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May 1, 2012 4:13:29 PM
Stanley: It's Time for Your Brand to Shine!
The calendar says it's May, so it's time to announce our new Brand of the Month. We're very happy to be putting Stanley Underwater Hydraulic Tools, and our huge assortment of underwater hydraulic tools, parts and accessories, in the spotlight for the entire month
One lucky winner is going to walk away with a DeWALT Heavy Duty Cordless 4-Tool Combo Kit that includes a DCD985 Hammer Drill, a DCS381 Reciprocating Saw, a DCS393 Circular Saw, a DCL040 LED Work Light, (2) 20V Battery Packs, Carbide Tipped Blade, and a Contractor's Bag (a $499 value). Anyone who purchases a Stanley product through the Amron website is automatically entered into the giveaway. Enter promo code "STANLEY01" during your checkout.
Amron is the largest distributor of Stanley Underwater products, which is great news for every commercial diving company out there. You never know when you're going to need a new tool, a replacement part, or an accessory that's going to be essential to completing a job.
Because we hold such a large inventory of stock on hand, if you need it, we've probably got it, and we can get it to you fast so your work can go on without a hitch.
Throughout the month, we'll be highlighting a few of Stanley's products. And you never know, they just might be the product that's perfect for your operation.
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1 ejected in rollover accident on I-10Posted: Updated:
A single-car rollover accident shutdown I-10 eastbound at 35th Avenue Monday afternoon.
An SUV carrying two adults and seven children blew a tire around 3 p.m., causing the vehicle to swerve into the median and rollover, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Several passengers were ejected from the SUV when it rolled, including the female driver who suffered from possible lift-threatening injuries, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. It is unclear if the other adult in the car was injured.
The seven children in the SUV range in ages between 3 to 7. Three of the children were taken to valley hospitals with serious injuries; the other four children only had minor injuries, according to DPS.
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AZ women seek own '50 Shades' experience onlinePosted: Updated:
You've probably heard by now that the book 50 Shades of Grey has turned into a phenomenon. Well it turns out there are a whole lot of Valley women heading to one website, looking for their very own novel experience.
Whether you love it or hate it, the too-hot-for-TV scenes in 50 Shades of Grey are no longer staying within the pages.
"It's good for us, that it's such a steamy hot seller," said Kevin Vendegna, who works at Half Price Books in Phoenix.
"I couldn't even finish it," said shopper Tori Russell.
Women are turning to websites like seekingarrangement.com to find a pseudo-relationship fit for a novel.
"I guess it's all about power, control and sex at the end of the day," said Brandon Wade, the CEO of the site. He said once the book burst onto the scene, the traffic on their site skyrocketed. Wade said 4,484 women from Phoenix alone have signed up hoping to add some color to their love lives.
"That's actually a very popular area for seeking arrangement, primarily because it's a city, and of course there's a lot of colleges, and also a lot of wealthy people there," Wade said of Phoenix. But considering the very compromising positions the book's protagonist finds herself in, how can you be safe? While Wade says the website takes some precautions, like background checks, it's up to you to know what you're getting into.
"The terms of the arrangement are usually negotiated up front," he said. But remember - sometimes real life can be stranger than fiction.
"A woman might think she's looking for something specific until she's faced with the situation and she might find out she doesn't want it anymore," Russell said.
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When you leave school (or drop below half-time), the federal government asks us to review certain basic information with you about your federal student loans. You must repay your student loan, even if you do not graduate, or if you are dissatisfied with your academic program at USU. You must start repaying your loan when you leave school or drop below half-time (six credit hours for undergraduate and graduate students). Now that you are paying back your student loan, managing your finances is even more important than when you were a student. More information about budgeting and financial literacy.
What are my responsibilities concerning my student loans?
As a borrower, you are required to:
- Repay your loan according to the repayment schedule.
- Notify your loan servicer within ten days when you graduate, withdraw from any school, drop below half-time, transfer to another school, change your name or social security number.
- Notify your loan servicer of anything that affects your ability to repay or your eligibility for deferment or cancellation.
- Notify your loan servicer if you fail to enroll for the period covered by the loan.
- Notify the school and the loan servicer of a change in address.
- Complete exit loan counseling before leaving school:
Direct Loan Exit Counseling.
Perkins Loan Exit Counseling.
Who is my loan servicer?
You can find out who is servicing your loans by logging into www.nslds.ed.gov with your FAFSA pin number. Click on "financial aid review" to get started. If more than one agency is servicing your loan you will need to work with each them individually.
How much is it going to cost to pay it all back?
Even though student loans have relatively low minimum payments, your payments will be determined by the amount you borrowed. The average Stafford loan for graduating seniors at Utah State University is currently $9,000 to $17,501. Assuming 6.8% interest, the corresponding monthly payment would be approximately $104 to $201 for ten years. Your loan servicer will tell you the amount of your payment.
What are my options if I have difficulty making payments?
Your first option is to apply for a deferment. Deferment is a period when the payment on your principle is postponed. Interest continues to accrue during periods of deferment, however, if you have a subsidized Stafford loan, the government will make those interest payments for you. Borrowers of unsubsidized loans must make the interest payments or they will be capitalized (added to the principle amount that you owe). Generally, students in school at least half-time are eligible for deferment. There are other conditions such as hardship and public service that merit deferment. Normally you must repay your student loan within ten years; deferment periods are not included in that ten-year period. Check with your loan servicer to see if you are eligible for deferment.
Your second option is to apply for forbearance. Forbearance is the temporary stopping of payments, the making of smaller payments, or an extension of time for making payments. Interest on your loan continues to accrue during periods of forbearance. Forbearance is usually granted at the discretion of the loan servicer. Check with them first. If they say no, try contacting your guaranty agency. All these institutions are eager to help you stay out of default and will try their best to help. More information on deferment and forbearance.
Student Loan Forgiveness, Cancellation, or Discharge
In some cases, your loan can be forgiven. This means that neither you, your family, nor a cosigner would have to pay back the loan. In the case of a permanent and total disability or death of the borrower, student loans are cancelled. The Army and National Guard also offer loan repayment programs, which repay a portion of your loan for every year in service. More information on loan forgiveness, cancellation, and discharge.
Repayment Plans
When it comes time to start repaying your student loan(s), you can select a repayment plan that's right for your financial situation. Generally, you'll have from 10 to 25 years to repay your loan, depending on which repayment plan you choose. More information on repayment options.
What is Loan Consolidation?
If you are making payments on federal loans from more than one servicer or from different loan programs, you can combine all your loans into one new loan. This will make your life a little easier since you will only have one payment to make, and it might make it possible to spread your payment over a longer period of time. However, the interest rate may be slightly higher than your original loan, and stretching out the payments means paying more interest over the life of the loan. More information on consolidation.
What are my rights as a borrower?
As a borrower, you have the right to:
- Before repayment begins, information on interest rates, fees, the balance owed on loans, and a loan repayment schedule; (check with you loan servicer about when you can expect this information).
- Written information on loan obligations, including loan consolidation and refinancing, and information on borrower rights and responsibilities.
- A copy of the promissory note and the return of the original note when you pay the loan in full.
- Notification if your loan has been sold or transferred to a new holder or servicer.
- Prepayment of the loan without penalty.
If you qualify, you also have the right to:
- Federal interest subsidies (subsidized Stafford and Perkins loans).
- A grace period.
- Deferment under certain conditions.
- Request forbearance (the loan servicer has the discretion to grant or deny forbearance).
- You may also qualify for some tax benefits.
What records do I need to keep? Your promissory note (and other papers).
