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Meet the OSEHRA Board of Directors:
Mike O'Neill
Chairman of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
Mike O'Neill is CEO of MedicaSoft, LLC, a healthcare IT company that develops software for healthcare providers worldwide. Prior to joining MedicaSoft he was Senior Advisor and a member of the founding team of the VA Center for Innovation with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where he led innovations in technology and business practices in both healthcare and claims processing and spearheaded VA's open source electronic health records initiative.
Prior to VA, Mike was involved in the commercialization of new products and technology as an executive in both startups and large companies and as an early stage venture capital investor. Mike holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
LTG (ret) James B. Peake, MD
Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
The Honorable James Peake was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009. In December 2009, Dr. Peake was appointed Senior Vice-President for the Health Industry at CGI. He is responsible for the overarching US and European strategy for growing CGI's business in the evolving Health and Health Insurance industries.
A St. Louis, Mo., native, Peake received his Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Following service in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with "V" device and the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, Peake entered medical school at Cornell University in New York. He was awarded a medical doctorate in 1972.
Dr. Peake served as U.S. Army Surgeon General from 2000 to 2004. As Army Surgeon General, he commanded 50,000 medical personnel and 187 army medical facilities worldwide. Prior to that, he served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, one of the largest medical training facilities in the world with 30,000 students annually. Dr. Peake retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of Lieutenant General.
Roger W. Baker
Member of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
The Honorable Roger W. Baker was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in May of 2009, serving until March, 2013. He is recognized for transforming the federal government's second largest IT department, with 8,000 people and a $4 Billion annual budget, into a customer-driven, results-oriented organization. He also served as CIO for the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 to 2001.
Baker has had an extensive private sector career. He was most recently Chief Strategy Officer for Agilex Technologies. He also served as President and CEO of Dataline LLC, as CIO for General Dynamics Information Technology and as General Manager for the Telecommunications and Information Assurance business group at CACI International. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Operating Officer for BlueGill Technologies; Vice President of Engineering and Operations at VISA International; and as Vice President of Consulting and Services for Verdix Corporation.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Masters in Business Administration degrees from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous awards recognizing his service to veterans and the nation, including the 2010 Civilian Agency Executive of the Year by Government Computer News; the 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Civilian Government by AFCEA; the 2011 John J. Franke Award by ACT-IAC; the 2012 Executive Leadership in Information Resources Management - Civilian award by AFFIRM; and is a three-time recipient of the Federal 100 Award.
Joel Kupersmith, MD
Member of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
Joel Kupersmith, MD, is the Director of Veterans Initiatives and a Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is a well-recognized physician leader in both major government and academic medicine positions. Dr. Kupersmith served an 8-year tenure as Chief Research and Development Officer, CRADO, for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where, among his numerous accomplishments, he launched the Million Veterans Program. He has published three books and over 170 papers, and has served on numerous national committees including the Council of Science of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council of the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Science of NIH.
Dr. Kupersmith is a native of New York and served as a Lieutenant (MC) in the U.S. Navy. After he completed his residency in internal medicine at New York Medical College, he completed his cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kupersmith has served as a Professor and Director of Clinical Pharmacology at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Chief of Cardiology at the University of Louisville; Chairman of Michigan State University's Department of Medicine; and Dean of Texas Tech University's School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, as well as the university's Vice President for Clinical Affairs and CEO of Faculty Practice.
Robert L. Missroon, Jr
Member of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
Robert Missroon is the Vice President – Finance, CFO and Director of Operations for Document Storage Systems, Inc., one of the premier providers of integrated applications developed for the VistA platform. Robert has been involved in Healthcare IT for 25 years, primarily devoted to modernizing VA Health IT and managing numerous clinical and administrative product lines. Robert has been an active proponent of Open Source Electronic Medical Records and OSEHRA since its founding.
A native of Savannah, GA, Robert holds a BBA-Accounting from the University of Georgia, and an MBA from Savannah State College. He has served as a Professor of Accounting and Management for several universities in the Southeast, and has been a principal in several entrepreneurial ventures, including timber-related businesses in Savannah, and Costa Rica.
George Rollins
Member of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
George Rollins is the Vice President of Perspecta's Federal Health Practice Provider Segment and brings over two decades of experience working with Veterans Affairs to the OSEHRA Board. He is an accomplished executive with great interest in long-term strategic and global health IT issues, and embraces the open source approach. Having served as a Project Manager, George has in-depth knowledge of leading teams in Defense Health Operations.
George earned a Master of Business Administration from Grand Canyon University and is currently working on his Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration with a focus in Healthcare Administration and Management from Northcentral University. Additionally, George served 23 years as an Army Ranger. As a Veteran, he understands the importance of healthcare at VA and beyond.
Seong K. Mun, PhD
President and CEO
Member Ex-Officio of the Board of Directors OSEHRA
Seong K. Mun, PhD, is a consummate builder of innovation programs and explorer of new concepts. As a Professor of Radiology and Director of ISIS Center, at Georgetown University Medical Center until 2007, he pioneered work in digital imaging, teleradiology, PACS, telemedicine, e-health, global disease surveillance, open source software and medical informatics. As a Georgetown Medical Center's Associate Vice President, he managed congressional affairs for 12 years working with Jesuit fathers. He is a recipient of the General Max Thurman Award for Excellence in Military Medical Research for his contribution to military medicine.
Dr. Mun is a tenured faculty and Director of Arlington Innovation: Health Research at Virginia Tech Research Center, Arlington, VA, and is working on a sleep imaging study and the development of smart-phones for medical applications. In the 80's while working at the Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center in New York he was part of a team that build one of the earliest whole-body superconducting MRI systems in the world.
He is a Fellow of American Institute of Biological Engineering, member of American Association of Medical Physics as well as HIMSS.


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LaRouchites Try for a Foothold in County
Described as friendly, brilliant and bright-eyed—and at the same time as scary and cult-like—six LaRouche Democrats are running for Alameda County Democratic Central Committee (ACDCC) slots.
Historical complaints about the LaRouchites—racism, homophobia and sexism—are not the salient characteristics noted by local Democratic Party activists concerned about the mostly under-30 crop of Lyndon LaRouche followers in Alameda County.
