What is leptin? In short it is a human hormone. When it is functioning in the right way, the leptin hormone will send signals to the brain to tell it that you have had enough to eat and for your body to stop storing fat.
produces Melanoctye-stimulating hormone (MSH), otherwise known as intermedins. It acts like an appetite suppressant.
it works to reverse the effects of neuropeptide Y. Neuropeptide Y tells the body to store up fat and decreases the metabolism.
it counteracts with another stimulant called ananadamide (aka the bliss molecule) which can result in weight gain.
It is important to understand that leptin and weight loss go hand in hand with each other for women trying to lose weight. What is the link between leptin and weight loss? Basically body fat secretes it into the bloodstream. The basic principle is that the more fat cells that are in the body, the higher the hormone content is. It would seem that the larger you become, the easier it should be for your body to tell you it has enough fat.
For those with leptin resistance the opposite is true. Even though your body is storing a tremendous amount of fat it isn't sending the signals to your brain to say stop eating.
If you have food cravings that you just can't beat, you might be dealing with leptin resistance. This means that you will often feel hungry when you have already had enough to eat. It does not mean you don't have enough leptin in your body, it means that your brain is not registering that you are full. This can get worse the more you eat which then results in weight gain.
Many health issues can be attributed to higher levels of the hormone. Some include obesity, fertility issues, high blood pressure and heart disease. When you address the leptin resistance you are also solving many other health issues along with losing weight.
How do I fix leptin resistance? Well, it can be complicated. There are a few variables to be considered but first you really have to KNOW what your levels ARE. Not just leptin, but insulin as well as well. These are two tests I routinely order for my clients, especially if they have excess weight to lose. Once we know your levels we know how aggressive you need to be to wrangle the two linch pin hormones under control.
If you have been struggling with your weight and really want to get to the bottom of the hormonal issues that are keeping you from living your best life then I'd love to hear from you.


Representatives of the Rotary Club of Southern Districts, Andy Hopper and Michelle Kerr, came to meet with Directions to find out what we do, and how they might be able to work with us.
They were very impressed with all of our Group Programs, particularly the monthly Kenwick Social Disco, held at the Kenwick Community Centre the first Friday of every month. So much so that they have decided to sponsor us annually $400 towards the drinks of the Kenwick Social! We are very appreciative!
Rotary Club of Southern Districts raise their funds through the Maddington Bring & Buy Second-hand Markets held every Sunday in the Maddington Central carpark off Burslem Drive. Please go along on a Sunday morning, maybe pick up a treasure and support our local Rotary!


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and plummet back to earth.
onto the grass flecked with frost crystals.
In my tenth year, what did I know of grief?
quiet as pine needles trembling on their branches.
and the dead refused to leave. What did I care?
across the pond, the best place for grief.
John Owen is an MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he teaches composition and creative writing. His publications include in A View from Here. In 2009, he was a finalist for Yalobusha Review's Yellowwood Poetry Prize. For three years he served as Managing Editor for Western Kentucky University's literary magazine Zephyrus, and he was an editor for Steel Toe Books.


Its beautiful appearance attracts many aquarists and, indeed, this species is very popular. However, it is not suitable for all aquariums. Indeed, these fish have a strong character, and do not hesitate to let it know! It is therefore advisable to be careful when keeping them in a community aquarium.
Find all the useful advice for this point and many others in the rest of this sheet!
How to feed the Tiger barb?
Omnivorous: all forms of food are accepted with a clear preference for live prey. Pay attention to the quantities distributed because it has an insatiable appetite! You can complete this carnivorous diet with plant benefits.
What kind of behavior does the Tiger barb have?
The Sumatra Barb has a strong character! It can quickly be very aggressive, especially if it is maintained in small numbers. Like most Barbs, it is very active and dynamic. It has a gregarious instinct and must live in a shoal (make up your group with 1 male for 2 females).
The larger the shoal, the more this fish will become wise with other species. Indeed, the males tend to quarrel and continue between them for the attention of females.
As a result, aggression will remain intraspecific. You will also observe more beautiful colours by keeping the Sumatra Barb in large numbers: it is the rival males who parade in front of the females.
Who can live with the Tiger barb?
Naturally, with a mood like that of this Barb, not all community aquariums are allowed. We must therefore think about the compatibility of its population before the purchase. For example, do not associate them with slow, fearful or too small fish. Indeed, its stirring and active temperament will disturb the calm fish.
Attention also to the winged fish like the Guppy, Scalar, Gourami or Fighters whose Sumatra Barb will nibble the fins. In a bin biotope, the best choice is to propose the cohabitation with other Cyprinids of identical size or even Crossocheilus and Garras.
In a more general tank, you can associate it with Botias, Rainbow fish, Tetras or even Gastromyzons.
How to breed the Tiger barb?
As for most Barbs, its breeding in aquarium is quite possible.
Set aside a special aquarium to ensure a high rate of fry reaching adulthood. Place in this aquarium (15 L / 3 imp gal / 4 US gal) a protective grid at the bottom and garnish with thin-leafed plants such as Java moss for example. Fill it with mature water and aim for a temperature of 26°C or 79°F and a pH of 6.5/7. Possibly add peat extract. Condition the parents by offering them an abundance of live prey.
When the females appear gravid, choose a couple and introduce it into the spawning tank. Males are very aggressive and can even kill non-pregnant females. Therefore, if spawning does not occur within 24 hours, better separate the pair and try again later.
The laying may include up to 500 eggs per female and incubation lasts 36 hours. Fry growth is fast.
Which aquarium for the Tiger barb?
Its general decoration does not have much impact on it. However, it was observed that it flourished more in aquariums with a dark substrate and a beautiful plantation (robust and solid). Indeed, these elements would appease its quarrelsome temperament.
Sometimes it will search the soil (prefer a non-cutting soil).
For proper maintenance of the Sumatra Barb, choose a powerful filtration and make frequent water changes (polluter).
Suitable for beginners, it is not very demanding with the water parameters. Finally, it must especially be clean and this will avoid a lot of problems.
Because of its success in our aquariums, the strains sold are quite weak genetically (consanguinity). This makes it quite susceptible to diseases and malformations.
There is a variety albino, a green ("foam"), a golden and a Steel Blue. Finally, there are colorful varieties (GloFish) that must be avoided: its colours are obtained by suggestive injections and excruciatingly suffer the fish that victim, to eventually shorten its life drastically.
This practice is prohibited and the importation of these specimens also.


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March Through Long Island Village By Group Of Proud Boys Sparks Concern
A screenshot from a video of the march posted by Sen. Todd Kaminsky on Twitter Photo Credit: @toddkaminsky / Twitter
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Members of the Proud Boys marched through a Long Island village over the weekend, leading several officials to voice their concerns.
The far-right organization has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky posted a video on Twitter showing the march through Rockville Centre on Saturday, Nov. 27.
The video showed the group of about two dozen people walking through the street with American flags and Proud Boys flags.
"The Neo-fascist Proud Boys marched through Rockville Centre today, close to my office," Kaminsky tweeted. "I think the latest elections emboldened them-I don't remember this happening before. I will not be silent. Their hatred has no place here-this is not the Nassau I know. Who else will speak up?"
US Rep. Kathleen Rice of Long Island also responded to reports about the march on Saturday.
"I'm aware of the march through Rockville Centre that white nationalists organized today," Rice said. "I am disgusted that this took place in our district. I will continue to fight against racism, hatred, and white nationalism while serving as your representative."
