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Hello, Blog! Its been a while, and we missed you. I know you won't take it personally, its just that we have been super busy writing The Book. One of the reasons we even decided to do this was to give homebirthing families a voice. Its not so much that this population is marginalized (Well, ok. Maybe a little. We just don't tend to lend a lot of credence to that sort of stuff.) And it's not that homebithers have any trouble screaming their truth from the mountaintop. We all love Truth and Mountains.
It's just that words matter. What we say and how we say it, can profoundly affect a woman's birthing experience. To recognize and embrace this sacred responsibility can be both awesome and terrifying, and we hop we never take it lightly. Yet, it is also one of our greatest tools, particularly during the prenatal time, and if used effectively, can help a mother access her internal strength. Stories can help a woman come to informed decisions regarding her care, make it easier for her to picture her ideal birth, and strengthen our relationship with her. So pull up a chair, stoke up the fire, and settle in for a spell. Once upon a time…
The most lovingly effective midwives have always used stories as teaching tools. Why? Because most midwives are also parents, and the habit of imparting knowledge and wisdom (along with a few cautionary tales about wolves and such) through story is second nature. Stories are simply more interesting that cold facts. They deal in truth, and even though the details may be fictional, our human hearts recognize and respond readily to truth. Children (and adults who allow themselves to shed their worldly cynicism and overgrown, carefully cultivated sense of irony) know this instinctively.
One short foray onto any internet birth forum will show that woman learn more from each other's birth stories than almost any other source. We are not even entirely sure how women gave birth before the internets. Mothers are eager to both hear and share their children's births, and the right story at the right time can have a powerful impact. Midwives, too, are not immune to the lure of birth stories; after all, they have everything! Intrigue! Drama! Heck, they began with SEX! But, to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi before he led Luke into t he Mos Eisley cantina, "We must be cautious."
Of course, we try to remove all identifying details from our stories, but there are deeper moral questions to examine beyond a potential HIPPA violation. What are our motivations in sharing this story? If it is to encourage or educate, that will come through. But we must beware of processing externally with our clients. Some midwives spend far too much time in an appointment talking about their latest exploits, sharing the nitty gritty blow by blow accounts of recent births.
This is inappropriate, and can even serve to make the client feel unsafe. After all, if the midwife is talking about this birth with them, how can they be assured their birth will not be similarly dissected? This is particularly true when the client is close to her own birthing time. And if the story does not have a happy ending, then that is now written on the client's heart; she cannot unhear it, and it may become a book on tape, playing in her head during her own labor.
Worse still is the midwife who shares birth stories to build up her own self-esteem. Perhaps she is particularly proud of the way she handled a difficult birth, and wants to be recognized for that. Or maybe she simply wants to reassure her clients that she knows how to handle an intense situation, such as a shoulder dystocia or postpartum hemorrhage. (Sometimes clients, especially in an interview, will ask for these sorts of examples, and in that case, it is appropriate to share briefly) It is so tempting to make ourselves the hero of our own story, riding in on a white horse, a syringe of pitocin in each holster, saving the day. But the role of hero is already filled, by the mother. We are merely part of larger supporting cast.
It is not our clients' place to debrief with us, however close we have become. Midwives should always have their own support systems in place, whether that is a formal peer review to discuss difficult cases, or a chat with a colleague over coffee. This is ultimately more satisfying anyway. Good midwife friends know just what to say, and what questions to ask. The story becomes a way to draw closer to each other, and maybe learn a thing or two. The birth of a child now becomes larger, with the telling of the story. It has strengthened relationships, and expanded a community. And it doesn't get a lot better than that.
Human beings will always be storytellers. It is how we know who we are, and from where we have come. Heck, when Arthur Australopithicus walked into his cave with a rabbit for dinner, we are sure he spread his hands, threw a stick on the fire and began, "So there I was. Surrounded by bunnies…" Stories can warn, educate and inspire, and midwives are in a unique position to harness their power. A story told with kind intention and respect can motivate and inspire, and that, in the best of all possible worlds, is the ultimate purpose of a midwife.
