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It is amazing how many important parts are in the human body. You might already know the most essential parts of your body. However, did you know that many experts say a human body is made up of 57% to 60% water?  Knowing this fact, it is probably easier to understand why it is crucial to make sure your elderly loved one is staying hydrated. Some studies show an adult person loses about 80 ounces of water every single day just by partaking in their daily tasks. These studies also show that elderly people can become dehydrated much easier than other adults. In fact, dehydration is one of the leading reasons elderly people visit the hospital each year. This is one reason why it is so important for your elderly loved one to stay hydrated. Keep reading to learn more about dehydration in the elderly.

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I can’t count the number of businesses I’ve visited who have been given a ‘system’ to use by their consultants.
But I do know it’s the the exact same number who haven’t a clue as to how to use the system they’ve been given. This is obviously not their fault, but comes as a result of unrealistic expectations by them and their consultant.

One prospective Client even showed me a system that they had ‘procured’ from another company (still with the other company’s logo on it).

Just to make it clear, there is no advantage of having a folder full of blank forms – this won’t get any points in court if a claim or prosecution is taken against the company.

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This approach is only possible if some kind of prioritisation exercise has been carried out first.

Many of us call this a’ General Risk Assessment’. With this in your back pocket, all of the efforts to reduce risk should be focussed on your highest risks – and the consultant should provide the systems, forms etc for those items alone.

When you take your car to a garage, they don’t give you a folder with every possible fault that our car could develop – akin to giving you an old ‘Haynes Maintenance Manual’ they give you a succinct list of what needs doing and how they intend to help you. It should be the same with health and safety.

  • Health and safety consultants can help you analyse your company’s compliance, and then prioritise what needs doing first.
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  • Ask a prospective consultancy how they intend to prioritise their recommendations so that you can plan any remedial work in stages.
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I work with individuals and organizations seeking to improve the health and well-being of residents in their communities. I am the main point of contact for western North Carolina, but I am also involved with several statewide health initiatives. One significant aspect of my work is forging true partnerships with institutional structures and grassroots groups.

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The new Kalahandi: a summary of its progress and rice production

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Following report is from http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-new-kalahandi/1126780/0

Standing in his paddy field that glistened in the afternoon sun, farmer Gouranga Rana had his worries: What would happen to his bumper harvest? Would he be able to sell it at the minimum support price announced by the state government? But the FCI godown was already full.

These are concerns any farmer would have. What makes Rana’s problem—and that of others in Bandigaon village in Jaypatna block—a happy one is that his village is part of Kalahandi, once a name that stood for hunger in one of the country’s most deprived regions. Now, as the Union Agriculture Ministry announced last month, Kalahandi ranks among the top 25 rice-producing districts of India.

Till the early 2000s, starvation deaths and distress migration were the norm here, with reports of families in distress selling off their children. One of the cases that made headlines was in 1985, when a 14-year-old tribal girl, Bonita, was sold by her sister-in-law, Phanas Punji, for Rs 40 so that she could feed her two starving children. Shocked, then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited the district and announced a development package called the KBK (Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput) Development Scheme for the district. Like all government packages, this scheme was forgotten as funds dried up.

The change came in the form of the Upper Indravati Multipurpose Project, first conceived of in 1987-88. Since 2000, water from the project has reached six of the 13 blocks of Kalahandi, leaving in its wake green fields that this district could once only dream of. Of Kalahandi’s cultivated area of 1.9 lakh hectares, the project irrigates over 76,400 hectares. There are plans to extend the project to cover an additional 6,000 hectares in Golamunda block.

Kalahandi farmers now have two crop seasons every year. “It’s an unbelievable change. Nothing short of a miracle,” says Orissa’s Director of Agriculture and Food Production R Sant Gopalan who, till a few years ago, was the district magistrate of Kalahandi. “It shows what government irrigation and improved farm input can do to the fortunes of a region despised for its backwardness.”

“Water was all that Kalahandi needed and once it came, there was no looking back,” says Ashok Patnaik of local NGO Karrtabya.

Rana would know. Till about 12 years ago, Rana’s father used to get a meagre harvest of 23 quintals of paddy during monsoons on their six-acre land. “It was tough for us to survive then,” says Rana. Last year, he harvested around 60 quintals from his land during the rabi season alone despite pest attacks. “Now I have a pucca house. I can afford good education for my children,” says Rana, who has studied till class XII.

Like several thousand farmers in Kalahandi, he now grapples with a problem of plenty. The three-year average of Kalahandi’s rice production ending 2010-11 was 4,68,000 tonnes, compared with the three-year average of 82,000 tonnes for 1998-99. The year 2012-13 saw a new high, with rice production in the kharif season touching 4.89 lakh tonnes, with rabi expected to yield another 1.85 lakh tonnes, making it a total of 6.74 lakh tonnes, a record for Kalahandi so far. The per hectare yield in Kalahandi in 2012-13 has crossed 40 quintals, compared to the modest state average of 34.88 quintals.

With lush paddy fields on either side, a drive along the leafy stretch of National Highway No. 201 as it passes through Junagarh block is a pleasure, even in the searing summer. The picture isn’t any different in the blocks of Jaypatna, Koksara and Dharmagarh.

Chaitanya Nayak of Bandigaon village harvested 140 quintals of paddy on his seven acres in the last rabi season, double his produce in the previous kharif season. Ten years ago, he would have probably migrated out in search of a job. Nayak, a matriculate, says, “Earlier, we would often go hungry during the rabi season. Now most of the houses have refrigerators, coolers, dish antenna and motorcycles. In the last 10 years, I don’t remember seeing a dry paddy field in my area,” says Nayak, who rides a Hero Passion motorcycle and does aquaculture in a small pond besides his house. With water available in plenty, all the 300-odd families in Bandigaon have taken to farming in a big way.

Kalahandi’s transformation into the state’s rice-bowl has led to reverse migration, with rich farmers from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh now putting their money in the district’s fertile tracts. G Sreenu from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh owns 20 acres in Dulukibandh village of Kalampur block and last year, reaped 1,100 quintals of paddy. He now has a three-bedroom house on the main road.

There are other visible signs of change. Last year, the first government engineering college came up in Kalahandi, one of only a dozen in the state.

District collector Govind Sethi says he has no doubt that the change is for real. “Though we will have to wait for the latest Census results to validate the change, the signs are all there. More children go to school, the district has seen more progress in education. The focus has shifted from hunger to better things,” he says.

Farm mechanisation has also taken off in a big way. Kalahandi has more power tillers (2,500) than any other Orissa district. With labourers in short supply, farmers are now renting expensive combined harvesters for Rs 2,300 an hour to harvest paddy.

As Kalahandi’s new fame has spread out, traders from Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are bringing in hundreds of automated paddy threshers to the district. From a handful of rice processing mills 10 years ago, now there are 82 active rice mills in Kalahandi. With so much paddy being produced, FCI, which had one paddy procurement centre in 1996, now has 50 centres in the district.

Kalahandi’s Congress MP Bhakta Charan Das, who is credited with getting water from Indravati to the district’s fields, says the success in farm production, coupled with more government spending in the roads and health sectors, have helped Kalahandi turn the corner. It also helped that the state government pitched in with crop loans and supplied quality seeds.

“The kind of poverty we had 15 years ago now seems a distant memory. Almost all the villages have good roads under government schemes. Most people have two-wheelers and every other house would have a dish antenna. Starvation is a thing of the past,” says Das. Besides, there are 10-12 branches of nationalised and private banks in the blocks. Prosperous blocks like Junagarh and Jaypatna now boast of half-a-dozen automobile showrooms.

Kalahandi’s long wait for a railway link with the state capital got over last year with a 30-km track between Lanjigarh and the main headquarter town of Bhawanipatna. Das now hopes the Bhawanipatna-Junagarh link would be through soon, giving farmers in the Junagarh sub-division a chance to take their produce by trains and get a better deal.

