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Helen Gurley Brown: Woman of Contradictions
While reflecting on our anniversary, we were reminded of how many women have come before us, paving the way for straightforward conversations about women's sexuality. This is the fourth in a series (read the first, second, and third) launching our sixth year with gratitude!
Helen Gurley grew up in the Ozarks, "ordinary, hillbilly, and poor," but determined not to stay that way. When she was 10, her father died in an elevator accident. Her mother struggled for years to provide for her two daughters, then moved the family to Los Angeles in hopes of getting help from a relative. Helen Gurley, the valedictorian of her high school class, learned to type. She said she went through 17 secretarial jobs before a boss finally promoted her: to advertising copywriter. She never looked back.
She was a highly successful career woman but chafed at remaining unmarried well into her 30s, so she plotted to snare the movie producer David Brown (later known for The Sting, Jaws, and Driving Miss Daisy). Among her wiles: she put her phone in the fridge so she wouldn't hear it ring, making her suitor think she was out with some other man. They stayed married for more than 50 years, until he died at the age of 93. She had told the New York Times, "I look after him like a geisha girl."
When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, she was 40 years old and married; her husband had suggested the subject. She later recalled, "Before I wrote my book, the thought was that sex was for men and women only caved in to please men. But I wrote what I knew to be true—that sex is pleasurable for both women and men."
The book's notoriety led to her becoming the editor of Cosmopolitan. Her first cover, in the summer of 1965, featured ample cleavage, pouting pink lips, and heavily made-up eyes. She was aiming for the "grown-up girl, interested in whatever can give you a richer, more exciting, fun-filled, friend-filled, man-loved kind of life!" Her underlings were told, "no glums, no dour feminist anger and no motherhood." She remained the editor of Cosmopolitan for 32 years. She claimed that her husband wrote the cover lines.
Helen Gurley Brown insisted that she was a feminist but others disagreed. One year after Sex and the Single Girl, Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique heralded a new wave of feminism. In 1970 Kate Millett led a sit-in in the Cosmopolitan office. Jennifer Pozner called Cosmopolitan "one of the most body-shaming, insecurity-provoking, long-lasting sexist media products of the last 100 years."
Helen Gurley Brown died in 2012 at the age of 90. She had suggested that her epitaph say, "She worked very hard." She claimed never to have taken a day off except for plastic surgery. As Margalit Fox's obituary slyly put it, "She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger."
But Dr. Ruth had a gracious tribute. "What Helen Gurley Brown taught women was how to use their bodies not to give someone else pleasure but to give themselves pleasure, and that is a tremendous contribution for which I thank her on behalf of all the women who are now orgasmic and might never have been without her pioneering efforts."
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Eve Ensler: In the Body of the World
While reflecting on our anniversary, we were reminded of how many women have come before us, paving the way for straightforward conversations about women's sexuality. This is the third in a series (read the first and second) launching our sixth year with gratitude to them!
Eve Ensler was an obscure New York playwright until she debuted her one-woman play, The Vagina Monologues. The very title was electrifying. Suddenly, audiences were being asked to say the word "vagina" out loud.
Ensler got the idea for the play when a woman she knew said "really hideous, demeaning things about her vagina." That spurred her to interview more than 200 women. "It's the easiest thing I've ever done in my life. People long to talk about their vaginas. It's like a secret code between women."
"Once they got going, you couldn't stop them," she said in a 2004 TED talk. "No one's ever asked them before."
She assembled some of their stories into a series of short monologues, ranging from humor ("Hurry, nurse, bring me the vagina"), to tragedy (gang rape as a weapon of war); from the birth of her own grandchild, to a fake orgasm more stupendous than the one in When Harry Met Sally.
In 1996, The Vagina Monologues won an Obie for best new play. There were other effects that Ensler had never anticipated. "Women would literally line up after the show because they wanted to tell me their story." She had thought they would want to talk about sex. Instead, many told heart-rending tales of rape, incest, and violence. She found out that the UN estimates 1 in 3 women worldwide are beaten or raped. That number enraged her.
On Valentine's Day of 1998, she began a new campaign: performances of The Vagina Monologues to raise money to stop the violence. The first year, she enlisted high-profile actresses like Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Glenn Close, and Susan Sarandon. Sony and ABC were corporate sponsors.
The V-Day movement has continued ever since. The money raised has gone to safe houses in Kenya for girls escaping genital mutilation; to the City of Joy in Congo for victims of rape; to Juarez, Mexico, where bones of murdered women were washing up on the beach. Money has gone to Haiti, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq.
Women in the U.S. have also benefited. During the month of February, local productions pay nothing for the rights to the play, provided that all proceeds go to organizations working to stop violence against women.
Eve Ensler herself suffered abuse as a child. "I left my body at a very young age . . . I wasn't informed by the intelligence of my body." Living without connection to the body means "we are not living in our full creativity and intelligence."
Her body received a shattering challenge in the form of stage 3 uterine cancer, but she never lost sight of the suffering of other women. In a 2010 Guardian article, she wrote with fury about the world's indifference to the plight of women in the Congo, while she herself received excellent, curative care for her cancer. She remained, as the title of her 2013 memoir has it, In the Body of the World.
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Dusting Off the New Year's Resolution
It's March 1: Do you know where your New Year's resolution is? You may be thinking, "It's here, somewhere."
I have a guess about where it is—collecting dust in a corner, where you left it when you "failed." I've left a few there, myself.
Making a resolution is a positive step that makes it more likely we'll change a behavior. But when we don't follow through in the way we envisioned, that resolution becomes something that makes us feel worse about ourselves. When we don't meet whatever goal we've set—whether it's doing Kegels every day, ramping up a moisturizer habit, or setting aside time for intimacy—the easiest thing to do is give up altogether. "I don't know why I even bother to make a resolution," you might say. "I never keep them."
I'd like to suggest that that's a story you tell yourself. And the great thing about stories is that you can change them. In fact, research shows that telling yourself a different story has a lasting effect on performance. The researcher had students who thought of themselves as "bad at school" do a story editing exercise that included the idea "everyone fails at first." Those students went on to get better grades and were more likely to stay in college.
So if you're telling yourself that old story about your lack of self-discipline or your complete inability to follow through, stop. Retire that old story. Get yourself a new one. Tell yourself you're learning how to integrate that new thing into your life, and learning takes time. Congratulate yourself on the effort. Look to the past for a time when you did follow through and change something about yourself or your life, and draw inspiration from it.
Then dust off that resolution—yes now!—and try again. Haven't you heard? March is the new New Year.
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What Is a Happy Marriage?
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about an article I'd seen about how sexual intimacy is linked to marital happiness. The research, by Adena M. Galinsky and Linda J. Waite, found that continued healthy sex-lives help couples dealing with physical illness, especially chronic health problems.
Couples who had sex frequently (and sex was defined broadly—it didn't need to include vaginal intercourse) were more likely to say they had a good relationship.
This is, of course, a chicken and egg: More sex doesn't automatically make a relationship good. It's more likely—and perfectly reasonable—that an unsatisfying relationship will include less sex. And the women I meet through my practice as well as the rest of life show me that this is often a time when our relationships get some re-evaluation.
Sometimes it's the empty nest, and the change in schedules and priorities that comes with it. Sometimes it's retirement, for one or both partners, which means a lot more together time. Sometimes it's the stress of caring for aging parents along with everything else. Whatever the prompt, when some of us look at our relationships, we say, "Is this really what I want?"
So it was interesting to me to read the details of the Galinsky Waite study, to see how they measured the quality of relationships. These are the questions they asked:
How close do you feel your relationship with your partner is?
How often can you open up with your partner if you want to talk about worries?
How often can you rely on your partner for help with a problem?
How often does your partner make too many demands?
How often does your partner criticize you?
How happy is your relationship with your partner?
Do you like to spend your free time together, separately, or some of both?
How emotionally satisfying is your relationship?
How often does your partner get on your nerves?
If you're feeling some vague discontent, those questions might help you with a conversation with your partner—or with a couples therapist if you decide some outside perspective and coaching would be helpful. If you're feeling angry, or resentful, or isolated in your relationship, it's no surprise that you're not feeling sexy.
And you deserve to.
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It Starts with Thinking
My last blog post, about thinking about sex as we think about exercise to encourage us to keep our sexuality alive, reminded me of another article I saw a while back.
In "Men Don't Think about Sex Every Seven Seconds," Dr. Laura Berman set out to debunk the urban legend alluded to in the headline. She cited a study done at Ohio State University, which concluded that men think about sex, on average, 19 times a day; women think about sex about 10 times a day.
That's a far cry from every seven seconds, which works out to somewhere over 8,000 times per day, if my math is right and assuming eight hours of sleep.
