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Top 15 Field Trips of All Time

We've been homeschooling for over 3 years now and we've had the opportunity to go to so many places.

We've been to traditional "school" type field trips with large groups of homeschoolers.   We've been to many places on our own or with small groups for field trips.  We've been to many places that many people might not even think to consider as a field trip.

As homeschoolers we even get to count family vacations as learning days (if we so choose)!

 Looking back the list was long and varied.  Some places the boys liked so much we visited them over and over and over again.  Some places the boys thought were neat but they weren't necessarily places they wanted to go a second time.

I always ask them to tell me a few things they had learned once we got home and I always asked them if they thought they'd like to return another time.  I had never thought to ask them which trips were their favorites; until today.  I was pretty surprised by their answers!

In no particular order here are 15 of their all time favorite trips or places we've been (after each little blurb I've attached a link to at least one blog post dedicated to each trip):

1. New England Air Museum-- We went for a homeschool day to this particular museum last year and I had no idea that the boys enjoyed it as much as they did.  They've been asking to go back.  They learned so much about our history, planes, the science of flight, and had a great time talking to all the pilots and educators there helping out.  You can read about our day here.

2. Walt Disney World-- SO, many people may not think of Disney as educational but I don't agree.  Not only did we learn a lot about the world and various cultures and countries while walking around EPCOT and seeing the whole world showcase, but we also learned & applied a lot of science lessons on our week there.

Before (and since) going we've watched all the Disney Science of Imagineering videos and learned about magnetism, force, acceleration, gravity and more.

We got to see all sorts of wonderful animals at the Animal Kingdom and even learned a few words from some of the African places the various areas of the animal kingdom are named after.

 At Hollywood studios we learned about the various jobs like costume designers, stunt men, and set makers.  We got to see how they film chase scenes and how they safely film explosions and fires. Here is a link to one of our days at Epcot & Hollywood Studios.

3. Launch Trampoline--  We always call our Launch days physical education field trips.  We spent hours jumping on the trampolines, playing dodge ball, and practicing flips.  The kids often make new friends while they are there too.  It's great fun and we try to go a few times a year.

4.  Universal Studios--  Since we count most amusement park trips as science in motion field trips I couldn't argue with the boys that Universal was not a memorable or favorite field trip.  Add in all the Harry Potter stuff we got to experience and it was unparalleled.   Nothing lights up the kids eyes quite like watching their favorite story books come to life.  Here is a summary of our first day there.

5.  Ecotarium--  We visit the Ecotarium a few times each year.  Part science museum, part kids museum-- it's all fun.

We've learned about dinosaurs, cultural games, architecture, animals, bubbles, and so much more.

We've paid extra to watch planetarium shows,  participate in treetop adventures, or even attend a bird of prey class.  They change their exhibits frequently and they usually have a nice wide variety of things for kids of all ages.  Here is a link to our trip to the Ecotarium in which Alec participated in the bird of prey class.

6.  Hartford Science Museum--  Three floors of hands on science fun, it's another place we visit at least once a year.  They too have some changing exhibits and we've learned all about Ancient Egypt, dinosaurs, the human body, magnetism, outer space, the properties of water, and we always have a great time.  Here is one trip we've taken to the science museum (learning about Egypt this time).

7. Sea World-- The boys still remember our trip to Sea World fondly.  We got to pet and feed rays, sharks, and dolphins.  We saw polar bears, killer whales, and manatees.  We watched many shows and learned about conditioning animal behaviors.  The boys learned to read a map and got to climb through netting and mazes.  We played games that taught us about pollution and animal ecology.  We talked to trainers and informed workers who taught us about the various birds we saw too.  It was like an aquarium with lots of rides.  You can read about one day of our trip here.

8.  Zoos-- I combined all the zoos we visit into one field trip since we can never decide which zoo we like the best.

Our two favorites are Roger Williams Park Zoo and Southwick's zoo but we've visited others while on vacations too.  Alec is an enthralled with animals and reads all the signs at every zoo we go to.

All three boys check to see where the animals home would be on the map and read to see if the populations are endangered, threatened or declining.  Over the years they've had many animal encounters.

We're often at the zoos when they aren't real crowded and the boys have had long chats with many zookeepers.  They've gotten to hold or pet birds, armadillos, chinchillas, binturongs, hedgehogs, and more.  They've taken extra classes and learned even more about the animals that inhabit the zoo.  Here is just one summary of one trip we've made to Southwick's zoo.  And here is one of our first trips we made to Roger Williams.

9.  Aquariums-- Again I linked aquariums together as one big destination.  I've found any trip with live animals tends to be a big hit with the boys and sea animals are no different.

We often visit Mystic Aquarium but we've also been to the Clearwater Aquarium and a few others as well.  For a long time we had the added benefit of learning all about the Titanic at an exhibit at Mystic Aquarium.

  Here is one of our favorite trips to Mystic Aquarium when they were celebrating their birthday.  And here is a link to our trip to Clearwater Aquarium where we met Winter from Dolphin Tale.

10. Buttonwood Farm Corn Maze-- All corn mazes are fun but one of our first homeschooling trips we went on was to Buttonwood Farm's maze and we were floored by all the extra activities they included in our low admission costs.  We got to go on tractor rides, play in a corn crib, climb a hay bale and, of course, go through the maze.  We also met lots of homeschoolers.  We've since been back to Buttonwood each fall for their corn maze and we go most summers for their Sunshine for Wishes day too.  Here is the first trip we took with our homeschool group to the corn maze and (as an added bonus) here is one of our trips to their sunflower festival.

11. Soar Indoors-- I was surprised the boys added this as their favorite field trip.  We checked out a local business call Soar Indoors which was an indoor obstacle course.  I considered this both a physical education field trip as well as a problem solving one.  I knew Alec had a great time and while the other two boys enjoyed the challenges too it was supremely difficult.  The obstacles move and with both Ian and I having a fear of heights the upper courses were way to daunting to try out.  Evan was a bit short for the recommended height and was content to stay on the lower course.  It was a lot of fun though and we sure learned a lot about ourselves as well as the stamina and strength needed to excel.

12. King Richard's Faire came in as a tie with Medieval Times-- both are medieval themed and include lots of old fashioned fun.

