Coming Home: AmeriCorps Members Return to Mentor Local Youth ...

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AmeriCorps recently placed five young adults from the area? at Horace Mann Middle School and Crawford High School as part of The California Endowment?s Building Healthy Communities program. Each AmeriCorps mentor will work with 20 students during and after school. The goal is to encourage academic success and improve attitudes toward education.

The AmeriCorps members are planning four service projects during their 11-month program. The goal of these projects is to engage students, residents and community members around issues such as increasing school attendance, improving access to healthcare and decreasing childhood obesity and violence. Their ultimate goal is to make City Heights a healthier, stronger, more vibrant community.

Here is more about the AmeriCorps members, in their words:

Christine Ma
Hi ya?ll! I?m Christine and I?m excited to embark on my year with Building Healthy Communities as an AmeriCorps Mentor and working closely with students at Horace Mann Middle School. A little background on me: I was born and raised in Los Angeles? Chinatown neighborhood. I went to the University of California, San Diego, as a first-generation college student, and I majored in communications and minored in ethnic studies. I had plans for a career as an editor, but in my last year of college, I got heavily involved in student-of-color organizations and activism work, so with this, along with my ethnic studies classes, I really started to develop my social consciousness. After I graduated, I switched career paths to the nonprofit and education fields and working with youth.

After I graduated college, I moved back home and volunteered and interned at Asian- and Pacific Islander-focused nonprofits. I was involved with the Southeast Asian Community Alliance, where I helped the coordinator facilitate an afterschool program that educated high school students on social justice issues. It was here that I cemented my passion of social justice education for youth.

It was extremely rewarding for me to be involved in the same community that I grew up in. And it was so inspirational to see these young people doing youth organizing work and feeling like they have a direct impact in their community, and that is what I hope to continue supporting in more communities of color. One of my favorite aspects of working there were the one-to-one conversations I would have with students, which is why I was so excited for this AmeriCorps position, because I saw the need for more positive, emotional support for students.

Deyna Roberson
I am a 23-year-old San Diego native. I have a beautiful 2-year-old son and 5 younger sisters. I am a University of California, San Diego, graduate and am currently earning my master?s in public health, with a concentration in health promotion and behavioral science. After obtaining my master?s degree, I plan on pursuing a medical degree and hope to become a child and adolescent psychiatrist. I am also a NCAA track and field athlete and two time All-American. My hobbies include singing, songwriting, going to the beach and Boogie Boarding, and running track and field.

I chose to serve as a BHC AmeriCorps member to give back to my community, and more specifically, the children in it. I feel that as a member of the City Heights community, it is not only my passion but duty to help bring others up with me. I doubt I would have made it this far without the positive role models and influences I had growing up. I witnessed both my sister and brother fail to graduate from Crawford High School and this made me well aware that there is something missing in the system to motivate students to stay in school and to encourage them to plan for bright, healthy futures. As an AmeriCorps Mentor, I look forward to instilling hope in the students I will be working with. It?s my desire to not only be a positive role model for these student, but also an example of the many people who care about their well-being, are confident in their potential success, and are willing to invest in their futures.

Yen Vu
My name is Yen and I am one of the youth mentors at Crawford High School for Building Healthy Communities in City Heights. I am a daughter of Vietnamese refugees, born in Oklahoma and raised in the Los Angeles area. I moved to San Diego in 2007 to attend the University of California, San Diego. I am now a first generation college graduate with a bachelor?s degree in psychology and a minor in education studies.

While in college, I was involved in progressive students-of-color organizations geared toward social justice activism. I became familiar with City Heights through mentoring and tutoring at some of the local schools. I chose to return to City Heights after I graduated because I recalled how at home I felt when I first stepped foot there. It reflects the community I grew up in and the kind of place I hope to root myself.

Growing up, I often witnessed economic inequalities that affected my education and limited the resources that were available to my working-class parents. I wasn?t able to articulate or understand my family?s struggles or the challenges that people from communities like mine faced until I came to college. Through education, I became empowered and realized the potentials of social change and how I can take part in that movement. In college I started working with youth through implementing access and outreach programs that catered to underserved and underrepresented students. Immediately after graduation, I went to Oakland to pursue community organizing. While I was there, I realized that the skills I was learning in organizing aligned with my passion in working with youths. I believe that the most effective change happens in the community through collaboration and empowerment. I hold the same belief in my pursuance of a future career as an educator. I want to work inside the classroom, directly with students, to empower them to become more socially conscious and ready to question the structural barriers that affect them, their family, and their community.

Gracelynne West
Hi everyone! My name is Gracelynne West and I currently serve as one of the Building Healthy Communities AmeriCorps Mentors at Horace Mann Middle School. I am originally from San Diego, the North Park and Linda Vista area, and I am a graduate of San Diego High School and an alumna of the SDHS Women?s Tennis Team. I also recently graduated from the University of California, San Diego, as an ethnic studies major and I am passionate about working within my local community.