Rana, the farmer in Jaypatna block, says people in Kalahandi now have the blessing of “two Indras”. “There is Lord Indra during monsoons and then the Indravati project in the winter and summer seasons. We are indeed blessed.”

Jayalal Padhi, deputy director of agriculture of Junagarh sub-division, the area which has benefited the most from the project, recounts how his friends used to tease him as “Kalahandia” (man from Kalahandi) during his college days in neighbouring Bolangir district. “We used to be embarrassed then. Now if someone calls us Kalahandia, it’s a matter of pride,” he says.

 The Indravati project

Though initially estimated at Rs 208 crore in 1987-88, the project which dams the Indravati river and its tributaries to form a massive reservoir atop the mountains in Thuamul-Rampur block of Kalahandi, has now escalated to more than Rs 3,000 crore.

From the reservoir, water is transferred to Hati river in the Mahanadi river basin which then irrigates six of the 13 blocks of Kalahandi through a maze of canals and sub-canals running to hundreds of kilometres. The construction of the 52 km-long main left canal from the project’s barrage at Mangalpur ended in December last year while the main right canal with a length of 84 km is expected to end by March 2015.

 Green, but how green?

The water gushing into Kalahandi’s fields has brought with it problems of a different kind. While earlier, farmers used to grow pulses and millets such as ragi during the rabi season, most of them now grow only paddy throughout the year. “Kalahandi can have 35-40 types of crops a year. But the lack of crop diversification has led to a decline in soil quality and texture. So farmers have to use more fertilisers to retain productivity levels,” says Ashok Patnaik of local NGO Karrtabya.

Though more water has led to more productivity, it has also made the crops vulnerable to pest attacks and diseases. “For small farmers like us, it is difficult to survive by spending so much on paddy. Every year we have to deal with some kind of diseases,” says marginal farmer Uddhaba Sahu of Mangalpur village.

With labourers preferring to work under NREGA, farmhands are in short supply. Farmers like Sahu say they can’t afford the steep cost of automated farm equipment. Rising paddy production has also meant that farmers are forced to sell their produce below the minimum support price of Rs 1,250 for every quintal of paddy.

Without a planned drainage system, some areas face waterlogging. For the last several years, Indravati project officials had no schedule for water discharge and they continued to release water even when farmers did not need it. But this has been resolved to an extent since last year, with water flowing through canals and sub-canals. With fields hardly left to dry due to the continous irrigation, the area stinks during the monsoon as people defecate in the open.

Rising mechanisation has also led to a sharp drop in livestock population. With depleting livestock, farmers are dumping the straw into the irrigation canals, choking them.

The Land Ceiling Act has not stopped rich farmers from Andhra Pradesh from coming to Kalahandi and buying up lands of small and marginal farmers whom the irrigation project was meant to benefit. With farm input costs going up, many fear that small-time farmers would end up selling their land to the land sharks.

Officials say Kalahandi can be among India’s top-10 rice producing districts and yet not lose its soil quality if farmers are open to newer methods of cultivation. “One modern system of rice-growing is the System of Rice Intensification. Under SRI, farmers sow a small number of seeds and then transplant them into fields one by one, while controlling the water input. Through SRI, the productivity can go up by 30-40 per cent,” says Orissa’s Director of Agriculture and Food Production R Sant Gopalan.

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I’ve had my eye on The Last ever since I first heard about it back in June 2018, it was advertised as an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set at the end of the world. It sounded amazing, and it did not disappoint!

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BREAKING: Nuclear weapon detonates over Washington

BREAKING: London hit, thousands feared dead.

BREAKING: Munich and Scotland hit. World leaders call for calm.

Jon Keller was on a trip to Switzerland when the world ended. More than anything he wishes he hadn’t ignored his wife Nadia’s last message. Twenty people remain in Jon’s hotel. Far from the nearest city, they wait, they survive.

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The Last is a cross between a modern-day Agatha Christie novel and The Walking Dead (minus the zombies), with a splash of Bird Box (in one part where they journey to find food, it had me nervous as hell!), and it was all kinds of brilliant. The cold climate of Switzerland, the isolation of the hotel, twenty people remaining and a murderer amongst them – now, there’s a winning formula for a book! And, Jameson totally delivered on this one, a must read for fans of murder mysteries and dystopian fiction.

Narrated by Jon, in journal-like fashion, he does his best to be objective in his writing, because someone has to document the end of the world, the end of civilization. The reader is privy to his murder investigation, and the survival of those left at the hotel. In order to be as detailed as he can, Jon gathers information on as many of the remaining hotel guests as he can. What was great was the varied mix of the remaining guests; at various points throughout the book, most of the main characters are called into question – what are they hiding?

It was interesting to see how this group of people chose to govern themselves, who they looked to for a leader, and how they tried to keep the peace, and keep themselves safe. The Last is cleverly plotted, it has this constant sense of unease to it, you’re never entirely sure if Jon, or the characters who become your favourite, are safe – and you’re never entirely sure if the threat is from outside or in.

While the murder mystery may be at the heart of this novel, the end of the world makes a bloody great backdrop! This novel will have you invested and engaged, it reads fluidly, with dark undertones; but, there’s also this harshness to it, this acceptance that times are different now, and certain behaviours are acceptable, and necessary.

Do you ever read a book, and one line, more than any other, jumps out at you and you have to make a note of it? In this novel, it was something Jon mentioned in relation to his family:

“If you don’t make the decision to love, every day, it’s an easy thing to forget.”

With today’s governments, you can’t 100% rule out a nuclear war; you never think the end of the world is coming, but if it does, will you be ready for it?

This book is available to buy from: Amazon UK / Book Depository

*My thanks to Penguin Books UK (Viking) for providing me with a copy of this book*

27 thoughts on “Book Review: The Last by Hanna Jameson

  1. I really liked the journal style of the story, and how the characters acted – was quite realistic i think.
    Where it fell flat for me was the mystery. I kinda thought there will be more emphasis on that.
    Great review!

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“Sometimes broken shoes and tattered clothes can tell us beautiful stories!”

February 16, 2018

Last night it rained. I was still watching television so it was early. The rain was intermittent. It was the last thing I heard before I fell asleep.

I have had a few false starts this morning. First I wrote about obituaries. The one of the woman described as loving to shop had caught my eye. I wondered if she’d approve of that legacy. I wrote about the man who bowled, his favorite pastime, and wondered about my own obituary, but then I got stuck so I stopped, thought a bit then went on to another subject. Yearbooks were next. I always felt bad for the kids with nothing under their pictures. They spent four years of high school being phantoms. From there I jumped to still waters run deep, the classic description of the shy kid no one knew well. At that point I stopped and deleted what I’d written. I began again.

Today is still. Not a branch is moving. Even the dead leaves on the oak trees are still. The sky is white cloudy. The bare pine branches stand stark against the light sky and look almost like fingers grasping for something. It will be a warm day, the last warm day before the cold comes back tomorrow. Snow is possible at the beginning of the new week.

My broken bone has been the perfect excuse to do nothing. I still can’t lift anything if it has any weight. The downside, though, is trying to read a hardcover book in bed. I rest it on the bed and hold it with my left hand but then I have trouble turning the pages. I gave up after a short while.

I thought I was at the stage of my life where I didn’t really need anything new. Old clothes are comfortable and old shoes fit my feet best of all. I wear a sweatshirt during the day to stay cozy and most of them are so old they’ve lost their shape. I do save a few good ones to wear in the world at large mostly because I don’t want to be the eccentric old lady wearing tattered, misshapen clothes who mumbles to herself in the grocery store. Now I can add a new shirt to my ensemble. I bought two flannel shirts on sale. Both have  patterns in muted colors. They are warm enough for days like today, in the 40’s; however, they don’t help with the mumbling.

“Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.”