So, this was all a long-winded way of saying that we need your help. Below is a list of sorts of stories that we are hoping to get in The Book. We can use your name or not. We will probably edit for space, but you trust us, don't you? Feel free to write-up a paragraph or two in any or all of the categories. However, if you could send them in separate emails, that would be great. We divide out work, and that would just be happier for us.
And please spread this far and wide, to anyone you think may be interested. We'd love a cross-section geographically. Your voices are important. We want to tell your Truth.
1. Who did you get most of your support from. regarding your decision to birth at home? Partner? Family? Midwife? Online Peeps? How did they react?
2. Did you have any complications with your pregnancy, birth, or postpartum? Pre eclamapsia? hemorrhage? Shoulder dystocia? Postpartum depression? Anything at all. How was it handled by your provider? How was it different from traditional allopathic care, or was it? How did you react to these complications emotionally? How do you feel your midwife handled them?
3. Did you have any communication problems during your care? With your midwife? Your partner? Your mother? How did you resolve them? Did you have any conflicts regarding homebirth?
4. Did you have any special circumstances with your homebirth? (Note that this is different in our minds from 'complications.") Vbac? Twins? Breech? Tell, tell, tell!!
5. Straight up homebirth stories. The good, the bad and the ugly. Bring it?
6. The immediate postpartun hours. Did you fall in love with your baby right away? Did it takes a few minutes, hours, or days? Were there complications in your delivery, and how did they affect your bonding process? Were you triumphant, exhausted or giddy? We want folks to know all reactions are normal! How about repairs? Did you have one? How was your recovery process?
7. Did you transfer? How did that go? Did your midwife discuss transfer beforehand?
8. And finally, how did homebirth change you as a person? Did it affect your philosophical, political or sociological views? Are you more of a feminist because of it? Less? Do you see how you birth as a basic human right? Part of the right to privacy?
Thank you all for your help! We can't do this without you!


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When he was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox got slammed by many for failing to protect investors during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, including missing Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. Now, to add insult to injury, his successor is showing little interest in his pet projects concerning corporate disclosure and accounting standards, and questioning whether at least one of them is even appropriate.
Cox's interest in forcing listed companies to file financial reports using technology that makes it easier for investors to read and analyze the data became almost an obsession during his time at the SEC from August 2005 until this past January. Indeed, the SEC voted through a rule to require 500 of the largest public companies to begin filing their reports with the technology known as XBRL, or extensible business reporting language, by the middle of this year, with the rest instructed to comply over the following two years.
It is just about the last costly requirement companies want to hear about as they fight for their survival through these doom-laden times. Indeed, in the results of a national survey of CFOs and senior comptrollers conducted by accountants Grant Thornton LLP, that was issued last week, 64 percent of public companies said they had no plans to use XBRL despite the SEC mandate.
Now, they may be getting some relief from new SEC head Mary Schapiro. She made it abundantly clear that XBRL was very low down her priority list when she spoke at the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit on Tuesday, and she hinted that the SEC might allow for delays in compliance, though she didn't know if that would be necessary. "I don't mean to be dismissive of it in any way -- it's just not one of my highest priorities," she said.
Even worse, unlike Cox she has little interest in promoting the initiative, though she does acknowledge it could become a useful tool. "I've only given I think three speeches and I don't think those letters (XBRL) have slipped into into any of them," she said.

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How do you enthuse about a book that is black and white, except for the cover, when it is written about Matisse, a master of colour? Matisse on Art is a new book where the artist's language provides the colour. It arrived at the Library at the same time as the lavishly illustrated new book, Picasso and Maria-Therese: l'amour fou.
What have the two books to do with one another? I believe that Picasso owed a great debt to Matisse. It was Matisse who wrote, "The effort needed to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist…" Both artists had a great deal of courage when it came to creating bold and innovative styles of expression with paint. It was like developing a new language and having to educate the viewers.
After all, paint is paint; it is never the object it represents. Therefore, it has to be true to the artist's vision and not the preconceptions of the viewer. Matisse worked on some of his paintings through hundreds of hours until they arrived at a stage where they spoke truly to him. I believe that slowly and methodically Matisse broke down boundaries in art.