"They're trying to get a foothold in the Democratic Party," said Edie Irons, who is running for a seat on the ACDCC on the Grassroots Progressive (GP) slate in the June 3 election.
"We're all really concerned—it's anxiety-provoking," said Sumi Parajape, also stumping for a slot on the Central Committee as part of the same slate. LaRouchites have run in the county before with one or two candidates. "There's never been a full slate of Lyndon LaRouche supporters," Parajape said.
Concerns of a half-dozen local Democratic Party activists contacted by the Planet center around the group's apparent intent to move the committee away from its current activities doing local organizing around concrete issues such as health care and improved working conditions.
Repeated attempts by the Planet to reach the LaRouche candidates were unsuccessful.
Irons described the behavior of LaRouchites when they come to the county meetings: "Mostly, they're pretty quiet in meetings—then they'll ask a non-sequitor question," she said.
Irons talked about her interaction with a member of the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) at a recent Democratic Party state convention.
"He wound up telling me what we have to do is explore the planet Mars and bring back the space program," she said.
Irons described the group at a recent state convention: "It was a large group, all under 30-years-old—a lot of people of color. It was overwhelmingly men. They aggressively passed out literature."
And they were singing.
Douglas MacLean, communications director for Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, observed them singing just outside the convention. "I think they were singing their platform," he said, "something about FDR, global warming and an international conspiracy."
Several persons who have had contact with the LaRouchites said they were exceptionally bright. "He gets smart kids," said Mark Briggs, who is running for a slot on the committee with the Grassroots Progressives. Briggs said that the LaRouchites talk impressively about international politics—but do so when the discussion is focused around other questions, such as how to build the local party.
None of the local Democratic Party activists contacted by the Planet felt they knew the purpose of the LaRouchites' attempted entry into the local party structure.
"When they speak, it's like they're presenting an ideological statement, more like diatribes," said Howard Egerman, a 14-year member of the ACDCC, describing a meeting held by Rep. Barbara Lee at the Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland: "They kept asking strange questions—and singing," he said.
"I'm not able to truly understand what they want to do," Irons said. "Their weird evangelism is off-putting to me."
On the League of Women Voters' website, LaRouchite candidate Ian Overton has posted a "position paper," written by Amelia Robinson, of the Schiller Institute, one of the institutions associated with the LaRouche organization. The paper is more of a letter of advice to the six LaRouche candidates: Overton, Jon Stuart (incumbent), Ben Deniston, John Craig, Ramiro Bravo and Oyang Teng.
In part, it says: "Though this is a seriously messed-up world, with Lyn's and Helga's [Lyndon and Helga LaRouche] wisdom and experience you can't go wrong. You are building the foundation for bigger and better positions (be sure you keep your mind and body clean), so don't stop keeping your eyes on the prize (President). Above all, keep your hand in the Hand (God's) of the man who troubles the waters. To get to the top, be kind, patient, and loving, as well as truthful."
Another aspect of the group that worries local Democrats is that the LaRouchites apparently get paid for their work in the Democratic Party.
"The rest of us have regular jobs," said Howard Egerman, a 14-year member of the ACDCC. He said the question of paid activism came up at a Metropolitan Greater-Oakland Democratic Club candidates' forum. "The question was, 'Are you paid?' They said, 'yes,'" he said. The statement was confirmed by a second person attending the meeting.
The purpose of the 40-member ACDCC is to build the Democratic Party at the grass roots—register voters, search out candidates, endorse people running for office and actively campaign for them.
The LaRouche Democrats do not do the nuts and bolts work of building the party and supporting candidates, Egerman said.
"I'd like to see someone from our party as governor" and getting good appointments for judges, but "they're thinking only about Lyndon LaRouche." Egerman said.
Lyndon LaRouche, 85, has run for president eight times since 1978, seven times on the Democratic Party ticket. In the 1990s he was convicted of tax and mail fraud and served five years of a 15-year sentence. Researcher and writer Chip Berlet notes that LaRouche claimed he has no income "although he lived in a huge mansion surrounded by armed guards, and regularly jetted around the globe...." (See www.publiceye.org/larouche/truestory.html.)
Sumi Paranjape, running on the Grassroots Progressive slate, told the Planet that most voters don't know who is running. They will look at their ballot and all the information they'll get are names and occupations.
The cultlike nature of the group is of concern, Egerman said. "The overall goals are tied to one person—Lyndon LaRouche."
"Something about them makes you uneasy," said Rodney Brooks, chief of staff to Supervisor Keith Carson.
For information from Lyndon LaRouche, see www.larouchepac.com.

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Join us in September 2016 in the next spiritual journey along the Matildaline !
In 2014 and 2015 Selma Sevenhuijsen guided together with Dafne Arlman two highly successful spiritual journeys along the Matilda line right through Italy, along the most important places of her book 'Queen of the Vatican'. In the years to come we will build on this. In September 2016 we will guide the first English speaking tour. You're welcome to join us, wherever you come from! With a group of 12 persons plus two guides we will travel in 12 days in a mini bus from Mantova to Roma.


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Smoothies are a great snack or breakfast… if you get the ingredients right! Beware of store bought smoothies though, as they may try to sell you on health factor, when it really falls short on nutrition value. That's why I've been collecting a list of great healthy smoothies to try out at home, where you can trust where your ingredients are coming from. Here they are, with ingredients ranging from bananas to kale to chocolates!
Apple Banana Coconut Smoothie
This smoothie is my kind of smoothie… the kind where you only have a couple of ingredients, you mix it all up, and then it's delicious and healthy! It calls for apples, banana, and coconut milk!
Pina Colada Smoothie
This smoothie by Our Paleo Life is great for you if you love the pina colada taste, but not so much the alcohol part! It consists of bananas, crushed pineapples, shredded coconuts, and coconut milk.
Kiwi and Kale Smoothie
This kiwi and kale smoothie by The Fitchen only consists of 3 ingredients (4 if you count ice!). If you haven't already heard, kale is great for you and so this would be a great smoothie to incorporate in to your day!
Cherry Banana Smoothie
This cherry banana smoothie by Zest and Zeal contains cherries, banana, coconut milk, chia seeds, and raw honey optionally. Remember, if you are vegan to skip the honey!
