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Making Space by Kym Cunningham
DISCLAIMER: This essay does not intend to imply that all bulimics are female, nor that all females are bulimic, but rather attempts to account for the starkly gendered statistics of eating disorders in which those who identify as female outnumber males 10:1.
by Kym Cunningham
It's presented as a perpetual occurrence, like every time we eat a salad, drink a smoothie, we run for the bathroom door, first two fingers down our throats. Maybe they do exist: people who shove others out of the way, "'scuse me, I gotta go throw up," before launching themselves into a bathroom stall, knees hugging the pee-stained porcelain base, the smell of disinfectant as sharp as the bile in their mouths.
I've never met anyone like this, but then again, I've never known a woman willing to talk about bulimia other than the vague "same here" or "me too" that accompanies self-reflective nodding. Bulimia is not something women speak about the way we speak about eating celery to burn calories or drinking products like SkinnyMint to give that extra laxative push in the morning. It is not among the weight-loss strategies approved by fitness experts like Jillian Michaels or up-and-coming fashion icons like Kylie Jenner. There is no American Society of Bulimics to commune with, handing out tips on prevention of enamel decay. Those who participate in this distinctive method of body management know that unlike weight loss, unlike fitness, bulimia is not a social event.
It is personal. It is done in secret, behind locked doors: the shower running to cover the plunk of undigested food. A roll of toilet paper stationed at-the-ready, sheets and sheets to melt against acid-entrenched hands and speckled surfaces. All articles of clothing, apart from underwear, off and to the side, out of the splash zone, same with jewelry and hair ties, except the one currently pulling the follicles up and away, cinching them tightly against the scalp. A glance at the Hawaiian Aloha Febreze to be used after-the-fact, its sweetness designed to mask the air's telltale souring.
Kneel out of respect, leaning like Narcissus over the toilet bowl. Examine flaws as they emerge; the water reflects more clearly than a mirror. A mirror smudges, bows in or out, brightens with artificial bulbs that distort reflection while maintaining the illusion of reality. Water does not pretend. Look too closely at a reflection and it dissolves, revealing the self's abyss.
Test vulnerability, sticking one, then two fingers down, spasmodic gagging at first—then choking pressure—then release.
Now is the time to be completely open, to revel in the personal, a kind of meditation—imagine it as the most intense form of yogic breath.
Breathe in—and release.
We listen to our body, continuing at our own pace until the bile from the bottom of our stomach tells us that we are finished.
We rinse our hands, turning on the faucet gently with our uncorrupted elbow, massaging slime from between our fingerprints, pushing any errant food particles down the drain. We splash water on our chin, wiping our mouth, investigating the sting of skin split from being forced open. We stare at ourselves in the mirror for a few seconds, cheekbones already more prominent, lips appearing fuller and redder courtesy of laborious flush, before turning our attention back to beauty's workspace.
We flush once for the larger lumps, watching what seems like pounds of varicolored half-solid baby food disappear into the bottom of the bowl. We wipe the edges of the seat, above and underneath, around the base, checking for splatter on the walls and cabinet sides. We throw the paper mash into the toilet. We grab a new handful and dampen it in the sink, wipe again, erasing every trace of what we have done. We flush again.
As we watch the discolored water swirl down, down, down, and new water come up clean, we survey the tableau, congratulating ourselves on spotless work. We feel satisfied, right down to the core of our beings, in the way that food never seems to satisfy, a way that is only just for us.
Then we remember the shower is running, wasting water, and we strip the rest of our clothes off in graceful feline swoops and embrace the cleansing scald.
With the water seeps guilt—the unnecessary flushing, the rampant toilet paper abuse, of course the shower—self-incrimination growing a drop at a time, until we are forced to acknowledge that the food we just flushed down the toilet could have fed another human being. We become disgusted at our wastefulness, at our privilege, ashamed that we lack self-control and common decency. To salvage some shred of humanity, we tell ourselves this is the last time.
But like so many other lasts—cigarettes, potato chips—this bargaining is part of the ritual.
"How did it start?" psychiatrists ask with tilted heads. The walls are the same—something beige and nonthreatening, or for the new-age shrink, something tranquil, calming—sea-breeze blue. Psychiatrists are master space-manipulators, adept at reconfiguring prototypical office buildings into terrariums blooming with subconscious healing. Their walls bear the correct amount of posters, degrees, etc, not to overwhelm, but to communicate authority, to provide patients the security necessary to abdicate adulthood and responsibility.
Shrinks never do manage to get the furniture right, though. Their chairs are unsightly lumps of puce suede or uncomfortable plasticized geometric angles, Pottery Barn in a funhouse mirror. Perhaps this is for added effect as well, the physical embodiment of the mom-worn cliché: nobody's perfect.
Because that's how it started, isn't it, with the first time we questioned our mothers: why can't I be perfect? Or, at the very least, how do I convince others that I am, how do I keep myself a secret, safe from everyone but me?
We don't tell this to those searching eyes, bespectacled or not. Instead, we come up with a date, as though we had circled it on our calendars. "Second semester, sophomore year of high school. I was 16."