Rockville Centre Mayor Francis X. Murray issued the following statement:
"I'm aware of the march through Rockville Centre that white nationalists organized today," he said. "I am disgusted that this took place in our district. I will continue to fight against racism, hatred, and white nationalism while serving as your representative."
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NEPTUNE DASH TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCING FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS AND PROVIDES CORPORATE UPDATE
V.NDA | March 23, 2020
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neptune Dash Technologies Corp. ("Neptune" or the "Company") announces that in light of ongoing concerns related to the spread of COVID-19, and in order to mitigate potential risks to the health and safety of its shareholders, employees, communities and other stakeholders, the Company wishes to emphasize its priority to decrease the health risks associated with the spread of COVID-19 and adhere to the recommendations of Canadian public health officials in regards to the number of people allowed to attend any public meeting, in the context of the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company (the "Meeting") called to be held on March 25, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. The details of the Meeting, including the business items on which the shareholders will be asked to vote, are set out in the Notice of Meeting of the Company dated February 10, 2020 ("Notice of Meeting") that was sent to shareholders and filed on SEDAR at https://sedar.com.
Accordingly, all shareholders are encouraged to vote on the matters before the meeting by proxy, and to participate in its annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company to be held on March 25, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. (Vancouver Time) via teleconferencing as follows:
Dial In: 1-866-201-0079
In addition, further to the Company's press release dated March 13, 2020, the Company completed the issuance of shares for settlement of debt with a total of 3,379,182 common shares issued at a deemed price of $0.057 per share and subject to a four month hold period.
About Neptune Dash Technologies Corp.
The Company primarily builds and operates Masternodes and invests in Node technologies. The Company also has a diversified cryptocurrency portfolio through investments made in Proof-of-Stake tokens and their associated blockchain technologies.
Neptune Dash Technologies Corp.
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Email: info@neptunedash.com
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SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S BRIBSTERS, THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF PACIFIC GAS % ELECTRIC TO PAY ONLY $11 BILLION IN SETTLEMENT FOR FIRES - NO ONE GOES TO JAIL AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE FOR WALL STREET CRIMES
PG&E Agrees To Pay $11 Billion Insurance Settlement Over California Wildfires
BILL CHAPPELL
PG&E says it will pay $11 billion to resolve insurance companies' claims from the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp Fire. Here, destroyed homes are seen in Paradise, Calif., where the Camp Fire raged last November.
Utility giant PG&E has agreed to a second large settlement over devastating Northern California wildfires, saying it will pay $11 billion to resolve most insurance claims from the wine country fires in 2017 and massive Camp Fire in 2018.
"These claims are based on payments made by insurance companies to individuals and businesses with insurance coverage for wildfire damages" in those catastrophic blazes, PG&E said in announcing the deal.
The utility says the tentative deal with a group of insurers covers about 85% of claims from those fires. While the $11 billion sum is large, it's far smaller than the roughly $20 billion that the insurance companies wanted, after paying out billions to California wildfire victims.
The settlement will require the approval of a bankruptcy court, as PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January and recently entered into a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
In a statement about the outcome, the insurance companies — which banded together as the Ad Hoc Subrogation Group — said that while their initial claim wasn't fulfilled, "we hope that this compromise will pave the way for a plan of reorganization that allows PG&E to fairly compensate all victims and emerge from Chapter 11 by the June 2020 legislative deadline."
PG&E CEO and President Bill Johnson, who joined the company in April, says the settlement is "another step in doing what's right for the communities, businesses, and individuals" that suffered damages from the fires.
PG&E's transmission lines were immediately suspected of playing a role in the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise — and in May, state fire investigators confirmed that the utility's electrical lines were to blame.
In June, PG&E announced it would pay $1 billion to 18 local governments and agencies affected by three large wildfires: the 2015 Butte Fire, the 2017 North Bay Fires and the Camp Fire. Butte County and Paradise will receive more than $500 million of that amount.
PG&E still faces a third large group of legal claims from individual plaintiffs, whose cases are pending in federal and state courts.
WHO WILL PAY FOR BERNIE SANDER'S MEDICARE FOR MEXICO?
Bernie Sanders got some 'splainin' to do on Medicare for All
By Anna L. Stark
Shortly after 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders published a revised version of his Medicare for All scheme, I compiled a list of 21 questions regarding the senator's plan, using his latest revision as a reference. My questions were published at American Thinker last April.
I forwarded the same list of questions to the Sanders campaign headquarters. I've yet to receive a response to my inquiry, much less the standard, pre-printed, auto-signed "thank you for contacting the campaign" letter. As I am still patiently waiting for a response, a whole new list questions has arisen.
Is the senator unwilling to answer my questions? If so, why? Will the answers to my questions be unpopular with the voting public? Promising to significantly raise taxes on the campaign trail is always a non-starter; better to remain silent on the topic of taxes? Is the senator unable to provide details about specific proposals contained within his socialized medicine plan?
In reviewing the original 21 questions, they are uncomplicated, easy to read, and straightforward. Senator Sanders's revised Medicare for All scheme makes many claims, none of which cites supporting documentation. In particular, I asked for citations about the staggering amount of money he claims will be saved by the U.S. government on health care for 330 million people, significantly reduced expenditures for health care by employers, how calculations were derived, and so on.
Keep in mind that at the time Medicare became law in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson claimed that it would pay for itself over time. It hasn't. Just the opposite is true; Medicare, as we know it, is racing toward insolvency. President Obama made a lot of claims about Obamacare, too. Most of his claims never came to fruition; millions of people are still uninsured, and some of what he promised was boldfaced lies.
I got specific, asking if Canadians will still be allowed to access American health care facilities under the American version of MFA; who pays for the "free" health care for the estimated 22 million illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S.; what happens to military Tri-Care insurance, the V.A., and military hospitals. I also asked if members of Congress will be able to exempt themselves, their family members, and office staff from his Medicare for All scheme. Crickets.
Unlike Nancy Pelosi's infamous claim about Obamacare, having to pass it to see what's in it, the Sanders MFA scheme does address personal income tax increases and increased employer-paid MFA taxes — sort of. And while he proposes a 4% MFA tax levied on a family of four whose household income exceeds $50,000, Sanders fails to mention if the 4% is a flat rate tax or a progressive tax. For instance, does the 4% tax double to 8% for a household income of $100,000? If so, imagine paying $32,000 a year for health care based on annual household income of $200,000 and that's even before forking over another 32% of annual wages earned, based on the most current income tax brackets for married filing jointly.
That's peanuts compared to what the Sanders plan will impose on employers. Currently, employers match the 1.4% Medicare tax employee contribution, calculated on employee wages. The Sanders plan eliminates the employee tax but increases the employer share to 7.5%. Do the math — it's a 436% tax increase. You'd think Bernie would have paid a little more attention, unlike Hillary Clinton, when telling people they will be put out of business because of outrageous, unaffordable MFA employer tax increases or telling the 1.8 million people employed in the health care insurance industry that their jobs will be eliminated or promising union workers that their Cadillac health care plans will go away. Not exactly vote-garnering platitudes.
Finally, the Sanders MFA scheme is a list of proposals to be hammered out in Congress, should he be elected president in 2020. Perhaps that's why he's unwilling to respond to me; the devil is in the details, and the details remain unknown. If most of what Bernie Sanders proposes were to be legislated, American medicine as we know would be upended in a mere four-year period, which is his timetable for socializing medicine in the U.S.
