the soft palate during speech. This helps in directing the type of intervention which is the most appropriate.
Nasoendoscopy is a test to determine the motion of the soft palate, the back, and side walls of the throat, the back of the tongue, and the voice box during speech. This is done by passing a small tube through one nostril and into the throat. This scope ("Nasoendoscope") is connected to a light, which shines through the tube and into the throat. A camera is attached to the scope, and the study is recorded on a VCR for later review. The patient is asked to say several sounds, words and sentences in order to see how the muscles of the throat work. To allow the tube to pass without pain through the nose and into the throat, a numbing medication is given through a dropper and on a Q-tip. No shots or needles are ever used. The nasoendoscopy is done by the speech pathologist working with the plastic surgeon.
Nasometry is a test that measures the amount of air that comes out of the nose and the mouth while talking. This test helps find out if someone has too much or too little air coming out of the nose while talking. During the test, the patient wears a special hat that has a divider, which rests on the upper lip. The divider has two microphones, which measure the sound waves when talking. The sound waves are sent into a computer, which tests the signal. The computer then gives numbers which are used to figure out who much nasality your child has. No shots or needles are ever used. The nasometry is done by a speech pathologist.
This is a moving picture x-ray of the head and neck which focuses on the movement of the soft palate (the soft part of the roof of the mouth) and the back and side walls of the throat. VPI is done at some time before any surgery is planned to correct nasal speech problems. It is conducted in the Motts Children's Hospital Pediatric Radiology department by a speech pathologist and a radiologist (x-ray doctor). The patient is asked to make sounds, words, and sentences. The study is recorded on videotape. In order to see the palate, a liquid material called barium is put through the nose with a syringe (without the needle). No shots or needles are ever used.
There are no specific preparations necessary; however, your child should not eat for one hour before videofluoroscopy. These procedures are completed on an out-patient basis at the "Department of Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation" on the 2nd floor of Mott Children's Hospital. It may be helpful to explain the procedure to your child to alleviate anxiety or fear. Also, you can assure your child that there are no shots with this procedure.
Click here for information about how to care for your child after the surgery and what to expect during the recovery period. It is very important that you follow your surgeon's instructions. Also, it is important that you attend all follow-up appointments scheduled so that your speech pathologist and surgeon can assess your child's long-term results and answer any questions or concerns you may have.
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Editor's Note: Welcome back to our continuing series of the top ten posts/series in the history of DivorceMinistry4Kids.com. We are up to number three in our top ten countdown today.
One of our most popular series was titled "How to Pray For the Child of Divorce." It was a four part series that presented 100 ways to pray for and with the child of divorce. All four parts rank in out top 21 most popular posts with the first installment peeking at #5 which is good enough for #3 in this countdown. Here are the four installments in that series:


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The top runners from the 15-state Midwest Region competed and the top eight earned invitations to the national meet, to be held in Florida on Dec. 13. Only 32 boys and girls from the entire country advance to the nationals.
Crestwood High School senior Nathan McClintock finished ninth out of 324 runners in the boys race, won by Jorge Torres of Wheeling, Ill. (15:45.99). His time of 15:59.67 was recorded despite muddy and slick conditions. McClintock finished 18 positions higher than Sean Kelly of Wickliffe, who edged McClintock in the Ohio state meet.
McClintock, the Portage County League champion, is the first alternate and will run in the national meet if any of the top eight runners are unable to compete.
Also in the boys race, Kent Roosevelt senior and Western Reserve Conference champion David Kelly finished 59th with a time of 16:47.
On the girls side, Kent Roosevelt senior Suzanne Kelly finished 97th out of 377 runners with a time of 20:36.62. Two Crestwood runners also competed, as Jennifer Schmidt placed 109th (20:44.85) and Melanie Ziarko finished 167th (21:34.32).
Cristin Wurth of Bloomington, Ill., won the girls race in 18:27.94, while Jennifer Wollam of Alliance finished second.


