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Diane Tray Large Merlot
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This decorative solid marble and brass tray re-imagines Natale's much-loved Diane pattern in a three dimensional fashion with the help of merlot red, nero and white marbles, channeled with solid brass bar.
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Materials: Bianco Marble, Nero Marble, Merlot Marble, Solid Brass
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Here's How Often You Should *Really* Wash Your Towels
Tehrene Firman・September 25, 2017
If you use your towels way longer than you probably should, you're not alone: You use 'em to wipe off your clean body, after all—what's the harm in that? Well, basically the terry-cloth drying drapes a breeding ground for bacteria—and not the good kind.
Even when your towels still feel (and smell!) clean, they're probably dirty. And, whether they're the small variety for your hands or full-size shower towels, the cloths can become packed with disease-spreading microbes (which are also found in your bedsheets) within a mere few days. Especially when they're hanging out to dry in damp, warm areas—which is how most bathrooms feel after someone takes a hot rinse.
90 percent of bathroom towels were contaminated with coliform bacteria, and 14 percent were found to carry E. coli.
In fact, you'd be surprised by just how much bacteria is hanging out. Microbiologist Charles Gerba, PhD, told Time that in one unreleased study, 90 percent of bathroom towels were contaminated with coliform bacteria—bacteria found in water that indicate disease-causing organisms could be present—and 14 percent were found to carry E. coli. And—yes, there's even more—moist towels were found to be breeding ground for MRSA, said Susan Whittier, PhD, and having cuts or dry skin can make it easier for the bacteria to get into your body, which can cause infection.
According to Dr. Gerba, it's best to wash bathroom towels with bacteria-fighting hot water and activated oxygen bleach (or a bleach alternative) after two days of use.
The only real way to keep your body free of harmful bacteria is to do what no one likes doing: laundry—and, more of it than you're probably used to. According to Dr. Gerba, it's best to wash bathroom towels with bacteria-fighting hot water and activated oxygen bleach after two days of use. (And if bleach isn't your thing, try an alternative like disinfecting lemon juice, stain-fighting vinegar, or hydrogen peroxide.)
If you can't commit to so many spin cycles, at least make sure to let your towels completely dry between uses, which makes it nearly impossible to pass around bacteria, said Dr. Gerba.
But that won't help make the towels any less stinky after multiple uses, so you might want to become besties with your washer and dryer anyway.
Not all bacteria is bad, and adding this kind into your diet can actually help you stay healthy. Or, maybe just start spraying some bacteria around your home.
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Certain acquaintances in life don't have a reason when we look forward. But they make a pristine sense when the dots are connected backward. One such meeting memory is Neetha – a young, energetic and enthusiastic woman from Bangalore that not just captured my heart but my complete family in less than a week and that's what I believe is fate, for good! The staying together of this person had hardly been over a week till now, but she has created the deepest of the impressions in me not just by replacing my mother's presence when she is not around, but also as a very good friend! Empathy, sympathy and integrity are the characteristics that distinguish my mom from all others and match with Neetha. They both are of the same wavelength which connects our bond.
There are very many resemblances to what 'Mo-In' and my Mother have gone through in their lives. Being father-less at a very young age and getting into the threshold of marriage has its own repercussions mentally which both these women have seen and experienced for their own selves. Facing all instances boldly and with all the courage in their nerves they have sailed through successfully and still confidently push it to their maximum limits.
Neetha takes the role of an elder daughter to my mother than being just my friend. She has understood the meaning and treasure of life and her way of living exemplifies that. She values people and emotions more than materials and money. She faces all problems with a vigor to resolve them since she 'knows' and believes that every problem has its own solution and that could be cracked under any circumstance. This character of hers amazes me and sprinkles in the strength to grow in life positively!
I have always thought relations built over short term might not last long, but she proved me wrong by constructing the mighty power bond, the knot of which took just over a week to be strengthened. It dates back to a medieval relation without much impact of technology wherein our hearts communicate with each other even without the modern signals. Yes, we connect over phone or messengers very sparsely, but have never felt the thinning of our relationship. Her action, caring attitude, resolving nature and managing with simplicity are just beyond perfection and admiration! Her support to me and my mom, as a friend, daughter and sister is being valued equally and prayed upon to last long. Such integral and mutual relations are more to be experienced than just elaborated. Thanking Neetha and Ruthwik (Neetha's husband) profusely for the creative and lovely bond that they have extended to me and my family!


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Clayton on skin
Oh, this Clayton on the other side of the planet… When I started writing this blog after having decided to make something concrete out of my scent obsessions, Claytons articles on his blog What men should smell like, were among the first texts that I read for inspiration in my search for my kind of perfume rhetorics. I didn't want to write reviews per se, there is an abundance of perfume reviewers which is great for the market and some of them are striking. But I was interested in diving into a world of reflections rather. And I have a major issue with the kind of language you find in oh-so-many perfume ads and descriptions filled with clouds about "unique fragrances that evoke the sensuality in the soul of what is woman" etc etc… To find Clayton's work was inspiring and refreshing. For some reason he makes me think of one of my house gods, AA Gill. I think I like them for the same reasons, eloquence, sophisticated stringent sense of humor, directness and profound knowledge of matter.
Some time ago I went all OH! about Clayton's article on Ambergris. And today I am all OH! again. Read this article. It is from The Perfume Magazine and it just might make your entire weekend. Made mine.
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The Art & Science of Positive Reinforcement
Unlike some leadership courses offered by other consultants who only scratch the surface on reinforcement, this course clearly explains and demonstrates the effective, systematic use of positive reinforcement and how it can be the most powerful management tool in your work place. We'll show you not only the truth behind the simple statement, "you get what you reward," but how to provide feedback and reinforcement that reinvigorates employees. Far beyond just being nice to each other, catching people doing something right, or even saying thank you –your reinforcement process will be a true competitive advantage. This course is exclusively for graduates of the Human Side of Leadership who have first-hand experiences implementing the 10-step process taught in that class.
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Snowfest: Save the Season
- Help Save the Season with an all-new quest chain! Defeat invading evil robots and craft your very own G.R.Y.P.H. 3000, plus get great rewards like a Ninth Life gem booster and 25 Diamond Dragonite! (you must have completed the tutorial objectives to see these quests)
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Learning songs, music theory and techniques through means other than reading music. We start off with "Tablature" which is a very simple language created just for guitar. Its popularity has soared in the past 20 years and is used by most guitar players today. In these lessons, the students learn modern popular songs through a variety of ways: tablature, video lessons, by ear, and through the 1 on 1 lessons. As their skill level rises, they start to learn music theory and more intense methods of practice and exercise. There is no music reading in this program, but music theory will still be covered in full. Recommended for beginners.
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This program takes the student through the Hal Leonard's Guitar Method Book 1,2, and 3 teaching the students how to read music for guitar while getting a good start on the techniques of playing. Hal Leonards theory book and workbook are also studied and completed. After books 1,2,3 are done along with the theory books, the students then have a choice to study certain styles more closely. Recommended for beginners, and intermediate players.