To my knowledge, candidate Sanders has yet to address a room full of current Medicare beneficiaries — unlike his opponent, Kamala Harris, who was told by nursing home resident, "Don't mess with my health care."
WILL REPUBLICANS REBOUND IN ORANGE COUNTY AND END THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON THEIR BACKS?
Good news: Poll signals Republicans can rebound in Orange County and New Mexico
By Monica Showalter
There's nothing quite as unstable as a rigged, stolen election, and right now, California's ballot-harvested Orange County might just move to Republican hands in the upcoming election.
According to a new internal poll cited by RealClearPolitics:
The Democratic tidal wave that washed over California last fall turned Orange County blue, but there are hopeful signs for Republicans that the floodwaters are receding.
A new poll shows top GOP recruit Michelle Steel (pictured) tied with first-term Democratic Rep. Harley Rouda, both pulling in 42% of active voters, with 16% undecided.
Just 28% of the voters polled in the survey, released this week to RealClearPolitics, said they want to re-elect Rouda while 42% said they want to give someone else a chance.
The congressman, who defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in one of the most closely watched House contests last cycle, has yet to make a firm impression in the district, the figures also show. Forty-two percent of voters in the district say they don't know who Rouda is or have an unfavorable opinion of him, while just 30% have a favorable opinion.
Same deal with New Mexico. The leftist congresswoman there, like Rouda, was a dullard.
Both of them evidently understood that acting like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and getting loud and socialist on Twitter, was a great way to get publicity but wouldn't go over well in their mixed districts. So they tried to play it safe and now are losing grounds on the boringness factor. Life's tough when you can't sell socialism openly and your party is all about socialism.
It shows just what a dilemma it's been for Democrats in the ballot-harvested areas of California, as well as New Mexico.
These are representatives who had been losing their elections until ballot-harvesting kicked in, and the votes just kept arriving until Democrats got the result they wanted. After that, no more counting. And illegal aliens actually did the harvesting.
Sure, there's good news in the poll, but the really good news is in the willingness of the Republicans to fight. Californians face tremendous obstacles to ever getting their will as voters into office now that the far left has taken over at the state level.
The details of the RealClearPolitics story show that candidates are stepping forward and showing a willingness to fight back anyway — against all odds. The logic, of course, is that if the victory is big enough, they won't be able to cheat.
They seem to be operating on that and are going at it with vigor, fighting like President Trump. It probably hasn't hurt them to have his example, teaching them what works on crooked, corrupt Democrats, and to avoid the namby-pambyism that lost them their favorite Reagan Country county.
One can only hope they fight like heck, given the odds. This news suggests that they are.
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ILLEGALS & WELFARE
WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN, AND YET WE LET MEXICO BUILD THEIR BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!!!
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
"According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org"
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-cheap-is-staggering-cost-of-mexicos.html
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
$400 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
THE DISUNITED STATES: The world's welfare office!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/welfare-for-refugees-cost-legals-123.html
America is a nation with a severe housing crisis, a million legals who are homeless, tens of millions of legals who have given up finding a job that pays living wages and yet the borders are wide open to keep the hordes coming simply to keep wages DEPRESSED.
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THE SLOW DEATH OF PELOSI'S STATE of CALIFORNIA, A WELFARE STATE AND COLONY OF MEXICO
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/californias-slow-death.html
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its "worst state in the U.S. to do business" ranking for more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
AMERICA: THE WORLD'S WELFARE OFFICE
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/america-worlds-welfare-office-two-out.html
"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein
WE SAT AND WATCHED WHILE THEY DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY!
We are now in the process of destabilizing our own country. FROSTY WOOLDRIGE
Welfare for Refugees Cost Americans $123 Billion in 10 Years ….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html
(LA RAZA, DEM INVASION)
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat Party's secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS' DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
AMERICA, THE ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE STATE
"Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
"The children of illegal aliens are commonly known as "anchor babies," as they anchor their illegal alien and noncitizen parents in the U.S. There are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the country, a population that exceeds the total number of annual American births." JOHN BINDER
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/video-ann-coulter-illegals-invading.html
MARK LEVIN:
'Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down'
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/07/mark-levin-unbridled-immigration-legal.html
This annual income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
"As Breitbart News recently reported, there are more anchor baby births in the Los Angeles, California metro area than the total U.S. births in 14 states and the District of Colombia. Every year, American taxpayers are billed about $2.4 billion to pay for the births of illegal aliens." JOHN BINDER
THE INVASION:
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/narcomex-orchestrates-foreign-invasion.html
"The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest." Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox's Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. "America is now Mexico's social safety net, and that's a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class," Carlson added."
COST to AMERICANS of the LA RAZA MEXICAN OCCUPATION in CALIFORNIA ALONE: $2,370 per legal.
All that "cheap" labor is staggeringly expensive!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/06/cost-to-americans-of-la-raza-mexican.html
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN MORE THAN ONE BILLION PER YEAR FOR MEX ANCHOR BABY BREEDING OF FUTURE DEMS!
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED!
"Additionally, under current legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien population would be allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign relatives to the U.S. This population could boost already high legal immigration levels to an unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens would also likely triple the number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border." JOHN BINDER
"At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I'm not talking about legal immigrants who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the United States"…. Tom Barrett
(TOP – WELFARE, LA RAZA MALKIN, HOSPITAL COST, CASE STUDY,)
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY WILL ADD ANOTHER 100 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/03/heritage-foundation-amnesty-would-add.html
"In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal immigration drive down U.S. wages, particularly of those on the lowest-skilled parts of the ladder, and as money flows out from local communities, leaves them underinvested and run-down. Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal immigrants live here but their money lives in Mexico. And it's often untaxed." MONICA SHOWALTER
Who ultimately really pays for all the true cost of all that "cheap" labor?
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO'S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/10/spencer-p-morrison-devastating-cost-of.html
"The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration". DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
LA RAZA DOUBLED U.S. POPULATION AND VOTED TO SURRENDER AMERICAN BORDERS FOR EASY PLUNDERING BY NARCOMEX.
"The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama's 2012 "DACA" amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute."
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government ....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/californias-privileged-class-mexican.html
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
FLOODING AMERICAN WITH FOREIGNERS HELPS KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND BILLIONAIRES HAPPY!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/jobs-in-america-appalling-situation-for.html
"Washington, D.C. (May 22, 2018) – The Center of Immigration Studies analysis of new Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the first quarter of 2018 shows that the labor force participation rate has not returned to pre-2007 recession levels, and relative to 2000 the rate looks even worse. Things are particularly bad for those without a college education. The problem is not confined to one area of the country; in virtually every state, labor force participation is lower in 2018 than in 2007 or 2000 among the less-educated."
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here's how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY!
Staggering expensive "cheap" Mexican labor did not build this once great nation! Look what it has done to Mexico. It's all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost of the invasion, their welfare, and crime tidal wave costs to the backs of the American people!
(WELFARE)
AMERICA: YOU'RE BETTER OFF BEING AN ILLEGAL!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-america-it-is-better-to-be-illegal.html
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06.02.2018 - Thank you so very much, Katse!
Video footage and photos of our gig at Katse are now online! It was a joy to perform in such place to such amount of people. The liquid backstage offerings were also well received. Be sure to check our YouTube channel for new live stuff!
