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Hrabstwo Wayne (ang. Wayne County) – hrabstwo w stanie Tennessee w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Obszar całkowity hrabstwa obejmuje powierzchnię 735,59 mil² (1905,17 km²). Według szacunków United States Census Bureau w roku 2009 miało 16 506 mieszkańców.

Hrabstwo powstało w 1817 roku.

Miasta
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 Collinwood
 Waynesboro

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Hrabstwa w stanie Tennessee
Hrabstwa Stanów Zjednoczonych powstałe w 1817

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Relax in the Pines, Horseshoe Pit and Pet Friendly!
This rustic Garden Valley vacation rental is dog-friendly, offers space for up to 11, and is near golfing, motorcycle and ATV trails, fishing, whitewater rafting, and the mellow Middle Fork of the Payette. When the day is done, soak in the endless stars and the geothermal pools and hot tub just down the road. Perfect for your weekend getaway, family reunion, or motorcycle trip!
At meal time, gather around the dining table with space for six, and whip up a frenzy in the fully-stocked kitchen. When the weather is fine, dine outdoors - sliding glass doors lead right out to the wrap-around patio.
This Payette River Hideaway features one bathroom, one bedroom, and a spacious loft for a small group (up to 7 people), or, for an additional $50.00/night expand into the guest house for access to the garage, a 2nd bathroom, and a 2nd bedroom. With the guest house, you can have up to 11 travelers total. Sleeping options include two queen-sized beds, a twin-bed, and two hide-a-beds in the main cabin, plus two hammocks in the loft. A queen bed and a futon await you in the guest house. A washer and dryer is also included so you can pack light! Best of all, the cabin is heated by geothermal water so no matter how deep the snow, the cabin is warm and cozy year-round.
Outside, this home is secluded by pine trees and offers an elevated wrap-around deck on the main cabin and two decks in the bedroom above the garage. The sprawling yard is ideal for up to two dogs, though a pet fee will apply. This cabin is tucked away - please note that cell service is spotty out here – which will allow you to reconnect to each other.
You are just 15 minutes to white water rafting on the South Fork of the Payette and 25 minutes to the Main Fork of the Payette River.
After just a few hours you'll love our Payette River Hideaway like we do – and like us, you won't want to leave!
Karen was very helpful, friendly and accommodating.
Loved It! I would stay there again!


This article discusses the three reasons behind Fairway America's bullish take on self-storage in today's market.
Barry Johnson is the Vice President of Investments of Fairway America and leads the origination and negotiation of deals with SBRE entrepreneurs. Barry holds the two most advanced real estate appraisal designations, MAI (Member Appraisal Institute) and SRA (Senior Residential Appraiser), as well as the highly coveted CCIM (Commercial Investment Member).
Have you considered investing in self-storage? We have, and we do. For multiple reasons, we like self-storage. According to our research1, between 1994 and 2017, self-storage outperformed every other property type. During that period, self-storage averaged 17.42% (REITs only) annual returns over that time-frame while multifamily properties averaged an annual return rate of 13.42%. Since 2008 (during the Great Recession) self-storage has averaged a 13.66% annual return—34% higher than residential, and 85% higher than the 7.39% average return for all major property types2 excluding self-storage. Furthermore, only 18% of the self-storage facilities are owned by six large public REITS, another 8% are owned by the next 100 top operators (excluding the REITs), and the remaining 74% are owned by small owner operator "mom and pop" shops3. Within this demographic, we see opportunity.
First, we find that the economics of self-storage generally mirror multifamily projects, but they are free of the challenges inherent when managing tenants who occupy the property as their primary residence4. Multifamily is appealing to investors primarily because of the relative cash flow stability but, unfortunately, this benefit comes with the challenge of constantly having to manage tenants. Tenants may send in complaints and requests for expensive maintenance and repairs, which requires staffing to both handle the complaints and make the repairs. Meanwhile, self-storage property can offer similar cash flow attributes but is less management intensive as there are no toilets, refrigerators, stoves or similar amenities to repair. Nor does storage require landlords to placate tenants' day-to-day demands. Evicting people from storage units doesn't require kicking people out of their homes and typically is a much more landlord-friendly process.
