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How To Combat The Swine Flu: Part 2
Very interesting, I found this article on Mercola.com, it should definitely come in handy:
By Dr. Mercola
American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the U.S. Health officials across the world fear this could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, where seven people are confirmed dead as a result of the new virus.
On Monday April 27th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four on its six-level threat scale,1 which means they've determined that the virus is capable of human-to-human transmission. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already traveling at higher velocity than did the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
swine fluThe number of fatalities, and suspected and confirmed cases across the world change depending on the source, so your best bet — if you want the latest numbers — is to use Google Maps' Swine Flu Tracker.
Several nations have imposed travel bans, or made plans to quarantine air travelers2 that present symptoms of the swine flu, such as:
* Fever of more than 100
* Coughing
* Runny nose and/or sore throat
* Joint aches
* Severe headache
* Vomiting and/or diarrhea
* Lethargy
* Lack of appetite
Top global flu experts are trying to predict how dangerous the new swine flu strain will be, as it became clear that they had little information about Mexico's outbreak. It is as yet unclear how many cases occurred in the month or so before the outbreak was detected. It's also unknown whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.
Much Fear Mongering Being Promoted
I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media's coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable subplot – preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.
On April 27, Time magazine published an article which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.
Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of "how not to handle a flu outbreak", the article still introduces the notion that officials "may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease".
WHO and CDC Pandemic Preparedness Seriously Broken
The pandemic warning system has failed as it simply doesn't exist, even in North America and Europe. To improve the system, massive new investments in surveillance, scientific and regulatory infrastructure, basic public health, and global access to common sense interventions like vitamin D optimization are required.
According to the Washington Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after Mexico had begun to impose emergency measures. There should be no excuses. The paradox of this swine flu panic is that, while totally unexpected, it was accurately predicted. Six years ago, Science dedicated a major story to evidence that "after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus has jumped onto an evolutionary fasttrack".
However, maybe this is precisely what public health authorities desire.
This is NOT the First Swine Flu Panic
My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain calm — this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.
Do you happen to recall the result of this massive campaign?
Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.
However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.
And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized.
More People Died From the Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!
It is very difficult to forecast a pandemic, and a rash response can be extremely damaging.
As of Monday April 27, the worldwide total number of confirmed cases was 82, according to WHO, which included 40 cases in the U.S., confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control. But does that truly warrant the feverish news headlines?
To put things into perspective, malaria kills 3,000 people EVERY DAY, and it's considered "a health problem"… But of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a short amount of time.
One Australian news source,3 for example, states that even a mild swine flu epidemic could lead to the deaths of 1.4 million people and would reduce economic growth by nearly $5 trillion dollars.
Give me a break, if this doesn't sound like the outlandish cries of the pandemic bird-flu I don't know what does. Do you remember when President Bush said two million Americans would die as a result of the bird flu?
In 2005, in 2006, 2007, and again in 2008, those fears were exposed as little more than a cruel hoax, designed to instill fear, and line the pocketbooks of various individuals and industry. I became so convinced by the evidence AGAINST the possibility of a bird flu pandemic that I wrote a New York Times bestselling book, The Bird Flu Hoax, all about the massive fraud involved with the epidemic that never happened..
swine fluWhat is the Swine Flu?
Regular swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease, caused by a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs. The current strain, A(H1N1), is a new variation of an H1N1 virus — which causes seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — that also contains genetic material of bird and pig versions of the flu.
Interestingly enough, this version has never before been seen in neither human nor animal, which I will discuss a bit later.
This does sound bad. But not so fast. There are a few reasons to not rush to conclusions that this is the deadly pandemic we've been told would occur in the near future (as if anyone could predict it without having some sort of inside knowledge).
Why a True Bird- or Swine Flu Pandemic is HIGHLY Unlikely
While in my opinion it is highly likely factory farming is responsible for producing this viral strain, I believe there is still no cause for concern.
You may not know this, but all H1N1 flu's are descendants of the 1918 pandemic strain. The reason why the flu shot may or may not work, however, from year to year, is due to mutations. Therefore, there's no vaccine available for this current hybrid flu strain, and naturally, this is feeding the fear that millions of people will die before a vaccine can be made.
However, let me remind you of one very important fact here.
Just a couple of months ago, scientists concluded that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 50-100 million people worldwide in a matter of 18 months — which all these worst case scenarios are built upon — was NOT due to the flu itself!4
Instead, they discovered the real culprit was strep infections.
