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Sanctuary at CenterPointe has arrived, offering the uncommon opportunity to live centered among the very best of Altamonte Springs. You will find top-rated schools, excellent outdoor recreation and trails as well as brand-name retailers and delicious restaurants. All this and more is just a few steps away from your front door.
Sanctuary is located inside CenterPointe, the region's newest lakeside mixed-use neo-urban live/work/play/stay district.
Sanctuary at CenterPointe is located adjacent to Altamonte Springs' crown jewel, Cranes Roost Park. Along with great pedestrian pathways that circulate in, around, and across the lake, the park hosts community and private events every week, as well as premier holiday events, food and wine festivals, and concerts.
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How to Save Money by Cleaning and Changing Your Car's Air Filter Yourself
Owning a car can be expensive. Part of that expense is the regular maintenance that keeps your car running efficiently, which is why it's not a bad idea to learn to handle some standard car maintenance yourself.
It's not enough to have mastered the art of the oil change or keeping your tires perfectly inflated. To keep your car performing well, you should also pay more attention to the air filter in your engine.
What Does the Air Filter Do?
Your car has an air filter to keep dust, dirt, bugs and other random air particles out of your engine. As that filter catches more and more of those particles, it gets clogged up, gradually letting less and less air through to the engine. This lack of air harms your engine's performance, which in turn reduces your gas mileage, costing you more money at the pump.
Unfortunately, it may not be obvious that your air filter needs replacing while you're driving your car. You can't feel it like you would if a spark plug went out, for example. This means you have to check your air filter regularly to clean it out and change it when the time comes. Your car's manual will tell you when it should be changed, but 15,000-30,000 miles is a decent estimate.
The good news is that your air filter is probably easy to get to, and it's definitely easy to clean and change. Doing this yourself can save you a lot of money.
How to Clean Your Air Filter
1. Locate It
Generally, a car's air filter is easy to get to. First, check your car's manual, or search for it online if you don't have it. (There are websites where car manuals are posted.) The manual will show you where to find the air filter. Some air filters will be in a cylindrical casing; others will be flat and rectangular.
2. Remove It
Once you've found the filter, it should come out pretty easily. Most likely, you'll just have to loosen a couple of wing nuts or remove a few clamps. If you're uncomfortable, ask your mechanic to show you the next time you take your car in for service.
3. Clean It
Once you have the filter out, it's time to get it clean. You can start by tapping it on your bumper to shake out any loose particles. At this point, you can choose to wash your filter with a cleaning solution or kit or just vacuum what you can out of it. Washing it will take more time and you'll damage your engine if you put it back in wet, but it will get the filter cleaner. Vacuuming the filter is a simpler and quicker process, but it won't get the filter as clean. But if your filter is so dirty that the vacuum can't really help much, it's probably time to change it altogether. Give the filter a lot of attention with the vacuum, making sure to hit every fold.
4. Clean the Housing
The next thing to do is clean the casing that houses your filter. If it isn't that dirty, a disposable shop towel might do the trick. Or you can give it a quick once-over with the vacuum while you've got it out. Just make sure you get out any loose dirt or debris so it doesn't go right back into the filter as soon as you start up the car again.
5. Put It Back
When the filter is clean and dry, all you have to do is put it back in its housing and replace the wing nuts, bolts or clamps. Make sure you don't put a wet air filter back into your car. Check to make sure it's securely in place, and then watch your gas mileage improve.
How to Replace Your Air Filter
1. Find Your Part
If you decide that your filter needs to be replaced, you'll first need to find out what kind of filter you should replace it with. Your car's manual should tell you what filter to purchase, or you can check the one in your engine and match it. Otherwise, you can search online at any auto-parts supplier's website by entering your make and model year to find replacement parts.
2. Remove the Old Filter
Once you have your new filter ready to go, take out your old filter just like you did to clean it. While you've got it out, take a moment to clean out the housing for it so there's no dirt and debris to jump right into your new filter as soon as you have it in there.
3. Put In the New Filter
Make sure your new filter is completely out of its packaging and free of any dirt, and then put it in where the old filter was. It's really that simple. You can save quite a bit of money on parts and labor doing it yourself, rather than paying a mechanic.
To watch a helpful video on how to change your air filter, go here.

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Most gas suppliers in B.C. are refusing to share how they set prices at the pump just days before hearings on the issue are set to begin at a public inquiry.
The B.C. Utilities Commission has been ordered to review the last four years of gas and diesel pricing in the province and asked suppliers to complete a questionnaire about various business aspects including their profit margins.
Commission CEO David Morton said the inquiry panel is working to determine if it needs the financial information and to assure the companies that it won't release confidential information.
"I don't think there's any cause for alarm," Morton said in an interview on Wednesday.
The suppliers range from Shell and Imperial to Suncor, Husky, Super Save and 7-11, but documents submitted to the commission show that only 7-11 has responded with details about how it sets the price per litre at the pumps.
It has requested the information not be released publicly and the utilities commission has complied, posting a redacted version of 7-11's questionnaire response on its website.
The other suppliers offered almost identical reasons for withholding profit margin data, with Husky's submission citing "commercially sensitive information" that is "not shared publicly or between refiners."
As the price of a litre of regular gasoline climbed above $1.70 in mid-May, Premier John Horgan ordered the probe, saying that gas and diesel price increases were "alarming, increasingly out of line with the rest of Canada, and people in B.C. deserve answers."
The inquiry timetable calls for the release of the second phase of the utilities commission consultant report by next Wednesday, followed by up to four days of oral submissions, where panel members can question industry representatives, including gas and diesel suppliers.
Bruce Ralston, minister of jobs, trade and technology, said in a statement that he's disappointed with the companies that refused to provide the information and urged them to co-operate.
"People deserve to know why the price of gasoline in B.C. has seen such wild swings," Ralston said.
But Morton said he's not surprised that most of the companies withheld the information.
The commission has established procedures for dealing with confidential information, including commercial information around prices that would harm the company if released, but it typically works with gas and electric utilities.
"Many of the participants aren't as familiar with our approach to confidentiality so we understand there may be some apprehension around it," Morton said.
If the organizations can show they would experience harm because a competitive price became public, then the utilities commission would typically honour that, he said.
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Shayne Looper: The banality of evil and the creativity of good
One of the remarkable moments in the history of the 20th century occurred near its close: The work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Africa had been embroiled in decades of horrific racial violence. The Commission's mandate was to discover the truth about politically-motivated violence, provide amnesty for truth-tellers, and reconciliation for the nation.
This was a very different goal from the one pursued in the Nuremberg trials, held 50 year earlier. In Nuremberg, the goal was to render judgment. In Cape Town, the goal was to facilitate reconciliation. When the philosopher Hannah Arendt reported on the Nuremberg trial of Adolph Eichmann, she famously (and controversially) wrote of "the banality of evil." Had she been present at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, I can't help but think she would have commented on the freshness and creativity of good.
Evil is everywhere driven by the same conventional and monotonous motivations: Pride, greed, and selfishness. We are sometimes shocked by its brutality but never by its modality -- the predictable misuse of power through deceit and the threat of violence. But goodness surprises us. It is original in a way evil never is.
In his book, "No Future Without Forgiveness," Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, detailed one surprising story after another from the commission's hearings. Broken people confessed the evil they had done, while family members of victims found surprising ways to forgive.
In one powerful story, a white police officer confessed to the murder of an 18-year-old black man, whose mother sat in the courtroom. He admitted to celebrating with other officers as they burned the young man's body. A few hours later, the officer compelled the same woman to watch as he and his partners burned her husband alive. His last words to her were: "Forgive them."
