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"I wish they could just hold on a second," said Poe, who suffered a stroke in 2014 at age 40. She was diagnosed with aphasia, which impairs a person's ability to express themselves or understand speech, or sometimes both, as a result of damage to parts of the brain responsible for language, according to the National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, or NIDCD. Poe often asks people to repeat what they say because she can only understand bits and pieces, which can be aggravating, she said.
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Poe was diagnosed with mixed, non-fluent aphasia. People with this form of the disorder can have difficulty understanding what's being said and also have trouble finding the words to express themselves.
"You know when you're in conversation and you have someone's name on the tip of your tongue, and you can't remember what that is? That is how normal words in a sentence are for me," said Poe. "It's like reaching for words. It's like the word is on the tip of my tongue, and it's a normal word that shouldn't be on the tip of my tongue."
Other common forms of aphasia are Broca's and Wernicke. A person with Broca's aphasia, also known as non-fluent aphasia, can understand what's being said, but has trouble finding the words to express thought. Wernicke aphasia, also known as receptive or fluent aphasia, can cause difficulty understanding written and spoken language. According to NIDCD, a person with Wernicke aphasia may speak in long, complete sentences that have no meaning.
The disorder can also be diagnosed as anomic or global aphasia. Anomic aphasia can cause a person to have trouble finding words in speech and writing, while the ability to read and understand remains intact. A person with global aphasia, the most severe form, can have very limited abilities to express or understand speech.
Roughly 1 million Americans currently have aphasia, and nearly 180,000 Americans are diagnosed with it each year. Zmroczek said most cases occur suddenly following a stroke or serious head injury, but others can result from neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
"The damaged parts of the brain can heal to some extent over time," said Zmroczek. A person can get better with the help of speech and occupational therapy, but it takes continuous help in and outside of therapy, she said. Treatment involves various tasks and activities to meet the needs of each specific form of aphasia. NIDCD says individual therapy can be catered to a patient's specific language needs, while group therapy and activities, such as a club or art class, allow patients to practice communication skills and build confidence. Technology, such as the use of speech-generating applications on devices, can also help patients communicate.
For Poe, treatment includes word-building tasks. She's been in and out of treatment since 2014, and now enjoys using applications on a tablet to practice expressing words.
"Communication is the most important skill we have," said Zmroczek. "If we didn't have communication, we wouldn't be able to connect with anyone in our lives and develop relationships. Improving communication truly is life-enhancing."
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It is easy to sew a women's Hat! Especially when at hand and before your eyes there is an excellent Tutorial and patterns. A good headpiece for women and girls for the summer.
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This story originally aired Oct. 15, 2005.
A Washington state wife and mother was brutally stabbed and murdered as she was preparing to take a bath in her home, while her husband was just feet away, in a nearby room.
Police immediately suspected the husband, who was tried twice on murder charges. Incredibly, those verdicts were overturned.
Then, he faced a third trial and took a gamble by defending himself.
Would his strategy work?
"48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
Joe Ward remembers the crime scene after Lee Jones was murdered in 1988. A homicide detective for the Snohomish County sheriff's office, he was sent to investigate the killing.
"Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. There were slashes. There were stabs," Ward remembers. "It looked like she had fought for her life in that room. And lost."
Ron Doersch also has ties to the case. He was the deputy prosecuting attorney who tried Jerry Jones Jr., Lee's husband twice before.
Jones told police he heard a noise, responded, and found his wife. As he ran down the hallway, he says, someone brushed by him and pushed him against the wall. He says as he tried to grab the knife his hand was cut.
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Sounds interesting. Thanks for the info.
Robert Piguet will be launching Knightsbridge in the spring, an unisex leather fragrance. It will be exclusive to Harrod's.
From cafleurebon.com:
"Joe Garces gave perfumer Aurelien Guichard a wonderfully simple concept to build a perfume on; Imagine it is 2AM and you are walking through Harrods. Knightsbridge imagines the smell of leather and the remains of the day from the Haute Perfumerie all mixing in a chilly darkened store."
First impression from the blog tayandhergay.blogspot.no:
"It's starts off velvety, sweet and elegant with a mix of vanilla and leathery notes. The flowery notes are not powerful and feminine, but soft and elegant. A resinous note comes out after a bit, which keeps the nostrils active and excited, and they give a certain freshness to the whole scent. "
I really like the sound of this one, I think I see at least a sample in the future.
Sounds interesting. Thanks for the info.
Interesting. Would like to get a sample.
piguet is churning out one fragrance after another. puts me off to be honest.
A leather from Piguet, which after all has Bandit and Visa in its lineup, seems interesting. Visa, also by Guichard, is an interesting frag with a touch of leather, though nothing like the excellent vintage. The name and blurb sound like an ad tie-in with Harrods, and interests me as much as it interests hedonist.
In any case, the scary happenings with leathers at Piguet is the announced reformulation of Bandit. Or perhaps this was the Guichard reformulation, which not even Garce could bring himself to pour in bottles with the name Bandit on them. So he repurposed the formula. Who knows.
Piguet has another Harrods exclusive ( for now ) : Bois Bleu, also by Guichard.
Obviously some kind of deal going on.
Anyway, thanks for sharing.
I'm using the Bandit in lotion form, and I really like it when it's a bit muted. If Knightsbridge turns out to be a milder version of Bandit, I'd be very interested. The "churning out" bit is a little worrying, there are two other exclusives also launching; Alameda will be exclusive to Selfridge's and Rose Perfection for Harvey Nichols.
Agree with cacio.
Worth a try but Bandit is the gold standard in the Piguet line.
