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How HIV/AIDS Activism Shaped Nepal, Changed the World
In 2008, shortly after arriving in Achham, in the far west of Nepal, I met a woman with advanced AIDS. She would die shortly thereafter of fulminant pneumonia. Her death was over a decade after highly active antiretroviral therapy came out, a scientific achievement made possible by a social movement that mobilized resources for HIV/AIDS.
Social movements rarely move fast enough, especially in a landlocked, impoverished place emerging from a civil war, and her death was a humbling reminder.
Last week, Congress reauthorized, by a bipartisan consensus, funding for both the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a testament to the staying power of the HIV/AIDS social movement that, even in such polarizing times, with a White House skeptical about foreign assistance and the government's role in public health, Congress would act with such moral clarity.
The global HIV/AIDS social movement had a profound impact on my generation of medical students. In my freshman year of medical school in 2002, Randy Shilt's And the Band Played On was as foundational a text as Frank Netter's magisterial Atlas of Human Anatomy or Boron and Boulpaep's epic Medical Physiology. These words shaped everything I know about treating patients.
Shilt would die of HIV/AIDS seven years after the publication of his book. He, like so many other artists, taught me what I didn't learn in a classroom: how to respond to tragedy, pain, and suffering.
In the United States, medicine has been defined by the cultural and organizational norms of white men, reflective of who, historically, had privilege to serve as physicians. HIV/AIDS social movements pushed at those historical roots. Concepts like global health, patient centeredness, adherence, implicit bias, LGBTQI care, social justice, and human rights are now at least familiar to medical students. These activists taught us radical love that transcended simple categories.
On this 30th World AIDS Day, the 10th year since Possible (with local NGO Nyaya Health Nepal) started delivering care in Achham, so much has changed, yet structural barriers, biases, and economics continue to conspire to lead to preventable deaths.
Over 40 million people around the world have died of HIV/AIDS. As of 2018, there were approximately 1 million deaths due to the now-highly-treatable disease.
In Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, where we have worked over the past decade, the day is observed with an early morning gathering. Staff gather in circle, light candles and retell the motivation that led us to this work more than ten years ago.
Bayalpata Hospital has been the largest and highest quality of HIV care in the far west, and one of the first to implement CD4 counting. This program, including all medications, is exclusively funded by the government, and one example where the government has championed both policy and practice.
Treating HIV/AIDS was our first example of longitudinal care delivery, and provided a path toward building a truly integrated health system. It helped us consider the broader social aspects of health, and the role of communities in improving health outcomes.
Today, I remember the genius of tactivists who changed the world, eventually influencing even the most remote corners, as they faced death and mourned the loss of family and friends.
Duncan Maru, MD, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of Possible.
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Last year over 400 students enjoyed Christmas Dinner with their friends and Mentors and we are hoping once again even more students will participate!
This year we are holding our Christmas Dinner on Thursday 17th December and tickets are on sale from the office now, priced at £3.00 each. This includes a full Christmas dinner, pudding, drink and festive confectionery treat. Specific dietary requirements can be catered for if your child lets the office know when purchasing their ticket.
Students will need to bring in cash to purchase these tickets as this cannot be processed through our cashless system.
- Please note that the deadline for purchasing tickets is Friday 11th December 2015.
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- No other break or lunchtime purchases will be available, therefore any student who is not participating in the Christmas Dinner will need to make arrangements to bring in a packed lunch and other refreshments required.
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A friend told us she was weeping a few weeks ago. She wept after reading about the imminent 6 degree Celsius increase in temperature expected by the end of the century and what this increase means for us all.
She wrote:
"I'm sad today and cried. For our planet and for us. Scientists tell us we're on track for a 6 degree temperature rise by the turn of the century. That's antithetical to life. Many will die. Most of the Earth's species will be extinct. The Earth will heat to 12 degrees hotter in 300 years.
We could stop climate change fast in 10 years if we adopted a vegan diet. Meat, eggs and dairy production is the number one GHG polluter, more than electricity and cars. The good news is that the methane they emit (72 times more heat trapping than carbon) has a short life of a decade. Switching to green technology such as electric cars, bikes, solar & wind is essential. But the carbon we've already emitted wont leave the atmosphere for the next 100 to 300 years. The fastest way to stop climate disaster is to go vegan. Also, we MUST become a nonviolent species if we want to survive and share life with other animals. If we don't. There'll be nothing left. We'll have killed them all. Let's stop the violence. Let's stop the slavery and the violence on 57 billion farmed animals. Let's stop the killing of 9 trillion fishes every year. We *have* to be vegan. Nonviolence and respecting life is the only way."
Her 5 year old son heard his mother weeping in her bedroom. Later that evening, she explained to him that the planet was warming and it made her very sad and she didn't know what to do. To which her 5 yr old son replied, "I know what to do Mummy. You need to do the Sunday markets vegan stall everyday. Not just sometimes". She thought this "Perhaps he's right."
Upon hearing this young innocent vegan child's response to his mother, I felt a great sadness.
At five years old, he knows how important it is for our world to be vegan. He knows that it's wrong and it's violence to kill animals for food, clothing, entertainment or other reasons and he has learned through his mother's chats with him, that animal use industry's contribution to global warming is killing many species and the planet.
The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organisation based in Washington, D.C. Worldwatch: it was named one of the top ten sustainable development research organisations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.A Worldwatch report in 2009 revealed the 51%of greenhouse gases are from animal use industry. If a 5 yr old can understand what veganism is and why it is so important, why can't adults grasp this or more is the case, why do they refuse to acknowledge it? Why do green groups and government do their utmost to ignore this report and to ignore anyone who raises this issue? Obviously they value their positions, their donations and their palate pleasure, habits and convenience over the survival of the planet.
Which takes me to an 2011 essay I read by Pulitzer prize recipient Chris Hedges titled "This time we are taking the whole planet with us". Chris Hedges writes a weekly column each Monday for Truthdig. Mr Hedges has written a wonderful follow-up essay titled "The Myth of Human Progress". The 2011 essay is probably the first time in a very long time that I have had heard someone tell it like it is, which was a little shocking but it was a relief. I say relief because the mainstream media seem to do their best to distract us with shock tabloid news in place of real news.
