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Hoffman Estates is a village in Illinois, United States. The village is located primarily in Cook County, with a small section in Kane County. It is a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,895, and as of 2017 the estimated population was 51,567.
Hoffman Estates is located at 42°3′47″N 88°7′9″W / 42.06306°N 88.11917°W / 42.06306; -88.11917 (42.063173, -88.119256).
According to the 2010 census, Hoffman Estates has a total area of 20.981 square miles (54.34 km), of which 20.8 square miles (53.87 km) (or 99.14%) is land and 0.181 square miles (0.47 km) (or 0.86%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 49,495 people living in 17,387 housing units at an average density of 882.1 per square mile (340.6/km²). The population density was 2,511.2 people per square mile (969.6/km²).
There were 17,034 households, with the average household size of 2.89 individuals per household while the average family size was 3.39, out of which:
The median age was 34 years with variances of:
For every 100 females, there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.7 males.
The racial makeup of the village was:
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With the state of our world's economy, making monthly payments is getting harder and harder, especially in Hoffman Estates Illinois. United States job loss totals are higher than they have been in over thirty years. Americans are finding it tougher than ever to find steady employment. As a result, bankruptcy, foreclosure and repossessions are skyrocketing.
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For many hardworking men and women, bad credit can have a very bad effect on your life, especially in Hoffman Estates Illinois. No matter the reasons, bad credit can add stress and difficulty to an already stressful financial situation. And for some people, bad credit makes getting a new vehicle very difficult. Here are some reasons people develop bad credit and some ways you can get a vehicle, even if your credit is less than perfect.
Here are just a few common causes of bad credit:
So once you've fallen into a hole of bad credit, how can you get yourself out to buy a new car? To get a new job or to get to work, people need a vehicle for transportation. But to get a new vehicle, credit problems can be difficult to overcome. For many people, this can be a difficult circle to get out of. One solution is to get a new car through a "used car buy here pay here" car lot. These types of dealers specialize in automobile financing for people who are suffering from bad credit or have never established any credit at all. Depending on the dealer, some used car dealerships that finance bad credit not only offer customers with poor credit a chance at getting a perfectly good used vehicle, but they also help them build their credit score back up through consistent payments and a commitment to seeing their customers succeed.
It is always important to research your options before buying a vehicle, but if you are struggling with poor credit or no credit at all, a buy here, pay here (or "tote-the-note") dealer may be your best option. And be sure to look for dealers that offer fair payments and includes a warranty to go with your new used vehicle. You should also make sure they report your payments to the credit. Many used car dealerships for bad credit don't report payments, so you never get a chance to improve your credit.


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Question: How do you tell a hatchery trout from a wild trout in Central Valley rivers? The regulations for the Stanislaus River below Goodwin Dam state you can keep two hatchery trout or hatchery steelhead. Hatchery steelhead have clipped adipose fins. If I catch a trout and it has an adipose fin, do I just assume it's not a hatchery trout? (Judi A.)
Answer: Hatchery trout or hatchery steelhead are those showing a healed adipose fin clip (adipose fin is absent). Unless otherwise provided, all other trout and steelhead must be immediately released. Wild trout or steelhead are those not showing a healed adipose fin clip (adipose fin is present) (California Code of Regulations Title 14, section 7.50).
Squirrels for crabs
Question: Can legally taken California ground squirrels (a non-game mammal) be used for bait in Dungeness crab traps? (Bret H.)
Answer: Yes, ground squirrels can be used as bait, but remember they are also vectors of a number of flea borne diseases, so use caution when handling them.
Hunting around my house
Question: I live in a rural area. Can I legally hunt within 150 yards of my own residence? Can I hunt within 150 yards of anyone else's if I have their written permission? (Jess K.)
Answer: Yes. These are safety zone restrictions but as long as there are no other local laws or ordinances that prohibit hunting or the discharge of a firearm, then you can hunt within 150 yards of your own residence or any other residence where you have obtained express permission of the owner or person in possession of the premises (FGC section 3004(a). (LED Feb 14)
Catch and release fishing during a closed season
Question: In the freshwater regulation hand book under Section 1.38 it states: "CLOSED SEASON. That period during which the taking of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mollusks or crustaceans is prohibited." This leads to my question regarding whether a person can still fish during a closed season as long they release all the fish they catch? In other words, I would practice catch and release and use barbless hooks to protect the fish from further harm. The regulation restricts the taking of fish, but no fish will be taken. I am very confused. Can you help clarify? It's kind of twisted and confusing. (Robin O.)
Answer: Fishing during a closed season is prohibited, period. Even though you don't intend to take any fish away with you, the definition of take is to "Hunt, pursue, catch, capture or kill fish, amphibians, reptiles, mollusks, crustaceans or invertebrates or attempting to do so" (CCR Title 14, section 1.80). Therefore, despite your best methods, even the attempt to fish is prohibited.
There are few exceptions, but the take of crayfish other than with hook and line is authorized when a stream is otherwise closed to fishing (CCR Title 14, section 5.35(e)). Typically, crayfish may be taken only by hand, hook and line, dip net or with traps not over three feet in greatest dimension (CCR Title 14, section 5.35). Most crayfish have no limit and the season is open all year. However, Shasta crayfish are protected and so there are specific river and lake closures listed for their protection in the 2014-2015 California Freshwater Fishing Regulations booklet (see page 21), as well as online at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/regulations/. Look for subsection (d) of this section for the closed waters to avoid.
Taking crabs by SCUBA
Question: I am heading to the beach this weekend, I bought a fishing license and I am planning to do some SCUBA diving. Can I take a big bag with me and collect up to 35 rock crabs from the ocean using SCUBA? (Jimmy P.)
Answer: Yes. Take of all crabs of the Cancer genus, except Dungeness crabs, but including yellow crabs, rock crabs, red crabs and slender crabs is allowed all year. While using SCUBA, crabs may be taken by hand only with no hooked devices in possession (CCR Title 114, section 29.80(g)).
The limit is 35 and the minimum size is four inches measured by the shortest distance through the body, from edge of shell to edge of shell at the widest part, except there is no minimum size in Fish and Game districts 8 and 9 (around Humboldt Bay). They may be brought to the surface of the water for measuring, but no undersize crabs may be placed in any type of receiver, kept on the person or retained in any person's possession or under his direct control; all crabs must be measured immediately and any undersize crabs must be released immediately into the water (CCR Title 14, section 29.85 (b)(c)).
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Primary Symptoms
When infected, gums may appear red or puffy. This occurs because the accumulation of plaque and tartar begins to irritate the gum tissue.
Once the gums become inflamed, they are more prone to bleeding when brushing or flossing.
Bad Breath
Medically referred to as halitosis, bad breath is a common side effect of gingivitis.


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A Connecticut woman made a frightening discovery after biting into a Dunkin' Donuts croissant and feeling something sharp cut her mouth.
Priscilla Salas said she almost swallowed the razor pieces she discovered after biting into a croissant she bought last week at the Dunkin' Donuts on Boston Post Road in Windham. She didn't realize what was inside the pastry until she bit down and cut her mouth on the metal shards, some of which were up to a quarter inch long.
"I was just floored completely," Salas said.
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After calling the police and the restaurant's corporate office, Salas was told the metal in her food could have been part of a box cutter.
"They felt It was probably a frozen croissant from distribution center and they were going to find the exact location of it," Salas said.
Dunkin' Donuts said in a statement that Salas' experience was an isolated incident. The company said it is concerned about the safety of its customers and is working with the store in question to investigate. Salas said she stops by that Dunkin' Donuts almost every day and said she'd never had a problem before.
"I just want the public to know and be aware of what they buy and look over everything they eat," she said.
Salas said Dunkin' Donuts apologized to her and told her the company would send a gift card. But she said she isn't after the company's money; she just wants the public to be aware.