February 9, 2018

The sky is cloudy but bright. It is only 31˚, but the next three days will be warm. The prediction is for 48˚ each day. That’s almost tanning weather, no sunscreen necessary. Maybe a road trip is in order to take advantage of the warmth. I’ll open my car window and take in the sweet smell of the clean air.

Since the winter solstice, we have gained an hour of sunlight. It makes me hopeful that winter’s end is not so far away. February, though, is sometimes the snowiest month. I’ll just keep my knit hat and mittens handy.

In summer, the trees surrounding my deck are lit with candles hanging off the branches. In the backyard, solar lights shaped like flowers glow and a few strands of white lights are twisted around tree trunks. I always think my yard a fairyland, especially in July when the fireflies return and twinkle among the trees. Now, in the bleak winter, the one strand of lights around the deck fence has stopped shining. I need to replace it. I always love looking out the back window and seeing those lights.

I always think it is the darkness of winter which palls the spirit so I do my best to compensate. I keep white candles lit in the front windows, and their light shines across the dark lawn. This year I left my Christmas lights lit in the front. One is a giant star with a trail of lights. The others are multicolored. My neighbor across the street has called to thank me for leaving the lights shining. She said she loves looking out the window at my house.

Winter is my time of memories, of introspection. I don’t add much to my story, but I recall to mind the best parts. I smile a lot at the images in my mind’s eye. My journeys, my explorations, are the brightest memories.

During my travels, I learned a few things. I hate washing clothes by hand. I decided that for any trip of great length I’d pack ragtag underwear which I can just throw away. It isn’t a big deal for me to find any. I can just check my bureau drawer. The rest of my clothes can get so grungy they can walk away by themselves. I won’t care. I’m not washing them. I learned never to ask what I’m eating.  Many of the traditional foods are pets here, like the guinea pig in Ecuador. I think I can eat just about anything as long as I don’t know what it is and it isn’t slimy. Bras are a great place for hiding money. I had my pocket picked when I was at a train station in Ghana. I’d like that thief to try it now. Toilet paper, always carry toilet paper. Sometimes you get stuck and have to rush, and those hole in the ground toilets don’t have toilet paper. Just imagine. The middle of the bus and a seat near the window are usually the best. The aisle fills with standing people who hold on for dear life as the bus goes around corners but sometimes they fall, into the aisle seats. The front and the back of the bus are where people sit with their chickens or goats. Eat where there is a line, especially street food. Don’t shy away. It’s sometimes the best and is usually the cheapest. If everything pales compared to home, just stay home.

“Killing time is not an easy job.”

January 29, 2018

The sun is on vacation. Every day is dark and cloudy.

The sides of the street were wet this morning so it must have rained during the night. It is also going to rain this afternoon, and later the rain will be replaced by a few stray snowflakes. Tomorrow has the same forecast. A total of one to two inches is expected.

The world is catching up with me. I prefer cocooning, but sometimes I have no choice but to go out. Today I have errands, those mundane little chores which I generally eschew. Actually, I have a few days worth of errands. Little stickies are all over the house reminding me what I need, and the stickies have no room to grow. I’d much rather rummage through the cabinets and the freezer than go grocery shopping, but I need to get some cat food Maddie might eat. I cooked the last of the chicken for her this morning, and I could also buy a few groceries for me, quick foods which take little effort to cook. I need to go to the hardware store for some strange round light bulbs for the upstair’s hall light and I want nails for hanging pictures. The last stop will be the library to return and pick up books. I can’t successfully cocoon without books, without diversions to help pass the time.

I have been going to bed late, usually no earlier than two. It’s just a weird phase. I read, watch TV or play around on the computer. I’ve found the late night commercials are the worst. I figure stations think they have a captured audience so they throw on all the locally produced ads and the infomercials. Many of these late ads tout the talents of local attorneys who guarantee a pay day or you owe them nothing. Last night I saw two of these commercials, over and over. The stars of each were the attorneys themselves. In one, the attorney wore a suit and a cowboy hat, a really big cowboy hat. In this part of the country, cowboys are rare, practically nonexistent, so I wondered why the hat. I was speculating about it so much I never did hear the commercial. I figured the attorney was trying to be folksy or maybe he was thinking metaphor and hoped we’d jump to him corralling the bad guys. After all, the hat was white. But then again, I might just be giving him far too much credit. The second attorney had fake hair, a rug which looked a bit like a helmet. He sat at his desk, looked right into the camera and was heartfelt. He had clients give testimony to his skills and talents. My favorite client was an old lady who waxed eloquently about her experiences with the firm. She said they were more than attorneys. They were human beings. I’m still laughing.

“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”

January 23, 2018

The weather today is much like yesterday’s except we have a wind strong enough to whip the top branches of the scrub pines, and it has started to rain. I have to go out later so I hope the rain is short-lived.

When I was a kid, I seldom stepped over the line, but I did walk it. In school, during part of the eighth grade, I sat by the windows. The bookcases were under the windows and beside my desk. They were my hiding spots. I kept my transistor radio there and a few pieces of candy. My favorite candies were Mint Julep and Banana Splits both of which were a bit chewy so they lasted longer. When I ate one, I’d hide behind a book so Sister Hildegarde couldn’t see me chewing. I wore one ear piece from my radio in the ear facing the window, away from view, but one day all that subterfuge didn’t matter. My worst fears were realized. I was chewing a spearmint candy and listening to the radio when Sister Hildegarde called on me. I managed to spit the candy into my hand but didn’t have time to pull the ear piece without getting caught. I stood up, as we always did, when called upon. Sister Hildegarde noticed the ear piece. I figured I was doomed, but I wasn’t. Sister Hildegarde thought it was a hearing aid and wanted to know if she was speaking loud enough for me to hear. With a giant sigh of relief, I said she was. If it had been any other nun, I would had to wear that ear piece all year, but, luckily, it was Sister Hildegarde. She forgot.

In my senior year of high school, my desk in English class was right next to the backdoor of the classroom. That proved to be far too much of a temptation. I sneaked out that door more than a few times. I even convinced my friend to join me. It wasn’t that I had anywhere else else go. I just couldn’t resist the challenge. I still don’t understand why Mrs. Baker didn’t notice the sudden appearance of an empty desk and sometimes two empty desks.

Ironically, for a long time, I was a high school assistant principal in charge of discipline. It was at the same high school I had attended. Every time I did some corridor walking I walked by that back door, I always chuckled a bit.

“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?”

January 20, 2018

The day is warmer than it has been. The little snow left is melting. It’s cloudy and breezy. I did go out yesterday and got my errands done so today is an around the house day. That laundry I keep talking about is still upstairs and needs to come downstairs to get washed.  I put that on the maybe list.

Last night I used the sleeve of my sweatshirt to dust the bottom shelf of the desk. It had so much dust I could have written a whole novel, okay maybe a short story, in the dust the same way Clean Me is often written on cars’ back windows. I then moved to dust around the TV. I even did the remotes. I stopped there before the dusting could take hold of me.

I get absorbed into tasks which then lead to other tasks which then go on and on with me in a bit of a frenzy. The dusting in here would have led to the living room and then the dining room and kitchen. From there I’d move on to sweeping floors and wet mopping the kitchen floor. I wouldn’t just go to bed when I was done. I’d change sheets first.

The couch in here, the den, isn’t all that old, but Fern used it to sharpen her claws so the stuffing is popping up behind the pillows, but I’m the only one who knows because the white stuffing is hidden by the pillows. Gracie slept in the same spot on the couch, but I have washed the couch covers many times. I know I’ll have to break down and buy a new couch, but the problem is you never just put in a new couch. Instead, there is the domino effect. The three baskets under the large metal table here will have to be cleaned out. Books will go down to the cellar to make the room less cluttered, but I’ll have to put up shelves for those books and clean the cellar to make room for the shelves. I’ll need a dumpster. The cellar is the repository of anything I no longer use. Most of what’s there can be tossed, but I’ll have to hire someone for the heavier stuff, maybe a couple of someones. I’ll need bins for storage on those shelves which I don’t have yet. I’ll probably need hooks from the ceiling for my bike and some of the more awkward items.

