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July 07, 2021
Hammertoe Causes & Treatment

Dr. Scott Biggerstaff, MD

Hammertoes are a common problem we see in our foot patients at OrthoCarolina. Not only can hammertoes be unsightly, but the condition can also cause pain and make walking difficult.

Thankfully, hammertoes can be corrected surgically with a quick recovery time.

What is a hammertoe?

A hammertoe is a foot deformity where one of the small toes has an abnormal bend in the middle toe joint. Moving the affected toe is often difficult or painful.

Hammertoes can occur in a single toe or also can occur in multiple toes at the same time. I also see toe deformities frequently in patients who have bunions.

What causes a hammertoe?

Hammertoes are often related to a person’s shoe choices. You are more likely to develop a hammertoe if you wear high heels or narrow toed shoes.

However, patients can develop hammertoes even if they avoid these types of shoes. Most people who develop hammertoes have inherited them from a family member. We have genetics to blame for this.

How do you treat hammertoes?

The most common reason for someone to seek care for their hammertoe is that they are painful and make wearing shoes difficult.

Some people have pain with activity or even with just normal walking. Occasionally we see patients who have sores or wounds that have resulted from the toe rubbing against their shoes.

Non-operative Treatment

Conservative treatment of a hammertoe is directed at improving a patient’s symptoms.  Unfortunately, non-operative treatment does not correct the hammertoe.

The first thing a patient can do is to make sure they wear shoes that have enough room in the toe box to accommodate the deformity. We also will recommend patients wear a toe sleeve on their hammertoe to prevent the toe from rubbing on their shoes.

Also, I will give the patient a hammertoe splint that can help straighten the toe while they are wearing it. As mentioned above, these treatments help with the symptoms but do not correct the toe.

Surgical Treatment

If a patient is still experiencing significant pain and discomfort after conservative measures, we consider operative treatment.

I am able to correct most hammertoes using minimally invasive techniques similar to the way I correct most bunions. By using small incisions, patients typically have less pain and swelling.

These surgeries are generally done in an outpatient surgery center unless the patient has a medical contra-indication.

Most patients who have a minimally invasive hammertoe correction take only one or two doses of pain medication. They also rarely need any sort of pin or screw fixations. Instead, I can maintain the correction using steri-strips and soft dressings.

If the hammertoe is the only issue being corrected, I have patients walking on their heel immediately, and my goal is to have them in a tennis shoe by about 4 weeks after surgery. Patients who opt for surgery generally do not need any physical therapy.

There's no reason to live in discomfort unable to do the things you love. If you think you have a hammertoe or are suffering from foot pain, please contact one of our foot & ankle specialists today.

Scott Biggerstaff, MD, is a fellowship-trained foot & ankle surgeon at OrthoCarolina Kernersville and Winston-Salem. He specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of bunions, hammertoes and other foot and ankle deformities.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Updated Master Bathroom with NO budget for Demolition is COMPLETE!

*Some items in this post have been sponsored but of course all opinions of this product are my own. Affiliate links are used in this post. Any product purchased through my affiliate links will help me with a small percentage of commision at no extra cost to you. As always I am thankful you are here!

 After living with this style-lacking, turquoise master bathroom I am now enjoying this stylish upgrade in my home!

 This bathroom project started off as something small. I was just going to simply paint the walls and change the lighting. After all, color and lighting can really transform a space. As a matter of fact, the very first thing I picked out for our master bathroom was the lighting. I wanted something that had a contemporary look but with a vintage twist. I started my search at Lamps Plus since they have s HUGE selection of lighting at many different price points which is important to me.

I fell in love with these mixed metal sconces that have a beautiful glass shade. The texture on the glass shade definitely gives the sconces a vintage vibe as well as the small touches of brass. It was important to find a light fixture that would diffuse the light because the bed in our bedroom faces the bathroom and if the light is too bright it is extremely bothersome to my eyes when I'm sitting in bed.  When the lights go on, the textured glass gives the light a soft glow. It also helped that I installed a dimmer for the lights  so if someone needs to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, we won't wake the other person up with blinding light.

These lights also happen to be budget-friendly at well under $200! I placed my order amd received my shipment in less than a week. (Per usual with Lamps Plus, they always ship quickly). If you want to check out these wall lamps you can CLICK HERE.

If you've been following along on the blog or on Instagram then you know that we didn't have a budget for a major renovation. That meant that we weren't going to rip anything out or change any major plumbing. This bathroom makeover was strictly cosmetic but even cosmetic changes make such a big difference. To appreciate the change, let's take a look at how the bathroom looked before the update. Builder-grade finishes and those ugly "showbiz lights"  coordinate perfectly with the rusted shower curtain rod and the teal colored walls just brings the look together, LOL.

I am so happy with the way this bathroom turned out! I just wished I would have done this sooner! I never took our master bathroom seriously because for some reason I talked myself into thinking that only a major renovation would make this bathroom look good so we kept putting it off. I really need to practice what I preach because I definitely believe in the power of small changes.

Speaking of changes let me give you a rundown of the changes we made to this master bathroom.

We swapped out the builder-grade lighting for stylish and affordable wall sconces from Lamps Plus.  Nothing changes the mood of a space like lighting. The wall sconces retail at $179 each and I installed them myself with the help of my brother-in-law who is a lineman. He was guiding me over the phone via video-chat lol. I ran into a bit of a complication with the installation of the second sconce where I accidentally partially snipped a wire while cutting the drywall. Oops! I'm definitely not handy when it comes to things like that, but doing it myself saved us about $250 give or take.

We painted over the peacock blue walls with simple white paint. Behr's Ultra Pure White which is literally "off the shelf" white is a fuss-free and easy to use color that I've used over and over again.  After 4 coats (yes, 4 coats) the blue was gone! You know what else is gone? The dorky medicine cabinet. We did hire someone to take out the mirror and medicine cabinet and to drywall and texturize the hole where the medicine cabinet was. I didn't DIY that because DRYWALL and it was $260  to get someone to do it. Done! I probably could have done it myself but my wife didn't trust me, LOL.

One thing we did DIY was the backsplash. The white subway tile is actually not tile at all! They're big, 12" x 12" vinyl stickers! I am SO IMPRESSED with not only how it looks, but how easy it was to install! At $34 for 10 sheets, it was pretty affordable. I ordered 4 packs for the wall behind the mirrors.

We found another affordable option for the floors. This "luxury vinyl tile is thick and feels like the real thing. It's also groutable which makes the tile look even more like stone. The tile is peel and stick so installation is easy although I didn't do it,  LOL. Again, my wife didn't trust that I would do a satisfactory job so we did hire someone to tile our bathroom floor and I'm glad we did. I've never installed tile and I didn't want to risk it looking all crooked and having to hear my wife complain about it for the rest of our lives. We paid $450 dollars for the installation. The installer said it was a two day job because of the fact that we were using floor adhesive to really make the tile stick and he had to wait 24 hours before grouting.  (The directions on the package of the tile said they were just peel-and stick, but the reviews said that they didn't stick very well so we decided to add adhesive to the back of each tile.) Fair enough! Although we spent money on the installation, we didn't spend much on the tile. Each tile costs 99 cents and we ended up spending about $130 in total in tile for this bathroom.

you can find this peel and stick tile HERE

I love rich wood tones and I knew that was the route I wanted to go with my existing bathroom cabinets. We got a quote to get them stained and the estimate came in at $850 which I think is way too much so I decided I was definitely going to DIY this project and stain the cabinet myself. I watched a bunch of youtube videos and got as much information as I could before starting this task.

To stain my cabinets I used a get stain which I found to be SO easy to work with. The thick stain penetrates deep into the wood so you need less coats and since the stain is thick, it doesn't run all over the place like traditional wood stain.  The process was fairly easy and a first time DIYer can definitely tackle this project . If you can lightly sand and paint, you can do this because that's really all there is to it. In the Youtube videos I watched, some people sanded and some people didn't. I decided to sand AND clean the hell out of my cabinets and I'm really glad I did. In some parts of the cabinet where I didn't sand or clean thoroughly, the stain wouldn't penetrate as well and would look blotchy. I actually had to go back and re-sand those sections after I had already stained. Fortunately, that worked without a problem. After that, all you do is evenly spread stain on your cabinets, let it sit for a few minutes and then wipe away the excess with a clean, lint free towel. You keep doing that until you get the desired color. I put 4 coats on my cabinets to get a nice dark color and after a couple of days of staining (yes, a couple of days. It's best to let the stain dry a few hrs after every coat) I let the cabinets completely dry for 3 days before I sealed them with a satin polyurethane to protect my newly stained cabinets from dirt and water. Like I said, it was very easy but VERY time consuming. For this project, I spent about $16 for the gel stain, $11 for the polyurethane, $4 for a box of gloves, $5 for sandpaper, $11 for a fancy paintbrush, $3 for a tack cloth and $11 for 7 cabinet knobs. In total, I spent $68 for this project. SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS. Compared to EIGHT-HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS!? I think I made the right choice even though it did take me a long time to complete.