People with influenza often get what is known as a "superinfection" with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Since strep is much easier to treat than the flu using modern medicine, a new pandemic would likely be much less dire than it was in the early 20th century, the researchers concluded.
Others, such as evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald,5 claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the world.
In a previous interview for Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, he states:
"They think that if a virus mutates, it's an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.
For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn't happen."
Ewald goes on to explain that evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.
What this means is that in order for a "bird flu" or "swine flu" to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.
People living in squalor on the Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.
Likewise, crowded chicken farms, slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu — a pathogen that both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.
Says Ewald:
"We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.
By vaccinating just the people most at risk — the people who work with chickens and the caregivers — we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn't matter what it does in chickens."
Please remember that, despite the fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease, over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of much attention, let alone fear!
Honestly, your risk of being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years was about 2,300 percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the bird flu.6 I'm not kidding! In just one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from lighting strikes, worldwide.7
So please, as the numbers of confirmed swine flu cases are released, keep a level head and don't let fear run away with your brains.
So is the Swine Flu Getting More or Less Dangerous?
On Sunday, April 26, The Independent reported that more than 1,000 people had contracted the swine flu virus in Mexico, 8 but by the afternoon that same day, Mexican President Calderon declared that more than two-thirds of the 1,300 thought to have contracted the disease had been given a clean bill of health and sent home.9
Additionally, the number of actual confirmed cases appears to be far lower than reported in many media outlets, leading me to believe that many reporters are interchanging the terms "suspected cases" and "confirmed cases."
Interestingly Mexico is the ONLY country in the world where someone has actually died from this disease.Mexico has reported 152 fatalities in flu-like cases in recent days, seven of which have been confirmed as swine flu. Another 19 patients have been confirmed as having swine flu but surviving. About 2,000 people have been hospitalized with symptoms.
By contrast, the United States has had 64 confirmed cases, five hospitalizations and no deaths from US Citizens. On April 29th CNN reported the first swine fatality in the US, however this was actually a child from Mexico that died in Texas.
According to the World Health Organization's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response site; as of April 27, there are:
* 64 laboratory confirmed cases in U.S. — 0 deaths (reported by CDC as of April 29)
* 26 confirmed cases in Mexico — 7 deaths
* 6 confirmed cases in Canada — 0 deaths
* 1 confirmed case in Spain — 0 deaths
Additionally, nearly all suspected new cases have been reported as mild.
Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.
But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu — and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or… what?
Your Fear Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy
According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future10 — and that's without a pandemic outbreak.
More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent — about 12 million doses — of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?
Remember, Tamiflu went through some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light when, in 2007, the FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the drug. Common side effects of Tamiflu include:
* Nausea
* Vomiting
* Diarrhea
* Headache
* Dizziness
* Cough
All in all, the very symptoms you're trying to avoid.
More serious symptoms included convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections (which led Japan to ban Tamiflu for children in 2007). And that's for a drug that, when used as directed, only reduces the duration of influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.
But making matters worse, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918 pandemic!
Where did This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?
Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so.
Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.
The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.
There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak — the 1977 Russian flu — was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.
Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.
So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.
But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?
Baxter!11 Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.
According to other sources,12 a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.
The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.
In addition, Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick — the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick News Post.13 In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax, plague, and other diseases known as "select agents," after they discovered virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory and might have been switched with something else.
Factory Farming Maybe Source of Swine Flu
Another theory as to the cause of Swine Flu might be factory farming. In the United States, pigs travel coast to coast. They can be bred in North Carolina, fattened in the corn belt of Iowa, and slaughtered in California.
While this may reduce short-term costs for the pork industry, the highly contagious nature of diseases like influenza (perhaps made further infectious by the stresses of transport) needs to be considered when calculating the true cost of long-distance live animal transport.
The majority of U.S. pig farms now confine more than 5,000 animals each. With a group of 5,000 animals, if a novel virus shows up it will have more opportunity to replicate and potentially spread than in a group of 100 pigs on a small farm.
With massive concentrations of farm animals within which to mutate, these new swine flu viruses in North America seem to be on an evolutionary fast track, jumping and reassorting between species at an unprecedented rate.
Should You Accept a Flu Vaccine — Just to be Safe?
As stated in the New York Times14 and elsewhere, flu experts have no idea whether the current seasonal flu vaccine would offer any protection whatsoever against this exotic mutant, and it will take months to create a new one.