First I dusted then I wet mopped then I bought a new couch. After that, I winnowed stuff from the baskets in this room and finally moved on to reorganizing and cleaning the cellar; however, all of that, except for the dusting, is from my imagination where I choose to keep it because winter is not the time for cleaning. That would be in spring. Until then I’m very good at doing nothing and waiting, especially the doing nothing part.

“It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.”

January 14, 2018

No doubt about it. Winter is here. The day is cold, a biting, damp cold, and it will get even colder tonight. When I went to get the papers, there were snow flurries, and they’re still around, small flakes from the north. It is a dark, cloudy, snowy day, the sort of day which gives winter a bad name. When I was a kid, I’d stay in all day near the hissing radiator. I’d color at the kitchen table or lie in my bed and read. I’d be wearing my flannel pajamas and slipper socks. Okay, I admit that it even sounds a lot like me now. I’m talking flannel bottoms, a sweatshirt on top and new slipper socks. Add a coloring book, and I could be ten again. I guess cozy doesn’t change much over the years.

Tonight is game night. We’ll play our two games, Sorry and Phase 10, and we’ll eat something while we’re playing and then we’ll have dessert after the games. Rumor has it we may be noshing on tacos. I’m doing the dessert this week, and I’m thinking chocolate pudding. I have all the ingredients and even have heavy cream. After the games, we watch The Amazing Race saved from Wednesday. It was always on Sundays before this so we maintain the tradition of games, food, the Race and dessert.

Poor Maddie got called Fern and Gracie this morning. She didn’t seem to care. That name mixup reminded me of my mother who used to take care of her younger brothers, Jack and Joe, long before she was married. If she wanted our attention or wanted us to stop what we were doing, she sometimes went through a litany of names to get to us. She’d say Jack, I mean Joe, I mean Kat. I never took offense.

My niece just posted pictures and videos of her two boys, ages 5 and 3, on Christmas morning. The older one stood in the entry way to the living room with his mouth wide open when he saw the toys left by Santa. He was amazed. I remember those days of walking downstairs on Christmas morning and seeing the lit tree surrounded by toys and gifts. It is one of the wonders of the world.

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

January 8, 2018

The day was sunny when I first woke up. It’s cloudy now, but it’s warm so I’m fine with the clouds. The temperature is above freezing. I can hear the drips of the melting snow from the roof. They sound like rain.

This is the week of the January thaw, earlier than usual. Each new day will get progressively warmer and by Friday it will be 50˚. My mind can’t fathom 50˚ after this last week which forever changed my definition of cold. I got to the point where 8˚ felt warm.

Today is tackle the tree day. It is still lit and decorated and is the last remnant of Christmas. The living room is drab and dark without it. Winter, with its early nights and late dawnings, is back, but there is some consolation. The cold air gives the night clarity. The light of the moon shines on the snow, and stars blanket the sky. Everything is perfectly still. Lights from windows arc across the snow. Smoke curls from chimneys, and sometimes I can smell wood burning. I stand outside and brave the cold just to take in the night.

My street has no streetlights. Sometimes it can be so dark the house across the street disappears. I keep lit candles in my front windows all the time. They are but a small break in the darkness.

When I was a kid, I always greeted the first star, “Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.” Even now that wish just jumps into my head. I’d hate to outgrow believing in things I can’t see.

I haven’t been out in a while to go anywhere. The cold has kept me inside the house. I’ve read, watched TV, napped and saved recipes I’ll never make from magazines.

After days when we were stuck inside because of the weather, my mother would demand we go out and get fresh air. I never thought to question the importance of getting fresh air. I just bundled up and went out. I was much older before I realized my mother’s fresh air fetish was really a bid by her to stay sane. She had four kids who whined constantly about being bored after only two days stuck inside the house. She needed relief and it came under the guise of fresh air. I can still hear her. It was never go out and get some air. It was always go out and get fresh air. I don’t know why, but I love this memory.

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”

December 24, 2017

Last night it rained, but it’s still cloudy. The clouds, though, are light and give hope for a bit of sun. Yesterday I made my orange cookies and today is lemon squares. That’s it for the day except to shower and get ready for tonight’s festivities.

When I was a kid, this was an endless day. I remember us begging our mother to let us go to bed around 5:30. We figured the night would pass quickly if we were asleep. We never got to test that theory as we never went to bed so early. After dinner my mother always let us open a present on Christmas Eve. We didn’t have a choice as to which one we opened. We moaned and groaned because we always had to open the new pajamas. Under the tree were more presents but they were hands off until the morning.

A Christmas Carol was usually on TV, and we watched it every year. That’s where my love for the movie began. The TV screen was small and the movie was in black and white, but it was still magical as Scrooge was helped by the ghosts to see joy in Christmas and his connections to other people. I remember being older and reading A Christmas Carol and feeling as if it was an old friend I’d read often.

Dinner was no big thing on Christmas Eve. None of us was really all that hungry for regular food. We ate cookies, as many as we could get away with. My mother put hard Christmas candies in a dish on the table. The pieces were sticky and some were stuck together. That was a good excuse to eat a couple at a time. The candy didn’t last long.

Opening the pajamas signaled the start of our Christmas rituals. We’d run upstairs and put the pajamas on right away. Next was the hanging of the stockings on the stair rail. We did it by age with mine at the top, George’s next then Sheila’s then my sister Moe’s at the bottom. Sheila and Moe went to bed first. George and I went later. It took forever to fall asleep. We’d talk across the hall from one bedroom to another. I never remembered finally falling asleep. It just happened.

When I woke up on Christmas morning, it took a moment or two before I remembered it was Christmas. My parents had us wait until the four of us were awake then we raced down the stairs. Nothing is more spectacular than seeing the lit Christmas tree with the presents around it.

It doesn’t seem to matter how old I am. I still love Christmas. Under my tree are wrapped presents. I won’t open them until tomorrow. I might shake a few tonight!

Merry Christmas!

“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”

December 9, 2017

Today is cloudy and the rain has started again. When I took Gracie out at one, it had already rained a bit and was cold and damp. I expected a bit of snow when I woke up, but the cape is too warm so it’s raining. My sister, north of Boston, is getting snow. She says it’s pretty.

Yesterday the Christmas spirit took a short hiatus. I brought my ugly fake spruce pine tree up from the cellar one step at a time and put it in the dining room. First I uncovered it then I worked on the branches which had bent and given the tree more of a bush look. Ornaments had fallen to the bottom of the cover so I put them back on the tree. I plugged in the lights which always stay on the tree. They didn’t work. The strand had 200 lights and was intertwined in the branches. Getting the strand off was a monumental project which frustrated the heck out of me so I went with scissors and cut off the strand a piece at a time. I threw each piece to the kitchen floor accompanied by a few curses. I then put new lights on the tree. After the tree was lit, I sat and looked at it for a while. It was beautiful and worth all of that trouble.

Today is decorate the tree day, and I love to decorate my tree. First go on the lights then the garlands then the ornaments. Many of the ornaments carry a story. A few were needlepointed by my mother. One is a K for Kathleen and the three kings which are on the ornament. Another is Father Christmas holding a steaming pudding. Many of the ornaments came from my travels. Pinocchio came from Italy, the felt stars from Hungry, the tassels from Morocco, the fish from Portugal, a string puppet from England, old clip glass ornaments from Russia and round compounds and Black girls in bright cloth from Ghana. Glass ornaments from my childhood, some a bit scratched, go in prominent places. Other ornaments I found here and there, even in thrift shops. An ugly angel with wispy hair, a gift from mother, a circus lion tamer, a pink flamingo, Mark Twain, Sherlock Holmes and Peter Pan are some favorites which come to mind. One of my garlands made up of realistic pop corn and cranberries reminds me of Shauna, a boxer of mine, who ate the real popcorn off the tree by dragging the garland with her teeth.