After the officer's emotionally charged testimony, a silent courtroom listened as the bereaved wife and mother asked for three things from the white officer. The now-elderly woman asked him to take her to the place where her husband was burned so she could gather up the dust and give it a proper burial. Next, since he had taken her family from her, she asked him to come to the ghetto twice a month to spend a day with her, so she could have someone to mother. And, finally, she asked someone to escort her to where he was seated so she could embrace him. She wanted him to know her forgiveness -- and God's -- was real.
The officer, overcome by emotion, fainted. At the same time, someone in the courtroom began to sing "Amazing Grace." And the world got a snapshot of what goodness -- what God -- is like.
There are two words translated "forgive" in the New Testament, which connote distinct aspects of forgiveness. The one focuses on the evil deed, and has the idea of sending it away, rather like the ancient High Priest confessed the nation's sins over the head of a scapegoat and sent it into the wilderness, never to be seen again.
The other word does not focus on the evil deed but on the person who commits it. The evil is sent away, but not the one who committed it. He or she is forgiven. This word is formed on the stem for "grace." We are to send away the offence, but grace the offender with love and acceptance, just as the Lord graced us.
Sadly, most of us get this turned around. Rather than sending away the offence, we cling to it. We season it with the salt of resentment and feed on it until we poison ourselves. We do exactly the wrong thing: Clutch the sin but send the sinner away. Instead of gracing the person who hurt us, we snub and ignore him and refuse to have anything to do with him. And so evil continues unabated.
But goodness, as we see it in God and in his representatives (like the elderly woman in Cape Town), sends the evil deed to oblivion and surprises the one who committed it with grace. And against all odds, "mercy triumphs over judgment" and real people "overcome evil with good."
-- Shayne Looper is the pastor of Lockwood Community Church in Branch County (Mich.). Read more at shaynelooper.com.


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The past two weeks have kept me more busy than normal. Volunteering, working on things for a banquet, a party here, meetings, etc., all mixed in with doctors appointments. I was really ready for these past weeks to be over.
A few nights ago was one of the parties and a group of us have been working for several months to get the decorations finished. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work.
Bringing a group together and working to come up with ideas that we all can agree with and be happy with can be a challenge. We really wanted to keep the decorations simple, but make a statement with an old-fashioned Christmas theme in mind. From a center piece on each table that was a simple as a stack of wrapped presents, to foot after foot of red and green paper chains. From a small handmade box with a treat for each person to other die-cut things on each table, I think we were successful.
The banquet went very well, and we had a lot of very nice complements on the decorations. That put a smile on my face.
Have you come up with some simple and creative ways to decorate for a large party or banquet?
Sincerely, Emily
You can see what else I am up to over at Sincerely, Emily. The topics are varied, as I jump around from gardening to sewing to making bread or lotion and many things in between.


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Creative ways to show a house
Last night, I went to a cluster of sunset broker's open houses on Hawaii Loa Ridge, which was a change from the normal Wednesday and Sunday house-hunting ventures. It was kind of a cool way to showcase the homes, and especially the views.
Also, the homes were open at a time that the potential homeowners would be using it, since most people work during the day and use their homes in the evening.
One of the neat things about sunset opens is just that: seeing how the ambience of the home changes with the decreasing sunlight and colorful skies. Another neat thing — and I swear I didn't plan this to tie into yesterday's blog — is you sometimes get to meet some of the neighbors. Since sunset opens happen after work, the neighbors might stop by when they see the activity as they get home.
"The owners are such private people, I never got to see the inside of their house, even though our kids play together," said one Hawaii Loa Ridge resident, as she poked her head in. "This was my only chance to take a look."
If you'd like to see a sunset open, I just found out about one tomorrow at 1505 Kalaepohaku Pl. The neighborhood, Chaminade Terrace, has underground wires so no telephone poles obstruct the home's panoramic view. The realtor is having a wine tasting at the home from 6 to 8 p.m. to showcase the sunset and the view of the Waikiki fireworks from its gigantic deck.
"The home looks good in photos, but when people actually see it and realize how special the home and its view is, they're blown away," said Diane Ito, the realtor representing the property.
This home, by the way, is under a million dollars and is a good value for the neighborhood, plus it's two years old and has had only one tenant. There are three bedrooms and baths in its 1,992 square feet of living area, and a 3,261 square foot lot. Due to the underground wires, the streets are wide so there's lots of street parking for guests.
Even if you can't make it to the sunset event, it will be open this Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. It's probably not the same, though!
Money talk: $949,000 fee simple
Contact: Diane Ito, Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties, 808-222-0978, email@example.com


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So Spencer climbed out of her bed and called for medical help.
But she wasn't at home.
Spencer was sleeping in Bunk 69 at Maricopa County's Estrella Jail in west Phoenix. Months before she got pregnant, Spencer, 30, had been arrested for drunk driving and pleaded guilty. She was now serving her sentence. (When she became pregnant, she was in treatment and not drinking, she says.) Doctor visits had confirmed that she was pregnant with a healthy baby girl.
Spencer and her attorney declined interview requests, but the records in an ongoing lawsuit she's filed against Sheriff Joe Arpaio tell the story.
As one of Arpaio's inmates, Spencer had no way of calling a doctor that night, April 21, 2006. The best she could do was call for the detention officer working the graveyard shift.
In the month she'd been in the jail, Spencer had seen plenty of inmates turned away when requesting medical attention, so she was relieved when the guard called the infirmary at a little after 3 a.m. The infirmary nurse asked how bad the pain was.
On a scale of one to 10, Spencer said it was a 10.
The nurse told her to go immediately to the infirmary. So Spencer got ready for a trip to medical.
Then she waited. The sergeant on duty decided that Spencer was not top priority, he said later in a sheriff's report about the incident.
About an hour after she requested help, Spencer was escorted to the infirmary. The one healthcare professional on the premises, a nurse, took Spencer's blood pressure. She also detected the baby's heartbeat, around 4 a.m.
The nurse — who later admitted she had no prenatal training — told Spencer that she'd be going to the hospital, but she also decided that Spencer's pain was not an emergency.
Another hour later, Spencer passed out. The nurse took her blood pressure again; it was fatally low. The nurse called an ambulance and tried to get an IV into Spencer's arm. She couldn't.
When EMT Jarrid Ortiz arrived, Spencer, who is African-American, had lost so much color it was clear to him that it was an emergency. "If you are turning that color, you're not getting enough blood to your organs and skin," Ortiz later told a sheriff's detective.
By the time the ambulance arrived at the Maricopa County Hospital, Spencer had been in severe pain and without a doctor for almost four hours. Doctors delivered Ambria Renee Spencer, a 9-pound baby girl with a quarter-inch of thick hair on her head.
Ambria was dead. Spencer's pain had been caused by internal bleeding — a malady known as placental abruption. Babies often survive the condition, if their mothers go immediately to a hospital. The treatment is simple: immediate delivery. Otherwise, the baby dies from blood loss.
Inmates in Arpaio's jails aren't usually allowed to see their babies after birth. Despite protests from the jail guard, hospital employees brought baby Ambria to Spencer, so she could see her daughter before the funeral.
Spencer described the moment for attorneys in her deposition.
"I kept praying that she would just open her eyes because she looked like she was alive."
Ambrett Spencer was one of 1,578 pregnant women who passed through Arpaio's jails in 2006, county records show. Only 42 of those women gave birth while in custody.
Spencer pleaded guilty to two DUIs and served her time. Now she's out, and she's suing Joe Arpaio and the county's Correctional Health Services department. Spencer believes delayed medical care caused her baby's death.
She's not the only inmate to say so. Four other inmates or their family members have contacted New Times this year, describing miscarriages, stillbirths, or harsh conditions for pregnant women in Arpaio's jails.
They blame poor medical care or, at times, no medical care. They also say that rotten food, potentially contaminated water, a lack of prenatal vitamins, and careless detention officers contribute to the problems.