Now, that research was done with college-age men and women, and I'm willing to cross-reference the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL), recently completed in Britain, to guess that by midlife, the rate is reduced by as much as 60 percent. For women like me, that means thinking about sex three or four times a day.
I don't know how that strikes you—as too much or too little! Laura made another comment in her article that resonates with what I've seen in my practice: Researchers "found that incidence of sexual thoughts were most highly governed by one's own sexual belief system. …People who had anxiety, shame, or guilt around their sexuality were less likely to have sexual thoughts, while people who were comfortable and secure in their sexuality were more likely to have sexual thoughts."
That's especially important to us as midlife women. We get lots of messages that conflict with the reality that we are still vital, complete, sensual, sexual creatures. As we watch our bodies change—through childbearing, decades, illness, losing and gaining (and losing and gaining) weight, new wrinkles—we ourselves sometimes question whether we are still sexual, attractive to ourselves as well as to our partners.
Dissatisfaction with our bodies is hardly exclusive to us midlife women, sadly. But when it affects what we decide to do or not to do, it begins to matter more to us. You've no doubt seen articles about staying active, because the more active you remain as you grow older, the more active you're able to remain. You keep muscle tone, bone mass, and balance only as you exert yourself.
The same is true of our sexual selves. Physically, being sexually engaged increases circulation to vaginal tissues, which naturally thin and become more fragile as we lose estrogen. It's equally important that we're attuned to the mental part of the equation.
Remember Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live? The nerdy guy with the affirmations? "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." What if we midlife women had affirmations for ourselves? Could we use them to both reclaim our bodies and nurture our sexual selves?
I'll have to give that some thought. Possibly up to ten times a day.
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Q: What's with weight gain and menopause?
This is a common question; unfortunately, it's complicated to answer. First let me say that while I know weight gain affects many women's sense of being desirable, what I read and my own informal research suggests it's rarely an issue for their partners (some of whom are, in fact, oblivious—in a good way—and just as attracted as ever).
There does seem to be a physiologic drive to deposit fat during the menopause transition. The theory is that fat produces estrogen (estrone—a relatively weak estrogen), so in the presence of impending organ failure (menopause) and loss of estrogen from the ovaries (estradiol-the major, more important estrogen) that will occur, the body does its defensive thing: It deposits fat, really efficiently and effectively.
Unfortunately, estrone doesn't provide many favorable effects. The major location for depositing fat is the midsection. Women who have yo-yoed in weight over the years seem to struggle more; those fat cells seem to remember readily how to deposit fat. Even women who have no weight gain during this transition will have a waist circumference increase of up to two inches.
Minimizing the weight gain starts with maintaining a healthy weight over time; those who are most successful in this transition benefit from years of stability at a healthy body weight leading into those years.
Those menopause transition years will be an added challenge, so start to make small healthy changes early on. Women lose muscle mass quite readily at this time of life, so work to maintain or gain muscle with strength training activities.
It's a fact of life that at this point, it takes more effort to get the same results, requires more dietary caution and exercise, and leaves little room for not paying attention. My motto: You're now high maintenance; behave like it!
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View from the Trenches
Dr. Susan Kellogg Spadt on Sex and Aging
Have I mentioned recently what a great team of medical advisors is associated with MiddlesexMD? We regularly draw from the wisdom and experience of leaders in the field of aging and sexuality. In the next two posts, we'll hear from Dr. Susan Kellogg, who is not only one of our esteemed advisors, but who also co-founded and directs the Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute in Philadelphia. Read on as Dr. Susan shares with us some of the barriers to sexuality for older women. And thanks, Susan!
In my practice I regularly see women in their 60s and 70s. What often impresses me is how unique each is in her experience of sexuality.
Some still like sex and remain sexually active, while others just aren't interested—even if they have a functional partner.
Of course, there's been a lot of research, mostly on the age-related changes men experience. I think this is because male sexuality is more straightforward. With women, as has been said elsewhere on MiddlesexMD, it's complicated.
So, let's look at some of the impediments to sexuality for women as they age.
Internalized ageism. We absorb cultural messages all our lives. They bombard us from the media, from religion, maybe from the region we live in or the ethnic group we belong to. The messages can be subtle ("Good girls don't…") or they can be in-your-face ("You've come a long way, Baby.")
While the messages have shifted over the years, some are inconsistent and some remain the same. For example, one consistent message is that "real" men remain sexually active as they age. (Which, I'm thinking, can be pretty tough on men, too.) For example, an older man's ability to attract (and, presumably, to satisfy) the "trophy" wife is a status symbol synonymous with wealth, virility, and power. The messages are mixed for older women. It's desirable to be a "cougar" in your 40s and 50s, but the ground shifts subtly after that. Despite the sexual older woman portrayed by the Golden Girls, or by Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give, or Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia, the word on the street is that we older women ought to settle gracefully into our roles as the sexless Grandma. A foxy granny just doesn't play well.
We, in turn, can be very sensitive to these cultural expectations, and we can allow them to define us. We can internalize them.
In fact, research suggests that gay men and heterosexual women are highly susceptible to internalizing cultural messages that equate aging with loss of interest in sex.
When we implicitly assent to the message that we're old and therefore no longer sexually attractive or viable, it can affect our self-esteem and our experience of sex and intimacy. The message is false, and believing it is a shame.
Sexual scripts from families-of-origin. Just like societal messages, we absorb beliefs and assumptions about sex from our families. They can be deeply imprinted on our young minds, and they don't have to be clear or verbalized. In fact, our families are often the first place we learned about sex.
Did our parents smooch and cuddle or were they cold and distant? Did sex seem natural and loving or was it something shameful and dirty? Did the sex stop at some point? Did they move to separate beds or separate bedrooms? Did this seem to be expected at a certain age?
Women commonly internalize direct and indirect messages about aging and sexuality from family members. Usually, we're not even aware of it.
Low self esteem. It's hard enough to maintain a strong sense of self-worth in this world without the added insult of getting old in a culture that absolutely idolizes youth and beauty.
We may have survived the adolescent jungle and our family of origin with, I hope, few scars. Many of us have struggled with self-esteem, and that struggle has only changed, not ended.
Now we're hit with an entirely new challenge: how to maintain our confidence and positive self-image as we grow old in a culture that seems to have no use for us simply because we're not young.
It's unfair and it's insulting, and it takes a strong sense of self to stand against that bias.
Unfortunately, for some women, feelings of low self-worth become an impediment to sex. I think this is why some women complain about feeling unattractive and losing desire. It's hard to feel sexy when you feel dowdy and useless.
One client even said that when she saw her sagging breasts in the mirror she felt that she did not "deserve to have sex."
The truth is, of course, that beauty has a lot more to do with confidence and creativity than with perfectly taut skin. Cover up the mirrors. Be proud of your wrinkles! You've earned them. To be continued…
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Helen Gurley Brown: Feminist under Cover
Before Sex and the City, before Gloria Steinem, before Jane Fonda, there was Helen Gurley Brown. She was the creator of the iconic Cosmo Girl, wearer of organza and décolletage, and advocate of a woman's right to a career, sex, and life on her own terms.
It may be hard to remember or to appreciate how radical her approach to a woman's place in the world was as we look back through the lens of rapid change in women's rights and cultural expectations.
In the old-school world that Helen Gurley Brown faced in the 1950s and 60s, women had only grudgingly been granted the right to vote. She did not come upon the scene with either pedigree or good looks. (She called herself a "former mouseburger… not beautiful or even pretty… not bosomy or brilliant," although others said she was "obsessed with boobs," as the Cosmo covers suggest.) Her achievements came because of hard work and skillful politicking and through the unabashed use of feminine subterfuge and seduction.
In this she differentiated herself from the bra-burning feminists who were to come shortly after. She was the anti-feminist. She challenged the traditional role of women in the workplace (as secretaries) and in the bedroom (as wives) just as vigorously as the ERA women, but from a different perspective. In HGB's world, a woman had to be smart and confident. But it was also useful to be feminine and to know when to deploy those charms, either to get what you want or for the sheer fun of a sexual romp.
While she predated the feminist movement by almost a decade, her book Sex and the Single Girl was the first crack in the dike, the first shot across the bow, signaling the vast social upheaval that would follow. In her book, "Brown challenged [single women] to take the same liberties as young men: to enjoy a long and lusty sexual prelude to marriage and to use the rest of the time to build a successful career," writes Gail Sheehy in Cosmo.
Although the feminists who followed disagreed, sometimes vociferously, this was HGB's homegrown revolution, and she practiced what she preached.
Born into poverty and possessed of no great physical endowment, HGB worked like a draft horse at 17 jobs before reaching the seat of power she'd been striving for at the age of 42—editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine.
For the next 32 years, until she was forced out of her job at 74, HGB created the icon and the culture of the Cosmo girl. And while on the one hand, the Cosmo girl perpetuates the imperative of feminine beauty and bosom, perhaps at the expense of brains; on the other, it celebrates the power and potential of a woman who knows how to use her femininity.
