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Last year when I had knee surgery for a torn ACL I had the odd experience of walking into the operating room and being instructed to jump up onto the table myself. In TV shows and movies, the patient is always wheeled in on a gurney and lifted onto the table so I had never imagined having to go in on my own two feet - maybe ligament surgery is not dramatic enough for television. I also hadn't imagined the table to be the same as they use to administer a lethal injection, with its thin arm extensions angled off to the sides. As they velcro-ed my arms and spiked my IV I asked the doctor what his favorite color was - I fell off the planet before I heard his answer.
The book Clinic organized by Remy Faucheux steps into the sanitized world of hospitals and medical care with the work of 11 photographers (Olivier Amsellem, Constant Anee, Eric Baudelaire, Geoffroy de Boismenu, Christophe Bourguedieu, Jacqueline Hassink, Albrecht Kunkel, Ville Lenkkeri, Matthew Monteith, Mario Palmieri, and Stephan Ruiz) and a supplement by the Useful Photography group (Kessels, van der Meer, Germain, Cleen and Aarsman).
Most of us imagine what our hospital experience will be, like I mention above, we enter with anxiety, hope, and fear and the cold mix of science and technology accentuating these emotions. We would prefer to be elsewhere than among the ergonomically designed machines that peek into our bodies seeking flaw and disease. Like the old Woody Allen joke, "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens," being inside a hospital makes it hard to put your head in the sand, everything around you reminds you of your physical body and its vulnerability.
Clinic presents each photographer with their own section of 10 to 15 images along with a short statement. Albrecht Kunkel starts the book appropriately with portraits of women during their first pregnancies. Less fear inducing than many of the other projects, Kunkels straight forward portraits exude a calm and grace from the subjects which sit staring back at us with a mix of knowledge and anticipation.
Matthew Monteith's contribution follows comprising a group of portraits and still-lifes of machines and hospital staff. His large format camera orders the twists of tubes and cables with a concentration on colors that stand apart from the rest of the scene. A bright red Mickey Mouse tapestry hangs behind the arm of an x-ray machine and red electrical sockets betray the calculated whiteness of a room. The best image is of a baby in an incubator bathed in a blue ultra-violet light, its tiny form encased like a lab specimen.
My favorite two projects are from Geoffroy de Boismenu and Christophe Bourguedieu. De Boismenu photographs within the operating room and choses to describe his subjects just before or just after the procedure. In preperation, the patient is draped in blue-green cloth and only the abstract form of flesh shows through. Beautifully lit, the hues of the dark palette conceal more than they reveal. The subject, which seems life-less most of the time, is surrounded by large expanses of darkness. This are the most disconcerting of all of the projects for me as it is even more fear-inducing than another artist's included in this book, Mario Palmieri's which concerns itself with a hospital morgue. These invasive surgeries with flesh which resembles wax and roughly sewn suchers grotesquely holding the body together are not for the faint of heart.
The other favorite is Christophe Bourguedieu who followed emergency crews as they make home visits to people in distress. I like this work for its escape from the extremely rigid formalism which most of the artists use as a descriptive device. Perhaps medium format or even 35mm digital, the human element of health care is more evident in these photos. These crews are the link between the outside world and the internal hospital world where moments of professionalism and genuine signs of emotion can be sensed. A group of men stand over a sheet-covered body in a park, their body language conveying defeat. In another, a man casually stands watching a colleague administer an injection into the blueish form of a man - his look a mix of ambiguity and interest.
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The approach of the other photographers, although the images are well made, are formally alike which is my only criticism of the selection. Like the environs they describe, Clinic is clean and sterile in its design from its sans-serif fonts to the openness of the page layouts. Essays by Michal Poivert and Stephane Velut open the book. Clinic was published in 2008 by Images En Manoeuvres Editions.


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The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for its high housing prices, and many families find themselves priced out of homeownership. Since 1988, East Bay Habitat for Humanity (EBHFH) has worked to reverse this trend by constructing over 100 affordable homes that families with limited incomes can buy. While building affordably is an important goal for Habitat for Humanity, building in an environmentally sustainable manner has also become important to the organization (see "The Little House That Could," HE Nov/Dec '06, p. 24). For the past five years, EBHFH has utilized green building practices in its affordable homes. At the end of last year, EBHFH took this commitment to green building one step further by working with Alameda County's green rating program, as described below. In 2002, EBHFH tackled its first green building project, in the Fruitvale neighborhood of East Oakland. The organization constructed four two-story town houses that used sustainable and recycled building materials, and included both passive-solar features and PV. During construction, 90% of unused building materials were recycled. The homes' modular framing used a layout based on 24-inch centers, which eliminated 30% of the framing material typically used. In addition, all of the framing ...
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From Your Home to Theirs: Helping the Adult with ASD Transition into a Residential Placement
After parents and caregivers of individuals on the autism spectrum have passed through the challenging process of finding and assessing a residential placement, another major stage of the journey soon looms large: the process of moving to a new home. Whether their loved one is moving to a supported-living placement or a full-time care placement, careful planning and preparation can help to make this experience flow as smoothly as possible.
Focusing on the Needs of the Individual
In order to facilitate a successful transition, caregivers must remember that the process may take much longer than initially anticipated. In many cases, this delay is caused by a lack of available placements, but it can also arise from a lack of readiness on the part of their loved one. Though such delays can demand a great deal of patience from parents and caregivers, there can be an upside as well. Since individuals with autism spectrum disorders often have developmental delays, moving slowly may actually be helpful. Slower-paced transitions allow increased time to gain the skills needed to succeed in a new placement.
Scott Hykin is a clinical psychologist with a practice in Bethesda, Maryland, who specializes in counseling individuals with ASD. Hykin meets with young adults in transition, and he's seen how demanding such times of change can be for individuals on the spectrum.
Hykin advises, "Don't push [young adults with ASD] through high school for the sake of graduating at 18. If given a chance, allow for longer schooling, so that you can let development catch up before having to face these really hard decisions [about future placements]."
Preparing young adults with practical skills is crucial. Hykin notes, "It's so easy to take over independent living tasks for the individual. But what kind of long-term patterns are you instilling? There has to be a turning point ... [when] you're not so afraid to let them fall."
With this in mind, caregivers can help adults gain vital life skills at home, prior to a transition. If parents and caregivers want to prepare a loved one with ASD for a change in residential placement, they can begin establishing new home routines and behaviors that will support the move toward greater independence. For example, depending on the skill level of their son or daughter, parents can teach the individual to set their own schedules, do their own laundry, or remember their own medication administration times.