Learning from this approach to truth in painting, Picasso explored it through a prodigious number of works. Some of the most captivating were paintings of one of his mistresses, Maria Therese Walter. They remained remarkably gentle in ways that the paintings of his other mistresses – or wives – never did. These are just thoughts, but don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself.
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"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve: it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
For nearly 30 years, the photographer David Douglas Duncan and his wife lived near Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso in southern France. In those years, the photographer documented the relationship between Picasso and his last muse in their home.
In Goodbye Picasso, Duncan wrote, "Picasso and Jacqueline lived a frugal, almost monastic existence together. …The villa was bare of modern comforts… and yet it was a noble place, bursting with creations of the artist's hands and mind."( p221).
The CPL Arts collection is home to six of Duncan's books on Picasso. Two of these books, photographed mostly in black and white, read to me like a novel. They are about a home and the design of a life. They are also about the way a creative life shapes the environment around it. The titles are: Picasso & Lump and The Silent Studio.
Lump was a dachshund, a dog muse, whose portrait appears in drawings, paintings and even on plates. You can sneak a peek at some of the delightful photos from the book in this post on the Habitually Chic blog.
The Silent Studio speaks of objects and the echoes of a life. Poignant pictures of empty spaces wait for the sound of sandals slapping along tiled corridors, chairs that wait for the weight of the sitter and a silent studio.


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Amaline stood as ramrod-straight as she could while the frigid wind tried to scrape the skin off of her face. The only thing she was allowed to wear on her face while facing a superior was goggles, so she could see. Anything else suggested disrespect as she was hiding her face from her commanding officer. Still, Amaline couldn't help but wonder if she was going to break the record for "least amount of time to get facial frostbite".
She and the other 19 new graduates stationed at 10708 were in block formation facing Commander Frederick Gerson as he yelled over the wind. He was saying something about staying where you were during a blizzard so you wouldn't get lost, but other that, the only thing Amaline could hear were her own thoughts. Even her coughing was lost to her ears, carried downwind as fast as the sound was made.
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Apr 20, 2010by Amanda Lenhart, Rich Ling, Scott Campbell, Kristen Purcell
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As institutions that are often called upon to serve in loco parentis, schools take a variety of approaches towards the regulation of the mobile phone within their four walls and on their campuses.
When it comes to possession of a mobile phone during the school day, just 12% of teens with cell phones say that they can have a cell phone at their school at all times. A majority of teens (62%) say that they can have a cell phone at school but not in class, and another quarter of teens (24%) attend schools that forbid cell phones altogether.
Our focus group conversations support these findings and suggest that most schools treat phones as a disruptive force to be kept turned off and away from the classroom. Many teens talked about a tiered system based on a "if they can see it, they can take it" philosophy. An older high school girl describes a common system: "Yeah, it's happened to me three times. The first time they take it for a day. They take it for a night and you don't see it until the end of the next day of school. The second time they take it for a week, and the third time the rest of the semester." Other teens describe systems in schools that require parents to come to the school to retrieve the phones of wayward students.
Some schools allow limited use of cell phones, as this older high school girl explains, "At ours, you can have it in passing periods and lunch. And if they see it, it gets taken and I think the first time you go back at the end of the day and get it."
Some teens describe what feels like arbitrary enforcement or a lack of clarity around school rules for mobile phones. "I don't text much in school. And we don't really have, and our rules are just like whatever the teachers feels like," said one younger high school-age boy. "Some teachers give it to you at the end of the day, some after class, some keep it over the weekend if it's like, Thursday or Friday." Others described schools "giving seniors leeway" with phones and teachers playing favorites or looking the other way around cell phone enforcement. Said one middle school girl, "At my school, it's kind of messed up, but if you're one of the favorites, and I'm one of the favorites with some of my teachers, they just let you use your phone."
A younger high school-age girl describes one teacher's classroom policy: "Well, my teacher has a mind of her own, so she takes up the phones in class before class starts and then at the end she'll give them back and then that's not like the school policy. That's just her policy, but if you don't turn it in and it goes off, then it gets sent to the principal and your parents have to come pick it up." Another high school-age girl describes a creative teacher, who, "if she caught you texting, she'd pick up your phone in class and read the message." This is apparently an effective deterrent according to reports of teens in our focus groups.