Second, self-storage facilities have historically been relatively resistant to recessions5. Typically, storage facilities are used for two purposes, either temporary (transitional) storage, or permanent storage. During a recession, individuals downsizing, moving, or adapting to new life circumstances may increase the likelihood for transitional use of the storage facility. Therefore, storage facilities can be a true contrarian play during market corrections. Permanent users may switch to transitional use because of a change in circumstance or maintain the permanent occupancy of the unit until things improve. In some cases, users will sell all their belongings and vacate the unit, but this can be a difficult barrier for many people to overcome since they tend to become attached to their belongings. As the following chart shows, during 2008 self-storage was the only major property type to produce positive returns.
Third, some exciting new repositioning opportunities exist in today's self-storage space that make a great deal of sense to our underwriting philosophy. For example, one strategy is to buy vacant commercial properties located along retail corridors in highly densely populated parts of major metropolitan areas that have historically been supply constrained due to zoning restrictions that have limited self-storage use. Utilizing expertise in working with local municipalities, some of our partners have been able to obtain the necessary permits to repurpose blighted properties into class A self-storage facilities. Because of limited demand for large vacant commercial properties (50,000+ square feet), purchase prices can approach the value of only the underlying land, resulting in development costs well below the replacement cost of ground up construction. The combination of what we perceive to be below market costs and irreplaceable locations may have the potential to create attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors. Of course, any investment in large, vacant commercial land may be risky, and the self-storage market may not always behave as it historically has, but we think that it currently has some potential.
Considering the industry-wide market dynamics, introduced by the three points above, we see a bright future ahead in self-storage, particularly certain sub-segments such as this example. All private placement investments like this are inherently risky, and our investment objectives may be very different than yours, but if you are interested in self-storage opportunities, please feel free to contact us for more information. We look forward to talking with you!
Investments in self-storage are speculative and involve substantial risks. Consider the risks outlined in the Investor Document Package before investing. Risks include, but are not limited to illiquidity, lack of diversification, complete loss of capital, default risk, and capital call risk. Investments may not achieve their objective.
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by Anthony Lee Collins Posted on January 5, 2022
I was interested in this article: "In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on the Republic"
(First of all, the idea that anybody, on any side of any "culture war" in the United States, is thinking, even for a minute, about the effect their opinion might have on the French… Well, that's just adorable. 🙂 )
I'm all for maintaining rules for language ("farther" and "further" are not interchangeable, for one example), but if someone or something new, or previously unseen, exists in the world, languages need to evolve. Pronouns (and words in general) should adapt to people, not the other way around.
Also, if someone wants to be addressed by a specific name, or described with a specific pronoun, to do otherwise is simply rude.
(I am not, obviously, including situations of deliberate fraud. I remember there was a guy years ago who checked into various fancy New York hotels and ran up big bills while pretending to be David Bowie. That's not okay.)
I also have never liked the idea that "when it comes to the choice of pronouns for groups of women and men, the male form takes precedence over the female; and when it comes to adjectives describing mixed gatherings, they take the masculine form." Likewise the practice, which I learned in school, of referring to an individual of undetermined gender as "he" (though I've been writing for many decades about a famous amateur detective who proudly does just that).
I do think it's funny that the French make a point of not finding out how many of their citizens might be of which race or place of national origin, but they insist on gendering everybody and everything, including household furniture (for example, "chair," in French, can apparently, according to Google Translate, be either masculine or feminine, depending on which word you decide to use).
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I'm finding that I like to have a TV show to follow. I guess it's a replacement for the weekly comic books that I no longer buy.
Of course, I don't have a TV, so it has to be on some sort of platform (is that the right word?) that I can get on a computer or a tablet (and without paying for Disney+, which I'm still resisting — they have too much content).
Last fall, for example, my TV schedule was too busy for my taste because Stargirl and Legends of Tomorrow and Wheel of Time were all cooking at once, but then Stargirl and WoT ended their seasons, and Legends took a mid-season break, so I decided to try The Witcher, mostly because some of my favorite reactors are following it (and it's on Netflix, which I'm already paying for).
It's a fantasy series, a bit like Wheel of Time, but more subtle in terms of "good" and "evil." Everybody is much more ambiguous (though not to the level of Game of Thrones). Geralt, the main character, is a "witcher," who kills monsters to protect people, but the monsters are complex, too.
As one character (a monster) says:
Monsters are more than just horrid looks and claws and teeth. Monsters are born of deeds done. Unforgivable ones.
