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As a creator of my own reality; the reality in front of me ( the physical), does not need to have value! If I chase after something so I can go get it; that is not the right goal; that is not spiritual Laws of attraction! Im acting like someone owe's me when I chase! I have to learn to trust the universe; create a visual of what I want and allow the universe to bring it with me! Im a creator; the goal is to create a visual of what I want; like creating a painting; watch it grow clothing and watch it come to me; it becomes alive; thoughts become things!
Their is a problem, or a challenge! Thoughts become things! Im hurt, more then that! butchered from the past! if something violates me; I want to go to war! How in the world do I shut that down! get those negative thoughts out of their! I have to! the victim mentality simply attracted victim stuff!
I come from a past of psychopaths! Guess what Im always attracting; its horrible! I was born into psychopathy; it feels normal to me to interact with psychopaths; it has a warming safe cozy feel to it; like Im always with my father and Im going to be protected! The reason I feel this way; I was so very young when I was around my father; a sociopath! I got used to getting attention from him in different ways! Now, Im programed to be around psychopath and try to get attention from them; its like I attract a whole world of them! Im trying to do re write a story and get out of all this! get help to get out of all this! Im attempting to rely on source energy; the source of the universe! align with source energy! Im aligning with source energy; go in the direction of God! Im having to wake up and learn what this means; where the doors of unfolding pathways to my journey! They are invisible at times; I dont see them! Im working on stories that tell the universe I see them and Ive already taken them! Im working on it! its one of the most heart rendering things Ive done. ITs taking me away from the only past I know; a past with psychopaths!
The work is learning to choose what I like to do! and visualize it! I want to turn everything into a virtual movie within my head! I need to talk about what i want; visualize what I want; paint what I want! I have to feel it! build a bridge between what I dont have to what I want! Its words that connect me; feeling! a statement! Im pretending Im having a luxurious life! Im glad Im a thinking mechanism. I being able to think my way into my new life.
I have to become good at dreams! I have to be able to see something positive in my head instead of fear and terror! I hate being used! I feel like every direction of the society I live in is using me financially and every other way! It seems theirs no way out and no point! And this is hard to say, but my heart breaks! And as I feel this; I see it in my head; and thats the problem and it has to change because Im not interested in killing myself over stuff. Im trying to clear my mind and put in a new positive story instead and believe it! its hard! but Im not sure what part is really hard! I think Ive been trained out of believing I can do or become what I want to become! in my attitude; whats the use! I was thrown away as a child and heart broken; why should I care about anything else; whats the point! If this society is willing to destroy me over n over n over as a child; why should I think it will do anything less when I reach out now! I got my arms bit off as a child, no matter what direction I went; why would I think its anything different now! and its this type of thinking I have to deal with and change! and thats why its hard!
The goal is to concentrate on writing new stories for myself guided by source energy! that is the goal.


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On Sunday, the heiress, 29, indulged in a home-cooked Italian feast for two, one of whom was presumably her current squeeze Cy Waits, a Las Vegas nightclub executive.
"Cooked a delicious lasagna dinner for my love and watched a movie," Hilton Tweeted. "Now going to bed. Sweet dreams everyone."
There was more eating on Monday, but this time it was on the beach and was capped off with a movie. "Had a beautiful romantic dinner on the beach," she later Tweeted. "Now in bed about to watch Precious. I love this movie, so moving and emotional."
Next up? Scuba diving.
"I felt like Ariel the little mermaid under the sea today," Hilton wrote after her scuba experience. "So much fun!"
After visits to island art galleries, Hilton finally wound down and crashed out in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, explaining that she, "just finished watching Eastern Promises. What a dope movie! Viggo Mortensen is bad ass! Going to bed. Sweet dreams everyone. Xo Paris :)"
At some point after her vacation in paradise Hilton will have to face the music. She was charged with felony cocaine possession following her weekend arrest in Las Vegas. The drug charge carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison if convicted.

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Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan + More Slated for CMA Fest 2013
Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan are among the first artists to be confirmed for the 2013 CMA Fest, which is set to invade the streets of downtown Nashville on June 6-9.
Underwood's inclusion in this year's event is no surprise considering the 'Two Black Cadillacs' singer has been present for each CMA Fest since bursting onto the scene in 2005. In fact, the former 'American Idol' winner used the stage as her very first appearance following her win on the popular reality competition series.
Bryan has also become quite the fan favorite in recent years. The country superstar's career is red-hot right now, with a handful of No. 1 singles to his name and nearly 10 million album and singles sold. Given his recent unprecedented sweep during the ACA Awards, Bryan is expected to be a huge draw during this year's CMA Fest.
Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town have also been confirmed for the event. Given the CMA Fest's reputation as the ultimate country music experience, a slew of the genre's biggest names are expected to be confirmed for the four-day extravaganza in the coming weeks.
Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster at Ticketmaster.com. They are also available by calling 1-800-CMA-FEST (262-3378). Ticket prices range from $125 to $350 (plus handling fees) and are based on the level of seating at LP Field for the nightly concerts.


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Recently, we posted about the news that spray tanning could be harmful to your health, along with tips on how you can stay safe while you spray. Soon after, dermatologists started weighing in.
One of our go-to derms, Dr. Neal Schultz, M.D., sent us an email about the topic, saying "...the fact is that DHA in the current form has been applied as a sunless tanner for over 30 years and there are no clusters of self tanner-induced skin cancers or reports of any association clinically of self tanners causing skin cancer..."
On the other hand, we know that tanning beds increase your risk of melanoma and the American Academy of Dermatology estimates that there will be over 100,000 cases of melanoma this year.
Bottom line: "A sunless tanner is much, much safer than any ultraviolet-induced tan," writes Dr. Schultz.