Other teens report that their teachers use their own phones in class: "Well, it says in the book that you're not supposed to have it, like if you have it, it's supposed to be off and in your book bag or whatever, but like it's extremely flexible. Like, some of my teachers even use their phone in class, so you can use it as long as it doesn't make noise."
A few schools simply ban phones altogether: "We have absolutely no cell phones," said one older high school girl. "If you're on school grounds, you can't even use it in your car."
Despite these restrictions, teens are still overwhelmingly taking their phones to school – 77% take their phones with them to school every school day and another 7% take their phone to school at least several times a week. Less than 10% of teens take their phone to school less often and just 8% say they never take their phone to school.
While a higher percentage of teens who attend schools that forbid all cell phones say they never bring their phone to school (17% vs. 5% at other schools), nearly 65% of teens at "no phone" schools bring their cell phone to school every day, anyway. Four in five (81%) teens at schools where they may have a cell phone, just not in class, bring their phone to school everyday.
Further, many teens who take their phones to school are keeping them on and using them during the school day, sometimes during instructional time. Six in ten teens (60%) say they have their phone turned on at school at least once a day and sometimes several times a day. Just one-quarter of teens (23%) who take their phones to school say they never have them turned on during the school day.
Teens with carte blanche to have their phone with them at school are just as likely as teens who can have the phone, just not in class, to have their phone on several times during the school day. Some 49% of both groups report such behavior. Teens who are not allowed to have a phone at school are more likely to say they keep the phone off during the school day, with one-third (32%) saying they never turn their phones on, compared with 21% of teens who can have phones at school but not in class, and 16% of teens who have fewer restrictions.
More striking is the two-thirds of teens (64%) who tote their phones to school who say they have ever sent or received a text message during class. Nearly one-third (31%) of teens who take their phones to school text in class several times a day and another 12% of those teens say they text in class at least once a day. Fewer teens report that they place calls during class, though 4% manage to make calls from class several times a day and another 4% do so at least once a day. Fully 75% of teens who bring their phones to school say they never make calls during class time.
One middle school boy describes texting in class at his school: "When I'm in class, I just see people pull out their phone and try to be sneaky, and get past the teachers and try texting and stuff. Like, one time I tried that and my teacher caught me."
Teens in the focus groups described a myriad of ways to text in class without being caught – behind stacks of books, under desktops, inside of bags, and one even described having an older phone that he kept in his bag to surrender to teachers when he got caught texting in class. "I've got [a second phone] …if you get caught using your phone you can pull out a fake phone, turn it on and give it to them."
In-class texting varies little with regard to the aggressiveness of a school's regulation of its students' mobile phones – teens with full access to cell phones are just a bit more likely (71% to 58%) to say they send or receive texts in class than teens who attend schools that forbid phones altogether. Perhaps heartening to administrators is the finding that about a third of teens text frequently in class (31%), another third of teens (33%) text in class occasionally and a third (36%) say they never send text messages during class. These findings mostly hold regardless of the regulatory environment, although there are exceptions in the extremes of behavior. Teens in schools where phones are totally forbidden are slightly less likely to text in class several times a day, and are more likely to say they never text, than are teens who attend schools that allow cell phones at all times.
Roughly 25% of teens take their cell phones to school and say they have made a phone call on their cell phone during class, although most do so only infrequently. The data show that 13% of teens who bring their cell phones to school make a cell call during class less often than once a week and just 4% make such calls several times a week. Another 4% say they make calls at least once a day and yet another 4% say they make calls several times a day during class. There are few statistically significant differences on this question by school regulatory environment.
Girls and older teens are more likely than boys and younger teens to take their cell phones to school every day. Teens from lower income families are more likely to say that they make calls during class time several times a day, with 12% of teens whose parents earn less than $30,000 annually saying they make calls that frequently compared with just 2% of teens from wealthier families.
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A few hundred people lit candles in memory of Maple Batalia on Friday night during a vigil at Whalley's Holland Park.
Her Sept. 28, 2011 murder has not yet been solved.
Batalia, 19, was shot dead on the third storey of a parkade next to Surrey's Simon Fraser University campus. Shortly after her murder, a few hundred people attended a candlelight vigil for her at Holland Park
on a Friday evening and about the same number came this past Friday, one year later, to show they haven't forgotten.