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"The Millioniser 2000: it comes from tomorrow, but it's here, today."
From a certain perspective, the history of electronic music equipment reads like an ever increasing pile of whacky, wild and failed ideas (remember the Capacitance vinyl film disc, anyone?). But consider the Millioniser 2000: a MIDI-compatible synthesizer played like a harmonica that could have only been conceived during the confusion of '80s music culture.
To be honest, we really can't understand why the Millioniser ended up in the dustbin of electronic instruments. Because, as you'll see in the video above, it's quite the gadget. Using the breath controller, performers dynamically control—in both mono- and polyphonic modes—a host of preset sounds, synths and software. As the wonderfully epic promo video above declares, "There's never been an instrument so versatile and yet so small."
Is it time for a Millioniser revival? We think so. So start practicing your circular breathing, and hunt down your nearest Millioniser before prices start to skyrocket. Need some inspiration? Head to the Millioniser2000 website to watch people blow synth like you've never seen before.
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Peter Gorman Archive
Award-winning investigative journalist (and dad) Peter Gorman has spent more than 20 years tracking down stories from the streets of Manhattan to the slums of Bombay. Specializing in Drug War issues, he is credited as a primary journalist in the medical marijuana and hemp movements, as well as in property forfeiture reform. His work has appeared in over 100 national and international magazines and newspapers.
Peter Gorman's love affair with the Amazon jungle is well-known to people in the field. Since 1984 Mr. Gorman has spent a minimum of three months annually there generally using Iquitos
Kenny Jenks: Aids Battler
by Peter Gorman
Before she died, however, both Barbra and Kenny worked with Robert Randall to establish the Marijuana Aids Research Service, MARS, which reduced the amount of paperwork involved in applying to the Food and Drug Administration for the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program which provided marijuana to patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and a number of other illnesses. The MARS project was so successful at reducing the amount of time it took for a doctor to apply for the program on a patient's behalf that the Federal Government shut the program down altogether in March of 1992, claiming that too many patient's doctors were applying for medical marijuana.
Kenny and Barbra were the recipients of the Drug Policy Foundation's 1992 Robert Randall Award for Excelence in the Field of Citizen Action, and Kenny continues to speak publicly about marijuana as a vital medicine for AIDS patients.
HT originally contacted Kenny for this interview in November, 1991, and last spoke with him during February, 1993. At that time he was feeling well, and though the strain of coping with both the loss of Barbra and his continuing battle with AIDS have robbed him of some of his strength, he remains vital, committed, good-humored and full of a rare dignity.
HIGH TIMES: What was it like growing up a hemophiliac?
KENNY JENKS: I was a typical military brat. I didn't have a bad childhood, but I couldn't take PE in school, couldn't participate in any sports and I spent an horrendous amount of time in the hospital. I had hundreds of bleeds growing up and I'd be in the hospital for weeks at a time strapped to an IV pole. And back when I was a kid, the treatments for hemophilia were mostly ice packs and plasma. The plasma didn't stop the bleeding, it just replaced what you were losing into the tissue.
HT: How does the bleeding start?
KENNY: It depends. Sometimes it's a bump but other times it's spontaneous. You just start bleeding.
HT: Are the bleeds painful?
KENNY: The definition of hemophilia is pain. What happens is that blood leaks into the tissue and it swells in the joint, pushing apart the bones. After a number of bleeds the joint tends to get weaker and weaker and the pain gets more severe. I've had so many bleeds in my joints and knees, that they hurt all the time. But I get around real good. A lot of hemophiliacs, by the time they're my age, they're pretty crippled up.
HT: What were your dreams, what did you want to be when you were a kid?
KENNY: I wanted to be a park ranger. One of the jobs I had when I went to high school was working on a 200,000 acre cattle ranch on weekends and during summers. I went to college for it for a while, in Arizona, but I couldn't afford to continue so I ended up going to work.
HT: How did you manage to work outside with hemophilia? Did you you carry plasma?
KENNY: No. Plasma has to be kept frozen in a hospital. But by the late 1970s something called Factor 8 had been developed. Factor 8 is the blood-clotting factor that I'm missing, in a very concentrated form. It takes about 2,000 people to make one dose. I was able to bring that home and self-administrate with an injection. If you can get a shot of Factor 8 you can stop the bleeding pretty quick, but the pain still lasts for a few days because the swelling takes a while to go down.
HT: Tell me about meeting Barbra.
KENNY: Well, I've always worked on cars, and Barbra's father had a garage near where I lived in Arizona. One day a friend and I were at his place looking for some parts and she was there, so I asked my friend who she was. And when we came back a day or so later I told her I wanted to go out with her. I was drunk, to be honest, and she said I should come back and ask her out when I was sober. I thought that was pretty neat. So the next day I did.
HT: And?
KENNY: It was love at first sight. We knew each other six months then moved to Florida. I worked in a nursery doing landscaping at first, then went to work for a friend who owned a hot dog stand on the beach, cooking hot dogs for the tourists. Barbra worked at a motel, running the desk and doing housekeeping.
HT: When did you first hear about AIDS and what was your reaction to knowing the blood supply used in making the Factor 8 was tainted?
KENNY: By the middle '80s we heard rumors that the blood supply wasn't clean, so I asked my doctor about it, and he told me there was a good chance we were already infected. But since there was nothing we could do about it and we were afraid to get tested, we decided to wait and see.
HT: How did you discover you had AIDS?
KENNY: In early December, 1988, Barbra caught a cold that wouldn't go away. She just steadily got more and more sick, until by just after Christmas that year she could hardly breathe. So we took her to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with pneumosistis—pneumonia.
Of course, since it was pneumosistis, a pneumonia associated with AIDS, they tested her and at that point they tested me too. We both had AIDS and they started us on AZT right away.
HT: What were Barbra's feelings about you having gotten infected and infecting her?
KENNY: I have tried to put myself in her position a hundred times. I don't know how she did it, but she never once complained. There was never any doubt as to being together. My wife and I were together for 10 years and would have been together the rest of forever, I believe. For my part, it was a terrible feeling, just a terrible, guilty, sinking feeling.
HT: How long was Barbra in the hospital that first time?
KENNY: About a month. She was given all kinds of drugs and she got so sick she couldn't eat. Her weight went from 155 pounds to 115. Even when I brought her home she was still sick. We kept a bucket next to the couch because she was constantly throwing up. The doctors tried her on six different nausea medicines but none of them worked.
HT: Were you ill at this time?
KENNY: Not from AIDS, but I had started to lose weight from the AZT. I'd probably lost eight to 10 pounds. I was nauseous all the time. It's kind of like being sea sick. It gets to the point to where you don't want to raise your head because you'll get sick.
HT: Who did you go to when you first find out you were suffering from AIDS?
KENNY: We didn't tell anyone. It was just too scary. But the health department here in Bay County came to see Barb in the hospital. They had an AIDS support group meeting once a week and we started going to that.
HT: Did you ever have the feeling that the other AIDS patients in the group had done something—with needles or sex—which caused their sickness, while you hadn't? That you were ripped off while they deserved it?