Communicating with the Residence Staff
As times of change approach, parents and caregivers have a powerful opportunity to educate residential providers about caring for their loved one. They have the chance to transfer a lifetime of first-hand experience in the transition period. Parents' experience with their child can be invaluable for residential staff. Long-time caregivers often know which behavioral strategies are most effective for a specific individual, and they can predict behavior based on past experience. In this way, parents' and caregivers' counsel can help the staff begin a strong relationship with the individual. Even so, such an opportunity can seem overwhelming amidst the myriad pressures of transition time.
While it's important to prepare for a transition thoroughly, parents and caregivers can take comfort in remembering that they will likely have more than one opportunity to share their knowledge of their loved one with the new staff. Many residential placements have family dinners, quarterly meetings with family members and even vacations together, and these are all possible times to share.
However, it is important to plan ahead and communicate as much concrete information as possible to staff of the new residence prior to the transition. A good transfer of information prior to transition will allow residential staff to support an individual well from day one. To start the process, parents can create personalized documents for their loved one, such as a sample day's schedule, a list of family and personal traditions or rituals and an outline of the individual's preferred way of doing daily life tasks (such as teeth-brushing, showering, or exercising).
In-depth information like this will be extremely helpful for the new residential provider, allowing them to replicate pre-existing routines and maintain a sense of continuity for the individual with ASD. With this in mind, parents and caregivers can plan on multiple meetings in which to discuss household routines, daily life care and other transition topics.
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As parents and caregivers prepare for transition, they can write or type detailed notes, to discuss topics for independent living such as:
- Home Accessibility: Details regarding the use of an elevator or lift; use of medical equipment (and any needs for additional items, such as shower chairs, grab bars, etc); detailed look at each individual's living space and anticipation of any modifications (such as use of lamplight rather than fluorescent light, elimination of scented cleaning products, etc.)
- Furniture and Home Logistics: What will be included in the individual's new room; how items will be transported to the home; how often individuals can expect to visit their parents; requests regarding notice for vacations; expectations for home life; telephone use; assignment of responsibilities.
- Guardianship/Legal Papers: Transfer of vital documents; completion of forms and necessary records; expression of desires related to communication (e.g., how guardians wish to be contacted in the event of medical need).
- Medical Needs: Current medications; recent medical visits; significant medical history; projected future medical needs; medical care and accompaniment; transfer of medications and prescriptions; current and past physician information; special emergency response protocols (if applicable); special diet/nutritive needs; use and maintenance of medical equipment.
- Social Needs: Describing connections with friends, family and important relationships (passing along contact information as well); behavioral support plans (both formal and informal); planning for social activities in the community.
- Daily Routines: Current transportation to and from work or day programs; skill levels for various household tasks; preferred/current personal care routines, products and levels of assistance needed.
- Financial Status: Current checking/savings accounts; self or family funded Special Needs Trusts; Representative Payee Status and Social Security benefit amounts; rent paid to the organization; regular expenses (cell phone bill, medical bills, etc).
These are essential topics to discuss prior to the actual move, as well as during the move period. Each adult with ASD has their own needs. One person may look forward to greater freedom within a new placement, while another may feel intimidated at the prospect. Thus, planning—while it can be categorized and organized into general areas of need—must always focus upon the needs of the person with autism.
Emotional State of the Individual
Times of transition often stir up strong emotions, particularly for individuals with ASD, for whom familiarity and routine are so vital.
"When siblings go to college … adults [with ASD] feel left out," states Hykin. "They're really vulnerable. You've just got years and years of having them out of sync with their environment. And they see themselves as so much more capable … they tend to be really emotionally beaten up."
This sense of emotional weariness, combined with physiological changes in adolescence, makes for a stormy season of life for adults with ASD. Aggressive behaviors may emerge, and personality changes may occur during this time. And, in order to support someone under such a high degree of stress, parents and caregivers need to receive support themselves. Speaking with other families who have undergone similar changes and stressors may be enormously helpful.
Establishing routines of connection in the new placement can help both parents and children to feel secure. Talking on the phone at the same time each week, painting the new room the same color as the old one, meeting for dinner at a familiar restaurant ... all of these small things can help families promote stability in an inherently destabilizing time.
A Time of Growth
Though moving to a new residence can be difficult, this is also a fertile, exciting time as well. As such, the transition from living at home to living in a residential placement may effect tremendous changes in an individual with ASD. As the change in living arrangements approaches, parents and caregivers can ask themselves: Are we prepared to support not only our loved one's challenges, but also their growth? Are we prepared to back up our commitment to their growth, even if it means giving them space and stepping back from the center of their lives?
Parents and caregivers are typically the most long-term, stable relationships that individuals with ASD have. Thus, if the parent or caregiver is ambivalent or mistrustful of the transition process, this fear will affect their loved one. If parents and caregivers do not work through the changes in their own lives, they will (inadvertently) make it much more difficult for the individual with ASD to flourish in their new home.
As one group home direct-care worker reports, "We have one resident with intellectual disabilities, Anna, who's been with us for five years now. She can really do a lot for herself ... but her mother refuses to let Anna do her own laundry (with our assistance, I mean). She picks up Anna's laundry and does it for her." Staff members in this situation are caught in a tight spot; while they need to support family relationships, they must also encourage individuals with disabilities to grow and take greater ownership of their lives and their regular routines.
As the staff member noted, "We want to empower Anna, but we also want her to have a good relationship with her mom. It's a hard balance. We just keep returning to the question, 'What's best for Anna here?'."
A move from a family home to a residential placement is a major change, one that can present on-going challenges. Such a move requires parents and residential caregivers to be flexible, to view this as a long-term process. The initial phase is a time of letting go, which can seem very threatening for parents and family members who have been an individual's primary caregivers for decades.
For many families, there was a time when uncertainty over whether or not they would find a residential placement was the very thing that kept them awake at night. They wondered what would happen to their loved one if they never found a fitting residential placement. When such a hoped-for arrangement does begin, a new uncertainty arises. Parents and former caregivers wonder, "Will my son/daughter/brother/sister/friend still need me? If I'm no longer the caregiver, who am I to this individual? Do I still matter as much to them?"
Parents and caregivers struggle with such questions, and understandably so. Yet these struggles also offer them the gift of solidarity. Their sense of displacement is akin to what individuals with ASD will experience as they move into a new placement. This common ground, far from driving parents and children apart, can serve to bring them together as both step into a new stage of life.