We have visited Medieval Times twice now; the boys love to watch the jousting and see all the suits of armor.  It's a lot of fun to arrive early and walk through the village they have set up there.  Here is a link to our latest trip there.

We've only been to Kind Richard's Faire once but the boys adored it.  They got to watch glassblowers at work, a candle maker sculpting candles, & many whip/ sword acts.  They saw tigers and learned about ecology.  They got to try their hand at using bows and arrows & throwing stars.  It was a lot of fun.  Here is the summary of our trip.

13.  Microsoft-- This was a recent and very exciting field trip for the boys.  We were invited to a class at the Microsoft store to learn how to code.

The boys spent a couple of hours learning basic coding principals and they had a great time!  We met up with lots of our homeschool friends and the kids paired up to work on designing their own worlds.  The best part (for mom?)  it was FREE!  The kids are still talking about it and have all asked to try out their summer camp too.

14. Higgens Armory Museum-- Sadly, this is one place we can no longer visit.  The Higgens Armory museum shut down and we were so sad that it did.  We had visited a few times and had such a great time learning all about history.  The boys got to try on pieces of armor, play chess, build a castle with blocks (large and small; hard and soft).  It was one of those history learning days that my boys thought was exciting.  On our first trip to the museum, the older two boys were called on stage to participate; you can read about it here.

15.  Nautilus Museum-- I'm not sure if my boys enjoyed this field trip so much for the content or more for the company.  They had a great day with their friends and cousins learning all about submarines.  To this day they refer to our trip as the day at the "naughty list."  It was a free trip and while we only spent a few hours exploring we learned a lot about the history of the navy, submarines and maritime warfare.  For more detailed information you can click here.

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FILE – In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs addresses the members of Arizona’s Electoral College in Phoenix. Hobbs on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022 while denouncing the Republican-controlled state Senate’s ongoing audit of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in Arizona’s largest county plan to stop using voting machines turned over to contractors hired by Republican state senators for a partisan audit of the 2020 election.

The Republican-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors agreed with Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who said in May that she had “grave concerns regarding the security and integrity of these machines” because the county had lost control of them. Hobbs said she would seek to decertify them if the county planned to continue using them.

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The county spent $6.1 million to lease the machines from Dominion Voting Systems in a three-year contract that expires before the 2022 election. There are three one-year renewal options.

County officials said in a news release that they used backup equipment for local elections in March and May and are working with Dominion to replace the subpoenaed machines ahead of elections in November.

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The Senate’s contractors said Friday that they have finished counting and photographing ballots, ending the most visible phase of the review. A final report isn’t expected for weeks or months.

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Serves 4 to 6 as a first course

Level of difficulty: easy

For the Atlantic Salmon Cakes
1 pound diced Atlantic salmon
1 cup diced shitake mushrooms
1 tsp chopped chives
2 eggs
1 tsp chopped garlic
½ cup bread crumbs
1 tbsp olive oil for sautéing

For the Lemon Grass Fennel Jam
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp chopped lemon grass
½ cup chopped fennel
2 tsp chopped chives
½ cup rice wine vinegar
¼ cup sugar
Salt pepper to taste

For the Atlantic Salmon Cakes
Sauté diced salmon and mushrooms in olive oil over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in chives and set aside to cool. When cooled, put in a food processor with the 2 eggs and chopped garlic and pulse until smooth. Put the mixture into a small bowl and stir in the bread crumbs until just combined. Form salmon shitake mixture into tablespoon sized patties and sauté in olive oil over medium heat, about 1½ minutes on each side.

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Sauté the fennel in the olive oil over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add the lemon grass, chives vinegar and sugar, bring up to medium high and reduce until it resembles a syrup, approximately 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

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What are you doing now? I live in Beijing, China and work for Big Dutchman, a German pig and poultry equipment supplier and turn-key project company. I was hired originally as a Project Manager for pig equipment installation projects where I spent 4 months living in western China on a big turn-key installation project. I was supposed to be on this project for 8-12 months but after just 4 months I was promoted to a new position in Beijing. My new position is Commercial Coordination and Support Manager. The position was created specifically for me and has me involved in all aspects of the business from supporting the designing and selling of projects to establishing better processes and procedures for coordinating work through the company. I have really enjoyed my new role and this September I will be promoted again and my position formalized where I will be responsible for managing 3 departments and approximately 20 people.

How did the W.D. Farr Scholarship help you achieve your goals? I invested the award money from the W.D. Farr Scholarship in self-improvement. In the final year and a half of my PhD program I worked regularly with an incredible life coach that helped to put me on a solid path towards achieving a balanced and fulfilling life and who helped me to build the confidence I needed to move to China to start my professional career. Most of the award money was invested in this life changing service. The remaining funds were invested in acquiring Chinese language skills, which after many months of hard work, I can proudly say I have acquired intermediate proficiency. It is my goal to one day be conversant enough to have full conversations in Chinese on agriculture-related topics.

What advice do you have for students to be successful? Be original. Be bold. Be emotionally intelligent. Finally, in a clash of ideas, challenge yourself to consider things from the opposite point of view and you will surprise yourself at how much easier it can be to influence change.

What do you think was W.D. Farr's most important trait? W.D. Farr had the courage to be original. He refused to accept the status quo and used creativity and innovation to influence change. So, overall, I think it was the originality he brought to problem solving that made him such a respected leader.


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The Horowitz Report and the Power of Inertia

The best thing I’ve read about the report is by Julian Sanchez. An excerpt:

The heart of the Horowitz report deals with the Carter Page FISA application, and documents a progression that ought to sound familiar to anyone who’s studied the history of the intelligence community: An investigation begins with a kernel of reasonable suspicion, and facts are marshaled to support a theory. As it gathers momentum, those initial suspicions congeal into assumptions. New information that fits the original theory is added to pile of evidence—while a growing body of contradictory of information is overlooked. It’s possible to read the Horowitz report and think that the initial 90-day wiretap of Page was justified, but far harder to rationalize intrusive surveillance that carried on for nearly a year, through three separate renewals, even as evidence mounted that should have undermined the basis for the warrant. . . .

