Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, wishing on a Falling Star (don't believe I've ever seen one) all have one thing in common: we've all believed in them until maturity or reality burst our bubble. So what about God, His son Jesus the Christ, the Holy Spirit, Heaven, Hell, Satan—these depictions that had accompanying stories that affected my behavior until peers and my own curiosity dismissed them as perhaps more tall tales? Peers influenced me, curiosity and independence got the best of me, and now I'm back in church. What's stopping me from making a mess of my life again?
The time comes in the life of a churchgoer when he or she must decide whether they'll remain in that status or become a disciple, a follower and learner of Jesus Christ. It is the time when he or she will stop believing in God and believe God. There are three things we should have in order to make this transition, so that we can be led by the Spirit of God and not only witness His glory, but also accomplish the greater works of God in our time.
The first thing you must have to believe God is an Experience with Him. Saul persecuted all those who followed the "heretical" teachings of Jesus, until Christ revealed himself to Saul on the Damascus Road. Saul was blinded during that encounter by the light that was upon him, and he heard Jesus ask him why Saul was persecuting him. Through this experience Saul, who received the name of Paul and was empowered by the Holy Spirit to teach and establish order in the Church, declared that although he was never in the company of Jesus' twelve disciples, he "worked harder than any of them." (I Corinthians 15:8-10, NRSV) Had it not been for this personal encounter, we would not have his letters of testimony, many of which were selected for the canon of our Bible (but when I meet Paul in Heaven, I'm sure I won't be the first to tell him how difficult he made it for women in ministry because of I Timothy 2:12).
If we're just sitting in the pew and the teachings of the Bible have never been practiced, if we're praying and never hear the voice of the Holy Spirit directing or selecting us to be of service, or correcting us when we're wrong, then perhaps you're just going along with what the preacher says. God wants us to take what the preacher declares and receive it as the Word of God and do what He says do. When we see that some of our prayers are being answered, no matter how small or great; when you endure seasons of adversity until peace is restored (and sometimes peaceful co-existence), when temptations are presented that are a quick fix to something you know God wants you to develop patience so you know that He can work things out through you or for you, then you can say with assurance that "I know that God can because He did it for me." We can't say we know God based on someone else's experience; He wants each of His children to know Him for themselves.
The next thing we need to do to show God that we believe Him is Expression. This is when we delight in worshipping and praising God whether corporately or privately. Many people aren't comfortable with Christians who are "demonstrative". Yet there are Psalms that instruct the readers to shout, clap, leap, dance, play instruments skillfully—all these commands allow us to express our adoration to the One we are in relationship with, who "inhabits the praises of His people" (Psalm 22:3). When believers praise, we reflect with gratitude on the goodness of God in our lives; we also anticipate with excitement our future victories and blessings. As we enter worship, it is an intimate time of showing love and adoration to God for who He is, not because of what He's done.
"Evidence, evidence, do you have the evidence?
Evidence, evidence, can they put you away?
Are the virtues of Christ obvious in your life? Do others notice that "something different" about you? Are His sayings your sayings? Are your actions and decisions based on the teachings and commandments of the One who has called and ordained you? If so you have the basic essentials that are needed in order to understand "the breadth and length and height and depth (of Christ)." Having these three elements allows us to be genuinely joined and committed to God and not just "dating" Him until the next thrilling thing comes along.
Thank you for the contemporary revelation that I truly believe will be a blessing to everyone else that will read and receive, thank you for this insightful message.
God Bless and Be Blessed AMEN.
It was truly a blessing and privilege to read such impact full words. But I will say this, the experience aspect never leaves as some may come to deter, hinder and even convince you that there is no GOD, but you have already tasted his goodness.
The expression, that GOD, looks to exhibit from his believer is essential and crucial to the life of every believer but I know that there are times of weakness that every believer goes through that has to be overcome by the expression of worship, praise and joy. The times when you are unable to be in house can be detrimental If prayer and study is not being utilized to remain intacted with his spirit. Do you think it is at all possible to remain strong in mind, body, and spirit without being in his house?
I love GOD but I do feel far from him at times because I am not in his house.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Awesome read! I am encouraged!


Home > CULTURE > CELEBRITIES > Ariana Grande's Tattoo 7 Rings"七輪": Meaning and What Does Japan Say About It?!
Ariana Grande's New tattoo is a hot topic recently and Japanese people are also gossiping about it.
Her two Japanese characters 七輪 (ShichiRin) on the palm of her hand had appeared on her Instagram, however instead of spelling out the word "7 rings", it became "Small BBQ Grill" due to an ink error.
The American singer, songwriter and actress, Ariana Grande was born on 26th of June, 1993 in Florida.
She started her career in 2008 in a Broadway Musical called 13. Her debut album"Yours Truly", was released in 2013 and debuted in the US Billboard 200 album chart as number one. The album was mainly influenced by 60s doo-wop and 90s R&B.
Grande's vocal range was compared to Mariah Carey`s and she has won 3 MTV Europe Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards, had 6 nomination for Grammy, two music video awards and is currently one of the most influential people in the world.
On January 29, Grande posted a picture with her new tattoo on Instagram.
The tattoo Ariana Grande made to commemorate her new album has become breaking news all over the world, including Japan.
However, after fans pointed out that 七輪 is different than 七つの指輪(Nanatsu no yubiwa-7 rings) and it actually means "Japanese BBQ", she deleted her posts.
After fans pointed it out she tweeted that she left out "つの指" that should've been between because it was too painful.
She went to fix the tattoo, but again, it didn't turn out too well as it became "Japanese BBQ finger".
But hey, maybe that is what she was going for?
People criticized her saying that "Getting a Kanji tattoo without understanding its meaning means she doesn't really respect the Japanese culture".
In reply to the criticism, Ms. Grande said that all her actions come from love and respect and she embraces any advice, saying thanks to her fans.
On the 30th, she released a photo with her revised tattoo that now had the kanji for "finger" and a heart symbol included.
What does Japan say about it?
The official Twitter account of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee(Tokyo 2020) showed an unexpected reaction to her tattoo.
They couldn't stay quiet when they saw her post,so they replied 「七輪じゃなくて…」/"Not Shichirin.."(Not Small charcoal grill) regarding Grande's new tattoo with a picture that looked like Ariana's, but had the Kanji for Olympics instead of "Japanese BBQ" written on it.
The picture with a hand and the kanji for Olympics 五輪 (Gorin), kanji that look similar to 七輪(Shichirin) was sent in response to Grande.
The post was retweeted by many people becoming a big fuss in Japan.
Also, various replies such as "She says she loves Japan so is rude towards Ariana", "I find it really funny " , "It seems she is affected about it, so at least don't tag her".
The fans seem to side with Ariana here in Japan and most appreciate the fact that she is interested in the Japanese culture.
Japanese language can be difficult and even some people in Japan find it hard dealing with Kanji.
Also, as she already seems affected by this matter, I believe that people should be a bit more understanding.
What is your opinion? Comment it below and share your thoughts with us.
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Daily wage labourer Krishna Rai is reeling under severe financial hardship as frequent strikes in his area result in market shutdowns and road blockades.
"What are poor people like me supposed to do? How can we survive if this situation goes on?" asked Rai, frustrated over the impact of the ongoing strikes on poor Nepalese like him – most of whom depend on subsistence income to support their families.
