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A Woman's Guide to Preventing Heart Diseases
Let's say you detected a suspicious lump on your breast. You'd probably call your gynae and have it examined pronto. But we bet that you aren't paying extra attention to another potential problem on your chest: your heart's health. Females are said to be five times more likely to die from heart disease as they are from breast cancer. And while both conditions are rare in younger women, your lifestyle habits during your 20s and 30s still have a profound effect on the factors that affect your odds of developing cardiovascular diseases. So what can you do to reduce your heart disease risk? Read on.
Tips to Reduce Heart Disease Risk
1. Understand Your Risk Factors
One of the first things that you should do to lessen your chances of developing a heart disease is to know your risk factors. Simply put, knowing what the normal blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose level is, and finding out what yours are. As you visit your specialist, ask him or her to have these levels checked. Depending on your risk level, you might need to undergo certain heart screening tests, or have your cholesterol, blood glucose, and blood pressure levels checked every year or every few years.
2. Establish Goals for Your Heart Health Indicators
What are your ideal cholesterol, glucose, and blood pressure levels? These numbers may differ depending on your risk level. If you happen to have a strong family history of premature heart disease, for instance, then you may have a different heart health goal than other women. At a reputable heart clinic for Harley Street cardiology services in Singapore, they help you to understand and establish your goals in addition to the questions you'll ask your heart specialist in Singapore.
3. Steer Clear From Smoky Places
Even if you don't smoke, the cigarette smoke that you inhale from your surroundings still puts you at risk for heart attacks by causing your arteries to narrow over time. Inhaling second-hand smoke also triggers more immediate damage, since a few minutes of exposure to it has the same effect on your blood vessels and blood as if you're actively smoking. So as much as possible, make sure that you don't spend much time on places that are rich in cigarette smoke.
4. Eat the Right Fat
When it comes to eating fat, you'd certainly want to eat the ones called mono-saturated fats as it lowers the levels of bad cholesterol that brings on heart attack. Avoid consuming foods that are rich in trans- and saturated fats as much as possible, since this fats are believed to raise bad cholesterol and clog the arteries. Heart specialist in Singapore suggests including foods that are loaded with mono-saturated fats like avocados, anchovies, nuts, peanut butter, sardines and salmon into your diet to naturally reduce your bad cholesterol levels.
5. Perform Short, Intense Workout Routines
Although heart-pumping activities help in reducing one's heart disease risk by maintaining your weight, and lowering bad cholesterol and blood pressure levels, Singapore health experts suggest performing short intense workout routines like four 4-minute intense treadmill sessions instead. Specialists believe that performing such workout routine is more effective than doing a straight 45-minute moderate jogging. So try taking 4-minute breaks during each day, and perform exercise routines like running in place or jumping jacks.
6. Unplug From Your Daily Stresses
Always being on the edge pummels your body with stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. High levels of these hormones tend to increase your blood pressure rate, which leads to the hardening of arteries over time. So if possible, try unplugging yourself from the world for an hour or two, and give your mind and body the time it needs to decompress. Just soaking in a hot tub or going out for a walk is already enough to reduce the amount of stress hormones circulating in your body.
7. Be Positive
Studies conducted by Singapore health experts showed that highly optimistic people tend to have lower death rates from cardiovascular diseases. This is because optimists usually engage in healthier behaviours like eating right, exercising, and not smoking. Pessimists, on the other hand, tend to look for bad behaviour in people, which stirs up the stress hormones that are harmful for the heart.
8. Learn to Socialize
The more relationships you foster and the greater the number of social activities you're involved in, the lower your chances of developing a heart disease. Friends provide great emotional support during tough times, and research shows that this support helps in reducing the adrenaline levels.
Signs of a Heart Attack
It's rare for young, healthy women to experience a cardio emergency, but some less serious conditions actually mimic the signs of heart attack.
• Heart Often Skips a Beat
This benign sensation is often caused by stress or drinking too much caffeine. If possible, try relaxing and drinking just one cup of coffee every day. If you still continue to experience the skipping, see your physician immediately.
• Frequent Palpitations
Again, stress and caffeine are often the culprits of this condition, but palpitations could also be a sign of a panic attack – especially if it's accompanied with hyperventilation. When this occurs, try sitting down and breathing deeply to slow your heart rate down.
• Burning Sensation Under the Breastbone
This condition sounds like heartburn, an illness wherein the gastric acid from your stomach rises to your oesophagus. This burning sensation is usually brought by caffeinated beverages and spicy dishes, so cut back on consuming these triggers. If symptoms still recur, do see your physician as soon as possible.
• Feeling Faint or Dizzy
Odds are, you're simply not eating or drinking enough. But if the symptoms still don't improve after you blacked out or refuelled, immediately ask your doctor to check for a possible heart issue or anaemia.
Whether you're a man or a woman, remember that living a healthy lifestyle and getting heart screening tests in Singapore are essential to protect yourself from any heart diseases.
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Since such facilities are available twenty hours, it can be approached at any time whenever you are in need. In Singapore there are plenty of such companies and among them licensed and trusted are listed on the easy credit directory in which about one sixty of such are available. It provides you with the exact address as well as the license number approved under ministry of law Singapore to check further. You can borrow up to $3000 with annual income less than $20000, up to two months income with annual income $20000, up to four months income with annual income $30000 and any income with annual income $120000. Once you are granted the loan, check if you get the correct amount. To avoid late payment fees, try to pay the instalments on time and make sure you get receipt each time you repay the loan.
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Ouachita Trail: A
National Recreation Trail
Ouachita Trail is about 250 miles long and snakes through
the Ouchita National Forest, through Ozark hills mildly. Elevation oscillates
between 700 and nearly 2000.
Other small trails are also well marked and documented in this wonderful map.
Included are;
Bear Creek, Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Sylvia, and Wildcat Mountain Trails
Big and Little Maumelle, and South Fourche and Fourche
LaFave Rivers.
Harris Break, Maumelle, Nimrod, Sylvia and Winona Lakes
PS: this backcountry Map is one of a series of trail maps
for through hikers and single track mountain biking series in the Eastern Ozark.see also: Ouchita Trail Central, Hwy 7 - Turner Gap Shelter MAP


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This James Brett JB238 double knitting pattern leaflet will instruct you on how to create either a Penguin or Dog design winter hat.
The pattern gives you measurements to create the hats to fit a 1 - 12 year old.