The psychiatrists smile and write something illegible down on their legal pad, confident that they are really getting somewhere. All it takes is time.
They don't know that the first time was not important, just as the food consumed was not important, or the fact that we were watching shitty tv, or that it was late at night. At some point, it came to us in a thought, sans action: I could throw this up.
And we continued to sit on the couch, each another brownie or two, maybe some Sour Cream 'n Onion potato chips, before we thought: I should throw this up.
And maybe that first time was in tenth grade, or maybe it was even in middle school, and maybe we did it once and stopped for a few years and then started up again. Or maybe we did it consistently for the better part of a decade or maybe one day we stopped cold turkey or maybe we're still doing it.
But how can we tell them that the idea just kind of popped into our heads without them looking at us like we were fucking crazy? Because that look is even worse than the look we get when we first tell non-bulimics, that transparent mixture of pity, derision, and curiosity.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," they say, as though we weren't doing it to ourselves.
"That's terrible," they say, hunkering down for more details.
But we will never tell them all of our secrets. They will never know that the first time we remembered feeling fat was looking at pictures in the first grade, being able to distinguish that our cheeks were chubbier, our belly pudgier, our chin rounder than the gymnasts or soccer players. We will not tell them that we used to resent our younger sisters for their slender legs and tight ribcages. That we still do.
We will never explain to them that we enjoy this selectivity as it allows us to manipulate the conversation, to disclose only what we think they should hear. Bulimia is, after all, all about perception.
It is the perception we crave, the idea that others might see us as strong, as fearless, as instinctively thin. We want to be the heroines we read about in novels, who eat whatever they want, kick ass, and never gain a pound. We want to look effortless in clothing, trick society into believing that we are self-assured, that we do not need to wear make-up. We want everyone to believe that we are the natural ones.
And because bulimia is about perception, the battle of belief over substance surreptitiously flushed down the toilet, it begins with the idea of itself.
Health class, sixth grade. The eighth grade boys whisper dirty suggestions concerning teeth and pubic hair as we try to keep the flush from our faces and our gazes level, actions that to them, resemble coy acceptance. We do not yet understand the art of perception.
The teacher, middle-aged and slightly pudgy, though she seems ancient and fat compared to our youth, lectures loudly on the perils of the unhealthy lifestyle, which include unprotected sex, drugs/alcohol, under-eating, and obesity. At the mention of obesity, the older boys snigger, looking pointedly at Meghan, the largest female student in the class. The teacher does not seem to notice, clicking the slideshow forward to a photo of an emaciated naked back with the words, ANOREXIA NERVOSA, in bold across the top.
The back, unmistakably female, consists mostly of shoulder blades that jut out tightly underneath the skin like frustrated wings. Nodules of spine poke out from between the wings as from a vacuum, then curve back into the ribs' well-defined corporeal abyss. A light coat of hair, so pale as to almost be translucent, covers the body like a shawl, a last-ditch effort to keep out the cold.
Groans of male disgust undulate through the classroom, but we are silent, holding our breath, shivering under the persistent air-conditioning.
There is no photo for the slide on bulimia, only a terse definition regarding binging and purging, and an eating disorder hotline. The teacher moves on to obesity.
At lunch, we bring questions of biology to our peers, who always seem to know more on this subject than we do.
"I heard Lindsay and them were all drinking last night at Katie's house."
"I heard they get alcohol from Lauren's older brother."
"I heard Katie's parents just leave her alone when they go out of town."
"Oh yeah, and then they invite guys over, and they all make out."
"Well I heard that Lauren and Jill throw up in the seventh grade bathroom after lunch."
The bell rings before we can ask why.
After school, we bring a selection of our newly acquired knowledge to our mothers in the form of workbook pages, parent signatures required. Our mothers don't want to talk about sex any more than we do, but when we get to the section on bulimia, they pause, finger hovering over the word, considering us.
"I was never skinny growing up, you know," they say to us as though we can imagine that they were ever our age.
We look at them blankly, unsure of where this is going.
"I did a lot of things to make weight in the army, things that were really unhealthy, things that have made it harder for me to lose weight the older I get."
They shrug, assuming we're too young to feel the pressure of tight shirts against our stomachs and bikini strings around our love handles. It is this assumption that prevents them from naming it, that keeps it personal, half-secret.
"Anyway, I just don't want you to make the same mistakes I did when I was young. It's not worth it." They sign the page and move on, while we are stuck wondering how they could ever think that we were like them.
We do not think that we are like anyone, or rather, we do not think that anyone is like us. We have been called different since we can remember, and this difference has woven itself into a coat that would totally work if only our waist was—or our thighs were—or if clothes fit correctly, like how they do on everyone else. It would work if only we could forget to be conscious of ourselves and the space that we occupy.
But we cannot forget. We are female, after all, and to be female is to be required to justify our corporeality in society.