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hey guys, ive just been watching to see EXACTLY what the braids look like on boba in ESB and paused it when vader is walking away (on the exicuter) for a good still. having just goten my braids from Obi sean kenobi. well to my suprize the braids seem to be entirly (exaduration) different that the reference photos. there looks to be 2 yellow braids and a white brade. now this might be common knolage hear, i dont know. but i thought ide throw this out for you guys to look at. its very very hard to notice unless yyour DVD player has a ZOOM so if you dont see it cause you dont got the Zoom thats probly it. im gunna try and take some screen shots for you guys. i should have them tommorow but tell me your findings untill then.
i dont see any black or brown braids eather but ill keep looking :)
wheew... lotta typing:D
EDIT>>>> update. lol only 5 seconds after posting. i got another still where ther definetly is 2 yellow braids (one big one small) 1 silver/grey braid (small) and a possible tiny (Thin) brown braid inder the big yellow. there looks to be a black or brown tie at the top of the sholder holding them together. there is another possible very tiny and short braid under the silver / grey braid.
again ill try to make a screen shot. thats if paint doent mess up again and make the whole picture a black block.:angry
this can be observed by pausing it the seccond befor vader steps in front of Fett blocking the veiw of the braids


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Udupi, April 19: With four more heads of cattle dying at Henberu hamlet in Paduvari Gram Panchayat limits near Byndoor in Udupi district on Wednesday, the number of dead cattle in the last seven days has touched 82.
Nagaraj Marvanthe, Veterinary Officer, Byndoor, said that two heads of cattle had died on Tuesday evening, while two more had died on Wednesday, taking the toll to 82.
Of the 19 ailing heads of cattle, 18 were showing good response, while one was suffering from hindquarter paralysis.
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Today's rain has already led to evacuations, and this is just the beginning. We get the latest forecast and update preparations for what could be a very wet week. On Martin Luther King Day, is "yesterday's dream today's reality?" We hear different opinions. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, President Obama has made a desperate effort to save one vote in the Senate, which could mean life or death for healthcare reform and the rest of his agenda. We hear about tomorrow's special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy.
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Francis Marion University will once again offer an SAT Academy to students who want to improve their scores.
The sessions will be led by Bill McKenzie, M.S., a full-time professional SAT tutor, a curriculum that is 100% test based. McKenzie teaches private lessons, presents in-school workshops and summer camps. He earned his Ed.D. from the University of Georgia in 1977 and has been involved with SAT training for more than 10 years.
Those who would like to attend can choose from session one scheduled for June 23-27 or the second session set for July 21-25.
Middle and high school students will gather on these days from 9 a.m. – noon in Lee Nursing Building's Thomason Auditorium on the campus at a cost of $149 for rising 7th and 8th graders and $199 for rising 9th-12th grade students.
The SAT Academy is offered to students who:
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 VIENNA - Central bankers meet in Vienna to discuss "Central Banking in Times of Change" (to Sept. 14). ECB governing council member Ewald Nowotny, Sveriges Riksbank Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley, Argentina central bank Governor Federico Sturzenegger, People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Gang Yi, Central Bank of Iceland Governor Mar Gudmundsson and De Nederlansche Bank President Klaas Knot to attend. WASHINGTON - Hoover Institute hosts "Elections, Policymaking, and Economic Uncertainty" panel. Former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan to attend - 2100 GMT. MILAN - Italy Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, Head of Public Debt Maria Cannata, top Treasury official Fabrizio Pagani speak at conference on Italy's economic outlook and banking system TRENTO, Italy - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi speaks in Trento, Italy - 0900 GMT. STRASBOURG, France - European Central Bank board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger speaks at the "Parliamentary Evening" organized by the Commissariat of German Bishops - 1800 GMT.
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Enquiring Minds: Your Side of The Bed [SURVEY]
Have you always slept on the same side of the bed?
Have you always slept on the same side of the bed?
Kids, I'm an adult. I keep telling myself this to remind me that I have certain expectations of adult life. I have to sweep the floor, I have to feed the cat, I have to pay my water bill, etc. I also have to go to bed at a decent time and get up and go to work.
I do manage most of the time to get to bed by 10:00 or 10:30, at the latest on weekdays. On weekends I might stay up and then sleep in, but mostly I try to be pretty regular on the sleepytimes. I'm experiencing a new situation that's throwing that off, however.


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Economy to be Obama's focus in State of the Union
By JULIE PACE
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will focus his State of the Union address on boosting job creation and economic growth at a time of high unemployment, underscoring the degree to which the economy could threaten his ability to pursue second-term priorities such as gun control, immigration policy and climate change.
Obama also may use Tuesday's prime-time address before a joint session of Congress to announce the next steps for concluding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Obama's State of the Union marks his second high-profile speech to the nation in about three weeks, after his inaugural address Jan. 21 that opened his second term. White House aides see the two speeches as complementary, with Tuesday's address aimed at providing specifics to back up some of the Inauguration Day's lofty liberal rhetoric.