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Ewe 2836 gave birth to a ram lamb and a ewe lamb. It was my first "assist" as the ram lamb's head was blocking the way out. I helped because I could see he was cyanotic, his little blue tongue poking out the side of his mouth and his front feet tucked under his chin. His sister popped out behind a few minutes later, no complications.
The newly named Matilda (Thank you, Hazel!) is doing much better. Eudora eventually rejected her (the smell of the fly strike chemical masked Matilda's smell and Eudora didn't recognise her) but she is adapting to life as an orphan lamb. It's just one more hardship for her to endure. I spent yesterday teaching Matilda to take a bottle. I'm not sure there was much instruction on my part, just perseverance and begging. She's starting to get the hang of it and at 12 midnight last night, for the first time in her life, she finally had a full belly of milk.
I had to wait til she peed so she'd stand still for a photo. Excuse thumbs.Double phew.
Even Ewe 0004 with pneumonia is on the mend. I know this because she was hard to catch this morning, especially as I forgot my sheep bait - a bucket with a few handfuls of barley in it, to lure them in and distract them while I jab, prod, or shear.
And that squab? I let him out of his coop four days later, rested from whatever illness or trauma befell him.
Like the spell of warm weather that's arrived, I'm going to enjoy the respite while it lasts. At dinner recently, I asked my friend Annette how long she's been keeping sheep. "Twenty-seven years", she said. I asked her if she ever had a really bad year. "Oh God yes! Many. But I remember we had one year when everything went to plan, no complications." So, according to her experience, the odds of having a carefree lambing season are in the region of 26 to 1. Against.
I know already this isn't going to be my year, but that just means I have that one to look forward to, someday.


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Wall Street still loves Apple.
Nine days before shoppers get a chance to vote with their wallets on the iPhone 5, analysts are praising the tech giant's latest gadget.
"The consumer is going to be blown away," said Jefferies & Co.'s Peter Misek.
The analyst is forecasting the new 4G smartphone will sell 58 million units this year — far above the average estimate of 47 million.
Misek has a price target of $900 on Apple shares.
The Cupertino, Calif., company's stock closed yesterday at $669.79, up 1.4 percent. It is up 65 percent this year.
Brian White, an analyst with Topeka Capital Markets, said after Apple unveiled the latest version of its most profitable gadget that he expected sales of the iPhone 5 to surpass forecasts in the first three days and hit 5.5 million units.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was up against sky-high expectations yesterday when he took the wraps off the seventh iteration of the iPhone, which has sold more than 250 million units since it was introduced in 2007.
In fact, some investors appeared to get worried, and Apple shares actually slipped 3.6 percent over the past three sessions before rallying late yesterday.
The iPhone 5 comes with the design revolution Apple fans have come to expect from next-generation devices: It's thinner, lighter, faster and made of new materials that make it look sleeker, with a better screen.
With the unveiling yesterday during a press event in San Francisco, the iPhone 5, it is now clear, will produce some corporate winners and losers.
Facebook, Twitter and Electronic Arts — as well as developers and gamers — are seen as clear beneficiaries of the stepped-up iPhone.
Facebook and Twitter come out ahead because of better integration, while gamers will be able to take advantage of a faster processor.
Of course, some developers got advance warning. Electronic Arts showed off a new racing game on stage at the Apple event that also takes advantage of the larger screen.
Jens Begemann, CEO of gamemaker Wooga, said his company got to work on its iOS hit "Diamond Dash" before Apple unveiled the phone.
"Based on rumors and leaks, we built for this new device," he said.
Those seen as iPhone 5 losers include: Radio Shack, which sees smaller margins from iPhone sales compared with other items in the store; Google, which will see tens of millions of iPhones lose Google Maps, a result of Apple moving to its own map developer; Samsung, which no longer has its chips in the iPhone; and Amazon, which will be hurt by the improved iTunes also announced yesterday.
Apple, itself, was hurt a bit yesterday as Cook's presentation lacked the mystery and surprise factor of past Apple introductions.
The unusual amount of iPhone 5 leaks — photos, specs, 4G speed, timing of its retail arrival — lessened the surprise for Wall Street and consumers.
Apple, known for its tight secrecy, could not keep the iPhone 5 under lock, and it became the most leaked product in the company's history.
That doesn't seem to have discouraged Wall Street.
Fourteen analysts issued reports yesterday and not one of them backed away from their rosy predictions.


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Ten years ago my foray into the world of food allergies began when my first born, Julian, was diagnosed with peanut allergy just months before starting junior kindergarten. Looking back, I'm amazed to see how far we've come as a society to address an issue affecting a growing number of children.
In January 2006, Sabrina's Law was passed, requiring that all publicly funded school boards in Ontario have measures in place to protect children at risk of anaphylaxis. The concept of Sabrina's Law has since spread: Ontario has passed legislation to safeguard children in child-care centres; in British Columbia, a ministerial order to protect students with severe allergies was signed last fall; and similar school measures have been adopted in several U.S. states.
We've made great strides on awareness and support. Yet as heartening as that is, I find myself increasingly concerned about an undercurrent of negative commentary. There have long been grumblers, but the chorus seems to be getting louder: from ignorant bloggers ridiculing food allergic people to radio talk show hosts ranting about the demands of "over-protective" parents.
Most alarming is an article that appeared in the January issue of Harper's magazine called "Everyone's Gone Nuts: the Exaggerated Threat of Food Allergies," by a writer named Meredith Broussard. With sneering tone, Broussard, who has no medical background, ignored key findings to suggest that the "rash of fatal food allergies is mostly myth" fueled by anxious parents, questionable prevalence data, and sensationalist news coverage.
Harper's offered Broussard a credible venue in which to be contrarian, and she came out swinging. She used statistics from the Centers for Disease Control to underscore her claim that "a cultural hysteria" prevails around food allergy. After all, she noted, not that many people die of reactions. Her comments fueled public debate, sparking commentary from allergy experts and enraging parents of food allergic children. But on her side were strident bloggers, who heartily supported her views.
What disbelievers like Broussard fail to appreciate is the uncertainty that a diagnosis of food allergy brings for families. What we know for certain is that a very small amount of an allergenic food when eaten can cause a severe allergic reaction and that people have died from food-induced anaphylaxis. While certain factors increase or decrease the likelihood, nobody can tell us for certain who is at risk of a fatal reaction. Many parents have wound up in an emergency department, panic-stricken, with their children in the throes of an allergic reaction, wondering whether they would survive.
Around the same time that the Harper's article appeared, I was asked by a journalist whether I thought there was "food allergy fatigue" with the cancellation of some food-centred school activities such as birthday treats and bake sales. Her question started me wondering: Could we, as parents of food-allergic children, be inadvertently contributing to this growing backlash or allergy fatigue with our own behaviour?
It can be difficult to get people to take food allergy seriously when our kids don't look sick (unless they're having a reaction), and the fatality rate is not that high compared to other conditions. Many parents resort to scare tactics to get the point across, such as the oft-used comment – "a peanut butter sandwich is like a loaded gun to my child." This approach lessens the credibility of the parent, who seems driven more by emotion than by fact. It can also isolate food-allergic children, who get left out of social events as other parents feel they cannot adequately care for them.
At times our expectations can be unrealistic. Like many parents, I have asked others to guarantee my son's safety at school, camp, or when dining out. I did this out of a fierce love for my child. What I learned through my own mistakes, however, is that even I could not guarantee Julian would never have a reaction, even in our own home. On two occasions I had to administer his auto-injector after he ate foods containing allergens which I had missed on ingredient labels.
While I certainly don't have all of the answers, I believe that as a society, allergic and non-allergic people must try to understand each other's perspectives and work together. We have a growing public health issue with food allergy on the rise. As anaphylaxis policies continue to take shape in our schools, workplaces, and other sectors, inevitably we will all be affected in some way. We need to collaborate on strategies that protect individuals at risk, but at the same time are reasonable for the wider, non-allergic community. As parents of food-allergic children, we need to watch that our expectations are fair, and that our behaviour empowers our children.