I would like to share an excerpt of his essay:
"Civilisations rise, decay and die. Time, as the ancient Greeks argued, for individuals and for states, is cyclical. As societies become more complex they become inevitably more precarious. They become increasingly vulnerable. And as they begin to break down there is a strange retreat by a terrified and confused population from reality, an inability to acknowledge the self-evident fragility and impending collapse. The elites at the end speak in phrases and jargon that do not correlate to reality. They retreat into isolated compounds, whether at the court at Versailles, the Forbidden City or modern palatial estates. The elites indulge in unchecked hedonism, the accumulation of vaster wealth and extravagant consumption. They are deaf to the suffering of the masses who are repressed with greater and greater ferocity. Resources are more ruthlessly depleted until they are exhausted. And then the hollowed-out edifice collapses. The Roman and Sumerian empires fell this way. The Mayan elites, after clearing their forests and polluting their streams with silt and acids, retreated backward into primitivism. "
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The Mayan elite became, at the end, as the anthropologist Ronald Wright notes in A Short History of Progress, '… extremists, or ultra-conservatives, squeezing the last drops of profit from nature and humanity.' This is how all civilisations, including our own, ossify and die. The signs of imminent death may be undeniable. Common sense may cry out for a radical new response. But the race toward self-immolation only accelerates because of intellectual and moral paralysis."
How apt is Mr Hedges' description. It applies perfectly to our own species' predicament. It's true what Santayana once said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
In a video titled "Unfettered Capitalism" Mr Hedges says this:
"It's dying. We are in the throws of a giddy intoxication with illusion. That's what happens when societies die, the worse it gets, the more disconnected they become. And that's how you end up with demagogues and tyrants who promise magic."
But back to my friend's sadness over the imminent catastrophe of anthropogenic climate change. It reminded me of Thich Nhat Hahn, a Zen Buddhist master, when he said:
"[y]ou have to breathe very deeply in order to acknowledge the hard fact that we humans may disappear in just 100 years on Earth."
Thich Nhat Hanh was speaking to "The Ecologist" in 2012 about the very strong probability of mass extinction of 95 percent of species including humans in 100 years; how our lives and the lives of other species are inter-related and that protecting the lives of other species (including not exploiting nonhumans) "was a joy and love itself".
The very real probability of mass extinction has made me sad for some time now. In my early 20s, I must admit I had a very limited and naive view of the world. Fortunately I was to meet some anarchist feminists, one who was a lecturer in women's studies in Queensland. But prior to meeting these women, life seemed quite simple and I thought that those in power had the public's best interest at heart. Yes I did say I was naive 😉 It was the early 80s. I was a student nurse. I went to work each day, working long shift hours. I had hardly any social life. I would come home quite exhausted, make dinner, clean up, maybe read, or watch something on TV and then go to sleep. My life was quite full and I enjoyed putting my whole self into helping those who were sick, but I had little awareness of what was transpiring in the world around me.
That's the nature of work sometimes.
We are so busy working and performing everyday activities, that the really important stuff is happening and we are blissfully unaware. The planet is being sold out from underneath us. As Chris Hedges said, "we have undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion ". All of this has taken place while we are busy with our jobs, going out, consuming and sleeping. The mainstream media helps keep us ignorant since it is basically controlled by six big corporations, corporations that have an interest in keeping us ignorant while they exploit and use up the planet.
Prof. Noam Chomsky had this to say on Jan 8, 2013 about the mainstream media and the non-proliferation treaty meeting that was to be held in Helsinki:
If you look at what's called the free press. It's quite interesting. There's not a single word about this. There's not even a single word about the upcoming conference which is the obvious way to deal with whatever threat you want. That's pretty impressive. I don't think you could achieve that in a totalitarian state. And it's not under government pressure. Government can't…. It's not under conspiracy. It's just internalised in the educated classes. That you don't expose the crimes of state. It's so deeply internalised, they can't even think of doing it.
Prof. Noam Chomsky:
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
It's quite amazing that of all the centuries I could have been born in, I didn't expect I would be around to witness the beginning of the end of our species and the end of many other species. Someone who is very close to me and who has been working on issues of the environment since the 70's shared her experience with me. She had worked with the Australian Greens as a policy writer for a number of years. She told me she realised even way back in the 80s it was futile trying to get anyone to recognise the urgency of the issue of global warming, let alone get someone to take action. She could see the writing on the wall clearly even back then. The time to seriously act was in the 80s. It's now 2013 and still there is no real action.
I am a couple of generations older than my friend's son, but even if I live a long life and am still around in the 2040s, the effects of global warming will be bad enough. And if these frequent catastrophic climate events (which are the new normal) are anything to go by, it's hard to imagine how bad it will be mid-century, let alone if my friend's son lives to be a ripe old age.
In 1978, my sister Tina died suddenly at age 19. She was 18 months older than me. She told me she wanted to be an environmental scientist which was a very unusual career choice at that time. I still marvel that she was able to see the importance of this issue even then. I often wonder what she would have thought of our current situation were she still alive today.
In 1978, almost 35 years ago, the population of our world was almost half what it is today (today's population is an unsustainable 7 billion +). By the time my friend's son is 42 (mid-century), the population according to the UN is expected to be 9.2 billion which is frightening to contemplate. Realistically speaking, a sustainable human population is approximately less than 1/7th of the current population. I often think that part of our species' craziness is the fact that we were not meant to be living in such close quarters with each other. I live in a rural location on an island. It is sparsely populated. There's a certain amount of calmness, friendliness and contentedness that I do not see in much more densely populated areas on the mainland.
Every time I see a baby, a part of me delights in their innocence and wonder and another part of me feels deeply saddened at what they will have to face in a few decades time. I feel sad for all my friends. I feel sad for all those I've never met. I feel sad for those in "developing countries" who will be the ones most badly effected as global warming worsens.
Last but not least, I feel deeply saddened for all the non-humans. In particular the non-humans whom we have domesticated and whom we have tortured and murdered on an unimaginable scale yearly for reasons of pleasure and convenience. I feel saddened for non-humans who are desperately struggling to survive on a planet dominated by such a violent selfish dysfunctional species. On a positive note (and I don't mean this to sound misanthropist), non-humans who survive the climate catastrophe will see the end of animal exploitation with our species' extinction.
Over the years –although I have felt a bit like Sisyphus — I was hoping that one day — maybe in a hundred years — animal exploitation would end as the result of nonviolent vegan education, but now I doubt we will be around long enough even for that to take hold. And it's probable that in a few millions of years there will be no evidence of us at all. Even Stonehenge will probably be worn away or buried. But there is a silver lining. The planet and some species will replenish and evolve and if the planet and other species are lucky, there will never be the likes of our species ever again. Once again I do not mean to sound misanthropic, just to acknowledge that, to a large degree, our species is a failed experiment.
