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VIDEO: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Speaks To U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting
Honolulu, HI— Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) yesterday addressed the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, sharing her views on the importance of local government and federal funding to America's communities, the impact of foreign policy on the ability to provide needed resources to local governments, and the growing nuclear threat our country faces.
In the plenary session hosted by the Women Mayors Leadership Alliance, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard recalled Hawaiʻi's strong heritage of female leadership. Noting that each of Hawaiʻi's counties have been led by female mayors, she also named Queen Liliʻuokalani and Representative Patsy Mink as amazing leaders who continue to inspire us today.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard spoke about the importance of supporting local leaders with federal funds. "There is amazing work that is done at the local level to serve the everyday needs of our people. I know how important the resources are that you need to get that work done — to deal with things like infrastructure, making sure our residents have clean water to drink, sewage treatment plants that work, safe and clean parks, first responders, fire fighters, law enforcement and more."
The congresswoman noted the impact of American foreign policy on the federal government's capacity to deliver federal resources to communities, the increasing threat of nuclear war, and lack of preparedness and shelter for the American people in the event of a nuclear attack.
"You cannot separate foreign policy from domestic policy. Since 9/11 alone, our country has sacrificed countless lives and over $6 trillion on wasteful regime change wars in countries like Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan, and on the nation-building caused by the destruction left in our wake," Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said. "To give this a little context, we spend $4 billion every month in Afghanistan. Think for a moment — what could you do in your city with $4 billion?"
"It's imperative that every mayor, every leader at the local, state, and national level stand up and speak out," the congresswoman said. "Speak out against regime change wars and the new Cold War and arms race that are sucking money out of our communities and threatening our future. Speak up and speak out for peace."
Video of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's Address: https://youtu.be/Ih6kEyrQRgE?t=265
Courtesy of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
While in Hawaiʻi, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also met with the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation and Mayors For Peace, held meetings with her district staff, met with constituents, and hosted a sunrise reception for the mayors attending USCM's annual meeting. Later today, the congresswoman will address the American Youth Soccer Organization 2019 National Games at the Waipiʻo Peninsula Soccer Complex.
About Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is serving her fourth term in the United States House representing Hawaiʻi's Second District, and serves on the House Armed Services and Financial Services Committees. She previously served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Homeland Security Committee. She was elected to the Honolulu City Council in 2010, and prior to that at age 21, was elected to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 2002, becoming the youngest person ever elected in the state. Tulsi Gabbard has served in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard for 16 years, is a veteran of two Middle East deployments, and continues to serve as a Major. Learn more about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard...
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Full Text of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's Address
Aloha! Thank you all for being here!
Mahalo to Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the City & County of Honolulu for hosting this year's meeting.
Mahalo to Mayor Pauline Cutter for your leadership and for inviting me to join you almost four decades since the Women Mayors Leadership Alliance was first convened. Today, one in five mayors here at the conference are women.
We've come a long way since Mayor Susanna Salter took office in Argonia, Kansas in 1887, the first woman to serve as mayor in these United States.
We've come a long way in the 100 years since the 19th amendment passed, granting women across the nation the right to vote.
And what a difference we have made.
We follow in the footsteps of women who have broken down barriers, challenged the status quo, and ensure a better future for the next generation.
Hawaiʻi is no stranger to female leadership — Every one of our counties has been led by female mayors, and we have benefited from the great service of trailblazers like Queen Kapiʻolani, Queen Liliʻuokalani, whose palace you will visit later this evening, where she was imprisoned as she took a stand for her people. People like Representative Patsy Mink, who was told she couldn't be a doctor because she was a woman — so instead she became a lawyer and the first Asian American ever elected to Congress — and passed Title IX, creating opportunities for girls and women everywhere.
Amazing leaders who continue to inspire us today.
I've served as a soldier for over 16 years, deployed twice to the Middle East, and served in Congress over 6 years on the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Homeland Security Committees — and am proud to be running for the highest office in this land, the first female combat veteran ever to run for President.
I know how important our national security is, keeping the American people safe.
Having served in the State Legislature, and on the Honolulu City Council, representing over 100,000 constituents in my district alone — there is amazing work that is done at the local level to serve the every day needs of our people. I know how important the resources are that you need to get that work done — to deal with things like infrastructure, making sure our residents have clean water to drink, sewage treatment plants that work, safe and clean parks, first responders, fire fighters, law enforcement and more.
We all have stories about the things we need fixed, right?
Our water mains are so old here, they are constantly breaking, bursting, busting up the streets — our hardworking city employees are on quick response to go back and try to patch up the streets, fill the potholes.
There's never enough money to do what needs to be done. You make the most with what you have, do all you can to squeeze and make every dollar count.
So when reporters ask me, Tulsi, why do you focus on foreign policy so much? Why are you so focused on ending regime change wars, the new Cold War and arms race? Why aren't you talking about domestic issues — like infrastructure, affordable housing, fixing our streets and water mains?
I tell them — our foreign policy cannot be separated from our domestic policy.
Since 9/11 alone, our country has sacrificed countless lives and over 6 trillion dollars on wasteful regime change wars … in countries like Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan … and on the nation-building caused by the destruction left in our wake. Wars that make our country and our people less safe.
To give this a little context — the DOD is spending $4 billion every month in Afghanistan … a war that's been going on for over 18 years. A war that took two more American lives last week. A war that nearly 300 of my brothers and sisters from the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard are going to serve in as we speak.
Think for a moment — What could you do in your city with $4 billion?
These are not just wars of the past — the Trump administration is continuing regime change wars in places like Syria, supporting a genocidal war being waged by Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and threatening new ones … laying the groundwork for new regime change wars with countries like Venezuela and Iran.
There is a new Cold War that is escalating with tensions increasing between the US and nuclear armed countries like Russia and China, a new arms race that is looking to cost us trillions more, while making us and the world less safe, pushing us closer to the brink of nuclear war.
What does this have to do with us here at home? This is a threat that's real for every one of us - no matter what part of the country you live in. This threat causes every one of us as leaders to think, what are our civil defense plans? What are our contingency plans to keep our people safe?
We had a wake up call here last year when we thought our country was under attack— when early on a Saturday morning we got a text alert saying "BALLISTIC MISSILE INBOUND TO HAWAIʻI, SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER, THIS IS NOT A DRILL."
We though there was just minutes to live. Everyone was scrambling, terrified. College kids sprinting across campus. A father lowering his little girl into a manhole, thinking that may be the only place she would be safe. Another parent, with his children on different parts of the island, trying to decide which of his children he would spend the last minutes of his life with.
The reality is — if you were at home right now, in any city or community in the country, and you got that alert — where would you go? Where would your constituents go? Where is there shelter? Are there nuclear shelters your residents can get to within 15 minutes? What are the disaster response plans?
What you will realize is the same thing that we did — this is a sick hoax. Our leaders have failed us. They have created a situation where this nuclear threat is looming, create an alert to tell us to seek shelter immediately, but there is no shelter! They have not provided any one of you with the hundreds of trillions of dollars that would be necessary to build the kind of shelters that we would need, all across this country, just for the immediate response to such a nuclear attack, what to speak of what would be needed in the days and weeks to follow.
Our leaders have failed us.
When this happened to us in Hawaiʻi, this is when I decided to run for President. To end this insanity. To end these wasteful regime change wars, new Cold War and arms race. To make sure that what happened to us here in Hawaiʻi doesn't happen to any one of you, to your loved ones, to your residents and constituents.
This is the call to action I want to leave you with — we need radical change in our foreign policy to prevent this from happening and to make sure that our children, our families can live free from fear of a nuclear war.
It's imperative that every mayor, every leader at the local, state, and national level recognize and stand up and speak out about the danger of nuclear war. Speak out against regime change wars and new Cold War that are sucking money out of our communities, and threatening our future. Stand up against warmongers and those who profit from war. Speak up and speak out for peace.
The challenges we face are great as we fulfill our mission of service to the people of our communities and our country. No matter how great the challenge, so long as we stay focused on our mission of service, putting the wellbeing of our people and our country above all else, there is no challenge we cannot overcome.
Now you've heard "ALOHA" a lot since you've come here.
Aloha is most often used as hello and goodbye, but it's real meaning is so much more than that. It is kindness and compassion. It is about being in the presence of and recognizing the breath of life - hā - in others.
Aloha is what binds us together – connected, united by our love for each other, our people and our America.
Aloha teaches us to give without thought of return, that aloha never leaves the giver, but flows freely between giver and receiver.
Aloha, love, is not just a feeling. It is a powerful force that motivates us to take action for the well-being of others and our country.
Divisiveness, hatred, bigotry and greed have cast a dark shadow over our country and so much of our politics. Aloha is what our country and the world needs most.