We hear the justifications manifest so frequently we don't recognize them anymore, these arguments over our right to social space. In grocery isles above the M&M's and 3Musketeers, curvaceous women like Kim Kardashian explain: It's okay that my ass is this big. Most guys would still bend me over a table to fuck me. On Amazon, reviews from XFitGirl94 clarify: 5'4'', 135, but it's mostly muscle.
But we aren't as fuckable as Kim Kardashian, or as muscular as Amazonian CrossFitters, and so we are expected to deny our need for space. We sit on laps, holding seatbacks and clenching our butts to diminish the perception of weight. We Saran-Wrap ourselves into high-rise skinny jeans and lycra body shapers. We even practice geometry, contouring our faces with color pallets to hide any evidence of excess skin or enlarged pores.
But we are not satisfied, as society is never satisfied, as the male gaze can never be satisfied. We still intrude: knocking coat hangers off racks with our shoulders, plastic cups off tables with our asses. We are chastised if we speak too loudly, or glared at when we try to prevent others from cutting in front of us. We are ranked, measured, weighed—always found wonting. We are confined in boxes too small to breathe.
We suffocate in these boxes, too-large bodies pressed up against transparent plastic, the same material that once held our Barbies on Toys"R"Us shelves. Here, we understand that our bodies are public, for sale—what the dirty whispers from the eighth grade boys were trying to show us. We are reminded whenever we are catcalled or groped, propositioned or ogled. This is your space, society says. Be grateful for it.
But we are not grateful; we are spiteful. We want to be able to breathe. We want privacy. Crouching over a toilet, we carve spaces out of ourselves as tithes for existence. We become their predestined statistics.
The knowledge of statistics rarely helps anyone. It is not enough to know that more than 5% of individuals suffering from eating disorders die from health complications, just as it is not enough to know the dangers of drug or alcohol abuse. A certificate of D.A.R.E. completion does nothing to erase memories of powerlessness or injustice.
So rather than sitting on psychiatric couches attempting to remember a specific date or incident, it seems more important and more effective to come together as a community, to find the similarities in our stories, to call into question that which allowed us to consider bulimia as a solution. So that the next time we are exasperated at the size of airplane seats or the measurements of runway models, we do not seek comfort in the tile under our knees and the edges of our porcelain thrones.
Instead, we begin to understand and revile bulimia for what it is: acceptance of the patriarchal subjugation of the female body. Only then, when we seek to remedy our anger and not the food in our throats, can we be cured. Hell hath no fury like a woman full of bile. Viva la cuerpa!
Kym Cunningham will receive her MFA from San José State University with emphases in creative nonfiction and poetry. She is the lead Nonfiction Editor of Reed Magazine, the oldest literary magazine West of the Mississippi. She received the Ida Fay Sachs Ludwig Memorial Scholarship and the Academy of American Poets Prize for outstanding achievement in her writing. Her writing has been published in Drunk Monkeys and Reed.


The fascination aroused by El caballero de Olmedo is due in part to the power of attraction of the secrets it contains. Some of them are easy to penetrate, others difficult, particularly for a modern public less aware of the «public secrets» (Taussig) of seventeenth century culture. Is the distance that separates Olmedo and Medina only a physical distance don Alonso has to traverse, or does it imply socio-cultural and political distance, ethnoreligious difference, questions of wealth, class and political weight? Yet more intriguing are the supernatural mysteries that besiege Alonso. The structure of the drama is another mystery. In the middle of this «comi-tragedia» (Ruano), there is a political interlude (Fothergill-Payne) in which the king discusses habits for Calatrava and Alcántara, giving Alonso a habit, and of the attire Jews and Moors should wear to distinguish them from old Christians. Is this a way of evoking a «public secret» that traps those not aware of it? These are the questions I consider in this article.


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Seth, that video is great! I learned a whole lot about how saws work. I'll have to try again, with their tips. Thanks.
tcaley4, that's very possibly an issue I have too. I know I also have the tendency to get impatient and put more downward force on it than I, perhaps, should. Thanks, I'll try out different stances, and see!
SDaniel, I'll check out that video later today; I'm sure it'll be helpful, thanks!
gbeglau, I also thought all saws were essentially the same, just with different sized teeth. It's amazing how wrong I was, haha. I'll be honest, I didn't even know what a handplane was until last year or so. Glad a place like WoodAndShop, and people like Paul Sellers, and Joshua Farnsworth, and the folks at the Woodwright Shop exist, to ferry these ideas and techniques into the modern age.


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Q: Configuring SessionState with remote configSource file In my web.config I have:
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In SessionState.config I have:
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I've tried various incantations but can't seem to get it to work. I get this error:

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From MSDN:

Of course they don't show an actual example.
I verified that the file is in the bin directory. I also have this working fine for the connection strings section.
How do I use a remote config file for sessionState?
Thanks,
Rick

A: The SessionState.config file should NOT be in the bin directory but should be in the same directory as the web.config

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d Draw conclusions and communicate the results of an investigation.
e Communicate data by creating diagrams, charts, tables, and graphs.
f Ask questions and seek answers to explain why different results sometimes occur in repeated investigations.