In the days following Batalia's murder, police had 50 investigators working around the clock on the case.
On Monday, Sgt. Jennifer Pound, spokeswoman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, wouldn't reveal how many officers remain assigned to the case but said it's "still a priority." Police are "still processing tips," she added.
Batalia studied health sciences at SFU and was also an aspiring actress and model.
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This is the forum for all who are interested in the theory of what may happen to consciousness at the point of death as explained in the books 'Is There Life After Death - The Extraordinary Science Of What Happens When You Die' and The Daemon.
Anthony Peake wrote:Starshine, Thank you so much for this posting. Draheste,
Your analysis is exactly as I would analyse the experience. Of course that is only our opinion!
Draheste wrote:What if the God she meets, in what I think is some sort of shamanic experience, is her daemon? A daemon which wants her to live and who love her with all her/it's heart. Some hard sceptics would say it is her survival instinct, but I think there is more than one explanation, or it is the narrow mindness of any fanatics.
The thing is, the person of the ebooks seems to have found some kind of balance in her life and that's the most important. She is a survivor.
Often, when I'm feeling quite down, I can feel that feeling of love inside me, like a warm sensation and I know I'll be fine. My daemon is communicating through me with feeling, I think, more than words and maybe like that person.
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Pretty early on in a project, I'll build a menu of sounds fromthe work at hand—things that help us find a personality forthat record . . . I'll often try to steer the guitar player to thosesounds and try to harness them over the course of the project.
The idea is to remind them of their most unique expressions.
chapter and removing the dead wood. But "Sirens" is all one take—no overdubs except the Boomerang processing—plus an edit to trim the fat. I got what I got. I'm not sure I could ever do it quite that way again, which is some of the beauty in it.
You seem to interact with the guitar quite physically. Seeing you play live, it's sometimes difficult to see how you achieve some of your modulation effects. Do you get most of it from leaning a bit on the guitar neck or do you use a processor?
It's mostly the fingerpicking angle andbending the neck. But I always try to har-monize with the singing too—which usuallyinvolves a lot less strumming—and that kindof playing invites that bending approach.The bending of the neck lends that tiny bitof vibrato that probably sounds a bit dif-ferent than a whammy bar. It's a lesson Ilearned from Jimi Hendrix, because he wasalways leaning on something and foolingwith pitch, whether it was the whammy baror the neck.
"Slow Baby" is a great showcase for that.
I actually did that with my goldtop Les Paul and a Vox AC30—no effects, just neck wobble and a lot of volume.
Is "Sirens" all looping?
That's a Boomerang pedal. I'll work with loopers by putting something in—maybe a minute-long section—and just stack things up. That usually makes for a very long piece, then I go back and shorten the whole thing to three minutes paying attention to every
How does playing with a vocalist affect your guitar approach?
I stay out of the way! [Laughs.] I use the old Frank Sinatra big-band technique: When Frank sings, no horns. When Frank stops, baa boo dop, boo dop!
Working as a producer must instill a sense of economy as a player.
Well, I've learned it's nice to not have a muddle come mixing time. It's best to be lean and somewhat specific about your playing so you don't have a bird's nest at the end. It's what I love about more riff-based music, funk music.
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No, presidential candidate Barack Obama was not found dead in a "shock accident." John McCain was not "found unconscious in a toilet." Will Smith wasn't "found dead in bathtub" either. And Britney Spears has not broken her arm in a "freak poolside accident."
The truth is quite a bit more subtle. A Microsoft security upgrade in April largely dismantled a network of hijacked computers used by criminals to send spam, and the hackers are desperately trying to rebuild it. To entice users to click on the links that will infect their computers with the notorious Storm worm, they have dispatched an avalanche of e-mail with fantastic news headlines in recent weeks. The average Net user is getting about 60 of the phony news bulletins per day, says the security firm MessageLabs.
Here's a sampling of subject lines:
"Bill Clinton in today's Times - thank god Hilary didn't beat Obama."
"Beijing Olympics canceled upon the death of China's president."
"Obama bows out of presidential race."
"Scandal rocks Obama as lurid sex video leaked?"