I was the first person in my family to attend college, so it was a big accomplishment for both my family and me as well. I have worked with youth in afterschool and summer enrichment programs. I also recently completed an AmeriCorps term with the local nonprofit, MAAC project, which provides services for low-income families and youth in Spring Valley. I really enjoy community engagement work and working with other community members to navigate resources and services.

I have served as a canvasser with Alliance San Diego in previous campaigns to educate and engage new and occasional voters in predominantly low-income communities of color. At first, it was difficult to assert myself to others, but I eventually built up confidence speaking to people by recognizing why I am passionate about community work. Every time I work with youth, I always learn something new or catch something that I have never thought of before; they have such diverse experiences and different views of the world, and I think that is the beauty of working with youth because we are both learning from each other.

Laura Yamaguchi
Hi everyone, my name is Laura Yamaguchi and I?m very excited to begin my second year as a BHC AmeriCorps Mentor at Crawford High School. Last year was such an adventure for me ? a growth experience for myself as well as the students I mentored. I look forward to deepening my connections with students and encouraging them to live out their dreams.

I began my work with youth when I was 16 and my first job was teaching second graders about different birds at the San Diego Zoo. In college, I worked with student groups of color and outreached to San Diego high school students about college access. After graduating from the University of California, San Diego, with my bachelor of the arts in Spanish literature and a minor in ethnic studies, I pursued a career in youth- and community-based development in communities of color.

I started with a labor organizing internship at the Oakland International Airport, and then went on to empower youth through writing programs in San Francisco. I finally moved back to my hometown of La Mesa and I continued partnering with youth in schools as a special education assistant in the San Diego Unified School District. Last year, I pursued an opportunity to mentor ninth graders at Crawford High School through AmeriCorps. If it?s going to be anything like last year, I?m ready to take students surfing at the beach, making sushi with the Japanese club, going to San Diego State and UCSD high school conferences, and reciting lots and lots of One Direction lyrics.

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Longtime MMA figure Jeff Blatnick dies

Jeff Blatnick, a longtime figure in MMA as a judge, official and announcer, died after complications from heart surgery at the age of 55.

Blatnick was involved with the UFC from its early days. He was the commentator for UFC 4 through UFC 32, and as UFC commissioner was instrumental in the sport's evolution into the regulated sport we know today. He stuck with the sport as a well-respected judge.

Nick Lembo, the head of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, remembered Blatnick as key to the growth of MMA.

"Jeff will always be a crucial part of the formation and growth of MMA. He was a great judge and even refereed here. Far more than that, he was one of the best men I ever was graced with the pleasure of calling my friend," Lembo said to Cagewriter.

"I just spoke to him last week when he was appointed as a judge by the State of Washington Commission to officiate December 8 for the UFC on FOX Show," UFC vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner said via email. "Very sad. He was one of the pioneers of the sport and was there at the very beginning of MMA in 1993. He was involved in formulating the Unified Rules of MMA and was one of the top MMA judges in the world."

UFC president Dana White also remembered Blatnick by tweeting, "RIP Jeff Blatnick."

Before Blatnick started with MMA, he was a highly decorated wrestler. He qualified for the Olympic team in 1980, but didn't compete because of the boycott. In 1982, he was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma. He fought back to make the Olympic team again, and Blatnick won Olympic gold in 1984. Though a return of cancer forced his retirement, he continued to support wrestling as a coach and commentator.

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The Science of Genius (preview)

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Outstanding creativity in all domains may stem from shared attributes and a common process of discovery

By Dean Keith Simonton

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In Brief

• Genius has been viewed two different ways: as achieved eminence and as exceptional intelligence. The former metric offers the more useful definition.
• Genetics and life experiences both contribute to genius. Creative contributions can occur only after a domain has been mastered, but genetics can help a person improve faster and accomplish more with a given amount of expertise.
• Genius can share certain potentially negative traits with the mentally ill, but when these traits are combined with specific positive attributes, the result is creativity rather than psychopathology.
• A scientific genius has different expertise than an artistic genius, but all creative geniuses may depend on the same general process: blind variation and selective retention.

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Identifying genius is a dicey venture. Consider, for example, this ranking of ?The Top 10 Geniuses? I recently stumbled across on Listverse.com. From first to last place, here are the honorees: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Emanuel Swedenborg, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, Blaise Pascal, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bobby Fischer, Galileo Galilei and Madame De Sta?l.