2 Explain concepts related to objects and materials, position and motion of objects, and properties of magnetism.
d Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy and recognize their conversions.
e Explain how light waves travel (e.g., in a straight line until they strike an object, through transparent and translucent objects, from reflecting and refracting surfaces, at the surface of opaque objects).
f Differentiate the movement of vibrations in waves (e.g., sound and seismic waves), and cite examples to explain that vibrations move through different materials at different speeds.
3 Describe the characteristics, structures, life cycles, and environments of organisms.
a Research and explain diverse life forms (including vertebrates and invertebrates) that live in different environments and the structures that serve different functions in their survival (e.g., methods of movement, defense, camouflage).
b Identify and describe the purpose of the digestive, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems of the body.
c Investigate the relationships between the basic needs of different organisms and discern how adaptations enable an organism to survive in a particular environment.
e Recall that organisms can survive only when in environments (deserts, tundras, forests, grasslands, taigas, wetlands) in which their needs are met and interpret the interdependency of plants and animals within a food chain, including producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, and prey.
f Recognize that cells vary greatly in size, structure, and function, and that some cells and tiny organisms can be seen only with a microscope.
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b Compare and contrast changes in the Earth's surface that are due to slow processes (erosion, weathering, mountain building) and rapid processes (landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, asteroid collisions).
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d Identify the causes and effects of various types of air, land, and water pollution and infer ways to protect the environment.
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Good day everyone and welcome back to our class.
As you can see, we're already in Week 6 of our course.
and, I'm sure everyone enjoyed that part, and we'll continue that.
only part of a fertilizer management BM, BMP.
efficient we are with the amount of fertilizer that we choose.
talk about fertilizer placement on the farm broadcasting or banding.
material uniformly over the surface of the field.
fertilizer material into the soil and hopefully into the root zone.
Broadcasting is usually easier and quicker than the alternative banding.
some of those conversions particularly, for example, urea.
form of fertilizer that we choose if we are going to practice broadcasting.
So, the sources of N would be important in that regard.
spreading a dry fertilizer material by broadcasting it uniformly over the field.
stream of fertilizer in the ground alongside of the, the row of plants.
It usually involves subsurface placement but it doesn't always have to.
of the fertilizer with the soil, as with broadcast might result in.
available to the plant roots if the plant roots were able to intercept them.
broadcasting, the overall fertilizer efficiency is increased.
near the root zone, you don't want to get it too close to the plant.
canopy has closed and it's impossible to get a applicator through the field.
shows, you it shows corn plants responding to the application of starter fertilizers.
part of the picture where they did not receive starter.
The starter fertilizers we'll come back to are particularly important.
production systems, and we'll talk a little more about that in a second.
broadcast fertilizer or band fertilizer, I've listed here.
We've touched on the idea of the stage of growth.
efficient placement and utilization of nutrients.
because it limits access to the field by equipment.
and overall economics may drive the farmer in one direction or, or the other.
environmental negative environmental impacts may come about.
and drops the, the liquid fertilizer in that slit.
fertilizer alongside of the rows of seeds as the seeds are being planted.
terms of fertilizer placement with these systems.
I want to just introduce you to these aspects.
For those of you that are experienced in this area, you'll understand.
this may be interesting information for you to follow up on.
we're not tilling the soil as much as we used to.
of a challenge in these production systems.
surface, as we would with a broadcast application.
nutrients are more or less left on the, on the surface or very near the surface.
banding and getting that fertilizer below the root surface in no-till systems.
losses in surface-applied scenarios, as you would with no-till.
And this is mostly due to nitrogen volatilization.
to losses or to volatilization when they're placed on the surface.
about this, in our nitrogen, fates and transformations lecture.
microbes to further decompose the organic matter.
along with fertilizer application has, has had to be, be researched out.
kinds of systems where you band the fertilizer.
challenges for broadcasting it or spreading it out on the surface.
And that's what we used to do in the old days.
manure, a regular manure spreader and that put the manure on the surface.
Typically, we would incorporate it by plowing or disking.
the manure on the surface might not be the best the best option.
injecting that material much the same way you would with liquid fertilizers.
So, we can get more efficient with our manure applications in this manner.
of the major nutrients is a challenge with manure.
that is relatively low in, in nutrient content.
nitrogen for example. Manure can be expensive to apply.
we have the snow melts and the rains of the spring.
denitrification with manure would be a question.
if you're contemplating using manure on your farm.
up or most likely to require those nutrients.
the very beginning of the crop, it's slow. And then, the growth rate picks up.
applications fertilizer during this rapid growth phase.
we're catching that crop when it has its greatest need?
So, split applications is the term that we apply to this aspect of timing.
of our nutrients are still in the bag so to speak.
times during production seasons, during the production season.
maximized several of the factors, the economics in particular.
that we're able to get into the field to do these actions.
some of you, applying fertilizer through the irrigation system.
systems, and I'll show you how, how that's done.
micronutrients that are required in very small amounts through the season.
see, here's the field with the crops and the drip irrigation tubes are laid out.
fertilizer to a crop through the normal irrigation water or irrigation system.