As author Roland Wright said
If we fail in this great experiment, this experiment of apes becoming intelligent enough to take charge of their own destiny, nature will shrug and say it was fun for a while to let the apes run the laboratory, but in the end it was a bad idea.
But there is something that weighs heavy me and very difficult to deal with, something I never expected, and that is the shame I feel about my own species. Some may understand why I say this when they contemplate the following.
"We intentionally breed, raise, and murder approximately 56 billion innocent land animals annually, worldwide. That's about 1.07 billion weekly, or about 153 million daily. The total of the highest estimates, with some double counting, of all humans killed in all wars, all genocides, and all other human-caused atrocities in recorded human history is about 619 million. That means we kill as many innocent, sentient nonhumans in less than five days days (for food choices alone, excluding animals who live in water) than we have killed humans in recorded history.
If we cut animal product consumption by 90% worldwide, we would murder about 15.3 million daily, and within 41 days, we would murder about 627.3 million (compare to the 619 million human mass-murder total in all recorded history)."
Please note these statistics do not include sea animals because it is very hard to estimate the number of sea animals murdered each year due to "by-catch" being thrown overboard etc. Some estimates go from 160 billion sea animals per year to 3 trillion plus a year and some estimates reach 7 trillion plus. Scientists estimate that the oceans will be "empty" by 2048.
If ever there was an indication of where our species is heading, one only has to look at our response to a DARA report from 2012. DARA– according to their site– is an independent organisation committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of aid for vulnerable populations suffering from conflict, disasters and climate change. A DARA report in 2012 revealed 100 million people (mostly in "developing countries") would die by 2030 if action to halt climate change fails. The mainstream media mentioned this report for a couple of days and then we were back to infotainment and tabloid news. (Two main U.S news stations mentioned climate change a total of 9 minutes in 2012). And governments still move at a glacial pace regarding serious action.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic once said:
After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
It only takes one unpleasant person in a share house to make everyone else's life miserable and make the house uninhabitable. However in a share house situation one can ask them to leave. This is not the case on this planet. On this planet, there's millions of people many consumed by social media, ignoring the writing on the wall either because they don't want to know, or they don't care or they are — sorry to say – just not very intelligent. And the truth is corporations — who dominate government — will not stop using the planet until it's all used up. The planet is like one big share house, except it's getting more and more overcrowded and there's no where to go; a few rooms are on fire; a few of the folks causing the fires are sitting in the lounge room partying, while the house steadily burns down.
When things start getting tough — poverty and depression – "history" demonstrates that the elites and the general population turn on the most vulnerable. (I haven't included nonhumans in this even though they are the most vulnerable and have always been victims of exploitation no matter what the circumstance.) This is what we are witnessing now against LGBTI community and other minority groups; Muslims, women, certain cultures and races etc. We already witness this in Greece where austerity measures have been followed by a rise in racism, fascism, and intolerance. And we see it in the US where there's the culture of gun violence and a lunatic right-wing fringe, which has worsened over the last few decades. We saw this prior to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany.
Frederick Douglass (1818 -1895 Abolitionist, American social reformer, writer and statesman) wrote:
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
We are witnessing a global social breakdown.
Some young people have not noticed it because they are distracted by popular culture, social media and finding out who they are. By the time they realise it will be well and truly upon us. If someone said to a psychologist, that they did not have much hope despite a demonstrating the contrary by continuing to work on nonviolence issues– the psychologist would probably say (for the record) that person is depressed. But one could ask, how mentally balanced would one be, NOT to be depressed by the state of the world?
Without sounding like some people who always harken back to the "good ole days" when it was supposedly much better, in the early 80's in Australia, life seemed fairly simple, (at least for non-indigenous people). Food was much cheaper, it was easier to be an artist and survive; there was free public education at university; there was a sense of hope and fairness; there was still an adoration of war and all things patriarchal, but there was optimism that there was the possibility of doing things differently. Things seemed possible. There wasn't the great struggle we find now across the board. That was only 25 to 30 years ago. So much has changed since then, particularly in the last 10 years.
But then there is an issue I think is incredibly important which makes me feel like a true alien on the planet. Intellectuals overlook, downplay or ignore it. Even some of the social justice thinkers whom I greatly admire have not acknowledged or spoken of the greatest social justice issue of our time. What is it? The next great social justice movement — Veganism – the rejection of the property status of nonhuman animals and the recognition of their moral personhood. Such is the power of speciesism even Prof Chomsky has not thought this issue through enough to become vegan. Prof. Chomsky — when asked about the merits of it — acknowledged that being "vegetarian" had merit. I don't know if he was making moral distinctions between flesh and other animal products and other forms of animal use or whether he meant vegan instead of vegetarian, but in any event he said he was not "vegetarian". Like I said, speciesism is powerful.
Prof. Noam Chomsky:
I don't know if [everyone will be vegan in] a hundred years, but it seems to me if history continues–that's not at all obvious, that it will–but if society continues to develop without catastrophe on something like the course that you can sort of see over time, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if it moves toward vegetarianism and protection of animal rights. In fact, what we've seen over the years–and it's hard to be optimistic in the twentieth century, which is one of the worst centuries in human history in terms of atrocities and terror and so on–but still, over the years, including the twentieth century, there is a widening of the moral realm, bringing in broader and broader domains of individuals who are regarded as moral agents.
Question: So then it's plausible that vegetarians, animal rights advocates and the like are just a couple of steps ahead in discerning something about …
Chomsky: It's possible. I think I'd certainly keep an open mind on that. You can understand how it could be true. It's certainly a pretty intelligible idea to us. I think one can see the moral force to it. …
Religious leaders are very resistant to veganism and often reject it out of hand without any consideration, except for maybe Thich Nhat Hahn whom I understand is vegan. Then the green groups who stomp their feet about coal and oil industries destroying the planet, go out of their way to ignore the major contribution of animal use industry. As I mentioned earlier, 51% of GHG are from animal use industry which means that if we all became vegan, not only would we be addressing the injustice of exploiting, torturing and murdering billions upon billions of non-human persons each year, but we would be taking our future into our own hands (*not leaving it to corporations and government) and addressing climate change by going vegan. But when I go to supermarkets, people are not even capable to stop their use of plastic bags. What does that say about us?
Something I feel particularly sad about — but I rarely acknowledge to myself — is that all the work people have done and have died for in a struggle for a nonviolent peaceful world in the end will be for naught, because we as a species are too stupid, too greedy as a whole, to be able to even entertain the notion of nonviolence, let alone actualise it in our own lives.