What about Albert Einstein instead of Swedenborg? Some of the living might also deserve this appellation?Stephen Hawking comes to mind. A female genius or two might make the cut, perhaps Marie Curie or Toni Morrison. And if a chess champion, Fischer, is deemed worthy, other geniuses outside the arts and sciences ought to deserve consideration?Napoleon Bonaparte as a military genius, Nelson Mandela as a political genius or Bill Gates as an entrepreneurial genius, to name a few candidates.

This article was originally published with the title The Science of Genius.

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Romney tax plan: How rich could pay the 'same' and still pay less

Romney promises to make the rich keep paying a constant percentage of all US income taxes. That's very different from asking them to pay a constant share of their earnings.

By Mark Trumbull,?Staff writer / October 22, 2012

In this Oct. 16 photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks while President Obama listens during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.

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A centerpiece of Mitt Romney's campaign for president, his plan for tax reform, revolves around a puzzling set of assertions. He says the rich will pay "the same" under his plan. He says the middle class will get "some relief." And yet he also says his tax reform won't add to federal deficits.

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To lots of Americans this sounds, well, unusual. If one big chunk of taxpayers pays the same, and the other big chunk pays less, how can federal revenue stay the same?

This conundrum represents a large gray area in Romney's economic plan. Those listening to the Republican presidential candidate have rushed in to fill the void with various assumptions that may or may not prove to be correct.

Some voters reckon that Romney is implying, if anything, that he'd be willing to see a modest tax hike for upper income Americans, in order to cover the cost of modest middle-class tax relief. Others assume that, if elected, the former Massachusetts governor would be less than strict about the goal of not adding to federal deficits. Others argue that, contrary to the appearance of his rhetoric, Romney plans big tax cuts for the rich.

Some policy experts say Romney's own language offers hints that the last interpretation may be correct ? and that if Romney's plan were enacted, the top 5 percent of households appear likely to reap significant gains from the changes. This could occur, potentially, even if the reforms also delivered on Romney's stated goals of middle class tax relief and not adding to federal deficits.

Roberton Williams, a finance expert at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, says it may be vital to consider precisely what Romney has been saying: The candidate promises to make the rich keep paying a constant percentage of all US income taxes. That's very different, Mr. Williams says, from asking the rich to pay a constant share of their own earnings in income taxes.

If incomes for the rich continue to rise faster than for the middle class ? as has been the recent historical pattern ? then the rich could pay a constant share of federal income taxes even as the effective tax rate on their income steadily fell over time.

"In order to properly evaluate the 'fairness' of a tax system, you have to compare tax burdens to income levels, or ability to pay," says Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist at the Concord Coalition, a group that champions fiscal responsibility. By contrast, she says via email, a focus on the "share of taxes paid" can be tricky or misleading.

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Spooky Sips! Vegan Halloween Drinks that Will Keep Your Party ...

To me, Halloween means carving Jack-O-Lanterns, falling leaves, lots of black and orange, and of course, dressing up in costume.

While the kids have trick-or-treating to look forward to, us adults have awesome Halloween parties; where we can dress up, socialize, grub on some delicious eats and imbibe some spooky sips. So, what better recipes to share than some great drinks to make for your next Halloween-themed get-together?

First up, Murderous Mulled Wine! I know what you?re thinking, how can mulled wine be murderous? Well, when you have floating apple heads and pear fingers make a surprise appearance it can be downright frightening! Martha Stewart and her shrunken heads inspired the apple head idea, but the prep time of mine is only a few minutes because the apples are not baked. This way the juice melds with the wine instead of being dried out.?

Murderous Mulled Wine: when floating apple heads and pear fingers make a surprise appearance

Murderous Mulled Wine

Ingredients:

• 2 Bottles of Vegan Red Wine, I used Frey Red Table Wine
• 2 Small Gala/Fuji/etc. Apples, Sliced in half with core scooped out
• 1 Pear
• 1 Orange, Cut into Wedges
• 5 Cinnamon Sticks
• ? C. Star Anise
• 1 ? Tbsp. Whole Cloves

Directions:

1. Pour the two bottles of wine into a 3-4 Qt. crockpot, or a large pot over a stove. Set the temperature to low.
2. Start carving faces into the 4 apple halves, using the techniques shown on Martha?s site, or using a small (not very sharp) knife.
3. Place them into the wine and move onto the pear. Core the pear and slice what is left into 6 wedges lengthwise.
4. There will be a more bulbous end on which you need to carefully slice just the skin into a fingernail shape and peel off the remainder of the skin. Slice off the corners of the wedge to give the ?finger? a more round shape.
5. Add the pears to the wine, along with the orange wedges, which you squeeze over it before adding the peels in.
6. Stir in the cinnamon sticks, star anise and cloves, have the mixture warm over low heat for 1 or more before serving.