This James Brett knitting pattern is suitable for use with most double knitting yarns however, tensions may vary and we recommend you knit a tension square before knitting the whole garment.
See image provided for the number of 100g balls of wool required for each garment and the colours that are illustrated in the leaflet.
Please note that this is a knitting pattern and NOT a set of finished knitted garments. All knitting instructions are written in English.
The wool illustrated is Top Value DK which is available to purchase on a separate listing.


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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
5 comments:
- Paul said...
Gordon, thanks for posting your full thoughts. I am going to try it. I want to go to one of my favorite places, enjoy the time taking the pictures, then, right as I get into the car, ready to depart, I will format the card.
I believe that there might be a small bit of trepidation, but, in the end, the feeling will be the same. I will have enjoyed myself immensely, as I always do. Pictures or no pictures. Like you said, the camera helps to make a connection that might otherwise be there.
I'll let you know when I do it.
- Wild Cayuse Creek said...
This post really resonated with me, as I spend too much time focused on the end result instead of submerging myself in the process. I plan to take this challenge and be centered in the moment. It can't hurt.
- A Jesse said...
Gordon,I am not nearly brave enough to take this challenge. Still, it's clear to me that I often return from an outing with not one single photo that makes my heart skip; yet I am not dispirited in the least. Having enjoyed immensely the process, I knew that any nice shots would just be a bonus. The result of this mindset is that I almost always have a wondeful time on a photo outing because I see my surroundings in a different way and I learn something new every day. That "seeing" is the more significant satisfaction. On the other hand, when I manage to get a shot I like, I do become attached to the image and I don't want to lose it.
- charla said...
Strange cause I was just reading that post from Paul Butzi. You made me rethink it, otherwise I think I would have forgotten. To force yourself to format your card is unfair. Maybe if you/I want to do this for the reasons you talk about why not take the photos in the lowest quality or shoot with no card (if your camera can). Then it will simply BE about the process and you won't have to feel like a traitor...I think I would feel like a traitor!
Now I might have to post about this topic :)
- Anonymous said...
I, too, have thought about this in the past. My favorite part about photography is the shooting. I enjoy walking around, taking pictures, just soaking up the scenery and atmosphere. I actually have 1000s of photos sitting on my hard drive that I haven't even looked at, let alone processed and posted online somewhere. To me, taking pictures and processing them into a final image are 2 separate things. I enjoy they both, but I don't need the second step to enjoy the first.
But I could never delete all the photos. It's the "what if" part of my that wouldn't allow it - what if, sometime down the line, I look at these, and find the perfect image, one that speaks to me at that time better than anything else? So I keep them, and glance through them when I need to feel inspired, or feel like processing something (or when my sisters starts bugging me for photos from family events).
What you could do, if you really want to shoot, with no images left at the end of the day, is go out with an empty film camera. You get the satisfying swoosh and click of the shutter, the joy of focusing and framing, without film and photos at the end. I did something like this on accident once - I didn't realize my film had snapped right after loading, and "shot" about 30 frames before I realized something was up. I was disappointed, because I was out with friends, and was looking forward to coming shots from the day, but in the end, I lived. :)


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Hay recuerdos que no voy a borrar. Personas que no voy a olvidar. Hay aromas que me quiero llevar.
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I know that there are so many of you that are sewers. I usually go through different phases: sewing, card making, jewerly making, etc.
Well, I am in my sewing phase. And after having 5 boys, I am having so much fun sewing for my two little girls!
Now sewing for girls generally requires ruffles, which I love! I am in the process of making a Princess dress for my two year old and it will have a lot of ruffles.
I have always made ruffles by sewing a long stitch and then pulling the ends. There has to be an easier way...
I looked into getting a Ruffler foot and then found this little baby. I have a Husqvarna Viking sewing machine and this is the gathering foot made by them. It is different from a ruffler foot.
|Ruffler Foot: picture from here.
|Gathering Foot, this is what I bought : picture from here.
It will gather and sew the material onto whatever fabric you want it to go on in one step!
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I will post the dress another day, I'm still working on it. But, I have so many other projects I am excited to try!
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Open House
Remains of the village Ostrowo, which has been abandoned despite its idyllic setting …
Almost Here
When you really need to rely on your roof's quality …
Granny's House
Of course it's not my grandmother's house. However, can sou smell the cake…?
Connection IV
I believe that utility poles really help to experience a landscapes dimensions. An they look cool. :-)
In Masuria, every tree is entitled to its very own cloud. I think this is fair.
God's Backyard
Somewhere in Masuria between Mrągowo and Korsze. Unfortunately my GPS device refuses to remember the location. I'm still analyzing map data … ;-)
Masurian Evening
Imagine the voices of resting cranes at close range!


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Like many other colleges all across the country, Kansas State University has its own share of ghosts, phantoms and tales of things that go bump in the night. It seems that it must be a prerequisite that all colleges must have a haunted theater, a haunted fraternity house and at least one coed that has committed suicide or has been murdered...
Well, Kansas State University has them all.... and then some!
One of the colleges most famous haunted spots is the Purple Masque Theater, which is located on the main floor of the East Stadium on campus. The theater is alleged to be haunted by a mischievous spirit named Nick, who has never been seen, although his voice has been recorded on tape. It is believed that the ghost is that of an ex-football player who died in the building in the 1950's, when it was still used as an athletic center. He was injured one day during a practice and brought into the building, where he died soon after. His playful spirit has been here ever since, stomping up and down hallways, on staircases and on the theater stage. He also moves chairs and hides theater props at night but he is most famous for the levitation's! Wooden boxes that have been stacked in the dressing room have jumped to the floor and then re-stacked themselves... before the startled eyes of several witnesses. There is also a report of a fire extinguisher that was seen spinning around in mid-air, spraying white foam as it traveled.
Another haunted spot is the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. The house is believed to be haunted by the spirit of Duncan, a former student who died in the house while it was occupied by the Theta Xi fraternity. He death was said to occur during an initiation ceremony when the pledges were bending over to be paddled. When it came to be Duncan's turn, he stood up suddenly and was accidentally struck in the head. It was said that the blow was a fatal one and he died a short time later.
The first reports of Duncan's ghost came in 1965, shortly after Phi Gamma Delta bought the house. The room where Theta Xi had stored their paddles was converted into a library and two paddles were left hanging on the wall.... one of which had Duncan's name on it.
The new fraternity brothers removed the paddles and painted the walls, but mysteriously an image of the paddle which bore Duncan's names kept appearing on the wall as a dark stain. Finally, they ended up paneling the wall.