You can order gel stain HERE

The silhouette in these bathroom fixtures matched perfectly with both the mirrors and the base of the wall sconce. I chose the Oswell collection from Home Depot for the faucets and shower trim package. Everything was pretty affordable which was great because we did hire someone to install everything. Even though everyone around me told me that I could probably install all the bathroom fixtures myself, I didn't dare. I don't mess with anything water related because it can be so damaging to a home if anything leaks! It only cost us $250 to get everything installed so it wasn't bad. There was one thing that wasn't done, however and that was to have the shower knob installed.  The shower knob to turn the water on and off was not installed because it didn't fit the valve that is inside the shower walls. Since we are not remodeling the shower, the plumber couldn't get to the valve easily and would have to cut a hole into the fiberglass,  hopefully small enough to have the plate on the shower knob cover it. Oh and it was going to be anout $400 to do it. Well, that just made me all sorts of nervous. Aside from the expense, I was more more worried that something would go wrong with the plumbing and we would have to replace the whole damn shower, LOL. So I fired our plumber and decided to just spray paint the existing chrome shower knob fixture. No, I'm kidding. I didn't fire our plumber. He actually did a very good job and I'm glad he was honest with us. He actually was the one who recommended to spray paint the shower knob.

I googled "how to spray paint your shower fixtures" and I found a blog post by Bless'er House. She explains in detail how she sprayed hers and they looked amazing! Pretty much all you do is sand the fixture, tape the edges of the shower fixtures, close off your entire shower area in plastic, prime your shower fixtures with automotive spray primer, allow to dry, spray paint black(2 coats) and that's it!
Please check out Bless'er House's post where she gives you much more details on how to spray your bathroom fixtures.

I treated our bathroom like I would any other space in the house. I accessorized it to bring out my my style in the space and also to give the space that "visual weight" or "finished, lived-in and not so new" look that I crave. From the towel hooks to the art, everything is a nod to my personal style.

One small tip I can give you for your bathroom accessories is to hang that shower curtain high! Instead of using your standard 72" long shower curtain, create height and presence in your bathroom by hanging regular 96" curtains that happen to not be shower curtains! You can actually find extra long shower curtain liners on Amazon so that you can line your regular curtains if you decide to use them as shower curtains. This striped curtain that I used is actually a standard sized 72" shower curtain. To make them longer I purchased 2 and attached an extra piece to the bottom of the curtain using heavy duty hemming tape!

This bathroom update has reminded me that sometimes small changes can make a huge impact. I've always known this, but for this space I didn't practice that. I kept the bathroom in a state that made me very unhappy because I felt that in order to make that space look good, that everything had to be ripped out and replaced. I waited and waited for that "one day" where we would have a big ol' bathroom remodel. Although this isn't your typical bathroom remodel, I'm extremely happy with the results!

Thanks to my wife who was there to support me and to paint all the trim and replace all the caulking! I love you! Thanks to my sis and mom who helped me choose my color scheme. Thanks to my brother in law who guided me when installing the lighting and dimmer. Thanks to Lamps Plus for sponsoring me and supplying the beautiful lighting for this project and a big thanks to my Instagram family and Blog family who left encouraging comments and shared my excitement in regards to this makeover :)

"Perfection is the enemy of progress"

-Winston Churchill

  1. Oscar! It looks fabulous!!! I see your signature style all over and that you were able to do it on a tight budget is very inspiring!

    1. Thank you!! Yes, I'm so happy that now the bathroom coordinates with the rest of the house. I didn't think it was possible with such a small budget :)

  2. This was absolutely brilliant!! I love it and totally love your style! The fact that you were able to make that level of transformation on a budget is inspiring. Quick question - do you remember where you purchased the leopard mat?

    1. Hi Sherry! Thank you so much! I can't believe the change! To answer your question, I purchased the animal print tug at Hobby Lobby for I believe about 10 bucks!

  3. Omg!! Love it! And I even got teary eye at the end, like all our hard work paid off and we have a beautiful master bath❤😍 Thank you for working soo hard and making it amazing like always!

  4. Hi Oscar! Looks absolutely beautiful!

  5. Awesome! The stick on subway tiles are cool

    1. Brian, I was so blown away by the subway tiles! They look so good and were so easy to install!

  6. Oscar,
    You are so talented! This bathroom transformation looks fabulous. And besides that, you make me laugh about how you didn't want to mess up any of the plumbing or whatever and have to hear about it for the rest of your life! Hahaha....sounds like something my husband would say! Great job, as always!

    1. Thank you so much! Yes, In most cases I think I'd rather pay someone to do a job for my own sanity lol

  7. Hello¡ Love it! Long time follower from Oxnard CA. Beautiful as always

    1. Hi thanks so much! I appreciate you following along 🥰

  8. Oscar it looks amazing!!!!! Love what you did!

  9. It looks awesome! You did a great job staining. I thinks it's funny that your wife trusts you with electric but not with vinyl tiles. LOL

    1. Lol we were just talking about that actually. She should definitely not trust me with either! 😆


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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Reviewing my Serena & Lily Bedding- Two Years and Many Washes Later

This post made possible by Serena & Lily. Always a pleasure to introduce their products in my home. Affiliate links used here, all opinions are my own ♡

 Two things that I love to splurge on: FOOD and BEDDING.

Both of these things when they're constructed exceptionally, are such a joy to experience. We all know how amazing it feels to eat a delicious meal, am I right? Well, I find that sinking into a beautiful bed and having soft, cool sheets caress my skin while I nestle my head into the perfect spot on my pillow to be absolute bliss.  HEAVENLY.

Being a home decor blogger has given me a lot of opportunities to review bedding from quite a few different companies so I feel that because of this I really understand the difference between "good" bedding and "great" bedding. One of my favorite home decor brands, Serena & Lily asked if I would be kind enough to review some of my favorite products that I've owned for some time from Serena & Lily and the first thing that came to mind was the Serena & Lily bedding in our master bedroom.

In case you aren't familiar with Serena & Lily I wanted to briefly introduce you to this brand and their aesthetic. They're all about that relaxed, California style with a big emphasis on the way a person interacts with the items they use everyday in the home. Every item you find in their design shop is such a treat to touch because the designers put so much thought into how everything FEELS. All of their textiles, furniture and accessories have a major focus on texture and shape while keeping a neutral color palette to further enhance that texture in the item making you want to just reach out and feel all that yummy-ness.

Now that you know a little bit about Serena & Lily, I want to share my opinion on their bedding, both bedding that I've owned for a while now and bedding that I just recently received. I'm including links to all the bedding that I mention here. If you have any questions for me about anything that pertains to this post, please feel free to ask in the "comments" section at the bottom of this post. I actually LOVE hearing from you!

I've owned the Soho Sheet set for a couple of years now and I still enjoy this bedding set as much as the first day I laundered them and even after two years they still look ans feel amazing. These sheets are 300 thread count so they definitely have some weight to them and actually I find that they feel a little thicker than any other sheet I've had with the same thread count. The sheets are 100%  eco-friendly cotton sateen so not only do they feel like the softest fabric against the skin, they drape beautifully on the bed -so much that I usually don't need to iron them to look good! Speaking of looking good, the beautiful embroidery on the sheets are what I initially fell in love with. The "knot of wisdom" adds that elegant look to the sheets which I'm so attracted to! The embroidery comes comes in 9 beautiful colors and naturally, I chose the color "moss" 💚

This beautiful sutter velvet quilt feels buttery soft to the touch. It's such a treat to curl up into and feel the velvet against your skin. The  100% velvet  quilt in "moss"  has a very faint sheen to it and the "moss green" color is deep. The fabric looks  and feels very high-end. The other side of the quilt is l00% linen in an oatmeal color. The linen helps the quilt be breathable while still keeping you warm. Iv'e had it as long as the soho sheets and it looks as good as new. Even though the velvet quilt looks like it would be delicate to care for, it's actually not. I wash it in the washing machine at home using regular detergent, cold water and just tumble dry low. No high-maintenance needed to keep this beautiful quilt or the sheets looking great! My quilt is part of the Sutter Bedding Sets by Serena & Lily. I own the quilt and two matching shams in "moss". Unfortunately that color is not available right now, but the good news is that Serena & Lily just came out with the Sutter bedding line in LINEN which is a great way to keep you feeling cool during those summer nights!

