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Tamara Drangstveit and Rob Murphy: Why support our local working families?
April 14, 2012
At FIRC, we've followed the discussions in the Summit Daily around child care and housing costs for locals. Based upon our experiences with a variety of local families, and local and regional data, we'd like to provide some information that will be helpful to the conversation.
The Colorado Self-Sufficiency Standard is a tool for understanding the economic challenges of low- and moderate-income families. This county-by-county measure describes a "self-sufficiency wage," or amount that a family must earn to avoid relying on public or private assistance, for a variety of family types. In Summit County, for example, a single parent with an infant must earn $23.24 per hour full-time, or a little over $49,000 per year. A couple with an infant and preschooler must earn $18.21 per hour per adult, or $76,939 annually. The standard only looks at the basic needs of families; housing, food, child care, health care and transportation.
The standard indicates a large gap between "poverty" and "self-sufficiency" in Summit County. The 2012 Federal Poverty Level for the first family is $18,920, and for the second family $28,820. While there are families in Summit who earn at or below federal poverty level, there are far more who earn above it, but still fail to meet the Self-Sufficiency Standard.
So how do these standards compare to the realities of the local workforce? In 2010, nearly 50 percent of jobs in Summit were in the accommodation/food service industry, with an average annual wage of $23,348. This level of income does lend itself to self-sufficiency.
Housing and child care costs are typically the largest pieces of a family's budget. The challenge of affording housing and child care costs is faced not only by lower-earning families, but middle-income parents as well. This includes long-time locals who alternate between different types of seasonal work, those who work multiple part-time jobs to try and make ends meet, and those who work year-round, full-time and still struggle to keep up.
Child care is near the top the of expense list. The Self-Sufficiency Standard's estimated monthly child care cost for the single parent with an infant is $838, and for couple with an infant and preschooler, $2,034 (note the child care expense for the second family far exceeds even a typical rent payment for a 2-bedroom apartment). When combined with a budget where at least 30 percent, and sometimes more than 50 percent is allocated for rent, there's not much left at the end of the month for other basic needs like food, transportation, and health care.
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Fortunately, in Summit County most of us recognize that work supports such as subsidization of housing and child care costs are necessary to help local families maintain economic security. Such programs decrease the gap between what families earn and what it takes to get by in Summit, targeting what are generally the two highest expenses a family with young children has: housing and child care. Supporting our local working families helps ensure their stability and in turn that of our community.
For more information, see The Colorado Center on Law and Policy "The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Colorado 2011" at http://bit.ly/HC8cuB and The Northwest Colorado Council of Governments "2011 Benchmark Report" at http://bit.ly/Hyx9bC
Tamara Drangstveit, MNM is executive director of the Family and Intercultural Resource Center; Rob Murphy is FIRC's community support program manager.


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Get an overview of this hotel4-star beach resort with a conference center
Popular property highlights
This Coron resort is on the beach, 14.9 mi (24 km) from San Nicolas Barangay Hall, and within 25 mi (40 km) of Mount Tapyas and Palawan State University - Coron. Coron Central Plaza and Iglesia ni Cristo are also within 25 mi (40 km).
Resort Features
At El Rio y Mar Resort, hit the private beach, relax by an outdoor pool, or spend the day at a marina.
Room Amenities
All 27 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus balconies and minibars. Guests will also find room service, rainfall showerheads, and down comforters.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
El Rio y Mar Resort
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Simply step outside to unwind on the resort's beach. Enjoy the umbrellas and sun loungers for a relaxing day at the beach. Summer fun is a breeze at El Rio y Mar Resort with activities like windsurfing, sailing, and water skiing.
The resort offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach resort also offers an outdoor pool and a children's pool.
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Number of floors - 2
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 27
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Lazy river
- Billiards or pool table
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Marina on site
- One meeting room
- On private beach
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1998
- Conference center
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Shower only
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
Al Fresco Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Port Caltom's Reef Bar - This bar overlooks the ocean. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach and a marina are featured at the resort. An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a lazy river.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Kayaking on site
- Sailing on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
Spa Services
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Body scrubs
- Body treatments
- Couples treatment rooms
- Facial treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 2 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for PHP 2880 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: PHP 500 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: PHP 1500 per person (roundtrip)
- Rollaway bed fee: PHP 2880 per night
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- El Rio Mar
- El Rio Mar Resort
- El Rio y Mar
- El Rio y Mar Coron
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- El Rio y Mar Resort Coron
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Guests must transfer via boat and shuttle to the property. Guests must contact the property at least 72 hours before travel, using the contact information on the confirmation received after booking. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 2 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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The Holiday season is the one time we all wish we could spend together. We want to be with our family, our friends, and all of those who are very near and dear to our hearts. Well, we know how hard it can be to make that happen sometimes. With gifts, travel, food, and more, the holiday season can sometimes be rough.
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Mike Reardon began his teaching and coaching career in 1969. He is a graduate of Weber State University with a major in Physical Education and a minor in Biology. His first coaching assignment was an assistant to every male sport in a small school in the west desert of Utah. After spending 4 years as an apprentice he moved to a larger school in the district as an assistant in football, basketball and baseball.
In 1976 Mike moved on to Colorado State University as a graduate assistant in football, receiving his Masters Degree in Education in 1978. While attending classes at CSU he was in charge of the J.V. football program as well as coaching the offensive line and defensive secondary. He was an instructor in the Department of Physical Education along with his other duties.
Returning to his home state, Reardon assisted at several high schools in the Salt Lake City area, coaching football and baseball. He became the head baseball coach at Granite High School in 1985. A second opportunity came about in 1989 when he was asked to coach the running backs at the University of New Hampshire. After 2 seasons on the East coast he returned to SLC to become the Head Football Coach at Cottonwood High School where he remained for 7 years. He was elected as President of the Utah Football Coaches Association president working in conjunction with the Utah Activities Association.
For the past 11 years, Reardon has been a head football coach at the high school level, in Phoenix Arizona. This is his first term as an instructor in the Master's Program at Concordia, teaching the MCAA 510 class.


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All was going well, but we found out in January 2013 on his CT scans that there were two new lesions (each ~1cm), and biopsy confirmed them to be "moderately differentiated cholangiocarcinoma". This sucks, but we're determined to fight it together. We're an immigrant family and my father has fought hard in life to give our family a better life. I want nothing more to help him fight this battle.
I just wanted to see if anyone on the board has had experience with recurrence after resection and what their treatment plans are. I would love any and all advice on treatment plans and doctors for second opinions etc.
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Devizes Town Council has accepted two paintings as a bequest and will loan them to Wiltshire Museum.
The watercolour paintings by Bernard C Gotch were in the will of Irene Maypee Holland, who lived in Exmouth for many years. One of the paintings features St John's Church, Devizes, and the other is called Old Houses, Potterne.
She requested that they be bequeathed to the clerk and council members of the borough of Devizes and the solicitors for her estate wrote to the town council offering the paintings.
Town clerk Sarah Todhunter said in a report to the town council's community and civic resources committee that the lack of wall space in the town council's buildings should be considered.
Coun Ted East said he had contacted Wiltshire Museum director David Dawson, who researched the paintings on the internet and said they would be of interest.
He proposed the town council gratefully accept the bequest and offer the paintings to the museum on a loan basis.
But Coun Jeff Ody suggested that a cash donation to the museum might be more appropriate if the council decided to sell the paintings.