I think my favorite thing in the show is that Geralt is now traveling with Ciri, a teenage princess who he's sworn to protect, and it's (gradually) becoming an interesting father-daughter relationship. It's such a Disney cliche (with superheroes and Star Wars and so on) that heroes are orphans, or have big-time father issues, or at least one dead parent, or something like that.
Parents are not only compelling in absentia. Parents can be very interesting even if they're actually around, which reminds me of a line from Moonrise Kingdom:
Suzy: I always wished I was an orphan. Most of my favorite characters are. I think your lives are more special.
Sam [an orphan]: I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Geralt and Ciri have a complex relationship, and it develops over time. Is the most important thing for him to protect her, or for her to learn to protect herself (in a very dangerous world)? If he does teach her to fight, who and what do you fight, and when, and why (as opposed to just worrying about the "how")?
The story has season-long elements, but it's also rather monster-of-the-week, which I'm fine with. Not everything needs to be, or should be, Game of Thrones (where there was a murder mystery introduced in the very first episode which wasn't resolved until the seventh season when nobody was really thinking about it anymore). A series of individual stories which also link together as a longer unit — that's my favorite (it should be — that's what I do).
The negative aspect of it being on Netflix, of course, is that the entire season is made available all at once (serial stories should always make you wait), but so far I've been pacing out my watching of the episodes, so that's almost as good.
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by Anthony Lee Collins Posted on December 29, 2021
I get the A.Word.A.Day emails every day, and yesterday's was about "agathism," which I thought was a coincidence since I had just talked about Agatha Christie in my last post, but it turns out the word is not related in any way to Dame Agatha.
I've hit a bit of a roll on my new story — I finally got to a scene that has some momentum. Until then it had been basically me pulling the story along, paragraph by paragraph, like dragging a heavy kid on a sled.
(This may be why I stay away from metaphors.)
I would consider starting to post it, except that it doesn't have a title yet. That's one of the things that's specific to writing serial stories — you have to commit to the title at the beginning of the process, rather than at (or after) the end. So, I view this as part of the process — if the story isn't clear enough to have a title, it isn't clear enough to start posting either.
I thought this article was interesting also (although rather longer than it needed to be): "The Case Against the Trauma Plot."
I have always stayed away from "trauma plots." I have characters who have suffered various kinds of trauma, and that informs their actions and reactions, but that's knowledge I hold — backstory, not story. And I have characters with what are generally considered mental problems and I've never given a "reason" for their condition.
This part of the article caught my attention specifically:
Classics are retrofitted according to the model. Two modern adaptations of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" add a rape to the governess's past. In "Anne with an E," the Netflix reboot of "Anne of Green Gables," the title character is given a history of violent abuse, which she relives in jittery flashbacks. In Hogarth Press's novelized updates of Shakespeare's plays, Jo Nesbø, Howard Jacobson, Jeanette Winterson, and others accessorize Macbeth and company with the requisite devastating backstories.
Reminds me of Orson Welles' take on Iago. Various productions and adaptations of Othello have conjured up a reason (or reasons) for Iago's actions, but that's a modern sensibility. As Welles put it (paraphrasing here), everybody who's spent any time out in the world has met an Iago or two.
Needless to say, "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane was not Welles' idea.
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Here's an interesting article: "Can 'Distraction-Free' Devices Change the Way We Write?"
Microsoft Word is a terrible tool for writing, because it's not designed for it. It's designed for corporate word processing (and, more recently, simple desktop publishing). It has every tool you could possibly need (well, in theory), and 98% of them are useless, at best, for writing a story, or an article, or a college paper.
But I think the bigger obstacle to getting words out of your head and "on paper" (or wherever) is the internet (and, I guess, more recently social media, although the Web can be plenty distracting even without social media).
After reading this article, I even considered buying myself a reMarkable tablet, but it costs $400 dollars, and it would not be the perfect writing tool for me, because there is no perfect writing tool for me. For me, the best writing tool this week is whatever I wasn't using last week. I am currently using iA Writer, also mentioned in the article, but of course it won't last.
To some extent, I'm like Agatha Christie — I write in or on whatever is closest to hand. My current story already exists in several different places, and I've started a new section of it in iA Writer, without looking back at what I've written before.
I do want to see this movie.