Now that the southern California nights are starting to warm up a bit I found it to be the perfect time to update our bedding to something that would help keep us feeling crisp and cool while we fall asleep. I loved our Sutter quilt so much that I decided to swap the velvet for the Sutter Linen Quilt in white. This 100% European linen front and cotton poplin back quilt will keep us covered at night while still staying breathable. I just love the nubby texture of the quilt and the pristine white color. I read on the Serena & Lily website that the quilt just gets softer and softer after every wash. I'm really excited to own this for many years!

I'm also swapping my sheets for the summer with these 100% European Flax linen sheets and I'm so excited about it! I've never had linen sheets in our master bedroom but have always wanted some. The guest bedroom has linen sheets and I've always loved them. The Positano Linen Sheets come in 8 different colors and I fell in love with this pristine white that it comes in. The sheet set includes the flat sheet, fitted sheet and two pillow cases. As soon as I received my sheets, I washed them and put them on my bed. I am in love with the casual vibe the texture of the sheets bring to our bed! So chic!

I'm so impressed with my Serena & Lily bedding that I decided to invest in a set from them for the summer and early fall (because the fall temperature in southern California can still be a bit warm). I'm storing my Sutter velvet quilt set and the Soho sheet set until late fall and winter where it will make it's appearance again!

We owe it to ourselves to feel good and to start and end our day in a well- appointed bed. After all those long hours at work or spending all day working on projects at home or feeding the family, nothing beats walking into our bedroom, closing that door and ending our day snuggling up in some soft, freshly laundered sheets!

'Till next time!

  1. You have actual linens! Looks great!

    1. Haha yes they're actual linens! 😁 thanks Brian hope all is well with you and the family


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"Charaiveti, Charaiveti 2"

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"It was customary with Gautam Buddha that whenever somebody became enlightened, he was sent away to share his experience with those who were stumbling on the path. Obviously, those disciples who had become enlightened would ask him for his last message so that they can carry it in their heart.

 You will be surprised what his last message was to every disciple who was departing. He would call the disciple close, so nobody else could hear – because it was the same message for every one. In the ear of the disciple he would say, “Always remember: charaiveti, charaiveti, go on, go on, never stop. Existence never stops; why should you stop? charaiveti, charaiveti.”~Osho: Yakusan Straight to the point of Enlightenment.

Charaiveti Charaiveti Part two: Osho's promise is that it doesn't matter where we start, it doesn't matter what we do know or don't know, it doesn't matter what our history is, the Way opens to the heart. In whatever situation we are, when we connect with Osho's presence field, something in our heart is held, met, and encouraged to take its next step. Can be small---one breath at a time--can be something big: like "drop your job and find something that is really appropriate for who you are." Charaveti is the way of journeying this heart as it moves from true to more true to even more true. Sooner or later the land of truth takes us to the fields of love that arises out of truth. Love, when lived and journeyed, introduces us to the ocean of peace and stillness . To those who journey this way, all of these steps are met with friendship, support, and guidance that comes to the people who are willing to let existence take us by the hand.

This gathering will be a blend of inspirations, rememberings, and skills for manifesting in daily life. There will also be opportunities for questions and feedback.

Akhail finished graduate school in 1974, and as he was standing on the gate to the school, an inner voice said to him, "do you really know anything?" I honestly replied, "No." The voice said, "find somebody who does."  "I spent the next year looking for that person, tried many, and when I met Osho in 1975 it was an instant click and a new name for me. Since then the journey has continued in and out of communes in Poona and the Ranch and still unfolding to Osho's guidance in letting go of knowledge and discovering reality fresh each day."  Akhail has been leading workshops and trainings since 1976, mostly in Europe and some in USA and Japan. Now in times of great wonder and gratefulness for what is and continues to unfold in the field of Osho's love.

This event is offered at no cost but if you feel like contributing to Akhail you can do so on PayPal, http://PayPal.Me/oshoniranjana

To know more about Akhail and his work please click on the following links: https://www.nishantmatthews.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PmF34pT3s

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Polymyalgia rheumatica

Musculoskeletal system

Pediatric musculoskeletal conditions
Musculoskeletal injuries and trauma
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A 70-year-old man comes to the office because of aching and stiffness, especially first thing in the morning. It began last month. He indicates that the symptoms occur in the distribution shown here:

Strength is 5/5 in all limbs. He has hypertension, and his medications are lisinopril and rosuvastatin. He says that aside from occasional headaches, he feels well. His temperature is 37.5°C (99.5°F), pulse 75/minute, respirations 14/minute, and blood pressure is 140/80. The only abnormal laboratory blood and urine findings are an ESR of 100 mm/hr and hemoglobin of 11 g/dL. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

With polymyalgia rheumatica, “poly-“ means many, “mya-” means muscles, and “-algia” means pain.

“Rheumatica” comes from rheumatism, which broadly refers to conditions that affect the joints and connective tissue.

So, polymyalgia rheumatica is a disorder that causes muscle pain and joint stiffness.

It is considered to be an immune- mediated disease, meaning that the immune system attacks our own body.

It is important to note that although “myalgia” means muscle pain, the muscles are usually spared and it's the tissue around the joints that mostly gets inflamed.

Normally, the cells of the immune system are always hanging around, ready and excited to spot and fight against anything foreign that could cause harm inside the body.

One particular type of immune cell - the dendritic cell - is a type of antigen-presenting cell, meaning that it grabs a pathogen for example a bacteria, destroys it, and presents a part of that bacteria, called an antigen, to other immune cells.

Dendritic cells take their name from the fact that they have branch like arms called dendrites which help them grab antigen.

Dendritic cells take their captured antigen and move over to a nearby lymph node, where they present the antigen to a helper T-cell.

Dendritic cells “present” the antigen on a protein called a major histocompatibility complex, or MHC, class II molecule which is on their cell surface.

MHC class II molecules are like a serving platter, which hold the antigen as it gets presented to the helper T-cells.

Once these antigens are recognized as foreign, T-helper cells get activated and start secreting a lot of proinflammatory cytokines, or signalling molecules, that recruit more immune cells, such as macrophages, to the site of inflammation.

At the same time, other cytokines, called interleukins, trigger B-cells to secrete antibodies against the targeted antigens.

These antibodies block pathogens from causing harm, and also “tag” them so that other immune cells, like macrophages, can recognize and destroy them.

Although the exact cause of polymyalgia rheumatica is not well understood, it is associated with both genetic and the environmental factors.

For example, a person with a certain gene for an MHC class II molecule, also called a human leukocyte antigen, or HLA–DR4, is more likely to develop the disease especially after an infection with adenovirus or parvovirus B19.

This might be due to a process called molecular mimicry, which is where an immune cell mistakes a protein in the body for being a foreign protein.

When our own proteins trigger an immune response, the protein is called an autoantigen.

So, these autoantigens get picked up by antigen-presenting cells, which go on to activate helper T-cells.

These helper T-cells, in turn, activate B-cells which start producing antibodies against the autoantigens.

Then, both helper T-cells and antibodies enter the circulation and reach the large joints, such as the shoulder and hip.

Once there, they secrete cytokines like interferon-γ to recruit more immune cells like macrophages.


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George Pollock Jr. participated in the 2019 Race Across America to raise funds for the FSHD Society.

By Dominique Asher

This year, due to COVID-19, instead of the Race Across America (RAAM), the FSHD society is hosting a National Virtual Walk & Roll to Cure FSHD event on Saturday, September 12, encouraging the 24 chapters spread across the nation and members of the community to walk or ‘roll’ in support of a cure for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).

FishHawk resident George Pollock Jr., Tampa Chapter co-director of the FSHD Society, was diagnosed with FSHD 12 years ago, affecting his lower legs. FSHD is a genetic muscular dystrophy, often affecting the muscles of the face, shoulders or arms.

Though common, FSHD can be extremely difficult to diagnose as it presents itself in different ways in each case and can take several years to diagnose. Over 500,000 people worldwide are affected by FSHD, with no cure available.

Biking more than 3,000 miles on a eight-man relay team, George participated in RAAM in 2017 and 2019, aiming to raise awareness for FSHD and funds towards a possible cure.

RAAM is a cross country bike race spanning from the California Coast all the way to Annapolis, Maryland with solo cyclists or two, four or eight-person teams along with crews relaying and completing the race together.