The president previewed the address during a meeting Thursday with House Democrats and said he would speak "about making sure that we're focused on job creation here in the United States of America." Obama said he would try to accomplish that by calling for improvements in education, boosting clean energy production, and reducing the deficit in ways that don't burden the middle class, the poor or the elderly.
While those priorities may be cheered by some Democrats, they're certain to be met with skepticism or outright opposition from many congressional Republicans, especially in the GOP-controlled House. The parties are at odds over ways to reduce the deficit. Republicans favor spending cuts; Obama prefers a combination of spending cuts and increasing tax revenue.
The president said he would address taxes and looming across-the-board budget cuts, known as the sequester, in the speech. The White House and Congress have pushed back the automatic cuts once, and Obama wants to do it again in order to create an opening for a larger deficit reduction deal.
"I am prepared, eager and anxious to do a big deal, a big package that ends this governance by crisis where every two weeks or every two months or every six months we are threatening this hard-won recovery," he said last week.
The economy has rebounded significantly from the depths of the recession and has taken a back seat for Obama since he won re-election in November. He's instead focused on campaigns to overhaul the nation's patchwork immigration laws and enact stricter gun control measures following the massacre of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., in December.
The president also raised expectations for action this year on climate change after devoting a significant amount of time to the issue in his address at the inauguration.
But the unemployment rate is persistently high at 7.9 percent, economic growth slowed last quarter and consumer confidence is falling, so the economy could upend Obama's plans to pursue a broader domestic agenda in his final four years in office.
Tony Fratto, who worked in the White House during President George W. Bush's second term, said Obama has to show the public that he's still focused on the economy before he can get their full support for his other proposals.
"We're not in a position where he can blame anybody else for the economy now," Fratto said, "Now it's his economy."
Obama is expected to use his address to press lawmakers to back his immigration overhaul, which includes a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, and his gun control proposals, including universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.
Voting rights groups expect the president to call for changes that would make it easier for people to vote.
"I think it's important to be able to do more than one thing at a time," said David Axelrod, who served as senior adviser in the White House and Obama's re-election campaign. "But the economy is an ongoing and significant challenge that you have to keep working on."
While the centerpiece of Obama's address is expected to be his domestic agenda, the president sees a chance to outline the next steps in bringing the protracted war in Afghanistan to an end. He's facing two pressing decisions: the size and scope of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after the war formally ends late next year, and the next phase of the troop drawdown this year.
More than 60,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan.
The president could update the public on cuts to the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, a priority for his administration. Vice President Joe Biden recently told a security conference in Germany that Obama probably would use the State of the Union to discuss "advancing a comprehensive nuclear agenda to strengthen the nonproliferation regime, reduce global stockpiles and secure nuclear materials."
White House allies are nudging Obama's team to move forward on a plan to expand education for children before they enter kindergarten. They are reminding Obama's political aides that female voters gave the president a second term, serving up a 10-point gender gap.
Obama carried 55 percent of female voters, many of whom are looking to the White House for their reward. While groups such as Latinos and gays have seen policy initiatives since Election Day, women's groups have not received the same kinds of rollouts.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star and potential 2016 presidential candidate, will deliver the GOP response following Obama's address to Congress.
The president will follow up his speech with trips across the country to promote his calls for job creation. Stops are planned Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., and Thursday in Atlanta.
Obama's speechwriters started working on the speech shortly after the Nov. 6 election. The process is being led for the first time by Cody Keenan, who is taking over as the president's chief speechwriter.
Associated Press writers Philip Elliott, Robert Burns and Josh Lederman contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Youthful Neda Agha-Soltan became a symbol of the violence of the 2009 Iran protests when shocking footage of her dying moments reached millions on the Internet after the contested presidential election last year.
A new documentary, "For Neda," delves into the life and death of Neda showing first-time interviews with her family recorded inside Tehran. It airs this week on U.S. television channel HBO, one year after her death. The filmmakers hope it will play in France, Britain and other nations in the weeks and months to come.
"Her death, captured in that very graphic way, had enormous effect on people. She became, and quite rightly, the symbol of this movement," said the film's British director Antony Thomas. "She wasn't somebody who wanted political power or anything like that. She just wanted the freedom to be."
Neda, a 26 year-old music student, was shot on June 20 last year as protesters disputed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and clashed with government forces in Tehran.