In addition to your promissory notes, you should also keep copies of your disclosure statement, deferment and forbearance requests, and records of any payments, discussion or correspondence you have with your loan servicer concerning your loan. There are several different organizations involved with your loan including the Financial Aid Office and your loan servicer and they can make mistakes. But even if they make mistakes, the legal responsibility for repaying your loan is yours. Keep accurate records so you can make sure everything is right.
Student Loan Ombudsman
The Ombudsman Group is a neutral, informal, and confidential resource to help resolve disputes about your federal student loans. Before contacting the Ombudsman Group, be sure to follow our recommendations to resolve problems with your student loan yourself. If you have tried to resolve the problems with your loan but haven't been able to, get prepared before seeking the Ombudsman Group's help.
Contact information for Student Loan Ombudsman Group:
online: https://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/disputes/prepare
Phone: (877) 557-2575
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BMC Racing Team's Taylor Phinney won the BMC Racing Team's second race of the season Wednesday while teammate Stephen Cummings was runner-up in the individual time trial that began the Dubai Tour.
Among The Early Starters
Phinney powered his BMC timemachine TMR01 to a time of 12 minutes and three seconds on the 10.1-kilometer out-and-back course. That was 14 seconds faster than Cummings and 16 seconds better than Lasse Norman Hansen (Garmin-Sharp), who was third. Phinney said he asked Sport Director Max Sciandri to be one of the team's early starters among the 127 competitors in the inaugural edition of the race. "I felt really good. I felt really strong," he said. "It was kind of a fight on the way back going into a headwind. We made the tactical decision to start earlier because most of the wind reports showed the wind going up through the day." The past U.S. national time trial champion said he only braked twice: once for the U-turn at the midway point and once at a U-turn near the finish. The rest of the time he spent crouched low, with his forearms resting on his 3T handlebars. In addition to Phinney and Cummings, BMC Racing Team newcomer Peter Velits also finished in the top 10. The reigning Slovakian national time trial champion was 37 seconds off the winning time.
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Cummings said he was not too disappointed to have been beaten by his own teammate. "I tried my best, but I think Taylor did an exceptional ride," he said. "He was strong. It is a great start for this team. Everyone was strong though, not just the two of us. Like Yannick (Eijssen). He weighs about 60 kilos and he was 16th. It's incredible." The victory was Phinney's first in a time trial since capturing the final stage of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge. Last month, the past Under 23 world time trial champion was runner-up in the Stage 5 time trial at the Tour de San Luis. Phinney compared this winning effort to his solo victory on Stage 4 at the Tour de Pologne when he outwitted the sprinters by attacking with 7.7 km to go. "I put out the power that I wanted to put out," he said. "It was really a lot of watts and very strong. I felt fine. It was really one of those courses where it was over before you know it." The BMC Racing Team's first win of the season came last month when Cadel Evans soloed to Stage 3 at the Santos Tour Down Under.
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Mirror Stage's FEED YOUR MIND Reading Series to Return with IN THE BOOK OF , 2/9-10
Mirror Stage continues its popular Feed Your Mind staged reading series with the West Coast premiere of In the Book Of... by award-winning playwright John Walch at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre on February 9 and 10, 2013. Directed by Suzanne M. Cohen, Feed Your Mind: In the Book Of... features Trick Danneker (Bo Jr.), Duygu Erdo?an (Anisah), Tracy Michelle Hughes (Naomi), Jason Marr (Eddie), Michael Patten (Bo Sr.) and Amy Thone (Gail).
War, immigration, and their political and personal impact take center stage in this powerful West Coast premiere by John Walch. Two women-Naomi, an African-American Army lieutenant, and Anisah, her Afghan translator-lose their husbands in the war. Upon discharge, Naomi uses forged documents to save Anisah from imminent danger by bringing her home to Mississippi. But does Naomi's act of kindness kindle a new war on the home front? Family, friendship, faith and the American Way are all tested in this funny, touching and timeless story adapted from the Old Testament's Book of Ruth.
Mirror Stage's innovative Feed Your Mind series of staged readings examines topical issues from different perspectives. The plays are presented simply: no costumes or sets-just the actors and the text. Following every performance, a moderated discussion with the audience and artists further explores the issues raised in more depth.
John Walch's plays include In The Book Of..., Tea-Totaled, The Dinosaur Within, Circumference of a Squirrel, The Nature of Mutation, Jesting with Edged Tools, Craving Gravy or Love in the Time of Cannibalism, Alice Threw the Looking Glass (a parody of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style), Iraq: A Love Story, as well as numerous one acts, collaborations, and shorts. His plays have been produced at theaters such as Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Barter Theatre, Theatre @ Boston Court, Kitchen Dog, New Jersey Rep, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages. Awards include the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborn Award; the Frederick Loewe Award, the Charlotte Woolard Award, the Marc Klein Playwriting Award; and three Austin Critics Table Awards. John was a James Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his MFA in Playwriting. He lives in Brooklyn, and is a resident playwright of New Dramatists.
The Ethnic Cultural Theatre is located at 3940 Brooklyn Ave NE in Seattle. Performances will be Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm. Saturday admission is $10, and Sunday admission is $8. Half-price tickets are available for Senior Citizens and students, and every performance has 10 Pay-What-You-Can rush tickets ($1 minimum) for purchase at the door. Free parking is available in University of Washington's lot W12, located at just south of the Ethnic Cultural Theater on Brooklyn Ave NE. For more information, visit www.mirrorstage.org/inthebookof.
Originally founded in 1991, Mirror Stage is a small professional theatre company reflecting the diversity of the community on stage in high quality, progressive, thought-provoking productions that play it smart without always playing it safe. The mission of Mirror Stage is to use the power of theatre to challenge assumptions, bias and prejudice, while encouraging more thoughtful reflection on today's issues. We nurture unique artistic voices while providing opportunities for newly emerging artists to work alongside more seasoned professionals. More at www.mirrorstage.org.


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HOUSTON - A 58-year-old Spring woman says was working and driving the same route she has for two years when she was ambushed and robbed.
Brenda Beane delivers medical supplies to pharmacies in the Spring Branch area, where she was carjacked Tuesday.
"Never thought something like this would have happened," said Beane.
Beane said she was driving along Long Point Road when two men in a dark gray Chevy Suburban twice hit her car from behind. She pulled over and was about to get out and investigate when things got scary.
"He asked me if I was okay. I said, 'Yes.' The next thing I know, I couldn't see anything because he was spraying me," she said.
Beane said the man shot pepper-spray into her eyes, forced her to the ground, got behind the wheel of her work vehicle and took off.
Beane usually delivers supplies such as latex gloves and band-aids, but on this particular day, she had medication and some narcotics in her car.
"I had just delivered to one pharmacy and I just figured they followed me from that pharmacy," said Beane.
The two robbers got away and haven't been caught yet.
One stayed in the Suburban and he other drove off in Beane's car, the victim said.
Beane said she wasn't able to get a detailed description of the robbers, but said the suspect's dark gray Chevy Suburban had a paper license plate.
Houston police are investigating.
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So, this is my first post --- I read another blogger's post and figured that making a top ten list would be an easy and good place to start.
I am not going way back before my life. I was born in 1984, so all of these selections basically come from 1990-today. I've been a wrestling fan since I was a kid...