If you want to hear more about what Dr. Schultz has to say on this topic, watch here!
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I have a jquery carousel that loads an XML file through ajax. I am storing each slide as a custom post type call 'carousel_slide'. I want to create an XML feed with these custom post types.
At first I created the feed outside wordpress, including wp-load.php and using WP_Query. This worked fine but I now realize that I need a multi-lingual plugin (WPML) to be loaded as well. This is why I want to create a wp template instead. However if I create a template, I need to assign a page to it to be able to load it. I'd rather not create an empty page simply to be able to call a template.
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In the run up to Christmas I have my annual date with the Portmeirion Food and Craft Fair . Now in its sixth year the market combines all that's best of our local crafters, small businesses and food producers.
I have a love hate relationship with Christmas. I detest the corporate grasp, on what was once a pagan festival to mark the shortest day and a turning point as the light creeps back in. Even the Christian story is the antithesis of what Christmas has become. On the other hand I love a traditional family Christmas; I love small handmade presents, gifts with meaning and sentiment, carefully chosen or made. I love to make my own presents, food gifts wrapped in tissue and ribbon, bottles of home-made liqueur, chocolates and Christmas puddings and I love browsing the stalls of Christmas markets; eating mince pies and drinking mulled wine as Christmas carols drift along on the breeze.
My kids are now older; both wish for nothing more than hard cash towards a fight to India (the twenty-one year old) and a new drum kit (the fifteen year old). But I still take pleasure in getting them little presents to go along with this distinctly unromantic Christmas gift.
This was my fourth year presenting on the demo stage at Portmeirion. I tend to stick to dessert making as the stage is always heavy with meat offerings, so its nice to provide a contrast, something different that can be recreated at home. I'm also very aware that more and more people have special dietary requirements, myself included, so I concentrated on some tasty alternatives. On the menu this year was traditional Christmas pudding (but a quicker, Gluten free version), mulled wine oranges and fruit and nut dairy free chocolate fudge. The oranges are an awesome accompaniment to the Christmas pudding, on their own with dairy free ice cream (or normal ice cream) and the fudge is a great alternative to pudding if you end up too full to eat Christmas pudding, but want something sweet with coffee. The fudge also makes a great present for anyone avoiding dairy.
Let's begin with the mulled wine oranges..
To serve four
- 4 medium oranges
- 190ml red wine
- 40g caster sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 star anise
- 3 allspice berries
- 6 black peppercorns
Peel off 6-8 thin strips of zest from one of the oranges
Put the wine and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
Add the pared orange zest and remaining ingredients. Bring to a simmer, then bubble gently for about 10 minutes until the wine is reduced by about half and is lightly syrupy. Leave to cool completely.
Slice the peel and pith away from the remaining oranges. Slice the oranges horizontally into 3mm thick rounds, then put them in a large bowl along with any juice.
Pour the cooled mulled wine syrup over the orange slices. Cover and leave to macerate in the fridge for at least a few hours for the flavours to develop.
Take them out of the fridge half an hour or so before serving, to bring to room temperature. You could also warm them again gently. The oranges and their sweetly spicy liquor are delightful just as they are – but a little ginger biscuit or two on the side is rather good, as is ice cream, or use to pair with Christmas pudding.
Easy Christmas pudding
175g gluten free plain flour
2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 teaspoon ginger
Half a teaspoon nutmeg
175g gluten free breadcrumbs
175g butter
175g brown sugar
850g mixed fruit
75g mixed peel
Rind and juice one orange
2 eggs
120ml gluten free brown ale
Mix the dried ingredients together (the first five on the list)
Rub in the butter until it resembles course breadcrumbs. It doesn't have to be perfect)
Stir in the sugar
Add the fruit and stir to combine then mix in the wet ingredients (orange zest and juice, eggs and beer. I used a beer from Cwrw Ogwen, our local micro brewery, which I'm aware is not gluten-free. But there are several gluten-free ales now on the market that can be substituted).
Turn into a pudding basin (3 pint) and cover with greaseproof paper or a pudding cloth and foil
Steam for 6 hours topping the pan up with boiling water if it gets low
Cool, change the paper and store in a cool dry place. It will keep for months!
When ready to use steam for another 2 hours.
***For the speedy version: Make smaller puddings and use individual pudding basins then cook in the oven. Set the oven at 160 degrees/ gas mark 3. Fill a roasting tray with water and cover the puddings as above. Stand the bowls in the tray so the water comes half way up the sides. Cook for two and a half hours. Cool and rewrap as before. When you want to use them reheat in the same way, heat the oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 5 and reheat for 30 minutes.
Dairy free Chocolate fudge
375g very dark chocolate (at least 75% cocoa solids)
1 can of full cream coconut milk
Icing sugar
(Chopped pecans / fruit soaked in rum or brandy/cinnamon/vanilla)
Break chocolate into a bowl
Heat sugar and coconut milk in a saucepan until just bubbling
Pour over the chocolate and stir briskly to melt
Add cinnamon or spices / vanilla (feel free to experiment!)
50g of fruit and 50g nuts (I used a berry and cheery mix soaked in rum overnight and chopped pecans but you can experiment with your favourites)
Turn in to a dish lined with greaseproof paper and refrigerate. Cut into chunks and serve. Or package in neat little boxes and send as presents.
I couldn't pay a visit to Portmeirion without adding to my photo collection, or getting fuelled up on Poblado coffee. It must be one of THE most photogenic places I've ever visited; even in the mud, rain, or on a cold dull Welsh winters day I see a new angle, a new view… a wander with the camera and a warm, smooth coffee from one of our best Welsh producers (they roast their own coffee) and my afternoon wound up perfectly.