In the years that have passed, reports of encounters with Duncan continue to be collected. The sound of phantom footsteps are common... as are lights flickering on and off and doorknobs being turned on their own. A quick check in the hallway always reveals that no one of this world is present in the corridor.
Located in the old St. Mary's Hospital building is the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. When they moved into the building many years ago, they found that something had been left behind by the previous tenants... two resident ghosts! The building was haunted by a former patient and a long forgotten night nurse.
The patient had been the last person to die in the hospital and his death was a strange one. As the place was closing down, the elderly patients were moved to a new hospital. The patient somehow rolled off his bed and was trapped between it and the wall. When a nurse checked the third-floor room, he thought the room was empty and the old man died there that same night. The new tenants of the house have never seen the patient, but they have heard him. He pounds up and down the third floor hallway at night, turns lights on and off and generally makes himself a nuisance. He is apparently also a fan of the TV show Star Trek.
One night in 1973, an ice storm knocked out all of the power on the street for a number of days. Somehow, every afternoon at 4:00 pm, the television would turn on and play a rerun of an old Star Trek episode. No other house on the street had electricity and there was no explanation how this worked!
And what about the nurse? Well, she isn't there anymore. Until the late 1960's, the nurse walked the first floor halls of the old hospital late at night, carrying a medicine tray in one hand and a candle in the other. One day, she just never came back again.... maybe she realized that the new occupants of the building no longer required her care!
The Kappa Sigma fraternity house is also said to be haunted by the ghost of a boy who hanged himself in the file room. Since his suicide, residents have heard all sorts of strange sounds, particularly the sound of someone jumping off the roof. They have often heard the sounds, but never find a living person to whom they can be attributed.
The ghost here is also sometimes seen! One night, while playing cards, one of the residents heard a strange sound upstairs. He left the first floor room where the poker game was being held and saw a white haze (which he presumed to be a ghost) appear at the top of the staircase. His companions saw nothing, arriving too late to his summons, and a search of the house revealed no one else inside.
Kansas State University is located in Manhattan, which can be found in the central portion of the state. The Delta Sigma Phi house is at 1100 Fremont Street; the Kappa Sigma house is in the northwestern part of the city, as is the Phi Gamma Delta house.
Copyright 1998 by Troy Taylor
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Bass Coast Health (BCH) recently launched its Hospital in the Home program and it's fast becoming a winning formula with locals, particularly Phillip Islanders.
Local patients are now experiencing the benefits of the program, which means they are able to come home from hospital earlier and receive treatment in the comfort of their own home – all without having to deal with the stress, inconvenience and expense of long-distance travel in order to receive their treatment. The Hospital in the Home (HITH) service provides care to eligible patients requiring acute care that would ordinarily be given in hospital. Treatment is provided by BCH's experienced HITH nurses in collaboration with local GP's.
Cape Woolamai resident Grace Nally was recently admitted to the HITH program after being diagnosed with breast cancer in September following a routine mammogram. Three days after her admission to Monash Bentleigh for the removal of a lump in her breast, Grace was sent home under the HITH program. HITH nurses Karlie Hall and Ange Fraser visited Grace every day to measure the output from the drainage tube she was sent home with and check things such as her temperature, blood pressure, pain level, stitches and dressings. "Without them, I would have had to stay in hospital. My husband isn't very medically-minded so it was not only very convenient, but also very comforting to have someone come and look after me at home", says Grace. After seven days, staff were happy with her progress and Grace's drainage tube was removed. Grace was thrilled with how the program worked for her, saying "The care I received was wonderful. The nurses were so caring and really took their time and were very professional. It was as good as, if not better, than having a doctor there and the fact that it was all covered by Medicare was a great relief and comfort to me".
Like Grace, Phillip Island resident Deb McCann recently became a HITH patient following a cancer diagnosis is August. She returned home following the removal of a mass in her lung at the Valley Hospital, only to be re-admitted shortly after with a post-operative infection. Deb had to be treated with antibiotics through an Intra-Venous (IV) line to treat the infection. "During my second stay I was told about BCH's HITH program. I'd never heard of it before", she said.
Deb, who lives with her husband, was sent home as a HITH patient to have her IV antibiotics and wound dressings changed daily. "It was so nice to be able to stay at home to receive treatment. My husband had been driving back and forth to the Valley every day to see me, so it was a big relief for both of us that it saved him from travelling and I didn't have to travel every day or stay in hospital to be treated", she explained.
Deb is very impressed with how well the program worked for her, commenting, "The system worked perfectly and was hassle-free. The nurses were very attentive to my needs and very professional and competent".
Her involvement in the program also highlighted other unexpected benefits. "From the minute I was diagnosed, we were swept up in the hectic roundabout of the medical world, where a lot of things are foreign and quite often fast-paced. This can often make you feel vulnerable and powerless. But the HITH nurses were great because they took the time to explain everything and answer our questions. I felt like this actually gave me some of my power back".
Deb feels it's important that Phillip Island people know about this service, and is eager for people to know more about it, saying, "This is such a brilliant service, particularly for the people of Phillip Island, because it gives rural families equality with their city counterparts".
If you would like to know more, including whether you are eligible for Bass Coast Health's Hospital in the Home program, please contact the HITH Coordinator on 0439 956 003 or visit HITH's service page on BCH's website at www.basscoasthealth.org.au/Services/Hospital-in-the-Home.
Pictured (L-R): Francesca Reyerse supports husband Michael as he receives care from Hospital in the Home Nurse Ange Fraser.
Pictured (L-R): Francesca Reyerse supports husband Michael as he receives care from Hospital in the Home Nurse Ange Fraser.
Bass Coast Health acknowledges Aboriginal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate. We commit to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this country.
Many of Bass Coast Health programs are supported by funding from the Commonwealth and State Government.


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On December 28, Alan left me for what would be almost 6 weeks. At that point I was going on over 11 months of the same injury and scared at making it that long alone with a baby and not having my one outlet which brings instant sanity. You guessed it running. I could only take so many walks with the jogging stroller or short bike rides in the apartment while my daughter took her rare hour + long naps. I was completely unsure if I'd ever get back on the ground running and started to dream without any hope about possibly doing my first race sometime this spring. This vision included racing times that would likely be minutes off my former PRs but I would be happy. Fast forward to now, I have real hopes at putting my PRs behind me before the summer hits. How did I arrive here? Am I dreaming? Has it really ended!?