10. Sting
WCW and TNA are lucky to have a guy like Sting represent
Updated 05-16-2013 at 09:19 PM by ColoradoDude
The Booking Challenge is back. 1x a month series was created for fun and to hear other fans dream cards. How would they book this event. Not how it is actually going to be booked. You can use the matches that are already announced for the ppv, but I want to do some things differently. This ppv is in Boston. Time for something memorable instead of every single year Sting gets to challenge the world
I felt that my last blog was lack-luster so descided to update my blog series of "How wrestling could be" by discussing how WWE could turn Kofi Kingston heel
Kofi Kingston is a superstar with almost unmatchable athletic abilities, a good move set and a killer finishing maneuver. He has the ability to create magical moments such as innovative ways to stay in the Royal Rumble
It's that time of the year. The only time of the year where every WWE superstar gets extreme. To be honest, this PPV is looking a lot better than WrestleMania and that is no exaggeration. While this past week's Monday Night RAW, with the exception of The Shield match and the Triple H/Lesnar segment, was uttlerly atrocious, this PPV has a lot of potential. We have a Steel Cage match, an I Quit Match,
Oh boy...am I waving the naughty finger. An overall very unspectacular RAW to talk about, but first thing first...and oh boy, am I pissed.
The Double Standard
So, last week on an episode of Impact Wrestling, Christy Hemme did the ultimate evil. She made a mistake while announcing. As discipline, Austin Aries got up on the turnbuckle, sticking his crotch just inches from
Updated 05-16-2013 at 10:50 PM by wil2197
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Welcome to #1 of my "How wrestling could be" blogs, today i will be discussing how Lesnar vs. HHH could be booked as opposed to do the direction they have currently taken.
One thing is for certain when we look at the feud between Triple H and Brock Lesnar. It has not lived up to the hype the WWE had hoped it would. I have read continuous comments throughout the IWC and there
Updated 05-15-2013 at 06:35 PM by DWO
Hey everyone. I am back with another opinion of mine. Not a new edition, its just that with Dolph Ziggler's concussion, preventing him from defending the World Heavyweight Title and with more matches added, I thought I would give you updated predictions for Extreme Rules in a few days. I hope you all like.
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Hi their this is my first time at writing a blog,so i thought i would go with some thing easy, so please go easy on me. This is my persnal top 10 wrestlers throughout my eras late 80s up till now, this will include tag teams.
10. Adam Bomb. This guy was amazing to watch, but never really given the push he deserved in wwf/e, and only got the push in wcw as part of the tag team kronick.
Lately, it is becoming more and more difficult to find a reason to look forward to Raw. This isn't going to be one of THOSE blogs; tearing into the WWE product and telling you all that creative is to blame for the (supposed) lack of character development and 'poor' storytelling. At the end of the day I am a WWE fan and I, like everyone else, watch the product for my own personal reasons.
Welcome to my Monday Night Raw Hits and Misses blog. You will see me give an overall score of tonight's Raw, what the hits of the show were and what the misses were as well. Please remember these are just my opinions and how I viewed tonight's Raw as a fan who has watched Raw weekly for a very long time.
Overall Score: 5.0
World Title Picture: I'm very happy
Updated 05-13-2013 at 11:32 PM by Anthony_Eckman
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A study surveying people practicing raw vegan diets of varying intensities found that 30% of the women under age 45 had partial to complete amenorrhoea and that "subjects eating high amounts of raw food (> 90%) were affected more frequently than moderate raw food dieters". The study concluded that since many raw food dieters were underweight and exhibited amenorrhoea "a very strict raw food diet cannot be recommended on a long-term basis"
tahariel wrote:@Viscid any obsession is not good, so if you from the beginning give this label to people who consciously and freely choose what they eat is not fair.
tahariel wrote:I have some experience with vegan, vegetarian and raw diet. What I can recommend is vegan diet. I have never been for long period (more than 6 weeks) on raw diet but for me from time to time it is very good.
@Viscid any obsession is not good, so if you from the beginning give this label to people who consciously and freely choose what they eat is not fair.
Suffering is asking from life what it can never give you.
mindfulness, bliss and beyond (page 8) wrote:Do not linger on the past. Do not keep carrying around coffins full of dead moments
Ytrog wrote:I heard/read somewhere (could be radio or a science news site, don't know anymore) that scientists suspect that eating cooked food allowed humans to develop the brains we have today. Cooked food is easier to digest than raw food, so more energy could go to the brains instead of digesting the food. This resulted in more brain growth.
Maybe this is something to think about when you're pondering eating raw food. There was an evolutionary advantage in prehistoric times for people who ate cooked food. There is a reason that fire was so important for survival other than keeping you warm.
Late_Lotus wrote:Just TWO days! Even just ONE day, and I began feeling a change. I'm going to research more, but I think it's safe to say I will be following this simple way of eating. I suggest you try it!
meindzai wrote:But for the most part it's expensive, unrealistic, extreme, and alienating.
On the subject of alienation, the internet forums no better represent raw food people then they represent Buddhists, probably, so the following is a bit of an unfair judgement. I spent time on some raw food forums and I found most of the adherents there to be uber left-wing (that's a lot coming from a Buddhist, you know) paranoid and alarmist.
Expensive: In order to get the calories needed on a daily basis from raw foods alone you need to eat a lot of them. $20 to $30 a day is not unusual for raw food.
Vegan/vegetarianism is ok - still somewhat extreme for me. But the most moderate bet is Michal Pollan's advice which you indicated above "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
PeterB wrote:In my absolutist way I may have got the wrong end of the stick, but I rather thought that part of the raw food agenda was the pursuit of alienation.
Certainly those patients I have had referred to me who very early on declare themselves to be raw food devotees are among the most angry people I have ever met. Usually its a good way to worry mum/mom. Its a prolonged revenge for being born.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants the state to spend millions to bolster its efforts to prevent child abuse.
Scott will announce Tuesday that he wants to hire additional child protection investigators. The governor will also push for extra funding to allow for two-person teams to handle cases involving children the most at risk of abuse.
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Many people have mixed feelings about this time of year. I think it's because the festive season is never just one upbeat note. It's never only happy, only loving, only blazing fires and cherub-cheeked children. The holidays, like life itself, are equally miserable and joyful, filled with both light and shadow. The problem is that we often forget the bad stuff. We forget that last year's family gathering was a semidisaster and believe that this year will be different. We get our hopes up. We enter the holidays with unrealistic expectations of how it's going to be and when it doesn't turn out that way, we often use food to comfort ourselves.
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For many years, I led 1-day holiday overeating workshops, listening to people talk about their fears and their joys during the season. I heard what triggered their descent into bingeing and what helped them out of it. Of course, these stories weren't really about food but about how we use it to temporarily help ourselves cope. After the food is gone, whatever causes holiday overeating is still there. Food is only pleasurable, only delicious, only satisfying when you are hungry. In every other situation, something besides eating will comfort you and give you peace.
Here are four holiday overeating triggers with strategies for surviving with your sanity—and waistline—intact.
THE TRIGGER: Going home makes you act like a child.
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Every time Zoe walks in the door of her mother's house, she stops being an adult and feels about 3 feet tall. "I'm a grown woman, happily married, yet after spending 5 minutes with my older brothers and parents, I feel like the dumb little girl with big buckteeth who always gets left out," Zoe told me. "Then I mindlessly eat anything I can get my hands on. Which is, unfortunately, a lot."
No matter how old you are, your relationships with your parents and siblings may seem like they're set in stone. You're always the nerdy one or the little sister or the "problem child." One way we deal with this is to try to tune out. Or we revert to childhood behaviors or indulge in adult comforts such as holiday overeating. Here are 3 strategies:
1. Remind yourself that you're an adult. At your parents' house, bring along photos, letters, anything that reinforces your connection with your grown-up self. I suggested that Zoe bring a gift from a friend so she could have a concrete, physical object to look at when she felt she was regressing.
2. Spend time alone with your husband or a friend.
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Go for a walk or a drive. Sneak into a quiet room and shut the door—but do it with someone from your adult life. This will help keep you grounded in the present.