28.10.2017 - Thank you, Freetime!
After some equipment issues and delays, all guitar recordings, including bass, for the new upcoming single are finally done! Next up: vocals.
We are also rehearsing steadily for our upcoming show at Freetime and things are starting to come together quite nicely. See you there!


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You taught me the real meaning to be alive.
The mortal world is divine, after seeing your smile.
Now I say you are a part of my life and full faith.
Let's celebrate the vitality of this Blessed Day!
We will be true friends forever that I swear.
When death came she fought bravely but no help.
Slowly fell in a faint for whole worldly profile.
Not any other but, the greatest shine- Meena Alexander.
The herculean tasks or have some silly.
Fade reminiscence or a magic band.
A mortal dwarf or a part of Divine Height.
My Golden time! You taught me true value of learning.
of lore: you gave me more than what I required.
My gratitude is here, as you loved me more, I deserve.
You are the transcendent gift of my lord's sublime.
Dedicated to my guide, Prof. Nishat Haider (Lucknow University).


After being unable to find reasonably priced, properly distributed Armenian refrigerator magnets, I decided to make my own. First, I wrote a program to scrape an Armenian-language newspaper's web site in order to calculate letter distributions, since I could not find a distribution chart. Once a distribution had been calculated, I decided to build 100 letters total. I laid out 100 1.5" tall letters in a 12" x 12" sheet to cut out on a laser cutter twice -- once with press-fit holes for magnets, and one without, to glue on top. Total cost: $10 for the magnets from Amazon and $10.25 for the acrylic from Mcmaster-Carr. Add an extra $5 for the glue, and the total cost is $25, which, while expensive, is much less than a similar number of magnets would cost at an Armenian specialty store. The only real drawback is that they're all the same color, and that they took the better part of six hours to assemble.


Lillian Melcher is an illustrator living and working in Boston, Ma. Her first book The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, written by Andrea Wulf, is a graphic work of non-fiction exploring the early life of naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and his contributions to environmentalism. Lillian graduated in 2016 from Parsons School of Design with a degree in illustration. She has been honored with the SCBWI Student Illustrator Scholarship for her picture book portfolio.


One morning in August 2011, the vice president of an information technology contractor for the federal government awoke, checked his BlackBerry and noticed something strange.
Overnight, as court records would later go on to describe, someone had sent an email from the unnamed executive's work account to a former employee.
An internal investigation soon led to a federal probe by the FBI and the General Service Administration's Office of Inspector General.
Now, nearly two years after that unusual email, the former employee, Robert Edwin Steele, 38, stands convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., of 14 counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer.
In announcing the conviction Friday, federal prosecutors said Steele worked at multiple companies in government contracting, resigning from one known only as "Company A" in December 2010.
But after leaving the company and while working for another contractor, prosecutors said Steele continued sifting through his old employer's records. All told, he accessed the company's internal system more than 79,000 times from December 2010 to early September 2011, authorities said.
When sentenced in July, Steele faces up to one year in prison on two misdemeanor convictions and five years on each of 12 felony convictions.


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There's a new, tourist-friendly Wawa coming to Center City
Development Wawa
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Wawa's flagship Philadelphia location at Broad and Walnut streets in Center City.
As debate simmers around the opening of super Wawas in Conshohocken and elsewhere, it seems there's no dispute about the latest reported Wawa opening in Center City, with the first signs of a store headed right near Independence Mall.
The location is slated for the first floor of the Public Ledger building at 6th and Chestnut Streets, according to Naked Philly, and replaces the long-running tourist shop that was there until sometime last year.
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The new store, not unlike the Wawa at Broad and Walnut streets that opened in 2015, will likely create an optimum tourist experience for those visitors set on seeing the city's most conspicuous of attractions. Plus, it's not exactly new territory for the chain, considering Wawa Hoagie Day effectively takes over Independence Mall every year.
Though the reported location is just the latest in a growth of Wawa stores in the city, it's still a relatively new concept. Up until a few years ago, Wawa storefronts were dwindling in Center City as the focus shifted toward larger, sprawling suburban locations with gas stations.
Not long after the flagship Wawa store opened on Broad Street to coincide with the Papal Visit a couple years ago, though, plans for subsequent city locations were announced. Late last year Wawa created its largest urban location to date at 19th & Market Streets and, since then, plans for multiple storefronts – including one as part of the Market East developments – have been unveiled.
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SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL
by Tao Lin
104 pages, Melville House
Life is Bleak, Ain't it Neat
Review by Marie Mundaca
Is it possible that a book filled with instant message exchanges can also be incredibly moving? In Shoplifting from American Apparel, Tao Lin explores the notion that internet friendships are somehow different from real life connections. Imbued with Lin's dark comedy and deadpan humor, Shoplifting is a fun and penetrating trip into the mind of someone trying "not to be a bad person," and make connections with people. Readers know Sam, the novel's protagonist, isn't a bad person at all. He's aimless and confused, but his quiet demeanor is incredibly appealing.
Sam spends his days and nights IM'ing with his Internet friend Luis, interrupted by work at a vegetarian restaurant and occasional trips to shoplift clothes from the hipster clothing outpost American Apparel. When he gets caught stealing, the store's manager has this conversation with Sam.
"Steal from some shitty corporation. We have fair-trade labor. I mean fair labor."
"I spend my money on even better places," said Sam, "Organic vegan restaurants."
"I'm all for that," said the manager.
Sam goes to jail, but this doesn't get him down—he's already as far down as he can go. Sam thinks, "Loneliness and depression would be defeated with a king-size bed, an expensive stereo system, a drum set, a bike, an unlimited supply of organic produce and coconuts, and maybe calmly playing an online role playing game." If this is what it will take to make him happy, then spending a night in jail is no worse than spending a night at home.
In the second half of the book, Sam travels to Gainesville to see some friends and meet a girl. Of course, the real life conversations are much more awkward than Sam's and Luis's IM conversations. When Sam is interacting with friends in real life, his loneliness abates, but the specter of depression looms humorously. "I feel really good right now, I feel like I'll just kill myself after this," Sam says to his friends. When he tells his friend Audrey, "I honestly don't know what to do, like, overall," she suggests that he draw hamsters.
" 'I already did that,' said Sam.
'There's nothing left for you,' said Audrey."
When he finally kisses Audrey, Lin writes this awkward exchange: "They kissed some more and then stared at each other with neutral facial expressions. … Sam felt his own neutral facial expression." Even during passionate moments, Sam tries hard to remain aloof and detached.
Lin is writing about ennui, depression, loneliness—all difficult subjects to write about. How to get these emotions across without sounding desperate and boring? Lin succeeds wildly. Shoplifting from American Apparel is a quietly bleak and humorous book that will stay with you for a long time.
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Other weight loss, leukopenia, nephrolithiasis, oligogidroz (mainly in children), metabolic acidosis. Symptoms convulsions, disturbance of consciousness up to coma, decreased blood pressure, severe metabolic acidosis, increased severity chlorodehydromethyltestosterone 10 mg opana of side effects.
Treatment: gastric lavage, symptomatic therapy. An effective way to removing topiramate from the body – hemodialysis.
does not affect the concentration of carbamazepine, phenobarbital, primidone. With the simultaneous use of valproic acid valproic acid is reduced by 11%, topiramate – 14%. In some cases, when using phenytoin, phenytoin may increase the plasma concentration.