In 2017, George founded the eight-person Team FSHD alongside his wife, Jane Pollock, Tampa Chapter co-director of the FSHD Society, and recruited cyclists to participate. The team was backed by a 13-member crew stationed along the race.

George said, “Every decade, FSHD gets worse and worse, with over 20 percent affected ending up in a wheelchair.”

For the National Virtual Walk & Roll to Cure FSHD, each FSHD chapter aims to raise around $25,000 in order to fund research and clinical trials for drugs and potential cures as well as to find cheaper ways to diagnose or test for FSHD so that they can become widely available.

The Pollocks and other chapter members are also taking to social media to spread the word about FSHD, using #TampaWalkRoll and #CureFSHD to get the disease trending and raise awareness in the community.

Jane said, “Through advocacy, we hope to build a community to help others around us with FSHD.”

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overhall(19 minute drive) the largest elm woodland in Cambridgeshire. The w oodland is the site of a medieval house and moat, which is now home to a badger family. Alas no badgers out at the time but a very pleasant walk. However, there was only one circular walk, and one footpath but it was still nice. The best bit was that it was empty, great for dog walking. To get to the woods you park in the church car park and walk down the public footpath. It looks like you are walking in someone's garden.

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In 2016, the LGBTQ community lost more than 30,000 lives to a health epidemic that is arguably not getting the attention it warrants: smoking. Indeed, LGBT Health Link reported that 33% of the LGBTQ population are smokers – compared to just 20% of the rest of the populace. And the former spends more than $7.9 billion annually on cigarettes.

Doug Teitelbaum had a two-pack-a-day habit when, in 2012, he was introduced to a product called NJOY by his friend, Napster founder and first Facebook President – Sean Parker. The brand was at the forefront of a media frenzy surrounding the rise of e-cigarettes, in which debate raged around possible positive and negative health benefits. It also had Courtney Love as a spokesperson.

After making the switch from regular cigarettes to vaping, Teitelbaum started investigating the science behind the product, and concluded that e-cigarettes had the potential to save millions of smokers’ lives, simply by getting them to make the same switch that he did.

“I made a minority, non-control investment in the company," he says. “But some mistakes were made that it was unable to overcome, and NJOY eventually went into bankruptcy.”

But convinced of vaping’s potential as a lifesaver, Teitelbaum bought the company out of bankruptcy. He’s convinced that while other initiatives, including high taxation and public information campaigns, have been valuable tools in bringing down the numbers of smokers, few things can have as immediate and dramatic an effect than e-cigarettes. Statistics on vaping would appear to support him. Public Health England’s 2016 study concluded that e-cigarettes are about 95% safer than the real thing. And another eye-opening study found that, over a 10-year period, replacing cigarette smoking with vaping could save 6.6 million lives.

Even more to the point, that same year, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller dismissed claims that e-cigarettes were no better than traditional cigarettes. “The harm of the combustible cigarette is dramatically greater,” he said.

Acknowledging the epidemic, the FDA launched a 2016 campaign speaking specifically to LGBT smokers, with that organization’s Mitch Zeller stating, “We want LGBT young adults to know that there is no safe amount of smoking. Even an occasional cigarette can have serious health implications and lead to addiction.”

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It was announced last night that the SoHo channel in Australia will premiere the first episode of Outlander on August 14, 2014.  You can go to their Outlander page and find out more about the series premiere.  They even have a countdown going for the Australians.  I noticed at the bottom they give links to Diana Gabaldon, Aussie Outlanders Fan Club, and this website (how cool!).

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[This is not a spoiler-free review of the episode. If you have not seen the episode yet, read it at your own spoiler risk.]

Episode 304:  Of Lost Things

Written by Toni Graphia, Directed by Brendan Maher

The episode begins in 1968, with Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) still in Scotland at the old Wakefield home. The three of them are together in what appears to be his living room, with a storyboard along one wall that they are using to track Claire’s tale from the previous season with the events that took place afterward. Roger (Richard Rankin) makes the connection that time passed at the same rate both here and there when she was in the past.  This means they will need to establish that Jamie (Sam Heughan) is still alive in 1766 – 20 years after the Battle of Culloden – so that Claire could go back to be with him again. Brianna and Claire are scouring the records of the prisons after Culloden, since they assume this would have been his next step, having avoided death at and after Culloden. Fiona (Iona Claire), the housekeeper is a bit too friendly and helpful to Roger, and Brianna notices. They share a look, and Roger is uncomfortable at Fiona’s attention in front of Brianna. Claire is successful at last and finds Jamie’s name in the records for one of the prisons. The records span several years until it shut down in 1756, which means they need to figure out where he went from there. Knowing what we do from the previous episode where Lord John Grey (David Berry) snuck Jamie off to Helwater rather than sending him to the colonies, we can imagine how daunting of a task this will be for them without logical leads. Roger and Brianna are excited to have found further evidence of Jamie, regardless of the shorter time span than they need, but Claire seems apprehensive and even troubled.

Meanwhile, in 1756, we meet the Lord Dunsany (Rupert Vansittart), his wife (Beth Goddard), and his two daughters – Geneva (Hannah James) and Isobel (Tanya Reynolds)– arrive at Helwater, where Lord John Grey has used his influence to secure Jamie a position as a groom under an assumed identity. It is a role reminiscent of one we saw Jamie in during season one shortly after we first meet him when he worked as a groom at Castle Leoch, his uncle’s home. The daughters from the very beginning are opposite, with Geneva’s face set in a stern expression while dressed in delicate and bright fabrics, while Isabelle is dressed plainly, but with a sweet expression. Geneva seems to mirror her father’s own tight, haughty expression, while Isobel’s mirrors her mother’s more pleasant one.

Lord Dunsany is already taking an interest in Jamie, aware of his former years as a prisoner because of his treason to the crown during the rebellion He does not know exactly who Jamie is from that war, however. Talking with Jamie, he mentions the loss of his son – which for a man with a title and property in that time would have been a great blow not just for him, but for the entire family. He could blame Jamie for the part he played in that loss, but when Jamie mentions that he has lost two children, Lord Dunsany seems to appreciate his candor and allows him to stay. He warns him about Lady Dunsany, though, and her continued grief and ensures Jamie remembers he is still a prisoner, even if a well-treated one there.

Broken down by the side of the road, Brianna hangs back while Roger tinkers around under the hood. She mimics the housekeeper from earlier, asking Roger if he wants any cream on his scone. She grins, teasing him, but he is quick to deny that there is anything between himself and Fiona. Brianna presses further, commenting on how she had thought the two might have been an item when she had first met them. Taken aback, Roger again denies anything is going on there, stumbling over an explanation of having female friends, but no ‘girlfriend.’ It is clear to us that they like one another, but maybe not as clear to each other yet. Tired of playing coy, she maneuvers herself for a better look at the engine and finds the culprit – a loose distributor cap. Roger is both impressed and chagrined when she shows him up, as any man would be. It does begin to set the stage, though, for the fact that Brianna is the one who is good with her hands, as her birth father and her mother are, while Roger is a scholar like her adopted father, Frank.

Jamie, in his element with the horses, is pulled from his duties to draw straws with the other grooms. The man with the short straw has to accompany Lady Geneva on her ride – a very distasteful task. The girl in question arrives a sour expression with her nose in the air and orders the men around. She is a girl used to being in charge and obeyed. She even goes so far as to insult Jamie and his Scottish heritage. Is this from the pain of losing her brother in the Scottish rebellion or just the behavior of a spoiled child? Perhaps it is a little of both. Jamie makes the mistake of speaking his mind to one of the other grooms regarding the girl, only to be overheard by the sister. It is Jamie’s luck, though, that Isobel is amused by his words, rather than upset, and strikes up a genial conversation with Jamie. She and Grey have been childhood friends, and she speaks fondly of him. She even ventures to say that he will make a good husband to someone one day. Jamie doesn’t miss much, and it is unlikely that he has missed the tentative interest she has shown in his friend. Jamie knows John’s secret, though, and he attempts to let her down lightly, insisting that John is too dedicated to his military career to think about marriage. She is not deterred, though, and Jamie knows enough not to argue further with her.

Claire, who has been reading quietly near the fire in Roger’s house, is pulled from her quiet time by a phone call from Joe Abernathy (Wil Johnson). He is calling from the hospital in Boston regarding one of her patients. She is concerned to hear that the man needs surgery the following week, but – after a moment’s hesitation – insists that Joe can handle it. He is surprised but recognizes that she needs some time to deal with whatever secret mission she is currently on before returning home and doesn’t press the issue.