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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales's fourth Prom of the season was the definitive curate's egg of a concert. The closing performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 felt audacious and thrilling and was surely the heart of the programme. But there were also some more unusual works on the menu: music from Walton's film score for Henry V and, intriguingly, Granville Bantock's Sapphic Poem for cello and orchestra.
The Prom opened, though, with Elgar's Falstaff, a more-or-less programmatic depiction of the life of Shakespeare's corpulent knight. In one half-hour movement, the work manages to capture the many facets of Falstaff: his merry nature, his penchant for revelling as well as his darker criminal side and his hurt when he's finally rejected by his Prince Hal (now Henry V).
Here, as in the Tchakovsky later, it was the brass section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales that really shone, capturing the bombast of the military as Falstaff joins the army and creating his snorting snores after the jolly knight's drunk himself to sleep at The Boar's Head.
The work has been performed at the Proms 22 times, which comes as no surprise - the character of Falstaff is irresistible, and Elgar's musical portrait no less so.
Then came Bantock's Sapphic Poem for cello and orchestra. Raphael Wallfisch played the solo part with conviction and was a strong advocate for the work's lyricism and beauty. The work sprung out of a song cycle that Bantock wrote setting poems by the Ancient Greek (female) poet Sappho. Which makes it sound more interesting than it is. Wallfisch played gorgeously, making the most of Bantock's luxuriant Romantic melodies, but the work itself was broadly unmemorable.
Incidentally, Wallfisch performed Bantock's setting of the final prayer of the Sabbath service as an encore - a much more engaging work.
Walton's score for Henry V was a delight - and a particularly apt piece of programming given that the BBC announced its season celebrating film music, Sound of Cinema, the following morning, but once van Steen lifted the baton for the Tchaikovksy, the rest of the evening's programme seemed mere scenery. This symphony was the centrepiece and the orchestra came to life to perform it.
From the opening fanfare - which Tchaikovsky said in a letter was 'Fate, the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal' - through the pizzicato theme in the Scherzo to the tumultuous Finale, van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales powerfully communicated the extremes of emotion in Tchaikovsky's work (perhaps stressing the giddy whirl of life over the intransigence of Fate).
And the measure of the performance was that all but the most staunch sticklers couldn't wait to show their appreciation, and burst into applause after the first movement.
The BBC Proms continue until 7 September, with every performance broadcast live on Radio 3 and many broadcast on BBC Four. You can also catch up with concerts you've missed on iPlayer. This Prom can be heard again on the iPlayer website here.
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As with many "green" initiatives, "green computing" also is on the rise. Internationally renowned for his expertise in the field, University of Houston professor S. Lennart Johnsson will be giving the keynote address at the International Green Computing Conference today in Chicago.
Green computing refers to environmentally sustainable computing, involving the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers, servers and their components with minimal impact to the environment. Goals include reducing the use of hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency during a product's lifetime and promoting recyclability and biodegradability once the products become defunct.
Johnsson is a champion of green computing, as evidenced by his recent collaboration with industry leaders AMD and Supermicro to develop the Supermicro 4P blade, an energy-efficient hardware solution for high-performance computers (HPC). His involvement in HPC spans four decades, and he currently is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor in computer science, mathematics and electrical and computer engineering, as well as director of the Texas Learning & Computation Center (TLC2) at University of Houston.
"Supercomputing involves exceptionally powerful computers traditionally used for solving fundamental physics, chemistry and large-scale engineering problems," Johnsson said. "Advanced computing platforms and applications yield safer, better-performing and more fuel-efficient cars and planes and facilitate the development and testing of life-saving medicines. They also provide the opportunity to push the boundaries of science to discover properties of materials and fluids that can lead to new products, in turn leading to new industries, new treatments for diseases and improved conditions for humanity as a whole."The conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, addresses key topics related to energy efficiency in computing and promoting environmentally friendly technologies. Numerous aspects of green computing will be addressed, including energy-efficient use of computers, hardware and software systems, algorithms, applications, and power, energy and temperature-related research. Other topics include how to reduce the carbon footprint of computing and how computers can contribute positively to the well-being of the planet.


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A rich chocolate-raspberry truffle filling highlights this updated Linzertorte.
- Yield
- Serves 10
- Crust
- 1 cup hazelnuts (about 5 ounces), toasted
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 ounce cream cheese, cut into small pieces, frozen
- 1 large egg, beaten to blend
- 1/2 ounce bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 egg white, beaten to blend
- 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
- Filling
- 9 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 tablespoons whipping cream
- 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons seedless raspberry jam
- 1 1/2-pint basket raspberries
- Lightly sweetened whipped cream
- For crust:
- Position rack in lowest third of oven. Set cookie sheet on rack and preheat to 375°F. Remove bottom from 10 1/2x9 1/2-inch heart-shape tart pan with 1-inch-high sides and removable bottom. Place bottom on parchment and trace heart shape.
- Finely chop nuts with sugar in processor. Add flour, cinnamon, salt, cloves and ginger. Process just to blend. Add butter and cream cheese to processor. Process until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 1 egg and chocolate. Process, using on/off turns, until large moist clumps form.
- To form top crust, transfer 1 1/3 cups dough to pastry bag fitted with no. 4 (3/8-inch diameter) plain tip. Refrigerate remaining dough. Pipe 7 parallel diagonal lines about 3/4 inch apart across heart outline on parchment. Pipe border around edge of heart inside traced line, touching ends of diagonal lines (some dough may be left over in pastry bag). Freeze 10 minutes. Brush dough with some egg white. Slide parchment with heart onto heated cookie sheet and bake until crust is golden and edges are beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. Run long thin spatula between crust and parchment to loosen crust. Slide parchment with heart-shape crust onto rack and cool completely. Maintain oven temperature.
- Return removable bottom to heart pan. Press remaining dough onto bottom and 3/4 inch up sides of pan, using plastic wrap if necessary to prevent dough from sticking to hands. Freeze until dough is firm, about 10 minutes. Brush lightly with egg white. Set pan on heated cookie sheet and bake until crust is golden brown and sides are beginning to pull away from pan, about 23 minutes. Spread bottom crust evenly with 1/3 cup jam. Bake 3 more minutes. Cool crust completely on rack.
- For filling:
- Stir chocolate, butter and cream in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat until chocolate and butter are melted and mixture is smooth. Mix in 2 tablespoon jam. Cool slightly. Pour filling evenly into bottom crust; smooth top. Chill until filling is firm, about 30 minutes.