A viral video of her death made its way to the Internet and reached millions of people who saw her eyes wide and surprised as blood poured from her mouth. It stirred protesters inside and outside of Iran, who claim she was an innocent victim.
Iranian authorities have said Neda was not shot by the type of bullet used by Iranian security forces, suggesting the incident was staged to blacken the image of the clerical establishment and stir political opposition.
But the movie debunks those claims and aims to portray Neda as a courageous young protester through interviews with her family and bystanders near Neda when she was shot.
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It's a book where, say, a woman might walk toward her lover for what looks like it will be a scene of tender reconciliation, and instead slashes his hand open with a hidden razor blade...after which the maid, of course, comes in quietly to wipe up the blood.
That's Port Mungo in a nutshell. Random acts of decorum are followed by random acts of mayhem, over and over again, and all of it is told to us by a narrator who knows how to deploy anadiplosis and antistrophe and aporia to their most effective degree--one sentence after another of rhetorical perfection, a narrative voice that makes the weirdness of the story itself all the more unsettling. It's a hermetically sealed story, perfectly told, where any relationship to a separate reality from the story is completely beside the point. It didn't teach me anything. It didn't strive for greater meaning. It was just a great read--complete and hysterical fun, made all the more fun by its glorious prose.
A thoroughly engaging work of fiction, ranging through the psychological struggles of becoming an artist, set in Europe, New York,and ultimately in British Honduras, and pressured by the dichotomy of family relationship of brother and sister. This is an inside look at what the artist deals with, even though the world may not value the results. What turns this novel into a wild ride is the passion and the pain, the matching of talent in a steamy, torrid love affair, and the realization, at the end, this may indeed be an unreliable narrator in the death that provides the binding thread. Absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down.
Patrick McGrath is master of the unreliable narrator. His skill is applied with precision and deliberation. Even though I know Gin is unreliable, her judgment and opinions to be taken with the mightiest grain of salt, he eventually lulls me into complacence. I fall under a spell of sorts and frame my perceptions to align with Gin's; no matter that I know better. And in the end, when McGrath pulls the curtain back to reveal the truth I knew was there all along, I'm still astonished. I also know and love McGrath's adept use of foreshadowing and I shouldn't be surprised by anything that happens, but yet I am.
This is my fifth McGrath novel and even though his style pervades, he manages to create widely diverse situations and characters. This time we have a couple of ill-fated lovers who indulge in a very 1950s style of bohemian living. Typical enough, but the circumstances are tilted and the narrator of their story definitely biased. She is willfully blind to her brother Jack's faults. She willfully scandalizes Vera, his lover and mother of his children. She willfully aggrandizes his art and his calling. He is the perfect father and brother at all times. Even his faults are made magnificent and part of his higher calling. We know this cannot be true, but still, McGrath makes it all seem so reasonable. So right.
The descriptions of life in the wretched Port Mungo are shrouded by the mists of time and distance. We weren't there. Our narrator wasn't either, but yet we find the expected truth of what we're told comforting. Of course Jack is an exile; he wants perfection and won't settle for anything less. Artistic credibility and integrity are noble pursuits indeed. Vera's abandonment of him and their daughters is almost on cue. We expect it and raise Jack even higher in our esteem in the face of her cowardice and selfishness.
But then the cracks appear. Why did Jack so easily let Anna, his surviving daughter, go to his proper, upstanding brother Gerald? This in the face of the zeal with which he persevered as Peg's father; his martyrly devotion to show up Vera's shortcomings so starkly. Why has his return to the New York art scene been so tepid and lackluster? Why has Vera continued to fall back into his life with such unexpected regularity? Why does Anna display behavior so contrary to her Sussex upbringing? The façade crumbles and reality is bathed in the full light of Vera's scorn and Gin's disbelief. Very well done and an intriguing, hypnotic tale. The Rathbone Curse indeed.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0747574154, Paperback)Throughout their privileged but highly eccentric childhood Jack Rathbone has enjoyed the constant adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend art school in London, Jack plunges into a passionate affair with Vera Savage, a painter some years his senior, and they soon run away to New York. From a bruised and bereft distance Gin follows their southward progress to Miami, then Havana, and so to Port Mungo, a wilting swamp town on the steamy Gulf of Honduras. There Jack devotes himself to his art, and works with a fervour as intense as the restless, boozy waywardness to which Vera succumbs, which even the birth of two daughters cannot subdue. As the tension builds, a tragedy occurs that will tear apart not only their world but that of Jack's watchful sister, Gin.