When the joint application of topiramate to phenytoin and carbamazepine may decrease plasma concentrations of topiramate, thus with the addition or withdrawal of phenytoin or carbamazepine is recommended that dose adjustment of topiramate.
Other interactions Digoxin: the area under the concentration-time curve of digoxin is reduced by 12%. Oral contraceptives: Topiramate at a dose of 50-800 mg / day had no significant impact on the efficiency and norethindrone at a dose of 50-200 mg / day – on the effectiveness of ethinyl estradiol. Significant dose-dependent decrease in efficiency was observed when receiving ethinylestradiol topiramate at a dose of 200-800 mg / day. Patients taking oral contraceptives should tell your doctor chlorodehydromethyltestosterone 10 mg opana about any changes in bleeding patterns.
Metformin: In an application with topiramate the mean value of the maximum concentration and area under the curve concentrations of metformin increased by 18% and 25% respectively, while the mean total clearance is reduced by 20%. Topiramate has no effect on the time to reach Cmax of metformin. Plasma clearance of topiramate is reduced under the influence of metformin. The clinical significance of effects of metformin on the pharmacokinetics of topiramate is unclear. The appointment or termination of topiramate on metformin therapy is necessary to monitor the status of carbohydrate metabolism.
Hydrochlorothiazide: while taking topiramate is an increase in the maximum concentration of 27% and the area under the concentration curve of topiramate by 29%.
Means, depressing the central nervous system ): not recommended for concomitant use of topiramate with ethanol and other means, oppressive central nervous system. Pioglitazone: it revealed a decrease in the area under the concentration curve of pioglitazone by 15%, without changing the maximum concentration of the drug. For active gidroksimetabolita pioglitazone showed a 13% reduction in the maximum concentration and the area under the concentration curve and 16%, respectively, and for the reduction of active ketometabolita detected and the maximum concentrations and areas under the concentration curve at 60%. The clinical significance of these data is unknown.
Other facilities: Topiramate, when used in conjunction with other agents predisposing to nephrolithiasis, in particular carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (acetazolamide) may increase the risk of nephrolithiasis.During use of topiramate patients should avoid taking such drugs, as they can establish the physiological conditions that increase the risk of formation of kidney stones.
Before the drug for women is recommended to use adequate contraception. Topiramate, as well , it is recommended to cancel, gradually reducing the dose, in order to reduce the potential risk of increased frequency of seizures.
Renal impairment: Patients with moderate and severe strongly impaired renal function may need 10-15 days to reach the equilibrium state plasma concentrations as opposed to 4-8 days in patients with normal renal function. As with all patients, a gradual increase in dose should be administered in accordance with clinical outcomes (such as the control of seizures, frequency of side effects), given that patients with moderate or severe renal impairment may require a longer time to reach steady-state after each dose.
Nephrolithiasis: in some patients, particularly predisposed to nephrolithiasis, may increase the risk of forming kidney stones, accompanied by symptoms such as renal colic, pain in the side and in the kidney area. It is recommended that adequate hydration to reduce the risk of kidney stones.
Hepatic impairment: in patients with impaired liver function chlorodehydromethyltestosterone 10 mg opana topiramate clearance is reduced.
Myopia and secondary angle-closure glaucoma: the development of myopia, topiramate should be repealed as soon as clinically possible, and to take measures to reduce intraocular pressure.
Metabolic acidosis: When using topiramate may hyperchloraemic not associated with a deficit of anions, metabolic acidosis (ie, decreased bicarbonate concentration in plasma below normal levels in the absence of respiratory alkalosis). This reduction in the concentration of bicarbonate serum is a consequence of the inhibitory effect of topiramate on renal carbonic anhydrase. In this connection, in the treatment of topiramate to periodically determine the concentration of bicarbonate in the blood serum.
By reducing the body weight during therapy topiramate is useful to consider the possibility of appointing additional power. During treatment advised to refrain from driving and work requiring high concentration and speed of psychomotor reactions.


Smart-Space, one of the UK's leading manufacturers and installers of re-locatable, semi-permanent and permanent buildings, has completed the construction of a timber processing and storage facility for Mike England Timber at the independent hardwood and softwood supplier's headquarters near Preston, Lancashire.
The new building is a re-locatable 10-metre by 32.5-metre structure, with 40mm insulated steel-cladded walls, a 5-metre by 5-metre electric roller shutter door and a double-layer, air-insulated PVC roof.
It houses storage racking as well as the compressors, dust extraction, sanding, texturing, vacuum coating and brush coating machinery required for the company's timber coating, texturing and drying processes.
"Our business is all about supplying high quality timber products and offering cladding solutions. We work with market leaders Sikkens and Mighton and are factory-approved timber coaters. We also offer specialist and bespoke timber mouldings, all to the highest specifications and augmented by high levels of customer service," says managing director Jeanette Corner.
"We have experienced significant growth over the last few years in our traditional markets and have expanded into the outdoor buildings and leisure sectors. This new facility enables us to shorten our lead times and to take on more business by batch processing bespoke orders - providing customers with a more flexible, efficient and effective service, whilst maintaining high levels of quality."
The entire installation took eight days, with the Smart-Space team working in a confined space and around the ongoing operations on the busy site. Mike England Timber considered a more permanent building, but decided on this more cost-effective way of creating the required space in a much shorter timeframe, without any loss of building integrity.
"Smart-Space mirrors our own business in many ways," says Jeanette. "The response to our initial enquiry, the positive and friendly attitude of the entire team, the quality of the solution and the excellent aftercare have all been remarkable."


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(18/P006) TRENTON – Several state parks are offering a variety of outdoor events through February for children and adults that promote nature, exercise and New Jersey's rich history with George Washington.
The wide-ranging activities showcase the diverse programming offered at parks across the state.
During January and February, families can choose from outdoor hikes to children-focused nature exploration programs and more. Several parks also have activities planned during Presidents' Week to mark Washington's 286th birthday, and the significant contributions he made while fighting the British in New Jersey during the American Revolution.
Plenty of winter activities are planned at parks throughout the state, with multiple programs scheduled at High Point and Kittatinny Valley state parks, both in Sussex County. Call (973) 875-1471 to register for High Point programs. Call (973) 786-6445 to register for Kittatinny programs.
Fledgling Naturalists: Hands-on activities will give children ages 2 to 5, with an adult partner, an opportunity to explore nature through games, stories and crafts. For the afternoon sessions, arrive between 1 and 1:30 p.m. for free play and coffee, which will be provided. Each adult is limited to a maximum of two children (infants not included; exceptions may be made for parents of multiples). Registration is required by 4 p.m. the day before the program.
Jan. 25 and Feb. 8: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Jan. 26 and Feb. 9: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Fee: $5 per adult/child pair; $2 for additional siblings ages 2 to 5.
Nature in Winter Walk: A guide and participants will look for tracks and evidence of wintering wildlife, as well as dormant trees, plants, insects and more. A limited number of snowshoes in child and adult sizes are available, and must be reserved by 4 p.m. the Friday before each walk. Locations will vary.
Fee: $2 per person for the walk; $5 per person to borrow snowshoes.
16th Annual Hot Chocolate Hike/Snowshoe: Go on a brisk hike or snowshoe for adults in the winter woods of Kittatinny, then warm up with a cup of hot chocolate and cookies at the visitor center.
Fee: $5. Preregistration is required.