Here's an example of a fertigation with, with tomatoes.
As you can see, here's our, our growth curve again.
the, the growing cycle, and we put out varying amounts of fertilizer.
So, we start out with small amounts early here.
rate of application actually declines a little bit.
with plastic mulch could schedule their fertilizer.
Here's a video of the way the setup would occur in the field.
You can see the plastic mulch beds, in this case, it's zucchini squash growing.
follows alongside of the row, under the plastic mulch.
water and nutrients particularly for those intensively grown crops like vegetables.
would be uniformly applied as the irrigation water is applied.
through the center pivot and be applied through those nozzles.
what's called a backflow prevention system.
starts to, to travel backwards and back down into the well or the water body.
backwards back into the water devices back into the water system.
injecting nutrients through the irrigation system.
It would be true for a center pivot or for a drip irrigation system.
aren't needed in large amounts in the crop.
wetted by a solution of micronutrients and water sprayed on the, on the surface.
banded in the bed before the mulch is applied.
fertilizer, liquid fertilizer through the plastic mulch.
plastic inject into the soil, maybe a couple inches deep liquid fertilizer.
They're particularly useful for scenarios where you're double cropping.
So the first crop is produced on the plastic mulch.
can be done very effectively with these liquid injection wheels.
be just important as the first R that we talked about, the right rate.
around the, the root um,zone and also at the right time during, during the season.


Where to find a yogi guru?
Has anyone in Ananda Sangha attained nirvkalpa samadhi or sahaj samadhi state? can you show me the way?
Why did Swami Kriyananda did not achieve mahasamadhi like Paramhans Yogananda, inspite of being his direct disciple? Why did he leave the spiritual path and opt for a married life?
Paramhansa Yogananda was already a fully realized master when he came into being. He had attained high states of consciousness and more. Whether Swami Kriyananda attained samadhi or not, we don't really know. Yogananda told Swamiji that he would, but not until the end of his life. Many of us feel that he was freed. And many feel that he was free already because of the high state of his consciousness, his energy and accomplishments, and his compassion and love for all. Just any human being could not have done all that he has done unless they were deeply connected with God.
Swamiji did marry but he never left the spiritual path. Marriage doesn't mean you cannot be searching for the Divine. He later divorced and became a Swami again. He always kept his discipleship with Yogananda a living presence in his life ever since he met Master and took vows from him.
If you want to find these states of samadhi, you too need to make the choice of always keeping your guru (especially if he is Self-realized) in your consciousness and to follow his guidance which you can receive in meditation.
Ananda continues to give teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda to all who ask. Through them you can find liberation. But it is up to you and your intensity and your energies that will make it all happen. Keep the focus of your attention on finding libration for yourself and give everything to God.


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Traditionally given as a 21 st anniversary gift, iolite is thought to bring harmony to relationships. It is also said to balance the masculine and feminine aspects of one's own character, bringing harmony and enabling that person to enjoy each moment. Iolite is believed to heighten psychic abilities by aiding and encouraging people along their spiritual paths. It is said to enhance curiosity and achievement, and aid in money management. Iolite is also believed to possess the power to guide lost sailors to the brilliance of the sun, so that they may find their way home.
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One of the oldest known gems, turquoise has been prized for thousands of years. The Egyptians believed it had powerful mystical properties, and turquoise jewelry has been found interred with 7,500-year-old mummies. Ancient manuscripts from Persia, India, Afghanistan and Arabia say that the health of a person wearing turquoise could be assessed by variations in the color of the stone. Montezuma's treasure, now displayed in the British Museum, includes a carved serpent covered by a mosaic of turquoise.
Turquoise was especially revered by the Native American culture, an association that dates back to the Aztec empire more than 700 years ago. For the Aztecs, turquoise was reserved for the gods and mere mortals were forbidden to wear it. They believed it to be a gem of good fortune and a commodity more valuable than gold. Native Americans believed turquoise protected people from demons and they even placed turquoise in tombs to guard the dead. The stone's colors were thought to be symbolically blue for the heavens and green for the earth. Often warriors tied turquoise to their bows to ensure accurate shots.
Today, turquoise is still believed to provide protection and bring luck. It is said to also promote prosperity, love, healing, courage and friendship. The stone is thought to relax the mind and ease mental tension.
The gem's opaque turquoise color varies from shades of greenish blue to deep cobalt to sky blue. Some varieties display white or brown matrixes, which are streaks of the mother stone from which they came, while others have veins of black matrix running through them. Generally, the bluer the blue, the more highly valued the stone. A clear, even texture without mottling or veins is also preferred. The most rare and valuable color is an intense azure, but the most common is the mild to medium sky blue. Sometimes imitated by minerals such as chrysocolla, turquoise stones are often dyed or colored with coatings of various resins.