From the time my hip pain started in the pregnancy and my stubborn lack of sense kicked in, it was early January in 2011 and I had over 5 months left before giving birth. Once I realized this wasn't any old injury such as a sore hamstring that i could "run through" while a baby was putting added pressure on my ligaments as they expanded, it was too late. About 4 weeks I continued to run ignoring my coaches and drs advice, tuning into some greedy part of my brain that said it could somehow outsmart this injury by ignoring it and worst case, I'd have to sit out until giving birth and once the baby's here I'd be back to normal. WRONG!
Well our good friend Ahrlin Bauman stepped up when he knew Alan would be gone and offered to come run with Joanie on January 1st. He didn't realize that I was going on another 8 week cycle of minimal activity – a few mile jogs here and there with pain- and assumed I was going to run with him. He offered to push the stroller and said, Let's get going.. I didn't think it would be smart as this was attempt to return to running #15, but for some reason decided to just do it.
My lack of treatment definitely added to the length of the injury as I didn't justify going to see a professional when all my time was spent with our daughter who went from a sweet little 0-3 month old to a 3.5-6 month old baby with a VERY sensitive tummy who challenged and fought every opportunity she was suppose to sleep. And let me add when you're that little you need lots of it so just imagine how often we ran into problems. (Gun shot sound with hand motion pointed at my head). I had forgotten about running, lost my hope, and focused on mommy bootcamp training to try to mold our stubborn baby into the kind I'd read about on websites and baby books. (For the record by 7 months she has been molding into that sweet baby you read about!! Still not perfect but no current complaints!!)
It had been so long and I could still feel hip soreness. I knew at some point in time this hip thing was going to heal. It had to. That's what bodies usually do if you let them rest and rest up I had let it! The diagnosis was unknown but likely a torn ligament attaching to my quad. I had never got an MRI because my needs were on the back burner. I knew pain from the scar tissue would be an issue but I didn't know the difference in the feeling. All i knew is that I could never get comfortable in any position sleeping at night – always a dull throbbing pain in my hip and pubic bone. And that to me meant it was likely still very injured.
I guess I just had to wait til 2013- the first of the year when I took the risk and ran 4 miles with Ahrlin. I couldn't believe I was really doing it! I tried to soak it up because I figured this would cost me another 10 weeks of sitting around being a person who used to be able to run. Some how the pain did not get worse when I got back.
Well fast forward to a few weeks later, I had been doing a few 3 mile runs here and there, still the same pains, but nothing worse. We arrived in Colorado to visit Alan and my body began to miraculously accept more running. I planned to meet with Kara Goucher one day for an easy run and told her "5 is my limit" and she had no idea how long I had been injured. I broke through the barrier of 5 and made it 6 miles! We lamented about the pains your body goes through for months as your hips go back to normal. Joanie was now almost 6 months and my pants were all fitting like I had never gotten pregnant. Maybe this was the time when finally everything had returned to the right place! Either way, I ended up feeling even better coming off of that 6 mile run and continued to run a record 5 days in a row (at altitude!). From there I never looked back.
I came home, and decided why not race? Many of the miles coming back were much quicker than the base stuff I had done in the past, one reason being that I wanted to feel like I was getting in a workout and I only had a mile or 3 to do it. Why not go hard from the start. With the injury I felt faster running felt actually better anyway. I signed up for Tuesday Night at the Races which our great friend Legendary Jon Marcus puts on. I ended up running a mile in 5:24 which was amazing to me at the time. The next week I split that thru the mile and ran a 6:41 2k. Next I joined my old pal Kristen Rohde on the track and Mr. Marcus (our coach) recommended a little band you put on your ankles and do some stepping around exercises before any run to get all your muscles firing so you use them the right way. It was genius and I immediately found my pain post run was reduced even further. Now I do this before any workouts.
Next I took a big step in making an appointment to see a specialist! I had seen DJ DeAustria a handful of times – he's our family's go-to massage guru of Portland – but he didn't address the injury causes – just helped me with my incredibly achy muscles (which mainly was my poor poor back! It has been wrecked ever since Joanie required me to hold her which has been since her birth) . The person I can't thank enough is PT Dr John Howell in finally burying this injury with ART, stim, and adjustments. Why did I wait so long? Well if you read this you're thinking everything you are doing is not what any coach would recommend so obviously your mindset with returning to running and rehabbing from injury are not really the brightest. I have been adding some rehab "Myrtl" routine which is suppose to strengthen all my weak hip flexors and it may be helping but mostly just makes me really sore. If I ever want to steeple again I better get used to this stuff. Oh wait. I don't really need to "steeple" my legs are abnormally long so it doesn't require real hurdle form. Just a little bit bigger than normal step.
So yes its only been 3 months and 9 days since my real return to running and today marks my first run in the double digits!! Yes I made it 10.5 miles which is completely backwards knowing all the speed work and races I've been doing. I could not be more grateful for every opportunity I have to run without pain (which is GONE now!!!!!!) and to be able to jump back into races and workouts so quickly.
I know after you are pregnant you get like 15 months of some sort of magic in your blood volume that helps you perform better, but you also get the perspective of what "real" hard work is and that is labor and taking care of a baby every day since. Especially if your baby decides to rebel against its own good and you have to steer them back and their only response is nonstop crying. Constantly pushing a stroller while, living at altitude with good iron stores, a better mindset, months of cross training, quick weight loss due to stress of moving and a complete diet change while nursing to help a colicky baby are also things that have helped me come back strong. Yes, I am still continuing to nurse- a note to all you mamas out there wondering.. and yes its like burning the calories of another 6 mile run without moving!! So yes, I eat nonstop even though it might not look like it (even I feel skinny for me so I know I need to stay on top of this!)
I realize this entry is all over the place and I may have mentioned a bunch of this stuff on earlier blogs, but I wanted to share how I got back into becoming a healthy runner and encourage anyone who has suffered a long term injury that it will end! (I'd rather spend the time napping to recover than proofread SORRY!) When you are in the middle of it and can't see a light in the tunnel, don't give up hope because unless you lost a limb you will be back (And if you did lose limbs consider wheel chair racing). Just take my advice and stop going through injury denial at the onset, take a few down weeks and if you're already so far in like I was get some treatment! By any means possible!! I also would recommend doing mental training anytime you are going out of your mind on a bike or pool running. Imagine yourself running your best race or going over a hurdle. Then when you do come back it won't feel like you missed out.