Healthy Paleo Chocolate Smoothie
This smoothie by Gluten free on a shoe string is great if you want a smoothie and have a chocolate craving! It calls for almond milk, medjool dates, bananas, and some cocoa powder.
Avocado Banana Spinach Smoothie
This smoothie by Peaches and Cake is perfect for those of you that want to make a smoothie without almond milk or coconut milk. You actually use coconut water instead! (But you can still make it with almond milk if you'd like!)
If you're interested in finding out more about store bought smoothies, here are some additional articles:
- Best and Worst Smoothies (webmd.com)
- Store-Bought Juice Blends: Are They Healthy? (blog.foodnetwork.com)
- What Makes a Smoothie Unhealthy? (healthysmoothiehq.com)
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Westport weather: A nice day ... and holiday outlook
Sunny skies today set the tone for a generally upbeat weather outlook through the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
The daytime high temperature should reach about 80 degrees in southwestern Connecticut, the NWS says, with a west wind between 8 and 11 mph.
Tonight should be mostly clear, with a low around 60 degrees. A northwest wind will be between 6 and 8 mph.
Tomorrow brings a slight chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms after 1 p.m., the NWS says. Otherwise, it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 78 degrees. Tomorrow night should be partly cloudy, with a low around 64 degrees.
Saturday is expected to be sunny, with a high near 81. But there's a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms overnight.
There remains a chance of showers and thunderstorms Sunday morning. Skies the rest of the day should be partly sunny, with a high near 87 degrees. A slight chance of precipitation continues Sunday night.
On Monday, Independence Day, the weather service's outlook is mostly sunny skies, with a high near 86 degrees.


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Third Sunday After Pentecost
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 10:40-42
When I first began attending mass several years ago, I was struck by the kind of welcome I received. Or, rather, the kind I didn't. Raised in the over-eager Protestantism that hovers and fawns over every guest at worship (a well-meaning practice; I've engaged in it myself), Catholics were noticeably cool, it seemed—a little distant, even.
This wasn't (and isn't) calculating or conspiratorial on their part—nor on mine now as a Catholic. Any given group of parishioners at any given mass is not following a script about how to treat newcomers to the liturgy. And I don't mean to suggest an absence of warmth or kindness; I've never experienced that in a Catholic church and I hope I've never communicated it. But I do think that the Eucharist—week after week, year after year—trains worshipers to know, even if they don't or can't articulate it theologically, that it is not the people or even the priest who does the welcoming; it's Christ who does so.
All of us—long-timers and first-timers alike—are Christ's guests, receivers of his gracious welcome.
And yet when we think about the welcomes we experience in other settings, most of us—Catholics and Protestants—find it difficult, I think, to be on the receiving end of another's generosity. It seems to go against our sense of pride or self-sufficiency to be vulnerable in ways that would cause others to freely offer us welcome or refuge, harbor or hospitality. Interestingly, we don't mind paying for such things—a nice hotel stay, a day at the spa—but this is because the hospitality industry is about market exchanges, not true acts of gracious, gratuitous, no-strings-attached welcome.
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Attack of the Safe Starches
If you have been lurking around paleoland recently you will have heard the debate about safe starches (you may be sick of hearing about it in fact). Last fall I ran an experiment to find out whether it might be a good idea to dip my toe into the safe starch swimming pool. I was tracking my lipids around this time with the CardioChek PA so I could have some idea of what was going on with my metabolism. Here are the results.
I first experimented with a low carbohydrate diet in 2009 after reading Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. I lost 15 pounds in the first three months (though I had no idea I was carrying any extra fat). I gained muscle without changing my exercise program. My seasonal allergies went away. My teeth got whiter, less sensitive and stopped collecting plaque. I got fewer sunburns. My joints stopped aching after exercise. You get the idea.
Around this time I took an oral glucose tolerance test and found my numbers to be a bit high, though not in the pre-diabetic range just yet. I tend to get a high initial blood sugar spike, though the value quickly returns to normal. I thought this (along with the other general health improvements I experienced) was an indicator that a low carb diet was a good approach for me. I bought a cheap glucometer to play with and stuck with the low carb program.
Over the years my diet progressed to a paleo approach, while I continued to avoid starches. On most days I ate only eggs, meat, fish, some nuts and a good helping of green veggies. Given the safe starches controversy, I thought it would be interesting to try adding 100g or so of carbs per day in the form of sweet potatoes, just to see what would happen. There is a variety of chatter about the possibility that low carbohydrate diets can raise LDL, so I thought I might see a drop in non-HDL cholesterol with a bit of added starches. I did get a drop, but it wasn't to the non-HDL.
Mean non-HDL did not change during the experiment (193 to 203, not statistically significant), but mean HDL dropped by a significant amount (67 to 57, p<0.001). I stopped the experiment after one month. You'll see in the plot below that the HDL went back up to the previous level after the daily sweet potato was dropped.
|Boxplots show minimum, maximum and quintiles. Mean HDL: 67 (control), 57 (carbs).
|The trendline is a linear model based on all low carb data points (before and after, but not including, the carb intervention).
|Trendline based on all low-carb points. Non-HDL cholesterol was not significantly affected.
Details of the ExperimentThe data points were collected as previously discussed in the butter experiment. Data does not include any points during the butter experiment, as there was a significant change in HDL and non-HDL during that time. Statistical significance test is based on a linear model, calculated by ANOVA using R.
Sweet potatoes were eaten slowly so as not to spike blood sugar above 120, though spikes may have occurred on occasion. It usually takes me about an hour to eat one, though I can eat them very fast without a spike if I've recently completed a heavy workout.
There are a number of limitations to the interpretation of this data that are worth mentioning. Perhaps most significantly, this is a very short term test (1 month). It is possible that long term adaptations would have reversed the effects seen here. Second, there was only a single intervention period, which could have corresponded to another unknown variable which caused HDL to decrease. Since foods differ in micronutrient, mineral and toxin content, it is not possible to generalize from sweet potatoes to all carbohydrates. I may have had a different result with white rice, white potatoes, taro, tapioca, etc. Finally, of course this result applies to me only. There may be others who have a much higher carbohydrate tolerance, or who may even see the opposite result.
Is This Actionable Information?
So why am I bothering with this? First of all, simple curiosity. I have the ability to collect data that most people do not collect, and there is some interesting science concerning these molecules and what they may be able to tell me about my metabolism.