I remember reading an article called "When Noam Chomsky Wept" last year. The author had known Prof Chomsky for many decades. He wrote:
I was particularly moved one night as I was sitting opposite him at dinner, struck as usual by the enormous distance between what Noam knows about U.S. leaders' slaughter of innocents around the world and what the public realises I suddenly thought of Winston Smith from Orwell's "1984," who sees little hope of changing society and focuses only on trying to remain sane and commit to paper the truth in the hope that future generations will remember it. I told Noam that to me, at that moment, he represented Winston Smith to me.
I will always remember his reaction.
He just looked at me.
And smiled sadly.
I mentioned earlier Chris Hedges' piece "The Myth of Human Progress".
"Clive Hamilton in his "Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change" describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that "catastrophic climate change is virtually certain." This obliteration of "false hopes," he says, requires an intellectual knowledge and an emotional knowledge. The first is attainable. The second, because it means that those we love, including our children, are almost certainly doomed to insecurity, misery and suffering within a few decades, if not a few years, is much harder to acquire. To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth—intellectually and emotionally—and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us."
I know there are many people out there who are working for a just and nonviolent world who must feel the same way. I recall an excerpt of a poem "Another Time" by W. H. Auden:
"Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
So with this knowledge, we must try more and more to live in the moment and do what we can to benefit others and that includes nonhumans and the best way to respect them is to become vegan.
I would like to leave you with this quote.
Knowing Love, I will allow all things to come and go,
To be as supple as the wind,
And take everything that comes with great courage…
My heart is as open as the sky
Maya, in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (film by Mira Nair)
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The kids dressed in their Halloween attire to go to school on this Friday Halloween. They were so excited for the "Fall Parties." Heaven for bid we call them what them are, Halloween Parties.
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He ran a series of tests on my blood and during my follow-up visit he found that my iron load was 80% higher than it should be. Odd, since I don't take any type of iron supplement whatsoever. Thankfully, everything else on the blood panel was normal. He decided to run another blood test just in case it was fluke but he also ran a DNA test for hemochromatosis, a condition where your body can't remove iron and it builds up in your major organs causing serious medical issues.
I received my follow-up blood results in the mail and everything, including iron, was normal. Hooray for lab mistakes! Give me allllll the hamburgers!
Two days later I received a call from his nurse. "The doctor would like to meet with you to discuss the results of your test." Huh? I'm invincible. The blood test said so. So, like the calm, rational adult I am, I Googled hemochromatosis for the next four hours, worried that for years I had poisoned my guts, and vowed to never touch iron again. Hell, I swore off clothes irons too (I'll take what I can). "I can't do the ironing, I have a medical condition."
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ABOVE: Me in August 2011...if you'd seen my smile before, this is a HUGE difference! Sorry for the weird smile, I went as wide as possible so you could see better.
In case you didn't know, I have braces on my teeth...it's a long story...and since so many people ask me about them when they first notice them on my teeth when I talk, I figured I'd lay it all out here and share it with everyone in one place.
My whole life I've always had healthy and straight(ish) teeth, and when I first told people I was getting braces last year, they didn't understand why. When I was 14 or so, my dentist told my mother after a cleaning that I might want to see an orthodontist, but she ignored his recommendation, and I didn't think anything of it. Over the years, however, I gradually had more issues. I clenched my teeth at night, which led eventually, in my early 20s, to requiring that I wear a nightguard when I slept. My teeth constantly ached and I started to get some hairline cracks in a few molars. I thought this was simply a result of my clenching at night. However, when I was 29, my dentist told me after a cleaning that I should go see an orthodontist since he'd noticed a worsening of my open bite over the 7 years I'd been seeing him. Now, I had no idea what an open bite was, but when he described it to me, I realized I'd had it my whole life and just didn't know any different. Basically, when I would close my jaw and bite down, my front teeth did not touch...there was open space until you got to my pre-molars. He referred me to an orthodontist for a consult...
My orthodontist examined me and took molds and X-rays of my teeth and jaw, studied them, and told me I'd need braces *and* upper jaw surgery! My issues were: the open bite, edge-to-edge biting, a crossbite, and a palate that was too narrow. A normal palate is wider than the lower jaw so that when you bite down, the outer edges of the top teeth slightly overlap the bottom teeth. Mine were the opposite. Also, because of my misaligned bite, only one tooth on *each* side of my jaw actually touched when I bit down. That meant that every time I bit into something (or clenched my teeth at night), four teeth TOTAL bore all of the pressure of my bite, and in case you didn't know, the human jaw can exert a LOT of pressure when biting down. This was a major cause of my headaches, sore teeth, and cracking teeth.
So, as a 30 year old man, I got full braces put on in April 2010, as well as a palate expander. After some wrangling with my insurance company to cover the insurance (they initially declined the claim from the oral surgeon's office, even though it stated ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE that this procedure was covered, and when it was resubmitted, they accepted without issue. This whole process delayed my surgery from May 2010 until September 2010. And a lot of Americans think we need *MORE* government regulations/oversight on the insurance industry? But that's a topic for another post...).
I had my surgery in September 2010, and let me tell you it was PAINFUL. Well, waking up afterwards and the first week at home were. I had what was called a Lefort 1 Palate-Ostomy (or something like that). Basically, the surgeon sliced through my palate across my gum line (above my teeth) from one side to the other (and through my sinuses), bent it down, and sliced my palate in half (think of a straight line starting at my front teeth and going back toward my throat). He then stitched it all closed where my gums meet my upper lip inside my mouth, so that I would have no scar on the roof of my mouth. He gave my expander the first few cranks and, as per my orthodontist, I needed to turn the expander 3 times a day for 2 weeks. When I woke up, my face was incredibly puffy, swollen, and tender. My nose was 100% clogged with dried blood from cutting through the sinuses (which is completely normal for this type of procedure), and I had a large gap between my front teeth! This last thing was weird for me, since I'd always had nice, tight teeth. My instructions were to go home, sleep, eat only liquid/soft foods for the first 2 weeks, and turn the expander 3 times a day. The surgeon saw me 3 days post-op for a follow-up and said everything looked great and I was recovering very quickly...he was pleased.