But let me tell you, getting vaccinated now would not only offer no protection and potentially cause great harm, it would most likely be loaded with toxic mercury which is used as a preservative in most flu vaccines..
I've written extensively about the numerous dangers (and ineffectiveness) of flu vaccines, and why I do not recommend them to anyone. So no matter what you hear — even if it comes from your doctor — don't get a regular flu shot. They rarely work against seasonal flu…and certainly can't offer protection against a never-before- seen strain.
Currently, the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are the only drugs that appear effective against the (human flu) H1N1 virus, and I strongly believe taking Tamiflu to protect yourself against this new virus could be a serious mistake — for all the reasons I already mentioned above.
But in addition to the dangerous side effects of Tamiflu, there is also growing evidence of resistance against the drug. In February, the pre-publication and preliminary findings journal called Nature Precedings published a paper on this concern, stating15:
The dramatic rise of oseltamivir [Tamiflu] resistance in the H1N1 serotype in the 2007/2008 season and the fixing of H274Y in the 2008/2009 season has raised concerns regarding individuals at risk for seasonal influenza, as well as development of similar resistance in the H5N1 serotype [bird flu].
Previously, oseltamivir resistance produced changes in H1N1 and H3N2 at multiple positions in treated patients. In contrast, the recently reported resistance involved patients who had not recently taken oseltamivir.
It's one more reason not to bother with this potentially dangerous drug.
And, once a specific swine flu drug is created, you can be sure that it has not had the time to be tested in clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness, which puts us right back where I started this article — with a potential repeat of the last dangerous swine flu vaccine, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of people.
Topping the whole mess off, of course, is the fact that if the new vaccine turns out to be a killer, the pharmaceutical companies responsible are immune from lawsuits — something I've also warned about before on numerous occasions.
Unfortunately, those prospects won't stop the governments of the world from mandating the vaccine — a scenario I hope we can all avoid.
How to Protect Yourself Without Dangerous Drugs and Vaccinations
For now, my point is that there are always going to be threats of flu pandemics, real or created, and there will always be potentially toxic vaccines that are peddled as the solution. But you can break free of that whole drug-solution trap by following some natural health principles.
I have not caught a flu in over two decades, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.
* Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu — not the flu virus itself.
This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng.ml and done by a reliable vitamin D lab like Lab Corp.
For those of you in the US we hope to launch a vitamin D testing service through Lab Corp that allows you to have your vitamin D levels checked at your local blood drawing facility, and relatively inexpensively. We hope to offer this service by June 2009.
If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days.
*Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.
*Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.
*Have Effective Tools to Address Stress . We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness.
If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. You can check out my free, 25-page EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT.
*Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips on how to get started.
*Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.
*Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this — antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.
* Eat Garlic Regularly. Garlic works like a broad-spectrum antibiotic against bacteria, virus, and protozoa in the body. And unlike with antibiotics, no resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use. However, if you are allergic or don't enjoy garlic it would be best to avoid as it will likely cause more harm than good.
* Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines In this particular case, I'd also recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds, and could be one of the likeliest places you could be exposed to this new bug. Vaccines will not be available for six months at the minimum but when available they will be ineffective and can lead to crippling paralysis like Guillain-Barré Syndrome just as it did in the 70s.
Hmm…there is one part of this article that interests me the most: Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.
It's quite possible that this whole thing was started on purpose, just to make money and get people's minds off of the economy.
Post a comment and tell me what you think.
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Stay Away From STRESS: Part 2
Alright then, time for part 2! This time lets talk about a machine called the Chi Machine!
K the Chi Machine looks incredibly weird I know, but it is one of the best ways of getting stress off of your shoulders! I use it when I feel overburdened and stressed, I feel so relaxed afterwords I sometimes don't know what was stressing me out…
What does the Chi Machine actually do?
The Chi Machine is an oxygenator, it cleanses your body of toxins that don't belong in your body.
Ok so we know what it does, how do you use it?