It is aloha that enables us to overcome the forces of darkness and greed seeking to tear us apart. To bring people together. Regardless of political party. Regardless of the color of our skin, how we worship or who we love. To overcome the differences we have.
To heal this nation, bring us together, and remind us that it is aloha that calls on us to care for one another, to care for our environment, to make sure future generations will have clean water, clean air, to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars, to fulfill our kuleana.
So I hope one of the things you take home with you from this conference is this meaning of aloha … and how we can live and lead with aloha every day as we face the difficult decisions and challenges before us — bringing together people of diverse ideas, working together to find real solutions that best serve the interests of the people who entrust us to work for them.
Lead with the understanding that all of us – in each of your cities, across our nation, and ultimately all of us on Island Earth are in the presence of and share the same hā – the same breath of life.
In 1962, Hawaiian elder and philosopher Aunty Pilahi Paki noted that Hawaiʻi held the key to world peace, and that key is aloha.
As you go back to your cities, we all send you off with our warmest wishes that we may all find inspiration, strength, compassion, and courage in the spirit of aloha which lies within each of our hearts, and share that aloha with others.


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NDC 69219-106 Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel
Ethyl Alcohol
NDC Product Code 69219-106
Proprietary Name: Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel What is the Proprietary Name?
The proprietary name also known as the trade name is the name of the product chosen by the medication labeler for marketing purposes.
Non-Proprietary Name: Ethyl Alcohol What is the Non-Proprietary Name?
The non-proprietary name is sometimes called the generic name. The generic name usually includes the active ingredient(s) of the product.
NDC Code Structure
- 69219 - Science Of Skincare Llc
- 69219-106 - Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel
NDC Product Information
Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel with NDC 69219-106 is a a human over the counter drug product labeled by Science Of Skincare Llc. The generic name of Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel is ethyl alcohol. The product's dosage form is gel and is administered via topical form.
Labeler Name: Science Of Skincare Llc
Dosage Form: Gel - A semisolid3 dosage form that contains a gelling agent to provide stiffness to a solution or a colloidal dispersion.4 A gel may contain suspended particles.
Product Type: Human Otc Drug What kind of product is this?
Indicates the type of product, such as Human Prescription Drug or Human Over the Counter Drug. This data element matches the "Document Type" field of the Structured Product Listing.
Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel Active Ingredient(s)What is the Active Ingredient(s) List?
This is the active ingredient list. Each ingredient name is the preferred term of the UNII code submitted.
Inactive Ingredient(s)About the Inactive Ingredient(s)
The inactive ingredients are all the component of a medicinal product OTHER than the active ingredient(s). The acronym "UNII" stands for "Unique Ingredient Identifier" and is used to identify each inactive ingredient present in a product.
Administration Route(s)What are the Administration Route(s)?
The translation of the route code submitted by the firm, indicating route of administration.
- Topical - Administration to a particular spot on the outer surface of the body. The E2B term TRANSMAMMARY is a subset of the term TOPICAL.
- Topical - Administration to a particular spot on the outer surface of the body. The E2B term TRANSMAMMARY is a subset of the term TOPICAL.
Product Labeler InformationWhat is the Labeler Name?
Name of Company corresponding to the labeler code segment of the Product NDC.
Labeler Name: Science Of Skincare Llc
Labeler Code: 69219
FDA Application Number: part333A What is the FDA Application Number?
This corresponds to the NDA, ANDA, or BLA number reported by the labeler for products which have the corresponding Marketing Category designated. If the designated Marketing Category is OTC Monograph Final or OTC Monograph Not Final, then the Application number will be the CFR citation corresponding to the appropriate Monograph (e.g. "part 341"). For unapproved drugs, this field will be null.
Marketing Category: OTC MONOGRAPH NOT FINAL - A product marketed pursuant to an Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drug Monograph that is not final. What is the Marketing Category?
Product types are broken down into several potential Marketing Categories, such as NDA/ANDA/BLA, OTC Monograph, or Unapproved Drug. One and only one Marketing Category may be chosen for a product, not all marketing categories are available to all product types. Currently, only final marketed product categories are included. The complete list of codes and translations can be found at www.fda.gov/edrls under Structured Product Labeling Resources.
Start Marketing Date: 05-27-2020 What is the Start Marketing Date?
This is the date that the labeler indicates was the start of its marketing of the drug product.
End Marketing Date: 05-27-2022 What is the End Marketing Date?
This is the date the product will no longer be available on the market. If a product is no longer being manufactured, in most cases, the FDA recommends firms use the expiration date of the last lot produced as the EndMarketingDate, to reflect the potential for drug product to remain available after manufacturing has ceased. Products that are the subject of ongoing manufacturing will not ordinarily have any EndMarketingDate. Products with a value in the EndMarketingDate will be removed from the NDC Directory when the EndMarketingDate is reached.
Exclude Flag: N What is the NDC Exclude Flag?
This field indicates whether the product has been removed/excluded from the NDC Directory for failure to respond to FDA's requests for correction to deficient or non-compliant submissions. Values = 'Y' or 'N'.
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Is Clinical Hand Sanitizing Gel Product Labeling Information
The product labeling information includes all published material associated to a drug. Product labeling documents include information like generic names, active ingredients, ingredient strength dosage, routes of administration, appearance, usage, warnings, inactive ingredients, etc.
Product Labeling Index
- Otc - Active Ingredient
- Otc - Purpose
- Warnings
- Otc - When Using
- Otc - Stop Use
- Otc - Keep Out Of Reach Of Children
- Indications & Usage
- Dosage & Administration
- Storage And Handling
- Inactive Ingredient
Otc - Active Ingredient
Active Ingredient Ethyl Alcohol 62% v/v
Otc - Purpose
Purpose Antiseptic
- For external use only. Flammable, Keep away from fire or flame.
Otc - When Using
When using this product avoid contact with eyes. If eye contact occurs, rinse with water.
Otc - Stop Use
Stop use and ask a doctor if skin irritation or redness develops.
Otc - Keep Out Of Reach Of Children
Keep out of reach of children. In case of accidental ingestion, seek medical help or contact a Poison Control Center immediately.
Indications & Usage
Uses to help reduce bacteria on the skin.
Dosage & Administration
- DirectionsApply enough gel to wet hands and rub together until dry.Use 1 to 3 times daily.
Storage And Handling
- Other information Do not store above 104°F (40°C).
Inactive Ingredient
Inactive ingredients Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Glycerin, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Water (Aqua). May contain Isopropyl Alcohol.
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There's lots of downtime at a rocket event. Rockets fly in salvos maybe an hour apart, so there's plenty of time to sit in the shade and play cards.
But when the countdown comes over the PA system everyone steps outside to watch. As short as flights may be, it's exhilarating to hear these vehicles roar out of sight.
The first day of IREC is devoted to "basic" rocket launches, the missiles that only reach about 10,000 feet altitude. Tomorrow is the big 'uns, the advanced teams whose target altitude is more that double that. The Miners are in the advanced class, and since the firing order is first-come, first-served, they plan to head out to base camp at roughly 6:00 a.m. Hopefully after the scorpions go underground, but well before the temps begin their inevitable climb into the triple digits.
Launch "salvos" are carefully scripted with safety in mind. Up to six teams at a time can mount their rockets to "rails," fixed towers some 200 yards away from base camp. Once all teams are ready to launch the rail area is evacuated and base camp is locked down so that no one is caught wandering around the desert if a rocket develops a problem. One rocket at a time is given the countdown and then sent skyward with a huge, hissing roar. All eyes are fixed on the missile until it either returns to the ground under parachutes or impacts the ground with a loud "BANG!" that can be heard/felt many hundreds of yards away. A complete flight takes roughly four minutes, so a salvo can last half an hour or more.
The weather has been perfect for these launches. Not a cloud within 50 miles, a steady breeze, and low humidity. Base camp, well out of range of any cell phone service, is like a gold rush town that springs up overnight and where only one language is spoken. Rockets.


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DALLAS (105.3 The Fan) – The Longhorns' prized recruit has been ruled eligible for the upcoming college basketball season.
Mohamed Bamba, ranked by national recruiting services as one of the top players in the country, was accused by his older brother of taking improper gifts and money from a Detroit financial adviser.
The NCAA was looking into the matter and ruled Tuesday that Bamba is cleared to play for Texas.
"After evaluating all available information, the NCAA determined the assistance Greer Love provides to Mohamed Bamba does not violate rules. Bamba remains certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center."
Ibrahim Johnson posted a rambling, profanity-laced, 20-minute Facebook video Wednesday, accusing adviser Greer Love of giving Bamba money and gifts. Love previously worked in New York and was involved in youth sports in Harlem, where he got to know Bamba's family.
Love told 247Sports the family asked him to help manage Bamba's recruitment. Love says he consulted with schools to ensure he wasn't breaking rules and wouldn't jeopardize Bamba's eligibility.