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By Paul Gardner
Now that the Galaxy (or as it's far too often defined, "David Beckham's Galaxy") has won MLS Cup, we can settle down to have a bit of a ponder about its manner of claiming the title. Beckham has had his say, "We were incredible" is his modest opinion.
Were they? Are they worthy champions? Frankly, no. Worthy winners of the final, yes, that for sure. But to maintain that the Galaxy was "the best" team in MLS takes some doing. Statistically, of course they were the best, and there will be those who believe -- with some reason -- that that's all that matters.
I don't think so. And I particularly don't think so in MLS. This is a league that is trying to sell the sport of soccer to the vast American sporting public. The style of the Galaxy -- basically cautious and boring -- is not going to help that aim at all. Quite the opposite.
One slightly-more-than-superficial look at the Galaxy's super-stats reveals a gaping hole in their splendor. The Galaxy won 23 of its 38 regular-season and playoff games; 11 of those 23 wins, just about half of them, came by 1-0 scorelines. That was the Galaxy logo: 1-0. I watched most, if not all, of those games and if I don't recall much about them (and I don't), it's because they were such downright ordinary games.
That ability to throttle the soccer-life out of a game and render up a dead 1-0 carcass after 90 minutes of huffing, puffing and nothing was the Galaxy trademark. It got them into the final, a feat that meant we were doomed to another 90 minute dose of pallid soccer. Which is exactly what we got, ending -- of course -- with the obligatory 1-0 win for the Galaxy.
Is that what Beckham calls incredible? Well, in a way it is exactly that -- it is incredible that a team with the most expensive attacking talent in the league could manage only three shots on goal and just one goal. Luckily for the Galaxy, the Dynamo outdid them on ineptitude front, having only one shot on goal.
Here we have the great MLS moment, the climax to its season, a prime-time national telecast -- a game that has even positioned itself exactly as the MLS marketeers wanted, with the Galaxy playing before a sellout crowd in its own stadium -- and what do we get?
We got something that tells you just how corrosive the influence of the marketing crowd can be. They, of course, were mightily pleased because their icon, their most marketable asset, the icon that is Beckham, had come through, and "Beckham's Galaxy" had triumphed.
So, if the future of MLS is to be about nothing more than marketing celebrities, then Sunday November 20, 2011 marked a massive achievement. It certainly gave us an occasion on which it was apparently OK to ignore the sport itself and focus on the gaudy, glitzy and garish irrelevancies that have hovered around Beckham ever since he descended on us five seasons ago.
Beckham can hardly be blamed for becoming much more important to the salesmen than to the soccer fans. But he does share part of the blame for failing, throughout his time with the Galaxy, to display any convincing devotion to the team. The distractions, the wish to be doing something else, to be playing somewhere else, have been constant.
This year, for the first time the Galaxy did manage to secure his full attention, and they now have (after five years!) their championship. They also have a Beckham who is now making it brutally plain that he feels no particular loyalty to the club. He will now sit back and work out what other offers he might want to take up, what seems more interesting, or more beneficial to his image, or more rewarding.
Whether Beckham returns or not, MLS had better shake some sense into itself and get back to being a purveyor of soccer -- of first class soccer. It will not accomplish Commissioner Don Garber's exalted aim of becoming one of the top leagues in the world if it concentrates on the marketing of celebrities.
Not least because Beckham is very much one of a kind -- there is no comparable soccer celebrity with his charisma. When Beckham departs, the idea of selling soccer (i.e. MLS) as a subsidiary to a line of sexy underwear will depart with him.
Then MLS will have to rely on the sport itself -- and in that respect, the Galaxy, vintage 2011, is of no help whatever. A team loaded with all that talent should be playing with brio , even a swagger that exudes confidence and superiority.
Instead, Bruce Arena (never before known as a cautious coach) gave us those 11 1-0 wins -- most of them, the final being an example, wins that revealed a team struggling to impose itself. That Galaxy fans will be quite satisfied with a whole season consisting only of 1-0 wins, goes without saying. But watching them is not much fun for anyone else.
The final, to return to the stats, featured just three goalkeeper saves (allow me, for a moment, to indulge in the wishful thinking that this game would have featured at least three more goals had it been played without its barely necessary goalkeepers.) A miserable total of three saves is a measure of the lack of goalmouth activity -- a measure of the lack of excitement.