KENNY: No, I never felt anything like that. Actually, until I went to my first AIDS meeting I never really had much contact with anyone who was gay. And it really did open my mind up to people in general. Because here we were, all stuck in this situation where we had this disease that was supposed to be terminal, and none of us knew what to expect. It was more of a feeling of us trying to fight this together than any kind of separation between us. My wife and I really enjoyed going. It was the only chance we had to talk about what was happening to us.
HT: So how did you and Barbra decide to try pot? Were you already smokers?
KENNY: No. I'd tried it a few times in high school, but I wasn't a smoker. Barbra had never smoked at all. But at the support group we met an AIDS patient who, like Barbra, just had pneumosistis and was just starting to take AZT. He told us that if we smoked pot when we started to feel sick we could prevent the nausea, and then he gave us some. And at that point, after trying six different nausea medicines, we were pretty desperate, so we tried it and it worked.
HT: How does marijuana help?
KENNY: It takes the nausea away. The drugs and the disease itself make you lose your appetite. There's no desire to eat. The smell or sight of food make you sick. It just doesn't appeal to you anymore. But when you smoke, within six or eight puffs you feel better, then you get the munchies and food is delicious.
HT: Did you tell your doctor you were smoking?
KENNY: Not at first. After we started smoking every day we told him that we'd thrown all the nausea medicines away and were using marijuana. He just said to keep doing what we were doing if it allowed us to keep food down.
I think it's very hard for most patients to tell their doctors they're using marijuana, because it's illegal. I think the fear for the patient is that they're already sick and dealing with the disease and they are afraid they'll lose the legal drugs they're getting.
HT: How important to your therapy has marijuana been?
KENNY: I don't think I'd be here today if I didn't have pot. I'm taking so many drugs that make me feel sick and I don't think I could continue taking them without smoking. Plus, there are a lot of days I just wouldn't eat if it wasn't for marijuana.
And if we couldn't have controlled Barbra's nausea to the point where she was able to eat she never would have gotten over the pneumosistis bout. She would have died that Spring. After she started smoking she gained 30-35 pounds back in the next year.
HT: Where did you get your marijuana? I mean, since you weren't a smoker you didn't necessarily have people in place to supply you...?
KENNY: I just got it however I could. My friend from the support group helped me out for quite a while, but then he moved. But I have friends and I knew other patients, and it just came. I also started growing two plants to get us through when we couldn't find or afford it.
HT: How much did you and Barbra smoke?
KENNY: It depends. Sometimes, if you don't have much you don't smoke much, in order to make it last. You know, "I'll just be a little sick today so I can be a little sick tomorrow." So it just depended. Certainly five joints a day each.
HT: That sounds like quite a lot.
KENNY: When you smoke marijuana every day you don't feel it very much. But you don't feel nauseated and you have an appetite.
HT: Have you ever tried Marinol, the pot pill?
KENNY: I didn't, but Barbra did during one of her hospital stays. At first she just threw it right up. And when they did finally keep it down she had anxiety attacks. She couldn't eat, she couldn't sleep, she cried. She described it as going downhill at 100 miles an hour in a car with no breaks, just an out-of-control. After that she never used it again.
The problem with a pill for nausea, even if you could keep it down, is the time it takes for the effect to start. It's just much longer than smoking, where, as I said, you feel the effects in just a few minutes.
HT: How did you make the decision to come out publicly and admit you had AIDS and were smoking marijuana for it?
KENNY: We got arrested. A confidential informant claimed to have seen a small amount of pot on my coffee table. Based on that, the police got a search warrant, and on March 29, 1990 they came to our house and found the pot plants I was growing. If we hadn't been arrested we probably would have just kept doing what we were doing and quietly led our lives.
HT: And what pushed you out of the courtroom and into the media spotlight?
KENNY: It was really strange. After we were arrested I bought a HIGH TIMES to get NORML's number, hoping they might be able to tell me what to do.So I started reading the magazine, and there was an article by Robert Randall (a glaucoma patient and the first person to receive legal medical marijuana from the government. See HT, Oct. 91) about the first AIDS patient to gain legal access to marijuana. Randall's phone number was at the end of the story and I called it and he helped us obtain a lawyer, a really good guy who took the case pro bono.
As far as going public, I can't say it was an easy decision. My wife and I thought long and hard over it. The first time we went public was at our court case. Our defense—medical necessity—was made public the evening before we went to court and the next day the TV cameras were there. The first actual interview we did was with CNN. So we went from telling no one we had AIDS to telling everyone on television.
HT: What was it like for you to find yourself in front of the cameras talking about AIDS and marijuana?
KENNY: We were scared to death. But we were more afraid of not speaking out. We knew we needed this drug, and we knew that other AIDS patients needed the information that there was a drug that could help them. A lot of AIDS patients die from not being able to eat; you fall into this pattern where you're sick all the time and you literally waste away. It's very important for people to know that marijuana can break that pattern.
HT: What was the public's reaction to that appearance on CNN?
KENNY: Very positive. My wife and I got calls from patients all over the country. And the people here in Bay County were fantastic.
HT: How about your family? When did you tell them and how did they take it?
KENNY: I have three sisters, and one of my them found out when Barb was initially hospitalized because she has a hemophiliac son. He's HIV negative, thank goodness. But she knew about pneumosistis, so she guessed it right away. And she told my father so he knew. We didn't tell my mother or Barbra's family until right before we went to court. But everyone's reaction was complete compassion. They were upset but they were all very supportive.
HT: What happened with your legal case?
KENNY: We were charged with felony cultivation, possession with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphenalia. Our lawyer put up a medical necessity defense. We had a one day bench trial in front of a judge and admitted the plants were ours, but explained that they were necessary for our therapy. The judge heard the case, then took things under advisement for two weeks or so before refusing to accept our defense on the grounds there was no precedent for medical necessity in Florida. So we were convicted on all the charges. We were sentenced to 500 hours of community service, to be served loving and caring for one another, and a year's unsupervised probation. The judge was clearly compassionate even though he didn't admit our defense.
HT: Did you appeal?
KENNY: Yes. Our lawyer appealed to the First District Court of Appeals—a three judge court—in Tallahassee, which admitted our defense of medical necessity.and overturned the conviction.
HT: Was that the end of it?
KENNY: No. The State asked the Court of Appeals to rehear the case, which they agreed to do. The result was that they reissued their opinion that we did have a legitimate medical defense. The State then asked the Florida Supreme Court to hear the case but they refused, with directions that the State cease any further legal actions against us.
What was significant about the case was that the appeals court ruling set precedent that marijuana can be considered a drug of medical necessity for AIDS in the state of Florida.
HT: Did you ever wonder why someone wanted you convicted for the two plants so badly?
KENNY: I really didn't understand it. And certainly I didn't like it. It's hard enough to be sick without having to be dragged through the judicial system. It was particularly hard on Barb because she was a lot sicker than I was. There was a lot of stress involved and stress isn't good for an AIDS patient. After we got arrested she went back into the hospital, and from then on it was one hospital stay after another until she died.