I do have to say the recovery, after the first 3-4 days, was actually not bad. I was back at work 6 days after the surgery...face was still swollen and tender but otherwise I was fine. I wouldn't have been at all as successful if it weren't for my amazing wife Kristie, who stayed with me at the hospital, fed me ice cream and crushed popsicles with a spoon in the hospital after I woke up, waited on me hand and foot the first few days, and still managed to take care of our 3 kids, including dropping off and picking up the two oldest at school every day, toting around our toddler son, *AND* she was pregnant with our daughter! I can never thank her enough!!
After expanding for two weeks, I had a HUGE gap between my front teeth, and the width of my palate was so noticeable and different. Kristie mentioned it made my face and smile look different, and she was right...I think it's so much better now! The orthodontist at this point wired the expander shut and told me to come back in 6 weeks after the palate now had a chance to heal and fuse itself back to my skull. Since then, I go see him every 3-6 weeks for adjustments...the expander remained in place until April 2011 (in order to hold the shape of my palate constant), but let me tell you, when it was removed, it was an amazing feeling...that thing was a pain to clean, although by that point I was so used to it that my speaking was normal (when I first got it, it made me sound like I had a speech impediment).
Over the last 9 months, my orthodontic treatment has included twisting my teeth, wire ties, alignment, and powerchains. The gaps in my upper teeth are almost closed...I go back in two weeks for another powerchain, and hopefully it'll take 1 or 2 more to pull the teeth completely together. After that, we'll get down to "fine-tuning" orthodontics...straightening out all of the teeth, lining them up, and fixing my crossbite. The amazing thing is now my bite is correct, my palate is wider than my lower jaw, all of my teeth touch when I bite down, and I have no more open bite! I can touch my front teeth together for the first time in my life, which is a really weird feeling that I'm getting used to, but it looks great, and when I smile I flash a lot more teeth than I used to, which makes me feel more confident. I always used to hate my smile since you only could ever see a small amount of my top teeth when I did. Now, it looks normal and my wife always tells me how much nicer it looks (she always liked it before but I agree with her, it's better now!).
While my teeth can range from being sore to *REALLY REALLY* sore after each adjustment (anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks, where I only eat soup and soft foods until the soreness goes away), I'll take that any day over the post-op pain! I'm estimated to have braces for another 12-18 months at this point...obviously that could change, but I know it'll all be worth it in the end!
One huge thing I was worried about when I first got braces was how self-conscious I'd be. Everyone expects kids and teenagers to have braces, but I was a 30 year old professional who was going to have a full on "metal mouth" and felt a bit nervous about that. However, everyone has been really cool about it all. Most people mention that they notice them and ask questions...I don't mind answering people's curiosity about my braces at all. Additionally, since I got my braces, I've noticed a LOT of adults with braces, whether I'm out at a store, restaurant, etc. I'm not sure if more adults have them than before or if I just notice them more, but it definitely lets me know I'm not as "rare" as I thought to have them!
Plus, my daughters think they're cool and want to get them when they're older (if they only knew...) and I let them pick the color of my elastics every time I get an adjustment...my only rule is no pink or purple!
THE WORST PART OF HAVING BRACES? Cleaning them! When I started out, it took me a good 20 minutes...now that I'm used to it, I can clean and brush in about 5-7 minutes. I clean after every meal, and my routine is: first, I clean between every bracket with a proximal brush, then I floss with threader floss between each bracket, and then I brush, being careful to get on the underside of each bracket to make sure I get everything. It's a bit of a hassle but every cleaning I've had since getting braces, my dentist has told me I'm one of the few people whose teeth are just as clean with braces as without, so clearly it's worth it!
I'm sorry if this post is too long or boring...maybe it's a bit self-indulgent but I wanted to share this, especially since so many people have asked me about the whole process/experience over the last year and a half. I'm always happy to answer any questions so have at it!


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The metal doors stood open. She slowed down her pace as she approached the doors. The memories began to flash in her mind. The endless days that she had gone through the doors so many years ago came to mind. She could not remember everyday. Who could? But there were details that she could remember.
The building was empty. She walked to the glass case to her left to look at the awards, pictures, and memorabilia. To her right were the rooms of justice and the hub. The rooms were either terrifying or grand, depending on why you were in the rooms.
The main foyer was the heart of the building. The high ceilings carried the sounds down each hall. The echo of the beating hearts. The staircases lead either up or down to different floors. The painted cement steps and the painted metal hand rails had stood the test of time. How many hands had been guided to their futures by unnoticed element such as hand rails?
She took the double staircase up to the top floor. Each room was open for anyone to step in and remember. She knew each room. She ran her fingers along the lockers, stopping at ones that she remembered. They were cold but every memory made them warm and enduring.
The middle stairs lead to the bottom floor. She traced the hand rails as she peered into the dim light of the bottom floor.
The bottom floor was much longer than the top floor. The rooms dim glow of the mid day sun brought back the memories. The halls wrapped around the staircase. She smiled and almost laughed as she walked the halls. The halls echoing the memories as she walked by. She could see the faces and hear the voices in her mind.
The popular ones that hovered around the end locker. They were all so perfect and beautiful. They carried the teen magazines and wore the yellow gold pinky ring. They laughed and smiled unaware. They knew the trend and the style.
Walking by them were the boys that dreamed of stadium stardom. Their dreams built on lucky moments and cheers under the Friday night lights. Their skill trained to know every move. They were the strength, the ability and the fame of the building.
The smart kids that could quote the poets of literature, that solved the equations of x and y stood by the room at the end of the hall. They were the future doctors, nurses, attorneys, mayors, congressman and police chiefs.
The outsiders that seemed chained to the exit doors. The ones that hide in the crowd. The ones that did not fit in. They were forgettable in the eyes of others. They stood back and watched the others live lives that they could only dream of. What would it be like on the other side of their reflection? What would it hurt to dream?
Her mind drifted to the heated touches of stolen moments in the halls. The tears that the walls had seen from first heartbreaks and betrayals. The secret glances between first loves floated overhead. The excitement of a new school year or the promise of the coming summer echoed through the years.
She retreated to the foyer. She crossed to the blue double doors which stood open. She peered from the platform at the hardwood floors that shined like there was a sheet of ice that covered them. She walked lightly onto the floor. Her memory heard the cheers and yells. The dedication, drive and the skill that was required for greatness was born on that floor. The unity of a team lived on the walls with dates of greatness.
She walked to the open doors of the next room. The room was hollow and open. The painted music notes along the upper walls. The room of art and discipline. The sounds of instruments coming to life were everywhere. The young dreamers that walked the lines of the sheet music on a field of grass were known. They controlled the crowd in the highs and lows. The music full of pride and promise. Victory or defeat? It did not matter to the music, it remained the same.