While I realize there will always be diehard skeptics who play down the risk of food allergy, I take heart in the thought that fatalities from reactions may be low because food-allergic individuals are taking responsibility to protect themselves – and because the majority of people are doing their part to safeguard them.
Laurie Harada is the former executive director of Food Allergy Canada, www.foodallergycanada.ca.


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If we looked between the couch cushions, we could probably find 20GB or so in various roaming flash media. Yet it all goes unused whenever we pull out the trusty USB stick.
The CrossOver by OCZ is a simple but clever design for a flash dongle. Coming in 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB sizes, the aluminum-constructed CrossOver works fine as a standard USB drive, but it's also expandable with a built-in microSD/SDHC card reader should you need the extra storage (or just want a convenient way to load your microSD with music and stuff).
No info on the CrossOver's price or availability. [OCZ via TechFresh]


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Bánh Mì in SLC – Oh Mai Vietnamese Sandwich Kitchen
Oh Mai Vietnamese Sandwich Kitchen
3425 S State St
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
(801) 467-6882
My bias from the outset: I love bánh mì, and love that I have a variety of places to choose from to get them in SLC. The only downside of the status quo is that they all reside on a ten block stretch of each other on Redwood Road, a substantial drive from my place. So when I saw the sign for Oh Mai go up on State Street a month ago, was I rooting for them to be great? You bet I was.
My dreams have come true. This place stands to save me many trips to the west side.
The bánh mì that I had, the S1 Cold Cuts, was as close to my gold standard, Spice Kit in San Francisco, as I've found in the area. On the protein side of the lineup, pork roll, jambon ham, pork head cheese, and a pork pate. The vegetation side: pickled daikon and carrot, jalapeno, cilantro, and cucumber. Surround that with a piece of bread that, while not the traditional so-crispy-that-it-shatters-on- the-first-bite baguette, was nonetheless of the french variety, thoroughly toasted, and nicely dressed with garlic butter and mayo. It hits all of the usual bánh mì notes of unctuous, sweet from the vegetables, and substantial from the meat. At only $3.88, it is ridiculously inexpensive. Something about the more substantial bread and the generous toppings also makes this a much more filling sandwich than any of its brethren further west.
Despite being stuffed, I also had some pho, which was highly tasty. I loved the broth in particular. But, for me, this place was about the sandwich. In talking with the staff, they said that they plan to start offering the more traditional chicken liver pate with the sandwich, as well as green papaya salad in the future.
The hours on the door are 9:30a to 8:30p, 7 days a week. I think that may, coincidentally, describe my return schedule for the place, too.


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Did you know that in addition to being talented and handsome, Jon Hamm is also great at bowling and building dicks out of Play-Doh? He recently teamed up with Mad Men collaborators Matthew Weiner, Vincent Kartheiser and Rich Sommer to bowl for charity against Team Nerdist, headed by Nerdist podcast host/son of a professional bowler Chris Hardwick. The results are endlessly charming and entertaining. Who knew that Harry Crane bowls like a grandma? Can Hamm throw off his competition with the ol' slip-on-a-banana-peel trick? What's it like when Pete Campbell gets in a room with Weird Al? Watch and find out.
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By Scott D. Seligman
America's civil rights movements have all had their Martin Luther Kings, their César Chávezes and Gloria Steinems. But to whom can Chinese Americans point? Chinese have been in the United States in sizeable numbers since the California Gold Rush. They were shamefully mistreated, denied rights for most of a century and are generally thought to have borne everything the American establishment dished out passively and without much protest. This canard does an injustice to a little-known Bucknell alumnus, however. Nineteenth-century Chinese in America had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–98), a compelling and controversial figure whose story is a forgotten chapter in the history of the struggle for equal rights for all.
Wong, who studied in 1869–70 at what was then the University at Lewisburg, never accepted as inevitable the lowly position Chinese were compelled to occupy in American society. He struggled to secure a more central place at the American table. He was the first to employ the term "Chinese American." He published New York's first Chinese-language newspaper. He established America's first association of Chinese voters and was probably the first Chinese ever to testify before Congress. In his three decades in the United States, the outspoken Wong fought tirelessly for the rights he felt his compatriots deserved. Although little remembered today, he was arguably the most famous Chinese in the nation during his lifetime.
He was born Wong Sa Kee to a once-wealthy but impoverished family and spent his teenage years in the care of Sallie Little Holmes, an American Baptist missionary who arrived in his native Shandong Province in 1860. He mastered colloquial American English and was baptized by age 20. Foreseeing a promising future for him as a preacher, his benefactress brought him to America in 1867 to complete his education. And after a stint in Washington, D.C., and some travel, he transferred to Lewisburg, where he studied for nearly a year.
Wong then returned to China for three years, long enough to marry, be thrown out of his church for leading a "dissolute life" and get into trouble for anti-government activities. Fleeing for his life for his role in an unsuccessful putsch against the waning Qing (Manchu) Dynasty, he left his wife and newborn son behind and sailed for America once again in 1873. It would be a quarter of a century before he would see either of them again.
Back on American soil, Wong adopted his adult name and embarked on a career as a lecturer. He traversed the country explaining and defending the Chinese. He had his work cut out for him. When the transcontinental railroad was completed, in 1869, many Chinese in America were put out of work, just as the nation experienced economic depression. Their willingness to work for low wages put them at odds with unemployed Americans. Malicious scapegoating and racial stereotyping by nativist whites resulted in the passage in 1882 of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which halted most Chinese immigration for 10 years and rendered America's more than 100,000 Chinese ineligible for citizenship. Wong himself got in under the wire, becoming an American citizen in 1874.
An engaging and provocative speaker [see "The World According to Wong Chi Foo" at right], Wong tried to refute the notion of Chinese as "godless heathens," doomed to eternal damnation. Persuaded that American missionaries were harming the image of Chinese through their reports of the "depravity" they witnessed in China, Wong turned the tables on them in an imaginative speech. He famously proclaimed himself China's first missionary to America, extolling the values undergirding Buddhism and Confucianism in ways Christian Americans might find familiar. The tongue-in-cheek remarks earned him brickbats from church members and, eventually, he responded by excoriating Christianity itself in his most famous essay, "Why Am I A Heathen?" An unvarnished polemic, it caused a firestorm of protest.
Wong settled in New York and became a journalist, and in 1883 launched the first Chinese-language newspaper east of the Rockies. Its English name — The Chinese American — marked the first recorded use of the term. The paper was short-lived, as Wong had no talent for business and soon ran out of money. But it raised his profile, permitting him other opportunities to counter anti-Chinese prejudice. He famously offered a $500 reward to anyone who could prove the accusation that Chinese ate rats and quipped, "I never knew that rats and dogs were good to eat until I learned it from Americans." He wrote scores of articles demystifying Chinese life that appeared in newspapers across the country. And in an essay on Chinese food, he was the first to introduce "chop suey" to American readers.
Wong took on the most famous of America's China critics, California's Denis Kearney [pictured at right]. A demagogue and a skillful public speaker, the Irish-born Kearney personified the "Chinese Must Go" movement. Cocky and self-assured, Wong dared Kearney to debate him and ridiculed him when he refused, challenging him instead to a duel. Asked his preferred weapon, Wong offered Kearney "his choice of chopsticks, Irish potatoes or Krupp guns." In a public confrontation in 1887, he was judged victorious. "The mandarin got the better of the San Francisco orator in the intellectual contest, and drove Kearney from position to position," one newspaper declared.