"Dog digs grave for owner."
And perhaps the most fantastic of all,
"Oil falls below $100 a barrel."
No, spammers haven't hired a bunch of former supermarket tabloid writers. They're just doing what they do best – exploiting human nature.
The Storm worm is the Internet's version of Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera" -- the longest running hit show around. Storm first appeared in January 2007, teasing users with a headline about deadly storms that hit Europe -- "230 dead as storm batters Europe," it said, offering a link to a full story. Clickers found themselves infected with the Storm worm.
Storm was an immediate hit for the hackers, who managed to trick hundreds of thousands of recipients into clicking on the booby-trapped link. That enabled them to build an enormous network of hijacked computers, called a botnet, which they use to send out more spam or commit other Internet crimes.
There have been hundreds of Storm variants since the first one, sent by a loosely affiliated gang of computer criminals. Some estimates say that up to 10 million PCs have been infected with Storm at one time or another.
But in April, Microsoft updated its malicious software removal tool, much to the chagrin of the hackers. About four-fifths of the vast Storm network was cut off, said Paul Wood, a security researcher at MessageLabs.
"That really cut into (the hackers) business model." Wood said. "So they are trying to do something to regain their power."
That something is a huge spam campaign with over-the-top subject lines, all designed to be an irresistible click to recipients. Storm has always relied on fake news to entice e-mail recipients, but this latest surge is so creative it would be amusing if the e-mails didn't pack a very serious punch.
Storm's creators are believed to be in Russia, but it's obvious from the headlines that they have a solid understanding of U.S culture.
"Oprah Winfrey survives horror highway crash."
"Michael Jordan confesses to relationship with Madonna a decade ago."
"Martha Stewart found unconscious in home."
"Obama challenges McCain to a marathon race to see who is fit as the commander-in-chief for USA."
"Scientists estimate oil to run out earlier than expected in 2012."
"Lindsay Lohan crashes brand new Lamborghini."
See more outrageous spam headlinesObviously, the strategy works -- or the spammers would have moved on to something else, says Dylan Morss, manager of business intelligence at Symantec.
"This is a tried and true social engineering tactic," Morss said. "These are almost incredulous headlines, but you kind of want to look. They are going for a common human vice here." Symantec says it has blocked 200 million of these spam messages since April.
Users who click on the link in the body of the e-mail are sometimes sent to a harmless-looking herbal supplement page hawking body part enhancement. Others are sent to a pornographic video Web site that imitates YouTube, and told they must install a plug-in to view the videos.
Agreeing to download any software from porn sites is a recipe for certain Web disaster. But even the supplement sites can be laced with malicious software, Wood says.
To stay safe, never click on a link in an e-mail, even If a subject line about presidential candidates or a Hollywood stars piques your interest. Instead, fire up your Web browser and go to a major news site like msnbc.com to check it out. If John McCain really has challenged Barack Obama to a duel in Weehawken, N.J., I promise our politics section will have the story. And if Madonna is linked to any other famous athlete, Courtney Hazlett and Scoop will be all over it.


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Greetings, Masters
I am on day -1 of MC2. That means I start tomorrow, blessed day!
Most of my preparation so far has consisted in eating all of the interesting food in my house so there won't be anything left to turn my resolve come fasting-time.
I completed my first 10-day fast this February 10-19 and the benefits were numerous. To recount them- and to remind myself why I'm doing this again:
-the obvious- my weight dropped from a rather chubby-for-me 130 to a just about perfect 114(I'm 5'4" with a small frame)
-the subtle- mental clarity and an ability to focus and concentrate my often spacey head.
-the vain- I really liked the way my skin looked after. My pores haven't been that tiny since i was a little child.
-the practical- during the time I was fasting I got a whole lot done. Not having food as an option for recreation reminded me what my real hobbies are.
All in all it was a great experience, and quite restorative.
So why am I starting again, exactly 2 months later?....further detoxing....further clarification....a few pounds creeped back on me, and psycho pms with insane cravings that I've faith a nice detox will help clear and cure.
So here we go....props to everyone on the path....if i don't post tomorrow, send out a search party, I'm probably eyeing the brisket and baby back ribs at the Whole Foods...but no this is my choice..and so we embark...set sail on the lemony seas...