The 6-foot-11 Bamba signed with the Longhorns in May, picking Texas over Duke, Kentucky, Michigan and Harvard. He's projected by some as an early 2018 NBA draft pick.
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Discipleship's ministry within a church or organization usually starts with one woman/man or a few women/men who have the desire to see others grow in their relationships with Christ.
Discipleship's Ministry exists to lead grown ups in a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We are friends: old friends making new friends, always allowing the circle to grow wider. We are sisters and brothers: accepting one another and challenging each other to grow in our faith.
We are image-bearers: like Father, like daughter, like Father like son we take Christ in us to our community, revealing His love and grace to a broken world. We hope you'll join us as we grow in our relationship with Jesus together. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me at any time.
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Joanna Trollope's modern day version of the classic Sense & Sensibility is, like I said, MODERN. It is not going to be the same as Austen's as the times have changed a great deal since the 1800's. If this is going to bother you, then I don't suggest you read it. You'll be sitting there, comparing, contrasting, driving yourself mad. If you would like to experience a modern take on the classic tale, with characters that are very similar to the original cast personality wise, and great writing, then you should give it a try. The premise is the same, three sisters who are mildly bratty are to be watched over by their half-brother and his wife after their father dies. And the half-brother's wife wants nothing to do with them.
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Love & Rage: The Inner Worlds of Children is that rare book on the lives of parents and children that works hard to not tell you what to do. What it does do is nosedive into a pool of perplexing questions all of us have asked ourselves at some point – and it does this with remarkable flair, turning into an absorbing, reassuring companion without once slipping into instruction manual mode. That is because it is not a parenting book, insists author and psychotherapist Nupur D Paiva.
Whether it is going-to-school anxiety, dealing with divorce, the presence of both the parents in a child's life, or post natal depression, anger, siblings and the air at home, the book covers a wide variety of modern-day situations. In her honest, anecdotal style, Paiva isn't out to sugarcoat anything: "We are all damaged to some extent; we are all somewhat dysfunctional; self-sabotaging, self-punishing, depressed, anxious, defensive, isolating ourselves or intruding on others or somewhere in between," she acknowledges plainly, while tracing the link between our childhood experiences and the way we are with our own children, and how and when therapy can stem the damage.
Woven into the book is Paiva's varied experience in helping children and their parents cope with difficult, often violent situations in non-judgemental ways. In an interview with Scroll.in, she spoke about how a fascinating graphic novel influenced the way she wanted readers to dip into Love & Rage, how rage is, in fact, the fuel for all change in adults as well as children, and why years of writing for academic journals made her write this book in quite the opposite of that mode. Excerpts from the interview:
How did you come to write this book, and how long did it take you to write it?
In a way this book was many years in the making, because from very early in my career I have worked with parents of small children and worked hard to help adults understand the ordinary difficulties of growing up. After some years of returning to Delhi and working here, I realised I just had to write down all these things that bothered me because they were rattling around inside of me, pushing and shoving to get out. It began with a question to myself. What would it be like if more people knew about what actually takes place in a psychotherapy consulting room? How would that change things in families? How would that affect how parents and children talk to each other?
I began writing pieces for the Hindu Business Line Blink – I actually got in touch with one of the features editors there pitching them my first piece on the "First Day at School". I did a few of these but the word limit felt restrictive – there was a lot more I felt needed to be put out there.
It took me over a year to write it, I think. Some in fits and starts. Most of it marinated in my mind for a while, drafts were written and re-written. Some were written in one sitting and needed virtually no editing.
You mention in a note to the reader that this book has no order – the reader is free to read it the way they see fit.
The note to the reader was influenced by two things. One was that I became aware that we never really tell our own stories or recall personal stories in chronological order. We do it by memory and association, which tend to be linked together by threads of emotion. There is a graphic novel that I once read which came in a box with different pieces of paper in it rather than being bound together as a book, and the reader could choose where they wanted to start the story. I found that fascinating.
The second thing that influenced that decision was that I wrote the chapters as they came to me, even though I am fully aware that for good writing you should have an outline first. I couldn't work that way. They have all been fuelled by emotion. I wrote the most compelling chapters first, such as the one on fathers, school anxiety, divorce, breastfeeding and permission to cry. "Bedtime" was written between patient appointments one afternoon, scribbled by hand on my notepad. "Childhood desires" was written last, seven months after the book had been in copyediting. I always knew I had to address this topic it but I had refused to force it. It eventually got written when it was ready.
It was after a lot of this kind of emotional-digging-fuelled-writing that I realised I needed some kind of an overarching structure. Tthat is when the others began to get filled in, so that the book could create something of an integrated story. So every chapter is a whole in itself, yet they link up together.
Your book has an easy, anecdotal, engaging style. Have you always enjoyed writing?
I have always enjoyed writing, but most of what you call an easy anecdotal style had been beaten out of me – by years of writing for academic journals, which as you know, are anything but easy and anecdotal. So this book is really truly me, free from journal-writing-tyranny.
Would you call Love & Rage a parenting book?
Never. In fact, I was very clear with my publisher that if that word was anywhere in the blurb or the title, I would not publish the book. In 76,000 words I do not use the word "parenting" (which is not a verb to begin with and not an elegant one when we force verb-hood on it). The book works hard (I hope it succeeds in this) to not tell you what to do. The streak of teenage rebellion in me finds it difficult to stomach "good advice" myself and besides, who am I to tell you how to raise your children? You are the expert on your situation, and you would hate me anyway if I told you I knew you / your life better than you. The aim is for you to reflect on your own emotions, actions, treatment of your inner child, your offspring – and feel your way through it. Not be given instructions for this very emotional and difficult, highly specialised role of being a parent.
Our everyday lives could do with a bit of psychotherapy, you point out in the book, we needn't wait for something traumatic to happen. What are the early signs that should send a parent seeking the help of a therapist?
That is a very long list because children are very creative and can come up with all kinds of ways of communicating their distress, from being extra-quiet to extra-aggressive. Basic rule of thumb is that if there is any sustained distress, be it physical or emotional, in your child, or in you when interacting with your child, it should move you to talk to someone – grandparent, friends, paediatrician, the collected wisdom of the internet or a book. Take it from there. It usually takes parents years to wind their way to a psychotherapist because they have spent years denying a problem or just wishing it will go away with time.
Rage is often dismissed as a weakness. You give it normalcy. How can parents deal constructively with their own rage, and their children's?
Ever felt like throwing things? Ripping paper? Biting something hard? Punching something/someone? Saying, "I was so mad at XYZ I could have MURDERED him/her!"
All that is rage and it is in each of us. It exists whether we acknowledge it or not, express it or not. Anger is not the expression. It is a physical sensation inside of us. It is just another human emotion, part of the rich range of what we are all capable of, and it is possible to be absolutely furious without anyone even knowing about it. But you will know because you experience it inside of you.
That is how we can help ourselves and especially our children. First, acknowledge anger, even if your children are angry with you. They have a right to their own emotional experience and there is no "you should not feel this". We feel what we feel, that is a given. Help your children to notice that they feel anger inside them and that they have a choice about what comes out – it is what comes out that has consequences. The actions we choose have consequences. We can choose to express anger in words, through our hands and feet by biting, swearing or not express it at all. Each will have a different effect. Anger/rage is the fuel for all change. We want to help our children be assertive but not aggressive, but we do not notice it has the same root. This is why to deny anger is very damaging because it kills off the power a person has to feel effective in this world. And we need that, or we will be completely flattened by external pressures and have no sense of agency.
How we relate to our children is deeply linked to our own childhood experiences, and you go back to this particular thought time and again. Many adults struggle with difficult memories of childhood. How can one break the pattern to limit its impact on our children? Is therapy always necessary?
Non-judgemental self-reflection is what is necessary to break the pattern of passing on difficult experiences from one generation to the next. Many different experiences can encourage self-reflection – extensive reading, theatre, art, music, etcetera. However, psychotherapy does more because it also works to bring those things to our awareness which we may have worked hard to not be conscious of – in other words, things that we have suppressed in our memories or awareness. We avoid these memories / feelings / realisations because they are painful. Psychotherapy helps because it provides a safe space for this non-judgemental self-reflection.
You address loneliness. Are children more lonely today? Is there a gap we must fill?
I can't comment on whether children are more or less lonely today. There are lonely children in every generation. What we do have today is a systemic collusion from many institutions in society (including the education system) which alienates younger and younger people from themselves. That is what causes the loneliness – a distance from our own internal experience. The one-size-fits-all assembly line approach emphasises the construction of a compliant adult who will fit into a capitalist enterprise, which encourages individual achievement and competition. Our schools focus on giving instructions, there is no emphasis on self-awareness, on emotional self-regulation, on working in teams, on compassion, on using the resources of the Earth in a sustainable way. Our urban children are so distanced from the natural world – nature, forests, animals – that they have no idea how they are connected to the Earth and are part of the cycle of dust-to-dust. Children think milk comes from the supermarket, not from cows.