After the passage of the Exclusion Act, Wong became active in politics. In 1884, he convened all naturalized Chinese in the New York area to form a political association. It was short-lived, but it was the first assembly of citizens of Chinese origin in American history, and the first indication that Wong had begun to see them in a different light from their compatriots who hoped merely to amass some capital and retire to China. He began to focus on securing citizenship for Chinese willing to "Americanize" — that is, learn English, adopt Western dress, shave off their queues and give up gambling and opium smoking. But his was a two-front battle. He not only had to convince Americans that Chinese were law-abiding people whom they need not fear, but also persuade his countrymen that there was value in acculturation, even as the messages coming from white America were so hate-filled and discouraging. Neither task was easy.
When Congress renewed the Exclusion Act for a second decade in 1892, it added a requirement that Chinese register with the government and be photographed. Infuriated, America's Chinese resolved to see the new law retracted or declared unconstitutional. Wong established a new organization, the Chinese Equal Rights League, to get the law repealed. Under its aegis, he testified before a committee of Congress, but despite his soaring rhetoric, the effort failed.
In the mid-1890s, Wong relocated to Chicago, where he undertook several short-lived initiatives, including publishing two more newspapers and establishing a Confucian temple. When neither of the major political parties agreed to support Chinese enfranchisement, he launched an aborted effort to create a party of his own. At the same time, he befriended Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who years later would launch the revolution that toppled the Qing Dynasty. Despite his American citizenship, Wong remained deeply interested in events in his native land, even hatching a far-fetched notion to create a "revolutionary junta" in Chicago to rule China after the fall of the Manchus.
In late 1896, after 25 years abroad, Wong received his first letter from his son. Deeply moved, he decided to risk Manchu justice and return to China. The transpacific journey exhausted him, however, and he took ill, losing 20 pounds in a few weeks. After an emotional family reunion, he died of heart failure in 1898 at the age of 51. A long, unpredictable journey had come to an end, full circle from where it had begun.
Wong Chin Foo believed deeply in justice, equality and enfranchisement, and challenged Americans to live up to these values that they so freely espoused, but so utterly failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. More than 70 years before Dr. King dreamed of an America that judged people according to the "content of their character," Wong declared that only "character and fitness should be the requirement of all who are desirous of becoming citizens of the American Republic."
Although it took until 1943, nearly a half-century after his death, for America to repeal the prohibition against naturalization of Chinese, no one deserves more credit than Wong for waging the good fight against it. He set a pattern for what he thought being "Chinese American" should mean that is more or less what it has come to mean for millions. He deserves to be remembered not merely for envisioning and articulating the goal, but also for the creative means he employed, and the boundless energy he expended, in trying to achieve it.
› Read more about Wong Chin Foo at Lewisburg
› See additional images from the University Archives in the Spring 2013 online flipbook.
Scott D. Seligman is a writer, a historian, a retired corporate executive and a career "China hand." His latest book, The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo, is being published this May by Hong Kong University Press. His previous books include Three Tough Chinamen, Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's Republic of China and Dealing with Chinese. He is co-author of The Cultural Revolution Cookbook and Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese.
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I am Emily McCutcheon and my company, McCutcheon Wine Consulting is just beginning. My company will offer marketing and strategic consulting to small and medium-sized wine companies. I previously worked for a massive Australian wine company (http://www.fosters.com.au), and before that as a strategy consultant for LEK Consulting (http://www.lek.com). I have two young children, and I want McCutcheon Wine Consulting to be flexible enough to fit in around my family. The culture of the company will be professional, organised yet cutting-edge in terms of the new marketing paradigm and will embrace social media in all its forms. The company will start small but hopefully grow to be a sizable enterprise in the next 10 years
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Ribblehead Viaduct: A Celebration
A programme detailing the story of the great viaduct across Batty Moss on the Settle-Carlisle Railway.
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A programme detailing the story of the great viaduct across Batty Moss on the Settle-Carlisle Railway.
The full story behind the return of passenger trains to the Swanage branch in April and May 2008. Includes aerial footage of Tangmere as it arrives and departs from the branch. Many lineside locations and interviews with the key people on the day and footage of the trains as they departed from London and on the journey to Dorset.
Currently the only working example of the "Princess Royal" Class, No. 6201 Princess Elizabeth is one of our earlier examples saved by pioneers in preservation. This programme traces the locomotive's preserved life from the time it was bought by the Princess Elizabeth Locomotive Society from Carlisle shed in 1962.
6024 King Edward I is the only working example of the famous Great Western "King" or "6000 Class" locomotives. Sold for scrap in 1962, the locomotive went to the scrapyard at Barry, South Wales. 6024 languished there for eleven years until it was purchased by the 6024 Preservation Society Ltd in 1973.
One of 38 Coronation Class 4-6-2s built in Crewe by the LMS, Duchess of Hamilton is part of the National Collection now and was brought back into main line use in the 1980s. In this programme, we look at her main line runs starting with her test runs in 1990 following her second major overhaul.
A remarkable programme showing the end of steam on the Southern Region in 1967, full of archive film from in and around Southampton, Bournemouth and London. A review of the end of steam on the main line from London Waterloo to Bournemouth and Weymouth.
This superb locomotive was saved from scrapping in 1966. After a chequered preservation career, she was restored to main line condition. This programme covers her return – her first runs over the scenic Settle-Carlisle and a foray back on her native metals in Scotland, as well as use on the Great Central Railway.
The famous Settle-Carlisle Railway is well-known for its beautiful surroundings and structures such as viaducts, stations and tunnels. But just as important to the history of the line were the personalities involved with it. Hundreds of railway men and women have been part of the operation of this great railway since the 1870s.
The very last Pacific locomotive to be built in Britain, Duke of Gloucester is literally a one-off locomotive. Constructed at Crewe Works in 1954, it was the last Pacific locomotive built for the nationalised British Railways. The sole Standard Class 8P, the engine was the prototype of a three-cylinder development of Britannia.
A review of the diesel galas held at the Mid-Hants Railway and Swanage Railway in the spring of 2013. Includes considerable footage of all the locomotives at work and also the convoys of engines being positioned from Network Rail. Features footage of the Mid-Norfolk Gala and the unique one held at the Didcot base of the Great Western Society.
Closed in 1968 and almost forgotten along with the trains that ran over it, the Derbyshire Main Line is now splendidly re-created in this film. For the first time, this programme shows one of Britain's most scenic railway lines at work, that of the former Midland Main Line through the Peak District of Derbyshire between Derby and Manchester.
Britain's best-loved railway, with its route over the "roof" of England, is the spectacular Settle-Carlisle railway (called "the line that should never have been built"). Running through some of the most breathtaking scenery in Britain, it takes in the architecture of bridges and viaducts en-route.
This programme is the story of one of the most important days on the Settle-Carlisle Railway for decades. On 22nd March 2005, HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, visited the region aboard the Royal Train, hauled by steam locomotive Princess Coronation Class No. 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland".
Filmed mostly in 1965, the final year before its closure in March 1966, this journey takes the viewer on the line from Bath to Evercreech Junction, then along the branch to Highbridge and Burnham, before returning to the main line to continue a journey southwards from Evercreech to Bournemouth.
This film explores the incredible achievement by the engineers and navvies of the mid-Victorian period who designed and built the viaduct at Ribblehead and the legendary tunnel at Blea Moor. There is more fascination about this great viaduct than any other facet on the wonderful Settle-Carlisle Railway.
This programme was made as a souvenir of the 1985 events which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Great Western Railway in 1835. It covers the many steam specials run to commemorate the 150 years which ran all over the old GWR system, mostly to the South West.
A reflection on British Rail just 5 years before privatisation. The film examines Network South East two years after its inception; Scotrail with Class 37s and 47s very much in charge; Intercity services; Railfreight and the many loco-hauled services at the time using Class 20s, 31s, 45s, 56s in Scotland and much more.
The legendary yard of Woodham Bros. at Barry Glamorgan has truly a remarkable story. It started in 1959 with the arrival of locomotives from Swindon Works for breaking up – and until 1968, over 300 would assemble from all over Britain. But not all were scrapped – indeed, 213 lingered on and were all eventually purchased by the preservation movement.