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Putting Color Into the Movies (Jun, 1930)
Putting Color Into the Movies
Everyone has seen the new color-talkies on the screen, but few people know how the startlingly life-like color effects are produced. This article gives the story of how technicolor films are made.
by RAY FRASER
BACK in 1915, Herbert T. Kalmus, a struggling chemistry instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invented a camera which took two pictures at the same click.
He had hopes that it would prove helpful to the country constable in trapping the speeding motorist. The picture thus obtained would prove scientifically the speed at which the automobile was traveling and also register the number of the vehicle.
When he tried to find his way to a practical application, he found that one camera of this type would cost more than the sum total of taxes collected by most townships for a single year. But he felt he had an idea and clung to it tenaciously.
He thought of retaining the principle of the multiple-picture camera and concentrating on the injection of color into its prod- uct. Prominent Boston business men believed in this prophet of colored pictures and contributed $140,000 to attest to their faith.
Professor Kalmus, who has risen to the chair of physics and chemistry today, with a string of twenty degrees bestowed by the greatest universities on earth, worked sedulously for three years to perfect his first color camera.
Today technicolor has won its spurs in the motion picture industry. Practically all of the talking-picture producers are turning out color movies. It has come forth as a great industry. One of the faithfuls who nursed technicolor in its infant days was William Traverse Jerome, the famous New York district attorney who prosecuted Harry K. Thaw.
The tale of technicolor is as fabulous an episode of business and invention as has ever risen on the modern horizon, bringing millions not only to the engineers who have perfected the color talking-pictures, but also to those who followed its course through dim and uncertain days.
The swiftness with which producers are turning to color is revealed by the annual financial report of the Technicolor Corporation, which has a monopoly of the natural color process used in making this type of picture. The statement issued last February disclosed that the corporation earned a net profit before taxation of $1,173,980 during 1929. The previous year showed a deficit of $46,190.
This may be fairly taken as an indication of the growing popularity of color movies. Eight months ago, "On With the Show," the first all-color talking and singing picture, started the march to color. The officials of Technicolor announce that this year more than 100 pictures will be made in color, in whole or in part.
Some idea of the vast success of this industry may be obtained from the fact that in addition to its profits for last year, the Technicolor Corporation was enabled to pay off its notes amounting to $750,000.
At this point it is appropriate, I think, to introduce to you the president of this Technicolor industry which has struck a rich gold vein. He is none other than Prof. Kalmus, the once obscure inventor.
How is it done?
What brings this added beauty to the screen? How is the absolutely accurate reproduction of a person's complexion, tint of hair, and physical magnetism reproduced in natural hues?
All those are natural questions arising in one's mind as one observes the film industry stampeding pell-mell into the color-talkies. This is not, of course, intended to be a blatant puff for the Technicolor Corporation, but it is the truth that every great motion picture producer in this country today is using the process with the exception of one.
Technicolor is not entirely a photographic process. In fact, after the negative has been exposed, it almost ceases to be photography at all and becomes something like a lithographic process, except that the colors are not put on by a heavy impression as in the printing of a colored plate on paper, nor as they are laid on in the making of a lithograph.
They are put on the film by what is called the imbibition process. In other words, the emulsion on the film imbibes or drinks in the colors, which are in the form of liquid dyes when applied.
To begin at the start, a technicolor negative differs very little from the ordinary motion picture negative film, except for some necessary chemical treatment added to the usual photographic emulsion. Otherwise, it is the same as the negative used in black and white photography.
It is twice as long, however, because while in photographing a black and white scene only one frame of negative is exposed at a given instant of time. In technicolor two frames are exposed simultaneously.
The reason for this double length is that behind the lens in the technicolor camera, there is a prism which splits the scene into two images, each identical with the other.
One image—or scene—reaches the negative through a red filter. The other reaches the complementary bit of negative which is being exposed at the same instant through a green filter.
Thus there are on the negative two images, one right side up, the other bottom side up, the top lines being parallel with each other.
Now, to follow the operations necessary to get the positive of this double negative printed on one side of a strip of film so that it may be presented to the eye on a motion picture screen remains to be achieved, and I shall explain this process next.
First, a positive film, somewhat hardened by chemical action, is treated with hot water; then a green etching, or relief map of the scene, is recorded upon it. Next, a red relief map is obtained by the same method on another positive film, which, of course, has been exposed to the red part of the negative.
While red and green are used as the terms designating the two parts of the negative, neither an absolute red nor an absolute green color is meant. By "red" is meant the warm colors of the spectrum. By "green" is intended the cold colors of the spectrum.
The red side is more in the nature of an orange-red, while the green side is more of a blue-green. Incidentally, it cost the group of inventors exactly $2,000,000 to get this color system in harmonious working order.
Now we come to the two relief map films. They are the matrices from which are to be made the hundred or more prints required for distribution to the theatres. With these two matrices ready, a black celluloid ribbon, which later is to become the film to be exhibited in the theatre, is treated with gelatine so that it readily will accept color dyes in liquid form.
Then the positive which bears the outlines, or microscopic hills and valleys, of the red matrix is brought in, soaked with a requisite amount of dye and applied like a master printing plate to this blank strip of gelatine-coated celluloid.
During this operation of transferring dye from the matrix to the blank celluloid, both the matrix and blank are rigidly mounted on metal backings. The result is that the red parts of the image, or scene, are impressed or printed on the gelatine-coated celluloid film and the latter drinks in from the red matrix all the color necessary to furnish the gradations of red required in the picture.