Rai travelled for more than 12 hours by bus to Kathmandu from Jhapa District, nearly 400km southeast of the capital, where he hoped for a regular income as a labourer on a new housing complex.
However, between 1 July and 8 August, the economy and daily lives have been disrupted by more than 20 strikes and road blockades in various parts of the Himalayan nation by 10 different groups - including armed groups, political parties, student unions, the business community, medical workers, transport associations and indigenous ethnic organisations, according to daily media reports.
Since January there have been more than 100 strikes by 20 different groups.
Most groups stage a strike for a day or two, while others last for up to two weeks in a row – raising serious concerns among local and international aid workers over their impact on health services, food supplies and livelihoods of local communities.
Among the worst to affect civilians was a 13-day strike in western Nepal, organised by the Kailali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) to end the transport syndicate system, imposed by the Seti-Mahakali Truck Operators' Association.
Despite a ban imposed by the Nepalese government in 2001, the practice continues, inhibiting free and competitive transport business, says the KCCI.
From 12-25 July, the strike seriously affected most of the hill regions in the far west and mid-west, preventing food supplies, medicine, materials and other necessary commodities from reaching their destinations, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Thousands of residents were stranded, patients were deprived of medical services and a severe shortage of medicines was experienced in certain remote districts, which are often at high risk of disease outbreaks due to the advancing monsoon season, the report explained.
In July, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) noted the strikes' impact on the food supply to markets in the far western hills and mountains.
Key transit points were unable to deliver supplies to the food-insecure districts such as Accham, Bajura, and Bajhang because of market closure and depleted stocks.
"Although the strike has ended now, the poor communities are still living with the damage done to them during the period," said Ashok Shrestha, a community health worker in Accham District, nearly 600km northwest of the capital.
Another major strike that crippled the lives and livelihoods of the civilians was called during the same period for nearly 13 days by student unions belonging to the largest political parties in protest at higher transport costs in more than eight districts of west Nepal. Hundreds of people were stranded along the highways while essential supplies were curtailed.
"These strikes will never end as long as the political parties do not work together in consensus to end the ongoing political deadlock," said a government official, who requested anonymity.
The government's presence had been diminishing, especially in the Terai, where most of the strikes have been staged by various armed and non-armed political groups, he added.
Insecurity and political instability have been increasing nationwide, said government officials working at the district level.
Four months since the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, the elected political parties have failed to reach a political consensus to form a new government, resulting in mass unrest throughout the country, explained political analysts.


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There were three street poets in the mid and late 20th century in New York that one might have valued if one walked often through Greenwich Village: Jack Micheline, 'Bama and Tomasso. Some of 'Bama's style is caught in a long playing record issued in the 70s 'Bama would occupy a concave stone area in Washington Square Park, offering his verse in a loud voice. Jack Micheline would take over a street. His favorite corner was Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue. Tomasso would operate out of door fronts of apartment houses. He would begin his street act by attracting a crowd singing some old song that sounded as if he had heard it first in a dive bar in 1905. Then once the crowd gathered he would offer his poetry. None of it was written down;when he read; like all street poets he presented all by memory.
Tomasso was always dressed in black He had a black suit, a white shirt, a tie, and looked on his way to a local funeral. He was slight, looked very old Italian, a living relic from old time New York slum taverns from the turn of the last century. He wore an ancient fedora hat. He had wisps of white hair but was otherwise bald. He seemed not only old but ageless. There was something iconic about his appearance, as if he were a ghost from a time in New York that nobody alive could remember.
Tomasso's initial songs were wailing plaints delivered in a loud husky voice that sounded as if he were recalling a world from tavern enclaves he had attended eighty years ago. He haunted his audience like a ghost with some murky unfinished business His poem ere often rhymed ballads about his personal life, many of which were nonstrategic or critical of the rambling life he had lived. One garnered that these were tales of his prior life; they gave some sense of who he was from these long chants.
Tomasso evidently had either gown up in Greenwich Village or a place close to it but most of his large family now resided in New Jersey. They didn't like him very much. He had if one were to credit hi poetry spent much time in the Village. He had apparently was sometimes in its homosexual niches but was not one who himself cultivated that carnal taste.
He was always alone. He spent much of his time Bowery bars an had a place he lived in on Th rid Avenue close to the Bowery. He had the street wariness of somebody who had livid a rough urban life. It might have taken bit of time for some to look beyond the urban iconry and to realize that Tomasso was very smart, was well reed, I think from spending a good deal of time in public libraries, was a performer whose intelligence and careful choice of ordinary language made him stand out among any street performers or poetry spa habitues. Many poetic street performers have lots of charisma but lack the words that might carry their effusions . Tomasso didn't lack for language. He chose an impressionistic vocabulary that at once mimicked old time street ballads in 19t century bars but a rhetoric that was never burdened with cliches or sentimental posture. His verse was only superficially a seeming confession of hunger for intimacy or calls for social justice as many of those old ballads had been; he gave them a darkness and nihilism his models didn't have nor aim for.
Doing any street entertainment is not easy. One has to be louder than the street noise. Most people aren't aware of how noisy the streets are until they try to perform on them. even if one works the subways the sound echoes from the walls; one doesn't have that ally on the street. Then one has to have an immediate sensational act to entice people to stop to listen to one's offerings. It's hard on the voice if one is chanting a poem or singing. Tomasso could meet all these difficulties with ease
Tomasso's favorite doorways were further down on Sixth Avenue south of the Cage where the basketball plyers had their niche on that varied boulevard. He could count on a crowd that walked in the warmer weather from Houston Street to Fourteenth Street. .As hard as it is to work as street performer one is independent in a way show business never is when it is doing an act within some hall. If one is working in a bar or concerto hall somebody has to pay rent for the site, has to have chairs for an audience to site, usually has a bar n which the customers who may love sobriety are encouraged to drink or perhaps order a sandwich, is harassed by the Mafia and building inspectors, is probably always behind on paying the electric bill. Street performers don't have to deal with any of this run of trouble. It's a rough business. Afterward one sticks out one's hat to an audience, collects the untaxed money and walks on into the night.
Street poets are iconic in appearance. Jack Micheline let on that he was a natural bum, had rode the rials, was part of the scrambling bottom world of the populace. Actually he was born a middle class Jew whose name was not Micheline . He had developed in circles that fell there was sanctity n being part of the masses. Since the bottom world really has no locale he was as much at home in San Francisco as well as New York. 'Bama was a Black man whose work usually revolved around the difficulties of being Black in a White society. he was angry but amusing on this dour subject. He had a weathered look as if he had been around the block in some diverse lowdown places. Tomasso had a formality neither of these other two poets aimed for.
Tomasso also read at some poetry spas and attended some of the readings I ran back in the 80s. He didn't vary his act. Since he was nothing like any of the other readers he was always sensational as a performer there. I got to know him a little bit. He felt isolated from his large Italian family but he didn't seek out friends or allies. Like most poets he was a natural loner.. He worked when he wanted to ork. He went to places when he wanted to be there. I never heard him talk about holding down a job. He didn't have to report to any boss. If he had a melancholy it was a sadness he had chosen to cultivate. He certainly didn't affect the fey elegance of many Bohemian poets. He seemed like a sexton in a funeral parlor, not a poet. He was an autodidact original who had developed a singular style out of models that had nothing to do with any movement of more conventional poetry from formal to free verse. He was rooted culturally in Village and Bowery life. His audience could be anybody who was equally at home in such varied poetic realms.