This was opposed by fellow councillors, and Coun Jane Burton said: "If they (the paintings) are left to the town council, they are left to the town council – end of story. It's not for us to sell them even if the money does go to a good cause."


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Stats say Aussie game dev industry is worth AUD$90 million, EB Games changes PR agencies, and we interview the GDAA.
Here's a roundup of the biggest news this week on MCVuk.com's sister site MCV Pacific:
- The Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures on the Aussie game develompent scene this week, citing remarkably low numbers of women in the industry and showing AUD$90 million in income from Aussie game studios.
- Antony Reed (pictured), head of the Game Developers' Association of Australia, defended the Aussie industry, saying that the statistics missed some vital components of local developers.
- Also from Antony Reed, MCV has a discussion about the low numbers of women in development, and how the industry needs to become broader in its ambition to increase diversity.
- James Whitehead, GM of IGN Australia, took to local PR site Mumbrella to refute the Advertising Standards Board's decision to ban the Dead Island: Riptide ad, which cited its implication of suicide as the central reason for the banning.
- The first round of funding from Australia's federal AUD$20 million interactive games fund from Screen Australia has been handed out, with the full list of local developers to receive funding now announced.
- EB Games is on the lookout for a new PR agency to handle its upcoming EB EXPO 2013, which is set to take place in Sydney in October.
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Ninja Gaiden 3 hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 20, and today the game received its first batch of DLC.
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An audacious lawsuit charges that 100 energy companies should pay for putting the New Orleans area at greater risk of flooding by contributing to coastal erosion.
The suit is expected to be filed Wednesday morning by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, which oversees the east bank's flood protection system.
The potentially historic suit takes aim at the massive network of canals, pipelines and extraction systems that snake through the wetlands southeast of New Orleans. The oil industry's activity has greatly increased the intensity of storm surges in the region by eroding the coastline that once formed a natural buffer against storm surge, requiring ever-more expensive and complex flood protection systems to keep the area safe during hurricanes, flood protection authority Commissioner John Barry said.
"We're an entity with a lot of responsibility, and that responsibility was made more difficult by land loss," Barry said.
A successful suit could require corporations, including major oil producers, to pay the cost of restoring Louisiana's wetlands and potentially bear some of the cost of maintaining the post-Hurricane Katrina flood protection system that the authority oversees.
The pipeline and canal work in the wetlands, some of which dates back nearly a century, has long been seen as a major cause of coastal erosion: Dredging projects carry away land, salt water intrusion kills vegetation, and poorly maintained canals lead to land loss.
The lawsuit puts the levee board at odds with some of the most powerful industries in Louisiana and throughout the country.
The list of defendants includes some of the largest and most politically influential oil companies in the world, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Hess and Shell. The list also includes Koch Industries, owned by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who have been major backers of conservative and Tea Party groups.
The case laid out by the authority centers rests on two main claims.
Permits approving the work done by the oil companies require them to maintain the areas being used to prevent erosion and restore them to their natural state once they are no longer needed. However, the suit alleges that restoration work was never done, and that the requirements remain in effect for either the original companies that built wells and pipes in the area or the corporations that succeeded them.
Further, the suit argues that by allowing more water to affect the flood protection system, the companies have harmed the levee board, and the companies must pay to fix the problem.
Plaintiffs and their attorneys did not speculate about how much money could be at stake in the suit, which does not call for a specific dollar figure. However, attorneys working on the case said they expect to spend millions of their firms' money and resources researching and litigating the suit based on the promise of a share in whatever amount is awarded. The attorneys stand to get about 32.5 percent of any money collected up to $300 million and 22.5 percent of any money above that amount.
The suit lists a variety of methods the corporations could fix the damage, including wetland remediation, construction of land bridges or other features that could blunt a storm surge and damages that would be paid to the flood protection board. A settlement or judgement could also be used to pay for the maintenance of the levee system the board oversees. Commissioners have worried publicly about how they'll be able to pay to keep up the levees.
Attorneys acknowledge that the damage to the wetlands over the last century is not solely due to oil and gas companies. In fact, the Mississippi River levees and other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects have been cited as other key factors.
But with the corps' recent construction of a $14.5 billion flood protection system in the New Orleans region, attorney Gladstone Jones III argued that the federal government has already been paying to keep the area free of flooding.
"It's a fair question to ask, 'How much the federal government has spent to address this, and how much has the oil and gas industry spent?' " Jones said.
Attorneys have been quietly working on the case for six months at the request of some commissioners, though the flood protection board did not formally contract with them until last month. Barry said he's briefed a number of officials on the suit, including members of the state's congressional delegation and Garret Graves, head of the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
The authority's board is made up of appointees selected by Gov. Bobby Jindal and confirmed by the state Senate. It is not yet clear how the administration or lawmakers will react to the suit, although Graves issued a statement late Tuesday that suggested the suit was misguided. An early indication of where the Jindal administration stands could come later this year, as both Barry and board President Tim Doody are now up for reappointment. Both of their terms expired at the end of June, but state law requires they remain on the board until they are reappointed or replaced.
Lawmakers could also try to pass legislation that would limit the energy companies' liabilities in the case during next year's session.
The power of oil companies in Louisiana's economy has been a concern throughout the process of filing the suit. Barry said at least one attorney declined to participate because he feared it would hurt his career, and he worries about how other board member's livelihoods might be affected.
One element of the contract between the attorneys and the board could dissuade any attempt to get them to give up on the suit. The law firms involved are required to pay all costs involved in the case regardless of its outcome. But the flood protection board would find itself on the hook for those expenses should it decide to drop the suit, a provision that could make it more difficult for state officials to quash the case by slowly replacing the members of the board.
Barry said the suit was inspired in part by other suits brought by governmental bodies against corporations.
"I always thought there should be a way to get at this and always thought about the tobacco lawsuits," Barry said.
Though the levee board is a creature of the state, the board's lawyers say that doesn't mean that the board loses its legal standing if state regulators were derelict in enforcing oil companies' permits. That's because the board is a political subdivision rather than a state agency.
Officials with the flood protection authority have not been in touch with other agencies that might be able to file their own claims against the oil companies, including their counterparts in the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West. However, Barry said he expects others to make similar cases once the suit gets moving.
"I will not be surprised if once we go forward, other similar entities don't consider going forward," Barry said. "They may not be able to afford not to do it."


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This class is used to generate the List Tables that populate WordPress' various admin screens. It has an advantage over previous implementations in that it can be dynamically altered with AJAX and may be hooked in future WordPress releases.
On March 27, 2012, Andrew Nacin warned developers that this class was created for private core use only as it may be subject to change in any future WordPress release.
Nevertheless, the WP_List_Table class has become widely used by plugins and WordPress developers as it provides a reliable, consistent, and semantic way to create custom list tables in WordPress. To date, no major changes have occurred in this class or are scheduled to occur, so testing your plugin with beta/RC phases of WordPress development should be more than enough to avoid any major issues.
If you are at all uncomfortable with this risk, a common (and safe) workaround is to make a copy the WP_List_Table class (
/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php ) to use and distribute in your plugins, instead of using the original core class. This way, if the core class should ever change, your plugins will continue to work as-is.
Developers should use this class at their own risk.