For a simple and delicious drink that has a scary color, try this Mysterious Martini. Fresh green grape juice pairs perfectly with the melon flavor of the Midori.

The Mysterious Martini: when the color plays tricks on you...

Mysterious Martini

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Midori Melon Liqueur
• 1 oz. Vodka (your preference)
• 2 oz. Fresh Green Grape Juice, I just blended grapes together and strained it
• Red Grapes for garnish

Directions:

1. Shake all ingredients with ice and pour into martini glass. This is not a super strong recipe so use less grape juice if you would like it to have more umph.

Lastly, we have an incredible easy blend of brews that has the perfect blend of spice and sweetness. You may have heard of a Snakebite before, where you have a drink that is half lager, half dry cider; well, this Pumpkin with a Bite is just a tad different.

Pumpkin with a Bite: Only two ingredients in this vegan Halloween drink...

Pumpkin with a Bite: a perfect balance between pumpkins, apples, spices and alcohol for this Halloween themed drink

Pumpkin with a Bite

Ingredients:

• ? Bottle of Pumpkin Ale, Preferably not hoppy
• ? Bottle of Hard Cider

Directions:

1. Pour in the same chilled glass and enjoy!

Now you have three different drink recipes that will keep your party patron?s hands full all night!?

Jackie Sobon, Vegan Yack Attack

Jackie Sobon originally launched?Vegan Yack Attack?to document her adventures in clean living, but her blog quickly turned into an abundant resource for a vegan lifestyle. Whether you want an easy weeknight dish?or more ambitious suggestions,?it?s a great go-to for vegans and raw-food enthusiasts.

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Carolina Forest girls golf team bringing ?A? game to course, classroom

MYRTLE BEACH -- Carolina Forest High girls golf coach Vil Caroso has one more tournament remaining this season to determine his team?s award winners.

He has to decide which players have earned the team MVP, most improved player award, and Panther award for spirit and leadership.

He?s grateful he doesn?t have to choose the team?s academic award winner, which school administrators select based on GPA.

That would be a tough one.

As impressive as the Panthers are on the golf course ? they finished fourth Monday in the Class AAAA Lower State tournament at Myrtle Beach National Golf Club?s Southcreek Course to qualify for the AAAA state tournament ? they?re much more impressive in the classroom.

And the starting five are more proud of their grade-point averages than their stroke averages. They represent the ideal of the student athlete.

?The school wants [players to have] a ?C? average, and I never have to worry about that,? Caroso said. ?When you see their laptop computers with them on the away matches, you know they?re hard workers. They?re very diligent.?

Lia Farrar is not only the lone senior on the team, she?s actually the only student enrolled at Carolina Forest High. The players? academic pursuits have taken them to five different schools.

Farrar is in the top 10 academically in a class of approximately 475 and plans to select a college major in the medical field. ?I love to play golf, but academics definitely come first,? Farrar said.

Samantha Schoener is a junior at Early College High School at Horry-Georgetown Technical College. She carries a 4.38 GPA, is on pace to graduate next year with the equivalent of a college associate?s degree and wants to major in sports medicine.

Elizabeth Snyder-Mounts is a sophomore at the Academy of Arts & Sciences and earned the team academic award last season with a GPA above 5.0.

Jamie Karl is a freshman at the Scholar Academy at Coastal Carolina and could complete high school classes and begin taking college classes by the second semester next school year.

Sami Spencer is a seventh-grader at Ocean Bay Middle School who is an A/B student and takes honors English and honors math classes.

?It?s a good thing to have a bunch of good scholarly kids,? said Farrar, who is in her fourth year on varsity and has been selected to participate in S.C.?s North-South All-Star Golf Matches in Chapin. ?No one ever has to sit out matches for grades, so it?s helpful. When you go to the awards banquet usually golf will have the best GPA score.?

The team score at Myrtle Beach National on Monday wasn?t bad, either. Carolina Forest?s 54-over-par 342 was its best total of the season, including extrapolating individual scores in nine-hole matches to 18-hole scores.

Farrar shot an 10-over 82, Schoener an 86, Snyder-Mounts a career-best 86 and Spencer an 88. The team score didn?t include Karl?s team-best 81 Monday that couldn?t be counted because she was disqualified for taking an improper drop from a water hazard. ?We brought our ?A? game today,? Karl said.

Lexington won the tournament by 12 strokes over Bluffton with a 12-over 300, and Lexington?s Sydney Legacy was the medalist by a stroke over South Aiken?s Taylor Dodson with a 4-under 68. Conway individuals Maggie Harper and Emily McClellan both shot 105.

The Panthers will compete in the AAAA state championship tournament next Monday and Tuesday in Lexington, and will stay overnight in a hotel, where their GPAs will still be as important if not more important than their opening-round scores. To a player, they?ll likely have their schoolwork with them.