"That lover which is like fragrance
Whose voice is as beautiful as Urdu.
She who hides in the flowers
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"Chaiyya Chaiyya," from the film, "Dil Se."
Yes, I meant the reformulation of Visa (it is not clear who the original author of Visa was. Some source give Cellier, who did Bandit, but others give Carles, who did Tabu. I think Carles is the more likely, since vintage Visa is in the tradition of Tabu). I have a bottle of the vintage, and agree with Turin Sanchez that it is a good, but very different perfume than the recent one. Hence, in a way, one could fully credit authorship of the current juice to Guichard, for good or bad.
In an online interview, Garce stated that he had asked Guichard to reformulate Bandit (which is much more unique and irreplaceable than Visa). Hence my fears ...
Also, while I've always worn perfume, it's only recently I've really taken an interest to researching the classics and brands and trying them, and Robert Piguet has become one of my favorite houses but I must say I resent the overt importance Aurelien Guichard has in it. For instance, Joe Garces only revived 5 of the classic Piguet scents versus 10 new fragrances by Guichard. Also, he no longer credits Cellier or other noses in the creation of the 5 original ones, but they have now become Guichard fragrances??
It's weird considering Garces' initial goal was to revive Piguet, not extend it or anything.
I think that Garces did a great job in reviving it, but now it's just too much. It's not the Aurelien Guichard house, it's the Robert Piguet house. Maybe somebody else should buy it or something.
I don't know who did Futur - it's from an era after Cellier. I love in general green chypres, and I enjoy the reformulation. Not ideal though, it does have too much soap for my tastes. Unfortunately, I've never smelled vintage, so I don't know how they compare.
I don't mind Guichard creating tons of new frags for whichever market they're thinking about (delicate chinese, intense arabs, whatever). If that brings in money, fine for me. But I too don't want him to mess up the old ones. Bandit so far had survived in a decent state, Fracas seems safe. Visa is different, but the vintage wasn't essential. Baghari, which I also think was not essential, seems ok. Cravache is unfeasible, without moss. Futur is good, no idea how it compares. On net, a good record, so far. But if things change ...
anyone tried this one ?
anyone tried this one ?
Not since October 2011 when i smelt Parfum de Marly's Lippizan has a frag blown me off my feet and become an immediate almost-favourite. And i have smelt and bought quite a few frags since then.
Word "on the streets" is that Knightsbridge smells like Dior Homme. I hope this near grave injustice does not harm the potential popularity of Knightsbridge. Yes, Knightsbridge is about Iris, the same (to my nose, metallic) iris in DH. However, kudos to the masterful pairing of the iris with rose. This is what elevates Knightsbridge way above (the very good) DH. There is also a subtle, yet appreciable leatheriness to Knightsbridge which i love. There is a sustained creamy accord/tone that reminds me also of the original Pierre Cardin pour Monsieur.
If Knightsbridge attains global-distribution status (i am not too sure of its status presently) one factor that will always affect will be its price. GBP150 for 100mls will, IMO, force many value-decisions and inevitable comparisons with DH.
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
This one is impossible to find in the US but luckily I had a business colleague get this for me from the other side of the Atlantic as a surprise. Looking forward to receiving it when he returns.
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If Cacio meant Visa in his post about reformulation, that definitely makes more sense. Knightsbridge has a definite Visa-like feel to it - that smooth leather with a creamy backdrop of vanilla, with iris and something else - it smells almost like fruit or spiced flowers. It's nice but I don't think I need it.
The Harrods-heavy marketing doesn't do anything for me, either.
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How can I get this scent shipped to me in the US? Anyone know of any mail forwarding services that will ship perfume from the UK to the US? I wouldn't mind paying well above cost to have this if it's as good as everyone is saying it is.
As soon as vanilla was mentioned, I switched off. I don't really want to smell like Harrods! The label, obviously designed to reflect the Harrods brand, is just tacky. I mean, really tacky.
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I found a place that will ship for a fee, but it's pretty pricey (64 pounds). Luckily I got it from an ebay uk seller with great ratings that was selling an unopened still in plastic bottle at a 30 percent discount.
Whats it like? any reviews on this?


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Harry Hamburg / The Associated Press Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III listens to Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Scott Gould testifying before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on May 18.
Courtesy of MilitaryTimes.com May 18, 2011
Combat veterans are being poorly served as a result of weak coordination between the Defense and Veteran Affairs departments, a key senator said Wednesday.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee chairwoman, said drug abuse and suicides among recently separated combat veterans can be partly blamed on inadequate coordination as service members leave the military and become the responsibility of VA.
A lack of coordination also hurts treatment of combat-related wounds. Amputees are an example, Murray said.
"Where DoD has outstanding prosthetics, VA needs to do much better," she said. "I was shocked to hear of a veteran who, after receiving advanced prosthetics from the military, went to VA to have them adjusted and maintained. When the veteran got to the prosthetic clinic, the VA employees were fascinated by the device, having never seen that model before, and were more interested in examining it than the veteran."
The services have used narcotics heavily to treat service members, with the Army reporting 14 percent of soldiers have been prescribed an opiate, with a third of them being prescribed more than once, Murray said.
"It is imperative that these individuals receive a truly seamless handoff to VA medical care so a provider there can manage those medications after the individual has left the service," Murray said. "If that link is not made, those new veterans become far more likely to abuse drugs, become homeless or commit suicide."
The ranking Republican on the veterans panel also criticized cooperation and said it appears in some cases that the result has been more bureaucracy rather than better service. The prime example for Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is a new, consolidated disability evaluation system that takes, on average, 394 days to fully process a service member — and in some cases, like at Camp Lejuene, N.C., 1½ years.