[T]he picture that emerges from the Horowitz report is not so much sinister as banal: The government asked the court for “one more go” essentially out of inertia.  Case agents weren’t motivated to think terribly hard about whether the most recent piece of information they’d uncovered contradicted a claim they’d made to the court months earlier.  Higher level attorneys reviewing renewal applications focused almost exclusively on vetting the new information in each filing, never going back to reexamine earlier assertions and test whether they were still defensible.  Verification meant checking the files to validate fresh data, but not to take a fresh look at early assumptions.  After all, someone had checked that already, right?

This picture is, in its own way, and for very different reasons, as disturbing as the image of a Deep State cabal with a vendetta against Trump: Vendettas are at least specific.  Whereas the grave defects in the surveillance of Page seem more likely to be symptoms of a more apolitical, and therefore more systemic, form of bias.  Their underlying causes—reliance on sources whose claims are hard to directly check, imperfect information, case agents making judgments about which facts in a vast sea of data might be legally material—aren’t peculiar to elections but endemic to intelligence.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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This is why I don’t like conventional eye makeup removers:

  • They are expensive, anywhere from $7.99 for Neutrogena to $28 for Lancome.
  • The ingredients lists are at best sketchy, at worst highly toxic (and that goes in your eyes!)
  • Some don’t really get the job done

This one is titled “mild eye makeup remover” but take the PEG family in consideration, they are often contaminated with  1, 4-dioxane, lead and arsenic. PEGs open the pores on the skin enabling toxins to easily enter the body. Also, that nice scent some have, is usually phthalates, endocrine disruptors (read more here).

There is one simple solution to this. Make your own. It’s natural, extremely economical and healthy for your eyes.

Natural Eye makeup remover Recipe

  1. Get – Cotton swabs, Organic raw coconut oil, A small container
  2. Melt about 1/2 tsp at room temperature, it’s really cold where I live right now so even thought my home is kept warm the coconut oil stays solid, if that is the case you can simple put it near a stove while cooking.
  3. Damp each cotton swab (lightly, you don’t want it dripping with oil) and place in container,
  4. You can use it when removing your eye makeup at night or to correct any mistakes when putting on your makeup!
  5. Coconut oil is such a marvelous thing, it contains antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial properties. If used topically it’s highly effective at moisturizing the skin and it reduces the appearance of fine lines around the eyes.
  6. You don’t need to worry about the shelf life because coconut oil will not go rancid, it takes a really long time for coconut oil to go bad. Add a cute ribbon and tag and this could make a cute simple DIY gift, too!

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(NaturalNews) During the debates surrounding the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010, before it was passed into law without a single Republican vote, many critics who actually had read the lengthy bill, unlike a number of lawmakers, noticed a provision that established so-called "death panels," committees of federal bureaucrats who essentially decide whether or not older Americans would have access to end-of-life care.

One of the most vocal opponents was former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who warned that the Obamacare provisions that encouraged doctors to provide "voluntary" end-of-life counseling and planning could quickly turn into federal mandates – mandates that may eventually lead to benefit cuts as bureaucrats decided that spending scarce tax dollars on the elderly was not efficient.

Well, those provisions have quietly been resurrected by the Obama administration and, according to the Associated Press, they could take effect by January 1.

The paper noted:

Six years after end-of-life planning nearly derailed development of the Affordable Care Act amid charges of "death panels," the Obama administration has revived a proposal to reimburse physicians for talking with their Medicare patients about how patients want to be cared for as they near death.

The proposal, contained in a large set of Medicare regulations unveiled Wednesday, comes amid growing public discussion about the need for medical care that better reflects patients' wishes as they get older.

But it's not just the Obama administration advocating for this. A couple of months ago, GOP presidential contender and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush recommended essentially the same thing. He suggested that Medicare patients should sign an advanced directive spelling out the level of care they wanted should they someday become incapacitated.

Find out more about Obamacare's death panels by clicking here to search GoodGopher.com!

Big Brother wants to control ALL health care decisions

Public policy wonks and some lawmakers noted that before Palin made such a big deal of the so-called panels, there was bipartisan support for end-of-life counseling. And now, some believe that the controversy has ended, as well as the stigma Palin associated with the counseling.

"I think society's going to get over it this time and see the good in it," Dr. Joe Rotella, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, told the Associated Press. "It's really about living in the way that means the most to you to the last moments of your life."

All of that may very well be true, but Palin's assertion, and the assertion of others – that an authoritarian government could, at some point in the future, use today's consultation process as springboard to restricting benefits in the future – is entirely plausible.

For confirmation, consider what is taking place in Great Britain, where officials have, for years, limited benefit payments from the country's universal National Health Service because funds are tight and needs are great, resulting in health care rationing.

Push for more health care control in D.C.

As reported by PRI in 2010:

Today, 95 percent of Britons get their care through the government-run program. In order to provide care to everyone, the government says it must place limits on the care it provides. It must ration.

"We have a limited budget for health care, voted by Parliament every year, and we have to live within our means," said Michael Rawlins, chairman of a government agency called the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

There are American advocates for rationing, as well. Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, wrote a lengthy piece for The New York Times (see here) stressing that Americans should also be subject to healthcare rationing (even if they can pay for procedures themselves). Later, President Obama would appoint Dr. Donald Berwick, a big fan of the British healthcare system, to head up Medicare and Medicaid. He resigned his position in December 2011.

As more of our health care decisions are made for us in Washington, D.C., the push for "single-payer" – that is, all health coverage and care run by the federal government – the push for rationing and other monetary decisions will be made by detached bureaucrats who obviously won't have your best interests in mind.

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In the past couple of newsletters we have been exploring the idea that as “beings of energy”, we are dependent upon a sufficient power supply in order to function effectively in our fast-paced world. Unknowingly, we permit masses of life-force energy to be drained away, without taking the proper steps to replenish those resources. End result: Physical and emotional “burn-out”, low-grade depression, and a sense of being overwhelmed by the challenges of life.

The exercise I recommended in the September/October issue was designed to give you a visual, tactile, and even theoretical concept of how your personal energetic bank account can be either bankrupted or increased on a daily basis. Some of you followed the experiment literally, others in a more observing way. One Reader (who used paper clips instead of coffee stirrers in order to be less conspicuous at work) candidly admitted that “on the first day, every negative emotion was going through my system” and she simply dumped all the paper clips into the second cup! Another teader particularly liked the idea of “paying back” — finding activities that would bring her into balance and deposit more energy into her account. At the very least a few of you reported that simply having more consciousness of how your energy was being consumed was helpful.