In the 13th century, turquoise was mistakenly believed to have come from the country of Turkey. Hence, its name came from the French word for Turkey, "Turquie". The stone was actually brought to Europe from Persia (now Iran), via Turkey. It is a mineral usually found in association with copper deposits and is sometimes mined as a by-product of copper mining.
Although turquoise is found in desert regions worldwide, especially in the southwestern United States, perhaps the finest and most valuable comes from the Sleeping Beauty mine in Globe, Arizona. It is named after the Sleeping Beauty Mountain which resembles a reclined woman in a slumbering state. Its turquoise is world renowned for its beauty that ranges from pure robin's egg blue to a darker royal blue.
While only ranking between 5.0 and 6.0 on the Mohs Scale of hardness, turquoise remains quite popular for jewelry. In Europe, turquoise rings are given as forget-me-not gifts, while in the United States, the stone is given as traditional 5th and 11th wedding anniversary gifts. It has even become a modern consideration for the December birthstone. When wearing turquoise over the years, the stone will absorb oil from a person's skin, causing a slight change to the color of turquoise.
Turquoise is commonly treated in various fashions to ensure its durability and visual appeal, especially when set in jewelry. If a stone has been treated, the type of process will be noted.
Stabilized turquoise is enhanced through a process of coating the genuine gemstone with colorless acrylics or resin to fill porous gaps, harden the stone and maintain the stone's color.
Reconstituted turquoise is enhanced through a process in which genuine gemstone fragments are powdered and bonded with resin to reinforce the stone. Turquoise-bearing rock is pulverized and the turquoise is separated from the rock using a float process. The pulverized turquoise is then mixed with a colored resin, which is then injected into a mold to form a solid block. This is then cubed, preformed and fashioned into various shapes and sizes. It is an excellent method of using rough that would otherwise not be usable.
Impregnated turquoise is enhanced through a process in which the genuine gemstone is infused with oil, wax or resin to reinforce the stone.
Mohave turquoise is crafted through a process that uses a hydraulic press to assemble turquoise nuggets together with bronze metal matrix throughout the brick of turquoise. Once the turquoise is pressed or assembled, it is stabilized to harden the stone. Currently, Mohave turquoise is the only product on the market that features genuine Arizona Kingman Mine turquoise and real metal matrix. The Kingman mine is the oldest known turquoise mine in the Americas and is located at the Mineral Park Mine in the Cerbat Mountains, about 14 miles from Kingman, AZ.
Turquoise is one of the oldest gemstones known in history going back 6,000 years BC and has been revered by almost every ancient culture. It is the alternate birthstone for December and has a Mohs rating of 5.0-6.0. Turquoise is a Hydrous Phosphate of Aluminum and Copper and may form as a chalky coating on rocks or finely disseminated crystals formed within small rock cavities. Rough such as this is not commercially viable, which has led to the development of reconstituted turquoise. Turquoise-bearing rock is pulverized and the turquoise is separated from the rock using a float process. The pulverized turquoise is then mixed with a colored resin, which is then injected into a mold to form a solid block. This is then cubed, preformed and fashioned into various shapes and sizes. It is an excellent method of using rough that would otherwise not be usable.
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This is part final of the five part series "Abortion Capital" delving into the business of lucrative late-term abortions in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Albuquerque, NM – Former Baptist minister turned New Age abortion prophet Curtis Boyd operates an abortion clinic in the liberal state of New Mexico, where laws are lax and there is less likelihood for legal entanglements. As far as Boyd and his abortion staff are concerned, the fewer layers of accountability the better. Boyd's Southwestern Women's Options is not your average abortion mill. It is where abortions are available throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Late-term abortions are overwhelmingly opposed by the vast majority of Americans. According to one Gallup Poll, 68% oppose second trimester abortions and a stunning 84% oppose third trimester abortions. That disapproval is reflected in the law. In most states, abortions after viability are either illegal or highly regulated. Thirty six states have some kind of ban on "late-term" abortions, although the definition of "late-term" varies. Fourteen states prohibit abortions after 24 weeks. Ten states, including Kansas, require a second physician's approval.
That Kansas law presented problems for Boyd's old friend, George Tiller, who had been under investigation since 2003 for conducting illegal late-term abortions in Kansas. At the time of Tiller's death in 2009, he faced an 11-count disciplinary petition citing illegal late-term abortions and "unprofessional or dishonorable conduct or professional incompetency; and commitment of acts likely to deceive, defraud or harm the public." That petition would have resulted in disciplinary action that could have included the revocation of Tiller's medical license. The cased against him was closed only after his death.
When Boyd decided to fill in the void left by the closure of Tiller's Wichita late-term abortion clinic last year, he set up shop in New Mexico, where there are no legal gestational age limits on abortions. The liberal make-up of the state government would make the passage of restrictive laws difficult. Boyd and his wife, Glenna, contribute heavily to pro-abortion candidates to insure that their business is protected from pro-life legislation.