Scott Gould, VA's deputy secretary, said the new evaluation system is working to eliminate differences between the services and between DoD and VA in disability ratings and that processing time is coming down.
William Lynn, deputy defense secretary, said the goal is to have claims processed within 300 days, a goal that could be achieved in "one to two years."
Murray noted that the suicide rate among people going through the disability system is twice as high as for the rest of the military.
"Something isn't working," she said as Lynn and Gould spoke of programs to prevent suicide and drug abuse.


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C.F. Volney
"When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster furnished the true solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to
have their 'mulatto' appearance). "In other words, the ancient Egyptians were same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold."
Reflecting on his visit to Egypt, Volley writes:
"Behold the wrecks of her metropolis, of Thebes with her hundred palaces, the parent of cities, and monument of the caprice of destiny. There a people, now forgotten, discovered, while others were yet barbarians, the elements of the arts and sciences. A race of men now rejected from society for their sable skin and frizzled hair, founded on the study of the laws of nature, those civil and religious systems which still govern the universe."
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Behold Thebes with her hundred palaces; that first metropolis of the arts and sciences; the mysterious cradle of so many opinions; which still govern man without his knowledge.
The American translation of The Ruins eliminates Volney's initial observations along with the many sources he cited to verify the African origins of Ancient Egypt. Rather than to note a change in perspective, the American version sought to erase any memory of Volney's initial arguments. This erasure was significant because it also invalidated Volney's anti-slavery stance. Two years prior to the publication of
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, Volney reflected on the Black origin of ancient Egypt to reveal the contradictions inherent in racial slavery. In Voyages in Syria and Egypt (1787), he argues:
"Just think that this race of black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery and questioned whether black men have the same kind of intelligence as Whites!"
...Inevitably, the race of the ancient Egyptians mattered in a slave society that justified the oppression of Black people based on their presumed inferiority. Ancient Egypt's achievements as well as its influence on shaping civilization, including that of Ancient Greece, disrupted the myth of the "Dark Continent." To sustain this myth, the racialization of the ancient Egyptians as anything other than Black or African became a necessary political tool."
These new interpretations as a result of French conquest pointed to the mummies and engravings inside of tombs as evidence of non-African origins. Emphasizing the variations in skin color depicted in these tombs conveniently ignored ample evidence that unmistakably portrayed the Egyptians as African. More significantly, the claim that red, brown, or yellow skin indicated a non-African origin perpetuates narrow interpretations of African features and phenotype. Ironically, the variation in skin color among Black populations in the West did not stop Europeans or American elites from designating these groups as Black and therefore inferior. The one-drop rule prevailed in many parts of the Western world. The notion that a strict phenotype of dark-black skin is the only marker of indigenous, African origin fuels racial myths and ignorance about the African continent and its people.
It is important to reiterate that modern conceptions of race did not exist in ancient times. Yet, the racialization of ancient Egypt as white, light, Asian, Mediterranean, or Caucasian has played a critical role in minimizing Africa and Africans in world history.
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B. accelerate uniformly.
C. change the direction of its motion.
D. continue moving with constant velocity.
Answer: D
Explanation: For something to change direction or accelerate there must be a net force acting on it (Newton's 2nd Law).
Also, Newton's 1st Law states that an object in motion will stay in motion at constant velocity (a form of inertia) unless acted upon by a net (an unbalanced) force.
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Camden's West Yard had just had a street food make over and London's street food craze has no intention of stopping. Kerb are taking London by storm and they have finally committed to a permanent location in Camden and are bringing 35 street food traders with them.
Now, it would be next to impossible to review all 35 stalls in one article, (almost as impossible as trying to get to get Scott to go to Camden on a bank holiday), so I'll simply point out my highlights…
Deep-fried cheese, yum. Do I need to say more?
These fingers of halloumi are fried until they are crispy on the outside and squidgy in the middle. They're topped with yoghurt, mint, chilli and pomegranate seeds. They're perfect for sharing between two.
I must admit, I was nervous approaching this stand. Squid can so easily be over cooked and go horribly chewy. These little bits of Squid were deep fried to perfection and they're served with the choice of three pastel mayos.
I can't resist Mac 'n' Cheese – nothing can beat pasta covered in cheese sauce. But what makes them so addictive is their sourdough-based parmesan and thyme crumble.
Desserts are often an afterthought at street food festivals, but make sure you save room for these ice-cream cookie sandwiches. Creamy ice-cream is sandwiched between two soft-baked cookies, you can either add caramel sauce of chocolate chips.
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Merge branch 'gh-pages-deploy' into gh-pages
a note on memory consumption that it approaches the storage of the participants' hashes in a map structure
Hashing: minor optimisations
Fewer intermediate conversions in the abstractHashFromBytes and the FromCBOR instances.
Hashing: change the representation of Hash to ShortByteString
Change AbstractHash from being a newtype over Digest to a newtype over ShortByteString and adjust the conversion functions.
The ShortByteString type has efficient Eq & Ord instances whereas the Digest type has very inefficient ones.
Previously the Digest comparison loop was near the top of the profile while doing a bulk sync. This representation change is an improvement of ~7% in the time to validate the whole chain.
Bump dep on cardano-base to get extra instances
The instance To/FromCBOR ShortByteString.
Hashing: remove ByteArrayAccess instance
It exposes too much and constraints the choice of representation.
It was only used by the ByteArrayAccess instance for MerkleRoot which itself was unused after the recent changes to use hash conversion utility functions.