?If I got behind I would die,? Snyder-Mounts said. ?My GPA is too important.?

The team hasn?t had a problem bonding despite the multitude of schools they attend. ?We?re like a family,? Snyder-Mounts said. ?We all love each other.?

Following the season they plan to organize golf rounds and movie nights together. ?We try to come together as a team on the golf course but also be a team outside of it,? Schoener said. ?We?re all here for each other.?

The teammates push each other to improve on the golf course and in the classroom, and sometimes exercise their brains as they?re practicing. ?I remember one day at practice we were talking about how bad our putting was, and we?re like, ?How do you say my putting is horrible in Spanish???? Snyder-Mounts said. ?We were on that for like 15 minutes.?

Their higher education choices will probably all be guided by academics and it?s possible none of the five will tee it up collegiately. ?Originally I was all gung-ho about playing golf in college, but I realized college is going to be very much an academic experience for me,? Schoener said. ?I?m always into knowing my grades and keeping up with my schoolwork, and that?s really who I am so I?m going to really focus on school.?

So who deserves to receive the team academic award? The players have a solution.

?I think we all deserve a piece of it,? said Karl, whose sister is a freshman at Wofford College. ?Keeping up straight ?A?s? while playing golf and having practice till like 6:30 every night, it?s hard but we all do it.?

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/10/22/3129508/carolina-forest-girls-golf-team.html

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GENTLE GIANT Interview music review by AtomicCrimsonRush

"Interview" is another of the better Gentle Giant albums beginning with some incredible complex musicianship on the title track, certainly one of the greatest GG songs. This is followed by reggae mayhem on 'Give It Back' that sounds great remastered. Between the songs we hear little interview snippets as transitions from track to track that work very well for a concept. 'Design' is next that brings things down for me with the almost annoying multi harmonies that permeate each album. They love to indulge in this barber shop quartet style but I am not a fan so this is an acquired taste. It is quite amusing though especially with the sproings and boings of percussion and tinkling chimes that are comical. The tribal percussion at the end is great but overall this is just too demented for its own good.

'Another Show' is next with a fast tempo and maniacal circus music intro. When Shulman's vocals come in the song becomes heavier and I like the odd signature. This is as crazy as the band like to be, just pulling out one unusual tempo after another, but this will send some running for cover. The guitar is excellent here competing with the keyboards and weird xylophone percussion. 'Empty City' follows, with dreamy acoustics to allow us to breathe. There are tons of harmonies and some nice basslines on this one, but the album is not up to the quality of previous GG. Notably the interview snippets are absent and that would have been nice to make this album more consistent.

The interview snippet does return again just before 'Timing', another track with bizarre tempo changes and a circus like musicianship. It is difficult to latch onto a melody as there are so many ideas competing against each other. It is a lot of fun to listen to all this inventiveness though, and the violin solo is wonderful, later joined by a powerful lead solo, one of the best instrumental breaks on the album. 'I Lost My Head' is a longer track at almost 7 minutes, and I love it when it finally launches into the melodic last 4 minutes with amazing vocals and guitar powering out on an odd intricate meter.

Overall this is not a masterpiece GG albums, but it has some excellent tracks especially side one, where the band seem to use all their best material on many occasions and run out of steam towards the end. The last track though here excels and is one of my favourite GG songs. It is perhaps best purchased with the box set or with the double CD package with "Free Hand".

AtomicCrimsonRush | 4/5 | 2012-10-22

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How I Am Overcoming Food Addiction | Jinjee's Blog

Wow!

It is over! The darkest hour is just before dawn ? truly. Yep, I guess I?m a rock bottom girl. Gotta touch ground before I can spring up. Or maybe I just like to push boundaries. How much can I get away with? Or to give it a positive spin, I?m just trying to get to know myself and my limits.

What happened this time? As you know I?ve been playing on the edge of addiction. I felt like it was OK because it was helping me to better understand food addiction, which would help me to share my recovery process with others. But recently from time to time things got so bad that I was operating in a fog and my work was starting to suffer.

So lately I?ve been saying ?I?m done being a wounded healer, done being an example of a struggling raw vegan even though I know it helps a lot of people to feel like it is OK to struggle. It is OK. But I?m ready to be an example of someone who struggled and made it through to a 100% raw vegan diet, which is where I want to be, because it feels best to me?.

And the teacher came when the student was ready. Barbara Gabriel, a marriage and family therapist, and raw vegan, came to our retreat and shared with me a ground-breaking new branch of psychology called Emotional Brain Training (EBT) based on the latest research in the field of brain science. I?ve been having weekly EBT sessions with her and now am part of a weekly EBT telegroup we put together. I had been wishing I could afford some kind of counselling as there were areas of my life that were just too confusing for me and that I felt a professional therapist could help me to sort out.