I also have come up with a list of things that give me strength in races or workouts when I start to feel sorry for myself or want to back off on the pace. Here's an example: Your race will be over in less than 15 minutes.. Labor lasted over 1,000 minutes and at the end you had to push a head out!
Those thoughts can be a real wake up call and normally result in me picking up the pace wincing about the latter part I mentioned. Mostly I know that every chance I can get out to test my fitness through running is a great day. I wouldn't trade that burning in my legs or lungs for anything!


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Following a series of insecurity challenges confronting some Nigerian schools, a former Minister of Education, Prof Chinwe Nora Obaji, has urged government and education managers in the country to endeavour to provide accommodation for the teaching staff within the school premises. She said it has become imperative particularly in boarding schools, as it would ensure efficient teaching and effective supervision of students' activities, as well as stem the menace of insecurity and general misconduct within the school premises.
She stated this on the sideline of the 45th Inter-House Sports competition of Federal Science and Technical College (FSTC), Yaba. Obaji, who insisted that government must ensure that learning environment at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels is safeguarded in the interest of the Nigerian child, maintained that students' safety is key in the overall learning process.
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She continued, "During the days of my father as a headmaster, we never lived in the village; we lived at the staff quarters. Also during secondary school education at Queens College, Yaba, all our teachers lived in the compound. We had teachers at that time from America, Britain, France and other parts of the world as teachers. If we did not have staff quarters at that time it would have been difficult for these teachers coming from various parts of the world to teach us. So the system must provide staff accommodation, so as to have everything that makes for effective teaching and learning."
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I have discussed fresh produce pricing on a number of occasions – as those who visit here regularly will have noticed.
Well, I had an epiphany last week. I think I have the answer to the problem of fresh produce pricing…
I was listening to the segment on National Radio where they rattle through the headlines from the New Zealand newspapers around the regions and one headline caught my ear – enough to make me look up the news item in question from the Dominion Post.
So, what are the issues again?
People need to eat fresh fruit and veg. But the price of fresh produce is too high for people afford, so their health is at risk, according to nutritionists.
Growers need to make a living from growing and supplying fresh produce. But the price of fresh produce is too low for them to do that, so their livelihood (and our food supply) is at risk, according to growers.
"Somebody" isn't prepared to pay growers a high enough price for their produce and that "somebody" is being driven by the behaviour of the consumer.
So who is driving this consumer behaviour? The influences are many and varied, ranging from the mother-in-law, the school, the mommy bloggers, the kids, nutritionists in the media, the consumer's own perception and so on…
I'm going to stick my neck out here:
the glass ceiling for fresh produce prices exists to a large extent because people like nutritionists persist with pushing the idea that fruit & veg should be cheap!
Here's my answer, then.
What needs to happen is that the fresh produce industry takes the nutritionists in hand and makes them understand the commercial realities of growing fruit & vegetables, so that the nutritionists' ability to influence can be harnessed better in correctly position produce on the consumers' plate.
Posted: May 15th, 2013 under Observations, Produce, value-add.
Tags: Consumer, fresh food, value chainComments: none
I had the weekend edition of the NZ Herald sitting around on the dining room table all weekend, pondering whether I should add my 5 pence worth to the article entitled Fruit, vege bargains at supermarket in theweekend edition. Then I sat down to watch the 6 o'clock news tonight. First up –the milk price again. The Minister of Agriculture, David Carter, now suggests that a Parliamentary Select Committee should investigate milk prices. The CEO of the Consumers Institute made ridiculous comments on camera about a "secret manual" she alleged Fonterra uses to set milk prices and a TV One reporter found that supermarkets sell 2 litres of milk for $3.60 compared to $5.20 at a dairy and $5.60 at a service station. Doh. Oh really? Ah, there is a story that has gone off the rails. That does not fit the intended direction –because we all know its supermarkets which engage in price gauging right? Carter, luckily for him, was interviewed on Q & A this morning, rather than in the evening. His "I never buy my milk at the supermarket and I would encourage consumers to shop around" wisdom therefore went unchallenged. Let's get some of the facts straight. Supermarkets are in the volume business which works really well for them with processed food; milk for example. Milk will always be cheaper in a supermarket than in a dairy or service station, so please stop wasting time during the news bulletin and instead report the real issues we want to hear about. When have you last seen a super market chain advertising milk or bread at special prices or even as a loss leader? The answer is "you have not" as it simply does not happen. The same goes for eggs by the way. They could, but they typically do not! Accusing supermarkets on price gauging on those products is therefore an exercise akinto shooting oneself into one's foot! Back to the Herald's fruit & veg story. At a time of extreme shortages, you can rely on supermarkets to exert pressure to keep the prices down. Not because they want to be good citizens but out of self interest. They have worked out a few years back that consumers have a pain threshold. When cauliflower prices go beyond $3.99 per head retail, consumers pull the hand break. Tomatoes at $20 is pipe dream territory of unheard proportions. Food & Grocery Council CEO Katherine Rich also has a thing or three to learn about the fresh produce value chain, judging by her comments in the NZ Herald story. Of course, the produce will be fresher at a farmers market – if it has been locally grown and is being sold by the grower himself. And of course, supermarkets are subject to greater controls and attempt to offer produce of greater uniformity. And where do we think the produce supermarkets does not buy disappears to, hm? Whilst it is great that we as a society are focusing back on the basics, i.e., the quality and availability of our food and its price, there is a lot of nonsense being talked out there and the sooner that changes the better.
Posted: August 7th, 2011 under Consumer, Produce, Supermarket - produce, Supermarkets- the other stuff, Supply Chain.
Tags: Consumer, farmers market, fresh food, supermarketComments: none
Posted: July 20th, 2011 under 5+ A Day, Food, Thoughtpieces.
Tags: change, fresh food, I've been thinking, Produce, quality, value chainComments: none
My recent European sojourn found me in Nuremberg – a city that is both famous and infamous. On the famous side, it is known for its contribution to the arts and Christmas; while for the infamous there's the trials.
Nuremberg is an old city. Like many medieval cities, there is a market square in front of the church – and this one is still in use regularly for a busy local farmers' market.
It is very picturesque, with all the stalls resplendent in their candy striped awnings, and probably very much like it has been for centuries.
However, lurking in amongst the stalls trying to look inconspicuous, I came across this:
I'm not sure how farmer or local this is, but it does show how far some iconic foods have been able to travel from their homeland and become globally normal.