She walked back to the foyer. She stood there alone.
She felt the sting of tears fill her eyes. The names from the headstones of the souls gone to soon crossed her mind. The lost ones that were taken at random over the years since the halls had echoed their laughter. Her tears ran slowly down her face. She could see their beautiful and handsome faces. How could they have known the tragedy of their lives? They were not forgotten and deeply missed. Her heart pleaded for the answer of the questions of "Why?" and "If?". A answer not found for rhyme or reason, just God's will.
She walked slowly out the doors. She silently looked back at the building. They had lived a lifetime in the walls of the building. They had become the foundation of who they were to become. They had made mistakes that were long forgotten and memories that were unforgettable.
The four years from two decades ago had been the opening credits of their lives. Each one was the writer and director of their life story. Every story played to destiny's design.


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Here are some future All-Stars from NL East
Maybe they're still in the Minors. Maybe they're developing on the big league level. But the next group of MLB All-Stars is on the way. As this year's All-Star Game approaches, MLB.com is taking at look at each club's next player to make the leap to All-Star status. • VOTE
Maybe they're still in the Minors. Maybe they're developing on the big league level. But the next group of MLB All-Stars is on the way. As this year's All-Star Game approaches, MLB.com is taking at look at each club's next player to make the leap to All-Star status.
• VOTE NOW: Google MLB All-Star Ballot
Here's the NL East:
Braves: OF Cristian Pache
This could be overthinking a little bit, but let's assume that Austin Riley and Mike Soroka both make the 2019 squad. If that's the case, it's kind of a difficult question as to who's next. The Braves have a phalanx of young talent, but most of the hitters have already arrived, and many of the pitchers have been up and down. That leaves Pache, who has added power to his significant base of skills this year. After a difficult debut at Double-A last year, he's already hit nine homers at Mississippi in 2019. He's already a big league-caliber outfielder with elite speed and a passable strike zone. If the power spike is real, he won't just be playing in the big leagues soon -- he'll be starring.
Marlins: OF Monte Harrison
It wouldn't be shocking if one of the young starting pitchers took the next step. Caleb Smith has been very good this year and Pablo Lopez looks significantly improved. But none of them has really shown All-Star level promise. The young Marlins starter with the best stuff, Sandy Alcantara, doesn't miss bats at a significant enough rate. Harrison, however, has shown extremely encouraging signs at Triple-A and is starting to look like a real player. His strikeout and walk rates have improved. His .287 average would be a career best. And, he's an eye-popping 20-for-21 on steal attempts. That combination of abilities could add up to the kind of star that Miami urgently needs.
Mets: LHP Anthony Kay
Pete Alonso is going to be there this year, barring something shocking. Amed Rosario's stagnation at the plate makes him tough to pick. But Kay, a new arrival in the MLB Pipeline Top 100, is dealing as he climbs the ranks. His first start at Triple-A was a bit rough, but the lefty dominated Double-A hitters over 12 starts to open the year. He may not have quite the upside of predecessors like Syndergaard and Wheeler, but he misses bats and keeps the ball in the park, and there could be an opportunity for him to join the rotation as soon as next year.
Nationals: OF Victor Robles
Don't let Juan Soto's ludicrous precociousness color your view of Robles. Just because Soto is a once-a-decade (if that) talent doesn't mean that Robles should have to live up to his standard. Robles just turned 22 last month. He's a plus defender in center. He has power and speed and has displayed both at the big league level. He strikes out more than you'd ideally want, but not to such a degree that it's alarming. He's a ferociously talented young player who's going to get every opportunity to blossom, and nothing he's done yet in the Majors should make you think he won't be a star in the long run.
Phillies: RHP Nick Pivetta
Did you give up on Pivetta back in April? The Phillies didn't, and he's looking like the pitcher who was a popular breakout candidate coming into the season. The right-hander finished last year strong and was a name on a lot of analysts' lips over the winter. Then he struggled to start the year, posting a 9.45 ERA over his first three starts. He was sent down in mid-April, and since returning, he's been exactly what the Phillies expected. Pivetta has a 2.70 ERA over four starts since his return, with 27 strikeouts and four walks. He has the potential for dominance, and if he keeps pitching well, he'll continue to receive opportunities as well.
Matthew Leach is an editor and reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Obviously, You're Not a Golfer and follow him on Twitter at @MatthewHLeach.


text: Rodney Yee provides a slow paced routine, using sitting and supine positions that restore and relax the muscles of the core of your body. Strengthening your abdominal and lower back muscles has many benefits from improved flexibility to having a stable and balanced body. It is also important to learn to relax them deeply. Grab a blanket and a yoga mat then join Rodney Yee for a calm and relaxing thirty minute restorative yoga practice.


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Secrets of Shells and Ceramics
Bakers know that when it comes to making a flaky croissant, it's all in the layering. They go to great lengths to create thin alternating layers.
Scientists know about layering, too.
It can be crucial for making certain composite materials. In nature, extremely tough materials like nacre (the stuff abalone shells are made of) consist of layers of organic and inorganic material. Attempts to create similar layered composites in the laboratory, however, have been less than successful.
Now Sylvain Deville and colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a new approach to the problem, incorporating ice into the process of making ceramic composites.
When salt water freezes, the salt and other impurities are forced away from the forming ice crystals and are trapped in channels between crystals.
In simple terms, the researchers adapted this natural process by replacing the salt with ceramic particles in suspension.
As the water freezes (in a carefully controlled process), the ceramic particles are squeezed out into layers on the order of one micron thick. The space between the layers is then filled with a second material to make the composite.
The researchers, who describe the technique in Science, say it may prove useful in creating biomaterials like artificial bone or porous scaffolding for regenerating tissue.
Viral Genealogy of Cougars
To monitor populations of wild animals, scientists turn increasingly to tracking technology, in the form of collars and tags that can record location and other data over time.
That's fine for the here and now, but what about monitoring how populations have changed in the past? For that, Roman Biek of the University of Montana and colleagues used a different kind of tag -- a virus.
Dr. Biek, now at Emory, wanted to study how cougar populations in the northern Rockies recovered in recent decades after being nearly wiped out in the first part of the 20th century. One way to do this is to study genetic differences for indications as to whether cougars survived as isolated populations, say, or as one population that spread.
But genetic change in an animal like the cougar comes slowly, so slowly that over 100 years there would be few if any differences to study.