Hashing: remove unused utilities
Either unused, or unnecessary and should not be used.
Hashing: don't export the AbstractHash constructor
Use the conversion functions elsewhere.
Hashing: use the new conversion functions internally
Internally within the Hashing module. It's neater and will mean fewer things to change when we change the representation.
Hashing: add a bunch of hash conversion functions
To/from bytes, and from Digest. These will be needed when we make AbstractHash actually abstract (in the ADT sense).
Hashing: move functions around and improve haddock docs
We're going to make AbstractHash a proper ADT and stop exporting the constructor, so we will need to add a few more converison functions.
We start simply by rearranging and clarifying some things.
Initial commit
small amendments on dynamic params and expiration on demand
Merge #1524
1524: nix: Update test-suite name to jormungandr-integration r=rvl a=rvl
Issue Number
Relates to #1508
- Update the jormungandr integration test-suite name in the nix config. This fixes the failing windows test bundle build.
- Stop running jormungandr integration tests on hydra.
- Temporarily disable cardano-node integration tests on hydra until the timeout problem can be debugged. This means we are no longer wasting build slots on hydra. :-)
Co-authored-by: Rodney Lorrimar [email protected]
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Script which builds haddocs
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Control/State/DataAutomata/Interpreter/Run/Test.hs to
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Use a different symbol for discharging closures
CAD-664: mempool metrics. (#11)
update cardano-node matrix
Add auto-regenerate to buildkite
CAD-664: mempool metrics.
First draft of technical report
There's a lot missing, and a lot of it is a mess, but there's enough content here that I think it's worth pushing.
Merge #1839
1839: ChainDB.StateMachine: testing wiping the VolatileDB r=mrBliss a=mrBliss
Fixes #1628.
Please review commit per commit.
Co-authored-by: Thomas Winant [email protected]
ChainDB.StateMachine: require a valid exclusive iterator upper bound
ChainDB.Model: allow streaming an old "infix" of the current chain
If the fragment to stream ends more than
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Waiting Game
It's been a week now since I taught my last class.
Just around the corner from 38 weeks and fully aware that Bebe could arrive any day. Doc seems to think he'll wait til his due date, though, so only time will tell.
In the meantime: holy stillness.
And I mean that in a lot of different ways.
After a winter of abject drought, on Friday, things shifted. In a big way. We trudged into Greenbrae for an OB check-up that morning, and the rain had started. It kept flowing as we stopped off in Sausalito for whooping cough shots and then powered south through SF to San Mateo to meet with our tax lady. Got home just in time to avert the mess of the wet evening commute, and hardly left the house all weekend.
The rain and wind intensified late Friday afternoon, and still haven't stopped. A few different unofficial local accounts estimate that we got anywhere from 12-14 inches around here.
Whoa mama. Just what (Mother Nature's) doctor ordered.
I've never been so glad to be trapped in my house, unable to go for a walk or get outside. I've never sat on my butt so much and not gotten irritable or antsy. (Surely some of that is the major-prego factor, I know). But the rain kept coming and the wind kept howling and the lights kept flickering and we just stayed, and stoked the fireplace, and listened to old-school jazz, and crossed things off baby to-do lists.
And it felt really good.
Yesterday I made pancakes for breakfast. Then brownies, mid-afternoon. I guess some people might call that "nesting," but it felt more like "what the hell else do you do on a wet Sunday afternoon when you can't do the Primary Series in front of the fire because you're hauling around a small living person and you don't have cable and the car seat's finally installed and football season is over and there's no good reason to venture out in the rain?"
The gratuitous baked goods were delicious, all. (Gluten-free and vegan, too, no less.) And my body is officially maple-syrup-shocked.
I've been watching the mist all morning here out the windows from our little treehouse cottage, and it's been slowing, gradually, until just now, finally, the sun's making a wan attempt to come out. This bodes well for the potential of actually moving my body for the first time since Thursday. A soggy, slow, waddling hike might be in order.
This last week marks the first time since I was, oh, 18 or so, that I haven't been working like a dog. It's weird. I'm kind of a hustler, you see. I like to work. A lot. It feeds me. Fuels me. Inspires me. Even when we were away last year on our honeymoon, I was fully aware that once we got home I'd have to jump back in and catch up on 2 weeks' of emails and admin and, you know, planning ahead and whatnot. Here, now, well, there's only One Big Thing we're planning for, and everything else is reasonably on hold.
And it feels, um, amazing.
To not have anxiety watching the urgent "must-reply-ASAP" emails piling up.
To actually read a book and not feel guilty about that other thing I "should" be doing. Usually for someone else.
To sleep enough, and eat enough, and rest enough, and stop hustling.
It's the literal and figurative lack of hustling that feels most strange, and new. No more hustling from Point Reyes to San Francisco to Oakland and back in the course of 12 hours. No more hustling to crank out those imperative email replies before hitting the road til midnight. No more hustling to throw up a quick blog post before rolling out the door.
Just staying, being slow and still and present. Sitting for 3 hours to write thank-you notes and feeling amazingly rewarded at finally getting them done. Making pancakes yesterday and not feeling like I should be practicing instead. Watching Ken Burns' "The Dust Bowl" and loving the learning and the sense of connection to my prairie-bred, German-immigrant, Nebraska farmer great-grandparents who somehow managed to struggle through those years without feeling like I had another, "more important" project to be completing.
Whoa. Feels kind of wonderful to exhale.