As I monitored my own energy over a 3-day period, I found that there were specific thought forms that seemed to have the most adverse effect on my overall force; particularly judgment (of self and others); worry, and not being present in the moment. One day, during a fit, I “watched” my energy drain away before 10 am and spent the next several hours with that kind of shaky feeling I have when my adrenal glands get depleted.

Let’s take a look at some of what has been proven (both quantitatively and qualitatively) about energy:

  • Everything in the Universe is made of energy.
  • You are energy.
  • Matter is simply a condensation of energy.
  • Energy is neutral in and of itself. It can be charged either positively or negatively.
  • Negatively-charged energy wears away at our life force.
  • Positively-charged energy buoys up the life force.
  • Thoughts are energy.
  • Negative thoughts drain away our well-being, creativity, and productivity.
  • Positive thoughts enhance our well-being, creativity, and productivity.

Energetic Black Holes

In the last article you will find a whole laundry list of the kinds of thoughts, mind-sets, and attitudes that can cost you energetically. (feel free to email me at if you need any of the former newsletters re-sent) Let’s just take a look at a few, so that you get an idea of how they can embezzle your life force:

Judgments (self and others): Just living in my own head for close to 50 years (even thought it’s gotten to be a more pleasant space to reside in these years of growing self-discovery!) I know how darn uncomfortable head-space can be. Especially when I am putting myself down for what I think I am not achieving or accomplishing. I also gained awareness of how often I pre-judge others and work out these negative scenarios in my head that never (thankfully!) materialize. Ponder on this for yourself. How much of your mental chatter revolves around judgment?

Worry: One of the most inspirational emails I ever received is entitled “The 11th-20th Commandments.” #11 Thou shall not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities. #13 Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them, for no one has yet succeeded in accomplishing this. I need to remember these more (I’ll share more of these in future newsletters). What kind of feelings do they bring up in you?

Lost in the Past or Future: It seems such a cliché to say that there is nothing that exists but the present. Yet, people whom I have considered to be the most energetic and accomplished are very focused in real-time. You know, that whole carpe diem thing. I have lost vast oceans of energy throughout my life by being lost in space!

According to English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “The energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life.” Thoughts are not happening in a vacuum. The evidence is now overwhelming that the mind effects the body. Changes in the body affect the way we think and feel. The whole system is a psychosomatic informational network, linking the mind (energy) to the material world of molecules, cells, and organs.

If it is hard for you to conceptualize something as immaterial as energy, consider the effect of thought on a physical (3 dimensional) level. As Candace Pert explains in her book, Molecules of Emotion, the neurotransmitter, which is the smallest and simplest molecule, carries information across the gap, or synapse between one neuron and the next. This is done through chemicals called peptides. The neuropeptides, via the glands, orchestrate the overall functioning of the organs and various body systems. “Every change in the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, and conversely, every change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, is accompanied by an appropriate change in the physiological state.”

The Transylvania Effect

Have you ever felt totally drained after spending time with someone, or in a certain place or situation? Undoubtedly we are affected by what could be termed as psychic vampires. These are people or situations that sap away our life force. Just as we need to be more vigilant of how we expend our resources, we also need to practice a form of spiritual self-defense in order not to be “zapped.”

Just as the glands regulate our material body, there are etheric pathways that regulate the flow of life force energy through our energy field (HEF) or aura. These are called “chakras”, a Sanskrit word meaning “wheel” as they have been clairvoyantly described as moving in a circular fashion. Barbara Brennan, author of one of the most definitive works on chakras and the Human Energy Field, illustrates them as funnels, having both openings in the front and back of our bodies. This was very enlightening to me, as I was not aware of their dual nature. And at the same time it explains how we could be vulnerable to outside energy drains. This is not about victimization — most people are doing this unconsciously. And I’m sure that at certain times in all of our lives, we have also been guilty of doing some zapping of our own, through neediness or emotional immaturity. Ultimately we have the responsibility of protecting ourselves and learning how to retain our personal power. Below is a great exercise for “spiritual hygiene.”

So, conserve your energy. You are the trustee of your own energy account. Use it wisely (and watch for those dividends)!

Exercise: Breaking Cords

This is adapted from a technique I learned from intuitive counselor, Michael McAvoy, in Hawaii. This is a form of spiritual hygiene that you should practice at least once a week in order to disengage from any psychic bonds or cords that might be secretly depleting your energy supply. You can even do this in the shower.

Imagine that you are standing in a bright beam of light — the brightest Universal light that you can imagine. Mentally and verbally repeat these words:

I release any cords, attachments, vows, agreements, and other contracts that I have made, verbal or not. I release anything that does not serve me for my highest light and highest good back to their source, transmuted through this Universal light of G-d, in the highest, most unconditional love. I release any attachments to me or from me with the highest light, for the highest good and for my own spiritual development. So be it.

This will automatically eliminate and release any attachments, negative conditions, and cords!

Affirmation for Self-Protection

I am aware of my precious energy resources. I conserve and protect my energy. With my expanded energy reserves I am more creative and effective in my life.

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“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.” ~T.H. Huxley

Special Reflection

In what area of your life have you become jaded, or too “adult-like” or stunted in your thinking or reactions. Try taking a fresh approach to an old problem by viewing it with a child-like attitude. Truly attempt to “see” with the open mind of a child and you may very surprised by the results.

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LindaJoy Rose, PhD is a therapist, author, professional speaker, international trainer, and healthy living expert with over 25 years of experience. As the former Director of International Development for the American Board of Hypnotherapy, she is a pioneer in the field of subconscious dynamics and clinical hypnotherapy, implementing training and certification in many countries across Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Dr. LJ has appeared numerous times as the Healthy Living expert with the Tampa NBC affiliate and syndicated Daytime TV show, local media coverage, and over 100 videos on the super-information site,

She is the author of eight books, including Your Mind: The Owner’s Manual and Raw Fusion Living: Recipes for Health Eating, Natural Weight Loss and Anti-Aging, and contributes regularly to the popular worldwide news service, The Huffington Post.