At the time, the Cosmo Girl was fresh and naughty; then, however, as one pundit commented, "she became familiar. And then she became a cliché." Maybe, in today's world of silicone cleavage and über-sexiness, she has become a caricature.
But in her work and in her personal life, HGB was a cheerleader for lots of fun, juicy sex. Clearly, sex continued to be important in her last marriage to David Brown as they both grew older. And it is in this capacity that Helen Gurley Brown has something to say to us—mature women who might be wondering what role sex has in our lives and relationships. While we may not want to emulate her, from that perspective we can learn a thing or two.
In memory of Helen Gurley Brown, who died August 13, 2012, at the age of 90, here are a few choice quotes for the older woman:
"It's just ridiculous for a woman over 50 to assume sex has to be over. You may not be as rambunctious as when you were a teenager, but an orgasm is an orgasm, it doesn't matter how long it takes to get there."
About keeping the romance in marriage: "It helps if you go on romantic trips together. …When you're in another city and a glamorous hotel that is conducive to sex, you think, 'Hey, let's don't let this go to waste.'"
"What you do have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up."
"Being sexy means that you accept all the parts of your body as worthy and lovable ... your reproductive organs, your breasts, your alimentary tract."
"A woman who even occasionally enjoys an orgasm from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes is sexy.… Remember, frigidity isn't a physical disability. It's a curable state of mind."
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Get Your Sexy On: A Pep Talk
We've discussed the research: Older women "do it," and like it, a lot! Beneath the sheets, we're a lusty bunch, but get out on the streets, and we become invisible. No checking-you-out eye action; no swivel head. It's hard even to get the attention of the guy in the hardware store if a young blonde is looking confused.
Older women are supposed to be genderless and unassuming. Certainly not sexy. Often, not even visible.
That's a psychological sucker-punch to the self-image if there ever was one. So we wonder why, once we've begun (or completed) "the change," we struggle with feeling all confident and attractive? When we are no longer fertile or full of hormones, are we still sexual? While we're coping with a changing metabolism and whipsawing emotions are we still attractive?
In our time and culture, menopause is embarrassing and slightly distasteful. It's synonymous with loss of fertility, loss of hormones, unmentionable changes "down there," and growing old. Far from being regarded as wise and valuable, older women are often viewed as useless and sexless.
Maybe that cultural aversion is, in part, why we ignore things like incontinence, lack of libido, and painful sex—sometimes for years—because it's embarrassing to admit that we may be having trouble with "the change." Or experiencing menopause at all.
Wasn't aging supposed to be graceful? Aren't these supposed to be the golden years?
Without doubt they are. But to enjoy this time of life, we have to reject the negative voices all around us and in our heads. Maybe the way we look and, I hope, the way we look at life has matured. And maybe the way we do sex has changed. Maybe we need a little more time and a little more stimulation. Maybe we need more finesse and a few aids. But we still got it going on, girlfriend.
Here are some tips to get your sexy on:
Adjust your attitude. Sexy begins in your head. See yourself as sexy and attractive, and others will too. But even more important, what do you care how others see you? As one very sexy middle-aged woman said, sexy at midlife is "being sure enough of yourself to do, feel, act, dress, say what you want and not giving a flipping flyer what anyone thinks—and they often think you are cool!" So, Rule Number One: don't give a flipping flyer.
Take care of yourself. This is the time to stick to those New Year's resolutions. Really. Lose weight. Eat well. Exercise. Looking your best gives you an incredible confidence boost, and it makes you feel vital and vibrant as well. This might include a little fashion makeover as well. Nothing like flattering clothes and the right hair for a little emotional pick-me-up.
Enjoy life. Be interested in the world around you. Men (and women) are attracted to vital, interesting people.
Laugh. It relieves stress and releases endorphins. It makes you look attractive.
Have sex. Often. Think about it. Plan on having sex. Adjust to your changing physicality. (Talk to your doctor if you have specific problems, such as pain or lack of desire.) Don't buy that cultural message that you're no longer in the game. You still are in the game.
Wear red (but only if the color's good on you). Men think women in red are hot. (And conversely, women are more attracted to men who wear red.) That's what the research says.
I'll leave the last word to a man who writes, "Now I check out the middle-aged women when I hit the grocery store, in the coffee shop, when I'm out running. I'm looking for that sexy confidence, that wisdom, that I'm vibrant and alive and I don't care what you think about me sort of attitude.
So, ladies, what are you waiting for? Get your sexy on, for your special partner or for the potential one who might be checking you out in the produce aisle.
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Who, Me? Date Online?
Last month MiddlesexMD advisor and psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini shared some advice about how to restore your sense of sexual self after divorce. That conversation led to another, about some of the unexpected challenges we face when we re-enter the world of dating after an absence of… well, it could be decades!
My first advice for people getting back into dating after a divorce is to tread slowly. It's a whole new world out there, and if you've been married for some time, the dating scene is sure to overwhelm and frighten you. You'll know you're ready to begin when you no longer feel like you need a partner, but would like to enjoy another's company. When you're lonely and riddled with pain, you don't make a good partner; that's not the time to look for someone. Sacrificing your own physical and emotional health to get a "fix" of feeling desired again is never a good idea. But be assured that time is only a temporary patch.
When you're ready to start dating, tell friends and colleagues you respect that you're looking or open to meeting new people. People you respect have respect-worthy friends; they're usually your best option for getting a date with someone you'll like. If you don't have many friends, you might start by searching out groups you could join to meet other single people. Cooking classes or groups, poetry readings, church groups, plays, and sporting events all provide opportunities to connect with others who appreciate the same things you do. Being with others helps build your confidence and provides feedback about how you present and appeal to others. Being married may have enabled you to not focus on your looks, your mannerisms, and your lifestyle. Dating forces you to evaluate all of those qualities that you may have taken for granted or not explored.
Lots of people have been trying out online dating. It's great for letting you "date" on your own time, ask a lot of questions, and get to know someone in the comfort of your own home. It's scary because it can provide a "cover" for someone to lie, take advantage of you by saying what you want to hear, and to serial date without you knowing. You need to be cautious and smart. Online dating does give you a chance to experience dating, though, before you take a risk and actually dress up and meet up. I encourage women to focus on the experience rather than any specific outcome. I date online only vicariously—as a relationship psychotherapist—but here are the things I see helping my patients avoid problems:
Stay anonymous with your user name, personal information, and phone number—until you and only you decide you're comfortable giving out that information. Once it's out there, you can be harassed and pressured. If you don't know a person enough to trust him, don't.
Make decisions cautiously. Don't move too fast; one conversation is not enough to commit to meeting someone in person. The same behaviors that work well for physical dating are valuable with online dating.
Look at several different photos. Who is the person with? Is anyone cut out of the photo? Has it been photo-shopped or otherwise altered? Why? Ask questions. I would like to say it doesn't matter what we look like, but that would be a lie. Most people cannot trust someone until they see a photo.
Talk on the phone at least once—hopefully more—before you meet someone. A voice tells you a lot more about a person. Online dating is a little bit like putting a puzzle together. The pieces of a person's life should make sense when you see them together.
Take your time before meeting—one of the great assets of online dating. When you decide to meet, do it at a public place. Tell your best friend or several people where you're going and your date's name and phone number. Trust your gut when you see the person. You can always back out at the last minute. If the person tries to pressure you or argues with you in any way about meeting you, that's a red flag. Don't go.
Always take yourself to the meeting place. Never let them pick you up and don't have someone drop you off unless they can come at any time to pick you up. This is not the time to be vulnerable. If you are meeting someone from another city, state, or country, make your own travel plans. Don't tell the person where you are staying or your travel details. Set a meeting time and place and meet there.
If, at any time, you feel you are unsafe with this person, call the police. They will give you counsel in regards to what you should do. One of my patients decided to meet someone she met online in Colorado. She became frightened when, after dinner, she went to his place and he wanted to have sex. He was into asphyxiation and almost killed her. She told me she had a bad feeling in her gut when she met the guy, but she didn't honor it.
Dating after a divorce is all part of the journey you find yourself on after signing the papers. It isn't easy, but it's an opportunity to grow and explore. Stay open, and allow yourself to really experience what happens. Dating when you're older has its advantages. You are wiser and understand the fragility of relationships. You no longer need a person to fulfill you; you are looking for one to share your life with. Take your time, and enjoy the experience.
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Q: Create a CSS that give the similar result like browser highlight I am trying to create a css style that give the same result like native browser highlight so i can put in the css into tinymce.
but from the photo below you can see that the height of the custom css is too low, i tried a few method like using display:inline-block, it works fine for the height but it automatically remove the first and the last space.
Any expert please advise.