One could take in the surface of Tomasso had put him in a niche as a relic, a Village icon from the hoary past, or one could notice how carefully and intelligently wrought his verse always was. Off the stage in conversation he was quiet; he picked his words carefully with some self scrutiny. His table talk was always polite.
It might be easy post facto to speculate on the mechanical forces that created Tomasso. He had come as he said from a large extended Italian family who were never loathe to speak their mind or take up some truculence if it suited them. He had found acceptance as a stranger among strangers in the Village and the Bowery. He had learned to trust himself in a lair of false counselors most of whom were well meaning but who wanted him to be less feisity than he was. Yet there were many sch people; there was only one Tomasso. The external world may have influenced him but it only produced one of him. He was not part of a common harvest but a singularity.
When Tomasso died there was no mention of his demise in any paper. Only a few people in the poetry world who valued him noted that he was gone. I don't know what happened to his work. He probably never wrote much of it down . I might have some of the few extant samples of it because I videotaped many of my later poetry readings I produced. The prospect of oblivion never bothered him. He had always ben used to it. In a way it fed his persona. He was a personality who thrived in a world of indifference.
Tomasso courted oblivion. He felt that being a person, a mortal in the world, was inherently opposed to massive forces in the cosmos of disinterest in any humanism. A part of him wanted to be as unimportant as the world found him to be. The quest to be jetsam "to be silent and exult" as Yeats put it, was not successful in Tomasso because hew also wanted to to offer his life and culture to all, even to strangers,maybe even especially to them. I writing this brief memoir of him I'm aware that it assumes that Tomasso was important. He was at lest more important to me than somebody who did nothing, reflected not at all, found some unobtrusive means to extend a concrete absurdity while waiting for death.
It takes effort and arduous wrestling with language to create poetry. Tomasso not only did that but memorized all his work to offer it in the most optimal way. I don't think he wrote any bad poem I ever heard. It means that the part of Tomasso that rebelled against his sense of the world's indifference was at least some of the time in charge of his destiny.
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I only met Carl Sandburg once, briefly; I can't say that I had any more personal experience of him beyond that an evening I spent in 1958 at the University Of Michigan at which he entertained us with songs mostly. He was playing the circuit of 50s celebrities of that time along with by then the slightly senile and vacuous John Crowe Ransom, the startling Alan Watts, and young, electric brilliant Karl Stockhausen.
Beyond that I heard many stores of Sandburg's rather extended stay at his Brooklyn apartment told to me by Norman Rosten. Many of these tales are recounted by Norman in his Milleresque novel Over and Out; the don't have to be repeated by me. I am writing this very partial and indirect portrait out of much more deduction than the sane personal evidence I have of him but I think I might have something to say about him that hasn't been said.
I had admired Sandburg's poetry very much in college though of course nobody in any of my classes mentioned his name anymore than they would talk casually of Beelzebub or Moloch. As a bard Sandburg works squarely in the tradition of Whitman but his rhetoric was leaner, very physical, sometimes muted and tragic. He had began as an anarchist journalist in Chicago and wrote some of his famous short poems marveling at a city that was the bog butcher of the world. Whitman didn't go to slaughterhouses and praise them for a wild energy; there was a raw Chicago spirit in this man of such magical gifts and carefully honed verse. Sandburg had garnered a reputation in the newspapers because of his biography of Lincoln in several volumes and his sales for later long poems of populist verse like The People Yes. His poems about Chicago were anthologized in volumes of American poetry. Sandburg was a great talent and a masterful writer; he certainly deserved all the nation from the book world he got. He adorned his career with some singing of American folk songs while playing the guitar; one heard these home style performances on records. It was also very canny of him to move into the Lincoln geography at a time when direct social activism was losing its secure base in America; it wasn't just a stratagem. Lincoln was a man born in a log cabin.
One afternoon in 1958 I sat in an auditorium in Ann Arbor waiting for Sandburg to appear, hoping that he would be as wonderful as he seemed to be. Sandburg came out after a moment, a wiry man of middle height dressed in dungarees and plaid shirt like a farmer. He went through his repertoire of American folk chestnuts with muted vigor. "I know I';m not a great guitarists and singer," he said. "I just like to pay the songs."
Of course he was performing for us much as Einstein might have shown up to play a Bach Sonata, there not for his violin playing but that somehow the music would have given us some token of the soul of the man who had been such a mathematical genius. Einstein never did make that tour. Sandburg probably picked up some needed money as he ran these shows from college town to college town. His books probably weren't selling in great quantity; he probably didn't make any large lucre from this North Carolina goat farm where he was living. These tours were easy work and Sandburg seemed honestly to love making music. Sandburg was really a Midwesterner and journalist who had spent much of his early life in cities but we didn't ask to many questions about this man's authenticity. I enjoyed the show for very shallow reason. Sandburg looked exactly as he did in his pictures. I was getting a sense of a poet who was by them a piece of Americana.
A few hours afterwards Sandburg was ushered across the street to the Michigan Union where he was asked to hang out with some of the folk singers we had at the school. Many of them were virtuosi on the guitar and banjo; quite a few of them were Oakland singers as well. Sandburg came into the cafeteria, took one adsmoid look at this coterie of young folkies, frowned, and abruptly left for his hotel room. Why he did I don't know. Sandburg might have been tired, could have felt much older than this crew, and perhaps after two hours of playing American icon didn't want to go through that routine anymore that day. In any event the Michigan, no less unauthentic than he was, certainly felt rejected and were disappointed.
About thirty years later I was sitting over coffee in Brooklyn Heights with Norman Rosten. He began telling me some of his vintage Carl Sandburg stories. Norman had connected with Sandburg as an older poet, had invited him to Brooklyn to enjoy a month or two in the city. Norman was expecting more or less the benign icon I had very superficially seen in passing in Michigan in 1958. "He was a true crack," Norman said. "All he wanted to talk about was how goat's milk cured everything. He brought up gallons of it from North Carolina; the apartment smelled of it for a few months. Mostly he wanted to sleep with my wife. He would chase her all over the house. I didn't know what to say to him. On one level it was comical; he was an old man by then and couldn't sprint after women all that quickly. It embarrassed me, of course."
At that moment I realized that Norman had seen a Carl Sandburg that was a long way from Abraham Lincoln. I wondered how many other authors I thought I knew something about were very different spirits behind their public masks.
It the end it didn't matter. What lasts in poets is their poetry. Sandburg is one of our great poets. If we ever met Aeschylus or Shakespeare they might show up with a wagon load of pigs and spray everyone in sight with skunk oil. After they left, once they passed over the horizon and were gone with all their bladders filled with skunk oil, we would still value their poetry.