Lord Dunsany and his wife, meanwhile, are very pleased with the betrothal of their daughter, Geneva, to the Earl of Ellesmere (James Cameron Stewart). The three are walking to his carriage, discussing their daughter as if she wasn’t walking right behind them. Her sister, Isabelle, is watching her with concern and pity. Geneva looks even sourer than she has before, clearly displeased with the prospect of her impending marriage. Lord Ellesmere seems unkind and perhaps even cruel, the way that he speaks about her shortcomings in front of her to her parents, but then lays it on thickly when saying his ‘good-byes’ to her. It is clear to be an unpleasant match, and you can’t help but feel sorry for her, despite her bratty behaviors. Even her sudden interest in Jamie can be forgiven, facing the future she is. You have to wonder if she chooses Jamie because he is the worst of the men she could choose from to cause mischief with, or if there is a genuine attraction there for her. Either way, she begins to pursue him relentlessly.

When it’s time for her to go out riding again, Jamie is hand-selected by Lady Geneva to accompany her on her ride. Resigned to his fate, Jamie complies, but the trouble starts quickly. While Jamie tries to maintain an appropriate professional distance from Lady Geneva, she is determined to cross that line. When Jamie suggests that it is time to turn back before getting too dark, Geneva insists that he has to continue riding with her. She rides on and, faced with the decision to leave her by herself or follow, he complies. She pretends to be thrown from her horse, though, and when he catches up and rushes to her rescue, scooping her up in his arms to carry her back home, she begins to laugh. She loves that he followed her as she told him she would, despite his initial protests. Infuriated by her spoiled behavior, he drops her roughly in the mud, making sure to step on her fine clothes as he makes his way back to his horse. Rather than upset, Geneva seems excited by his resistance and insists that he will ride with her again soon. It is the first time we see her smile and even laugh since we’ve met her.

A brief time passes, and Jamie is sitting in the woods, playing chess as usual with Lord John Grey on one of his regular visits. Their time is interrupted, though, by the arrival of the sisters and Lord John’s older brother, who has not forgotten Jamie’s face, even after ten years. Lord Melton (Sam Hoare), John’s brother, makes some veiled derogatory comments about his younger brother and then leaves, hinting at an already complicated brotherly relationship. Geneva, sly and observant, sees the tension between Lord Melton and Jamie and presses Lord Melton until she learns the truth of who Jamie is.

This becomes a real problem for Jamie when she tells him what she has learned. Now that she has something to hold over him, she forces him to agree to come to her bed that night. Initially, she threatens to tell her parents so that he will be sent back to prison. When he insists that he will not allow that to happen, she offers him veiled threats about what the soldiers will do to his family when sent there to look for him. He feels he has no choice but to do as she insists, despite his objections.

Though he comes to her room that evening as ordered, he makes his displeasure over the arrangement clear to her. She orders him around, at first, but when her façade begins to crack in the face of the decision she has made, he seems to soften to her. Perhaps a part of him is compassionate to her situation and understands why she is choosing to use her power in this way. Their coupling is different than when he and Claire had been together. It is rough and over quickly, having been years since he has been with a woman. There is a moment afterward where Geneva tells him that she loves him, but he is quick to cut that off. He clarifies that these are just feelings connected with sex, and what love is really about. Geneva marries Ellesmere, as planned, but his troubles don’t end when she moves away. We see her returning home for a visit, quite advanced in pregnancy. She gives Jamie a meaningful look, making it clear to him that the child she is carrying is his.

Back to Claire, she is lost in thought when Fiona finds her and offers her a beautiful set of pearls that Claire had previously given to Fiona’s grandmother, Mrs. Graham. There seems to have been a strong friendship there, even though we might not have seen all of it within the confines of the show. In the other room, Brianna is excited to tell her mother about the ships’ manifests that she and Roger discovered nearby, and that they can hunt for Jamie’s name on them the following day. Their relationship is healing, and the two are growing closer through their search for Jamie. Brianna admits as much to Roger as they sit in front of the fireplace later, torn between wanting to find her father, but also not wanting to let her mother go back to him as she knows she must. Roger admits feeling just as torn, knowing that, if they find Jamie, Brianna will be done there and go back to Boston. They share a sudden kiss, something that seems to have surprised both of them – and pleases them, as well.

Isobel comes running to find Jamie, in a panic because of her sister. Geneva is giving birth, but it is not going as smoothly as they would have hoped. Jamie rushes off with her, helping her get to the Ellesmere’s home. Geneva has just given birth to a healthy baby boy, and everything seems fine at first, but then sudden complications cause her to bleed too much. Isobel blames Jamie for her sister’s death and slaps him across the face. She knows the child is his because Geneva told her about what happened between them, not to mention she and the Earl had never shared that intimacy. Jamie recognizes that he is at least partly responsible for her death, just as Isabelle accuses.

A maid comes to gather them and brings them running to find Lord Dunsany with a pistol aimed at the Earl of Ellesmere, who is, in turn, pointing a dagger at the newborn in his arms. Jamie quickly jumps between them, attempting to talk them down and diffuse the threat to his son. Lord Dunsany hands over his pistol. Ellesmere, however, refuses to hand over the knife, and moves to stab the child. Instead, Jamie shoots and kills him, recovering his son before harm can be done. Jamie realizes what he has done, but it is too late to take back.

Back at home, Isobel is pushing Geneva and Jamie’s son, William, along in his stroller when Jamie and a couple of the other grooms ride by. She calls for him, and he dismounts to speak with her. She apologizes for her behavior and for blaming him for Geneva’s death, knowing how her sister was and that she was as to blame as he was, if not more. Lady Dunsany walks up, and Isobel leaves William with her to head back to the house. The Lady Dunsany informs Jamie of the cover-up of the Ellesmere’s death – more to save their reputations because of the Earl’s accusations of infidelity on Geneva’s part than for any desire to spare Jamie the consequences of his actions. She also lets him know that she is aware of his past time in jail and involvement in the rebellion. Because of the debt her family owes him now for saving William, she offers him her connections so he can be pardoned and freed to go where he would like, no longer a prisoner. Jamie is reluctant to leave his son, however, and plays it off with an excuse to stay, stating that sending much-needed money back to his sister and her family would be a better use of his time, requesting to stay awhile longer for that purpose. She seems suspicious but allows it.

William (Clark Butler) grows into a young boy, and we see him working closely with Jamie on his riding lessons near the house. Lady Dunsany and a friend walk over to observe, and they tease about how much William is looking like Jamie because of spending too much time with him. Jamie knows what people are saying, though and that the older the boy gets, the more obvious his parenthood will be. His time with William is limited.

At the Archives, Roger, Brianna, and Claire have dug through books upon books of ship manifests, but the last ones have a mix-up and are a hundred years off. The woman working there explains that those manifests are all that they have. It is a heavy setback, and Claire is visibly upset. Taking a drink at a nearby bar, Claire and Brianna are put off by the men who are staring at them – not used to having women sit at the bar instead of in the women’s lounge. It is a different world, even across the pond than what Claire has experienced in America, though it is a battle she seems to have been fighting all of her grown life.

Brianna and Roger try to comfort Claire, insisting that there are other avenues they can investigate, but she remembers a warning Mrs. Graham had given her about spending her life chasing a ghost. Claire seems resigned to her fate and insists that it is time they go home.

Jamie knows that it is also time for him to go home, but William does not take the news well. We see William’s tendency towards his mother’s spoiled attitude in his insistence that Jamie does as he tells him and takes him to Lallybroch with him. Jamie puts his foot down, despite William’s temper tantrum, going as far as to use his hand on the boy’s bottom to make a point. As children often do, William screams at Jamie that he hates him, and Jamie’s temper flares right back, calling the boy a ‘bastard,’ a word it seems the boy is not unfamiliar with, as he becomes offended and demands that Jamie takes it back. Temper waning already, Jamie apologizes and does take it back.

Lord John is visiting the estate and speaking with Isobel when Jamie passes. He stays to speak with him and affirms Jamie’s decision to leave. It is becoming too obvious to observers that William resembles Jamie, and John is concerned that William will notice soon, too. Jamie comes to a decision and asks John to walk with him. They head into the woods nearby, where the riding path is, and Jamie asks John for a favor – to look out for William after he is gone. He even offers to give himself physically to John in repayment for this favor. John is both amused and appalled by the offer, revealing much about his character that he would not dream to take him up on it, no matter how much he might desire Jamie in that way. He reveals to Jamie that he is marrying Isabelle, which puts him in the perfect position to care for Willie as a father. It is a surprise to Jamie, but John insists that he is fond of Isabelle and that there is more to love than physical fulfillment. The subtext here is that he is speaking about his love for Jamie, not just the love and respect he carries for Isobel. They part as good friends, even if they both know that John might always want more than that from Jamie.