A: Do you mean something like this:
.highlight {
    font-size: 14px;
    display: inline-block;
    color: #fff;
    background-color: blue;
    padding: .5em 0;
}

Here's a fiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/c7rdekej/

A: Create a span around the text you want to highlight and assign a class to it
like highlight
And add css property like below
.highlight {
    background:#008AE6;
    color:#ffffff;
}

Check this fiddle for clarification http://jsfiddle.net/5u52qw57/
Let me know if it is helpful

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Anaplasmosis In Cattle Herds
July 16, 2017 Amber Woodruff
Anaplasmosis is minute parasite infectious disease that causes destruction of red blood cells. It can be transmitted to healthy animals from infected animals, by biting insects, or surgical instruments. Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma marginale) can be divided into incubation, developmental, convalescent, and carrier stages. These stages are described below.
Incubation stage– Once entering an animal, the anaplasma parasite slowly reproduces in the animal's blood during this stage. The incubation stage can range from 3 to 8 weeks with wide variations documented because the variation is directly related to the number of parasites introduced into the animal. During incubation stage, the animal looks healthy and shows no sign of being infected. However, after the parasite has reproduced many times and is established in the red blood cells of the animal, the animal's body will attempt to destroy the parasite.
Developmental stage– Clinical signs usually begin to appear about half-way through this stage. The developmental stage normally lasts about 4 to 9 days. The infected animal's body destroys the parasite, as well as the red blood cells. The animal will show signs of anemia when substantial loss of red blood cells has occurred. Also, body temperature will commonly rise to 104°—107° F, plus, lactating cows will have a rapid decrease in milk production. The anemic anaplasmosis infected animal is first noticed when it becomes weak and lags behind the rest of the herd. It may refuse to eat, skin becomes pale around eyes and on muzzle, may show constipation, weight loss, excitement, and yellow tinged skin. Once the animal is down, it may be unable to rise. The affected cattle will either die or a recovery will start after 1 to 4 days of the signs of the disease. Unless the infected cattle are detected in the early developmental stage, as a general rule, they should not be treated. The reason for this is antibiotic treatment does little or nothing to affect the outcome when given in the late development or convalescent stage. Second, if the animal is forced to move, or becomes excited, it may die of anoxia (lack of oxygen).
Convalescent stage– Death loss normally occur during the late developmental stage and the convalescent stage. Cattle that do survive lose weight, abort calves, and recover slowly over a 2 to 3-month period. The difference from the developmental stage to the convalescent stage is an increase in red blood cell production in the peripheral blood, an increase in hemoglobin levels and high total white blood cell counts. This stage usually lasts until normal blood values return. All ages of cattle can become infected with anaplasmosis. However, the severity of illness increases with age. Young calves under 6 months of age seldom show signs that indicate they are infected. Cattle up to 3 years of age will become increasingly ill, and more deaths will occur with advancing age. Up to 50% of older cattle past 3 years of age with clinical anaplasmosis can die if not treated.
Carrier stage– Cattle that do recover from the disease remain carriers of anaplasmosis for the rest of their lives, if not adequately treated. Carriers will rarely become ill with anaplasmosis the second time. The animal will not show any clinical signs that are associated with the persistent low-level infection. However, the blood from the carriers will cause anaplasmosis in susceptible cattle if introduced into them. Carriers that are not identified are the most likely source of future infection outbreaks in the herd.
Anaplasmosis is spread by the transfer of blood from an infected animal to a susceptible animal. This mechanism is usually done by biting insects transmitting the A. marginale infected blood with their mouth parts, or by contaminated instruments used in working cattle. Horse flies, stable flies, and mosquitoes are known to transmit the disease by carrying the infected red blood cells from diseased cattle to susceptible cattle. Anaplasmosis is usually not transmitted if more than 5 minutes has lapsed between the time an insect bites a diseased animal and the time it bites a susceptible animal. The disease is more likely to be transmitted by insects when the cattle are gathered close together and making it easier for insects to bite several animals in a short period of time.
Anaplasmosis can be transmitted from one animal to another by the use of equipment that becomes contaminated while working the cattle. The way the disease progresses through the herd can indicate whether it is insects or instruments that are responsible for the disease outbreak. When infected instruments transmit the disease, a large number of cattle in the herd will show signs of anaplasmosis in 4 to 6 weeks after processing the cattle. This kind of outbreak appears suddenly, without any earlier clinical cases being observed. Instrument transmission can be easily prevented by careful handling of equipment between each animal. A quick rinse of instruments in disinfectant and changing needles will usually prevent transmission.
However, when insects are the vectors of the disease, a few cases usually occur first and then are followed 4 to 6 weeks later by another wave of the clinical disease. The first cases are usually caused by biting insects transmitting the disease from carriers in the herd to susceptible animals. The second wave of the disease is from the earlier sick animals. The sick animal is a prime target for eating by the blood-sucking insects. The clinically ill animal is usually down, very weak, and makes no attempt to fight off the biting insects. The blood from the clinically ill animal is 20 times more infectious than the blood from an anaplasmosis carrier.
Researchers have demonstrated that the Pacific Coast tick and the Rocky Mountain wood tick can transmit the disease. The A. marginale parasite can be passed through several developmental stages of the ticks and then transmitted to the susceptible animal. These insect vectors are known as biological vectors. Biological vectors may transmit the disease months or perhaps years after biting an infected animal.
How to interpret an anaplasmosis outbreak can yield information on necessary changes in management. Outbreaks that occur during the vector season indicate infections of susceptible cattle and acute outbreaks of anaplasmosis. Preventative measures such as vaccinations or antibiotic therapy should be implemented. If outbreaks occur during the winter months, it would not be due to recent infection of susceptible cattle, but to stress which can lead to the expression of the disease in infected cattle. Vaccinations work to prevent acute expression of the disease upon infection during initial exposure. However, it does not prevent the development or infection of a carrier animal. Antibiotic therapy may be used to control this type of outbreak. Nutrition and environmental stress are two areas that need to be managed in suspect herds.
Producers are usually not concerned with control until anaplasmosis becomes a problem. It is important the producer knows that there are methods available for controlling an anaplasmosis outbreak. There are federal regulations pertaining to the interstate movement of known anaplasmosis carrier animals. Cattle that are anaplasmosis carriers may be cured of the infection by treatment with certain tetracycline antibiotics. However, programs to eliminate the carrier state should be conducted after the vector season has ended.
Do to upcoming changes, the Food & Drug Administration has changed the regulation of medically important antibiotics used in food animals. The FDA intends to move all medical important antibiotics out of over-the-counter status to veterinary feed directive status. This gives a veterinary oversight to a broad range of products used in animal feed. What does this mean? A veterinary feed directive is a mechanism requiring a producer to get approval from a veterinarian for antibiotics used in animal feeds. A feed type antibiotic control program for control of anaplasmosis in the herd will need to be a veterinary oversight.
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Learning from a crisis: how we need ambitious and enabling political leadership
Blog | 27 May 2021
A conversation with Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Chris Naylor, CEO at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Over the course of the pandemic we've seen radical change in how public services are delivered. Many of those changes have been aspirations for public service reform for many years: a focus on people; local, cross-sector sharing of resource and responsibility to help people when and where they need it and, empowerment of individuals and organisations who are in the right places to co-produce solutions.
The question now is what it will take to embed the best of these newly realised ways of working for the long term.
Earlier this week, we were honoured to welcome the newly re-elected mayor of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Andy Burnham, and Chris Naylor, chief executive of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, to a conversation about learning from innovation in a crisis, that can help us 'design forward differently' for the future.
We were also joined at the event by senior colleagues from across the public and voluntary sectors, who are all deeply focused on the same mission: how do we embed and accelerate the extraordinary innovation that's emerged over the course of this pandemic, in the partnerships between residents, local businesses, the voluntary sector and public services?
The fundamental idea under discussion was the need for ambitious and enabling political leadership. Many radical, community-led changes have developed in response to the pandemic. Local political leaders now have an opportunity and responsibility to promote and embed those changes in the mainstream. This is local politics to facilitate place-based action and priorities, not party politics.
Devolution of decision-making, resource and accountability was the natural build from this conversation. In particular, the devolution of power from Westminster to regional government within the UK – to mirror devolved power and resource from council chambers and mayoral offices to local partnerships of place.
Innovation Unit has been fortunate enough to have a chance to study bottom up innovation at close quarters over the last year. We've worked as a learning partner for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority's public service reform team, to help them learn from and build on radical change driven by COVID19.
Between May and September of 2020 we spoke with over 100 people across 12 workshops, across public, private and voluntary sector organisations, and of course residents themselves. We looked in depth at early help in children's services, at homelessness and community hubs and did a deep dive into the community response in Oldham. We clustered our learning around four, core themes:
In practice and citizen experience we saw the development of people-focused solutions. As the pandemic developed there was 'far less assessment and far more help' – away from programmes and projects, towards people. The shift to digital saw the emergence of anytime, anywhere support. As a result, people were able to access what support they needed it, when they needed it, where they needed it.
In workforce and culture we saw the creation of blended, multi-disciplinary, multi-agency teams, working effectively across silos and boundaries. It was not just public services, but also the voluntary sector, local businesses, and members of the community.
In leadership and governance, there was a much greater unity of purpose, that mobilised new, local leaders and bound together blended teams from different bits of the system.. Leadership was decentralised and distributed, and there was a focus on addressing urgent need. Rather than focusing on targets, teams tried to simply get stuff done.
And in system conditions, regulation, inspection and commissioning disappeared. In its place, grew mutual accountability, in which people worked together to sensibly manage resource and risk. This created more space for self-determination within communities, and it also created the conditions for intelligent data sharing, with the focus on risk balanced against need.
Andy Burnham spoke eloquently during the session about the need to pause, before we unlock and race forward with our lives, to reflect on all we have learned in the course of the last year and more. He spoke of how his work in Manchester has centred around developing a "names not numbers" approach, where the voice of communities is empowered and prioritised.
It is not easy to mainstream these changes. Instead, as the urgency and impetus of the pandemic fades away, there is a risk we will slip back into familiar ways of working.
There are six things, drawn from our work that feel like important next steps for leaders seeking to embed this 'learning from a crisis' into the mainstream for the future:
Follow the energy lines – go where energy for new ways of working has become manifest.
Work with the 'new leaders' who have emerged through the COVID work to prototype approaches to sharing power, risk and resources on behalf of the rest of the system.
Create a new ecosystem of place which puts neighbourhoods and community voice at the heart of priorities and action
Create flexible, interim local governance arrangements to give new collaborations legitimacy, support and ideas.
Devolve some resource to this level, both financial and human, to incentivise and enable – and make one of the new leadership roles a 'community connector'.
Secure an external partner who will both facilitate and 'hold you accountable to your aspirations' when the desire to regress feels irresistible.
Glimpsing a plausible, desirable new future is an inspiration and a powerful tool. Doing something with it will require open, determined leadership and lots of learning as we go. It is heartening that there were clearly leaders at our conversation this week who are up for, and already embarking on that challenge.