- Spread remaining 1/3 cup jam over filling and outer edge of bottom crust. Carefully place cooled heart-shape top crust atop jam. Press gently to seal. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead.)
- Remove torte from pan. Transfer to platter. Let stand at room temperature 45 minutes. Arrange raspberries in row in first space between crust lines. Spoon whipped cream into pastry bag fitted with small star tip. Pipe row of small rosettes in second space between crust lines. Continue, alternating rows of raspberries and whipped cream rosettes between crust lines.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories607
- Carbohydrates69 g(23%)
- Fat37 g(57%)
- Protein7 g(14%)
- Saturated Fat18 g(90%)
- Sodium154 mg(6%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber7 g(28%)
- Monounsaturated Fat15 g
- Cholesterol72 mg(24%)


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mgraham necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
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I will be opening the first of 3-4 full-service newsstands in the Denver, CO metro area. This will be a take on the ourdoor newsstands you see in Los Angeles however; this will be a 21st Century newsstand coupled with technology to include a news ticker, flatscreen tvs, ipads, mac setup, great music, etc. The asthetic of the stand is modern with very clean lines that gives off a "store vide" rather than just a stand. We are looking to bring cutomers into the 21st century where news is concerned and want to create a site that becomes a destination rather than just a place to get the paper or a magazine. We will also be selling speciality coffee table book as well as sundries and very unique T-Shirts that one can't find elsewhere
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When late falls rolls around, Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch in West Hollywood is a celebrity family hotspot!
Celebrities such as Ian Ziering, Heidi Klum and Jessica Alba head to the pumpkin patch to play games and pick perfect pumpkins with their kids!
Ian Ziering and his wife are spotted with their daughter Mia.
Heidi Klum and her boyfriend, former bodyguard Martin Kristen, spent the day gathering pumpkins and flying down the inflatable slide with her four kids, Leni, Henry, Johan and Lou.
Jessica Alba's daughter Honor Marie enjoyed the face painting while her dad, Cash Warren, pushed her little sister Haven in her stroller.
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Styling and skinning an application
- Download the sample code and files (ZIP, 14.2 MB)
This sample project shows you how to customize the appearance of an application using styling and skinning. To look at the code, right-click on the SWF in the browser and select View Source or download the sample files and view the source files in a text editor or follow the instructions to import the Flash Builder FXP. Multiple application versions are provided: an XML version that does not require a server as well as versions using Flash Remoting with PHP, Java, and ColdFusion servers.
With styling, you set component styles inline in MXML (as you have already seen):
<s:Label x="20" y="40" text="XYZ Corporation Directory" fontSize="20"
fontWeight="bold" color="#1239E3"/>
... or preferably, in a style sheet using selectors (style rules). Each component has a limited number of styles defined for it. For example, for a Label you can set styles including
font-family, and
color. For a Button, you can also set a
corner-radius style. If you want to change the appearance of a component more drastically then possible with a component's styles, you need to create or edit the associated component skin—the file specifying what the component should look like.
There are two families of components in the Flex framework: Spark and MX. The tags that start with s, such as
<s:Button> are Flex 4 or later Spark components. The tags that start with mx, such as
<mx:PieChart> are the older Flex components. You set the appearance of MX components primarily using styling. The newer Spark components have been re-architected to primarily use a skinning (rather than styling) model in which each component's associated skin file manages everything related to a component's appearance, including its graphics, its layout, and its states.
To view the styles available for a component, look at the styles section of its API in ASDocs or look for the members with the blocks symbol in front of them in Flash Builder code-hinting.
To include a style sheet, you use the
Style tag.
<fx:Style source="TestDrive.css"/>
Look at the code inside this style sheet. You will see various CSS selectors defined. The first is the global selector whose styles will be applied to all components.
font-family: Verdana;
fontSize: 10;
chrome-color: #7F7364;
selection-color: #BFB59F;
roll-over-color: #E5DFC3;
focus-color: #7F7364;
In a style sheet, you can specify styles using camel case (
fontSize) or the more standard CSS hyphenated version (
font-size). In ActionScript and MXML, you have to use the camel case version because ActionScript variables cannot contain hyphens.
Styles set more specifically for a component (either inline or using other CSS selectors we'll take a look at next) apply over values specified in the global selector. For example, the XYZ Label still uses a
font-size of 20 that is set inline in its MXML tag instead of the value of 10 set here. Closer, or more specific style values take precedence.
To apply style rules to only certain types of components, you use CSS type selectors. Here is a type selector for the Button component.
@namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";
@namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx";
cornerRadius: 5;
Because there are two types of Button components, Spark and MX, a namespace must be declared and the selector must specify a namespace. These styles will automatically be applied to all Spark Button components and they will now all have rounded corners and bold, white text.
To apply style rules to only components located in a particular relationship to other components, use CSS descendant selectors. Although not included in the style sheet for this application, here is an example for a style applied to Spark Buttons located within Spark HGroups.
s|HGroup s|Button
cornerRadius: 5;
Spark components have multiple states. For example, a Spark Button component has disabled, down, over, and up states. A component's states are listed in the Skin States section of its API. You also saw in the previous samples how to define states for your own custom components.
If you want a component to have different styles in different states, you use CSS pseudo selectors. Pseudo selectors are defined by using a colon after the selector name to reference the name of a state. Here is a pseudo selector that sets the label text to black (instead of white) for Button components in their disabled state.
To apply style rules selectively to only certain components, you use CSS class selectors. To define class selectors, you use a period in front of a custom name. Here is a class selector called navButton.
In the code,
deptPieCht_itemClickHandler() is called when the user clicks on a pie wedge.
fontSize: 12;
To apply this style to a component, you set its
styleName property to the name of the class selector. This style can be applied to any component.
<s:Button id="empBtn" label="Employees" styleName="navButton" .../>
Multiple class selectors can be applied by setting
styleName to a list of names separated by spaces.
<s:Button styleName="redText smallText" />
If you only want this custom style to be applied to certain types of components, you can preface the selector with the component type. Here is a class selector called
bigNavButton that can only be applied to Spark Button components.
fontSize: 14;
To apply a style rule to a single component, you use CSS ID selectors. To create an ID selector, you name the selector using a # in front of a component's id. Here is an ID selector:
color: #403029;
fontSize: 20;
fontWeight: bold;
for the
xyz Label control.