The Chi Machine is easy to use, its light and portable (so beneficial that way too =D). You plug it into an outlet in your wall. Turn the Chi Machine opposite of the handle bar, lay down on the floor. Place your ankles in the two slots on top of the Chi Machine, lay perfectly straight with the Chi Machine. Then take the controller in your hand and turn the knob up to five minutes (just for starting out, don't work your way up the amount of time too quickly, take it easy I really only Chi now for eleven minutes). As soon as you turn it on you will feel your ankles wiggle from side to side. You're body will normally stiffen up when this occurs, just relax and let you're body wiggle, its very important and the whole part of the Chi Machine effects. After the Chi Machine stops, stay still and lift you're ankles off of the two slots. Stay that way for around two minutes (you don't need a timer or anything you can judge what you think is two minutes). Then afterwords lift both you're legs up to your chest, then with you're legs lean to the left and then lean to the right. Then when you have accomplished all of this your done!! You should feel a buzzing going through your body, that is called the Chi Buzz it's completely normal :D. (NOTE: Only use the Chi Machine once a day, doing it twice or thrice may over do it, its always recommended to it only once a day)
So you say it can relieve me of my stress, what else does it do besides that?
Well actually the list for the Chi Machine benefits is huge, so I'll just name the important basic benefits for you guys:
1. It can help you lose weight (correcting your weight actually, if you are either under or over it does not matter)
2. Ten minutes on the Chi Machine is like taking a walk outside for an hour (:O)
3. If you have a problem with low energy, the Chi Machine will help you gain you're energy back! So you won't feel tired or lethargic anymore!
Those are only three small things that the Chi Machine is capable of! If you want to learn more click the following link: Chi Machine Benefits
Well my entire family uses the Chi Machine once every day, its a really cool machine and I hope you guys will enjoy using it too!
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Weight Losing Tips: Seventh Step
Posted by Saito on December 13, 2008
Check out the next post called Eighth Step
Let's go in-depth on a completely balanced diet.
The perfect balance diet consists of fruits, meats, bread/grains and veggies. You have to eat healthy, but that does not mean you HAVE to choose a fruit or vegetable you don't enjoy or are allergic to :D. Choose your favs, it's supposed to be enjoyable and not something you want to stray from lol. Me I'm allergic to dates, their tasty I love them but cant have them…so I have my other favorites, pineapple, apples, oranges, strawberries, grapes and I tend to just have those in my fruit diet. For my meats I would have some ground beef, chicken and fish (I LOVE salmon). For bread I have cereal, french bread (it's really thick tasty fresh bread that SO hit's the spot for me when I need food fast :D). For grains I have oatmeal, cream of wheat and cereal that consists of grains. For veggies I have celery, carrots, lettuce and mushrooms.
This is my daily diet, my food pyramid, this is just for an example though. Try to find ways of making your perfect balanced diet, things you enjoy to eat and still fit into the right categories :D.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the next update =D.
Check out the previous update called Step Six
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A pen is a pen is a pen is a pen…right? You can buy them in packs of 10 for $1 at most stores. When you get them home you rip open the bag and get one out to use it – about 1 in 5 actually work for me – and the ones that do work – still are a little "choppy" in their ink release – so the words I am writing look like they are dalmatians. There are a few that write ok – but I find myself touching the pen to the tip of my tongue or tapping it against the edge of the desk while holding it upside down. I hate having a pen that does not perform. I have thought about buying more expensive pens – and actually tried out a few of the $2-$5 ones – they all worked ok – but weren't much better. Then I was offered the Faber-Castell Ondoro Smoked Oak Rollarball Pen to try. I actually enjoy writing again!
It came packaged in a very nice box. The pen itself is heavy, but not uncomfortably so – just enough to let you know that it is made with quality materials. It is a perfect size to hold, and gives me a feeling a quality and luxury. The materials that it is made out of are beautiful and the feel of the pen as it is writing is smooth and reliable. I don't have to worry about the ink stopping unexpectedly and have to rewrite something – leaving your papers looking sloppy or messy. The is a elegant writing pen and I LOVE IT! The ink dries quickly so I don't have to worry about smudges and it is great for men or women. You can buy ink refills for a very inexpensive price – and with a pen this nice – you don't have to worry about it breaking or leaking.
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I collect pens and lighter and this pen would be one I would love to have for sure. Thanks for sharing.
That is a beautiful pen. I love having a great quality pen.
HAHA!! Yes those 10 for $1 pens are wonderful. I love it. You are right, only 1/2 of them work! I love the look of this pen. It's sleek and modern!
I am a total pen snob so I know EXACTLY what you mean! When other people try to swipe your pen, that's always a sign that it's a great pen, so it sounds like this one is a winner!