Records show the claims may not be groundless. For example, the water well in the facility where pregnant women are jailed has been infested with mice and mice feces since 2005, Maricopa County Environmental Health Services Records show.
Mice carry a parasite — toxoplasma — that can infect water and cause birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It's so dangerous that the CDC says pregnant women shouldn't even touch litter boxes — because cats eat mice and their feces can contain the parasite.
"Most infected infants do not have symptoms at birth but can develop serious symptoms later in life, such as blindness or mental disability," the CDC writes in its description. "Occasionally infected newborns have serious eye or brain damage at birth."
In addition to that parasite, Dr. Leslie Barton, a pediatrics professor at the University of Arizona School of Medicine, has found that mice feces and urine also carry a virus that can cause birth defects, including chromosomal defects.
It's not just the water. Last week a federal judge ruled that Arpaio's current jail conditions violate the U.S. Constitution, specifically when it comes to healthcare, overcrowding, and access to medication. U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake issued a list of 15 changes — including diet, medical care, and medication — that Arpaio must make by December.
A month before that ruling, the jails also lost their national health accreditation, which is required by state law.
Arpaio does not deny that his jails are tough. He's actually built his career on claims that he doesn't coddle criminals.
Into the fray of Arpaio's "tough" jails come about 1,500 pregnant inmates each year. Some of them say their care hardly differs from what's given the other inmates. That is ironic, since Joe Arpaio claims to care about the unborn in his jails. In 2005, he refused to allow inmate abortions. Arpaio fought that battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he lost.
A person like Ambrett Spencer — who admits she drove drunk more than once — deserves to be punished. But jail does not have to be a potentially unsafe place for an unborn child. Unlike Maricopa County, many other correctional facilities in the U.S. offer programs to care for pregnant women.
Dr. Mary Byrne, professor of clinical healthcare for the underserved at Columbia University, has studied prenatal care in jails and prisons for years. She points to the state of New York as a model. There, all pregnant inmates are sent to a maximum-security prison where they take birthing and parenting classes. It's worked so well that six other states have adopted similar programs.
In 2005, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in California started its own program — after jail nurses and doctors realized that many pregnant inmates were getting depressed.
"Nurses and social workers at the jail and at the hospital noticed that inmates giving birth were usually scared, alone, unsure of their baby's fate and often ill-equipped to deal with the situations and decisions confronting them after giving birth," nursing director Debby Lucas wrote in a review of the program.
As a result, the San Bernardino jail started Lamaze childbirth classes, as well as parenting classes for pregnant inmates.
The Monroe County Jail in New York offers prenatal care as part of its rehabilitation for pregnant inmates. Mothers-to-be can also get tutoring about rape crisis, family planning, smoking cessation, and community resources.
In Seattle, the King County Jail brings in social workers and nurses every Wednesday to train pregnant inmates in prenatal care, examine their health, and answer questions. Some social workers even keep in touch with pregnant inmates after their release.
In Arpaio's jail, pregnant inmates say the only prenatal care they get is a bottom bunk, an extra blanket, a "snack" (which is sometimes inedible, they say), and prenatal vitamins — if the vitamins come that day.
In September, New Times asked to talk to the jail's healthcare director about prenatal care. Correctional Health Services has not yet scheduled an interview with its director, Betty Adams.
Former inmates have been far more willing to speak.
Michelle McCollum was in the first trimester of her pregnancy when she awaited trial in 2005 for possession of marijuana. She later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation.
McCollum blames unchecked violence and delayed medical care for the loss of her pregnancy. On August 21, 2005, she was attacked by two other inmates, she says in an affidavit filed in the lawsuit that recently found jail conditions unconstitutional.
Two inmates punched McCollum in the stomach repeatedly. After the attack, she and another inmate cried to guards for help. But McCollum writes that detention officers refused to bring her to the infirmary — even after she told them she was pregnant and injured.
Three days after the attack, McCollum's bleeding wouldn't stop. She was finally taken to the Maricopa County Hospital. There, doctors said she had miscarried and ordered that she return to the hospital for a checkup.
Despite her reminders, jail personnel did not take McCollum back to the hospital. On September 17, she began bleeding again. The bleeding wouldn't stop.
An ambulance finally rushed McCollum back to the hospital — where doctors gave her a blood transfusion because she had lost so much blood. Then they performed a procedure called a D&C, which removed the remains of the pregnancy.
Lilly Lee recently got out of the Estrella Jail. Upon her release, she called New Times to spread the word about pregnant inmates.
"The detention officers knew these women were undergoing miscarriages, and we were telling them," she says. "They just wouldn't do anything. There were a lot of things going on in there that I don't think a lot of people know."
Michael Bergman, an executive chef, agrees. His fiancée, Reyna Dziovecki, was in the jail for only two days, but it was enough to make him fear for the life of their baby. The charges against Dziovecki have since been dropped.
"She was eight months pregnant. She literally didn't eat anything from 5 p.m. one night to 6:45 a.m. two days later," he says. Bergman says he spent that time running from one downtown building to another, trying to bond his fiancée out. He finally did.
"You never really pay attention to this stuff until it happens to you. Then it does, and it's just scary how they treat people," he says.
Ambrett Spencer acknowledged in court that she deserved jail time for her actions. On May 21, 2005, she made a potentially deadly choice by driving drunk.
Instead of killing anyone, though, Spencer caused a minor fender-bender when she bumped into another car while stopping at an intersection. The other driver was not injured. When the cops arrived, Spencer confessed to driving under the influence. Not that she needed to. She blew a .204 B.A.C.
Spencer started alcohol treatment at Terros Rehab in west Phoenix. Months later, she got pregnant. Spencer was 30 and excited to have a second child. She hoped to marry her fiancé, Kenny, the baby's father.
In March 2006, Spencer pleaded guilty to two DUIs and received a 2 1/2-year sentence.
Spencer had been in the jail for about a month when the baby was born.
Spencer worked at hospitals for six years, registering pregnant mothers when they came in to give birth. Based on that experience, she says, she would have headed straight for a hospital had she not been in the jail that night.
Drug use plays a factor in many jail pregnancies, but Spencer's baby had no drugs in her system, nor did she show any symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome, a county autopsy reveals.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner concluded that Spencer's baby died from placental abruption — a malady that occurs naturally in about one in 100 near-term pregnancies.
Dr. Michael Foley, an OB/GYN at Scottsdale Healthcare, explains abruption as the separation of the placenta from the wall of the womb. That separation results in bleeding and a loss of blood to the baby.
The condition is not usually fatal, if the mother gets to a hospital, says Dr. Ingrid Haas, another OB/GYN. The treatment for abruption is simple, both doctors agreed: immediate delivery. The longer the delay, the less likely that the baby will survive. (Both doctors declined to speak about Spencer specifically, but spoke about abruption in general terms.)
Haas has never seen a placental abruption end in death — that is, when the mother went straight to the hospital. "Likelihood of survival is very good if the woman is full-term and goes straight to the hospital," she said.
She added that the fastest abruption she's ever seen wasn't complete until one hour after the severe pain started. That would explain why Spencer's baby still had a heartbeat around 4 a.m. — more than an hour after the pain began.
When Spencer's lawsuit goes to trial, possibly next year, medical experts will likely say that her baby would have survived — if Spencer had been taken straight to the hospital.
Ultimately, a judge or jury will decide whether Arpaio's guards and health staff were at fault. In the county's favor is the fact that placental abruption can be difficult to diagnose.
But Spencer's attorney, Joel Robbins, writes that the abruption would have been diagnosed — if Spencer had seen an actual doctor. "Despite Ambrett's obvious pain and distress, Defendants waited hours to obtain emergency treatment for Ambrett," he writes.