<s:Label id="xyz" x="36" y="36" text="XYZ Corporation Directory"/>
Note that the Label no longer has any inline styles set in the MXML tag as it did before. It is a best practice to set all your styles in a style sheet.
This application has a toggle button to increase or decrease the size of text at runtime.
<s:ToggleButton id="biggerBtn"
label="Bigger" click="biggerBtn_clickHandler(event)" .../>
The event handler contains code to increase or decrease the text size used in various parts of the application.
You can't change a style at runtime the same way you do a property because styles can be inherited by their children; changing a style's value may affect other components. These style relationships are managed by a StyleManager class. If you look at the Styles section of a component's API, you will see that each style lists its CSS Inheritance as either true or false.
There are several ways to change styles dynamically at runtime. You can use a component's
setStyle() method:
... or you can set its styleName property to the name of a different CSS class selector.
TIf you want to make changes to a style selector instead of making changes to a specific component, you can use the
getStyleDeclaration() method of the StyleManager class and the
setStyle() method. Every Flex component has a
styleManager property you can use to get a reference to the StyleManager class. In this code, the
fontSize style of the global selector is increased to 12 pixels.
Here is the complete code for the ToggleButton click handler that uses these techniques to increase and decrease font sizes.
protected function biggerBtn_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
The ToggleButton also has custom graphics that change to display a plus or minus sign when the button is clicked. We'll look at the code to accomplish this next.
As mentioned previously, the new Spark components have been re-architected to primarily use a skinning (rather than styling) model in which each component's associated skin file manages everything related to a component's appearance, including its graphics, its layout, and its states.
When you create a new skin class in Flash Builder (File > New > MXML Skin), you get a dialog box to choose a host component (what component the skin will be applied to) and the option to base the skin on an existing skin class. This makes it easy to create new skin classes. Within the skin class, you use tags for graphics classes located in the spark.primitives package (Rect, Line, Ellipse, Path, BitmapImage, and RectangularDropShadow ) to declaratively create the graphics.
Instead of writing these tags, you can create the custom graphics using Fireworks CS4 or later, Illustrator CS4 or later, or Photoshop CS4 or later. You use the drawing tools in these products to create the graphics and then select a menu option to save or export the file as FXG, an XML-based graphics interchange format for the Flash Platform. You can then use the generated FXG file as a component in the skin class.
The graphics for the ToggleButton in the application were created with Fireworks CS4 or later. The exported FXG files were saved as BiggerButton.fxg and SmallerButton.fxg. Here is the generated code for BiggerButton.fxg, which defines a filled circle and two crossed lines.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Graphic version="1.0" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/fxg/2008" xmlns:fw="http://ns.adobe.com/fxg/2008/fireworks" viewHeight= "25" viewWidth= "25">
<Group id="Page_1" fw:type="page">
<Group id="State_1" fw:type="state">
<Group id="Layer_1" fw:type="layer">
<Path winding="evenOdd" data="M 2 13 C 2 7 7 2 13 2 C 18 2 23 7 23 13 C 23 18 18 23 13 23 C 7 23 2 18 2 13 Z ">
<SolidColor color="#bfb59f" alpha="1"/>
<SolidColorStroke color="#403029" weight="3"/>
<Path winding="evenOdd" data="M 13 6 L 13 18">
<SolidColorStroke color="#403029" weight="2"/>
<Path winding="evenOdd" data="M 7 12 L 19 12">
<SolidColorStroke color="#403029" weight="2"/>
Next, take a look at BiggerButtonSkin.mxml. The base code that specifies the host component and the states was automatically generated from options in the New MXML Skin wizard. The only code added was to create instances of the two classes generated by Fireworks, BigggerButton and SmallerButton located in the skins folder. The
includeIn property is used to specify in which states each graphics should be used.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Skin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" xmlns:skins="skins.*">
<s:State name="disabled" />
<s:State name="down" />
<s:State name="over" />
<s:State name="up" />
<s:State name="disabledAndSelected" />
<s:State name="downAndSelected" />
<s:State name="overAndSelected" />
<s:State name="upAndSelected" />
<skins:BiggerButton includeIn="disabled,down,over,up"/>
<skins:SmallerButton includeIn="disabledAndSelected,downAndSelected,overAndSelected,upAndSelected"/>
To apply a skin class to a component, you set its
skinClass style. In MXML, you can just set
skinClass to the fully qualified class name of the class.
<s:ToggleButton skinClass="skins.BiggerButtonSkin" .../>
In a style sheet, you need to use the
ClassReference keyword to denote you are setting this style to an ActionScript class.
skinClass: ClassReference("skins.BiggerButtonSkin");
The ToggleButton now shows the plus graphics when it is in one of its normal states and the minus graphics when it has been clicked and is in one of its selected states.
This application uses a second skin class to skin the Application container, XYZSkin.mxml. In this skin class, the graphics for the skin are defined using spark.primitives graphics tags. The Rect class is used to create a white rectangle to fill the entire application by setting the top, bottom, left, and right constraint properties to 0.
<s:Rect id="backgroundRect" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" >
<s:SolidColor id="bgRectFill" color="#FFFFFF"/>
A second Rect instance is used to create a smaller rectangle with rounded corners inside it with a brown stroke and a tan fill. This rectangle's stroke property is set equal to an instance of the SolidColorStroke class and the fill property to an instance of the SolidColor class. Additional stroke and fill classes can be found in the mx.graphics package. Constraint properties are set so the rectangle resizes with the browser window size—if the Flex application is set to resize, which it does by default unless you specify a height and width. It is drawn so that it is 30 pixels from three edges and 35 pixels from the top.
<s:Rect id="border" left="30" right="30" top="35" bottom="30" radiusX="10">
<s:SolidColorStroke color="#403029" weight="5"/>
<s:SolidColor color="#F9F8E9"/>
When adding visual objects, the order of declaration in the MXML file determines the order the objects are added to the display list and hence to the drawing surface. In this case, the second rectangle appears on the top of the first because it is defined later in the code; it is added to the display list after the first rectangle.
The next tag in the skin class is BitmapImage, another Spark primitive. It is used to fill a rectangular region with bitmap data drawn from a source file.
<s:BitmapImage right="50" top="15" source="@Embed('employee.gif')"/>
@Embed is a compiler directive used to tell the compiler to embed this graphics file into the application at compile time, not to load it at runtime. This code adds an employee icon in the upper right corner of the application on top of the rectangles.
If you associated the skin with the Application and ran the application now, you would see the skin but nothing else, not the Label or the DataGrid—none of the contents of the application. This is because we have not yet specified in the skin where to add and position the contents that get added to the container.