I realize this will all change in a matter of days, or weeks. Oh yes. People have been quick to remind me that the quiet solo hours I've always savored reading and writing at coffee shops will soon be a romantic thing of the past. And while the indubitable truth of that reality makes me want to drink heavily and cry, I also know that there'll be a lot of sweet hours to come full of "doing nothing" whilst rocking my milk-drunk baby to sleep.
I know I'm lucky to get this little window of time. I know not everyone is so privileged, that a lot of full-term pregnant women are stuck flipping burgers and shuffling around on painfully swollen feet in front of the grills at McDonalds until the moment they go into labor. I feel grateful to have these few still hours to prepare, to anticipate, to settle, to ground, before we launch into a wholly unknown realm. And I've gotta say: mothers-to-be, if you're able to sneak in a week or two of leave before the whole world changes, it's a dream. A relief. A necessary pause. A sacred moment of time in which no one expects you to do or perform or show up or wear a bra. In which you can tuck in and disappear and breathe deeply and just be.
And it is really lovely.
If you have any down-time to read today, check out these couple of pieces:
Nathan Schneider on 12 Ways Catholicism Is More Radical Than Pope Francis. Yes! Progressives are loving on Pope Frank a lot lately, which makes me happy, but most of them don't realize that he's actually just living by Christian doctrines, as opposed to most of the right-wing fundamentalist "Christians" who've distorted the actual teachings to serve their own reactionary socio-political and economic ideologies. Back in the day, I used to tell people I was a "radical Christian, but that's redundant." I don't know how "Christian" you can officially consider me anymore, but I still hold fast to the understanding that Christianity is at its heart wild-and-crazy-revolutionary. Check it.
The SF Chronicle wrote an article about Zeke and family in the wake of Ron Powell's tragic death last week. I was so heartened to see such a widespread outpouring of compassion and support. You can read more and see Paige Green's poignant, bittersweet family photos here.
Susan Piver on Buddhism and heartbreak. She is so good. There's a lot of trite, crappy writing about love going around this week. This isn't that. Read it.
Kate Geiselman on the challenges of teaching community college. I so appreciate this perspective. In the vein of Matthew B. Crawford's fantastic look at shop work as soul craft, here's yet another scholar who says: hey people, maybe there's a problem with this cultural myth that a 4-year college degree is a ticket to financial success and personal (and career) fulfillment. Especially when private (and, sadly, even public) universities are charging increasingly obscene prices to crank out what are often useless college degrees.
(On that note: read this book.)
Joe Fassler on Ingmar Bergman, his muse, his art, and what all great artists (writers, musicians) need: solitude. On whether pain is necessary for real creativity, and what it means to live in service to one's art, to sit with the overwhelming humanity that (said Bergman), "oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn't want to stay within the confines of my body." And then there's this, sounding suspiciously more and more like meditation: "You can't run away from your emotions and your memory and the material you're working on. Artistic solitude is a decision to turn and face these feelings, to sit with them for long periods of time. It takes the courage to be there. You run into your own pettiness. Your own cowardice. You run into all kinds of ugly sides of yourself. But the things that you've experienced in your life become the writing that you do. And there's no easy way to get to it. And that's what Bergman and other Swedish writers have taught me—to stay in that painful zone, discipline myself through it to get where I want."
Michael Sam on coming out as gay just as he approaches the NFL draft. Love this story. Love his bravery. Love the overall celebratory and supportive reactions emerging from all corners. Hope, hope, hope he gets drafted and goes big.
Oh, and if you really, really have time, like prego-lady-waiting-to-birth-a-baby time, or are riding out a snowstorm somewhere on the colder coast, watch the aforementioned Dust Bowl mini-series. And then check out the new Netflix documentary about Mitt Romney, simply titled "Mitt." It's a fascinating inside look at Romney's two failed Presidential runs, heavy on family home videos and hotel room prayer sessions, although short on actual policy and strategy insights.
Be fierce in paying attention to what's already working. What's already fine.
Because in every single moment, many things are already fine.


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- The scope of the sting means I'll be auditing Crazymeds for references to not-actually-peer-reviewed journals.
14 May 2015
- Finally updated the Stats Page with April's stats. Because I know how important that is to everyone.
13 May 2015
- Since most of the people who visit this site are using either smart phones or tablets, I'm reformatting pages to make them less mobile-hostile.
- Bear with me. On top of the usual issues I have doing anything, I work on a 23″ monitor. My one mobile device is a Samsung Strives-to-be-smart phone.
- In other words: I have no fucking clue what Crazymeds looks like to the rest of the world.
14 April 2015
- I think I'll just file an extension for my taxes. If I'm lucky I won't end up owing more than what I think I owe them now.
- I've updated the Brand vs. Generic and FDA vs. Teva/Impax vs. Reality pages to reflect the bioequivalence testing data on Budeprion XL the FDA quietly released
- however long ago they quietly released it
- along with their somewhat more stringent standards for generic crazy meds
- I'm fixing links to PI sheets, SPCs, PILs, etc. that got hosed when I moved them to a wiki-exclusive directory.
31 March 2015
- Thanks to Roseanna Wheeler of Katom for pointing out how the FDA moved their page on how they barely regulate the dietary supplement industry. So I fixed the link and did a minor update to the part about about that issue on the page about taking supplements with your meds.
17 November 2014
- Merry ℞mas everyone! We have an assortment of ℞mas cards and gifts available so you can celebrate being mentally interesting and medicated while fulfilling holiday obligations.
- I don't know why it took me so long to think of it, but I'm now archiving these updates on a separate page.
- After looking at the overlap a few times too many I merged the SSRI and SNRI into one page, and have expanded, or eventually will expand, the subsequent SSRI-related pages to include SNRIs.