Posted: July 1st, 2011 under Germany, On The Road Again, Produce.
Tags: farmers market, fresh food, GermanyComments: none
A couple of news items on National Radio caught my attention this morning. The first one related to Kiwi Rail's intention to buy more rolling stock from China instead of having the waggons built from scratch in its own workshops in Lower Hutt and Dunedin . The second item concerned the intended sale of TVNZ's Avalon Studios. They also are in Lower Hutt. Predictably, the supporters of those facilities are getting ready to head for the barricades, suggesting not building one's own railway waggons or not producing one's own TV shows makes no economic sense whatsoever, given that a) the competence exists and b) the economic necessity to preserve as many jobs as possible should be obvious to even the most dimwitted inexperienced politician. The counter argument suggests that it makes perfect economic sense to buy goods and services offshore if one's own capacity is insufficient or if one's own cost of production cannot match cheaper labour sources offshore. Chuck a couple of accusations related to xenophobia into the mix, interview a minister or two and the debate takes on a life of its own.
As I was pondering what I was hearing, I could not help but think that there is a connection with the produce industry. The old colloquial term of market gardener, for example, implies something doesn't it? It implies that the individuals concerned produces his or her produce for a market. Where could one traditionally find market gardeners? Around the towns. Where were the markets located? Inside the towns! Being a market gardener therefore suggests a degree of proximity to the locality where the produce meets the consumer.
Is This Really The Solution?
At the beginning of the 20th century Auckland's market gardens used to be where the Ellerslie racecourse is today. As the city grew the gardens shifted to Mangere. Evidence of that can still be seen between the airport and the Manukau motorway. After the second World War, Pukekohe increasingly gained in importance as Auckland's fruit and vegie bowl. These developments played out all across the country to a greater or lesser degree. A lot of Wellington's vegetables used to come from Otaki initially.
The produce supply scene is changing on two planes. Firstly, the corporate supply chains at wholesaler or retailer level distribute parcels of produce around the country based on what is the most efficient source on the day. Gisborne lettuce can be found all over the country as can South Auckland tomatoes. Growing produce locally is therefore no longer a necessity. Secondly, the volume of imported produce, particularly imported vegetables destined for the process industry, is rising drastically. On the other hand I saw a Turners & Growers press release recently which announced the company is now the largest exporter of Peruvian asparagus into Japan.
What does this mean? Ask an economist and he will suggest that the sensible way of going about business is to produce goods and services in the most cost effective way. And if that is China, so be it. Sociologists will argue that basic functions like food production need to conducted within spittting distance of the people the food is intended for. Governments are beginning to to grapple with the concept of Food Security. History tells us that as societies progress, its members no longer want to perform the more basic job function but are looking for more complex tasks to take on. Germany invented the term Gastarbeiter in the sixties, guest workers, for the mainly Southern European unskilled labour force which was imported to do the jobs Germans no longer wanted to do. The Communist regime suffered from the same malaise. East Germany brought in thousands of North Vietnamese workers for exactly the same reasons. New Zealand did the same with Pacific Islander in the seventies – and today our industry has the RSE scheme for very similar reasons.
Helen Clark called agriculture and horticulture sunset industries ten years ago and substantially reduced government investment into our industries, wishing us to concentrate on developing high tech export solutions instead. And yet – horticulture and agriculture are part of the very fabric of our society. We need to eat to survive. We need food. How much responsibility do we need to take for this individually apart from doing our hunting & gathering in the local supermarkets?
The answer, I suggest, lies somewhere in between. As a country we cannot afford to be too reliant on commodity exports. Yes, prices might be good for a few consecutive weeks, months or even years – but low entry barriers, over- supply and changes to demand will always create a roller coaster effect . It is just a question of "when." Conversely we cannot afford to go exclusively high tech altogether and import all our food. We can afford this neither financially nor as a society.
What we need then is a mix of sensible commodity production, value adding processing industries and mechanisms which allow us to generate, harvest and market intellectual property along our entire value chain.
Posted: April 6th, 2011 under Labour Resource, Produce, Supply Chain, Thoughtpieces.
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It starts on the horizon, creeping over the land. The storm clouds are huge. They fill the sky. They are moving this way; relentless like the tide, faster than they have a right to. They are dark, so dark to be nearly purple. The rain begins to fall near you. You hear it hit the ground. It hits like bullets. The wind gusts; getting in between a person and their warmth. There is thunder that deafens you. It rolls forth like a stampede. The lightning brings the suns brightness for a moment, before plunging you back into the dark.
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It is a storm. It is nearly a storm front. It has no anthropomorphic eyes or mouth. It is composed the elements of storm - wind for a body, lightning for thoughts, thunder for roars, and ice and water for its teeth and claws. It is a storm that moves and shapes itself of its own accord, even against prevailing wind (though slowly). For all its oddness, it is still recognizably a storm, it mostly acts like a storm, yet it is not just a combination of heat, cold, water, and air.
One must look at it mystically (or with a Clarkian Tech) to truly "see" it. The storm has more energy than just physical energy. It has, in its center, a bundle of organized energy - a matrix - more concentrated than the energy distributed in its "field". There are flows and astrone whirls.
If you need a more material analogy; the matrix acts like a nucleous, the mystic energy as the cell liquid/ cytoplasm, the whirls as ribsomes, plasmids, mitochondria, and other parts of a "cell", the outer shell of the storm, where it meets the free air, is its cell wall.
Keep in mind that The Storm has mystical senses. It sort of "scans" an area for an energy type. This allows it to sense weather fronts, pressure zones, temperatures, and other weather phenomena. It also allows it to sense general magic. It is hard pressed to find specific details, but it knows a general area. Like you would be able to pick out a small pebble somewhere near your feet easily… think about it's scale. People are really tiny to it, kind of like trying to get at Ants.
This energy being is from "somewhere else"; it is not native to the realm. How it came here, it is hard to say with certainty. It could of fallen through a rift in space time. It might of pushed through a soft spot in realities. It might of been summoned, either dragged against its will or early awaiting release to the world. There is a chance that it evolved naturally, spun up from some combination of mystic energy, will, and emotion - manifested into the sky. While its true origin may be open to debate. Its existence is not. It exists.
You will need to choose one that fits your campaign from the options I have given or make one of your own.
Upon being in our world, it extended itself - harmonically - to the material it is comfortable with. We call it air and all that makes it up. Any organized mass of air and energy becomes recognizable as a storm.
And quite a storm it is.