While I was in Sandburg's sainted presence as a young man I thought cynically as a genuine demi-god he was making a college tour, picking up the posh guerdons of the day like a professional. Tomorrow he might have to live off the goats. Now over half a century I am in my old age, knowing that after a time of lust and ambition a man enters a theater of history in which he is more or a mote than a prince ion infinity and eternity. I suspect that Sandburg was leaving as a kind of Jacksonian message in his seemingly simple presentation. He had played very simple folk songs we had all heard, chestnuts with simple tunes we didn't have to struggle to enjoy; he didn't overwhelm us with virtuosity and spiky obbligatos on the guitar either. I think he might in a covert way have been pitching for a simpler and homier view of Art as a way of touching millions of common people.
It was the time of an elitist reaction to popular and populist Art in which craft and complexity in poetry as well as music was valued for its own sake, detachment was positioned by our savants as a sign of intelligence, he himself as a poet and thinker was not only out of fashion but in danger of being called some kind of treasonous Red.
It's no wonder that by 1959 he claimed a mystical affinity to Abraham Lincoln, himself criticized by Henry Adams as a common man; Sandburg had also wisely wrapped the American flag around himself in defense. It's also possible that he took the tack of not reading his post-Whitmanesque verse but putting himself with these folk songs right at the center of American common culture, defining it as what it was as well as giving himself a small barony in it.
Sandburg was right to take the refuge he did on a goat farm in North Carolina and pen a five volume biography of Abraham Lincoln when he did. I don';t know whether Sandebrg ever made a liiving from herding goats but at leslt he woend the land under him and hadh penty to eat and drink He ws also justifieid in find some resoancnes between Lincocn and his own charcater. Both weer self educated men from the Midwest who were champions of the populace. Whether anyone can live up to the icon that gathers around them like a carnival costume when they become a public commodity, though if they are a poet they aren't quite profitable, is another matter. Sandburg didn't invent American free verse as Walt Whitman did but he was one of the masters of it over many decades.. He was initially an anarchist who spent more time in Chicago than he wanted to remember that much. Yet of course the public image of anyone who is known at all is always simpler than the poet himself.
I was amused to hear Norman Rosten's stories of the real Carl Sandburg over many lunches. Norman pt many of them into his novel: Over and Out. In person Sandburg was even in his old age a randy fellow who chased Norman's wife Hedda around the house when Sandburg stayed in Brooklyn Heights as their guest. He exuded an odor of goat. When he visited people he usually brought them goat milk and cheese, more than they ever needed. If I were to try to have an accurate notion of who Carl Sandburg was, I'd take Norman's view of him more than my own more brief and less intimate experience with Sandburg back in the late 50s.
Sometimes it takes half a century to get a message from a poet when both bard and listener are in the middle of their lives; it is a miracle when one gets them at all.

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June Is Deadliest Month Of Afghan War
Doug Mataconis · Friday, June 25, 2010 · No comments
Another grim milestone:
KABUL (AFP) – The deaths of another four NATO troops in an accident in Afghanistan made June the deadliest single month for US-led foreign forces in nearly nine years of conflict, according to an AFP tally Thursday.
The grim landmark followed the sacking of NATO's commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, which was greeted with dismay in Kabul where Afghan officials and foreign diplomats praised his efforts to reshape the war.
A total of 79 foreign troops have died so far this month as a result of the conflict in Afghanistan, according to an AFP tally based on statistics on the independent icasualties.org website.
The record eclipsed the previous bloodiest month for NATO troops last August, when 77 soldiers were killed. Since the US-led invasion in late 2001, around 1,870 foreign troops have been killed.
The latest dead were four British troops who were killed in a vehicle crash in the southern province of Helmand, the Ministry of Defence said, bringing the overall British death toll to 307.
The US military has warned that casualties will inevitably mount as foreign forces build up their campaign to oust militants from the southern province of Kandahar, a hotbed of bombings, assassinations and lawlessness.
Worth remembering while we're focusing on who said what to whom over a few Bud Light Limes.
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About Doug Mataconis
Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed for too young in July 2021.
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I've been more or less wrestling with my humidity for over a month now. I received my first humidor as a gift and I took the time to break it in, season it, yada yada before I put smokes in it. The humidity has always been high. I was not able to calibrate the analog hygrometer because it is built into the box. During the break in period the hygrometer read around 80-82%. After break in it lowered to about 78% after I stocked it with some smokes. It is a 50-capacity humidor and had about 20 smokes in it. One day recently I noticed mold growing on one of the smokes. I waged war. I took my humidifier out to dry a bit, unwrapped the smokes that still had cello on them, and inspected the humidor for additional nasties (mold) or other problems. While leaving the humidor lid open and humidifier out for a while, the hygrometer still read around 62%. Can the hygrometer be that inaccurate?? I live in South Florida so I know it's a bit more humid here but that is rediculous. Now, with all the cello off my smokes and humidifier almost dry as a bone, the hygrometer reads around 74%. I've ordered another 15 smokes to help absort the humidity and maintain balance. I'm just wondering if the hygrometer is that screwed up and I'm actually starving my smokes for humidity. I guess I'm going to have to get a digital to know for sure. Anyone else have similar problems with the humidy being too high?
analogue hygrometers are only worth their value as scrap metal. I've never seen one that was accurate. Go to radio shack and buy a digital one, calibrate it and record what its off by and write it on the device. Shouldnt be off by more than a few notches up or down. Then you will know you have some accurate tools. Now, if you are seeing mold building up, you might actually have an over humidity problem. do the cigars smoke well?
Thanks for the input. Yeah, I know mold is a classic sign that there's too much humidity in the humidor. That's one thing that made me wonder that the hydrometer was in fact accurate. It may actually be 78% humidity if mold has started to grow on one of my smokes. Yeah, the cigars smoke well.....they burn even and draw fine, although there was one or two where the wrapper started to curl outward halfway through the smoke. I don't know what that means.
I also live in So. Fla. so I know what your feeling. To start with I totally agree with jihiggs about getting rid of the analog hygrometer.
The question that comes to mind is what type of device are you using for humidity? I'm using Heartfelt 65% RH beads for my humidors and I have an average reading of 69%.
By the way....where abouts are you in So Fla?
good advice...if you use the 65% or even the 60% beads...i would just put them in there dry at first...let them soak up and even out your humidor. Also, def. go with a digital hygrometer, but make sure you test calibrate it...most..and i mean most digital hygrometers are off...the only accurate one i have ever seen is the prometheus. Note the difference on your digital and mark it on some tape or something and affix it to your hygrometer. After a while, you will find you can give your hygrometers away if you use enough beads...they work exactly as they say they do.
....where abouts are you in So Fla?
Port Saint Lucie. I talked to a couple guys at the SmokeInn this weekend and they said temperature can also have an effect on the humidity, the hygrometer, and/or mold growth. The home office is where I keep my humidor and it does tend to be the warmer than most of the other rooms. I moved the humidor to one of the cabinets in the living room as it is cooler there. I'm still going to get a digital, calibrate it, and see where the humidity is at. I've had the humidifier out for 4 days now and the humidity has been steady at 71%....or so says the hygrometer. I read a post where someone mentioned the dollar bill test. Before I do it, is the bill suppose to slide easily through the crack or no? I assume that it is.
The more resistance you have when pulling out the bill the better the seal.
I read a post where someone mentioned the dollar bill test. Before I do it, is the bill suppose to slide easily through the crack or no? I assume that it is.