3. BYO fresh vegetables. Moms love to have our favorites waiting for us when we arrive home. In Zoe's case, that means piles of cookies, cakes, her mom's special vanilla fudge, and no vegetables—unless you count sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I recommended that she bring her own healthy foods with her. It isn't easy, but by having a plan and following through with it, you can stay securely in the present and avoid sliding into old patterns and old ways of eating.
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THE TRIGGER: You feel vulnerable about your size.
Joan dreaded her family's Christmas dinner because she'd gained nearly 20 pounds since she'd seen them all last year. "I know my Aunt Mary will say something about my weight," Joan explained, "and because she's mostly deaf, she'll do it at the top of her voice. I'll be absolutely mortified—and I'll eat everything that doesn't eat me first."
Joan's weight and her aunt's lack of a social filter are not the real issues. What is: Joan's self-worth is tied up in a number on a scale, a problem that many women share with her. When you or someone else defines you by your dress size, you start believing that if you're heavy, you must not be special, intelligent, or worth the space you take up. Before the visit, Joan was completely focused on her fears about what people would say and what her weight gain meant (i.e., that she'd always be fat, that she was doomed, unlovable, unforgivable). She needed to change her focus. Here's how:
1. Understand that you're not what you weigh. The size of your body and your self-worth are simply not the same things. To break that association, you need to disregard the negative self-talk that's going on in your head.
2. Learn to recognize hunger cues—an empty feeling or rumbling in your stomach. As you become more aware of what your body is telling you, you'll be better able to eat only when you're hungry and stop when you've had enough. Eating then becomes a physical activity, not an emotional one. (Learn how to recognize your hunger cues with 3 Ways To Tell If You're Actually Hungry.)
3. Have a retort ready. On a very practical level, Joan had to decide how to respond to her aunt's barbs. She could say in a calm, even voice that she finds comments on her body size unhelpful. Or she could handle the situation with humor and say, "You think this is a weight gain? You should have seen what I looked like 2 months ago!" (Check out these 9 other ways to deal with difficult family members.)
4. Change the focus of the conversation. The least-confrontational and often best approach to fielding a hurtful comment is simply shifting the subject without going into any explanation. If Aunt Mary makes a crack about Joan's size, she could deflect it by immediately asking about her aunt's latest vacation. People love talking about themselves to a good listener.
THE TRIGGER: You're surrounded by tempting food.
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Before Christmas, Oona's office resembles the "big rock candy mountain." Last year she feared it would sink her diet efforts like a torpedo. "I was really taking care of myself," she told me. "I ate only when I was hungry and ate just what my body wanted. But when everyone else started eating treats, I felt incredibly deprived if I didn't join in." Oona also didn't want to seem rude by rejecting the food so lovingly prepared by her coworkers. Here's what to do:
1. Sample only the special stuff. There's a big difference between eating homemade rugalach made by your office mate's Great-Grandmother Sadie and a box of store-bought Santa cookies with sprinkles. Eat what will give you the most satisfaction.
2. Listen to your body before, during, and after you eat. If a cookie looks good to you, ask yourself: Do I want it because I think it will curb my hunger or because I want to treat myself? If you really are hungry, then eat it. Enjoy the taste, the texture, and the whole experience of devouring it. But be sure to pay attention to how you feel 10 to 15 minutes afterward. If you're tired, spacey, or depressed, it wasn't really a treat, was it? (Try these 10 little ways to indulge yourself with absolutely no guilt.)
THE TRIGGER: You're supposed to be joyful...but you're not.
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Last year, Melissa's best friend was killed in a traffic accident right before Thanksgiving. Even though some time has passed, Melissa still doesn't feel much like celebrating. In fact, seasonal images of happy families make her cry—and eat, in an effort to bury her feelings, which seem so out of place in the face of all that "joy to the world."
It's not unusual to have what are called anniversary reactions around the time of a loss. Nor is it uncommon to feel blue during the holidays because of family dramas and societal pressures to be happy. In both cases, you experience a disconnect between what you think you should be feeling and what you actually feel. Despite your grief, there are a number of steps you can take to get through—and even find meaning in—the holidays.
1. Take time for tears. Losing someone you love is huge, and the feelings need to be honored and given space. I told Melissa that her job was to allow herself to feel the loss. She agreed to set a timer for 10 minutes, three times a day—and just lie on her bed and weep. "It's a relief to be able to express my feelings, as big and sad as they are," she told me. "Putting a time limit on them also lets me pay attention to the rest of my life."
2. Find activities you can enjoy. Melissa knows she doesn't want to do anything that feels "holiday-ish," but there are other ways to keep busy and make sure she isn't spending all her time mourning. A few suggestions: going cross-country skiing, seeing a movie, or heading to a day spa for pampering.
3. Socialize on a small scale. In discussing her plans with me, Melissa realized that being with a big group made her feel lonely (and when she felt lonely, she ate more). She decided that it was best for her to be with one person at a time, so instead of making the party rounds, Melissa celebrated by having quiet dinners with close friends and family members. By paying attention to her own needs for contact, Melissa is able to feel her grief and honor her loss, but not become so swamped by sadness that she turns to food for solace.Copyright © 2017 Rodale Inc.
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NEW YORK -- As he has guided Julio Teheran through the first two months of this season, Braves backup catcher Gerald Laird has gone with an approach similar to the one he utilized while sitting behind the plate for most of the starts a 20-year-old Rick Porcello made for the Tigers in 2009.
"You just can't ask them to do too much," Laird said. "You've got to bring them along slow and let them get their confidence. Then you gradually ask for a little bit more every time you go out."
When Teheran faces the Mets in front of a nationally televised audience on Sunday night at Citi Field, he will attempt to continue legitimizing the significant progress he has made over the past month. The 22-year-old right-hander has compiled a 2.41 ERA in his past five starts, and the Braves have won seven of the eight games he has started this year.
It would have been hard to predict this kind of success when Teheran allowed at least four earned runs in each of his first three starts this season. During that span, he relied heavily on his four-seam fastball and gained comfort with the two-seam fastball that he developed during the winter. His breaking balls and changeup were just show pitches.
"You just try to stick with their strengths," Laird said. "When you've got young guys out there, you can't ask them to make pitches they're not used to making. You can't go ask them to throw 2-0 breaking balls or changeups for strikes. If he's going good that day, I'll go with his slider. But I'm going to go with the pitch I know he can get ahead with and then I can move around."
While Teheran's changeup is still a work in progress, he has started to throw his slider and curveball more frequently than he did during the season's first few weeks. His pitch selection did not include a breaking ball percentage greater than 29 during his first three starts.
On the way to finishing two outs shy of a shutout against the Twins on Tuesday night, Teheran threw a career-high 123 pitches. Thirty-three percent (29 sliders and 12 curveballs) of those pitches were breaking balls.
"It's way different," Laird said. "He's getting better and he's more in the zone. He's getting confidence in pitching to halves of the plate. I'm not afraid to call certain pitches that I was timid to call earlier in the year."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"Our study reveals that causality can be computed at an early level in the visual system," said Martin Rolfs, who conducted much of the research as a post-doctoral fellow in NYU's Department of Psychology. "This finding ends a long-standing debate over how some visual events are processed: we show that our eyes can quickly make assessments about cause-and-effect—without the help of our cognitive systems."
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Groups complete $8M deal to protect Webber Lake, Lacey Meadows
November 20, 2012
TRUCKEE — The Truckee Donner Land Trust and The Trust for Public Land, working together as part of the Northern Sierra Partnership, announced Friday the permanent protection of Webber Lake and Lacey Meadows, an extraordinary 3,000-acre property at the headwaters of the Little Truckee River northwest of Truckee.