- Why, I might even finish the page on SSRI/SNRI Discontinuation Syndrome.
- I've been OCDing like crazy about getting every freaking trade name used around the world for Effexor and Celexa, especially Effexor, along with PILs and SPCs in 20–30 different languages.
- Why? Because you never know when you're going to need one in Georgian or Maltese or Icelandic, do you?
07 October 2014
- Actual new material! Pages on:
23 September 2014
- It's back. Unfortunately. Crazymeds' Plagiarism Hall of Shame. See who's ripping me off now.
21 September 2014
- I put this up almost a month ago (2 September), wrote about it all over the usual places, but neglected to enter it here. And it's something I'd been meaning to do for quite some time. Free Wallpapers! So don't say I've never given you people anything. Better versions will be available as posters at Straitjacket T-shirts.
- Speaking of which, more new merchandise:
Bipolar is NOT Contagious
PTSD is NOT Contagious
Epilepsy is NOT Contagious
Mental Illness is NOT Contagious
- Currently we've been able to identify Bipolar, Depression, Epilepsy, OCD, PTSD, and Schizophrenia as forms of brain cooties that are NOT contagious.
- I'll see how it sells and/or gets much action on the social media front before deciding if I'll create a version of "Mental Illness is NOT Contagious" for shirts, mugs, and buttons. It's just on a bumpersticker for now.
28 August 2014
- I've added a few new designs to the Straitjacket T-shirts store. Here are some of them:
- Most of the work I've been doing there involves updating designs with the latest, and probably final, version of the Pill Font.
Don't worry about actually buying one. Windows shop and share the designs you'd like to buy or find worthy of ridicule. What else are you doing now? Working? Sure you are.
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All rights reserved. No warranty is expressed or implied in this information. Consult one or more doctors and/or pharmacists before taking, or changing how you take any neurological and/or psychiatric medication. Your mileage may vary. What happened to us won't necessarily happen to you. If you still have questions about a medication or condition that were not answered on any of the pages you read, please ask them on Crazy Talk: the Crazymeds Forum.
The information on Crazymeds pertains to and is intended for adults. While some information about children and adolescents is occasionally presented (e.g. US FDA approvals), pediatric-specific data such as dosages, side effects, off-label applications, etc. are rarely included in the articles on drugs or discussed on the forum. If you are looking for information regarding meds for children you'll have to go somewhere else. Plus we are big pottymouths and talk about S-E-X a lot.
Know your sources!
Nobody on this site is a doctor, a therapist, or a pharmacist. We don't portray them either here or on TV. Only doctors can diagnose and treat an illness. While it's not as bad as it used to be, some doctors still get pissed off by patients who know too much about medications, so tread lightly when and where appropriate. Diagnosing yourself from a website is like defending yourself in court, you suddenly have a fool for a doctor. Don't be a cyberchondriac, thinking you have every disease you see a website about, or that you'll get every side effect from every medication1. Self-prescribing is as dangerous as buying meds from fraudulent online pharmacies that promise you medications without prescriptions.
All information on this site has been obtained from the medications' product information / summary of product characteristic (PI/SPC) sheets and/or medication guides - which is all you get from sites like WebMD, RxList,
NAMBLA NAMI, etc., the sources that are referenced throughout the site, our personal experience and the experiences family, friends, and what people have reported on various reputable sites all over teh intergoogles. As such the information presented here is not intended as a substitute for real medical advice from your real doctor, just a compliment to it. You should never, ever, replace what a real doctor tells you with something from a website on the Internet. The farthest you should ever take it is getting a second opinion from another real doctor. Educate yourself - always read the PI/SPC sheet or medication guide/patient information leaflet (PIL) that comes with your medications and never ever throw them away. OK, you can throw away duplicate copies, but keep at least one, as that's your proof of purchase of having taken a med in case a doctor doubts your medical history. Plus they take up less space than a bottle, although keeping one inside of a pill bottle is even better.
Crazymeds is not responsible for the content of sites we provide links to. We like them, or they're paid advertisements, or they're something else we think you should read to help you make an informed decision about a particular med. Sometimes they're more than one of those things. But what's on those sites is their business, not ours.
Very little information about visitors to this site is collected or saved. From time to time I look at search terms used and which pages they bring up in an effort to make the information I present more relevant. And the country of origin, just because I'm geeky like that. That's about it. Depending on how you feel about Schrodinger, our privacy policy should either assuage or exacerbate your paranoia.
Crazymeds is optimized for ridiculously large screens and browsers that don't block ads. I use Firefox and Chrome, running under Windows 72. On a computer that sits on top of my desk. With a 23 inch monitor. Hey, at least you can make the text larger or smaller by clicking on the + or - buttons in the upper right hand corner. If you have Java enabled. Like 99% of the websites on the planet, Crazymeds is hosted on domain running an open source operating system with a variety of open source applications, including the software used to display what you've been reading. As such Crazymeds is not responsible for whatever weird shit your browser does or does not do when you read this site3.
No neurologists, psychiatrists, therapists or pharmacists were harmed in the production of this website. Use only as directed. Void where prohibited. Contains nuts. Certain restrictions may apply. All data are subject to availability. Not available on all mobile devices, in the 12 Galaxies Guiltied to a Zegnatronic Rocket Society, or in all dimensions of reality. Hail Xenu!
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1 While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there's not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.
2 Remember kids, Microsloth operating systems are like TOS Star Trek movies with in that every other one sucks way, way more. With TOS Star Trek movies you don't want to bother watching the odd-numbered ones. With Microsloth OS you don't want to buy and install the even-numbered ones. Anyone who remembers ME and Vista knows what I mean.