HT: Did Barbra live long enough to see herself exonerated?
KENNY: Yes. We were exonerated in the Fall of '91, and she died on March 28, 1992, almost two years to the day from when we got busted.
HT: Tell me about applying for Compassionate IND access to marijuana from the government.
KENNY: Well, we didn't even know there was such a thing as the government giving you pot for medicinal purposes until we read Robert Randall's article. But as soon as he asked us if we wanted to apply for it we agreed right away.
The first step was finding a doctor who was willing to apply for us. Patients can't apply for marijuana, they need a doctor who applies on their behalf.
HT: Was it hard to find one?
KENNY: We approached three doctors about it before we met one who would file an application for us. The problem was that there was a nightmare of paperwork to fill out. It was very time consuming. We were dealing with three different federal agencies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).
HT: Once you applied, did the government make it difficult to get approval?
KENNY: Oh, yes. The FDA lost our application three times, so it took over six months to get approved, and then the DEA messed around for another three months. We started the application process in June, 1990, just prior to going to court, and didn't receive our first shipment of marijuana until February of 1991. The whole thing took about nine months.
My wife and I were the last two AIDS patients to receive access to marijuana, and I'm the last survivor. There were four altogether.
HT: How many joints a day does the government supply to you?
KENNY: I get 300 a month. But since my nausea changes, one day I might smoke six joints and another day I'll smoke four. I smoke till I get relief and then I put it out, usually about six or eight puffs. But that depends on the intensity of the nausea.
HT: Have you ever had any negative effects from marijuana?
KENNY: No. My lungs are clear. The government's grass is harsh, but it's free, legal and it works.
HT: Tell me about MARS, the Marijuana AIDS Research Service you and Barbra were instrumental in starting.
KENNY: The MARS program, which was conceived by Robert Randall and funded by Richard Dennis of the Drug Policy Foundation, was launched in March, '91. It came out of Barbra and my efforts—along with the efforts of two other AIDS patients—to gain legal access to marijuana. And what the MARS project did was to simplify the application paperwork down from about 50 hours to the point where a doctor could fill it out in 20 minutes.
So doctors who had been reluctant to apply for medical marijuana for their patients because of the paperwork involved were much more willing to help their patients with the simplified application.
HT: What was the Government's response to the project and the increase in applications for medical marijuana?
KENNY: The Bush administration clearly didn't like the fact that we were getting marijuana and they didn't want other AIDS patients getting it. So they panicked and shut the Compassionate IND program down last March ('92), saying that too many AIDS patients' doctors were applying. But before they did, several patients were approved for legal access and literally hundreds applied whose applications were simply thrown away when the program was shut down.
But MARS continues to function as an information source for AIDS patients and tries to help with legal assistance for those AIDS patients who run into trouble because of their medical marijuana use.
HT: Do you think the shut down was done out of meanness or ignorance or what?
KENNY: I think a lot of it can be attributed to bureaucrats not wanting to backpedal on policy. For 50 years the government has been saying marijuana has no medical value and they don't want to change that. I also think some of the people involved in that decision are homophobic and others are hard line War on Drugs types. So you have a number of reasons for these people to want to maintain their policy.
But the decision to shut the program down was clearly immoral and criminal. To maintain the attitude that marijuana has no benefits when hundreds of thousands of people know otherwise is crazy. Marijuana is a drug and drugs have applications. I don't understand a government that refuses to accept that.
HT: Do you think things will change with Clinton in office?
KENNY: Well, we finally have a president who's not afraid to say the word AIDS. And I think he and his administration realize that we're in this for the long hall. They know that AIDS will not disappear by ignoring it, or that the people with AIDS will simply die and go away. This is a problem that all of us will have to deal with and right now I have pretty good hopes that we can get the medical marijuana program restored.
HT: After Barbra was gone, what gave you the strength to go on?
KENNY: It was very hard to lose my wife. But while it's tragic to lose somebody you love, and you'll never stop remembering them, you also have to remember yourself and what you need to be doing. Personally, I've decided to focus as much energy as I can toward this issue. I feel that I need to do as much as I can, while I can, to try to get and keep this issue in the public view. I've lost so many friends to this disease it's hard to remember them all.
HT: Do you think your message is getting through to the public?
KENNY: As far as I can tell the issue is already won, the bureaucrats just havn't come around to it. The average person on the street understands trying to alleviate people's pain and suffering. Most people would agree that if this drug can help then you should have it, and the decision should be between you and your doctor, not some politician or policeman.
HT: How about you? How are you personally feeling?
KENNY: I'm feeling good. I've been off AZT for a while now. My doctor came to the conclusion that it was doing me more harm than good. It was destroying my white blood cell count. Of course my T-cell count has been nonexistent forever. It's been two or less for over a year, and they've always been really bad. Normal is 700 to 1,200.
Actually, I was really sick last Christmas. I had a microbacterial infection in my spleen and I was in so much pain I was taking morphine for it. That's what Barbra died from. What happens is that bacteria is constantly around you, in the air, water, everywhere. But in an AIDS patient if it gets inside you it multiplies until it gets out of hand. So I've been taking medication for it since last May, quite a bit of it. And the only way I've been able to do that was by smoking marijuana.
HT: What do you want to say to America about AIDS?
KENNY: If I were speaking to the government I would say when you're faced with a life threatening illness you should have some say so in your care. And if trying a new drug or a new alternative therapy or anything else might help, you've got to allow access to that. You've got to be able to try to heal yourself or reduce your suffering anyway you can.
Certainly with AIDS that's the case. The end stages of the disease can be very devastating, to the point where you don't recognize the person that you once knew. Anything that can be done to make that person comfortable, to make them enjoy what time they have remaining, is a great thing.
HT: You used to want to be in the Park Service but life intervened. What are your dreams today?
KENNY: It's bizarre what happens in life. I guess a lot of my dreams are just being alive, trying to make it as far as I can. One of the things I'd really like to see before I go is for a doctor to be able to write a prescription for marijuana. That's one of my dreams, and I'm happy just to do my part toward it.
HT: Thanks, Kenny.


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Escaping the male-killer21 Jul 2007
At the moment, our yard here has many more butterflies than the "butterfly garden" at the zoo. That's mostly attributable to the zoo's complete lack of milkweed (Asclepias), which we've had going strong for around three weeks, supplemented by a huge number of coneflowers (Echinacea). After a quick burst of painted ladies, the monarchs have settled in. We've had phlox for a few days now, so we'll be watching for tiger swallowtails.
So I like this story about the rapid response to selection among Blue Moon butterflies in Samoa:
Sylvain Charlat of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University College London, along with colleagues, studied the sex ratios of Hypolimnas bolina butterflies on the Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii, where males had dwindled to 1 percent of the populations in 2001.
The likely culprit was a male-killing parasite, Wolbachia, which lives inside the butterfly's reproductive cells, preferably female sex cells. With a female host, Wolbachia can hitch a ride to the next generation aboard the mother's eggs. Since males are "useless" for the bacteria's survival, the parasite kills male embryos.