The property will be opened to the public for the first time in more than a century when the snow melts next spring.
"This property has it all: 1,900 acres of pristine sub-alpine meadow, California history with Henness Pass Road and Webber Lake Hotel — one of the oldest standing structures in the region — and critical habitat for a number of threatened or endangered species," said Perry Norris, executive director of the Truckee Donner Land Trust.
The organizations bought the property for $8 million from Clifton and Barbara Johnson, whose family had owned the property for almost a century. The Johnsons used Lacey Meadows as a summer grazing site for their sheep, which they herded from their ranch near Roseville. The late Clif Johnson said the trip took 15 days up and 10 days back.
"This is truly a special occasion. Our wishes have been fulfilled, and the legacy of our family will be remembered."
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"This is truly a special occasion," said Barbara Johnson. "Our wishes have been fulfilled, and the legacy of our family will be remembered. The beautiful lands we have worked on and cared for are, at long last, protected for future generations to enjoy forever."
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The property is rich in California history. Webber Lake, a 260-acre natural lake at the headwaters of the Little Truckee River, has been a private fishing campground since the 1860s. It was stocked with trout back then, one of the earliest known examples of sport fishing in the Sierra Nevada.
Henness Pass Road, once one of the most heavily traveled emigrant routes across the Sierra Nevada, runs past the lake. The Webber Lake Hotel, built in 1860, still stands on the property, the only remaining stagecoach hotel along the historic route.
The California Department of Fish and Game says the property provides critical habitat for a number of animals protected by state law, including the pine marten and the Sierra Nevada red fox. Other animals recorded on the property include black bear, mule deer, mountain lion, bald eagle, raptors and the endangered willow flycatcher. The wildflower displays in Lacey Meadows are among the best in the Sierra and include lupine, larkspur, elephant heads, alpine buttercups, monkshood and leopard lilies.
"This will provide exceptional recreation opportunities for people who visit and live in the northern Sierra," said Dave Sutton, Northern California Director of the Trust for Public Land. "It was the largest piece of unprotected private land in the entire Little Truckee River watershed and all but completes 15 years of conservation work in the Little Truckee."
The Truckee Donner Land Trust will own and manage the property. Its near-term plans include new trailheads along Henness Pass Road and Meadow Lake Road, providing non-motorized access to Lacey Meadows. At the request of the Johnson family, the Land Trust will continue to lease the fishing campground to the current caretakers for four more years, after which the lake will be open to the public.
The California Wildlife Conservation Board, Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Northern Sierra Partnership all provided significant funding for the acquisition, as did numerous private individuals.
The property is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions by the Northern Sierra Partnership to conserve the natural heritage of the Little Truckee River watershed. Since its launch five years ago, the partnership has helped to conserve more than 14,000 acres in the watershed, including Independence Lake, Perazzo Meadows, Webber Falls and the Mt. Lola trail.
"The Little Truckee watershed is a hidden treasure, little known to the general public," said Lucy Blake, president of the partnership. "Go there and you won't be disappointed."
The Truckee Donner Land Trust preserves and protects scenic, historic and recreational lands with high natural resource values in the greater Truckee Donner region. Learn more at http://www.tdlandtrust.org.
Founded in 1972, The Trust for Public Land is the leading nonprofit working to conserve land for people. Learn more at http://www.tpl.org.
The Northern Sierra Partnership is a collaborative initiative to conserve, restore and enhance the magnificent natural landscape of the northern Sierra Nevada and build the foundation for sustainable rural prosperity. NSP is a partnership of five organizations: the Feather River Land Trust, the Sierra Business Council, the Nature Conservancy, the Truckee Donner Land Trust and the Trust for Public Land.
For information on visiting the Little Truckee River watershed, visit: http://www.northernsierrapartnership.org.
K.V. Van Lom is communications and administration director for the Truckee Donner Land Trust.
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This is the episode I have been looking for for 30 years. I taped it when I was 10. I thought I would never hear it again, and it was every bit as good as I remember. Thanks for having these programs available!
The CBSRMT had 23 adaptations by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and 14 of them are Sherlock Holmes stories. The music you'd hear in all 3 Acts sounds like it was perfectly meant for the Sherlock Holmes tales. This mystery tale was decent, but not my favorite. The fans should listen to this episode, but should also check out EPISODE #0623-A STUDY IN SCARLET; it was the first Sherlock Holmes story by Doyle.
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Taking the Canon PowerShot SX130 IS to San Francisco
Meredith Krebs was a video producer and copywriter at Crutchfield for several years. She wrote about cameras and produced over 100 videos for the website.
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Off on a trip to San Francisco last weekend, I wanted to take along a camera that had more zoom and a faster response time than my point-and-shoot -- but wasn't as heavy as an SLR. The Canon PowerShot SX130 IS had just come into stock, and looked perfect. I got a chance to borrow it for the weekend to try it out.
The camera is definitely portable. Over the four days I was away, I mostly carried it in my purse. I also slipped it into my raincoat pocket when I went for a hike. It certainly wouldn't fit in my jean pocket. It's too substantial for that. But it wasn't so heavy that I ever considered leaving it at home.
The weather was sunny the first couple of days. I was mostly inside taking photos of friends at a conference, and dealing with the challenging fluorescent lights. But the first day I took a walk downtown and I tried some photos with the wide angle lens (28mm) and used the 12X zoom for some close-ups. I was impressed that it exposed my face correctly and the kept the Bay Bridge visible in the distance in a shot my friend took of me outside. I also got some very nice scenery pictures and close-ups of architectural details.
The last day, I went for a hike in Lincoln Park. The weather was foggy and cloudy, and the camera did just fine. I got a photo of the Bay Bridge that looked dreamy and with the gray sky and water. I also got a few shots of local fauna that came out sharp and detailed. It has a nice wide angle bright lens, so I certainly never had to struggle with grainy dark photos.
The LCD is 3 inches wide so it was easy to see what I was taking. Occasionally the pictures looked a little washed out on the LCD and then I was pleasantly surprised by the colors when I downloaded them later. The camera also turned on quickly. I didn't use the manual mode as much as I would have liked. I mostly kept it on the automatic mode and was satisfied with my photos. If I had it to do over, I would have found the time to read the manual on the included CD, since changing settings involved navigating the menu. I also would have shot a little HD video with it.
The Canon PowerShot SX130 IS would be great for anyone heading on a trip who doesn't like to lug anything heavy around. Or for anyone who needs a small but responsive point-and-shoot for taking portraits and other everyday shots. I was happy with the results, and very glad not to have a sore shoulder when I got home.


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The updated to IEEE 754 adds a half-float and a platform independent quad float. We have a project where a data source will be giving us values in half floats (16-bit). It would also be nice to support quad floats (128-bit) since the current EXT datatype is platform dependent.
I kudo'd the idea, because I'm a big fan of IEEE 754.
Let's dig a little bit deeper...
This would be easier if the processor manufacturers (e.g., of x86, PowerPC, etc.) supported these formats. Otherwise, we have to do them all in software, which is generally slower. (E.g., with LabVIEW for Sun on the SPARC architecture, we implemented Extended precision the same as the new IEEE quad format, but it was all in software. It was precise but slow. By the way, because of this, the platform-independent save format in LabVIEW for Extendeds is also the 128-bit IEEE quad format.)