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Many people choose to buy classic cars that may be a little worse for wear and then restore them to their former glory, or even customise them to make them unique.
However, few people can hope to achieve what Californian firm, Icon, has with its range of unique, boutique projects, which aim to take the concept of a classic and turn it into something modern and fresh.
Fox News reports that Icon's latest work will involve taking a 1965 Dodge D200 pickup and turning it into something that is far more suitable for today's market.
This means that it will be based on the Dodge 3500 platform and will feature a number of impressive components, including a 5.9 litre diesel engine from Cummins, which has been specially customised just for this project.
At first, Icon will produce just one of these models, but after its public unveiling at a conference in Las Vegas later this month, it might take commissions for a few more.
In the past, Icon has worked on a number of unique vehicles based on classics, many of which fetch top prices.
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In a few months I'll be purchasing a MacBook Pro. I'll be setting it up as a desktop with an external HP monitor, an Apple Magic Mouse, an Apple wireless keyboard and a mini Displayport to DVI adaptor. But I'll also use it as laptop sometimes. And I'll probably bring it to school occasionally. I really don't like trackpads very much; I tend to prefer a mouse. So,when i bring it to school I'd like to use the Apple Magic Mouse so I don't need to use the trackpad. I would like to know how much more power using the Magic Mouse would draw from the MacBook Pro compared to a wired mouse. I'd also like to know how long the Macbook Pro's battery would last when I'm using the Magic Mouse with it . I'm asking these questions because the Apple Magic Mouse uses Bluetooth and I know that Bluetooth uses a lot of power.
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Some devices such as cellphones drain a whole lot faster and heat up when bluetooth is left on. My concern is that I may be wasting battery life when I leave the bluetooth on for the Macbook Pro just for a wireless mouse.
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Is the new Magic Mouse as accurate as a wired mouse?
I work on an 8 Core Mac Pro on two ACD 30"s in CS4 and FCPro and find the previous wireless mouse is too sloppy and slow to use in detailed work. But I would love this new one if it is a fast and as accurate as the wired mouse that Apple ship.
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I have one question though, how can i connect it to my brand new Macbook Pro?
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To start, I am currently a PC user, and I hate it. PCs drive me nuts. I will be purchasing an Apple computer in the near future most likely a MacBook pro and will also purchase a large monitor so I can see it easier. So far, I'm very satisfied with Apple as I have an iPhone 4. I am very interested in this mouse and have several questions about this mouse.
Do I have to move my finger on the mouse to move the pointer, or is it like a regular mouse where I move the mouse and the pointer moves?
Since the entire top surface of the mouse is a touch screen if I hold the magic mouse like a regular mouse with my palm touching the back will that cause a problem?
I noticed on the MBP, if I tap with two fingers that is the equivalent of a right click, is that same in the magic mouse?
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The Mixquiahuala lettersFocusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cort zar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. Ana Castillo's groundbreaking first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict. |
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When traveling, what are things you look for? Beauty and adventure? Warm, genuine people? Lots to do but without having to plan a month to do it all? Someplace exotic yet still close to home? These all describe Hawaii perfectly, and I was fortunate enough to live there for several years, and even met my girlfriend there! After six months in the south of France, I returned to Hawaii for a couple of weeks for a working vacation. By work, I mean taking surfing photos of the toursits that came to Waikiki beach to learn to surf while in Hawaii. Here's an example of one of these fellows now:
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North America is windy. If the U.S. and Canada had enough wind turbines, they could produce all the electricity they need, and then some, from wind alone. The same is true of solar energy, with even bigger power surpluses. The U.S. Southwest's deserts get enough sunlight to sustain the country's thirst for electricity—20 times over. But both these sources are inherently erratic: winds wane and clouds show up with little notice. Wind, moreover, tends to blow harder at night, when demand for electricity is at its lowest.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, when intermittent sources such as solar or wind reach about 20 percent of a region's total energy production, balancing supply and demand becomes extremely challenging: rolling blackouts can sometimes become inevitable. The same problem exists elsewhere, notably in Germany, where a vast photovoltaic capacity has sprung up thanks to generous subsidies.