But the male butterflies found a way to stealthily overcome the parasites. At the beginning of 2006, the scientists found the males made up about 40 percent of Upolu's butterfly population.
On Savaii, females still dominated the Blue Moon butterfly population (99 percent) at the start of 2006, but by the year's end, males made up nearly 40 percent.
Wolbachia may be the best parasites in nature, judging by the diversity of strategies that they exhibit. Killing males to direct resources toward females is the least of these. Here's a passage from a 1995 article by Stephen Hart:
Entomologists had thought that parthenogenetic wasps represented a quirk of nature -- until geneticist Richard Stouthamer of the Agricultural University in Wageningen, the Netherlands, reported in the April 1990 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that he had "cured" parthenogenetic wasps with a dose of antibiotic. Tetracycline exorcises a parthenogenetic female, allowing her to lay viable female and male eggs. Her offspring can then go on to form a sexually reproducing population (Hart 1995:4).
The culprit was Wolbachia, of course, which can spur unfertilized eggs to develop. You may pause to consider whether this is good or bad for the wasps (clearly, it's bad for the male wasps!). But for the females, it leaves them 100 percent related to their offspring.
The rapid response to the high infection rate is quite expected based on the mechanism of male-killing, as long as the few remaining males are necessary, their genes will be represented in all the next generation. So it's an enormous reproductive advantage, in this case causing an allele to go from near zero to 40 percent in only 10 generations.
Still, it raises that question again -- who's better off here, the lucky males or the Wolbachia?
UPDATE (7/21/2007): A tiger swallowtail yesterday -- a dark morph female, which is the first of those we've had around here.
Hart S. 1995. When "Wolbachia" invades, insect sex lives get a new spin. BioScience 45:4-6.


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Nintendo has announced that they will be bringing some rather unique costumes into Monster Hunter 4, which will be releasing exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS.
Along with the traditional costume, you will also be able to have Felynes dress up as Mario and Luigi. Not just that, they will also be able to dress up as Link, complete with Master Sword and a bow that looks similar to Zelda's from Twilight Princess.
These costumes are only available for the Japanese public for now, as the game hasn't received confirmation of a Western release. They must be download from shops, with Mario and Luigi being acquired from 7-Elevens. Where Japanese gamers can acquire the Zelda-themed costumes will be shared at a later date.
In Japan, Monster Hunter 4 is due to release on the 14th of September.
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Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Seventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum.
Countries represented.
The Seventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Director, Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, USA
President, Kélan Resources, Greater Los Angeles Area, California, USA
Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Vice-President and Secretary General, Chinese Museums Association; Vice-Chair and Executive Council Member, ICOM China; Deputy Director, New Cultural Movement Museum of Beijing, China; Executive Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Museum Magazine, Beijing, China
Executive Director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, California, USA
President and CEO, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California, USA
Chairperson, Inclusive Museum Knowledge Community
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2014 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
San Francisco Art Institute, USA
University of California, San Diego, USA
Florida State University, USA
Queen's University Belfast, UK
Indiana University, USA
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
University of Oxford, UK
University of Calgary, Canada
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- Dec 22nd, 2015
1) Shared printer is suitable for small environment Network printer used for large network.
2) Shared printer connected with system and system need to be power on every time, network printer not need to be shutdown and printer did not connect to the system it will be connected to switch.
3) Network printer have more security.
4) Network printer have IP address. Shard printer working only same platform.
Network Printer and Shared Printer
- Dec 22nd, 2015
Network printer has LAN card so we can assign IP address for that and we can give print from any machine in the Network
Shared Printer is a local printer if we want to give a print to that printer we need to install printer drivers from shared drive
- Dec 29th, 2015
Network Printer:
Instead of installing printer drivers in each and every machine physically, simply we can access print server in that simply we can double click on the printer, which one we need use.
Shared Printer:
In this printer is physically connected to the computer, if your team member want to use your printer.
for that you need to share that printer for that particular user, or you can share with every one if you want.
but that printer, which is connected to the computer physically... always should be power on.
otherwise you cant use that shared printer.
vishwas thorat
- Jun 10th, 2016
Network printer having maximum user can be access where as shared printer limited user access.
- May 30th, 2017
A network printer working on network and shared printer printer with another computer and usb device and other bootable device
- Aug 11th, 2017
Network printer: Network printer has its own IP address. it is connected to local area network through switch.
Shared printer: When printer is installed in one system, it is in network when we share that printer to another system which is in same network is called shared printer
Shaik Khajavali
- Aug 14th, 2017
Network Printer: It is used to Configure Multiple PCs with Same IP Address, We can give print from any PC where the printer is configured.
Mohammad Tarique
- Sep 19th, 2018
Share Printer :- - Share Printer dont have Ip address
- Share Printer having limited access
- Its shared by local system
Network Printer :- -Network having IP address
- Its configure on server
-It can be access from within network
- Bug can be rejected or not if the basic issue is corrected and the secondary related issue is not the bug.
- 2 isp working in one network
- Can neutral be earthed at load side?
- No output from printer
- Network printer and shared printer
- Network load balancing
- Types of network
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- Differences between cable color coding
- Printer and nic
- Computer network node packet transmission
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- Explain the types of locks in SAP ?
- Printer configuration
- Use of jmeter over other paid load testing/stress testing tools
- QTP - shared object repository (sor)
- Dynamically load test data
- Network protocol testing question


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A Star Tuition Group, founded by Helen Wilson (BSc, PGCE), has been crowned 'Tuition Group of The Year' for Greater Manchester in The Corporate Livewire Manchester Prestige Awards, beating off stiff competition from across the region.
A Star Tuition Group is a child-centred service that enables five to sixteen-year olds to gain results that truly reflect their academic abilities. The business offers tailored learning programmes that suit every child's unique requirements in a fun, welcoming and highly motivational environment. With an impressive pass rate for SATs and GCSE exams, the group boasts outstanding pass rate for the entrance exams to Bury and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Bury Grammar and Bolton School.
The Corporate Livewire Manchester Prestige Awards celebrate small and medium-sized enterprises consisting of localised businesses and sole traders that have thrived in their highly competitive community and have proven their success. A Star Tuition group impressed the judges unanimously with their "personal approach and high levels of experience which ensures that every child benefits from a solid platform for academic success".
Helen Wilson said:
"We're absolutely delighted to win this award and are thrilled with our achievement. Over the past ten years we've helped hundreds of children achieve their true academic potential, coaching them to gain excellent marks in SATs and GCSEs or secure places at our outstanding, local grammar and independent schools."
Over the past year, 2145 nominations were sent to the awards team at Corporate Livewire by industry experts, readers and satisfied customers. Winners were selected based on a range of criteria including marketing and branding, business growth methods, customer experience and approach to new ideas.
Awards Director, Benjamin Pugh, commented, "All winners in the Manchester Prestige Guide have shown an exemplary commitment towards their business with personal commitment to expanding the horizons of the private sector side by side with the image of the city."