We're often told we are overthinking parenting, particularly by the older generation, while many have come to believe that perhaps we are not
thinking enough about them. What do you make of this discourse?
We confuse being thoughtful with being anxious or over-involved. Being thoughtful about your child's experience is always helpful to them because inevitably it will mean you are looking at your child; their specific temperament or personality, strengths and struggles. Being anxious about your child is never helpful, because it usually means you are consumed by your own perspective and not that of your child.
"How do you make out the difference?" you might ask. Look at a parent-child couple in a playground, say a three-year-old wanting to climb a rope ladder. The thoughtful parent approach will be to speak to their child about their desire to climb the rope ladder, help where it gets difficult, let them try it out and decide for themselves whether it is a good idea or not – all the while keeping a safety net of arms below. The anxious parent will be actively discouraging, usually by the look on their face and the tone of panic in their voice. "No! Don't do that! It's too high, you'll fall!" Words to that effect.
The first reaction is about the child's experience. The second is about the parent. It is easy to tell the difference.
As I read your book, I realised how many nuances of the parent-child relationship are often ignored, where you overturn the widespread notion of "Bachche to aisi hi pal jaatein hain". Which, to your mind, are the most urgent?
This is difficult to answer because the nuances vary with developmental stages – which means that children at different ages have different emotional needs and what is useful at three months is no longer necessary at six years and may in fact be actively detrimental at age 10. So perhaps the most urgent is to just pay attention to the child you have in front of you at that particular moment – that life stage, that personality and that day. Not some ideal desired child, not the child you had two years ago. Be the parent your child needs at that moment. If we keep that in mind then we are no longer doing a "Bacche to aise hi pal jaate hain".
Mothering, you point out, "is the hardest, unseen, most ordinary, ubiquitous work of all." And mixed feelings about motherhood are barely acknowledged. Mothers are beginning to talk about it, and yet, there is so much pressure to make it all look effortless. How does one break this cycle?
Where does this pressure to make it look effortless come from? It is something we do to ourselves when we lose sight of our own experience and reality and fall for the one sold to us by the media – the smooth, glitzy, happy looking woman on the television telling you how a particular disposable diaper makes her and her (always topless) baby sleep through the night; or the equally happy woman in the magazine selling you food for your baby that comes out of a box that was made in a factory and smells of cardboard but her baby loves it.
Anything worth doing well takes effort and that includes raising a decent human being. So if it is effortless, some element is missing.
We are still uncomfortable acknowledging post-natal depression and it's even more rare to consider the impact on the babies at the receiving end of it, which you do in your book. Could you elaborate?
That the mother's emotional experience deeply affects her baby, even in utero, is something that we both know and refuse to acknowledge. Many traditional child-birthing practices actually take this into account including how the mother is treated, how she is encouraged to be surrounded by a pleasant, stress-free environment and what she is fed. Between the stresses and loneliness created for women by patriarchy and modern living, this is dying. Women are growing babies in very emotionally isolated contexts – with no one looking after them. It is inconvenient for us to acknowledge that when we don't look after the mothers of small children, we are in fact creating an intergenerational mental health crisis because maternal depression is linked to lifelong emotional and learning difficulties for the developing child.
If we are raising a generation of children who don't know how to be by themselves, who are easily bored and are not encouraged to have free play, how is all this likely to manifest in adult life?
The same way actually. Exactly the same way. Now add permission to do things you did not have in childhood – thrill-seeking, sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, gambling, pornography, addictions of all kinds. You get the picture.
Psychotherapy is still largely considered an indulgence. Is affordability a barrier, or is it just the mindset?
This is true: psychotherapy can be expensive depending on where you are located and who you go to see and how long you are engaged in it. There are many practitioners who do pro bono work or who have a sliding scale of payment though, so it is always worth asking.
However, the issue of psychotherapy being an indulgence is not just about the money. Plenty of people who can well afford it, who would spend lakhs on a holiday, would still consider psychotherapy an indulgence. That is how little we attend to our emotional pain.
If it was a physical ailment, we would run to a private medical outfit, regardless of the costs. That is not considered an indulgence. We have no clue about how emotional neglect actually feeds our physical ailments – from allergies to cardiovascular health. There is also the aspect that psychotherapy is often not a one-time consultation, it can be a few hours or it can take years of repeated visits because the aim is to engage the person in their own mental health, unlike most medical intervention where we are passive recipients of something.
How challenging is it being a psychotherapist in India, having practised in the UK?
There is never a dull moment and I have never been short of work. That is the sort of challenge one does not mind. As a psychotherapist, working in private practice is easier than working in an institution. I chose to work for myself because – found it extremely difficult / slow work to encourage people who have been schooled in working with the concrete, observable and measurable to consider the powerful intangible realities of the mind and emotions. What psychotherapists talk about, or bring your attention to, is often just too inconvenient for institutions to want to consider.
The pull of devices in children (and adults!) is real, and perhaps unavoidable after a certain age. What is a reasonable age / frequency for children to be allowed some use of screens?
The screens are there and we have access to them, just the way drugs are there, as we have access to them. If we realise what we are using the screens for, what purpose they serve for us, it may make it easier to regulate ourselves. Mostly, we use screens to avoid thinking about or feeling what is going on in our lives. It is like a tranquiliser, or anaesthesia, it dulls the pain of what actually troubles us and we use screens to to get away from it. Children sitting and eating in front of YouTube, filling up sadness, loneliness or empty time with an iPad. That is the part we have to watch out for. Other than that, screens for children are both inevitable, fun, a relief and still not comparable to human interaction. But we all need a break from human interaction at times.
Fathers need to be more involved in parenting. This is one of the important issues you raise, and you link the absence of the male parent to violence against women. In doing this, you choose to focus on the importance of a healthy father-son relationship. Tell us more.
In psychotherapy, literature and research it is well documented that the presence of a strong, available father figure helps a boy regulate his aggressive impulses and learn to modulate his anger (which otherwise, can turn out toward his mother or in toward himself) and use it constructively to grow in the world. The relationship with an older man, who takes the trouble to interact with the boy, an older man who is firm but affectionate – that combination is the nugget of gold, rare in many contexts, because we see how much child-rearing ends up being women's work. Please note that I use the phrase father figure – not only father. This can be an uncle, a grandfather, a teacher, an elder brother. The important part is someone, a man, cares enough to take some responsibility for this boy's emotional development and how he fits into his community.
What about fathers and daughters? Is that an easier relationship?
Fathers and daughters are a very neglected area which we know very little about, even in psychological literature and especially in India. From the little work there is, plus what I see in my consulting room, it is an extremely complex relationship, actually not simpler or easier than the father-son relationship at all. Certainly more subtle, really influencing the little girl's view of herself as having agency in the world, as being worthy of love, as being strong, beautiful. And again, as is true for any parent-child relationship, when it works well, it is so seamless that you can't tell why exactly. When it works well, it is unobtrusive. It is only when there is a rupture – a loss, a divorce, an estrangement, neglect, abuse – that we see the ill effects.
When you were a new parent, did parenting books / books about children help you? If so, which ones? Are there any you would recommend to readers?
I only read one book in the early days of my first child – the days when she was in the neonatal ICU and breastfeeding her was a struggle. I was a complete wreck, in a flood of tears all the time, unable to string a sentence together without bursting into tears. The book is a series of BBC radio talks by a psychoanalyst, DW Winnicott, which I refer to in Love & Rage as well ("The Child, The Family and The Outside World"). He basically said "follow your gut, you are best placed to respond to your child, don't let anxiety overtake you", and that helped me to stop crying and trust myself.


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7 things you probably didn't know about Mother's Day
The Filipinos used to celebrate Mother's Day in December
May 10, 2018
We do our best to honor our mothers on (probably) the second most special, if not important, day in their lives. We spend hours, days, weeks, thinking of the perfect gifts, outshining our brilliant gimmicks from last year's celebration because we want the best for them.
I'm not giving you tips on gifting these heaven-sent women as we've already written about some of them: hotel promos you can take advantage of, breakfast-in-bed recipes, movies to bond over, and other gift ideas. But I'm going to give you a few history lessons about this holiday. Here are some Mother's Day facts you probably didn't know:
1. It was originally known as "Mothering Sunday"
Mothering Sunday was an early Christian festival in the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe. It fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent and was celebrated by the faithful by returning to their "mother church" or the main church near their home for a special service.