With a grant from the Astra-Zeneca Foundation, Rose successfully launched a healthy lifestyle retraining program at one of the nation’s largest and most respected clinics. Having overcome a debilitating auto-immune disorder through lifestyle changes and self-care, she subsequently developed a practical and delicious eating philosophy and teaches popular classes with food demonstrations, world-wide.

In 2013, she launched the online and onsite Natural Wellness Academy with certifications in Holistic Health and Life Coaching and Clinical Hypnotherapy and with students and graduates in almost 20 countries.

The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Dr. Rose is also a volunteer docent at the Florida Holocaust Museum and resides in Tampa, Florida with her husband and 4 furry companions.

"From training therapists internationally in the fields of psychology and hypnotherapy to being an online mentor for two West Coast Universities, to founding the Natural Wellness Academy, teaching has always been my passion, I enjoy nothing more than informing and inspiring prospective coaches and therapists."

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"There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
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LONG VIEW Ellsworth Creek Preserve has acres of new growth sprouting up in place of a clear-cut. © Chris Crisman

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Beyond the Timber Wars

At Washington’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve, TNC is protecting precious old-growth forest, restoring formerly clear-cut lands—and creating jobs.

August/September 2015

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It's a rare mild February morning in southwestern Washington, a place so famous for winter squalls that beachfront hotels here offer storm-watching packages. A few miles inland, project manager Tom Kollasch is following faint elk trails through a stand of coastal rain-forest on The Nature Conservancy’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve.

Shards of sunlight slant through the canopy, illuminating an under-story thick with ferns and deep-green shrub. The ground is damp and spongy with moss. Moss is everywhere, in fact—coating rocks, draped like ragged shawls over thick spruce limbs, colonizing fallen hemlocks that collapse into shreds underfoot.

These few hundred acres of old-growth forest represent a rare glimpse of the region’s ecological past. Washington is logging country, and nearly every forest that isn’t protected for conservation has been harvested at least once in the past century. In the Willapa Hills surrounding the preserve, patches of recent clear-cutting stand out like fresh scars.

In this little oasis, though, some trees have managed to reach old age. Many were already centuries old when Lewis and Clark first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean a few miles away at Cape Disappointment in 1805. Some of the cedars here are more than 1,000 years old. No wonder a few are creaking and groaning plaintively.

A more unexpected sound is the faint rumbling and beeping of heavy equipment in the distance. The surprise is that it is coming from a logging operation on Conservancy land, funded by Conservancy dollars.

“If you want to conserve old-growth in southwest Washington, you have to restore second-growth forest,” explains Kollasch, the Conservancy’s Willapa Program director. There simply isn’t much left that isn’t already protected, so the focus has shifted to restoration. In these parts, even a former clear-cut replanted as a tree farm could eventually return to old-growth conditions. But it will take decades, if not centuries. The logging at Ellsworth is part of a long-term experiment to determine whether that transformation can be accelerated. The hypothesis is that thinning second-growth stands, where trees were often planted close together to achieve timber revenue goals, will more quickly yield a diverse and robust ecosystem instead. In addition, the thinning will be done in a way that provides jobs in an economically depressed region and brings in revenue to help pay for the restoration work.

In the process, the project has forged an unlikely partnership that would have been unthinkable two decades ago. In the 1980s and ’90s, loggers and conservationists squared off on opposite sides of the “timber wars” that erupted across the Pacific Northwest over efforts to save the northern spotted owl from the threat of extinction.

Protecting the owl and other imperiled birds is still part of the plan. Kollasch looks up and points out a big, mossy branch on an ancient tree. It’s the kind of branch favored by the marbled murrelet, he says, which is a critically endangered seabird whose numbers have dwindled—along with its old-growth nesting sites. But at Ellsworth Creek, the plan is not just to save these endangered birds but to restore the whole forest ecosystem. Old-growth forest is important for storing carbon and maintaining water quality throughout the Willapa Bay watershed, home to highly productive salmon, crab and oyster fisheries. Conserving this land will provide both ecological and economic benefits to the entire region.

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Aging Well Over time, trees in older forests achieve varied heights that allow sunlight through the canopy and leave a rich mix of debris on the forest floor. The result is an extremely complex ecosystem. © Chris Crisman.

David Rolph, the Conservancy's director of forest conservation in Washington, never thought he would be in charge of a logging operation. He moved here from Hawaii in 1989 to study spotted owls for the Forest Service, right at the height of the timber wars. He and his federal colleagues drove unmarked cars to avoid conflict while passing through logging towns that declared their disdain for forest protections with signs and bumper stickers reading, “Spotted owls taste like chicken.” Timber com-panies rushed to harvest as much old-growth as possible before a moratorium could be issued.

Rolph joined the staff of the Conservancy’s Washington chapter in 1993. In a few years, his job came to include identifying pristine old-growth forestland to purchase with a $2.5 million gift from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. He learned of a stand near Teal Slough in Pacific County that had been championed by a local man named Rex Ziak. Ziak had mailed a photograph of one of the grove’s mas-sive cedars, along with a 38-foot rope representing the tree’s circumference, to the landowner, John Hancock Insurance. The appeal worked. Instead of cutting the giant trees, the company sold the land to the Conservancy, which in turn sold it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be added to the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge.

Ziak also introduced Rolph to a 300-acre patch of old-growth in the neighboring hills near Ellsworth Creek. Ziak walked Rolph and a few other Conservancy people into the woods, where they sat amid the ancient trees, discussing their significance. “It wasn’t just the old-growth and the murrelets. We started to talk about the salmon that were in the creek system, and the amphibian diversity,” Rolph says. “The discussion went to: What if we thought about acquiring the entire watershed? Be-cause the old-growth stand, in and of itself, wouldn’t protect those things.”

The idea of buying up both old-growth and neighboring logged-over areas was a major departure from the usual approach of purchasing only pristine lands. “At the time that was sort of outrageous, for The Nature Conservancy to be buying clear-cuts,” Rolph says. But from a landscape perspective, it made sense to stop the cycle of clear-cutting and allow the timberlands to return to natural conditions. Between 1999 and 2003, the Conservancy acquired most of the 8,000 acres that now make up the Ellsworth Creek Preserve.