You would be hard pressed to convince me to rub a bacteria infested dollar on my humidor. Just do a drop test...lift your lid up 2 to 3 inches and drop it...you should hear a whoosh accompanied by a soft landing...if you hear a wood on wood hard landing...you have a seal that is too loose. weather stripping comes in handy for loose seals.
You would be hard pressed to convince me to rub a bacteria infested dollar on my humidor.
Oops. Too late. I did the dollar test last night in a few places and my humidor started pulling off the stand before the lid would release the grip on the bill. With so much emphasis on a good seal, how is a humidor supposed to breathe? I've read countless times how a humidor needs to slowly circulate air so where's the fine line for a good seal but letting your smokes breathe?


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Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party on Sunday said the much feared Sambisa forest will be turned into agricultural land to aid production if elected as President.
The former Anambra State governor who stated this while addressing supporters in Kano State during his presidential campaign also promised to secure and free the nation from parallel government by criminals.
"I promise to secure and protect the people of Nigeria. We will ensure that the enemy and criminals are not stronger than the government. We will have one government. And they will not have space in it. We will secure Nigerians. We will unite Nigeria."
While promising to convert the Sambisa forest to agricultural land and turn the country from a consumption nation to production nation as well as boost its export, he said "Nigeria is not producing anything. They tell you the rate of exchange is N700 to this, it is not true, when we stop stealing it will come down.
"We use to export before but today we are hungry. How can we be hungry? We have the land. The uncultivated land in the north is what I want to cultivate.
"They said the Sambisa forest is our problem because there is a problem in Borno State, no we will convert it to agricultural land. The Sambisa forest is 60,000 square kilometres of land, Israel is 22.1 square kilometres, so the Sambisa forest is two times size of Israel, we cannot allow it to be like that. It won't cause trouble for us instead it will be a source of production for us. We can no longer continue. The total export of Nigeria last year, a country of 200 million living on 923,000 square kilometres is 18.9 trillion, if you convert it by 650 is about 30 billion. We cannot take it. Nigeria will increase in export, we will turn this place from agriculture to industrialization and export.
He also said he has what it takes to lead the North out of poverty.
"Let me assure you that I will solve the problem of the North. I will take them out of pov3rty. I know what to do with the mass uncultivated lands in the North.
"Kano you see today is a ghost of what Kano used to be. Kano has now become a place you breed hunger and poverty. We want to move the country from consumption to production,"
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Platinum Collection Genesis
No Son of Mine
I Can't Dance
Jesus He Knows Me
Hold On My Heart
Invisible Touch
Throwing It All Away
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Second Home By the Sea
Illegal Alien
Paperlate
Calling All Stations
Keep It Dark
Turn It On Again
Many Too Many
Your Own Special Way
A Trick of the Tail
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Counting Out Time
Carpet Crawlers
The Cinema Show
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Supper's Ready
℗ 2004 Philip Collins Limited, Anthony Banks Limited, Michael Rutherford Limited under exclusive license to Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Wedge1964 , 05/16/2009
Good collection of Genesis
Now, I am a die-hard fan of Gensis, both Gabriel-era and Collins-era. This a very good collection of both times, the hits they had with Phil, and the hits with Gaberiel still on-board. The only problems with this collection is the abcence of more Gaberiel-era songs. Sure they have "The Knife" and "Supper's Ready" but there are many more hits they had with Gaberiel! And the collection needs to be balenced. If I was iTunes, I would release "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" album for download, and then make an iTunes Essentials with all; and I mean ALL the hits with Gaberiel in it including songs from "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway".
PinkFloydManiac1973 , 08/15/2009
Good for New Listeners - But Not All the Best Stuff
I'm a huge fan of progressive rock in general, especially Genesis (my third favorite band). I own most of their albums and have heard pretty much everything they have made. That being said, I'm going to like a lot of songs that you wouldn't typically find on a compilation album, a few CD's of their "best songs". The reason for this is that most compilation albums gear themselves towards what songs were the most popular, not necessarily what were the best songs. This compilation album is good at introducing a person who has never listened to Genesis before to their music, but it suffers from the aforementioned problem. I would like to outline, album by album, what songs work, what songs should have been on there, and what should have not been on here.
1. "Trespass"
"The Knife" is the only track from this album on here, and an important song it is. The only addition I would make would either be "Looking for Someone" or "White Mountain", the other two stand-out tracks from the 1970 LP.
2. "Nursery Cryme"
Whoever compiled this compilation did right by including "The Musical Box", but left off the other two important songs from this record, "Return of the Giant Hogweed" and "The Fountain of Salmacis". The addition of either would be an improvement.
3. "Foxtrot"
"Supper's Ready", a 23-minute epic, may seem like more than enough from one album, but the man did wrong by not including "Watcher of the Skies", an important and popular song from the Gabriel years. "Get 'Em Out By Friday" is also fantastic, but that is less important for inclusion than "Watcher..."
4. "Selling England By the Pound"
Great picks from this album. The only addition to improve the set might be "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight".
5. "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"
After having listened to this album a few years after having heard the selections on "The Platinum Collection", I was amazed at how much they left out. The songs on here are some of the best, but there are a few more songs that MUST be added to make the third CD complete: "In the Cage", "The Colony of Slipperman", "Back in N.Y.C.", "Fly On a Windshield".
6. "A Trick of the Tail"
I have to say that, for this album, I am pretty much satisfied with what was chosen. All three songs are excellent and give you a feel for the first post-Gabriel album. If you wanted one more song I would say "Squonk" would be the best choice. I have a feeling that this and "Dance On a Volcano" were omitted because "Los Endos" is partly a reprise of both songs.
7. "Wind and Wuthering"
Scrap the sappy "Your Own Special Way" and add "One for the Vine".
8. "...And Then There Were Three..."
I'm fine with the selections here, but I might have replaced "Undertow" with "The Lady Lies". Or I would have put both on there.
9. "Duke"
I really have nothing bad to say about these selections either, as they cover this very important and awesome album. The only addition I would make is "Man of Our Times".
10. "Abacab"
Very flawed indeed. Both songs are good choices, but they aren't enough. Add "No Reply at All", "Man On the Corner", and "Dodo/Lurker".
11. "Genesis"
I've never really liked "Illegal Alien", so I might have replaced that with "Taking It All Too Hard" or "Just a Job to Do", but it is a fun song, if not a necessarily a good one. The band even said that it was a joke.
12. "Invisible Touch"
This is where you really see the pop age of Genesis come into play, and some of the songs start to get a little too sappy and love-oriented. For that reason, I would have omitted "Throwing It All Away" and "In Too Deep" and put "Domino" on there instead. The other songs are excellent choices, though I think I would have used the full version of "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" instead of the single edit.
13. "We Can't Dance"
Get rid of "I Can't Dance" and "Hold On My Heart", put in "Fading Lights" or "Driving the Last Spike", and the selections are perfect.
14. "Calling All Stations"
This is the only Genesis album I haven't listened to, and I have not heard good things about it. I do think the title track is a decent song, but since I know nothing about the other tracks, I can't make any recommendations.
You'll always have a situation where people are worried about making the CD's too long. I can understand that, but if you want to give the best representation of a band, you have to take that risk. If you're not sure about Genesis, by all means buy this album to get a feel for them, as it is better than "Turn It On Again: The Hits". But if you like the band and buy the studio albums, be sure to watch for the tracks I mentioned and see what you were missing!