Does the decrease in HDL identified here represent an unhealthy change? Perhaps. Though HDL is commonly referred to as the "good cholesterol", I would not suggest that all decreases in HDL are unhealthy. In fact I don't know how one would go about establishing the truth or falsehood of a statement like that. Conversely, we know of chemicals that raise HDL while simultaneously causing heart attacks. My HDL was never "low" during the course of this experiment. However, together with certain other data I was also collecting at this time (which is a story for another day), I believe that 100 grams of starch per day is too much for me. At least in my current metabolic state, with my current lifestyle, exercise habits, sleep, stress level, etc.
Some smaller amount of starch is most likely "safe," and may be a good idea. These days I often eat a banana (about 20-30 grams of sugar+starch) after lunch, and I have not seen the negative effects caused in me by higher amounts of carbohydrate. As mentioned, I also have found that I can eat 100 grams of carbs immediately after a heavy workout with no significant change in my blood sugar (e.g. it might increase from 65 to 83 in response to a pound of sweet potatoes after two hours of powerlifting). These days, workouts like that occur about once a week (sometimes less), and I have not noticed any negative effects from eating carbs this infrequently. Since many smart (and strong) people advocate carbs post-workout, I am willing to go along for now, at least while I do not have any contradictory evidence.
Published Research
Perhaps if I had looked this stuff up in the scientific literature first I would have been less surprised by my results. It turns out there is plenty of published research supporting the idea that carbs lower HDL. However, it is a bit surprising that the relationship continues even below 100g/day. I doubt there is published research on this relevant to long-term low carbers, so three cheers for personal science on that front. A study by a German team, published in January 2012 in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, does a good job summing up the research that is out there. Here is their conclusion regarding carbohydrates and HDL:
"There is convincing evidence that a higher carbohydrate proportion in the diet at the expense of total fat or saturated fatty acids intake lowers the plasma concentration of HDL cholesterol."
The paper is called "Evidence-Based Guideline of the German Nutrition Society: Carbohydrate Intake and Prevention of Nutrition-Related Disease." It is worth a read if you are interested and still awake. If instead you are sleeping (and not German), perhaps you are dreaming of a world in which the nutrition organizations in your country also use evidence as the basis for their guidelines.


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From the icy airplane window Hong Kong looks like an infection. High up we are afforded rare macroscopic glimpses of the Earth, its geology a painting and the plane's small windows the frame. We puncture thick clouds and through the mist see what teases us down below – cerulean water and deep emerald peaks that surround and infiltrate Hong Kong City. And then there's the city. Tall sharp apartment buildings arranged in vaguely swastika-like and diamond formations; even higher sky scrapers stand with presence as if surveying their dominion, one of the most economically advanced in the world. Scale is lost on this disease – what seems large from an airplane window is impossibly, swallowingly large from the ground. And these thousands of buildings look like an army invading something, erupting from the soil, crawling out from the sea, and then plunging a red lotus flag into The Peak. One has to ask: Who owns whom?
You know someone's a tourist if they're in a big city and they're always looking up. I can't help it. The buildings hypnotize; slice by slice they repeat themselves (the extent of this copy-and-pasting reaches 118 times). Here, though, the act of looking up is as much awe as it's admiration. These structures are feats of engineering, beautiful in their purpose of sheltering humanity. I gaze at one apartment block and wonder what the people are doing in there. A grandmother could be watering her plants by the window, a daily ritual as a strong sun shines through. Meanwhile, a boy realizes that he's forgotten his history essay on the kitchen table and dashes out of the closing elevator doors to retrieve it. The boy passes his neighbors' open door, and sees the six-year-old twins won't be attending school today because they've gotten each other sick, and are now fighting about who started it. Higher up in the building, someone is having a private morning moment over a cup of hot milk tea, half thinking about their tasks for the day, half wondering what it'd be like to be an astronaut.
And so it goes like this, apartment after apartment and around seven million times. The settings of these singular moments are intense by standards of aesthetics and enormity; the buildings are so different. Some appear Soviet, some completely decrepit, others glassy and new-age (though one of the larger buildings, the Bank of China Tower, was charged with "cast[ing] negative feng shui energy into the heart of Hong Kong"). Most look modern-Chinese in their utilitarian style, built in the last four decades to accommodate the continuous surge in population.
And what of the population I've experienced? I arrived in the late morning Tuesday and went straight to Sister Wah's, a local favorite known for its gossamery beef brisket. The man taking orders there wasn't merely nice, he was upbeat and interested in my origins and general purpose in the world, all while catering to a busy restaurant. Risky, a barista at a swanky cafe called Elephant Grounds, straight up introduced herself and started telling me how much she loves coffee. I sat down in a noodle shop on Sugar Street, looked utterly confused by the menu, only to be saved by an old woman chock full of recommendations and an eagerness to help. All of my (albeit limited) interactions with Hong Kongese have been of the same cloth, and from these fifteen-or-so collisions it is difficult not to resoundingly like all inhabitants of this city. I like people-watching here especially. Their styles are so distinct, their way of walking. I wonder where they're going, where they've been, what they're thinking, how is their relationship with their father, and what they had for lunch. Would they recommend it?**
I'm stupid tired after a long sleepless layover in Singapore's airport. Nighttime is coming around and my only objectives are to get a good dinner and buy shampoo. While eating my ramen I'm operating in a half-daze and I can't seem to put the noodles on the spoon. They keep sliding off and with a plink! disappearing into the opaque Tonkotsu broth.
The buildings are the skeletons, the blazing lights their skin. Impossibly bright, blinking with aggression and desperation of all colors. This is a normal scene at night in Causeway Bay, and I am wandering through this incandescent maze with dirty clothes and a very bad want for darkness.
I smell the cosmetics shop first, then see it. I reckon it could carry shampoo. "Do you have shampoo? I ask in a soft and pathetic voice. "Yes, of course," and he leads me to a mirrored – mirrors everywhere! – section with shampoos that are minimalist and sleek in their packaging, and the cheapest one for twenty-two US dollars. I was tired but not yet so delirious as to spend this kind of money. So it went, shop after shop of gourmet shampoos.