Few steam locomotives have a history to match Princess Margaret Rose, the 1st production Pacific for the LMS Railway. When the locomotive was withdrawn from BR's operating stock in the early 60s, she was purchased by Sir Billy Butlin as a showpiece for his Pwllheli holiday camp and destined to be a childrens' plaything.
One of only three of the "Schools" class to survive into preservation, 925 was overhauled by volunteers of the Mid-Hants at Eastleigh railway works where it was constructed in 1934. After just under thirty years service with the Southern and BR, Cheltenham was withdrawn in 1962 and set to one side for the national collection.
This programme tells the story of the Lord Nelson from its design and construction in 1926 through to its operational years in BR service and eventual withdrawal in 1962. Footage of its first preservation period in service in the 1980s is accompanied by recollections of firing a Nelson by an Eastleigh fireman and driver.
The second volume in the remarkable series of archive films taken by Douglas Seaton in the 1940s and 1950s. This volume contains more 16mm film in full colour and some very rare black and white footage taken in the 1920s and 1930s providing such scenes as early Southern locomotives on the South Western main line in the Bournemouth and Weybridge areas.
Memories from railway men and women operating the Somerset & Dorset Railway. No other railway in Britain commands such an interest. It is now many years since the line closed for traffic but the memories linger on. This film contains many memories from ex-S&D railwaymen and women filmed at their reunion in August 1995.
Steam locomotives have been at home in Scotland for over a century and a half – today they still run over the main lines blending with the mountains and lowland scenery. This programme is a an evocative look at steam in Scotland from the Strathspey Railway to the West Highlands via Edinburgh and Aberdeen (1986-1991).
Part 3 of the story of how UK railways met and overcame the challenges of the post-industrial era. The films trace the history of Britain's railways from the legacy of WWII, through years of neglect and under-investment and the trauma of Beeching's cuts, to a period of hope and growth epitomised by the Intercity 125.
Part 2 of the story of how UK railways met and overcame the challenges of the post-industrial era. The films trace the history of Britain's railways from the legacy of WWII, through years of neglect and under-investment and the trauma of Beeching's cuts, to a period of hope and growth epitomised by the Intercity 125.
Part 1 of the story of how UK railways met and overcame the challenges of the post-industrial era. The films trace the history of Britain's railways from the legacy of WWII, through years of neglect and under-investment and the trauma of Beeching's cuts, to a period of hope and growth epitomised by the Intercity 125.
This film was recorded aboard 86250 on Wednesday 9th November 1988 at the head of the 09:13 train from Birmingham New Street to Glasgow Central. Our crew: Driver Albert Fletcher (Preston) and Traction Inspectors Cyril Rist (Bescot) from Preston to Carlisle and James McClelland (Carlisle) from Carlisle to Glasgow.
This journey has been possible since the beginning of the Winter 1987/88 timetables, as with the introduction of the 23 metre long "Super Sprinters", a new service from Cardiff to Birmingham via Worcester and Kidderminster was introduced. It was recorded on the 13:15 via Kidderminster from the cab of Leyland-built Class 155 No. 155303.
This film was recorded on 30th October 1987 on an HST forming the 08:00 "Tallisman" service from King's Cross to Edinburgh. We join the train at York for the northern part of the run over the East Coast Main Line. Accompanied by Inspector Cedric Lockwood, our drivers were Hugh Noble, Jim Allen, George Halbert and Robert Quinn.
This film was recorded on 30th October 1987 on an HST forming the 08:00 "Tallisman" service from King's Cross to Edinburgh. We join the train at York for the northern part of the run over the East Coast Main Line. Accompanied by Inspector Cedric Lockwood, our drivers were Hugh Noble, Jim Allen, George Halbert and Robert Quinn.
This film covers a wide area during the first three years of the 1960s. Follows on directly from Volumes 3 and 4 with further coverage of the Scottish Rail Tour of 1960, moving geographically down the British Isles via the Cromford and High Peak Railway, Kings Cross, Birmingham, the Central Wales and Far West of Wales, ending up in the West Country.
There are over 150 different steam locomotives in this film – too many to list here! Some of these are: LCDR "R" on main line, Ivatt 4, 45XX, 90XX, Webb 2-4-2T around Birmingham, GSWR branch, North Staffs Mental Hospital, Q6s and A8s on the North East Coast, BR Trams at Grimsby and many more.
Contents: Special feature on the Severn Valley Railway and the 50th anniversary, 34027 Taw Valley on the Pullman, Winter on the East Lancs, Llangollen Steel, Steam and Stars gala, Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express, 46233 from Derby to Didcot, A4 at Buckfasleigh, Farewell tours to Clan Line, 5043 to the West Somerset Railway and more.
Contents: The final gathering of A4s at Shildon, Feature at Arley on the Severn Valley Railway and the last day of No. 5164 operating, London Transport steam event, Clan Line at the Mid-Hants event in early March, T9 No. 30120 at the Swanage Railway, Steam on West Coast Main Line with Nos. 61264, 45407 and 45699, East Lancs Winter Gala, plus much, much more.
Contents: Launch of 34092 City of Wells at KWVR, Autumn Gala at the SVR with S&D engines and M7 No. 30053, No. 3205 and 46521 at the South Devon Railway, No. 34046 on main line turns, The Royal Duchy and Torbay Expresses, Atlantic Coast Express with Nos. 34067, 5029 and 34046, No. 46447 launched at the East Somerset Railway, Bodmin & Wenford Gala with No. 4247 and much more!
Contents: Steam on the Met, including behind-the-scenes footage of test runs with Met Tank No.1 and 150 anniversary runs on the underground, Gloucester Warwickshire Gala with 925 Cheltenham, Steam Railmotor on the Looe branch, Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express, Great Britain and Cathedrals Explorer, Bluebell opening to East Grinstead, 5043 on "The Cheltenham Flyer" and much more!
Contents: Steam Railmotor No. 93 operating in Cornwall, No. 925 Cheltenham introduced to service at the Mid-Hants, Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway with the two Bagnall 0-4-0 tanks and Pannier 9466, Great Britain V and Cathedrals Explorer in Scotland, 6201's final operations before overhaul, Fort William to Mallaig Summer 2012, Spa Valley Railway Gala with 44422 and more.
Contents: 35028 Clan Line on VSOE "Surrey Hills" lunch circular and to Bath, 44932 on trains to Bath, Sherborne, Hastings, Cardiff and Brighton, 34067 Tangmere to Hastings, at Virginia Water and to Swanage, The Great Britain V at many locations on its UK tour including stunning views in Scotland, The Cathedrals Explorer at numerous locations on its 8-day excursion throughout the UK and more.
Contents: Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express trains in stunning icy conditions over Shap and the Settle-Carlisle route, "O2" Calbourne crossing the Solent by ferry and at Bodmin, Llangollen's Steel, Steam and Stars gala in April 2012, Mid-Hants Railway galas in 2011 and Spring 2012, Steam in Scotland on the Mallaig line, 70000 Britannia at Birkett Common and more.
Contents: Llangollen Railway Gala, Tornado in the South West, Royal Scot's first trains, Tangmere to Swanage, Swanage Galas – S&D 7F and a Deltic and launch of Manston, Lord Nelson at Folkestone, Scots Guardsman's test run and Carnforth open days, 70013 on 15 guinea special and Sir Lamiel out and about, Eastleigh Works open days and more.
Contents: 6024, 60163 and 71000 on the Torbay Express and British Pullman, 9466 on the Looe branch, Yeovil 150 Open Days, D1015 to Buxton, 46115 to Dorset, Tornado to Swanage and Mid-Hants and around London, Bluebell Extension progress to East Grinstead, 5043 on "The Bristolian" and many more.