Rolph and his colleagues assembled a science advisory panel, composed of some of the best thinkers in the major forest disciplines, to create an experimental design at Ells-worth. The panel determined that thinning second-growth stands and removing roads were the two most important variables that could be controlled and compared. Road re-moval is important for reducing runoff that can affect water quality. Thinned stands allow remaining trees to grow bigger and stronger by lowering the competition for resources, and the extra sunlight encourages a thriving understory.

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Making Space Russell Shippey preps a western hemlock for removal. Under the Conservancy’s direction, loggers are thinning second-growth forests to create gaps in the canopy and promote a more diverse range of vegetation—and wildlife. © Chris Crisman.

With little experience in restoration logging, Rolph turned to others for guidance, including experts who had pioneered road decommissioning and forest thinning in Northern California’s Redwood National Park. The team also established the Pacific Northwest Coastal Forest Restoration Learning Network to share what they learned with others hoping to do similar work.

Ecologist Liane Davis, who studied restoration and forest thinning at Oregon State University, was hired to conduct baseline surveys throughout the Ellsworth preserve. As a student, she was involved in studies that showed promising results from thinning second-growth forest. Ellsworth would take what she saw in earlier studies to a much larger scale.

To take stock of the forest, Davis led the crew on snorkeling expeditions in streams to count fish, searched for salamanders at the headwaters of creeks, inventoried mosses and plants, and measured the sizes and populations of trees. In one survey of the old-growth forest, they used a crossbow to launch ropes high into the trees so that a researcher could climb up to study moss and insect communities.

“We dug in the leaf litter and found six new species of millipede,” says Kollasch. They also found 12 of 13 possible species of amphibians—among the highest levels of diversity in the state—and relatively healthy salmon runs. “And we’ve only scratched the surface.”

After Davis completed the baseline surveys, the team mapped out the preserve into three experimental plots to study different conservation tactics. In the control plot, the roads and the forest are left alone. The second area employs passive management techniques, where roads are removed but no logging takes place. The third was set up to test active management, where second-growth stands are thinned. This plot has been further divided into different test areas based on the age and makeup of the stands. Older, commercially viable stands are thinned and the timber removed and sold, while younger stands are thinned but with the cut trees left to decompose on the forest floor, where they provide nutri-ents and habitat. The old-growth, naturally, is untouched.

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Tall Treasure Conservancy forest manager Kyle Smith measures an 11-foot-wide western red cedar he estimates to be more than 1,000 years old. The preserve protects more than 200 acres of old-growth forest. © Chris Crisman.

Bumping along the preserve's narrow dirt roads in his pickup, Kyle Smith, the Conservancy’s lead forester at Ellsworth, navigates by numbers spray-painted on trees. “At the ‘one,’ headed for the ‘two,’” he announces into a CB radio—a necessary protocol to warn any logging trucks coming the other way. He points out a portion of the road that collapsed during a recent storm. In addition to removing old logging roads in the treatment areas—which requires contouring hillsides back to their natural grades and planting them with young trees—crews have relocated some essential roads to better locations. Roads on ridges are less likely to fail than those mid-slope, where a road failure can cause a landslide that scours an entire hillside, toppling trees and sending sediment and debris into streams.

The truck continues winding uphill, finally stopping near a cluster of massive machines in the road. The largest of these mechanical beasts is a yarder, which uses a system of cables and guy lines to pull timber out of the woods—sort of like a zip line for logs. Earlier, timber fallers had cut a nar-row corridor through which the logs would be removed.

About 800 feet down the corridor on a steep slope are three men called choker setters, who attach the logs to the yarder’s carriage. Most of the choker setters seem to be in their 20s, and it’s easy to see why: running downhill on slippery, uneven terrain is not only highly aerobic, but killer on the knees. Once the yarder pulls the logs to the road, they are sorted by another machine and loaded onto trucks. De-pending on size, grade and market fluctuations, a truckload of timber could fetch around $1,000.

Before it’s carried off, each load is posted with a ticket that traces its path from the forest through the supply chain. This helps prevent the rare but costly instances of theft and documents that the timber comes from a sustainably harvested source. “A working forest is better than development,” says Smith. “And a sustainable working forest is even better.”

In contrast to the trees in the old-growth stand, many of these logs are small enough to reach your arms around. Most are hemlock, which grows quickly in the wake of clearcutting—crowding out other conifers like cedars and creating a monoculture. “Our goal is to thin the hemlock to promote spruce and cedar,” Smith says. He is the one who writes the prescription for each logging site, specifying how many trees and of what size and type should be cut. And he is in the field most days, making sure the prescription is followed.

The loggers say that the kind of work they are doing at Ellsworth is far more challenging than clear-cutting. Fell-ing a single tree at Ellsworth requires careful planning and aim to avoid damaging the surrounding ones. But the crew members also see the benefits to the land and the long-term survival of their industry. “I like what they’re doing here … it’s still pretty after we’re done,” says Russell Shippey, a veteran timber faller who says he can aim a falling tree ac-curately enough to drive a nail. “If we came in here and did regular logging, there’d be no more work.”

Bryan Penttila, a local timber faller and historian, has a unique perspective on the fraught history between loggers and conservationists. He lives in Naselle, a small logging town with a strong Finnish heritage. “People here think of trees as a crop,” he says. “It’s a very pragmatic idea.” Under this view, the concept of leaving the forest alone would be “like letting cattle die of old age.”

But Penttila, who has written several books on regional logging history, also understands the toll that shortsighted practices have taken on the land. At the Appelo Archives Center, a small museum where he is a founding board mem-ber, Penttila points out a black-and-white photograph from Ellsworth of a truck carrying a single gigantic log. The logging heyday continued through the 1970s. “Then this horrible thing happened here. We ran out of old-growth,” Penttila says. He adds drily, “I don’t know how that happened.”

In the 1980s, the region's forestland was owned primarily by traditional timber companies that had a long-term stake in the communities where they worked, Penttila says. More recently there’s been a proliferation of investment organizations that may log the land for a few years, turn a profit for investors and sell. Meanwhile, adds Kollasch, the length of time between clear-cuts has grown shorter. He notes that one site near Ellsworth was cleared after only 28 years, where the norm used to be at least 40 to 50. “I worry that the increasing frequency of harvesting could lead to boom-bust cycles,” he says.