Arpaio and the county deny any wrongdoing, though they do acknowledge that Spencer complained of pain. Dennis Wilenchik, the county's contract attorney, wrote in a court brief that staff took Spencer's vitals, documented the fetal heart rate, and then called for an ambulance at 4:44 a.m.
The county blames Southwest Ambulance — for not transporting Spencer to the hospital quickly enough. Wilenchik writes that Southwest took nearly an hour to get Spencer to the hospital. By the county's own records, however, Southwest Ambulance was not called until almost two hours after jail staff knew about Spencer's pain.
Spencer blames the jail for keeping her from a hospital.
"I'm not blaming anyone for the placental abruption," she says in her deposition, but "they could have gotten me to the hospital sooner. They could have gotten me up to medical sooner . . . Why didn't I see the doctor? That's a question that I've gone over in my head a billion times. A doctor never came in there to see me."
If her baby had survived, today Ambria Spencer would be 2 years old.


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Redskins sign offensive lineman, former Colt Mike McGlynn
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ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Redskins have signed free agent offensive lineman Mike McGlynn.
The team announced the move Friday.
McGlynn can play center and both guard positions. He's started 48 games over five NFL seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Cincinnati Bengals and Indianapolis Colts.
McGlynn is expected to add depth to a line that allowed 43 sacks last year, and possibly contend for a starting job. The Redskins recently signed free agent Shawn Lauvao to play left guard and released center Will Montgomery. They plan to move Kory Lichtensteiger from left guard to center, while keeping Chris Chester at right guard.


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Salt Lake City, UT – Malcolm Armstead scored 22 points as Wichita State defeated Pittsburgh, 73-55, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Cleanthony Early tallied 21 points off the bench for the Shockers (27-8), who lost to VCU in the second round of the tourney last season. Carl Hall added 11 points in the victory.
Wichita State, the ninth seed in the West Region, will face top-seeded Gonzaga on Saturday in the third round.
"Well, I thought our defense was a story for tonight," Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said. "We jokingly talked about the first team to 55 would win the game and the way our guys defended and rebounded against a team that defends and rebounds extraordinarily well over Jamie's (Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon) entire tenure I thought was the story."
Steven Adams scored 13 points and grabbed 11 boards for the Panthers (24-9), who did not make the NCAA Tournament last year after reaching it every season from 2002-11.
Tied 21-21 with 2:05 remaining in the first half, Chadrack Lufile made a layup to give Wichita State a 23-21 edge and would hold on to the lead for the remainder of the contest.
A free throw by Ron Baker and an Armstead layup ended the half with the Shockers on top, 26-21.
Wichita State pulled away in the second half, outscoring Pittsburgh 47-34, and shot 52.4 percent from the field. Armstead and Early scored 13 and 11 points, respectively, with Armstead connecting on all seven of his free throws, to help secure the victory.
"Well, first of all, congratulations to Wichita State," Dixon said. "I wish them luck in the tournament. They played great and seemed to be far more aggressive than we were. Hence, we lost the rebounding battle which we came in to win. Extremely disappointed in the loss. I know we're a better team than what we played today."
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Adams had nine points and seven rebounds in the second half ... Wichita State shot 2-for-20 from beyond the arc and Pittsburgh made just 1-of-17 ... The Shockers connected on 24 of the team's 33 made free throws in the second half.


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The sight of dog excrement on the city streets is all too common. But start painting those ubiquitous turds in fluorescent colors and someone is bound to notice.
Local tour guide Stan O'Connor was so taken aback by the rainbow of refuse stretching across his Upper Eat Side that he felt compelled to document this lowest form of art and post it on YouTube. Soon the New York Times was sharing his story with the world.
It would appear that a fellow UES denizen is so fed up with the soiled sidewalks that he's decided to highlight the problem -- quite literally -- by spray painting feces.
As O'Connor notes, New York City law requires that dog owners clean up after their pets, but it's clear that there's an abundance of scofflaws who can't be bothered.
"I have very mixed feelings about a guy who does graffiti based on poop," said O'Connor.


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CINCINNATI – A judge set bond Wednesday at $50,000 each for nine Greenpeace activists he rebuked for their eye-catching protest at Procter & Gamble Co. headquarters in downtown Cincinnati.
The activists were arrested on burglary and vandalism charges after their Tuesday protest of the consumer products company's use of palm oil from a supplier Greenpeace says is tied to tropical forest destruction in Indonesia.
Municipal Court Judge Brad Greenberg said the protest, in which the activists used a zip line to unfurl giant banners from P&G's two towers as a helicopter filmed them, was "a reckless and ill-advised stunt." He called the protest alarming.
"You put people in danger," he said. "You take what they might consider to be a selfless cause, and you turn it into a selfish act by putting people in danger in this manner."
Greenpeace said all nine activists had posted bail and been released from custody by Wednesday evening. Their cases will go to a grand jury.
Palm oil is commonly used in shampoo, cosmetics and other products. P&G said Tuesday it is committed to achieving a 100 per cent sustainable supply of palm oil by 2015.
In court, attorney William Gallagher told the judge that the activists aren't flight risks and will return for every court proceeding, even though all of them live out of state, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported (http://cin.ci/1g0sFgR ). He said all of them work in professional jobs and none has a criminal record.
A Greenpeace representative, Amy Moas, said the activists were willing to deal with the consequences of their protest and the environmental organization backs them completely.
Police are still trying to determine how the activists evaded usually tight security at the company's headquarters.
P&G spokeswoman Lisa Popyk said in an email that P&G Security's preliminary investigation showed that one of the protesters appears to have gained illegal access to the building through a third party who shares a P&G office space.
"That person then let the others in via a secured entrance," Popyk said.
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The ability to hold two conflicting truths simultaneously isn't easy. And that's exactly what our work in education calls us to do at this moment.
I am just returning from the AERO and Holistic Education conferences, where I saw COOPsters David Loitz, Casey Caronna, Paul Freedman and Jen Groves. (Oh yeah!) One evening at AERO, a group gathered to talk about what IDEA has been learning over the past year. This prompted a reflection on my work as an educational activist and teacher over the past 15 years, and the paradoxes I hold in my work, as both a radical school critic, and a persistent hope monger in education.
As most of us here at the COOP already feel, we are at a moment of crisis in public education. Only a few pieces of evidence: the outpouring of objection and outcry at the recent SOS March, Arne Duncan's decision this week to cut personal deals with states failing to make AYP because NCLB policy is a "slow motion train wreck," a decade into one of the most draconian federal education policies around school accountability our country has ever witnessed, new data shows widespread, and nearly universal, crumbing confidence in local public schools, and a resounding failure to achieve any real gains in equity or performance for students, across a battery of measures.
Disappointment with schools are only a symptom. We are in a crisis of confidence around institutions of government in our country generally, and lack the stories we require to understand our fear and suffering, as described in a wonderful piece on the narrative failures of the Obama's presidency. As activists in education, holding on to both the hope and promise of our work, and ferocious and well-informed critique, requires a deep seated understanding of, and tolerance for, paradox–the capacity to hold two complex–and conflicting–truths simultaneously.
Here are some of the complex, conflicting truths I hold simultaneously in my work:
The system of education we have now–an outmoded industrial model based on extremely limited views of human learning and what is valuable to learn–requires radical, sweeping transformation. The hidden curriculum of schooling instructs in racist, classist, and competitive values, and then naturalizes and normalizes this as our self-willed state. Transformation, rethinking, wholesale change–school riots— are required. Language matters, and even talking about "systemic" change, implying that the structures that we have now will be replaced by another system, is inadequate and limiting.