Then there are the math libraries that sit on top of the processor. Microsoft doesn't give us high-level development tools for the 80-bit Extended floats, so we just write that code in assembly language. On the flip side, Sun gave us Extended (quad float) math libraries, even though their processor didn't support the format directly. So, both LabVIEW for Windows and LabVIEW for Sun supported Extended. HP, on the other hand, gave us neither a processor that supported extended (PA-RISC) nor math libraries that supported Extended. So LabVIEW for HP treated Extended as 64-bit values.
So, without processors and/or low-level math libraries (add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, a few transcendental functions) that support these new formats, it will be difficult to have full support for these data types. And by "full support", I mean all numeric functions, the Analysis library, etc.
While we wait for this support from our vendors, what about having a conversion library that converts half-float to/from float or double? Would this suffice?
Understood. A conversion library would be perfect. We don't need to support quads for our project. The halfs will be cast up to DBL anyway to play nice with the rest of our software. Not sure if we'll do it in a DLL or twiddle the bits in LabVIEW.
I would love to vote for this idea. After reading Brian's comments I decided not. Without processor support, many people can be disappointed with the performance.
It's hard enough just to get full support for SGL! Let's start with that...
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This sweet pumpkin with walnuts recipe is a striking, easy-to-make Turkish recipe called kabak tatlisi. The cooking method is fascinating: you macerate chunks of pumpkin or winter squash in sugar until they weep, then cook the squash at a low temperature. As they cool, the squash chunks swell with the syrupy juices. This goes beautifully with walnuts and a cultured cream such as crème fraîche. I suggest you use a tasty orange winter squash that's dense enough to hold its shape through the unique cooking process, such as butternut or Hubbard. Either variety will produce a sweet dessert with an intense flavor and creamy texture.–Paula Wolfert
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As noted above, Whatever gourd you go for, bear in mind that oddly shaped squashes can be tricky to peel. We suggest you stick with a relatively smooth butternut squash, which is eminently easier to peel than a bumpy pumpkin of any sort. Here's all you do: Take a sharp chef's knife and carefully halve the squash lengthwise. Scoop out those stringy seeds (a grapefruit spoon works really swell for this), then place the squash, cut-side down, on a cutting board or other work surface and run a vegetable peeler along it's length. Tada! Easy peasy peeling with all fingers accounted for and intact.
Sweet Pumpkin with Walnuts Recipe
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- Serves 4
- 1 1/3 to 1 3/4 pounds pumpkin, butternut squash, or other sweet, edible winter squash
- 1 cup superfine sugar (or you can make your own by blitzing granulated sugar in a blender until fine but not powdery)
- 1/3 cup walnuts (halves or pieces), preferably freshly shelled
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1 cup cultured cream, such as crème fraîche, whipped cream, or Greek yogurt (optional)
- 1. Peel and trim the squash. You should have about 1 pound. Cut the squash into 1-inch chunks.
- 2. Toss the squash with the sugar in a shallow ceramic baking dish and let stand until the squash weeps and the sugar dissolves, at least 30 minutes and perhaps as long as 1 hour.
- 3. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).
- 4. Use a wooden spoon to toss the squash and sugar. Cover with a crumpled sheet of damp parchment paper and bake for 1 1/2 hours, until the juices bubble and the squash is tender throughout. Turn off the oven but do not remove the dish. Instead let the squash cool inside the warm environment so it can continue to reabsorb the syrupy juices. Store the squash and its syrup in a cool place or in the refrigerator to allow the flavors to meld. Let the squash return to room temperature before serving.
- 5. Just before serving, melt the butter in a skillet over medium-low heat. Add the walnuts and cook, tossing frequently, until they're glistening. Spoon the squash and a few teaspoons of the syrup into individual serving bowls and sprinkle with the toasted walnuts. Garnish with dollops of cultured cream, whipped cream, or yogurt, if desired.
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WAITING restrictions are to be introduced in Sunnyhurst Lane and Sunnyhurst, the road leading to Sunnyhurst Hey Reservoir, while work is carried out on reservoirs in the area.
United Utilities is to begin work on Sunnyhurst Hey and Earnsdale reservoirs in April.
The water supplier is to strengthen the embankment and upgrade pipework and valves at Earnsdale, while Sunnyhurst Hey, which is no longer needed for water supply, will be partially drained so it becomes a wetland area and moorland to be used by nature.
In the interests of safety, Blackburn with Darwen Council has announced waiting and loading restrictions in the roads leading up to the reservoirs.
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The Atlanta Business Chronicle, a leading source for Atlanta business news, recently published a feature story titled "Oglethorpe University makes 'amazing' turnaround."
Here's a brief excerpt from the article, which was published in the December 16th print edition:
"The Oglethorpe story is an amazing one," said Jack Guynn, retired president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, who recently completed a three-year term as the chairman of its board of trustees. "Every indicator of success has moved in the right direction under Larry's leadership — enrollment, markers of academic strength such as SAT scores, philanthropic giving and on and on. And this has all been accomplished during the most difficult economic times most of us have ever seen."
Read the entire article with photos on the Atlanta Business Chronicle website (subscribers only) or on Maria Saporta's blog, SaportaReport.


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Childbirth can be very unpredictable. Many women have a firm birth plan in mind, only to discover that their labour doesn't pregress as anticipated. And while having an emergency caesarean section - c-section - is never on a new mother's wish list, it is sometimes necessary in order to prevent further complications for mother and child, and it's worth knowing ahead of time what is involved, just in case you end up in this situation.
A caesarean section is the surgical delivery of a baby through the mother's abdomen. If labour has already begun, and a complications begin, then an emergency c-section is performed. C-sections can also be scheduled in advance if you or your baby has a condition that would make a vaginal delivery unsafe but planned caesareans, even due to serious medical conditions, are not considered emergency.
During labour, your doctor could order an emergency c-section for any of the following reasons:
A c-section - emergency or planned - requires some form of anaesthesia. If there is enough time, either an epidural or spinal anaesthetic can be used, allowing you to be awake during the procedure. If your baby needs to be born quickly, it is likely that a general anaesthetic will be used, which means you will be asleep when your baby is born.
Before the surgery begins, you can expect that:
Once the anaesthetic takes hold, your doctor will make two incisions: one through the abdomen and another through the uterus itself. During the procedure, you will probably feel some pressure and tugging as your baby is eased out of the uterus. Once born, baby's mouth and nose will be suctioned and the umbilical cord cut.
Your placenta will be removed and shortly after, you'll be stitched up. Once baby has been checked over you can be introduced!
C-sections are generally considered safe, but with any type of surgery there are certain risks and complications to be aware of, such as:
Recovery after a caesarean section is a lot longer than a vaginal birth. There will be some element of pain or discomfort associated with the stitched incision but regular painkillers, as prescribed by your doctor, should provide you with the relief you need.
In the days that follow the procedure, you may feel very tired and sore. You could also suffer from constipation and have difficulty moving around and tending to your baby. For these reasons you will probably stay in hospital for 5-6 days.
You won't be able to lift anything heavy or do any exercise for about 6-8 weeks after the surgery or until your doctor has said it's OK.
It's true that there are many things you cannot do after a c-section, but there some things you can do to help with your recovery:
This article was written by Jo Harris for Kidspot, Australia's best pregnancy, labour and birth resource. Sources include Better Health Channel and KidsHealth.


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Essential Amino Acids!
L-Lysine is one of 9 essential amino acids that cannot be made in the body. It is the basic raw material for carnitine synthesis. L-Proline can be made in the body, but low protein/vegetarian diets may not always promote optimal l-proline production. L-lysine and l-proline amino acids are the precursors of hydroxylsine (HL), and hydroxyproline (HP), two constituents of collagen. Collagen is an essential cpmponent of arterial linings.