This class is meant to be used as a kind of framework, since any data queries need to be loaded, sorted, and filtered manually. Nevertheless, it is potentially a very powerful tool for developers as it creates WordPress-standard list tables, which makes it very easy to implement advanced features like pagination, actions, bulk actions, and filtering.
To use the WP_List_Table, you first create a new class that extends the original. Your new class must be instantiated, and the prepare_items() and display() methods called explicitly on the instance. See the method descriptions below for more details.
The WordPress core loads and returns its classes dynamically by using the _get_list_table() function, which automatically loads the appropriate extended class and instantiates it. This is a private function, however, and should not be used by developers.
Since this class is marked as private, developers should use this only at their own risk as this class is subject to change in future WordPress releases. Any developers using this class are strongly encouraged to test their plugins with all WordPress beta/RC releases to maintain compatibility.
Since developers cannot use the _get_list_table() function directly, the class needs to be extended and instantiated manually, like so...
class Example_List_Table extends WP_List_Table {} $example_lt = new Example_List_Table();
The above example won't be able to output anything meaningful, however, as several methods MUST be specified (as well as your data) in order for WP_List_Table to render a useful table.
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Inside Look: The Interior Shop
An inside look
The Interior Shop
13011 North Cave Creek Road #4
Phoenix, AZ 85022
13011 North Cave Creek Road #4
Phoenix, AZ 85022
Todd Jubert knows interiors. He should, he's been doing them for over 20 years now and professionally since '96 when he opened up The Interior Shop. The location has moved around a few times since that first day, but he's always stayed in the Phoenix area, and he's always remembered his roots.
Todd is a minitrucker at heart, even though he's owned a wide variety of vehicles. Situated right above the shop's front door is a framed copy of the 20th anniversary Mini Truckin' poster, a testament to the vehicles that have come through his shop door over the years. The hallway, shop, and even his office are all shrines to the amazing work he's done, with framed copies of every article and magazine cover in which his work has appeared. There are so many magazines along every square inch of interior real estate that it's hard to see the paint on the walls underneath.
So what do they do at The Interior Shop? If it's on the inside of a car or truck, they handle it. From custom-molded seats to full interior fabrication, they can do it all and get it done in a reasonable amount of time. It's also a family-run operation, with Todd's father Chuck in the mix as well. Frank rounds out the operation, running the sewing machine as well as wrapping panels in tandem with the rest of the group.
Doubters of their ability need look no further than the list of the vehicles that have come and gone through the shop. There's the legendary Time Machine, Reheat, and Todd's own Minitrucker Mentality to name a few, and that's just the minis. Delve into hot rods and fullsize trucks, and the list could go on for a few more pages at least. Todd has built up an impressive resume over the years, and he continues to do so as the shop takes in more customers.
During our visit, a few Mini Truckin' celebs showed up to show their support for the guy and the shop that helped put them on top. The Interior Shop has put out quite a few cool minis in its days, and if you have a project that needs an interior overhaul, look no further than Todd and his crew.
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SANTA CRUZ - A 33-year-old man is accused of punching a waitress at a Santa Cruz restaurant after she asked him to leave and he refused.
Santa Cruz County Judge Paul Burdick held Alfredo Solano Ceja on charges after a preliminary hearing this week, and the case may now proceed to trial.
Ceja is charged with felony assault and battery for the attack at Seabright Brewery on Dec. 14. A waitress there asked him to leave the restaurant and bar because he was disturbing other customers and causing problems. He refused and later punched her, breaking her nose, according to police reports.
Ceja is also accused of spitting on a Santa Cruz Police officer who responded to the incident. He faces a misdemeanor charge for battery on a police officer and a misdemeanor for refusing to leave the business.
Ceja, who is in custody at County Jail, is due back in court Feb. 19 for arraignment on the charges.


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"Vitamin K"
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The tumor suppressor protein p53, brought on by youthful pregnancy, appears to reduce the risk of breast cancer, according to a Baylor College of Medicine study. One of the researchers commented that women who have a pregnancy at age 19 or younger have a 40% to 50% decreased risk of breast cancer. In the study, estrogen and progesterone were given to young female rats and mice. They found a significant increase in both the levels and nuclear accumulation of p53 compared with untreated age-matched virgin animals. When the researchers induced cancer with carcinogenic chemicals later in the animals' lives, they observed that hormone administration blocked mammary gland epithelial cell proliferation. Whether this effect is the same in humans is not known.
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Vitamin K
[Editor's note: The following are excerpts from a lengthy article published in Midwifery Today magazine. For fuller understanding of this complex topic, we recommend you read the article, which lists 40 references, in its entirety. This issue also contains two other excellent, referenced articles about vitamin K.]
The recommended daily intake (RDI) of vitamin K is 10 mcg for infants. Human milk does not provide this much vitamin K to the breastfed baby at any stage of lactation, despite the fact that mothers on average consumed 670% of the adult RDI. In fact, nursing babies received on average only 7-13% of the RDI. Giving the mothers a modest daily supplement of 88 mcg/day did not increase breastmilk concentration of the vitamin. A large daily supplement, 5000 mcg, taken by breastfeeding mothers increased the amount of vitamin K in their milk to the same level with which formulas are fortified.
Whether or not the RDI represents the amount of vitamin K that babies truly need is a matter that can be debated. The small quantities of vitamin K in human milk are adequate for most babies, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of breastfed babies do not develop vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB).
A single IM dose results in extremely high levels of vitamin K in the newborns' blood soon after injection: the peak median plasma concentration at 12 hours is 9000 times the normal adult level, and from one to four days after the injection the levels are about 100 times higher than in a normal adult. It is unknown what risk there is in exposing the newborn to these high concentrations of vitamin K. Cancer was suggested as a potential risk as early as 1983, but the evidence to date is inconclusive.
Golding et al. found that intramuscular vitamin K supplementation given to newborns was associated with an increased risk of certain childhood cancers (B J Cancer 62: 304-308). This unexpected result occurred in a national cohort study done in Britain. The authors found similar results in a second study. Several subsequent studies showed no evidence of risk. However, the most recent studies have been unable to exclude the possibility that intramuscular vitamin K given to newborns may raise their risk for developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood. The evidence does not prove that intramuscular vitamin K is carcinogenic, and the risk, if any, is likely to be low. The evidence does not suggest that oral vitamin K poses a risk.
Some opponents of vitamin K supplementation argue that evolution designed human milk to contain the optimal amount of vitamin K for the nursing baby. This may well be true, but it is possible that a design that worked well for lactating women during the majority of human evolution would not work as well in the contemporary world. The majority of human evolution occurred during the long period before agriculture, when humans were hunter-gatherers. The diets of humans during those times were likely very different than diets today, and this could have affected the level of vitamin K present in mothers' milk.
Intramuscular vitamin K prevents late VKDB in almost all babies. Although late VKDB does sometimes occur after a single oral dose, and to a lesser extent after a series of three doses, these oral dosing regimens do confer some degree of protection.
A recent study, using data from Britain, estimates that among breastfed babies not given vitamin K, the risk of late VKDB is 19.1 per 100,000, or almost one in 5000. This risk can be considered low because the vast majority of babies will not develop the disease. A midwife could practice many years and never see a single case.