Providing jobs and continuing to allow recreational access on Conservancy land has helped build trust in com-munities where suspicion of environmentalists can run deep. Kollasch recounts a story from his early days at Ellsworth, when a man in a truck pulled over outside the preserve to talk. “I’m a logger, and you’re just going to lock this up,” barked the man, who was so upset he was shaking. “You people will never be accepted here,” he said.

Kollasch says he laid out the Conservancy’s plans for re-storing Ellsworth, “and by the end of it, he shook my hand.”

Amid the mossy giants, Kollasch stops to admire one of the oldest trees in the stand—a western red cedar about 14 feet in diameter and 175 feet tall. He estimates it could be older than 1,000 years.

It’s a reminder that although humans can help reverse some of the damage they’ve done in the past, ultimately time is the master of this landscape. “These forests are ancient,” says Kollasch. “We can try to accelerate old-growth, but it’s gonna take 600 years to get a 600-year-old tree.”

Lisa Bramen is a journalist in New York's Adirondack Mountains. She is a senior editor at Adirondack Life magazine and a co-author of the Explorer's Guide Adirondacks (Eighth Edition).


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Grizzlies GM Wallace dubs failed trade 'unfathomable'

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Chris Wallace has been in the NBA since 1986. He’s seen and done a lot as a front office executive.

On Saturday, the Grizzlies’ general manager told reporters he hadn’t seen anything quite like the three-team trade between Memphis, Phoenix and Washington that ultimately fell through.

“What happened last night was unfathomable. I’ve never experienced this before,” Wallace told reporters.

The Grizzlies, Suns and Wizards had a deal in place that would have sent swingman Trevor Ariza to Washington, Kelly Oubre to Memphis and Austin Rivers to Phoenix. When reports differed as to whether the Suns were acquiring Dillon or MarShon Brooks from Memphis, however, the deal fell apart. Phoenix insisted on Dillon Brooks, while Memphis maintained it had intended to deal MarShon Brooks all along.

Neither team was willing to yield on its stated preference, leaving Phoenix and Washington to agree on a two-team trade the following day. Both Brooks, meanwhile, remain with the Grizzlies.

“That forced me to do something I’ve never done in 30-plus years working in this league with seven teams, is to drag two players out of a locker room and tell them they’ve been traded and then eventually have to come back and tell them, ‘Oh, no, you haven’t been traded,'” Wallace said.

“We ask a lot of these guys and we try to communicate with them at all times,” Wallace added. “We do not want them to know about trades from another party; we want to be the ones that tell them. We were forced to come in at that time and say something. That put us in a very difficult situation.”


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Blazers' Collins to undergo shoulder surgery

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Portland’s already thin frontcourt suffered another blow on Saturday. The team announced that Zach Collins will undergo surgery on the left shoulder that was dislocated during the Blazers’ 121-119 win over Dallas last Sunday. The date for his procedure has yet to be determined.

The 10th overall pick of the 2017 Draft, Collins is averaging a career-high 28.7 minutes for the depleted Blazers, who are already without center Jusuf Nurkic. Any prolonged absence by Collins would leave Hassan Whiteside, Skal Labissiere and Moses Brown as Portland’s only true big men.

The Blazers, who advanced to the Western Conference finals last season, were 3-2 entering Saturday’s game against Philadelphia.


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Some key storylines and NBA tidbits to know for the day ahead

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1. It’s Luka-mania vs. Kawhi & PG13!: The NBA’s newest walking triple-double (Luka Doncic) vs. perhaps the Western Conference’s best two-way duo (Kawhi Leonard and Paul George)? Sign us up, please. Doncic enters tonight’s home game (8:30 ET, NBA TV) averaging a triple-double in November (32.5 points, 10.6 rebounds, 10.8 assists). Meanwhile, Leonard ranks No. 1 in the league in go-ahead field goals since the start of last season, and George has made four go-ahead 3-pointers in the final seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime. Should this one get close, it will be interesting to see which superstar delivers.

2. Which style will prevail in Denver?: Save for the Lakers, no team in the West has been hotter right now than the Nuggets. They host the Washington Wizards (9 ET, League Pass) and seek their sixth straight win — many of which have come because of Denver’s defense. That unit will have a tough task against the Wizards and their offense, which is No. 2 in the NBA in November. Pay attention to the shooting guard matchup, where Denver’s Gary Harris will try to keep Bradley Beal under wraps.

3. Happy birthday, Reignman!: NBA fans of a certain generation remember all too well just how thrilling Shawn Kemp was to watch in his heyday. The former Seattle SuperSonics forward known as “The Reignman” turns the big 5-0 today. Take a gander at Kemp’s career mixtape that does justice in displaying just how amazing and athletic of a player he was in his prime.


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Bebe Rexha says designers said she's 'too big' to make Grammys dress for

"If you don’t like my fashion style or my music that’s one thing," she said. "But don’t say you can’t dress someone that isn’t a runway size."
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Singer Bebe Rexha said some designers refused to make a dress for her to wear to next month's Grammy Awards, allegedly labeling her "too big" at a size 6 to 8.

Now, some designers are offering to dress the songstress behind such hits as "Meant to Be," which is a contender for best country/group duo performance at the Feb. 10 Grammy Awards.

Rexha, who is also nominated for best new artist, expressed her disappointment in a video posted to her official Instagram account on Monday, saying some unnamed designers declined to dress her.

"So, I finally get nominated at the Grammys and it's like the coolest thing ever," explained Rexha, 29. "And a lot of times, artists will go and talk to designers and they'll make them custom dresses to walk the red carpet."

But Rexha, who has 7.3 million followers on Instagram, said designers told her stylists that at size 6 to 8, she is too big to dress.

"If a size 6/8 is too big, then I don't know what to tell you," she said. "Then I don't want to wear your f------ dresses. 'Cause that's crazy. You're saying all the women in the world that are a size 8 and up are not beautiful and they cannot wear your dresses."

Since it's being posted, the video had been viewed more than half a million times and accumulated more than 10,000 comments.

Some of those comments included offers from designers who said they would gladly dress the pop star for the awards show.