Processing the Positive The same process is repeated with that strip of positive film which has been exposed to the green portions of the negative; that is, a green matrix is made from it in the same manner that the red one was made. This green matrix is later soaked with dye of a greenish cast and laid on the gelatine-coated strip of celluloid directly over the color which already has been imbibed from the red image—or scene.
Through this second application the gelatine coating now drinks in from the green matrix all the color necessary to furnish the required gradations or shades of green. Thus the gelatine layer is inter-penetrated with both dyes—red and green—in exactly the same proportions that those colors with their varying shades existed in the scene as originally photographed.
When this has all been done, these colors are "set" on the film and the result is a motion picture with every one of its many and diversified scenes all recorded in natural colors on one side of the film and ready for showing in a theatre.
Because of the perfection of this process of putting the color all on one side of the film, theatre projection-machine operators are able to run a film in technicolor exactly the same as a black and white picture. No special appliance or any adjustment of the projection-machine is required.
Before the difficult problem of getting the color all on one side of the film had been successfully solved, technicolor was printed on both sides of double-coated film. This i was thicker than ordinary film and operators in the theatre often failed to make the proper adjustment for the free passage of this double-coated film through their projection-machines. This resulted in the picture being out of focus sometimes. At other times blurred streaks were reproduced.
The finishing touches are being put on a new $1,000,000 technicolor plant in Hollywood, which will supplement two other laboratories in that movie colony and the two in Boston. In conclusion, I have found that each one of the faithfuls who pitched in for that original sink-or-swim fund of $140,000 has ridden the crest of the waves into the millionaire class today.


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They are named Jinn and they often come out at night. They like remote mountain valleys too. My first "encounter" with them was in Kachura village, in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains, during a full moon night.
Here is a two-part edited short story about Jinn's (and epilepsy...) in Afghanistan's Wakhan region by my friend and Afghan Kyrgyz expert © Ted Callahan:
"One night, as I'm writing up the day's fieldnotes, Orunbai, a son of the Khan, comes to my tent.
"Sorry to bother you, Temir-aka, but my wife is sick. It might be a jinn, but we're not sure."
I've been wondering about traditional healing practices among the Afghan Kyrgyz, since I have yet to see any evidence of it, and eagerly follow Orunbai to his house. Inside, I find Kyrgol, his wife, keeled over, complaining of severe abdominal pain and moaning as she grasps her stomach.
...They decide that... they will try to drive the jinn out themselves. First, one of the women brings over a loaf of round, flat bread with two candles lit in the middle of it. This is passed in front of the sick woman three times, while chants are muttered. Then, this same woman brings over some embers from the fire and, putting them in front of Kyrgol, fans the smoke towards her. Finally, one of the men takes a rock which has been sitting atop the stove, wrapped it in a red cloth, and moves it back in forth in front of Kyrgol's stomach, though without actually touching her.
Curious, I feign ignorance and ask why they are doing this. I am simply told, "For the jinn."
When my turn comes, I give her some painkillers and antacids. The next day, Kyrgol is fine. Opinion is split over whether it really was a jinn or just, as I suggest, indigestion. We agree to let the question of what the problem might have been rest."
"One Wakhi shepherd at the Khan's camp, Mirza, suffers from epilepsy, a common condition in the Wakhan owing to close intermarriage. Often, around dinnertime, he would rise, walk over to a corner, lie down, and suffer an epileptic seizure. I assumed that everyone knew he had epilepsy and that he simply endured his condition because no medicine was available.
One day, I asked Mirza whether he had sought treatment for his condition.
"Yes, I have visited several bakshy ( - ed: in Kyrgyz community, Bakshy are male shaman with healing powers) in the Wakhan but they have not been able to help me." he answered.
Surprised, I asked, "Wait, what do you think your problem is?"
"I have a jinn" he replied, as if it were obvious. "
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The Sticky Film of Seekingness August 19, 2012Posted by Onely in Dating, Food for Thought.
Tags: making friends, Rotating Profiles, singles blog, Singles dinner
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Rotating Profiles Dinner: If you are interested in people and people's stories, this is the best event ever! If you want to make more friends, this is the best event ever! If you want to stretch your paradigms and get ideas for the characters in your next novel, this is the best event ever! I read about it in an email from one of my DC events list serves, and I got very excited.
By now you've guessed that there's a "But. . ." coming.
First, here's what happens at the Rotating Profiles Dinner:
You fill out a questionnaire about your life ahead of time. Then the night of the event, the organizers you sit you at a table with a bunch of people whose interests match yours, and you all eat Mongolian Barbeque for dinner. (That alone puts the gathering in the running for Best Event Ever.)
THEN for dessert you sit at another table, with people whose questionnaires indicated they would be completely different from you. Such as, I imagine, because I like tabby kittens I would be seated at a table with a few Rottweiler owners. How fascinating! I have never met a Rottweiler owner. I need to meet a Rottweiler owner to dismantle my prejudiced view of them (which involves, for complicated reasons, bug-eyes and empty pizza boxes). I would love to talk to a Rottweiler owner.
BUT I am not particularly interested in dating a Rottweiler owner. Or the owner of anything (except maybe a beach house in Hawaii). Yet the expectation is that in order to attend the Rotating Profiles event I have to be single "and seeking". I have to want to find a date, or a boyfriend. And that stinks.
It's no fun–or at least a lot less fun–for me to talk with interesting people when all across the gathering there's a sticky film of datable/not-datable? coating everyone's eyes and bodies and voices, like spiderwebs. (more…)


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I must say I've been enjoying the blogging break, but it feels great to check in here. I'm writing so, so, so much and enjoying the spoils of fall cooking and baking! Apple crisps, donuts, soups! So many soups!