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Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve
Osama M. Eltayeb, William J. Readdy, Michael C. Mongé, Joseph M. Forbess, Anne E. Sarwark, Angira Patel, Carl L. Backer
Background: The 15-mm mechanical valve was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in March 2018. We review our experience in infants with this valve in the mitral position (MV), focusing on outcomes and timing to repeat MV replacement (MVR). Methods: Between 2006 and 2017 7 patients underwent eight MVRs (one repeat) with a 15-mm mechanical valve. Retrospective chart review was performed to examine short- and long-term outcomes. Results: There were no operative deaths. Mean follow-up was 5.8 ± 4.8 years (range, 0.72 to 11.1). Six patients underwent an MV operation 53 ± 39 days (range, 9 to 118) before MVR with the 15-mm valve. All patients were on mechanical ventilatory support at the time of operation. Mean age, body weight, and body surface area at time of 15-mm MVR were 0.5 ± 0.3 years (range, 0.2 to 0.9), 5.6 ± 0.8 kg (range, 4.8 to 6.6), and 0.29 ± 0.03 m2 (range, 0.27 to 0.32), respectively. Two patients required pacemaker implantation for atrioventricular block, both after their second MVR. Two patients are well at 16 and 24 months. Four patients underwent repeat MVR because of somatic growth and patient-prosthesis mismatch. Mean time to repeat MVR was 23 months (range, 6 to 40). There were two late deaths, one at 10 months unrelated to the valve in a child with a chromosomal abnormality. The other child had a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, early valve thrombosis, and died of multiple complications after a fourth MVR. Conclusions: The 15-mm mechanical valve was useful in treating MV disease in infants 2 to 12 months of age. This newly approved smallest available mechanical valve has a predicted mean time to replacement of 23 months in the mitral position.
Atrioventricular Block
Body Surface Area
Prostheses and Implants
Eltayeb, O. M., Readdy, W. J., Mongé, M. C., Forbess, J. M., Sarwark, A. E., Patel, A., & Backer, C. L. (2019). Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.02.061
Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve. / Eltayeb, Osama M.; Readdy, William J.; Mongé, Michael C.; Forbess, Joseph M.; Sarwark, Anne E.; Patel, Angira; Backer, Carl L.
In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 01.01.2019.
Eltayeb, OM, Readdy, WJ, Mongé, MC, Forbess, JM, Sarwark, AE, Patel, A & Backer, CL 2019, 'Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve', Annals of Thoracic Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.02.061
Eltayeb OM, Readdy WJ, Mongé MC, Forbess JM, Sarwark AE, Patel A et al. Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2019 Jan 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.02.061
Eltayeb, Osama M. ; Readdy, William J. ; Mongé, Michael C. ; Forbess, Joseph M. ; Sarwark, Anne E. ; Patel, Angira ; Backer, Carl L. / Mitral Valve Replacement in Infants Using a 15-mm Mechanical Valve. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2019.
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by Annabelle Azade - Jun 10, 2019
In Europe, a week after the elections, Germany and France, the two main leaders of the old continent, seem to disagree when it comes to elect the new European Commission President.
While Germany has been leading the European Union since the 2008 financial crisis, it seems that Emmanuel Macron might want to take over the leadership.
However, Angela Merkel does not seem to agree to leave France having a key role in Europe. While German chancellor backed German center-right Manfred Weber, Macron has expressed his wish to divide the leading role into four jobs – two led by women and two by men.
Germany and France have repeatedly disagreed on several topics lately – from Brexit to the migrants crisis. They will have to find an agreement on June 22nd.
Who to replace Juncker?
Last Tuesday, an informal summit between different leaders from the European Union took place in Brussels. According to several sources, France and Germany had a major disagreement on who to replace after the end of the term of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, expressed her wish to elect the center-right wing Manfred Weber, but Emmanuel Macron protested this decision. He said that the election of a European Commission President should not be "automatic".
Macron wants two women and two men for the top four EU jobs. And they must be "charismatic": "I'm not part of those who want leaders of the European Commission or the European Council who don't overshadow national leaders," he said #EUCO https://t.co/jdOQ5Uj09r
— Michel Rose (@MichelReuters) May 28, 2019
The French President also suggested that four people should fill in the new European leadership seat instead of currently one – two women and two men, for more equity.
During a press conference, Mr. Macron said : "I don't want to rush out with a name. We need someone whose experience either in their country or in Europe that allows them to have credibility and savoir faire", which seems to be a criticism directly intended to Manfred Weber. The latter does not have any experience in a government nor an institution.