"Settle and Carlisle" – the words are as evocative to the railway enthusiast as "Smoke and Steam". This film brings you a selection of fabulous images of steam locomotives at work over the UK's premier scenic railway, the Settle and Carlisle, which runs through the Westmorland Mountains, unparalleled in their majestic beauty.
A tribute to the renaissance in steam operations in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. "Scotland for Steam" runs the advertising – and it certainly is! On the railways, steam is a major tourist attraction, both on preserved lines and British Rail's own main and branch lines.
Wales has one of the largest associations with steam in the British Isles. The narrow gauge railways of the north west are famous for their hard-working tiny engines, from the Tallyllyn (the world's first preserved railway) to the Ffestiniog, the Snowdon Mountain Railway, the Welshpool and Llanfair, the Bala Lake, the Vale of Rheidol – they are all here in this programme.
This film is for all those who love the sight and sound of the steam railway and is a tribute to the dedicated bands of people who ensure that the most living of man's machines, the steam engine, continues to bring hours of pleasure to hundreds of thousands of people everywhere. No stuffed museum pieces, they really work for their living. Smoke and steam pours out from every angle.


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jQuery UI Touch Punch
Touch Event Support for jQuery UI
Tested on iPad, iPhone, Android and other touch-enabled mobile devices.
jQuery UI Touch Punch is a small hack that enables the use of touch events on sites using the jQuery UI user interface library.
Currently, jQuery UI user interface library does not support the use of touch events in their widgets and interactions. This means that the slick UI you designed and tested in your desktop browser will fail on most, if not all, touch-enabled mobile devices, becuase jQuery UI listens to mouse events—mouseover, mousemove and mouseout—not touch events—touchstart, touchmove and touchend.
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Just follow these simple steps to enable touch events in your jQuery UI app:
Include jQuery and jQuery UI on your page.
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There is no 3. Just use jQuery UI as expected and watch it work at the touch of a finger.
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The story of jQuery UI Touch Punch is the story of a piece of code that was almost never written yet now runs on over 60 million websites. It's a story about helping others, sharing your work and following your creative impulses without regard for the consequences. And the *bleep*ing consequences.
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Conservation competition
While all endangered species are worth saving, it comes as no surprise that the cute and fuzzy members of the animal kingdom stand a better chance of protection. According to research scientist Ernie Small, after "the cuddlies" and the "poster species" like whales and elephants, human conservation efforts tend to stall.
In addition to those animals that make us go "aww," big predators and species that are useful or commercially important top the list of the most-protected species. The losers in this competition are mostly plants, reptiles and amphibians, which are some of the most endangered groups in the world.
Here's our list of the world's most adorable endangered species — but not all of them are quite as cuddly as the sand cat kitten pictured here.


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Dr. Kal Sellers, DC, MH: Founder of SVHC, 2012
Dr. Kal believes that individuals can, if they are taught correctly, be proficient at healing themselves and their families. This coursework also represents an effort to establish tools to help Western practitioners assess patients and critically evaluate whether an approach is working or whether a diagnosis is valid.
Dr. Kal's teachings are an integration of Dr. Royal Lee's nutrition research, Dr. John Christopher's practical herbal medicine knowledge, Dr. Versandaal's Contact Reflex Analysis tools (and various other non-invasive diagnosis methods) and Dr. Kal's unique clinical integration and assessment advancements.
We work with Wind River Herbs, who makes many of our products, supplies many of the bulk herbs we recommend and maintains a high quality product line. We also support the School of Natural Healing as the premier school to obtain a Master Herbalist Degree at the present time.
Herbal First Aid: Comprehensive course with video demos, audio training and reference booklet.
This is one of our best selling courses and has the most spontaneous, positive reviews! You come away prepared and effective at dealing with emergencies naturally. This course contains about 20 hours of training.
Calcium Class: SVHC Class 1– In this class Dr. Kal discusses the use of calcium to heal the immune system, fight cancer and fight all infections. He also discusses herbal calcium for long-term needs and health.
Iodine and Thyroid Class: SVHC Class 2—In this class Dr. Kal discusses the role of iodine and competitive halides that poison us and keep us low in iodine. He discusses some approaches to healing the thyroid.
Kelp Forest. This is one of the best sources of iodine. It is detoxifying to heavy metals. Please buy kelp from responsible providers to prevent contamination from wastes coming from cities into the ocean. As a brown seaweed, kelp is one of the finest detoxifying agents of its type. It may contain small traces of shellfish, so sensitive people should be alert. When cleansed and properly nourished, such allergies will go away forever and then that person can also benefit from kelp.
Local Herbs I: SVHC Class 3—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs.
Local Herbs II: SVHC Class 4—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs.
This picture is a close-up of frangipani flowers.
Local Herbs III: SVHC Class 5—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs. This picture is Plantain (Plantago major, one of many working species)
Local Herbs IV: SVHC Class 6—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs.
This picture is Hound's Tongue (of the family containing comfrey and borage)
Local Herbs V: SVHC Class 7—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs.
This picture is Common Mallow (in the family with marshmallow and hollyhock)
Local Herbs VI: SVHC Class 8—In this class Dr. Kal discusses several herbs found locally in Star Valley and that are commonly found around the world. This class helps us to understand these herbs and what can be done with local herbs.
Red Clover (in the legume family, similar medicinally to dutch clover; the blossoms are used)
Introduction to Systematic Healing: SVHC Class 9—In this class Dr. Kal discusses the process and template for natural healing to be applied to individual diseases in coming classes.
Acumeridian Chart showing the many associations in the human body
Healing the Lungs: SVHC Class 10—In this class Dr. Kal teaches nutrition and herbs that help the lungs to regenerate and heal when there is chronic lung disease, weakness, inflammation or infection. Mountain Lake Scene, where many medicinal plants are found, including various spruce, horsetail, mints and grasses.
Bronchitis, Colds and Influenza: SVHC Class 11—In this class Dr. Kal teaches timeless strategies for dealing naturally, aggressively with colds and bronchitis and how to heal and permanently prevent influenza. Hot water poured over dried herbs to make an herbal infusion, which is sometimes referred to as "tea." Actually, tea is a type of plant which is commonly prepared by hot water infusion. Some mistakenly think the infusion "tea" is the same as the plant from Asia, which is processed to make black tea and less so to make green tea.
Restless Leg, Reflux and Indigestion: SVHC Class 12—In this class Dr. Kal teaches how these annoying diseases come to be and how they can be managed using natural healing methods. Kirlian Photography of the feet. This lightless photography shows the energy field produced by living things and inanimate things. Higher energy fields are associated with healthier cells in living organisms.
Diabetes: SVHC Class 13—In this class Dr. Kal teaches why diabetes is on the rise, what causes it and how to heal or manage most cases very easily, naturally. Highlighted herb: Bitter Melon. Bitter Melon: This Asian plant is used as food, but is also one of the most powerful tools for lowering blood sugar in diabetics. It can be used in many forms, but is most potent as fresh juice.
Osteoporosis: SVHC Class 14—In this class Dr. Kal discusses the causes of osteoporosis, the calcium and dairy myths and how to prevent or cure osteoporosis. Highlighted herb: Comfrey Leaf
Comfrey plant in flower. This is Symphytum Officinale, the most common species in the United States. This is the safest of the genus, though all of them are safe for individuals with healthy livers (an increasingly rare commodity). This member of the borage family is profoundly dense nutrition, providing every amino acid and vitamin for human needs. It is also profoundly cell proliferant and speeds healing of every kind.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: SVHC Class 15—In this class Dr. Kal discusses rheumatoid arthritis and other auto-immune, inflammatory conditions including lupus and fibromyalgia. He gives options for both management and recovery from these conditions. Chaparral bush in late flower. This plant is a profound cell proliferant, anti-rheumatic and blood purifying agent. The resin from its leaves draws poisons from puncture wounds and speeds healing. It kills low grade, chronic infections, reduces body odors and fights cancer. It is a slight kidney irritant and should be used internally in formulas that include kidney herbs to help offset this effect. It has long been one of the most treasured herbs for chronic disease and is very safe as long as there are open channels of elimination.