3 Have I mentioned how open source operating systems for commercial applications is one of the dumbest ideas in the history of dumb ideas?* I don't even need my big-ass rant any more. Heartbleed has made my case for me. And that's just the one that got all the media attention. The very nature of an open source operating system makes security as much of an illusion as anonymity on teh Intergoogles. Before you flip out too much: the domain Crazymeds is hosted on uses a version of SSL that is not affected by the Heartbleed bug. That's one of the many reasons why I pay a lot of money and keep this site on Lunarpages.
* Yes, I know I'm using open source browsers. I also test the site using the now-defunct IE and Safari browsers. Their popularity - and superiority - killed IE and Safari, so that's why I rely on the open source browsers. It's like brand vs. generic meds. Sometimes the generic is better than the brand.


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Nestio expands its apartment rental platform nationwide
40 million people move each year in the U.S., spending a total of 1.6 billion hours on their search. The process of looking for an apartment can be a total nightmare, particularly if you live in New York City.
The three founders of Nestio, CEO Caren Maio, CCO Matthew Raoul and CTO Michael O'Toole set out to disrupt the online real estate industry after launching out of TechStars' New York City accelerator program this April. Put simply, it's a social and well-designed place for users to keep track of and organize their apartment hunt. When we first wrote about Nestio it was just testing its platform in New York City. Since then, Nestio raised $750K in seed funding led by Quotidian Ventures, with contributions from a number of angel investors, including Joanne Wilson, Rick Webb, Josh Auerbach, and David Tisch.
Nestio offers users the ability to make better decisions with local photos, timely notifications, location-based context like nearby restaurants as well as building history. Once inside Nestio, users can add a "collaborator" (e.g. future roommate) from Facebook to instantly view saved listings and add some of their own. Users are also able to share listings for feedback opportunities from friends and family on social networks. Nestio also has a shiny new iPhone app so you can use it as an apartment hunting companion on a Saturday morning (when your roommate is too hungover).
Today, Nestio announced that it's launching nationwide, which means it's updated its site support outside of NYC specific sites and added more robust mapping functionality to cover the entire US. When it first launched its beta in April, it initially supported rentals on StreetEasy and Craigslist. Now, Nestio has added support for some of the most popular sites across the country where people search for rentals including Curbed, Prime NYC, Naked Apartments, Trulia, Zillow, eBay Classifieds, Oodle, Westside Rentals, Realtor.com, and NYTimes.com.
Take a tour of the website below:
Nestio is also unveiling its new site design today. "We've been talking to users about how they prefer to save listings with us, and we've updated our functionality to serve them even better," says Maio. Nestio's bookmarklet allows users to add a listing to Nestio from any rental site or users can copy/paste urls from the list of supported sites. The user also has the option to add a listing manually to the website. Currently, brokerage firms and management company sites let users save lists of their apartment search, which means that users have 10-15 different log-ins and places to go to check up on apartments, including digging through email. But now, using Nestio's bookmarklet, users can simply click to add all these different listings from external sites into one, if you will, nesting place.
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In this Q&A we hear from the masterminds behind Sheffield based Start-up -
. The platform revolutionising the Tuition world. Here, founders Mark and Scott tell us more about how they got their idea off of the ground, challenges they have faced, achievements and plans for the future. Read more below...
First off here's little bit about the founders...
Scott Woodley: COO & Co-Founder
Scott began his career in Sheffield and graduated from the
University of Sheffield
with a Masters in Law. From here, Scott went on to become a primary school teacher, and after a period of consideration left to become a private tutor. Being greatly oversubscribed in that role, he came up with the idea for Tutorful to provide a trusted network of local tutors.
Mark Hughes: CEO & Co-Founder
Having studied Structural Engineering at the
University of Cambridge
, Mark went on the spend several years as a Technology Analyst in the finance industry working for a large investment firm in Edinburgh. Mark taught himself to code in his spare time, which became a great asset during the early days of founding Tutorful.
What initially sparked the idea to start the Tutorful venture?
Tutorful started in response to problems that Scott faced in his role as a Primary school teacher and then as a tutor. It's not an exaggeration to say that schools are feeling the pressure of substantial austerity cuts, increased class sizes and tumultuous changes to the curriculum, at a time where the future job market is sizing up to be unpredictable and hugely competitive. The effects of which are felt on teachers and students alike.
As a teacher Scott was asked by many parents to recommend a private tutor, wanting to ensure that their children were given the best opportunities to succeed. It was difficult to be able to recommend tutors that were reliable, local, qualified, and that weren't oversubscribed. Eventually leaving his teaching role to become a tutor, these issues were something that Scott continued to struggle with. Being inundated with requests for help resulted in Scott establishing a network of local tutors - the early days of what would become Tutorful.
With a high tuition workload and struggling to take more students on, Scott was able to refer that work to other tutors trusted tutors in his local network. With Mark's input the idea snowballed, and they started the process of building Tutorful, an online marketplace connecting parents with tutors. Parents could browse and review the profiles of top-quality tutors, who were specialists at teaching their individual subject areas, at the relevant level and were of close geographical proximity to their students.
Can you tell us more about Tutorful, what it does and who it is aimed at?
Tutorful connects parents across the UK with the very best private tutors for their children, bringing transparency to an industry that has previously lacked in trust, openness, clarity and security.
We operate as a marketplace that helps parents to find the best local tutors for one-to-one tuition, either face to face, or via our innovative online classroom. With over 10,000 tutors covering 300+ subjects, and catering for early years all the way up to PhD level, site users can freely browse and review profiles of top-quality tutors based on subject area, level and proximity to their post code.