Boyd's late-term abortion clinic, Southwestern Women's Options, located near downtown Albuquerque, follows the same plan pioneered and perfected by Tiller. He even hired two of Tiller's former abortionists, Shelley Sella and Susan Robinson. Late-term abortions are long, sometimes complex procedures, but the financial pay-off is great. Fees for post viability abortions can range from $5,000-$20,000, depending on the gestational age of the baby.
The Induction abortion with the use of digoxin injection was developed by Tiller is now widely used throughout the United States by the few abortionists who are still willing to do the late-term procedures, including those at Boyd's Albuquerque abortion clinic. It has replaced the live partial birth abortion method since the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, 2007.
Tiller described this particular abortion method as the MOLD Technique, which is an acronym for the four products employed in the abortion process: Misoprostol, Oxytocin, Laminaria, and Digoxin.
It differs from the Partial Birth abortion procedure in one critical way. While the Partial Birth abortion method killed the pre-born baby after the feet, legs and torso had been delivered, the Induction abortion method is meant to insure that the pre-born baby is dead prior to delivery.
The Induction abortion takes 3-4 days to complete. On the first day the woman is given an ultrasound to determine the gestational age of her baby. Then, with the aid of the ultrasound to guide the abortionist, a lethal dose of the heart medication Digoxin is injected into the baby's heart directly through the woman's abdomen. Digoxin gives the baby a fatal heart attack. This is an off-label application of the drug, which was developed and approved as a treatment for heart disease.
Although you may find this a little difficult and a little uncomfortable, on the first day that you arrive at the clinic we will make an injection of a medication called digoxin into the fetus to initiate fetal demise.
Tiller elaborated on his reasons for killing the baby before beginning the late-term abortion procedure.
The first reason is so that there will be no fetal pain. We — we have learned with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of patients that women have the question about, "Will this be painful for our baby? Will this be painful for my baby?" And the answer to that is 'no.' We make an injection directly into the fetus with a medication called Digoxin on the day that you arrive so that the baby will expire painlessly. The first reason is no fetal pain.
However, those who have experienced massive heart attacks, describe them as extremely painful and frightening. It is well documented that babies in the later stages of pregnancy can feel pain, and at least one British study indicates that babies as young as 6-8 weeks gestation may experience pain.
But the most important reason for killing the baby first is to avoid a live birth that could cause the abortionist to run afoul of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act as well as other state and federal laws protecting the baby after a live birth, even if the birth is the result of an abortion.
How safe for the mother is the injection into the fetal heart? Not very.
Complications from lethal fetal injections are well known. In Orlando, Florida, the misuse of Digoxin resulted in the live birth of Baby Rowan, who died after abortion clinic workers denied him medical care. In Wichita, Kansas, Tiller's needle slipped, and Baby Sarah was injected in the head with a toxic drug that was a precursor to digoxin. She survived and was later adopted, but suffered a malady of medical problems. She died five years later from complications to the injuries she received as a result of the injection. And the stories go on.
Boyd abortionist Shelley Sella seems particularly prone to botching the fetal heart injection, as discussed in Part Three of this report.
After the Digoxin injection, the procedure is almost identical to the Partial Birth Abortion method. The woman's cervix is packed with laminaria, thin tampon-like sticks made of seaweed that expand the cervix gradually over the next several hours. She is sent home or to a local hotel where she must await the onset of labor.
The next day, the woman is repacked with larger laminaria sticks and given Misoprostol to prepare her for labor.
On the final day of the abortion, the woman is given the drug Oxytocin, which induces contractions and the onset of labor. Women then are placed in a room where they endure the labor process. When it is determined that the labor has progressed to the stage where the baby is about to be delivered, each woman is taken into a room with a toilet and told to lean on the nurse and push the baby into the toilet.
The toilet delivery method is used by a number of abortionists including James Pendergraft in Florida, Susan Robinson, Shelley Sella, and Curtis Boyd in New Mexico, and LeRoy Carhart in Nebraska.
Sometimes, the abortionists may allow the woman to deliver on a delivery table, especially if the baby is particularly large. In that case, the baby's legs and torso are pulled from the birth canal, leaving only the head inside. Then scissors are used to open the base of the skull so the contents can be removed through suction aspiration. This allows the head to collapse and the baby to slip easily from the birth canal.
Other abortionists, such as Michigan's Alberto Hodari, prefer to remove the dead late-term baby through dismemberment.
Once the dead baby is delivered, the woman is given a procedure called Dilatation and Curettage, or D& C. Here, a sharp edged spoon-shaped instrument is used to remove any remaining tissue from the uterus.
After the abortion the woman is given what Tiller's employees called the "Party Pack," which includes abortion aftercare instructions and a prescription for birth control pills. They are then released to return home.
Hodari admits that Induction abortions are complex and dangerous. He particularly disapproves of the difficult Digoxin injection into the baby's heart that is supposed to insure that the baby dead prior to delivery. Never one to let scruples stand in his way, Hodari uses the Induction method even though he considers it dangerous.
"We do not believe that our patients should take a risk for which the only clear benefit is a legal one to the physician," abortionist Philip D. Darney, chief of obstetrics at San Francisco General Hospital told the Boston Globe on August 10, 2007. He has chosen not to use the Induction method.