Can't tell that much from a short trailer, of course, but it looks like it might just be, shall we say, a bit Wellesian.
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I am watching, and, so far, enjoying, the Amazon Prime adaptation of The Wheel of Time. I read the first book in the series a very long time ago, but I don't remember much about it.
The first two episodes were made up of very standard fantasy elements (many of which, in fact, mapped directly onto elements of The Fellowship of the Ring), but the third episode did have one moment that surprised me. Since then, things have been improving week-to-week.
The Wheel of Time (the show) exists, reportedly, because Jeff Bezos said, "I want my Game of Thrones."
Which has led to a lot of articles comparing the two series, but I think that's a waste of time. Bezos was not making a genre request — he was making a request (demand) for a show which would attract attention and eyeballs and buzz and, as we used to say, "ink." In other words, water cooler discussions (as we also used to say).
And, frankly, a too-obvious an attempt to create "another GoT" would have been immediately called out for what it was. WoT was written before GoT, and it relies on a lot of the tropes that GoT deconstructed (and/or trashed).
I'm not a big fantasy buff, but there is one specific reason that I'm enjoying the show as much as I am.
There's a main character named Moiraine. She's basically the Gandalf character (magic user, from a group of magic users, wandering the world for reasons of her own, befriending and protecting and leading, or trying to lead, the — much younger — main characters).
Unlike Gandalf, though, Moiraine does not travel alone.
She's an Aes Sedai, one of the society of women who use magic in this world, and, like most Aes Sedai, she has a Warder, named Lan. A Warder is a man who travels with an Aes Sedai — a bodyguard, a confidante, a sounding board, a partner. They are magically linked, so they are always aware of each other's feelings and situation. Some Aes Sedai/Warder pairs are also lovers, and some are not, and it seems that they don't usually advertise which it is. (Moiraine and Lan are apparently not lovers, but they did share a long soak in a hot tub in the first episode.)
The Aes Sedai is generally in charge, but the Warder apparently has some leeway when there is danger or potential danger, as a bodyguard should.
(Lan has noticed that Moiraine has muted their psychic connection for the evening — for personal reasons.)
Lan: Get back before dawn.
Moiraine: Is that an order?
Lan: Did it sound like a suggestion?
You can probably guess why I find this relationship interesting.
Update: A couple of caveats after the most recent episode.
1) The show is a "chosen one" story (definitely my least favorite fantasy trope), and now, of the five possible chosen ones, the least interesting character (by a wide margin) appears to be It.
2) A good deal of this episode was taken up with adolescent hormones and angst, which was a bit annoying because, unlike in the books, the characters in question are quite a bit past adolescence. I understand the need to "age up" young book characters when making a TV show (Game of Thrones did it, too), but sometimes you have to then do some rewriting to make it work.
by Anthony Lee Collins Posted on November 3, 2021
I've been writing down scenes and ideas as they occur to me, but so far nothing has coalesced for a new story.
The other thing I've been doing is re-reading the first three stories in the current series ("The Marvel Murder Case," "The Town Hall Mystery," and "The Heron Island Mystery"), mostly because I knew there were some threads which I wanted to pick up again, but I also found some little, tiny glitches here and there (word choice, punctuation, etc.).
So, I'm thinking this would be a good time to go back and fix those. Not for the "Heron Island" story — it's too soon to work on that one again — but the other two could benefit from a little (just a very little) polishing.
Also, having gone back and re-read the first two stories, I'm starting to feel that the story which should come next is not the one I've been assuming I ought to be writing…
Anyway, following up on my last post, Legends of Tomorrow has just had their 100th episode, and it was wonderful.
Gideon, who was the AI on the team's (now destroyed) ship the Waverider, has now joined the team as an actual person, and the episode was a trip through her memories, including a lot of appearances by actors who are no longer on the show. It was nice to see all the familiar faces again, and the episode made excellent use of the fact that Amy Louise Pemberton, who has played Gideon since the first episode of the show, has a really good singing voice. There are also a couple of inside jokes based on the fact that over the years the show has had a lot of British actors playing American characters.
Also, regarding Doom Patrol, I loved this clip (and the episode it's in). The young girl in the woods is Kay. She's the core personality of Jane, who has 64 personas, all created to protect Kay, who was a victim of abuse growing up. She (Kay) usually stays in the Underground (Jane's subconscious), but obviously she hears what Jane hears, and she decides to start dancing to the music, prompting Jane and then the other characters to dance also.