Another prayer answered! I?ve been practicing EBT for 3 months now and I am gaining tremendous clarity on these issues! I haven?t been totally diligent but it doesn?t matter. Whatever work you do to re-wire your brain is enough. It is becoming quite fun, and fascinating, feeling this new power to actually get some reins hooked up to this wild beast of an organ.

I say it is starting to become fun, because although at first my food addiction rapidly improved, it then got worse. Then it got worse than ever. And I thought maybe I?d have to give up EBT because it had opened up a Pandora?s box of issues and I was questioning whether I really had time to deal with them at this point in my life. Too big. Too much.

I was enjoying the clarity, the consciousness, the awareness, the feeling my feelings, the calmness that came from this. But then I was also experiencing some very dark, very numb episodes. These were triggered by shame regarding my food addictions, even though I espouse the credo ?No beating up on yourself?. I didn?t know what was happening. It was confusing. I tried to work the EBT tools during these times, with just a very little success I supposed.

But then the next day I?d feel great. And my addiction would be much lessened. And then Barbara told me that those inexplicable numb depressions were brain state 5?s, the reptilian brain state, where you are really in the worst emotional state possible. They happen to everyone but they can get more intense or happen more frequently when you are doing the EBT work. And that?s good because it is while you are in 4?s and 5?s that you can actually rewire your brain.

It is almost like EBT allowed me to really feel my lows more than I had before ? because it is teaching me to really feel my feelings. Previously, I was in denial or I?d escape with food. Even though I was still going to food, I was minimizing harm (part of one of the tools), and while I was eating I was also trying to practice compassion for myself (another of the EBT tools).

Even though I felt like I was not succeeding, I feel now that I did succeed. I definitely re-wired something while in that state, without even realizing it! Only now when I have been free of addiction for days do I believe and see that I have re-wired my brain to deal better with stress, to be more conscious of what I?m feeling, and to develop better habits. I?m earning the rewards of connection.

I believe now that rather than feeling my feelings and stating my feelings and seeing how true or not they were, I would eat. I would eat to avoid a brain state 5, or to numb it. But by really going through a brain state 5 more consciously, more fully, with food or without (because actually the food did not work to numb it this time!) I actually got something I needed out of that state.

Maybe I just needed to be in it ? because it was real. Maybe I just needed to know that I feel like complete crap about hiding my cooked food addiction from my kids, and about eating cooked foods while feeding them raw and admitting to myself how detestable I find myself for that. Maybe I had to have a talk with myself while in brain state 5 to get that information from myself. Yes, I think that is what happened.

One interesting thing about this work is that you put your emotions in to words, and by stating them you can see more easily what is true and what you are just making up.

I have to say I no longer expect to be done with my issues ? moods and behaviors ? permanently. I know I?m a work in progress, and always will be. And that?s OK. Like anything else, it is work. And it works if you work it.

Speaking of connection, I was realizing that I needed to be diligent about my prayer and gratitude practice to balance out the EBT work I was doing, which was basically learning to acknowledge negative emotions within me. And so this happened yesterday morning: I finally managed to have a great prayer on the beach. It was very connected. More connected than I?d been in a long time.

I?m sure the EBT was partially responsible for this. And it was so magical that I knew I wanted this connection all the time. And in that moment I knew that I wanted to keep the channels free of clogging food; food that clogged my small capillaries causing carpel tunnel and blurry eye-sight, and that also clogged my spiritual channels. Well, the spirit channels got clogged because my self-esteem would get too low (too gunky) to pray when I abused food.

I?m now having an amazing feeing of freedom. I had really become desperate, not even being able to imagine being free of my addictions, almost not wanting to be free. And I felt as though my spark had gone out. So I?m incredulous at the sudden and surprising freedom. I know I?m over it for now. But I need to prove that to myself by staying clean. Because now I?m feeling like I can have a little non-raw food without danger. But that could very well be an illusion.

I?m not going to say ?once an addict always an addict? and label myself like that. I?m not going to make that my reason for staying on the wagon. I will instead say that I desire to eat only foods that are alive and vibrant with life force energy and sparkly brightness to my toungue! And that is completely true ? not just an affirmation of my future intention ? This is now! This is real! This is the way I feel!

I?m so grateful for this feeling. I?m going to live! I?m going to be able to claim my mantle and do the work I?ve been positioned to do in the world! My heart could burst with happiness!

In Joy!
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Medicare is coming under scrutiny in the meningitis outbreak that has rekindled doubts about the safety of the nation's drug supply.

The giant health insurance program for seniors long ago flagged compounded drugs produced for the mass market without oversight from the Food and Drug Administration as safety risks. In 2007, Medicare revoked coverage of compounded inhaler drugs for lung disease.