- Jennifer Enock, "Babies and Vitamin K," Midwifery Today Issue 56, Winter 2000
I suggest it is extremely unlikely that the relationship between vitamin K levels and hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN) is a simple one. I can think of several birth-related factors that might affect this issue. For instance, we should ask a woman what happened during the third stage of her labor. Was the cord cut quickly, or was the baby allowed as much time as she needed to regulate the amount of clotting factors and other relevant components in the baby's blood? What impact does the woman's diet during pregnancy have on the situation? And what are the possible reasons that nature intended babies to have low levels of vitamin K?
I worked in a community midwifery practice at a time when the decision was made to increase from one to three doses of the (oral) vitamin K given to breastfed babies. The first dose was given at birth and the second on the seventh day postpartum. While we would generally stop seeing women on the tenth day postpartum, the other midwives and I noticed that almost as soon as this new policy became practice, we suddenly had moderate numbers of women who were not discharged from midwifery care until the twelfth or thirteenth day. Analysis of the records showed that the majority of these women had babies who were becoming jaundiced on the eighth or ninth day following their second dose of vitamin K. Another midwife has suggested that perhaps babies cannot handle the increased prothrombin that comes about as a result of receiving vitamin K. Perhaps this would explain why babies are born with their relatively low levels.
Von Kries (BMJ 316:161-62) summarizes some of the recent history of vitamin K, which in some areas was not given until the early 1980s because late-onset HDN had not been a problem until then. This in itself should raise concerns. If all babies were pathologically deficient in vitamin K, surely someone would have noticed in these areas sometime before the 1980s. How does the increase (in some areas) of late-onset HDN relate to the changes in the practices women experience during childbirth? Did the "need" for routine vitamin K increase alongside increasing medicalization of birth?
- Sara Wickham, "Vitamin K: A Flaw in the Blueprint?", Midwifery Today Issue 56
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Q: Has anyone developed her own system for newborn gestational age assessment? The New Ballard Scale seems more elaborate to me than is necessary for term babies who are born at home. I know that experienced midwives can quickly look over a baby and estimate the gestational age, but for now I would like to find a concise format to document characteristics for EGA.
- Amy Kieffer, student midwife
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Q: As a care provider for women during their childbearing years, it is also essential to be able to have competent information I can give to the women who I continue to care for beyond the birthing times of their lives. What are the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and what is the percentage of women who breastfeed to those who don't correlate with cancerous tumors in women's breasts? Can you recommend any books that are informative, honest and coming from a natural healing perspective?
- Amanda Moore, midwifery student
A: Your question is timely as I am preparing a curriculum about breast health. I would strongly recommend Susun Weed's Breast Health: The Wise Woman Way. She describes many different approaches to maintaining healthy breasts, as well as prevention and treatment of cancer. Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book and Christiane Northrup's Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom are also essential resources. Susan Love's text is a wonderful reference text on the female breast, breast care and screening, diagnosis, treatment and research. Chapter 10 of WBWW is excellent, and finally Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography explores the cultural context of breasts, their care and function in chapters 7 (Circular Reasoning, the Story of the Breast) and 8 (Holy Water: Breast Milk). There are also extensive resources on the web including access to medical, midwifery and nursing journals through a number of sites.
- Anne Maranta, RM
A: Read Breast Cancer? Breast Health! By Susun Weed. It is the best book I have read about breast cancer risks and prevention. It is wonderful.
- Aiyana
A:Breast Cancer, Breast Health by Susan Weed is an excellent book not only for breast health concerns but for anyone about to undergo any type of surgery. Highly recommended by everyone I have offered it to.
- Anon
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In regard to Samantha McCormick's statement about BTL (Bilateral Tubal Ligation) and early menopause [Issue 3:42]: I will take you up on finding or creating the research on BTL. For a few years I have questioned why some people so adamantly accept that women do go through some changes after having BTL. I know that it's going to take a fairly long time to acquire the information because even though it is out there, it's not published.
In addition, anyone interested in supplying information either from clients, friends, family or self in regard to changes or effects after a BTL, your input will be more than welcome. I'm going to get started on a questionnaire/survey so I would also appreciate questions to help make it a complete one.
I have always thought that women went through an array of changes after BTL and have always asked "professionals" about it--only to end up with the same type of response that Ms. McCormick stated. Yet, when I go to the source, the women, many of them have something to say to contradict the "professionals". But they keep quiet and move on because they have no one to back them up. Let's change that and provide them with peace of mind knowing that what they are feeling and experiencing is not unique to them and may be a "medical response" to BTL.
- Margie Bou
Re: psychological or physiological reasons for a fast labor [Issue 3:43]: I am only speaking from my personal belief and experience. My sister-in-law's due date was 10 days before mine. I am a very relaxed person; she's uptight. Right away, she was told she had high blood pressure. Throughout our pregnancies, I exercised, meditated, ate right, and journaled about my pregnancy and what I thought motherhood would be like. She did not. I took hypnobirthing as my only childbirth education class--I couldn't be worried with the "what ifs" of labor and delivery; I was more concerned with facing any hidden fears I may have had about birth (which really only turned out to be other people's fears that landed on me). She was too concerned with the "what ifs" and attended all her hospital CBE classes faithfully. When it came time for each of us to bring our babies into the world, she was induced due to preeclampsia. She entered the hospital fearful of "pain" and made her fears come true. She did deliver vaginally, but it was after 27 hours of labor, cervidix, Pitocin, Nubaine, a sliced membrane sack, epidural, two episiotomies, a pretty good natural tear, fetal distress, a vacuum extraction, three doctors, seven nurses, much screaming and four days of hospital recovery (which is pretty unusual for our local hospitals unless a woman has had a cesarean birth).
I, on the other hand, experienced an easy and beautiful waterbirth with a four-hour labor. In fact, I didn't know I was in labor until my midwife told me. I felt no fear, but joy to an extent I had never felt before. My baby descended on her own until she was just about to be born. And when I decided to push, I did so through three surges, and on the last one, she crowned and continued to slide right out of me into the warm water so fast I didn't even realize it was over. I did tear a little because she had a 14-inch head, but that was the extent of my "birthing trauma." I knew as soon as it was over I would do it again. I am a firm believer in the power of the mind, and I have very little rebutting this belief from the experience I've faced. You cannot control birth, but you can make a great impact on how it will be from your thoughts and feelings.
- Abbie
I recently suffered from obstetric cholestasis and just wish to let you know about my experience. At 35 weeks I had intense, unbearable itching all night long (everywhere, including soles of feet) and to a lesser degree during the day. At 36 weeks a blood test showed a bile acid level of 16. By the time of the blood test I'd started a rapid cleanse diet--just water for a day, then fresh vegetable juices for two days, then fresh fruit and vegetables. Within five days, all itching vanished. The hospital told me there was no point in having another bile-acid test (to see if it had returned to normal) because once cholestasis is diagnosed, the diagnosis does not change. I do not know if the measures I used were any use in combating cholestasis but in my case it certainly relieved (and totally got rid of) any itching.
- Anni Taylor
I am a qualified midwife in England about to embark on my degree dissertation. I want to look at the appropriateness of pethidine (pamergan, demerol, meperidine) as a pain relief in labour. In addition to looking at "official" studies and RCTs, I want to know the experiences of women and birth attendants with this drug. If anyone has any experiences, feelings or stories good or bad, I would love to hear them. In particular I am interested in how well it did or did not relieve pain, the emotional impact, and any impact on breastfeeding.