(I also love how Rita, the second person to start dancing in the real world, begins by standing, squaring her shoulders, clenching her fists for a second, and then moving forward onto the dance floor. She's a studio-trained Hollywood actress, and that's a nice moment of her "getting into character" for the scene.)
One thing that's been new in this season is that Kay, who barely spoke in the first season, is becoming much more vocal and assertive now. She's growing up, and healing, and this is unnerving to some of the other personas. This is a very interesting development, and I'm interested to see where it will go.
Also, a propos of nothing, here's some Arcade Fire:

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Chiropractic medicine is one of the more popular types of alternative medicine in the Untied States. Chiropractic therapy believes that when the vertebrae are not aligned very well, the spinal cord sends out weak inefficient nerve impulses to the limbs and muscles causing weakness, sickness or ailments in the body.
The popularity of chiropractic medicine is such that mainstream physicians, oftentimes refer patients suffering from muscle pain, back pain or even pain of unknown origin to a chiropractor. Patients suffering from chronic conditions, which Western medicine cannot find a cure for usually opt for alternative medical treatments as a last resort. Apart from chiropractic care, other popular forms of alternative therapy are acupuncture, massage therapy and naturopathy.
Chiropractic, which means, in Greek "performed by hand," was practiced by the ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago and rediscovered by Daniel David Palmer in 1895. He argued that that the proper alignment of the spine is essential for the wellness of the body's neuromusculoskeletal system. Chiropractic therapy is essentially treating and correcting vertebral aberrations, spinal misalignments and joint problems. The chiropractor for better skeletal alignment manipulates skeletal problems in a relatively pain-free way. Chiropractic therapy often employs other techniques such as electronic muscle stimulation, ultrasound and massage therapy. Chiropractic therapy never uses any medications whatsoever during treatment.
Chiropractic because of its inherent value in treating sports-related injuries has found a niche in the sporting world through a specialist called the sport chiropractor. This professional specializes in musculoskeletal problems experienced by athletes and also, in the nutritional and natural dietary matters of the athlete. In the United States, this type of chiropractic therapy is represented and governed by the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. The most common chiropractic method used is spinal adjustment and it is employed in injuries or illnesses such as sprained joints, muscle strains or pulls, tendonitis, bursitis, and generalized joint injuries. Many athletes have benefited tremendously from chiropractic adjustments. Chiropractors usually are part of the medical team, which include a physician and physical therapists. These professionals all serve under a specific sports team. Chiropractic is appealing to sports in that the therapy does not use any type of drug medications as part of its treatment. Thus, the athlete does not register any type of medication in his blood, which is beneficial to the athlete especially when he/she is participating in a sports event where drug tests are extremely rigid.
For athletes, a healthy and correct vertebrae and spine mean the fittest functioning of their back and shoulder muscles and with nerve impulses in the spine working very well, the reaction time of the athlete is at its maximum-all these enable the athlete to perform and compete optimally.
Acupuncture NYC is a holistic form of traditional Chinese medicine in which a patient is inserted with hair thin needles in specific points on the body for the remediation of pain and for treatment of other health disorders. The origin of acupuncture goes back for over a thousand years before Christ. Acupuncture was first annotated 2200 years ago in China. It is the premier form of treatment for most Chinese and became a popular form of pain treatment in the United States in the 1970's.
The two schools of acupuncture today are classical or traditional acupuncture and Western medical acupuncture. Classical acupuncture is animated by the philosophies of Taoism and naturalism. This is the acupuncture practiced for thousands of years by the Chinese. Its foundation rests in the idea that the body is animated, lives and grows by the energies of yin and yang, and these two forces comprise the forces making up a person's Qi or chi. Yin and yang are basically similar to the positive and negative forces of electricity. When yin and yang does not balance each other out, the body suffers form sickness and disease. By applying acupuncture needles into certain acupuncture points on the body, according to classical Chinese acupuncture, balance of yin and yang is restored and unhindered chi flow is restored. Classical Chinese acupuncture also believes that chi flows through energy pathways called meridians. Western medical acupuncture, on the other hand, discards these beliefs and instead relies in the scientific method and the disciplines of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry to understand the mechanics of acupuncture. This school of thought states that the insertion of needles in the precise site of treatment stimulates the nervous system to release endorphins, enkephalins and other beneficial chemicals that alleviates or removes pain and strengthens the immune system. Besides this fundamental difference, superficial differences such as the manner to how the needles are placed, the number of needles needed for treatment, which is less for Western acupuncture, and the amount of time the needles need to be in the patient's body (also less needle application time for Western acupuncture), lie between traditional and Western acupuncture.