GadisaDJ , 09/02/2009
Embracing this requires a suspension of cynicism. It's worth it.
An excellent collection of the music that industry produced through the peak of records sales across the world. Genesis is more than cheese puff pop. There is a satisfying depth to the earlier recordings from the late 70s to 1986. Make no mistake, the hits are here too and if you want to go, they will bring you back to another time.
More By Genesis
Turn It On Again: The Hits (The Tour Edition) [Remastered]
Genesis (Remastered)
Turn It On Again: The Hits
Duke (Remastered)
Peter Gabriel 1: Car (Remastered)
Close to the Edge (Deluxe Edition)
For a While
Spectral Mornings (Bonus Edition)
Thick As a Brick (Remastered)
The Best of Focus: Hocus Pocus


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A woman refused to be served by a black female employee at a restaurant in Paranaíba, located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul on Monday (7). According to information from a source close to the case, the mulher, branca, (woman, white), accompanied by her husband and son, also white, said she preferred to be served by another attendant, pointing to a blonde employee of the establishment. "No. No, no, young lady. I prefer the blonde to serve me," said the customer.
In a conversation with JPNEWS, a witness, who declined to identify herself, said that the employee who was discriminated against did not understand what was happening at the moment, addressing a colleague and asking her to serve the woman instead. After being served by the white, blonde-haired employee, the customer made no further demands.
According to the witness, when paying the bill, the cashier of the establishment who is also white and blonde, disgusted with the situation, aware of the case and in order to challenge the customer, questioned whether the first employee who had served her, in the case the black girl, had treated her badly, and because of this she would have refused to be served by her, the woman replied that it was a matter of taste and that she preferred to be served by the blond attendant. "No. It's just that I preferred to be served by the same blonde," said the woman.
The witness still reports that while she was close and following the fact, she noticed that the girl, the victim of racism was disoriented and didn't understand what had happened. The witness reports that she noticed that the other staff of the establishment was revolted by the situation, but the girl who had been discriminated against preferred not to take any kind of action at the time.
The colleagues asked if the young woman knew the woman and if there was any kind of disagreement between them in the past justifying the action, but she replied that she had never seen the woman, making it clear that the main suspicion would be racism.
Asked if she knew the author of the comment or if her face was familiar, the witness said that she had never seen her family anywhere else in the city either.
"If the situation was revealed and the other clients realized what had happened, surely everyone in the restaurant would be going to the defense of the employee," the source told JPNEWS.
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by Kayla on September 2, 2019, 01:09pm. EST
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Do you remember seeing a random Starbucks coffee cup during the final season of 'Game of Thrones?' It was during episode four (Last of the Starks) fans took notice of the famous and white-and-green cup and asked one another, 'WTF?'
In a new interview, the show's creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have come clean about the coffee-cup mistake. David explains, "I think in Persian rugs it's tradition that you make a little mistake when you're making the rug because only God can do anything perfect, so for us I guess that was just our [mistake]." D.B. then replied, "That's why I put the coffee cup there… a conscious, concerted statement of our imperfection."
And when talking about Emilia Clarke and Kit Harrington's characters, David explained, "We're concentrating so much on Daenerys and Jon Snow that we just didn't see this coffee cup right in the middle. So at first I couldn't believe it, and then it was kind of embarrassment because, 'How did we not see this coffee cup in the middle of the shot?'"
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At least David admits he can now laugh about the coffee cup, "And then, eventually, it was just kind of funny. This one is just a mistake, and it's kind of funny to us now, you know?"
While Sophie Turner chatted with Conan O'Brien and admitted to initially blaming Emilia, "The coffee cup was where Kit's chair was. First I blamed it on Emilia, but I don't think Emilia would do that. Kit is lazy and I think he would've done that. It was in front of Kit's chair and then obviously he moved, so this picture was taken and it looked like it was in my seat, but I wasn't there either. It was Kit! It was 100 percent Kit."


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If left untreated repeated attacks can trigger irreversible joint damage and cause defects of other parts by formation of 'tophi' which are swellings in the skin. Even if the severe attack is over medications need to be continued to avoid the next attack.
New research study is taking a look at other drugs to prevent gout. Gout is an uncomfortable swelling of joints brought on by accumulation of uric acid crystals. Uric acid is a regular chemical formed by the breakdown of purines, which in turn are an important component of the human body. Numerous foods include purines specifically seafood and meat.
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Exactly what are the most effective gout home remedies?" a customer once asked me?
I immediately informed him that there are many remedies for gout that have gotten favorable feedback from my clients.
5. Fruity Therapy- Water soluble fiber is extremely beneficial to your health. There are at least 20 reasons to be consuming fruits and veggies. A couple reasons are that some fruits in fact neutralize uric acid and flush uric acid. Fiber is well-known for flushing the body and uric acid is left out from the flush.
4. Vitamin Therapy- Research studies have actually revealed that a deficiency in vitamins such as A, B5 and E are severe factors that can lead to the formation and development of gout symptoms. You must get a quality multi-vitamin as well as supplement specific vitamins if required. We were furnished with numerous points to consist of while blogging about Uric Acid Levels Gout that we were actually lost regarding which to use and which to discard!
However with all the home remedies out there, what are the safest, simplest and most effective remedies for gout?
That may depend upon your situation but usually you can deal with the arthritic pain of gout without ever stepping foot into a healthcare facility.
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2. Your weight- Do you understand what your BMI is? Examining your body mass index can enable you to see exactly what your ideal weight is. You need to constantly attempt to be within 30 pounds. of your ideal weight. Obesity increases the threat of uric acid.
Nevertheless, by treating gout naturally, you can state good bye to the pain and the high uric acid levels which trigger gout.
And in most cases, physicians do not have a response for dealing with the gout causing uric acid.
They just offer clients with pain relieving NSAIDs.
Tips to Decline Uric Acid Levels and Treat Gout Here are some tips we cover in our Gout Home Remedies Report. 1.
Your Diet plan- You need to learn exactly what foods and beverages put you at danger for higher levels of uric acid formation.
Foods that must be gotten rid of are red meats, fish roe, scallops, shellfish, beans, lentils, peas and alcohol.
Regrettably, countless gout sufferers continue to see their medical professional about the arthritis condition that usually impacts the big toe. And after a costly medical professional check out and a more expensive prescription of pain medication, you still do not have a treatment for gout but just a treatment for the pain. We have actually written a funny anecdote on Gout Remedy to make it reads more pleasurable and interesting to you. By doing this you discover there is a funny side to Gout Solution too!
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Why You Ought to Deal with Gout and Not the Pain As a natural health professional, I still routinely see the doctor for check-ups.
But I do believe that physician visits are sometimes extreme.
For instance, it is reported that doctor check outs are greatly increasing in the previous decade.
Some state that we have become the first generation who are allowing medical professionals to examine our health.
Gout is a form of rheumatism that can also result in arthritis. It is a very uncomfortable medical condition that mainly affects men of any ages. Gout can likewise be discovered in women, but mostly those who have actually reached menopause.
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However with Gout, the uric acid develops, types crystals that spill into the blood stream and painfully strikes a joint, normally a great toe but can be other joints too. This post on Www Gout was written with the intent of making it very remarkable to its reader. Just then is a post thought about to have actually reached it's objective.