A reshuffled bloc system
Not only this shows a new division between France and Germany, but it also reflects on the European elections' results. For the Guardian, "European elections left things as clear as mud".
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2016-established Macron's En Marche party won 23 seats and will enter the Commission for the first time. Angela Merkel's party lost 36 seats, and Germany's "center-left Socialists & Democrats lost 39 seats, to reduce their total to 146", reported the national media Deutsche Welle.
Not to mention the alt-right and nationalist parties who have strongly risen: Nigel Farage's Brexit party who took home 31.71% of the vote, to Marine Le Pen's far-right historical French party who won with 23.31% and the Italian right-wing Lega, led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini which took victory with 34.33%.
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Macron ignited a media storm
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Happy Wednesday! This summer has been very busy for me, which has led to me forgetting to post for a few Wednesdays in a row. I'm still knitting, just not as much as I had been until summer hit.
I'm still waiting on my new size 8 needles to continue work on Audrey's owl sweater. I ordered them from an outside vendor off of Amazon without checking the estimated shipping time. I have until August for them to arrive. That is a whole lot of waiting for needles. Lesson learned – sometimes you need to spring for expedited shipping.
I'm currently working on some watermelon inspired socks. I don't have a pattern, so I'm making them up as I go along. I'm going to do a short row heel, which will be a change for me. I love a heel flap and gusset. I will post pictures next week.
I finished a pair of socks for John last night. As soon as I get pictures I'll write a finished object post. He wore them today. I have a hand knit sock convert in the house. It is nice to have something to knit for him that he will wear regularly.
There you have it – my knitting in progress. It's good for knitting to slow down when life gets crazy. I hope you are having a wonderful summer!


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Canada-based Loop Energy, a developer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cell-based solutions, announced the placement of the order for the first eFlow-powered hydrogen fuel cell systems (earlier post) under a commercial agreement with NGVI, a South Korean-based manufacturer of turn-key compressed natural gas and hydrogen fuel systems for transit and coach bus applications.
The announcement marks accelerating adoption of the eFlow fuel cell platform within the transit bus market vertical as well as Loop Energy's official entry into the zero-emission commercial vehicle market in South Korea.
The first hydrogen fuel cell system supplied under the agreement is earmarked for construction of the first testing and homologation vehicles under the agreement signed between NGVI and Ulsan Metropolitan City for supply of hydrogen electric transit buses.
Under the first phase of the multi-year agreement, Ulsan is anticipated to invest 2.3 billion KRW (approximately US$2.0 million) by 2024 in testing and certification of hydrogen bus technologies, supplied by a consortium of partners including NGVI. Ulsan announced a plan in 2018 to replace 40% of the city's 949 buses with hydrogen-fueled vehicles and establish 60 hydrogen fueling stations by 2030.
After development and demonstration, the buses are expected to expand to fleet used in the capital area where Seoul Bus Company and TCHA Partners own more than 1,200 buses. The city says demand will rise as approximately 10% of Seoul buses are replaced or decommissioned annually. The number of buses owned by them is expected to be more than 2,000 by 2023, and the demand in the metropolitan area is expected to be more than 200 per year.
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Way back before I got an android phone, I really did not want a google account. I did not need one and I not want the possibility of accidentally leaving it singed and letting google clock up a nice history of my searches. Now I have an android phone, I don't have a choice.
So the night before I got my android phone I tried to register 'aefaradien' as a google account. Opps – name already taken. I don't know if I registered it ages ago and forgot, or if someone else claimed it. I have tried everything I can think of that would like it to me, but all failed. So I must conclude someone else took it.
So I needed to chose a new username. Dam. But I thought I would be cunning and use a google account hosted at a domain of my choosing. By linking part of sparktank.net to google I was able to create an account called 'aefaradien' at that domain and from there use google mail, talk, calender, etc. It works well with the main google apps on android. It seemed like the perfect solution.
But when I tried to get a wave account I realised a problem – that account would only support certain google apps… and no others. Looks like its not a substitute for a google account after all. Back to square one, where I am currently.
My best solution so far is to register the google account "aeferadien" and use that instead. The main problem here is that people have enough trouble spelling my username at the best of times. This just makes it works and adds confusion.
1. juggle multiple google accounts (which I don't want to do).
2. transfer everything over to the 'aeferadien' account.
3. dream up a new username that is properly different.
As a side note: this really dose show the problem with online username name-spaces and the issues with protecting an online identity. An official one-name-space-to-rule-them-all would be bloody useful right about now.