I'm working on the new blog, as well as so many fun projects I'm eager to share! Until then, here's what fall looks like around here. I had a great time shooting with film again, and explaining to a three-year-old and four-year-old why they couldn't see the picture on the camera every time I took a photo. I've forgotten how amazing the quality of film is. Here are some unedited photos I'm in love with.
AND! The best part of film – the mystery roll that had been sitting in the camera for years. I had no clue what I'd find once I printed them off. TA-DA! An entire roll of adorable Baby Jack!!!!


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American Association of Nurse Practitioners Selects The Journal for Nurse Practitioners as Official Publication
20 Feb, 2013, 13:05 GMT
NEW YORK, February 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that The Journal for Nurse Practitioners (JNP), the leading source of information for practicing nurse practitioners (NPs), has been chosen as an official publication of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
AANP is a new organization formed by the merger of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Nurse Practitioners. With approximately 40,000 members, AANP serves as the largest professional membership organization for NPs of all disciplines.
AANP President Angela K. Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, said, "We welcome the addition of JNP to our extensive membership benefits. Since patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of the knowledge and skills of NPs, AANP is pleased that we now have two peer-reviewed journals available for our members."
Published 10 times a year, JNP provides a highly credible resource to help NPs stay current with the clinical and policy concerns affecting their day-to-day practice. In addition to peer-reviewed clinical articles, JNP features continuing education opportunities, opinions and commentaries on pressing legislative, regulatory, and clinical practice issues.
JNP Editor-in-Chief Marilyn W. Edmunds, PhD, NP, said, "The merger of these organizations is an important step forward in supporting NPs in practicing to the full potential of their education. JNP is pleased to be a part of this advancement and I believe the journal is a powerful platform to support NP advocacy, policy development, and dissemination of NP research."
Nina Milton, Publishing Director of Nursing Journals at Elsevier, added, "We are delighted to have this opportunity to collaborate with AANP and continue our longstanding relationship with the NP community."
For more information, go to http://www.npjournal.org.
About The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
AANP is the largest full-service national professional membership organization created for NPs of all specialties. As The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner®, AANP represents the interests of the approximately 155,000 NPs around the country, advocating for the active role of NPs as providers of high-quality, cost-effective health care. http://www.aanp.org
About The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
JNP provides a highly credible resource to help nurse practitioners stay current with the clinical and policy concerns affecting their day-to-day practice. In addition to peer-reviewed clinical articles, JNP features continuing education opportunities and opinions and commentary on pressing legislative, regulatory, and clinical practice issues. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-for-nurse-practitioners or http://www.npjournal.org
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading provider of professional information solutions in the Science, Medical, Legal and Risk and Business sectors, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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News flash: Sleeves aren't just for chaste girls and fatties. Sleeves are a pleasant and versatile design element. Ditto sleeves' lighter sister, straps, as well as non-bustier bodices, necklines that approach the neck and non sparkly siren, non-mermaid silhouettes. All of which can, with deft application, enhance the beauty of a dress and ultimately, the beauty of a woman — if only given the chance.
Sadly, that chance isn't likely to come on the Hollywood red carpet. Exhibit A: Sunday night's Golden Globes. Yes, the women looked invariably pretty, polished, glamorous. They obviously cared about making positive impressions, as if loath to do some crazy fashion thing that might imply mockery. Their traditional glamour respected both the moment and the television audience that, anecdotal evidence suggests, may like its actresses to go out on a limb on the big screen (Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"; Helen Hunt in "The Sessions") and small (the girls of "Girls"). In matters of fashion, however, the audience wants these women to cling to convention like lint to felt.
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While most Globes attendees looked lovely, the collective made for pretty viewing of the banal sort. It may seem inappropriate and unfair to criticize; these women do not individually or as a group bear a responsibility to push fashion. At a dinner during a recent collections season, Salma Hayek talked about the stresses of the red carpet. She recalled that for her early appearances she would obsess over her selections and what critics might say. As she matured as an actress and a woman, she came to the conclusion that the only critic she has to please is herself.
Here, here. If all actresses currently on the awards circuit felt that way, Godspeed. But on Sunday night as I switched back and forth from the E network to NBC, I heard a number of women voice a similar motif: "I'm lucky. I have people who put it all together for me," before running down their credits' list of dress-jewelry-bag-shoes. Others noted, "I saw my dress for the first time yesterday." Rather than women in charge of their own sartorial destinies, those comments suggest stylist-in-charge. God knows, the world needs stylists. By and large, they make this world a lovelier place.
But for too long a handful of archetypes has dominated the major awards circuit: hourglass bustier, bustier ballgown, blush mermaid, sweetheart sexpot. And if fashion on television qualified for residuals, Bob Mackie and Cher would be raking it in from all that illusion crystal work. Are we to infer that the best of Hollywood actresses fall into a handful of personality types?
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When there are so many fabulous clothes out there already, let alone what designers would happily create custom, why must awards-show viewing be so dull? My favorite looks from Sunday came few and far between. I loved dresses that made the woman or girl look fabulous, and were I to describe the outfit, I wouldn't have described those of several others. Alicia Vikander and Barbara Palvin, both in Chanel. Kathryn Bigelow in Prada. Adele in Burberry. Sienna Miller in Erdem. Lucy Liu in Carolina Herrera. Jessica Chastain in Calvin Klein Collection. Ariel Winter, wondrously age-appropriate in a very grown-up label, Valentino. About age-appropriate, what's the rush to be so serious, girls? Lena Dunham and Allison Williams can put their gowns away and break them out again when they're 50.
None of my picks went Björk swan-dress crazy nor even approached less overt audacity; apparently, genuine fashion daring is rare, limited to Elle Fanning, Tilda Swinton and, well, no one else leaps to mind at the moment.