Winter Wonders: Stories, finger plays and crafts are used during this indoor program to help youngsters develop an awareness and appreciation of nature. For children ages 4 and 5, with adult caregivers. Preregistration is required.
Owls, Hunters of the Night: A slideshow featuring plenty of details about owls, followed by a short outdoor "Owl Prowl." For adults and children ages 6 and older. Preregistration is required.
Feb. 3: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Fee: $5 for adults and children age 12 and older; $3 for children ages 6 to 11.
Backyard Bird Feeding: Adults and children ages 6 and older will learn to identify winter birds and how to attract them to a home yard through an activity to make a pine cone and peanut butter bird feeder.
Feb. 10: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Fee: $10 through preregistration; $15 day-of/walk-in.
Groundhog's Day Celebration: Funny books and hands-on activities will be used to teach children ages 3 to 9 about hibernation and how wildlife survives during cold months. Preregistration is required for the free event. Call (609) 397-2949.
Feb. 3: 1 p.m., Bull's Island Recreation Area, Park Office, Hunterdon County.
Jack Frost Hike: A hike along the Cushetunk Trail at Round Valley Recreation Area in Hunterdon County is set for children and adults to learn the do's and don'ts of hiking. Bring snowshoes if the ground is snow-covered.
Feb. 3: 10 a.m. to noon. Meet at the South Park Lot. Call (908) 236-6355.
Fee: $3 for children ages 12 and older; $1 for children ages 6 to 11.
Feb. 10: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Spruce Run Recreation Area Park Office.
Fee: $3 per person plus materials fee. Payment required by 2 p.m. Feb. 9 at the park office.
In addition to its slate of winter activities, the state parks system will honor George Washington through several educational programs and events to celebrate the nation's Founding Father for Presidents' Day.
This year, the state and federal holiday, observed the third Monday in February, is Feb. 19.
Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Monmouth County will present "George Washington at Monmouth" at 2 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the Visitor Center Auditorium. Call (732) 462-9616.
On Feb. 17, a free video biography, "George Washington: Founding Father," will be presented at 2 p.m. in the Visitor Center Museum at Washington Crossing State Park in Mercer County. Call (609) 737-0623.
The park on Feb. 18 will host a birthday celebration from 1 to 4 p.m., featuring music, baking, quill pen writing, colonial toys and games, woodshop skills and more at the Johnson Ferry House. Call (609) 737-2515.
Allaire State Park in Monmouth County will host a free program from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 18 in the chapel at the Historic Allaire Village to celebrate Washington's birthday. Call (732) 919-3500.
D&R Canal State Park will host a birthday party for Washington from noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 24 at the park's Rockingham State Historic Site in Somerset County. Tours of the historic house will include timeline facts of Washington's life. Cake, punch and a birthday toast will be offered. A $5 donation is suggested, and preregistration is required. Call (609) 683-7132.


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Helen Keller (04:44)
A statue of Keller was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in 2009 to honor her disability rights work. Most Americans' knowledge of Keller was created by the media and focused on her childhood.
Keller's Childhood (03:52)
Keller went blind and deaf as a toddler. Her mother, Kate, read about a blind-deaf student at Perkins School for the Blind, who learned finger spelling. Michael Anagnos, the director, suggested recent graduate Annie Sullivan as a teacher.
Keller and Annie Sullivan (04:03)
A bacterial infection resulted in Sullivan's vision loss. She traveled to Alabama to become Keller's teacher. After getting Keller to obey, she taught her finger spelling, reading, and writing.
Keller and Oralism (05:16)
Though Anagnos publicized Sullivan's work, she disliked the embellishment he used. Keller learned lip reading through feeling facial movement and vibrations; she wanted to speak. At the time, many people chose oral speech over signing.
Doubts of Keller's Intelligence (03:34)
When she was 11, Keller wrote a short story for Anagnos as a birthday present. He had it published as evidence that Keller had independent thought, but the story was similar to another. Anagnos conducted an investigation and questioned whether Keller and Sullivan were frauds.
Keller's Education (04:53)
Keller left Perkins, but Sullivan encouraged her to publish an essay, impressing Mark Twain. At 16, Keller decided to continue her education at Radcliffe College. There was debate about whether women could handle college and many viewed Keller's admission as a publicity stunt.
Keller's Writing (03:14)
Keller became a professional writer while at Radcliffe, agreeing to write autobiographic essays for "Ladies' Home Journal." The essays became a book called "The Story of My Life." Keller decided to be a writer after college but struggled to sell her work.
Keller and Politics (06:10)
Keller was interested in socialism and became a writer for "The Call." She began doing disability rights work and joined a campaign to raise awareness about venereal diseases causing blindness in babies.
Keller's Public Persona (03:08)
At 30, Keller had surgery to replace both her eyes with glass ones so they would look more normal. She continued to work on oral speech, feeling she could achieve more if she could speak normally.
Keller's Activism (08:37)
Keller was a member of the labor rights movement, a suffragist, and a supporter of the NAACP. She used her fame to draw media attention to causes she supported, despite criticism. She opposed involvement in World War I.
Keller and Polly Thompson (04:26)
Hotels did not have disability accommodations and Sullivan's eyesight was decreasing. She and Keller hired Thompson to travel with them. They worked on a Hollywood film centered around disability rights.
Keller and Peter Fagan (04:12)
Keller had a romance with Peter Fagan, a socialist who knew fingerspelling. They got engaged, but Keller's family and Sullivan opposed it. Keller broke off the engagement and never had another romantic relationship.
Keller's Vaudeville (02:23)
Keller and Sullivan agreed to do an act at a vaudeville theater because of the high pay. They would give a speech and then take questions from the audience.
Keller and the AFB (05:30)
Keller became a spokesperson for the American Foundation for the Blind. She worked with the AFB for over 40 years and the organization benefited from her fame. Keller helped the nationwide initiative to standardize braille and its use in blind schools.
Sullivan's Death (03:07)
Sullivan died in 1936 after she and Keller had spent more than 50 years together. Keller was consumed with grief and went to Scotland to live privately. Keller wrote a book about Sullivan's last year of life and her fear of loss.
Keller During World War II (06:11)
Nazis publicly burned Keller's books. She and Thompson visited military hospitals to speak with newly disabled soldiers. After the war, she travelled to Japan and other countries as an ambassador for the state department.
Keller's Legacy (07:50)
Keller said she wanted to support every disadvantaged person. She travelled the world as an activist for women's rights, disability rights, and poverty. Keller gave playwright William Gibson permission to write "The Miracle Worker," which would overshadow her legacy.
Credits: American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller (01:05)
Credits: American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller
American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller
Part of the Series : American Masters
Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, used her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities and people living in poverty. This program examines the complex life and legacy of this author, advocate and human rights pioneer.
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Features Continuing Education Education
'Effect'ive Research
By Cathy Ryan
The need for the field of massage/manual therapy (MMT) research to determine how effects are produced (i.e., mechanisms of action) has been identified unequivocally.
Dr. Robert Schleip in his laboratory at Ulm University.
In my previous article, entitled "Bridging the Evidence Divide" (Massage Therapy Canada, Winter 2012 issue, pp. 6-10), I stated that in order to understand MMT mechanisms of action, we need relevant research to be conducted with MMT in mind. This requires clinician/scientist collaboration.
Bidirectional collaboration is needed in order to avoid poorly constructed research designs or methodologies that lead to flawed or limited conclusions.