At the same time, in day-to-day practice for teachers working with kids, for principals interacting with staff members, for superintendents reconfiguring accountability systems within their district, for parents homeschooling their own children, small changes make big differences. Ultimately, human transformation occurs in very slight, nearly imperceptible and somewhat magical shifts between two people trying to understand each other better, to heal each other, and get out of each other's way. When a teacher allows a student a bit more choice, when an adult recognizes the innate competence of a child, when a supervisor takes responsibility for his or her own mistakes, transformation happens. Small changes are at the root of everything.
The institution of school is broken, corrupt, and designed primarily to serve the interests of adults, not kids. The greatest barrier to large-scale transformation, in my view, is adult self-interest, not a lack of skills and knowledge about how to educate better. The system we have now serves adults, provides employment, professional identity and relative security to 2.5 million adults; it offers inadequate and in some cases toxic "service" to children, who have no political voice. Yet as a whole, the education sector is woefully sloppy and deeply loath to acknowledge the self-interest that is at the heart of many of its activities and structures.
At the same time, our system of schooling is the only remaining democratic institution in our country that most of our children, nearly 45 million, still participate in. There is profound value in this. It is an agenda item of the far right to dismantle the public education system, and most of the public sector beyond it, and the people and kids who will be most harmed by this dismantlement, in terms of schools, are those with the least choice, connections and social capital. In the words of Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, kids who are "school dependent" require schools that focus on their strengths, and full and free access to them. The current alternatives to public education, for nearly all children, are inadequate, and accessible only to those with means, choice, or luck. Maybe all three.
Within IDEA, a just-hatching educational transformation group of which I am a part, we believe in supporting the institution of public schooling. We are engaged in many projects, in Vermont and Mississippi and Portland, that directly engage and showcase public schools that are committed to becoming more responsive to their communities, serving children better, and creating equity within the system.
At the same time, we heartily and vigorously support all viable alternative school models, and see much of the real action of transformation and greater justice happening in places that define themselves as "outside" the public school system. For example, see Nuestra Escuela, a highly successful "alternative" school model founded on an ethic of human caring, love and respect. Strategically, we have a BOTH/AND strategy for supporting innovation and change, because we think mainstream public school and alternative models, including charter schools, have much to gain from collaborating and learning from each other.
Around the country, as a movement, we need teams of teachers and activists and parents and bloggers and policy thinkers who are strong enough, and big enough, and bold enough to hold all these paradoxes as they do their work in schools everyday, and with their kids.
We need individuals who are wise warriors, well-informed, cosmopolitan about the sector, who know where their work is coming from, and why–and are able to talk about the contradictions of their work without being apologetic. Through embracing the complexities of our work, and its many shadows, we will be stronger and better and more fleet and powerful in responding to those who critique us, or who want to shut us down.
One of my mentors, Parker Palmer, of the Center for Courage and Renewal, writes knowingly of paradox, and the way in which tension between opposites can feel intolerable, tugging us one way and then the other, making us feel that our actions, beliefs and intentions are indefensible, and cancel each other out. Yet through his long life of publically wrestling with the paradoxes of his own soul and vocation, Palmer observes, "'truth is found not by splitting the world into either-ors but by embracing it as both-and." Developing the capacity to sit in this tension between opposites–and I would add–to become productive in it, will be the mark of our maturing movement.
Becoming an educational activist requires that we develop the capacity to tolerate paradox–the capacity to hold two seemingly conflicting truths simultaneously in mind and heart at the same time. At this moment in our culture we seem especially intolerant of paradox: some critics insist that teachers are victims, while others suggest that teacher inadequacy is at the heart of our sector's dysfunction. Could both be true? And if so, how would it empower us to hold both these truths, and to delve into the complexities of both? How might this make us stronger?
While the federal department of education and major education funders continue to insist that their limited agendas for "improvement" and "reform" are the one one and only way, and founded on "real" science and "real" evidence, we must take strong positions against such hostage-taking and agenda setting, while at the same time holding on the very real and human contradictions that lie at the heart of our work. As leaders–and I'm seeing everyone who is concerned about the state of education in this country as leaders and activists–every single one of us–the stories we tell about our work must be both simple and complex. This requires a tolerance for paradox, and an understanding of the complexities of our work in education. This complexity is something we are only starting to build at IDEA, perhaps among our corps of folks here at the Coop, in myself.
Are we as activists strong enough to embrace the both-ands of our work?
Are you?
"Contradiction, paradox, the tension of opposites: These have always been at the heart of my experience, and I think I am not alone. I am tugged one way and then the other. My beliefs and my actions often seem at odds. My strengths are sometimes cancelled by my weaknesses. My self, and the world around me, seems more a study in dissonance than a harmony of the integrated whole." -Parker Palmer, 1979


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DIFP issues 2009 Annual Report
The department has issued its 2009 Annual Report.
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We've all read the labels on the back of our supplements and wondered exactly what all the ingredients are for. You might know what the supplement itself does, but do you know how the individual ingredients effect your body?
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ActiVin – A grape seed extract which acts as a powerful antioxidant.
Amino acids – The building blocks from which proteins are made. Dietary amino acids are classified as essential or non-essential. Essential amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine) cannot be manufactured by the body and must be supplied in the diet or ill-health results. The non-essential amino acids are also essential for health, but can be synthesized in the body from the essential amino acids. Arginine, ornithine, cysteine, cystine, taurine and tyrosine are classified as non-essential amino acids but may be essential for individuals with certain diseases or nutritional concerns. A suboptimal intake of the essential amino acids increases the body's need for the non-essential amino acids.
Androgen – This term refers to the male sex hormones (testosterone, androsterone) or any agent that encourages the development of male sex characteristics.
Androstenedione – A weak androgenic steroid secreted by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovary. In normal males less than 5% of their testosterone comes from the conversion of adrenal androstenedione. Androstenedione is converted to testosterone by the enzyme 17-ketoreductase. Androstenedione and testosterone are converted to estrone and estradiol in peripheral tissues (primarily in adipose tissue but also in muscle, kidney, liver and the hypothalamus) by aromatase. The conversion of androstenedione and testosterone accounts for more than 75% of the estrogens in the plasma of normal men. The rest is synthesized in the testes. Gonadotropin secretion may be partially controlled by estrogen formation in the hypothalamus.
Antioxidants – Nutrients that combat ever-present free radicals created through oxidation in the body. Free radicals are believed to contribute to a number of health problems.
Arthred® – A patented form of hydrolyzed collagen protein (HCL), which forms the framework of human cartilage. The effectiveness of HCL in promoting healthy joints was demonstrated through $10 million in worldwide clinical trials.
ATP – Adenosine Triphosphate - a compound consisting of the nucleotide adenosine attached through its ribose group to three phosphoric acid molecules. It serves to store energy in muscles which is released when it is hydrolyzed to adenosine diphosphate.
Beta-carotene – A nutrient that is converted to Vitamin A by the body when needed. Contains antioxidant properties.
Bioperine – A patented thermogenic nutrient; increases the body's efficiency in the uptake of nutrients.
Biotin (Vitamin B) – Essential for metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates.
Boron - A mineral that may play a role in maintaining strong bones, affecting calcium and magnesium metabolism and proper membrane function.
Calcium – A mineral that helps build and maintain strong bones and teeth, regulate heartbeat and muscle contractions, and ensure proper blood clotting. Adequate intake can help prevent or minimize osteoporosis.
Calories – Measurement of the potential of food to supply energy. Carbohydrates – The body's principal source of energy. Simple carbohydrates come from sugars; complex carbohydrates come from starches and fiber. The body converts them to glucose, which is used to energize cells.
Carnitine – An amino acid essential for the breakdown of fat into energy. Carnitine may improve the utilization of fats for energy and can be beneficial in conditions associated with impaired fat breakdown and energy production. Carnitine may be beneficial in heart disease, enhancing physical performance, Alzhiemers disease, diabetes, liver disease, and protection against drug toxicity.