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The casting for this film was both challenging and rewarding, and we worked with a black-owned casting company to ensure it was right. Several major factors made the casting of this film unique. The first was the time periods. Since the film spans several decades from the 1950s until today, we had to carefully cast actors with the right features for styling based on each period. The second major consideration was versatility, since we wanted to show that "The Talk" happens in black families of all kinds, despite social class or geographical location. Most importantly, we carefully paired each parent-child, casting strong performers whose skill level goes above and beyond commercial acting. Black women continue to persevere the intersectionality of race and gender in society and since P&G & MBIB has always shown support for Moms, part of the brief was to make our protagonist throughout the film a woman.
The phrase "The Talk" in mass American culture usually refers to the awkward conversation parents have with their teens about sex. But in black homes, families giving the "The Talk" usually means discussing with children how being black will affect their lives, from how to deal with hearing racial slurs, to overcoming discrimination to how they should behave during interactions with the police to avoid dangerous or deadly outcomes. Also relevant is the re-emergence of race as a point of debate in America with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to stop police violence against unarmed black citizens as well as the overall racial and societal tensions that have surfaced after the 2016 US presidential election.
Spanning several decades, the film shows that while many things have changed in our world, "The Talk" has remained a grim rite of passage for most black Americans for too many generations. The film features intimate moments where black parents of various eras and social classes attempt to prepare their sons and daughters for the difficulties and dangers of growing up black in America. It ends with a call for society as a whole to be part of a larger conversation about racial bias, in hopes that one day, black families no longer have to have "The Talk."
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RECYFIX® MONOTEC drains were chosen for the outdoor surfaces at Ysgol Gynradd Lôn Las Primary School, Swansea.
The Ysgol Gynradd Lôn Las Primary School, Swansea, has currently 535 pupils from Year 1 to 6 as well as Reception and Nursery Classes. The school site is split into 4 main areas. Having a large gymnasium and a separate school canteen there are plenty of outdoor playing areas including a hard surface yard, an enclosed area for Nursery and expansive areas of grassland.
The RECYFIX® MONOTEC system was installed to provide surface drainage in the paved entrance/play areas and the car park's asphalt surface. Having a grating width of 100mm (Channel internal dimension) with an overall height of 280mm and a cross-section of 245.5cm2, the 176 metres of channel supplied provide a total water capacity of just over 4329 litres.
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A Rare Proof Copy Of Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' Found, And It's Going To Be Auctioned Off, So Save Your Pennies (Or Millions)
Here's some Sylvia Plath news that isn't depressing — and is actually kind of swell. There's a newly discovered and extremely rare proof copy of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and it will be auctioned in London next month. So, if you're a big Plath fan, I guess you better start saving, and get thee to London.
The proof, which will be auctioned at Bonhams on June 24, belongs to a woman who blogs as Lucy WithaY. She writes that she bought the book as a college student in 1985 as a requirement. One day, 30 years later, Lucy remembered the copy and wondered if it was special. She wrote about it in her blog, saying, "For no reason, a few weeks ago whilst idly browsing eBay, I thought 'I wonder if anyone else has one of those weird Bell Jar books for sale?' and searched for it….Readers, I found out a couple of interesting things about my old book."
Lucy quickly called up the auction house Bonhams and sent over her "jolly rare" copy. Which, y'know, was a good idea.
"It's relatively unusual for things to come to us from people who don't know what they've got," Matthew Haley, the head of the book department at Bonhams, told The Guardian. "Mostly people do, and they've inherited them, or bought them deliberately. To end up with it by accident is rather fun."
Haley estimates the proof copy is worth between $3,100 to $4,600. Lucy WithaY reports she'll spend the money on a trip to Japan with her husband.
For those of you in need of a Plath refresher, The Bell Jar is the highly autobiographical novel that details the author's spiral into a rapacious depression that would hold her in its grasp for the rest of her life. It was published first in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, and again in 1966 under Plath's real name, three years after her suicide.
The uncorrected proof that Lucy WithaY has dates back to 1962, one year before The Bell Jar's release, and contains more than 70 differences that would later be edited out. For example, in the proof edition the protagonist is twice errantly referred to as Victoria Lucas. When a nurse approaches Esther Greenwood's bed after Esther has tried to kill herself, the nurse calls her by Plath's own pseudonymic name.
"And how are you feeling this morning, Miss Lucas?" The nurse asks. The narrative continues, "I … hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say 'Fine.' 'I feel lousy.'"
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Now that my show is done and my other job as mom is in full effect, one of the things I enjoy that I get to do again is cook breakfast for my family.
My kids love pancakes. Chocolate chip pancakes to be exact. There was a time when a box of Bisquick was a staple in my house. I mean, c'mon, all you had to do was add water!
Let's take a look at what's in a box of Bisquick:
Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Dextrose, Salt.
Does that make anyone else's eyes pop out of their head? I'm not going dissect this ingredient list, that's a whole other blog post, or two.
Let's see, Bisquick was invented in the early 1930′s to save time for busy cooks by premixing the ingredients needed for baking biscuits…
But it's really easy to mix your own bisquick equivalent.
- 6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (I used 100% whole wheat flour for my mix)
- ¼ cup coconut sugar (or you can use cane sugar)
- 3 tablespoons baking powder (aluminum-free)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
*Use organic whenever possible
- Combine all ingredients together and store in an airtight container.
To make the pancakes:
Yields 4-6 pancakes
- Whisk 1 cup of the pancake mix + 1 cup of milk (nut milk of choice) + 1 egg (to make vegan, use a flax or chia egg) + a handful of fruit or chocolate chips (opt.)
- Heat a skillet or griddle and grease it. Pour the batter onto the hot griddle about 1/4 cup at a time.
- When the top of the pancake bubbles, flip and continue cooking on the second side.
It doesn't get easier than that! Enjoy!


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NEW YORK (WHDH) - Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was on hand Monday to help open a new charter school in Harlem.
Capital Preparatory Harlem is the only new charter school opening in Harlem this year. Combs came up with the idea to open the school six years ago, with help from Capital Preparatory Charter Schools founder Steve Perry. Combs donated money to the project and licensing and state funding was obtained.
"I love my community, I love New York," said Combs. "I love Harlem and it's great to be able to come back and do something for my community."
Last spring, Combs's involvement with the school was revealed. On Monday, he welcomed the school's first students personally and give them advice about working hard.
"Listen to your teachers, do your homework, study, support each other, be leaders," said Combs. "Be leaders, that's what this school is about."
The students got into the school through a lottery, with priority given to those living nearby. About 180 students are currently enrolled, with plans to expand to 700 students.
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Premier Oil in board changes
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UK-based oil company Premier Oil announced that its Falkland Islands and South-East Asia director, together with other two non-executive directors, is stepping down from the company's board of directors.
Neil Hawkings, in charge of Falkland Islands & SE Asia, has decided to step down from the board with effect from June 30, 2016.
In addition, David Bamford and Michel Romieu, both independent non-executive directors, will stand down from the board at the close of the annual general meeting (AGM) on May 11, 2016.
As a result of this notification, Neil Hawkings, David Bamford and Michel Romieu will not be standing for re-election as directors at the company's AGM.