Take it Easy Using natural home remedy for Gout and its treatment include supplements, diet, herbs and changes to activities of everyday living. Raise the effected joint and rest it as much as possible during severe phases. Using an ice bag can help reduce the discomfort if used in 10-20 minutes sessions every hour approximately. It is not required that only the found out can write about Gout Purine. As long as one ahs a flair for writing, and an interest for getting details on Gout Purine, anybody can write about it.
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Many individuals mistakenly believe that medications such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) are for pain just. Not so. These are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications that treat the source of the pain of Gout-the inflammation. We have used clear and succinct words in this short article on Gout Purine to avoid any misunderstandings and confusions that can be triggered due to hard words. .
Using up diet plan as home remedy for Gout bulletin board of ups and downs. For lower uric acid levels prevent foods such as organ meats (liver, etc.), shellfish, yeast items, alcohol (specifically beer), poultry, and vegetables such as asparagus and mushrooms among others. Another natural home remedy for Gout decide instead for complicated carbs such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and high fiber foods, steering far from high protein and fat.
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From the Kitchen area to the Cabinet Current medical research studies concluded that vitamin and natural supplements are a crucial natural natural home remedy for Gout. Vitamins are effective for a variety of factors. Vitamin C and B complex both assistance break down uric acid (however talk to a physician initially if there is a history of kidney illness). It is constantly much better to use simple English when composing descriptive articles, like this one on Gout Details. It is the layman who might check out such short articles, and if he cannot understand it, what is the point of composing it?
Uric acid is a by-product of a waste emerson college purine, which is formed throughout the natural breakdown of protein in our cells. Preferably, uric acid leaves the body through the urinary system which's that. .
From the Easy Chair to the Cooking area Remembering that uric acid originates from purine, and purine originates from protein yields clues in appropriately managing your arthritis plan as natural home remedy for Gout. Many purine abundant foods are protein abundant and must be avoided in extreme quantities. All sources of purine need to not be left out from the diet totally. Keeping to the point is crucial when writing. So we have to stuck to Gout, and have not wandered much from it to boost understanding.
Let's preface by stating that many bouts of Gout can be avoided by following a couple of basic standards, but the intense discomfort connected with an intense flare-up requires instant medical attention. Remember that a home remedy for Gout is not meant to change recommendations and treatment from a doctor. We take pride in stating that this short article on Gout Treatment is like a gem of our short articles. This short article has been accepted by the public as a most useful post on Gout Solution.
Natural home remedy is mainly being used as treatment. Medicinal plants and herbs have been around for as long as human beings have actually roamed the earth. Through centuries of trial and error, professionals state that we've gotten it down to an art however we continue to discover more about alternative medicine. In seeking a natural home remedy for Gout, we need not look much even more than our houses and grocery stores.
To plan a regimen of natural home remedy for Gout, we need to understand the condition and how it can be affectively treated with natural home remedy. Gout is a result of the accumulation of a chemical called uric acid in the blood stream. We have utilized a mix of seriousness and jokes in this structure on Gout. This is to cheer the state of mind when reading about Gout.
Scrumptious home remedy for Gout is a diet chock filled with red and blue berries, consisting of juicy cherries and strawberries in addition to whole grains, nuts and seeds. Raw fruits and vegetables will assist keep uric acid levels at bay, as will plenty of water. To err is human, to forgive is magnificent. So we would undoubtedly consider you to be divine if you forgive us for any misunderstandings that might arise in this short article on Gout Uric.
Men are mainly affected by gout. Besides the fact that gout is more common in men than women, old studies confirmed by new ones prove that women, if they do develop gout, they only suffer from this disease if they have reached menopause. If a woman has not yet reached menopause, then the chances are she will not develop gout. Other studies on gout patients have shown that this condition mostly affects people who have good financial conditions. Furthermore, gout patients are said to be very intelligent. Some time ago gout was considered to be the wealthy' s disease, because they eating and drinking habits were believed to cause gout. However, recent studies have shown something different. Although rich foods and alcohol are related to gout, they can only cause a gout attack, but they are not the cause of gout. Writing about Information Gout is an interesting writing assignment. There is no end to it, as there is so much to write about it!
Gout attacks sometimes happen without a specific cause, but sometimes the actual causes of a gout attack are known. If a person is overweight, if a person eats meats that are high in purines , if they take medication, such as aspirin or diuretics and if they consume too much alcohol then these factors can cause an attack of gout. Keep your mind open to anything when reading about Gouty Arthritis. Opinions may differ, but it is the base of Gouty Arthritis that is important.
Obesity. Body weight has an impact on the bodies' ability to process uric acid properly, and puts a greater load on your joints. - Medical Conditions. High blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and medicines used to treat such conditions increase the likelihood of developing gout. With people wanting to learn more about Purine, it has provided the necessary incentive for us to write this interesting article on Purine!
Genetics. A family history of gout increases the chance of developing gout by 20 percent. - Gender. Men are much more likely than women to develop gout. We have not actually resorted to roundabout means of getting our message on Excess Uric Acid through to you. All the matter here is genuine and to the point.
Self help! There are a number of things that you can do for yourself to decrease your chance of developing gout, or having a recurrence. I must state however that there is no guaranteed way to prevent a gout attack. Important Disclaimer; Many of the following suggestions are intended to decrease your blood uric acid level. Ultimately, this should be your goal, but a sudden drop in your blood uric acid level, may cause a gout attack. I suggest that all lifestyle changes be made at a moderate pace to decrease the risk. It is the normal style of writers to add additional information with the intention of lengthening the length of an article. However, we have provided a short and concise article with only required information on Purine Intake.
- Alcohol. Excessive consumption of alcohol is believed to inhibit the bodies' ability to dispose of excess uric acid. People are inclined to think that some matter found here that is pertaining to Uric Acid Level is false. However, rest is assured, all that is written here is true!
There is no sure way to determine if you will have gout, until you have your first flare up.
If you have already had a gout attack, you know that you never want to have another one.
There are a number of prescription medications available to treat gout, and you should discuss with your physician what you should take.
Water helps to flush uric acid out of your body. - Lose weight. If you are overweight, losing weight will decrease your uric acid levels. Do not fast, or engage in a rapid weight loss program, because this will actually cause a temporary raise in uric acid levels. We were rather indecisive on where to stop in our writings of Purine Intake. We just went on writing and writing to give a long article.
Uric acid helps protect blood vessel linings and serves as an antioxidant. Uric acid is created when purines are broken down by the body. Purines are found in all the cells of the body, and in virtually all food. Some food sources contain a much higher concentration of purines than all the others. Foods with very high purine levels include: The value of this composition is achieved if after reading it, your knowledge on Purines is greatly influenced. This is how we find out that the meaning of Purines has really entered you!
This question is still up in the air. The quick answer is that hyperuricemia, which is an elevated blood level of uric acid, is responsible for gout. With that said, not all patients with hyperuricemia develop gout, and some patients with gout do not have hyperuricemia. Although it is not clear how hyperuricemia relates to gout, one thing is clear; gout is associated with sudden changes in uric acid levels in the blood. As we got to writing on Gout Attack, we found that the time we were given to write was inadequate to write all that there is to write about Gout Attack! So vast are its resources.