Many components are composites of other components. In the API, these subcomponents are listed under Skin Parts. For the Application class, two skin parts are listed:
contentGroup and
controlBarGroup, both of type Group. This means two Group containers with ID's of
contentGroup and
controlBarGroup are defined in the Application class as skin parts, and you can set their visual appearance and layout in a skin class. Our application does not have a control bar, so we just need to add the
contentGroup, the Group object that the main content children get added to.
The last and critical piece of code in the skin is to add this Group container with the name
contentGroup and to specify where it should appear. This sets the position of the content within the skinned Application. You could also set the layout by changing and/or modifying the associated layout class and properties for this Group.
<s:Group id="contentGroup" top="50" bottom="50" right="70" left="70" />
Lastly, the skin sets a minimum size for the skin so the Flex layout manager does not reduce it below this size.
<s:Skin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:fb="http://ns.adobe.com/flashbuilder/2009" minWidth="750" minHeight="560">
The complete code for the skin class is included here:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Skin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:fb=http://ns.adobe.com/flashbuilder/2009 minWidth="750" minHeight="560">
<s:State name="normal" />
<s:State name="disabled" />
<s:State name="normalWithControlBar" />
<s:State name="disabledWithControlBar" />
<!--white background-->
<s:Rect id="backgroundRect" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" >
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Club closing in on deal with Astros at Palm Beach Gardens complex
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays appear to be closing in on a deal that would change the location of their Spring Training complex to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Toronto would share the facility with the Astros and, according to Houston owner Jim Crane, the process is "95 percent" complete. The deal has been in the works for several months and the two sides are now waiting for a final vote by the city.
The Blue Jays have yet to confirm the news, but a source inside the organization indicated the report was not inaccurate. Crane went a step further by publicly saying that Toronto and Houston are ready to make the move.
"The Blue Jays have committed and signed a letter of intent, so we're ready to move forward," Crane said. "That thing should be buttoned up hopefully by the end of October. We'll get that stadium built and it will be a fabulous new facility in Palm Beach Gardens."
The Astros have been working for months on the deal with the city and the state of Florida, which Crane says has already approved funds to keep both teams in-state. The earliest the Blue Jays and Astros could open their new spring facility is 2016.
Toronto's Spring Training complex has been located in Dunedin, Fla., since the club's inception in 1977. The Blue Jays signed a lease through 2017, but it's believed the agreement could be bought out and terminated early if Toronto decided to switch locations.
The Blue Jays entered into negotiations with the Astros in an attempt to upgrade their current facility. The Florida Auto Exchange Stadium where the club plays its Spring Training games is outdated and in desperate need of a costly renovation.
The other problem was that the stadium is not located on the same property as the Minor League complex. The two areas are separated by a 10-minute drive and require the players to dress in one spot before jumping on a bus and make the commute during the early days of Spring Training.
The proposed new facility, which would be located along Interstate 95 near PGA Boulevard, would put five teams on Florida's east coast for the spring. The Cardinals and Marlins share a facility in nearby Jupiter, and the Mets are just up the interstate in Port St. Lucie.
Crane said architects are already working on a design, which would have to be approved by both teams.
"These new facilities have gotten pretty sophisticated, so we're going to make sure we've got everything they need there," Crane said. "We'll get [manager] Bo [Porter] and [general manger] Jeff [Luhnow] involved in that design. We've also looked at other ones in Arizona and Florida, so we've studied all the good ones. We'll kind of emulate those models."
In April, the Florida legislature approved $50 million in incentives for the Astros and Blue Jays to build a new Spring Training complex. The South Florida Business Journal reported then that the money would be paid out over the course of 37 1/2 years.
"The money's available, both teams are committed and we've just got to get it inked up," Crane said.


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Since Intel provides and supports open source drivers, Intel graphics are now essentially plug-and-play.
- 1 Models
- 2 Driver
- 3 Installation
- 4 Configuration
- 5 KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
- 6 Tips and tricks
- 7 Supported hardware
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 9 Adding undetected resolutions
It is a popular mistake to think of "Intel 945G" and "Intel GMA 945" as being the same graphics chip with different names. As a matter of fact, the latter does not exist. Intel uses "GMA" to indicate the graphics core, or the GPU. Anything other than that is actually the model of the motherboard chipset, like "915G", "945GM", "G965" or "G45".
The more common GPUs and their corresponding motherboard chipsets are:
GPU Chipset/Northbridge Intel GMA 900 910, 915 Intel GMA 950 945
The "i810" chipset (again, motherboard; not GPU) is actually really old and was manufactured long before the 9xx product line with which the GMA onboard-graphics branding began. Similarly, alternative names for the 910, 915 and 945 chips may include the
i prefix.
See this for a list.
Prerequisite: Xorg
Install the xf86-video-intel package which is available in the official repositories.
You may need to install lib32-intel-dri in 64-bit systems to use acceleration in 32-bit programs.
There is no need for any kind of configuration to get the Xorg running (an
xorg.conf is unneeded, but needs to be configured correctly if present).
One thing that you should have already done from the start (not a configuration step per se) is to add your user to the relevant group:
# gpasswd -a username video
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
KMS is required in order to run X and a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, etc. KMS is supported by Intel chipsets that use the i915 DRM driver and is enabled by default as of kernel v2.6.32. Versions 2.10 and newer of the xf86-video-intel driver no longer support UMS, making the use of KMS mandatory[1]. KMS is typically initialized after the kernel is bootstrapped. It is possible, however, to enable KMS during bootstrap itself, allowing the entire boot process to run at the native resolution.
vga from the kernel line in
To proceed, add the
i915 module to the
MODULES line in
i915 to the
MODULES array in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf will likely cause the error
kernel: intel ips [...]: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled.
intel_agp module too if the system complains at boot time.
Now, regenerate the initramfs:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
and reboot the system. Everything should work now. If you are having problems, try explicitly enabling KMS by adding
i915.modeset=1 to your kernel line in
# (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/... i915.modeset=1 initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
and make sure that you do not use the
vga=... property nor
nomodeset. Now, reboot and Xorg will work.
If you ever want to disable KMS, you can change the
i915.modeset option to 0 in GRUB's
/boot/grub/menu.lst, without rebuilding anything:
# (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/... i915.modeset=0 initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
i915.modeset=0 is the Intel equivalent to
nomodeset for other video cards.
nomodeset to the kernel boot line might prevent GNOME 3's gnome-shell or KDE's desktop effects from running.