- Sarah Carter
I recently read an article on the Internet stating that women may have more problems with pinworms than men because the pinworms can go into the vulva, uterus and the fallopian tubes. Is this possible in a pregnant woman? My OB knows nothing; neither do the midwives in my area.
- Shannon
Has anyone heard of the link between zinc deficiency and long gestation, two to three weeks overdue?
- Francie Smith
Regarding the doula whose client has a bicornate uterus: I had a student with this condition who went on to birth vaginally, full term, after a 67-hour labor. The biggest risk as I understood it was that of third trimester stillbirth/miscarriage, followed by breech. Prolonged or prodromal labor apparently is common. I found the most helpful information in Anne Frye's books Holistic Midwifery and Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year. You might want to make sure her nutrition and emotional support are excellent. It stands to reason that a strong, healthy, well-nourished woman can grow a strong healthy baby, better built to withstand any problems occurring from structural abnormalities. Check out Dr. Brewer's website at www.blueribbonbaby.com
- Amy V. Haas, BCCE
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Considering I've never cared for any SyFy show besides BSG, I didn't hold out much hope for this, but it's pretty good.
And FYI Peck, last night's ep was written by Ira Behr and Robert Wolfe.
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Considering I've never cared for any SyFy show besides BSG, I didn't hold out much hope for this, but it's pretty good.
And FYI Peck, last night's ep was written by Ira Behr and Robert Wolfe.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
I haven't seen the latest one yet but I am watching the second one now & it is leaps and bounds better than the pilot was.
The new season of Damages is good but I don't know something seems off a little about it. John Goodman has been excellent so far and in no way is playing the character I thought he was going to play & I actually like it better this way.
I am very interested in what they are doing with Michael as well.
I think this will get better as it has gotten better every week. This show really needs the time to develop so I shouldn't really be concerned that it didn't bust out right away.
Just finished the 5th and final season of Friday Night Lights. Great series finale. Sad it is over and yet happy that they got to end the show the way they wanted to
I like the Falling Skies show. It is good summer fodder.
Saw a girl who ate rocks I think. Kinda reminds me 1,000 ways to die. One girl had a habit of chewing on her hair and eventually it all clogged up her stomach and it blew up or something. Crazy.
Any one watch Jail or 1,000 Ways To Die on Spike? Not my favorite shows ever, but they are entertaining to me.
Dangerous Minds
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Easily one of my favorite shows of all time.
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is by far my favorite show ever. Season 7 starts in less than a month.
Anyway, what brought me here was something I read about the show recently. Rob McElhenney, or 'Mac,' gained 50 lbs. for this season, just because he thought it would be funny. That is awesome.
I cant wait for the new season to start. I cant believe the show is still on the air with all the stupid **** they do haha. I've been watching from the beginning and still enjoy it a lot.
caught the latest episode of Breaking Bad...this season has been up and down in terms of quality for me...lets see how things develop.
Oh ya, I love it. 9/15 it starts I think, and they're contract runs for 2 more seasons I believe.
Yeah I saw they picked it up for another season or two. Did you see their Christmas movie?
Sir, after discovering Always Sunny last year, I have watched every episode. I love the movie...
..."Did you **** my mom, Santa? Did you **** my mom?!"
getting closer to the season finale of Boardwalk Empire
I'm liking how the characters are continuing to grow and develop with each episode
Yup! I really like this series aswell. I also have to agree on what you said with regards to season 4 of BB. It seems to be shaping up a bit finally now. I particularly like how Hank is very slowly starting to get more involved again. Jesse is starting to annoy me way more then any of the previous seasons though, which is intentional.
Finished watching the first season of "The Chicago Code" a couple of days ago, really liked it.
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Really? Walt is the annoying one for me. He's become just a stubborn, self-centered dumbass punctuated by that mildly terribly written dinner scene in the last episode. I still love the balls in the air nature of the show though.
This season of Breaking Bad so far has felt like it wants to build up something but instead of any build up we're stuck in the mud going nowhere...feels like i'm getting my head bashed in over and over again with the same details...
caught the latest episode of Entourage...only like 3 episodes left and they're also just going through the motions...how do they expect to finish this show?!
Finished the first season of Boardwalk Empire...solid show...looking forward to season 2 now.
Coming to the end of season 2 of Men of a Certain Age...I really like this show and look forward to the upcoming episodes.
Caught the first episode of Rome from HBO...not a bad start. I hear its only 2 seasons and the second season packs a punch as it was canceled earlier than anticipated.
Good luck finding upcoming episodes...
Season 17 of Top Gear just started running last night on BBC America. Its about time. Love that show. I've been watching the American version on History Channel as well. Pretty funny so far this 2nd season.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Well they are making the movie still so who knows how the decide to end the tv series. I am enjoying this season though. Feels like they need more than 3 episodes to finish it though.
Damn, I really enjoyed that show.
they're trying to keep hope alive...seeing how networks don't really care about this it feels like its going to be futile...but maybe worth a shot?


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Topic: Avastin
Hello All,
I am new to the site. My father was diagnosed with stage 4 Cholangiocarcinoma back in October. They said there was no hope and were going to proceed with palliative treatment. He is only 56 and healthy as could be so we refused to take "palliative treatment" for an answer; we wanted curative. We are currentley seeing a Dr. in Houston and one of the medications he has him on is Avastin. Has anyone ever used Avastin?
I will note that the doctors who initially diagnosed him at MD Anderson said Cholangiocarcinoma was a "differential diagnosis" and they were treating him under the umbrella of gastrointestinal cancer. I guess his case is very rare.
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Morris among latest cut from Brewers camp
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Brewers returned Hunter Morris to Minor League camp on Wednesday, deciding he could benefit from some Triple-A seasoning before making the jump to the Majors.
Outfielder Kentrail Davis and catcher Adam Weisenburger also were returned to the Minors, and second baseman Scooter Gennett, outfielder Josh Prince and right-hander Jesus Sanchez were optioned to Triple-A Nashville.
Morris, Milwaukee's reigning Minor League Player of the Year after a huge season at Double-A Huntsville, had been considered earlier in camp to fill in at first base while Corey Hart works his way back from knee surgery. He was 3-for-25 (.120) with a solo home run in Cactus League play.
"When you look at a guy coming from Double-A, if he just goes off in the spring you may think, 'You know something? Maybe he can handle the atmosphere and all that,'" manager Ron Roenicke said. "He was definitely a name that we thought of, but it's not like I was thinking he was going to be our guy. Things like that do happen, but he needs to go to Triple-A and continue to improve on his defense, and then have another big year offensively."
Alex Gonzalez, Taylor Green, Bobby Crosby and Sean Halton will continue sharing time at first base this month.
Minor League Spring Training games begin this weekend.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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New York -- Family Dollar on Friday increased its annual dividend by 24%. The annual payout now totals $1.04 following a decision by the retailer's board to elevate the quarterly dividend to 26 cents a share from 21 cents a share.
In addition, the board authorized the repurchase of an additional $300 million in stock under an existing program that had only $94 million in authorization remaining.
"Our board's decision to maintain our remarkable record of 37 consecutive years of dividend increases shows their unwavering commitment to shareholders, and the increase of 23.8% reflects our confidence in the company's long-term growth potential," said Howard Levine, chairman and CEO.


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Drivers -
170 Star Destroyer - I can't throw this amazing, but I like knowing that it won't go right on me(RHBH). Also nice for headwind drives.