SVHC Class 16–Osteoarthritis–In this class, Dr. Kal discusses the hidden causes of osteoarthritis and why no one should ever get this condition. He addresses how to heal the damage from it and how to stop the progression of it using natural methods and proper diet.
This picture is of the gravel root plant. This plant is a solvent for stones in the kidneys and urinary system as well as a wonderful aid for fever conditions and for dissolving bony debris in arthritic joints.
SVHC Class 17–Irritable Bowel-Type Conditions–In this class, Dr. Kal discusses the nature of irritable bowel conditions, including IBD, IBS, Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis, as well as several other conditions related to inflammatory bowel response not normally recognized by traditional medicine. He talks about how these horrific conditions can be managed and healed through prudent use of natural foods, nutrition and herbal aids. This picture is of fennel seeds. These are a wonderful sweet carminative, relaxing to intestinal irritation and slightly warming to the upper digestion.
Class 19: Insomnia: This class discusses the various causes of insomnia, including nutritional, organic, electromagnetic and so forth. We also discuss the watches from Oriental medicine and how the organ involved in the time of difficulty can be corrected to heal the problem with insomnia. In this picture is Hops flowers, which are discussed as one of the herbal remedies in this course. These are mildly sedative, relaxing and induce deep sleep. They are believed to diminish dreaming. They also are highly estrogenic and are labeled with cautions because of this. These cautions and how serious they are are covered in this course.
Class 20 Celiac Disease is a plague of our day. It often operates silently behind the scenes and goes unnoticed or is misdiagnosed as symptoms start to emerge. Healing it, not just managing it, is the goal of this class. How to heal the gut, what happens with allergies, what the problem is with modern hybrid wheat and more is discussed in this week's class.
The herb pictured here is feverfew. It is a relative of chamomile. This family is thought to inhibit allergic responses by having a homeopathic effect where the body responds in an allergy-type way to the feverfew and then in a few weeks corrects this (because the feverfew is not a threat) and in the process corrects other inappropriate allergies as well.
Class 21 Asthma is a condition that has many possible causes and variations. Even so, there are a couple things that happen every time. If those are corrected, the asthma will certainly be abated, even if the underlying cause is not found for some time. In this class, both palliative and curative measures are discussed in relation to this difficult condition.
The herb pictured here is Lobelia Inflata. It is widely used among Thompsonian style herbalists and physiomedicalists (medical doctors with herbal education and practice instead of using drugs). It is a powerful antispasmodic and an emetic that also brings up phlegm and congestion from the lungs. It is a rare combination of Nervine and Antispasmodic. It has wrongly been labeled as poisonous because of its emetic effect and because of prejudice from medical critics (though no drug on the market is nearly so safe). I always have it on hand because it is one of the herbs that truly saves lives.
Class 22 Cancer is a subject about which there is great fear. The fear drives a multi-billion dollar industry and gives power to officialdom and drives people to do insane things, rather than sane ones. The fear clouds the simple truths about cancer. Other fears, including the fear of being foolish, of losing one's opportunity to be saved from cancer and just fear in general keep people from thinking clearly and making choices of healing. Fear drives people to commit time and resources to fighting and killing instead of healing and helping. Fear is the real cancer in so many ways. In this class, Dr. Kal discusses the age-old approach to healing cancer, modern developments and what is working and what is not among the many cancer cure options. He talks about Australian black salve and its ability to quickly pull cancer out through the skin. He talks about other cancer approaches and what is happening nutritionally that is leading to increased cancer rates.
This picture is of a red clover blossom. This plant has been traditionally used for many things, but most notably cancer, either topically or internally.
Class 23: Candida is a craze that has swept the world among natural healing practitioners. When someone comes in with chronic illness, the candida diagnosis is handed out like candy at a parade. No thought, apparently, is going in to the fact that people do not get well on candida diets. They are some improved, but not ever fully well. No thought is given to the fact that the body easily kills candida–more easily than any other microbe–when it is in the blood. Long has been my cry and mourning that the clinician is gone from the modern healer and a product salesman or woman has replaced the clinician. No where is this more evident than in the candida craze. The general conditions diagnosed as candida often result in candida being present, but in no way does candida ever become the cause. In this class we discuss how to discern and quickly heal real candida infection and how to sort out and then heal that condition that is the most common subclinical chronic illness of our day. We discuss various failing systems that can be involved and what to do about them. We reintroduce again the Low Inflammation Diet, the Trace Mineral Formula for complete nutrition and what must be done to heal various individual systems that are involved.
Candida Advanced Discussion: Not a numbered class. This class is an earlier and much more comprehensive class where much more is discussed about the details of candida, how the body falls apart systemically and what is needed in our modern world to turn this around. This class is the same subject matter, but much more detail is given and the class is several times longer. Originally, this was part of the first curriculum from RawHerbalist.com and has an earlier part 1 that was just discussion of the curriculum and a part 5 that was an herb preparation assignment. These have been removed so it starts with part II, which is where the real candida discussion begins! It is $45
In this picture is Oak Bark. It is the single most powerful antifungal herb of all time. It heals the tissues affected, kills all fungal and yeast infections it reaches and restores calcium and tone to weak and flaccid mucus membranes.
Class 24: Obesity is growing! Pun intended! But Obesity has little to do with calories. The person who is obese is sick in other ways. Indeed, obesity is an adaptation to illness. Healthy weight gain does not become crippling. Obesity is driven by inflammation, not calories. It is driven by toxicity and inability to process the load of both inflammation and toxicity on the body. It exists with swelling, heaviness, troubled joints and weak tissues throughout the body. It exists with sleep apnea and snoring. It it fluid and inflammation, toxicity and poor function. It is an adaptation to those things. There are many expressions of those things, not all of them conspicuous. Obesity is really caused first by malnutrition and then poor digestion. There is a rapid, consistent cure for obesity. The weight is lost steadily and the reason for it is simultaneously healed. In this class,we discuss this approach, how it works and what we must give attention to in the healing process.
This plant is chickweed. Dr. Christopher used this plant for fighting obesity. It probably worked because it cut the irritation and inflammation of the gut so that the cause of constant, inappropriate feeding would be mitigated. It is also quite nutritious and may have helped with the nutritional deficit associated with obesity. It does, in that way, cut cravings. It is a generally soothing plant. Obese people are usually soothing themselves with food that keeps the blood in the gut and numbs the nervous system slightly. Many people do this in one way or another.
Class 25 Healing Eyes and Ears, Hearing and Vision. This class covers most needs for healing the eyes and ears, including nerve related malfunction. It also includes a video demonstrating the application of the herbal remedies taught. Most hearing and vision problems, infections of the eyes, tinnitus, age-related changes and so forth can be healed using the tools taught here.
In this picture is eyebright. It is so named because it is known to aid the eyes and restore them from both injury and malfunction. It is wonderful for removing phlegm and is mildly astringent (astringents always pull in nutrition and tone up tissues and dry out infection). It seems to have the ability to promote regeneration of the eyes. It clears inflammation from irritated tissues.
This image is the Yin-Yang simbol. This is part of the ideology of Chinese Medicine (and philosophy) theory. It represents the complementary (not opposite) components that wrestle with each other and perform together to create all that is, including health and life. Imbalances of this relationship or one part being somewhat perverted or deviant or affected by pernicious influences are responsible for all diseases and discontinuities in life. Understanding this and considering it opens the door for us to work toward healing our lives and bodies. It should be understood that our whole life is part of this equation, not just our diet or herbs we might take.
Image is of Rosemary, the most popular and widely used wisdom remedy of European traditional medicine. It is also a wonderful herb for the brain, nervous system and many needs.