"Project Runway" alum Michael Costello was among the first designers to weigh in.

"Bebe we have been friends for a long time i got you !," he wrote in an Instagram post on his account.

Elizabeth Kennedy, who has dressed Drew Barrymore, Uzo Aduba, Laverne Cox and Mindy Kaling, among others, commented to Rexha: “I’d love to make you a dress for the Grammys! I’m a size 8 too, and yes it is a beautiful size.”

Model Tess Holliday told the singer she empathized: “Know this feeling all too well.”

Rexha is not the first celebrity to call out designers for refusing to dress them. Model Ashley Graham told New York Magazine last summer that she skipped the 2016 Met Gala because "I couldn’t get a designer to dress me."

Comedian and actress Leslie Jones shared her grievances on Twitter in June 2016 about "no designers" wanting to help her with a dress for the Hollywood premiere of "Ghostbusters." After her reveal, "Project Runway" winner Christian Siriano, who, like Costello, has built a career on dressing all body types, was quick to offer his services. Siriano also said Tuesday in a tweet that he has dressed Rexha "a few times and would love to do it again."

Ultimately, Rexha said she would not be made to feel a misfit.

"If you don’t like my fashion style or my music that’s one thing," she wrote on Instagram. "But don’t say you can’t dress someone that isn’t a runway size. We are beautiful any size! Small or large!"


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Placebos Are Becoming More Effective

The percentage of new pharmaceutical products that fail their effectiveness trials is growing. The culprit is the placebo effect, which appears to be stronger than in years past. If a drug cannot provide relief significantly better than a sugar pill, it won’t go on the market.
The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and more financial woes for the beleaguered pharmaceutical industry. Last November, a new type of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, championed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, was abruptly withdrawn from Phase II trials after unexpectedly tanking against placebo. A stem-cell startup called Osiris Therapeutics got a drubbing on Wall Street in March, when it suspended trials of its pill for Crohn's disease, an intestinal ailment, citing an "unusually high" response to placebo. Two days later, Eli Lilly broke off testing of a much-touted new drug for schizophrenia when volunteers showed double the expected level of placebo response.

It's not only trials of new drugs that are crossing the futility boundary. Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests.

Wired takes a look at how the placebo effect works, and the various reasons newer drugs don’t compete as well with the mind’s ability to affect our bodies. Link -via Boing Boing

Previously at Neatorama: Prozac: No Better Than Placebo?

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Maybe the problem isn't the placebos, but the test pool. If you have a large number of incorrectly diagnosed hypochondriacs in your test pool, of course the placebo is going to work on them as well as the drug you're testing.
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"Beleaguered pharmaceutical industry"...

Seriously? Have you seen their annual profit and loss statements? They don't exactly make my list of unfortunate souls who deserve our sympathy.

Frankly, I'm glad to see them honoring the results of clinical trials rather than putting out drugs that, oops, end up producing unexpected and unwanted side effects, like liver failure, kidney failure, or death.

@skipweasel. It's hardly gullibility. It's actually more closely related to the differences between allopathic medicine (where the symptoms of the disease are treated more often than the source of the disease) and true holistic medicine (where you take actions that support your body's ability to regulate and sometimes heal itself; mind over matter also fits in here, i.e. the placebo effect). The mind is a powerful tool. Try using it some time :p

Allopathic medicine has it's place, of course. If I have a severe systemic infection, I'm not going to see a holistic doctor. I'm going to get some powerful antibiotics and worry about replenishing beneficial bacteria afterwards. But for chronic medical conditions, holistic medicine can work quite well. And it doesn't have to be one or the other. You can use holistic medicine to support your allopathic efforts.
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Instructables user rabidiga made this pan flute. It was his entry in a contest to build a post-apocalyptic musical instrument for under $30. He didn't spent a penny, but only used materials that he already owned:

Super easy to make. Took me about an hour even though I am clumsy as hell when it comes to working with wire. Depending on your choice of supplies it could have easily been finished in half the time. And while they don't sound perfect I was able to belt out a killer 'Ode to Joy' even if it was a bit out of tune.

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Wow. Not as many "ZOMG!!! GUNS!!! AMERICA EVIL!!! " posts this time around.

@ Ted -you can purchase empty shell casings. Depending on caliber, if they are rimfire or unspent, prices differ. But he recommended getting them for free from a shooting range.

I once made a hand bag/clutch purse from casings. The casings looked sort of like bamboo. It was spectacular.
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Even though each casing is empty and obviously harmless, I hate to think how long it takes him to get through airport security with that thing.
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MGM Springfield Workers Ratify First Union Contract

SPRINGFIELD, MA – Workers at MGM Springfield overwhelmingly ratified their first union contract, a four-year deal covering nearly 700 workers who work as cocktail servers, guest room attendants, bartenders, cooks, valet drivers, and other hospitality positions at the resort casino.

By the end of the contract workers will see an average 19% increase to their wages with some workers seeing their wages increase by almost 40%. Workers will continue to benefit from high quality health insurance and will not pay any increase in their contributions for the duration of the contract. The Company will begin contributing to a defined benefit pension plan on behalf of each employee in the third year of the agreement, a benefit almost unheard of in the area hospitality industry.

“We’re extremely pleased to have won such a momentous first contract for workers at MGM Springfield,” said Warren Pepicelli, Manager of the New England Joint Board UNITE HERE which represents servers, bartenders, housekeepers and other hospitality workers. “This is a strong first step towards setting a standard in the gaming industry in Massachusetts.”

Frank A. Rossi, President and Principal Officer of Teamster Local 404 which represents warehouse, valet, front desk workers and others stated “The best way to rebuild the middle class is through strong union contracts that strengthen our communities.”

“With this union contract I feel relieved that my job and benefits will be protected so that I’ll be able to provide for my family,” said Laurie Andrews-Johnson, a Guest Service Representative in the Slots Department. “Now I know I have a voice at work with guaranteed wage increases, retirement security, and high-quality benefits.

About the New England Joint Board UNITE HERE The New England Joint Board is a union representing 10,000 workers throughout New England and New York who work in the textile, garment, manufacturing, distribution, laundry, human service, and hospitality industries. The New England Joint Board is an affiliate of UNITE HERE International Union. For more information, visit

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