What does come to mind is the thrill of the view at the Met Costume Institute Gala, where models, actresses and other celebrities dare to wear the very best, and often most extreme fashion, on the runways. Granted much of what works on the steps of the Met is no more suitable for prime-time network TV than curse words and nudity. Remember Madonna's Vuitton bunny ears? They wouldn't cross over. But how about a little excitement? We watch these shows at least as much for the fashion as to learn the Best Original Song. Yet year after year, the fashion falls flat.
I think two factors lead the majority of actresses to choose safety first. Most are afraid to look something other than ultraskinny, so dresses that don't hug the body at least through the torso are eliminated immediately. Secondly, not everyone is blessed with Swinton-esque fortitude; most women fear being ripped apart in the inevitable postmortem — who can blame them? — whether or not the shredders know a thing about fashion.
Here, from pre-fall, last spring and one stunner from last fall (that Comme des Garçons show), I've assembled a little wish list, the kind of clothes I'll hope for while watching the Oscars, all cozy, swathed in terry cloth and sipping tea. (Wait, I may not stay up — Paris shows, but another story.) These clothes are not one look (or three or four) fits all; Vuitton's micromini and Prada's architectural origami swing more ingénue than Best Actress nominee. Nor do I suggest blind embrace of a designer's ethos. Rick Owens' runway hair — no. But a billowing sleeve, a froth of neck fringe, even, dare one suggest, a frock that flows rather than hugs? Interesting! Fun! A tad controversial, perhaps! Love it or hate it, the audience won't go to sleep bored.


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I ran the See Jane Run half marathon this morning. A flat course, in my backyard (Alameda, California). I wanted a personal best for my time. Sounds easy.
I had run the course last year for my first half marathon. I remember how hard it was. I ran a 1:53. I assumed it was so hard because it was my first half marathon. It was also hot that day, not as hot as it felt today.
I ran a 1:47 on a injured foot, with huge hills for the Nike Women's San Francisco half marathon. So I assumed of course I could achieve <1:45 no problem today on a flat. Just take out the hills and I will go faster right? wrong.
Well today it was hot. Really hot for me. LIke 25 and the race there was little to no shade, full sun. I don't like the heat, not to mention running in it. I feel like this was a huge factor.
I psyched myself up for the run, too much. I was nervous yesterday. I got out there, and was running with a friend for part of it. I ran fast to begin with, too fast I think. By the time I saw her she said this doesn't feel like you (I often run my long runs with her). I guess she was right. I stopped more than couple times. Ug.
My right quad started to hurt early. I thought it would go away, I tried to run through it. No that didn't work. When 1:50 pacer past me I had completely given up. When I had to find a potty around mile 5 it was over in my head, I just wanted it to be done and out of that heat. All I kept thinking was it's so flipping hot, I want shade. A 9 minute mile felt like a 7 minute one. Ug, what a slog. Maybe I'm not meant for this running business. Today was my 5th half marathon.
What I like about the See Jane Run Alameda race… that the terrain is flat, that it's in a nice area, my kids and hubby can come and watch me. See's chocolate is a part sponsor, you get some nice chocolate at the end. Last year it wasn't so great, only a small piece of dark chocolate. This year it was sweet, truffles, which feels nice and needed at the end of the race. Also you get bubbly at the end, and a champagne glass. I didn't wait in line for the champagne this year, but nice none the less.
What the race doesn't have going for it; it doesn't start until 8am, and by that time the heat is setting in. Always in June, why not start it so we could be done by the time the heat hits? Start at least at 7am! It was so hot a few women at the end said it felt like there wasn't enough water stations. There was enough, the regular amount there are on a half marathon, but being hot it felt like we needed more. I drank so much water. I need to learn to run with a camal back I think. There is something about having water whenever you need it.
There is hardly no spectatorship to get you going, no loud music at ever corner. The shirts you get are made of a horrible thick fabric, the design an unbecoming v neck. Not my choice and I haven't seen it look good on many women. And it's mostly a women's race.
Last year they gave me a 500 ml of water bottle at the end. I went back for more because I was hot and thirsty. Too volunteers snapped at me and said one per participant. I just ran 13.1 miles and all I get is 500ml of water for how much money I paid? This year I didn't bother and brought my own.
I liked the medals both years. I think they are of nice quality. But this year the medal says "I ran for chocolate". Degrades the reason most people run I feel. Last year's, 2012, was nice.
Will I run See Jane again? Well let's just say never say never 😉 But it's not going to be on the top of my list. It wasn't this year, but last minute I thought why not? I got sick and was unable to run Oakland Half Marathon in March, and I had trained for it. I'm very much looking forward to running the San Francisco Half Marathon with my friend on her birthday next week, it will be her first half marathon 🙂
I started Crossfit and strength training a couple months ago, seriously and consistently just recently about a month ago. It should make me faster. Maybe it has. But not today.
For running a bad race, I feel sore. I feel like I don't deserve to feel sore. Ha.
I think most of it was due to heat. I know I can swim longer and faster in a cold pool. In Victoria, BC I preferred the coldest pools in Victoria. I feel I couldn't swim efficiently in warmer pool. It was cool when I did the half marathon on October in San Francisco. So maybe I just like cooler weather, simple.
I think another thing is I set out a too ambitious goal. Maybe? I need to be more realistic and access things when I get on the course and see how I'm feeling and then just go for my personal best, and concentrate on negative splits. That sounds much more wise.
I'm disappointed. My goal time seems so much more elusive to me now.
My ultimate goal, which I think is so many runners goals, it to qualify for the Boston Marathon. I haven't ever run a Marathon, I assumed it was good to start at a half first. Also I haven't been able to dedicate the time required away from the family for long runs.