Christmas is filled with warm memories.

“A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.”

December 4, 2017

It has already been a long day. Alexa woke me up at seven. I asked her for another half hour, and she obliged. I got up after the 7:30 Alexa call, got dressed and hit the road. Gracie had her second acupuncture appointment. She was good and stood patiently until it was over. It took about an hour. When we got home, she ate and I had coffee and read the paper. The morning was normal. Then I took a nap. Yup, a morning nap, and I just woke up, got another cup of coffee and turned on the TV. I’m watching Krampus. Nothing is better than a movie about a horned-beast at Christmas who punishes naughty children. That sure beats coal in the stocking.

Today has a muted sun hiding behind the clouds. Every now and then it appears and  brightens the day for a bit then the clouds take over again. At least it is warmish.

I did get a few things done yesterday, but I’m the only one who’d notice. The clean clothes piled on the rocking chair have disappeared. I carried them upstairs and put them away. The two bags of newspapers and the boxes which were by the front door are now in the trunk. I’ll bring them to the dump on Wednesday when it reopens. The kitchen floor and the hall are clean. I vacuumed. The pile of catalogues is greatly diminished. I went through most of them and ordered a few things on line. I’m sure, though, they’ll be plenty in today’s mail to take their places.

Last night was game night. This time I was a winner. At the last game night Tony and I won nothing. Clare won them all. Last night she won Phase 10, and I won two games of Sorry. Tony was stuck with the L on his forehead.

I’m going out later. Skip is coming tomorrow to do my outside lights so I need a few things: a spot light, a couple of wreaths and some lengths of pine garland for inside the house. Tomorrow, Skip and I will go and choose my tree so he can lug it inside and set it up for me. I’ll start decorating it and the house tomorrow.

I noticed last night that many houses have Christmas lights, more than usual this early.  Some houses are decked in all white lights, some are LED colored sets and others are regular colored bulbs. Mine will be a combination. The driveway fence already has a trail of white lights leading to a huge star. That is always lit to keep the darkness at bay. The front fence will have colored bulbs as will the deck rail in the back. One tree on the side of the house will have huge ornaments lit by a spotlight. An old sled will stand by the front door with ice skates draped on it. They’ll have regular lights.

Krampus is just about over now. It isn’t Hallmark, but it sort of had a happy ending. It just depends on your definition of happy.


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Central neuropathic pain after surgical resection in patients with spinal intramedullary tumor

Masaya Nakamura, Osahiko Tsuji, Akio Iwanami, Takashi Tsuji, Ken Ishii, Yoshiaki Toyama, Kazuhiro Chiba, Morio Matsumoto

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Study design Retrospective case series. Objective To examine central neuropathic pain after surgical resection of intramedullary spinal cord tumor (IMSCT). Summary of background data Because of the rarity of IMSCT, there is little information about postoperative neuropathic pain after surgical resection. Methods Eighty-five of 105 patients treated surgically for IMSCT at our hospital between 2000 and 2008 completed the Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory (NPSI) and the short form (SF)-36 health inventory. The NPSI score was analyzed against the tumor type and the postoperative Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score for neurological symptoms. Results The mean NPSI score of the patients was 13.5. The subscore for paresthesia/dysesthesia was significantly higher than the other subscores. Analysis of the NPSI scores by tumor type revealed no significant differences among patients with ependymoma, astrocytoma, and vascular tumors. The postoperative JOA score showed a weak negative correlation with the NPSI score in patients with thoracic spinal cord tumor, and no correlation in those with cervical tumor. In the 11 patients with hemangioblastoma, intense pain was reported at the level of the tumor, although postoperative paralysis was mild. All the postoperative SF-36 subscores of our study patients were significantly lower than the national average, and a significant negative correlation was observed between the SF-36 and the NPSI subscores. Conclusion Neuropathic pain after surgical resection reduces the QOL of patients with IMSCTs, and pain severity varies with the tumor's location and histological features, the severity of paralysis, and the location of pain relative to the tumor.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)352-357
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Orthopaedic Science
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Jul

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Surgery
  • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Carrot Cake

Ok so maybe it’s not really a carrot cake that you sink your teeth into.  And it doesn’t have nuts.  And it doesn’t have raisins. 🙂

But it is super healthy and it sure did taste like I was enjoying a carrot cake on an autoimmune protocol diet!
Many of my friends have seen me use carrot peels for many different things over the last few years.  I just hate the thought of wasting a perfectly good part of the veggie.  I actually have tried to just scrub my carrots  and chop them that way but…I don’t know…they just don’t taste the same not being peeled.  And I didn’t want all these great peels to just go to compost.  Especially since sweet hubby and I go back and forth on composting.  That is a conversation for another day for sure!!! Lol…
So back to carrot peels…
I have created fun fried carrot peels..roasted…etc…with lots of different seasoning ideas.  I have used them in soups…chopped them up finer and used them for slaws.   I have cooked them up and pureed them for muffins….or created an apple like sauces.
But my most recent realization came about due to laziness! I didn’t feel like cooking them up and getting anything dirty.  I was contemplating what I wanted to do with them as I was about to make a green shake and that’s when I thought…”hmmm…a carrot cake shake!”

Oh it was absolutely wonderful!  I blended together:
 about a handful of peels (if not more)
 hand full of spinach (but you can leave the green out if so be)….
tbsp of cinnamon (I really like cinnamon)…..
1 tsp ginger…..
1 tsp vanilla….
1/3 cup of full fat coconut milk…..
1/2 cup water…..
I think about 5-8 drops of stevia, it really just depends on how sweet you want it….
a scoop of collagen protein….
blend and YUM!!!

What a refreshing satisfying treat on a hot summer afternoon!

Have a fabulously delightful day!

Many hugs and blessings dear readers…family….friends…
~Kelly 🙂

2016: Simple Spirituality Goal

New Years Resolutions!

It seems like the number one (#1) resolution most people make is to LOSE WEIGHT!!

So here is a thought I have for everyone….

What if you make your NEW YEARS RESOLUTION about your SPIRITUALITY!?

What if we for 21 days reflect on a need, a prayer, a desire, a challenge, a change you want to make in your/our/my life!?

I know for me I have lots of things….lots of desires…lots of goals…lots of growth I would like to take to God to start my new year…..

I wrote many years ago about the power of fasting and the types of fasting.  I know from first hand experience how when you abandon your desires, your will, to God and pray for selfless petitions, pray for others, pray for God’s intervention….HE does amazing things!

So here is a thought…

Are you living up to who God made you to be?

What are some goals you really need to offer up to Him?

Where would you like to see your lifestyle grow this year?

When are you going to make the time to listen to HIS will?

How do you want God to work in your life for 2016?

7 years ago I experienced an amazing spiritual fast.  As I was petitioning prayers for my husband I experienced health benefits I never even anticipated or foresaw.

Over the course of 7 years I have learned more things about my health…my mind, body, soul connection.

I want to start my new year with the same simple spiritual goals I did 7 years ago!

What did I do 7 years ago?!

It was as simple as that.

Thus it doesn’t matter if you are Paleo, vegan, Mediterranean, whatever…..pick a journal…notebook…..something to write your desires, goals, prayers for 2016.  Make a detailed “contract” with God and stick to it for 21 days!

Did you know it takes 21 days to change a habit or make a habit….thus good or bad!?

Did you know it takes 40 days to “eradicate” an “infestation”?!

I plan on for 21 days…starting January 1st….to post on Facebook a bible scripture and a book title that has helped me with this journey of Health and Wellness that is about the WHOLE mind, body, soul experience.