2. In the United States, it began as "Mothers' Day Work Clubs"
It was the 19th century, years before the Civil War, when Ann Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia started this program called "Mothers' Day Work Clubs" that taught local women how to properly care for their children. These clubs later evolved into "Mothers' Friendship Day" as Jarvis called it in 1868, which gathered mothers with soldiers to promote reconciliation.
3. Champion of Mother's Day Anna Jarvis later regretted ever starting it
Daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, Anna became active in campaigning for the nationwide recognition of Mother's Day. It was her brainchild, conceived following her mom's death as a way of honoring her.
Anna became successful. 1914 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed her measure officially establishing Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.
Following its national success is the commercialization of the holiday. It wasn't long before card companies, florists, and other retailers capitalized on the personal celebration between mothers and families.
Anna denounced the metamorphosis and began an open campaign against profiteers and groups that had used the holiday. She died in the late '40s disowning the holiday.
4. Carnations are the sort of official Mother's Day flower
Anna distributed hundreds of carnations at the first official Mother's Day service in the early 20th century. This was simply because these flowers are her mother's favorite. Women wore a white carnation to honor a mother who passed away and a pink one to honor a still living mom.
5. The Filipinos used to celebrate it on the first Monday of December
In 1921, the Ilocos Norte Federation of Women's Clubs asked the first Monday of December to be declared as Mother's Day and Governor-General Charles Yeater approved it.
6. President Manuel L. Quezon changed "Mother's Day" to "Parent's Day"
In 1937, President Quezon issued Presidential Proclamation No. 213 that changes the holiday's name to address the complaints that there wasn't a Father's Day.
7. It was President Cory Aquino who moved the holiday to May and declared Father's Day to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June
It was 1988.
Sources: History.com, CNN.com, and Malacanang.gov.ph
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Lee Fain, a senior design strategist at Idea Couture, shares his insights into the world of design management in the most recent issue of Design Management Review. In a piece called "Designers in the Hands of a Passionate Leader," Lee offers tips of the trade for those who are new to the world of managing creatives.
He explains the importance of keeping designers engaged and inspired, working together to project a "shared vision of the future," and aligning the expectations of business leaders with the capabilities and talents of the team. For Lee, it's all about balance; the skills of the designers should complement the company's objectives, not work against them. At the same time, however, the C-suite should give their designers the freedom to express who they are as creatives and offer them the opportunity to hone their skills.
Being a designer does not start at 9 and end at 5, Lee explains – it's a lifestyle. It's a way of seeing the world differently. Designers tend to be "visually expressive," and they can't just turn that on and off. Lee recommends leveraging this quality as well as investing in designers' exposure through conferences, events, and awards. By letting them engage with others in the industry, they're not simply building their own networks, they're also increasing exposure for the company as a whole.
Another critical point that Lee raises is about education. By teaching the rest of the organization about the design process and research practices, expectations can be managed and a sense of mutual understanding can be fostered. "Design thinking" and "human-centered design" might be two of the most popular phrases in the business world in recent years, but managers should aim to understand their teams just as intimately as they understand their consumers. By gaining knowledge about what goes into the design process and the timeframes associated with that, leaders can better manage project deadlines while maintaining rapport with their team and their own bosses.
At the end of the day, managers need to be cognizant of the needs of the people they're managing. They can't be pushing their own agendas or aesthetic preferences, overworking, or devaluing their team by outsourcing everything. Emotional intelligence is therefore key. In addition to other leadership and business skills, knowing how to communicate to your team of designers and bridge the gap between them, project leads, and upper management is pivotal to success. Managers who bring passion to the office every day, who treat those they manage with respect, and who keep employee morale up will be the managers that designers want to work for.


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pain. mostly voluntary.
I realised I wanted to write this post about seven and a half hours into a tattoo session. At that point, I was obviously somewhat delirious and in horrible pain. It gets really fun during that last hour of a full day session. Three things came to my mind then.
One: I'm probably way too obsessed with pain for a normal person, the science behind it, why we feel it, and how it works.
Two, why do I keep doing this?! The answer to that is obvious. To quote an ancient episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because if feels so damn good when I stop". It's not dissimilar to why people eat chillies or even just torture themselves at the gym, the endorphin rush at the end is quite something, and suffering through those last minutes is quite a mental exercise as well. That, and then the artwork being permanent, so 8 hours of suffering for a lifetime of demon pictures on my back is probably a fair trade.
Three, how do I stay still during all this, especially when I know I still have at least 45 minutes to go?!
humanimals and pain
Let's start with a brief detour through Scienceshire. What is pain? Is everybody equal
before the Cenobites in terms of feeling it?
Turns out, it's not that easy to find out, because drilling holes in people's heads and sticking in electrodes is considered unethical, so we have to rely on just asking them non-invasively. When asked about how bad the pain is on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the absolutely most excruciating pain you can imagine,
- people will respond differently because they have different experiences. Someone who's had their leg ripped to shreds by a landmine, miraculously survived, applied a turniquet themselves, then had to crawl back to safety — they probably have a pretty different idea of "excruciating pain" to the average city dweller whose worst trauma in their life is a nasty carpet burn from that one time they wanted to experiment
- people have a really hard time remembering pain, because you can't reexperience it. You can replay sounds in your head, you can relive visual images, but it's very, very hard for you to recall exactly what pain feels like. Coupled with a phenomenon called motivated forgetting this makes it difficult to actually remember your most painful experiences and leads to you significantly downplaying the suffering
What we do know is that women score about 1 point higher on average when asked the question. The simplistic explanation would be that women are less tolerant to pain. I don't like simple explanations to complex problems, so while I think this has a biological component, I think there is a massive social one at play as well. Men are taught from early on to "suck it up", so they are less likely to report pain associated symptoms and more likely to downplay their response even when asked directly. There is a fairly famous study showing that men report less pain in front of a female experimenter than they do in front of a male one.
So basically, no one really knows.
what if
All the gender biases aside, one might sometimes think that not feeling any pain would be the greatest thing ever. Well, you're in luck, people have (involuntarily) tried that. Turns out it doesn't work out that well, not feeling a bone fracture, for example, causes you to not seek treatment for it. I'll spare the gory details for some pub stories, but it makes for some fun research if you're bored.
deal with it
So we can't get rid of it forever, what can we do to deal with pain? "NSAIDs!!!" I hear someone shout from the back. Yeah, those have side effects. The over-the-counter ones are all blood thinners, which is really bad for tattooing. "Opiates!!". Despite my own rather libertarian views, they're not available for just asking nicely. As a rational man, I don't believe drugs will "dirty my aura" or "close my chakras" or whatever, so if pharmacological solutions were an option — yes, please, bring out the suitcase of pills! But it seems they're out of the picture in some cases.
The two techniques I've found to actually work for myself have been dissociation and altered focus. Both of these are exactly what it says on the tin.
With dissociation, you try to separate whatever part of your body is in pain from your brain. This worked beautifully when I had a picture of that Latin American guy tattooed on my upper arm. It takes some focus, but once you mentally detach your arm from your body, you just forget about it. Whenever possible, this would easily be my go to technique. It has one massive downside though, at least for me. It only works for things you can imagine separating from your body. Any extremities are trivial. Your chest isn't, unless you can imagine your head separating from your torso, which I'm sure some people can, but I'm not quite there yet.
altered focus
This involves just focusing on something else. It works off the principle that people are really. shit. at multitasking, despite what your manager wants to believe. This works great in the tattoo shop because they always have music on. I am quite likely the biggest music freak you've met. The music is heavy, the music is always something I know to the point of singing along. So I do, at least mentally. Or drum along, or play the bass along. It's ridiculously easy for me to distract myself doing that, so that's where I go, and my brain forgets to think about the pain because it's busy rocking out, it can't do both at the same time.
Both of these techniques also explain why I said earlier that suffering through the end of the session is a massive mental effort. You're getting your dermis plowed open with a load of automated needles, yet you need to keep focused on something completely different. It's not easy, but it beats the alternative of focusing on the pain, so you just do it.
What about you? Any suggestions on how you manage pain when pharma candy is not an option? Let us know in the comments!
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Now Nick and his ragtag crew of champions want to share their experience of working at the Woodshop, tell you all about their passion for the discipline of woodworking, and teach you how to make a handful of their most popular projects along the way. Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop By Nick Offerman takes readers behind the scenes of the woodshop, both inspiring and teaching them to make their own projects and besotting them with the infectious spirit behind the shop and its complement of dusty wood-elves.
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What is Farm To Table?
Investigate the history, definition, benefits and challenges of the Farm to Table movement in the video below:
Take a virtual field trip to visit some farm-to-table restaurants.