Cholesterol – Substance manufactured by the liver and other organs and consumed via animal fat. High-fat diets increase the amount made. It is believed that high levels lead to collection of cholesterol in the arteries, possibly leading to serious health risks.
Choline – A nutrient that helps prevent the accumulation of fat in the liver; aids in the detoxification of metabolic wastes and toxins.
Chromium – Mineral important in the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats; helps build lean muscle tissue and regulate blood sugar levels.
CLA – (Conjugated linoleic acid) is a naturally occurring nutrient which scientists have discovered exerts a positive effect on protein and fat metabolism.
Coenzyme Q 10 – Vital to energy production at the cellular level; used for endurance improvement. Supplementation may decrease fatigue, muscle weakness and obesity. Also recognized for its strong antioxidant properties.
Copper – Mineral important in the formation of red blood cells; keeps bones, blood vessels, nerves and the immune system healthy.
Creatine monohydrate – Maximizes the body's level of stored creatine phosphate; results in increased peak athletic performance and shortened muscle recovery time.
DHEA –Dehydroepiandrosterone - is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Primary function is to produce estrogen and testosterone.
Dietary fiber – Consists of both soluble (dissolves in water) and insoluble (does not dissolve in water) fiber. Diets high in dietary fiber and low in fat may have a protective effect against many chronic illnesses, including heart disease and some cancers, and may reduce LDL ("bad") cholesterol.
Ephedrine – A sympathetic nerve stimulant resembling adrenaline, its effect on the unstriped muscular fibres is remarkable. It acts promptly in relieving swellings of the mucous membrane. It has valuable antispasmodic properties, acts on the air passages and is of benefit in asthma and hay fever; it is also employed for rheumatism; a 5 to 10 per cent solution has mydriatic properties, prophylactically used for low blood pressure in influenza, pneumonia, etc. Used in tablet form for oral or hypodermic administration and in ampuls for hypodermic, intramuscular and intravenous use. It can advantageously be used in solution with liquid paraffin, either alone or in conjunction with methol camphor and oil of thyme. Dose, 1/2 to 1 grain.
Synonyms include Ephedra, and Ma Huang.
Fats – Provide essential fatty acids that cannot be produced by the body. They transport fat-soluble vitamins and regulate blood cholesterol levels. Provide energy when the body's carbohydrate level is depleted. Provide protection to vital organs. While fats are essential to the body, many people consume much more than necessary to remain healthy.
Folic acid – Vitamin important in the synthesis of DNA, tissue growth and the production of red blood cells.
Functional food – Food or food ingredient that has been shown to affect specific functions or systems in the body. Functional foods play an important role in disease prevention.
Gamma-linolenic acid – Nutrient that increases the rate at which the body burns fat for energy; anti-inflammatory properties and other healthful benefits.
Ginseng – An herb (Korean - Panax Ginseng) (Siberian - Eleutherococcus senticosus) (American - panax quinqefolium),. The most costly root, ginseng is a low-growing, shade-loving perennial herb of the Araliaceae family. It is cultivated in China, Japan, Korea and Russia and can be taken in capsule form or as a tea. The United States can also cultivate this root.
Glucosamine – Glucosamine sulfate and n-acetyl glucosamine occur widely in the exoskeleton of arthropods and crustaceans as their biopolymer, chitin. Glucosamine is also a basic constituent of cartilage. Glucosamine is a natural sugar produced by the body and found in certain foods. Glucosamine stimulates the production of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans, two essential building blocks of cartilage. In most cases, the joints produce sufficient Glucosamine to keep the cartilage in good repair, but if they fail to do so, it dries out, degenerates, cracks, and may even completely wear away. Left unprotected, the joints then become swollen, stiff, inflamed, tender, and painful--the condition known as osteoarthritis. Advocates believe that by taking artificially synthesized Glucosamine sulfate supplements, osteoarthritis sufferers can "jump start" the natural production of Glucosamine by their own bodies.
Glutamine – A non-essential amino acid, glutamine is considered to be a brain fuel. Glutamine has been used therapeutically for alcoholism, mild depression and to reduce the craving for sweets. Glutamine is very important in the functioning of the metabolism and muscle maintenance. Glutamine supplementation can help prevent muscle and other tissue breakdown by providing the body with nitrogen and fuel.
Green Tea – An herb (Camellia sinensis). Green tea originates in China, Japan and other parts of Asia. The leaf of the plant is used in creating the extract which is potent and bioflavonoid-rich. This herb is used primarily for its free-radical scavenging capabilities. The key ingredient EGCG, which stands for Epigallocatechin Gallate, protects against digestive and respiratory infections. Historical uses of the tea are reducing high blood pressure, inhibiting pathogenic bacteria that cause food poisoning and blocking the actions of carcinogens, ultraviolet light and metastasis.
Herbs – Plants containing many nutrients and phytochemicals, providing an array of health benefits. Herbs have been known for centuries, but are now becoming the basics of many modern medicines.
Hydroxycitric acid – Naturally-occurring nutrient with the ability to inhibit the synthesis of carbohydrates into fat; also works as an appetite suppressant. Found in Relěv products under the brand name CitriMax®.
Inositol – A nutrient that helps prevent the accumulation of fat in the liver; aids in the detoxification of metabolic wastes and toxins.
Insulin – A protein pancreatic hormone that is essential especially for the metabolism of carbohydrates and is used in the treatment and control of diabetes mellitus.
Iodine – A mineral necessary for normal cell metabolism. Required by the thyroid gland in the synthesis and secretion of hormones.
Iron – A mineral essential to the formation of hemoglobin and myoglobin (which carries oxygen in the blood and muscles, respectively). A part of several proteins and enzymes in the body.
Isoflavones – Compounds found in soy which have been shown to significantly reduce serum cholesterol levels — the leading risk factor for heart disease — as well as alleviate menopausal symptoms in women and assist in combating numerous other serious health risks.
L-carnitine – A nutrient responsible for the transportation of fats to cells for use in energy production.
Lysine – Essential amino acid. Important for growth, tissue repair, and the production of hormones, enzymes and antibodies. Research indicates that lysine may be useful in the treatment of migraine and herpes simplex. Precursor to carnitine in the body.
Magnesium – A mineral aiding many basic functions, including metabolism, heart rhythm, bone growth and the function of nerves and muscles.
Manganese – A mineral playing a vital role in reproduction and energy production; very important in building healthy bones. Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) – Provide twice the energy of carbohydrates; have no significant effect on insulin production. Improve the absorption of amino acids and reduce muscle tissue breakdown.
Molybdenum – A mineral required to activate certain enzymes that are necessary for thousands of bodily functions.
Niacin (Vitamin B3) – Crucial for conversion of food into energy; helps maintain normal functioning of the skin, nerves and digestive system.
Octacosanol – A naturally derived wheat germ oil concentrate which has been clinically proven to increase oxygen utilization when exercising.
PABA – Functions in the breakdown and use of proteins in the formation of blood cells.
Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5) – Essential in metabolizing food; aids in the synthesis of various body chemicals, such as hormones and cholesterol.
Phosphatidylserine (PS) – Increases the rate of protein synthesis during periods normally marked by muscle breakdown. Can aid in memory function.
Phosphorus – A mineral vital to energy production; helps build bone and form cell membranes and genetic material.
Potassium – A mineral that serves as an electrolyte and is involved in the balance of fluid within the body. Our bodies contain more than twice as much potassium as sodium (typically nine ounces versus four ounces). About 98 percent of total body potassium is inside our cells. Potassium is the principal cation (positive ion) of the fluid within cells. Potassium is important in controlling the activity of the heart, muscles, nervous system and just about every cell in the body. Potassium regulates the water balance and acid-base balance in the blood and tissues. Evidence is showing that potassium is also involved in bone calcification. Potassium is a co-factor in many reactions, especially those involving energy production and muscle building.