As both a clinician and a scientist, Dr. Robert Schleip, PhD, is well positioned to conduct relevant MMT research as bidirectional collaboration can occur within his own lab – and arguably, in his own head! Dr. Schleip is an International Rolfing Instructor (certified since 1978) and Fascial Anatomy Teacher. He holds an MA degree in psychology and has been a Certified Feldenkrais Teacher since 1988. He established the Fascia Research Project at Ulm University – this is where his lab is located. He was the co-initiator and organizer of the first International Fascia Research Congress at the Harvard Medical School in Boston in 2007, and is a co-author of Fascia – The Tensional Network of the Human Body: The science and clinical applications in manual and movement therapy (Churchill Livingstone 2012).
The recent boom in fascia research (including research being conducted by Schleip et al. at Ulm University) is providing important and viable MMT-related evidential information – including plausible mechanisms of action.
Under the umbrella of "Fascial Fitness," Dr. Schleip and Tom Myers – an LMT and author of Anatomy Trains – are currently travelling the globe providing an efficient translation of pertinent fascial research findings to practitioners in the field (e.g., various types of manual therapists and sport/conditioning trainers). Myers describes this as "Funneling Relevant Research."
In the following interview with Dr. Schleip, we will explore some of the "evidence to support" mechanisms of action applicable to exercise and training, and relevant to MMT as well.
Massage Therapy Canada: Dr. Schleip, can you give us a brief explanation of fascia's sponge-like squeezing and refilling mechanism and its importance?
Robert Schleip: Our Fascia Research Group (University of Ulm) recently showed that when fascial tissues are stretched, a significant amount of the water in the tissue is pushed out, and then returns during the following minutes or hours (to a greater degree than prior to stretch). This is similar to what is seen in squeezing a sponge. Fluid dynamics/hydration influences tissue stiffness (providing tensional support and stabilizing capabilities) and elasticity (which factors into tissue resilience and kinetic storage capabilities). These properties augment tissue health, promote sound functioning and lower incidence of injury.
MTC: Can this mechanism be influenced manually and subsequently achieve improved tissue hydration?
RS: We suspect that similar effects do occur as a result of manual myofascial therapies and by gently and slowly rolling your iliotibial tract or other fasciae over a foam roller. When done properly, such tissue-squeezing effects may be helpful to increase and renew the water content of hardened and drier tissue zones. This could also explain why adequate unloading times are essential in sport/exercise in order to prevent viscoelastic creep deformation.
The use of particular foam rollers may allow the application of localized tissue stimulations with similar forces and possibly offer benefits similar to those derived through a manual myofascial release session (Chaudhry, et al. 2008). It is important to note that the stiffness of the roller and application of the body weight needs to be adjusted and monitored for each person. To foster sponge-like tissue dehydration with subsequent renewed local hydration, only slow-motion-like subtle changes in the applied forces and vectors are recommended. In addition, the localized tissue stimulation may serve to stimulate and fine-tune possibly inhibited or desensitized fascial proprioceptors in more hidden tissue locations (i.e., tissue not frequently stimulated by the individual's day-to-day activities).
As an exercise example, most runners would do well to introduce brief walking periods of one to three minutes into their jogging training, possibly followed by active sprints of a few seconds afterwards. This way they can maintain their youthful elastic properties during the whole time, whereas if they run for 20 minutes or longer without such brief walking periods, they run the risk of the fascial tissues losing resilience, due to the sponge-squeezing effect but lack of refilling, or rehydration, effect. In the worst case – their bones and cartilages bump against each other, due to inadequate rehydration and the loss of the tensile properties in the fascial web.
MTC: Fluid dynamics is a hot topic right now. In addition to what you just covered, Dr. Schleip, might fascia fluid dynamic research provide some answers to other long-standing questions regarding plausible MMT mechanisms of action?
RS: Yes this is indeed possible. Recent studies have shown, that fluid shear is an even stronger stimulation for fibroblasts than mechanical tension is. In our laboratory, we are looking now at how Rolfing-type myofascial manipulation is influencing the extracellular as well as intracellular water content. This can be nicely assessed with electrical impedance. We hope to be able to present our respective findings (thus far) at the upcoming Third International Fascia Research Congress in Vancouver.
Also, the work of Gerald Pollack (a keynote speaker in at the third FRC) and others has shown that a large proportion of the water in connective tissue is liquid water in a bound state in which the molecules are regularly arranged in a similar manner to that in a liquid crystal. This is the case whenever water molecules are in close proximity to a hydrophilic substance (e.g., collagen or hyaluronan) or to a hydrophobic fibre, such as elastin.
Such bound water has totally different viscoelastic properties than regular unbound water. It will be exciting for us to understand how different forms of manual therapies may change and influence the respective water-binding qualities in the tissue.
MTC: Can you describe the role of proprioceptors in deeper, joint-related tissues (capsule and ligament) versus receptors in more superficial tissue (skin and superficial fascia)?
RS: Previously, proprioception was believed to be fed primarily from so called 'joint receptors,' with the additional help of muscle spindles and skin receptors. However, new measurements suggest that the joint receptors mostly work as limit detectors, being stimulated only near the end range of movement and not during most parts of the available physiological motion (Lu et al. 1985). In contrast, the sensory receptors in fascia have recently been quantified according to their density in superficial versus deeper layers. Here it was found, that most of the sensory nerve endings are located in the superficial fascia or in the smooth transition zone between it and the underlying deeper fascia. This suggests a high priority of these superficial fascia layers in proprioception.
MTC: What are some implications of fascia as a proprioceptive organ and how can we better augment proprioceptive refinement?
RS: Well, it could easily explain the dramatic improvements that modern skin taping procedures have shown in sports medicine and rehabilitation. It could also mean that adhesions between the superficial fascia and the underlying deeper fascia – such as I frequently find around the so-called dowager's hump in many adult patients (around C7/T1) – could attenuate their internal body perception in posture and movement.
As a practitioner of the Rolfing method of structural integration, I used to take pride in the belief that I work deeper than 'massage therapists,' for example when working on the psoas muscle. However, these new findings now make me wonder, whether a more skin-oriented working approach could be even more powerful – resulting in the stimulation of the proprioceptive receptors in the superficial fascia, which in turn loosens some of the adhesions below the skin. For yoga or Pilates practitioners, this could also mean that it may work better to direct the proprioceptive attention of their clients to the stretch and shearing sensations below their skin, rather than at the deeper joint tissues, as superficial tissues are more densely populated with mechanoreceptive nerve endings than tissues situated more internally/deep (Stecco et al. 2008).
Proprioceptive nerve endings that are located in the more superficial layers are more optimally situated – here even small angular joint movements lead to relatively distinct shearing motions that may impact adhered/fibrosed tissues that restrict motion, impede proper proprioceptive functioning, increase the incidence of injury and impact tissue functioning/health overall.
Figure 1: Illustration adapted from Kawakami et al. 2002 – used with kind permission from Schleip et al: Fascia: The tensional network of the human body – Edinburgh 2012, Elsevier.
(A) Length changes of fascial elements and muscle fibres in an oscillatory movement with elastic recoil properties.
(B) Changes during conventional muscle training.
The elastic tendinous (or fascial) elements are shown as springs, the myo-fibres as straight lines above. Note that during a conventional movement (B) the fascial elements do not change their length significantly, whereas the muscle fibres clearly change their length. During movements like hopping or jumping, however, the muscle fibres contract almost isometrically, whereas the fascial elements lengthen and shorten like an elastic yo-yo spring.