175 Champ Beast - My go to distance driver
175 Beat DX Valkyrie - Turnovers/Hyzer flips
168 Pro Vulcan - Turnovers/Hyzer flips(I am a bit inconsistent with this, but I am hoping to make this a roller one day)
170 Champ Sidewinder - New to the bag, haven't thrown it much
Fairway -
176 Champ Teebird - Probably my favorite disc. Flex shots, consistent tee shots.
170 Champ Leopard - New to the bag
Mids -
172 Beatish 12x Pro Roc - My consistency off the tee with this is so-so, but I love it for approaches
170 Ti Buzz - Mid range tee shots, working on flex shots with this
170 Pro shark - Straight shots, I can throw this and it won't turn much, if at all
Putters -
175 DX Aviar - Putts inside of ~20 ft when wind isn't a factor
170 R-Pro Pig - My first disc when I didn't know any better. I love it for short flex shots and wind putts.
I have been playing for 2 months so I'm still fairly new. Just curious if there are any holes. Also, what is a good putter to learn with?
My bag changes a lot since I lose a lot of discs(drivers mostly). My home course is around a lake with water coming into play on maybe 7 or 8 holes. They usually have a diver every 2 weeks or so, but the algae has been so bad they have been unable to since they cannot see the discs.


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I can live without this oneChanel had one color that I fell in love. First of all, although the color spreads quite well, one coat is not enough. Then, it takes a bit longer to dry than some inexpensive drugstore brands. I like the smooth texture and the shiny finish, but the overall performance is not worth of the price (I paid $20....what was I thinking!). — 9 years, 1 month agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
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Great polishEvery time you use chanel nail polish, it is like having a manicure at a professionals. I only needed one coat after applying a base coat, then finishing with a shine top coat. It is always shiney regardless of using a top coat. The $28 price tag is a little steep though, you are paying for a name. But you also are paying for great quality polish. It can last up to two weeks! You won't have to use...read more it as much, so in the end, saving money? :) The colors are great, and they have special limited edition shades sometimes. They have some colors which are 3 colors combine, and changes in the sunlight. They are very pretty polishes! — 4 years, 3 months agojessicaviolett | 73 reviews
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Great colorNew shades dry fast. Love the fall collection. Pricey but worth it for new shades. — 5 years, 12 months agomissheatherette | 438 reviews
Chanel Le Vernis Nail ColourI love the beautiful colors, I love the bottle and the applicator is not so bad either, but if you really want this nail enamel to last, you have to use a really good base coat and a really good top coat and reapply the top coat almost daily to prevent tip wear and chipping. This isn't a very forgiving polish. If I could find the same colors in another line, I would give them a shot, but Chanel has some very beautiful and unique shades that no one can copy it seems. — 7 years, 9 months agolesa5363 | 352 reviews
Great colors but worth the price????Great colors and easy application. Don't like the price or the fact that the cap comes off and your left using the small inner cap. OPI has the same type of beautiful colors so I save my money and buy them instead. Yet I am also guilty of buying the hip in color from them at times! — 9 years, 10 months agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
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Black SatinI have only ever tried this in "black satin". I am very impressed. With just one coat the color was opaque, not streaky, not thick, dried fast, shiny, I didn't even need a second coat! Having this been my first time trying this, like I said, very impressive. The price is not my favorite, so only in that case I might not be buying this again. — 8 years, 4 months agoleelu | 354 reviews
OverhypedI was awestruck when I opened a friend's Christmas present to see three of these nail polishes. The colors were remarkable in the bottle but after applying each one I have to say, Chanel has really disappointed with these. My nails were unbelievably chipped after one day of wear and I even used my favorite Seche top coat and base coat. I've purchased polishes 1/20th the price of these and had bett...read moreer results. While the color selection is amazing and the bottle is lovely, the actual product is very poor quality. — 3 years, 9 months agomoriarty.kt | 213 reviews
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Yes! Yes! YES!!!i hesitated for so long to spend the money on this... i bought it as a treat, a real splurge, but, boy, was it worth it! i love the colours and the quality of the polish itself — 4 years, 6 months agoAstridB | 8 reviews
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Fittingly, after rendering noble service to Texas anglers by producing untold thousands of fish, the big bass get to retire to a lake to live out the rest of their lives.
About 100 retired largemouth bass brooders from the A.E. Wood State Fish Hatchery in San Marcos made a 5.5-hour trip to Lake Moss outside Gainesville June 23 in the care of TPWD fisheries technician Mike Pereira. "These fish are from the class of 1996," Pereira said. "They are 14 years old, and typically their egg production decreases as they age."
Largemouth bass are believed to live up to 20 years, so the fish have several years to enjoy retirement and perhaps make more little bass in Lake Moss. Since the fish were all pure Florida largemouth bass, the stocking will improve the genetics of the fish in the lake, which are already good—the lake record largemouth weighed 13.25 pounds. Lake Moss was last stocked with Florida largemouth bass in 1982.
Lake Moss is an 1,140-acre impoundment on North and South Fish Creeks in Cooke County north of Gainesville. The City of Gainesville maintains two boat ramps on the lake and charges $35 for an annual boat permit. For more information on the lake, contact the city of Gainesville at (940) 668-4500.
The fishing in Lake Moss is managed by biologists from TPWD's District 2A Inland Fisheries office located near Pottsboro. Lakes managed out of this office include Texoma, Bridgeport, Lavon, Nocona and Ray Roberts as well several smaller reservoirs.
"Our electrofishing survey in 2006 showed Lake Moss had an extremely high population of largemouth bass, but most were under the legal limit of 14 inches," said TPWD fisheries biologist Bruce Hysmith. "The stocking of these large brooders should give anglers the opportunity to catch some really nice bass. Too, the offspring from these fish should in time impact the overall largemouth bass population structure."
Translation: The fishing is about to get better in Lake Moss. These fish may be retired, but they are still working to make fishing better.
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You may be thinking, "How can I
exercise when I'm so tired I can barely get through the day?" You
can do it, as long as you start out very slowly and are
careful not to overexert yourself. Most important, it will make you feel
Graded exercise starts out slowly and increases in very small steps. If your fatigue is severe, this can mean starting out with 1 minute of gentle movement, like stretching. And it means that you have a
plan and you stay with it, even when you're having a good day
and feel like doing more. This helps your body
make the changes it needs to cope with activity and exercise.
Studies show that light aerobic exercise, such as walking,
may help people who have
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) feel more energetic and
less tired. People vary in how much they are helped by this kind of program.footnote 1 Maybe you have avoided it because
you're afraid it will make you feel worse. But the opposite is true. Total rest
leaves your body in worse shape. It can also hurt your self-image by making you
feel as if you can't do anything for yourself.
with your doctor to make a specific plan for your needs and abilities. But
there also are things you can do on your own.
Walking is an excellent
form of aerobic exercise for people who have chronic fatigue syndrome. Other gentle
exercises, such as stretching, riding a bicycle or stationary bike, or swimming, are also
good. Try to find a balance so that you are moving or exercising enough to benefit
from it but not so much that you get overtired. Here are some
things to think about:
Brurberg L, et al. (2015). Exercise as treatment for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003200.pub4/pdf/abstract. Accessed February 23, 2016.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2008). 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (ODPHP Publication No. U0036). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Available online: http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/guidelines/default.aspx.