The slow transition of acupuncture into mainstream medicine lies in the skepticism of Western medical science in acupuncture's clinical beneficial claim and the influence of pharmaceutical medicine, which face to lose revenue as acupuncture slips into mainstream medicine. By the fact that acupuncture does not have side effects for treatment of pain, it is a superior alternative for pain medications. However, the benefits of acupuncture in treating chronic pain conditions, smoking cessation and even treating infertility cannot be denied. The United States National Institute of Health validated acupuncture's effectiveness by stating its efficacy in healing certain types of chronic pain as well as certain health problems.
Bellvue Acupuncture for herniated disc therapy is worth considering since acupuncture has been around for several thousands of years as a treatment for various kinds of disorders, herniated disc being one of them. Acupuncture is the most popular treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and is a very effective treatment for a host of back and spinal problems. Moreover, acupuncture is very good in removing symptoms of spinal stenosis such as lower back and neck pain among others. For many health conditions, acupuncture combined with Chinese herbal medicine have been known to be more effective than acupuncture therapy alone. Acupuncture is a less risky and less invasive alternative compared to conventional treatments such as surgery and pharmaceutical pain medications. The fear of surgery and harmful side effects caused by pharmaceutical pain medications for treating herniated discs makes acupuncture a more logical choice for many people who desire a less risky and more natural approach for their problem.
Acupuncture is more potent when used as soon as initial symptoms of a herniated disc such as back spasms and cramps start to arise. The addition of herbal medicine can be helpful for recovery when the patient is suffering from a severe form of herniated disc. In order for the beneficial effect of acupuncture to last longer, the acupuncturist can advise the patient to perform regular exercises or be treated with physical therapy. In addition to repairing the herniated disc, acupuncture improves the patient's mood and allows him/her to rest comfortably and peacefully. In order to be sure that acupuncture is a viable treatment for the patient, the patient should consult with his/her doctor or physician first to evaluate the amount of damage in the herniated disc before considering acupuncture treatment.
Sadly, more than 50% of adults in the United States suffer from sciatica pain. It is felt as a burning pain originating from the lower back radiating down to the feet. This pain is due to the pressure on the sciatic nerve causing it to compress and usually results in a herniated disc. As people age and with poor nutrition, the spine, its muscles and other parts associated with the spine suffer entropy and breakdown and other aggravating factors like overexertion, accidents, diseases and poor posture, which can lead to back problems.
Observations have recorded how acupuncture stimulates the damaged area of the spine helping produce the body's own steroids enabling it to fix the affected area and producing endorphins in the body to alleviate the swelling and the pain of the herniated disc. This is the dual effect that acupuncture is famous for and why it is so effective in treating painful back problems. Because of these factors, compare to surgery or pharmaceutical therapy acupuncture is surely a far more superior alternative for treating a herniated disc.
Acupuncture New York provides a wonderful and powerful treatment that drug medications cannot give. Whether one is feeling awful from back or joint pain, arthritis, migraine or headache, acupuncture is the answer to those problems.
Acupuncture is all about the insertion of reed-thin needles into the skin at specific points to allow vital energy to re-flow unhampered within the body. This belief originated in China and the vital life energy "qi" or chi that flows through energy pathways called meridians is the force that makes the body live, grow and be healthy. The belief also states that when chi gets conjured up in certain areas and cannot travel freely through the other parts of the body, this leads to severe pain and distress. Acupuncture is then applied to remove those blockages allowing energy to again run into all parts of the body thus removing pain and distress.
Arthritis is primarily a painful swelling in the joints, ligaments or tendons. Arthritis ranges from the degree of pain felt and it ranges from mild joint stiffness to crippling disability. Arthritis usually is severe when the person wakes up from sleep. There are three forms of arthritis: rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and gout. All of these generate severe debilitating pain to an individual. Acupuncture for arthritis in the joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons is a fairly simple procedure. It is very effective and treatment lasts for 3 or 4 sessions. A few needles are applied into the skin that causes one to relax and feel comfortable for the duration of the treatment, which may be around 30-40 minutes. The needles are inserted into the points that connect to the meridians that in turn connect to various major organs and muscle tissues.