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Thirty Days of CCS #7: Joseph Lambert
Joseph Lambert told me at SPX that after the success of his book Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller, he was going to concentrate on short stories for a bit. The four minicomics I got from him at SPX show him to be at peak form as he continues to explore his primary storytelling interest: sibling dynamics. While some of his stories about kids still retain a touch of magical realism, he's starting to lean more on verisimilitude, depicting kids as they actually think and act. Let's take a look at each one.
Layaway deservedly earned an Ignatz award nomination. It is typically beautiful to look at and intricately designed; these things are givens with regard to Lambert. However, there's a new layer of narrative and emotional complexity to be found here. This story is about social awkwardness mediated through the history of two winter coats. Jumping back and forth in time, Lambert's anecdotes regarding the coats are devastatingly awkward and painful, as a coat that was initially beloved because of its puffiness is kept til its in rags and ill-fitting. Flashing back to how he couldn't feel a punch because of the coat's thickness, Lambert relates a story of telling a friend to punch him; when he does, he doubles over in pain and starts crying. It's a hilarious moment, one that reveals the social gap Lambert's stand-in feels as an older brother who feels out of place with his younger siblings and the awkwardness he feels with peers. That's made especially clear when he gets a 49ers jacket knowing absolutely nothing about the football team, instead inanely telling anyone who would listen that it was purchased from layaway.Throw in the awkwardness of trying to impress a girl with that story, and you have a surprisingly rich and textured story in just 16 pages.
New Worlds For Me And For You takes on the odd ways in which children become friends, and how socioeconomic factors can play a role in interpersonal dynamics. Two rough-and-tumble kids (one a gender-ambiguous tomboy) loudly dare each other to seize the moment in daring ways (leading to band-aids and casts) while the girl next door in a much nicer house injects herself into their own world. This comic is especially impressive in terms of pacing and restraint. The other seems like an odd thing to praise in a comic filled with hyperbolic dialogue and plenty of propulsive motion, but Lambert leaves out details in such a manner as to let the reader fill them in, giving the burgeoning friendship between the three kids an extra dimension of rich depth. The comic is also crammed with gags, even as Lambert peppers them with moments of self-actualization that are then popped by a viscerally bracing moment, like one kid breaking his other arm after feeling a rush of adrenaline that overcomes his fear of death.
Supposed To is more along the lines of Lambert's magical-realist works, where a kid is sort of fused to a house as a metaphor for isolation. It's closer in spirit and execution to those silent, crazed comics where kids get angry at the sun or moon, while retaining a strong sense of humanity in the plight of the child. WizZine is a sketchbook featuring drawings of wizards and magicians in various stages of performing spells. His character design is incredibly appealing, making me wish that Lambert was drawing Dr. Strange. There's a strong Ditko influence, but there's also bits of Steve Bissette (designer of John Constantine) and even the whimsy of Winsor McCay. If Lambert can craft a story around these images, it would look incredible.
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Rajnikanth to be taken to Singapore for further treatment
Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, hospitalised here for respiratory problems, will be flying to Singapore on Friday night for further treatment.
The 61-year-old actor is scheduled to fly by Singapore Airlines and will be accompanied by his family members, sources at the airport here said.
Rajnikanth, who had suffered from exhaustion on April 29, the first day of the shoot of his latest venture 'Raana,' was admitted to the Isabel Hospital in the city and discharged the same day only to be readmitted there on May 4 for allergic bronchitis and viral fever.
On May 13, he was admitted to Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre for respiratory infection and other problems.