For disabling it without having to edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst, turn on the machine and when you see GRUB's screen, hit a key to disable the timeout. Select the kernel you want to boot (probably the one already selected) and hit Template:Keypress for "edit". Now select the line starting with "kernel" and hit Template:Keypress again for editing. You can now add the
i915.modeset option and disable KMS by setting it to 0. Press Template:Keypress and then Template:Keypress to boot. Note that this will be temporary, so it will be enabled again upon rebooting.
See also
- KMS — Arch wiki article on kernel mode setting
- Arch Linux forums: Intel 945GM, Xorg, Kernel - performance
Tips and tricks
Setting scaling mode
This can be useful for some full screen applications.
xrandr --output LVDS1 --set PANEL_FITTING param
param can be
center: resolution will be kept exactly as defined, no scaling will be made,
full: scale the resolution so it uses the entire screen or
full_aspect: scale the resolution to the maximum possible but keep the aspect ratio.
If it does not work, you can try
xrandr --output LVDS1 --set "scaling mode" param
param is one of
"Center" or
"Full aspect".
KMS Issue: console is limited to small area
One of the low-resolution video ports may be enabled on boot which is causing the terminal to utilize a small area of the screen.
To fix, explicitly disable the port with an i915 module setting. For example, add the following to the end of the kernel line in
If that does not work, you may also try disabling TV1 or VGA1 instead of SVIDEO-1.
Hardware acceleration
If you want to enable hardware accelerated video decode/encode in multimedia applications (such as VLC or MPlayer) for Intel HD graphics controllers (G45, Sandybridge), install the libva-driver-intel package, available in the Official Repositories.
Supported hardware
See http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html.
Glxgears shows low performance results
If you run glxgears in order to check your system's graphics performance, you may notice that glxgears shows results around 60 FPS:
... 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.973 FPS 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.064 FPS 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.026 FPS ...
That is happening not because there is a performance regression, but because your system graphics are using vertical sync (vsync), that means, your display's native frames per second.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf in Section "Device" string Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false"
Blank screen during boot, when "Loading modules"
If you are using "late start" KMS and the screen goes blank when "Loading modules", it may help to add
i915 and
intel_agp to the initramfs. See KMS above.
Alternatively, appending the following to the kernel command line seems to work as well:
External monitor connected to laptop flashes black every 30 seconds
If your laptop uses Intel HD graphics and your external LCD is flashing to black every 30 seconds, upgrading your video driver and kernel may help. As of now using xf86-video-intel version 2.14.0-1 and kernel 2.6.37-5 have solved this issue.
Only a single low-resolution present
If Xorg starts with 800x600 and does not find any other resolutions, it may be because you have an
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file left over from your NVIDIA setup. Simply changing the driver from "nvidia" to "intel" is not sufficient when moving from NVIDIA's
xorg.conf to Intel's. Try to delete
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, letting the driver pick the settings itself.
Video tearing
Install VA-API support by installing the libva-driver-intel package. Use a VAAPI supported video player. If you use mplayer, install mplayer-vaapi, and use -vo vaapi parameter. To fix tearing on flash videos, try to enable hardware video decoding from
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg and add line
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1. If hardware video decoding is still not working, you can also try adding
OverrideGPUValidation = 1.
X freeze/crash with intel driver
If you have issue with X crashing, or GPU hang, or problem with frozen X, then the fix may be to use the "Shadow" option:
Section "Device" Identifier "old intel stuff" Driver "intel" Option "Shadow" "True" Option "DRI" "false" EndSection
Because it disables (most) video acceleration functions, using this fix (Option "Shadow" "True") may cause problems with gnome-screenshot and similar programs like gimp, or gcolor2.
Another option that can help on some implementations is to enable semaphores in the kernel video driver, by adding
i915.semaphores=1 to the kernel command line. To make this change permanent on GRUB2 installations, changing the kernel command-line entry in
/etc/default/grub and re-running
grub-mkconfig will make that change permanent.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.semaphores=1"
Adding undetected resolutions
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Army: Argument sparked shooting
An argument among soldiers is believed to have led directly to Wednesday's shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas — and not the gunman's "underlying medical conditions," the commanding officer at the sprawling Army base said Friday.
"The underlying medical conditions are not believed to be the precipitating event to the actual shooting," Lt. Gen. Mark Milley told reporters at the base. "The precipitating event we think was probably this argument, some sort of argument that occurred."
Milley said a memorial service would be held next Wednesday for the three soldiers who were killed in the shooting: Sgt. Timothy Wayne Owens, Staff Sgt. Carlos Alberto Lazaney Rodriguez and Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Michael Ferguson.
The shooter, identified earlier by the Army as Spc. Ivan Lopez, also killed himself and wounded 16 others on Wednesday. Milley said 10 of the 16 wounded soldiers had been released from the hospital and had "returned to duty."
Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Amy Criminal Investigation Command, said during the press conference the investigation into the shooting remained open. He said the precipitating verbal argument was with soldiers from Lopez's unit and that some of the soldiers involved in the argument were victims.
He also said the shooting occurred at multiple locations and that Lopez drove in a vehicle shooting indiscriminately at other soldiers. "All evidence" points to Lopez acting alone, Grey said, but no possibility has been ruled out.
He reiterated that investigators had discovered no links to terrorism and that no "concrete motive" has been established.
"There was an argument; it escalated," Milley said.
On Thursday, Army Secretary John McHugh said during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill that Lopez, who was an Army truck driver and had served in Iraq, was under medical treatment and had been prescribed several medications, including the sleep aid Ambien.
He was in the process of being potentially diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, but none of his doctors saw any warning signs in his most recent visits. "The plan forward was to just continue to monitor and treat him as deemed appropriate," McHugh said.


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Magnesium Guide: Deficiency, Foods, Oil, and More
Your body is alive because of brilliant biochemistry. A myriad of intricate pathways is working in symphony every second of your life. It is easy to take for granted the countless facets that have to be for us to be here. One piece of the integral puzzle we call human health is a little guy named magnesium. Magnesium, along with calcium, potassium, chloride, and sodium are all electrolytes, needed for our brain, nerves, heart, eyes, immune system, and muscles to function. When magnesium levels are optimal in our body, we thrive. When we are magnesium deficient, it throws off the balance of our perfectly balanced symphony, and a whole host of health problems can ensue.