Vitamin C, a strong antioxidant, is also essential for the production of collagen. Hawthorn berry and grape seed extract are potent natural antioxidants due to their high levels of proanthocyanidin. These proanthocyanidin-esters are excellent free radical scavengers.
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September 25, 2017
Ear barotrauma is discomfort and possible damage in the ear due to pressure differences between the inside and outside of the eardrum.
Barotitis media; Barotrauma; Ear popping; Pressure-related ear pain; Eustachian tube dysfunction
The air pressure in the middle ear is usually the same as the air pressure outside of the body. The eustachian tube is a connection between the middle ear and the back of the nose and upper throat.
Swallowing or yawning opens the eustachian tube and allows air to flow into or out of the middle ear, keeping the air pressure on both sides of the eardrum equal. If the eustachian tube is blocked, the air pressure in the middle ear is different than the pressure on the outside of the eardrum. This can cause barotrauma.
Many people experience barotrauma at some time. Barotrauma commonly occurs with altitude changes, such as flying, scuba diving, or driving in the mountains. If you have a congested nose from allergies, colds, or an upper respiratory infection, you are more likely to develop barotrauma.
Blockage of the eustachian tube could also be present before birth (congenital), or it may occur because of swelling in the throat.
If the condition is severe or prolonged:
During an inspection of the ear, the health care provider may see a slight outward bulge or inward pull of the eardrum. If the condition is severe, there may be blood or bruising behind the eardrum.
Severe barotrauma may be difficult to tell apart from an ear infection.
To relieve ear pain or discomfort, first try to open the eustachian tube and relieve the pressure.
When flying, do not sleep during the descent. Use these measures frequently to open the eustachian tube. Allow infants and children to nurse or sip a drink during descent.
Divers should descend and ascend slowly. Diving while you have allergies or a respiratory infection is dangerous, because barotrauma may be severe.
If self-care attempts do not relieve your discomfort within a few hours, or if the barotrauma is severe, you may need medical intervention.
Medications recommended may include:
These medications may relieve nasal congestion and allow the eustachian tube to open. Antibiotics may prevent ear infection if barotrauma is severe.
If the tube will not open with other treatments, surgery may be necessary. A surgical cut is made in the eardrum to allow pressure to become equal and fluid to drain (myringotomy). However, surgery is rarely necessary.
If you must make frequent altitude changes or you are susceptible to barotrauma, you may have tubes surgically placed in the eardrum. This is not an option for scuba diving.
Barotrauma is usually noncancerous (benign) and responds to self-care. Hearing loss is almost always temporary.
Try home care measures first. If you cannot relieve the discomfort of barotrauma in a few hours, call for an appointment with your health care provider.
Call your provider if you have barotrauma and new symptoms develop, especially:
You can use nasal decongestants or antihistamines before altitude changes. Try to avoid altitude changes while you have an upper respiratory infection or allergy attack.
Talk to your doctor about using decongestants if you plan to scuba dive.
O'Reilly RC, Sando I. Anatomy and physiology of the eustachian tube. In: Cummings CW, Flint PW, Haughey BH, et al, eds. Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2010:chap 131.
Arts HA. Sensorineural hearing loss in adults. In: Cummings CW, Flint PW, Haughey BH, et al, eds. Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2010:chap 149.
Byyny RL, Shockley LW. Scuba diving and dysbarism. In: Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice . 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 141.


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Senior Stories
Fehima Dawy
Fehima Dawy considers herself passionate, genuine, outspoken, goofy and thoughtful. The anthropology major was a biology lab assistant, a resident assistant, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and studied abroad in India. She says her Southwestern Experience was transformative and, as a result, sees her future as limitless.
Lesson learned at/from SU?
I learned that everyone has something to contribute and that life is about finding the good in yourself and in the things around you.
In your opinion, what makes SU special?
As a first generation college student, I came to college alone in a lot of ways. But when I got to Southwestern, I found a support system of professors and friends who encouraged me to accomplish my dreams.
What advice do you have for an incoming first-year?
If you think you know what you want to do, take classes outside of that; it might just change your path. I had never even heard of anthropology before I decided to take it for a social science credit; once I did, I was hooked!
How will you stay connected with SU?
I know that wherever I am, I will keep the friends I made at Southwestern. They're not just college friends, they're life friends.
Was there a particular class or teacher that inspired you?
"Meljohn," Dr. Melissa Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, inspires me to "be the change I wish to see in the world," as Gandhi says. She has impacted my life in a way greater than she could ever imagine.
Do you have any fun, embarrassing or quirky stories about campus life?
I fell off of a pirate bike every year, without fail.
What else?
While I was studying in India, I did research on how breast cancer survivors acclimated to post-cancer Indian expectations. It changed my life.
Fehima now works for the risk management department at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, and is applying to medical school. She has connected Dr. Maria Todd, associate professor of biology, with the Sanjeevani-Life Beyond Cancer organization in India, resulting in a plan for Southwestern's Global Health Paideia cluster to raise money and write letters for breast cancer patients in Mumbai, India. Fehima says, "This is officially the thing I am most proud of."


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Overthinking It
Learning to Love the Replay Proposal (Almost Unreservedly)
On Thursday, Major League Baseball ended a five-year wait for the expansion of instant replay review. You've already read about the details, but the proposal cooked up by Bud Selig's replay committee comes down to this: managers will be allowed one challenge of a reviewable play from the first inning through the sixth, and two more from the seventh inning on (challenges that prove successful won't subtract from those totals). We don't know exactly which plays are part of the plan, but we do know that reviewable plays will cover 89 percent of past incorrect calls, excluding balls and strikes. When a challenge is issued, an on-field umpire will contact a fifth umpire at MLBAM headquarters in New York, who'll have access to every available video feed and who'll quickly confirm or overturn the original ruling.
It's not a perfect plan, and the internet was quick to focus on the flaws. But there's a lot here to be happy about, and amidst all the fault-finding, I'm not sure the real significance of the proposed system has sunk in. So I'm going to give you the glass-half-full perspective, as opposed to the glass-half-shattered, shards-embedded-in-eyeballs perspective that seemed to take over Twitter when the news was announced.
Consider this: from the moment you became a baseball fan—and this goes for every fan before you—you've watched each game with the knowledge that its outcome could hinge on something that didn't actually happen. Great plays, pennant chases, and perfect games can all be wiped away by a call that you, on your couch, can tell was the incorrect one. After every close call that goes the other team's way, managers argue, umpires posture, and viewers complain about how long games take today. And almost always, the incorrect calls stand. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball has been slow to embrace a proven technology that could end most arguments before they begin and help ensure umpires' accuracy.
We're almost at the end of that era, and within reach of an almost unimaginable Baseball Without Bad Calls. The new proposal has its problems; Sam Miller and I discussed some of them on our podcast today. But this is still a step forward, and we might be underestimating its size.
According to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, MLB studies have shown that a blown call occurs, on average, once every five games, or roughly three times per day (assuming a full schedule). He doesn't specify what kind of blown call, so let's assume that refers only to the ones that will be reviewable. That means that the odds of three blown calls occurring in any one game are one in 125, and the odds of four blown calls occurring in any one game are one in 625. There are 2430 games in a regular season, which means that there might be roughly four games in all of 2014 in which the number of blown calls—most of which don't matter—exceeds the minimum number of challenges allowed to one team. And since both teams get three challenges, it would usually take more than four blown calls in a given game to pose a problem. Compare that to the almost 500 games per season with a permanently incorrect call under the replay system baseball has employed (with one change) for the last century and a half or so.