Protein – The building blocks of the body. Composed of amino acids, which are vital to the body's growth and function. Supplies valuable enzymes that regulate bodily functions. Key to muscle building and development.
RDI – Recommended Dietary Intake. Estimates of daily minimal dietary intake of established nutrients provided by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. Optimal levels have not been formally established.
Saw palmetto berry – An herb (Sarena Serrulata). Saw Palmetto is a small palm tree with red berries which were used by Native American Indians to ease certain ailments. The red berries contain high concentrations of plant sterols, including B-sistosterol, which act as anti-inflammatory agents. In addition, the berries provide a variety of fatty acids and phytosterols which inhibit the action of dihydrotestosterone, the compound thought to be responsible for the enlargement of the prostate.
Selenium – Mineral acting as an antioxidant; needed for proper immune and heart functions.
Sodium – Helps regulate blood pressure and water balance in the body.
St. Johns wort – An herb (Hypericum perforatum). St. John's Wort is an aromatic perennial herb which has been used for centuries for a wide variety of conditions. The plant's active compound, hypericin, has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory activity. Hypericin has also been shown to have monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibiting activity, mimicking the action of antidepressant agents.
Testosterone – A naturally occurring androgenic hormone.
Tonalin (conjugated linoleic acid) – An essential fatty acid shown to reduce body fat and increase muscle tone.
Tyrosine – A nonessential amino acid but may be essential for individuals with certain diseases or nutritional concerns. May be important for neurotransmitter synthesis and mood regulation. May be useful for depression, allergies and addictive states.
Vanadyl sulfate – Trace mineral which works like insulin to increase the amount of glucose and amino acids driven into the muscle.
Vitamin A – Fat-soluble vitamin that promotes good vision; helps form and maintain healthy skin, teeth and skeletal and soft tissue; possibly increases resistance to infection.
Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) – Essential in metabolism; help cells convert carbohydrates into energy; necessary for healthy brain and nerve cells and heart function.
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) – Helps release energy from carbohydrates; interacts with other B vitamins and is essential for growth and for the production of red blood cells.
Vitamin B6 – Vital in the utilization of protein; helps with the formation of red blood cells and plays a role in synthesizing antibodies in the immune system.
Vitamin B12 – Important for metabolism regulation and red blood cell production; helps maintain a healthy central nervous system.
Vitamin C – Antioxidant that performs a variety of roles in the body, helping to promote healthy gums and teeth, aids in mineral absorption, helps heal wounds. May provide a variety of other health benefits.
Vitamin D – Promotes absorption of calcium and helps maintain proper blood levels of calcium and phosphorus.
Vitamin E – Antioxidant that protects tissues from oxidation damage; helps in the formation of red blood cells and in the utilization of vitamin K.
Vitamin K – Vital to blood clotting; may help maintain strong bones with aging.
Yohimbe Bark – A hormone stimulant, particularly effective in the production of testosterone. Primary Uses: as an aphrodisiac affecting both the male impotence and female frigidity. Secondary Uses: in bodybuilding and athletic formulas where more testosterone production is desired.
Zinc – Mineral important to the activity of enzymes needed for cell division and repair. Aids in proper functioning of the immune system.


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Brown Printing Co., which prints popular magazines and catalogues, knew that it had valuable assets in its computer systems and that those assets — online editions and subscriber databases — were increasingly at risk with the proliferation of cyber-espionage.
And so, to confront one of the newest and most damaging crimes, it turned to one of the oldest tricks in human history: deception.
The Waseca, Minn., company began planting fake data in Web servers to lure hackers into "rabbit holes" in the hopes of frustrating them into giving up. The bait was varied — including bogus user log-ins and passwords and phony system configuration files. Anyone who took it was being watched by Brown, their computer locations tagged and their tactics recorded.
"We're taking the hackers' strengths and we're making it their weaknesses," said Nathan Hosper, a senior information technology officer at Brown. "They get caught up in this cycle of fake information."
Brown is only one of a number of companies that are adopting tactics long used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to turn the tables on hackers.
The emerging trend reflects a growing sense in industry that companies need to be more aggressive in fighting off intruders as the costs of digital espionage soar. The theft of intellectual property and other sensitive documents — from military weapon designs to files on contract negotiations — is so rampant that senior U.S. officials say it may be the most significant cyberthreat the nation faces over the long term.
"Companies are tired of playing defense," said Michael DuBose, a former chief of the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section who now handles cyber-investigations for Kroll Advisory Solutions. "They want to feel like they actually can fight back. Most of us in the industry agree that we ought to push the envelope to protect the rights and properties of U.S. businesses."
In the parlance of network security, digital deception is known as a type of "active defense," a controversial and sometimes ill-defined approach that could include techniques as aggressive as knocking a server offline. U.S. officials and many security experts caution companies against taking certain steps, such as reaching into a person's computer to delete stolen data or shutting down third-party servers.
Those actions probably would violate federal law, FBI officials said. The bureau also warns that the use of deceptive tactics could backfire — hackers who identify data as bogus may be all the more determined to target the company trying to con them.
Just how far companies should be allowed to go to defend themselves is the subject of intense debate in the industry and on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said at a recent conference that disrupting another party's server is an offensive act that could trigger retaliation that a company might not be prepared for. "It's best not to go punch your neighbor in the face before you hit the weight room," he said.
Nonetheless, most experts say deceptive tactics fall within legal boundaries, as long as fake data are planted only inside a company's network and do not damage a third party's computer system. Such tactics, they argue, can also be highly effective.
Digital deception tools date back at least 20 years in the academic research community. They are sometimes called "honey pots," reflecting the notion that they not only attract hackers but keep them inside a network long enough so that they can be watched.
"The use of deception is a very powerful tool going back to Adam and Eve," said Salvatore Stolfo, a Columbia University computer science professor who has created a technique that uses decoy data to trick intruders. "If the hackers have to expend a lot of energy and effort figuring out what's real and what's not, they'll go elsewhere."
Anecdotal evidence suggests the techniques can work in the private sector.
Stolfo, whose research is funded by the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, tested his technology with a major U.S. bank two years ago. The bank put $1,000 in an online decoy account registered to a fictitious user, then Stolfo exposed the account to malware from Web sites controlled by hackers. Within three days, the bank began seeing attempts to shift money from the dummy account into a real account, whose owner the bank knew, Stolfo said.
The bank shut the fake account. Had it been a real theft, the bank would have turned the culprit in to the FBI, said Stolfo, who has created the firm Allure Security to bring the technology to market.
In another case, a Northern Virginia cybersecurity firm that works closely with U.S. intelligence agencies and has been targeted by hackers in China has used honey pots to collect data on intruders. The firm, whose director requested anonymity to avoid drawing attention to the company, has created encrypted data files labeled with the names of Chinese military systems and put them in folders ostensibly marked for sharing with the National Security Agency and the CIA.
With such bait, the firm has been able to document how individual hackers work and has linked their pseudonyms, which are sometimes embedded in source code, to real people. The honey pot "has given us a lot of information about these guys," the director said. "It confounds them."
Some experts point out that deceptive tactics can inadvertently ensnare ordinary customers and possibly pose liability risks. But software companies say they are mindful of that danger.
Mykonos Software, a San Francisco company that created the tools used by Brown Printing, began using fake data commercially about three years ago, said David Koretz, the firm's founder and general manager. Mykonos places the false data on clients' Web sites in places no ordinary customer would look, such as in source code and in configuration files that only a real system administrator or a hacker would find useful.
"When the good guy uses the site, they're never going to touch the fake things," Koretz said. When a hacker hits a piece of false code, Mykonos, which is owned by juniper Networks, tags him with a "super cookie," a digital file that tracks his device. "We're now tracking every bad thing he does," he said.