One of the most overlooked nutrient deficiencies that I find as a functional medicine practitioner is magnesium deficiency, and that is a serious problem because your body needs magnesium to accomplish 300 incredibly important biochemical reactions. Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body, so if you are deficient (like 50 to 90 percent of us are)—then you are probably feeling some symptoms.
There are four main reasons most of us are low in magnesium:
- Poor nutrition
- Medications that deplete magnesium (such as antibiotics and diuretics)
- Soil depletion
- Chronic gut problems (e.g., leaky gut syndrome), which compromise magnesium absorption
While these are fairly common issues and not always a sign of magnesium deficiency, here are some the things that can happen when you're lacking in magnesium.
Studies have found that children who took 200 milligrams of magnesium daily over six months had a significant decrease in hyperactivity symptoms compared to children who didn't take magnesium.
2. Adrenal fatigue
As someone who has personally struggled with adrenal fatigue in the past, I can attest to magnesium's role in calming stress levels and rehabbing hormones. Magnesium helps to regulate cortisol levels, allowing for more balanced hormone production.
3. Anxiety or depression
Magnesium calms down the excitatory NMDA receptor. Without it, calcium and glutamate activate NMDA, which can lead to depression and anxiety.
4. Asthma
Research suggests that people who don't eat enough magnesium-rich foods have a higher rate of asthma. One reason could be that magnesium may facilitate healthy bronchodilation.
5. Chronic fatigue syndrome
A study published in the revered medical journal Lancet found that out of hundreds of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, half of them were deficient in magnesium, and magnesium injections of 580 mg saw improvements of their symptoms.
6. High blood pressure
Studies have shown that people who supplemented with magnesium were able to lower their blood pressure levels by up to 12 points.
7. Heart problems
Someone has a heart attack every 43 seconds, and one study published in the American Journal of Cardiology found that a lower level of magnesium intake increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 50 to 80 percent. In a different double-blind, placebo-controlled study, people received either magnesium or a placebo for one year. For one month, the magnesium group received 6,000 milligrams of magnesium orotate, and 3,000 milligrams of magnesium orotate for 11 months. Afterward, only 52 percent of the placebo group was still alive, compared with 76 percent of the magnesium group.
8. Inflammation
One commonality between just about every chronic health problem is inflammation. Magnesium has been shown to decrease CRP and NfKb, two inflammatory blood lab markers.
9. Migraines and other types of headaches
Half of people in the United States get at least one headache every month, and millions are debilitated by painful migraines. An estimated 50 percent of those suffering from migraines are magnesium deficient. Research has found that 60 percent of those with chronic migraines have genetic changes that decrease their body's ability to metabolize magnesium, which relaxes blood vessels in the brain. Ionized magnesium administered through an IV significantly reduced pain within 15 minutes in more than 80 percent of patients.
10. Insulin resistance
A shocking 50 percent of America has some form of insulin resistance, from metabolic syndrome to full-blown type 2 diabetes. Research published in the medical journal Circulation showed that among approximately 5,000 people over a period of 15 years, those who took higher levels of magnesium had a decreased risk of metabolic syndrome. A similar study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology observed more than 1,000 healthy adults for five years and found that greater magnesium intake improved insulin sensitivity. Other studies have shown that magnesium also improves triglycerides, another hallmark of metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
11. Low thyroid hormone levels
Magnesium is essential to the production of thyroid hormones, and I find that magnesium deficiency is one of the often overlooked factors contributing to thyroid problems.
12. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
People with OCD were found to have lower levels of magnesium compared to control groups.
13. Muscle cramps and spasms
Random spasms, cramps, and "charley horses" in your legs and other places in your body aren't actually random—they are the most common signs of magnesium deficiency. In addition, magnesium supplementation has been shown to ease period cramps and other premenstrual symptoms, so it can be important that women get enough magnesium.
14. Premature aging
Magnesium deficiency was shown to speed up the death of human endothelial cells and fibroblasts, leading to accelerated aging and age-related diseases.
15. Poor memory
MIT researchers found that magnesium plays a pivotal role in regulating brain receptors needed for learning and memory function, and that supplementing with magnesium helped clear so-called brain fog. Magnesium can also enhance the brain's ability to change, heal, and grow new neural pathways, which is essential to slowing down and even reversing cognitive decline.
16. Skin health
A Polish study found that people with skin allergies saw dramatic improvements in their skin with magnesium supplementation.
17. Sleep trouble
Research has found that magnesium supplementation helped improve all the major physiological markers associated with insomnia. One major example: GABA is the calming, restful neurotransmitter, and GABA receptors in the brain require magnesium to work correctly.
18. Weak bones
Magnesium is a key nutrient for producing strong, healthy bones. A randomized controlled study found that 300 milligrams of supplemental magnesium increased bone mineral content when taken for a year. Two American Journal of Clinical Nutrition studies found that the more deficient someone was in magnesium, the lower their bone density was, increasing the risk of osteoporosis and fractures.
What to do if you suspect your magnesium is low.
If you have any of the signs of magnesium deficiency, talk to your doctor about getting your magnesium levels tested. Conventional nutrient labs aren't always very accurate, so I suggest running advanced nutrient labs (a functional medicine practitioner can help you with this) to find out your magnesium level. If you are deficient, boost your magnesium levels by adding more magnesium-rich foods to your diet. Foods high in magnesium include:
- Spinach, 1 cup: 157 mg
- Swiss chard, 1 cup: 154 mg
- Dark chocolate, 1 square: 95 mg
- Pumpkin seeds, ⅛ cup: 92 mg
- Almonds, 1 ounce: 80 mg
- Black beans, ½ cup: 60 mg
- Avocado, 1 medium: 58 mg
- Salmon, 1 fillet: 53 mg
- Kefir, 1 cup: 50 mg
- Figs, ½ cup: 50 mg
- Banana, 1 medium: 32 mg
Magnesium supplementation
It's difficult to replenish your magnesium entirely through diet, so if you feel like you can't possibly eat more Swiss chard, or are still deficient, take it to the next level with magnesium supplements. I suggest getting around 500 milligrams each day. Check your levels every few months to monitor your progress. Supplementing with magnesium is generally safe but can cause diarrhea and GI upset when taking too much for your body, so start at a lower dosage and work your way up, or proceed according to your doctor's recommendation. Another way to avoid GI distress is by using magnesium oil rather than oral supplements. When used as an oil magnesium is absorbed through the skin, therefore bypassing the gastrointestinal system. This also makes magnesium oil a great option if you have gut dysfunctions like leaky gut syndrome, which inhibits absorption.
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