I will also write here, on the blog, in more detail my daily journal-ling as promised in an upcoming post about my blogging goals for 2016.

Are you going to join me in this opportunity to connect with your Spirituality with simplicity through shakes, soup, and salad?!

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Non-Transit Science - Authorship and Architects

KELT Project architects

KELT is operated by a team of about a dozen people, ranging from students through senior personnel.  We have already released some of our data through the NASA Exoplanet Archive (see here), but much of our data is still being reduced and processed.  For all scientific uses of our unreleased data that are separate from transit discoveries of exoplanets, our project policy is that a set of architects who contributed to the project are eligible for co-authorship on resulting publications.  The list of those people is below.  If you are interested in using unreleased KELT data, you can contact Joshua Pepper and ask (make sure to check the KELT field distribution to see if we are likely to have light curves for the stars you are interested in). The way we normally work is that people ask for data, we provide it, and if the data are used in a publication, the paper draft needs to be sent to the KELT architect list with enough time for them to review the paper and email a request for authorship.  The authorship order is at the discretion of the lead author.

We come to this issue with a philosophy that all people who contribute to a project deserve authorship, and you can see that we follow that principle in our planet papers, with long author lists.  We realize that other people take different views, with expectations for limited author lists, and if you have concerns about this approach we can discuss ways to work together.

These individuals have co-authorship rights to all peer-reviewed publications that make use of unreleased KELT data, including lightcurves and images.

  • Scott Gaudi
  • Joshua Pepper
  • Keivan Stassun
  • Rob Siverd
  • Thomas Beatty
  • Joey Rodriguez
  • Dan Stevens
  • David James
  • Mike Lund
  • Rudi Kuhn
  • Dax Feliz

Any publications that make use of the compiled KELT catalog matched to 2MASS or Tycho should include Alex Arnold ( as a co-author.

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KELT Transit Search to conclude after 17 years of work

Mar 09

After 14 years of observations, 17 years since the project conception, 26 planets discovered, and dozens of papers, the KELT transit search is ending. This transition has been long-expected, since the NASA TESS mission has revolutionized the discovery of transiting exoplanets. We will continue observations by both KELT telescopes for as long as practical, since there is so much more science to be done outside of transit discovery. Thank you to everyone who supported the KELT project!

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KELT website receives Award of Distinction at the 25th Annual Communicator Awards

Jun 07

We are honored to have received the Award of Distinction at the 25th Annual Communicator Awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts for this website, together with our web design partners at 3twenty9 Design, LLC.

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New 'hot Jupiter' with short orbital period discovered

Jul 12

(—An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with a short orbital period of just three and a half days. The newly detected giant planet, designated KELT-20b, circles a rapidly rotating star known as HD 185603 (or KELT-20). The finding was presented in a paper published July 5 on

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Mysterious Stellar Eclipse Point To A Giant Ringed Gas Planet Surrounded By A Ring Of Dust

Jun 07

Scientists have discovered a giant ringed gas planet which is likely caused by a mysterious stellar eclipse. The planet has 50 times mass of Jupiter and it is surrounded by a ring of dust. According to researchers from the University of Warwick, this planet is hurtling around a star more than 1000 light years away from Earth.

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Mary Pat Price: A Kingdom-Minded Steward

Mary Pat Price was known to Baptists around the world as a kingdom-minded steward. She demonstrated in a variety of ways with her time, talents and treasures her love for Christ and His mission in this world, and her love for family.

She was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, three miles outside Shelbyville “not in a hospital.” Upon graduation from Bagdad High School, she attended Bethel Junior College and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1943. Her ministry assignments were as Youth Director at the First Baptist Church Clarksville, Tennessee, and then at First Baptist Church Frankfort, Kentucky.

While attending the 1957 state WMU convention at Jonathan Creek Baptist Assembly, she met J. Brandon Price, a young lawyer who was in attendance on youth night. Actually, a mutual friend prearranged their meeting. They married soon thereafter. She and the late Judge Price had two sons, J. B. and Kent. J. B. is a computer analyst, and Kent is an attorney. She has two grandchildren.

As a long-time resident of Paducah, Kentucky and a long-time member of First Baptist Church, Mary Pat’s service to Christ through her church and community is legendary. The Kentucky Baptist Foundation had the good fortune of having the benefit of her service for two terms on its Board of Directors.

On March 26th, 2010, God welcomed Mary Pat Home. While we will miss her, her lagacy will live forever.

Over the years, Mary Pat utilized all of the services of the Kentucky Baptist Foundation, including our private estate and charitable gift planning consultation service with trust counsel Laurie Valentine. She made regular and on-going cash contributions to endowment funds that provide perpetual support for ministries near and dear to her heart. She purchased life insurance policies on the lives of her two sons the death proceeds of which will fund two perpetual endowments in their names. Each endowment will provide support to five different ministries. And, finally, she and her sister, Jane Kent, each established a charitable remainder trust with the gift of their Shelby County family farmland. In addition to significant tax benefits Mary Pat received an income benefit during her lifetime. At her death the trust assets funded an endowment for her perpetual support of 8 more ministries.

Collectively, Mary Pat set in place a kingdom-minded stewardship plan that will perpetuate her Christian legacy and provide on-going financial support, until Jesus comes again, through 17 ministries from Paducah to the ends of the earth.

The Lord blessed us with the life of Mary Pat Price. May He add His blessings to the multitudes that will benefit from her faithful stewardship and may others emulate her example.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

IRS Charitable Deduction Tips

By: Laurie Valentine- COO & Trust Counsel

To assure your charitable gifts are deductible, following these eight tips from the IRS:

1) Give to a qualified organization. IRS Publication 526, Charitable Contributions, tells you what constitutes a “qualified organization”. Contributions earmarked for a specific individual or to a political organization or candidate are not deductible.

2) Itemize your deductions on Schedule A of IRS Form 1040.

3) You may only deduct the amount by which your contribution exceeds the market value of any benefit you receive for making the gift such as merchandise, ball game tickets or other goods and services.

4) Stock and other non-cash property contributions are generally valued at fair market value. Fair market value is the price at which property would change hands between a willing buyer and willing seller, neither having to buy or sell and both having reasonable knowledge of all relevant facts.

5) Clothing and household items must be in good or better condition. Special rules apply to vehicle donations.

6) You must maintain a bank record, payroll deduction records or written communication from the organization containing its name, date of your gift and the amount for all contributions of cash, check or other monetary gifts.

7) If your contribution of cash or property is $250 or more, the organization’s gift acknowledgement must also state whether it provided any goods or services in exchange for your gift and the value of what you received. If your contribution is over $500 complete and attach IRS Form 8283, Noncash Charitable Contributions, to your return.

8) If the property you are giving is valued at more than $5,000 you must get a qualified appraisal and complete Section B of IRS Form 8283.

The information in this article is provided as general information and is not intended as legal or tax advice. For advice and assistance in specific cases, you should seek the advice of an attorney or other professional adviser.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

By: Barry G. Allen- President & CEO

I have discovered over the years most Christians have an honest ambivalence toward money. A proper attitude of money, wealth, possessions, things (call it what you like) is a universal struggle regardless of one’s financial station in life. Author Philip Yancey summed up his ambivalence this way: “I feel pulled in opposite directions over the money issue. I want to sell all I own, join a Christian commune, and live out my days in intentional poverty. At other times, I want to rid myself of guilt and enjoy the fruits of our nation’s prosperity. Mostly, I wish I did not have to think about money at all.”

In Psalm 49 the psalmist reflected upon the wealth of the world and provides the answer to the question of how we should regard wealth regardless of the level of it God has entrusted to us. Notice the psalmist addresses himself to “all peoples,” ordinary folks, blue bloods, rich and destitute alike. He reminds us wealth so often can be here today and gone tomorrow, thus, a slippery foothold. After making the point that death is inevitable and the wealth of the world is of temporal value, he states in verse 15 his conviction that what he cannot do for himself, what the world’s wealth cannot buy, God will do for him. Only God can provide us with security; therefore, our confidence is placed best in Him not wealth. What a testimony! Then in verse 16 he advises us about priorities: “Do not be overawed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases; for he will take nothing with him when he dies….” And then he states this chilling declaration in verse 20: “A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.”