To Qualify for Boston I have to run a 3:40 marathon. Ah yea that's fast. That's a little less than a 8:30 minute mile to KEEP UP for 26 miles!
My husband doesn't want me to do any marathons. He feels the pounding on the body is too much. So maybe my bucket list can't include, 'qualify for boston marathon'. I wonder if I could run 40 half marathons by the time I'm 40, that would mean 6 a year. Seems a bit 'intense' was my husbands comment. But 'goals shouldn't be easy', said from my wise friend.
I want to be faster, stronger, leaner. Maybe someday, but not today.
AND THAT'S ALL OKAY. I learnt some valuable lessons I today. And mostly I like to run and workout because I enjoy it. Another part of life about the journey not the destination 🙂 I enjoy getting together with friends, feeling stronger. Trying to focus on that this right now.
Also seeing my children and husband at the end, I was reminded about the most important things in life 🙂


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Hotel Congress would have continued its charming existence as just another place of lodging for road weary guests, were it not for the events of January 22, 1934. That fateful day changed forever the building and its unique place in Tucson history. Early in the morning, a fire started in the basement of the hotel and spread up the elevator to the third floor. This fire, and the subsequent chain of events, led to the capture of one of the country's most notorious criminals – John Dillinger.
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Later, these astute firemen recognized the gang in True Detective Magazine. A stakeout resulted in the capture of Dillinger at a house on North Second Avenue. In a space of five hours, without firing a single shot, the police of small town Tucson had done what the combined forces of several states and the FBI had failed to accomplish. When captured, Dillinger simply muttered, "Well, I'll be damned".
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Thomas Mackey has a nice little three-bedroom house on a golf course in Carolina Beach, N.C.
Last fall, when he refinanced his mortgage, Mackey, 61, had a good job as director of food services at an assisted-living facility. When his lender told him the loan came with a complimentary mortgage protection plan, Mackey never gave it a second thought.
"I didn't even pay attention to it because I never thought I'd have to use it," he recalls.
Three months later, Mackey lost his job. But he didn't lose his house because of that mortgage assurance program backed by the Rainy Day Foundation, a non-profit group headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The foundation made Mackey's next four $1,400 mortgage payments and is likely to make two more.
"It's unbelievable," he says. "I wouldn't have my house anymore if it weren't for them."
Chances are you never heard of the Rainy Day Foundation.
Until a few weeks ago, neither had I. If you're ready to buy a house or refinance your mortgage, you should know about the foundation.
"Our goal is to help homeowners maintain homeownership," says CEO Rick Del Sontro.
The Rainy Day Foundation rolled out its Homeowner Education and Loan Protection program (HELP) about 19 months ago. HELP is only available when you buy a home or refinance a mortgage. You cannot enroll on your own. The program is paid for by participating lenders, builders or real estate firms.
More than 125 companies across the country have partnered with the foundation. Most are local or regional lenders. But a number of big banks, including Wells Fargo, SunTrust, Flagstar and National City, also take part.
Main Street Homes, a major builder in Austin and San Antonio, enrolls every single buyer in the HELP program.
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The program has three major components: counseling, job loss protection and grants for emergency mortgage payments.
Rainy Day counselors help buyers through the critical first two years of homeownership. That's when they are most likely to bust the budget on furniture, appliances and other things for their new home.
A counselor calls each month (for at least the first 6 months) to answer questions, make sure their clients are living within their budget and saving a little for a rainy day. The goal is to tackle any problems early on.
"We want them to know that if something happens we are there for them and they can fall back on us," Del Sontro says.
The HELP program also includes job loss protection. That's what's paying Thomas Mackey's mortgage. It kicks in 60 days after closing and lasts for two years.
If you lose your job or your income drops for some reason during those 24 months, the Rainy Day Foundation will make your house payments – up to $1,800 per month – for up to six months. This is a grant that never has to be repaid.
Matthew Whilden, 24, recently bought a new house in Kirkland, Wash. He knew it was a great time to buy. Even so, the idea of making those monthly mortgage payments made him nervous.
Whilden's mortgage broker, Cobalt Mortgage, told him about the Rainy Day protection plan that comes with all of its FHA loans.
"I probably would have gone through with the purchase anyway," Whilden tells me, "but I wouldn't feel as good about it."
Cobalt Mortgage President Keith Tibbles, is a big believer in the program.
"It doesn't protect them indefinitely," he stresses, "but it protects them during a period of time where they may have to go look for a different job."
According to Dean Bloxom, president of Arizona-based imortgage, fear about the economy "remains one of the major stumbling blocks" for many potential homeowners, even if their own job is not at risk.
"This program gives them some peace of mind that they can make a good long-term decision without worry."
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For most of us, it's hard to imagine what it would be like to lose our house. That nearly happened to Liz Zirnheld, 28, and Steve Ernspiker, 32, of Mount Washington, Ky.
After Ernspiker lost his job, the couple missed several mortgage payments and the bank was getting ready to foreclose on them.
"It was a real bad time, depressing and sad and very hard on both of us," Zirnheld remembers.
The foundation approved the couple's application for an emergency mortgage payment grant.
"Without the Rainy Day Foundation we would not be living here anymore," Zirnheld says. "We would be one of the statistics."
The $3,000 got them current on their payments and stopped the foreclosure. They also received delinquency counseling and help creating a family budget.
"I am forever indebted to them," Zirnheld says. "We hit a terrible bump in the road and they got us through it."
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Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com advises potential buyers to be realistic about what a program like this can do.
"While a mortgage protection program can provide valuable peace of mind, it's not to be used in lieu of an adequate savings cushion or to buy a home before you're truly ready," he advises.