That evening, while Jamie is packing up his statues, William sneaks into his room and starts to question him about those religious practices. Jamie lights some candles and explains to William who it is that he prays for. William, still looking up to Jamie, asks him to make him a papist, too. To appease him, Jamie baptizes him with holy water, giving him a christened name: James, which is the same as his own. He also gives William a snake reminiscent of the one his older brother had made for him when they were children, with the boy’s name carved into the bottom. William is distressed that he doesn’t have anything for Jamie to remember him by, but Jamie insists it isn’t necessary because he will always remember William.

We are then treated to much more modern music than we are used to, as Claire and Jamie each say goodbye in their ways. Claire says farewell to the husband she doesn’t believe she’ll ever find again, and Jamie to the new family he had found and is now having to leave. Even John has tears in his eyes as he watches Jamie ride off. William tries to chase after him, but John is able to hold him back as Jamie determinedly keeps going. Roger, too, is distracted from his reading at the thought of Brianna flying back home with her mother after too short of time together. It is a bittersweet ending to an episode full of emotional highs and lows for all parties involved.

Overall, I felt that it was a well put together episode. There was a lot of material here that they had to cover, not to mention in the series as a whole, so far, but they have managed to create a cohesive story despite the bits and pieces they have had to cut. The episode left me with several questions and takeaways as I watched.

First was the interesting comparison between the cute innocence of the budding affection between Roger and Brianna, and the innocent friendship between Claire and Joe juxtaposed with the strong sexuality of the other characters in the series. Brianna and Geneva, in particular, can’t be too far apart in age, yet they approach their “innocence” in completely different manners here. Perhaps the difference is that Brianna is also allowed to be young and innocent, while the other girl is being forced to grow up and be a wife with no regard for her feelings on the matter.

Claire’s feelings throughout this episode intrigued me to think on, as well. For the past 20 years, Claire has thought that Jamie was dead, and she had spent all that time trying to move on, building a secure and happy life for their daughter. Now that she knows that he was alive, she can only imagine what he must have endured, especially all the years he suffered in prison as a traitor. Does she think about how life could have been different if she had returned to him with their daughter sooner? Would he have suffered less if she had been in Scotland all of those years rather than back in her own time with Frank? How much of her heartache could she have avoided? And yet, she would not be the same person as she is now, and neither would Brianna if she had been raised during those times instead of the more modern, American ones. She told Frank in a previous episode that she wanted Brianna to be an American, so she must have realized that this was the world she wanted her daughter to grow up in, just as she did. Those ‘what-if’s still had to plague her now that she knows he was alive, at least for a brief time, after she had come home.

I also am preoccupied with the knowledge that Claire never fell in love again these last 20 years, or even had a brief affair to meet her physical and emotional needs at the time. We see here again where Jamie engages in physical – and even a certain emotional – intimacy with another woman in Claire’s absence, and we’ll see more of the next ten years of his separation from her as the season progresses. If Claire’s assertion during her fight with Frank can be trusted, she never intentionally strayed from her marriages to Frank or Jamie. There are countless reasons one could speculate as to why this is, and maybe it was addressed in the books (though it has been too long for me to remember right now), and it is a question that intrigues me.

There was one significant deviation from the book that I did appreciate in this episode (and which made me nervous when I wasn’t sure they would deviate from it). Within the constraints of a tv show episode, they created a clear, concise picture of Geneva and the story that, ultimately, was included only because it resulted in Jamie’s illegitimate son, William. Geneva herself is not important, but rather the character of her is because it is a recklessness and spoiled attitude that carries on in William and causes complications later on. More specifically, though, when Jamie comes to Geneva’s bed in the book, there is a fine line that I always was uncomfortable with between consensual sex and forced. In the book, Geneva tells him to stop, but he is so overcome with his lack of female intimacy in all the years he’s been imprisoned that he continues anyway. After a few moments, she relaxes and enjoys the experience, despite her initial nerves. This always made me uncomfortable, though, because Jamie essentially forced himself on her at that moment, regardless of what happened before and after. I liked that the show didn’t include that because it doesn’t fit at all with what we feel we know of Jamie at this point, and it definitely would not sit well in today’s culture. (Plus, let’s face it, there’s more than enough non-consensual sex in Gabaldon’s novels as it is, without this scene adding to it.)

As mentioned, I think the writers have continued to create a great story so far that makes sense not only for those of us who have read and loved the books but also for those who haven’t. That is important because it opens the story of Claire and Jamie up to a whole new world of fans. We could nitpick the color of character’s eyes and argue that it wouldn’t be hard to just put people in colored contacts, or any of some other small details. The reality is that if they are capturing the essence of the characters and are telling the story of the intense, strong love Jamie and Claire share for one another, despite the ridiculous number and size of the obstacles they have to overcome during their marriage, then that is what matters and I am satisfied. If the writers and actors and all involved in the elements of the production make you feel the hope and excitement Brianna does when they find Jamie’s name on the prison records, the heartbreak of Jamie’s farewell – possibly forever – to his son or Claire’s despair as she chooses life over chasing the ghost of Jamie – a task she may never succeed in – then they are all doing their job and are winners in my book.

I hope you all enjoyed this episode as much as I did and are looking forward to seeing Jamie, Claire, Roger, and Brianna’s journey through this season as much as I am! Tell us in the comments what your thoughts are on the questions that were sticking in my mind. I’d love to hear from you!

“As Brianna grapples with the life-changing revelations of the past summer, Claire must help her come to terms with the fact that she is truly her father’s daughter – her 18th century Highlander father. To complicate matters further, Roger brings news that forces Claire and Brianna to face an impossible choice.”

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A snowshoeing pitstop along the species-inclusive Pacific Crest Trail.
A snowshoeing pitstop along the species-inclusive Pacific Crest Trail. (Michael McCullough/Flickr)

The Best Pacific Northwest Excursions

Climbing, hiking, and kayaking in the Pacific Northwest

A snowshoeing pitstop along the species-inclusive Pacific Crest Trail.

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Big mountains, fast rivers, rugged coastline, and the occasional Sasquatch sighting: for pure adventure in the lower 48, you can't beat the Pacific Northwest. We asked eight local authors to reveal the freshest ways to play in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. All you need to do is pack a raincoat.

Cascades Slumber Party in Washington

Northwest climbers play favorites. Some swear by desert crags; some prefer the volcanoes, Mount Rainier and Mount Hood. When I moved west in 1995, I fell for Washington's North Cascades. They're steeper, wilder, and, with 600 glaciers, icier than almost any range in the lower 48. To climb here is to feel like a pioneer.

So I was bouncing with excitement that August morning when my buddy Craig and I parked on the North Cascades Highway and started up Cutthroat Peak, an 8,050-foot thumb of gold granite that straddles the Washington and Rainy passes. A dozen little mishaps later—among them, following the notoriously sketchy directions in local legend Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide—we summited around 5 p.m.

Cutthroat Peak
Cutthroat Peak, Washington (Garrett Grove)

After a half-dozen more errors on the descent, night had fallen. Then the rope snagged. We anchored into a slanty shelf, stuffed our shorts-clad legs into backpacks for warmth, and settled in for our unplanned bivouac, too angry to speak. I now remember that night as the most beautiful I've ever spent outdoors—the air still, the distant glaciers set aglow by the stars, the satellites spinning. And when you're bivying on a ledge all night, sunrise is nothing short of a miracle.

One day I'll climb Cutthroat again, but I'm in no hurry. I like that the mountain rebuffed us. You have to come to the Cascades humble, flexible, prepared. And next time, with pants.

—Christopher Solomon

Alpine Play in Oregon

Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, Oregon (U.S. Forest Service/Wikimedia)

“It came from Outside,” wrote my friend Jason. “I remember that specifically.” I had e-mailed him to see what he recalled about a certain article that prompted our spontaneous backpacking trip to Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Area in 1993. We both grew up in Portland and had been amazed to discover a nearby mountain range we'd never heard of. So with a week to kill before summer jobs took away our freedom, we threw the issue in question on the dashboard and used the cartoon map that accompanied the article to navigate six hours to a 69,000-acre pocket of craggy peaks and trout-stocked alpine lakes outside Prairie City.