Hawkings will continue to work for the oil company, which this week started production from its Solan project in the North Sea. He will work on a consultancy basis with a particular focus on the Falkland Islands and SE Asia business units and will continue as a member of the executive committee.
Mike Welton, Chairman, commented: "It is incumbent on us, in the current commodity price environment, to consider the appropriate size of Board membership. I would like to thank David Bamford and Michel Romieu for their significant contribution to the Board and the Company during their service period as Board members and to wish each of them well for the future."
"I would particularly like to thank Neil Hawkings, who has been an executive Board member for over 10 years. I am delighted that Neil will continue to play a key role going forward in the business units and projects where his expertise is most valuable."
The company earlier announced that the former Fairfield CFO would join its board in May 2016.
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By: Carmen Ibarra
Victor Frankenstein's dark desire for his deceased mother correlates back to Freud's theory of uncanny stating that " all humans have homosexual and heterosexual desires as part of their polymorphous perversity, but some of those drives remain unconscious, while other, more conscious…" 117 When Frankenstein first describes his dream he starts it with visualizing himself kissing Elizabeth (which he considers her to be his sister) later on Elizabeth disappears and he goes into detail about how he's feeling when he is dreaming about his deceased mother is in his arms. "…a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed…" 60 basically Victor was having a dark desired dream of his mother and Elizabeth.
In my personal opinion, I don't believe we sexually desire our parents and compete with our parent growing up, however, when we do grow up we look for someone like our parents (if that parent was a strong figure in our lives). We search for someone with similar characteristics, such as someone who can be as respectful, caring, and loving as our parent is to us. It's disturbing to have that kind of mentality that we sexually desire our parents enough to search for a partner like them, but in Frankenstein, we obviously do see that there is this kind of mentality and he does sexually desire his mother and loves Elizabeth because she is much like his mother.


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I was invited to Portugal Fashion and Brand Up Autumn/Winter 2014 in Porto, Portugal's Fashion Week. The event was over 3 days and situated at Alfândega do Porto, a beautiful baroque building on the banks of the river Douro.
We arrived on Thursday afternoon and met up with the rest of the International fashion guests who included online / fashion stores.
Looking after all of us were the amazing Ana and Juliana who were so nice and lovely! We all had a special time hanging out together and seeing the best of Portugal's designers.
It was such a pleasure to meet you all.
Here are my favourite designers from the 3 days.
Susana Bettencourt for the amazing prints on wool. She is from Portugal where her passion for knitwear and traditional lace techniques were developed from early childhood
Daniela Barros for the strong and feminine geometric cut and prints. She is from Oporto in Portugal. She uses organic material only and her collection is made in Portugal.
Diogo Miranda for the sophistication and elegance. He is from Portugal.
Couture spirit, sophistication, elegance, sensuality and exclusivity are the words that best describe his work.
A big thank you for the pics to the photographer: Peter Sorg.
Letizia Di Guardo x


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- 2½cupsall-purpose flour
- 2tablespoonsbaking powder
- 2teaspoonsgranulated sugar
- 1teaspoonsalt
- ½cupcold unsalted butter, cut into ¼-inch cubes
- 1cupcold buttermilk
- ¼cupunsalted butter(melted, for brushing)
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Using a pastry blender (or two knives or your fingertips), quickly cut the butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles coarse meal with a few slightly larger butter lumps.
- Using a rubber spatula or fork, stir in the buttermilk until the mixture forms a soft, slightly sticky ball.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and quickly form into a rough square. Be careful not to overmix. Pat the dough into a 1-inch-thick rectangle. Fold the dough letter-style into thirds, then lightly pat the dough back out into another 1-inch rectangle. Try to handle the dough as quickly and lightly as possible. Repeat the folding 2 more times; after the final fold, press or lightly roll the dough into a ½-inch-thick rectangle.
- Using a 2½-inch round biscuit or cookie cutter, cut out the dough rounds and place on the prepared baking sheet. Pat and roll the remaining scraps to cut out more rounds. Brush with the melted butter and bake until the biscuit tops are light golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Brush with additional butter immediately, if desired. Serve warm or at room temperature. The biscuits are best served the day they are made, however leftovers can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. Reheat in a 350 degree F oven for 5 minutes.


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I have to admit it has been quite a while since my last blog post! The last couple of months have been spent learning, developing and refining my skills as a therapist to provide a more integrated, multi-dimensional approach to the treatment of athletes and individuals with concussion injuries.
For this Edublog, I was inspired by a course I took recently with Bernard Tonks, which focused on vestibular assessment and rehabilitation. The reason I chose to learn more about treating the vestibular system is that more and more research has been published to show that the vestibular system can also be affected by the functional disturbance of a concussion injury. It is widely known that this system plays an integral role in balance, postural control, proprioception and oculomotor function. According to a review by Broglio et al., approximately 60% of athletes experience vestibular and oculmotor impairments following a concussion and if not addressed appropriately during rehabilitation, may lead to prolonged recovery. Therefore, it is a vital component of concussion rehabilitation for those who experience symptoms of dizziness and/or vertigo to improve outcomes.
A quick anatomy lesson,
The vestibular apparatus lies deep within the inner ear and is separated from the auditory canal by the tympanic membrane (eardrum). It consists of a bony labyrinth and a membranous labyrinth, which is suspended inside of the bony portion. The bony labyrinth consists of the cochlea, the vestibule and three semicircular canals (anterior, posterior and horizontal) that detect angular vertical and horizontal motion of the head and body. Within the membranous labyrinth there are the membranous portions of the semicircular canals and the two otolith organs; the saccule detects linear motion in the vertical plane and the utricle detects horizontal linear motion in the A-P plane. The vestibular nerve (cranial nerve VIII) transmits information about orientation and movement of the head in space to the brain from the labyrinth. It is then sent to two primary areas; the vestibular nuclei and the cerebellum for processing. These areas also interact with the somatosensory and visual areas of the brain. The afferent sensory information is transmitted into motor output to the ocular and spinal muscles, and control the vestibulo-ocular (VOR), vestibulospinal (VSR) and vestibulocollic reflexes. These reflexes act to control gaze stability during head movements (VOR), and muscles of the spine (VSR) and neck (VCR) to maintain upright postural control.
What happens after a concussion?
Vestibular and balance impairments are highly prevalent for individuals with a concussion. Sign and symptoms of these impairments can include reported dizziness, vertigo, unstable vision and poor gaze control (VOR), and/or disequilibrium. The presence of dizziness at the time of injury has been associated with prolonged recovery time.
So what is the evidence for treatment interventions?
Firstly, a study by Gottshall (2011), found that vestibular physical therapy led to more positive outcomes for patients with mTBI. Results showed improved balance, dynamic visual acuity and gait for those who experienced either exertional, migraine-associated or spatial disorientation dizziness. Furthermore, Alsalaheen et al. (2011), found similar positive group treatment effects for those who received an individualized treatment programs following a concussion. Treatment programs included exercises for gaze stability (VORx1, VORx2), balance control, habituation exercises and occasionally a canalith repositioning maneuver was used for the few subjects diagnosed with BPPV. The key point in both of these studies is that vestibular rehabilitation is very subjective and a program must be tailored to the individual and their reported signs and symptoms. Both studies indicated that the efficacy of treatment still needs to be further investigated.