But Medicare doesn't seem to have consistently used its own legal power to deny payment, and critics say that has enabled the compounding business to flourish.

Now program officials are scrambling to find out how many Medicare beneficiaries are among the more than 270 people sickened in 16 states in a still-growing outbreak that has claimed 21 lives.

The illnesses have been linked to an injectable steroid used to treat back pain, made by the New England Compounding Center, a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. The medication was contaminated with a fungus.

A senior lawmaker and consumer advocates are raising questions about Medicare's role, including an apparent lack of coordination between Medicare and the FDA, the two most powerful agencies within the federal Health and Human Services Department.

In response, a department spokesman says Congress needs to provide the FDA with stronger powers.

The meningitis outbreak has called attention to the role of compounding pharmacies in supplying medications routinely used by hospitals and doctors to treat patients. Regulated primarily by states, the pharmacies specialize in customizing doses for individual patients who have allergies to ingredients in an FDA-approved drug, or who might need a smaller dosage than what's available commercially. But some pharmacies have pushed into full-scale manufacturing.

Medicare has long been aware of the risks.

"By compounding drugs on a large scale, a company may be operating as a drug manufacturer within the meaning of (federal law), without complying with requirements of that law," Medicare's coverage manual, a reference for contractors that handle payments, says in a section dealing with compounded drugs.

That situation, adds the manual, fails Medicare's basic standard, that treatments must be "reasonable and necessary" in order to be covered. "This means, in the case of drugs, the FDA must approve them for marketing," says the manual.

It goes on to say that billing contractors should wait for instructions from Medicare before cutting off payment in specific cases where the FDA has determined that a company is producing compounded drugs in violation of the law.

"Medicare indicates in its own policy documents that it can cut off payments for compounded drugs produced under manufacturing-like conditions," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who over the years has pushed for stronger government oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.

"Medicare should explain whether it uses this step, and if not, why not. Every avenue for explaining how this health crisis occurred and preventing others like it needs exploration," he added.

Joyce Lovelace of Albany, Ky., says she doesn't understand how the outbreak could have happened. Eddie Lovelace, her husband of 55 years, died of a stroke after receiving injections of the steroid implicated in the outbreak as a treatment for pain from an auto accident.

"I'm 100 percent behind not paying ... whether it's Medicare, Blue Cross, or whatever," she said. "Somebody dropped the ball and as a result my husband is gone." Eddie Lovelace, 78, a long-serving judge, was still working at the time of his death and Medicare was not his primary insurance.

Medicare officials are looking into whether the program paid for drugs that have sickened patients.

"If the FDA determines a company is producing compounded drugs in violation of (federal law), Medicare will not reimburse for drugs produced in that facility," said HHS spokesman Tait Sye. "The FDA's regulatory authority over compounding pharmacies is more limited by statute than it is for typical drug manufacturers. We urge Congress to strengthen the FDA's authority."

FDA records show that in 2006 the agency issued a warning letter to the New England Compounding Center for producing anesthetic creams, but officials were unable to say if Medicare was alerted.

In a separate case, Medicare seems to have taken sweeping action on its own without much prodding from the FDA. In 2007, Medicare stopped coverage for compounded inhalation drugs used to treat lung disease.

"Compounded drugs are not considered interchangeable with FDA-approved products," said an information bulletin at the time from Noridian, a major Medicare payment contractor. "The absence of testing for safety and effectiveness has the potential of putting a patient at increased risk of injury, illness or death."

Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen's health research group, says Medicare's policy on compounded drugs seems "internally contradictory."

"They do appear to have a policy for which the default setting is that Medicare does not cover drugs that have not been approved by the FDA," said Carome. "That essentially applies to many, if not all, drugs made by compounding pharmacies."

Medicare's defenders say the agency may be reluctant to act for a number of reasons. Cutting off compounding pharmacies could aggravate drug shortages. Also it could open Medicare to a political counterattack from industry, even charges of rationing.

But Carome, a physician who once served in an HHS regulatory office, says the alternative is that compounding will continue with little federal oversight and recurring outbreaks.

If Medicare had expanded its compounding crackdown beyond just lung disease medications, "that might have prevented the widespread use of these drugs," Carome said. "Without coverage, things don't get used."

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Top 10 Items that Should Be Listed in an IEP | Special Education & IEP Advisor

Top 10 Items that Should Be Listed in an IEP | Special Education & IEP Advisor.

We all know how important it is to have an IEP that addresses our child?s Academic, Developmental and Functional needs; to ensure they are appropriately prepared for an independent future.? Therefore, as parents, we have to make sure our child?s IEP includes the necessary information to prepare them for life after high school.? The results of your child?s most recent assessments, report cards, state tests, school personnel and parent input will assist the team in developing an appropriate IEP.