The disgraced former head of Daewoo Group is trying to rewrite the history of the Asian Financial Crisis.
"Chairman Kim pursued the growth of his company while always keeping in mind the country's development… He is a nationalist who managed the world… [Western management style] is inhumane, corporations must examine ways to overcome crises without reducing employment." These are lines found in reviews of the recently published book titled "Conversations with Kim Woo-jung," a collection of interviews with the founder of the now defunct conglomerate, Daewoo Group.
With a dash of nationalism and populist rhetoric, the book revisits South Korea's handling of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and advances Kim's opinion that Seoul's decision in 1999 to dismantle Daewoo because of its high debt-to-equity ratio was a mistake. Estimating the losses from his conglomerate's breakup at $21 billion, the former mogul lays out the case for how the South Korean people ultimately bore the cost of the government's error. When asked why he decided to publicize his opinions at this time, Kim answered that he felt 15 years was enough time to prove that the International Monetary Fund and the South Korean government had been wrong. Of course there are more strategic reasons behind this measured response. At a time of economic uncertainty, blaming others while providing populist rhetoric is bound to attract attention.
There is precedence for caution and skepticism when approaching works justifying the behavior of pre-crisis business elites. Throughout post-crisis economies, former elites frequently resist reforms and exploit nationalist sentiments to criticize outside influences like the IMF. They often employ slippery slope arguments for how "Asian values" are different from those in the West, bolstering the dangerous notion that prudent macroeconomic practices and political freedoms are incompatible with the respective national cultures of the region.
Kim certainly harkens back to the era when political, social, and economic powers were concentrated in the hands of the government and business elites such as himself. He exhibits deep nostalgia for the Park Chung-hee era, fondly remembering the late dictator as a father figure while denying Daewoo had ever contributed funds to the regime. He reserves his ire for South Korean bureaucrats who implemented the structural adjustment programs recommended by the IMF, blaming the failed "Big Deal" with Samsung on their interference and emphasizing the government's liquidity controls as the key factors that ultimately drove his company into bankruptcy.
…its failure was a long time coming. Last year, when the economic crisis forced most of the chaebol to cut back, Daewoo brazenly added 14 new firms to its existing 275 subsidiaries—and this in a year where the group lost a combined 550 billion won ($458m) on sales of 62 trillion won ($51 billion). At the end of 1997, South Korea's four biggest chaebol averaged debt of nearly five times their equity. But while Samsung and LG cut back during the subsequent year of economic crisis, Daewoo acted as if nothing had changed: it added 40% more debt.
Granted, the IMF's assistance during the financial crisis was inadequate to contain the outflow of capital and the government's bad signaling exacerbated the chaos. However, the crisis itself had been the symptom of underlying problems that had been brooding for years: the massive inflow of unregulated capital with foreign investors expecting high returns while the country's non-performing loans reached levels as high as 42 percent of the GDP. Daewoo Group played a part in pushing the economy over the edge, engaging in fraud and other financial misconduct that ultimately led to Kim Woo-jung's imprisonment and exile.
The timing of Kim's defense is worrisome because it feeds into the notion that Korea should ignore advice from international financial institutions. This is highly problematic when the country is currently engaged in aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that the IMF feels are unnecessary and potentially damaging.
Perhaps the issue is that 15 years was just enough time for the South Korean people to begin forgetting what really caused the crisis. It is high time that Korean academics and the public revisit the issues without veiling the events that created the crisis in nationalist rhetoric.


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BGE donates tree trimmings to zoo to feed animals
Animals at the zoo are getting their grub on, courtesy of BGE.A new partnership between BGE and The Maryland Zoo is making use of the branches trimmed near power lines to provide food for the animals. BGE vegetation management crews identify healthy, diet-appropriate tree trimmings that can be bundled and delivered to the zoo. Those trimmings, called browse, will then be placed inside the exhibits, so animals can forage. "This has been a great alternative for us because BGE is going to be throwing these away anyway, so instead of them being discarded, they're just being brought here and then we're able to feed them out to our animals," said Andrew Young, commissary manager at the zoo. Young said about half of the trimmings go to elephants directly. Some of the other animals that get the browse include giraffes, antelope, rhinos and some of the primates. "I feel great about doing this. It's great for the animals, great for the zoo and it's a very interesting program. It gives the animals more variety than they normally get and more natural than feeding regular food that they feed them because, in the wild, animals eat browse and that's what we're supplying, fresh browse," said Dan Mance, a forester for BGE. Crews are primarily delivering tree species that the animals like, particularly mulberry, poplar and hickory. The program will save the zoo nearly $2,000 a week because it will not have to ship in browse from out of state. "Currently, they buy their browse at a place that grows it in Florida and then ships it up. It's not that fresh, and it's very expensive ... We cut it the same day; we deliver it the same day we cut it. It's very fresh and they get a bigger variety. It's a win for BGE and it's a win for the Maryland Zoo," Mance said. The tree trimmings would have otherwise gone into a brush chipper for use in mulch.
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Animals at the zoo are getting their grub on, courtesy of BGE.
A new partnership between BGE and The Maryland Zoo is making use of the branches trimmed near power lines to provide food for the animals.
BGE vegetation management crews identify healthy, diet-appropriate tree trimmings that can be bundled and delivered to the zoo. Those trimmings, called browse, will then be placed inside the exhibits, so animals can forage.
"This has been a great alternative for us because BGE is going to be throwing these away anyway, so instead of them being discarded, they're just being brought here and then we're able to feed them out to our animals," said Andrew Young, commissary manager at the zoo.
Young said about half of the trimmings go to elephants directly. Some of the other animals that get the browse include giraffes, antelope, rhinos and some of the primates.
"I feel great about doing this. It's great for the animals, great for the zoo and it's a very interesting program. It gives the animals more variety than they normally get and more natural than feeding regular food that they feed them because, in the wild, animals eat browse and that's what we're supplying, fresh browse," said Dan Mance, a forester for BGE.
Crews are primarily delivering tree species that the animals like, particularly mulberry, poplar and hickory.
The program will save the zoo nearly $2,000 a week because it will not have to ship in browse from out of state.
"Currently, they buy their browse at a place that grows it in Florida and then ships it up. It's not that fresh, and it's very expensive ... We cut it the same day; we deliver it the same day we cut it. It's very fresh and they get a bigger variety. It's a win for BGE and it's a win for the Maryland Zoo," Mance said.
The tree trimmings would have otherwise gone into a brush chipper for use in mulch.


The Deluxe Bariatric Commode Drop Arm Commode from Drive Medical is a heavy duty bedside toilet that has a 1000 pound weight capacity. It features an easy-to-release arm mechanism that allows for safe lateral patient transfers to and from the bedside toilet commode. It also has a large plastic backrest to provide added user comfort.
This item has been discontinued and replaced by the McKesson Bariatric Drop Arm Commode. Same exact item with different name on the box. Click here to go to the McKesson Bariatric Drop Arm Commode.
Please note that this product is transitioning the the McKesson Deluxe Bariatric Commode by Drive Medical. It is the exact same product with a different label on the box.
The Drive Deluxe Bariatric Drop Arm commode is made of grey powder coated steel tubing that is sturdy and easy to maintain. It features a large durable plastic snap on seat. It also has padded armrests for added comfort and stability.
Comes with a 12 quart commode bucket with cover that removes from the front.


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for $217,500 with 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths. This 1,520 square foot home was built in 1993 on a lot size of 0.190 Acre(s).
Apparently HGTV has moved to Indian Trail. RUN to this listing today. Meticulously maintained and designer worthy updated 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home. Plush lawn areas, resort style patio area, privacy fencing. You will never want to leave. The charm of this home oozes from the cul de sac, when you go inside it continues to flow. Updated throughout. The master bath makes the spa blush. Seriously, there are not enough words to express the charm of this home. It will be sold before Jimmy Buffet can sing "Come Monday".