Let us, like the psalmist, advocate the proper attitude toward wealth. It is not to be despised, and it cannot be ignored; and it is both foolish and dangerous to put one’s trust in it. Jesus reiterated this truth repeatedly and with greater clarity (Lk 12:13-21).


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How to read a systematic review: Some tips and tricks

How I read a systematic review

Over the past year I have blogged several times on systematic reviews and I have occasionally been critical of the methods adopted by some investigators. It seems that the number of published reviews is increasing and I feel that we are coming under pressure to keep up with the large amount of information that is coming our way. As a result, I thought that it would be helpful if I wrote a short blog on “how to read a systematic review”. This is targeted, to some degree, at orthodontists, but I hope that it is relevant to all dental care providers.

The first step

This is to make an overall assessment of the quality of the review. My feeling is that Cochrane systematic reviews tend to provide the most useful information on clinical questions. This is because of the strict editorial and methodological steps that need to be taken to satisfy the Cochrane editors. I have now completed several Cochrane reviews and I think that they have the toughest editorial control than any other publisher!

Another important criteria that sets Cochrane reviews apart from others is that the authors are committed to updating the review periodically. In theory, this results in the finding changing as new research is published. One example of this is the Cochrane review of Class II treatment that I helped produce. As additional evidence became available on the effect of early treatment on trauma, the conclusions changed.

I would like to point out that I am not suggesting that other reviews are not of value, but we need to bear in mind the overall quality of a review when we evaluate this form of literature.

Now that I have set out the context of the review, I will move to the main features that I look at when I read a review. This list is not exhaustive it is simply a set of tips that I use and I hope are useful to you.  I would like to use  the recent review on Temporary Anchorage Devices that I blogged about last week as an example.

Check the inclusion criteria.

The review should clearly outline the inclusion criteria. The authors should state whether the studies that they included were RCTs and/or other types of study. In some reviews RCTs and Controlled clinical trials are accepted. However, other reviews contain low quality studies, for example, retrospective designs with historic or convenience controls that are characterised by selection bias. When reading a review that includes retrospective studies you need to appreciate that the strength of any findings is diminished.

How were the papers selected?

Look closely at this section. In a good review the authors will provide a flow chart of how they obtained their papers. Ideally they should provide information on each paper that they included and excluded.

The meta analysis and Forest Plot

The analysis of the data derived from the included papers is frequently presented as a Forest plot. This is a clear way of presenting the data, but it can at first glance be confusing. I will go through an example Forest Plot from the  TADS review. This is the plot that illustrates the effectiveness of palatal implants and TADS compared to conventional forms of anchorage.

TAD table

I have concentrated on the results for TADS. When you look at this plot I have highlighted the relevant sections in red. If you click on each one they should expand so that you can read them more easily.

TAD Final 2This figures shows that on the left hand side of the Forest plot is a summary of the data on sample size etc from each included study. You can look at this to build a picture of the number of studies and the subjects enrolled.

TAD 5Now look at the data for each study, this shows the effect size and 95% confidence intervals.

TADS blobs

In this figure I have highlighted the graphics around the vertical line. This is the line of “no effect”. Now look at the graphics that are dispersed around the line. The upper ones are the means and confidence intervals for each study. If the CI line crosses the line of no effect, then there is no statistically significant effect of the intervention.

Now look at the trapezoid shaped figure at the bottom of the plot. This represents the combined data. The vertical axis is the mean and the horizontal is the confidence intervals. If the shape crosses the line, the the difference is not statistically significant. You can see, in this example, that the shape does not cross the line and reveals that TADS are more effective than other methods of anchorage.

TAD final 4

Finally, look at the bottom right numbers, this is the combined effect size and confidence intervals. Even if the result is statistically significant, you need to evaluate whether this is clinically significant. I have outlined this previously in this blog.

Strength of recommendations

Many reviews now include a statement on the strength of the recommendations that can be made from the review. Several now use the GRADE approach. I am not going to go through this in detail but I have included a brief outline of these in this table.

Outcome domainNumber of studies (%)
Disease activity (morphologic change)84 (63)
Health Service Utilization43 (32)
Adverse effects of treatment43 (32)
Social outcomes12 (9)
Functional status10 (8)
Physical consequences of malocclusion3 (2)

You will see that they are concerned with looking at level of confidence in the effect size included in they review. In the TADS review the effect size was -2.17 mm. We concluded that we had moderate confidence in the findings.

I have tried to keep this post as concise as possible. As a result, I have only outlined the features that I evaluate when I read a systematic review, I have not mentioned other features that are important and I appreciate that some people may criticise this rather basic approach. However, realistically this is all that I do when I read the literature. I hope that you feel that this is useful.

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    Excellent, as usual. Very helpful. Thank you.

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      Thanks for the comments, I enjoyed doing this one, even though it took ages to get the graphics right. WordPress is not the best platform for putting graphics into a blog!

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    Dear Kevin,
    I play a very small part in the teaching of registrars in the West Midlands. As an exercise we looked through all the English speaking journals to see if we could find a single case where using TADs:
    1. class II molars had been corrected to class I(without lower extractions moving the lower molars forward OR
    2. more than one units space clossure in the lower
    3.clossing an AOB with reduction of MM angle by more than 4 degrees
    At first I was relieved by your systemic review but then looking at the figures as I read it:
    two TADs move the molars on average 0.35mm forward (n=58)
    control 2.4mm forward (n=60)
    surgical anchorage move the molars forward 0.69 (n=92)
    control 1.9mm forward (n=98)

    This would make no difference to actual orthodontic treatment. Am I right to be concened that a multi-million pound industry may be doing nothing?

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    Great reading!

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    You are the best with all respect

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    Thank you for taking the time out to explain how one can go through a literature review without reading all the contents of the review. This helps me out a lot with the 61 literature systemic reviews I have to read. Although I am still confused on the graphs presented in these reviews, somehow, I will manage. I will also share this site with others.

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Hypersensitivity to foods – in short

Hypersensitivity can be due to allergy or to intolerance. And it gets even more confusing, as it is possible for the same food to cause both allergies and intolerance. Here is a short guide which explains some similarities and differences.

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Illustration: Hanna Albrektson.

Allergies: An allergy is caused by the body for some, often unknown, reason producing antibodies against a protein or a carbohydrate in the food. Most often, the body makes IgE antibodies. Common symptoms are hives, eczema, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhoea, asthma and rhinitis. But all IgE-mediated allergies can potentially, in the worst case scenario, result in a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction and deaths have been reported.

Nuts, seeds: Almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, pecan, brazil nut, pistachio and macadamia are all nuts to which you can develop an allergy. Sesame and mustard are the most common allergenic seeds.

Legumes (peanut and soy): The peanut is not actually a nut, but a legume, and is therefore included in the same group as soy, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils and lupin. Allergies are often formed in childhood, and rarely go away with age. It is common to be allergic to several different legumes.

Cereals: Allergy to cereals is most often caused by antibodies to wheat protein, but there are also allergies to other types of cereal.

Milk/dairy products: Allergy to milk protein is most common in infants, and they often outgrow it. Up to one per cent of children and 0.2 per cent of the adult population suffer from this type of allergy. All forms of milk have to be avoided, even sheep and goat’s milk.

Eggs: Affects up to two per cent of small children, but in many, the allergy disappears with age. The most common allergy is to protein in the egg white, but there are also cases of allergy to the yolk. In those cases, the person is often also allergic to chicken meat.