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Getting Candida/Yeast in the lower regions ... - Health and fitness

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Why It Did Take So Long For Companion Cube Ice Trays?

Who knew that slapping a heart on the side of a 3D rendered cube would turn it into one of the most beloved video game characters of the past five years? Definitely not Valve, otherwise the developer would have had this Companion Cube Ice Tray on the market ages ago. More »

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Key player in Parkinson's disease neuron loss pinpointed

ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2012) ? By reprogramming skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients with a known genetic mutation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified damage to neural stem cells as a powerful player in the disease. The findings, reported online October 17th in Nature, may lead to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease.

The scientists found that a common mutation to a gene that produce the enzyme LRRK2, which is responsible for both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease, deforms the membrane surrounding the nucleus of a neural stem cell. Damaging the nuclear architecture leads to destruction of these powerful cells, as well as their decreased ability to spawn functional neurons, such as the ones that respond to dopamine.

The researchers checked their laboratory findings with brain samples from Parkinson's disease patients and found the same nuclear envelope impairment.

"This discovery helps explain how Parkinson's disease, which has been traditionally associated with loss of neurons that produce dopamine and subsequent motor impairment, could lead to locomotor dysfunction and other common non-motor manifestations, such as depression and anxiety," says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, who led the research team. "Similarly, current clinical trials explore the possibility of neural stem cell transplantation to compensate for dopamine deficits. Our work provides the platform for similar trials by using patient-specific corrected cells. It identifies degeneration of the nucleus as a previously unknown player in Parkinson's."

Although the researchers say that they don't yet know whether these nuclear aberrations cause Parkinson's disease or are a consequence of it, they say the discovery could offer clues about potential new therapeutic approaches.

For example, they were able to use targeted gene-editing technologies to correct the mutation in patient's nuclear stem cells. This genetic correction repaired the disorganization of the nuclear envelope, and improved overall survival and functioning of the neural stem cells.

They were also able to chemically inhibit damage to the nucleus, producing the same results seen with genetic correction. "This opens the door for drug treatment of Parkinson's disease patients who have this genetic mutation," says Belmonte.

The new finding may also help clinicians better diagnose this form of Parkinson's disease, he adds. "Due to the striking appearance in patient samples, nuclear deformation parameters could add to the pool of diagnostic features for Parkinson's disease," he says.

The research team, which included scientists from China, Spain, and the University of California, San Diego, and Scripps Research Institute, made their discoveries using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells are similar to natural stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells, except that they are derived from adult cells. While generation of these cells has raised expectations within the biomedical community due to their transplant potential -- the idea that they could morph into tissue that needs to be replaced -- they also provide exceptional research opportunities, says Belmonte.

"We can model disease using these cells in ways that are not possible using traditional research methods, such as established cell lines, primary cultures and animal models," he says.

In this study, the researchers used skin fibroblast cells taken from Parkinson's disease patients who have the LRRK2 mutation, and they reprogrammed them to iPSC stem cells and developed them into neural stem cells.

Then, by using an approach to model what happens when these neural stem cells aged, they found that older Parkinson disease neural stem cells increasingly displayed deformed nuclear envelopes and nuclear architecture. "This means that, over time, the LRRK2 mutation affects the nucleus of neural stem cells, hampering both their survival and their ability to produce neurons," Belmonte says.

"It is the first time to our knowledge that human neural stem cells have been shown to be affected during Parkinson's pathology due to aberrant LRRK2," he says. "Before development of these reprogramming technologies, studies on human neural stem cells were elusive because they needed to be isolated directly from the brain."

Belmonte speculates that the dysfunctional neural stem cell pools that result from the LRRK2 mutation might contribute to other health issues associated with this form of Parkinson's disease, such as depression, anxiety and the inability to detect smells.

Finally, the study shows that these reprogramming technologies are very useful for modeling disease as well as dysfunction caused by aging, Belmonte says.

The research was supported by Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, Sanofi, The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Ellison Medical Foundation and Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, MINECO and Fundacion Cellex.

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1. Guang-Hui Liu, Jing Qu, Keiichiro Suzuki, Emmanuel Nivet, Mo Li, Nuria Montserrat, Fei Yi, Xiuling Xu, Sergio Ruiz, Weiqi Zhang, Ulrich Wagner, Audrey Kim, Bing Ren, Ying Li, April Goebl, Jessica Kim, Rupa Devi Soligalla, Ilir Dubova, James Thompson, John Yates III, Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban, Ignacio Sancho-Martinez, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte. Progressive degeneration of human neural stem cells caused by pathogenic LRRK2. Nature, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nature11557

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Ally Financial latest U.S. bank to face cyber attack

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