A more recent randomized control trial (RCT) conducted by Schneider et al. (2014), investigated the effects of a combination vestibular and cervical spine rehabilitation on the duration of time for athletes recovering from a concussion to obtain medical clearance for return to play. The treatment group was provided with an individualized treatment plan by a physiotherapist for both the cervical spine (including manual therapy, neuromotor and proprioceptive retraining exercises) and vestibular rehabilitation (including habituation, gaze stability, adaptation, standing and dynamic balance exercises) for 8 weeks or until the time of medical clearance. Both the control and treatment groups received a basic treatment plan consisting of range of motion exercises, stretching and postural education. The results of the study showed a significant reduction in time to medical clearance for the treatment group as 11 of 15 subjects and only 1 of 14 subjects in the control group obtained clearance within 8 weeks. Results of this study indicate that cervicovestibular rehabilitation is an effective means of improving outcomes during recovery from a concussion. Once again, this study emphasized the importance of an individualized treatment plan based on predominant signs and symptoms. Recommendations for future research were to include a more thorough initial vestibular assessment and determining the optimal timing to initiate a rehabilitation program.
Therefore, the evidence does show a positive treatment effect for vestibular rehabilitation for individuals and athletes recovering from a concussion injury. It is an important piece of that multi-dimensional approach to rehabilition which may also include initial physical rest leading to a progression of graded exercise, manual therapy for the cervical spine, vision therapy, and academic accommodations.
With my own future research, I hope to investigate whether vestibular deficits, such as dynamic balance control and gaze stability, exist beyond the symptomatic phases of concussion. If so, we can utilize vestibular assessment strategies to better determine when an athlete should safely return to play. The takeaway message from this is to always approach concussion rehabilitation with a very strong subjective history! This is key to determine the predominant signs and symptoms within the many dimensions of an injury to ensure that you conduct a thorough assessment and effective rehabilitation program!
- Introduction to Vestibular Rehabilitation, presentation by Bernard Tonks (2016)
- Broglio, S. P., Collins, M. W., Williams, R. M., Mucha, A., & Kontos, A. (2015). Current and emerging rehabilitation for concussion: A review of the evidence.Clinics in Sports Medicine, 34(2), 213–231. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2014.12.005
- Hain, T. C. and Helminski, J. O. Anatomy and physiology of the normal vestibular system. https://www.health.utah.edu/physical-therapy/docs/faculty/materials/courses/Vestib_APreading_sm.pdf
- Gottshall, K. (2011). Vestibular rehabilitation after mild traumatic brain injury with vestibular pathology. NeuroRehabilitation 29(2); 167-171.
- Alsalaheen, B., Mucha, A., Morris, L. O., Whitney, S. L., Furman, J. M., Camiolo-Reddy, C. E., Collins, M. W., Lovell, M. R. and Sparto, P. J. (2010) Vestibular rehabilitation for dizziness and balance disorders after concussion. Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy. 34(2); 87-93
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March 21st, 2011 9:38 AM by Lehel S.
Treasuries and mortgages started flat very early this morning but prices fell at 8:45 when the foreign minister of Libya announced Libya will halt all military operations, probably due to the UN vote last night for instituting a no-fly zone over the country. When the headline scrolled the DJIA index jumped to +130 and the 10 yr note which was off 5/32 dropped an additional 8/32 taking the 10 yr yield up to 3.31%. Whether his comments will be taken seriously we will wait and see but it did move markets initially.
The G-7 countries early last night approved currency intervention to stop the increase in the yen, the first time in 11 yrs that there is a coordinated move by central banks to intervene in currency markets. The result has been a big decline in the yen versus most currencies including the dollar. The intervention has a target for the yen but the G-7 countries will not say what it is. Back n the 80s there were a number of times central banks intervened in currency markets, each time the interventions were short-lived and generally didn't have the intended affect.
In Japan work continues to keep the cooling tanks from over-heating. The power company saying it now has laid the power lines and hopes to have power to one of the reactors tomorrow and the others possibly by Sunday. Expects however are saying there is no assurance that when power is connected that the cooling pumps will work. No reports of additional radiation leaks overnight. News that there has been poor management and maintenance in the Japan nuclear power system for years starts the finger pointing even before the present crisis is stabilized.
There are no economic reports to deal with today, yesterday the Mar Philadelphia Fed business data was stronger than forecasts. While there was no noticeable reaction to it with other issues overriding, markets won't ignore it. The US economy still holds optimism but there is anecdotal evidence consumers may be less optimistic than in Dec when the measurements of confidence and sentiment were increasing. Higher energy and food costs are working into consumer concerns. In the UK consumer sentiment is falling on concerns about jobs and economic recovery. An index of sentiment dropped 10 points to 38, the lowest since records began in 2004.
Crude oil was higher early this morning but is now lower on the announcement of a cease fire in Libya. Gold stronger on the intervention on the yen as currency market volatility will increase over the next few weeks.
At 9:30 the DJIA opened +130, mortgage prices -7/32 (.22 bp) and the 10 yr note yield at 3.33% +7 bp. All markets re-tracing the panic movements seen early this week and last.
Week-ends are always something of an issue for traders with two days away; this weekend is even more so with Japan's problems well documented and now the Libyan situation with the UN initiating a no-flay zone over the country and then early this morning the announcement from Libya officials that they would implement a cease fire. Crude oil was up about $2.50 prior to the 8:30 announcement of the cease fire, now down $0.30, the stock market rallied and the bond market sold off on less safety concerns. Will we come out of the weekend in tact? No additional radiation leaks n Japan and the cease fire holding? Tough and risky to be in markets these days with the high levels of volatility.
We don't expect much of a rally in stocks and not much selling in bond markets today with the weekend and all the uncertainty still hanging over the markets.


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Re: "Christian hospital fires doctor, sets off national challenge to aid-in-dying laws" [Sept. 2, A1]:
In a state that overwhelmingly approved (65%) an aid-in-dying law, Dr. Barbara Morris planned to help her patient end his life at home. That Centura Health reportedly fired Dr. Morris is frightening for all Americans.
The Christian hospital system stated that "patients experiencing suffering that cannot be alleviated should be helped to appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering."
If one does not want to undergo "redemptive suffering" would the patient have the right to an "out-of-network" hospital that would allow aid-in-dying?
Centura Health should be held financially responsible for inflicting "redemptive suffering" on a patient who desires an end to suffering.
Lucia Regan, Seattle


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People have been enjoying fine wine in Bremen's Ratskeller since 1409. It is the largest repository of German wines, with 650 exquisite varieties. This huge vaulted hall with its columns and ornate wine barrels has welcomed plenty of famous characters, including the poet Heinrich Heine, who was inspired to put his experience into verse.
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