Burton Richter, a physics Nobel laureate who was on a recent panel that studied California's power supply situation, told The New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin that because of intermittency, utilities would need to keep fossil fuel–burning plants as a backup that can quickly ramp up generation as need be. This large-scale load following, as it is called, "can only be done with natural gas," Richter told Revkin.
Of course, if a statewide lull in wind were to last several days, California could buy electricity on the interstate market, as it often does. Proposals for a continent-wide supergrid that can ferry large amounts of power coast to coast are in part predicated on the idea that "the wind always blows somewhere." Also helpful would be to make the grid smarter, so that users, prompted by dynamic pricing, would buy the energy they need when it is abundant and dial down their use when the cost goes up.
Experts, however, are increasingly skeptical that even supergrids or smart grids would suffice to cover the intermittency of wind and solar power. The solution, they say, must include storing massive amounts of energy for later use. Ideally, the U.S. could build a really gigantic battery and be done with it. But we are talking gigawatts (billions of watts) of power, and such a battery would be prohibitively expensive, at least with current technology.
Fortunately, two types of large-scale energy storage exist that are already mature and economically feasible—and some more futuristic ones are also promising—as I describe in the article "Gather the Wind," in the March 2012 issue of Scientific American. These two technologies are less flashy than the ones the media usually likes to cover—they are decidedly "more Flintstones than Jetsons," as one online trade journal put it. One involves pumping water uphill, the other one involves compressing air.
A pumped-hydro facility consists of two reservoirs with a substantial drop in height between them. When there is excess electricity to go around, electric pumps move water from the lower reservoir into the upper one, thereby storing energy in the form of gravitational potential energy. When wind and solar wane or simply cannot keep up with demand, operators let water flow down and through turbines, generating electricity. In compressed-air facilities, excess electricity pumps air into underground caverns, and it is later released at high pressure to turn turbines.
Pumped hydro has been used for decades to balance the load on large U.S. grids. About 2.5 percent of the electricity used by U.S. consumers has cycled through one of these plants. In Europe the amount is 4 percent and in Japan 10 percent. But how much storage capacity would the North American grid need to stay reliable as more wind and solar comes online?


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These small (30-150nm) extracellular vesicles aren't cellular "trash bags" after all. Exosomes are now believed to be present in all body fluids, where they are thought to play a role in a large number of biological functions.
What's the mechanism of exosome formation? What is their composition? How can they best be isolated and studied? The field of exosomes research is truly captivating, with an urgent need for a range of specific tools and technologies.
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Total exosomes enriched from cell culture (by using the Total Exosome Isolation reagents or ultracentrifugation) can be further purified into specific subpopulations by immunomagnetic capture. Use the Dynabeads®-based CD63-specific reagent, or combine the Streptavidin reagent with your choice of a biotinylated antibody to purify any population based on a surface antigen.
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One of the major advantages of employing Dynabeads® magnetic separation technology to pull out pure and specific exosomes is that you can move directly to EM analysis. You can analyze subsets from total exosomes enriched from cell culture using the CD63-specific reagent, or use the Streptavidin reagent in combination with your choice of biotinylated antibody.
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Immunomagnetic capture of exosomes on the surface of the Dynabeads® allow for a clear and defined FFC/SSC detection typically in less than one hour. You can analyze subsets from total exosomes enriched from cell culture using the CD63-specific reagent, or use the Streptavidin reagent in combination with your choice of biotinylated antibody.
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Exosomes have been shown to transport a range of molecules from one cell to another. Their cargo includes proteins, lipids, mRNA (fragments and full length), rRNA, miRNA, and various ncRNA.
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This study examines the expected surge in demand for plants and equipment necessary for the extraction, conversion and delivery of energy and identifies potential shortfalls in the manufacturing of vital new system elements. There is a very recent history of decreasing supply and capability in key components such as turbines, petro-chemical and nuclear reaction vessels, transmission cables, high-tech lighting, etc. An examination of supplies of materials, including special alloys and construction materials, needed to manufacture these key elements of the energy infrastructure, will also be examined, along with policies and investments to assure that the capability is available to meet projected needs. A report is planned early in 2010.