I didn't venture very far distance-wise, but this street, this world, was one I hadn't known. Music thumping from so many places it felt like it had no source but the sky. The lights spazzing out everywhere, the buildings caving in, everything vibrating slightly. The people, hordes of people, floating by quickly all around you like specters, some looking neutrally ahead, some laughing in larger groups, some peering at you. You see them too, but it feels more like you're looking through each other, trying to see what's behind but there's this goddamn person in the way. The apathy is palpable with these nanosecond-pseudo-collisions, and you adopt this ugly dirtbag version of yourself in the face of a gorgeous diversity, and think, "What's one more?"
The cheap shampoo was hidden in a cardboard box in a back room; a sales clerk retrieved it for me. The people of Hong Kong are so nice.∗
**[The middle section of this essay was revised on the 31st of July, 2015, because I wasn't happy with it. Now I am happier with it.]


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I found an old experiment. The idea was to generate timed animations with sound in an easily editable format (in this case a simple string).
It worked and the result wasn't bad and it is easy to change the rhythms and add more frogs and woodpeckers. But it isn't really usable because the timing of the sounds is very finicky. Flash isn't reliable when sounds will play. But this little thingy was fun to do and only 19k. I might get back to this.
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A sophisticated brand update
With the highly anticipated unveiling of a new world-class track, the 100-year old brand for the Newcastle Jockey Club needed an update.
We started by reviewing the rich tapestry of racing's history in Newcastle. The previous name clearly spoke to the racing community of trainers, jockeys, breeders and owners. However, the club also needed to appeal to a wider audience.
Newcastle Racecourse
Research, naming, brand architecture, design, TVC, campaign concept, print, press, signage, photography.
Our research told us that the glamorous experience of a day at the races is a key theme to tap into when developing the new brand. We wanted to retain the history in the membership brand, Newcastle Jockey Club, but suggested a new parent brand. So we looked around the world at infamous racecourse brands and found the place is the front-runner – Ascot, Flemington, Randwick.
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The launch of the new track and brand is a truly historic occasion for the Newcastle Racecourse, now boasting a track that is up there with the very best in Australia. The new brand acknowledges the club's heritage but also, importantly we have separated the club from the venue.


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Since last week's update I pulled out Hands On Designs - Year in Chalk series after finishing Mini River Cottages. June whipped up really quickly from the small amount I had started. I now have half of this series stitched up. For the moment, I can't go any further in this series as I don't have July and August charts yet. They're out, I just don't have them.
After some fairly straightforward/easier projects, I was still in the mood for more complex stitching. Teresa Wentzler's Fortunate Traveler continues to hold my attention. If I get in the stitching time I'd like to, I hope to have the border completely cross stitched by the end of the weekend. I have I'll be sticking to this project to the end.
I have also started my July ornament. I'm still working away on Lizzie Kate's Jingles series. This month's addition is Cheer. I love the wee cardinals!
Not only have I been stitching this last week, there's been more finishing! They're all ornaments I've stitched up from the Rosewood Manor - Red Threads chart. Again, rocking the beaded edging on all of these.


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vintage buttons
craft glue
glue on bails (or small pin backs)
needle and thread thread
chain or necklace
step 1: gather materials together and stack two or three buttons together until you find a combination that you love.
step 2: thread the needle and sew your stack of buttons together (alternatively you can glue them on top of each other, but I like the look of the thread keeping the buttons together)
step 3: decide where the bail/pin back will go on the back of the stack and place a few drops of glue on the back of the button and on the flat part of the pendant bail. Leave for a few seconds then stick the bail/pin back to the button stack.
step 4: let the glue dry then string the button pendant on a chain or pin the button pin to anything!
crafter's notes: I know it is only a super simple tutorial but it is fun and funky, and I will happily be wearing the red, black, and mother of pearl button pendant when I go out today. The pin below was my first attempt with a large renegade chartreuse button that had hidden in one of my button jam jars. If anyone wants it I will gladly give it away as chartreuse and I are no friends (the colour makes me look ill or possibly just a very lively zombie).
Thursday, 25 March 2010
button jewellery a mini tutorial
Labels: buttons, craft tutorial, giveaway, jewellery, tutorial, vintage button
7 comments:
- ClaireP said...
Oh! I saw these on your flickr stream yesterday. I'll defo be giving this a try. :)
- 25 March 2010 at 02:09
- Chloe' said...
Quick & Cute! I have soo many buttons, I'll deffinitely try this (^_^) thankyou! x
Chloe x
- 25 March 2010 at 05:15
- x vInTaGe VioLeT x said...
lovely button stacks Meri
what glue have you used?
- 25 March 2010 at 10:48
- Tracy said...
oh my goodness! I am so doing this! Thank you so much for sharing such a great idea :)
(found you through Selena) ;)
- 9 April 2010 at 14:46
- Judy said...
Found you through Selena also.
LOVE the pendant!
- 9 April 2010 at 15:19
My concern is that the glue used to attach the bail, fails, and gone-gone-gone is a favorite button! How has yours fared over time?
- 9 April 2010 at 19:17
- Fiona said...
It's surprising how effective this is. Very simple. BUT you need to have just the right buttons lying around.
- 13 April 2010 at 04:11
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I have now read the book Gifts from the Sea for the 3rd time on this trip...
Not only was Anne Morrow Lindbergh the first woman in America to earn a first-class glider pilot's license in 1930, and the first woman ever to win the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, in 1934, for her aviation and exploration adventures….she knew a thing or two about love….even if her book Gifts from the Sea was written over 50 years ago….I just can't believe I can read this book over and over and always come away with a different message depending on where I am in my life at the time... .
***When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation and it is this lack of fear that makes for the dance. When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return. When he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music….then and only then are 2 people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh).
I remember one of the great Florida girl trips with my Auntie's….sitting around discussing love and marriage …Auntie Ger told me you can fall in love over and over with the same person… I didn't understand what she was trying to explain to me, but I totally get it now….