The goal, when it came, was a beauty, but it was hardly enough to reclaim this game from the mediocrity into which it had sunk. Before that, with its long periods of aimless torpor, the game had barely risen above the ordinary.
And ordinary soccer is not going to turn MLS into a league to match its "Major" claim -- either worldwide, or even within the USA. And certainly not in the race for TV ratings which, for this game, were embarrassing. Those low ratings contain the warning.
That MLS needs its marketeers I do not doubt. But MLS should be creating a sellable product. It should be producing a lively, exciting style of soccer that those guys can sell.
The Beckham years have distorted the hierarchy. We've had the marketeers taking over, telling MLS that the important thing is the selling of a celebrity, and let the soccer take care of itself. If Beckham sails off into the sunset, MLS can stop chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of celebrity marketing, and get back to what it should be doing, must be doing: making its soccer more attractive.


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The Elegance of Quantum Mechanics by George W. Bush.
How to Dress Conservatively by Britney Spears.
I ♥ the Discovery Institute by PZ Myers.
It doesn't make sense for certain people to be promoting certain ideas.
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The Elegance of Quantum Mechanics by George W. Bush.
How to Dress Conservatively by Britney Spears.
I ♥ the Discovery Institute by PZ Myers.
It doesn't make sense for certain people to be promoting certain ideas.
(Thanks to Kurt for the link!)
Oh, I dunno: it makes sense in a cautionary tale sort of way…."Don't do this, or you'll wind up like me!"
It's actually perfectly consistent with the idea that a woman's purpose is to have lots and lots of babies. The logic goes like this:
1) If you don't want to have babies, then abstain from sex,
2) If you want to have sex, then your responsibility is to have babies,
3) Disregard the first two rules if you are not a woman.
Oh god, for a second I was terrified that was an actual book, and that my blog followers would want me to review it. I'm relieved.
"Asked how she squared her own experiences with her new campaign, she added, "I'm not quite sure""
Aka, my mommy told me to do it. *throws up a little*
That's like a topsy-turvy universe's best seller's list! Very funny, and thank's for the credit!
Nobody knows like Bristol that abstinence would have worked. Now we just need for her to tell us how to abstain.
Irony is best served over a plate of hypocrisy.
As for Eamon's comment, I agree that it may be spun into a "don't do this, I regret it" type of message, but that's not the message that was presented during the campaign. Thus, the hypocritical slant on all of this.
Teenage girls from disadvantaged backgrounds will see the photo and video of Bristol holding her cute little cuddly baby lovingly on her lap and will think to themselves how great it would be to have a baby to love and receive love from. I mean she makes it look so easy!
So I guess I AM perfectly qualified to apply to be a Baptist missionary!
It seems that the "abstinence only" meme is how she ended up where she is. She ought to be promoting birth control instead.
This is just her mom telling her to do this, I'm 99% sure that she doesn't personally believe this. This is also another testament in the book of Sarah Palin failing
It seems that the "abstinence only" meme is how she ended up where she is. She ought to be promoting birth control instead.
Yeah. I read somewhere that Ms. Palin and her boyfriend used birth control sporadically, but not regularly.
I, on the other hand, have never failed to use a condom and I have never gotten pregnant (knock on wood). Birth Control FTW!
The point is that many conservatives want young girls to get pregnant. It's God's Will™
Do as I say, not as I do.
I was really hoping she would say "If you absolutely have to have sex before marriage please remember that there is always a backdoor the temple."
Jennifurret and Sean,
I was thinking much the same thing. It's easy to imagine Sarah telling her this is how it's going to go, or we're not helping to support you and your bastard.
Bristol (next day): "Abstinence is good"
It seems that the "abstinence only" meme is how she ended up where she is.
This is where Dr. Phil provides us the perfect rejoinder:
"So tell me, how's this working out for you so far?"
I agree Jennifurret, Sean,
I think this is another case of a parent using her kid to promote her own agenda.
You know, if McCain and Sarah had won, Sarah would have forced her daughter to marry that guy. Can't prove it, but I bet she would have.
I was ready, going into that article, to perhaps read something about how she's learned from her experience, etc. but she lost me completely when she described abstinence as the only "foolproof" way to avoid pregnancy.