In spite of the dangers, the Induction abortion method remains the method of choice for late-term abortionists, especially those now practicing without governmental restriction at Southwestern Women's Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The reputation of every abortionist associated with that clinic has been tarnished with allegations – and even an admission – that they have been involved with illegal abortion activity. Now, they are together in a state that looks the other way when it comes to post-viability abortions. That is a recipe for disaster.


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It's time for Buhari to save Katsina – Shehu Sani says as another high-profile individual is abducted
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Senator for Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to save his home state, Katsina, from the claws of bandits.
He stated this Saturday night in a tweet, after the wife of a member of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Dr Ibrahim Kurami, was abducted by gun-totting men.
Sani recalled that Alhaji Kabir Muhammed, elder brother of the Katsina state Secretary to the Government, remained in the hands of his captors three days after his abduction.
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The SSG's brother was abducted on Wednesday while working on his farm in Daftau Village, Danmusa Local Government Area of the state.
Sani said that presidential intervention was needed to stem the tide of abductions and killings in Katsina.
He wrote, "While the elder brother of the Katsina State Secretary to the Government is still in the hands of bandits, the terrorists have struck again this night and kidnapped the wife of a member of state House of Assembly Dr Ibrahim Kurami.
"It's time for the President to save Katsina state."
Katsinashehu sani
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Seashore is open source image editing software for Macs, from Sourceforge.net:
[Seashore] features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
…Seashore … aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products.
Featuring a very Photoshop-like interface, Seashore provides much more than "basic" photo editing. Layers, merging effects, channel editing, transparent and gradient effects, and a large selection of brush strokes make this a powerful image editor, even for more advanced users.
Seashore's features include:
Full support for the GIMP's native XCF file format
Read and write support for the TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JP2000 and GIF file formats
Read-only support for the BMP, PICT, PDF and XBM file formats
Layers with over 20 merging effects
Ability to edit just the primary or alpha channels
Thorough transparency effects including semi-transparent gradients
Arbitrary selection regions
Anti-aliased brush strokes
6 basic gradient effects with 16 variations
Tablet support
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Plug-in filters
Most features work on Mac OS 10.3 and later, with the exception of JP2000 support for which Mac OS 10.4 is required.
Of all the open source editors I have tried (as well as several commercial programs), this one looks like a front-runner!
As with any image editing software, be sure to work with copies of important work, rather than the originals.
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Joseph Bryant "Joe" Raynor Jr. (January 26, 1923 – September 4, 2014) was a politician in the American state of North Carolina.

He was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina in 1923. After graduating high school, he opened up an automotive supply business. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in the 1960s and served eight consecutive terms.

He was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in to represent the tenth district. He retired in 1992.

He wed Mildred Horne in 1944 and lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina until his death in 2014.

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I really like your art style, so well done for that too.
The audio although not my favorite type, really fits the game.
Altogether I find this a really great game for the jam, it turned out really concise, fun to play and very pleasing to look at. Congratulations!
Secondly, I'd like to thank you for hosting the jam, it was a blast to participate and the theme was very inspiring and cool, i'm really proud of what I made for this challenge.
Ahaha it really makes me anxious how the pause sound is so similar to the failure sound. I have to ask, was that intentional, to discourage pause-spamming? :D If not, then I suppose that's a nice unintended result! Also, thank you for adding a pause option for those who need it!
This was almost the hardest game I have ever played in my life(not hardest because of the "Worlds Hardest Game) . It was a very energetic, hard and fun game.
Finally i finished this game!! :O 10/10 This game is so good , good job !
geez this game is hard. Cant even beat the third level lol. Good job!
Well, I cleared the game finally. A little bit hard actually.
Me: Yay! I finally beated this level.
Game: Well, here's the same level, but with two more planets!
It's still a really fun game! Great job at the visuals and sounds!
Prepare to cry inside when you reach level 17 (The Final). It is somehow more brutal than the actual game. Just about managed to do this by exploiting the pause button.
Absolutely Amazing game, I must say.
Didn't you make this game before?
I've finished the game and it was funny! Sometimes easy, sometimes hard but it was fair enough!
Good the art as always, I liked also the sounds more than other games!
Unfortunately I'm not able to play it properly because for some reason it keeps trying to like drag the picture file or something and even when I let go of the left mouse button the planet sticks to the cursor. Not sure why this is happening but looking forward to seeing your video on the game.
But I feel like the mouse movement is choppy.
Graphics and sound are spot on as always. Really liked them, but I somehow don't like this drag and drop games. Nevertheless it was fun to play. Unfortunately, I cheated a little with my second monitor on the right :D So maybe you should consider fixing this.
It's really hard to complete, but what a nice game!
It's like these planets are on a suicide quest to reach Valhalla! Nice artwork as always, Noa. Thank you for uploading quality content and inspiring other game developers.
I was cursing your name at level 6 sir... LOL that was an interesting yet frustrating mechanic.