PS Hope that is not too much sharing Auntie B……I just can't help it…
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- AnonymousJune 1, 2010 at 5:55 AM
Deb..Thanx for bday call . Worked that day but celebrated Sunday ..80km bike ride , 18 holes of golf , bbq and bed ..Love your thoughts on all things , the boss and I would agree Mis. Morrow . Have a great June . CoachReplyDelete
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The Marketplace
With countless new millionaires being created around the world every year, the future for such comforts as fine wine looks rosy. However, you don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy the benefits. Global growth and prosperity has brought more buyers to the auction houses, no doubt you are aware, fine wine has an established reputation that dates back centuries.
The fine wine market is estimated to worth as much as £14 billion a year as opposed to £7 billion in 2000.
British wine drinkers are consuming more wine than ever before. In 2001, consumption rose to 1.3 billion bottles, a rise of 20% compared to four years earlier. Of all the non-wine producing nations, the UK is the largest consumer of wine, and, moreover, has become the largest importer in the world.
In 1990, British wine sales were £3.8 billion compared with beer's £11.6 billion. While beer sales rose to £15.4 billion in 2000, wine sales almost doubled to £7.2 billion.
The Far East market is a new entrant in the fine wine trade with Hong Kong being the all-important gateway to the much-coveted mainland, China. In 2008 Hong Kong abolished import duty on wine, this has lead to a rush of new buyers into the market that has continued and today China dominates overall global sales. With India rumored to be on the verge of implementing a similar ruling reducing duty on wine, the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are now key secondary market options for trading wine and will continue to be for some time to come.
What Drives the Market?
It is the persistent supply and demand imbalance within the wine market that pushes price appreciation. This imbalance is due to the following factors:
- The supply of fine wine is severely constrained due to the fact that it is produced in such limited quantities. This constraint primarily is a result of the restrictive classification system and zoning laws imposed upon the top producers especially in Bordeaux. Not only is supply limited from the off, as time goes on, more and more wine is consumed, reducing supply further, of an already limited product.
- Global demand for the top wines has significantly increased over the last decade due to the emergence of the 'new super-rich' in BRIC countries and other emerging markets who want to own theses wines. These new players are buying huge volumes of fine wine, but they are not storing or bedding them down, they are drinking them. This has had tremendous long-term effect on the market and certainly a positive effect for the investor. Global consumption is growing at a rate of 3-4% per annum. However, in developing economies, the rate of growth is as high as 7-8%.
- Fine wine improves with age; thereby, becoming more attractive and valuable as it matures.


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Testifying on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to admit that the president had broken the law when he ordered the surveillance of domestic calls without a warrant. In an emergency, Mukasey seemed to be saying, all authority is absorbed into executive authority. It followed, and Mukasey intimated as much, that the president could have been acting legally, too, when he authorized the drowning torture: a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, and under the treaty obligations of the United States. Aiming to reassure the committee, Mukasey said that he could not imagine any expansion of executive power this president might demand that would not fall within the law.
When Michael Mukasey was nominated as attorney general, the legal community vouched for him. A conscientious and professional legal mind, they said, far more scrupulous than Alberto Gonzales. This impression was widely conveyed, but it has turned out to be false. How did that happen? The impression was based on Mukasey's conduct before 2001.
Michael Mukasey is one of those Americans like Dick Cheney, Rudolph Giuliani, John Yoo, and George W. Bush, for whom the moral world turned upside down on September 11, 2001. These men quickly came to believe that all our previous understanding of good and bad, legal and illegal, honorable and dishonorable, right and wrong, ended on that day. Every maxim and principle regarding the treatment of strangers or citizens was now questionable. The vice president's frank confession of his need to "work the dark side" was a plain statement of the intuition. So, many things Americans had considered wicked were now to be countenanced, redefined, and certified as legal, provided we Americans were the ones who did them.
Mukasey's turn might have been guessed from his connection with the Giuliani campaign and his admiration for Joseph Lieberman. A stronger clue appeared in a New York Times story by Philip Shenon, which ran on September 24, 2007 and was too little noticed at the time. The story gave some details of Judge Mukasey's treatment of the rights of an Arab detainee in October 2001.
The detainee, a Jordanian, Osama Awadallah, had been picked up as a possible witness in a terrorism investigation, and said he had been beaten in jail. Judge Mukasey responded "He looks fine to me," and ordered the man detained indefinitely. A prison medical official later found bruises on his body consistent with the statement that he was beaten.
Randy Hamud represented Awadallah in the courtroom, in that hearing in October 2001, and he was taken aback by the "injudicious" conduct of Judge Mukasey. Why injudicious? Awadallah and the other witnesses had been picked up in San Diego and rushed to New York without a chance to consult a lawyer. "I wasn't aware that they were in New York until approximately 8:30 yesterday evening," Hamud says in the court transcript.
"You are now aware of it," says Mukasey.
The defense lawyer asks why the prosecutors have been allowed to prevent him from talking with his client.
"Your question is ridiculous," says Mukasey. "The Government isn't interfering with the attorney-client privilege."
Hamud: "It is, your honor."
Mukasey: "Oh, please."
If the reply, "You are now aware of it," was mocking, "Oh, please" takes us beyond mockery to contempt. In any social context, the phrase is a play to the gallery. It goes with rolling of the eyes. You are sharing your dismissal with an audience of those who see at once the absurdity of the question. But in Judge Mukasey's courtroom, who exactly were the audience?
The answer can't be simply the government lawyers (though, by his breach of decorum, Mukasey was reassuring them that no legal compunction would stop him from assisting their cause). No: the audience existed in Judge Mukasey's mind.
It was constituted of all the Americans who matter. All real Americans, he was telling a lawyer named Hamud who represented a client named Awadallah -- all of us here recognize that the moment has come for rough handling of Arab detainees and suspects. And if the law doesn't help us to handle them, we will find new ways of handling the law.
Oh, please. In other words: Give me a break. Do you want me to draw you a diagram? What you call the law, the law you learned in school -- can't you see this isn't the law we're using any more? Everyone knows that everything has changed.
On Wednesday, Senator Kennedy asked the attorney general about the drowning torture, and, recalling his earlier refusal to call it torture, imagined aloud the series of sophistical evasions he would get if he waited for an answer.
Just as the attack was turning predictable, Kennedy looked up at Mukasey. "Let me ask you this, would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?" Here, perhaps, not the question but the timing caught Mukasey off guard, and he replied in a shaken tone: "I would feel that it was."