Image is of the castor bean plant from which castor oil is derived. This oil is one of the most wonderful herbal aids of all time. It can be applied topically to help move inflammatory particles away from an inflamed area, even in autoimmune disease. It will drain lymph aggressively, often resulting in a wonderful pain-killing action and oxygenation of tissues. In this class we discuss using it as part of the treatment for acute gall bladder attacks and long term gall bladder problems.
Image is of the coffee plant in fruit. The bean sits at the center of a highly nutritious and medicinal fruit.
Image is of parsley, the root of which Dr. Christopher used for treating all sorts of kidney problems and weakness. It is also a very nice vital stimulant and blood purifier. It
Liver Health: Class 33: In this class, the liver is discussed relative to many liver diseases, weaknesses and overloads. It is treated from a natural healing perspective and the approaches that exist for regenerating, cleansing and optimizing the liver are discussed.
The image is of the barberry plant, which is a classic liver herb (the root bark) known to cool, heal, disinfect, relax and detoxify the liver.
The image to the side is hyssop, a member of the mint family. Many of our most medicinal plants are mints, but often they are bitter mints and not sweet and pleasant like peppermint or spearmint or lemon balm. Such is hyssop. Hyssop is also one of the finest anti-viral herbs on the planet, particularly if the virus has any affinity to the nervous system.
Class 35: Autonomic Nervous System Balance and Men's Disorders
The image to the side is Tongkat Ali, which is a splendid plant for helping with all male problems. The root is amazingly large per the size of the small palm to which it attaches. The plant helps with erectile dysfunction, testosterone problems and other male issues. It is one of the key ingredients in the testosterone formula added to the trace mineral formula for men available from Wind River Herbs. Many people have testified that my formula is the most effective one they have tried, nourishing as it heals the testosterone balance and production in men.
Class 36: Skin, Hair and Scars
The image to the left is Echinacea Angustifolia. This plant is most often used for immune stimulation, but it has many wonderful uses. Echinacea root is wonderful for thickening skin that has become flaccid and saggy. This and many other herbal aids for healing the skin, hair and scars are included in this class.
Class 37: Auto-Immune Discussion and Healing
Mullein is the plant in the image to the left. This plant has many uses and is one of my top 10 favorite herbs. Among other things, it modulates the immune system and stops inflammatory damage to the body's own tissues, allowing healing to take place.
Fennel is a member of the carrot family. It is a splendid sweet carminative, warming, improving to digestion and enzymatic activity at the liver. It is sweet and relaxing to skeletal muscle, especially in the neck and shoulders.
Poke weed is the world's finest lymphatic herb, draining lymph vessels and dissolving blockages. It has been known to remove cancers that do not respond to anything else. An extract of it was made and used medically as part of HIV test to rule out false negatives. The root is most commonly used. It is mildly toxic, but the effect tends to work out for the benefit, rather than the harm of the organism. Used fresh, the root will work as a slow-acting, powerful emetic.
Recently a friend and client of mine told me of an old problem he had had since he was in his 20s. He had loose teeth and bleeding gums. The dentist told him without care he would have all his teeth pulled by his 30s. He had had marginal success with dental care. I told him to start using oak bark (white oak, though any variety will work) powder on his gums, packed in like chewing tobacco, but not so heavy. In 3 days his gums stopped bleeding. I have so far had universal success with this herb for this purpose. Like all astringents, oak bark also facilitated absorption of nutrients into the tissue it is placed against. It also heals ligaments, bone and tissues and supplies nutrients needed for proper vitamin C assimilation and use. The image is an oak tree of some type.
Class 41: Leaky Gut and Systemic Infection
Black Walnut is the most potent of the walnut trees for medicine. It is certainly not the only one that is useful and each has some nuance of advantage for this or that. We harvest the leaves and hulls from the nuts (I prefer the immature nuts, but always I harvest the hulls green and tincture them that way) and use them as a tincture or decoction to make the morning disinfectant enema discussed in this class. The disinfectant and healing power of this herb for the gut and the liver is unparalleled. Black walnut kills all manner of fungus and basically kills every pathogen you can think of. It has the potential to kill all microorganisms but because the tree is astringent, the tendency is for the walnut to gravitate only to tissue irritated–meaning, it kills only abnormal flora while sparing the bulk of flora that is normal. Incidentally, the new word for the colonies of microorganisms in the gut is "Microbiome" which is a better word, since "flora" actually means "plants" rather than bacteria, fungi, protozoa, etc.
Class 42: Diagnosis Emphasis: Kidney
There are many, many kinds of juniper bushes. They are certainly not all created equal medicinally. All of them are disinfectant. To the left is the lovely variety that grows the black, somewhat sweet berries used medicinally. The leaves are not particularly sharp, but are softer. The berries take two years to mature but then are sweet and a wonderful kidney remedy that also affects the brain and nervous system as well. They are famous for helping people who struggle with difficulty voiding their urine.
Class 43: Diagnosis Emphasis: Liver
This wonderful herb is sagebrush. It has the ability to change character and to help with deep growth. It is also a splendid liver remedy, cooling, altering function and behavior and detoxifying. It slowly kills off all manner of pathogenic parasite, it improves mood and works on lymphatic, kidney and brain. The flowers help the twisted, dried personality on an unsteady foundation. It is one of my favorite herbs. It also smells amazing after the rain in the desert!
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Kristen Hettel came to us in early 2014 and her fitness gains are a testament to her hard work. Her dedication, perseverance and positive attitude are a true inspiration to us all at OCF.
-Coach Stacie
I was at my heaviest when I found Oceanside CrossFit. Up until then, no sport or any other physical activity had clicked with me. I was continually gaining weight and day to day activities were becoming more and more difficult. At only 17, I had to constantly buy new clothes that would fit so I knew it was time for change. I could no longer brush off comments about my weight. I was looking for a program that I would finally be able to enjoy, see results and stick with. Around that same time was when one of my best friend's Dad's was starting his Killing The Fat Man series for CrossFit. He was always talking about OCF and all the great things that had come from there. When I started to see all the progress he was making I began researching more information on what CrossFit was all about. In my search, I remember one of the things I came across most about CrossFit was that athletes cheer on their fellow competitors and that someone that finishes last tends to even get more cheers than someone finishing first. That was when I really started to think that CrossFit would be a good fit for me because of the great support system they had. Within the next week I was starting my journey at OCF and the rest is history!
In my first three months of CrossFit I started to feel like a different person. My clothes were getting bigger and I was gaining muscle. But the biggest change that I noticed was that even the small tasks like walking around my college campus and carrying my books around was so much easier. Day to day activities were no longer much of an issue. It felt really great to knock down the start of physical boundaries that I had built up for myself. I have two accomplishments I'm most proud of so far. The first is how much my endurance has grown. Each time I start a workout I push myself to go faster than I was last time. Everything from the weight of my lifts to the time of my runs has all improved. Second is how many clothes sizes I have already lost. I am down three pants sizes and four shirt sizes! It really is incredible!
Picking one thing that I like best about OCF is a hard question to answer because OCF is my box and has been since the start of my journey to get in shape. I think that maybe what I like the most is how much determination is there and how much encouragement, cheers, laughs and good times are shared there. No matter what kind of a day you are having it seems to be all left at the door and you're just in a place where people want to push you and see you succeed.
-Kristen Hettel
My three biggest short term goals are to be able to do a pistol squat, run a mile in under ten minutes and get my one rep max deadlift to 300 pounds. My one biggest long term goal is to be able to compete in The CrossFit Games. Within the next 5 years, win or lose I would just love the chance to compete side by side with the fittest on earth.
Current Lifts/Goals:
Deadlift – 258 #/300 #
Snatch – 85/115
Clean – 125/155
Push Jerk – 130/150
Front Squat – 175/200
Back Squat – 190/230
Strict Press – 95/105
Bench Press - 135/150