One final note on collagen elasticity (springiness) and kinetic storage:
RS: It has been determined that human fascia has a similar kinetic storage capacity to that of kangaroos and gazelles (Sawicki et al. 2009). The importance of this is that a significant part of the energy for movement (e.g., walking, running, jumping, swinging a golf club, etc.) comes from the "springiness" of our fascia (see Figure 1).
The lengthening and rebound of the plantar fascia and achilles tendon are potentially a far greater source of propulsion amplitude and efficiency than muscular power. Having a very long/healthy achilles tendon has been shown to augment kinetic storage and rebound capabilities (e.g., as is seen with the barefoot runners of Kenya). Kinetic storage/rebound (like a yo-yo or super ball) requires far less energy and this translates into less ATP demand, greater fatigue resistance and reduced incidence of injury (Ryan, C. (2012): Fascial Fitness – Restructuring your Architecture – Interview with Thomas Myers. Massage Matters Magazine, Winter 2012.)
Viscoelasticity is the ability of fascia to be both mobile and supportive at the same time. Creep refers to the tendency of tissue to deform permanently (i.e., elongate) when placed under sustained, consistent stress or load.
Muscle spindle response to detectable stretch can be altered if myofascia (e.g., endo- or perimysium) is too rigid (due to viscoelastic changes, fibrosis and restriction). In such cases, normal firing of the muscle spindles can be altered. Afferent signal alteration results in lack of muscle co-ordination along the myokinetic chain causing abnormal biomechanics, eventual abnormal muscle compensation and pain (Stecco 2004).
Cathy Ryan, RMT, has maintained a diverse, treatment- oriented massage therapy practice and an extensive postgraduate training roster since 1990. Cathy is a longstanding member of provincial massage therapy associations and has served as a subject matter expert and examiner trainer at the CMTO's provincial licensing examinations. Currently residing and working in beautiful B.C., Cathy maintains a private practice, teaches and writes massage therapy related material and is the managing editor for TouchU.ca; an online source providing accredited continuing education for touch professionals and students. Cathy can be reached at: cryanrmt@gmail.com or via www.touchu.ca.
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Oh! That Film Blog / June 3, 2014
A little late to the party as usual, but today was the day I finally caught up with Godzilla, Gareth Edwards' leap in to the big time after garnering widespread acclaim for his small budget science fiction picture Monsters in 2010. Something many critics praised Edwards for in this first feature was his conviction for focusing on strength of character alongside the bangs and flashes of the special effects he, according to urban legend, rendered mostly in his own bedroom, and that is something that intrigued me with regard to his potential with one of the most iconic film characters of all time. Could the big lizard be given a personality other than the building smashing, people breaking whirlwind of devastation that we have come to know so well?
The answer to that question is, undoubtedly, yes. The beginning sequence takes the audience on a breakneck tour of the history of the mysterious creature via the use of newspaper headings and 'archive footage', leading up to Japan in 1999, where a seemingly 'natural' disaster tragically alters the lives of Joe (Bryan Cranston), Sandra (Juliette Binoche) and a young Ford Brody (CJ Adams) forever. Cut to fifteen years later, and Ford (now Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is a recently returned naval officer who finds himself back in Japan to bail out and attempt to bring home his conspiracy theorising father. Joe knows that something about that fatal day is being hidden from the public, and more worryingly, the same pattern of events is beginning to unfold, leaving Ford with the dilemma of returning to his wife and child or staying to help his father's search for the truth. This initial set up is well executed and achieves the right amount of intrigue, but what follows is, perhaps, not what you might expect going in armed with the knowledge of previous incarnations. Godzilla is the title of the film, yet the infamous monster takes a fairly prominent backseat in the bulk of the plot's proceedings. Centre stage for the majority of the narrative are instead a pair of newly envisioned creatures known as MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms), billed as natural enemies to Godzilla and from this point the film becomes an Alien vs. Predator, Freddy vs. Jason type narrative that leaves the plight of the human race merely a hopeless bystander in the grand scheme of things. Though not at all what I expected, this different take on the Godzilla legend was a rather refreshing one, highlighting the theme of nature being out of human control whilst at the same time tapping in to Gareth Edwards' talent for injecting personality in to characters. Godzilla, all of a sudden, becomes a sympathetic, almost heroic figure, a far cry from the senseless, lazy depiction of Hollywood's previous 1998 remake.
Whilst Godzilla gets a lot of things right, there are equally aspects of the film that I feel rather more negatively about, the chiefest of these gripes laying within the realms of casting and screen time. Rather annoyingly, the cream of the film's acting talent is either limited to early catalyst roles or severely underdeveloped supporting parts, namely Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche as the Brodys and Sally Hawkins as scientist Vivienne Graham. Without question the best and most enjoyable section of the film is the first twenty five or so minutes in which these three actors are most prevalent, the talent of each performer really shining through and making their characters immediately endearing. Unfortunately, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, charged with carrying the weight of the film after this opening section, is an incredibly underwhelming presence in the role of the human protagonist. For a character whose back story is set up so well in a tight introductory sequence and given the opportunity to become a multi textured, three dimensional figure, Ford instead settles in to a cliched rather flat US navy action man figure. Elizabeth Olsen as his wife Elle fairs no better, her performance comprising of a number of badly acted reaction shots whilst all the time looking far too young to have a five year old child and husband. What the film really needed was a strong male lead to harness the chaos that is taking place around him, and Taylor-Johnson just does not do that.
Overall, Godzilla, though flawed, is a courageous and refreshing take on a well worn cinematic legend. The film pays satisfying reverence to the metaphorical roots of the 1954 original and thankfully rejects the brainless monster movie tropes of the 1998 remake. In the interesting direction of the narrative, Gareth Edwards has managed to breath new and unexpected life in to a monster that until now has only been a vehicle for destruction. The film is let down slightly by its underwhelming leading man, but certainly worth a watch for the work of some of the other actors involved and for the impressive action set pieces that more than live up to expectations.
June 3, 2014 in Reviews. Tags: aaron taylor-johnson, bryan cranston, cinema, elizabeth olsen, film, film review, gareth edwards, godzilla, godzilla 2014, godzilla review, juliette binoche, movie review, movies, sally hawkins
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5 thoughts on "Godzilla (2014)"
Great review, Amy. I liked how Godzilla was used more of a backdrop to the story rather than the central focus, making it more of a disaster movie than monster movie. Cranston did an awesome job of carrying the film in the beginning, too bad Taylor-Johnson couldn't pick it up after Cranston left. Good thing Godzilla showed up to take over for him!
christopherjohnlindsay says:
I like your analysis: Godzilla is "a sympathetic, almost heroic figure," which was a nice surprise, and Taylor-Johnson is "an underwhelming leading man." He was good in Kick-Ass, but a disappointment in Godzilla. I wrote a short essay on the film, if you would like to check it out: http://21stcenturyfilms.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/godzilla-2014/
ThoughtsFromTheBooth says:
I'm seeing it tomorrow so I'll joking that party soon. Good review. I'm excited.
CinemaClown says:
Great review, Amy. We both are very much on the same radar with this one… although my review tends to be a little more negative compared to yours.
Tim The Film Guy says:
Great review. I liked the film and thought the majority of the film was good, which is a nice change from the 98 version which was mostly bad.
The visuals and tone worked really well but the characters where lifeless, except Cranston.
Still bring on MechaGodzilla! 😀


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