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Choose 1 of the following to do:
1. Do a taste test and share your results.
Obtain a food item from a local farm or garden (farmer's market, your own garden, or labeled as locally grown at a store etc. ) and do a blind taste test with you and your family or friends with the same food item that was not grown locally (the label may say where it is from). Make sure the sample is the same level of ripeness. Share your results with someone or click "share your work" in the navigation menu to share on social media.
2. Interview your family or friends with this question (email, messaging, or text is fine):
What is the furthest distance you would get food that could still be considered "locally grown"? (Would it be within your town, city, state, region, country?)


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Does A Posterior Calcaneal Spur Cause Pain?
If you suffer from heel pain, you know that it affects every step you take. And by the time you take off your shoes in the evening, your feet are really suffering. The pain you?re feeling could be caused by heel bone spurs. Heel bone spurs are common in people who walk, stand or run on hard surfaces such as concrete or tile floors-and that?s most of us! This kind of frequent, intense impact on hard surfaces overstretches and can even tear the ligaments on the bottom of the foot, a condition known as plantar fasciitis. In extreme cases, these ligaments begin to pull away from the bone. Heel bone spurs are created because of this injury to the foot. They are not painful by themselves, but they do irritate surrounding tissues, which causes heel pain.
Heel spurs under the sole of the foot (plantar area) are associated with inflammation of the plantar fascia (fasciitis), the "bowstring-like" tissue stretching underneath the sole that attaches at the heel. Plantar heel spurs cause localized tenderness and pain made worse when stepping down on the heel. Heel spurs and plantar fasciitis can occur alone or be related to underlying diseases that cause arthritis (inflammation of the joints), such as reactive arthritis (formerly called Reiter's disease), ankylosing spondylitis, and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. It is important to note that heel spurs may cause no symptoms at all and may be incidentally discovered during X-ray exams taken for other purposes.
Symptoms may be similar to those of plantar fasciitis and include pain and tenderness at the base of the heel, pain on weight bearing and in severe cases difficulty walking. The main diagnosis of a heel spur is made by X-ray where a bony growth on the heel can be seen. A heel spur can occur without any symptoms at all and the athlete would never know they have the bony growth on the heel. Likewise, Plantar fasciitis can occur without the bone growth present.
Sharp pain localized to the heel may be all a doctor needs to understand in order to diagnose the presence of heel spurs. However, you may also be sent to a radiologist for X-rays to confirm the presence of heel spurs.
Non Surgical Treatment
The heel pain associated with heel spurs and plantar fasciitis may not respond well to rest. If you walk after a night's sleep, the pain may feel worse as the plantar fascia suddenly elongates, which stretches and pulls on the heel. The pain often decreases the more you walk. But you may feel a recurrence of pain after either prolonged rest or extensive walking. If you have heel pain that persists for more than one month, consult a health care provider. He or she may recommend conservative treatments such as stretching exercises, shoe recommendations, taping or strapping to rest stressed muscles and tendons, shoe inserts or orthotic devices, physical therapy. Heel pain may respond to treatment with over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), or naproxen (Aleve). In many cases, a functional orthotic device can correct the causes of heel and arch pain such as biomechanical imbalances. In some cases, injection with a corticosteroid may be done to relieve inflammation in the area.
Surgical Treatment
Usually, heel spurs are curable with conservative treatment. If not, heel spurs are curable with surgery, although there is the possibility of them growing back. About 10% of those who continue to see a physician for plantar fascitis have it for more than a year. If there is limited success after approximately one year of conservative treatment, patients are often advised to have surgery.
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Exactly What Is Posterior Calcaneal Spur
The heel bone is the largest bone in the foot and absorbs the most amount of shock and pressure. A heel spur develops as an abnormal growth of the heel bone. Calcium deposits form when the plantar fascia pulls away from the heel area, causing a bony protrusion, or heel spur to develop. The plantar fascia is a broad band of fibrous tissue located along the bottom surface of the foot that runs from the heel to the forefoot. Heel spurs can cause extreme pain in the rearfoot, especially while standing or walking.
Everyone can be affected by heel spurs, however, certain groups of people have an increased risk. For example, Plantar Fasciitis is a common running injury. People who walk a lot are much more likely to have heel spurs or people who play golf or play tennis. Over-weight people are also more at risk for heel bone spurs as our feet are not designed to carry around extra weight. As a result the ligaments under the foot are placed under constant stress, which inevitably will lead to foot problems.
Heel spur is characterised by a sharp pain under the heel when getting out of bed in the morning or getting up after sitting for a period of time. Walking around for a while often helps reduce the pain, turning it into a dull ache. However, sports, running or walking long distance makes the condition worse. In some cases swelling around the heel maybe present.
Your doctor, when diagnosing and treating this condition will need an x-ray and sometimes a gait analysis to ascertain the exact cause of this condition. If you have pain in the bottom of your foot and you do not have diabetes or a vascular problem, some of the over-the-counter anti-inflammatory products such as Advil or Ibuprofin are helpful in eradicating the pain. Pain creams, such as Neuro-eze, BioFreeze & Boswella Cream can help to relieve pain and help increase circulation.
Non Surgical Treatment
Rest your foot. Reduce the amount of weight-bearing activities you participate in. Get off of your feet and elevate them. This will allow healing to begin. Apply ice to your foot. Applications of ice packs that provide a comfortable cooling to the heel and arch (not a freezing cold) will help reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation. Apply the ice to the heel and arch (not the toes). Make sure it is comfortable, and leave on your foot for about 20 minutes, 3 times a day. If you have any medical problems such as diabetes, poor circulation, etc., discuss the use of ice with your doctor before applying the ice. Active Wrap allows you to apply comfortable cold therapy to your foot without messy ice cubes. Use while on the ?go.? Do not walk with bare feet. Always protect your heels, arches, and plantar fascia with good supportive shoes. Vionic Orthotic Flip Flops For Men and Women are designed for walking comfort with built in orthotic foot beds that help reduce foot pain from heel spurs. Use in the house or on the beach.
Surgical Treatment
Surgery involves releasing a part of the plantar fascia from its insertion in the heel bone, as well as removing the spur. Many times during the procedure, pinched nerves (neuromas), adding to the pain, are found and removed. Often, an inflamed sac of fluid call an accessory or adventitious bursa is found under the heel spur, and it is removed as well. Postoperative recovery is usually a slipper cast and minimal weight bearing for a period of 3-4 weeks. On some occasions, a removable short-leg walking boot is used or a below knee cast applied.
Heel Spur symptoms can be prevented from returning by wearing proper shoes and using customized orthotics and insoles to relieve pressure. It is important to perform your exercises to help keep your foot stretched and relaxed.
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Battle Spirits: Shonen Gekiha Dan/Characters
Sorted to avoid spoilers
- 1 Core Soldiers
- 2 Otherworld King's Allies
- 3 Other
- 4 The Beautiful Sophia (and other allies)
- 5 Mazoku
Core Soldiers
Dan Bashin
A hot-blooded and bluntly straightforward red card battler. During a championship, he was taken into the world of Grand Rolo by Yuuki and Kajitsu Momose, where he was known as the red soldier, a bearer of the core's light. He befriends Zungurii, a native child whose village was under attack, and devotes himself to saving Grand Rolo for the sake of Zungurii and the rest of the Otherworlders.
In the second season, Dan travels to the future in order to battle again, and protect the humans from mazoku, and the planet's eventual reset. Now using a deck of all colors, he becomes a Brave user. In the end, he makes a Heroic Sacrifice by becoming the trigger to summon the gods and prevent the Earth's reset. His fate is left in question.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Fuyuka Oura
- The Determinator
- Empty Shell: He temporarily becomes this after losing to Otherworld King
- Expy: To Toppa Bashin
- Fingerless Gloves
- Heroic Sacrifice: He attempts this at the end of Gekiha Dan, by taking in Mother Core, but he ends up okay. At the end of Brave, he makes a true one.
- Also, in the manga version he uses Mother Core to bring Kajitsu back to life, but has to become the new Otherworld King as a result.
- Hot-Blooded: Everyone is, but him especially.
- Kid Hero
- Even Heroes Have Heroes: Whenever he gets a new red dragon into play.
- Magnetic Hero
- Meaningful Name: He has the same last name as the first series' protagonist.
- The Messiah: He's willing to give everyone a chance. He'll jump to save anyone, even if he hardly knows them or they're an enemy. He even tried to take in Mother Core, which his body couldn't physically handle. And his friends adore him.
- Official Couple: With Mai
- Parental Substitute: He basically takes care of En and Fant as a father
- Playing with Fire: He uses red.
- Power Gives You Wings: His second Battle Form
- Redheaded Hero
- The Rival: With Yuuki in the first series and with Barone in the second.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Curry
Clackey Ray
A yellow card battler (and the yellow soldier) known as "The Noble Youth of Light." He loves to be around girls (be they living or the spirits in his deck), and devotes himself to protecting the ladies of Grand Rolo. At first, he dislikes Dan, but the two become very close friends, learning a lot from the other's different battle style.