He would feel that it was torture. But that would not make it torture. Because, when we go after these suspects, we are dealing with matters of great moment, beyond the concern of moral feelings. What I feel, Senator, and what you feel has nothing to do with our right to shut up a suspect and give him the works until he confesses. How I feel and how you feel has nothing to do with it. And what the law plainly says -- that, too, has nothing to do with it.
Everything changed, they say, on 9/11. Politics, morality, laws (even if the laws on the books are mostly unchanged), who we are, and what we may permit ourselves -- none of the rules apply any more. To prove himself a believer, Mukasey has gone some way to destroy his own reputation as a defender of the laws. Yet a man of his stature does not cease to care about the quality of his reputation. So when he indicates, as he did on Wednesday, that his function is to provide a cover for the president's assertions of executive power, he is saying that he expects to be judged by a posterity that will resemble John Yoo more than it resembles Robert H. Jackson.
The belief that the ethic of force will last forever is a presumption of the totalitarian mind. It says: none of the lights of the old morality can guide us through our latest plans. It says: our dangers are unprecedented, and so are the methods we must employ. This cry is heard on many sides, in America, while the world looks on dismayed, because they have never seen us like this before, and they can trace no proportion between the cause and the effects.
In an essay written in 1939, on the cold war between the superpowers of Russia and Germany, Simone Weil made these observations:
"Politically speaking, it is the essential characteristic of totalitarian regimes that they prolong, year after year, a situation which is only natural in a state of general excitement. Every people is liable occasionally to what we may call totalitarian moments. At such moments there are unanimous and cheering crowds and even the passive elements of the population, including those who were formerly hostile to what is being acclaimed, feel a vague admiration and sense of satisfaction....Totalitarian regimes commence more or less in this kind of atmosphere, and that is why their tyrannical character is recognized more quickly by foreigners than by their own subjects. Then, as the years go by, everything is expected to continue, day by day throughout the whole country, on the assumption that the state of excitement is permanent. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement....Enthusiasm is a machine that wears out, and then a man begins to be aware of coercion; and the sense of being coerced is enough to produce in his mind that combination of docility and rancor which is typical of slaves."
Several senators on the judiciary committee spoke of their "disappointment" at Mukasey's answers -- a word they had used in 2007 regarding Alberto Gonzales. But without a will to support their feelings of annoyance or betrayal, without any intention to issue a threat backed by a sanction, their disappointment has been reduced to a gesture: the docility and rancor of slaves.


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Hello. I hope your March is off to a great start.
I started my very first challenge March 1st. I have never committed to a 30 day challenge so this is a first for me. So far I have met the daily prompts but we are only on day 6. lol If you are interested in seeing the daily prompts I am posting just follow me on Instagram here.
Also, for the past few weeks I have posted Art Journal Snippets and Art Studio Snippets on Instagram. These snippets are just sections of an art journal page that I like. I may or may not like the entire page but there is always a section of the page that catches my eye. The art studio snippets are small areas of my art studio that I enjoy. I have shared a few snippets of how I like to store some of my tags in an old Singer sewing machine drawer, how I keep art cards on a piece of home decor hanging on my door, how I store extra paint and glue in a vintage kitchen cupboard as well as other things. I also filmed a video of the perfect example of an art journal page that totally went south but in the end I found snippets I loved. I have edited that video but honestly, I don't think it's going to make it to YouTube. I just can't seem to get it edited to my liking. But, at some point I'll share a photo of the journal page and some snippets of it that I really like. As for today, I'll share some of the snippets I have shared on Instagram on my blog. I'll be posting more snippets on Instagram over the next few weeks. I hope to see you there.
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Finally we get ample amount of rain in our bay area and its a great relief to everyone….
Last week was really easy-going, work as well as house wise, as I had to work only four days since there was a major electrical shutdown in our building on friday, and we had to take a mandatory off. We knew this before so I had asked my husband to take a day off too and we planned for a day out starting with a nice lunch at a restaurant called dish dash (Mediterranean food) the food was heavenly and we enjoyed it thoroughly followed by watching a movie in the theatre. We watched "The grand budapest hotel" which recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend… its a comedy drama and all the casts have played their role wonderfully…..I recommend it to all who have not watched it yet. Having a relaxed friday, I was all refreshed to cook at home over the weekend and planned to make "Methi mutter corn pulao". This is a very simple yet delicious recipe with flavorful spices and rice.
Cooked green peas- 1/2 cup
Cooked sweet corn kernels- 1/4 cup
Chopped fenugreek (methi) leaves- 1 cup
Oil-3 tbsp
Cooked white long grain rice- 1 1/2 cups
Thinly sliced onion- 1/4 cup
Ginger paste- 3/4 tsp
Green chilli paste- 3/4 tsp
Cloves- 2
Cardamom- 2
Cinnamon – 1/2 inch
turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Heat oil in a non stick pan, add pepper corns, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and sliced onions, sauté on a medium flame for 1-2 minutes. Add turmeric powder, ginger and chilli paste and sauté for 30 seconds.
Add cooked green peas, sweet corn kernels and chopped fenugreek leaves. Sauté again for 3-4 minutes. Add 2 tbsp of water if it becomes very dry. Add salt according to your taste. Once everything is cooked. Add the cooked rice, mix well. Adjust salt to your taste and serve hot with yogurt or just plain.
P.S. I soaked the rice in water for about 10 minutes then drained the water completely. I added 2 cups of water to 1 1/2 cups of rice and cooked in a rice cooker.


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Many people who do try psychological therapy for their bodily symptoms do not find sustained relief, becoming symptomatic again 6 months after treatment.
The BodyMind Approach™ is emerging as one of the most significant body based treatments. It was designed specifically for chronic unexplainable bodily symptoms due to its profound impact on the nervous system, combined with its focus on gentle and graded body awareness through mindful-movement. It is a form of bottom up self-regulation and, consequently, an integrative for body and mind, feelings and thoughts, imagination and creativity/expression.
Sit up, take a deep breath into your abdomen, let it out slowly…….and another…..feeling less stressed?
This treatment is a proven path of coaching to help you to learn how to cope better with hard-to-explain bodily symptoms such as ME; fibromyalgia; IBS; chronic pain; fatigue; palpitations; tinnitus; skin conditions; back ache; head ache etc.