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Q: Regex cannot have a number in the first position or last and must be 6-20 characters long Good Morning all.
I have a regex that is not fulfilling what I need. I cannot start or end with a number. I must have at least one symbol, one upper case letter, one lower case letter and of course a number in between the outer "boundaries" I have described. The regex must be at least 6 characters long and 20 max.
Below is my regex:
^([^0-9](?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[_!?@#$%])[^0-9]).{6,20}$

The issue I am having is I cannot seem to get the number boundaries and length correct.
For example, in a regex tester this is acceptable,
MaA1?kss1111111

but is not acceptable to what I need.
But this would be acceptable,
Mk?1wK

I have no starting number and no ending number.
I would appreciate any help.

A: You can tweak your regex to this:
^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[_!?@#$%])[^0-9].{4,18}[^0-9]$

It uses .{4,18} (2 less than your length requirements) due to the reason you have [^0-9] at start and end of your regex.
RegEx Demo 1
Alternatively (and this is my preferred solution as well) you can check for {6,20} length and check presence of non-digit at start/end using a negative lookahead:
^(?![0-9]|.*[0-9]$)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[_!?@#$%]).{6,20}$

RegEx Demo 2


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Yesterday Louis Gray posed a set of questions which seem like they should be easy to answer, but aren't. While reading it one of the questions stood out, for obvious reasons.
"2. When was the first time Denton Gentry left a comment on my blog?"
Louis had sent that question via email earlier in the day, and it turned out to be very difficult to answer. My profile on disqus.com shows comments going back to July 2009. That should be definitive, but unfortunately isn't correct as manual checking had already turned up earlier comments. In the end Louis answered his own question by searching his email for Disqus notifications. It was a full year before the first comment shown on my profile page. The other questions were similar: find the first citation. From a technical perspective, it should be easy to answer questions like this as all of the information is available. That it isn't easy is a reflection of economic reality. There is infrequent demand for it.
I'd like to flip it around, though: why is email able to answer questions like this? You can search email and sort it by date. You can find emails around a particular time. You can find emails which happened at about the same time as some other event which is unrelated, but intertwined in your memories. Why is email structured this way?
I suspect this is a reflection of human psychology. Email is information which we personally experienced. It exists in our own memories, albeit dimly or imperfectly. When we go to search for it, we're searching as an extension of our own memory. Its Experiential search, not Informational, and email services which don't match our expectations in this regard get less traction. This is also what makes services like Evernote so useful, letting us organize and search arbitrary information Experientially.
In comparison when searching for something we never personally experienced we're looking for information which we know must exist, and we just need to find it. Search engines are designed to this expectation.
The disconnect occurs when we want an Experiential search over an Informational dataset. Organizing arbitrary information in a way which maps to what we'd expect had we personally experienced it is an unsolved problem. It has been a rich field of speculation in science fiction, as authors have postulated implanted memories and neural interface.
Will there be developments in this area? Clearly there is at least some demand, as LexisNexis can answer such queries for the subset of publications they handle. Its something we'll need to work on if we're going to make the world even more like science fiction.


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'inkJam 2021′ Will Return This Fall With a Weekend of Interactive Fiction Jammin' Fun
May 28th, 2021 Wraithkal News
Oh! Oh! It's almost time for the fourth(!) inkJam. Excited yet? Well, you should be: a whole weekend of interactive fiction fun awaits – at least for those interested in creating something. The rest of us will just have to wait patiently until the end of inkJam 2021 to have our fun with all the glorious new choice-driven tales. Mark my words, it is going to be awesome.
Theme? Why do people automatically assume game jams… oh alright, there'll be a theme for inkJam 2021, but it won't be revealed until the jam starts – for obvious reasons. In the meantime, you may want to brush up on your ink knowledge, maybe even create some samples to get back into the groove if you're new and/or never dabbled in this particular language. Oh, and you're free to use any engine/platform for your creation, as long as ink is part of it… somehow. Doesn't even have to be in English and the only real no-no's are "hateful comments, language or visuals". That's about it.
What is ink?
It's an open source narrative scripting language you can use in a variety of environments and game engines to create games with highly branching stories, interactive fiction, and… basically anything with text in it.
Wait, no, just a bit more: inkJam 2021 will run from August 27th, 2021 at 9:00 PM to August 30th, 2021 at 9:00 PM. So make sure you're ready to get interactive. With fiction. Yeah!
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