In the second season, he's the captain of The Beautiful Sophia. He doesn't battle as much anymore, leaving that task to Dan. When he does, however, he now uses red cards as well as his usual yellow. In the end, he chooses to stay in the future, to protect it in Dan's place, and to be with Angers.
- Bishie Sparkle
- Bishounen
- Chick Magnet
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Daisuke Ono
- Dark-Skinned Blond
- Gratuitous English
- Light Is Good
- Nice Hat: In Brave
- Official Couple: With Angers
- Serial Romeo
- Shipper on Deck: For Zolder and Flora
- Spell My Name with an "S": Why couldn't he just have a normal name like the rest of the core soldiers?
Mai Viole/Shinomiya
A purple card battler (and the purple soldier), and well known net idol for her blog, "Purple Talk." She tends to act rather spoiled, being pampered by both Zungurii and her butler, Serge. When serious, however, she puts others before her, and is described as "scary." She develops feelings toward Dan over time.
In the second season, Mai has changed very much. She's quit her blog, started using her real last name, grown her hair long, and no longer battles. Though she begins the series as a member of the Sophia crew, she temporarily leaves to join Barone in fighting for the mazoku.
- Action Girl: In the first season
- Ayako Kawasumi
- Dark Is Not Evil: She uses purple
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Three times.
- Expy: To Suiren
- Faux Action Girl: In the second season, for most of the time anyway.
- Hair Decorations
- Official Couple: With Dan
- Tsundere: Type B, towards Dan. Mainly only in the first season.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple hair
Hideto Suzuri
A blue card battler (and the blue soldier), and dedicated card collector. He loves X-rares in particular, and will do whatever it takes to add more to his collection. He's rather unsociable, and is disinterested in being the blue soldier. He later becomes a temporary king of the blue world, and is reluctant to leave that position, both because it's a huge contrast to how he used to be bullied in the real world, and because he feels too different from the other core soldiers, as he doesn't fight for anyone but himself.
In the second season, he doesn't appear at first, as he was traveling the world on his own. He later realizes his role, and comes to the future to help out.
- Aloof Ally
- Bishounen
- Daisuke Sakaguchi
- Even Heroes Have Heroes: With X-rare cards.
- Last-Name Basis
- Nice Hat: When he's king
- Otaku: A card collector one
- Tsundere: Male example
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Yuuki Momose
A white card battler (and the white soldier) on the side of Otherworld King. He is one of Otherworld's Three Heads, alongside Leon and Pantera. While appearing cold and cruel, he is very close to his younger sister, Kajitsu, dedicating himself to protecting her. When he realizes his plans are hurting her more than helping, he leaves her in the hands of the other core soldiers and later decides to fight alongside them. Though human, Yuuki is actually the reincarnation of the white world's king.
In the second season He doesn't appear. Instead, his reincarnation, Zolder, plays a role.
- Bishounen
- Brother-Sister Incest: With Kajitsu
- Expy: To J
- Good Costume Switch: Around the time he switches sides. Ironically, his villain outfit was white and his hero outfit was black.
- Heel Face Turn
- Knight Templar Big Brother
- The Rival: With Dan
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Kajitsu
- Takahiro Sakurai
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Kajitsu Momose
A green card battler, and the younger sister of Yuuki. She possesses mysterious powers, which she uses to send Dan into Grand Rolo. She at first comes off as rather emotionless. Kajitsu actually bears the light of Mother Core. Because she controls this great power, it causes a lot of strain on her body. She is deeply devoted to Yuuki because she's actually the reincarnation of the green world's princess, Yuuki's lover in a past life.
- Action Girl: She can be at times, but her Ill Girl status tends to get in the way of that.
- Brother-Sister Incest: With Yuuki
- Dark Magical Girl
- Damsel in Distress: Only in the manga version, but woah. She gets kidnapped left and right.
- Emotionless Girl: At first
- Everything's Better with Princesses: She's not really a princess, but is often called one. In her past life, however...
- Expy: To Kyouka
- Flower Motifs
- Good Costume Switch: Around the time she switches sides.
- Heel Face Turn
- Ill Girl
- Killed Off for Real
- Morality Pet: To Yuuki
- Spared by the Adaptation: She does die in the manga as well, but is bought hack to life.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Yuuki
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Green hair
Otherworld King's Allies
Otherworld King
The ruler of Otherworld. He was enslaving its inhabitants so that they would construct Horizon Ladders. He possesses great powers and sees himself as vital for the existence of Otherworld. He was once an explorer, who found Grand Rolo by chance and wanted to colonize it. He was mocked for his ideas, and began to hate humanity for the way he was treated. He planned revenge on the rest of the humans, whom he believed hadn't progressed as far as himself.
- The Big Bad
- Evil Old Folks: Though he does restore his youth.
- Killed Off for Real
- Power Gives You Wings
- Rikiya Koyama
Leon is one of Otherworld's Three Heads. A very powerful card battler, who uses a hybrid deck. After Kajitsu is left with the core soldiers, he makes numerous attempts to re-capture her. Leon actually comes from the past.
- A Death in the Limelight: Technically he doesn't die. He just gets sent back to his own time, permanently removing him from the series. Still, this happens in the episode that tells his backstory.
- The Dragon: To Otherworld King
- Glowing Eyes of Doom
- Promotion to Opening Titles: When the OP animation gets modified
- Spikes of Villainy
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Otherworld King does this to him
One of Otherworld's Three Heads. Pantera was actually built by Otherworld King. Recorded within him is the data from past battles in Otherworld, making him aware of most strategies imaginable. He believes his only weakness is that he lacks a heart. Because of this, he loses to Dan. Dan considers him a friend, and believes that he can become like a human. In truth, there are multiple robots like Pantera. Each is the true Grand Core for one of the colored worlds.
- Junichi Suwabe
- Killed Off for Real
- Promotion to Opening Titles: When the OP animation gets modified
- Redemption Equals Death
A soldier who is Yuuki's ally. When Dan first comes to Otherworld, he is attacking Zungurii's village. Kazan comes from the future. The reason he's loyal to Yuuki is because he resembles Kazan's former captian. When Yuuki joins with the core soldiers, he does so as well.
In the second season, he's a commander in the war against the mazoku.
An arrogant boy from the white world, promised power by his father. He plans to be the next white king and white soldier, but is humiliated by Yuuki in battle. He later returns, joining Leon in his attempts to capture Kajitsu.
- Bishie Sparkle
- Bishounen
- Hiro Shimono
- I Kiss Your Hand
- The Rival: With Yuuki, but only from his side.
The Otherworld Witch. Although she tries her hardest to defend Otherworld before the Core Soldiers arrived, she lacks her former strength. This is because it was stolen by Otherworld King, along with her deck. Although she doesn't look it, she's over 4000 years old, and laments over the fact that she still remains single.
A monkey-like child who Dan meets when he first enters Grand Rolo. After Dan saves his village from attack, the two travel together, in order to free his captured family members. Although Zungurii isn't much of a card battler, he helps the group out in any way he can, especially cooking.
Mai's loyal butler. He pilots The Violet. Both Serge and the Violet originally belonged to Namii, a card battler from the purple world.
Kenzo Hyoudo
A green card battler who appears at the Grand Rolo Championships. Though only a third grader, he makes it to the final round, against Dan. He is revealed to actually be working alongside Yuuki, and seeks the wish awarded to the champion for selfish means. He is also the true green soldier, not Kajitsu, as Dan previously believed. After losing to Dan, the two become friends, and he stays with the other core soldiers.
In the second season, Kenzo works as a scientist, alongside Stella. The two have somewhat of a rivalry. He doesn't really battle anymore.
- Adorabably Cute Chlid: Especially in Brave, where he becomes one of the planet's most significant scientists (at the age of 11) and stops playing Battle Spirits to focus more on his work.
- Blush Sticker: Permanent ones
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Aya Endo
- Demoted to Extra: In the manga version.
- Heel Face Turn
- Lightning Glare: With Stella
- Mission Control: In Brave
- My Name Is Not Durwood: Kenzo might want to look into getting his name changed, because obviously it's hard to remember.
- Opaque Lenses: His glasses appear this way most of the time.
- Promotion to Opening Titles: When the OP animation gets modified
- The Rival: With Stella
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Green hair
The Beautiful Sophia (and other allies)
Dan Bashin
See above
Clackey Ray
See above
Mai Shinomiya
See above
Plym Machina
The Beautiful Sophia's mechanic. She's extremely cheerful, and loves mechanical things. She tends to make up her own words. She battles Kenzo with a white deck. Though she's highly inexperienced and loses, this makes her fall in love with him.