Like all creatures it has motivation and drives.
Hunger is one. It needs to absorb ambient mystic energies to properly empower itself. If it can find a magical region, it would stay there "grazing" for a time.
It can convert "weather energies" into sustaining energy. It gains power as the heat/ pressure/ moisture moves through it. So if it reaches a warm front, this would increase its "storm potential" and its overall energy, without it having to resort to expending its mystic energy.
It is a simple intelligence, an elemental one. It is more than an animal, but less than an adult. It can plan and predict actions to a limited degree, but seems to have attention span and follow through issues. So think of it as the world's most powerful cranky 4 year old. Adjust intelligence to taste of course.
The Storm might be seeking something. It could be a Geas from someone who consciously summoned it. It could be what summoned it in the first place (or could banish it). The players might have moved through a rift recently, thus stink of it. They might seem like food, or seem like a way home, or just be seen as the people who brought it here? Has someone read one of those Lovecraftian books recently? They might be this worlds counterpart to the Mighty Being that that threw the Storm into the void. It could be following and trying to get an item of magical power so it can feed enough to reproduce. It might be tracking the most powerful magic in the area just to feed or might be worried that it would hurt The Storm. It could be looking to avenge itself against someone for some reason. It will have a reason to be acting out, though the players might not ever figure out why it is hunting someone/ something. This is the crux of getting it into your campaign.
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Effects will start mild and grow in intensity. The attacks will seem directed after a while. Sometimes it will take its fury on others, nabbing up innocents who strayed too close in the meantime. The key to making this work is to play it in the middle. Some of it seems directed at the PCs (or target of The Storm's Wrath) and the rest seems to be the result of a random bad weather chart.
How to deal with The Storm
We all know players, they are going to want to try and fight this thing, instead of thinking their way around it.
If you have access to big weather magics, you can combat it directly. Big If. It can also throw more lightning than most mages can. If you can dump enough cloud seeding material into it or cause it to ground itself (cloud, mountain, big lightning rod…), it can be harmed.
Ideally, you are going to find a way to satisfy The Storm's motivation/ need. You will need to deduce what it wants or need. Hopefully you will either be able to give it what it wants (or a substitution) in a way that your characters can accept.
The other ways is to weaken it. You must force it to over extended itself in some way. It will often "follow its need". It can be led into areas that will give it issues. You can lead it into another high pressure zone. You can head it into an area of cool temperatures. You can head for a very dry zone. You can lead it into a low mana zone. These changes will cause The Storm to extend itself and its resources to pursue its goal. It might have a moment of smarts and break off pursuit. You might have to shake the bait, to keep drawing it towards a danger area. It might just wear itself down to get what it wants, not realizing what it is doing to itself until it is too late.
Roleplaying continued and Storm Biology
If it encounters another storm, it will have moments of issues. The initial conflict will be like two animals fighting each other. It will be chaos and damaging. The Storm will win, as it is "smarter" and more aggressive than your average storm. It will then spend a few hours "eating it". Taking in its moisture, its heat energy, and electrical charges, The Storm will grow.
The Storm is a creature of rage and drive, disoriented by its manifestation. Like a child, it is not thinking about why it is doing what it is doing, it just is doing it. Given some time, it might be "introspective". The Storm will calm, some. It will remain an organized mass of air. However it changes from an active storm to an area of instability - an area of high moisture, high energy, and electrical change. It will create an overcast or high cloud cover, and be able to shift wind patterns. Note: this will take some time and gradual steps to occur. Given a little time it will also be able to do large shifts in air pressure and manipulate weather activity in a large scale. If it gets agitated, it can change itself back to a full storm in just a few hours.
The Storm wants to be like any normal violent weather front. It does not like to act in unnatural ways. That fatigues it. If it acts along a more natural way it is "easier" and "more natural" for it, much the way walking and talking is against ballet dancing and singing opera. If it extends itself for too long or with too much "exertion" it will become tired and possible calm itself. Or it might just "fade into sleep", like a toddler that just drops asleep. A nap will last for anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. Of course, it will be cranky when it wakes up.
Note: It communicates via a complex system of charged airflows. However, there is nothing else for it to "talk to". Someone will want to try telepathic contact. This will be hard as its mind is quite alien in to a human, and the reverse is true. It might be quite painful to the human. Some limited and careful contact might be possible. Empathic content might work better, as it has a more common denominator across reality.
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Bauhaus Building and Master Houses
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Walter Gropius 1926
As Walter Gropius wrote in the Bauhaus manifesto in 1919,
'The ultimate aim of the visual arts is the building! Their noblest function
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all craftsmen. Architects, painters and sculptors must recognise again the
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The Bauhaus dissolved under pressure from the Nazis in 1933,
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The Bauhaus buildings - now carefully restored - are included on the UNESCO
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again as a public institution and open to the public.
Claudio Divizia 2005
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Dessau is about 130 km (80 miles) south-west of Berlin.
By train: Dessau main station, exit west, is only a short
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Yesterday's photo of China could have been taken 2,000 years ago, but you won't be able to say that about today's photo. The traffic there is ABSOLUTELY INSANE. I mean, forget about Rome or Bangkok or, well, anywhere! Beijing is in a class of its own. One time there was a traffic jam on a highway that lasted for A WEEK. People just got out of their cars and walked home!I one time got stuck on a journey to the Great Wall for about 6 hours. It was miserable… and hot. Hot and miserable. - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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FARGO—Jamie Sinclair's team finished round-robin play undefeated at 7-0 Wednesday, March 7, to secure the top seed in the women's playoffs at the 2018 USA Curling National Championships in Fargo.
The Sinclair rink defeated Ann Podoll's team 8-1 to wrap up the round robin at Scheels Arena and received a bye to the final Saturday, March 10. The Cora Farrell and Cory Christenson rinks each finished at 5-2 and will meet in a semifinal Friday, March 9, with the winner advancing to the final.
Beth Podoll's Fargo team, which includes Emily Quello of Bemidji, Minn., finished round-robin play at 3-4 after Wednesday's matches and will end the tournament in fifth place. Beth Podoll defeated her sister Ann's team 6-4 in the morning before falling 7-2 to Team Christenson in the afternoon.
In the men's division, Heath McCormick's team and Greg Persinger's rink were tied for first place at 7-1 entering the final draw Wednesday night. Todd Birr's team sat in third place at 5-3 with four teams tied at 4-4 for fourth place, including Pete Fenson's Bemidji rink.