The place was stunning, which is probably why, 18 years later, Jason's e-mailed memory of that three-day trip was as vivid as mine: “There were two lakes, and we camped at the upper one.” (Little Strawberry Lake, three miles up the trailhead from Strawberry Camp.) “We definitely saw some elk.” (And at least a dozen bighorn sheep.) “We hiked to the top of Strawberry Peak.” (It's a mellow climb up talus slopes to 9,038 feet.) “I think you caught a fish, and we ate it for dinner.” (A bunch of fish, actually.) “I remember the sun creeping into and out of that lake basin—it was spectacular.” (Nothing to add here.)

—Christopher Keyes

Aquathlon in Idaho

Lochsa River
Rafters on the Lochsa River, Idaho (Chelsea N./Flickr)

For paddlers, Idaho offers options. Impassable Canyon, on the Middle Fork of the Salmon, delivers awe-inspiring views of granite grottoes. Paddling the hydrological mousetrap that is the Selway's Class IV+ Ladle rapid will give you sweaty palms. But my favorite river here is bordered by a ribbon of asphalt: the 70-mile Lochsa, which flows through the Bitterroots alongside Highway 12.

I discovered it one drizzly June morning while living in Missoula, Montana. After a three-hour drive west, I put in to kayak-surf a well-known wave called Pipeline near the confluence with the Selway. The water was so clear that the boulders on the river bottom stood out in HD relief. As the foam pile atop the wave spat me out, I looked down and saw a torpedo-shaped rock that appeared to be working its way upstream. Two other wriggling rocks joined it: they were three chinook. “Holy shit,” I yelled to no one in particular. “Look at that!” I've returned more times than I can count, packing a fly rod along with my boat. (The river also teems with westslope cutthroat trout.)

These days, after surfing and fishing, I like to complete my triathlon by heading upstream to soak in the Weir Creek Hot Springs, the stars above ringed by ancient cedars. It's not as popular as the Ironman, but it's a hell of a lot more fun.

—Steven Hawley

Falling Hard: Climbing and Kayaking in Oregon

Smith Rock
The view from Smith Rock's Misery Ridge Trail (Jordan Siemens)

Climbing terrifies me. So do women. Which is why it's astonishing that I met my wife, Turin, while climbing at Smith Rock, a high-desert crag that juts out of central Oregon's farmlands and is home to 1,800 of the best 5.4–5.14 climbing routes in the country.

Turin had come from Portland, four hours to the west. We met beneath Ginger Snap, an easy 60-foot, 5.8 route. I flailed around; she flitted up the rock like a butterfly (sigh). I hoped she didn't notice the acrid smell wafting off my shirt—a mix of sweat and fear—as I told her why I loved Smith: the breathtaking views of 10,497-foot Mount Jefferson (translation: I'm a sucker for a vista), the three-mile Misery Ridge trail, which I'd hike with my dog (meaning: I'm responsible enough to provide food and shelter for another sentient being), the Class IV Crooked River, which bends beneath Smith's most dramatic buttresses and which I planned to kayak (i.e., I'm not a total wuss).

Later, I dallied at the parking lot, separating myself from the crowd of bandanna-clad men opening beers with carabiners. Turin arrived, I asked for her number, and we made a plan to go kayaking. We were married a year and a half later.

—Kyle Dickman

Pyromania: Firewatching in Washington

A lookout in Washington's Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (Garrett Grove)

The Northwest is home to some 300 fire lookouts, built between the 1920s and the 1940s, which offer views of thundering river bottoms, razorback ridges, and horizons of old growth and glaciers. They make the lookouts of the East feel like nice little observation decks. They also make people do loopy things—Jack Kerouac famously lost his mind while manning Desolation Peak Lookout.

The one that got me was Three Fingers. Located 60 miles northeast of Seattle, the one-room cabin stands atop a rock spire, its windows flush to 1,000-foot cliffs on three sides. My father and I first set off for Three Fingers in September 1993. After a roughly eight-mile approach, including an ascent through a drippy forest and a glacier traverse, the weather turned. We ended up bivouacked in a boulder field in a snowstorm.

A year later we returned, this time with my mother. We ascended the last 100 feet of the obelisk via three wooden ladders and a fraying rope hanging from the front door. We hoisted ourselves hand over hand, the ladder creaking with Dad's weight. When we reached the doorstep, we could see everything from Mount Rainier in the south to Mount Baker in the north. Dad whooped. Mom nearly cried, partly with joy and partly on account of the two pistol-toting strangers already in the structure. Me? I was hooked, and two years later I hired on to be a lookout at nearby Granite Mountain.

—Eric Hansen

Family Float the Owyhee River

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Paddling the Owyhee (Brandon Sawaya)

At the put-in on a gloomy April morning a few years ago, the landscape was sagebrush bleak, the air was livestock smelly, and the spouses were skeptical. The Owyhee is one of those rivers you think you've heard of but really haven't. Whitewater guidebooks refer to it as “Oregon's Grand Canyon.” To other folks, it's the loneliest river in the U.S.—as it sneakily slices its way below the Oregon-Idaho state line's foam-green cattle country, the lower Owyhee never once crosses a road. But if my three old paddling buddies and I were ever going to convince our wives that float trips were more fun than the beach, this river needed to start smelling rosier real soon.

Then, ever so slowly, we started descending. The sun came out at the end of day one. The canyon walls began to close in, darkened to a deep red, and, as advertised, were soon towering 2,000 feet above us. By day two, our flotilla was leapfrogging down the Class I–III rapids in good style: first nimble kayaks and sturdy rafts, then a flurry of paddle signals, finally the persnickety canoe. Eventually, the once-towering cliffs turned pale yellow and the rapids began to wane.

But our wives were so punch-drunk on Restorative River Trip Love that there was talk of floating the actual Grand Canyon. Nicole, my wife, suggested we buy our own raft. At the take-out, I lingered at the river's edge. “Dude, can you help me deflate this raft?” someone asked. Yes, I thought. But I won't change out of my wet shorts. Or turn my phone back on.

—Sam Moulton

Sip and Spin in Oregon's Wine Country

Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley vineyards (Chris Leschinsky)

I grew up in Bend, Oregon, but these days when I visit my home state, I head west of the mountains to pedal the narrow blacktop of the Willamette Valley or suck my way to the bottom of a bottle at one of its many wineries. It's Napa without the Botox, the prices, or the boat shoes. It's blackberry brambles and alfalfa fields and mist-shrouded hills. It's 120 miles long and 60 miles wide, with low traffic, moderate to technical climbs and descents, and 15,000 acres of grapes. It's best accessed from the porch of Tommy's Bicycle Shop in McMinnville, which offers rentals, maps, and repairs.

About the wine: the region is best known for its pinot noir, but you'd be a fool to pass up the pinot gris and Dijon clone chardonnay. Willamette Valley Vineyards pours heavy in the tasting room. Domaine Serene Vineyards and Winery has the sprawl and splendor of an Italian villa and offers the best (and priciest) selection of pinots in the valley. Sokol Blosser is chill and inexpensive (try its Evolution and Meditrina blends).

I've biked from winery to winery and clomped through the tours in my road shoes and spandex, but that gets to be a long, wobbly day. I much prefer hammering hard—pedaling out of McMinnville on the East Salmon River Highway for a 25-mile loop of Walnut Hill, or out of Newberg on Bald Peak Road and back on NE Hendricks Road for a 35-miler—and then closing out the day spent and ragged, collapsed in an Adirondack chair at Sokol Blosser, goblet in hand, rows and rows of grapevines marching into the distance.

—Benjamin Percy

Do the Hop: Brewpubs

No matter where you are in the Northwest, you're always near a world-class brewpub. Here, Christian DeBenedetti, Oregon native and author of the forthcoming The Great American Ale Trail (Running Press) reveals his favorite stops.

Beer (Tim Parkinson)

Terminal Gravity Brewing and Public House, Enterprise, Oregon. The Vibe: A cottage on three acres with an aspen grove and picnic tables, located just a few miles from kokanee-rich Wallowa Lake. The Beer: Terminal Gravity IPA. Tangy, bitter, and perfect for a post-dip drink.

Diamond Knot Brewing and Alehouse, Mukilteo, Washington. The Vibe: A converted bus garage just steps from the Puget Sound. Peanut shells decorate the floor; you can cook your own salmon dinner on piping-hot tabletop stones. The Beer: The Shipwreck XXX IPA—it's brawny and boozy.

Fort George Brewery and Public House, Astoria, Oregon. The Vibe: A 22-tap brewpub with an open-air beer garden, an expansive deck, and a room that's rented out to glassblowers and an itinerant blacksmith. The Beer: Vortex IPA—intense and citrusy.