Sometimes, he said, a hacker trying to trick a client's server into giving him access might be met with a surprise. He might see a Google Map pop up on his screen identifying his location, next to a list of nearby lawyers and a note reading, "It looks like you're going to need a criminal attorney."
Within the first week that Brown Printing installed the deception tools in 2010, it detected 375 suspicious probes against its Web sites. "That was the first time that we could say, 'Wow, we're seeing those events and we know what's occurring,' " said Hosper, the senior information technology officer.
The bottom line, he said, is the feeling that "you're no longer just having to sit passively by and take it. You have the ability to take control of the situation."


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Risk assessment and risk management by police
Principle 1: Prioritising victim safety
Key elements for applying the principle of victim safety in risk assessment
In applying the principle of victim safety in risk assessment, police leadership should ensure the following.
- Identification and assessment of victims' individual safety needs is carried out on a case-by-case basis.
- Risk assessment facilitates women's entry into the victim support system in accordance with national procedures. The type and level of support provided should be determined according to the level of risk and degree of severity identified.
- Police risk assessment recognises the dynamic nature of risk by ensuring that follow-up assessments take place to evaluate possible changes in risk levels. Risk should be assessed systematically, on a regular basis and in close cooperation with the victim. The frequency of follow- up assessments may be determined on a case-by-case basis and according to the level of risk identified.
- Risk assessment should directly correspond to strategies for risk management tailored to the victim's specific safety needs and should respond to the level of risk identified.
To this end, the first guiding principle for police risk assessment is to effectively recognise and assess the risk of repeat victimisation, intimidation and retaliation in the context of intimate partner violence, and to ensure that victims receive the most effective support possible to reduce that risk.
In prioritising victim safety and well-being, the process of risk assessment should be used not to limit eligibility for services but, rather, to identify when enhanced or expedited intervention is necessary in order to keep women and children safe. In this way, risk assessment is not an end in itself but an entry point for female victims of intimate partner violence to the victim support system, regardless of risk level.


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This week a friend came to me seeking advice and encouragement. His adult son has just returned home. (for about the seventh time!) The son had worn out his welcome at the last place he was staying and called on his father as a last resort. Not only has this young man been in trouble with the law, he has chosen to live a lifestyle that is not consistent with his father's values. Knowing he had nowhere else to go, however, my friend allowed his son to move back in.
In Luke chapter seven, the Bible tells the story of a woman with a bad reputation who came uninvited to a dinner that was being held to honor Jesus. Scandalously, she began to cry all over his feet, letting down her hair and using an expensive oil to anoint him. Seeing the reaction of his host, Jesus begins to tell the story of two men, one who had been forgiven a very large debt and one who had been forgiven a small debt. He asked the host, based on the size of the debt, which man likely loved the most. This woman obviously had been forgiven a great debt.
Of course, my friend's story is not as epic. First, my friend is by no means perfect and his son did not come back into dad's home with a repentant heart. There were no tears of regret, no offerings of remorse. There was in fact, very little conversation at all. But at the same time, there was no offer of forgiveness.
Hearing my friend's story, I wonder how often I am reluctant to offer forgiveness to my children. The story in Luke reminds me that sometimes my love is based on the amount of forgiveness I have received. Unfortunately, I don't always remember that I have been forgiven of much. I can usually justify my unforgiving attitude by telling myself "I was never that bad!" It is only by remembering that I was, in fact, "that bad" that I can offer true forgiveness.
The older I get, the more I realize what a dance we begin when we first become parents. Two steps forward, one step back….. Parenting means accepting that I must be honest about my mistakes while at the same time instructing my children not to follow in those same footsteps. And it means that I must be willing to forgive them when they fail, just like they must forgive me for not being a perfect parent. We are in this together, my children and I. Some days are just more graceful than others.


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Carl Jung: the Astrologer's wise old man at the Bollingen Tower
Dear Kendra~
Here's a photo of Carl Jung's "Bollingen Tower" that I saw the last time I was in Zurich—such a magical place! I love that he built this stone and timber tower as his sacred retreat. There's a wall here where he painted a vibrant mural of the outstretched wings of his spiritual mentor, 'Philemon'. You can see this colorful painting in his journal: "The Red Book" –and he painted it without benefit of electric lights—! The mural within the round tower is the heart of this space, and it has a rustic, primitive and private feeling. He would take himself here to ponder, write, and cook meals over an open fire—apparently he was quite a good cook who loved cooking in a large pot—and if you were honored to be a guest at supper, he would suggest "quietness" while eating so that the food could be truly savored.
I can imagine him here, with his pipe, his paints and his….aloneness. He "attended to his inner life" and in this way he was an archetypal "senex"—the wise Saturnian elder man. Jung had a Leo Sun sign, with a Taurus Moon conjunct Pluto, and Aquarius rising.
He was also a bit of a trickster (like Hermes), and a shaman and scholar as well as a spiritual man and healer. His psychology came out of his life; he broke some rules, he kept to some. As John Perry, a friend of his noted: "There was always a little something magical about the way Jung's mind worked. He said that he felt himself to be more shaman than psychiatrist."
Sometimes I fear that most modern psychology, and even astrology, serves the ego's fantasy of control, while Jungian psychology affirms "the summons to surrender to the gods"—to that which wishes to live through us…and calls us to listen to the inner archetypal voices which astrologers call planets.
Jung would counsel that we become a "disciple" to that which is calling us, and surrender to our personal discipline. A positive view of "discipline" don't you think? Being a disciple to that which you really love? Still it's never easy for us, nor was it for him.
His dearest friend, Toni Wolf, highly disapproved of his exploration of alchemy and astrology, but he pursued it anyway and that issue finally ended their relationship of many years. Did you know that she was his lover, companion, and 'guide' when he was going through his most difficult years during his Uranus opposition, around the age of forty? And that Jung's wife, Emma, actually accepted Toni as a member of the family…so Toni would be present at Sunday meals…much more accepted in European culture at that time than it would be now! Anyway….
Did you know that Jung studied and practiced astrology for forty years before he published his work on synchronicity in 1950? He used the word "synchronicity" to explain how astrology worked, meaning that there can be a relationship between two things that don't have a causal relationship—that is, that one event doesn't scientifically cause the other to happen—i.e. pure cause and effect. But what is significant and necessary is that there must be an emotional meaningfulness to that moment in time. And of course, what could be more meaningful than our birth! Jung once said: "We are born at a moment in time, and like the grapes in a vineyard, we take on the qualities of the time and place from which we came."
Jung used the birth charts of his clients to "find clues to the core of psychological truth…" (this was written in a letter he wrote to Freud in 1911). The fact that he respected and used astrology means a lot to those of us who combine psychology and astrology—which is what archetypal astrologers do.
But even if Jung didn't have this connection, I would still be in awe of him as the archetype of the "Wise Old Man." He honored the Mystery that we live within—that sea the Soul swims within—without getting dogmatic about it. Isn't that the heart of wisdom; to honor the Mystery without literalizing it and without trying to make it fit precisely into concrete scientific or historical fact? Joseph Campbell later called this kind of truth a "myth" and he understood myths as revealing a very deep level of truth.
Today I feel more like a mentor in writing all this. But still the story continues here…and I haven't heard a word yet from Peter, even though Sophie and I will be in Zurich by noon today. I'm thinking of staying in a B & B in old Zurich if we can find a room. Perhaps I've honored my Saturn conjunct the Libra Sun today by writing about Jung as the astrologer's "senex" while listening to Bach, on my Ipod. It has been pouring rain all day, and Sophie has been reading and sleeping this whole train trip—but she did tell me one thing—she has a surprise for me tonight when we get settled in our rooms….?


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