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Togo F, et al. (2010). Sleep is not disrupted by exercise in patients with chronic fatigue syndromes. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 42(1): 16–22.
White PD, et al. (2011). Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE): A randomised trial. Lancet, 377(9768): 823–826.
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For Democrats in New Mexico, the prospects of regaining the governor's seat this year couldn't be more discouraging. Yet, their only hope—and the only hope for voters who want to say goodbye to Gov. Susana Martinez—lies in one of five candidates who will come out on the other side of the June 3 primary election.
Since taking office in early 2011, Martinez has stuck to a steady stream of talking tough on Republican buzz issues—ending driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants and eliminating the "social promotion" of advancing third graders who can't read, for example. She's also nurtured a carefully crafted public image replete with a familiar conservative "aw shucks" charm and repeatedly underlined important legislative victories like dropping the state's corporate tax rate.
But most importantly for the national Republican Party is how Martinez is living proof that the GOP can get beyond its white, male-dominated country club visage and reach out to Hispanics, who make up about 46 percent of New Mexicans and are the fastest-growing electorate demographic in the nation.
It's an image that's proved lucrative. Her previous and upcoming lavish national fundraisers have lineups of Republican heavyweights like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, rumored presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky. Her most recently reported campaign treasure chest featured more than $4 million in the bank—quadruple that of what Alan Webber, her best-financed Democratic opponent, has reported raising since last fall.
Less than two years into her first term, Martinez was on the shortlist to be presidential contender Mitt Romney's running mate. Her name is already coming up for that slot again in 2016. Or maybe it's for something bigger.
"You just pay attention to my friend Susana Martinez down in New Mexico," boasted former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to US News and World Report in February. "After she gets re-elected I'm hopeful that she raises her visibility because...I hope she decides to run for president."
All of this, plus approval ratings that have stayed above mid-50s, have even some Democrats drinking the Kool-Aid, including Northern New Mexico mayors who appeared in a recent television ad.
The last time an incumbent governor lost an election in New Mexico was 1994, when Republican Gary Johnson took out Democrat Bruce King. Last month, Democratic Governors Association Chairman Peter Shumlin said his organization is unlikely to help Martinez' opposition with money and media buys this year. It's enough to make New Mexico's Democrats, who outnumber Republicans in the state by a 49-32 registration edge, want to wallow in the mire.
Still, the Democratic governor primary is the most contested it's been in 16 years. If history is the guide, turnout will be low. Only registered Democratic voters are allowed to cast ballots in the party's gubernatorial primary. In 1998, just 170,736 of the state's 468,863 registered Democrats showed up to vote for governor in that round.
This time, five candidates make up a crowded ballot. They include two state senators not very well known outside of their districts and a high-ranking Democrat from a political family dynasty. A Santa Fe transplant with business acumen and a longtime bureaucrat round out a race that could be won on a small margin.
The contenders share many of the same positions on raising the minimum wage and reforming education, again.
Voters, however, are looking ahead to which one of them can challenge Martinez competitively. What will it take to unseat her?
Three of the candidates have been playing up their Hispanic heritage. State Sen. Howie Morales, D-Catron, credits his ethnicity with helping him get in the door of the homes of prospective Hispanic voters. Lawrence Rael, a former transportation and City of Albuquerque official, produced Spanish radio ads and has attacked the Martinez administration the hardest for racial implications in a leaked audio tape of an aide referring to former state House Speaker Ben Luján as a "retard."
But Linda Lopez, another state senator running for the nomination, is the most outspoken candidate on the topic.
"As a woman, I feel like I can challenge her in many ways that everybody else cannot," Lopez says of Martinez. "So there's no special qualities that either she or I have; it's at a level playing field. And then we can really debate the issues."
Webber, a short, bald Anglo man, says he's got something else the other candidates lack and that anyone taking on Martinez needs—the ability to raise tons of money. He argues that his name recognition from his background as editor of national business publications mean he has a Rolodex of people all over the country who could help his candidacy.
"There are folks whose names are in the ethers who are trying to be counterweights to the Koch brothers," Webber says, referring to the oil magnates who have supported a plethora of conservative causes, including Martinez. "I think they would be very interested in a candidacy where I am the nominee."
His emphasis on money reflects a statement from former state Democratic Party Chairman Javier Gonzales, now Santa Fe's mayor. Last year, Gonzales said that anyone taking on Martinez had to raise $8 to $10 million to be competitive. But Webber's also been criticized for repeatedly telling news outlets that he doesn't believe in self-financed campaigns, then putting up $450,000 for his own war chest.
Like Gonzales' mayoral campaign earlier this year, Webber is taking pages out of the national progressive playbook, making campaign vows to raise taxes on the rich and hammering Martinez for her association with the Koch brothers.
Originally from St. Louis, Webber got his start in politics in the early 1970s under Neil Goldschmidt, a Portland, Oregon, city councilor who soon became mayor.
Webber wrote speeches and worked on policy for Goldschmidt, which included projects like halting the construction of a major freeway on Portland's east side, establishing groundwork for the city's light rail line and turning an old highway into a waterfront park. Much of it laid the groundwork for the city's progressive image.
"These are the things that, now when people go to Portland, they think it's a very sustainable city," he says. "In the '70s, those were the seeds that were being planted."
Goldschmidt took Webber to Washington in 1979 to work for President Jimmy Carter. But after Ronald Reagan replaced Carter, Goldschmidt went back to Oregon, eventually becoming the state's governor.
Webber moved to Massachusetts, where he became a writer for, and eventually editorial director of, Harvard Business Review. In 1995, he and fellow Harvard writer Bill Taylor launched Fast Company Magazine, which centered on the rapid growth of the new, globalized "idea" economy. He moved to Santa Fe full time about 10 years ago.
Though he's sometimes portrayed as the most liberal candidate in the race, he often dwells on business-friendly lingo when he talks about his vision for the state. He describes the governor's job as "the chief executive officer and the chief marketing officer to tell New Mexico's story." Part of New Mexico's economic future, he argues, includes public-private partnerships and stronger solar incentives.
His model for a successful governor is Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a former businessman whom Webber gives partial credit for helping five Colorado cities rank in the top 25 cities with the most technology startups.
"He's not going around playing beggar thy neighbor games with the bordering states," Webber says of Hickenlooper. "He's saying we have so many technology entrepreneurs, so many social entrepreneurs, so much going on here, you can't afford not to be here."
While Webber focuses big on the economy, Howie Morales takes it a step further: promising 200,000 "net new" jobs by the year 2022. Morales says he can do this because he's the only Democratic candidate who's had experience crafting a state budget.
Known for his polite manner as a lawmaker in the Roundhouse and athletic ability during the annual legislative basketball game, Morales may be the closest thing the Democrats have to a unified candidate. He can count on ground support because of key labor endorsements from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the American Federation of Labor and the Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (better known as OLÉ). At the state Democratic Party preprimary convention in March, Morales won with an eight-point lead in a contest that many expected to be close. There, he gave a rousing stump speech that fired up the crowd.
At the same time, Morales hasn't been able to translate that success into cash. He's raised less than $200,000, the second lowest amount of the five candidates. He's one of three Democratic candidates who have yet to buy TV or radio time.