—Christian DeBenedetti

Play the Shellfish Game

There are countless seafood shacks in the Northwest. These are our three favorites.

The essentials at Mo's in Newport, Oregon (Rachel Briggs)

The Hama Hama Seafood Store, in Lilliwaup, Washington, is a family-owned operation on the banks of the Hood Canal, approximately one football field from the flats where they pick the sweetest oysters in the Northwest. $6 per dozen.

Mo's, a cedar-sided joint on Newport, Oregon's bay front, gets its clams straight out of the Pacific, and the cod for the drool-worthy fish and chips comes fresh off the boats harbored directly across the street in Yaquina Bay. Clam chowder, $4.50; fish and chips, $11.

Anacortes, Washington's Shrimp Shack, just two miles from the Puget Sound, is a funky slow-food take-out surrounded by shucked oyster shells. Order the scrumptious Dungeness crab sandwich ($14), the clam strips ($9), or, if you're truly adventurous, the supremely awesome quarter-pound oyster burger ($9).

—Kyle Dickman

Splash Therapy

Paddle the San Juans. You can't go wrong sea-kayaking amid any of Washington's 400 San Juan Islands, but some trips are better than others. Take, for instance, Anacortes Kayak Tours' three-day lap around 5,500-acre Cypress Island. Days are spent paddling open passages and gawking at puffins and the resident orca pod; by night you're camping beneath limestone cliffs. $549; June–September.

Sleep on the Beach. Drive to the northernmost end of Washinton's Makah reservation on Highway 112, through Olympic National Park. Pull off at the parking lot for Shi Shi Beach. Hike 3.3 miles over a rickety wooden footbridge, pitch a tent on the beach, and ogle the otherworldly sea stacks and the crashing Pacific. Camping permits, $5 plus $2 per person per day, from the ranger station at Olympic National Park.

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Pacific coast (Wouter Kiel)

Ride the Wind. Flores Lake, a 255-acre freshwater body separated from the Pacific by a narrow sandspit, may be the easiest place on earth to learn to windsurf, thanks to the warm water temps (70 degrees in summer) and steady wind (20 knots from the northwest). Flores Lake Windsurfing and Kiteboarding School offers half-day lessons. $60.

Steel Your Nerves. Southern Oregon's Rogue and its tributaries—the Illinois and the Chetco—offer some of the best rafting and fishing in the country. Book a day trip with guide Tyson Crumley (September is prime time) and float the ten miles between Lobster Creek and Gold Beach, trolling for salmon or swinging big ugly flies in pursuit of steelhead, the fierce anadromous trout that drive local anglers nuts. $400 for two people.

—Kyle Dickman

Buyer Beware: Owning a Cabin

Think owning a cabin near the Olympic Peninsula sounds great? Wait till you meet the neighbors.

Cabin (Jeramey Jannene/Flickr)

When my friends visit my family's cabin near the Olympic Peninsula, a one-story house on 20 forested acres at the end of a tidal bay, they generally say something to the effect of “Damn, you're lucky.” And they're right, for the most part.

Cedarcrest, which my great-grandfather built in 1941, after my great-grandmother bought the lot for five grand off a paper mill, functions as a base camp for hiking, sea kayaking, and skiing around nearby Olympic National Park. It's awesome. But it's also worth noting that caring for a cabin in the Pacific Northwest involves unique challenges.

Take landscaping. Around here it's done on a Jurassic scale: we use chainsaws, not hedge trimmers. We often face the delicate choice of whether to selectively log the rare old-growth or let those towering firs and cedars grow. One November, after we chose the latter option, a hemlock tree sliced the cabin in half, roof to floor.

Maintaining good relations in the community can also be tricky, thanks to the woolly frontier spirit that still pervades. Our most persnickety neighbor is an American Indian tribe that poaches the oysters my great-grandmother planted. One night, our longtime renter, a telephone-pole repairman, decided to take matters into his own hands, trading pistol fire with them on the mudflats.

Still, I'm not complaining. I happily scrub the cabin walls with bleach each spring to kill the winter mold, machete back the encroaching prickers, and fish out the moles that fall into the water well. So come on over. But don't just visit. Bring some bar oil for the chainsaw and make it yours, too.

—Eric Hansen


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Educational Session and Panel: The Journey to Growing Your Family

Special LGBT event happening tomorrow! We hope to see you there. 6:30 - 8:00 PM LGBT Community Center 1800 Market St., San Francisco Call 888-834-3095 or contact us for reservations Attend an informative educational event on Wednesday, October 7th and hear firsthand from gay and lesbian parents about their family building experience. This is an opportunity to ask you specific questions and learn about advanced family building solutions. Topics include: * Selecting the right donor and/or surrogate * Emotional & psychological aspects of gays & lesbians having children * Hearing gay and lesbian parents accounts of their personal experience Let Pacific Fertility Center be your guide on your journey to building a healthy family.

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PFC Recognizes National Infertility Awareness Week

Sunday marks the start of RESOLVE'S National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). Pacific Fertility Center (PFC) will join RESOLVE to recognize National Infertility Awareness Week, April 24-30, joining millions of women and men fighting the disease of infertility, healthcare professionals, psychologists and other thought leaders to promote greater awareness about infertility.

PFC's goal is to help women and men find answers and get the support they need to make important medical decisions and address the medical, emotional, social and economic challenges infertility can present.

Check in each day next week to learn more about National Infertility Awareness Week and important facts about fertility.

Learn more about NIAW from ASRM here.

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Monday, January 14, 2019

What Are The Best Categories Of Carp Fishing Rods?

If you are looking for an exciting and highly adventurous recreational activity then nothing can be the best option other than carp fishing. In this case, you have to get some of the most top-end gears out of which carp fishing rods are the vital ones. Without these rods, you will not be able to complete this fishing activity successfully.

Possible types of rods for carp fishing:
Carp fishing rods are predominantly used for catching carp fishes. These rods have been primarily categorised into two vital categories including test and length curves. In the case of test-curve, rod’s bud should be held horizontally and its tip needs to be bent almost at ninety-degree for carrying the weight. These carp fishing rods are mainly well-known for their unbelievable casting potentials.
Test-curves are highly suitable for surface fishing at small-sized commercial lakes. They are also sometimes utilised at medium or large snaggy lakes for fishing purposes. You have to implement the best tactics or strategies for making optimum use of these specialised rods in carp fishing. In fact, it is on the basis of casting weight it is being decided that where and how these rods are to be used.
Through action rods have got many benefits and they are majorly utilised for the purpose of playing fish. Here, back-wind or clutch needs to be adjusted well. Other leading advantages of these rods are a reduction of hook pulls chances, shorter range accurate casting, and usage of hook link and light breaking strain main lines.
Fish playing can be properly performed by means of semi-fast-action rods. These rods cast medium and small method feeders and PVA bags with accuracy and ease. Extreme ranges cannot be effectively dealt with by these rods. You will be able to find variations of these rods if you make proper research online. Amongst all options, fast action rods seem to be the most appropriate ones having the best quality.
They are mainly suitable for long range castings. Before choosing these rods you should have a look at the size. It is on the basis of a size that butt rings are chosen. In most of the cases, mm butt rings are found to be the most suitable options amongst all. You should take great care of these butt rings in order to avoid unwanted damages.
In fact, it is on the basis of carp fishing rods that perfect reels are purchased. You should get these rods purchased only from any reputed online store dealing with a wide variety of fishing tools.


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Alebrowar - New Beer Premiere

Designed by Ostecx Creative, Poland.

On march 23rd Smoky Joe was released to hit the stores and pubs around the country - a new beer from AleBrowar designed by Ostecx Créative.

Smokey Joe it’s a Whisky Extra Stout, dark beer brewed based on whisky malts. New in AleBrowar offer and also on the polish market – so far none of the native breweries made a beer in this original style. The role of Ostecx Creative, like with previous seven beers from AleBrowar was creating a name, making an illustration and final designing of the label. Smoky Joe will face the market reality in metalic PANTONE 875 C color, which refers to the tinge of whisky.

Cooperation of Ostecx Creative and AleBrowar has started in spring of 2012. Agency was participating in birth of the new brand, creating a branding and marketing communication strategy along with the owners of new contract brewery. First three beers: Rowing Jack (India Pale Ale), Black Hope (Black India Pale Ale) and Lady Blanche (Witbier) were released may 15th of 2012. AleBrowar packaging, besides building a world of brand based on the original characters, stands out with some unconventional sollutions like fluorescent elements on the label of Naked Mummy (Pumpkin Ale) or gift box for Saint No More (Christmas Ale) beer.

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