Enter the virus, a feline immunodeficiency virus that is easily passed from cougar to cougar (but does them no apparent harm). Viruses can mutate practically in the blink of an eye, so genetic analysis of the virus from different cougars ought to provide useful information about the recent population dynamics of the animals.
The researchers analyzed virus samples from 98 cougars throughout the northern Rockies and found that they separated into eight lineages, four in a northern group and four in a southern. In general, the lineages were geographically distinct. The findings were reported in Science.
Analysis of the mutation rate in the virus showed that the lineages probably began to evolve separately within the last 20 to 80 years, indicating that the cougars' recovery probably arose from several isolated surviving populations.
Good News for Vultures
For more than a decade, three species of vultures on the Indian subcontinent have been dying in hordes, poisoned when they ate dead livestock that had been given the painkiller diclofenac.
To save these birds from imminent extinction, conservationists have called for a ban on the use of diclofenac. Last year, India agreed to ban the drug eventually. But one key to phasing it out has been finding an alternative that is effective on cattle but safe for vultures.
That alternative appears to have been found, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. An international team of researchers led by Gerry Swan of the University of Pretoria in South Africa discovered that another cattle painkiller, meloxicam, is not harmful to vultures in the concentrations given to livestock. So now there is good reason to proceed with a ban on diclofenac.
Block That Chirp: Volume Control in Crickets
You can shout until you're hoarse, but you can't shout until you're deaf. One reason, scientists think, is a phenomenon called corollary discharge signaling. When your brain sends a signal to various muscles to speak, a copy of the signal goes to the auditory system, desensitizing it so it doesn't get overloaded.
That's the idea, anyway. But very little is known about how corollary discharges work. Now James F. A. Poulet and Berthold Hedwig of the University of Cambridge in England have found a key to the puzzle.
They studied crickets, however, not humans. "Crickets have a very simple nervous system and make very loud noises," said Dr. Poulet, who is now at the Federal Polytechnical School of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Crickets do chirp very loudly -- sound pressure levels have been measured at more than 100 decibels -- yet they don't deafen themselves. Several years ago, Dr. Poulet and Dr. Hedwig discovered that at the precise instant a cricket moved its forewing muscles to create a chirp, its auditory neurons became inhibited, or desensitized, presumably by some chemical neurotransmitter. "We knew that the inhibition was being generated somewhere in the nervous system, but we didn't know where," Dr. Poulet said.
The new study, published last week in the journal Science, answers that question. A pair of neurons -- one on the left, one on the right -- carry the corollary signals from the muscles to the auditory center.
Dr. Poulet used a trial and error approach to discovering the signal pathway, recording electrical discharges in neurons while a cricket was making chirping motions. "It was sort of stabbing around in the dark," he said.
He also found that there were no corollary signals produced when the cricket was flying -- which it does by moving its wings, but in a different pattern than when chirping. "That makes sense for the cricket, because it wants to be able to hear well when flying," Dr. Poulet said, to avoid predators like bats.
In people, corollary discharges might do more than prevent sensory overload; they might help provide a sense of self. "They might help us distinguish when I moved my arm, as opposed to when you moved my arm for me," Dr. Poulet said. The pathway is no doubt more complex than in crickets, he said, "but it's likely that there's things like this going on -- it's just that nobody's seen it."


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Introducing the Kurt DX4 CrossOver Vise – IN STOCK UK
The evolutionary DX4 CrossOver® Vise combines all the great features of the world-renowned KURT D40 and 3400V vises, along with new state-of-the-art workholding features. DX4 CrossOver achieves new levels in precision and performance where flatness and parallelism are important and is a better vise than our own D40 in every way we measure a vise. With KURT'S commitment, the DX4 CrossOver is destined to become the go-to-vise for today's machining applications.
DX4™ CrossOver® Features
- DX4 CrossOver vise is a combination of AngLock®, Pull-Type and 2 top bolt FEA designed stationary jaw. When combined they create an ultra-unique strategy for a better vise.
- AngLock® design reduces stress on body during clamping
- Pull-type design reduces stress on body during clamping
- Hardened vise bed/jaw plates
- Semi-hard steel screw
- 80,000 psi ductile iron body, nut and movable jaw
- 6.5″ opening
- New wider 2 bolt stationary design fastens from the top
- Bolts & locates on 40mm, 50mm and 2″ grid patterns
- Accepts sine keys for alignment (not included)
- Chip evacuation straight through the body
- Screw support held in place with snap rings
- Groove Lock® jaw plate and workstop (Included)
- New brush seal design makes it easier to replace
- Includes chip guard
- Powder coat paint is long lasting and durable
- Matching of the bed heights or keyway to stationary jaw (additional cost)
- Lifetime Iron Clad Warranty
DX4 CrossOver features comparison to D40 Vise
- DX4 is a replacement vise to D40 vise
- Larger opening (6.5″ versus 3.75″)
- Same bed height as D40
- Narrower body style than D40 and allows more vises on machine table
- Updated proven bearing pack shared with the 3400 series
- Same distance from the keyway to stationary as D40
DX4 CrossOver Vise Models Available
- DX4 Manual
We have moved away from keyways on our redesigned vises and there are several reasons for this change.
To start, reaming a precision hole is more efficient than cutting a keyway. It is easier to hold our precision location with a single bore then two entire surfaces of a keyway. This bore is also used as a basis for our other features (such as stationary jaw parallelism) and therefore a more consistent location transforms into a more precise product. It also allows us to put in additional precision holes to fit many grid plates (2"x2", 40mm x 40mm, 50mm x 50mm) without adding additional cost to the final product.
Next, our reamers are rated at a H7 tolerance, which is DIA +.0003 to +.0006. The reamer creates a more consistent hole size. This precision allows the end user to have less setup time as the tolerance stack up of the reamed hole and sine key are minimized.
Also, the slip fit between the reamed hole and the sine key do not cause any install/uninstall issues. An oversized o-ring is applied to the sine key, which gets compressed as it is installed into the vise, keeping it securely fixed in the vise body. The previous design utilized a small socket head cap screw, which required an Allen wrench for installing/uninstalling, as well as an additional time to line up the key in the keyway, hold it there, and install the SHCS.
With our commitment and Lifetime Ironclad Warranty, the DX4 CrossOver vise is destined to become the go-to vise for all your machining applications. Order yours today, or to learn more contact CIS Tools UK.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A sketch
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Under His wings and in His hands~ I can see that you have been struggling and that the Healer has been here. Sweet.ReplyDelete
I love these sweet ballet slippers. You are a lovely sketch artist! You were able to translate the feel of the slippers into your piece. I adore it!