For tutors, Tutorful provides an opportunity to advance their private tuition businesses. Tutors no longer need to rely on ads in the Yellow Pages or signs in shop windows - Tutorful helps them to create detailed and beautiful profiles showcasing their qualifications, subject expertise, academic history and personality, which are advertised to thousands of potential students every week. The platform then supports Tutors to manage communication with potential students, arrange locations and times to meet, and then handles all payment transactions.
Being a growing start-up business, what challenges have you encountered so far and how have you overcome them?
Going from a 2 person startup, to company that now employs 30 members of staff is not without its challenges. The biggest identifiable challenge to starting Tutorful has been facilitating the successful scale up. Scaling up and increasing growth rests fundamentally on the ability to communicate those aspirations to an ever increasing team, and effectively prioritise interdepartmentally.
It was a challenge to move on from only having to consider a very small number of roles within the company, to setting up departments with niche specialisms. Our rapid and sustained growth has meant we had to rethink the way our team worked, and subsequently systems were implemented that gave ownership and responsibility to the departments.
You were one of the proud winners at last year's Northern Stars Grand Final. How did you find the Northern Stars process? And how has it helped the growth of Tutorful so far?
Northern Stars was a fantastic competition to be involved in and we were delighted to be named as one of the
top 10 startups
The process itself was hugely enjoyable, from meeting local founders during the regional finals to having the opportunity to introduce the business to a large new audience. During the events which have followed, we've gained further press coverage and had lots of opportunities to learn from new connections made.
As a founder, the most enjoyable and useful result is getting to know other founders, who you can turn to discuss shared problems. We've been fortunate enough to get guidance on hiring and marketing, as well as being able to share what we learn about building a happy, successful team.
What would your advice be to other start-up businesses looking to get their business off the ground?
Prioritisation of resources and where to place your focus is key at the initial startup phase and continues once you move into growth. As a new business owner there will always be a million and one things you could be doing or thinking about, so setting out a clear roadmap for the business and prioritising where your energy goes is super important. This also allows you to iterate rapidly on new ideas or initiatives which have the potential to scale upwards without getting bogged down with details or becoming overencumbered with too much at once.
What do you think are the biggest barriers are in terms of growth for start-ups at the moment?
From our experience growing Tutorful, we've personally experienced a couple of barriers for startup growth that can be a real struggle to overcome. First is the intense saturation of new businesses across so many industries. Consumers are spoilt for choice like never before so the challenge here is in building brand loyalty and giving consumers a fantastic reason to keep coming back, rather than switching around between whoever's offering them the best opportunity in that given moment. Those startups who solve the challenge of customer churn and keeping their retention rates high are sure to see improved, and faster, rates of growth.
The second hurdle is the lure of the capital. So many of the big-tech companies and up-and-comers are based in and around London, meaning the lion's share of tech-talent and investment opportunity naturally gravitates there too. This is one we're still figuring out, but something we're definitely seeing is a growing sense of loyalty to the North and the burgeoning tech scene here from everyone involved in its development.
You're based in Sheffield. What is it about Sheffield that makes it a great destination for tech start-ups?
Sheffield is a fantastic city for all sorts of startups, not just those operating within the tech sector. There's a flourishing entrepreneurial scene here supported by a host of great local businesses, two brilliant universities and networks like Sheffield Digital and Startup Weekend. Being in close proximity to Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle also connects Sheffield directly with other northern startup hubs, with easy access to their networks and talent.
What would you have liked to achieve by the end of 2018 at Tutorful?
We've got ambitious plans for the remainder of 2018! Alongside maintaining our fantastic growth trajectory, we're releasing our first mobile apps, designed to help our tutors manage their lesson bookings, schedules and earnings more easily.
We're also working on enhancing our online tuition offering. There are huge benefits to moving traditional face-to-face services like tuition into a digital format - reduced operating costs and zero travel for tutors, instant access to learning materials like past papers and video content, and of course the ability for students to review recordings of their sessions to aid with revision. As digital transformation evolves, we're making sure to be at the forefront of its place in the tuition industry over the coming years.
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DHCP CLI Command – NETSH When you schedule DHCP, you often register a lot. In this case, it is effective to use CLI command. Although Windows has switched a lot of management to PowerShell, Netsh is still an effective tool for network management. If you need to reserve an address, you can use the following


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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Him
Originally published as Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Him from the Mario Badescu Skin Care Blog .
Not sure what to gift the special guy in your life this Valentine's Day? Check out our men's gift guide for thoughtful and unique ideas:
For Dad / the Father-in-Law :
The Executive Collection for Men
For Your Uncle:
Men's Grooming Basics + a gift card to his favorite restaurant
For Your Best Friend:
dopp bag + Botanical Exfoliating Scrub + Shaving Cream
For Your Brother(s):
Men's Grooming Basics + Amazon gift card
For Your Co-Worker:
Peppermint Shaving Cream
For the Classic Man:
silk pocket square + monogrammed cufflinks + dopp bag + Pre-Shave Conditioner + Shaving Cream + Vital with Collagen & Elastin + Botanical Exfoliating Scrub
For the Downtown Guy:
knit beanie + messenger bag + Peppermint Shaving Cream + After Shave Moisturizer
For the Gamer:
the latest/his favorite video game + Hydrating Hand Cream + Shaving Cream + Protein After Shave Lotion
For the Gym Buff:
gym duffel + monogrammed towel + shaker bottle + Men's Grooming Basics
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Originally published as Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Him from the Mario Badescu Skin Care Blog .