One of his pet peeves with Martinez is how her administration enacts parts of its agenda through executive order, bypassing the state Legislature the way it did for a controversial teacher evaluation system. A Morales administration, he says, would respect the separation of powers. Although he voted against the corporate tax cuts in 2013, he says changes to them under his administration should come through the Legislature.
Morales does have the distinction of being the only Democratic candidate from southern New Mexico—Martinez' home turf. He came to the state senate in 2008, when former Gov. Bill Richardson appointed him to represent the Silver City area after state Sen. Ben Altamirano's death. Before that, he served as Grant County clerk.
In the early 2000s, he went for his doctorate in education as what he says was a response to seeing No Child Left Behind reforms in the schools. Recently, he's worked as a hospital administrator, a job he left last fall to run for governor.
Morales can cite legislation that he's written that directly addressed many of the problems he and his opponents constantly talk about on the campaign trail. In 2013, he introduced and passed a bill that would have changed the state's teacher evaluation system, essentially replacing the standardized testing component with "peer-assisted reviews." Martinez vetoed the bill.
Though Morales isn't afraid to criticize Martinez, he often says that the race "can't be all about the blame game." It's a style that contrasts with Lawrence Rael's aggressive campaign approach, which has included critique of the governor and sometimes his Democratic opponents.
Rael, a product of a Mexican mother and a New Mexican father, is probably best known for his work on Rail Runner commuter trains when he was the executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments. Before that, he worked as chief administrative officer for the City of Albuquerque. Though his government accomplishments are impressive—including that Rael was appointed by President Obama's administration to direct the Farm Services Agency for New Mexico—his electoral history is lacking, most recently with a failed 2010 attempt at the Democratic Party nomination for lieutenant governor.
This time, he's using the same contacts and heavier rhetoric.
He's called the Martinez administration "rotten to the core" and dubbed one of recent criticisms of public employee unions "a declaration of war."
When Mother Jones magazine published a critical article of Martinez' administration that featured the leaked "retard" comment, Rael quickly assembled a press conference on Albuquerque's Civic Plaza demanding an apology and the resignation of the person who made the comment.
In February, he challenged Morales' ballot nominations in court, arguing that his opponent didn't have enough proper signatures to get his name on the primary ballot. He soon dropped the challenge. He's also busted on Webber for being an outsider.
His campaign promises have similar punches to them. To deal with New Mexico's dwindling water supply, Rael proposes appointing a "water cabinet" of experts who would come up with a comprehensive water strategy. On the question of economic development, Rael says he would form a cabinet of "at least 15 to 20 CEOs" with existing businesses in the state.
Like Webber, Rael says the governor's office should be the "chief executive" of the state. Linda Lopez, an Albuquerque Democratic state senator, rejects the business comparisons. She maintains that the governor "doesn't create jobs" but instead creates environments.
Her proposed economic initiatives include establishing an internship program for young people to work in state government. She's emphasized that she won't create new tax credits or taxes and adds that corporate tax cuts approved at Martinez' urging during the 2013 legislative session would "remain static for now."
Lopez faces arguably the biggest uphill battle to the nomination of any of the candidates. At the preprimary convention, she received less than 20 percent of the delegate vote. She's also raised the smallest amount of money of any of the candidates, reporting less than $64,000.
On the campaign trail, her statements sometimes come out as anemic.
"I even go as far to say that [Martinez] doesn't even like who she is," Lopez said at a recent candidate forum. "And if she doesn't like who she is, how can she like our state, much less love it?"
Lopez has served in the state senate for almost 20 years, first elected in 1996 by ousting an incumbent to represent Albuquerque's South Valley, which is 80 percent Hispanic and contains many low-income residents. She's tried at higher positions before, including failed attempts at the state Senate pro-tem position and the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 2010, where she came in fourth in a field of five, and Rael had a stronger showing at second.
Though she often clashed with former Gov. Bill Richardson during his two terms, most voters recognize her today as chair of the Senate Rules Committee. Lopez led roasts of interim Public Education Department Secretary Hannah Skandera in 2013—who still hasn't had a confirmation vote from the Senate floor—and asked Martinez to answer questions about the Downs at Albuquerque racino deal earlier this year. Martinez declined to attend the hearing.
Lopez is running for governor, she says, because it's something she's been planning to do since high school. It's an answer similar to that of Gary King, who, when pressed, says that, "If Susana Martinez weren't running for governor, I'd probably still be running."
King tried it twice before he became the state's attorney general seven years ago. He lost the primary in 1998 to former Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez, who lost in the general election that year to incumbent Gov. Johnson. In 2002, King made another attempt at governor but dropped out of the primary when it became clear that Richardson had more money and name recognition.
This time, King argues it's his turn, pointing out that he's since won two statewide elections, receiving more votes in his 2010 reelection for attorney general than Martinez did for governor. He has the strongest name recognition in the primary, beating his Democratic opponents by more than 20 points in poll released two months ago by a DC firm.
The Democratic Party base, however, hasn't exactly shown excitement in King's candidacy, which he announced nearly two years ago. At the preprimary convention, King fared the worst with just 10 percent of the delegate support. He attributes that to his previous prosecutions of Democratic Party officeholders like former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, who was indicted in 2009 on charges of fraud, money laundering and embezzlement.
"There are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who have an axe to grind with me right now, and the convention was an opportunity to show their displeasure," King says.
But critics point to a troubled term as attorney general, which included dropping the ball on several corruption investigations. Vigil-Giron, for example, was cleared in 2012 when a district judge ruled that King's office had broken her right to a speedy trial.
King, who speaks with a wonky, nasally tone, acknowledges that he hasn't been great with messaging in his role as attorney general.
"Most of the criticism that I get comes from either political pundits or party activists," he says. "I think if you go out and talk to people who we've helped keep their house, or people we've helped recover from an identity scam, or people whose child was abused by a relative and who we've now put the relative in jail…all of those people are pretty happy with what I'm doing."
A former state lawmaker, King is best known as being the son of former Gov. Bruce King, who's still revered in state political circles.
King grew up on a ranch near Moriarty. In college, he went into chemistry, eventually earning a doctorate at the University of Colorado. He also earned a law degree from University of New Mexico. He was first elected to the state Legislature in 1986, where he worked on laws to protect water, regulate solid waste and promote alternative fuel use in state vehicles.
As attorney general, he cites accomplishments in going after human trafficking. In fact, more of his campaign speeches address past feats over plans he has for the state as governor.
He's adamant that childhood welfare has to change, citing recent controversies in the Children, Youth and Families Department, a state department that his mother Alice King helped spearhead in the 1990s when she was first lady.
One idea he has for revamping education is to allow elementary school teachers to rotate on teaching certain subjects the way that they do in middle school and high school. Unlike some of his Democratic Party counterparts, he says he's not crazy about the idea of dropping the education secretary position and bringing back the old state school board.
"It was so low on the totem pole that people didn't know who they were electing to the state school board," he says.
Mainly, he argues that he's not done with public service and still has much to add. Several remain skeptical that King or any of his four opponents can successfully take on Martinez this fall. Former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, who lost to Martinez in the general election four years ago, says two things need to happen. First, the Democrats have to be excited and united around next month's primary winner, and then they need to create a "distrust and dislike" perception in voters of the current governor.
"People turn out if they have something to vote for or vote against," she says.
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Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly said Morales voted to table a bill that would have brought greater state government oversight to Tierra Blanca. Although the bill was tabled, that happened in another committee. SFR regrets the error.