As well as 12 sessions of group work there are individual coaching sessions, individual monitoring and non-face to face contact over 6 months post group. In as little as 2 hours over 12 sessions the participant is taken step by step through a carefully structured sequence of guided meditations and easy movement exercises.
Learn to master the proven techniques of a new method of bodymindfulness-based symptom distress reduction in this engaging course. Whatever the source of the distress whether it is the bodily symptoms themselves or work/family/financial/relationship pressures making them worse (or triggering them) this new approach offers tools to feel more in control and attaining a new level of physical and emotional wellbeing. Let your body do the talking! There are opportunities for self-reflection, gaining a new understanding and invitations to learn new coping skills and how to put them into action over the post group period.
Topics covered include:
• our relationship with, and attitudes towards, our bodies
• attitudes towards mental and physical distress
• the impact of distressing symptoms on the autonomic nervous system: what actually happens physiologically
• the freeze, flight, faint, fight responses, dissociation from our bodies and disempowerment
• stress-related dys-ease
• chronic pain - opening and closing the 'pain gate'
• somatisation - what happens when feelings are not felt/expressed?
• body memory: the body remembers … but how?
• recovery and hope - what can we actually do?
Who is it for? People with hard-to-explain bodily symptoms such as headache; backache; IBS; chronic pain; ME; fibromyalgia; skin conditions etc,
Experiencing the inter-connection between our minds and bodies can help with the treatment of these unexplained 'physical' symptoms.
Our bodies and minds are profoundly inter-related, and complementary aspects of being human. Neuroscience research tells us that our thoughts are governed by our emotions, which are, in turn, grounded in our bodies. If we can learn to explore the emotional content of our physical symptoms, even understand their purpose perhaps, we are more likely to be able to self-manage them.
Our emotional distress, such as when we are fearful, anxious or depressed often disconnects us from others. We are told that these feelings mean we are unwell in our mental health, in our minds. This distress is seen as separate and distinct from physical symptoms in our bodies, our physical health. We have a mental and physical healthcare system, without a connection between the two. Symptoms such as irritable bowel syndrome, ME, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, asthma or eczema are understood to mean that we are unwell in our bodies.
However, ground-breaking research demonstrates that there is a complex and dense inter- connectedness between the brain and the body, meaning that the split between body and mind in medicine is unhelpful. The brain is entwined with the whole body through the nervous system via the spinal cord for example, including all the systems, organs, musculature, liquids and chemicals constantly influencing the brain. There actually is no separation between body and mind.
Your whole being is ever changing; new pathways are forming in your brain as you read this. We are dynamically predisposed to all influences. We can become hyper- (over) aroused or hypo- (under) aroused at any one time. We can freeze – becoming rigid in body and mind, or be shut down and numb. When balanced in body and mind we can feel peaceful and connected with ourselves and others. Learning to listen to our bodies, to the signals termed symptoms, such as pain or other physical symptoms, can help us to regulate ourselves.
We can use bodily symptoms as a gateway to the self-healing/management of conditions by accepting that both body and mind are connected to the point of being one and the same. Awareness practices to support feelings of wellbeing and resilience to cope with unexplained symptoms such as pain, and life events including trauma, can help us to learn that both body and mind are connected, enabling us to feel more in control of our unexplained symptoms, pain and our feelings of depression and anxiety, promoting feelings of wellbeing. If we are able to re-connect our body with our mind we discover powerful insights and practical skills to help us associate intensely with our body as a source of effective knowledge and healing potential - our body wisdom. Accessing this source of wisdom can help us to transcend many common, yet challenging, physical and emotional issues. This embodied, enactive approach is a new and exciting, emergent field. Professionals including doctors, psychologists, neuroscientists, researchers, movement psychologists, counsellors/psychotherapists in the health care and wellbeing fields are becoming much more aware of the role our bodies play in emotional distress. The secrets for transforming our relationship with our body in a holistic way can be learned so that we can experience more life force energy, creativity and resilience on a sustained basis over time.
When we are not in alignment with our body's wisdom, our bodies send us all sorts of 'signals' – both big and small.
Here are some of the many signals, termed 'symptoms', you may have experienced:
• Stress, anxiety/fear
• Lethargy and fatigue
• Over-eating & weight gain / under-eating
• Isolation, loneliness, depression
• Sleep disturbances/insomnia
• Other chronic, unexplainable physical conditions (e.g. IBS; fibromyalgia; chronic fatigue; headache; chronic pain; backache; numbness; skin conditions; dizziness; palpitations)
Research at the University of Hertfordshire has demonstrated that movement can help increase wellbeing and prevent pain. For example, if you stand, balanced between your two feet hip width apart with knees slightly bent, holding your head high, bending and stretching your knees and swinging your arms gently around your torso in a co-ordinated rhythm for a sustained period of time you will generate chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins zoom around making you feel less down so you can do more. This increased activity level then results in a spiral upwards towards feelings of wellbeing. Furthermore, these endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of physical pain, increasing still further your activity levels.
This and other insights into the body~mind connection have contributed to the development of a research – informed clinical service,
Professor Helen Payne


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In July 2006, 17 neighbors and health professionals living in the basin of one of the most polluted rivers in the world—the Matanza-Riachuelo—brought a case before the Supreme Court of Argentina. They claimed extensive health damages due to the level of contamination of the basin. The lawsuit was filed against the federal, provincial, and city governments, as well as 44 private companies [1]. This case study introduces readers to the growing pattern of judicialization of environmental policies. This trend was initially celebrated by many activists since a Supreme Court responsive to people's demands and focused on protecting the environment could address long-standing policy failures of the executive and legislative branches of government. However, this case study examines two main ways in which judicialization may generate an accountability crisis for communities affected by environmental disasters. First, it raises a theoretical argument that a Court that takes on managerial functions beyond its adjudicative role distorts the normal horizontal accountability functions that are part of the division of powers between the three branches of government. Second, it empirically demonstrates that a Court's involvement in policy formulation does not guarantee effectiveness and precludes vertical accountability, since citizens cannot vote judges out of office. The case suggests that judicializing environmental politics is fraught with risks to democratic accountability. These must be considered carefully before embracing the judiciary as a band-aid remedy to an executive branch that fails to protect people and the environment.
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