McBride says millions of people have been out of work for more than 6 months during this recession. That's longer than the Rainy Day Foundation will pay your mortgage.


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Griefer Madness: Terrorizing Virtual Worlds
Sep 19, 2007 4:00 AM PT
When entrepreneur and Second Life real estate mogul Ailin Graef sat down to an interview with Cnet reporter Daniel Terdiman in December, she, no doubt, did not expect to be caught in a downpour of digital phallic symbols.
Yet, considering the interview took place in the virtual world Second Life, perhaps she should have.
It's a Miserable Second Life
Since its public launch in 2003, the massively virtual reality world has evolved to include a mix of entrepreneurs and troublemakers, or "griefers," said Steven Davis, CEO of IT Global Services.
A griefer is a person who likes to cause problems for the sake of causing them. As the criminals of the virtual world, their goal is to make virtual life miserable for the other player. Depending on the environment, the mischief can come in the form of player killing, vandalism, player trapping or taunting.
Davis, who authors gaming blog Playnoevil.com, said that over time, the Second Life environment has become divided into two teams: those who build things and those who like to tear them down. The unstructured environment makes it vulnerable to the pranks of idle avatars, he noted.
"I think the thing with Second Life is it's so totally open, you can do anything you like," Davis said. "It's got the chaos of people doing anything you can imagine. You think, 'well, what am I going to do?' And you get lost and you wander around a bit and some people invest in property and build things and some people end up griefing."
Second Life is a virtual reality world created by Linden Lab in which digital characters called avatars purchase "islands" for real-life purposes, such as sell products, do research and hold conferences and classes.
There are currently about 9 million avatars on this digital landscape.
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Graef, better known by her avatar's name, Anshe Chung, became the first online personality to achieve a net worth of more than US$1 million from profits earned strictly within the virtual realm.
As a resident in Second Life, Chung buys and develops virtual real estate in the official currency of Linden Dollars, which is convertible to U.S. dollars. Chung owns several virtual store chains and shopping malls, and she has established several virtual brands, all within Second Life.
Her interview with Terdiman, which was being held in the Cnet Theater, had only been underway for a short while when they were attacked by a griefer.
Terdiman -- who goes by his avatar name Greeterdan Goodell in Second Life -- said its Chung's public persona that makes her more susceptible to virtual attacks.
The attacks usually happen to high-profile people, politicians and the like, Terdiman said, so the incidences naturally get more attention than if they were to happen to everyday people.
"You might assume its happening all the time," he said. "But it's really not that frequent."
Giving Grief
Although the accounts of griefing are still in the anecdotal phase, with no statistical information to refer to, there's no question that this activity continues to garner attention.
Geographically, Second Life is comparable to Tokyo, he said. "With a city of this size, you're going to have all kinds of problems."
Terdiman -- whose new book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life, will be available in stores Nov. 5 -- said he was just walking around Second Life one day when the whole sky filled up with flying Mario icons from the 80's era Nintendo Super Mario Bros. game.
"But that was just funny," he said. "It's not a big deal."
Some griefers operate in groups, moving from one virtual world to another, causing discomfort and annoyance on large scales and then moving on. Some are loners, bent solely on their own enjoyment at the expense of others.
The problem is griefers are difficult to stop because they can initiate a new account on these worlds just as quickly as their old ones are deleted. One griefer, who is a member of notorious griefing gang the Patriotic Nigras said he and his cohorts have had as many as hundreds if not thousands of accounts.
"The Internet is anonymous in a lot of ways, for good business reasons people sometimes want to encourage anonymity," Davis said. "But the price of that is you get the electronic equivalent of people shouting fire in a crowded theater. People are more likely to grief because they are anonymous."
Harmless and Serious Attacks
You don't have to have ever set one digital foot in a virtual world to have experienced griefing, according to Davis.
"Anytime people get together, there is going to be someone who abuses the environment," he said. "There's always the annoying guy at the party who saddles up to all the women, when you sit down to play a game of cards and someone cheats, its people playing political games in the office. That's all griefing. It's the dark side of human interaction. It just becomes newsworthy in these cases because these online environments are still a novelty."
For the most part, the attacks can be as harmless and just require that the victim log off for a while. However, some cases can be more serious than that, especially for school administrators.
Last May, in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, a visiting avatar entered the university's Second Life campus and fired at other avatars.
Currently, in Second Life, there are few, if any, processes in place to resolve legal or ethical complaints.
"The biggest problem with griefing is, in most virtual environments, it's not against the rules," Davis noted. "It's playing the game legally with malicious intent. Griefers are not cheating the game, they're not hacking the game, they're just playing in a hateful way."
Damage Control
The majority of the attacks take place on the main land or continent and not on the individual islands; unlike in the real world, the damage is not lasting.
"Its easy to recover from these things," said Paul Skiera, director of technology-based learning and research at Arizona State University.
Every "island" has a server, Skiera added. Every 65 kilometers of virtual land is a different server, so recovering from an attack is often just a matter of rebooting the server, cleaning it up and taking it back to where it was before the attack occurred.
Skiera facilitates a university property called "Skysong," as well as his own personal property. Skiera, who has been caged by griefers in the past, said it's largely a matter of knowing what you are doing.
"You need to be careful," he said. "With the newbies coming in there, I've seen their properties just littered with crap because they don't know protective measures you need to take as far as understanding land control and access rights."
He also said there is a huge difference between being on the Second Life main continent and the individually owned islands. The mainland is owned by Linden Labs, who refrain from exerting any control over the goings on at Second Life.
"There is a courtesy norm in any society and you are going to have people that violate that. It's very hard to curb that," he said. "It's the Wild West out there."


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