- Cheerful Child
- Kanae Ito
- Meaningful Name: She's a mechanic, after all.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Even her one battle was ridiculous.
- Spell My Name with an "S": Plym vs. Prim
Youth Glynnhorn
The Beautiful Sophia's pilot. At first, he doesn't like Dan much, finding him incompetent for losing to Barone soon after coming to the future. Mai and Clackey try to help him see Dan's worth. Youth later comes to see Dan as both a rival and inspiration, wanting to become as strong as him, and someday beat him.
- Expy: To Suzuri, aesthetically. Otherwise, there's so much first series Dan in him.
- Fingerless Gloves
- Meaningful Name: Just compare his maturity level to Dan, Mai and Clackey in Brave.
- Playing with Fire: He uses red.
- Tetsuya Kakihara
- The Rival: With Dan, but mainly from his side.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
- You Killed My Parents: The reason he hates mazoku
Kenzo Hyoudo
See above
Stella Korabelishchikov
A scientist from the future time who works with Kenzo. She seems to like taunting and one-upping him.
- Expy: To Magisa
- Lightning Glare: With Kenzo
- Mission Control
- Satsuki Yukino
- The Rival: With Kenzo
En and Fant
Two mazoku children that were being used as hostages by humans. Dan rescues them and takes them to the Sophia. They seem to have insatiable appetites.
- Badass Adorable: Especially Fant
- Big Eater: And if no food is in sight, they'll start chewing on chairs or people's hands.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: Fant- Aya Endo
- Meaningful Name
- Rose-Haired Girl: En
- Tagalong Kid
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink and green, respectively
See above
Zolder Grave
The one who called Dan into the future. He's the reincarnation of Yuuki Momose. He has a much more laid-back personality, however, and is a weight-lifter.
- Badass: Probably one of the most in all of Battle Spirits.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars
- Hot-Blooded: Extremely
- Reincarnation: Of Yuuki
- Takahiro Sakurai
Queen Gilfam
The mazoku leader. She believes Dan is humanity's enemy. She's very harsh to her subordinates, as she had Duc imprisoned for losing to Dan, and made Barone give up his territory. Later, Zazie betrays her, but her friend Lucretia gives her life to protect the queen.
- Fan Service: Compared to her outfit, Number Eight's doesn't seem so ridiculous anymore.
- Femme Fatalons
- Michiko Neya
- Nice Hat
- Noblewoman's Laugh
- Rapunzel Hair
- Unusual Ears
- Voluntary Shapeshifting
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple hair
A brave user like Dan. He becomes fascinated with Dan, believing he's the only opponent capable of quenching his thirst for battle. He is later deemed a traitor thanks to Zazie, and is forced to leave his territory. Afterwards, he allies with Dan for a while. He seems to be in charge of the mazoku by the end of the series.
- Bishounen: And the animators are well aware with the amount of fanservice from him.
- Daisuke Namikawa
- Expy: To both J and Yuuki.
- Fan Service: Well, he's been nude more than once.
- Heel Face Turn
- Meaningful Name
- Pet the Dog: He briefly takes care of a little human boy
- Rapunzel Hair: When he lets it down
- The Rival: With Dan
- Unusual Ears
Zazie/ Izaz
A rather mysterious and unpredictable mazoku. He wears a mask over his face. While at first, he appeared to be manipulating things for fun, he's shown to have more dangerous motives.
- Bare Your Midriff: Male example
- The Big Bad
- Bishounen
- Dark Is Evil: Well his full title is "The Darkness Zazie"
- Death by Adaptation: In the manga version.
- Expressive Mask
- Faux Affably Evil
- Kenichi Suzumura
- Verbal Tic: Zansu
- White-Haired Pretty Boy
The first mazoku Dan faces. After losing to Dan a second time, he's punished with imprisonment. He later returns as a cyborg, and with no memory of his former self. He's has a "Brave Killer" deck, because it is especially designed to be used against Braves.
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- The Dragon
- Electric Torture: Gets this in prison
- Kenji Hamada
- Laser-Guided Amnesia
- Meaningful Name
- Spell My Name with an "S": Duc vs. Duke
- Unusual Ears
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Green hair
Duc's son. He greatly respects his father. He is rather similar to Youth, and the two become friends.
- Bishounen
- Expy: To Suzuri, aesthetically.
- Heel Face Turn
- Unusual Ears
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Flora Perfume
A loyal servant of Barone. After he's exiled, she follows him along with Eolus. She's very similar to Kajitsu Momose, in that she uses both Kajitsu and Yuuki's main cards in battle, and that she can use green butterflies. This is because she's Kajitsu's reincarnation.
- Action Girl
- Biting the Handkerchief: A lot when she cries
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- Cute Monster Girl
- Expy: To Kajitsu
- Flower Motifs
- Heel Face Turn
- Meaningful Name: Given her connection with flowers.
- Reincarnation: Of Kajitsu
- Rose-Haired Girl
- Spikes of Villainy: Her Battle Form
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink hair


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Who is Orange Sink?
- Cathy G.
- Rice Lake, WI, United States
- My home town is Rice Lake, a small town in northern Wisconsin. I own Red House Wool Studio~ an in-home wool and rug hooking business. I enjoy collecting and decorating with antiques and primitives. Orange Sink Blog is a journal of my interests and ramblings about life. Cathy Greschner
Saturday, January 9, 2016
It's Been Awhile~But Now There's Tile!
28 comments:
You bet your --- it was worth the wait! Looks wonderful. I don't think I'd like the grout and lighter, because then it would look like one massive white thing. Your kitchen is beautiful. Is that a rug between the windows?ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Well worth the wait.ReplyDelete
That's really nice.ReplyDelete
Definitely worth it, love how it looks. We still need to do ours, been waiting for over a year, lol.ReplyDelete
Bill does the work so it gets down when he has time;)
Beautiful !!ReplyDelete
Oh so pretty!!!!!! Hugs cheriReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing it in person :)ReplyDelete
Definitely worth the wait. I LOVE it.ReplyDelete
Simply a beautiful kitchen. Do you miss the orange sink ... Lol?
Hugs :)
Well worth the wait!!!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the beauty inside and outside.
Hugs, Kat
What a beautiful finish. Thank you for sharing! Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Oh, so pretty, nice kitchen. Looks homey, comfortable, welcoming. Tile looks great.ReplyDelete
You bet, I love it!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous !!ReplyDelete
Loved seeing you progress through your kitchen transformation.
Yes worth the wait!!!!!! It is so cozy, clean and perfect Cathy!!!!ReplyDelete
And the views are dreamy!
Absolutely beautiful kitchen and warm friendly place to be. Love the patina on your cabinets too.ReplyDelete
Its a beautiful job! I think it was worth the wait. I love how bright your kitchen is and how nice it looks. It is also so pretty outside.ReplyDelete
I think the grout color looks perfect. Just the right contrast to set off the tiles. Love it!ReplyDelete
That looks fabulous & will be so much easier to clean up.ReplyDelete
It's perfect!!!!! You'll be like that commercial where the little girl tells her mom to turn out the lights & let the new kitchen sleep. Lol. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Oh Cathy, well worth the wait, looks so wonderful. Great job, Blessings Francine.ReplyDelete
Oh my ..... stunning! I so jealous. :~)ReplyDelete
So pretty I love it all! We have antique metal ceiling as our back splash we were able to find enough to match all the way around we wire brushed the old paint off and then repainted it white. A lot of work.ReplyDelete
Your kitchen is so lovely I bet you are really loving it.
Love it! Gorgeous kitchen!ReplyDelete
I love the way it came out! The grout color looks wonderful.ReplyDelete
I really like the darker grout. It adds character with the contrastReplyDelete
absolutely stunning !!!!! I LOVE subway tile, a classic, and I like to see some grout, it defines the tile. What beautiful cabinets, range hood, and display area. Worth the wait !ReplyDelete
Love the simplicity with a touch of elegance!ReplyDelete
Definitely worth the wait! I love your tile and grout color! The grout color is gorgeous! You have a beautiful kitchen!!ReplyDelete


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AN 'INSPIRATIONAL' Guide Dogs fundraiser has narrowly missed out on winning a major award.
Kevin Beesting, from Yeadon, was one of two runners-up in the Inspirational Person of the Year category of this year's Guide Dogs People Awards.
The 68 year old - who has his own Guide Dog, Spencer - was nominated by Community fundraiser Charlotte Walton for being 'someone who has overcome personal challenges, made a difference to other visually impaired people's lives and inspired others'.
As Co-ordinator of the Otley and Aireborough Guide Dogs Support Group Mr Beesting has raised more than £15,000. He has also taken part in a number of tough fundraising events including a 100k challenge and the Yorkshire Three Peaks. He said he was 'overwhelmed' to have been nominated for the award.