Now, keep in mind that most of the preceding paragraph is wrong, because oh man the math is hard. For one thing, there are extra innings. For another, blown calls aren't completely independent, because certain umpiring crews must be more prone to making them. That means the probability of multiple misses in a game is higher for some matchups than others. Then there's the fact that blown calls are presumably distributed evenly across innings, whereas challenges won't be, thanks to the odd inning split in the proposed system. But there's also the fact that successful challenges are retained, which means that in practice many more than three might be allowed. And the fact that home run reviews won't require a challenge. Plus plenty of other caveats too complicated (for me) to account for.
The point is, mistakes—especially the costly kind—are mostly going to be gone. Every once in a while, we'll get a game where one team wishes for one more challenge, and we'll wonder why the system doesn't work another way. But only once in a while, as opposed to weekly, or worse. Whoa.
It's only natural, initially, to be disappointed by the specifics. We wanted replay to be perfect. Heck, we waited long enough for a plan with fewer kinks to be conceived. The challenge system is philosophically strange, since the point of relying on replay is to make the most correct calls possible. Why put a ceiling on how correct we can be, however high that ceiling is in practice? Why not add a fifth umpire in the same MLBAM bunker who functions less like a genie and relays correct calls without being asked?
But come on, folks: forest for the trees. Our long national no-replay nightmare is over, and reality-based baseball is here. We can't undo Don Denkinger, but we can prevent future infamous calls. That's something to celebrate, even if the implementation isn't ideal.
(If you need to vent about something, you can still be mad about bad balls and strikes. Maybe even more mad about bad balls and strikes, now that we'll have fewer other calls to complain about.)
This plan still has to be approved by the owners and both the Players and the Umpires Associations, so there could be considerable tweaking before it's put in place. Even if it were instituted as is, it's not as if this proposal is destined to be baseball's official replay policy for as long as the sport was without one. It will evolve, and if challenges prove to be a pain, they'll be replaced by something more sensible. But the new commitment toward replay won't waver.
Animosity toward umps is as old as the game, but the human element is so ingrained that some people have actually learned to like it, Stockholm-style. That's just the tradition talking. Our kids won't understand why anyone would have wanted to cling to the way replay works now. In fact, now that a new system is almost in place, the absence of a current one seems stranger already.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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I have to say this: while I've never enjoyed seeing an incorrect call (even when it's in favor of my team), I've also never *not* enjoyed watching a manager argue with an umpire. Maybe that's just from growing up watching Earl Weaver, but the elimination of arguments will take away some of the drama of the game. Nevertheless, I'm glad they're instituting replay. It will make games fairer and take the heat off the umpires.
Aug 16, 2013 06:42 AM
I love the idea of increasing the use of replay to correct bad calls. One thing quickly came to mind that hopefully will be addressed. What will happen is say a batter hits a sinking line drive in the gap and the OF makes a diving play and the umpires rule it a catch. Should the batter continue to run all the way around the bases in case it gets overturned? Should the defense try to tag him out even though he is already out? This could become a farce. There should probably be a standard 1 or 2 bases in cases like this so that batters do not run all the way around the bases after being called out.
Aug 16, 2013 06:53 AM
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Neil DeMause mentioned a similar scenario to me this morning. If you're a manager, do you tell your baserunners to get up and run to third base after sliding into second, once the second baseman has thrown the ball to first? If a review reveals a neighborhood play, you could get an extra base out of it.
Aug 16, 2013 06:57 AM
It looks like calls like these may the ones excluded from the new review process. Referring to the 11% of plays not covered, Schuerholz said: "Most of those plays, when you see them, are plays that if they are turned over, the reset of the runners and the play would be mind-boggling. It would be a nightmare. So that's the way we've chosen to start."
Aug 16, 2013 07:18 AM
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You're probably right about those being the plays that aren't reviewable, but I do disagree somewhat with Schuerholz about resetting the game state being a "mind-boggling" problem. Tricky, yes, and likely controversial no matter how you decided to do it. But I think MLB could define a set of easy-to-understand guidelines that mandate where runners should go after a specific type of overturn. I gave a few non-comprehensive examples of these a few years ago (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=11357).
Aug 16, 2013 12:12 PM
I don't understand allowing only 1 challenge prior to the 7th inning, or why umpires don't get to review as much as managers do in later innings, but on balance, this is a positive improvement
Aug 16, 2013 06:56 AM
If the manager knows he is right, there is no reason not to challenge in the early innings, because he will then receive a fresh challengE>
Aug 16, 2013 13:59 PM
So what you're saying Ben is, games with Angel Hernandez and Laz Diaz are going to be much longer.
Aug 16, 2013 08:01 AM
"Why not add a fifth umpire in the same MLBAM bunker who functions less like a genie and relays correct calls without being asked?"
Aug 16, 2013 08:21 AM
What I am curious about is if there is an egregiously incorrect call in the 4th inning, for example, and the manager has already used his pre-sixth inning challenge. What happens if he comes out to argue? Does he automatically get ejected? Will the umps still huddle together to determine whether or not to overturn the incorrect call? Are they even allowed to overturn an incorrect call if that team's manager doesn't have a challenge left?
Aug 16, 2013 08:39 AM
Reviewing balls and strikes is a bit excessive. While the calls are sometimes wrong, to review these will send me to the fridge far too often than is healthy. I can see allowing appeals on plays that advance a runner. That should be enough.
Aug 16, 2013 09:38 AM
Some of you you are not recalling the absolute disaster that first the iteration of the NFL's replay procedure was which permitted lots of replay reviews. Goodness gracious, games went on forever and you had no idea whether to cheer or wait until 1) you realized there wasn't going to be a replay review or 2) the replay came back in your favor.
Aug 16, 2013 09:40 AM
One thing occurs to me - if challenges come at the manager's discretion, they're going to want to make the best decisions possible. I would think that involves having someone back in the clubhouse watching the game on TV who can see all the replays and tell the manager if it's worth challenging.
Aug 16, 2013 10:16 AM
Is there any incentive to not use all challenges? (Other than saving for a future bad call.)
Aug 16, 2013 11:20 AM
Errors by players and umpires are a natural part of the game. Exanded replay changes the game again into something different. Replay reviews can take the game out of the hands of the players. Example: runner on first, 1st inning, line drive down the first base line. Original call: foul. Overturned call: fair. Does MLB put him on third automatically or do they run his historical stats to see if he is slow enough to keep him at second. Same game bottom 9th tie game. Same runner on 2nd. Same hit down the line. Call foul, call overturned. Does MLB send the runner home ending the game with no defensive opportunity offered the team in the field?
Aug 16, 2013 16:55 PM
I suspect MLB will err on the side of giving the minimum benefit. This is consistent with the rule, for example, that when a ball bounces over the out filed wall, the runners only advanve 2 bases irregardless of how fast or slow the player is.
Aug 16, 2013 19:24 PM
All of this commentary is premature until we get the reactions of the MLBPA and the Umpires union- unless (and I don't think this is how Bud Selig operates)the proposal has been extensively pre-viewed with them. My problems with it center around the weird incentives built into the limitations on "challnges"- WHY the limits segmented by the stage of the game? WHY no detail on the time limit within which a challenge can be issued? Yes, this is progress, because there is now a replay regime on the table, however flawed, but this is going to take a lot of time to get approvals from the MLBPA and the Umpires- I don't see it going into effect for the 2014 season. Remember how long it took to get agreement on the drug testing program.
Aug 19, 2013 09:50 AM
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Here's another amazing artifact from the early days of cinema.
Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin at his studio in the 1920s; thanks to Dana Miller for sending this along, and also for the image of the MGM lion, posted on this site below. A look at a time when the world was younger, more innocent, and when people communicated directly, and not through an electronic interface.
This is an astonishing image.


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