Migraine and sinus is characterized by the throbbing and pulsating of nerves in the head and as migraine is usually felt in a particular area of the head, sinus manifests as pain in the temple, eyes and areas around the nose. These two types of headaches cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, weakness, light sensitivity and constant distress.
There are no pharmaceutical treatments for migraines and sinuses, and these products only can relieve some of the symptoms. Acupuncture can relieve all pains caused by these headaches. The techniques usually applied for these disorders are manual or ear acupuncture. With manual or traditional acupuncture, the needles are being tweaked or manipulated as they are inserted in the skin to produce a healing effect. Ear or auricular acupuncture concentrates on acupuncture points on the ear to elicit stimulation to the body. For many kinds of pain, acupuncture is one of the best treatments around. It produces a powerful analgesic effect that even can be used by surgeons as some sort of anesthesia to open-heart surgeries.
Mental health disorders such as major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone. Some people have a large capacity to cope with the stresses and problems of life while some may not be so adaptable to life's ebbs and flows. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that mental illness happens when certain body functions are imbalanced and in disharmony. The imbalance originates from too much or too little yin or yang forces, which disrupts energy flow through the body. TCM believes that mental disorders are unique per individual and as such, there may be different approaches to one disorder. TCM diagnoses a mental disorder by observing the symptoms of the disorder. The basic tenet of TCM and acupuncture is that life energy called chi flows through the body, which gives the body life, health and growth.
Acupuncture Philadelphia is able to determine the energetic swings in the body. The physical and emotional manifestations of the symptoms gives the acupuncturist a clear picture of what the patient is suffering from and can devise a treatment plan for that patient based on the symptoms. Chi flows around the body on energy networks known as meridians. These meridians connect to specific points in the body known as acupuncture points on one end and connect to major body organs on the other end. TCM states that when the circuitous flow of chi along the meridians stagnates, illness will arise. Acupuncture is the application of needles at specific acupuncture points to cause a certain change in the biochemical and physiological processes in the body in order to achieve a desired outcome.
Wood relates to the Liver – Energy deficiency of the liver leads to anger, jealousy, frustration, resentment, bitterness and stress.
Fire is associated with the Heart – Extreme fire leads to mania and over-excitation.
Earth associates with Spleen – Energy imbalance in this organ can result in anxiety, pensiveness and worry.
Metal relates to the Lung – Deficient energy in the Lung will manifest in grief and sadness.
Water relates to Kidney – Kidney energy lack leads to depression and lack of will.
Acupuncture points treated will depend on the emotional disorder. Initial minimal discomfort may be experienced during the treatment but as treatment progresses a relaxed and comfortable sensation then envelops the patient during the whole course of the treatment. Depending on the disorder treatment may last from 5 to 30 minutes and the number of sessions will depend on the severity of the problem.
A healthy lifestyle and Bellvue acupuncture can substantially lessen the chances of heart disease. Heart disease includes coronary heart disease, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and congenital heart disease. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death around the world and is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Manage high blood pressure – High blood pressure taxes the heart by increasing oxygen demand of the heart. An overworked heart can enlarge the heart (cardiomegaly) and create damages to the veins in the kidneys and brain. High blood increases the chances of heart attacks, stroke and kidney disorder. Acupuncture has been reliable in lowering and controlling blood pressure. Acupuncture needles applied at certain sites along the wrist, inside the forearm or in the leg can activate the release of opioids, which lessens the heart's activity and thus its need for oxygen. This lessening of heart activity lowers blood pressure.
Smoking cessation – Cigarette smoking contributes to coronary artery disease. More than twenty percent of heart disease mortalities are traced to cigarette smoking. Acupuncture cures chemical addictions such as smoking. The release of opoids brought about by acupuncture calms the nervous system leading to smoking cuts or smoking cessation. Acupuncture also helps in detoxifying the body of harmful substances gained from smoking.
Weight control – Obesity engenders many diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Acupuncture can ably assist the individual in controlling eating urges and normalizing body metabolism.