Friday, March 23, 2018 | 1:56 p.m.
CARSON CITY — A government subcommittee has approved recommendations to protect consumers if voters approve a constitutional amendment to open the Nevada electric market to competition.
The subcommittee today called for strengthening a law to limit high-pressure tactics by door-to-door sales representatives or telephone solicitors from companies that might enter the market.
It called on the Legislature or the Nevada Public Utilities Commission to develop a form listing all companies, their charges, contract lengths and other information so the consumer can compare providers in making a choice.
In November 2016, voters overwhelmingly approved a change in the Nevada Constitution to end the monopoly of NV Energy and to open the power supply market to competition. The measure must be approved again this November.
Members of the subcommittee agreed there must be protection against "slamming," where a a company flips a consumer's account to another firm without notice.
The subcommittee next meets April 20.


Finally the two most powerful antioxidants and skin whitening agents have come together in one breakthrough product, Glupa. That's one powerful combination giving you the anti-aging and skin whitening results like never before. It takes two to have a healthy, beautiful, young and white skin.
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This book and its companion volumes contain plastics additives formulations based on information received from numerous industrial companies and other organizations. Each formulation is identified by a description of its end use. industriellen Firmen und anderen Organisationen beruhen. Jede Rezeptur wird durch eine Beschreibung ihrer Endbenutzung gekennzeichnet.
The set of books provides, in one purchase, a collection of suppliers data on additives which would take a long time to collect by contacting the individual suppliers (or, now, by surfing the Internet). Thus, the value of this series of books is that the compounder will have on hand a reasonably borad set of product descriptions, with just enough information in most cases to make some preliminary selections... Despite the rather stiff price for the three volumes, it will be cost-effective for many persons involved in the technology or business aspects of plastics compounding.


Surfers Healing was founded by Israel and Danielle Paskowitz. Their son, Isaiah, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Like many children with autism, he often suffered from sensory overload– simple sensations could overwhelm him. The ocean was the one place where he seemed to find respite.
A former competitive surfer, Israel hit upon an idea–with Isaiah on the front of his surfboard, and Izzy steering from the back, the two spent the day surfing together. Surfing had a profound impact on Isaiah. Israel and Danielle decided they wanted to share this unique therapy, they began to host day camps at the beach where children with autism and their families could be exposed to a completely new experience of surfing.
This will be the 15th year that Virginia Beach has hosted the Surfers Healing Foundation Team. Each year has been a huge success thanks to the sea of support from our many Community Partners, Sponsors and Volunteers. This occasion has been rated by locals and participating families as one of the most touching and most inspirational events they have ever experienced!
we're grateful to the team at one hour heating and air conditioning for considering us as one of their one hour cares potential charity recipients. winners will be announced at kindfest on april 13 at hunt club farm.
Registration for the 2019 camp is officially closed! Good luck to everyone who registered!
Learn all about our camp, what to expect on camp day and frequently asked questions.
For many of us, we take a simple day at the beach for granted. What seems typical to many – to truly feel the calming power of the sea, bask in the warmth of the sand and splash along the water's edge – is a luxury to the families who must face the difficulties that come with supporting a son, daughter, brother or sister with autism. Our camps are completely free thanks to our sponsors.


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Alisa Khan, MD, MPH
Pediatric Hospitalist, Children's Hospital Inpatient Services (CHIPS), Complex Care Service (CCS)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
alisa.khan@childrens.harvard.edu
I-PASS Study
General Pediatrics Research
Family engagement in safety
Healthcare disparities
Dr. Khan is a health services researcher who studies interventions to improve family engagement in hospital communication and safety. Her work is based on the principle that patients, families, nurses, and physicians are equal members of the care team who can coproduce safer and higher quality care together. She has led studies to improve family-centered rounds, family safety reporting, and patient safety, including the PCORI-funded Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Study and the AHRQ-funded Family Activation and Communication About Errors and Safety (FACES Study). She is also interested in healthcare disparities, specifically strategies to improve communication and safety in children with limited English proficiency. Her research has been published in the BMJ, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and Academic Pediatrics. Dr. Khan has received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Charles. H. Hood foundation, and other organizations.
Dr. Khan was born in Srinagar, Kashmir and immigrated to the United States as a toddler. She grew up in Northern Virginia and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. She graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 2005 and completed medical school in 2009 at the University of Michigan Medical School, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. In 2012, she completed pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, where she developed an interest in communication research. She proceeded to complete a joint pediatric health services research and academic pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in 2014. Outside of work, her interests include reading and kickboxing.
Engaging Families as True Partners During Hospitalization. J Hosp Med. 2018 05 01; 13(5):358-360. View abstract
Parent-Provider Miscommunications in Hospitalized Children. Hosp Pediatr. 2017 09; 7(9):505-515. View abstract
Families as Partners in Hospital Error and Adverse Event Surveillance. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 04 01; 171(4):372-381. View abstract
Parent and Provider Experience and Shared Understanding After a Family-Centered Nighttime Communication Intervention. Acad Pediatr. 2017 May - Jun; 17(4):389-402. View abstract
Communication and Shared Understanding Between Parents and Resident-Physicians at Night. Hosp Pediatr. 2016 Jun; 6(6):319-29. View abstract
Parent-Reported Errors and Adverse Events in Hospitalized Children. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Apr; 170(4):e154608. View abstract
Physician and Nurse Nighttime Communication and Parents' Hospital Experience. Pediatrics. 2015 Nov; 136(5):e1249-58. View abstract
Same-Hospital Readmission Rates as a Measure of Pediatric Quality of Care. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Oct; 169(10):905-12. View abstract
Weight loss and melena in an adolescent female. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2012 Feb; 51(2):197-9. View abstract
Pyridoxine supplementation for the treatment of levetiracetam-induced behavior side effects in children: preliminary results. Epilepsy Behav. 2008 Oct; 13(3):557-9. View abstract
Treatments and perceptions of epilepsy in Kashmir and the United States: a cross-cultural analysis. Epilepsy Behav. 2004 Aug; 5(4):580-6. View abstract


Palm fruit initially grew in west Africa, while it was immigrated to Asia to be planted to the most. Nowadays, Malaysia has the largest planting plantation and Indonesia the second. As time goes on, our eating habit is changing everyday, palm fruit oil has been our mainly daily edible oil instead of soybean oil and rapeseed oil. Palm fruit is productive, with the rigLD climate, which is tropical climate, and a lot of rain, the palm fruit can grow very well.In Malaysia and Indonesia, plantations are big, In Africa and Middle America, the plantations are expanding day by day,people are waiting to plant large area palm fruit to produce more oil and make good fortune.


Although some way from the town and a fairly long walk to the beach, this self-contained property has a myriad of facilities that make it popular both with families and couples. The rooms are mainly located in blocks to the rear of the property and have been designed to blend in to the hillside incorporating the trees and rock formations. Although many of the facilities are on the ground floor, the restaurant is upstairs and there are numerous steps and slopes through the grounds.
Although clearly visible from both directions, the property stands 600m back from the main road with a traditional stone wall at its perimeter and bordering the drive way which leads up to a shaded car park and a broad forecourt. Shrubs and trees form a barrier between the drive and the 10 wide steps up to the front entrance of the 2-storey main building. The lower floor has stone-clad walls while the upper is a pastel pink with large windows.
The sliding doors open onto a large bright foyer with a mirrored reception counter to the right. Arched walls lead into different lounge areas all of which feature sharp white walls and ceilings as well as polished brown tiled floors. Furnished with deep cushioned armchairs and sofas, the bar is located towards the end. A stairway leads up to the 1st floor restaurant, which has study wooden high-backed chairs at predominantly square tables and windows with a distant sea view.
The rooms are located in 2 and 3-storey blocks around the terraced grounds and reached by pathways across the lawns and steps up through low stone terrace walls. Each block is terracotta or yellow in colour and many of the terraces and balconies are draped in plants. An abundance of trees provide some good natural shade and the existing rocks have been incorporated in to the design. The pool deck is furnished with lightweight sunloungers and parasols and is located just to the rear of the main building.
Area Type: Located at the end of a short drive from the main coastal road 6 km to the north of the town in an area called Le Conia. There is a tourist shuttle ' road train' in to the town centre where there are restaurants and bars. Across the road and beyond a strip of farmland is the Mannena Beach, which continues in to the resort. Transfer time from Olbia Airport 50 minutes, Alghero Airport 150 minutes.