Team Fenson, which also includes Bemidji's Alex Fenson and Mark Fenner, plus Shawn Rojeski of Chisholm, Minn., fell 5-4 to Nicholas Connolly's Seattle team in the afternoon draw. The game came down to the last rock as Connolly scored two in the 10th end after a measurement determined a second red stone was closer to the button than a yellow one, giving the Seattle team the win by one.
The men's round robin concluded with the final draw Wednesday night. Results were not available at press time. The top four teams advance to the playoffs.
Any tiebreaker matches will be played Thursday, if needed, with the men's Page playoffs set for Thursday night. Semifinals will be held Friday, March 9, with the finals scheduled for Saturday, March 10.
A live webstream and live scores are available at www.usacurl.org.
US women win two at World Juniors
ABERDEEN, Scotland—The U.S. women picked up a pair of round-robin wins Wednesday, March 7, at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Madison Bear, Pardeeville, Wisconsin, and the American women, including Bemidji's Leah Yavarow, defeated Korea 8-6 in the morning session and topped Scotland 11-4 in the evening. The victories improve the U.S. to 4-4 with one more game left in round-robin play on Thursday.
The American women will face China (4-4) in the final draw of the round robin. Both teams are in a five-way tie for third place with spots in Friday's playoffs on the line.
Sweden sits in first place in the women's division at 8-0 with Canada in second at 7-1.
The American men, skipped by Andrew Stopera, Briarcliff Manor, New York, earned a share of second place in the standings with a 9-7 win over Germany on Wednesday. The U.S. men's team, including Bemidji's Graem Fenson, moved to 5-2 with the win and are now tied with Canada for second place through seven round-robin matches. Scotland tops the standings at 7-0.
The Americans will battle Switzerland (4-3) and Norway (3-4) to conclude round-robin play Thursday.
Live scores and standings are available at www.worldcurling.org.


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LONDON — London has been hit by an urban planning scourge lately in the form of "anti-homeless" spikes that prevent people from sleeping on the streets.
The small but rock hard thorns have been appearing across the city in an attempt to keep people moving on, but one small team of campaigners have staged a protest against them by converting a patch of them into a comfy bedroom.
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Getting started on something is usually the hardest part. I believe it's the only thing that matters!
I actually wrote a similar version of this article about a year and a half ago but just realized I never got around to publishing it…
I apologize because I feel I prevented a learning opportunity for you.
I'm writing about it again now because I had a new realization about this concept the other day. I even did a Snapchat rant about it.
This is also the start of a Saturday Series of articles I'm writing. My goal is to have people sit down with a warm cup of lemon water, tea or coffee and read something that helps them look at the bigger picture of their health.
A couple of Saturday's ago I was getting up early(ish) up for my morning workouts. I had set my alarm for 8am and hit snooze until after 9. Yes, I literally hit snooze for over an hour!! I really didn't want to get up.
However, once I finally did drag my ass out of bed, quite literally, I stumbled towards the bathroom with my eyes half open bumping into walls along the way. Common, you know you've all had that type of morning.
I was super tired, couldn't open my eyes and really didn't want to. But what I noticed, and I've noticed many times before, is that after about 2-3 minutes, I was feeling much better and more alive. After about 5 minutes I felt ready to rock and excited for my workouts.
I'm not sure if that happens as quickly for everyone, but I've observed over time that in the mornings I'm typically 2-5 minutes to feel ready to go.
Side note: I suggest your own experiment of learning how long it takes for you to feel ready in the mornings. (without coffee)
Jump to an hour and a half later on Saturday, post workout and I felt so happy that I got up and got my day started with a workout. You know you always feel so good after the fact right!
Walking home I thought of Newton's first law of motion and inertia. To summarize it in my own terms:
An object at rest tends to stay are rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.
Put simply, it's harder to get something moving than it is to keep it moving.
Applied to my getting up example: it was really hard to get out of bed, but once I was up and moving things were much easier and I was thankful I got started.
The realization I had was that getting started, overcoming the initial inertia and doing what it takes to move towards your goals, is a forever thing. It's the hardest part to doing anything in your life, but once you actually start it's way easier to keep going.
The major key is that it doesn't only happen once. You actually have to get started over and over and over, time after time after time. Not just once daily in the morning, but constantly throughout your day.
It's EASIER to stay in motion once you've started, but it doesn't mean you WILL stay in motion once you've started.
You'll slow down or stop at some point and then need to re-start and do it all over again.
This isn't meant to be a bummer and look at how hard things will be, it's an insight to stop pretending you only have to get started once and then everything will be easy-peasy. Every single day of your life you will need to get yourself started so why not work on getting good at it!
Do you have strategies in place to help you in getting started each day?
In my experience it's not something that ever goes away. You do get better at it, but you'll always need to overcome that initial inertia of non-movement.
Setting goals and having accountability can be some of the best tools to build that strength.
Now, do me a favour: if you're struggling at getting started somewhere in your life, comment below. I bet that just the accountability of making it public will help get you moving.


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The first Hubble Space Telescope images of a massive compact halo object, MACHO-LMC-5, have revealed an M4-5 dwarf lens with standardized (Cousins) colors of (V-R) = 1.60 and (R-I) = 1.58. A complete solution of the microlensing event parameters yielded an absolute magnitude of MV = 16.2 ±0.6 for the lens. The lens also appears to rotate with the Galactic disk. These results are described by Alcock et al.~(Nature, in press). We present a color-color diagram showing that the LMC-5 lens is redder than the standard sequence of old disk dwarfs by about 0.15 mag in (V-R), similar to the extreme subdwarfs (esdM) of Gizis (1997, AJ, 113, 806). We also show that the lens lies on the extension of the color-magnitude relation for esdMs (Gizis & Reid 1999, AJ, 117, 508). If the LMC-5 lens is type esdM, it has a low metallicity like the spheroid ([Fe/H] ~-1.6 dex), yet it rotates with the disk. Such stars are rare. In fact, only about 1/3 of nearby stars with this [Fe/H] are associated with the metal-weak thick disk (MWTD), instead of the spheroid (Chiba & Beers 2000, AJ, 119, 2843). We estimate that microlensing by a MWTD star should be about 200 times less likely than microlensing by a thin disk star, and thus to have observed an MWTD lens first is surprising. Finally, we note that the mass of the LMC-5 lens appears to lie below the hydrogen-burning limit (Alcock et al., ibid.), while the masses of extreme subdwarfs are not known.
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