I can't wait to see what you choose with paint... :)
I have a terrible problem with my back - life long scoliosis and get weekly deep massage and physical therapy, it really helps. Ice is my friend, too. I am with you in this back issue more than you know!
love to you sweet friend~
I love your sketch, too! Your daughter looks like she enjoyed her class :) I can see what a gift and treasure she is to your mama heart!ReplyDelete
Oh, I loved the ballet slippers with paint, but I missed the initial sketch--it's gorgeous! It's been too long since I sketched, and you're inspiring me to get out the pencils...ReplyDelete


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I bought this wrap from Toothfairy a few years ago. I love it and am quite attached to it (sentimentally) but, as my husband pointed out, it's just stored away in a box and what I'd really like to own is a kindle....
So I putting it up for sale. The wrap is the one at the bottom of this page, mine is 70% bamboo, 30%cotton
http://www.natibaby.eu/webpage/hinatiba ... -2010.html
It's been stored for a while so I got it out and washed it (30deg/delicates/hand, non bio gel) and can't see any marks, pull etc on it.
£110 plus postage..


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Since Windows XP there is a built-in ability in Microsoft Windows to set up network ports forwarding. Due to it, any incoming TCP connection (IPv4 or IPv6) to local port can be redirected to another local port or even to port on the remote computer. And it is not necessary for system to have a service that listens to this port.
In Linux, port redirection is configured quite simply using iptables. On Windows Server systems, the Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) is used to organize port forwarding. However, there is an easier way to configure the port forwarding, which works well in any version of Windows.
Port forwarding in Windows can be configured using Portproxy mode of the command Netsh. The syntax of this command is as follows:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=localaddress listenport=localport connectaddress=destaddress connectport=destport
- listenaddress – is a local IP address waiting for a connection.
- listenport – local listening TCP port (the connection is waited on it).
- connectaddress – is a local or remote IP address (or DNS name) to which the incoming connection will be redirected.
- connectport – is a TCP port to which the connection from listenport is forwarded to.
Let's imagine that our task is to make the RDP service to respond on a non-standard port, for example 3340 (the port can be changed in the settings of the service, but we will use RDP to make it easier to demonstrate forwarding). To do this, you need to redirect incoming traffic from TCP port 3340 to another local port – 3389 (standard rdp port).
Start the command prompt as an administrator and perform the following command:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=3340 listenaddress=10.1.1.110 connectport=3389 connectaddress=10.1.1.110
Where 10.10.1.110 – the current IP address of this computer.
Using netstat make sure that port 3340 is listened now:
netstat -ano | findstr :3340
IPv6 support must be enabled on the network interface for which the port forwarding rule is created.
These are the prerequisites for correct port-forwarding. Without the IP Helper service and without IPv6 support enabled, the port redirection won't work.
You can find out what process is listening to this port use its PID (in our example, the PID is 636):
tasklist | findstr 636
Let's try to connect to this computer from a remote system using any RDP client. Port 3340 should be specified as the RDP port.It is specified after the colon following the RDP server address, for example, 10.10.1.110:3340:
The connection should be established successfully.
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="forwarded_RDPport_3340" protocol=TCP dir=in localip=10.1.1.110 localport=3340 action=allow
When creating an incoming firewall rule for port 3340 via Windows Firewall graphical interface, no program needs to be associated with it. This port is only listened by the network driver.
You can create any number of Windows port forwarding rules. All netsh interface portproxy rules are persistent and are stored in the system after a Windows restart.
Display the list of forwarding rules in the system:
netsh interface portproxy show all
In our case there is only one forwarding rule from port 3340 to 3389:
Listen on ipv4: Connect to ipv4:
Address Port Address Port
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10.1.1.110 3340 10.1.1.110 3389
netsh interface portproxy dump
# Port Proxy configuration
pushd interface portproxy
add v4tov4 listenport=3340 connectaddress=10.1.1.110 connectport=3389
# End of Port Proxy configuration
To remove a specific port forwarding rule:
netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport=3340 listenaddress=10.1.1.110
To clear all current port forwarding rules:
netsh interface portproxy reset
If you want to forward an incoming TCP connection to another computer, the command can look like this:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=3389 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=3389 connectaddress=192.168.100.101
This rule will redirect all incoming RDP requests (to port 3389) from this computer to a remote computer with an IP address 192.168.1.101.
Another portproxy feature is an opportunity to make it look like any remote network service is operating locally.
For example, forward the connection from the local port 5555 to the remote address 184.108.40.206 (CNN website):
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=5555 connectport=80 connectaddress= 126.96.36.199 protocol=tcp
Now if you go to http://localhost:5555/ in your browser, CNN Start page will open. So despite the browser addresses the local computer, it opens a remote page.
Port forwarding can also be used to forward a port from an external address of a network card to a virtual machine port running on the same computer.
Also, there were cases when in Windows Server 2012 R2 the port forwarding rules worked only until the system was rebooted, and after restart they were reset. In this case, you need to check whether there is a periodic disconnection on the network interface, and whether the IP address changes when the OS boots (it is better to use a static IP). As a workaround, I had to add a script to the Windows scheduler with the netsh interface portproxy rules that run on the system startup.
In Windows Server 2003 / XP, you must additionally set the IPEnableRouter parameter to 1 in the registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters.


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The total amount of rainfall can reach at 80 to 150mm.
Due to the heavy rains, the lowland areas of Mekong River may be flooded, predicted by the center.
In the next 3 to 5 days, floods, together with high river tides, will cause water levels in the upper section of the Mekong River to rise quickly from 10 to 15cm per day.
In the end of July, it is forecast that the highest water level will be by 2.4 to 2.7m at Tan Chau, Chau Doc.
Heavy rains are also predicted to cover over the northern central region in the days. The central highlands region will be effected by monsoon causing the region to experience rains in the next two to three days.
Possible thunderstorms, whirlwinds and strong winds may occur in the region, issued the center.


text: Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. Well, I hadn't discovered anything new here. The thing we keep forgetting about though is that bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and that is OK. What is more, that's actually far better than OK – it's wonderful. In the culture that perfect body image sits on such a high pedestal, it is something that is easy to forget. What is perfect body image in our culture? I'm afraid it's young, enhanced and similar looking. There is not much space for diversity, or for simply getting older. The pedestaled image must remain […] Read more »