As stated before, alcohol interferes with the body excreting uric acid.
Definitely stay away from alcohol if you are experiencing a gout attack.
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AFTER ONE YEAR About a year later, five of nine patients had no more gout attacks and three had just one attack.
So there was a further decrease in attack frequency overall.
One patient gained weight after the end of the study.
He must have given up on the diet.
He suffered three attacks over three months.
His blood uric acid levels rose with his weight.
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7mg/dL. In a couple of cases it fell by 2 mg/dL and by 5mg/dL respectively. Hyperuricemia, (excess uric acid), which may lead to gout, is reckoned to exist if the UA levels exceed 2 mg/dL (men), and 0 mg/dL (women). The usual UA target in gout treatment is 0 mg/dL (somewhat less in women) because at this level the MSU crystals, formed mainly from uric acid may dissolve. (It is the immune system's response to these crystals, which it regards as foreign bodies, which causes the pain recognizing the symptoms of gout). The information available on Normal Uric Acid is infinite. There just seems to be so much to learn about, and to write about on Normal Uric Acid.
It was about 5.9mg/dL. But we already know that gout can occur in people with normal uric acid levels, so this was not unusual. The completion of this article on Gout Diet was our prerogative since the past one month. However, we completed it within a matter of fifteen days!
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And gout attacks? Results overall were expressed as a median. Before the study, participants had at least two attacks in the preceding four months. Median monthly attacks before the study were After it, attacks fell to The fall in the number of gout attacks occurred in all except one patient. The exception participant had shorter and less severe attacks. Eight of the 13 did not have a gout attack during the four month study period, although as mentioned, they had all had at least two in the previous four months and, as noted above, the median was 1 a month, or one attack a fortnight, (every two weeks). This can be considered to be a valuable article on Uric Acid Levels. It is because there is so much to learn about Uric Acid Levels here.
So a fall of 1.7 mg/dL, given these numbers, is quite significant, although you should note that many gout sufferers have UA levels much higher than 7.2 mg/dL, and some gout sufferers do not have excess uric acid. Using great confidence in ourselves, we endeavored to write such a long article on Natural Gout Treatment. Such is the amount of matter found on Natural Gout Treatment.
This study, based on the Zone diet, did have a positive effect on markers of insulin resistance: triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol) fell. HDL cholesterol ("good" cholesterol) did not fall. But my purpose in this article is mainly to describe its direct effect on uric acid levels and gout attacks. The sources used for the information for this article on Uric Acid Gout are all dependable ones. This is so that there be no confusion in the authenticity of the article.
Were the study patients taking long term medications, such as Allopurinol, for their gout? They were not. They were only taking medications for gout attacks. The study report did not say how much water they drank. Most gout sufferers know that drinking lots of water helps to remove uric acid. In gout treatment there are always caveats. The study was small. Only 13 male gout sufferers. The study lasted just four months, although there were follow-up results after one year (median). The researchers noted a connection between weight loss and a fall in uric acid levels in another study and expected the nutrient proportions (40:30: contributed to the uric acid fall. They thought that the dietary measures caused the desired improvement in insulin sensitivity.
After four months on this diet the effects on uric acid levels and gout attacks were quite impressive. Weight loss and uric acid levels Weight loss over the period was almost 17lbs ( 7kg) i.e. at a rate of about 1lb a week. All but one of the patients lost weight. The median uric acid (UA) fall was 7mg/dL.Another very interesting finding was that a more elevated blood uric acid level at the start of the study, meant a large fall of blood uric acid by the end of it. Uric acid levels normalised in 7 of 12 patients who had raised levels of uric acid (UA) before the study. It was with great relief we ended writing on Allopurinol. There was just too much information to write, that we were starting to lose hopes on it's completion!
The results were sufficiently impressive to give hope and encouragement to any gout sufferer who tries this diet as accurately as possible.
The study was conducted in 1999.
Unfortunately it has not been followed up by a much larger one designed on the same lines.
If conducted, such a study would expand our knowledge of natural gout treatment, perhaps considerably.
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And gout attacks? Results overall were expressed as a median. Before the study, participants had at least two attacks in the preceding four months. Median monthly attacks before the study were After it, attacks fell to The fall in the number of gout attacks occurred in all except one patient. The exception participant had shorter and less severe attacks. Eight of the 13 did not have a gout attack during the four month study period, although as mentioned, they had all had at least two in the previous four months and, as noted above, the median was 1 a month, or one attack a fortnight, (every two weeks). Accept the way things are in life. Only then will you be able to accept these points on Gout Treatment. Gout Treatment can be considered to be part and parcel of life.
7mg/dL. In a couple of cases it fell by 2 mg/dL and by 5mg/dL respectively. Hyperuricemia, (excess uric acid), which may lead to gout, is reckoned to exist if the UA levels exceed 2 mg/dL (men), and 0 mg/dL (women). The usual UA target in gout treatment is 0 mg/dL (somewhat less in women) because at this level the MSU crystals, formed mainly from uric acid may dissolve. (It is the immune system's response to these crystals, which it regards as foreign bodies, which causes the pain and inflammation of gout). Ignorance is bliss they say. However, do you find this practical when you read so much about Gout Sufferer?
So a fall of 1.7 mg/dL, given these numbers, is quite significant, although you should note that many gout sufferers have UA levels much higher than 7.2 mg/dL, and some gout sufferers do not have excess uric acid. Make the best use of life by learning and reading as much as possible. read about things unknown, and more about things known, like about Excess Uric Acid.
His blood uric acid levels rose with his weight. life is short.
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After four months on this diet the effects on uric acid levels and gout attacks were quite impressive. Weight loss and uric acid levels Weight loss over the period was almost 17lbs ( 7kg) i.e. at a rate of about 1lb a week. All but one of the patients lost weight. The median uric acid (UA) fall was 7mg/dL.Another very interesting finding was that a more elevated blood uric acid level at the start of the study, meant a large fall of blood uric acid by the end of it. Uric acid levels normalised in 7 of 12 patients who had raised levels of uric acid (UA) before the study.
Were the study patients taking long term medications, such as Allopurinol, for their gout? They were not. They were only taking medications for gout attacks. The study report did not say how much water they drank. Most gout sufferers know that drinking lots of water helps to remove uric acid. In gout treatment advise for gout are always caveats. The study was small. Only 13 male gout sufferers. The study lasted just four months, although there were follow-up results after one year (median). The researchers noted a connection between weight loss and a fall in uric acid levels in another study and expected the nutrient proportions (40:30: contributed to the uric acid fall. They thought that the dietary measures caused the desired improvement in insulin sensitivity.
The study can be found online if you search "Beneficial effects of weight loss associated with moderate calorie/carbohydrate restriction, and increased proportional intake of protein and unsaturated fat on serum urate and lipoprotein levels in gout: a pilot study." Copy and paste this into a search engine search box and hit enter. Whenever one reads any reading matter, it is vital that the person enjoys reading it. One should grasp the meaning of the matter, only then can it be considered that the reading is complete.
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In the study report, uric acid levels were expressed as mmol/l.
In this article I have converted these mmol/l numbers to mg/dL, which is a more frequently used measurement.