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Fish allergy normally starts in early childhood. Photo: Pixabay CC0.

Fish and shellfish: Fish allergy normally presents in early childhood and will rarely disappear with age, but it is uncommon. The IgE antibodies involved are only found in 0.5 per cent of children. Allergy to shellfish, on the other hand, most often occurs in adulthood and may also include mussels and octopus.

Intolerances: Gluten intolerance (celiac disease): Is an autoimmune disease where the body has formed IgA antibodies (not IgE antibodies) to the enzyme tissue transglutaminase (tTG). In practice, this entails an intolerance of the proteins found in wheat, rye and barley. In the long term, continued intake damages the intestines, which can lead to malnutrition.

Lactose intolerance: Is due to a lack of the enzyme lactase, which is necessary to break down lactose, or milk sugar, in the small intestine. Lacking lactase is not a disease, but normal in many areas. In Sweden, it only affects around 4–10 per cent of adults, 15–20 per cent in Finland, 30–60 per cent around the Mediterranean and essentially everyone in Asia, South America and Africa. The most serious symptoms include flatulence, stomach pain and diarrhoea. The solution is to avoid milk and dairy products.

Text: Fredrik Hedlund, first published in Swedish in Medicinsk Vetenskap No 4/2018.

Initiatives for increased dissemination of knowledge

The state of knowledge on food allergies and hypersensitivity is changing rapidly, which means that there is a great need for knowledge to be disseminated to patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. For this reason, a regional centre for food allergy research is being established in Stockholm to raise the level of knowledge within the health service.

At the same time, the Centre for Allergy Research at Karolinska Institutet, together with Astma- och allergiförbundet (the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association) and the Swedish Food Federation, has received funding from the Swedish Inheritance Fund to start an interdisciplinary centre of excellence on food hypersensitivity with the device “Good food for everyone”. The centre is to disseminate information to the public, work with political advocacy and provide a point of contact for collaborations on food hypersensitivity – across all sectors of society.

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Charles William Foster, Jr.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 9th & 10th district
In office
March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873 (9th)
March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1879 (10th)
Preceded by Edward F. Dickinson (1871)
Erasmus D. Peck (1873)
Succeeded by James W. Robinson (1873)
Thomas Ewing, Jr. (1879)
35th Governor of Ohio
In office
January 12, 1880 – January 14, 1884
Lieutenant Andrew Hickenlooper
Preceded by Richard M. Bishop
Succeeded by George Hoadly
40th United States Secretary of the Treasury
In office
February 25, 1891 – March 6, 1893
President Benjamin Harrison
Preceded by William Windom
Succeeded by John Griffin Carlisle
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Born (1828-04-12)April 12, 1828
Tiffin, Ohio
Died January 9, 1904(1904-01-09) (aged 75)
Springfield, Ohio
Political party Republican
Profession Banker

Charles William Foster, Jr. (April 12, 1828 – January 9, 1904) was a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio. Foster was the 35th Governor of Ohio, and later the Secretary of the Treasury under Benjamin Harrison.

Foster was born near Tiffin, Ohio, and was raised in Rome. This town would merge in 1854 with the town of Risdon to become Fostoria in honor of Foster's father. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1870, serving from 1871 to 1879. In 1878, he failed getting re-elected, but was elected to the post of Governor of Ohio one year later. He served two two-year terms between 1880 and 1884. In 1890, Foster tried returning to the House, but was unsuccessful. In 1891, Benjamin Harrison made him Secretary of the Treasury due to the death of William Windom. Foster served till 1893 in that position.

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Clifford the Big Red Dog Is Coming Back To TV

Good news! Clifford the Big Red Dog is coming back to TV!

The lovable big red dog is coming back in a reboot, along with his best buddy Emily Elizabeth, of the PBS Kids series Clifford the Big Red Dog, which originally premiered in 2000, but Clifford’s story goes farther back than that.

The massive mutt made his debut in 1963 when Scholastic published their first “Clifford the Big Red Dog” book written and illustrated by Norman Bridwell. Today, there are over 133 million Clifford books in print in 16 different languages.

While most are familiar with Clifford, there are some parents and preschoolers meeting Clifford for the first time with this new reboot.

The reboot will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on December 6th and on PBS KIDS on December 7th.

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Life at the Edge of the Sea – Swallows of Massachusetts

Lovely large flocks of Tree Swallows continue to gather, gracing our shores with their chattering cheery chirping. But these flocks aren’t only comprised of Tree Swallows, often seen in the mix are Barn Swallows, too.Barn Swallow left, female Tree Swallow right

Male Tree Swallows

There are six species of Swallows that breed in Massachusetts and they are Tree, Barn, Cliff, Purple Martin, Northern Rough-winged, and Bank Swallows. Tree Swallows are the most abundant breeders, with Barn Swallows coming in second. Cliff, Northern Rough-winged, Bank, and Barn Swallows are all in decline.Male and female Tree Swallows

Male Tree Swallows wear brilliant iridescent greenish blue feathers, with a sharply defined face mask. The females are a duller brownish, but they too have some blue iridescence in their plumage. Both have white chins and predominantly white breasts.Barn Swallow

Male Barn Swallows are a beautiful cobalt blue with rusty red forehead and red feathers below their bills. Their bellies vary from buffy tan to cinnamon colored.

Tree Swallows breed in the wetlands and fields of Cape Ann. Their name comes from the species habit of nesting in tree cavities. Tree Swallows have benefited tremendously from efforts to help save the Eastern Bluebird because they also nest in the nest boxes built specifically for the Bluebirds.

Juvenile Barn Swallow

Barn Swallows build their nest cups from mud and they prefer nesting sites such as the rafters, eaves, and crossbeams of barns, stables, and sheds. They also chose the undersides of wharves and bridges.

Acrobatic aerialists, both Tree and Barn Swallows twist and turn mid-flight to capture a wide variety of insects including flies, butterflies, dragonflies, bees, beetles, and wasps. We on Cape Ann especially love swallows because they eat the dreaded Greenhead.


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God Doesn’t Send People to Hell

I have some thoughts swirling around in my head this morning that I need to get out. I was up early with a sick child, and when I lay back down to try to sleep again, these thoughts compelled me … Continue reading

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Edge Fest, the annual music festival held each summer in the historic West Edge of Cheyenne, has been canceled for 2020.

"The current social distancing requirements (fully understand and respect them) would require us to eliminate the heart of our program," Organizers said on Wednesday (June 24).

The free, two-day outdoor concert took place in Civic Commons Park at W 21st and Bent in Cheyenne. In addition to music, past events have featured food trucks and showcased local and regional artists.

"The spirit of Edge Fest and live music is the opposite of social distancing. So, we shall wait until it is safe to laugh, touch, hold hands, kiss, hug, celebrate and shake our ass together once again!!!" the organizers said on Facebook.

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The Parent, Teacher and Friends Association (PTFA)

Kings Caple have a very active PTFA. The group supports the school by raising funds through several events, such as the annual school fete/bbq; harvest supper and Christmas Bazaar.

Monies raised help subsidise a variety of initiatives such as school visits/trips, outside speakers, workshops and activities. For example, funding in recent years has enabled the school to engage a mosaic maker to produce four wonderful mosaics with the children and helped the school to update the children’s kitchen area as a multi-use space for cooking activities and other nurture/intervention activities. Fundraising has also helped support several trips to venues such as Madley Environmental Centre, Small Breeds Farm Park and Owl Centre, the Corinium Museum and Cardiff.

Joining The PTFA

We are a group of parents who all give our time on a voluntary basis to organise and run fundraising (and hopefully fun!) activities for those in our school community

If you would like to find out more about what we do, become involved in the PTFA, or if you have any ideas fo a project for the PTFA, you are welcome to come along to one of our meetings. It’s a great way to be part of school life! You can contact us at the following email admin@kingscaple.hmfa.org.uk