Stress reduction – Stress is a normal mechanism to allow a person cope up with life. Extreme stress, however, leads to emotional, psychological, and physical problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pains or arrythmia. Stress raises a person's blood pressure and this situation can lead to heart problems. Countless studies have proven that acupuncture aids in the reduction of stress. Additionally traditional Chinese medicine has numerous ways to help one regulate stress.
Sleep adequacy – Inadequate sleep can definitely cause high blood pressure. It can also lead to other heart diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart failure, heart attacks and stroke. Experts recommend getting at least eight hours of uninterrupted sleep is required for good heart health. Getting less can lead one to a greater chance of developing heart disease. Acupuncture is a common treatment for sleeplessness and insomnia and is a far more superior alternative for sleeping medications, which does not even address the root cause of the sleeping disorder. Individuals treated with acupuncture for insomnia not only have their sleeping problems treated permanently, they also report having far better physical and mental health.


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Is 'Purple Rain' On Spotify? The Legend's Finest Work Is Hard To Stream
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Proving that the world is a cruel, awful place, Prince passed away Thursday at the age of 57, and it's obvious to say that we're all still emotionally reeling. From tribute DJ sets to super strange boinkfests, there isn't any right or wrong way to honor his memory, but the usual go-to move is to put on your favorite Prince album and party like it's 1999. If you're more of a fairweather fan and want to start slow, you would probably pick out a classic like Purple Rain to stream. But is Purple Rain on Spotify? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but hard no. And if you weren't already in the know, the news only gets worse from there.
For the most part, Prince kept his music off the Internet, because he had a long vendetta with how artists lose money through new-age methods of listening to songs. In 2014 he swept all of his music off YouTube and 2015 saw him taking his music off most streaming services. However, this distaste all dates way back to a 2010 article with the Daily Mirror, in which he spoke about how he hated how the Internet revolutionized listening to music at the expense of the artist: "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it."
What's weird is that you can, however, stream Prince's music on TIDAL. Because the streaming service gives 75 percent of it's revenue to artists (higher than both Spotify and Apple Music), it makes sense that the Purple One would see that as a fair deal. The only caveat is that TIDAL is a subscription based service, so it's either going to cost you $9.99 for the basic premium ad-free service or $19.99 for HiFi quality.
If all else fails, you can also get crazy and actually purchase Purple Rain on iTunes or Amazon. His music is readily available to buy, and well, it's fair to say that such a legend probably deserves our money. The short end of it is that part of Prince's legacy was about keeping his music sort of special, and respecting their value. If you're bank account is on the low-end then it's fair to say that this isn't the ideal time to get in his Royal Badness. However, it's also fair to say that letting the purple rain over you and investing in his body of work is, without question, worth it.
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The RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) is an application driven league inspired by the industrial scenario of a smart factory, where a number of machines provide manufacturing services to refine, assemble, or modify a workpiece eventually resulting in a final product. In this new paradigm, the factory provides a number of production technologies rather than production types. These can then be combined anew for each specific order. The idea is to allow cost effective production even for low volume or high variance products. Such a factory requires a more flexible logistics, where robots are a natural choice. The RCLL provides a testbed and benchmark of a comprehensible and yet meaningful size for such a system. We see the RCLL in a larger context as a central — but by no means exclusive — requirement for modern manufacturing industries. It focuses on research questions about task level planning and scheduling, automation in an industrial production workflow, and multi-robot system integration. It is meant to spawn interest in industry for current robotics research and to provide a benchmarking domain for such applications.


For their 4th installment in our Wedding Month series for photographers, Chris & Allie Bartelski of The Reason are sharing their tried and true tips for acing difficult wedding reception lighting situations. In this 10 minute video, they share the equipment, camera settings, lighting techniques, and schedules they use to make sure they capture every heartfelt moment as it really happens.
Oh yeah… and did we mention they're sharing these tips from an ACTUAL wedding reception? Watch and share!
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Thanks for the great tips!!!! Ive been getting into wedding photography and really been having a hard time with lighting during the reception. As a newbie, what lighting system would you suggest other than the on camera speed flash, if i can't afford one such as what you used in the beginning of the video. I also find myself changing the settings a lot from shot to shot with my SB900, soI know I am doing something wrong. Any suggestions for me.
Ill be contacting via your website as you suggested. Thanks again!!
This is great, I really need this. I am helping my friend for her upcoming wedding. Thanks for sharing.
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