At which point: LOL
You, the one person who is going to be the most difficult to convince with this is her son. When he's old enough to have sex, there's no way he's going to take her 'abstinence' advice seriously. Unless she wants to admit that she regrets having him or something, which I'm pretty sure she won't.
Ha Thats like the Pope trying to teach people how to use condoms. Or Fred Phelps teaching tolerance.
She is just a girl who got pregnant. It happens. It's not a character flaw or anything. She can preach abstinence if she wants to.
Although George W. Bush writing about the Elegance of Quantum Mechanics… that I can't see at all!
I am a born-again Christian and I absolutely love your site. It pushes me to think of logical and rational ways to justify my faith. God (Yes, Virginia there is a God) created our ability to be reasonable and therefore is probably chuckling a bit about the people seeing things in chairs and sausage. Love your work!
Why are the Palins still in the news anyway?
Is that a grown up way of saying "OMG! Having babies is really sore, you know! Like Ouch to the millionth. And then all they do is cry, and puke and crap on everything. It's a major bummer. Sex is so not worth it."
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Ben Bernanke to be nominated by President Obama for second term as Federal Reserve Chief
Chairman Bernanke has done an excellent job navigating this deflationary crisis. His 60 Minutes interview in March assured investors he had a workable plan and provided the financial leadership the country had been missing over the prior 6 months. His re-appointment should assure investors that the Federal Reserve's current strategy and exit plan will not be "tinkered" with by new leadership. This is another in a series of recent positive economic and market developments that should encourage investors to embrace the multiple viable investment themes that remain in the market.


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This problem is quite similar to a moving average, but it has two differences, which I am struggling to overcome. It is applicable to a heterogeneous time series with dependent x and y values, i.e., {time, x, y}, where the temporal variations in x and y are of interest.
1) It would be preferable to have a sliding window based on a time interval rather than the number of data, e.g., 0.5 s, 5 min., 50 years, etc.
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(Uptown Charlotte, NC) - Partial season ticket plans are now available for all fans interested in purchasing multiple tickets to the inaugural season at BB&T Ballpark. For just $288, or just $16 per game, fans can choose from four exciting 18-game partial ticket plans. Each plan features a field box seat to one premium game, as well as a balance of weekday/weekend games, and promotional nights.
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(MA, 99 minutes.) Opens Thursday.
Lauded at home for his immaculate yet brutal horrors, South Korea's Chan-wook Park opts to channel the more sophisticated airs of Alfred Hitchcock for this, his English-language feature debut.
Working off an impressive script from actor Wentworth Miller (who initially penned it under the pseudonym Ted Foulke to avoid industry prejudice), Chan-wook and his regular director of photography, Chung-hoon Chung, keep us riveted throughout, trapped within the confines of the large, stately home in which lonely widow Evie (Nicole Kidman) and her gothic 18-year-old daughter, India (Mia Wasikowska), reside following the untimely passing of Evie's husband (Dermot Mulroney).
At the funeral, Evie's brother-in-law, Charlie (Matthew Goode), suddenly appears. Evie enjoys the attention, with flirting aplenty. A sullen, withdrawn India suspects there is something not quite right about her new-found uncle. Only Gwendolyn (Jacki Weaver) appears to know the truth - or does she? Nothing is quite as it seems: there are fantasy sequences that blur reality with fantasy.
Goode, looking perfectly splendid in various designer threads, proves a wonderfully menacing presence throughout, both for Evie (Kidman is also on top form) and India (easily Wasikowska's finest onscreen turn yet). It is the absolute antithesis of the vulnerable, troubled character Goode played to great effect in Jonathan Teplitzky's Burning Man.
The nods to Hitchcock - specifically Shadow of a Doubt - are laid out unashamedly for all to see. There is a sense of claustrophobia within the house itself. Both films share a seedy, malevolent figure in the form of one Uncle Charlie. Joseph Cotten, though, would surely tip his hat in Goode's direction, for the latter is even more terrifying than his predecessor, with an unhinged nature that's almost impossible to pin down.
Curiously, Colin Firth, Jodie Foster and Carey Mulligan were at different stages all attached to the film, which Chan-wook directed using an interpreter. I'm not sure it would have radically altered the tone of the film had one or all of them signed on, but I'm very glad they didn't. Chan-wook's cast - effectively all Aussies with an English import who is popular on our shores - work incredibly well with the material. Wasikowska, especially, rises to the challenge, giving us a far darker persona than we've seen from her before (which is saying something). The results are superb.


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