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Die denkmalgeschützte, evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Jakob steht in Ulsenheim, einem Gemeindeteil des Marktes Markt Nordheim im Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim (Mittelfranken, Bayern). Die Kirche ist unter der Denkmalnummer D-5-75-146-23 als Baudenkmal in der Bayerischen Denkmalliste eingetragen. Die Pfarrei gehört zum Dekanat Uffenheim im Kirchenkreis Ansbach-Würzburg der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern.

Beschreibung
Die Saalkirche wurde 1728 erbaut. Nach den Zerstörungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde sie 1945–56 verändert wieder aufgebaut. Sie besteht aus einem Langhaus, einem eingezogenen, dreiseitig geschlossenen Chor im Osten und einem Fassadenturm auf quadratischem Grundriss im Westen, der mit einer schiefergedeckten Welschen Haube bedeckt ist. Sein oberstes achteckiges Geschoss beherbergt die Turmuhr und den Glockenstuhl.

Der Innenraum des Langhauses ist mit einem Stichkappengewölbe überspannt, der des Chors mit einem Sterngewölbe. Zur Kirchenausstattung gehört der 1705 gebaute Altar in Form einer Ädikula.

Literatur
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Franken. Die Regierungsbezirke Oberfranken, Mittelfranken und Unterfranken. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1999, S. 1042.

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Area farmers bundled up to brace themselves for another morning on the farm — with a few added responsibilities to ensure livestock were warm and fed during the Midwest's polar vortex.
Monroe County seemed to go off the grid Wednesday as nearly record-setting low temperatures resulted in school and business closings throughout the state.
But one area job couldn't halt even for the frigid temperatures and icy wind chills that kept most residents tucked away indoors.
Area farmers bundled up to brace themselves for another morning on the farm — with a few added responsibilities to ensure livestock were warm and fed during the Midwest's polar vortex.
At a hobby farm in Raisinville Township, Tina Reaume and Jeremy Kuehnlein began their morning about 7 a.m. to make sure the family's steer, seven sheep, 25 chickens and 40 ducks and geese had the supplies they needed.
Dressed in her warmest cold-weather gear, Reaume began the morning by shaking up straw in the sheep and steer's living quarters to help keep them warm and dry throughout the bitter cold day.
State law requires adequate shelter with straw bedding for outdoor animals to best keep them insulated, according to Monroe County Animal Control.
Heated bowls are used to ensure the animals' water doesn't freeze, and it's refreshed about three times per day. To keep the water running, the couple shielded an outdoor pipe with heat tape and straw padding.
The sheep and 3,000-pound steer are fed hay, which is done daily, although they were given an extra helping to get them through the cold day.
In the duck pen and chicken coop, heat lamps keep the shelters insulated and comfortable for the birds.
In preparation for below-zero temperatures, the couple also screwed covered sides onto the chicken coop to shield the animals from cold winds.
"Normally, they're free range, but during this weather, we keep the door closed because they're not going anywhere," Reaume said.
This year wasn't the first time Reaume and Kuehnlein had to accommodate their livestock in freezing temperatures. But Reaume said the cold-weather precautions went smoother than in previous winters.
She said the family has learned from past mistakes.
One of the most helpful tools throughout winter, she said, is knowing how to assess if her animals are getting frostbite, thanks to her veterinary training.
Officials at Monroe County Animal Control said the agency has freed up as much space as possible to accommodate additional animals, even stray cats, that would otherwise suffer in the cold.
Anyone who sees an animal that needs refuge from the cold is asked to call animal control at 240-3125.


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Q: PHP - Cast type from variable I was asking myself if it's possible to cast a string to become another type defined before
e.g.
$type = "int";
$foo = "5";
$bar = ($type) $foo;

and where $bar === 5

A: Yes, there's a built-in function for that:
$type = "int";
$foo = "5";
settype($foo, $type); // $foo is now the int 5

Note that the return value of settype() is the success state of the operation, and not the converted variable. Thanks to @NRVM below.
Documentation: http://php.net/manual/en/function.settype.php

A: Taking the above comment, setting a variable will not return the number but a boolean for the succes state.
<?php
$type = "int";
$foo = "5";
$bar = settype($foo, $type);
var_dump($foo);
// bool(true)
// $bar = 1

settype($foo, $type);
var_dump($foo);
// int(5)


Early in 1995 we were on a roll with new product development and began looking into other areas for research and possible products. Our good friend and amazing Physics student Jamie Portsmouth was thinking of coming to Boston from England over the summer and was looking for something to keep him in beer over the summer. Synthetic diamonds of gem quality were just appearing and there was considerable worry over them in the gem world. Putting two and seven together we came up with a potential project of a new diamond tester which would differentiate natural from synthetic stones. It makes for some interesting reading, even if we never turned it into a product.
Is the size of a Mont Blanc Pen or slightly larger.
Easy to hold and use.
Possibly made of metal (to be a metal detector if you are contacting the prong of a stone.) But I actually prefer nice plastic.
Can be easily used by right handed and left handed people.
Won't lose its ability to detect diamonds while testing a large number of stones at a time .
Simple batteries with a long life. Rechargeable is OK.
The point doesn't crunch down or scratch stones.
If thermal conductivity is used it should not heat up in the hand.
Oh yeah, it should detect diamonds and indicate by light.
It should indicate a "not diamond '' because if it has no indication its not clear it's working. Possible by sound. Beeping.
Low power indicator. Possible by sound .Continuous.
Spelling corrections courtesy of Donald Heskett 03-04-05 ... Thanks, Don!


stephvu Item delivered in great condition as described, seller was very responsive. Overall pleasant transaction and would purchase from again!
const.20 Great seller to deal with! Item delivered as described. Pleasant transaction!
Sz m, not shrunken. Oversized fit.
Brand new with tag Sz 28w 30l They're 100% cotton so there's no stretch. Can also fit sz 27.
No damage or shrinkage Black sz s Too small for my chest as the material is not stretchy.


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Q: Switch case addition in Javascript I want to use this switch case, but it doesn't work:
switch(parseInt(num1),parseInt(num2),op)
    {
    case '+': resultat=(num1+num2);break;
    case '-': resultat=(num1-num2);break;
    case '*': resultat=(num1*num2);break;
    case '/': resultat=(num1/num2);break;
    case '<': resultat=(num1<num2);break;
    case '>': resultat=(num1>num2);break;
    case '%': resultat=(num1%num2);break;
    default:alert("Erreur: opérateur inconnu");
    }

num1 and num2 are collected before with a prompt command, they are numbers. They are converted from a chain to a number with the parseInt().
op is an operator like : *, /, +, -, % or >, <. It's  collected befor with a prompt command as well.
I just want to do an addition, like 3+5=8.
Everything works exept for the addition...it return the answer 35. I don't understand why it don't see the addition even if I put it between ()...as you can see: case '+': resultat=(num1+num2);break;
Can someone can help me with that please?

A: It's becouse your num1 and num2 are strings - their sum is concatenated string. Also, parseInt returns parsed value, do not change variable value. Do this instead:
switch(op)
    {
    case '+': resultat=(parseInt(num1)+parseInt(num2));break;
    case '-': resultat=(parseInt(num1)-parseInt(num2));break;
    case '*': resultat=(parseInt(num1)*parseInt(num2));break;
    case '/': resultat=(parseInt(num1)/parseInt(num2));break;
    case '<': resultat=(parseInt(num1)<parseInt(num2));break;
    case '>': resultat=(parseInt(num1)>parseInt(num2));break;
    case '%': resultat=(parseInt(num1)%parseInt(num2));break;
    default:alert("Erreur: opérateur inconnu");
    }

A: You are only switching on the last item in the parenthesis, op. The parseInts are not doing anything. Therefore, your + block is still treating them as strings and concatenating.
num1 = parseInt(num1);
num2 = parseInt(num2);
switch(op)
    {
    case '+': resultat=(num1+num2);break;
    case '-': resultat=(num1-num2);break;
    case '*': resultat=(num1*num2);break;
    case '/': resultat=(num1/num2);break;
    case '<': resultat=(num1<num2);break;
    case '>': resultat=(num1>num2);break;
    case '%': resultat=(num1%num2);break;
    default:alert("Erreur: opérateur inconnu");
    }